No hope for eternal life

Chapter 255 Divine Power Incarnation

"I have more than 20,000 newly acquired high-quality spirit stones. Even if I am trapped here forever, it will not be a problem for me to live for a few hundred years. It is normal that the sect cannot find me in a short period of time, but it may not be the case over a long period of time." Mu Changsheng comforted himself and began to meditate, like an old monk in a trance, motionless. In this way, his consumption would be minimal.

But at this moment, an old voice suddenly sounded in Mu Changsheng's ears: "Give up so soon?"

Mu Changsheng suddenly opened his eyes, as if a man in a desperate situation saw hope, and quickly asked: "Senior, why did you bring me here?"

"Of course I want to give you a great opportunity, but I don't like mediocre people. Whether you can get this opportunity is still uncertain." The old voice replied to Mu Changsheng's question, and reminded him: "It is not easy or difficult to break the current dilemma. This situation is to test your formation skills. You have three days to break the dilemma. If you fail to do so within three days, you will die!"

"You have two days left. I advise you not to count on that sect to save you. Just try to break the impasse honestly." The old voice said the last sentence and did not say another word no matter how Mu Changsheng asked questions.

The word death lingered in Mu Changsheng's mind. He could only abandon all unnecessary thoughts and concentrate on thinking of a way to break the impasse.

"Since it is a test of one's formation skills, could it be that one is going to use formations to break formations?" Mu Changsheng guessed in his heart. He had used many methods to break formations in the past day, but he had never used formation skills to break formations. It was only because his formation skills were not strong, and he believed that the wall formation in front of him was of a very high grade, so he had never thought of using formation skills to break it.

Now combined with the reminder from the owner of the black bead, Mu Changsheng roughly determined that the so-called breaking the impasse was to break the formation, and in order to break the formation, he must use the means of formation.

Thinking of this, Mu Changsheng took out a Red Sun Formation Plate. He had not sold all the formation plates before, and deliberately kept a few.

The Luosheng Formation is mainly used to trap the enemy, and the Chiyang Formation is the most powerful formation in Mu Changsheng's hands.

Mu Changsheng activated the Red Sun Formation to attack the protective wall formation around him.

"Boom boom boom..." A series of explosion sounds were heard. This time, the wall protection formation was no longer as mysterious as before, but it collided violently with the attack of the Red Sun Formation.

But Mu Changsheng frowned again: "Something is wrong."

Although the collision was fierce, the result was that the power of the Red Sun Formation was slowly consumed, while the wall formation still firmly blocked all attacks without any signs of collapse.

"It's not that simple." Mu Changsheng put away the Red Sun Formation Plate. He was not very surprised by the result. Since it was a test, it was impossible for him to pass the test directly by just taking out a formation plate.

"The purpose is to test my formation skills." Mu Changsheng pondered what the black bead master said, and thought to himself: "Could it be that he wants me to set up a formation on the spot?"

But Mu Changsheng soon realized the problem: "I don't have any spiritual materials on hand now!"

Without spiritual materials, it would be like a skilled cook having no rice to cook. How could Mu Changsheng set up the formation?

"No spiritual materials!" A flash of inspiration flashed through Mu Changsheng's mind, and he suddenly realized what the real test was: "This test is to make me form a formation out of thin air without any spiritual materials!"

Mu Changsheng had seen Bai Xuanyu do this before, without relying on any spiritual materials, only using spiritual power to set up the formation out of thin air. However, Bai Xuanyu did it with the help of a special folding fan magic weapon in his hand. Mu Changsheng did not have that kind of special magic weapon.

Moreover, the field of setting up formations out of thin air is generally something that only a formation master at the Spirit Transformation Realm can involve. It is too difficult for Mu Changsheng, a formation master at the Nascent Soul Realm, to achieve that within the remaining two days. It is extremely difficult, as difficult as ascending to the sky!

But after Mu Changsheng thought about it carefully, he became more and more certain that this life-and-death test was to see whether he could set up a formation out of thin air, because only in this way could it truly serve as a test.

