Newspaper Boy
Chapter 197: Stalling for Time
In The Way of the Extraordinary world, a star intertwined with black light and starlight quietly lurked, surrounded by six smaller stars.
Suddenly, the black light and starlight lit up, each occupying half of the star, the starlight rotating clockwise, and the black light rotating counterclockwise, turning the small "star" into a Tai Chi ball.
At the same time, the Tai Chi star extended six beams of light, connecting with the surrounding six stars.
The seven stars shone brightly.
As the formation activated, the vision shifted from blurry to clear. Zhang Yuanqing found himself in a desert covered with a layer of pitch-black, viscous liquid energy resembling petroleum.
It overflowed his feet, while above was a dazzling and dreamy starlight.
The starlight above rotated clockwise, and the liquid energy over his feet rotated counterclockwise, like a slow vortex.
"Whoosh," as the two "millstones" rotated, the airflow stirred. Zhang Yuanqing, in the midst of it, felt his body as if it were in a vortex, making it exceptionally difficult to move his limbs, and his breathing became labored. There was a sense of oppression as if the heavens and earth were conspiring to kill him.
At the same time, his spiritual power was rapidly dissipating, returning to the formation. A dominator-level powerhouse would exhaust their spiritual power and become useless in three breaths.
Zhang Yuanqing tilted his head, looked at the Star Lord sitting cross-legged in the center of the formation, and said calmly, "I didn't expect you to be able to create a copy through The Way of the Extraordinary. The old turtle hid deep."
To launch a decisive battle in the form of The Way of the Extraordinary copy is a completely different concept from gathering the demigods in two "idle" copies for a decisive battle.
The former is led by The Way of the Extraordinary, and the demigods in the copy are also subject to the constraints of The Way of the Extraordinary. The simplest example is that if a Void Demigod actively leaves the copy, they will be punished, unable to bring people into the copy, and unable to bring people out of the copy.
The Star Lord raised his eyes, his left eye filled with starlight, and his right eye with deep blackness. He also said in a calm tone, "Your understanding of the Sun, Moon, and Stars is too superficial. As the source of the universe's power, and the three foundations of The Way of the Extraordinary, even if the administrator permissions have not yet been opened, I can still use some of the administrator's permissions."
As he spoke, he virtually gathered his hands, as if he were kneading an invisible ball. As he "kneaded" the ball, the Taiyin on the ground and the stars above accelerated their rotation, turning faster and faster. Zhang Yuanqing was like a soybean between two millstones, being ground to pieces little by little.
A large amount of spiritual power left his body.
Zhang Yuanqing raised his right hand, condensed a longbow, and shot a Golden Crow arrow towards the sky.
The golden streamer soared into the sky, illuminating the entire copy, and the high heat it emitted raised the temperature of the copy by a dozen degrees.
When the arrow touched the starlight millstone, the starlight, which should have been pierced by the arrow, suddenly surged, instantly becoming as thick as a mountain and as hard as iron.
The arrow could not break through the barrier, but could only revert to the Golden Crow, helplessly returning to the body of the Sun Lord. "This formation was prepared specifically for me?"
Zhang Yuanqing asked with a solemn face, without any emotional changes.
"A formation created in haste, not yet mature," the Star Lord replied.
Zhang Yuanqing coldly chuckled, "A formation created in haste can allow six auxiliary formations to continuously provide spiritual power?"
When the Star Lord fought the God of Wine, he used the combined Divine Art of Taiyin and Star clones. Obviously, he had been studying these two forces for many years. This formation was mostly the result of his research.
"This old silver coin has been lying low for sixty years. His foundation is indeed deep..." The Star Lord's voice was magnificent and layered, "The brilliance of the Ziwei Six Fiends Formation lies in breaking the main formation by first breaking the auxiliary formations.
Your fate is not in your hands, but in your companions' hands."
Zhang Yuanqing's expression was solemn, "My fate is only in my hands."
The Star Lord smiled, "What you should be worrying about is not this, but realizing that I can set up the Tai Chi Ziwei Six Fiends Formation, which means that my refining of the Taiyin Origin has taken another step."
The dazzling starlight shone on Zhang Yuanqing's suddenly serious face. Transparent ripples appeared in his eyes, and his pupils faded into a glass-like color.
