"You can call me Sect Elder Mu. I am Mu Zhen, the leader of the eleventh line in Seven Moons Sect!" As the ancient voice echoed in the air, the old man's expression was calm. He took a slow step towards Su Ming.
There was no shadow beneath him. It was just as he said, what appeared before him was only his shadow.
"Seven Lives Art is a cultivation method that only the direct descendants of Seven Moons Sect can practice, but in truth, the ultimate goal of this Art is to form a Dao Shadow, the shadow of the Dao," the old man said faintly while looking at Su Ming.
"And the Dao Shadow is not something you can understand with your current potential. Sect Elder Wang, you are not my opponent. I advise you to give up." The old man's expression was calm, but there was a hint of arrogance in his voice. It was invisible, and all those who heard it could sense it very clearly.
To the disciples of Seven Moons Sect, this sort of arrogance was very normal. They would not dislike it, but Su Ming frowned.
"Since you are also a sect elder, I don't want to make you lose too much face. I also want to give Sect Elder Lan face. Oh well, I can make the decision. I won't fight back. You have three chances to attack. As long as you can make me take half a step back, you will pass the Rune.
"But Sect Elder Wang, this will only happen once. If you continue challenging the thirteenth formation, then don't blame me for not showing mercy." From the moment the old man in white appeared, he looked as if he was talking to himself. Each of his words gave off a feeling that he was superior to others, and his final words were filled with great arrogance.
Su Ming's frown relaxed at that moment. The ghost of a smile appeared on his face, and once he cast the old man a glance, he said faintly, "If that's the case, then I will thank you, Sect Elder Mu.
"If that's the case, then I'll thank Elder Mu. I'll listen to you. Are you … ready?"
"I don't need to prepare. You can attack at any time," the old man said faintly. His expression might have been calm, but the arrogance in his words was still there. In truth, he did indeed have the right to be arrogant. His real body was in the second level of Dao Divinity Realm, and even his clone was in the later stage of Avacaniya Realm. His status as a respected sect elder in Seven Moons Sect made his arrogance a habit. In fact, he was already used to his current posture, and he did not find it uncomfortable at all.
Su Ming nodded and moved forward. When he lifted his right hand, he did not clench it into a fist. Instead, when he closed in on the old man, he pointed forward. At the instant he did so, the old man's pupils shrank, but it only shrank for a moment before Su Ming's finger touched seven inches away from the old man's body.
An arc-shaped barrier instantly appeared and blocked Su Ming's finger. That barrier started fluctuating rapidly, as if it was continuously negating the power of Su Ming's finger.
The old man's narrowed pupils calmed down at that moment. He smiled faintly, but just as he was about to speak, a bang rang out, and the barrier shattered. As it did so, Su Ming's right hand shot through it, and with one finger … he tapped the old man's lifted arm.
"Begone!" Su Ming said faintly. Since he had already challenged the Rune, he did not think about holding back too much of his power. Instead, he wanted to gradually spread it out to verify a guess he had. Eight years ago, the Great Sect Elder of the third line in the sky-blue Daoist robe had taken him in as his disciple, allowing him to become the fourteenth sect elder of Seven Moons Sect.
When he said those words, the old man's expression changed drastically. He instinctively wanted to retreat, but he forced himself to endure it. His body twisted as if it was about to scatter … but in the end, he still could not withstand the power from Su Ming's finger. He staggered several dozens of steps backwards against his will.
When he finally stopped, his expression continued changing. Sometimes, it was sullen, sometimes it was aloof, and sometimes it was shocked. When he looked at Su Ming, there was a complicated look in his eyes. In the end, without another word, he turned around and swung his arm, disappearing from the Feng Shui compass.
At that moment, all the people in the various layers of Sky Beyond the Sky in Seven Moons Sect cried out in surprise. They might have had incredibly high hopes for Su Ming, but they did not expect that the thirteen formations, which could be said to be the barrier between the sky and the earth to many people, would be so easily cleared by Su Ming.
In fact, quite a number of people instantly came to the conclusion that Sect Elder Mu Zhen had done it on purpose. Even some of the cultivators in the fourth layer had such a guess in their hearts.
Only the disciples in the fourth layer of Sky Beyond the Sky who had cleared the thirteen formations had solemn expressions on their faces. The sight of Su Ming's finger had caused their hearts to tremble.
It was especially so for the head disciples of the seven mountain leaders. At that moment, their expressions became even more solemn. Su Ming had cleared the thirteen formations, which meant that he already possessed a level of cultivation that was similar to theirs.
However … due to the ease with which Su Ming had cleared the thirteen formations, a great amount of pressure was placed on them. This invisible pressure caused their gazes to become even more serious as they stared at Su Ming.
In fact, even the head disciple of the second line, Chen Tao, who had cleared the seventeenth formation, opened his eyes at that moment and looked at Su Ming. A solemn look that was rarely seen on his face appeared on his face.
