Chapter 90: One Month of Seclusion

Lin Yue looked at the Little Four Symbols Formation that had already been laid around them, and a look of excitement rose on his face.

He had not yet possessed the legacy of the Azure Sky Emperor for very long, and this was the first time he had ever arranged such a large formation. To his surprise, he succeeded on the first try, and even he himself felt a surge of delight.

“So that’s it?” Gu Ya had not expected Lin Yue to set up a formation so effortlessly.

In truth, the Little Four Symbols Formation was only a fairly ordinary spirit-binding array. In the world of cultivation, it could not even be called especially intricate. However, if Lin Yue had not possessed Daoist cultivation and been able to lay formations through the Dao, then putting aside everything else, merely inscribing the over one million blood-charter runes would already have taken a great deal of time.

“Mr. Lin, could you let us see the power of this Little Four Symbols Formation?” Liang Qiuyang asked, trembling with excitement.

Though Liang Qiuyang was a cultivator and had also entered the Dao, he had never truly witnessed the methods of the authentic inner sect Daoists. At this moment, he earnestly wanted Lin Yue to open his eyes.

“Of course,” Lin Yue said calmly.

Immediately, Lin Yue’s expression sharpened. His hands formed seals, and he began chanting the incantation to activate the formation.

“Formation, rise!”

After a short while, Lin Yue suddenly let out a loud shout.

At that cry, there came a thunderous boom, and an astonishing scene unfolded.

The circular blood markings surrounding the courtyard now seemed to have caught fire. Every single character blazed with red light, forming a sealed ring, while overhead a translucent red barrier took shape, enveloping the entire villa within it.

The whole courtyard was as though locked inside a crimson hemisphere, sealed away from the rest of the world.

“Ah!” Everyone exclaimed in awe.

Gu Ya was especially stunned by the barrier overhead, which looked like a bank of red clouds.

She did not understand Daoist arts, but she knew that the strange sight before her was like an illusion. Even the most skillful magician in the world could never achieve such a thing.

“Incredible!” Gu Huishan could not help but gasp.

Before this, he had only thought Lin Yue was a martial expert. But the methods Lin Yue displayed now had already surpassed the scope of a mere martial artist.

The scene before him was practically the work of gods!

In Gu Huishan’s heart, he now held this youth in even higher regard.

A martial expert, and true Daoist inheritance!

This boy’s future was limitless.

Given time, not to mention breaking through to the Profound Realm and becoming a grandmaster of that realm, even surpassing Hua Xifeng in the capital was by no means impossible.

Gu Huishan felt all the more that befriending Lin Yue back then had been a wise decision indeed. A youth with such immense power would bring earthshaking changes no matter whose favor he won.

Gu Huishan believed that before long, because of Lin Yue, the Gu family would rise to an even higher level.

At the same time, Liang Qiuyang was staring with eyes wide open in shock. He could clearly feel the dense aura of magical power radiating from the barrier of the Four Symbols Formation.

Only people from the inner sect of Daoism could possibly produce such a rich and concentrated aura of magical power.

Could it be that Mr. Lin came from the inner sect, and was in fact a true Daoist who had entered the Dao?

Liang Qiuyang was shaken to the core. He too could be said to have entered the Dao, but his own entry had been vague and uncertain. Compared with Lin Yue’s true methods as an enlightened Daoist, there was simply no comparison.

Among all the people present, no one understood the powers of the inner sect of Daoism better than Liang Qiuyang, who himself came from a Daoist background.

Thinking of the accounts his master had once told him about the true inner sect Daoists, Liang Qiuyang now felt that in his eyes, Lin Yue was no different from a deity.

“Lin Yue, you’re really amazing! This barrier is like the evening glow; it’s beautiful!” Gu Ya, after all, was a girl. Seeing the wondrous beauty before her, the girlish side of her could no longer be contained, and she tugged at Lin Yue’s arm in delighted praise.

“There’s an even more beautiful sight. Do you want to see it?” Lin Yue asked with a smile.

“Of course!” Gu Ya nodded quickly.

