Stellar Transformation-Chapter 512: Episode 15 - 21 Standoff

Among the three major Arrays, the Killing Array primarily seeks to maximize Attack Power and ensure that the enemy has no means of escape. As for the Defensive Array, it is all about bolstering defensive capabilities.

Regarding the Trap Array, it emphasizes the use of any and all available methods to trap the opponent.

It sounds simple, but achieving it is another story. It’s easy to trap a Mortal, but what about trapping a Divine Being? Or a Lower Heavenly God? What about trapping Middle Level Heavenly Gods or Upper Heavenly Gods?

The Trap Array is very complicated, and studying it also consumes a great deal of Heart Power. However, due to the emphasis placed on Trap Arrays in the nine hundred volumes of "Array Dao", Qin Yu had spent more than half of his Heart Power on them. In fact, Qin Yu’s achievements in Trap Arrays were slightly higher compared to Killing Arrays and Defensive Arrays.

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Qin Yu, like an elegant breeze, kept drifting across the sky. Xiong Hei, in a frenzy, furiously chased after Qin Yu, his eyes glaring and bellowing, "Qin Yu, if you dare, don’t run away and fight me in a fair and open battle!"

Qin Yu constantly changed direction while replying, "Xiong Hei, don’t be angry, I am a formation researcher and I don’t really like to resort to brute force."

Qin Yu’s words were spoken with apparent righteousness, but all the while his hands were continuously forming one Hand Seal after another while flying, countless Talismans flying out from between his hands, a myriad of red, green, grey, white, black, and various other colored ribbons started to appear in the sky.

Although Qin Yu was continuously dodging, he was still circling over the airspace above Mini Mountain in this particular area.

...

Mei Ji and Daoist Liu Xu stood suspended in midair, conversing with each other.

Daoist Liu Xu shook his head and sighed, "Big Brother Xiong Hei is strong, but he’s nowhere near as agile or fast as that Qin Yu. Look at how skillful Qin Yu’s movement technique is, how crisp are his turns. Even if Xiong Hei sometimes expends a great amount of Heavenly God Power to speed up and catch up with Qin Yu, Qin Yu can still suddenly turn at high speed, but Big Brother Xiong Hei can’t do that!"

"What is that Qin Yu doing, constantly flying and forming Hand Seals?" Mei Ji furrowed her brows and asked.

Daoist Liu Xu laughed, "That Qin Yu knows that using Divine Spirit Stones as Array Bases makes setting up formations easier, but if the enemy breaks the Array Base, the formation collapses. So, Qin Yu is planning to supply the Energy himself. He is not using Divine Spirit Stones to provide energy."

"Oh, Brother Liu is so smart," Mei Ji praised, "If Qin Yu doesn’t use Divine Spirit Stones, then Xiong Hei can’t destroy the Array Base with his Wolf Fang Club. Doesn’t that mean he won’t be able to break the Array Formation?"

"No, to break an Array Formation, it’s not always necessary to destroy the Array Base," Daoist Liu Xu explained. "By doing this, though the Divine Spirit Stones are no longer the Array Base, he himself becomes the Array Base!"

Mei Ji shook her head, "Once Xiong Hei is trapped by the Trap Array, how can he attack Qin Yu?"

"Providing Energy by oneself has its drawbacks, the biggest one being... he must stay within the formation at all times, unable to leave, or even use a lot of Divine Power to attack," explained Daoist Liu Xu.

Daoist Liu Xu was right.

What Qin Yu was doing now was setting up a Trap Array and was preparing to supply all the Energy needed for the Trap Array himself.

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Setting up the Trap Array was very complicated, and it took Qin Yu one and a half days to complete the layout. A day and a half seems quite long, but in the Divine World, it’s not much at all.

In the Divine World, it is common for Heavenly God Level experts to clash and battle for hundreds or even thousands of years.

Especially amongst Heavenly Gods of the same level, who have considerable control over space, killing each other is very difficult, hence the battles can drag on for a long time... Relative to their essentially endless lives, what’s a few hundred or a thousand years?

"Xiong Hei, come and experience my grand formation!" Qin Yu laughed loudly and then stood suspended in the air.

Surrounding Qin Yu, countless Talismans and Seals were floating, along with ribbons of various colors, already covering an area of ten miles. This was a fairly large Trap Array.

Four streams of Dark Gold Divine Power flew out from Qin Yu’s body and merged into the Trap Array, precisely supplying the Energy for the Trap Array.

"Ha-ha! You’ve stopped; are you looking for death?" Seeing Qin Yu come to a halt, Xiong Hei immediately rushed toward him to attack.

But suddenly—

Qin Yu disappeared from his sight, along with the clearly visible talismans and bands of light. Xiong Hei looked all around, only to see a world made entirely of light.

