Chapter 299: Divine Craftsmanship
The congregation’s faces first showed shock, then confusion.
They did not know how Ning Qi intended to relocate the entire sect.
Was it to take away all resources and rebuild Boundless Sword Sect at the center of Xuanzhen Domain, or to directly relocate the entire Boundless Sword Sect?
The former was acceptable, but if it was the latter, the congregation did not even dare to think about it.
Boundless Sword Sect spanned such a vast area; migrating the entire sect territory together sounded like a pipe dream.
Moreover, Boundless Sword Sect was quite far from the original Profound True Secret Realm ruins. Back when Ning Qi was at Nascent Soul Realm, even riding a Treasure Boat, it had taken him over half a month to arrive.
Now, although Ning Qi’s cultivation had risen to Integration Realm, traveling alone was one thing, but relocating the entire sect—how long would that take?
Sword Ancestor muttered, “Youngster, you’re not joking, are you?”
Ning Qi said nothing more and directly sent a message with his Primordial Spirit Power, transmitting the Ghost Axe Mountain Moving Art to everyone present.
He also instructed the Boundless Sword Sect congregation to pass it on to the True Disciples and even Outer Disciples below.
Everyone quickly browsed the Ghost Axe Mountain Moving Art with their spiritual sense. After reading it once, they could not help but read it again.
Though it was a mountain moving art, what astonished the congregation was how broad the involved aspects were.
It included methods for better manipulating spiritual energy, integrated true insights into the Formation Way, involved the art of artifact refining for controlling objects, and even allowed comprehension of some attack techniques…
The Boundless Sword Sect disciples were accustomed to this, but the people from other sects, receiving two methods transmitted by Ning Qi in succession, showed shock on their faces while also gaining a bit of joy—they had made a huge profit!
They grew even more respectful toward Ning Qi in their hearts. No wonder Boundless Sword Sect had changed so much since Ning Qi became sect leader, surpassing all other sects in one fell swoop.
After everyone finished browsing, Ning Qi continued, “Everyone, rest for a bit. Wait until I refine the Sword Sect great formation anew, then borrow everyone’s power to relocate the entire sect.”
Ning Qi spoke directly: relocating the entire Boundless Sword Sect required the congregation’s power.
At this moment, Boundless Sword Sect had gathered the strongest group of people from all sects in Xuanzhen Domain. Before coming here, they had not expected Ning Qi to establish Xuan Zhen Alliance, let alone personally participate in such a grand undertaking they had not even dared to imagine.
As Domain Lord Ning had said, mobilizing such a force to relocate Boundless Sword Sect surely meant migrating even its territory.
In an instant, a deep shock emanated from the congregation’s bodies from within outward—they were about to witness a miracle!
As soon as Ning Qi finished speaking, he soared into the sky, flying up to the firmament.
“Those in the sect who study formations, step forward!”
Within Boundless Sword Sect, immediately one-tenth of the cultivators responded, flying out together and gathering in front of Ning Qi.
Each one was extremely excited; the sect leader’s attainment in formations was something they could never catch up to.
Since the sect leader had reset the sect protecting grand formation, they had not even qualified to participate in setting up the sect protecting grand formation, because the current Boundless Sword Sect’s sect protecting grand formation was simply too perfect.
These formation masters could at most participate in maintaining the great formation, and most of the time they were learning the sect leader’s various formation setting techniques from it.
They could not find any flaws in it; the more they understood, the more admiration they felt for Ning Qi from the depths of their souls.
Now the sect leader was actually going to refine anew the great formation they thought was already perfect—what did that mean?
It meant the sect leader had not even used full strength when setting it up before, yet it was already a supreme treasure to them!
And now the sect leader would lead them to refine the great formation anew, which was an unprecedented huge opportunity for formation masters.
Ning Qi scanned the sect’s formation masters and instantly divided the congregation into six groups.
“Follow my command.”
“Yes!”
Next, Ning Qi directly opened Boundless Sword Sect’s Treasury, and his Primordial Spirit Power swept out countless spirit stones and various heavenly materials and earthly treasures from within.
He selected the various items needed for each step of refining the great formation anew, divided them into piles, and immediately began refining.
