Chapter 2243: Escape From the Ancient Formation

Following the changes to the heavenly river, Xuan Hao didn’t find himself getting interrupted again as he once again resumed the time-consuming task of carving his second dao rune while also pondering some of the chaotic concepts that made up the spatial anchor of the heavenly river that Mui had created. Finding the chaotic and difficult principles governing the creation of those spatial anchors a good direction for him to try and gain a foothold into the Dao of Chaos in the future. Hopefully giving him an opportunity to better understand the things Mui made, while at the same time also being able to more easily handle any problems along the way...

And while he focused entirely on advancing his cultivation, far off in the Western Central Region, his two disciples, Chun Hua and Qing Yi, who had been trapped inside the slowly collapsing ancient formation along with the little monk and the group of cultivators, had barely managed to escape through an opening in the collapsing formation.

Not leaving it completely but moving from one independent space to another that was closer to the edge of the collapsing formation. Continuing this process over a dozen times in a row during the past few weeks before they got to the final collapsing space from where the outside was visible through the shimmering formation runes that kept flickering in and out of existence.

During this journey, they had ended up encountering several other groups of disciples that under normal circumstances might have led to clashes between them and the different groups of cultivators, but luckily for everyone, Chun Hua and Qing Yi were far stronger than everyone they had run into so far, with most being at the Nascent Soul Realm or below and only a rare few reaching the Domain Lord Realm.

Not to mention, most were more than willing to group together to look for a chance out of the ancient formation together.

Leading to the current situation where the originally rather small group by comparison had now grown to more than a thousand cultivators, some who had been stuck inside the formation for only a few months and some over a hundred years.

All excitedly waiting for the opportunity when the final barrier before them split open and gave them the opportunity to escape from the collapsing ancient formation that had become deadly to move around inside with the increasing number of spatial anomalies appearing throughout the formation.

The only reason why everyone had managed to stay alive and avoid those spatial anomalies so far, was because they had jumped from one independent space to the next before the one now behind them had time to collapse, as it was clear to everyone that the only way to avoid those spatial anomalies was to either continue moving deeper into the ancient formation or outwards towards the edge that had now become possible to sense with the collapse of the ancient formation.

"Looks like our chance to leave this place and return to the Yellow Peak Region is here..." And as everyone were spending their time chatting with one another about their experiences around a large open fire, Qing Yi suddenly narrowed her eyes as she shifted her attention towards the ancient formation symbols beside their rather sizeable campsite. Noticing how the symbols themselves had started to fade at an increasingly fast speed without any prior warning.

"What!? We can finally leave this godforsaken place!?"

"Haha! Finally, I wonder if those old fellows back at the temple still remember this old man at this point, though I’m at the Nascent Soul Realm, I have already been gone for a little over two hundred years."

"Two hundred years? I have been trapped here for 560 years. Curse this luck of mine. Barely broke through to the Nascent Soul Realm and then ended up being chased in here by some cursed madman."

"And I thought me being trapped here for two decades was bad..."

And hearing the words muttered by Qing Yi, who had essentially become the leader of this rather sizeable group of wandering cultivators, merchants, monks and anything in-between found throughout the Western Central Region, everyone began excitedly chatting amongst one another. Not one of them doubting her words, as she had already helped carry most of them through several collapsing independent spaces already.

"So... It’s finally time to get out of here... I wonder what master and the others have been up to while we were gone..." Together with the rest of the cultivators, Chun Hua also got ready to leave as she quietly whispered this to herself while looking off towards the ancient formation symbols that had indeed started to fade.

"Everyone, don’t dawdle, this might be our only opportunity to get out of here! Those at the Domain Lord Realm, carry the people arranged beforehand and follow behind me like usual. If we don’t leave this time around, we might end up going down with this ancient formation!" Seeing how everyone was already starting to celebrate successfully escaping from the ancient formation, Qing Yi couldn’t help frowning to herself before calling out for everyone to stop wasting time and get ready to leave.

"""Yes!!"""

A command that was quickly picked up by everyone, as they calmed down and got into position.

Although, there wasn’t much for everyone below the Domain Lord Realm to do, as they just obediently lined up close to the Domain Lord Realm cultivator who would be helping carry them along when the time came.

Even for the Domain Lord Realm cultivators themselves, there wasn’t much work for them to do, as all they had to do was make sure they followed behind Qing Yi, who would be the one to lead them forward like she had done over a dozen times already.

In the end, it was also because of this that everyone felt so confident in being able to successfully make it out of the collapsing ancient formation.

Confidence like this was great but could also be detrimental.

In this situation it was great, as it allowed Qing Yi to easily get everyone to follow her words. Making the escape from the collapsing ancient formation far easier to accomplish. After all, though she was strong, she knew that without the assistance of the other Domain Lord Realm cultivators who had ended up joining the group over the past few weeks, there would have been no way for her and Chun Hua to carry everyone out with them.

Not that she wouldn’t have left others behind in case it meant she would get out safely. After all, everyone except the little monk could be considered a stranger to her, it still felt great being able to help everyone along the way and at the same time also gave her and Chun Hua an opportunity to learn a lot about the Western Central Region.

Having already managed to come up with several safe paths leading back to the Northern Central Region thanks to the aid of these people.

Rumble~

And as everyone got ready, the opportunity they had been looking for arrived, as the formation symbols barring them from the outside world faded away completely-

Whoosh-!

Whoosh-!

Whoosh-!

Not wasting a second after seeing the chance out of the ancient formation emerging, Qing Yi and Chun Hua rushed forth dragging along a group of weaker cultivators before being followed by the rest of the Domain Lord Realm cultivators.

BOOOOM-!

At the same time behind them, the independent space began collapsing at a terrifying speed with a single powerful explosion seemingly ripping apart the very fabric of space that made up the independent space.

"Agghh!?"

"Noooo-!"

"Whyyy-!?

"So... Close...!"

The sudden explosion caught everyone, Qing Yi included, off guard, as two Domain Lord Realm cultivators at the very back were unable to get out in time and were directly swallowed by the collapsing space alongside the three or so hundred people they had been carrying together.

Tragic as this sudden loss was, everyone didn’t dare slow down after leaving the ancient formation and continued following Qing Yi for another two hours before the group finally landed to assess how everyone was doing.

In the end, outside of the two Domain Lord Realm cultivators and the people they had been carrying along with them, another hundred or so people that had been carried by three other Domain Lord Realm cultivators just in front of those two now dead Domain Lord Realm cultivators had also ended up being swallowed by the sudden rapid collapse of the independent space.

But... All things considered, almost everyone had managed to get out of the ancient formation alive, something that everyone felt happy about despite the loss of people along the way. Knowing that without encountering Qing Yi and Chun Hua, there was a good chance none of them would have been able to make it out alive.

In fact, there was a good chance they would all have followed in the footsteps of those two Domain Lord Realm cultivators and the hundreds of people that had fallen alongside them...

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