Chapter 00429: The Man in the Blue Robe Below Ground
# The Man in the Blue Robe Below Ground
Chapter 429
Novel: Abandon The Universe
Chapter 429 – The Man in the Blue Robe Below Ground
2022-05-06
Chapter 429 – The Man in the Blue Robe Below Ground
Lan Xiaobu descended the stairs slowly for nearly half an hour until suddenly the space before him opened up.
Staring ahead, Lan Xiaobu was stunned.
Had he not come down, he would never have known that beneath the grand hall of the Thunder Gourd Immortal Court lay such an enormous plaza.
This vast area was sealed off and immobilized by a restrictive formation; even the divine will of an Immortal Emperor could not penetrate it if one remained above.
The size of the plaza was secondary; what was truly terrifying was that throughout this plaza stood over ten thousand pillars.
Each pillar was entirely blood red, as if stained by fresh blood.
On every pillar, a cultivator was trapped.
The weakest among them had reached the Immortal King Realm, while the mightiest were clearly at the Immortal Emperor level.
“Go now, your position is in the seventeenth row, on the 141st pillar,” a voice rang out in Lan Xiaobu’s consciousness.
His divine sense had already swept over to the 141st pillar in the seventeenth row.
That pillar too was completely blood red, but it did not imprison anyone.
Lan Xiaobu noted that among the pillars in the plaza, only the last six were free of imprisoned cultivators.
Together with what the voice mentioned, only five pillars remained without a captive.
Lan Xiaobu slowly made his way to the seventeenth row, his divine sense continuously inscribing formation patterns into the void.
At this moment, he only knew that his opponent was strong, yet he remained unaware of the exact location of that person.
Because he needed to carve these void formation patterns, his pace was very slow.
“Faster,” a voice in his Sea of Consciousness boomed abruptly, like a bomb dropped in his mind.
Lan Xiaobu shuddered, and suddenly a spray of fresh blood burst from his mouth.
In that instant, his heart felt as if plunged into a frozen abyss.
He knew for certain that the strength of the man before him must far exceed that of the hirsute bandit he had encountered earlier.
Such a powerful opponent, even if he deployed a ninth-level Void Immortal Formation, would likely still be beyond his ability to kill.
Lan Xiaobu felt a deep regret.
He should never have come in.
Originally, he had come to hunt, but now he found himself turned into the prey.
Without wasting another moment, Lan Xiaobu reached the 141st blood-red pillar in the seventeenth row.
The moment he stood before it, a restriction formation immediately locked him in; the foundation of this formation was none other than the blood-red pillar itself.
A faint aura of blood Qi emanated from it, and only then did Lan Xiaobu realize that the red covering the pillar was indeed permeated and infected by fresh blood.
Once Lan Xiaobu was imprisoned, everything around grew silent once more.
The entire plaza now held nearly ten thousand captives, and not a single soul stirred.
Frenziedly, Lan Xiaobu continued to inscribe formation patterns.
He was no longer arranging the Void Entrapment Slaughter Immortal Formation; instead, he was studying the techniques required to carve divine-level formation patterns.
The person before him was not someone a ninth-level Void Immortal Formation could deal with.
In order to oppose this enemy, he had to further enhance his own mastery of the formation arts.
At this moment, Lan Xiaobu felt ever more grateful to the Heavenly Pivot Great Emperor.
In the future, when the Heavenly Pivot Great Emperor fell into his hands, he would decide to spare his life.
No longer merely the Immortal Formation Emperor locked here for thousands of years, unable to break through and set up a void divine formation – things were different now.
He had become a divine formation master, and with the help of the Cosmic Dimension Matrix, further advances in formation prowess were not impossible.
After one month had passed, another cultivator descended into the underground plaza.
This time it was an Immortal King.
Like Lan Xiaobu, as soon as this Immortal King arrived he too was imprisoned upon an empty pillar.
Now the underground plaza was left with only four empty pillars.
Another two months passed.
When an early Immortal Emperor arrived in the underground plaza, with the assistance of the Cosmic Dimension Matrix, Lan Xiaobu had successfully inscribed the formation pattern for his first Void Divine Formation.
Suppressing his inner joy, he thought that with the pattern of the Void Divine Formation in hand, even if his opponent was a divine being, he could still put up a fight.
From the moment he entered the realm of a Void Divine Formation Master, Lan Xiaobu began carving various void divine formation patterns with feverish determination.
First, he arranged a Strangling Divine Formation, then a Confining Divine Formation – these had to be executed in sequence; even the defensive Void Divine Formation was necessary.
And yes – most importantly, he needed to arrange a Space Void Divine Formation.
Against an enemy like this, the stronger the divine formation, the better.
For three consecutive months, Lan Xiaobu worked on arranging all manner of Void Divine Formations until only the last pillar remained.
All that needed to be set up was now complete.
Regardless of what use this blood pillar that imprisoned so many cultivators served for his enemy, Lan Xiaobu would not simply surrender.
Lan Xiaobu planned first to shatter the formation door at the far end of the plaza.
His opponent was undoubtedly engaged in some secret task behind that formation door.
As for the restriction that had bound Lan Xiaobu previously, it was nothing to him at all.
With ease, he released himself from the shackles.
No sooner had he freed himself to begin his next move than a young lady appeared, walking down with a dazed look.
This young lady’s cultivation was somewhat low – she was at the late Great Luo Immortal level.
When Lan Xiaobu saw her, he was momentarily stunned.
He recognized this woman.
More precisely, he had seen her image before.
Her name was Qu Fei; she was a disciple of Nie Xiangyu.
