142: The Sect Protection Formation, the Great Battle

“Dong! Dong! Dong...”

The morning bell tolled three times. Jiang Yan stood at the entrance of the Animal Rearing Chamber, looking out over the entire Qingyun Sect from afar.

“Stinky brat, you've been standing at the door for nearly half an hour. Is it just to see the early morning sun?”

Jiang Yan turned around with a smile and cupped his fists. “Revered Master, don't you think this scenery is beautiful?”

Li Yi was drawing Talismans and didn't even look up. “If you look at it for too long, you'll get tired of it.”

Jiang Yan nodded in agreement. “True. After all, beautiful scenery shouldn't be looked at too much; it's easy to get aesthetic fatigue.”

Hearing Jiang Yan's words, Li Yi took out a stack of Talisman paper. “Alright, hurry up and craft some Talismans. We might be facing a great battle next.”

“Revered Master, do you think the Three Great Sects will let us pass?” Jiang Yan asked as he picked up a spiritual pen.

“No,” Li Yi answered directly.

“Then why did you...”

Before Jiang Yan could finish, Li Yi interrupted, “Have you ever heard of a cornered dog jumping over a wall?”

Jiang Yan's eyes widened upon hearing this. “Revered Master, are you saying the Three Great Sects will directly attack the Qingyun Sect?”

“If I've guessed correctly, they will arrive at our Qingyun Sect by noon at the latest!” Li Yi replied.

“Holy crap!” Jiang Yan was shocked, his tone anxious. “Wait... Revered Master, they're almost here to attack us, and you can still keep your cool?”

Li Yi smiled without saying a word. How could he not be prepared? After all, he understood that group of people from the Three Great Sects all too well.

While the Revered Master and Disciple were crafting Talismans, Lü Yang walked quickly into the Animal Rearing Chamber.

“Senior Brother Li, the Three Great Sects are piloting flying boats and are currently rushing toward our Qingyun Sect.”

Li Yi gave an “mm” in response and kept his head down, continuing to craft Talismans as if he had long expected this.

“Revered Master, aren't we going out to meet the enemy?” Jiang Yan asked curiously.

Li Yi didn't even look up, his spiritual pen moving like flowing water. “What's the rush? Let them fly for a bit longer.”

Just as he spoke, Hua Yunlan and Tie Lizhen walked in.

“Senior Brother Li, following your instructions, I have notified all the Outer Sect Elders. They are currently arranging for Disciples below the Foundation Establishment Realm to take refuge,” Tie Lizhen said, cupping his fists.

“Senior Brother Li, all Inner Sect Disciples and Elders have entered combat readiness,” Hua Yunlan reported.

Li Yi nodded and tossed eight Storage Pouches onto the table. “Distribute these. Have every participating Disciple carry two Talismans to prevent Possession by the Sea Race.”

Jiang Yan curiously grabbed a Storage Pouch and poured out a pile of azure Talismans with a clatter.

The patterns on the Talisman paper actually wriggled slowly like living things, emitting a faint fishy smell of the sea.

“Holy... Revered Master... could this be...”

“These are ‘Anti-Possession Talismans’ I refined using Sea Race scales.” Li Yi finally stood up, a pitch-black longsword sliding out from his sleeve. “Since returning from the Secret Realm, I've been studying the Sea Race's Possession seeds. By chance, I discovered that when these scales are made into Talismans, they can actually prevent Possession by Sea Race creatures.”

As he finished speaking, Li Yi flicked his sword tip. One Talisman flew into the air, followed by another Talisman that complemented it, which instantly began to spin.

Seeing this scene, Jiang Yan exclaimed in wonder, filled with admiration.

‘I have to say, if this Cheap Master's brain were put in modern society, he'd definitely be a top-tier scientist.’

Just as Hua Yunlan and Tie Lizhen left with the Storage Pouches, countless flying boat fleets appeared in the sky above the Qingyun Sect.

Jiang Yan cried out, “Holy crap, Revered Master, didn't you say they'd arrive at noon? Why did they get here so fast?”

“There's still fifteen minutes until noon; it's about the same,” Li Yi said with a smile.

“Revered Master, don't joke around. This Disciple can't handle this,” Jiang Yan said hurriedly.

Standing at the door of the Animal Rearing Chamber, Li Yi looked toward the heavens with a smile. He slowly pulled out a Jade Slip and gave it a light squeeze.

“Rumble!”

The six Peaks of the entire Qingyun Sect suddenly shifted. The Spiritual Qi of the earth veins converged frantically, weaving into a star map in mid-air that blotted out the sun. Looking closely, it was clearly a reflection of the positions of the Three Great Sects' flying boats!

“What is this thing?” Jiang Yan's eyes went wide.

“Senior Martial Uncle Zhang's ‘Heavenly Constellation Array’,” Li Yi chuckled. “Over fifty years ago, when I was being hunted, I conveniently made off with the Three Great Sects' sect-protecting Formation Plates. After returning, Senior Martial Uncle Zhang combined them with the Qingyun Sect's great Formation to research this kind of array.”

As he spoke, a dark mass of escape lights appeared on the distant horizon.

The allied forces of the Three Great Sects arrived with aggressive momentum. Leading them was Red Heavens Son, his body entwined with Sea Race tentacles. His roar echoed through the clouds: “Qingyun Sect! Today, we will surely make you disappear from the Immortal Realm!”

