Chapter 2336 - Layers of Seals! (1/2)

Wang Chong was suspicious, but he didn’t slow down. As he advanced, his body remained tense, ready at any time to respond.

But after taking a few steps, Wang Chong grimaced.

In front of him stood a stone stele.

‘On the decree of Emperor Taizong, Yuan Tiangang has sealed this place!’

The words appeared to have been chiseled into the stone. Farther down, a golden-red compass had been embedded in the rock.

As Wang Chong stepped into the range of the stele, an enormous Taiji formation appeared beneath his feet, covering every inch of the cave.

Whoosh!

Space was instantly condensed, becoming as tough as steel, and the earth began to exert an enormous pull that pinned Wang Chong in place.

Even Wang Chong’s Stellar Energy began to flood out of his body, rapidly vanishing into the earth.

All of this had happened very abruptly, and Wang Chong felt his heart sink.

Yuan Tiangang!

This was the number one diviner from one hundred years ago.

In the several hundred years of the Tang Empire, he was the only person to ever truly obtain the status of state teacher, and he had been personally appointed by Emperor Taizong.

The Earth Trap Formation!

A thought flashed through Wang Chong’s mind.

Yuan Tiangang was known for his astrology, not his martial arts. Wang Chong was sure that Heavenly Master Yuan must have possessed a high cultivation level, for greater than what the common people imagined, but it could not be higher than his.

If Yuan Tiangang himself had appeared, he would have posed little threat to Wang Chong, but what he had used was a special land subsidence art, using the earth itself as a cage to imprison him.

The surrounding several hundred li had probably become like a vacuum, crazily draining away Wang Chong’s Stellar Energy. Until all of Wang Chong’s Stellar Energy had been emptied out of his body, the formation would not stop.

More importantly, this wasn’t a contest of martial arts. Wang Chong could not defeat the ‘earth’.

As these thoughts ran through his mind, Wang Chong had a flash of insight and quickly regained his composure.

This formation Yuan Tiangang had set down was truly formidable, but unfortunately, Wang Chong had also studied formations, and he had read the Formation Divine Treatise.

Bang!

A moment later, Wang Chong stomped his foot down. Rather than trying to stop the flow of Stellar Energy, he accelerated it.

This Grotto Heaven Stellar Energy did not flow into the ground to be absorbed by the formation, but was used by Wang Chong to create his own formation.

The Origin Immortal Formation!

Wang Chong used Stellar Energy to form a small Origin Immortal Formation around him.

On his journey to the northwest, Wang Chong had used this method against his enemies. Now that he was so much stronger, he was even more skilled at this method.

The moment this miniature Origin Immortal Formation appeared, the Earth Trap Formation draining away his energy was thrown into disarray. Like a small pebble being thrown onto a placid lake surface, a wave of disturbance appeared in the formation.

For Wang Chong, this small ripple of disturbance was enough for him to deal with this crisis.

Buzz!

Wang Chong appeared next to the stone stele and thrust out his finger. Spacetime sealing power entered the stele and immediately disintegrated the formation that Yuan Tiangang had left within.

Whoosh!

In a rush of air, the terrifying pull subsided, and everything in the cave fell still once more.

“Forgive me for my offense.”

Wang Chong bowed before stepping past the stele and continuing onward.

A few moments later, he felt another pressure coming from the front.

‘On the decree of Emperor Wen of Sui, Heaven-Reaching Great General Yu Juluo guards this place!’

The second stone stele soon appeared before him, and standing behind the stele was an armored figure, his hair white, a spear in hand, as motionless as a statue.

That person stood motionless, but even so, he still exuded an enormous pressure.

“How?!”

Wang Chong was stunned as he stared at this figure.

After all, he was a member of a great clan, and while growing up in the clan, he had heard all sorts of stories about heroes of past dynasties.

Wang Chong had recognized this man instantly. This was Heaven-Reaching General Yu Juluo, a renowned Sui general that his grandfather had told him stories about, though he was much older.

In the age of the Sui Dynasty, Heaven-Reaching Great General Yu Juluo had been on the same level as the Great Tang’s Su Zhengchen. He had been born with divine strength and had reached an extremely high level of martial arts, causing him to be granted the title of Heaven-Reaching Great General.