Splitting the Heavens-Chapter 2080: Incomplete Advancement Formula For The Eight Trigrams Realm!
During his time in the Floating Star Region earlier, Shang Xia had obtained some information about the Heaven Observation Star Region and the Void Mirage from a merchant fleet. Later, after linking up with the Invincible Pirates, he gained a more definite understanding of the changes that had taken place in the Heaven Observation Star Region over the past two or three years.
Yet whether it was the news brought by the merchant fleet or the situation as grasped by the Invincible Pirates, it seemed that there had been no major upheaval at the Void Mirage.
Actually, Sun Haiwei, Gao Qin, and the others did not feel surprised by the lack of movement there.
“Back then, the Void Mirage was jointly sealed by you and the Star Origin Lord, and later Senior Gu Yi joined in... Three high-level Sages joined forces while the other Sages of the Heaven Observation Star Region assisted. In the end, a grand formation was even laid down personally by our Formation Grandmaster. It should be normal that the Illusory Sea of Stars on the other side wouldn’t be able to break out, right?”
Such responses came not only from Sun Haiwei. Most of the other True Immortals of Essence Luxuriant Heavenly Field spoke the same way, and their confidence naturally stemmed from the strength of Shang Xia, the Star Origin Lord, and the others.
The safety of the Void Mirage over the last two or three years also seemed to repeatedly confirm their faith in the high-level Sages. In particular, because the Invincible Pirates crossed the major Starsea Markets of the Chaotic Sea of Stars, their intelligence on the various Star Regions was clearly more up-to-date. They knew that, among the eight Star Regions of the Chaotic Sea of Stars, the forbidden regions of at least three had seen incursions from forces beyond the Star Field, which made the outward calm of the Heaven Observation Star Region appear all the more precious.
“Please rest assured. Although you have been away in recent years, the Sages of the various Heavenly Fields of the Heaven Observation Star Region have not relaxed their vigilance over the Void Mirage, especially the Star Origin Lord and Senior Gu Yi, who almost always go there personally to check at regular intervals.”
Sun Haiwei plainly understood Shang Xia’s temperament very well, and so she instantly threw their names out to reassure him.
Hearing her, Shang Xia slowly nodded, as if his concern over the Void Mirage had eased considerably.
Gu Yi was one thing, but as for the Star Origin Lord’s foundations and depths were something even Shang Xia had never truly fathomed. Even though Shang Xia had comprehended his martial intent and reached the grand completion stage, seemingly on par with the Star Origin Lord, he still had the intuition that the Star Origin Lord concealed many trump cards unknown to others.
If even the Star Origin Lord had judged that there was no problem at the Void Mirage, then there truly should have been no problem.
In other words, even if there actually had been a problem, if the Star Origin Lord had not discovered it, then most likely Shang Xia himself would not have found anything either.
Only, a lingering doubt had always been lodged in Shang Xia’s mind. It was precisely because of that doubt, he felt as though a fishbone were stuck in his throat.
Before the fleet even entered the Heaven Observation Star Region, he slipped away from the Spirit Ark ahead of time and secretly appeared at the Void Mirage. 𝐟𝕣𝗲𝕖𝕨𝗲𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝗲𝚕.𝗰𝚘𝐦
As soon as he approached, Shang Xia faintly sensed something.
More precisely, it was not Shang Xia who discovered something, but that the Crimson Soul Tablet was actively absorbing the strange energy from the Illusory Sea of Stars that filled the stretch of void!
That was not to say that the seal laid back then by Shang Xia and the Star Origin Lord, later joined by Senior Gu Yi, and the sealing formation that Chu Jia constructed upon that foundation could completely screen out all energy seeping through from the Illusory Sea of Stars...
Rather, with the aid of Shang Xia’s secret arts, the very operation of the sealing formation Chu Jia had built relied on utilizing the Illusory Sea of Stars’s energy. Under such circumstances, to the Illusory Sea of Stars’ energy, the grand formation should have been like a vast vortex, sucking it in endlessly.
Even if some of it dissipated, only a small part should have escaped from the edge of the formation.
Yet the spot where Shang Xia stood was clearly still within the range where the sealing formation should have been drawing in the energy of the Illusory Sea of Stars.
The faint strands of energy gathered by the Crimson Soul Tablet had been drawing didn’t seem to be influenced by the pull of the grand formation at all, indicating something was really wrong.
Is Chu Jia’s grand formation malfunctioning?
Even though Shang Xia did not have deep mastery of formation, he still understood that, given Chu Jia’s achievements, such a possibility was ridiculously small.
As for deliberate sabotage... Leaving aside the fact that the Sages from the Heavenly Fields of the Heaven Observation Star Region regularly patrolled the area, a formation laid by rank six Formation Grandmaster was not so easily damaged.
Unless... The one who damaged the formation possessed extremely high achievements... Higher even than Chu Jia’s! Only then could they tamper with it while evading the scrutiny of other Sages!
From present signs, the latter possibility seemed greater!
Across the Heaven Observation Star Region, one might still pick out two or three whose formation achievements could be compared with Chu Jia’s, but to say someone surpassed her would be...
Shang Xia pondered silently, narrowing the circle of suspects. Finding such a person within the Heaven Observation Star Region was not necessarily difficult, unless the grandmaster capable of altering Chu Jia’s work came from outside the Heaven Observation Star Region!
In truth, what Shang Xia ought to have done was to bring Chu Jia over. Given that she definitely improved even more compared to the past, restoring the formation should not have been difficult.
Of course, Shang Xia had his concerns. He didn’t wish to alarm the enemy prematurely.
Besides, he had a certain degree of need for the energy seeping out from the Void Mirage.
This time, Shang Xia was absorbing the energy for a different reason this time. It wasn’t to repair the Crimson Soul Tablet, but to deduce his rank eight advancement formula!
In Shang Xia’s mind, what emerged upon the four faces of the Crimson Soul Tablet was an advancement formula even more incomplete than when it deduced his martial intent.
Advancement Medicine: Eight Trigrams Immortal Golden Pill
Prerequisite: Grand Completion Stage of the Seven Star Realm
Main Medicine:
Secondary Medicine:
Auxiliary Medicine:
Required Medium: Origin qi from different Star Fields (4/8)
Remarks: -
Compatibility: -
Success Rate: -
Apart from telling Shang Xia the name of the advancement medicine and a clue that his next realm would be related to the Eight Trigrams, the only other thing he got out of it was the required medium, which concerned the Origin qi from the different Star Fields.
It was unmistakably clear that he needed to gather origin qi from eight different Star Fields.
At presen,t he had collected only four, and, barring surprises, they were respectively from the Void Mirage in the Heaven Observation Star Region, the great spatial vortex in the Distant Star Region, the Nebula Forbidden Region in the Original Stars Corner, and the Desolate Forbidden Region in the Floating Star Region. As for clues to the others... Perhaps only after Shang Xia traveled through the remaining four forbidden regions would he be able to allow the Crimson Soul Tablet to deduce more.
