Path to Heaven
chapter-198

Chapter 198: Grandis Gold Formation

Jin Qiao’er shifted aside a wooden shelf of flower pots, before tapping three times against the ordinarily looking lower wall.

Pa! A gentle sound drifted from it as a complete stone slab abruptly sank into the ground and revealed a dark passageway.

This was clearly just an ordinary mechanism. Any formidable cultivator who swept through 7-8 times with his divine sense wouldn’t find it hard to discover it.

“You should have something like a Night Glowing Pearl on you right?” After opening the passageway, Jin Qiao’er inquired of Wei Suo with her icy tone.

Without saying much, Wei Suo retrieved a white glowing Night Glowing Pearl and handed it to Jin Qiao’er.

After receiving the Night Glowing Pearl, Jin Qiao’er quickened her footsteps as she ventured silently into the passageway.

This passageway was spacious enough to squeeze two humans at the same time. It was devoid of decorations or split roads, and probably two incense worth of time would suffice to reach the end of the passageway.

At the end, Jin Qiao’er pressed another wall mechanism. Before passing through, the place appeared to be a normal granary.

Wei Suo wasn’t surprised upon witnessing this scene. Besides, the mortals of Jin Villa weren’t lesser than cultivators and required grains to fill themselves throughout the year.

However, after Jin Qiao’er pushed through the door, Wei Suo received a huge shock.

A yellow gas unexpectedly diffused in as he sighted countless dozen metre tall boulders. The place resembled an enormous mountain valley of rocks.

“This is our Jin Clan’s Gold Gate Stonehenge Formation. Either the caster retracts the formation flags himself, or it would be impossible to dispel the formation unless one can forcibly destroy the formation core. Moreover, any foreign intrusion will be immediately detected by the formation master.”

Watching Wei Suo’s astonished expression, Jin Qiao’er glanced at him with disdain and spoke coldly. “I only prepared one skill talisman that can pass through this formation. You best refrain from separating 3 feet from me, otherwise, be prepared to square off with the wretched old dog, Jin Shenxuan, yourself.”

Wei Suo was already starting to be accustomed to Jin Qiao’er’s displeasing and sour attitude, thus, he ignored her words and carefully inspected the Gold Gate Stonehenge Formation before him.

Even with his current divine sense, he failed to penetrate through 30 metres of this formation. Furthermore, the blocks of yellow boulders were unexpected perfectly solid as well.

According to the jade talisman he received, as long as the formation core wasn’t destroyed, the Gold Gate Stonehenge Formation could be rearranged for assaults or to pressure any cultivator.

This formation array would also activate only when a cultivator enters its range, and was tremendously useful to ambush and plot against enemies.

“From Jin Qiao’er’s words, this formation array should have been deployed by Jin Shenxuan. Therefore, have we infiltrated into the nine storey building?”

After a brief pause, Jin Qiao’er activated her earthen yellow skill talisman. A sandy yellow gas instantly flushed out and transformed into a yellow egg which covered both Jin Qiao’er and Wei Suo.

After warning Wei Suo with a cold snort, Jin Qiao’er bluntly strolled into the formation array.

After making rounds while tailing Jin Qiao’er, Wei Suo felt as if he had only passed through a single corridor. They then entered a large hall and after meandering around for ten steps, Wei Suo’s eyes started shining. Right ahead of him was a broad flight of stairs. In contrast, the large hall encompassed with yellowish gas was now far behind him.

After stealthily creeping up the flight of stairs, Wei Suo noticed a long corridor ahead. Peeping through the window at the end of the corridor, Wei Suo realized they were indeed located on the second floor of this nine storey building of Jin Villa.

The corridor ahead was lusciously green filled with growing potted plants of Greenbead Radish, similar to his Heaven’s Grade Residence.

Even if Wei Suo activated his Secret Concealment Art and masked his scent, he probably couldn’t avoid startling these 23 Greenbead Radishes.

Yet in this moment, Jin Qiao’er was well prepared. With an unchanging expression, she retrieved a deep brown pellet from a bottle and flicked it. This pellet medicine accurately landed in the midst of the nearest stalk of Greenbead Radish.

When this pellet landed into the soil, it immediately dissolved. Instantaneously, that Greenbead Radish withered as well.

Pellet by pellet, Jin Qiao’er advanced forward. She shot out these pellet medicines into the flower pots without utilizing even a tinge of true energy. Such precision utterly caused Wei Suo to feel admiration for her pellet flicking skills.

“Seems like Jin Qiao’er’s plot to infiltrate Jin Shenxuan’s meditation ground, this nine storey building, wasn’t an overnight process. Such pellet flicking precision, who knows how many times she trained.”

