Every cultivator who entered the Hundred Formation Pagoda would be informed of the dangers within by the Heaven Expanse Sect so that they wouldn't die young.
But no matter how much the Heaven Expanse Sect warned, accidents would still happen.
Given the Jade Blood Sect's protective nature, Bai Qian didn't want anything to happen to Lu Ye in the Hundred Formation Pagoda.
Standing in front of the stone pagoda, Lu Ye stepped in. Under Bai Qian's guidance, he stood on a formation in the center.
Bai Qian placed spirit stones around the formation and looked up at Lu Ye. Seeing that he was ready, he activated the formation.
His vision twisted and changed, similar to when he used the Tian Ji Pillar to enter the Spirit Stream Battlefield. When Lu Ye came back to his senses, he was already in an empty space.
This space wasn't very big, only about the size of a room.
Looking around, Lu Ye saw a protruding stone brick on the wall. He walked forward and pressed his hand on the brick. With a slight force, the brick immediately caved in.
In a split second, the world's spirit energy surged and veined patterns quickly spread out in the room. These veined patterns didn't just appear on the ground, but also on the walls.
Seeing that the formation had been revealed, Lu Ye understood that he had to break the formation himself.
For so many years, the Heaven Expanse Sect, as well as the formation cultivators of the Nine Provinces, had constantly sent people to challenge the Hundred Formation Pagoda. The specific types of tests in the pagoda had long been figured out by cultivators.
Generally, there were three types: setting up a formation, breaking a formation, and mending a formation.
Setting up an array meant setting up a corresponding array according to the Hundred Formation Pagoda's requirements. Breaking an array meant that the Hundred Formation Pagoda would create an array and the cultivator would have to break it. Mending an array was a bit more complicated. The Hundred Formation Pagoda might only create half an array, which could be mended completely. It could also create an array with a mistake, which required the cultivator to find the mistake and fix it.
Every level had a time limit of six hours. Within this six hour time limit, the more the cultivator completed the test, the greater the benefits they would receive.
The number of formations in the Hundred Formation Pagoda wasn't limited to a hundred. This name came from the fact that it had a hundred levels.
Breaking formations was Lu Ye's forte. It was much simpler than setting up and mending a formation.
Lu Ye first threw two spirit pills into his mouth. As he chewed, he activated the Insight Spirit Mark.
With a flash of light in his eyes, Lu Ye saw the nodes of the formation. After all, this was only the first level, and the formations that appeared were the simplest ones.
Lu Ye didn't know the exact use of these formations, but he didn't need to find out.
Lu Ye didn't even bother to summon his own formation flag. Instead, he drew the Mountain Blade from his waist and stabbed at one of the nodes. As his spirit energy surged, the formation suddenly stagnated and collapsed.
In less than three breaths of time, the formation was broken!
New veined patterns rapidly formed, forming another array formation. Lu Ye observed for a moment, then stabbed out with his saber again.
After breaking three formations in a row, no new formations appeared this time. A dot of light suddenly appeared out of thin air and floated in front of Lu Ye. Lu Ye raised his hand and touched the light, imprinting it on his forehead, and a message appeared in his mind.
This time, the test was to set up a formation. The formation diagram of the formation had already appeared along with the message.
Lu Ye put away his saber. After thinking for a moment, he took out five formation flags from his storage bag.
Compared to breaking formations, setting up formations was undoubtedly more troublesome. In the past, when Lu Ye set up formations, he would directly activate his own spiritual energy, just like how he constructed spiritual runes. He would construct a formation in one go. This method was faster, but it also consumed a lot of energy. Moreover, the formations set up this way were not stable enough and could be easily broken.
However, it was different with the help of array flags. The consumption would be much lower, the array would become more stable, and the margin for error would also be much higher. This was how most array cultivators set up arrays. After all, not every array cultivator had such strong control over their own spiritual power like him.
As Lu Ye set up array flags one after another and placed them in all directions, the framework of the array was quickly constructed. Then, he activated his spiritual energy and filled the array's internal structure.
This was the advantage of setting up an array with the help of the array flags. Using the array flags to first build the framework of the array, then perfecting and supplementing the array, it was much simpler than directly using spiritual power to build the array.
The progress was fast. After about half an hour, the formation was complete. Lu Ye finished constructing the last pattern and the formation began to operate.
After three breaths, the formation was erased by an unknown force. Lu Ye put away his formation flags.
Another light appeared …
Soon, Lu Ye discovered a problem, and that was that he seemed to be targeted.
That was because he didn't have many chances to break formations in the following tests. Only one or two times out of ten were required to break formations. The rest were required to set up formations.
As for fixing formations, there wouldn't be such a test in the first ten floors. It would only happen after the tenth floor.
He didn't know what the other cultivators had to go through, but he only had a ten to twenty percent chance of breaking formations. This was obviously abnormal.
This made him suspect that the Hundred Formation Pagoda had its own thoughts. Did it think that he was breaking formations too fast, so it increased the difficulty?
