The Great Wild God - Chapter 368

Chapter 368 Copper Pillar Of Lightning
Long Mountain had seven forbidden areas as its core. There were many restrictions on formations. Some of them were isolated. For example, the restrictions on the outer perimeter of the Yang Opening Palace Forbidden Area were mainly guarding the Yang Opening Palace’s entrance at the bottom of the valley. It was relatively easy to break through.

However, the core formation restrictions of the Kaiyang Palace and the other six forbidden areas were actually the formation eyes of the Heaven and Earth Formation of the Long Mountain. Once a violent attack exceeded the one-degree limit, it would trigger the counter-attack of the Heaven and Earth Formation of the Long Mountain.

The Head Priest of the Treasure Pavilion used the Seven Treasures God Refining Tower to shine with rays of light. He joined hands with more than 30 Azure Scaled Demon Generals to ferociously attack the lonely peak in the center of the Sunrise Opening Valley. Not long after, half of the lonely peak was destroyed. The rocks collapsed, revealing a huge copper pillar.

Chen Xun refined a Soul Essence Battle Soul into the corpse of a demonic bird. The Imperial Envoy’s Demonic Bird Puppet, Thunderclouds, flew towards the Sunrise Palace Valley. This way, he could clearly see the entire valley and copper pillars of the Sunrise Palace from above.

The copper pillar was about three hundred feet tall. It stood tall in the center of the Sunshine Splitting Palace Valley. Spirit light flickered all over its body, and mysterious and strange patterns were engraved on it. Even though Chen Xun had seen it through the eyes of the demonic bird puppet, he still felt as if his divine sense was about to be pulled away by the copper pillar.

Soon, the clouds above the valley were like a giant vortex, pulled down by an invisible suction force. They weren’t directly connected to the top of the copper pillar by a single line of distance, but in the gap between the lines, purple lightning arcs flickered with dazzling light …

Just as Chen Xun had guessed, the Kaiyang Palace was a core restriction of the Mountain Long Heaven and Earth Array. Unfortunately, the cultivators of the Crimson Star Palace had been able to only break through the restrictions on the periphery of the Yang Valley. They were unable to enter the Kaiyang Palace, nor could they see the true face of the Mountain Long Heaven and Earth Array.

At this moment, Du Liangyong speculated that the Lonely Peak was most likely a part of the Kaiyang Palace. When he saw the collapse of the Lonely Peak, revealing such a majestic copper pillar of lightning, he also didn’t know what to say with his mouth wide open.

“The entire Yang Opening Palace is actually a pure Yang Dao artifact. Doesn’t Master have no hope of entering the Yang Opening Palace in his lifetime?” Chi Hai opened his mouth, and Hase Zi was about to flow down. He also looked at the scene in front of him in disbelief.

“That copper pillar of lightning can be said to be a pure Yang Dao artifact, but from the looks of it, the flow of spiritual light at the bottom of the pillar is somewhat intermittent. The bottom of the pillar should only be a palace built with formations.” Chen Xun said.

The copper pillar of lightning was three hundred zhang high above the ground, and the palace room at the bottom of the copper pillar was even wider, almost larger than the Void Origin Palace.

If the lightning copper pillar and the bottom palace were part of the Pure Yang Dao Tool, then this Pure Yang Dao Tool would be several times more majestic and magnificent than when the Void Origin Palace was intact.

However, Chen Xun carefully observed the flow of spiritual light at the bottom of the copper pillar. He confirmed that the palace at the bottom of the Kaiyang Valley, which covered an area of more than a thousand mu, was only an ordinary building. It was merely an additional formation restriction to prevent outsiders from entering. It was not part of the Pure Yang Dao Weapon itself.

That heaven-defying copper pillar of lightning was one of the seven true cores of the Mountain Long Heaven and Earth Array.

Even so, the copper pillar of lightning in front of Chen Xun was still stunned.

The Kaiyang Palace is only one of the seven forbidden areas of the Long Mountain. This actually means that the Heaven and Earth Array of the Long Mountain is actually made up of a set of seven pure Yang Dao Artifacts similar to the Copper Thunder Pillars …

This alone far exceeded the existing Heaven and Earth Array of the various sects of Cloud Continent. The legendary Six Suns Mountain and River Array of the Jiang Clan might not even be able to compete with this Heaven and Earth Array of the Long Mountain.

