I Outworked the Entire Cultivation World

Chapter 797: Chapter 741: Li Shen Zhi vs Xing Tuozi (Part 2)

After finishing his words, Li Shen Zhi waved his hand to retrieve a small triangular flag, divided into the colors of the Five Elements, each with different runes, and began to continually place flags on the arena to array formations.

However, no matter how he arrays them, as long as the compass on the ground is still rotating with light and shadow, he cannot form an array.

At first, people were full of anticipation due to his ambitious appearance, waiting to see him embarrass Xing Tuozi.

But as time went on, Li Shen Zhi’s failures increased, and the arraying materials consumed also increased, without any apparent effect; some spectators shook their heads, feeling bored, and turned to watch the competitions on other arenas.

Suddenly, only the people from the Heavenly Interence Sect, the Zhuge Family, the Guiyuan Five Sons, Xie Jingshan, and a few people from the Ruyi Sect on the other side of the arena remained around the arena.

Xing Tuozi was fiddling with several copper coins in the corner of the arena, occasionally pinching his fingers, not knowing what he was calculating.

Li Shen Zhi was still immersed in arraying, investigating here and stepping there.

Both of them seemed like people from two different worlds, not disturbing each other, each doing their own thing, unexpectedly harmonious, not at all like they were in a tournament battle.

Jiang Yuebai leaned close to Lu Nanzhi’s ear, whispering, ”Anan, look at them, don’t they look like an old farmer planting rice seedlings and a young wife accounting at the field’s end?”

As soon as the words fell, laughter erupted around Jiang Yuebai.

On the arena, both of them stopped their actions and looked at Jiang Yuebai with the same speechless expression.

Jiang Yuebai laughed awkwardly, feigning innocence as if she hadn’t said anything.

Below the arena, not only the people around Jiang Yuebai were puzzled, but those from the Ruyi Sect also had strange expressions.

”What is Senior Brother Xing doing? It’s just an early-stage Nascent Soul opponent; he can easily defeat him without using the Chaotic Star Disc, right?”

”Yes, there’s absolutely no need to use such a powerful weapon as the Chaotic Star Disc.”

”I’m afraid if this drags on, things will change!”

”Bad, very bad; no matter how I calculate, it’s not good!”

At this point, Tang Weimian tugged at Jiang Yuebai’s sleeve, secretly asking her, ”Do you know how to break the Chaotic Star Disc and successfully array formations?”

Jiang Yuebai already thought of several methods earlier, leaning her head close to Tang Weimian’s ear, ”Have you heard of the Grand Celestial Star Great Array?”

Tang Weimian nodded, thinking for a moment, suddenly enlightened, ”I see, but with my senior brother’s current ability, how could he possibly array such an immortal-level great array?”

Jiang Yuebai replied leisurely, ”That’s natural, but the principles within can be referenced, although it requires a very powerful computational and insight ability, which is why I’m a bit worried too.”

Tang Weimian seemed thoughtful, and Muh Wushuang loudly said, ”In my opinion, with this situation, what formations are we still trying to array? Charge directly to deal with Xing Tuozi! As long as he is defeated, no matter the Chaotic Star Disc, it’s useless!”

As time approached a quarter of an hour, Li Shen Zhi straightened up with his old waist, looking at Xing Tuozi.

”You yourself said, as long as I can form an array, it’s your defeat.”

Xing Tuozi’s calculating fingers paused, and he looked up.

Li Shen Zhi flicked his hair and laughed, ”Then make sure you watch closely!”

Li Shen Zhi once again released the chessboard, which suspended upside down in the air, as if the two were playing a game of Go, Li Shen Zhi engaging in dual-tasking, with black and white pieces appearing one after another on the chessboard.

The appearance frequency of the pieces faintly aligned with the rotating frequency of the compass on the ground, and as the pieces increased, black and white clashed, and the game constantly changed.

On the arena, the compass rotated, pieces clicked, rune light and shadow appeared and vanished, resonating with heaven and earth, illuminating resplendently.

Li Shen Zhi’s array was formed!

This incredible scene left the people from the Ruyi Sect under the arena stunned, even Xing Tuozi’s eyes were brightened up a bit.

”Well done, Li Shen Zhi! Didn’t disgrace the brothers!”

Xie Jingshan shouted excitedly below the arena, clapping exaggeratedly.

Tang Weimian and Muh Wushuang watched, transfixed, Muh Wushuang reacting swiftly, murmuring, ”I see, this is a live formation!”

Jiang Yuebai nodded slightly and explained in a low voice when he saw Lu Nanzhi, Ge Yuchan, and those who seldom studied the Array Dao looked puzzled.

”According to ancient records, there is a celestial array named the Grand Celestial Star Great Array, which uses celestial stars as chess pieces for arraying, and the stars are constantly rotating, leading to perpetual changes within the array, making it almost impossible to find a breaking point.”

