Chu Tian was also speechless.
The maximum reading on the strength test was 30,000 jin.
He never expected that without activating any form, with all his might, his punch would shatter the stone.
This stone was connected to the mountain gate array of Yuan Shi Academy.
By shattering the giant stone, he had directly attacked the guardian array.
With the mountain gate broken, the guardian array was automatically activated.
But Chu Tian didn't understand why these people were so excited.
It was just the guardian array activating, why were they all looking at him with such grim expressions?
Why did their expressions carry regret?
What did this mean?
*Crack, crack, crack.*
Suddenly, a sound of metal clashing appeared.
Above the sky, the mountain protecting array was like a grinding disc.
Countless layers of formations spun continuously.
The first to light up was a golden radiance.
Countless golden longswords appeared out of thin air.
These were weapons of destruction conjured by the formation.
The innumerable golden swords trembled, emitting a metallic sound.
All their sword tips were aimed at Chu Tian.
"Holy crap!" Chu Tian's eyes narrowed.
Had he stirred up a hornet's nest?
Finally, he understood why these people were looking at him so strangely.
He also understood why they had shouted at him to stop!
It turned out that he had touched the formation, and the array's target was him.
How did they know he could shatter that stone?
Chu Tian's mind raced with this thought, but he had no time to ponder it.
The boundless golden swords shot towards him.
"Oh my god, big brother is going to die! Haha!"
Luo Erpao, that carefree fellow, seeing this scene, actually jumped and laughed.
Chu Tian heard him clearly and wanted to give him a slap.
However, he had no time for any extraneous actions.
The sharp aura pressed directly against his face.
It made Chu Tian smell the scent of death.
It had been a long time since he had felt this way.
"Bear Form!"
"Iron Mane Body Protection!"
This time, Chu Tian dared not be careless.
The guardian array of Yuan Shi Academy was too powerful.
Yuanshi Tianzun, that legendary figure, was the patriarch of all gods and immortals.
At the same time, Chu Tian saw large flags faintly appearing in the east, west, north, and south.
This shocked Chu Tian greatly.
Considering that Yuan Shi Academy was founded by Yuanshi Tianzun, then... were those four large flags treasures left by Yuanshi Tianzun?
He could clearly feel that without these four large flags, this array would not be so powerful.
And Chu Tian's guess was correct.
These four large flags were indeed left by Yuanshi Tianzun.
In the west, there was the legendary and miraculous... Wu Ji Xing Huang Qi (Yellow Flag of Earth and Metal)!
In the south... Li Di Yan Guang Qi (Flag of Blazing Light Above the Earth)!
In the east... Qing Lian Bao Se Qi (Treasure Colored Lotus Flag)!
In the north... Zhen Wu Zao Diao Qi (Black Eagle Banner of True Martial)!
And directly above Chu Tian, at the highest point, there was an extremely tiny flag, which Chu Tian had not noticed.
That was... Su Se Yun Jie Qi (Plain Colored Cloud Realm Banner)!
The five flags combined were known as the Five Banners of Heaven and Earth.
Chu Tian, on his end, activated his Iron Mane Protection.
The boundless golden swords emitted roaring sounds.
They collided with Chu Tian's Iron Mane, creating a sound of metal friction.
"I say, grandson... do you think my big brother can hold on? Or should you go up and save him!" Luo Erpao said to the bald man beside him.
The bald big shot immediately flinched.
"Little ancestor, please spare me! I dare not provoke the Heaven and Earth Five Banners Array! Now, I can only hope your big brother can last a little longer, until those old guys and old women shut down the array! Then he might have a chance to live.
But I don't think it's very likely!
Where did your big brother come from? His strength is quite formidable, and 'Ten Thousand Swords Return to One' seems to pose no threat to him. He's too awesome."
The bald big shot smacked his lips.
The others were also the same. They found that Chu Tian had actually withstood the onslaught of the boundless golden swords.
"Is that silver light membrane on him a magical artifact?" Many people guessed with wide eyes.
"It should be!"
"What kind of monster is this kid? Is he impersonating an old monster?"
"Are you an idiot? The spirit energy testing stone also tests bone age first. If one is over 25 years old, they will be rejected and not tested."
...
Chu Tian's forehead was already sweating.
This array was too powerful, the most powerful Chu Tian had ever encountered.
His vast divine sense penetrated into the formation, wanting to use the "Myriad Formation 解" method to see if he could break it.
However, he quickly discovered that the formation laws within this array of Yuan Shi Academy were interconnected, one layer upon another.
Using the "Myriad Formation 解" method, he found it impossible to immediately unravel its mysteries.
Furthermore, he had to resist the boundless golden swords.
The layers of his Iron Mane were constantly being reduced.
