Covering the Sky: I, a mortal, ascended to the throne step by step.

Chapter 84 Young Master Offers Head to the Source King's Forbidden Array

The formation was filled with a rich aura of blood.

The crowd outside the formation remained silent.

Tens of thousands of eyes were fixed on that figure.

Four words came to mind: "Supreme Young Man".

Li Xian's performance made them see a young supreme being rising!

"Gentlemen."

The Great Xia Imperial Uncle spoke, his dragon aura surging, his gaze piercing Gong Wuheng like lightning: "The Great Xia Dynasty officially mediates this matter."

The little nun wiped away her tears.

She clutched tightly at her uncle's clothes, her big eyes still red, but she finally stopped crying.

"If the formation is not activated, I, on behalf of the Great Xia, hereby declare that the Five Elements Palace has incurred the wrath of the people, harbored personal grudges, and plotted to destabilize the Northern Region, and will exterminate the entire clan."

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Gong Wuheng trembled all over, his face ashen.

It's not because of fear.

It's because of despair.

It’s over.

It's all over.

If they win the gamble, the Five Elements Palace will obtain the Secret of the Fighting Character, the Divine Source, and Immortal Gold, making its foundation comparable to that of a sacred land.

I lost the bet —

It's not just a matter of a few people dying.

The prestige, connections, and affiliated forces that the Five Elements Palace has accumulated over the past century will crumble after today.

Who would still attach themselves to a major sect that can't even kill rogue cultivators?

Da Xia spoke up.

Other forces naturally wouldn't miss the opportunity to kick someone when they're down.

"The Heavenly Demon Palace seconded the motion," the living fossil-like powerful being said. "This child has an extraordinary background. If the Five Elements Palace insists on surrounding and killing him, it will be making an enemy of our demon race."

Yaochi believes that the formation should be withdrawn immediately.

Yunxi's voice was clear and cold, as it came through her veil.

She stood in the crowd, her pure white fairy dress spotless, showing no fear in the face of so many powerful figures.

"This person possesses the Yaochi Chaotic Star Finger and has a deep connection with our Holy Land. If the Five Elements Palace harms his life, Yaochi will surely seek justice."

Everyone's heart skipped a beat.

The sacred land of Yaochi has personally intervened!

Immediately following, an even more unexpected voice rang out.

"The Yao Guang Holy Land also requires the formation to be activated."

Yao Xi stepped out of the crowd, dressed in a green skirt and wearing a gold hairpin; her face was stunningly beautiful.

She changed her previous sharp expression and put on a dignified and proper smile.

"Although this young master Li has learned my Yao Guang Golden Lotus Body Technique, the Holy Land never punishes him for it. On the contrary..."

Yao Xi's gaze passed over the light screen.

The smile landed on Li Xian, gentle and warm: "The Holy Land sincerely invites Young Master Li to visit Yao Guang and share our Daoist affinities."

These words caused a stir among the crowd.

Yao Guang Holy Land?

The sacred place that previously wished for Li Xian's death?

The contrast between his initial assertiveness and subsequent obsequiousness is laughable.

An Miaoyi lowered her eyes, a cold smile curling at the corner of her lips.

Yao Guang wanted to recruit him.

If they can't kill them, they'll try to win them over; the Holy Land's calculations are as shrewd as ever.

Gong Wuheng was attacked from all sides, and his face was beyond ashen.

His lips moved, but he couldn't utter a single word.

The situation has become clear.

The Five Elements Palace lost.

Just as he was about to order a retreat—

Just as the situation was gradually becoming clear and everyone thought the dust had settled—

A sudden sound rang out.

"Wait a minute!"

Everyone turned around.

The Tuoba family has arrived.

Six elderly men in gray led the way, while four burly men in the middle carried a white cloth wrapped around the corpse.

At the front of the procession, an elderly man, thin as a rake and with sunken eyes, leaned on a dragon-headed cane, walking steadily with every step.

The Tuoba family was stationed in the holy city to manage affairs, and Tuoba Feng was in charge.

"The Tuoba family has a grievance to redress."

Tuoba Feng slammed his dragon-headed cane heavily on the ground, his voice echoing in all directions: "Open it up."

The white cloth was torn down.

Tuoba Chang's body was exposed.

The manner of their death was extremely gruesome.

His eyes were wide open, his eyeballs almost popping out of their sockets.

Five deep purple pinch marks were clearly visible on his neck, the finger marks were deeply embedded in the flesh, and even the tracheal cartilage was crushed.

