frightfiction #536 - Waiting for the lore
#536 - Waiting for the lore
This time, the leader of the Fire Demon Clan was none other than the prestigious Fire Feather Grand Elder, whose eyes shone as bright as torches.
He stood there, smiling, and began to speak: "Everyone, let's be realistic. This formation was painstakingly set up by our Fire Demon Clan. If you're thinking of getting a free ride, you're sorely mistaken."
"Cooperation requires give and take. As for the formation materials, everyone needs to contribute. Don't let our Fire Demon Clan be the only ones carrying the load."
Xie Nanxing, the chief commander of the Evil Dragon Clan, smiled slyly and chimed in: "That's right, Elder Huo is right. The Evil Dragon Clan isn't slacking either. I know what I'm doing this time."
"Let's just do it for good luck. How about I contribute one-tenth of the materials?"
He said it with such generosity, but in reality, it was just a token gesture—exactly one-tenth, no more, no less.
The other Grand Elders were all clear about the situation. No one was pretending to be ignorant. They claimed to be helping the Evil Dragon Clan, but in truth, weren't their real intentions aimed at Li Chengfeng's precious space?
These days, trying to get something for nothing is impossible! Everyone was smart and quickly gathered the materials. The formation was set up swiftly.
The altar was built impressively. Leng Jiao, clad in black armor, with a white cloak fluttering in the wind, looked like a war god descended to earth. Holding a command flag, he steadily ascended the altar.
He announced loudly: "After a whole month of hard work, our grand formation has finally made its grand debut! The formation eyes are clearly assigned, and next is the intensive practice time."
"Let's not rush to activate the formation. Let's first familiarize ourselves with each formation eye."
Elder Leng Jiao waved the command flag, and the Fire Demon Clan, including the Grand Elders, moved with perfect coordination to their respective positions.
Why? Because they knew very well that Leng Jiao had secretly revealed that whoever could capture Li Chengfeng ahead of everyone else at the crucial moment would receive a great reward!
As for the other clans, although they knew the situation, they couldn't do anything about it. After all, they didn't have the advantage of this formation. When the time came, they could only act according to the circumstances.
In this world, if you want to gain something, you have to give something first, right?
After half a month of arduous practice, the complex formation finally reached perfection, like an invisible giant net, quietly lurking beneath the ice, waiting for the moment Li Chengfeng broke out of the ice.
At this moment, all the high-level cultivators and elders were sitting cross-legged, surrounded by a faint medicinal fragrance, which emanated from the pills they were taking to withstand the extremely harsh weather of this northern region.
The gale continued to howl, as if to tear the sky apart, and the cold wind was as sharp as a knife, causing even Foundation Establishment stage cultivators to tremble and chatter their teeth.
Among the low-level disciples, some had already tragically lost their lives to the cruel hand of nature, but the cruelty of war did not allow them to have the slightest sympathy or pity.
The northwest sky was like a child's face, changing rapidly. One moment it was clear and cloudless, and the next moment it was snowing heavily, covering the entire world in silver and white. The cold seemed to penetrate the bone marrow, making people shiver.
However, even such an environment did not shake the determination of the Fire Demon Clan and Evil Dragon Clan warriors. They had long adapted to the cold and regarded it as the prelude to battle.
But those cultivators from the Sea Union Domain seemed particularly unaccustomed.
Accustomed to the warm seawater, they now found themselves in this icy and snowy land, and even high-level cultivators felt strained.
Not to mention the low-level cultivators, many of whom had become victims of the cold even before the battle began.
Finally, a special day arrived. In the night sky, an eerie moon quietly rose, accompanied by unprecedented wind and snow, like a scene of doomsday.
The wind was so strong that it was like a storm, and low-level cultivators were constantly being turned into ice sculptures and then torn into ice shards by the gale.
However, for such sacrifices, the big shots sitting high in the formation seemed unusually indifferent. Their hearts were filled only with the impending victory and deep hatred for Li Chengfeng.
In such an atmosphere, a subtle tremor suddenly came from the ground, as if a sign that some behemoth was about to awaken.
Almost all the elders on the platform who had been closing their eyes to rest opened them at the same time, their eyes flashing with anticipation and excitement.
They knew that this moment had finally arrived—Li Chengfeng's warship was about to break out of the ice and become the first prey under their carefully arranged formation.
They began to imagine what kind of panic and helplessness would be on Li Chengfeng's once invincible face when his warship was surrounded by the formation; and what the Sea Union Domain experts would feel when they saw their leader in such a predicament.
All of this would become the beginning of the glorious victory of their Fire Demon Clan and Evil Dragon Clan.
To let Li Chengfeng personally send them into the abyss of destruction. Such a thought made them even more excited, as if they had already seen the dawn of victory shining ahead.
Under the dim moonlight, the Arctic Icefield was shrouded in a layer of cold light. All the cultivators were tense, sitting on their respective formation positions, their eyes fixed on the direction of the Frozen Canyon. The moment Li Chengfeng was about to break out of the ice made the air freeze.
Leng Jiao, the protagonist of this operation, stood at the top of the giant altar, holding the command sword, his face stern, gazing ahead like a statue.
As the tremors grew stronger, the Fire Demon Clan Grand Elder Huo Yu's divine sense penetrated the thick ice layer and clearly captured the scene of a behemoth struggling to hit the ice.
Finally, a deafening roar pierced the night sky, the ice layer shattered, and a tens of thousands of feet long warship broke out of the ice, like a giant dragon awakening from the abyss, causing the entire iceberg to tremble.
The warship's hatch suddenly exploded, and six Half-step Divine Transformation experts emerged one after another. They were the reinforcements that the Dragon Turtle from the Sea Forest Domain had invited.
However, their expressions were unusually solemn. After looking around, they quickly dispersed, shouting loudly as they flew: "We are all on the same side!"
However, all of this was just a facade, because they had already betrayed Li Chengfeng and Dragon Turtle.
The old antiques that Dragon Turtle trusted were actually traitors hiding in the dark. With their betrayal.
Leng Jiao did not hesitate to cast the secret technique that he had practiced for three months. The incantations in his mouth sounded like a string of firecrackers, each syllable containing powerful magic.
Under his leadership, all the demon experts injected their own magic power into the huge formation. The entire formation was activated in an instant, with a loud buzzing sound.
The altar under Leng Jiao's feet erupted with terrifying power, and the world seemed to be turned upside down at this moment. Accompanied by a loud roar, everyone was swept into a strange space.
This space was filled with heavy Yin energy, the sound of ghosts crying and wolves howling was endless, and there were eerie and terrifying haunted houses everywhere, making people shudder.
Fire Feather Grand Elder's face suddenly changed drastically, and he exclaimed: "This is the Yin Soldier Borrowing Path Space! How did we get here?"
However, when he turned back to look for Leng Jiao, the other party had already used a Myriad Mile Teleportation Talisman to escape the moment the formation was activated.
Leng Jiao knew the preciousness and effectiveness of this talisman. It could instantly teleport the user to a place ten thousand miles away and automatically trigger the receiving formation.
When he appeared ten thousand miles away, someone was already waiting there. After activating the formation again, he safely returned to the westernmost part of the Fire Demon Clan.
And the formation that was originally used to trap and kill Li Chengfeng was also broken with Leng Jiao's escape, leaving a mess and shocked crowd.