Ning Qi was seen either forming hand seals to change the form of heavenly materials and earthly treasures, or spitting true fire to forge and cast, removing impurities, or fusing rules into the heavenly materials and earthly treasures, or inscribing small formations one by one…
Everyone was a cultivator, with no lack of those with powerful Nascent Souls, yet they watched dazzled and dizzy, feeling that every move of Ning Qi possessed Dao Rhyme.
The formation masters high in the sky were overjoyed; although most could not understand, they vaguely gained much benefit.
After an unknown time, three hundred and sixty micro formation bases had appeared in the void around Ning Qi.
Ning Qi pointed out with a finger.
Immediately, sixty formation bases separated from them, each with different functions. When combined, they faintly formed a small heaven and earth.
Followed by many spirit stones and heavenly materials and earthly treasures, they flew toward a certain place in Boundless Sword Sect.
“Formation bases are complete. Your group, go there and perfect the subsequent functions on the foundation of the formation bases.”
“Yes!”
Ning Qi directly assigned one group of the six formation master groups there.
Over the decades, he had cultivated so many formation masters in the sect; it was time for them to contribute.
Ning Qi would fully control the overall framework and core parts of the great formation; he did not plan to handle the details personally.
The other five groups were also assigned by Ning Qi afterward.
Ning Qi was not worried they could not do it, because he used Primordial Spirit Power to leave the perfection methods in each group of formation masters’ minds.
The people from various sects below looked up at Ning Qi, seeing him complete three hundred and sixty formations in just two quarters of an hour, each showing astonishment again.
No wonder Ning Qi had broken the great formations of Blood Demon Upper Sect and Feathered Ascension Upper Sect so easily before; his attacks were already terrifying, and matched with his formation way grandmaster ability, how could breaking formations not be simple?
The people of Heavenly Star Upper Sect were the most fearful in hindsight. Fortunately, the current sect leader Xia Xing had surrendered back then; otherwise, their sect’s great formation would surely fall to Domain Lord Ning’s sword in one strike as well.
Time passed, and the six groups of formation masters Ning Qi assigned successively completed the perfection of the formation bases.
Boundless Sword Sect’s great formation manifested on its own.
The six groups of great formations cooperated with each other, forming a unified whole. Within Sword Sect, huge changes occurred at this moment.
The ground shook, with mountains, rivers, plains, and hills inside all glowing.
Above the firmament, a thousand stars appeared, with countless star powers drawn down like waterfalls.
Heavenly Star Upper Sect specialized in star power, and seeing this, they wore bitter expressions. Their great formation, activated by three Integration Realm Old Ancestors, could only manifest a hundred stars.
Yet the formation Domain Lord had just set up actually drew a thousand stars at once—impossible to compare, utterly impossible!
Due to the spiritual energy tide from the south after the two domains merged, it was immediately plundered by Boundless Sword Sect’s great formation. All spiritual energy within thousands of miles around Boundless Sword Sect reversed and flowed back, fully supplementing every part of the formation.
Soon, within ten thousand miles around Boundless Sword Sect, it had become a spiritual energy vacuum zone.
The congregation was all horrified.
Now that Xuanzhen Domain had reappeared, who knew how much spiritual energy had surged between heaven and earth.
The congregation thought that the spiritual energy absorbed by Boundless Sword Sect’s great formation earlier was enough for all sects in Xuanzhen Domain to share for a year!
But the changes in Boundless Sword Sect were not over.
As the spiritual energy fell into vacuum state, Boundless Sword Sect’s great formation seemed to become even more perfect.
Its formations operated ceaselessly, and suddenly, rule divine chains were drawn out from the void by the great formation, then dragged in one by one and fully integrated into it.
The congregation’s eyes nearly popped out.
To refine rules from between heaven and earth was for Void Dao Great Experts; to refine rules into the body was for Integration Realm Magnates.
Countless cultivators were blocked outside Void Dao Realm, but now, a great formation could actually pull rules from the void and integrate them into itself—too perverse!
The Void Dao Great Experts on site exchanged bitter smiles; they had cultivated their whole lives to achieve something, never expecting to lose to a great formation.
Who could now breach Boundless Sword Sect’s great formation?
The congregation felt that even Perfection Dao Integration Realm might not necessarily break it!
And the great formation’s changes were still not over, after all, Domain Lord Ning’s goal was to move the entire Boundless Sword Sect to the center of Xuanzhen Domain.
Once truly achieved, with the terrain advantage, the great formation’s power might rise again.