He was gradually becoming strained.
This made it even more impossible for him to focus on breaking the formation.
"Is this the formation laid out by a Supreme Being? It's too strong!"
Chu Tian knew that this was definitely the work of Yuanshi Tianzun.
As time passed, he noticed the formation changing.
Waves of colder, more biting chill appeared.
Dense water element emerged in this space.
The moment the water element appeared, the entire mountain peak was covered in a layer of white.
Water... had turned into ice.
Chu Tian felt it even more clearly.
Those scattered water elements were condensing towards him.
It was as if they wanted to envelop him, even freeze him within.
"Gold gives birth to water? Water turns into ice?"
Chu Tian's eyes narrowed. He realized that the appearance of those water elements was because the golden elements that should have dispersed after the golden swords exploded did not appear.
Instead, the golden swords dispersed, turning into drops of water.
This cold current was thus formed.
"If you don't deactivate the array, I'm going to get serious!"
Chu Tian's expression darkened. He had already guessed that the next step might involve attacks of the wood attribute, because water gives birth to wood, wood gives birth to fire, fire gives birth to earth, earth gives birth to metal, and metal gives birth to water. This was the cycle of the Five Elements. If the array completed the cycle of the Five Elements, he feared he would truly be unable to withstand it. The amplification of the Five Elements cycle was not as simple as one plus one.
"Oh, not dead yet, full of vigor. Little Ancestor Master, your big brother has quite a background!"
The people outside had already seen Chu Tian's silhouette. He was completely encased in pure white ice. The golden swords were no longer condensing in the sky but within the solid ice, shooting out, dispersing, and turning into water.
"You have the Five Banners, and I have the Four Direction Seals! If it weren't for the fact that we are both from Blue Star, I would really want to destroy your mountain gate! Chu Tian waved his hand, and the Four Direction City Lord Seals rotated around him. Blue, yellow, white, and black. Four colors intertwined, resisting the condensed profound ice. Within this profound ice, an area was propped up. The Four Direction City Lord Seals had reborn their artifact spirits. Ya Ya said that as long as they grew, they could regain their previous memories. However, this growth was very slow. Chu Tian had cultivated them for 9000 years in the Yin Yang Realm. Each of them was still like a small child. But the power of the Four Direction City Lord Seals had increased, not decreased. They propped up this domain. Chu Tian's pressure instantly disappeared. The combined Five Elements formations of gold and water caused no damage to the Four Direction City Lord Seals. Chu Tian hadn't used them before because he wanted to hide his identity. Now that the solid ice blocked everyone's sight, he naturally had no fear. With the resistance of the Four Direction City Lord Seals, Chu Tian became idle. He couldn't help but mutter softly, "It seems that hiding my strength is no longer possible. Surviving under this grand formation will definitely make people suspicious! I'm afraid I can't become a disciple anymore!"
An entire quarter of an hour passed like this. Suddenly, Chu Tian noticed that the barrier supported by the Four Direction City Lord Seals had lessened in pressure.
"Hmm? Is it finally closing?" Chu Tian murmured softly. Little did he know that the nine people outside had gathered again. Because the solid ice blocked his divine sense, he was unaware. Naturally, those who had left returned. They looked at the ice before them, their expressions grim. Was the Archaic Sacred Body destroyed just like this? This was... the person they had been waiting for for generations. To have played themselves to death like this was too ridiculous, wasn't it? The massive area of ice occupied half of the entire platform, emitting a chilling aura that made everyone present feel that Chu Tian's chances of survival were extremely slim. Even these nine great figures felt terror at its profound meaning.
"What should we do?" a white-haired woman said.
