ATG: Formation Master c3

“Their techniques are strange.” Heavenly Sword Villa’s elder frowned as he had no idea how to attack.

If they attack quickly, these youngsters can reflect the attack; if they attack from a distance, they can create that field.

If they give time, it could become three against one… It’s difficult.

“It’s because no one studied formations in depth, except for the Prince. If these youngsters can do this, what can the Formation Prince do?” 

They all recalled the rumoured absolute offence and absolute defence Dharma Body Technique.

After this match, there was another one soon. A sword user was fighting the Imperial Family’s strongest member.

“Hmm? He is using a Spirit Profound Sword? Against our Sky Profound?” The elders scoffed. 

“Ji Chen. You don’t need to hold back.” The prince loudly said to his fighter.

“Yes, my Prince.” The warrior by the name Ji Chen bowed to his prince. There was clear respect in the warrior’s actions.

The youth brushed his hand through the blade…

Rows and rows of symbols appeared on the blade. 

The elders and Villa Master looked intrigued. Was this… some sort of formation on the weapon?

“Begin Match!”

The moment the elder declared the beginning, the sword user used his Profound Movement Technique to attack rapidly.

But it was useless as the blade in Ji Chen’s hands glowed and the youth moved, easily deflecting the blow before he used his other hand to thrust into the Villa’s sword user’s gut.

“Oof!!!”

A huge letter appeared on his chest.

“What is that!?” 

“Blue Wind Arts! Total Submission!” 

“U-Ugh!!! What is this!?” The guy was trembling as he couldn’t move his limbs!

“This formation acts as a sealing technique. It absorbs profound energy from the surroundings to seal your power. I suggest you surrender.” Ji Chen explained. He was certain the guy would surrender, but the sword user roared angrily as the seal began to crack.

The blue-clad Imperial family representative frowned, as he didn’t expect that!

‘Our formations are considerably weak at the start as we absorb energy from outside. Did he notice that!?

“Don’t doodle there! Just use absolute offence and be done with.” Cang Long said from the stands that he was a bit annoyed about their stupid desire to show off in this situation.

“Yes, my Prince!” 

Ji Chen made a motion, and a huge ghostly blue hand with a sword appeared and swung at the sword user, sending him flying from the arena.

After the attack, the hand disappeared, and Ji Chen looked tired.

‘So that’s Dharma body…’

However, those who paid close attention noticed that two symbols vanished from the blade and that Ji Chen was tired.

‘It would seem they can’t use those techniques that easily.’ The Fairies internally grinned as they realised how to win.

They were not the only ones.

Soon, the second day was over, and the Imperial family went to their manor. Cang Long took his three fighters behind the manor close to the lake.

“They already noticed that we can’t use the formations casually.”

“It should be obvious, my prince, that we didn’t use them in preliminary rounds.” Ji Chen said, and Xicheng nodded, and Dunyun looked at the Prince.

“We need to redraw the symbols.” He looked at his hand; two symbols were gone, and only two remained.

“Indeed. However, I have prepared some gear. I wanted to see how well you boys will perform.” With a hand motion from his storage ring, blue gloves appeared.

“These…”

The three pairs of gloves went to them.

“I have no doubt they all will use their most prized possession in the last rounds of tomorrow.”

As he said, the youths inspected the gloves. They realised that they could perform formation casting almost effortlessly with these!

“You do need to remember that these will use your Profound energy to a considerable level. While you can cast more now, it will drain you.” The Prince explained.

“Yes, but now I can create a box in all my matches!” Dunyun, who likes the box formation, said with a grin.

“Not just box, you can seal and reflect, and even cast a partial Dharma body!” Ji Chen said with a frown. He can’t believe he wants to be a one-trick pony!

“And two directions, it would seem, my Prince, you added all those into these gloves.” Xicheng inspected the symbols before confirming with the prince.

“It’s enough for now.” 

As the prince was making the last preparations, the Emperor was drinking his wine. For him, this was already the greatest victory in his Blue Wind Imperial Family History! He doesn’t care about other things.

~~~~~~Meanwhile~~~~~~

“This disgrace! I can’t believe we lost!” Fen Yiyue exclaimed angrily as the temperature in the Burning Heaven Clan’s manor was increasing!

His clan, alongside Heavenly Spear Thunderfire Fortress, was eliminated!

“We will win next time! We already know their tricks!” Fen Duanhun reassured his father.

“It’s not enough…” Killing intent appeared in Fen Yiyue’s eyes. 

“Father?” 

“Focus on your cultivation, Duanhun!” 

The Clan Master shrugged him off as he left the manor and flew away to meet someone.

~~~

“Those abilities are something else.” Ling Yuefeng said to his wife.

“...I agree, those techniques are strange, not even in the Mighty Heavenly Sword Region do they exist.

I don’t want to agree, credit where credit is due. That boy revolutionised those Formations.” Xuanyuan Yufeng praised nonchalantly.

“...Then…”

“However, it’s something my place doesn’t mingle in.” She shrugged without care. To her, it looked decent, but is it that powerful? Higher cultivation can crush those weird techniques.

However, Ling Yuefeng doesn’t see it as his wife does. He can see this thing becoming a big deal in future. 

However, he needs to see Dharma Body in action. He didn’t dare to simply demand that the Prince show. The Cang Family is still the Heavenly Villa’s benefactors.

~~~

The Fairies were like Villa’s Master. They have already reported the newest development to Frozen Cloud. 

Of course, the pair of fairies will report in person once it’s over.

“Master, I am sorry… I lost…”

“It’s fine, you tried your best and fought something you were not trained to fight. We will need to figure out how to fight these formations.”

Jun Lianqie gathered her fairies and began to instruct how to fight from now on.

They need to drain their Profound Energy and make them move dramatically so that they cannot place those formations.

The fairies thought of an array of ways to disturb them. Sadly, they had no means to test them before it was too late.