Chi Hai wiped his saliva from his mouth and asked Tong Wuxin, “Old Snake, how long do you think this copper pillar is? You need several hundred to carry it?”

“We need to enter the Kaiyang Palace to see the true face of the copper pillar.” Snake Wuxin said in an urn.

Chen Xun saw that the copper pillar of lightning was 300 feet above the ground, and it was hard to imagine how deep it was. Seeing Old Kui frowning, he asked, “Old Kui, what do you think?”

“If my guess is correct, Mountain Long’s Heaven and Earth Array is very likely the legendary Seven Star Thunder Array refined by Immortal Big Dipper,” Old Kui said with uncertainty.

“Immortal?” Hearing Old Kui’s words, Du Liangyong was so shocked that he was unable to control himself.

Previously, the cultivators of the Crimson Star Palace had speculated that the Mountain Long Heaven and Earth Array might have been left behind by an ancient great power that had advanced to the Nirvana Realm before ascending to leave Cloud Continent. They had never thought that it would be a treasure that the ancient immortals had lost in Cloud Continent.

“Old Kui, since you know about the Seven Star Lightning Array, is there any way to pull out this copper pillar of lightning and leave?” Chi Hai chuckled and asked, “We can’t be too dark-hearted. If we can pull out this copper pillar of lightning, we can almost stop.”

Old Kui ignored Chi Hai’s interruption and continued,

“For some reason, the Copper Thunder Pillar seems to be intact, but the artifact spirit should have been destroyed. If Chang Zhen is still alive, perhaps we can think of a way to refine the Copper Thunder Pillar again, but we have no way to use this pile of dead things …”

Chen Xun smiled. It was a sad thing to die after exhausting his lifespan. However, as far as the current situation was concerned, there was nothing to regret.

Pure Yang Dao artifacts gave birth to spirituality, which was the most fundamental difference from ordinary magical artifacts. Cultivators could refine their Primordial Spirit into Pure Yang Dao artifacts and treat them as avatars. The Primordial Spirit of a Pure Yang Dao artifact or other demonic beast Primordial Spirit they refined was the artifact spirit of a Pure Yang Dao artifact.

If the Big Dipper Immortal’s Primordial Spirit was still in the Seven Star Thunder Formation, they would never have had the chance to ascend to Mountain Long to see the true face of the Copper Thunder Pillar, let alone receive the tempered power of thunder.

Chen Xun had reason to believe that the entire Long Mountain was most likely the cave where Immortal Big Dipper had fallen in Cloud Continent. He didn’t know if Immortal Big Dipper had died long ago, so he hadn’t returned to Cloud Continent for tens of thousands of years to retrieve the Long Mountain and Seven Star Thunder Array.

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The Scarlet Star Palace cultivators and Mirage Demons who had wanted to fly above the Kaiyang Valley to restrain the Azure Scaled Clan realized that the Azure Scaled Demon Clan wanted to lure down the Lightning Waterfall again, but they were also shocked by the copper pillars of lightning revealed in the valley.

The cultivators of the Crimson Star Palace and the Mirage were stunned in midair fifty to sixty miles away from the Yang Palace, and they were in a dilemma for a moment.

Looking at this situation, Chen Xun guessed that the cultivators of the Crimson Star Palace and the Mirage Demons were completely unaware of the situation inside the forbidden area. In comparison, the Azure Scaled Demon Clan was better prepared. It was very likely that the Azure Scaled Demon Clan had already entered the Long Mountain thousands of years ago.

Chen Xun raised his head and looked at the clouds above his head. Not only did the lightning vortex continue to expand, it began to shrink towards the top of the Yang Opening Valley.

Chen Xun extended his divine sense and deduced the new changes in the Lightning Restraint.

The Mirage Beast Clan had been trapped in Mountain Long for tens of thousands of years. They were filled with fear of Mountain Long’s lightning. After hesitating for a moment, dozens of enormous figures soared into the clouds and drove the fog. The mountains to the north slowly retreated. The Scarlet Star Palace cultivators stopped where they were, and Chen Xun couldn’t tell for a moment whether they wanted to enter or retreat.

