Chapter 300: Formation
Lu Bai clamped the yellow talisman between his fingertips and chanted incantation.
There was no way around it; he had to act quickly.
The cooldown time for Alpha Strike was as long as thirty seconds. If the Karasu Tengu continued to launch attacks, he wouldn’t have a second chance to use Alpha Strike in a short time.
Fortunately, the Karasu Tengu seemed not to have anticipated that Lu Bai had such a means. At this moment, it cautiously maintained an ambiguous distance without rashly attacking.
It wasn’t injured.
In fact, the ability Alpha Strike wasn’t very strong; each attack was basically at the intensity of the user’s normal attack.
One could tell that if it were possible to control the manner of each attack, this ability wouldn’t be just gold level.
Lu Bai had chosen to retain this ability at the time purely because he valued its brief untargetable characteristic.
As the incantation chanting reached its end, the yellow talisman in his hand suspended in mid-air and bloomed with brilliant golden light.
The light was bright but not dazzling to look at directly.
Even without knowing what Lu Bai was going to do next, the three anomalies present couldn’t just watch idly.
The Terrifying Scarecrow, whose face was covered by a hood, took action first.
It spread its two branch arms, which rapidly extended.
In the blink of an eye, they exceeded ten meters.
After extending to a certain degree, the tips of the two branch arms began to curve, gradually closing in, ultimately forming a circle that enclosed the yard.
The Karasu Tengu lightly leaped onto the Terrifying Scarecrow’s branch arm and squatted there, holding its daito horizontally in front of itself in a stance ready to strike at any moment.
The one that looked like a white plastic bag and twisted and turned also began to sway along, trying to influence Lu Bai’s actions in this way.
“Master Lu, now, what do we do now?”
Faced with three anomalies attacking at once, Captain Mao was already so tense that his hair stood on end.
Fortunately, he hadn’t lost his reason and knew not to look directly at the one twisting and turning. He clung tightly to Lu Bai’s side, forcing himself to lower his head and observe the situation with the corner of his eye.
“What do we do?”
Lu Bai maintained his hand gesture for pinching the incantation formula, glanced sideways at Captain Mao, then turned his gaze back to the three anomalies and said, “You should ask them that question.”
Among the abilities in Maoshan Daoism, formation setup was naturally included.
Strictly speaking, the formations of the Maoshan lineage were derived from talismans, with their energy source and foundational basis being talismans. This was also why Lu Bai had thrown a yellow talisman into the room earlier.
The preparatory work had already been done; what remained was…
“Those who oppose me shall die, dare to rush forth! Knife thrust into the Underworld, by my true yang! Urgent as the law order!”
Lu Bai moved his right hand pinching the formula to his chest and said solemnly, “Activate formation!”
As if responding to his incantation, the yellow talisman thrown into the room earlier also rose without wind, blazing with golden light.
In an instant, special energy gathered from between heaven and earth, covering the entire yard.
Whether Captain Mao or the anomalies present, they all felt that at the moment Lu Bai’s words fell, everything before their eyes seemed to undergo some indescribable change.
“All dharmas use utmost yang to counter utmost yin, all possess the power to enter the earth. When great yin prevails, yang decays and perishes; but when great yang prevails, they are cast into the Underworld, never to be reborn.”
“Formation name: Send Ghosts to the Underworld.”
A faint arc rose at the corner of Lu Bai’s mouth.
Although he wasn’t sure if this world truly had the existence of the Underworld, since it could be used as an ability, it was impossible for it to have no effect.
With the formation activated, the two yellow talismans, one in front and one behind, bloomed with dazzling golden light, firmly fixing the three anomalies inside the formation in place.
To explain using Three Kingdoms Kill terms, it could simply be understood as Lu Bai having used a Le Busishu card, currently undergoing suit determination.
If yang fails against yin, the formation caster dies; if yin fails against yang, the evil spirits are cast into the Underworld, never to be reborn.
It sounded like the risk was split fifty-fifty, but in reality, there was a huge degree of operation involved here.
Seeing the golden light lag slightly, Lu Bai unhesitatingly activated Bursting Qi.
Captain Mao watched dumbfounded as the three anomalies clawed and struggled under the suppression of the golden light, not even able to hear their screams.
Without any fluctuations, the dazzling golden light pressed down like Mount Tai, forcefully suppressing the three anomalies present until they completely disappeared.
“I-Is… it over?”
Even with the facts right before his eyes, Captain Mao still found it hard to believe.
Ever since they met, Lu Bai had continually refreshed his cognition with one exaggerated performance after another.
By now, he was having a hard time believing that Lu Bai was even human.
“Of course not.”
Lu Bai patted the non-existent dust off himself and turned to look at the night sky outside the yard, ablaze with firelight: “Clearly, there’s still a ton of things to handle.”
……
Tonight’s moon was very bright.
Feng Qian and Zhou Lei ran wildly along the road for their lives, with the increasingly distant Containment Center behind them.
After nightfall, anomalies were stirring everywhere in the Containment Center.
As death fighters, even though Lu Bai had jokingly called them “senior disciple,” their first reaction in such an emergency was still to ensure their own survival.
They ignored the desperate shouts for help along the way and quickly fled the Containment Center.
However, less than a kilometer from escaping the Containment Center, both felt a chilling sensation like needles on their backs at almost the same time.
Like the biting cold wind of a northern winter, prickling all over the body.
Feng Qian instinctively turned his head and saw the black shadow clinging to Zhou Lei’s back, completely dumbfounded.
He swallowed hard and probed, “Bro, we split up and run?”
Zhou Lei showed no displeasure; instead, he seemed a bit relieved: “I was just thinking the same thing.”
If one listened carefully, both their voices were trembling slightly.
After a moment of silence, Feng Qian’s complexion became extremely ugly: “So my back also…?”
Zhou Lei forced out a smile uglier than crying and asked, “Pale-faced woman with bleeding eyes and long nails?”
Feng Qian nodded in resignation.
“What do we do now?”
“We’re still alive for now; looks like it doesn’t want us to leave.”
“Turn back?”
“Any other choice?”
……
[Current Points: 19, Current Rank 1/108]
[Current Points: 19, Current Rank 1/107]
The rapidly decreasing number of death fighters on the system interface showed just how dangerous the Containment Center was now.
No one could even confirm how many anomalies were stirring in various parts of the Containment Center at this moment.
Lu Bai and Captain Mao walked out of the yard, met everywhere with chaos; they didn’t even know where to start to sort out the situation.
Captain Mao frowned with a headache: “Master Lu, let’s head to the temporary command center first.”
