Chapter 1135: Across The Mortal World (II)
Eastern Sea.
Jagged black reefs jutted skyward as waves crashed and surged without white foam, but inky darkness. The sea's surface reflected no light. Here, at the far eastern edge of the Eastern Sea, the spiritual energy had grown thin, and even the great void had grown calm.
The seawater beneath the surface was pitch black. A few spirit fish swam past now and then, but nothing else could be seen. In the depths of that vast, shadowy world, a young man in azure robes and a golden tassel at his waist sat cross-legged with eyes tightly shut.
Before him stretched an enormous formation, its surface woven with emerald-green patterns. It resembled a vast agate dome pressing down upon the ocean floor. Coral and reef had accumulated over tens of thousands of years beneath it. Though it was so hard that even a Foundation Establishment Realm cultivator could scarcely move them, it had been cleanly sliced through like tofu and was now strewn unevenly across the seabed.
After some time, the young man slowly opened his eyes. His pupils were a pale cyan, and currents of Pristine Water coiled around him, their purity wholly at odds with the murky sea. They gathered into a faintly glowing turquoise halo.
"Fellow Daoist! How is my formation?"
His cheerful voice rippled completely unhindered through the dark waters, carrying straight into the sealed formation. In the next instant, the surrounding seawater began to boil violently, and a thunderous roar echoed back, "Chi Buzi! Have you lost your mind? When have I ever wronged you?!"
Chi Buzi rose from the reef and stepped leisurely through the water, smiling as he spoke, "It is precisely because you never wronged me that I could trap you here, isn't it? It has only been two years of refining, and I have yet to even make a move. Why are you so impatient, my friend? Besides, this place is Shiqi, the domain of the True Monarch of Transcendent Creation. I revere that venerable senior deeply, so rest assured, I would never take your life here."
At those words, the creature trapped within the formation was so furious that it fell silent for three full breaths. Chi Buzi knew full well how stifled the creature must be. He had laid his trap step by step, wielding four divine abilities of a late Purple Mansion Realm cultivator to deceive a weaker foe. He had scattered traces of a lost relic, feigned seclusion nearby, and simply waited for the creature to take the bait.
After all, it was a Purple Mansion Realm cultivator's seclusion ground. Even when the demonic creature had glimpsed the formation from within the great void, it thought little of it. But the moment it drew near, it was deceived by Chi Buzi's Chougui Hidden Form and failed to realize that the actual formation was far larger than what its spiritual sense had perceived.