It was either life or death. No matter how difficult it was, Mu Changsheng had no choice but to do it and started practicing immediately.

You don't know until you try. Mu Changsheng quickly discovered the problem after trying. The reason why spiritual materials can form an array is because of the complementary characteristics of different spiritual materials. If Mu Changsheng wants to form an array out of thin air with his own spiritual power, he must use magic power to simulate the characteristics of various spiritual materials.

But spiritual power is the power of creation of heaven and earth, it is ever-changing and has many characteristics. If Mu Changsheng wants to use spiritual power to simulate the characteristics of spiritual materials, he must try them one by one, constantly trying and failing, constantly trying and failing. It seems endless and despairing.

“The reason why formation masters in the Spirit Transformation Realm can set up formations out of thin air is because after their cultivation has reached the Spirit Transformation Realm, their magic power is transformed into divine power, which adds to their luck, so it is easier for them to simulate the characteristics of various spiritual materials.” Mu Changsheng said to himself, realizing the fundamental gap between himself and the cultivators in the Spirit Transformation Realm.

But Mu Changsheng is not entirely at a disadvantage. His only advantage now is that he has the experience in formations given by Taoist Master Nan, and knows how to quickly and effectively simulate the characteristics of various spiritual materials.

Mu Changsheng is now racing against time. He has to complete the simulation of the characteristics of various spiritual materials within two days, and then set up a formation out of thin air without the help of any spiritual materials.

Another day later, after continuous attempts, Mu Changsheng finally succeeded in simulating all thirteen spiritual materials needed for a second-grade formation.

With this, Mu Changsheng successfully set up a second-grade attack formation!

Mu Changsheng quickly used this second-grade attack formation to attack the surrounding walls, but all he got in response was deathly silence, and the wall protection formation did not undergo any changes.

Seeing this, Mu Changsheng couldn't help sweating on his forehead: "Did I guess wrong, or the formation I set up is too low-grade and can't meet the passing standard."

The grade of the second-grade formation is indeed very low, but this is the result of Mu Changsheng's crazy efforts, because the higher the level of the formation, the more complex it is and the more types of spiritual materials it requires. It is absolutely impossible to set up a fourth-grade formation within the remaining day.

"Since the fourth-grade formation is impossible, let's try the third-grade formation." Mu Changsheng said gritting his teeth. This was the only way he could think of to break the impasse, and he had to go down this path.

Moreover, Mu Changsheng was well prepared. He had a third-grade formation on hand, and the spiritual materials needed overlapped with those of the second-grade formation he had just completed. In this way, he only needed to simulate fifteen of the twenty-one spiritual materials originally required for the third-grade formation, which could save him a lot of time.

People's potential is unlimited when they are in desperate situations. Mu Changsheng was full of desire to survive under the threat of death. It took Mu Changsheng less time to collect fifteen kinds of spiritual materials than the previous thirteen.

With two hours left before the three-day deadline, Mu Changsheng finally set up a third-grade formation out of thin air.

As the third-grade formation was completely formed, Mu Changsheng hurriedly used it to attack the stone wall.

"Rumble, rumble, rumble..." The silent space finally moved. The tightly closed stone wall turned into a stone door, slowly opening to make way.

Obviously, Mu Changsheng guessed right!

"Success." Mu Changsheng was delighted and quickly passed through the stone gate and moved forward to find an exit.

Soon, the way ahead became clear, and Mu Changsheng walked into a stone hall. Inside the stone hall stood an old man with a somewhat illusory figure. The old man was dressed in purple and green, and looked very unfathomable.

"Not bad. I didn't expect that you could actually set up a third-grade formation out of thin air within the remaining two days." The purple-green old man nodded at Mu Changsheng, seeming very satisfied with Mu Changsheng's performance.

When Mu Changsheng saw the purple-green old man, he was secretly surprised: "Is this... the incarnation of divine power?"