Chapter 4829: The System Appears Again
The opponent's attainment in the Formation Dao was extremely high, already very close to its endpoint, and even a bit stronger than Lin Moyu himself had been a thousand years earlier.
But that tiny difference was like heaven and earth.
Only those who had taken that one step could understand it.
His rosy light arrows were themselves a grand formation.
Their power came mainly from three reasons.
First, he had laid this array down in advance and had likely spent countless years perfecting it, so naturally it was powerful.
Second, he had also used pieces of rubble as the formation base, further enhancing the might of the array.
Third, he had caught Lin Moyu off guard in the beginning, forcing him onto the back foot and into danger.
Now that Lin Moyu had stabilized the situation, it was time to counterattack.
He drew in more fragments of stone and refined them into formation bases.
In only a few dozen seconds, a terrifying grand array took shape with a boom.
This array shifted from defense to offense.
Endless tempests howled from within it, and every single formation base was like a terrifying powerhouse joining forces to attack.
The gales were as sharp as blades.
Where they passed, not an arrow remained; countless rosy light arrows were torn apart.
With the array pushing outward, Lin Moyu advanced toward the divine hall.
He quickly retook the ground he had lost, returned to his original position, and then continued forward.
The cloud of rosy light behind which the enemy hid was also blown apart, revealing the true form of the array.
The storm winds then surged into that formation.
Lin Moyu's array was obviously stronger; the opponent's array lasted only a few breaths before being blasted to pieces.
In this contest of the Formation Dao, the opponent was still a tiny step away from the Dao's endpoint, and that was enough to decide the outcome.
Lin Moyu faintly heard a scream the soul hidden within the array was extinguished by the storm.
"Dead?"
He frowned, feeling that something was off.
How could the other side die so easily?
This clearly did not fit common sense.
The soul flame he had seen earlier was extremely powerful, the strongest he had ever seen, surpassing even a Primal Chaos apex powerhouse.
It had only been concealed within the array, making it hard to see clearly, yet now it had seemingly been killed this easily.
Lin Moyu did not relax his guard.
He scanned the surroundings and remained alert.
Gradually, the corner of his mouth curled slightly.
"So that is how it is."
He not only refused to withdraw his formation, but instead pointed a finger and turned the grand array toward the divine hall.
The gale swept at the hall, making it rumble incessantly.
Cracks appeared all across the divine hall.
This hall, which should have been incomparably solid, actually began to disintegrate.
An enraged, flustered voice came from within the hall.
"Enough!"
Lin Moyu acted as if he had not heard, keeping the storm going without pause.
The furious roar inside the hall grew louder.
"Ignorant child, this seat commands you to stop!"
Lin Moyu still ignored him.
Whoever it was, the only answer was to keep attacking.
At last, the divine hall collapsed completely, revealing an even larger formation beneath it.
Inside that array sat a shadowy figure in meditation the voice had been coming from him.
For some reason, the moment Lin Moyu saw this shadow, he felt a strange sense of familiarity, as if he and this figure already knew each other.
At the same time, a powerful sense of revulsion surged up.
He disliked this fellow intensely.
The storm winds continued to howl; Lin Moyu did not intend to stop at all.
The array hidden within the hall was stronger than the rosy light array from before, but it still could not withstand Lin Moyu's formation.
This was the disparity in Formation Dao level.
Unless one had a heaven defying treasure, it could not be bridged.
"You deserve death!"
With a furious roar, the figure slapped out with one palm.
The whole space shook, and a terrifying strike descended from the void.
This blow was shockingly strong, far beyond a Primal Chaos apex powerhouse.
Lin Moyu's heart trembled; he had a direct feeling that his grand array might not be able to block it.
After unleashing that palm, the shadow's aura clearly fell a great deal.
It was obvious that he had paid a price for this attack.
In this place, all paths were suppressed; only the Formation Dao could be used.
Breaking that suppression to draw upon his own power meant paying a price.
To kill Lin Moyu, the shadow was willing to pay that price and injure himself.
Under that palm, the grand array trembled and began to fall apart.
"As expected, it cannot be blocked."
Lin Moyu did not hesitate.
He wanted to retreat; he could not take this palm head on.
If he did, he would surely die.
Just then, a streak of black light appeared in the distance, then flashed forward as though teleporting, arriving in front of Lin Moyu.
The newcomer also struck with a palm and forcibly shattered the descending attack.
But in turn, his own aura dropped significantly.
Drawing on any power outside the Formation Dao here came with a cost.
"System."
Lin Moyu was stunned for a moment.
He had not expected the system to appear here and even block a fatal blow for him.
The system pointed into the distance.
"You go.
"He is mine."
Lin Moyu did not hesitate.
He immediately rushed in the direction the system indicated.
He had unconditional trust in the system and knew very clearly that it would never betray him.
Without the system, he could never have come this far.
The shadow within the array tried to stop Lin Moyu, but the system moved first, unleashing a storm of attacks like a torrential downpour and forcibly holding the shadow back.
Lin Moyu glanced back.
The system was formidable stronger than a Primal Chaos apex powerhouse, evenly matched with the shadow.
In a battle fought here, both sides would pay a steep price, but the system did not care at all and attacked with full force every time.
"What kind of existence is the system, and why has it appeared here?"
"Before it showed itself, I had not sensed it at all.
"It seems to have come here for one purpose only to help me."
"It must have known of the shadow's existence and that he would try to kill me, so it came."
"That shadow should be the one standing behind the hall spirit.
"That is why the hall spirit was so certain that I could not take the next step."
Lin Moyu understood very clearly that without the system's intervention, he would indeed have been hard pressed to survive.
His mind remained clear.
Since the system had taken action, this opponent was its responsibility; there was no need for him to interfere.
Everyone doing their own part was the best outcome.
What he had to do now was find the true divine hall.
Following the direction the system had indicated, he moved forward for a short while and soon saw a grand array ahead.
Before he even arrived, he had already seen through the array from afar.
Several divine runes flew from his hand and merged into the formation, causing a portal to appear within it.
This array was extremely complex but not hidden, the complete opposite of the Wall of Worlds.
The Wall of Worlds' formation was not actually complex, merely extremely well concealed its form could not be observed, so a relatively clumsy method was required.
As long as one tried enough keys, entering was possible.
The array before him, however, was unimaginably complex.
If one could not see through it, no amount of effort would allow entry.
Of course, whether it was the Wall of Worlds or this array, both required one to have reached the endpoint of the Formation Dao to unravel them.
The Formation Dao's endpoint was the foundation irreplaceable.
As for how the system and the shadow had entered, that lay beyond Lin Moyu's understanding for now, so he set it aside.
He rushed through the portal, and the scene opened up before him.
A delicate and exquisite divine hall appeared in front of his eyes.
Behind it stretched a divine road piercing the void, and beyond that void lay yet another divine hall.
It was identical to what he had seen earlier one hall, one divine road, ninety nine halls in a chain.
The difference was that what he saw before had been false, disguised by the shadow, while what he saw now was real.
The shadow had done all of that for a single purpose to stop him from entering the true divine hall.
Lin Moyu did not slow down and charged into the hall.
The divine hall was exquisite, filled with countless points of light floating like stars.
Each light point radiated world force.
Within each one was hidden a great formation.
These formations varied greatly in strength and form, as though they gathered together all the arrays under heaven.
Every kind of formation existed here.
With a single glance, Lin Moyu understood their purpose.
Runes danced at his fingertips.
He began to break the arrays.