There was no doubt that Lu Ping had come to the South China Sea at the expense of delaying his own advancement to the mid Dharma stage!
Although the Kongming Sect's original location had been breached by the cultivators of the various overseas sects, the Kongming Sect's protective formation system, which was made up of countless formations, was already showing signs of collapsing. Although the cultivators of the various sects were confident that they could break the protective formation, they did not have the slightest confidence that they would be able to escape with their lives if the formation were to collapse.
As a result, although much of the Kongming Island had been plundered in a hurry, items that were difficult to take away, such as the spirit veins and mineral veins, had been left behind.
For thousands of years, no one had been able to enter the Kongming Island. At this time, the Kongming Island was supported by at least two or three large spirit veins. Not only did the protective formation that had originally collapsed continue to exist in a strange way, but the island was also filled with plants that grew wildly. Among them, there was no lack of spirit herbs. Although these rare items were extremely rare, they were of sufficient age, and the proportion of spirit herbs that were three thousand years old was considered high.
Furthermore, although the treasures on the island had almost been completely plundered by the various overseas sects, there was no guarantee that there were no treasures left behind. With the formation master, Deng Ming, leading Samling and the rest on the island to search for treasures, even if they were to encounter any traps, they would be able to deal with them easily.
At this time, Lu Ping had already arrived at the center of the Kongming Island. This was the place where the spirit veins of the Kongming Island were concentrated. The sky was covered with a layer of white light. The Kongming Palace here had long been destroyed in the great battle of the Kongming Sect, and the cultivators of the various sects had naturally put in a lot of effort to excavate the central palace of the Kongming Sect. Even the foundations of the palace had been dug out.
However, who would have thought that the most important treasures of the Kongming Sect were not in the central palace, nor were they in the so-called Heaven's Inheritance?
Looking at the mess on the ground, Lu Ping began to slowly walk around the ruins of the central palace. After a while, he finally found the remnants of the formation that had originally surrounded the central palace.
Lu Ping formed a seal with both hands and struck the broken array. The broken array suddenly shook and actually lit up with a silver light. Lu Ping was immediately delighted.
The Kong Ming Sect had indeed reached the pinnacle of formations. This formation used to hide treasures had been disguised as an incomplete formation, and then a similar formation had been grafted onto this incomplete formation. The two formations had combined to form a complete defensive formation around the central palace.
When the invading Dharma adepts from the various sects had destroyed the defensive array, all their attention had been on the central palace. They did not know that the array that had been destroyed was actually a complete array. However, in the eyes of the Dharma adepts, it was not worth paying attention to.
Just as Lu Ping activated the incomplete formation according to the records left behind in Kong Wu's inheritance, the entire formation that surrounded the central palace suddenly flashed with a silver light.
Two rays of green light shot out from Lu Ping's eyes and penetrated the silver light. After a while, he seemed to have discovered something. His finger quickly pointed out, and there was a crisp "ding" sound. Then, Lu Ping used his spatial powers and appeared on the other side of the formation in a flash.
Lu Ping estimated his position and the moment he appeared on the other side of the formation, he once again used his "Three Pure Eyes". It was as if he was racing against time. In an instant, Lu Ping's finger pointed out again, and a crisp "ding" sound rang out from the silver light.
Using the same method, Lu Ping very quickly appeared on the third spot and found a spot in the formation that was covered by the silver light. Then, he used his finger to point at the spot in the formation that was covered by the silver light.
At this moment, Lu Ping opened his palm, and three Empty Spirits appeared in Lu Ping's hand.
Although the eight Empty Spirits in Lu Ping's hand were similar, if Deng Ming was here, he would actually be able to tell that these eight Empty Spirits were actually different. And at this moment, the three Empty Spirits in Lu Ping's hand were actually different from the five Empty Spirits that Lu Ping had used to use the teleportation array.
The three Empty Spirits were thrown out by Lu Ping, and they entered the formation that was covered by the silver light. At the three spots that Lu Ping had pointed at, the silver light that had been activated from the formation immediately split into three parts and returned to the positions of the three Empty Spirits.
After the silver light had completely disappeared, there were only three bright silver lights left on the entire formation. These lights were like threads, intertwining in the air above the ruins of the Central Netherworld Hall, forming the silhouette of a silver box that was three feet wide and three square feet wide.
Lu Ping sighed in his heart. Who would have thought that the Empty Spirit Sect would actually hide such a small space in the sky above the Empty Spirit Hall? It was so exquisite and unimaginable. Without activating the formation, even the Dharma adepts and formation masters of the various sects who had participated in the destruction of the Empty Spirit Hall thousands of years ago would not have realized that this treasure, which the Empty Spirit Sect had called the foundation of the sect, was hidden right under their noses.
Lu Ping slowly floated up into the air and arrived at the array formation space formed by the Silver Thread Treasure Box. On the surface of the box were four nodes of the array formation space. Back then, the four Array Formation Grandmasters of the Kong Ming Sect had been in charge of the Kong Ming Sect's Kong Ming Essence, and each of them had infused one of the Kong Ming Essence into one of the nodes of the array formation space.