The reason he remembered Qu Fei was that when he left the Five Realms Immortal World, Nie Xiangyu, knowing that Lan Xiaobu was heading out in search of Luo Caisi, told him to also keep an eye on her and two other disciples.
Among them was this very Qu Fei.
Though Luo Caisi had not been found, Qu Fei had appeared instead.
“Sigh, you only have the cultivation of a Great Luo Immortal. What are you doing running about here as a Great Luo Immortal? Never mind, I’m too tired to wait. A Great Luo Immortal is a Great Luo Immortal, after all.” From somewhere in the darkness, an abrupt voice rang out.
Lan Xiaobu was taken aback, then immediately realized that the voice was meant for him.
If it had not been addressed to him, he would not have heard it at all.
In short, his act of pretending to be controlled had long been seen through by the other party.
Thinking this through, Lan Xiaobu no longer bothered to hide.
He roared, “Qu Fei!”
Startled out of her daze, Qu Fei’s senses quickly swept her surroundings.
When she set her eyes on the underground plaza, terror immediately flashed across her gaze, and soon her eyes fixed on Lan Xiaobu.
“Had you some restraint? I thought you would never step forward,” said the voice as the formation door at the far end of the plaza abruptly opened.
Seated on a meditation cushion was a man dressed in a blue robe, surrounded by a formation that still pulsed with great power.
As a divine formation master himself, Lan Xiaobu immediately recognized that this was a grand sacrifice formation.
“Are you refining the Thunder Gourd Immortal Domain?” Lan Xiaobu’s words were cold as he stared at the man in the blue robe.
Qu Fei now began to grasp the meaning.
Hastily, she advanced to stand not far from Lan Xiaobu, nervously staring at the man seated on the cushion.
“It’s not a secret matter at all. An idiot like you comes here and already knows that I am refining the Thunder Gourd Immortal Domain. I’ll give you one chance – return to your position. Once I have completed the refinement of the Thunder Gourd Immortal Domain, I may allow you to cycle through reincarnation. Otherwise, you won’t even have the chance for reincarnation,” the man in the blue robe said coolly to Lan Xiaobu.
Lan Xiaobu fixed his gaze upon the man.
He already knew where this man came from – he was undoubtedly from the Silent God Valley.
According to what Kuang Qi had said, the cultivators of Silent God Valley radiated a transcendental aura surpassing that of the Immortal Realm, and this man perfectly fit that description.
“Hurry up. I’m short on time. If I weren’t in a rush to go back and enjoy a feast, I’d truly be reluctant to use a Great Luo Immortal as a blood cauldron,” the blue-robed man declared.
After speaking, his eyes swept over to Qu Fei, filled with contempt.
“Senior…” Qu Fei heard a trembling sound deep in her Sea of Consciousness.
She knew full well that in the next moment, she would lose consciousness again.
So, she immediately rushed to Lan Xiaobu’s side.
No matter what, Lan Xiaobu was far more trustworthy than that man in the blue robe.
“Open your Sea of Consciousness…” Lan Xiaobu transmitted a thought to Qu Fei, and immediately a divine soul lance shot forth.
Without any hesitation, Qu Fei obeyed.
She knew that a moment’s delay could prove fatal.
The moment she opened her Sea of Consciousness, the divine soul lance struck directly on the mark of her primordial spirit.
Lan Xiaobu’s cultivation far surpassed Qu Fei’s, and during these past months he had grown familiar with the marks trapped in his Sea of Consciousness.
At the fastest possible speed, he seized the mark attached to Qu Fei’s primordial spirit.
Qu Fei let out a piercing, miserable shriek and then spat out a blood arrow from her mouth.
In that instant, her mind cleared significantly.
“Thank you, senior,” Qu Fei quickly expressed her gratitude.
She knew that Lan Xiaobu had just swallowed up the mental mark in her Sea of Consciousness.
“No need. I am Lan Xiaobu, and I am a friend of your master Nie Xiangyu…” Lan Xiaobu continued, his eyes fixed on the blue-robed man as he tried to explain.
“Ah, you are Lan Xiaobu…” Qu Fei began, but then stopped mid-sentence.
She knew that there were things that should not be spoken now.
“What a pity. With your divine sense abilities, you actually had some potential to develop. Sealing my divine sense mark—you must have a decent grasp of the formation arts, perhaps even familiar with void formation patterns. But fate has dealt you with Cai Shang, and now you must serve as a blood cauldron pillar…”
While he was speaking, the blue-robed man extended a hand toward Lan Xiaobu.
Although it appeared to be merely a void primordial Qi hand formation at first glance, once his hand was thrown out it seemed as tangible as real substance, and the moment it was unleashed, space itself appeared to solidify.
A fierce surge of the Dao’s aura swept over, and Lan Xiaobu suddenly found it difficult even to breathe.
His guess had proved correct – the strength of this blue-robed man had already surpassed the demigod realm.
He was indeed a true divine being.
Though Lan Xiaobu did not know why this fellow had not been suppressed by the laws of heaven and earth, he did not dare to take even the slightest chance.
After several formation banners were dropped, Lan Xiaobu quickly grabbed Qu Fei and, with a sudden flash, broke free from the blue-robed man’s grasp.
“An eighth-level Immortal Formation Lord – not bad, you do have some abilities. If you can arrange an eighth-level Void Immortal Formation, your skills will be even more impressive. Very well, I’m reluctant to use you as a blood cauldron. But alas, there have been far too few people coming here lately…” the blue-robed man said indifferently.
His hand suddenly seemed to lengthen by a great measure, and once more it reached out toward Lan Xiaobu and Qu Fei.
This time, Lan Xiaobu clearly saw that it was not merely a primordial Qi hand formation, but an actual hand that had suddenly grown long.
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Thus ends this chapter.