Even so, Lu Ye's speed was slowly increasing. After all, it was only the first floor. Even if he had to set up a formation, it wouldn't be too difficult. Many of the internal structures of Spirit Arrays were the same. Lu Ye had set them up many times and was familiar with them.
The only problem he had to consider now was the consumption of his spirit force. He had now opened one hundred seventy-nine apertures. He only needed one more to break through to the Ninth Order.
This number was from half a month ago. In the past half a month, he had been following Bai Qian in building the formation flags. His spirit force consumption was huge, so he didn't have the chance to open the last aperture.
However, there was no need to worry. As long as he passed the first floor's test, he would be able to break through to the Ninth Order. At that time, the Hundred Formation Pagoda would gather enough World Energy for him to cultivate and recover.
Lu Ye was immersed in setting up and breaking formations. He completely forgot about the passage of time.
Until a certain moment, when Lu Ye set up a Spirit Array according to the requirements of the Hundred Formation Pagoda, the World Energy in the room suddenly increased rapidly. In just a few breaths, the room became foggy, to the point where one couldn't even see their own fingers.
The six hour time limit was up.
The Hundred Formation Pagoda's test wasn't difficult. No matter which floor one was on, as long as one could break an Array, set up an Array, or repair an Array, they would pass the test.
The more times one completed the test, the more generous the reward one would receive when the time limit was up.
The World Energy reward was just a bonus. No matter what, a cultivator needed to consume a lot of spirit force to complete the test. When the time limit was up, the Hundred Formation Pagoda would create an environment suitable for the cultivator to recover, so that the cultivator could deal with the next floor's test.
Lu Ye didn't count how many tests he had completed in the past six hours, but he roughly estimated that he had completed forty to fifty tests. This was because the chances of him encountering Spirit Arrays were too high. If he wasn't targeted by the Hundred Formation Pagoda, this number would have been much higher.
Completing forty to fifty tests on the first floor was an extremely terrifying result. If the stone tablet at the base of the pagoda was still functioning, then Lu Ye's name would definitely be on it. Moreover, he would be ranked very high.
This led to the Hundred Formation Pagoda's reward being extremely generous. The dense World Energy that had already turned into mist was the best proof.
Not only that, there was also a fist-sized ball of fluorescent light floating in front of Lu Ye.
This ball of fluorescent light was the most important benefit of challenging the Hundred Formation Pagoda.
Lu Ye wasn't in a hurry to touch the ball of fluorescent light. He first checked the consumption of his spirit force.
After six hours of non-stop breaking and setting up Spirit Arrays, even if he had been taking Spirit Pills to recover, his spirit force was almost completely depleted.
With a slight thought, he began to construct Spirit Gathering Runes in his spiritual cavities. In just the time it took for an incense stick to burn, a hundred and seventy-nine Spirit Gathering Runes were formed. Under the absorption of the Spirit Gathering Runes, the World Energy in the surroundings continuously flowed into his spiritual cavities, allowing his nearly depleted spirit force to rapidly recover.
After finishing this, Lu Ye raised his hand to grab the ball of fluorescent light and pressed it against his forehead.
The fluorescent light entered and disappeared.
A huge amount of complicated information suddenly appeared in Lu Ye's mind. That feeling … was very refreshing.
If the information Lu Ye obtained from the Spirit Gathering Runes in the Talent Tree's leaves was like someone opening his head and stirring his brain with a red-hot soldering iron, then the current feeling was like someone holding a hammer and fiercely striking his head.
Lu Ye's head tilted back and he almost fell to the ground.
His head swelled and his temples throbbed violently. His eyes were wide open and bloodshot. This was caused by receiving too much information in an instant.
This was the greatest danger of challenging the Hundred Formation Pagoda! This was also the reason why Bai Qian had repeatedly warned Lu Ye to act according to his strength.
The fluorescent light contained an extremely large amount of Array Dao knowledge. It was injected into Lu Ye's mind in a way that didn't care if he could withstand it or not.
If he didn't have a strong enough willpower and tenacious Soul, this alone would cause him to faint on the spot. In the worst case, his mind would be damaged or even die.
If it were any other Eighth Order Spirit Stream Realm cultivator, they definitely wouldn't be able to withstand it.
But Lu Ye had experienced the destruction of the Talent Tree time and time again, so he wasn't unfamiliar with this feeling.
Of course, the most important thing was that his Soul had been cleansed in the Soul Cleansing Pond, so his Soul was much more tenacious than cultivators of the same level.
Another point was that he had entered the Mirage Realm many times to kill enemies. Every time he 'died' in the Mirage Realm, his Soul would have some tempering effect. It wasn't obvious once or twice, but after a few times, the strength of his Soul would naturally increase. However, he himself wasn't clear about this situation.
Therefore, the more tests one passed in the Hundred Formation Pagoda, the better. Instead, one had to pass as many tests as possible within the limits of one's body. Once this limit was exceeded, the cultivator might not be able to withstand the benefits of the enlightenment, and it would inevitably lead to disastrous consequences.
Many cultivators who challenged the Hundred Formation Pagoda didn't die in the tests, but in the final benefits. How tragic was that?
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