However, this was only a method of opening the space without destroying the exquisite space. The Empty Spirit Sect naturally knew that in such a critical situation, it was impossible to gather the four formation masters who had been in charge of the Empty Spirit Hall together. Hence, they naturally had other methods of opening the space. However, this method required the destruction of the space.
Naturally, Lu Ping wouldn't feel the slightest bit of heartache over the destruction of this exquisite array formation. He slapped his hands on the array formation and the silver lines on the spatial treasure box immediately began to break. Amidst a series of crackling sounds, the space around the spatial treasure box exploded. Spatial cracks and fragments spread out in all directions, but they were firmly stopped by a light barrier in front of Lu Ping.
Lu Ping's Divine Will risked being swallowed by the cracks in the space to enter. Then, his eyes brightened, and his right hand suddenly reached in. A golden scale the size of a palm was pulled out by Lu Ping from the broken space.
This was it!
Although Lu Ping had been trying his best to remain calm, when he saw this item, his heart could not help but beat fiercely twice.
As soon as Lu Ping held the golden scale in his hand, the array formation surrounding the central Kongming Hall instantly crumbled.
Lu Ping did not care at all. He focused all his attention on the scale.
The moment the scale appeared, the mysterious power that originated from his bloodline caused the Dharma Form within Lu Ping's core space to shake. The entire Dharma Form immediately began to roar and fly around in the core space. If it were not for Lu Ping's efforts to suppress it, the Dharma Form would have definitely flown into the sky!
According to the legends, this scale was something that Jiao Daoren had removed from the scale of his truesoul body. It seemed that this legend was most likely true!
However, what Lu Ping cared about was not the scale. Instead, it was the two secret techniques recorded on it. They were the foundation for the Empty Spirit Sect to reach the peak of the cultivation world through formations.
One of them was already famous in the cultivation world, and that was the Kongming Sect's Divine Sense Carving Secret Technique, which was passed down through the direct line of inheritance!
Generally speaking, there were only three methods of array formation masters in the cultivation world. The first method was to use a combination of an array disc and an array formation tool. This method was the most common, and it was also the inevitable choice for many sect-protecting arrays and powerful arrays.
The second method was to use restrictions to set up formations. This method was much rarer. It was fast but not long-lasting. It was usually used in emergency situations. Moreover, the range of the formation was small. The formation was not powerful, but it was difficult to deal with.
Of course, there were also those who combined these two methods to take advantage of the strengths of the two. However, this method was not considered the third method.
The true third formation method was the Kongming Faction's heirloom technique, which had long since been lost in the world of cultivation. The foundation of this secret technique was the Kongming Faction's Divine Sense Carving Technique. The pinnacle of this technique was the Kongming Faction's 32 Kongming Essence.
The other inheritance was the Nine Forbidden Treasures!
It was true that there were only Nine Forbidden Treasures. However, strictly speaking, these Nine Forbidden Treasures were the reason why the Empty Spirit Sect was known as the holy land of formations.
The Empty Spirit Sect was unable to use these Nine Forbidden Treasures for weapon refinement. However, they discovered that the Nine Forbidden Treasures seemed to be closely related to formations. Later on, the Formation Masters of the Empty Spirit Sect not only evolved the Nine Forbidden Treasures into nine formations, but also used these nine formations as the foundation to extend a series of formations that were famous in the cultivation world. They also created the Empty Spirit Sect's sect-protecting formation system.
The Empty Spirit Sect's formation system was divided into ten layers. The innermost layer around Empty Spirit Island, which was the tenth layer from the outside in, was actually the Nine Forbidden Treasures recorded on the scale. The best Formation Masters of the various sects who studied the secrets of formations in the Empty Spirit Array had only managed to understand the ninth layer's extension of the formation. They were still unable to understand the nine fundamental formations of the tenth layer.
What Lu Ping needed were the Nine Forbidden Treasures, not the nine fundamental formations of Empty Spirit Island that had evolved from the Nine Forbidden Treasures. However, after learning about the Nine Forbidden Treasures, it was naturally easy to understand the secrets of the nine fundamental formations. Of course, it was easy for Formation Masters. Lu Ping knew nothing about it.
Although Lu Ping did not know much about formations, he had the formation plate in hand. He had the ability to imitate the formation plate.
He found a formation plate in Mr. Wen's storage instrument that looked decent. Then, like a cat trying to imitate a tiger, he set up a simple formation in the ruins of the Empty Spirit Hall. The location of the Empty Spirit Hall was also where the Spirit Veins of Empty Spirit Island were most concentrated. The Spirit Qi in the area was very rich, and it could be used as a temporary place for him to train.
Now that Lu Ping had achieved his goal in coming to the South Sea, he still needed to use these two secret techniques to complete one last preparation before he entered the mid Dharma stage.
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