"What should we do? You understand, are we going to let the Second Senior Brother melt the ice? To resist the Heavenly Water Cold Ice, even the Eldest Senior Brother would be injured!" another woman with water-blue hair said. The elder with fiery red hair, his eyes flickered. He was the so-called Second Senior Brother. He primarily cultivated fire, and was the current院长 of Yuan Shi Academy. In terms of cultivation, he was naturally inferior to the bald big shot. However, the bald big shot had no method, no mind, and no thought for managing the academy. Therefore, it fell to him, the Second Senior Brother, to do so. In fact, by their generation, each person's cultivation was no longer considered top-tier in the Yanhuang Domain. If cultivation does not advance, one retreats. His Second Senior Brother's cultivation was originally stronger than that of his junior brothers and sisters, but after taking over the management of the academy, he had become the weakest in cultivation. His Eldest Senior Brother, the bald big shot who ignored worldly affairs, had his cultivation advance by leaps and bounds and had become the academy's top expert. He had originally been competing with the Eldest Senior Brother, but now, he no longer had the qualifications to compete. Currently, apart from the bald big shot, the person with the highest cultivation in the academy was the woman with water-blue hair. She primarily cultivated water laws and was the grand-patriarch of Long Kui in terms of seniority. These nine people were also quite lucky. They were disciples of the last generation of Supreme Beings of humanity. By receiving the Supreme Beings' guidance, their cultivation was naturally much higher, so they lived the longest. After them, their disciples and grand-disciples' cultivation could not improve. Therefore, these old fellows had experienced the sorrow of white-haired people sending off black-haired ones. Their disciples and grand-disciples either died of old age or were killed in battle at the frontier. In other words, these nine had lived for at least 9000 years. Logically speaking, with such a long period of cultivation, they should have broken through that realm long ago. But for some reason, at the final hurdle, they were unable to break through. The Second Senior Brother, the old man with fiery red hair, had even seen his cultivation regress. According to his own calculations, he only had about 200 years of life left. The others, however, had at least 3000 years of life. It was precisely because of his contribution that Yuan Shi Academy had stood to this day. Therefore, his junior brothers and sisters respected him greatly. Only the bald big shot, who completely ignored these matters, seemed heartless. It was precisely because of this that he was the closest to the position of Supreme Being. Similarly, because of this, his junior brothers and sisters, including the院长 with fiery red hair, although they opposed him openly, secretly sent him any good things they found. If Yuan Shi Academy could produce another Supreme Being, then it could regain its title as the number one academy in the Yanhuang Domain. The reason Angel Academy was currently the number one in the Yanhuang Domain was because there were at least five people with cultivation similar to the bald big shot. This was the top-tier fighting strength. Therefore, Angel Academy currently had a great reputation. Facing the ice, none of these people could resolve it. To wait meant not knowing when it would end. The condensation of this Heavenly Water Cold Ice, and such a large piece, would naturally take nearly a hundred years to melt. Although the melting speed could be accelerated manually, disciples who cultivated fire techniques could not get close. Because water overcomes fire, fire disciples with insufficient cultivation, before even getting close to the ice, might have their internal true qi go berserk and suffer qi deviation. Currently, there were no more than three fire cultivators in the entire academy who could approach this ice. The Second Senior Brother they spoke of was the most cultivated. Even for him to melt the ice would result in a backlash. For others, it was even more unthinkable.
"I'll do it!" The bald big shot took a step forward. A profound green light radiated from him, resisting the cold aura.
"Eldest Senior Brother, no! Although your Primordial Chaos Heart Great Accomplishment is perfect, to blast open this Heavenly Water Cold Ice still..." The silver-haired woman spoke, her words only halfway finished, implying reserve. The bald big shot, however, grinned.
"Heh heh, I've been holding back for so many years, and today I can finally unleash it properly. I want to see if this Heavenly Water Cold Ice is harder, or if my Primordial Chaos Line's Primordial Chaos Sky-Cracking Cannon is more awesome!" The bald big shot shook his shoulders. The others' eyes lit up upon hearing this.
"Eldest Senior Brother, you..."
"Yes, 10 years ago, I obtained the cultivation technique for the Primordial Chaos Sky-Cracking Cannon, personally bestowed by Primordial Chaos Son Supreme Being! That was also when I learned of the existence of the Little Ancestor Master. For years, I descended the mountain every year, just to meet the Little Ancestor Master. Primordial Chaos Son Supreme Being asked me to look after his disciple, saying that he would come to pick him up on his 14th birthday. Two years ago, after seeing him, I returned to seclusion to attempt the second level of the Primordial Chaos Sky-Cracking Cannon. I didn't expect to miss the Little Ancestor Master's 14th birthday and just ate a 'big skull'! I won't talk to you anymore. Today, let you all witness the power of the second level of the Primordial Chaos Sky-Cracking Cannon!" His explanation allowed everyone to understand Luo Erpao's background, and even hear that his Primordial Chaos Sky-Cracking Cannon had reached the second level. Everyone's eyes gleamed with excitement. The Primordial Chaos Sky-Cracking Cannon had a total of three levels. It was said that in the past, before Primordial Chaos Son became a Supreme Being, the Primordial Chaos Sky-Cracking Cannon had only reached the first level. It was actually a technique he created himself. At that time, Primordial Chaos Son, not yet a Supreme Being, could contend with an Evil Dao Supreme Being. With the power of the second level of the Primordial Chaos Sky-Cracking Cannon, he had once blasted that Evil Dao Supreme Being to death in the sky. Doesn't this mean that the current Eldest Senior Brother already possessed the strength of Primordial Chaos Son before he became a Supreme Being? With the attack power of the Primordial Chaos Sky-Cracking Cannon, he could fight against Supreme Being level powerhouses?