All ten fingernails were flipped up, with bits of flesh and skin embedded in the nail crevices—marks left from the desperate struggle and scratching of the killer's hands before death.

Do not look down.

He was strangled to death.

"My young master of the Tuoba family suffered a crushing defeat in a gambling match with that Li Xian, losing all his family fortune. On the spot, he suffered a stroke, vomited blood, and fainted." Tuoba Feng was in tears, his voice filled with grief. "After being carried back to rest—he never woke up again."

He pointed at Li Xian in the center of the formation and shouted sternly, "Gambling on stones drove my young master to his death! Li Xian, you owe the Tuoba family a life!"

The entire audience erupted in uproar.

"What?"

"Is Tuoba Chang dead?"

"You died of anger after losing at jade gambling?"

"Stop joking, look at the strangulation marks on her neck—"

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"Shh! Keep your voice down, the Tuoba family is all here!"

The Great Xia Imperial Uncle's gaze swept heavily over the corpse, his pupils slightly contracting.

Pinching marks.

struggle.

asphyxia.

This was clearly murder.

But Tuoba Feng kept saying it was "blood and qi attacking the heart".

It was absurd to the extreme, yet it was precisely a calculated scheme.

You can't prove it.

Tuoba Chang is dead, and there is no way to verify his identity.

Now the Tuoba family insists that the death was caused by gambling on stones, and they want to use this as a pretext to take Li Xian's life. Although it is not legally sound, it gives them a reason to act.

"Big brother didn't drive anyone to their death!"

The little nun was so anxious that her face turned red and her big eyes were filled with tears.

She gripped her uncle's sleeve, her voice trembling, "There are clearly handprints on his neck! He was clearly strangled to death! How can you lie through your teeth!"

Tuoba Feng didn't even glance at her.

An Miaoyi stood in the shadows, her eyes reflecting Tuoba Chang's unseeing face, and a chill ran through her.

The young master offered his head.

Kill their own genius and frame someone else.

In exchange for the pretext of a "fair fight".

The Tuoba family —

That move was too ruthless.

"Lord Palace!" Tuoba Feng turned to Gong Wuheng, "My Tuoba family shares the same hatred as the Five Elements Palace! I, an old man, borrow a corner of your palace's grand formation to allow a junior of my clan to enter and settle the karmic debt with Immortal Li!"

Gong Wuheng's eyes suddenly lit up.

He almost knelt down to thank the ancestors of the Tuoba family for eighteen generations.

When you're feeling sleepy, here's a pillow for you!

That's all there is to it.

Like a drowning man grasping at a piece of driftwood, Gong Wuheng laughed loudly: "The Tuoba family and I, Gong, share the same hatred for our enemy! Li Xian harmed my disciples first, and then harmed the young master of the Tuoba family. His crimes are unforgivable!"

He turned to Tuoba Feng: "Elder Tuoba, what should we do?"

Tuoba Feng did not answer Gong Wuheng.

He turned to the crowd, his cloudy eyes sweeping over the Great Xia Imperial Uncle, the Heavenly Demon Powerhouse, and the Holy Maiden of Yaochi.

"Rest assured, everyone, I will not bully the weak."

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He took out an ancient bronze disc from his sleeve and gently tossed it into the air.

"Boom!"

The earth is cracked.

One after another, stone tablets rose from the ground.

Eighty-one stone tablets are arranged in a strange pattern.

A layer of golden-red restriction was placed outside the five-colored formation.

The two layers of array overlapped, and the primordial energy soared into the sky.

"Source King's Forbidden Array!"

Someone exclaimed in surprise.

Tuoba Feng put away his cane and said calmly, "The imitation of the forbidden array made by the patriarch himself can not trap a king, but those on the second level of the Sendai and below cannot escape."

Source King's Forbidden Array.

The official version has a history of defeating top players and annihilating holy lands.

Although this is a replica, its power is still terrifying.

Even the Saint Lord-level powerhouses on the second floor of Sendai were unable to break through from the inside.

The Great Xia Imperial Uncle's face darkened, and he activated his dragon energy, blasting it towards the edge of the forbidden formation.

"clang!"

The source pattern flickered, but remained completely still.

"Your Highness, there's no need for you to go to such trouble."

Tuoba Feng smiled and said, "My four juniors will compete fairly with Immortal Li, each at the peak of the Dao Palace realm, and their fates will be left to destiny."

fair?

Everyone sneered!

The fairness of the Five Elements Palace is still fresh in our minds!

Tuoba Feng is thick-skinned and ruthless; he has no eyes for people and dismisses their thoughts as soon as they pass through his ears.

