Chapter 4279 — Could I Have Guessed Wrong?
The Blossom Guardian · Page 1 of 3
"No... no, I didn't mean that, Brother Chang..." Luo Tuoxiang's face had gone white with fright. He waved his hands again and again. "Whatever you command, Brother Chang, of course I would never disobey—but this..."
He had followed Chang Daoping to these Odor Cultivation City ruins purely for the Star Ink Milk, and he had not so much as glimpsed a shadow of it before Chang Daoping was ordering him to stride blindly into the Moon Shadow Formation. Was that not marching a thousand miles only to deliver himself to his death?
A useless fool who understood nothing—just as expected! Watching the scene, Wei Zhao shook his head with a secret smile. But Cao Shishi and the others had no such discerning eye as his; every one of them looked tense with worry that, after Luo Tuoxiang, Chang Daoping's finger would point at them next.
"Hmph, do you really think I am sending you in there to die?" Chang Daoping gave a cold snort, and only then continued, "The Moon Shadow Formation cannot be entered rashly, it is true, but I hold the formation flag in my hand. Follow the position I designate, and so long as you do not wander about inside, nothing will happen to you at all. What is there to fear? A useless piece of trash!"
"Uh... so that is how it is..." Only now did Luo Tuoxiang understand. He no longer dared hesitate in the slightest, and hastily ducked his neck and ran off toward the spot Chang Daoping had indicated.
His heart was still pounding with fright, but after all, Chang Daoping needed everyone's help to break the formation. Luo Tuoxiang did not believe that Brother Chang would do him harm; there had to be a purpose behind this.
The Moon Shadow Formation possessed an effect that left people lost and disoriented. Everyone had assumed that once Luo Tuoxiang ran inside, he would vanish from sight—yet they waited until he had come to a stop, and still no abnormality appeared. Not only could he be seen as normal, but even sound was not blocked. It felt no different at all from an ordinary patch of wasteland.
Wei Zhao nodded to himself. To the naked eye there was indeed no visible change, but if one sensed carefully with spiritual sense, one would discover that between the distant Luo Tuoxiang and the formation flag in Chang Daoping's hand, there was a faint fluctuation of true qi linking the two together.
Among the acquaintances Wei Zhao knew, Di Xingdao had devoted considerable study to formations. Back when they had chatted idly on Middle Island, he had once heard him speak of it: though the methods of breaking formations were many and varied, strange and wondrous beyond measure, they all shared one trait in common—breaking a formation by means of a formation.
When several people broke a formation together, the formation flag served as the formation's eye, and the group temporarily formed a formation of their own, thereby breaking the formation with a formation. True, there were also cases of a single person breaking a formation alone, but even then a formation flag was required—one might understand it as one man forming a formation.
Just as at present: because of the formation flag, Luo Tuoxiang and Chang Daoping had in fact already become a temporary formation between them. So even though he had simply walked into the Moon Shadow Formation, he would suffer no interference whatsoever, for he was protected by the temporary formation. To all appearances he stood within the Moon Shadow Formation's bounds, but in truth he was not covered by it at all—it was the same as standing outside.
What came next was for everyone to join in one by one, until the power of this temporary formation reached its utmost, and at last the Moon Shadow Formation could be broken.
"Shishi, you go there." Sure enough, Chang Daoping immediately pursed his lips toward Cao Shishi. The position he indicated was, naturally, another of the stars of the Northern Dipper.