“Snap!”

Li Yi snapped his fingers.

The star map suddenly inverted, and a series of explosions suddenly rang out from the distant sky.

The flying boat fleets of the Three Great Sects seemed to have slammed into an invisible barrier, exploding into fireballs one after another in mid-air.

“Holy crap, what a badass sect-protecting Formation...” Jiang Yan exclaimed.

“Let's go, it's time for our performance!” Li Yi said. Grabbing Jiang Yan's shoulder, an escape light flashed, and the two disappeared from Spirit Beast Peak.

When Li Yi appeared at the Qingyun Sect's mountain gate with Jiang Yan, the entire battlefield had already begun.

The wreckage of the Three Great Sects' flying boats fell like rain. The surviving Cultivators discovered in horror that the Spells they released were actually all reflecting back at them!

“Revered Master, this Formation is truly badass,” Jiang Yan said, giving a thumbs up.

Li Yi said with a smile, “Execute according to plan. You will be the main force this time.”

As he finished speaking, he slashed out a sword light with two fingers, directly killing a Dao Yun Sect Disciple who had been contaminated by the Sea Race.

Jiang Yan smiled and patted the Storage Pouch full of Talismans. He was going to put on a show of artistic terror this time!

Just then, Red Heavens Son struggled to crawl out from a rock wall, tentacles dancing frantically all over his body. “Li Yi, I want you dead!”

“Noisy!”

Without even turning his head, Li Yi threw out a sword light. The seemingly ordinary Sword Qi suddenly split into thousands upon touching Red Heavens Son, each one accurately pinning the Sea Race parasites on his body.

“Aaaah!” Red Heavens Son let out a scream that didn't sound human as the Sea Race tissues inside him began to spontaneously combust.

Sensing his Revered Master's ‘Selfless Sword Intent’, Jiang Yan finally understood why Chen Yaofeng said Li Yi was a Genius.

With this Peak sword path, he was one of a kind in the world!

As Li Yi battled Red Heavens Son, the various Peak Lords and Elders of the Qingyun Sect also joined the great battle one after another.

At this moment, the ultimate techniques of each Peak bloomed to their fullest!

Gu Chen stepped on fire clouds. As he tilted his Pill Furnace, thousands of Fire Crows swept across the battlefield.

Duan Tianhai threw out a hundred thousand low-grade Talismans, forming an Immortal-Slaying Sword Array in the sky that blotted out the sun.

The most exaggerated was Yu Tianlong, who had somehow released an untamed Thunder Flood Dragon and was riding it, crashing through the enemy ranks... Jiang Yan was not one to be left behind either. With a spear in his left hand and a sword in his right, he began a frantic slaughter among those contaminated Disciples of the three sects.

The entire battlefield instantly transformed into an asura field, with various spiritual lights and blood mists weaving into a suffocating tableau.

The spear in Jiang Yan's hand was like a Dragon and his sword light like lightning. Wherever he passed, the Sea Race parasites exploded one after another.

Even more bizarrely, blue spots of light constantly surged into his body from the corpses of the enemies he killed—he was actually plundering the Sea Race Origin!

Jiang Yan had no time to observe the pop-up notifications right now. Regardless, he felt that after leveling up, his Physique had undergone another massive change, as if he were being reborn.

As he stopped suppressing his qi-blood and allowed his Physique to erupt, a radius of dozens of feet instantly became a vacuum zone.

Even the three sects' Disciples who lunged at him were turned into blood mist in an instant.

With a massive, violent power like a god or demon descending to earth, Jiang Yan let out a roar and instantly charged toward a flying boat.

“Boom!”

His body was like a fired cannonball, instantly tearing through a flying boat.

The three sects' Disciples on the flying boat were slaughtered by Jiang Yan before they even knew what was happening.

Jiang Yan was now like an awakened prehistoric Vicious Beast, his whole body's qi-blood boiling like an erupting volcano.

With every step he took, the ground cracked into spiderweb-like fissures, and the air within three feet of him distorted and steamed under the high temperature.

“Boom!”

Another flying boat was smashed through by him. The Cultivators on the deck didn't even have time to scream before being crushed into blood mist by the violent qi-blood power.

The blood mist did not dissipate; instead, it was swallowed by the black-red Evil Qi swirling around Jiang Yan, transforming into even more violent power that fed back into his body.

“Refreshing!” Jiang Yan roared at the sky, the sound waves making the ears and noses of several nearby Core Formation Cultivators bleed.

His current state was extremely bizarre. If classified by cultivation Realms, his Physical Body had already broken through to the Nascent Soul Realm.

“Stop him! The Ten Thousand Mechanisms Hall needs a Puppet like this!” Jiang Wanli said excitedly.

Jiang Yan's eyes were blood-red as he showed a disdainful smile. Others might not know the weaknesses of the Dao Yun Sect's Ten Thousand Mechanisms Hall, but he was all too familiar with them. After all, he also knew the Hundred Refinements Divine Mechanism Art.

As an overwhelming number of Puppets rushed toward him, a cruel smile curled on Jiang Yan's lips. His right hand suddenly formed a bizarre hand seal as he charged toward the overwhelming army of Puppets.