”This is a type of live formation, and another type of live formation features fixed arraying devices, fixed arraying locations, and after thousands or tens of thousands of years of transformation giving birth to an array spirit, then the array becomes no longer rooted in the ground as a static object with life and spirit, becoming a live formation.”

”This kind of live formation only appears in sects and family residences that have existed since ancient times. Although Li Shen Zhi’s live formation at this moment is not one of these two types, it borrows basic rules from these types of live formations. Using chess pieces as stars and his own divine thought as the array spirit, as long as the game constantly changes, the array constantly evolves.”

”As for how he broke the Chaotic Star Disc, it’s actually simple. Although the Chaotic Star Disc seems to disturb the rules between heaven and earth, it actually has internal rules. With the beginning of a new cycle, phenomena renew, every time the compass completes a rotation, previously disturbed things return to their places, then are disrupted anew.”

”Xing Tuozi’s ability is insufficient, so each disturbance remains identical, not truly chaotic. Li Shen Zhi’s head in the ground... uh, arraying is to explore the new rules after the disturbance, calculating the process of changes.”

”In simple terms, it’s about the Five Elements moving ahead, while he follows; as long as he maintains consistency with the speed of the Five Elements, then to him on the arena, the Five Elements are stationary, and other arraying elements are the same, forming a static array with the live formation method.”

After Jiang Yuebai finished speaking, everyone suddenly understood, marveling at Li Shen Zhi’s ability, and also admiring Jiang Yuebai’s erudition.

It seems reading more books has its benefits; everyone secretly decided that from now on, they wouldn’t just read books of their own path, but should explore books from other Daoist sects as well.

Otherwise, if they only watch others be impressive without understanding why, they would be just like Xie Jingshan, not understanding anything and just clapping, right?

Comparing Jiang Yuebai and Xie Jingshan, Jiang Yuebai was clearly more respected, admired, and dignified.

Xie Jingshan?

Smiling like the silly son of a landlord.

Li Shen Zhi laughed heartily inside, maintaining a calm facade.

He thanked heaven, thanked earth, thanked Jiang Yuebai for urging him to read more books without mercy, thanked Xiaowu for torturing him with endless exercises, enhancing his computation power.

Otherwise, even if he thought of a live formation, he wouldn’t have the computational power. Right, and he thanked Jiang Yuebai’s ”Divine Soul Birth Thought Technique,” using dual divine thoughts for calculation was much faster!

Unknown to him, at the Golden Core Stage side, Shi Xiaowu encountered a disciple from the Ruyi Sect who liked calculating everything, ultimately winning easily.

Xing Tuozi stood up, looked at the continuously shining great array within the Chaotic Star Disc, with a smile on his lips, nodding slowly.

”Indeed quite impressive, turns out my Chaotic Star Disc’s flaw is right here!”

Li Shen Zhi shook his sleeves, standing with hands behind his back.

”A qualified Array Master never complains about the environment; failure to form an array is one’s own incompetence! This is the first lesson my master taught me!”

Upon hearing this, Muh Wushuang and Tang Weimian below the arena nodded in agreement; this was indeed the first lesson Zhao Fuyi taught them.

Xing Tuozi raised his hand, the compass flew from the ground back to his hand, he twisted his neck, said hoarsely, ”Those who gamble must accept loss, this round you won, farewell.”

Li Shen Zhi, relaxed on the outside but tense inside, constantly guarded, didn’t expect Xing Tuozi to truly keep his word.

”Really? You didn’t trick me?”

Li Shen Zhi cautiously took two steps back, even enhancing his Protective Gang Qi by three layers.

Xing Tuozi didn’t even look at him, hung the compass back to his waist, turned around, left the arena, and gradually disappeared into the crowd.

Li Shen Zhi was bewildered, stood upright, muttering, ”It seems, I’m not too unlucky after all?”

The people of Ruyi Sect were at a loss with each other, in the second trial round, due to having thoughts of self-preservation, escaping by digging holes from the beginning, they didn’t contribute much.

Finally, only Xing Tuozi entered the arena competition; he lost, equating Ruyi Sect to completely losing their qualification for Qingyun Conference’s Nascent Soul level.

In the next three hundred years, they would surely drop out of the Ten Great Powers.

”Senior Brother, wait for us!”

The disciples of the Ruyi Sect chased after Xing Tuozi, questioning why he so easily conceded defeat.

Xing Tuozi paused, ”This round is mixed with misfortune, which I, Xing Tuozi, cannot bear; only by not disrupting the game, can I withdraw safely from the round, just like probing treasures in tombs, when heaven gives a sign, one must retreat, let’s go now, immediately return to the Beidou Star Alliance.”