Chen Qing then began to prepare to break the formation, inserting the formation flags around and activating a circular formation disk.
The formation flags emitted rumbling sounds and lit up with various colored spiritual lights. The spiritual light gathered continuously like a tangible substance, and soon formed a strange colored mist, covering a space of thirty to forty zhang.
This person urged the formation disk, and the mist rolled, the colored lights inside quickly mixing together, then becoming dim and turning into a cloud of gray-black mist.
Everyone in the mist immediately felt the rapid decline of ice and fire spiritual energy.
After a quarter of an hour, the spiritual power within the mist's coverage had decayed to the extreme, as if forming a vacuum zone.
Zhang Ling couldn't help but be secretly surprised. This person indeed had a deep understanding of the Dao of formations. The gray-black mist driven by the formation reminded him of the Restriction-Breaking Insect in Ding Ruozhao's hands.
This layer of gray-black mist was similar in principle to the Restriction-Breaking Insect in breaking restrictions. Both blocked spiritual power and cut off the energy source of the formation.
Of course, there were also differences. The gray-black mist driven by the formation was not as pure as the Restriction-Breaking Insect's innate ability.
The vacuum zone shrouded by the mist was not a true disappearance of all spiritual power, but a temporary isolation of the earth vein energy from the outside.
Moreover, the movement of driving the Restriction-Inhibiting Formation was too large, not as silent as the Restriction-Breaking Insect breaking the restriction.
However, using a formation to break a formation was very suitable for their current situation.
As the Restriction-Inhibiting Formation took effect and the spiritual power within the coverage weakened, Zhang Ling and others immediately sensed that the restriction light on the stone door had also weakened by more than half.
Old Taoist Yangshan flicked his hand expressionlessly, and blue light flashed in his hand, shooting out more than a dozen blue light spheres, which rumbled and smashed onto the stone door.
Seeing this person act, Zhang Ling and others also used their methods one after another, and for a time, various colored lights all attacked the stone door. Violent noises filled the entire space.
This scene lasted for more than half an hour, until after a loud bang, the stone door was directly blasted into countless pieces of gravel.
As soon as the restriction was broken, everyone immediately focused their spiritual sense and explored inside.
"Go."
Old Taoist Yangshan snorted and strode inside, quickly waving the horsetail whisk in his hand, releasing a blue light to illuminate the inside.
Seeing that there was no other danger, Zhang Ling and others naturally entered one after another, but each maintained a distance to prevent accidents.
"Is this a cultivator's ancient cave dwelling?" Madam Cao couldn't help but exclaim in surprise when she saw the situation inside.
"Hehe, building an ancient cultivator's cave dwelling in a mine is really rare," Venerable Fire Dragon also snorted.
Not only did the two of them exclaim, but Zhang Ling and others also showed some surprise.
Behind the stone door was a space of nearly a hundred zhang in size, like a hall. Facing them was a three-story pavilion, built against the stone wall.
The pavilion was dark green and black, five or six zhang high and more than ten zhang wide. Although it was built of stone, it had carved beams and painted rafters, and some murals looked ancient and quaint.
In front of the pavilion, faint purple light flickered, and a ground of Purple Blood Jade stones was laid, forming a jade stone path of twenty to thirty zhang in size.
There were also some stone lanterns standing on both sides of the road, and near the pavilion on the left and right were two behemoths. On closer inspection, they were two three-zhang-high iron black lions.
The arrival of the crowd seemed to have alarmed the two iron lions. They heard a series of cracking sounds, and the two lions shook their bodies and jumped up.
The iron lions pounced on the crowd from the left and right. At the same time, spiritual light flashed on the iron lions. One of them showed a fiery red light, and a flame pillar two or three zhang thick spewed out of its mouth.
The other iron lion instantly turned ice blue, like a jade carving. Its huge body shook, and it turned into an ice-blue hurricane and swept over.
They are two high-level puppets.
Venerable Fire Dragon's face changed slightly when he saw the two behemoths. High-level puppets have only been found in some ancient ruins. It seems that no one outside can refine high-level puppets.
These are puppet beasts comparable to the strength of Golden Core cultivators.
Although Venerable Fire Dragon exclaimed, there was not much panic on his face. He quickly raised the Fire Dragon Staff in his hand, and the dragon head on it quickly spewed out a pillar of fire.
This pillar of fire was only as thick as a bucket, but it matched the fire lion exactly.
The two pillars of fire looked very different, but they were evenly matched. They collided in mid-air and exploded into a huge ball of flame.
Then Venerable Fire Dragon showed a cold light and flicked the Fire Dragon Staff in his hand. The Fire Dragon Staff also came alive, swimming in a circle and turning into a crimson fire dragon, howling and迎击而上.
This was his use of Spirit Condensation to turn the magic weapon in his hand into a fire dragon. In an instant, the fire lion and the fire dragon fought in mid-air.
The other ice-blue lion was now blocked by Old Taoist Yangshan.
The old Taoist just flicked his hand, and countless blue light spheres floated out, surrounding the ice lion.
The ice lion's head flashed with black light, and a black light three or four zhang in size quickly condensed into a black knife three zhang long, and slashed down with a swoosh. It instantly split the ice lion on the ground, smashing a big pit in the ground.
But the ice lion was not shattered by this, but some cracks appeared on its body. Shaking its body released a large amount of ice mist, and countless ice blades shot in all directions.
At the same time, the ice lion's spiritual sense flashed with white light, and it jumped up, with a cold light flashing in its huge mouth, as if it was about to use some attack.
But strange hissing sounds came from the side, and countless white and glittering silk threads flashed, entangled together and turned into several white ropes, which trapped the lion in place.
Then black light flashed again from the side, and a black blade brushed down and struck the lion's head exactly.
This time, the lion's head was cut off in one fell swoop.
The black light blade was the attack sent by Old Shen. Two Golden Core late-stage experts used their methods, and in two or three moves, they instantly solved this high-level puppet beast comparable to the strength of a Golden Core early-stage cultivator.
These refined puppets have two core points, one is the spirit stone that drives the action, and the other core point is the soul stone that controls the puppet.
As long as any one of the core points is broken, the puppet will instantly lose its ability to move. Generally, the puppet's head has a core point.
After the ice lion's head was cut off, the spiritual light on its body instantly dimmed and turned back into an iron lion.
But suddenly a strange black light reappeared on its body, and then the puppet's body swelled up, and with a loud bang, it exploded directly, forming a black wave that rushed to the surroundings in an instant.
Old Taoist Yangshan and Old Shen's faces changed slightly when they saw this, and they quickly strengthened the protection on their bodies and retreated to the side.
This wave of air came very quickly, and they were also impacted and retreated, directly hitting the stone wall behind them. But both of them were Golden Core late-stage experts. Although they were shaken back, they were not injured much.
The terrifying wave of air disappeared quickly, and only the power of this terrifying blow turned into a breeze and dissipated in a few breaths.
