Chapter 1044 - Noon Moon Paling
Daoist Hua would be lying if he didn't admit that he wasn't afraid. He was afraid of losing his sect, losing the life that he had built and disappointing the many that relied on him. More than that, he knew that if his sect fell, it would be a great blow to the alliance.
And if something weakened the only thing stopping the doom of the Xiaofan world, the doom would only speed up.
"Look at your sect! It is burning, it is crumbling and your disciples are dying! Feel it! FEEL IT ALL!" The Gu Legion members' continued to taunt.
"YOU DARE!" A mix of shouts was heard at this time as five elders appeared.
Daoist Hua spotted them, and his eyes went wide.
"What are you all doing here? Get away!" Daoist Hua warned.
"HAHAHA! More bugs for us to kill!" The Gu Legion members said.
"Do you think it will be that easy?" Supreme Elder Hua Langya scoffed.
All the elders gathered their powers and executed a formation array. They had known very well that challenging multiple Dao Treading realm cultivators would be a mistake. They might be able to handle one of them, but not more than that.
Additionally, they were here to help their patriarch and not burden him with the need to keep them safe as well.
The five elders stood together in a circular order and created hand seals, with the supreme elder taking the lead.
"Noon Moon Paling Formation Array!" The Supreme elder chanted.
~shua~
Under the control of the five elders, five lines of runes shot up from above their heads. The lines soared into the sky and could be seen from several kilometer away.
"What is that!?" A disciples at the peak said in surprise.
A few that were paying attention in that direction spotted it quickly, too. This included Hua Yi and Hua Er.
"Isn't that?" Hua Er furrowed her brows.
"It is indeed… Seems like the elders are going against the really strong ones now." Hua Yi replied.
"How much does that formation even cost? When master taught us five that, he gave us over a thousand high grade spirit stones each to practice it. And even then, we were barely able to execute it once after several years." Hua Er wondered.
"Whatever it may be… even if it drains our sect, it will be worth it. Besides, the elders have had many decades of practice, several more than us. They should be able to handle it." Hua Yi replied.
The two direct disciples of the Patriarch were the only ones who were free enough to talk right now. The other three disciples were busy killing the last remaining dregs of the Gu Legion. They had already killed most of them and only a handful were remaining now.
Under the incessant and fierce slaughter, the Gu Legion members were unable to bear it. Even those at the Dao Shell realm were barely enough to hold them back and even then, one of them had died.
The last one was on his final breaths and was simply defending, unable to attack anymore.
Hua Yi and Hua Er focused on the battle in the distance, hoping that their master and elders could win. And just as they were watching, they saw the five lines starting to move. They started to bend in the sky and joined up.
~HONG~
As if a bell had been rung, the five lines collided and the runes composing them merged together into a large sphere. The sphere was at least twenty meters wide and was illusory. Spirit Qi started to pour into it from the air, but it didn't seem like it was enough to condense it fully.
"DO IT NOW!" The Supreme elder shouted.
Then, on his order, the elders started to pour out all their spirit stones. The supreme elder did the same and the spirit stones floated in the air. As if the sphere in the sky had become a magnet, the spirit stones shot towards it.
~Whoosh~
Tens of thousands of spirit stones of all qualities rose in the sky at great speed, looking like fireworks. They were quickly pulled into the sphere as it started to condense into a physical form.
"Don't let them try anything more. Attack now!" A Gu Legion member urged.
"Die!" One of them attacked the five elders while the remaining three held back Daoist Hua.
The Dao Treading realm Gu Legion member's attack was in the form of an illusory first imprint. It was the size of a bull and contained great power. It destroyed the objects in its path, and as long as something was within ten meters of it, it would be pulverized!
The five elders were fearless, though. They didn't even so much so as blink and watched it with stern eyes. Even when it was mere inches away from them and was about to hit them, they didn't react.
And it was at this very moment that something happened.
~KLANG!~
A ray of light appeared out of nowhere and stuck the fist imprint launched by the Dao Treading realm Gu Legion. It seemed tiny compared to the large imprint and yet… the result was astounding.
"What?!" The Dao Treading realm Gu Legion who had attacked was stunned.
The fist imprint was like a ballot deflating as the light ray erased it completely.
"Humph! Our Noon Grass sect isn't without inheritance either!" One of the five elders scoffed.
"Behold our legacy! Noon Moon Paling Formation array!" The Supreme elder gestured at the sphere in the sky.
"IS THAT A MOON?!" More disciples had taken notice of the battle in the distance and spotted the appearance of the new object in the sky.
"They did it…" Hua Er muttered.
"I never knew it could be this big." Hua San said in surprise.
Daoist Hua smiled seeing the five elders' actions and knew that this was the come back they needed.
~CRACK~
~CRACK~
His fingers cracked and popped, as he clenched them into fists.
"Time to end this!"