The great formation’s changes gradually stopped, and everyone looked uniformly toward Domain Lord Ning Qi, wanting to know what he would do next.
“Body cultivators or those with Dharma Bodies, please step forward.” Ning Qi said calmly.
Wang Ye responded first. He cultivated the Three Heads Six Arms Fiend Body perfected by Ning Qi and had now stepped into Mid Void Dao; his strength surpassed even general sect’s Perfection of Void Dao Realm Great Experts.
As Wang Ye stepped out, dozens more figures flew out.
Boundless Sword Sect was so large, with no lack of dedicated body cultivators.
Ning Qi nodded slightly to them and said, “Manifest your Dharma Bodies and prepare to relocate Boundless Sword Sect.”
“Yes!”
Dozens of body cultivators followed Ning Qi’s instructions, flying to various places at the outer edge of Boundless Sword Sect. Each transformed into a hundred-zhang giant, standing quietly in wait.
Next, Ning Qi himself manifested a Dharma Body.
The congregation saw a three-thousand-zhang giant appear outside Boundless Sword Sect, truly reaching the sky and standing on the ground. Looking from afar, it was like a heavenly pillar.
The hundred-zhang giants manifested by Wang Ye and others were like ants before it, let alone the other cultivators.
Ning Qi shouted loudly, his voice like a thunderclap over ten thousand miles.
“Everyone, together operate the Ghost Axe Mountain Moving Art.”
“Yes!”
As Ning Qi’s voice fell, everyone followed his instructions, flying to various places in Boundless Sword Sect one by one, then operating the Ghost Axe Mountain Moving Art Ning Qi had transmitted earlier.
Seeing everyone in position, Ning Qi shouted again, “Great formation, rise!”
His two thousand-zhang giant hands directly grasped a place on Boundless Sword Sect’s great formation, with countless rule divine chains emanating from his body, flying toward various parts of the great formation.
The Ghost Axe Mountain Moving Art operated by the congregation also gradually exerted power, cooperating with Ning Qi’s actions, surging toward Boundless Sword Sect and injecting into the great formation.
Rumble!
Dust and smoke rose from the ground. The entire Boundless Sword Sect was like a solid iron plate, gradually scraped from the ground under the combined pull of Ning Qi and the congregation, lifting a ten-zhang extremely condensed layer of earth, slowly rising into the air.
Wang Ye and others had no time to be shocked and immediately moved their hundred-zhang bodies to lift the entire Boundless Sword Sect.
This was an extremely shocking scene. Boundless Sword Sect occupied one-fifteenth of the original Northern Xuan Region territory. Although Ning Qi had not covered all of that one-fifteenth Northern Xuan Region territory in the great formation, only the core part, it was still frighteningly vast.
The entire sect rose from the ground at once. Looking from afar, it was like a giant hand covering the sky, appearing between heaven and earth.
Blocking the sky light above, covering the entire ground below, extending left and right to the limits of vision, endless front and back.
Everyone’s faces turned red, not from exertion, but from excitement.
Such a large sect could actually be migrated together with its territory—this was too unbelievable!
The giant manifested by Ning Qi suddenly disappeared, landing back at a place in Boundless Sword Sect.
A faint smile also appeared on his face as he said to the congregation, “Everyone continue. Once out of this spiritual energy and rules vacuum zone, it will be much easier afterward.”
Hearing this, the congregation naturally complied.
The body cultivators like Wang Ye no longer needed to hold the entire Boundless Sword Sect with their hands. After the entire territory rose from the ground and maintained balance, the formations on it could sustain the distance from the ground.
This relieved them, as they had thought they would have to drag Boundless Sword Sect all the way to the destination like this. Such a long distance would probably exhaust them to death by arrival.
The current Boundless Sword Sect was like the floating peaks every sect had; Ning Qi had used a more perfect formation to turn the entire Boundless Sword Sect into a floating peak-like existence.
What the body cultivators like Wang Ye needed to do now was push the entire Boundless Sword Sect flying southward.
Meanwhile, the many cultivators on Boundless Sword Sect continued operating the Ghost Axe Mountain Moving Art.
There were legends in the world of cultivators moving mountains and filling seas, but no one had truly seen or implemented it.
Heard, it was mostly done with brute force.
But the method Ning Qi granted the congregation was clearly not that simple.