Red, black, white, green... Walls of various colors combined to form a vast world.

"What, what’s going on?" Xiong Hei remained relatively calm, and after a moment, a smile appeared on his face. "This is an Illusion Array, but why is Qin Yu using the same tactic as last time?"

"Xiong Hei, this array doesn’t have a name yet, today I’ll name it ’Bear Trap’. If you can break it, I’ll truly admire you." Qin Yu’s voice echoed throughout the entire array area.

Formation—’Bear Trap’!

Qin Yu’s face also wore a smile upon coining such a playful name, but Xiong Hei himself was infuriated.

"Qin Yu, watch how I shatter your Illusion Array!" Xiong Hei roared, with his dark green Heavenly God Power diffusing around his body, and the space surrounding his entire body began to distort.

"En?"

Xiong Hei noticed something was amiss.

In the past, when faced with the twisting of space, the ’Illusion Realm’ created by the Illusion Array would naturally be broken. But these walls of various colors, the ground—it was all surprisingly difficult to break.

"The reason an Illusion Array is called so is that it primarily consists of an illusionary realm, which can also change continuously. But these walls of various colors, they can be considered truly existent," Qin Yu’s voice resonated in the array area.

Up on the Mini Mountain, there was another person watching everything unfold.

That person was Uncle Fu!

"Old master, the master has managed to improve the Trap Array to such an extent in just over two hundred thousand years, allowing the power of the Five Elements, light and darkness, to complement each other perfectly, and a seamless integration of various arrays to form this third-level Trap Array. Presumably... the master will also reach your goal in the future," Uncle Fu gazed at the array in the sky, silently musing.

...

"That Qin Yu, the energy he just released is Divine Power, dark gold Divine Power; I saw it very clearly, what’s going on?" Daoist Liu Xu, who was observing, felt puzzled.

Just now, when Qin Yu was setting up the array, he released four strands of Divine Power, and Daoist Liu Xu and others all saw it.

Before, Qin Yu’s flight made outsiders think he was a Heavenly God. But how could a Heavenly God emit Divine Power?

Mei Ji was also puzzled, "Perhaps, maybe Qin Yu’s Soul Realm has just broken through to the Heavenly God Realm, and the energy inside his body has not been completely transformed yet." Mei Ji could only come up with this explanation.

From an Upper Level Divine Being to a Lower Heavenly God, one must first reach the Nascent Soul level in the Soul Realm, and then the energy within the body will transform.

But generally, someone who has just advanced to Heavenly God would hide somewhere, waiting for the energy to completely transform before coming out. So why did Qin Yu emerge before even his Divine Power had transformed?

Mei Ji and Daoist Liu Xu could only think so.

Flight is a Divine Skill unique to Heavenly Gods; for many years, no one has ever defied this law.

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"Real? Good!" Xiong Hei snorted coldly, holding the Wolf Fang Club in one hand, he viciously smashed it against the red wall in front of him. With one hit, the red wall trembled and shook several times, yet it didn’t break.

Xiong Hei glared fiercely.

Whereas, at the very center of the array, Qin Yu silently nodded, "The Five Elements complement and enhance each other, combined with the multiple integrated arrays of the greater array, fused with the principles of a Defensive Array, the Defensive Power is indeed strong."

"I don’t believe it." Xiong Hei switched from using ’one hand’ to two, grabbed the Wolf Fang Club with both hands, and then fiercely smashed it towards the red wall. The wall shuddered mightily, but still remained unbroken.

Xiong Hei managed to smash the wall twice in rapid succession, and the wall could no longer withstand it, a large gap appeared.

Xiong Hei quickly passed through the red wall.

But after passing through the red wall, there was a white wall outside. Around the white wall, there were also some passages, all made up of monotonous colors.

"I want to see just how many layers this Trap Array has!" Xiong Hei snorted coldly.

Then, Xiong Hei grabbed the Wolf Fang Club with both hands and began to smash the light walls frantically. Xiong Hei did not realize that the light walls of the Trap Array were combined with the Restriction of the ’Defensive Array,’ making the walls’ defense very strong. It was also relatively difficult to destroy them.

Moreover, Xiong Hei did not notice that as he smashed another wall, the wall he had just destroyed was now restored to its original state under the flowing light.

However, the energy that Qin Yu used to make up the light walls was ’Divine Power.’ This made the power of the Array somewhat weaker.

"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!"...

People outside, such as Daoist Liu Xu, Mei Ji, and others, could not see what was happening inside the Trap Array. They could only hear a series of thunderous noises that kept sounding. This noise had been going on for three whole days and nights.

The light of day and the cover of the dark night alternated over the entire Divine World.