He stared at the black moon above the Star Lord's head, his gaze penetrating the energy of the hidden secrets, and saw that the residual spirit inside was extremely weak.
"Ling Tuo can't hold on anymore..." This shows that the two Illusion Gods once assisted the Star Lord in eliminating Ling Tuo's residual spirit. Although they failed, they weakened Ling Tuo's will to a certain extent. "The situation is getting worse!"
Zhang Yuanqing sighed in his heart, and couldn't help but marvel at the strength of Ling Tuo's primordial spirit, as expected of the body of Taiyin. Then the Star Lord, sitting calmly, said, "Within a day, I can refine Taiyin. By then, without a completed Sun Origin, you will have no chance of winning."
Zhang Yuanqing was silent for a moment, and said, "The two Illusion Gods are not capable enough to strangle Ling Tuo. If they can only suppress and weaken, do you want to trick me into taking action and wiping out Ling Tuo for you?"
Attacking the Star Lord is equivalent to attacking Ling Tuo. The former can survive by enduring the power of the Sun God.
The residual spirit of the Taiyin Lord will undoubtedly die. The Star Lord calmly asked, "How do you know that I haven't reached the critical moment of refining Taiyin, and deliberately said this, to make you hesitant to act, thereby delaying time?"
Zhang Yuanqing was silent for a moment, then chuckled, "It is indeed a difficult choice. Sticking with you will eventually drain my spiritual power from this formation, and I will have to bear your refining of Taiyin at any time."
Taking a gamble may help you.
However, with your strategy, you should be able to calculate that I have more than just the power of the Sun God, right?" As the words fell, he opened his palm, and a golden metal scroll appeared.
The Merit List appeared, densely packed with The Way of the Extraordinary IDs. A The Way of the Extraordinary ID lit up: Awakener!
This is the Star Lord's The Way of the Extraordinary ID.
He was born into an official family in the late Qing Dynasty. He dedicated everything to the imperial examination in the first half of his life. After the demise of the corrupt Qing Dynasty, he experienced the bitterness of the decline of his family, witnessed the tragic death of his country, and watched the warlords tremble under the iron hooves of the great powers, watching his compatriots survive, be enslaved, be exploited, numb, and in hardship in the cracks between the warlords and the great powers. Since childhood, he had studied the books of sages and sages, and only wanted to transform into a morning bell, awakening the numb Chinese people.
By chance, he obtained a character card and became, named: Awakener.
The next second, the three words "Awakener" were erased by golden light.
In the sky, a blazing pillar of fire descended, enveloping the Taiyin Lord sitting cross-legged. The latter seemed to have expected the attack of the heavenly fire. The black moon above his head melted, and the viscous energy poured down, covering the Taiyin Lord, turning him into a clay figure.
The heavenly fire swallowed the Star Lord with unstoppable force, but failed to burn through the protection of Taiyin.
Zhang Yuanqing appeared in front of the Star Lord like a ghost, snapped his fingers, making the viscous mud weaken into a state of nothingness. Then, he took a deep breath and unleashed Shadow Roar at the Star Lord. It was a Demigod-level Shadow Roar.
The Dominator-level core skill can annihilate the soul. It is the regularization of mental attacks. At the demigod level, apart from the Taiyin Lord and Marshal Zheng, basically no demigod can withstand an attack without being mentally affected.
The Star Lord couldn't either. After releasing Shadow Roar, Zhang Yuanqing quickly put away the Merit List and used Dream: Ability to pull the Star Lord into a dream.
Putting away the Merit List was to prevent the next "retribution" from triggering lightning and the power of the Sun God, which would lead to the annihilation of Ling Tuo's residual spirit.
As for Shadow Roar, Zhang Yuanqing believed that it would not cause Ling Tuo's residual spirit to perish. If it could, the two Illusion Gods of the Void Sect would have done it long ago.
Zhang Yuanqing leaped into the Star Lord's dream. Just as he was about to weave a dream to deal with the Star Lord, two huge cloaked figures suddenly appeared in the gray dream space. Zhang Yuanqing was forcibly expelled from the dream.
