585: Chapter 585 Void Seal Array

Su Ming's expression became extremely focused in that instant.

He knew well that when walking in the Cultivation World, striking hard was not a skill; surviving was the truth.

Under Lin Yu's guidance, his natal formation plate had been imprinted with three high-level defensive Formations and one offensive Formation, as well as the "Minor Void Realm Spirit-Locking Formation" obtained from Li Kai—though that was, of course, strongly requested by Lin Yu.

He took a deep breath, and the Golden Core Origin Spiritual Qi within his body surged like a long river, flowing under the guidance of his Divine Sense instantly into the "Solidify" Formation seal at the core of the Formation Plate.

"Hum—" A clear and lingering sound of metal and stone echoed within the valley.

Suddenly, the ice-blue cold aura ring on the edge of the natal formation plate flared brightly. Large swathes of deep blue water vapor appeared out of thin air, and in one-thousandth of a second, transformed into a deep blue water curtain barrier, thin as a cicada's wing yet possessing a translucent texture.

The barrier was hemispherical, perfectly enveloping the area within a three-zhang radius around Su Ming. On the surface of the water curtain, countless tiny "Seep" and "Dissolve" characters flickered within the flowing water, causing ripples of profound mystery.

Su Ming's gaze turned slightly cold. With his left hand, he fished out a palm-sized, pitch-black sphere engraved with dense thunder patterns from his Storage Pouch.

This was the "harvest no. 1" demolition bomb, which he had created using thunder fire sand and star-patterned steel waste, and which sold extremely well in the black market. The violent thunder-fire power stored inside this bomb was enough to instantly raze a stone house built of black mysterious stone to the ground; its power was equivalent to the full-force strike of a Late Foundation Establishment Stage Cultivator.

Su Ming slightly curled his finger and gently exhaled a breath of Spiritual Qi.

That "harvest no. 1" demolition bomb immediately turned into a black streak of light, precisely hovering in the Void Realm outside, just three inches away from the deep blue water curtain barrier.

"Explode!" With a thought, Su Ming detonated the fire-thunder core inside the demolition bomb.

"Rumble—!!" A blinding, crimson-red firelight suddenly burst open within the valley! The terrifying shockwave, mixed with violent thunder-fire Spiritual Qi, transformed into tangible circles of red air waves, carrying countless fragments of rock and sky-filling charred dust, crazily sweeping outwards in all directions.

The ground of the entire Trial Valley trembled violently. The violent air currents blew the surrounding broken black iron targets, causing them to sway unsteadily and emit a harsh screeching sound of friction.

The sky-filling dust and thunder-fire completely swallowed Su Ming's figure.

The billowing black smoke and raging thunder-fire lasted for a full ten breaths or so before slowly dispersing to the sides under the influence of the violent crosswinds in Trial Valley.

On the bluestone platform, debris covered the ground, and the surrounding earth had been scorched pitch-black by the thunder-fire.

However, Su Ming, who was at the core of the explosion, still stood quietly in place. His purple true disciple daoist robe was clean and neat, without a single wrinkle left behind. The shadow on his shoulder didn't even lift an eyelid, lazily scratching the bronze medal on its neck with a claw.

The deep blue water curtain barrier blocking in front of him remained as thin as a cicada's wing.

After enduring the terrifying impact of the "harvest no. 1" self-detonation at close range, this water curtain merely rippled with minute waves. The tiny "Dissolve" and "Seep" characters on the surface of the water curtain spun crazily, taking the violent kinetic energy and dry heat contained within the thunder-fire and, following the inclusive nature of water, gently diverted and seeped them into the bluestone ground below. The entire barrier did not even show a single tiny crack.

"The defensive power is thirty percent higher than I expected."

Su Ming reached out his right hand and gently stroked the natal formation plate hovering before him, feeling the stable, heavy, and undamaged Origin fluctuation feeding back from within the Formation Plate. A look of sincere joy flashed in his eyes.

"The vitality buffering of the tonglin wood, combined with the Nirvana Law of the marrow-cleansing profound ice, makes the stress distribution within this 'Solidify' barrier nothing short of perfect," Su Ming thought with secret delight.

"If I encounter an ambush by a Golden Core Early Stage Cultivator, relying solely on this first layer of water curtain, I could stand here and let them bombard me for half an hour without my Spiritual Qi running dry. This is the true meaning of the Dao of Stability."

"Brat, stop feeling so smug."

Inside the xuantian ring, Lin Yu's phantom curled its lip, and the luster on the surface of his soul body brightened. His voice echoed faintly in Su Ming's Sea of Consciousness, "This is merely rigid defense. If you encounter an opponent who truly understands the Dao of Formations or has powerful Divine Sense, they will be able to see the Spiritual Qi circulation nodes of your water curtain defense at a glance. No matter how high the defense is, it's just a turtle shell."

Lin Yu's soul body paced back and forth in mid-air, his expression turning serious. "What you should be testing most is that Void Realm Formation setting; that is the true capital for your survival in the future."

Su Ming's expression turned solemn; he wiped the smile from his lips and nodded heavily.

This was indeed the part he had been most looking forward to during this year of seclusion, and the one that had consumed the most of his essence, energy, and spirit to comprehend—using the natal formation plate as a coordinate anchor point to conduct practical applications of Void Realm runes.

Ordinary Formation Masters must rely on Formation Plates, Formation Flags, or Spirit Stones as carriers for Spiritual Qi conduction when setting up Formations. Once the carrier is destroyed, the Formation will collapse on its own.

But Void Realm Formation setting uses Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi as paper and one's own Divine Sense as a pen to imprint runes into the Void Realm out of thin air.

"Hoo—" Su Ming took a deep breath and closed his eyes slightly. In that instant, his Divine Sense was compressed to the extreme, spreading out along the Void Realm before him.

He raised his right hand steadily, his index and middle fingers pressed together.

"Rise." Su Ming shouted in his heart.

The natal formation plate hovering before him suddenly emitted a dull hum. A nearly invisible golden beam of light shot out from the star pattern at the core of the Formation Plate, precisely pinning itself onto a Void Realm node five zhang away from him.

That node was his positioning anchor point.

With the coordinate support of the natal formation plate, that piece of previously calm Void Realm suddenly presented a microscopic folded state like water ripples in Su Ming's Divine Sense perception.

Su Ming's fingers moved.

His fingertips swept rapidly through the air, leaving behind streaks of deep blue Spiritual Qi afterimages. This time, he did not use any physical Materials, relying purely on the liquidized Ruoshui Art Spiritual Qi within his body, which flowed crazily along the rule trajectories he had simulated no fewer than tens of thousands of times in his Sea of Consciousness.

Every sharp turn and every superposition of Spiritual Qi echoes placed hair-raising demands on his Divine Sense control.

"Dissolve, Seep, Guide, Isolate..."

A drop of sweat slid quietly down the temple on Su Ming's forehead.

Lin Yu hovered at the edge of the xuantian ring, staring fixedly at the changes in the space five zhang away. He could clearly perceive that wherever Su Ming's fingertips passed, the Spiritual Qi in the Void Realm was being forcibly emptied in a strange way, replaced by a power of Law representing absolute blockage and isolation.

"The final step... Give me, solidify!"

Su Ming tapped his finger heavily into the Void Realm, then withdrew it like lightning.

"Hum—!!" In the Void Realm, a deep blue radiance suddenly lit up.