Blood Moon Hunters - Chapter 306
Chapter 306 The Universe Changed as Kongming Joggled the Feather Fan
At the center of the Eight Diagram Tactics, everyone formed a circle to keep a sharp lookout.
“Haha…”
After Zhuge Liang’s laughter sounded from afar, he appeared, sitting in the sky with a stone table in front of him, on which a pot of tea was placed.
He poured a cup of tea and took a sip, then waved his hand to summon a small sandbox. As long as people took a close look, they would discover that it was a small version of the entire Eight Diagram Tactics.
Gazing at the small array, Zhuge Liang joggled the feather fan in his hand and said with a smile, “You young talents really widen my horizons. Your speed of breaking the array is faster than I expected.”
“That’s impossible. Now that the center is the lifeblood of the Eight Diagram Tactics, how can it be restored after being destroyed?” Yu Wude took two steps back and said to himself while shaking head.
“My friend, Wude, is the place where I was sitting just now the center of the array?” Zhuge Liang slowly asked.
“Of course! We are…”
Yu Wude was about to explain, but found that they were not standing at the center of the array after looking around carefully!
“Is this… a Universal Array?” Yu Wude exclaimed.
Upon hearing what he said, Shangguan Yiyi opened her mouth wide and started observing the array, only to find that they were indeed inside a Universal Array. She covered her mouth with one hand and said, “Erm… When exactly?”
“I got it. Prime Minister, I believe that you have used the Cloud Array from the very beginning. This array, in fact, could subtly form illusions. We assumed falsely that we were in the center of the array at the outset.
“Actually, Prime Minister has been hiding in the sky, taking the Universal Array as the center of the array and forming an avatar to confuse us. Therefore, all the great pains we took were entirely within your expectations.”
Zhao Yun pondered while holding his chin. This was the possibility he could figure out.
Zhuge Liang, however, shook his head and said, “General, you just guessed it half-right. I did not display the Cloud Array at the beginning. To begin with, I was indeed at the center of the array.
“If that wasn’t the case, I definitely could not have muddled through under Wude’s and Bugui’s observation. I moved only after the Cloud Array was triggered.”
“It’s impossible! If the center of the array is here, how can it be transferred? What’s more, as for giant arrays like the Eight Diagram Tactics, their centers can’t be changed at will once they are set,” Yu Wude shook his head and said.
Zhuge Liang joggled his feather fan and said with a smile, “Don’t worry, Wude. It is the problem that I have been delving into for a thousand years. The Eight Diagram Tactics, vast in size, each part of which is seemingly connected with the others. But in fact, it has a major drawback, that is, it is easy to be broken into by top masters since its center is fixed. As such, the giant array can be easily destroyed. For thousands of years, I have repeatedly thought over how to solve this problem.
“Fortunately, I finally came up with a solution after a thousand years. Since this array originally was developed by the Feng Hou Miracle Astrology, what I needed to do was recover its original simplicity and display the distinct characteristics of the Feng Hou Miracle Astrology.
“I engraved the Eight Diagram Tactics in my body and fixed the center of the array on me. The center of the array is me, and vice versa. The miracle orientation is me, and vice versa.
“Provided that a certain idea occurs to me, I can change the center of the array at any time and alter the array in an instant. Only then can I minimize its shortcomings.”
Everyone’s scalp tingled at Zhuge Liang’s words. It turned out that he was the center of the array. In that case, how terrifying would he be with the assistance of such a formidable array?
His opponents probably would not even know how they died, and his intelligence was absolutely beyond description. At that moment, everyone present could not make out how to break the array, but could only sigh in admiration.
“No wonder Master said that no one could surpass Prime Minister in terms of arrays in thousands of years afterward,” Yu Wude said with a sigh.
“You’re worthy of your name, Crouching Dragon!” Shangguan Yiyi could not help sighing with emotion.
“I’m flattered. I’m somewhat ashamed that it took me nearly a thousand years to come up with such an idea,” Zhuge Liang said while shaking his head.
However, Wang Bugui shrank his neck and said, “Prime Minister, you’re so modest. I realize that the power of the whole array has become stronger by more than one or two times. You changed other parts of the array, didn’t you?”
“Haha… You do observe keenly, Bugui. You deserve to be regarded as the ‘Strongest Genius’ in the past tens of thousands of years by His Highness Ying Zheng,” Zhuge Liang laughed and said.
Then, he pointed at the entire array with his feather fan and said, “Erm… Do you still want to break through the Eight Diagram Tactics, my friend?”
“Of course! I would not deserve my name Wang Bugui if I gave up. Men can conquer nature, and everything is possible, even if I only have a one-in-ten-million chance to succeed!” Wang Bugui said with a smile.
“Hahaha! I’m right. Bugui, you’re really courageous. Just do as you please. I promise that I won’t change my position and will just see how far you can go.”
Zhuge Liang laughed as he joggled his feather fan. With a gust of wind blowing into the small array, a windstorm occurred, shaking everyone present.
“Wow! What’s going on?” Zhao Changge exclaimed. If he did not insert the spear into the ground, he would have probably flown out.
“Calm down. Let’s rush at the prime minister!”
Wang Bugui shouted, then turned to Yu Wude and said, “Fatty, observe and deduce carefully. Try to figure out how to break the array as soon as possible with Yiyi!”
