793: Chapter 789: The Four Symbols Formation!
793: Chapter 789: The Four Symbols Formation!
Ye Zhihuan, Ye Zhiran, and Ye Zhirong, three martial artists, exhibited extraordinarily formidable power when setting up the formation, far surpassing their strength in single combat!
What secrets did this formation hold?
Ye Tian was somewhat puzzled by this, and since Ye Zhirong had a history with Ye Tian and did not wish to see him die in the formation, he revealed the truth to Ye Tian.
“Kid, this formation is the Four Symbols Formation, the Ye family specializes in!
Once this formation is deployed, heaven and earth will undergo extraordinary changes!
Nature itself will be manipulated by the Ye family!
More importantly, within this formation, our combined strength as three brothers can be doubled!”
Although Ye Zhirong’s explanation wasn’t long, Ye Tian understood the core of it.
It turned out this formation was the Ye family’s strategy against the Sima Family.
With this formation, the Ye family successfully altered climatic conditions, disrupting the Sima Family’s millennial plans.
In a fit of rage, the Sima Family led a host of martial artists to break the formation, but they achieved nothing.
The Ye family managed to stall the Sima Family with the Four Symbols Formation and created an opportunity for Ye Tian to lead the warriors of Night King Hall to destroy the Sima Family’s main estate.
Although it was Ye Tian’s first encounter with the power of the Four Symbols Formation, he had already witnessed the sophistication of the formation.
No wonder the Sima Family, despite all their efforts, failed to break it…
“Ye Zhirong, why bother telling him so much?” inquired Ye Zhiran, looking at Ye Zhirong with dissatisfaction.
After all, with Ye Tian’s capabilities, being informed of the formation’s key elements gave him a better chance to break it!
“It’s no problem, there’s no way this guy can break the formation!” Clan Leader Ye Zhihuan said with a wave of his hand, his tone slightly arrogant.
“Even the mighty Sima Family is helpless before this formation, so how could a green youth, completely unversed in formations, possibly unravel it?” Ye Zhihuan added.
Just as Ye Zhihuan had claimed, the Sima Family had sent forth their main force to break the formation, which naturally included experts well-versed in formations.
Yet, these experts were helpless against the Ye family’s Four Symbols Formation.
With no research into formations, how could Ye Tian possibly solve the Four Symbols Formation?
“Kid, this time, you’re definitely going to die!” Ye Zhihuan shouted, then the Four Symbols Formation was activated once more.
A bolt of lightning descended from the sky, striking directly at Ye Tian!
Ye Tian swung up the wooden sword in his hand to fend off the lightning above his head, and surges of lightning rose from within the sword as well.
With a “fizzing” noise, the two bolts of lightning intertwined!
Originally, Ye Tian thought that since the components of the “Life Weapon” also included lightning, then using the wooden sword’s lightning should be effective against the descending bolt.
Yet to his surprise, when the two bolts of lightning merged, the lightning from the “Life Weapon” was eroded by the bolt from above!
A bolt of lightning suddenly entwined around his arm…
“Damn it!”
Without hesitation, Ye Tian thrust his wooden sword into the ground beneath his feet, and the lightning was directed into the earth.
Although he temporarily averted the crisis, the Four Symbols Formation’s assaults were relentless!
Just as he avoided one lightning strike, several more bolts fell from the sky, targeting Ye Tian’s head!
This time, he could not withstand them with the “Life Weapon”; instead, he lightly leaped backward to evade the barrage of lightning.
Unbeknownst to him, Ye Tian had reached the edge of the Four Symbols Formation.
Oncoming was a gust of wind, slapping towards his back; it was Ye Zhiran attacking!
Ye Tian countered with a return palm strike…
“Bang!”
Their palms met, and Ye Tian put forth eight parts of his strength in that blow, yet it matched Ye Zhiran’s strike evenly.
The formidable recoil forced Ye Tian back to the center of the Four Symbols Formation.
Overhead, Tian Lei struck down again, and Ye Tian lifted his wooden sword high, drawing the Tian Lei to it.
Then, with the speed of lightning, he dashed towards another side of the Four Symbols Formation, heading straight for where Ye Zhihuan was.
“Don’t think about getting out!” Ye Zhihuan yelled out and struck with both palms, attempting once again to push Ye Tian back to the formation’s center.
Ye Tian also raised his palm in defense.
Ye Zhihuan smiled, knowing that with the boost from the Four Symbols Formation, his own strength was doubled.
A palm exchange with him would not end well for Ye Tian.
However, Ye Zhihuan hadn’t anticipated that Ye Tian’s palm strike was a feint.
Just as their hands were about to connect, Ye Tian suddenly withdrew his palm and switched his attack, stabbing the wooden sword directly at Ye Zhihuan.
The sword still swirled with strands of lightning, not from the “Life Weapon” but from the Tian Lei of the Four Symbols Formation!
Ye Zhihuan had no choice but to dodge.
But Ye Tian seized the moment, his wrist flicking, turning the stab into a slash, nearly hitting Ye Zhihuan’s back.
Ye Zhiran and Ye Zhirong, seeing the Clan Leader in imminent danger, immediately intervened, combining their strength to block Ye Tian’s wooden sword.
Ye Tian didn’t insist on the offensive but casually withdrew, retreating once more to the center of the Four Symbols Formation.