He turned to look at Gong Wuheng.

Gong Wuheng understood immediately and withdrew the great formation.

The original five-colored light curtain dissipated, replaced by a golden-red barrier as thick as amber from the Source King's Forbidden Array.

Li Xian was transferred to a new cell.

Inside the formation.

Four figures landed.

All four were dressed in gray, with withered faces, and were over sixty years old.

realm-

The Dao Palace reaches its fifth level, now complete.

Their faces were all different.

But their eyes are exactly the same.

Indifferent and lifeless, like four walking corpses.

"Burning Life Battle Strategy"

Li Xian glanced at it and instantly made a judgment.

These four people were indeed only at the fifth level of the Dao Palace, but their blood and qi circulation was extremely abnormal.

With each breath, lifespan is visibly diminished.

Trading lives for combat power.

Disposable consumables.

"Come on," the old man at the head of the group said in a hoarse voice. "The four of us are assassins."

Before he could finish speaking...

Four people made a move.

Source Qi Transforms into Soldiers!

Knives, spears, swords, and halberds materialized from the void.

Next came the bell, the tripod, the pagoda, and the seal.

The eight weapons were just the beginning; more Origin Qi weapons emerged like a tidal wave.

Ten kinds, twenty kinds, fifty kinds—

The tide of weapons surged in from all directions, relentlessly and without pause.

Li Xian moved.

The incomplete character "斗" (dou) operates secretly.

Spears become shields, swords become parries, hammers transform into golden bells, and arrows become iron walls.

A man stands amidst a torrent of weapons, his hands constantly changing hand seals, each one precisely countering the incoming blades.

One hundred moves.

Two hundred moves.

Five hundred moves.

Li Xian couldn't break through.

But even the four assassins couldn't break through.

Tuoba Feng frowned outside the formation and made a gesture.

The four assassins retreated simultaneously, each taking out an Originium from their bags.

It's not ordinary Originium.

Each piece was the size of a human head, piled up into a small mountain, entirely crimson, and contained terrifying energy.

Total of four people.

400,000 jin of raw materials.

"Hurry up!"

The old men roared in unison, their white hair fell out, their dough dried up, and their lifespans burned wildly.

Four hundred thousand catties of primordial energy were suddenly poured into the four withered bodies.

"Awooo—!"

The first old man was enveloped in a burst of blood-red light.

A crimson blood dragon burst forth from his body, its eyes bloodshot, its scales as hard as iron, and its roar shook the very formation.

The second old man transformed into a monstrous dragon, its entire body pitch black, and its body wreathed in corrosive energy.

Third place: Sin Dragon.

Silver-white, as cold as death.

Fourth place: Evil Dragon.

Dark purple, its dragon body twisted, emitting a nauseating stench.

Four source dragons coiled within the formation, each with its aura rising to the peak of the Four Extremes Secret Realm—the Four Extremes Fourth Heaven!

A source dragon with four heads and four peak levels.

They surrounded and killed a Dao Palace cultivator at the fourth level.

This is the ultimate revenge killing from the lineage of the Source King!

Outside the array.

People were talking about it.

"Ten deaths without a chance of survival."

"Even if the Holy Son of Yaoguang stood there, he would be worn down to death by the four Source Dragons."

"Yuanlong is tireless and unafraid of serious injury. As long as the Yuanqi is not exhausted, it can regenerate indefinitely. The four old geezers are risking their lives and don't care about surviving."

"This game is unsolvable."

Big brother—

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The little nun could no longer hold back her tears, which streamed down her face as she clung tightly to her uncle's arm: "Nineteenth Uncle! Please save him! I beg you!"

The Imperial Uncle remained silent.

He threw a punch with all his might.

The Source King's Forbidden Array only trembled slightly.

Yunxi's lips were tightly pressed together beneath her veil, and for the first time, anxiety appeared in her usually cool eyes.

She raised her hand, as if to activate something, but the female Taoist priestess from Yaochi beside her pressed down on her wrist.

"Holy Maiden, no!"

Ji Biyue leaned against an ancient tree.

Her emerald green dress swayed gently in the wind, and her large eyes held a complex mix of emotions.

There was regret, there was satisfaction, and there was also a trace of unspeakable resentment.

Someone as interesting as you, just died like that?

An Miaoyi stared at Li Xian in the formation, her hands unconsciously clenching.

The fingernails dug into the palm.

His fingers turned white, and he was breathing rapidly.

"No way—"

She murmured to herself.

The sound is only audible to oneself.

"You, chosen by Zishang, will not die so easily."

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