~~~~~~Final Day~~~~~~

Only eight fighters were left. Three belong to the Blue Wind Imperial Family, more than any other faction.

Two belong to fairies, two to Sword Villa and one to Xiao Sect.

“First match of the day, Dunyun of the Imperial Family and Xiao Yingyun of Xiao Sect.”

A Xiao Sect member seriously walked into the arena, carrying a sheathed sword on his hip. On the opposite side, they saw Dunyun fixing his gloves.

“Those…” Xiao Juetian’s brother, an elder, noticed something on the Blue-clad youth’s hands.

“Yes, it appears the Imperial family still have tricks up their sleeves.” 

Xiao Juetian frowned. He wasn’t that happy that his Sect would be ranked fourth this time around, but at least they were not the Burning Heaven Clan, which ended up not even reaching the final eight.

“They have more tricks…” Jun Lianqie frowned.

“Let’s watch closely.”

“Yes.”

All the elders and Faction leaders perked up as they needed to watch this and adjust their plans.

“Match Begin!”

The Xiao Sect Youth called forth the wind as he sent sharp sword winds at the opponent.

But all Dunyun did was make a motion and send an orb of energy with letters flying towards the winds.

The collision happened, and a glass wall appeared, which absorbed other winds and sent them flying back.

“No way! He can cast formations like that!?” Xiao Juetian exclaimed in disbelief as Dunyun sent two more shots in two different directions.

Xiao Yingyun dashed, knowing what to do—he couldn’t allow those formations to be set! He attacked the fellow Youth relentlessly, but the formation was already set, and his cultivation began to rise. With two more shots, Dunyun sent the fellow fighter flying back. Two orbs manifested around him, and his box formation was already set.

‘Damn…’

With a motion, empowered orbs send the sword user flying out of the arena.

But they did notice that Dunyun was extremely tired.

‘Those formations drained him more than Xiao Yingyun.’

The fairies quickly noticed the weakness of this fighting style.

‘But, I wonder if this is not too late for us?’

Dunyun already made it to the semi-finals…

“Wonderfully done, Dunyun!” The Emperor laughed loudly, grinning like a silly person for the past two days.

“It’s my pleasure, Your Excellency.” The youth respectfully nodded.

Cang Long nodded at his follower as he returned to consider the next fight. Xicheng and Ji Chen were not surprised.

The Emperor frowned for a second when he saw this. He looked at the Sky Profound elder. Who looked nervous.

“It’s not this little one who decides the rounds.” The elder washed himself from this!

Regardless, Xicheng and Ji Chen walked to the arena.

The Heavenly Sword Villa wanted them to fight and drain each other out, but Xicheng raised his hand.

“I give up.” The youth smugly gave up.

“Sadly for Heavenly Sword Villa, we are ready for that.” Cang Long smiled at his Royal Father.

“Good. Such an underhanded move.” The Emperor took a sip of his wine and mumbled under his breath how he had lost a bit of respect for this place.

The next two matches were evenly matched, with each side taking a win.

When the semi-finals began, the last fairy, Xuan’er, faced Ji Chen, and the last Villa’s member faced Dunyun.

“Of course, they will take a weakened opponent.”

Cang Long crossed his arms. He noticed that today is completely rigged towards Heavenly Sword Villa.

“Dunyun drain that guy with stalling formations," the Formation Prince instructed. The youth shuddered when he saw the prince's glowing blue eyes.

It was clear to the fighter that the prince didn’t like this situation. He dearly hopes that Heavenly Sword Villa is not cheating because the Prince won’t forget… 

As Dunyun walked to the arena, he recovered around 40% of his Profound Energy, while the sword user was around 65%. It was clear that the fairies tried truly hard to win. But if this continues, they will be in the third sport!

“First match of the Semi-finals! Imperial Family’s Dunyun against Sword Villa’s Jing Wei!”

The sword user pulled out a Sky Profound Sword from his sheath while Dunyun fixed his blue gloves.

“I don’t like fighting weaponless opponents, I do apologise.” 

“Weaponless? You clearly have no idea who you are fighting,” the guy snorted back at such a remark.

“Begin Match!”

The sword user immediately sent sword lights at the formation user.

Snort

“But I do apologise.” Dunyun clapped his hands; they trembled for a second before he pushed forward, and a wall appeared before him.

The sword lights simply bounced off this wall.

“Is that supposed to protect you from me?” Jing Wei frowned. Sure, the wall is decently strong… but that’s it?

Those fragile glass walls were dangerous as they reflect damage, but this?

“No, it's supposed to tire you.” Dunyun chuckled as he placed his hand on the wall, and it glowed. He then made it lose its thickness as he sent slices of the wall to the sides. 

“Be careful, Jing Wei! He is trying to push you out of the arena!” Villa’s Master nerviously exclaimed. If they lose Jing Wei, they can become the third-ranked Sect! That never happened in their long existence!

The Youth slowly nodded, looking serious. But then Dunyun motioned forward, and more walls appeared, circling his sides, not just the front.

With one more grin, the Formation user motioned to his hands, and then the walls sealed Jing Wei’s back.

“It's a sealing formation! He is trying to seal Jing Wei! Quickly attack!”

“Too late!”

Dunyun clapped his hands as the walls rushed from all sides.

Walls merged as they coiled around the sword user. 

“Damn!” Jing Wei began to struggle, trying to escape.