Transmigration: A person in a martial arts world, cultivating to ascend to immortality

Like Burial Immortal Valley, Fangzhang Island has two large formations for protection and shielding.

However, unlike Hidden Immortal Valley, the illusionary fog surrounding Fangzhang Island did not require Jiang Yuchuan to break through it. He could easily pass through it with his divine sense and arrive at the inner circle.

What Jiang Yuchan truly needed to break through with brute force was the inner circle of defensive formations firmly anchored to Fangzhang Island, resembling a large blue bowl covered with array patterns.

The array patterns flowing on this defensive formation are many times more numerous than those of the sealing formation inside the Burial Immortal Valley.

However, after a small test, Jiang Yuchuan discovered that the defensive array was much weaker than he had expected.

Judging from the constantly floating and clearly visible array patterns on it, this defensive array is much better preserved than the sealing array in the Burial Immortal Valley. Therefore, there is no possibility that the array's power has diminished due to the passage of time.

"In that case, there is only one possibility. The master of Fangzhang Island set up these two great formations not to prevent people from entering, but to select the successors."

Jiang Yuchuan was so certain because in the cultivation world of his previous life, there were, if not countless, similar cultivator ruins.

The first layer of the misty illusion array blocks low-level cultivators with weak spiritual senses and mortals who accidentally wander in; this second layer of defensive array is the real test!

The test, as for the content of the challenge, is how to break this formation.

Breaking the formation here does not mean smashing it with brute force, but rather finding the pattern between the formation's runes, calculating the location of the formation's core, and then eliminating the core to make the formation disappear.

Since it's a test related to formations, what's hidden on Abbot's Island is most likely the inheritance of formation techniques.

Unfortunately, the master of Fangzhang Island could never have imagined that the one who would eventually find the island would be a Nascent Soul cultivator who had been reborn from another realm.

Breaking the formation using normal methods is almost impossible for Jiang Yuchuan; all he knows is how to use his strength to send bricks flying.

Jiang Yuchuan raised his hand and took the jade hairpin out of his hair.

He has never used this jade hairpin since it was refined into a magical artifact.

Today, as we break through the formation, it's a good opportunity to test its power and see how effective it really is.

As the spiritual energy circulated, the jade hairpin held in Jiang Yuchuan's hand suddenly shone brightly.

Seeing that the runes engraved on the jade hairpin had been fully activated, Jiang Yuchuan waved his hand and threw it into the air. Then, he made hand seals and manipulated the jade hairpin to attack the great formation.

Driven by spiritual power, the jade hairpin, which had transformed into a dazzling blue light, struck the great formation directly.

After a loud "boom", the formation was not damaged except for a slight tremor.

The jade hairpin, having failed in its first attack, was controlled by Jiang Yuchuan to ascend directly into the sky and split into tens of thousands of hair-thin green needles.

These tens of thousands of green needles, radiating a green light, hung like raindrops suspended directly above the great formation.

Jiang Yuchuan changed his hand seals, and the phantom image of a jade hairpin gradually appeared on the green needle.

The instant the jade hairpin phantom fully materialized, Jiang Yuchuan pointed at the great formation and sent ten thousand green lights crashing down, accompanied by deafening booms. The entire Fangzhang Island seemed to tremble incessantly.

In just a few breaths, the defensive array was completely shattered under the relentless bombardment of the green needles.

After the great formation shattered, Jiang Yuchuan waved his hand, retrieved the jade hairpin, and reinserted it into his hair.

At this point, apart from the large number of flowers, grasses and trees growing on it, there is almost no other living thing on the entire Fangzhang Island.

Using his divine sense, Jiang Yuchuan quickly located a cave dwelling built on a hill in the center of the island.

Fangzhang Island wasn't very large, roughly equivalent to a small to medium-sized city in the Great Qian Dynasty. Therefore, Jiang Yuchuan didn't spend much time before arriving at the entrance of the cave.

Upon entering, Jiang Yuchuan discovered that the cave contained a small spatial array, making the interior much larger than it appeared from the outside.

The cave's structure was very simple. Apart from three enclosed stone chambers, there was only a large, empty square space in the center, directly facing the cave entrance.

This huge, square space, resembling a lobby, is surrounded by a ring of dark brown soil. Although these rows of soil are currently empty, one can imagine that before the spiritual energy was depleted, they must have been filled with exotic flowers and rare herbs to decorate the environment, or perhaps medicinal herbs that could be used for alchemy.

Of the three stone chambers scattered around, the middle one was the place where the owner of this place used for secluded cultivation.

On the other two sides, one room was filled with various books and miscellaneous items, while the other was empty except for a huge stone box.

Jiang Yuchuan took the lead and walked towards the stone chamber on the left, which contained a huge stone box.

Without even using his divine sense, Jiang Yuchuan could clearly perceive that there was a rather ingenious restriction array on this huge stone box.

If this restrictive formation were broken by external force, the energy contained within would instantly explode, blasting everything inside the stone box to smithereens.

Therefore, if Jiang Yuchuan wanted to find out what treasures were inside the stone box, he could only dismantle the restrictive formation step by step.

"What bad luck!"

Although such methods of protecting traditions are quite common in the cultivation world, Jiang Yuchuan still couldn't help but curse under his breath.

After leaving the stone chamber in a huff, Jiang Yuchuan went to the stone chamber opposite, which was filled with books and miscellaneous items.

If nothing unexpected happens, the method to break the restrictive formation on the stone box should be hidden in this stone chamber.

After searching, Jiang Yuchuan discovered that almost half of the hundreds of books piled up in the stone chamber were related to formations.

Simpler ones include books like "Detailed Explanation of Low-Grade Arrays," "One Hundred Essential Arrays for Beginner Array Masters," and "Complete Guide to Array Pattern Engraving," etc.; slightly more complex ones include "Remnants of the Ten Great Ancient Arrays," "On the Feasibility of Creating Arrays with a Single Thought," and "Notes from a Master of Array Dao"...

Among all these books related to formations, Jiang Yuchuan also discovered that one person's name appeared almost every few books, and sometimes even consecutively.

They all happened to appear in the author's column.

"Master Wuzang".

Without a doubt, this person is probably the owner of Fangzhang Island.

Soon, Jiang Yuchuan found records about this Venerable Wuzang in other books.

Or rather, this book is essentially Musashi's autobiography left to his successor.

The authenticity of autobiographies written by the deceased themselves after their passing is questionable.

After all, no one would openly write down their embarrassing or disgraceful past actions for others to see. What gets written down are undoubtedly glorious deeds and arduous experiences that demonstrate one's identity and value and have a positive impact on one's image.

This applies to both mortals and cultivators.

Jiang Yuchuan, being an experienced person, naturally believed whatever he saw.

However, even if Master Wuzang exaggerates or hides something in this autobiography he wrote himself, it doesn't prevent Jiang Yuchuan from learning something about what this continent was like before its spiritual energy was depleted from between the lines.