Fantasy: The Clan Chief Lies Down, His House Is Full of Emperors

Xu Chu quickly took out a blue gourd with flying beast patterns. This was a treasure he had crafted. It had a large interior space and could be used to store all sorts of strange and unusual things.

Not only can it hold normal spiritual teas and wines, but it can also hold rare and precious materials, as well as exotic beasts.

Xu Chu opened the gourd lid, made a hand seal, and the gourd instantly grew larger. Then, a strong suction force came from the gourd's mouth.

Xu Qingzhou directly stuffed all the golden-winged sandworms in his hand into it.

Xu Chu quickly put the lid back on the gourd, and the gourd returned to its normal size. Xu Chu held it in his hand, looking as if he had found a treasure.

However, such a large group of invincible Golden-Winged Sandworms at the Integration Realm is indeed a treasure. After subduing them and feeding them for a period of time, they will definitely become an extremely powerful trump card.

For Xu Chu, who always felt insecure and had to prepare 108 backup plans before even going out, this was the best thing.

“Keep looking,” Xu Luo said.

Although Xu Qingzhou's divine sense covered a wide area, the Pingqiu Desert was also quite large, and Xu Luo only knew the general area, so finding it was still quite troublesome.

If Xu Ying were here, the search would probably be much simpler and easier.

Fortunately, with Xu Chen around, the search wasn't too difficult.

It took them about half a day to finally find the place.

“It should be here,” Xu Chen said earnestly, pointing to a large, sunken pit.

Xu Luo glanced at Xu Chu, who then took out several array flags he had crafted and quickly set up a simple array.

"rise!"

Mysterious array patterns suddenly appeared, floating over a radius of dozens of miles.

After a moment, Xu Chu said, "There is indeed an extremely complex ancient formation down there."

In order to trap Tu Jiuming, who was vying with him for the position of city lord, Wei Jianghe spared no expense in finding this ancient formation. He then found a formation master to set up a grand formation and lay an ambush here, which finally trapped Tu Jiuming, who was at the Great Saint Realm.

This ancient formation is indeed very effective. Tu Jiuming has been trapped inside for over three hundred years, but he still hasn't been able to break through the formation and escape.

"Can it be broken?" Xu Luo asked.

In his previous life, he only knew that Tu Jiuming was rescued from this area of ​​the Pingqiu Desert, but he didn't know the specifics of how the formation was broken to rescue him.

If it weren't for Xu Chu, who was proficient in formations, they would have had to hire another trustworthy formation master.

Xu Chu nodded.

"This is an ancient formation, so it will take a while."

Upon hearing this, Xu Luo breathed a sigh of relief. It would be such a pity if they finally found it but couldn't break it open.

Xu Chu began to take out his treasures for breaking the formation one by one.

Xu Chu used to spend most of his time in the Azure Dragon Secret Realm, so he had plenty of time to do research. His skills in alchemy, weapon crafting, array formations, and talismans had long since reached the master level.

If he were to break this ancient formation within it, he would find it difficult due to his own insufficient strength.

However, it would be relatively easier for him to break through the formation from outside.

Xu Chen asked in surprise, "Brother Chu also knows about ancient formations?"

After all, Xu Chu had spent many years in the Great Qian Dynasty, so how could there be ancient formations there for him to study?

"I know a little bit," Xu Chu replied. The Great Qian Dynasty did not have any ancient formations, but Xu Chu had been to Duanshan City several times and found them in some ancient books through various methods.

These words left the three of them speechless. You're being too modest. You could have broken it down anytime you spent some time, yet you still say you only know a little bit about it.

Aside from those ancient monsters who have lived for thousands of years, there are probably very few people in the entire Cangzhou who can reliably defeat you in terms of array formation skills.

After Xu Chu began breaking the formation, they stopped talking. Xu Qingzhou expanded his divine sense, remaining vigilant at all times.

Xu Chu chose to break the formation by using another formation to break it. He set up other formations here and used them to break the ancient formation that trapped Tu Jiuming.

Only a master of formations can do this.

Xu Chu, however, was quite skilled, without a single superfluous movement or operation. Everything looked so smooth, as if he had rehearsed it many times.

This amazed Xu Luo and Xu Chen, who were standing nearby.

They felt that Xu Chu's slow progress in cultivation was probably because he spent too much time on side jobs.