After he finished speaking, he transformed the gloves into a Primordial Halberd, and rushed first with Zhao Yun and Lyu Bu, followed closely by others.
Feng Tianming and Misawa Chihiro were on the left, while Leng Yueyan and Ning Zhe were on the right, surrounding Yu Wude, Shangguan Yiyi, and Chu He. Aside from Ying Zheng, who could block such a group of Big Capables to dominate the world?
Zhuge Liang, however, was able to do so. He gulped down a deep swallow of tea and then spat it out downward all of a sudden.
“Phew!”
“Clatter!”
After the tea fell on the mini-array, a blast of heavy rain poured onto the huge array below, and each drop was composed of pure power of Taiyin!
“Shoosh, shoosh! Clang!”
Wang Bugui flew into the sky above the group of people and quickly brandished his halberd to block the heavy rain.
”All warriors, march.”
At that point, Zhuge Liang cast his spell to suspend the troops in the small array and ordered them to kill Wang Bugui and his companions. Facing the millions of heavenly soldiers, they could not avoid them but had to bite the bullet.
“The good omen from the sky, the awakening of the earth vein, the coming of the east wind, and the movement of the clouds!”
Then, Zhuge Liang pointed to the four arrays of Heaven, Earth, Wind, and Cloud with the feather fan in his right hand, slowly dragging the incantations to the proper positions in the array.
“Buzz!”
In a twinkle, various colorful clouds descended from the sky, and simultaneously countless yellow auras rose from the earth. All of them were applied to the heavenly soldiers, increasing their strength dramatically.
Moreover, a gust of wind, carrying a magical power that actually could worsen their conditions, blew gently. Not only their prana power blood, but also their spiritual strength and fighting desire were all slowly draining away.
“He!”
Hearing Wang Bugui yell, Chu He began to play the flute. It was the sound of the Taoist flute that brought everyone back to their peak condition in an instant and made them become stronger and stronger.
“Roar!”
“Clang!”
However, the clouds in the sky began to move strangely. They turned into countless fierce beasts and ancient weapons, rushing toward the crowd.
“Three Thousand Buddhist Countries!”
“Heavenly Girl Universal Incantation!”
Ning Zhe and Leng Yueyan displayed powerful martial arts toward the sky, exactly blocking the power of the Cloud Array. As for Wang Bugui and his companions, they had already fought their way out but there were still people coming at them in flocks.
But they no longer desired to fight with them. Instead, they retreated and only targeted Zhuge Liang.
“Shoosh!”
With several fireballs jumping in Zhuge Liang’s palm, his hand gave off glaring flames. Then he slowly poured the fireballs into the array.
“Boom! Boom, boom!”
Layers of clouds in the sky were dispersed all of a sudden, and hundreds of meteorites flew down quickly at the same time. The momentum brought by a spiritual meteorite seemed to be as formidable as that of a real one.
“Ugh!”
Wang Bugui roared and formed thousands of avatars in an instant, all of which performed skills like the Eight Limits Universal Order. They drew their longbows and shot numerous Primordial Arrows at the sky constantly to break the meteorites in succession.
However, the cost of doing so was that the Eight Limits Universal Order would counterattack him in advance. Additionally, he would consume all his spiritual strength and take a relatively long time if he wanted to display the Universal Reversal.
“Clatter!”
But when he was about to retreat, Zhuge Liang poured the water out of the teapot again. Following that, a sea directly appeared in the sky, which was ready to thump upon him!
That was right. The whole sea, containing horrible spiritual strength, directly fell down. If they were hit by such an attack, at the very least, their bones would have been broken.
“Beauty in Troubled Times!”
“To be a dragon depends on a blinding flash!”
At the critical moment, Lyu Bu and Zhao Yun rushed up into the sky and performed their strongest killing moves respectively.
“Boom!”
With an earthshaking noise, the sea was detonated. As for Lyu Bu and Zhao Yun, they were both shaken to fly backward.
“Whiz!”
In the meantime, as they were forced to fly, a figure passed through thousands of troops and approached Zhuge Liang as fast as a bolt of lightning.
“The azure dragon shows up, and the white tiger emerges.”
Zhuge Liang slowly tapped on the small array with his feather fan, summoning the azure dragon and the white tiger. Then, he moved to another place and commanded, “The vermilion bird starts flying, and the flying serpent begins to rage.”
In an instant, another two giant array illusions appeared, both of which were going to kill Wang Bugui.
“Shadow Killing Air!”
Wang Bugui, nevertheless, displayed the fastest move directly, shuttling back and forth through the four giant array illusions, so that no one could catch any trace of him.
“Whiz!”
When Zhuge Liang finally figured out what had happened, Wang Bugui had already gotten close to him. Then, Wang Bugui turned into a stream of light and rushed toward Zhuge Liang.
“Universal Sudden!”
But when Wang Bugui almost hit Zhuge Liang, he slowly uttered three words. Suddenly, a power emerged, disturbing the law of time and stopping everyone present.
Even the raindrops became still. The millions of warriors around were still holding their shouting poses, while their enemies were also gritting their teeth and frowning. Some of them were displaying the Tao Law, some were reciting incantations, and some were fighting.
Zhao Yun and Lyu Bu were still holding the status of flying backward, but they were also frozen in midair. Everything in the Eight Diagram Tactics became motionless, except for Zhuge Liang, who was still mobilizing the power of the array.
