# Chapter 1132: The Dragon Mountain Grand Array Diagram (Second Update)
"The National Preceptor is the true beauty killer; compared to him, the Dark Heavenly Emperor is merely gaining a reputation without substance!"
Yan Feng Emperor watched as Yan Yunxi appeared utterly devastated, feeling a trace of sympathy, but even more admiration for the former Yan Kang National Preceptor, Jiang Baigui.
This fellow Daoist of his had always shown no interest in women. During his time in Yan Kang, he had been single-mindedly devoted to becoming a sage, with absolutely no thoughts about romantic love between men and women—he even considered it a burden, a hindrance.
If not for the Emperor forcefully arranging a marriage for him, and coupled with Qin Mu's guidance, Jiang Baigui would most likely still be a solitary man by now.
He had that capability.
Jiang Baigui was a man of deep passion. When he didn't fall in love, nothing happened, but once he did, he would never shift his affections elsewhere. Even if Yan Yunxi were more beautiful and more intelligent than the National Preceptor's wife, he wouldn't spare her a second thought.
This was also why the National Preceptor's wife felt at ease letting him leave Yan Kang.
With a single sentence, Jiang Baigui had suffocated the thoughts budding in Yan Yunxi's heart—his methods were undeniably ruthless.
Jiang Baigui bowed, addressing Yan Yunxi: "Aunt Master, I am worth a million divine demon troops. In the future, if Yan Kang faces trouble, I ask that Aunt Master assist with a million divine demon soldiers."
Yan Yunxi's face was pale as she silently nodded.
Jiang Baigui straightened his back and said in a deep voice: "Then, Aunt Master may go and invite Divine King Lang Wo and the Kai Emperor to prepare."
Yan Yunxi departed.
Just then, a lazy voice drifted up from below the city wall, laughing: "Little brother, you're quite impressive."
Jiang Baigui and Yan Feng Emperor looked down from the city wall, where they saw a ragged, tattered man sitting in the sunlight at the base of the wall, leisurely catching lice on his body and chuckling incessantly. He appeared somewhat mentally unstable.
Yan Feng Emperor's eyes flickered as he whispered: "When did this beggar arrive? He seems dazed and confused—I didn't detect him, and even Heavenly Master Zixi, a great expert, failed to notice him!"
Jiang Baigui leaped down from the city wall, landing with his hands behind his back in front of the madman, and said leisurely: "I am naturally impressive."
The madman caught a louse while looking up at him, chuckling: "A disciple of the Woodcutter Wen Tian Ge? Your words are indeed full of arrogance."
He stood up, put the louse in his mouth, bit down with a crisp *crack*, then spat it out, saying: "Even Wen Tian Ge wasn't this arrogant in front of me—he suffered a defeat at my hands. The four Heavenly Masters of the Heavenly Court are coming, each of them exceptionally intelligent. Even if you join forces with Zixi, you cannot defeat them."
Jiang Baigui said leisurely: "The four Heavenly Masters of the Heavenly Court are already old; their skills are outdated. On the battlefield, I have full confidence in countering them."
"But overwhelming force crushes all."
The madman laughed: "How many people does Carefree Village have? How many Creator Gods are there? How many rounds of attrition can they withstand? Soon, you'll have no troops left to deploy. You're using the Creator Gods and Carefree Village to fight against the myriad worlds! You cannot win."
Jiang Baigui furrowed his brow.
The madman smiled: "Your skills aren't bad, are they? The Woodcutter Wen Tian Ge was already arrogant and conceited, flaunting his talent. You seem even more haughty than him."
Jiang Baigui said modestly: "I am not the most formidable in Yan Kang. I have a senior brother who, at the same cultivation level, always remains a step ahead of me. But compared to others, they are triangles, while I am a straight line."
The madman paused, thought for a moment to understand his meaning, and said: "I was referring to strategic wisdom, not martial prowess."
"I see."
Jiang Baigui said: "When it comes to strategic wisdom, then my second senior brother can't even catch up to my horse's dust. He's not as clever as I am. Compared to me, he's inferior by a straight line—standing upright."
The madman laughed heartily, saying leisurely: "Then let's have a competition. I'll set up a formation, and you break it. If you can solve it, I'll help you resist the four Heavenly Masters of the Heavenly Court. If you can't, I'll watch you walk to your death."
Jiang Baigui raised an eyebrow and asked: "May I ask who you are, sir?"
The madman suddenly shed his dazed demeanor, straightened his posture, and stood tall with commanding presence: "The former number one Heavenly Master of the Heavenly Court, Yue Ting Ge of the Dao Sect! The current four Heavenly Masters of the Heavenly Court are all my defeated opponents! The four Heavenly Masters of the Kai Emperor—Fisherman, Woodcutter, Farmer, and Scholar—have all been defeated by me as well, both in martial prowess and strategic wisdom!"
