Chapter 1236 — Heaven's Foremost Grandmaster of the Formation Dao
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 3
"Does Han Tianjun not know that every last Great Dao rune of the Bulwark Star Lord was deconstructed by the Dao Ancestor? That his Bulwark Formation holds no secret at all before me?"
Shen Mu's expression turned peculiar. Han Tianjun's formation art was exquisite beyond compare, but Shen Mu had cultivated every kind of formation rune structure belonging to the Bulwark Formation; more than that, he had even broken the Bulwark Formation's Great Dao runes once through! In his eyes, even that vast divine city was no more than this. Han Tianjun's formation art, exquisite as it was, had already been broken clean through; compared with the Blind Old Man's use of formations to enter the Dao, his formations were out of date!
The six Han Tianjuns watched the nearly finished Ark of the Other Shore with smiling eyes, and chuckled: "Today is truly a fine day for me. If I obtain the Ark of the Other Shore, then Taixu and the Sorrowless Land are broken, and that is a heaven-defying merit! Kill Mu Tianzun, and that is another heaven-defying merit! With two such merits, my standing may even surpass the Heavenly Masters and the Heavenly Kings, and make me one of the Heavenly Court's Three Excellencies!"
The six divine cities abruptly shook with a clatter, like a swarm of countless bees, and in an instant the god-devils within the cubes each changed their postures, their mudras, and their rune imprints, and the formation's fundamental structure changed with them!
The bee-swarm formation built of countless cubes was endlessly mutable; five of its swarms surged toward the Ark of the Other Shore, and the last swarmed toward Shen Mu!
Han Tianjun set greater store by Emperor Shitian and the Ark of the Other Shore. In his eyes, Emperor Shitian Li Youran was a master of the peak Lingxiao realm, and moreover the War Heavenly King of the Kaihuang era; Emperor Shitian was powerful, and in battle possessed qualities beyond the ordinary. Shen Mu, after all, was young; despite bearing the title of Mu Tianzun, his cultivation realm was plain for all to see. To send a single divine city against Shen Mu was already thinking highly of him.
Shen Mu looked toward the countless cubic swarms surging in, the god-devils in the cubes each changing posture and mudra, keeping the formation forever in a state of endless transformation. And one of the Han Tianjuns was like the queen bee, ringed about by the swarm, standing with hands clasped behind his back upon a formation platform built of countless cubes, directing the whole.
Whoosh —
The cubic swarms charged onto the Ark of the Other Shore. The rotating, shifting cubes bore those god-devils forward, and wherever they passed, the palaces, the streets, the cities, even the mountains and rivers of the Ark of the Other Shore were ground to powder by the might of the formation! The ferocity of Han Tianjun's formation art was truly rare!
The cubic swarms drew nearer and nearer, closing the ring around Shen Mu. He looked all about him and saw the god-devils within each cube like so many devout sacrificants, methodically altering their mudras, their bodily postures, and their vital qi imprints. They were like worker bees, obeying the direction of Han Tianjun, their queen.
In an instant, the cubic swarms' formation changed several thousand times over: several thousand formation structures, not one of them repeated, dazzling the eye. Never mind breaking the formation; one could not even make out its structure!
And Han Tianjun's abilities did not stop there.
He had entered the Dao through formations, and so in the single turn of contact he could make matching alterations to his formation in response to an enemy's cultivation art and divine powers!
He drew closer and closer to Shen Mu, the smile on his face growing ever thicker. This world-topping merit was about to fall into his hands!
Just then, Shen Mu slowly raised his fist, the five fingers splayed: "Daluo Supreme Divine Sense!"