coobybook Chapter 357 The Flute and the Old Violin: Lingering Echoes
Chapter 357 The Flute and the Old Violin: Lingering Echoes
The hearts of Wei Chaoyan and the other six watching the movie were like a roller coaster, rising and falling with the content. They were just happy that Lan Xichen, Wei Wuxian and others had made progress.
The next moment, it was as if he had fallen into an icy abyss, watching helplessly as the person he cared about most struggled helplessly in the face of the cold and cruel reality, withering away and returning to silence along with the world that was dying little by little!
Most good things are not durable; colorful clouds easily disperse and glass shatters.
In just over ten days, the once-prosperous "Liqi" was like a magnificent and exquisitely crafted palace of building blocks, which was suddenly destroyed by a mischievous child who casually removed an inconspicuous block, triggering a chain reaction of dominoes!
What started as seemingly insignificant changes escalated rapidly over just a few days, snowballing until, on the fifteenth day, the social system and order that Lan Xichen and his companions had painstakingly rebuilt collapsed.
All the survivors once again relive the chaos and despair of the initial outbreak of resentment!
Fortunately, Wei Wuxian, Lan Xichen, and others, who had gained experience, were not trapped by various reasons and unable to extricate themselves as they had been before. With their immediate and calm reassurance and orderly command, the people in various places who were in a state of panic miraculously calmed down.
Immediately, they calmed themselves down, obediently followed the leader's arrangements, performed their duties, and stayed quietly in their respective positions.
A massive riot that had a very high probability of destroying social order was quietly quelled without a trace.
Lan Xichen, Nie Huaisang, and others in charge of various affairs related to "Li Qi" continued to work diligently, painstakingly, and with great difficulty to maintain the current fragile balance. Wei Wuxian, who was urgently recalled from the Burial Mound, led more than twenty of the most outstanding people in the Tiangong Hall, accompanied by Lan Wangji and Wei Chaoyan, to plunge into the experimental base and race against time to find a way to break the deadlock!
While Wei Wuxian and his group were engrossed in their research, in order to curb the shrinking of the area of "Liqi" day and night, countless cultivators of Lan Qiren's generation or older (elders remaining from various clans or seniors who had long been famous among rogue cultivators) secretly kept it a secret from Lan Xichen and others who were in power at the time.
They split into two groups. One group quietly left the Four Extremes Unbreakable Formation and worked together to kill the fierce corpses and ghosts that gathered at the edge of the defensive formation, like autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves, trying their best to reduce the pressure on the formation!
The other group hid near the four corners of the Four Extremes Formation, relentlessly channeling their spiritual energy to ensure the formation's operation!
By the time Lan Xichen and the others realized what was going on, one-third of the group that had gone out had already sacrificed themselves, while more than 40% of the other group had suffered broken spiritual veins due to excessive output of spiritual energy. Such a tragic scene!
The only consolation is that their sacrifice was not in vain. The outward team successfully cleared out the fierce corpses and evil spirits within three miles of the defensive array. As long as Lan Xichen and others promptly dispatch array masters to the scene to set up a series of trapping and killing arrays, they can perfectly transform it into the first bridgehead for everyone to resist resentment and evil spirits, shift the battlefield, reduce the pressure on the defensive array, and indirectly extend the lifespan of the survivors!
Thanks to the group within the formation's tireless efforts, or perhaps due to a qualitative change resulting from quantitative change, the entire Four Extremes Unyielding Formation automatically upgraded its rank without anyone noticing, transforming from a high-level Earth-rank formation into a top-level Heaven-rank formation!
This transformation at this level signifies a comprehensive upgrade of the entire formation's functionality, and a doubling of its ability to resist attacks from resentful spirits and evil influences!
Moreover, after Lan Xichen and the others realized their actions, they promptly organized manpower to take over their work in an orderly manner while ensuring maximum safety.
Despite the combined effects of various factors, "Li Qi" managed to weather this turmoil relatively smoothly!
After three months of anxious waiting, Lan Xichen and the others finally received the good news from Wei Wuxian and the others.
When they arrived at the experimental base located deep in the back mountains of Cloud Recesses, they found Wei Wuxian and the others with blank expressions. After learning from them how to break through the predicament, everyone seemed to have been infected by Wei Wuxian and the others, and their faces immediately showed the same expression.
The two groups of people, one inside and one outside, stared at each other in silence for a long time before someone finally asked in a hoarse voice, "Mr. Wei, is this the only way left?"
Wei Wuxian's once bright and beautiful eyes, like a sky full of stars, were now filled with frustration and struggle. He lowered his head in shame and murmured, "I am incompetent. Of all the methods, this one has the highest probability of success and the most significant effect!"