A cultivator's time is limited. Unless they have exceptional talent in a particular area or lack resources and need to acquire a side job to earn those resources, almost no cultivator will spend their time on such things.

What they didn't know was that while everyone else had limited time, Xu Chu had unlimited time.

As time passed, the yellow sand in the small pit dissipated, revealing the formation below.

To be precise, it was a cage, constructed from hundreds of jade pillars, each as thick as a thigh and tens of feet long.

The cage was almost completely filled with yellow sand, and more and more sand was flowing into it. This sand possessed immense power within the cage, and if one did not concentrate on resisting it, even a powerful expert at the Great Saint Realm would be crushed to death.

Through their divine senses, Xu Qingzhou and the others could see that in the center of the cage, there was a tall man sitting cross-legged in the air with his eyes closed, blocking the yellow sand three zhang away.

"Is this person Tu Jiuming?" Xu Chen asked.

Xu Luo nodded.

Xu Chen frowned and said, "If I'm not mistaken, the yellow sand from thousands of miles around is converging here, eventually slowly flowing into the formation and gradually approaching Tu Jiuming."

"He must constantly expend a large amount of true energy to resist the endless yellow sand."

"Even so, if this continues and no one comes to save him, he will eventually be swallowed up by the yellow sand and completely crushed."

"Just thinking about this kind of death makes you feel despair. Wei Jianghe is really ruthless. He even uses such a cruel method to deal with his own sworn brother."

Being confined in a cage, isolated from the outside world, and facing the constant onslaught of yellow sand from all directions, the despair and helplessness are unbearable for most people. If it were someone else, they might have given up on suicide.

Xu Qingzhou was even more curious about how Tu Jiuming would deal with Wei Jianghe after he was rescued.

Xu Luo said, "Tu Jiuming came looking for Jin Zhuosha. I'll go check around here to see if Jin Zhuosha is here."

“I’ll go with you,” Xu Chen echoed.

They came here for two purposes: one was to rescue Tu Jiuming, and the other was to find Jin Zhuosha, a material comparable to holy gold.

While Xu Chu was breaking the formation, Xu Luo and Xu Chen searched for the Golden Turbid Sand in the surrounding area.

Based on what I knew from my previous life, Jin Zhuosha was near the place where Tu Jiuming was trapped, so it wasn't difficult to find him.

Time passes slowly.

Xu Qingzhou would occasionally take action to eliminate the nearby monsters.

Two hours passed in this way.

Xu Luo and Xu Chen returned, unable to hide their smiles.

"Did you find it?" Xu Qingzhou asked.

Xu Luo flipped his right hand, and a ball of golden sand the size of a face plate appeared in his hand. The sand was golden and shiny, like broken gold, and it shone brightly under the sunlight.

Although the golden sand floated in Xu Luo's hand, each grain was as heavy as a thousand pounds. Without sufficient strength or special techniques, one simply could not lift it.

"This golden sand can be used to forge at least five sacred weapons."

Xu Qingzhou nodded in satisfaction and put away the Golden Turbid Sand. He was quite pleased with his harvest.

Once Xu Chu is stronger, we can give him this golden sand so he can forge sacred weapons.

At this moment, Xu Chu's work of breaking through the formation was also nearing its end.

"Boom!"

Within the formation, the array patterns collided, producing a series of booming sounds, like two powerful figures locked in battle.

If you were to throw the golden-winged sandworms you just found into the formation now, they would be torn apart by the collisions between the formations in no time, which shows how dangerous it is.

Tu Jiuming, trapped in his cage and completely isolated from the outside world, was unaware of the arrival of Xu Qingzhou and his companions. He was still enduring the torment of loneliness, resisting the approaching yellow sand that seemed intent on crushing him.

Only now, as the formation was gradually broken and began to loosen, did Tu Jiuming realize that someone was breaking the formation, and he suddenly opened his eyes.

Tu Jiuming's eyes were filled with vicissitudes and exhaustion, and his expression was somewhat numb, even a little desperate.

If it's just about seclusion and cultivation for over three hundred years, that's fine; most Saint Realm experts have had that experience.

But Tu Jiuming had to constantly resist the erosion of the yellow sand and cultivate, so he spent day after day in aimless waiting.

This is far more difficult than cultivating in seclusion for over three hundred years.

If it weren't for his burning desire for revenge, he probably would have given up long ago and committed suicide in his cage.