This art, combined with Boundless Sword Sect’s great formation, exerted power together, mostly borrowing clever force, borrowing the rules operating between heaven and earth, borrowing the current opportunity of heaven and earth’s changes.
Everyone exerted their abilities: those at Void Dao Realm and above used power of rules, those below Nascent Soul Realm used various attributes.
Every attribute turned into assistance for Boundless Sword Sect’s southward movement.
For example, wind power lifted the sect, reducing weight while also accelerating; earth power generated attraction and repulsion, each useful.
In short, various abilities together made the entire Boundless Sword Sect’s southward speed faster.
Initially, Boundless Sword Sect could only move slowly, but the further back, the faster its flight speed became.
Soon, it finally flew out of the ten-thousand-mile vacuum domain.
The congregation’s internal power was about two-thirds consumed.
Just as the congregation worried about this consumption, suddenly, the formations on Boundless Sword Sect lit up again, absorbing the spiritual energy along the way as well as the rules in the void.
The congregation immediately felt invigorated. As they continued operating the Ghost Axe Mountain Moving Art, they suddenly discovered something strange.
The spiritual energy actually passed directly through their bodies into Boundless Sword Sect; the rules also passed through their bodies.
Of course, this was determined by each person’s position and the different attributes they mastered.
This discovery immediately startled the congregation, while endless joy rose in their hearts.
Because as the spiritual energy and rules passed through their bodies, they felt their mastery of the corresponding spiritual energy and rules becoming more proficient.
Many felt their own cultivation advancing at a perceptible speed.
Those below Nascent Soul Realm felt their internal spiritual energy becoming more abundant; Nascent Soul Realm cultivators instantly felt some comprehension of rules, while Void Dao Realm cultivators felt their mastery of rules becoming more thorough, even gaining much comprehension toward promotion to Integration Realm.
This discovery naturally made the congregation revere Domain Lord Ning Qi even more.
They had thought it was hard labor, but unexpectedly it could also elevate cultivation and comprehension!
At the same time, the congregation discovered that the more fully they operated the Ghost Axe Mountain Moving Art, the more spiritual energy and rules flowed through their bodies.
The consumed spiritual energy and rules were replenished and even expanded their foundation capacity.
Especially the people from other sects; many of them had actually been unwilling inwardly.
But now each wished to exert all their strength, determined to seize this opportunity.
Thus, under everyone’s joint cooperation, the entire Boundless Sword Sect flew like mad toward the center of Xuanzhen Domain.
The further back, the congregation discovered another thing.
Besides the range of Boundless Sword Sect absorbing spiritual energy and rules expanding, Boundless Sword Sect itself was shrinking at a visible speed.
The congregation was alarmed; many artifact refining cultivators were utterly shocked. So Ning Qi had treated the entire Boundless Sword Sect as a magic tool in refining.
At this speed, by arrival at the destination, Boundless Sword Sect’s territory would probably shrink to only fifty miles in radius.
Of course, this was refining the entire sect into a tool; it could be enlarged after shrinking, and truly turn Boundless Sword Sect into a unified whole.
Thereafter, as Ning Qi’s cultivation rose, if he continued deep refining, Boundless Sword Sect could probably be carried by Ning Qi at any time.
The people from other sects no longer knew what to say.
They had only one thought in their hearts: from now on, no matter what happened, they must bind together with Boundless Sword Sect and follow Ning Qi!
This was absolutely the greatest opportunity of their lives!
They deeply imprinted this thought in their minds, then continued seizing time, desperately operating the Ghost Axe Mountain Moving Art.
Each additional operation made their cultivation stronger by a bit.
Boundless Sword Sect’s people benefited the most; under Ning Qi’s guidance, not only did they learn the best cultivation methods in Xuanzhen Domain, but their comprehension was also the best.
The people from other sects were interspersed among Boundless Sword Sect disciples, mostly with similar cultivation levels nearby.
At this moment, they immediately recognized the gap with Boundless Sword Sect disciples.
Whether in spell operation or cultivation elevation, the opponents were faster than them!
They nearly cried—should they just abandon their sects and join Boundless Sword Sect?
But they all held important positions in their sects. Those who came to Boundless Sword Sect this time were either sect leaders or elders wielding real power, or the most elite True Disciples of a sect.
Not to mention whether Ning Qi would let them join; if they abandoned their sects, what would happen to their own sects?
With complex moods, the congregation continued helping Boundless Sword Sect relocate.
