521: Chapter 521 Mysterious Array

Kunlun Immortal Mountain, Dean's Office.

Liu Lian stood in place, his mind still somewhat dazed.

One moment ago, the Dean was complaining in front of him about not being able to watch TV dramas.

The next moment, the man directly tore through space and vanished.

This effortless display, treating interstellar travel as a routine matter, once again refreshed his understanding of the Dean's strength.

He lowered his head, looking inward at his Dantian Qi Sea.

The phantom of the divine osmanthus tree behind the seated Nascent Soul remained clear.

"Don't let a mere tree disturb your sword heart."

The Dean's parting words echoed in his ears.

Liu Lian's gaze regained its firmness.

He bowed deeply to the empty office, then turned and left... the Moon.

In the dead silent vacuum, a spatial rift appeared out of thin air.

Li Heng yawned as he leisurely stepped out from within.

He glanced at the familiar crater beneath his feet, then looked up toward the direction of the Guanghan Palace ruins.

"Let me see what the hell is causing trouble."

With a flicker of his figure, he appeared above the ruins.

As his eyes took in the scene, his eyebrows raised slightly.

The divine osmanthus tree, which should have been uprooted and completely erased by him, was now standing tall once again.

Moreover, it was several times larger than when he last saw it.

Its canopy nearly covered half of the ruins, with a vast life force spreading outward like a tide, forming a stark contrast to the Moon's dead silence.

"Interesting."

Li Heng clicked his tongue.

To revive and grow stronger right under his nose—this was no ordinary means.

He didn't rush to act.

This time, without holding back, the vast Divine Thought of the Mahayana Stage, like an invisible ocean, instantly enveloped the entire Moon.

Wherever his Divine Thought reached, every detail was revealed.

From every speck of dust on the surface to every layer of rock structure deep underground.

The entire planet's structure, with unprecedented clarity, was fully presented in his mind.

Then, he saw it.

He saw things that, due to insufficient cultivation last time, he couldn't perceive at all.

Beneath the Moon's surface, deep within the crust, enormous golden patterns spread across the entire globe.

These patterns were extremely complex, interconnected and profoundly mysterious, forming a grand Formation diagram covering the entire planet!

The Moon was not a simple planet at all.

It was an unimaginably massive Formation Plate!

Li Heng's Divine Thought traced along those golden Formation patterns, and eventually, all the patterns converged at a single point.

That point was precisely the divine osmanthus tree before him.

"So that's how it is."

Li Heng fully understood.

This tree was not the true entity at all.

It was merely the eye of this super grand Formation covering the entire Moon, the core hub of the Formation's energy circulation.

As long as the grand Formation remained intact and energy continued to flow, even if this tree were blasted to dust ten thousand times, it could regrow in an extremely short time.

As for that cursed Wu Gang... he wasn't some pitiful soul but the guardian of this grand Formation, a Puppet driven by the Formation's power.

The reason Liu Lian could sever Wu Gang's curse wasn't because his sword Dao was profound or he had comprehended the Law of Time.

It was because his sword strike, by sheer coincidence, temporarily cut off the energy connection between the Formation eye and the guardian Puppet.

With the guardian Puppet destroyed, the Formation lost its watchman.

And Liu Lian, by chance, absorbed the unclaimed energy that leaked from the Formation eye to achieve his Nascent Soul Breakthrough.

Well, now.

He himself had been "marked" by this grand Formation.

That divine tree phantom branded behind his Nascent Soul was the "System mark" of this super grand Formation.

For now, it wasn't harmful and could even nourish his Nascent Soul.

But once the true master of this grand Formation returned, or the Formation was fully activated, with just a thought, they could instantly control Liu Lian's life and death through this mark, even turning him into the next "Wu Gang."

"Damn, this is utterly troublesome."

Li Heng irritably scratched his head.

He originally thought it was just a minor issue—come over, chop down a tree, and be done with it.

Now it seemed this was a chain of shocking pitfalls.

To resolve the hidden danger on Liu Lian's Nascent Soul, he had to destroy this super grand Formation covering the entire Moon.

But this Formation was so grand, clearly laid down by some formidable figure.

Trying to completely destroy it would inevitably trigger unpredictable consequences.

"Forget it, I won't think about it."

Li Heng was never one to enjoy using his brain.

Since he couldn't figure it out, he might as well stir up an even bigger mess.

He hated this kind of trouble hanging overhead, not knowing when it would fall.

Better a short pain than a long one.

Today, he would thoroughly detonate this grand Formation!

He wanted to see where this scheme hidden behind the Moon connected to and what it aimed to do.

Having made up his mind, Li Heng hesitated no longer.

He descended and landed before the divine osmanthus tree.

He didn't even bother attacking, simply extending a hand and gently pressing it against the thick trunk.

"Let me see where your limit lies."

As the words fell.

A pure, indescribably vast Mahayana Stage spiritual power, like a released Nine Heavens Milky Way, madly surged into the divine osmanthus tree!

"Hum—!"

The entire divine tree, upon receiving this terrifying energy, erupted with blinding golden light!

Every leaf on the trunk turned as if cast in gold, emitting a sacred aura.

The next moment.

A sudden mutation occurred!

Centered on the Guanghan Palace ruins, thick golden beams of light shot up from underground, soaring into the sky!

Immediately after, the entire Moon's surface lit up!

Those ancient Formation patterns buried deep within the crust were fully activated by the immense energy Li Heng injected, lighting up one after another, turning the entire dead planet into a massive golden sphere of light!

Li Heng maintained his hand-on-trunk posture, continuously channeling spiritual power into it.

The entire planet trembled violently.

The golden light erupting from the divine osmanthus tree condensed into a massive pillar of light piercing through heaven and earth.

An extremely powerful spatial pulling force emanated from the core of the light pillar, acting on Li Heng.

Li Heng's face showed no tension; instead, a smile of interest appeared.

"Here it comes."

He withdrew his hand, abandoning all resistance.

Allowing that terrifying pulling force to sweep his body into it.

"Boom!"

The golden light pillar instantly swallowed Li Heng's figure completely.

The light faded.

On the Moon, only the wildly growing divine osmanthus tree and the now-activated super grand Formation remained.

And Li Heng's figure had already vanished.