~shua~shua~shua~
The embers sped up, and soon it was as if a tide of embers was drowning King Hong. In less than three seconds, the man was completely covered in embers and looked like a flowing red man without any features.
Adviser Liu didn't know if this was good, but in the current situation, he could only think bad. His heart shuddered, and he just hoped that some miracle would happen.
~Crack~
All of a sudden, a resounding crack was heard and King Hong's fist, that had been frozen in one place started to move.
"It's... it's rising!" Hua Wu Shouted.
~Huala~
The aura of King Hong appeared again, but this time, it had transformed. Previously, the dauntlessness in his aura was like a secondary factor, but now it seemed to have fully assimilated within it..
"BEGONE!" King Hong's voice echoed.
~BOOM~
The tribulation bolt was forcefully dissipated by the King and it disappeared.
~shua~
Wind started to stir as the spirit Qi in the air became volatile.
"Wha-what's happening?" Hua Wu was concerned.
"Are... are the tribulation clouds angry?" Hua San was in a similar state.
"No," It was at this time that Lin Mu spoke.
"It's time..." Lin Mu muttered.
~HONGLONG~
The spirit Qi in the air started stirring as a vortex formed above the King. Since the fire attribute spirit Qi was concentrated and was present in the highest amount, the air was tinted fire red.
The spirit Qi started to pour into King Hong at a rapid pace as his cultivation base rose.The debut release of this chapter happened at Ñòv€l-B1n.
~KACHA~
An audible crack was heard and the moment it did, a heavy pressure exuded from King Hong's body.
"HE BROKE THROUGH!" Hua Wu exclaimed.
"Qiqiang broke through.... QIQIANG BROKE THROUGH!!!" Adviser Liu said out loud with joy.
He then pulled his hands apart and pointed them in six places around them. The runes turned into six flags and planted themselves on the six points Lin Mu had pointed at. Then strings of runes joined up from the six points and formed what looked like a tent around the four of them.
"Hexapole Tent Defensive formation?" Hua Wu recognized.
He then looked at his senior brother in confusion before coming close to him and speaking.
"Does the tribulation attenuation formation even use the same lower formations as that of the Hexapole Tent formation, I don't think I've seen this before in our records?" Hua Wu asked.
Hearing his junior brothers' words, Hua San furrowed his brows.
"No... it's not. This isn't even the normal Hexapole Tent formation... the runes... they're all different..." Hua San said after observing it for a few seconds.
"The runes are different?" Hua Wu said, as he focused on the runes specifically.
Once the runes turned into the components of the formation, it was hard to tell what they actually were. It was either because they became too small to see, or that they would merge directly. But Hua Wu and Hua San were Nascent soul realm cultivators and thus had a high enough sensitivity to observe it in detail.
"Wh-what?! What script is even this?" Hua Wu was confused.
Lin Mu heard their little conversion and knew that they were unable to recognize the Dao Script.
'So even the top sects do not know about it fully...' Lin Mu thought to himself.
He quickly finished up the formation and the pressure that was on the three men was lifted. Lin Mu himself didn't feel it at all and could stand there freely for days with no problems. But for them, it was still harder.
~phew~
Adviser Liu took a breath of relief once the pressure was lifted from him, and his back straightened. He had not even realized the level of pressure he was in and felt that he was starting to hunch over.
"That should be enough," Lin Mu nodded his head.
He looked back at King Hong and saw his cultivation base continually increasing. He tried to use his spirit sense to probe it, but met a block when he got closer.
"Huh? How?" Lin Mu was surprised.
So far, his spirit sense has been strong enough to go past several formations as well. But in front of King Hong it was like it had met a steel plate, unable to pierce through. The aura around King Hong was continually forcing his spirit sense away.
It was like he was trying to swim against the river and it was only getting more difficult as time passed by.
King Hong who was now fully encapsulated within the embers, was hard to see. More and more embers flew in from the area around them as the Hong Lin trees continued to burn.
The area that they were burning in had continued to expand and now the entire mountain they were on was bare of Hong Lin trees. All of them had been turned to embers, yet not a single spec of ash could be seen where they were.
Instead of that, only plain ground was visible. Seeing the strange state of King Hong only one thought came to Lin Mu's mind.
"It's his dormant physique... it is awakening." Lin Mu muttered in realization.
~Crack~
The sound of coals crackling could be heard as a long crack appeared in the encapsulated form of King Hong.