In the past about an incense stick of time, he saw Wood City, which had originally stopped at the southeast corner of Mountain Long, flickering with spiritual light, rapidly sweeping in the direction of Kaiyang Valley. It seemed that the situation was about to meet up with the cultivators of Crimson Star Palace who had stopped at the southern edge of Kaiyang Valley …

“What do they want?” Old Kui couldn’t figure out the intentions of the Scarlet Star Palace cultivators for a moment. “Did they think that this lightning waterfall would be controlled within the Kaiyang Valley?”

When Chen Xun saw the vortex formed by the thunderclouds, it coincidentally covered the Sunrise Opening Valley and stopped shrinking.

According to his previous experience, the range of the lightning pillar shouldn’t have crossed the Yang Opening Valley.

Chen Xun frowned slightly. Long Shan’s Lightning Restraint was purely capable of sensing the strength of one’s Qi, but it was absolutely unchangeable as one would imagine. Who knew if there would be any new changes?

At this moment, the Treasure Pavilion Master, the Seven Treasures God Refining Tower, slowly retreated to the western edge of the Yang Opening Valley under the protection of the Azure Scaled Demon Generals.

The lightning vortex condensed above the Yang Opening Valley was so vast that even the owner of the Myriad Treasures Pavilion did not dare to forcefully carry it with the Seven Treasures God Refining Pagoda.

Seeing that dozens of Azure Scaled Demons didn’t enter the Seven Treasures God Refining Tower to dodge the lightning this time, but instead formed a formation to guard the Myriad Treasures Pavilion Master’s side, Chen Xun knew that the Azure Scaled Clan had learned a lesson this time, so he couldn’t rush up and kill them unprepared like last time.

Chen Xun did not wish for Mountain Long to cause a bloody storm in the Fallen Star Sea after falling into the hands of the Azure Scaled Demon Race. However, looking at the situation, he thought that even if the Azure Scaled Demon Race could exhaust Mountain Long’s spiritual energy this time, they might not be able to refine the Seven Star Thunder Formation again.

Long Mountain floated out of the Fallen Star Sea every thousand years, but only thirty years had passed since it appeared. Now, half of it had passed. Even without the artifact spirit guarding the core restriction, how could the ancient immortals’ treasures be so easy to refine?

Seeing that the lightning at the top of the copper pillar was getting fiercer and fiercer, Chen Xun asked Du Liangyong, Chi Hai, and the others to retreat into the Void Origin Pearl first. He took out the Blazing Sun Lightning Shield from his spatial ring and carefully observed the situation.

They were two hundred li away from the Copper Thunder Pillar, but Chen Xun’s heart trembled. He didn’t think that two hundred li would give him a safe enough distance.

“Pa!” With a loud cracking sound, a dragon-shaped phantom image was released from the lightning at the top of the copper pillar. It was like a purple lightning arc gathered in the sky. The lightning dragon instantly grew a thousand feet long, and in the next moment, it pierced through the void and directly hit the Seven Treasures God Refining Pagoda twenty to thirty kilometers away.

The multicolored light of the Seven Treasures God Refining Pagoda exploded, but in an instant, it was torn to pieces by the lightning dragon. The Myriad Treasures Pavilion Master and the pagoda flew out of the Yang Opening Valley. At this moment, the lightning dragon turned into a bolt of lightning that filled the sky, covering dozens of Azure Scaled Demon Generals …

Seeing this, Chen Xun’s heart trembled. He felt that this was a bit like a seven-star lightning array. Compared to this lightning dragon, the previous lightning waterfall was nothing more than a joke.

Probably because he saw an opportunity, the Scarlet Star Palace Wood City’s spirit light flashed, and he rushed towards the direction of the Myriad Treasures Pavilion Master and the Seven Treasures God Refining Tower’s flying fall.

The Crimson Star Palace cultivators had a good idea. Even if they took the Seven Treasures God Refining Tower from the Myriad Treasures Pavilion Master, it would not be in vain for them to waste more than ten years in Mountain Long. However, no matter how good their idea was, they still needed to have a life to enjoy it.

In the blink of an eye, the lightning at the top of the copper pillar released another shadow of a lightning dragon that grew a thousand feet long. In the next moment, it landed on the Scarlet Star Palace Wood City.

The defensive restriction that flickered with cyan spiritual light instantly shattered. The next moment, the lightning dragon also transformed into a bolt of lightning that covered the sky, devouring the entire Wood City …