Planting an immortal tree in the wizarding world

Chapter 169 The Inverted Eight Trigrams Formation
The capital of the Orc Empire.

Dolifa, trapped in a hallucination, seemed to transform into an evil god, slaughtering people in the city with his powerful witchcraft.

Leon spread his wings of light and looked up from the sky. After a while, he found that Dorifa's hallucination did not seem to have diminished in the slightest.

Dolifa waved his staff, unleashing various spells.

Flames, frost, lightning, and beams of light burst forth from the staff, striking the buildings in the city.

The rumbling sounds were incessant, and dust filled the air throughout the city.

Although there were orc wizards in the city, they were no match for Dorifa.

The moment it appeared, it was blasted into dust by a spell cast by Dolifa.

After a while, Dolifa suddenly put away her staff and cast a flight spell.

Its body rose up and shot into the sky.

Upon seeing this, Lyon immediately released his bloodline power and went to give chase.

However, Dolifa's flight speed was ridiculously fast.

Almost instantly, Dolifa's figure became a black dot in his field of vision.

In the blink of an eye, it disappeared.

Seeing that he couldn't catch up, Lyon frowned and had no choice but to stop.

He thought that, given Dolifa's speed, it would be extremely difficult for him to find another one.

The most urgent task now is to end the war between the Kingdom of Valant and the Orc Empire.

Otherwise, he and Dolifa would have come all this way for nothing.

Dolifa, it can be said, fell into a delusion for nothing.

With that thought in mind, Leon descended into the ruins of the Orc Empire's capital to search for the Orc King's corpse.

He thought that Dolifa had just unleashed a barrage of attacks in this direction, and the king of the orcish empire was probably already dead from the magical attack.

'Hopefully, my face can be preserved intact.'

Lyon thought that as long as he took the king's head to the battlefield and displayed it, the orcish empire's army would probably stop fighting.

Wizards possess magical artifacts such as the image-recording magic stone.

The Kingdom of Valant also has informants within the Orc Empire.

Therefore, the core leadership of the Kingdom of Valant naturally knew what the King of the Orc Empire looked like.

In the wizard's tower in Dorifa, Leon saw the appearance of the king of the orc empire through the image-remembering magic stone.

It was a gigantic orc.

It is almost two meters tall, with broad shoulders, green skin, and two sharp fangs that curve out from its mouth.

Lyon searched through the ruins.

After searching for a long time, I finally saw the orcs I remembered.

His body below the chest had been blasted into dust.

Its face shape is almost identical to that in the magic stone, and it even has a crown crookedly placed on its head.

Immediately, Lyon used his dagger to cut off the head of the orcish empire.

Holding it in his hand, he used his spirit to power the armor's wings of light and flew towards the border.

This armor was created by Dolifa, and these wings of light were formed by absorbing energy particles through the magical array on the armor.

As long as there are energy particles, these light wings will always be there.

Leon didn't need to worry about stopping midway, so he focused on controlling the flight of the light wings.

……

three days later.

Ronan was having dinner in a pub.

In the tavern, knights, wizard apprentices, and bards raised their glasses in celebration.

Because, news came in at noon today.

The legendary wizard Dolifa personally intervened and killed both the bloodline wizard and the king of the orc empire.

Dorifa also wiped out many of the orc wizards and orc knights of the orc empire.

In the border war, the Orc Empire suffered a major defeat, its strength greatly diminished.

From then on, the Kingdom of Valant was completely free of the Orc Empire, its greatest enemy.

Upon hearing this news, Augustus V immediately ordered wizards and knights to continue their attack on the Orc Empire.

They wanted to take over all the land and orcs of the orc empire.

The wizards and knights, upon hearing that the orcish empire had lost many of its high-ranking combatants, were immediately excited and responded to Augustus V's orders with great speed and enthusiasm.

—In order to capture more orcs, whether as slaves or as test subjects.

After Ronan had eaten and drunk his fill, he returned to his bungalow and began cultivating the Scripture of Ten Thousand Trees' Longevity.

The next day, Ronan traveled back to the cultivation world to see if anything had happened there.

He first went to the Misty Immortal Pavilion, retrieved the True Revelation Sect token, and then headed towards the True Revelation Sect.

After entering the gate of the Zhenhuan Sect, they headed towards the pavilion where they usually received missions.

That pavilion, besides being a place for receiving missions, was also a place for various cultivators in the sect to exchange information.

Inside, on one wall, there are wooden signs hanging one after another, like a menu.

Above it were written the needs of each cultivator, or what items were available for sale.

After all, there have been frequent battles with the neighboring Heavenly Sword Sect recently.

