Chapter 2258: Endless Path Guardian Formation’s Self Destruction (5)

As everyone present realized the danger they still very much found themselves in, it didn’t take long before they used every trump card in their hands to get as far away from the site of the ancient formation as possible. Using whatever they had without daring to hold anything back. Knowing from the simple yet powerful wave of destruction that they had just faced, that there was no way they would be able to survive in the face of even stronger wave of destruction.

Luckily for the survivors of the first wave of destruction, the ancient formation didn’t send another wave of destruction their way immediately, but instead seemingly used the vast space that had been cleared up by the initial wave of destruction to forcibly expand and integrate the collapsing endless paths guardian formation into the surrounding landscape. Increasing the overall footprint of the ancient formation by more than ten times, before it seemed to reach a limit and couldn’t expand any more.

The entire process took some time to complete, but with the vast area it covered in the process, a few of the weaker cultivators, along with one badly injured Star Creation Realm cultivator, found themselves unable to escape in time. Trapping them within the vast ancient formation with no way out no matter how hard they attempted to smash their way through the ancient formation.

All they could do was watch helplessly as the entire space was covered in dense lines of symbols too ancient for them to decipher emerged around them.

Still, though unaware of the function of these ancient formation symbols, the terrifying power coursing through them even as they seemed to be on the brink of destruction following their short formation made it clear whatever they were going to be used for was far from something harmless.

If anything, the terrifying power contained within the already collapsing ancient formation symbols had already reached a level that made the Star Creation Realm cultivator trapped inside tremble in fear.

Fully aware that even if he had the ability to force his way out of the collapsing ancient formation, the terrifying power within those formation symbols would kill him the second they were released. After all, while the others trapped within the ancient formation couldn’t tell how terrifying this power was, he, with strength at the Star Creation Realm, could clearly tell that the power within those ancient formation symbols exceeded the Profound Immortal Realm.

And... Faced with this kind of terrifying power, he stood no chance at surviving even if he used the different trump cards he had successfully gathered during his long life.

At the end of the day, obtaining something capable of resisting the power of someone in the Venerable Realm in the current day was difficult, let alone resisting a formation that had been specifically designed to ensure someone at the Venerable Realm wouldn’t be able to stop its self-destruction once it began.

Sure, someone in the Venerable Realm might still be able to wiggle their way out once they found themselves trapped within the collapsing ancient formation, but they would have no way to stop what had already begun.

As for someone below the Venerable Realm... Well... Once trapped inside, their fate was set in stone, and they could only wait for the ancient formation to finish the final steps before it cleanly erased itself and the Starfall Observatory it had been guarding.

"So much for an opportunity to explore a branch of one of reigning sects of the past..." And knowing there was no way for him to escape from the current deadly situation he found himself in, the cultivator at the Star Creation Realm couldn’t help silently muttering this to himself as he stared towards the depths of the ancient formation where a pristine structure filled with a unique ancient charm had emerged at some unknown point in time.

Although part of him still wanted to struggle looking for a way out of his current situation, he understood it was a hopeless endeavor and instead just decided to spend his last few seconds quietly gazing towards the center of the ancient formation.

The main reason for this kind of behavior was also because he knew far more about the Mirage Sect compared to others at his level. Understanding that the kind of formation he found himself trapped inside wasn’t just designed to erase the branch that was hidden within the ancient formation but served another secondary purpose to erase any intruders.

Of course, intruders in this kind of circumstances didn’t refer to someone like himself, but beings who had managed to surpass the Profound Immortal Realm and successfully reached the Venerable Realm- or in some cases, even weaker gods.

The first wave of destruction wasn’t designed to kill the intruder, but to level the surrounding area so the current formation could be laid down fast. Fast enough that any powerful figure who might have faced the initial wave of destruction head on, didn’t have the time to realize that the wave of destruction wasn’t the ancient formation collapsing.

The only reason those who had escaped managed to do so, was because they had already been outside the original ancient formation.

Had they somehow survived inside of it facing the wave of destruction, they would have realized that the initial area covered by the ancient formation had shifted into a trapping formation as the wave of destruction had passed through it while the area outside had been transformed slower to support the core of the newly established formation.

The expansion itself being relatively slow by comparison, as it had been designed keeping in mind that there would be someone at the Venerable Realm struggling to break free within the core of the formation.

What he and the rest of the unfortunate souls too slow to get out in time were trapped within, was essentially a supporting formation that didn’t serve much of a purpose beyond supplying the main formation with power while the final self-destruction procedures were carried out within the depth of the ancient observatory visible at the very heart of the ancient formation.

In a way, the supporting formation wasn’t even designed to trap them in the first place, it was just that the level of the formation itself ensured it was durable enough that even someone in the Star Creation Realm wouldn’t be able to leave a scratch on it.

"Sometimes I really wish I didn’t know something like this..." Shaking his head with a somewhat wry smile grazing his lips, the Star Creation Realm cultivator couldn’t help remembering the ancient text he had studied in the past about Mirage Sect.

Back then, he had wanted to learn more about this ancient titan in case he encountered ruins or other things left behind by this once dominant power of the ancient world, but... In the end, the only thing the ancient information helped him with was helping him know how he was about to perish.

Not exactly what he had wanted after his decades of research on the Mirage Sect...

RUUUUUUUMBLE-!

And as the Star Creation Realm cultivator trapped within the ancient supporting formation of the endless paths guardian formation that had turned itself into a giant trapping formation, a loud rumbling could be felt throughout the flat landscape that had been used a blank canvas for the supporting formation to take root.

Looking off in the direction of the ancient observatory visible at the heart of everything, a faint glowing ball had emerged. Exuding a pressure that could be felt even by the cultivators, priests and monks that had successfully escaped from the ancient formation. The pressure alone forced the surroundings to fall into an eerie silence, as everything within the Yellow Peak Region and the neighboring regions were affected by the pressure of this small glowing ball of light.

The sheer terror it evoked was primal, be it someone at the Star Creation Realm or a normal mortal, everyone who was affected by the pressure found themselves unable to move a single muscle.

Whoosh~

During this silence, the faint ball of light turned pitch black before it began expanding without any sound. Swallowing up the surrounding light before reaching the few cultivators who had been trapped within the supporting formation. Giving them no chance to react nor fight back, as they were silently swallowed by the expanding darkness.

Only the Star Creation Realm cultivator seemed to barely regain some ability to move his eyes to look at the expanding darkness before it swallowed him up all the same. Continuing to expand until the entire area covered by the ancient formation- or half of the Yellow Peak Region had been swallowed by it.

Disappearing just as silently as it had appeared. Leaving behind nothing more than a vast circular shaped hole in the ground more than twenty kilometers deep with no sign of what had existed in the past.

Any sign of the Void Observation Branch of the Mirage Sect that had once existed in the region having similarly vanished without a trace...

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