Finally, the rumbling stopped.

Inside the Trap Array, Xiong Hei was breathing heavily in a low voice, completely exhausted from the madness of smashing walls for three days straight.

"Damn it, I’ve smashed over ten thousand walls, and I’ve always been moving forward. No matter how big this Array is, it should break by now!" Xiong Hei felt like he was going crazy.

In this Trap Array, there were only a few colors.

The walls were divided into two colors, red and white. As for turns, they were either black or green, and the few doors that appeared were only gold... In short, it was always the same few colors.

No matter where Xiong Hei smashed the walls, he felt... as if he were marking time in the same spot.

Because every place looked almost the same, and even the layout was exactly identical.

"Am I walking in circles? No, that’s not right, it’s clear to me, I’ve always been moving forward," Xiong Hei was utterly confused as he looked around at the unchanging layout.

The red walls, the black bends.

Xiong Hei understood that once he broke through the red walls, the next area would be ’white walls, green bends.’ Then they would alternately appear... as if he were walking back and forth in the same spot without end.

The walls weren’t just in front, behind, to the left, and to the right; they were also above his head.

Xiong Hei had tried smashing the walls above and below him. But no matter how much he smashed, he couldn’t leave this desolate and monotonous place.

"What exactly is going on? If there weren’t gravity on the ground, perhaps I wouldn’t even know which way was up or down," Xiong Hei looked up at the wall above, then at the walls to his left and right.

Exactly the same!

Crazy!

Xiong Hei was really about to go insane.

...

One year later.

"Let me out, let me out, damn it, let me out!" For the first time, Xiong Hei asked Qin Yu to let him out. This meant that he had admitted defeat.

"It’s simple. I don’t want your life. Just kowtow three times to admit defeat, and I will immediately let you leave this Trap Array," Qin Yu’s voice echoed in the Array.

"Damn it, bullshit!"

Xiong Hei cursed angrily and stopped wasting words.

It’s only been a year? Back then, his sparring session with Daoist Liu Xu lasted a whole seven hundred years. As a Heavenly God, he still had the capacity to endure loneliness. 𝒇𝓻𝓮𝓮𝙬𝙚𝒃𝒏𝓸𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝓬𝓸𝒎

It’s just that... the view before his eyes was still red or white walls, black or green passages, and the layout was completely the same.

The monotonous scenery had already made Xiong Hei dizzy.

Being trapped for just one year was more exhausting than his seven hundred years of fighting with Daoist Liu Xu.

...

Ten years later.

Xiong Hei found that the dull days were gone because those walls no longer let him smash them as before. Once he smashed the walls, the broken walls would burst out flames or attacks like thunder and various other kinds of assaults.

The longer time passed, the more peculiar were the methods of attack.

...

Qin Yu was seated cross-legged in the center of the Array with a smile. Now what Qin Yu had to do was to make an effort to merge the ’Killing Array’ into the ’Trap Array.’ However, merging them perfectly was difficult, and Qin Yu had been trying for years.

And the unfortunate Xiong Hei was just the test subject.

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Neither Daoist Liu Xu nor Mei Ji dared to enter the Array because Daoist Liu Xu, who had studied Array Formations, understood that once trapped in an Array, if one couldn’t break the Array, they could only be at the mercy of another.

Xiong Hei had been trapped in the Array for over two hundred years.

Some of the ten thousand troops had already gone back, but a large number of people were still waiting here. Usually, these people sparred with each other to pass the time.

"Mei Ji, you went to see Lord Black Dragon, what did he say?" Daoist Liu Xu looked at Mei Ji.

Mei Ji had just returned from a trip to Black Dragon Pond to report on matters regarding ’Xiong Hei.’

For most people, Lord Black Dragon had long been missing. But Daoist Liu Xu, Mei Ji, and Xiong Hei all knew that Lord Black Dragon had always been in Black Dragon Pond.

"Lord Black Dragon said that this matter was just a minor issue. He is currently dealing with a major affair! Moreover, since Xiong Hei is not dead yet, Lord Black Dragon won’t intervene for the time being," Mei Ji said.

Daoist Liu Xu nodded, Lord Black Dragon’s response was as he had expected.

"Mei Ji, what major affair do you think Lord Black Dragon has been planning for so many billions of years?" Daoist Liu Xu asked Mei Ji.

Mei Ji shook her head, "I don’t know. It’s better not to think too much about it. Oh, look, Xiong Hei has started smashing again. He really has perseverance," Mei Ji’s gaze turned towards the Array in the sky.

Just then, the sound of "Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!"... started up once more.

(Three Chapters for today completed... Hehe, hundreds of years have passed, can you guess what Fang Qie is going to write next? Hehe...)

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