"The fourteenth formation," Lan Lan's disciple Yue Yan, the woman who had cleared the sixteenth formation, had her eyes burning brightly at that moment. Su Ming had shocked her again and again.
"The fourteenth formation!" Su Ming said faintly. He lifted his right foot and stepped on the Feng Shui compass. A hint of expectation appeared in his eyes. He looked forward to the fourteenth formation splitting apart, and it was a split in the shadow of his Seven Lives Art.
The booming sounds from the fourteenth formation shook the sky. At that instant, the runic symbols on the Feng Shui compass where Su Ming was shone brilliantly. As they reverberated in the air, they spread out in all directions. In the blink of an eye, the countless runic symbols squirmed and turned into Su Ming.
It was as if there were countless shrunken versions of him around him at that moment. Soon after, a mighty pressure that made even Su Ming feel slightly uncomfortable descended on him with a bang. It was as if the sky had collapsed, and it pressed down on Su Ming's body, causing his soul, his consciousness, and everything in his body to be split apart at that instant.
If it had been any other disciple who had cleared the fourteenth formation, they would have sat down a long time ago and circulated their cultivation bases to fight against the pressure, but Su Ming had indeed lifted his head slowly and looked at the sky where the mighty pressure was coming from. He swept his gaze past the figures formed by the countless runic symbols around him.
'The mighty pressure is still not enough. I can't create a second shadow body.' Su Ming frowned, and a resolute look appeared on his face. He lifted his right hand and struck the center of his brows with a bang.
With it, Su Ming's entire body let out a bang. His cultivation base immediately became chaotic, and the pressure in the world around him increased exponentially. At the same time, the shadow under Su Ming's feet instantly started distorting.
'Still lacking a little.' A pensive light shone in Su Ming's eyes. He lifted his right hand and formed a seal before he tapped his chest. A cyclone formed in his body and turned into a seal that sealed three-tenths of his cultivation base!
As his cultivation base was sealed, the pressure from the world around him became even greater, causing the feeling that his body was about to be split to become even stronger.
'I need to do this again.' Su Ming did not change the seal he formed with his right hand. He tapped his Dantian region, and the cyclone immediately appeared in his body again to turn into the second seal.
Su Ming did not stop moving his right hand. When he lifted it, he tapped the center of his brows again. Immediately, the third seal appeared in his heart. The three seals instantly sealed nine-tenths of Su Ming's cultivation base, causing his body to shudder for the first time.
This scene had long since been seen by the Seven Moons Sect disciples in the area. Almost all of them had dumbfounded expressions on their faces. They did not know what Su Ming was doing. Only Yue Yan's pupils shrank, and she stood up for the first time. She took a few brisk steps forward and arrived beside the cliff. She stared at Su Ming, and a hint of shock gradually appeared on her face.
'What … What level of cultivation does he have? This method is the exact same as Fei Feng's during the fourteenth formation. He needs to seal his own cultivation base before he can create a shadow body!'
She was not the only one who had lost her composure at that moment. The pupils of Chen Tao from the second line shrank, and he stood up swiftly. He might not have walked out of his cave abode like Yue Yan, but a hint of shock appeared on his face.
In fact … Fei Feng, who had been meditating with his eyes closed and was the strongest disciple of this generation in Seven Moons Sect, opened his eyes a slit, and a brilliant light shone in them.
"Wang Tao …" he mumbled softly.
The three of them were not the only ones who reacted this way. At that moment, the expressions of the thirteen sect elders in the fifth layer of Sky Beyond the Sky and the hundreds of thousands of cultivators from the other lines changed. They paid attention to everything that happened to Su Ming.
'This person is either hiding his level of cultivation, or his potential … I can't imagine what level of cultivation he has right now … Could it be that he has already attained great completion in Avacaniya Realm?!'
"All the lines have their Masters' messages regarding Wang Tao's cultivation. They are not to interfere with him or stop him. If the great sect elders are paying so much attention to him, even if he reveals great completion in Avacaniya Realm, I won't be surprised!
"But Mu Zhen, you are the first sect elder to directly attack him. You should be the judge."
"Great completion in Avacaniya Realm!" A cold harrumph came from the eleventh mountain. It was Mu Zhen's voice.
At the instant the crowd's voices echoed in the fifth layer of Sky Beyond the Sky in Seven Moons Sect, Su Ming threw his head back and let out a low roar. As his voice echoed in the air, the shadow under him immediately distorted and overlapped with each other. In an instant … a second shadow appeared under him. It was the shadow that Su Ming had formed the earliest, but once it appeared … a third shadow appeared!
The third shadow was rather indistinct, but at the instant it appeared, banging sounds came from Su Ming's body. Once all the seals on him were undone, his cultivation base erupted with a bang, causing the indistinct shadow to become clear and complete!
"Fifteenth formation!" Su Ming's voice echoed in the air, causing the entire area to tremble. It was also at that moment that the night in the distance seemed to be about to pass. Dawn … was about to arrive.
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