activa-t 203. Chapter 203 Outsmart A Hammer!
203. Chapter 203 Outsmart A Hammer!
Chapter 203: Taking Advantage of the Situation!
Liu Zimo stood in front of the main hall, sighing softly at the ingenious formation of the Huoyun Palace. He pondered how to take the entire Huoyun Mountain Gate without damaging any of the formations or spiritual treasures.
Therefore, he didn't rush to break the formation. Instead, he used the knowledge of formations and refining he gained from his sea of consciousness to continuously search for opportunities to break the formation and refine the entire mountain gate before him.
Just then, in the void above his head, a giant human palm suddenly appeared, carrying an immense power and the force of laws, descending from above with a high vantage point, and suddenly patting towards him.
At the same time, Liu Zimo sensed that there were several divine thoughts in the void, continuously exerting divine power, constantly pulling the Huoyun Palace mountain gate in front of him, as if they wanted to uproot the entire Huoyun Palace and plunder it away!
"Taking advantage of the situation! These people are here for the Huoyun Palace!"
In an instant, Liu Zimo saw the purpose behind these people suddenly attacking him, and his heart emitted a fierce light.
They were robbing him, Liu Zimo. Did they really think he was a pushover? Anyone could come and pinch him a few times?
Even though he could see that the strength of these people was not weak, not the least bit inferior to Li Dao Yan from before, Liu Zimo still unhesitatingly summoned the [Huoyun Purple Gold Hammer], and without thinking, smashed it directly towards the giant palm that was about to hit him.
Boom!
Before the [Huoyun Purple Gold Hammer] could even reach the giant palm that was already close to him, the Huoyun Palace's protective formation was passively triggered.
After a loud rumble, all the attacking methods aimed at the Huoyun Palace were completely annihilated.
The giant palm shattered, and the divine thoughts collapsed.
Neither the Huoyun Palace nor Liu Zimo, who stood in front of the main hall, suffered the slightest bit of harm.
On the contrary, Wan Kun Demon Lord and the ancient powerhouses who made their move in secret all let out a miserable scream before completely falling silent and retreating into the void.
Swish!
Liu Zimo casually retrieved the [Huoyun Purple Gold Hammer], his eyes filled with surprise.
He didn't expect the Huoyun Palace's protective formation to be so powerful!
The counterattack power it erupted with just now was no weaker than the peak attack power of Liu Zimo's [Instant Movement Technique]!
"So this is the true power of the combined formation when it erupts with full force?"
"It's truly extraordinary!"
Liu Zimo sighed softly, but also felt some doubts and confusion.
"Since the Huoyun Palace has such a powerful protective measure, why didn't Wenren Fazhen or Li Dao Yan activate it in time to deal with me?"
"If they had used the protective formation from the beginning to protect themselves or directly suppress me, I might not have had the chance to directly kill them!"
While he was pondering, Liu Zimo quickly realized that the powerful protective formation that was just overwhelmingly strong had instantly fallen silent after erupting with full force, losing its power.
Liu Zimo instantly understood.
It wasn't that Wenren Fazhen and Li Dao Yan didn't want to activate the protective formation to fight against the enemy.
It was because the Huoyun Palace's protective formation had already exhausted its energy and could only barely maintain the power of one attack.
Those two clearly didn't want to waste the power of the final attack on a small fry like him.
They just didn't expect that they would capsize in the gutter in the end. When they wanted to activate the protective formation to fight against the enemy again, it was already too late.
"No wonder I felt something was off just now. All the spiritual energy around me was continuously converging towards this mountain gate."
Liu Zimo muttered to himself.
"I originally thought that the disciples of the Huoyun Palace were meditating, which caused the abnormal flow of spiritual energy in the surroundings."
"But now it seems that it is clearly the Huoyun Palace's protective formation autonomously accumulating power to maintain the normal operation of the entire formation!"
"Now it's good."
Those few individuals hidden in the dark triggered the defensive counterattack of the Huoyun Palace's protective formation, instantly depleting all the remaining spiritual energy of the formation.
In this way, Liu Zimo benefited.
Next, if he wanted to subdue and refine the Huoyun Palace in front of him, there would no longer be such great resistance.
"Three requests for peace, fighting is not half a meter!"
"One counts the ridge, two counts the field, three counts the shake, four counts the wind, five counts the center, six counts the sky, seven counts the marsh, eight counts the mountain, nine counts the gate!"
"Hahaha, found it!"
"The formation eye and the artifact eye of the Huoyun Palace are both placed in the pair of jade lions in front of the main hall!"
Without the interference of the protective formation, Liu Zimo quickly determined the location of the formation eye and the artifact eye.