With the Ye trio preoccupied with defense, they couldn’t muster a new wave of attacks, and the Tian Lei above Ye Tian stopped momentarily…
“Cunning kid!”
Although he had escaped death by a hair’s breadth, Ye Zhihuan still felt a chill in his heart from Ye Tian’s recent attack.
That fellow actually managed to use the wooden sword in his hand to employ the tactic of using an enemy’s strength against them, almost costing the life of the Clan Leader of the Ye Clan under his wooden sword.
But Ye Zhiran confidently reassured, “Clan Leader, please don’t lose heart, that kid hasn’t escaped the grasp of the Four Symbols Formation yet!
Under the Four Symbols Formation, it’s impossible for the kid to hold out for long!
Even the experts from the Sima Family are powerless against the Four Symbols Formation, let alone a mere servant!”
“Heh heh~~~ you’re absolutely right!”
Ye Zhihuan also cracked a slight smile, after all, the Four Symbols Formation was a powerful Formation passed down through the Ye Clan since ancient times, invincible and indestructible, how could it not defeat a mere Ye Tian?
“Continue the formation!
Don’t slack off!”
Ye Zhihuan ordered once more, and immediately after, Ye Zhiran and Ye Zhirong also scattered, positioning themselves in a triangle formation, surrounding Ye Tian.
Ye Tian’s expression was solemn, he couldn’t afford to take the Four Symbols Formation lightly.
At first, it was magma that erupted from the ground, which made sense since the Ye Clan practiced the Cultivation Technique called Radiance of the Sun.
Ye Tian thought that the attacking methods of the Four Symbols Formation were limited to just magma.
But when the Tian Lei descended from above his head, Ye Tian realized that the Four Symbols Formation summoned not just magma.
Every element in nature could be called upon by the Formation!
With this realization, Ye Tian pondered deeply, wondering how he could possibly break through the Four Symbols Formation.
While Ye Tian was deep in thought, the ground beneath his feet suddenly began to shake violently!
“Could it be magma again?”
Ye Tian immediately gathered the Strength of Water and Clouds within his body and lightly leaped up, but instead of magma erupting from beneath him, a boulder larger than himself was hurtling towards him!
“So it’s a ‘mudslide’!”
Ye Tian smiled faintly, then swung his wooden sword, whipping up a wind with his blade, and charged towards the boulder.
The wooden sword was a medium-grade Life Weapon, a mere boulder was nothing in Ye Tian’s eyes, but to his surprise, the boulder wasn’t smashed by the sword.
Instead, it came at him with even more ferocity!
In his heart, Ye Tian was shocked; his wooden sword was supposed to be invincible, how could it not shatter this stone before him?
In this moment of shock, the boulder was already upon him!
“Clang!”
Caught off guard, Ye Tian was struck directly in the chest by the boulder.
Although he had his Inner Strength to protect him, the hit still caused serious injury.
His energy and blood circulation was blocked by the impact, and his internal organs suffered varying degrees of damage…
“The kid is hit, keep up the attack!”
With Ye Tian struck by the boulder, Ye Zhihuan was overjoyed and immediately continued to activate the Formation, with Ye Zhiran and Ye Zhirong promptly following the Clan Leader’s lead.
In the blink of an eye, several more boulders were hurled towards Ye Tian again!
Front, back, left, right, above…
The space where Ye Tian could dodge was completely sealed off, and since the boulders couldn’t be smashed by the wooden sword, he was left utterly defenseless!
“BOOM!”
Amidst a thunderous noise, several boulders hit Ye Tian, burying him harshly beneath them.
Seeing this, Ye Zhihuan was triumphantly pleased!
“Heh heh heh~~~~ Even if the kid is strong, he can’t escape the attacks of the Four Symbols Formation!
The boulders in the Formation, infused with our combined strength, are impossible to be shattered by mere weapons!”
Ye Zhihuan said coldly, as he and Ye Zhiran and Ye Zhirong approached the area where Ye Tian was buried under the boulders.
Ye Zhiran also asked, “Clan Leader, is the kid dead?”
Ye Zhihuan nodded and said, “Of course he’s dead.
Struck by several boulders of that size, how could he not be?
He’s probably been smashed into a pulp by now.”
“…”
Among the three elders of the Ye Clan, only Ye Zhirong remained silent.
Ye Zhirong had a past with Ye Tian and thus didn’t wish to see Ye Tian’s demise.
But the fact that Ye Tian trespassed on the Ye Clan’s forbidden area was irrefutable.
So no matter how deep Ye Zhirong’s past relationship with Ye Tian was, he was powerless to help him, as he must abide by the clan’s principles!
“Dig out the kid’s corpse and send it back to his home.
Although he committed a capital offense by trespassing on the Ye Clan’s forbidden ground, he was indeed a renowned warrior and had some dealings with the clan, so we must not desecrate his body!”
Ye Zhihuan commanded, and Ye Zhiran and Ye Zhirong began to move the boulders off Ye Tian’s body.
But before their hands touched the boulders, a loud “BOOM!” was heard, and the boulders that were on top of Ye Tian suddenly exploded!
Debris flew everywhere, and the three elders of the Ye Clan quickly retreated several steps to avoid being hit by the flying rocks…