Almost all sect leaders regretted not bringing more people on this trip.
Some sects near Boundless Sword Sect, whether in the North or further south, had their sect leaders all nurturing little schemes.
They immediately sent messages back to their sects, telling everyone to leave the sect quickly and come help.
As long as Boundless Sword Sect had not reached the destination, they still had a chance to elevate cultivation!
The great experts left guarding various sects, upon receiving their sect leaders’ messages, nearly all showed bewildered expressions.
Had the sect leader been detained by Boundless Sword Sect?
To have the entire sect leave the mountain—wouldn’t that leave the sect empty?
They did not dare respond to the sect leader, fearing it was a trap by Boundless Sword Sect.
Thus, they summoned everyone in the sect to gather, and after the congregation arrived, held another discussion.
No one could afford to provoke current Boundless Sword Sect; with the sect leader sending such a strange message, was there some profound mystery hidden within?
Could it be to move heaven and earth to rescue with reinforcements? But what if attacked in turn?
At that moment, their sect leaders sent another message, just a few words: “Have you set off?”
The guarding great experts thought and still cautiously replied to the sect leader, “Sect Leader, are you still safe?”
Upon receiving the message from the sect’s great experts, those sect leaders nearly laughed in anger.
Such a heavenly opportunity had come, yet those fools in the sect were still thinking what?
But after a slight thought, they understood and patiently replied with one.
Who knew the guarding elders sent another message.
“Sect Leader, really leave no one in the sect?”
Those sect leaders sighed; with such a heavenly opportunity right before them, who cared if anyone guarded the sect?
Moreover, now Domain Lord Ning Qi had unified Xuanzhen, the sects within Xuanzhen Domain surely would not attack each other.
Cultivators from other domains would not invade at this time either, so even leaving the sect empty was fine.
They could only send messages again, informing the sect members to exert desperate effort, or the opportunity would be lost.
Thus next, sects from North and South Regions all moved together, flying toward Boundless Sword Sect’s current location.
The massive Boundless Sword Sect headed south, with many sect cultivators joining midway.
Ning Qi was happy to accept their arrival.
Transmitting the Ghost Axe Mountain Moving Art to the newcomers, then using formations to teleport the congregation to various positions, and that was it.
As the range of Boundless Sword Sect absorbing spiritual energy and rules grew wider, more and more joined, those operating Ghost Axe Mountain Moving Art grew more desperate, the entire Boundless Sword Sect continuously shrank, and southward speed rose faster and faster.
At one-third the distance, it matched the speed of the Treasure Boat Ning Qi and others had boarded to Profound True Secret Realm back then; at this point, a week had passed since Boundless Sword Sect began migrating.
Further back, the entire Boundless Sword Sect was like a meteor falling from the universe toward the ground, speeding southward.
When Boundless Sword Sect arrived at the center of Xuanzhen Domain’s anomaly, another five days had passed.
Back then, Ning Qi and others had taken over half a month on a Treasure Boat to reach Profound True Secret Realm, yet now relocating the entire Boundless Sword Sect took only twelve days.
This speed was miraculous.
Boundless Sword Sect’s entire territory hovered above the original Profound True Secret Realm. Everyone flew out from it, looking toward the current Boundless Sword Sect—its size now only fifty miles in range.
The congregation had jointly completed Boundless Sword Sect’s relocation. For this miraculous feat, everyone felt glory added to themselves.
This glory was not illusory; cultivators below Perfection of Void Dao Realm had nearly all elevated one cultivation stage.
Among those with astonishing talent, some elevated two stages, the highest even directly elevating one major realm!
Everyone looked toward Ning Qi, viewing him as a god.
The people from other sects, who previously lacked belonging to the Xuan Zhen Alliance Ning Qi established, now had pure belonging to Xuan Zhen Alliance and took pride in it.
In fact, let alone Xuan Zhen Alliance—even if Domain Lord Ning Qi now wanted to merge them into Boundless Sword Sect, they would immediately agree!
Any slight hesitation, and they would be unfilial descendants!
But evidently, Domain Lord Ning Qi had no such plan.
Boundless Sword Sect’s congregation, seeing the envy in other sects’ eyes, each puffed out their chests, proud like roosters.
And among them, those True Martial Realm reincarnators also had flickering gazes—wherever the World Lord went, he made people willing to follow voluntarily.
