"Damn! This guy is too cautious!"
The white-clothed figure attacked before even entering the formation's range. Lu Tiandu thought to himself how cautious he was.
He stretched out his hand, and a yellow talisman appeared in his hand. Without even looking, he slapped it on himself.
A flash of yellow light flashed, and Lu Tiandu instantly disappeared into the nameless hill below.
He had used this intermediate-level earth-escape talisman, and Lu Tiandu had intended to lure the white-clothed figure closer to the hill. Following
Lu Tiandu's figure, a green sword shadow several feet long slashed across the bare, nameless hill, leaving a gully several feet deep.
Although the aftermath caused the pale golden light on Lu Tiandu's body to tremble, it still allowed the earth-escape talisman to function normally.
"Let's see where you can escape?"
The white-clothed figure, hovering in the air, sneered, activated the Wind Control Technique, and flew forward several dozen feet, releasing his spiritual sense to carefully search for Lu Tiandu's whereabouts.
A mid-level earth-escaping talisman wouldn't be very effective, reaching a maximum range of a hundred feet, certainly out of his spiritual sense's range.
At that moment, the man in white suddenly sensed something was amiss. Turning back, he saw a raging wind, yellow sand billowing into the air, and the surrounding environment had shifted.
"Huh, a formation?"
Unleashing his full spiritual sense, the man in white instantly detected the anomaly. "No wonder this kid dared to linger here!"
"It even has the effect of suppressing spiritual sense!"
In a split second, the man in white felt his spiritual sense being suppressed within a certain range, and his expression instantly grew grim. Normally, he wouldn't have taken a Qi Refining cultivator's formation seriously, but he had just fought the cultivator from Spirit Beast Mountain, and the repeated activation of his talismans had drained most of his mana. Furthermore, he had suffered two serious injuries to his body from the ambush by Junior Brother Liu, leaving him severely weakened.
This was one of the reasons he only summoned a flying sword and immediately struck without hesitation upon arriving.
He had initially thought a minor Qi Refining cultivator could be destroyed with a flick of his hand, but Lu Tiandu hadn't expected to escape, and then find himself trapped within the formation. His murderous intent instantly intensified.
After a moment's sensing, the man, his face sullen, once again summoned his cyan flying sword to break the formation.
Lu Tiandu, a hundred feet above the white-clothed man, was carrying a yellow flag, hidden within the yellow light emanating from the flagpole, his eyes closed as he carefully sensed something.
"Given this man's attack power, the mid-grade spirit stones initially deployed in this Sky Wind Fierce Formation will probably last two hours!"
Lu Tiandu muttered after a moment.
While he still had enough spirit stones to power several formations, the moment the previously deployed spirit stones were depleted and replaced with new ones, the formation's power would undoubtedly weaken or cease, potentially fading. That would likely be the moment this man escaped.
Therefore, he had only two hours to spare. He had to either kill the enemy and escape within that time, or flee before his time was up.
Seeing the white-clad figure breaking through the formation with his own strength, Lu Tiandu sneered and chose not to confront him directly.
His previous battles must have drained a great deal of his mana. He only needed to wait until his mana was severely depleted, and then he would have an opportunity to attack.
However, Lu Tiandu was surprised that the man's attack power had subsided in just a moment, leaving him a little confused.
Relying on the cloaking effect of the main formation flag, Lu Tiandu approached within 70 or 80 feet without being detected by the white-clad figure. However, at this distance, he dared not advance any further.
Whether it was because the white-clothed man was unable to use his spiritual vision or because the gauze cloak and the formation flags had a different concealing effect, Lu Tiandu's indifference temporarily reassured him.
He watched the white-clothed man for a quarter of an hour, but saw no sign of a reaction from the lotus pedestal.
With a flick of his hand, he gathered a dozen mid-level talismans of various colors. Using the formation flags as a cover, he lurked within seventy feet of the white-clothed man, instantly activating them and throwing them at the lotus pedestal.
The moment he sensed Lu Tiandu's presence, a stream of azure light emanated from the white-clothed man, striking the spot where Lu Tiandu had previously released his spiritual energy.
However, Lu Tiandu had already moved a hundred feet away, and the flying sword returned empty-handed.
As for the mid-level talismans, the white-clothed man paid no attention. Even without the now-dimmed lotus defensive artifact, his protective mana shield alone was likely too much for these limited mid-level talismans to pierce.
"Sure enough, this guy is recovering his mana!"
Lu Tiandu probed and understood the white-clothed man's intention. Clearly, he realized that with his damaged body and severely depleted mana, he couldn't break the formation anytime soon, so he decided to recover his mana and wait for the opportunity.
Of course, if Lu Tiandu left now, he would naturally break the formation once his mana recovered, and he would get a valuable set of formation-setting tools for free.
However, the three demon beast corpses he hadn't been able to remove earlier might have been taken.
After throwing a few more talismans, Lu Tiandu realized the problem.
Facing the white-clothed man, who possessed mid-stage Foundation Establishment cultivation and some kind of eye-type magical power, trapped in the formation, Lu Tiandu considered the items on his person that could pose a threat, and concluded that only the two Heavenly Thunder Seeds were useful.
For the Sky Thunder Seed to be effective, it had to either pin the man down, immobilizing him and forcing him to passively take the blows, or throw him at close range, preventing him from escaping. Otherwise, if he noticed something was amiss and dodged, even ten Sky Thunder Seeds would be useless.
Lu Tiandu had been scattering a jumble of talismans, hoping to confuse the man in white. Once he'd gotten used to these irritating attacks, he could hide the Sky Thunder Seed inside a talisman, hoping to surprise him.
However, after releasing the talismans several times, Lu Tiandu realized a problem. He wasn't agile enough to get too close to the man. Even at a distance of seventy or eighty feet, the concealed Sky Thunder Seed could still be discovered, especially since the man possessed rare eye-related magical powers.
This thought left him feeling rather reluctant. If he fled in disgrace, he'd end up losing more than he gained.
After a moment's contemplation, Lu Tiandu's eyes lit up, a smile spreading across his lips.
After carefully observing the expressionless expression of the white-clothed figure for a moment, he quietly exited the formation using the formation flag.
He put away the main formation flag and casually released the Spirit Light Shuttle, which transformed into a streak of silver light and instantly sailed towards the battlefield.
A few breaths after Lu Tiandu left, the strangely dressed figure who had followed the two men reappeared in the void.
The figure rubbed his dark face and wondered,
"This kid actually set up the formation here in advance. He's quite cunning! But what's the point of returning now?"
He muttered, then glanced at the white-clothed figure still recovering in the formation, and disappeared again.
This time, in about half an incense stick of time, Lu Tiandu arrived at the scene where the three from Spirit Beast Mountain and the white-clothed figure from the Moon-Shattering Sect had fought.
Looking at the three unmoved corpses of the demon beasts, Lu Tiandu was overjoyed.
"It seems my suspicions were correct. That guy was so anxious to catch me that he only collected his storage bag, leaving the bodies of these beasts untouched..."
The man in white saw how quickly Lu Tiandu fled and feared that he would escape and reveal today's events. He quickly collected the important storage bag and several magical instruments and hurried after Lu Tiandu.
He had originally planned to deal with Lu Tiandu and then return to collect the demon beast corpses, but he was unexpectedly trapped in the formation. Lu Tiandu suddenly came back to collect the corpses...
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