Lin Yue walked to the deep pit at the center of the courtyard, his expression tightening. Then he suddenly shouted, “Void Sword of the Dao, arise!”

The words had scarcely fallen when a streak of true energy transformed into a white ribbon and shot straight into the pit.

Immediately after, with a deafening crash, that white ribbon of true energy burst forth carrying the Void Sword of the Dao, and the sword flew directly into Lin Yue’s hand.

The instant the Void Sword of the Dao emerged, a fierce, multicolored spiritual rainbow gushed out of the pit like a fountain, surging more than ten meters into the air.

This time, however, the rainbow did not disperse. Instead, it was entirely confined within the Little Four Symbols Formation.

In an instant, the rainbow hovered within the barrier, winding around everyone present. They all felt as though they had entered a divine realm, and their excitement surged to the heavens.

“Ah! It’s truly beautiful!” Gu Ya was so thrilled she seemed ready to leap into the air.

“I’ve never seen such a beautiful sight in my life!” Overcome with emotion, Gu Ya unconsciously clung to Lin Yue’s arm without even realizing it.

Gu Huishan, standing to one side, saw it all clearly.

Good, very good. If Gu Ya could truly fall in love with Lin Yue and end up with him, then that would be nothing short of perfect.

“All right, since the formation is complete, we should not continue taking up little friend Lin’s time here. Little friend Lin, we’ll take our leave first,” Gu Huishan said after a moment.

He was still waiting for Lin Yue to improve his cultivation as soon as possible, so that he could help him and Guo Zhao break through to the level of great inner force success.

Though Gu Ya still felt she had not seen enough, she could only let it go.

“Old Gu, for the next full month, I may need to go into seclusion and will be unable to contact the outside world. If anything concerning me comes up outside, I will have to trouble you to help resolve it,” Lin Yue said in warning.

“Rest assured, little friend Lin. With my Gu family here, everything outside will be handled for you properly,” Gu Huishan replied. He knew that what Lin Yue worried about most was probably matters at home, and naturally he would not neglect those.

“What, you’re going into seclusion for a month?” Gu Ya was quite surprised, as if she felt the time was a little too long.

A month in seclusion—did that not mean a whole month without seeing him?

“What, does Miss Gu have a problem with that?” Lin Yue asked with a smile.

“No... no problem. I’m just afraid you’ll starve to death at home,” Gu Ya hastily defended herself.

“Then I must thank Miss Gu for her concern,” Lin Yue said with a smile.

“Mr. Lin, then we shall await the day you emerge from seclusion!” Liang Qiuyang said excitedly. He could hardly wait to see how far Lin Yue would advance on the path of the inner sect Daoists during this retreat.

Afterward, Gu Huishan and the others left the villa together.

Before leaving, Guo Zhao even deliberately left behind a few bodyguards to guard the villa, ensuring that for the next month no idle person would be allowed anywhere near it to disturb Lin Yue’s cultivation.

After everyone had gone, Lin Yue sent messages to his father, Lin Tenghui, as well as Xu Xier and Ji Xiaorui, among others, falsely claiming that there were matters on the military side that required him to return and handle them. Otherwise, disappearing for a month out of thin air would be impossible to explain.

In addition, Lin Yue also asked his deskmate, Lu Hongzhe, to take a month’s leave for him. After what had happened before, the school likely would not dare say a single word against it.

Once everything had been arranged properly, Lin Yue took a deep breath, and a trace of excitement appeared on his face.

“Let’s begin.”

Then, in the center of the living room, Lin Yue sat down cross-legged, entering meditation as he began to circulate the Azure Sky Art.

As the Azure Sky Art started to flow, an astonishing scene appeared.

Within the entire red barrier, all the rainbow spiritual light began to move slowly, gradually forming an enormous multicolored vortex.

And all that rainbow light started to be drawn, little by little, into Lin Yue’s body at the very center of the vortex.

From the deep pit outside, more rainbow spiritual light still continued to surge forth, all of it merging into the great current of the vortex and pouring without end into Lin Yue’s body.

The spirit vein on Dragon Breath Mountain, suppressed for many years, now became the inexhaustible source of Lin Yue’s cultivation.