Without any hesitation, he directly extended two strands of his own soul origin and entered the bodies of the pair of jade lions in front of him, using the unique refining technique of the Huoyun Palace to imprint and refine them.
This was a secret technique he had comprehended from the basic refining experience left by Wenren Fazhen and Li Daoyan. It was most suitable to be used here.
Boom!
The two jade lions emitted a bright light, instantly absorbing and merging Liu Zimo's soul origin that had been immersed in them.
Afterwards, Liu Zimo felt two irresistible devouring forces coming from within the jade lions, following his soul origin and directly entering his sea of consciousness.
Whoosh!
Endless spiritual power poured uncontrollably into his sea of consciousness, rushing directly into the bodies of the two jade lions.
Liu Zimo's expression changed slightly, but he did not show too much panic.
From the refining experience of Wenren Fazhen and Li Daoyan, he had long known that this was a normal phenomenon when refining high-grade spiritual treasures.
However, he did not expect that these two jade lions in front of him would require such a massive amount of spiritual power!
This was also because Liu Zimo's sea of consciousness was vast and his spiritual power was like an abyss. Even if the devouring speed was doubled, it would be impossible to harm his foundation.
Otherwise, if it were any other quasi-saint, they would have long been sucked dry by the two jade lions!
The entire refining process lasted for about five minutes.
Liu Zimo lost a tenth of his total spiritual power reserves, completely satiating the two jade lions.
At the moment of completion, the entire Huoyun Palace trembled.
Immediately after, hundreds of pieces of information about spiritual treasures directly surged into Liu Zimo's sea of consciousness.
It was only at this moment that Liu Zimo truly understood.
How many top-grade spiritual treasures had he just refined, and why did the two jade lions directly devour nearly a tenth of his massive amount of spiritual power!
"A total of 126 top-grade spiritual treasures!"
"I underestimated this combination mountain gate!"
Liu Zimo exclaimed once again. He didn't expect that this Huoyun Palace mountain gate in front of him was actually composed of 126 top-grade spiritual treasures!
More importantly, after refining the entire mountain gate, Liu Zimo realized that he was actually the first true master of this Huoyun Palace mountain gate!
Before him, in the tens of thousands of years of the Huoyun Palace's existence, there was not a single disciple who could successfully refine the entire mountain gate.
Even Li Daoyan, who had already advanced to the peak quasi-saint realm, had only refined less than half of the combined spiritual treasures of the Huoyun Palace!
Otherwise, if he could refine the entire mountain gate like Liu Zimo did, he would gain the Unified Harmony Heart.
As long as one is in the Fire Cloud Palace, they will be blessed by a Saint-level formation and stand invincible.
Under the Holy Realm, including Liu Zimo, no one will be able to harm him in the slightest!
Of course, the premise is that he can truly withstand the spiritual power required to refine 126 top-grade spiritual treasures.
"Hmm?"
"There are actually several disciples in closed-door cultivation in the Fire Cloud Palace!"
Liu Zimo raised an eyebrow and discovered six Fire Cloud disciples in a quiet room behind the Fire Cloud Hall, all in a state of deep meditation.
Judging from their cultivation levels, two are quasi-Saints, three are Spirit Communication stage, and one is only Manifestation stage!
If nothing unexpected happens, these should be the only remaining disciples of the Fire Cloud Palace.
With a thought, Liu Zimo directly moved the six people in front of him.
Regardless of the color of the lock shadow above their heads, he bound them all as his "good brothers".
【Binding successful! Your good brother Jiang Mengqing is online, current available binding targets (65/100)】
【Binding successful! Your good brother Shi Guangxiao is online, current available binding targets (66/100)】
【...】
【Binding successful! Your good brother Mo Yixiong is online, current available binding targets (70/100)】
After successfully binding them, Liu Zimo looked expressionlessly at the six people still in a state of meditation and beheaded them with a sword.
Plop!
Plop!
The six heads almost fell to the ground simultaneously.
Three Spirit Communication stage disciples and one Manifestation stage disciple instantly perished.
The divine soul consciousness scattered from their sea of consciousness was also instantly collected by Liu Zimo into his own sea of consciousness space.
As for the two quasi-Saints, after their heads were beheaded, their just-landed heads suddenly opened their eyes wide and looked up at Liu Zimo together.
"Who are you? Why did you ruthlessly kill the disciples of our Fire Cloud Palace?"
"What about Senior Brother Wenren and Senior Brother Daoyan?"
"You bastard, do you know that we are disciples under the Fire Cloud Saint? How dare you..."
Before the two could finish speaking, Liu Zimo directly summoned the Fire Cloud Purple Gold Hammer and smashed it towards their headless bodies.