Perhaps some cultivators obtain valuable items from the Heavenly Sword Sect cultivators, but since they don't need them, they will list them up for sale.

In addition, Ronan had heard Dao Chen say some time ago that another ancient cultivator's ruins had appeared in the world.

The monks all went to investigate.

Dao Chen also discussed with Luo Nan whether the two of them should go.

However, Ronan told Dao Chen that they were only at the early stage of Foundation Establishment, and they didn't know what treasures were hidden in that ancient cultivator's ruins, or whether the Nascent Soul elders of various sects would go there.

If Nascent Soul elders were to fight each other, even if they watched from afar, they might still be implicated.

Dao Chen thought Ronan was right, so he didn't go.

Although the Ronan people did not go there, they were very interested in exploring the ancient cultivator's ruins.

His "Ten Thousand Trees Longevity Scripture" and "Azure Wood Sword Technique" are actually products of ancient cultivators.

In ancient times, the world of cultivation was rich in spiritual energy and resources, so the cultivation techniques created by ancient cultivators were based on utilizing even more spiritual energy and resources.

However, later, when spiritual energy became scarce and resources became limited, some cultivation techniques suitable for the present day were created.

If one were to practice ancient techniques now, it would be difficult to make any progress.

Ronan wondered if this ancient cultivator's ruins might contain some cultivation techniques and spells that modern people couldn't practice, and if so, he could buy them and snag a bargain.

Ronan sheathed his flying sword and gracefully descended into the large square in front of the pavilion.

"Real person!"

"Real person!"

When the Qi Refining stage disciples saw Ronan, they all bowed to him.

Ronan has been with the True Soul Sect for some time now, and there are only so many Foundation Establishment cultivators in the True Soul Sect.

Many Qi Refining disciples in the sect recognized these Foundation Establishment cultivators.

Ronan nodded, stepped into the attic, walked to a wall, and looked up at it.

Wooden plaques with gold-painted characters hung on the wall.

The disciples whose names are displayed will be ranked from top to bottom according to their cultivation level.

Therefore, given Ronan's current cultivation level, he can simply look upwards to find what he needs.

After a period of absence, their needs have changed quite a bit.

There are Foundation Establishment cultivators who challenge their enemies to a duel and ask others to help them.

A Foundation Establishment cultivator discovered a small island overseas that had been concealed by an ancient cultivator using a maze array. Fearing that he was not capable of handling the dangers on the island, he invited others to go there.

After watching for a while, Ronan saw a cultivator on a wooden sign, who had an ancient cultivator's formation that needed to be used.

This cultivator's name is "Gu Lianyue". He is a Foundation Establishment cultivator of the Zhenhuan Sect and lives on Guyang Peak in the Zhenhuan Sect mountain range.

'Ancient cultivator's formation...'

Ronan pondered, wondering what the formation was for—whether it was for defense or a maze.

However it may be, it should be useful to him.

After all, he has a natal tree of immortality that needs protection.

With this in mind, Ronan decided to go and find Gu Lianyue.

He had met Gu Lianyue several times during their battles with the Heavenly Sword Sect.

They hadn't spoken to each other because they weren't familiar with each other.

……

"Oh, Fellow Daoist Nanluo, I remember you. Your flying sword technique is incredibly powerful!"

Ronan went to Gu Lianyue's cave and cast a sound transmission spell into it.

Immediately, Gu Lianyue went out and invited Luo Nan into the cave with a smile.

Gu Lianyue was a late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator. He was fat, had a mustache, and always had a smiling, amiable demeanor.

Ronan had also witnessed Gu Lianyue's skills and knew that Gu Lianyue's commonly used magic weapon was a bead.

Gu Lianyue manipulated the bead, releasing beams of divine light with great power.

His ruthlessness in fighting the Heavenly Sword Sect cultivators was quite different from his amiable demeanor at this moment.

"Fellow Daoist Gu, you flatter me!"

After exchanging pleasantries, Ronan got straight to the point:

"I have come here today because of the ancient cultivator's formation that Fellow Daoist Gu mentioned."

"Alright, come, fellow Daoist, have some tea first."

After Ronan arrived, Gu Lianyue brewed him some spiritual tea.

The aroma of the tea is invigorating.

"This is a spiritual tea that I found on a mountain. In today's cultivation world, such high-quality spiritual tea is rare. Please have a drink, fellow cultivator."

As Gu Lianyue spoke, he used wooden clips to move a small cup of spiritual tea in front of Luo Nan.

Ronan summoned Hongmeng and first swept it over the spirit tea.

After failing to identify any harmful substances in the tea, he picked up the teacup and drank it.