Jiang Baigui was visibly moved and said unhurriedly: "Former National Preceptor of Yan Kang, Jiang Baigui, respectfully requests your instruction!"
Yue Ting Ge's aura was imposing as he manifested a formation with his primordial energy, transforming it into the forms of soldiers and various treasures, arranging troops and deploying formations.
This formation was extremely peculiar, vaguely taking the shape of the number one supreme treasure under heaven—the Glazed Azure Sky Canopy. It was divided into twenty-eight heavens, each containing various treasures, with soldiers arranged around the treasures in formation. The numbers were not large, but they perfectly merged with the treasures, forming thousands of intricately arranged formations.
Each of Yue Ting Ge's formations was different—ten thousand treasures formed ten thousand different formation patterns, each integrating humans and treasures into one! What was even more terrifying was that he used very few people, yet the structure of each formation achieved a perfect unity between heaven, man, and treasure, making them truly easy to defend and difficult to attack!
After Yue Ting Ge finished setting up the formation, he said in a deep voice: "This formation is called the Dragon Mountain Hermit Grand Array Diagram. It was created when the second Heavenly Master, Shang Ping Yin, was defeated by the ancient hermit Dragon Mountain Hermit. Driven mad for tens of thousands of years, he restored the Dragon Mountain Hermit's formation and compiled it into a manual. Shang Ping Yin gathered the world's wise men to break the formation, but for hundreds of thousands of years, no one succeeded. I was the one who broke the Dragon Mountain Hermit Grand Array Diagram, earning the title of number one Heavenly Master of the Heavenly Court."
The Yan Kang National Preceptor looked at the formation transformed from the Glazed Azure Sky Canopy, his mind shaken: "Many of these formations seem to be ones developed during the Yan Kang reforms! Who is this ancient Dragon Mountain Hermit?"
Within the Dragon Mountain Hermit Grand Array Diagram, there were far too many formations that were Yan Kang formations. The three people with the highest formation mastery in Yan Kang were the former National Preceptor Jiang Baigui, the Blind Eye of the Crippled Elder Village, and the Western Earth Formation Master He Yi Yi.
The three of them had created many different formations, arranging troops and deploying formations, entering the Dao through the transformations of formation patterns.
Besides these three, there were others like the Heavenly Strategy General Qin Jian Qin Bao Yue, famous for his killing formations; Situ Xiu Le Qing, renowned for borrowing the momentum of heaven and earth to set up formations; and the Cavalry General Quan Ding Wu, famous for his battlefield formations—each with their own strengths.
Half of the formations used in the Dragon Mountain Hermit Grand Array Diagram were actually Yan Kang formation diagrams!
The other formations were mostly variations of Yan Kang formations, just more exquisite. Only about a thousand formations were unfamiliar to Jiang Baigui, but breaking them wouldn't be difficult for him.
However, as he examined it more closely, he couldn't help but admire this Dragon Mountain Hermit. The formation was actually a unified array of ten thousand formations, integrating all formations into one massive killing formation!
Ten thousand formations working in concert, head and tail united as one!
Yue Ting Ge coughed, reminding him: "Jiang Baigui, these twenty-eight heavens can change their order at will!"
Jiang Baigui's heart shook violently as he slowly nodded: "Indeed formidable. No wonder it stumped the world's wise men for hundreds of thousands of years!"
Still, he could see that the person who set up the formation seemed to have done so hastily. The Dragon Mountain Hermit could have arranged the formations much more exquisitely, but it appeared he lacked the energy, leaving many flaws in the formations.
His guess was correct. At that time, Qin Mu's divine consciousness had been severely damaged by the Grand Emperor, leaving him in a daze, sometimes conscious and sometimes unconscious, resulting in many omissions when setting up the formation.
Moreover, he had set it up through the Dragon Qilin, establishing the Dragon Qilin's reputation as the number one Heavenly Master under heaven, but because the Dragon Qilin was relaying his formations, there were many shortcomings.
The most terrifying aspect of this Dragon Mountain Grand Array Diagram was that the twenty-eight heavens could change their sequence at will, which would render all efforts to break the formation completely futile!
Because the opponent only needed to adjust the order of the twenty-eight heavens, and all your previous work would be wasted!
"Yan Kang Heavenly Master, how many troops do you need to break the formation?" Yue Ting Ge asked.
Jiang Baigui pondered for a moment: "Five hundred thousand divine demons."
Yue Ting Ge was stunned. When he had broken the formation, he had used a million divine demons.