Swish!
With their true bodies losing vitality, the two headless corpses instantly lost their activity, and two divine soul consciousnesses broke out from between their eyebrows.
Without Liu Zimo deliberately capturing and collecting them, the two divine souls, carrying boundless killing intent, actively rushed towards his sea of consciousness.
Naturally, Liu Zimo accepted them without hesitation and instantly included these two quasi-Saint divine souls into his sea of consciousness space.
At this moment, inside Liu Zimo's sea of consciousness space.
The just-fed Yao Lingling hadn't had time to enter closed-door cultivation and digest, but was pleasantly surprised to find that several divine soul consciousnesses were rushing into Liu Zimo's sea of consciousness space!
【Three Spirit Communication stage, one Manifestation stage, haha, there are even two quasi-Saints!】
【Prosperous! Prosperous!】
【I knew it, Liu Zimo, this freak, is not an ordinary person!】
【Sure enough, just a few minutes have passed, and he has actually killed two quasi-Saints, three Spirit Communication stage, and one Manifestation stage!】
【Today is truly a great opportunity for this bug. After devouring these six spiritual consciousness origins, my cultivation realm will definitely soar to the peak of the Divine Realm!】
[...]
Yao Lingling was extremely excited, howling and cheering in his heart, waving his two large pincers eagerly as he pounced towards those tempting ingredients!
In the void.
The ancient powerhouses who had just suffered a big loss gathered here once again.
When they saw that Liu Zimo not only completely refined the entire Fire Cloud Palace, but also ruthlessly killed the remaining six powerless disciples of the Fire Cloud Palace without any resistance.
Several divine thoughts fell silent at the same time.
"Heartless and decisive, this kid is indeed capable of doing big things!"
After a moment, Demon Lord Wankun was the first to speak, saying loudly,
"To be honest, this lord is starting to like this kid a little bit. If he is willing, this lord doesn't mind taking him under the wing of my Netherworld Hall!"
As soon as Demon Lord Wankun's voice fell, someone coldly snorted and said,
"Hmph, do you really dare to keep such a Child of Fortune by your side?"
"Yes, any Child of Fortune from any era is destined not to be inferior to others. Once the time comes, they will soar and transform into dragons, and no one can suppress them!"
"So, everyone, if you want to kill a Child of Fortune, you must take decisive action before they grow up!"
"We have already offended him just now, if we don't want to be settled one by one afterwards, we must all join forces to completely suppress this Liu Zimo!"
..."
Several divine thoughts communicated and calculated with each other in the void, quickly reaching a consensus.
In any case, they could not allow Liu Zimo, this Child of Fortune, to grow up completely!
"The power of the Fire Cloud Palace's protective array that we just experienced, we all have a deep understanding. Just a casual strike from the protective array contains a trace of the power of a saint, far beyond what we can contend with!"
"Now, Liu Zimo has already taken control of the entire Fire Cloud Palace. If he stays in the Fire Cloud Palace all day with the protection of the protective array, who can be his opponent?!"
"So, if we want to kill Liu Zimo, we must use our wits!"
"What wits?!"
Demon Lord Wankun spoke again, saying straightforwardly,
"Don't think this lord doesn't know that all of you guys must have sacred artifacts in your hands!"
"If you really want to kill someone, how could a mere Fire Cloud Palace possibly stop all of you from simultaneously suppressing him?"
"Put it bluntly, you guys just don't want to use the sacred artifacts in your hands, and want to see this lord and Liu Zimo both suffer, so that you can reap the benefits later!"
"This lord disdains to be associated with you hypocritical gentlemen, I'm leaving!"
Demon Lord Wankun did not forget his previous boast.
He had never given up on killing Liu Zimo and devouring the opportunities and fortunes on him.
It's just that he really couldn't stand these old guys who talked big but didn't want to contribute at all.
In the end, these people didn't want to directly confront the Child of Fortune of this era, they just wanted to stab him in the back in secret.
If possible, these people probably wanted to make him and Liu Zimo die together, or kill them all at once!
When it came to being cunning and treacherous, hiding a knife behind a smile, and having a beastly heart, Demon Lord Wankun, the Demon Lord of the Netherworld Hall, was far inferior to these self-righteous old guys!
Once again, everyone was embarrassed by Demon Lord Wankun's frankness.
Although everything he said was true, it's hard to accept the truth!
If they hadn't been unable to find the true whereabouts of Demon Lord Wankun all along, how could they tolerate such a guy who had no filter and survived until now?
Wouldn't they have joined forces long ago to chop him into pieces with their chaotic swords?
(End of this chapter)