A dull golden light screen blocked their way after passing through the corridor.

Jin Qiao’er sneered and proceeded to scratch her wrist. After drawing a bead of blood, she completed a skill technique and transformed the blood into a red talismanic pattern, before drawing it onto the dull golden light screen. This dull golden light screen flickered slightly and finally revealed an opening.

Upon passing through that opening, Wei Suo realized a faint golden radiance completely permeated the place. It seemed as though this radiance started from the second floor all the way up, utterly bathing this building in golden brilliance.

Yet after Jin Qiao’er’s action, this golden radiance offered no changes as it hovered around their bodies.

Jin Qiao’er then proceeded boldly and completely ignored every room in this floor, as though she could confirm there weren’t any other forbidden controls or cultivators present in this place.

Each floor exhibited a different restrictive formation. Nevertheless, Jin Qiao’er continued advancing boldly and Wei Suo didn’t have the time to carefully analyze the place.

Seeing her state, Wei Suo could guess that if Jin Shenxuan wasn’t at the roof, he was at least meditating on the 7th or 8th floor.

Yet to his surprise, when they entered the grand hall of the fourth level, the gold radiance abruptly faded away.

Such a strange and abrupt change instantly coated Jin Qiao’er’s countenance pale white.

Sensing something was amiss, Wei Suo immediately summoned out a divine light screen and his Scarlet Shell Shield.

Consecutively, a golden brilliance once again covered both their bodies.

Yet this time, the golden brilliance was denser and a wave of thick golden energy wafted in from above them.

“Grandis Gold Formation!”

Observing the churning mass of gold energy, Jin Qiao’er instantly cried out in fear. “Jin Shenxuan, you actually disobeyed our ancestral instruction and established a formation array on the upper floors!”

“I disobeyed our ancestral teaching? Jin Qiao’er, you violated our ancestral teaching long ago by bringing an outsider into this building, and slighted your elder. I can no longer spare you with family ties.”

Following an aged old but victoriously confident voice, a cultivator in a gold patterned black robe emerged at the end of this hall. He appeared in his forties, with a rosy face and long white mustache. This cultivator had a sinister countenance and was staring at Jin Qiao’er and Wei Suo with his cunning rat eyes.

As soon as he appeared, the gold energy above immediately pressured down and covered the hall with dense golden mist.

Wei Suo could feel his divine light screen and shield sinking a little, as his vision became obscured by golden mist. He could no longer see that cultivator. Then, 5 inch long golden bricks solidified in the air above and poured down on him like a torrential rain.

“Do you know the way to break this formation?!”

Wei Suo’s expression turned ugly as he exclaimed. Every golden brick seemed to contain the might of a Half-Spirit Class artifact. Evidently, even with his set artifact, he wouldn’t be able to sustain for long. After exclaiming, he immediately consulted with the green gowned Old Man.

“This formation array is new to the cultivation world, I don’t know the method of dispelling it! That male is obviously Jin Shenxuan. Looking at his state, he was clearly not meditating to break through to Thought Division Stage level 2, but was feigning seclusion while waiting patiently for her to step into his trap.”

The green gowned Old Man called out defeatedly. “This doll is not only ugly, but is also a bane. She can’t even scheme over others but still adopts such an arrogant demeanor and dragged us down with her!”

“You can only forcibly break through this formation array by smashing through the ceiling above. However, lightning arts or lightning element artifacts are useless in this metal gold element formation array, but will harm the user instead.”

Jin Qiao’er no longer possessed her earlier haughtiness but produced a dozen earthen yellow formation flags, before consecutively unleashing them.

After placing her earthen yellow flags, regiments of yellowish gas flooded out where yellow boulders immediately stacked around Wei Suo and Jin Qiao’er. Her hands flew into action as more boulders incessantly stacked up and collided against the raining gold bricks.

Still pressured, Wei Suo didn’t summon out his set artifact shield for the time being.

Instead, Jin Shenxuan’s cold mocking tone rang in again. “Jin Qiao’er, I guess I’ve still underestimated a weak, sickly demoness like you. Your Gold Gate Stonehenge Formation is pretty remarkable, but do you think that with a single formation array, you can guard against my Grandis Gold Formation? Seems like that despicable old granny you rely on is truly dead. Otherwise, you wouldn’t simply stake in all to come here to die eh?”

Observing Jin Qiao’er’s frightened and feeble state upon listening to Jin Shenxuan, Wei Suo’s expression sank drastically.

“I obviously can’t rely on this ugly hag, I must think of a way myself.”