Chapter 1157 — The Human Emperor Visits the Heavenly Palace
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Jiang Baigui transformed his own vital energy into five hundred thousand gods and demons, while Yue Tingge held the Longshan Formation Diagram in his keeping and drove its many formations to life, waiting for him to come and break them. This diagram had gone unbroken through the several hundred thousand years since the age of Longhan; of every Celestial Master of every generation, there was none who did not know of it.
It was by breaking the Longshan Formation Diagram that Yue Tingge had made his name under heaven and become the foremost Celestial Master of the Heavenly Court. He himself now held the Longshan Formation Diagram in hand, and the shifts of its formations dazzled the eye. Lacking wit enough, a man had only to glimpse the transformations bursting forth in a single instant to be left dizzy and disoriented, unable to tell east from west, let alone break a formation.
The army of five hundred thousand gods and demons conjured from Jiang Baigui's vital energy drove straight in. His choice differed from Shang Pingyin's of old: Shang Pingyin met formation with formation, steady and sure, whereas Jiang Baigui marched his host directly to the zenith of the Twenty-Eight Heavens. Yue Tingge sighed.
He knew the man had grasped the key to the Longshan Formation Diagram in the very first moment. And that key was one he himself had spent many years arriving at. The zenith, that was where the Heaven Sphere lay, and the Heaven Sphere was the Ancient God's Egg of the Lapis Lazuli Azure Heaven Banner.
Jiang Baigui drove his superior force in beside the Ancient God's Egg, yet did not attack the Egg; instead he set bright mirror after bright mirror around it, sealing it in.
He laid his formations in reverse, and beneath Yue Tingge's dumbstruck gaze he arranged his five hundred thousand troops into ten thousand different formations, more exquisite by far than any formation in the Longshan Formation Diagram.
Yue Tingge was struck dumb.
The core of the ten thousand formations of the Longshan Formation Diagram was the Ancient God's Egg, and Jiang Baigui, gathering his superior force, had seized the Ancient God's Egg at the very first stroke, laid the Twenty-Eight Heavens formations around it, taken the Egg as his core, turned guest into host, and crowded the Longshan Formation Diagram's Twenty-Eight Heavens formations out. Thus his own diagram replaced the Longshan Formation Diagram, becoming a new Twenty-Eight Heavens Diagram with the Longshan Formation Diagram at its core.
Yue Tingge could no longer reverse the Twenty-Eight Heavens; instead Jiang Baigui, guest turned host, reversed them, and in short order broke every last formation in the Longshan Formation Diagram, not one left standing. Yue Tingge sighed, dispersed his vital energy, and said, "You are a prodigy.
These formations are the Longshan Wanderer's Grand Diagram, but this treasure is the foremost treasure under heaven, the Lapis Lazuli Azure Heaven Banner.
And now you have broken even the Azure Heaven Banner, and with the fewest troops and the lightest losses. Worthy indeed of the foremost Celestial Master of Jingping! " Jiang Baigui likewise withdrew his vital energy and said, "Did you break the diagram by this same method, Celestial Master Yue?
" Yue Tingge, proud and stern, clasped his hands behind his back and nodded, then his momentum drained away and he said, dispirited, "No, I did not use that method. After driving into the Heaven Sphere, I drove in wedges, one after another, into the Twenty-Eight Heavens to shackle their changes.
I used a million troops, and to break the diagram the losses were enormous. .
. " Then his spirits lifted and he laughed. "You said just now that your senior fellow disciple beats you in every way, and only in wisdom falls a hair short of you. That sounds familiar.
Might I ask who this junior fellow disciple of yours is?