荒墟牧神 - 第1137章 龍山陣圖 - 雲海書庫

th me, he falls short by a straight line, and a standing one at that." The madman roared with laughter and said leisurely, "Then let us have a contest. I shall lay a formation, and you shall break it. If you can unravel it, I will help you hold off the Heavenly Court's Four Celestial Masters. If you cannot, I will watch you go to your death." Jiang Baigui raised an eyebrow. "May I ask who you are?" In an instant the madman shed his mad air; he drew himself up, lofty in bearing and terrible in dignity: "The Heavenly Court's former First Celestial Master, Yue Tingge of the Daoist sect! The Heavenly Court's present Four Celestial Masters are all men I have beaten! The four Celestial Masters of Kaihuang, Fisherman, Woodcutter, Farmer and Scholar, were every one of them defeated by my hand, in force of arms and in wisdom alike!" Jiang Baigui was moved, and said without haste, "Jiang Baigui, former Imperial Preceptor of Jingping. I beg you to instruct me!" Yue Tingge's aura pressed upon him; he manifested a formation out of his vital essence, and the vital essence took the shapes of soldiers one by one, of treasures one by one, drawing up troops and laying out arrays. This formation was exceedingly strange: it vaguely took the form of the Glazed Azure Heaven Banner, the supreme treasure of the world, divided into the Twenty-Eight Heavens, and within the Twenty-Eight Heavens were all manner of treasures, and around the treasures were disposed soldiers in formation, not many in number, yet each fitting exactly into its treasure, forming thousands upon thousands of formations in intricate and well-ordered array. And every one of Yue Tingge's formations was different from the rest; ten thousand treasures laid out ten thousand different arrays, and every array fused man and treasure into one! More terrible still, the number of men he used was exceedingly small, yet the structure of each formation made formation, man and treasure one with heaven and earth, inseparable, truly a thing easy to hold and hard to take! When Yue Tingge had finished laying his formation, he said in a low voice, "This formation is called the Longshan Wanderer's Grand Formation Diagram. The Second Celestial Master, Shang Pingyin, was defeated by the ancient recluse the Longshan Wanderer, and went mad for tens of thousands of years, until he restored the Longshan Wanderer's formation diagram and drew it into a book. Shang Pingyin summoned the wise men of the world to break it, and for hundreds of thousands of years, through countless sages, none could. It was I who broke the Longshan Wanderer's Grand Formation Diagram, and won the name of the Heavenly Court's First Celestial Master." The Imperial Preceptor of Jingping looked at the formation that the Glazed Azure Heaven Banner had become, and his heart was greatly shaken: "In this formation, many of the arrays seem to be arrays studied during the Jingping Reforms! Who was this ancient Longshan Wanderer?" In the great formation diagram of the Glazed Azure Heaven Banner there were far too many arrays that were Jingping arrays. Of those in Jingping with the deepest mastery of formations there were three: Jiang Baigui, former Imperial Preceptor of Jingping, was one; the Holy-Eyed Blind Elder of Yincan Village; and He Yiyi, formation master of the Western Lands. These three had created many different kinds of formations, drawing up troops and laying arrays, entering the Dao through the transformations of formations. Besides the three of them there were others: Shen Jian and Shen Baoyue, Grand Generals of Heavenly Strategy, famed throughout the world for their killing formations; Situ Xiuleqing, famed for laying formations by borrowing the momentum of heaven and earth; and Quan Dingwu, General of Agile Cavalry, famed for battle formations, each with his own strength. Of the arrays used in the Longshan Wanderer's Grand Formation Diagram, half, astonishingly, were Jingping formation diagrams! And most of the other arrays we