The Star Lord opened his eyes, his tone unhurried, as if everything was under control, "The Ziwei Six Fiends Formation is a whole. The auxiliary formations not only provide spiritual power and maintain the stability of the formation, but as the main formation master, I can also borrow power from the auxiliary formations."
"Although the borrowed power does not reach the demigod level, it is more than enough to help me escape from the dream as an auxiliary force."
"So many high-level materials were spent, naturally there is an effect..." Spiritual power flowed out.
Zhang Yuanqing, without any nonsense, took out the Merit List. "Awakener" reappeared, and then, "Awakener" was once again annihilated by golden light. As long as Zhang Yuanqing was still in the formation, and in a state of being deprived of spiritual power, the Merit List would continue to attack the main formation master.
This time, a clear and bright pillar of light descended from the sky, triggering the punishment of "purification."
"Snap."
Zhang Yuanqing snapped his fingers, canceling this retribution.
"Awakener" recovered and annihilated again. In the mid-air, silver-white lightning flashed, baring its fangs and claws. A terrible thunder was brewing. This time, the retribution was heavenly lightning!
Zhang Yuanqing helplessly snapped his fingers to cancel the retribution.
He simply put away the Merit List, looked at the Star Lord from afar, and smiled, "In fact, until now, I still have two doubts that have not been resolved. Since you want to delay time, I wonder if you can help me resolve them?"
The Star Lord nodded slightly.
Zhang Yuanqing asked in a deep voice, "Why did you kill Ling Jun's birth mother? And when did you learn the truth about the battle of the gods?"
The Yinghuo Formation!
The Wind and Thunder Gods looked around, and saw a round of dark red celestial bodies hanging in the sky, emitting a dark red light, dyeing the sky and the earth with an eerie color.
Bathing in the dark red light.
The Wind and Thunder Gods felt an unavoidable surge of "violence" and "bloodlust" in their hearts, wishing they could let go and start killing. Even the sun mark on the center of Tianzun's eyebrows showed signs of loosening.
A black dot emerged from the dark red celestial body, getting closer and closer to the ground. It was the Asura, a black iron tower three meters tall. Unlike usual, the Asura's eyes were dyed with scarlet light, and the surface of his dark skin was imprinted with blood-colored thin lines, like patterns.
The Dìjié Formation.
The beautiful goddess, shrouded in holiness, stood quietly in a sea of red and purple flowers, like a pure angel guarding God's garden. However, in the next second, the sea of flowers turned into magma, and in front of her was a boiling volcano, black smoke rolling, and magma gushing from the crater, covering the goddess's feet.
The goddess's feet "sizzled," and her tender and exquisite feet were instantly torn apart.
She cried out in pain, tears on her beautiful face, and the illusion shook violently. The Illusion God behind the scenes seemed to have suffered some kind of impact and was unable to maintain it.
The volcano illusion shattered in the shock, and the world entered a void.
The next moment, a new illusion descended.
The Void Demigod of the Lingxing Formation stood in the desert, looking up at the God of Wine, Old Mai, playing upside down in the sky. From a normal perspective, the one upside down was actually him.
Everything in this copy was reversed. Going left would inevitably go right, and going up would inevitably go down. At the same time, the rules were in a state of chaos. The many rules of the Void profession would be affected by the chaos, becoming completely different.
At the same time, the air was filled with the intoxicating aroma of wine, paralyzing the body and soul.
In this state, the Void Demigod had no interest in fighting at all, and even wanted to do some roleplay and revel to his heart's content.
But his mouth was never weaker than others, and he clicked his tongue. "You're resurrected, Old Mai. Last time it was the Star Lord. This time, I won't show mercy. You died early, so you haven't seen me go all out. Even God-level enemies can be destroyed with a flip of the hand."
Old Mai grabbed the Scepter of the God of Wine, smiling and not panicking at all. "Then try it. Will The Way of the Extraordinary allow you to exchange for the power of a god? Think about it again. If you can allow the power of a god-level to descend, will it be beneficial to you or to us?"
"Void, you can summon up to three demigod authorities. Relying on the home field advantage, even if I can't beat you, it's enough to deal with you."
Faced with Zhang Yuanqing's question, the Star Lord did not answer immediately, his voice layered and magnificent, "You also want to delay time, waiting for the Wind and Thunder Gods or the Void to crack the auxiliary formations!"
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