The teacup was so small that it wasn't even enough for a single sip.

However, after Ronan swallowed the Spirit Tea...

Immediately, I felt a warm, soothing sensation descending from my throat.

The sweet fragrance of the spiritual tea still lingered on my tongue.

After the spiritual tea entered his stomach, Ronan immediately felt his magical power, blood and qi, and so on, become active.

My absorption rate of spiritual energy from heaven and earth has also increased significantly.

This spiritual tea was the best he had ever tasted in the cultivation world.

This small bite is equivalent to taking a good quality pill.

At this moment, it seems that Gu Lianyue truly treated his guests to the best of things.

After Gu Lianyue and Luo Nan drank the spiritual tea, he said:

"Didn't an ancient cultivator's ruins appear recently?"

"I also went to investigate. Of course, the good stuff, such as herbs, animal bones, and magic treasures, were all obtained by Nascent Soul cultivators and Core Formation cultivators."

"At my Foundation Establishment level, I can only pick up inferior items at best."

"One of them is the formation I mentioned."

"I have no knowledge of formations, so I can only sell this."

Ronan said, "Could I take a look at the first page of this book on formations?"

Gu Lianyue said, "Fellow Daoist, please forgive me. The entire formation is contained on a single sheet of paper, and I do not know much about formations. I wonder how much you can comprehend after reading that part of the text."

"Maybe after I understand that formation, I won't buy it anymore."

After thinking for a moment, Ronan said, "Then name your price."

Gu Lianyue immediately replied, "Fifty mid-grade spirit stones."

Ronan frowned upon hearing this:
“Fellow Daoist, as you said before, this is an ancient cultivator's formation, which may not be suitable for the present. Even if I buy it, it may only be for reference, and it is very likely that I cannot set up a formation using this formation.”

"The price you're offering is even more expensive than Foundation Establishment level formations and magic treasures."

Upon hearing this, Gu Lianyue immediately said, "Fellow Daoist, you are mistaken. You have just reached the Foundation Establishment stage and are unaware of the situation, so it is not your fault."

"The cultivation methods and spells of ancient cultivators are, as you said, mostly only for reference and have little practical use for cultivation today."

"But array formations are different. Array formations are simply a way to utilize the spiritual energy of heaven and earth."

“In ancient times, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth was strong, so the formations were stronger. Now that the spiritual energy of heaven and earth is weak, the formations are weaker.”

Ronan shook his head: "Fellow Daoist, I have also studied books on formations in the library of the True Realm Sect."

"To cope with the scarcity of spiritual energy in the world, the structure of modern formations has been modified to some extent."

"Some ancient formations may be useless in today's world."

Gu Lianyue said, "But this formation may also be extremely powerful."

"Although the spiritual energy is scarce nowadays, even if this formation is set up, it will not be as effective as in ancient times. However, even with the current spiritual energy of heaven and earth, this formation might still be more powerful than others."

"What kind of formation is this?" Ronan asked.

"The inscription on this formation is extremely profound; I can't understand it," Gu Lianyue said.
"But the formation is called the Inverted Eight Trigrams Formation."

Ronan listened and pondered it in his heart.

During this period, he participated in the struggle between the two factions and obtained a lot of magical treasures and materials. After buying some, he also obtained some spirit stones.

After accumulating them, they could be converted into about fifty mid-grade spirit stones.

If he buys this formation, his spirit stone collection will almost return to what it was a few months ago.

Ronan was indeed quite interested in this formation.

He thought that if Gu Lianyue tricked him, he could get his spirit stones back later.

After all, he possessed the spiritual energy and resources of the wizarding world, and his cultivation speed was definitely faster than Gu Lianyue's.

Surpassing Gu Lianyue in the future will not be a problem.

"Alright, I'll take this formation."

As Ronan spoke, he waved his hand.

Fifty mid-grade spirit stones appeared before him, piled up in heaps.

"Fellow Daoist, you're so generous!" Gu Lianyue immediately took out a roll of paper from his storage bag.

This roll of paper, seemingly made of animal hide, is almost as long as a person.

After Ronan brought it over, he immediately shook the roll of paper.

As the roll of paper fell downwards, its contents were revealed to Ronan.

The paper contains text, but even more so various graphics and symbols.

Moreover, these characters are ancient language from the cultivation world.

The usage of its terms is somewhat different from that in the current cultivation world.

In addition, there are some sentences in the text that resemble "mnemonics".

Some methods of arranging formations are deliberately replaced with deliberately mysterious terms.

To fully understand the entire text, one must study it carefully.

However, Ronan thought that with the aid of Hongmeng, his research would be much easier than that of other cultivators.

(End of this chapter)