The old Daoist suddenly spoke up, and everyone realized that something must have happened.
But nobody knew what exactly had occurred, so they could only continue watching from the sidelines.
"What's unfair about this?" Li Muzhi asked the old Daoist.
"Just now, while my disciple Chu Feng was setting up his formation, you were secretly reinforcing your own completed formation in the dark."
"Your formation's power has increased considerably compared to what it was an incense stick's worth of time ago."
"But my disciple Chu Feng only just finished setting up his formation."
"You used a full incense stick's worth of time more than he did. Naturally, that's unfair."
The old Daoist said.
"Could it really be so?"
After hearing the old Daoist's words, Long Xiaoxiao and the others were quite surprised.
Even the Long Clan's clan chief was caught off guard.
They had been focused entirely on watching Chu Feng set up his formation and hadn't noticed Li Muzhi's movements at all.
So they weren't sure whether the old Daoist was falsely accusing Li Muzhi, or whether Li Muzhi had actually done such a thing.
"I did indeed reinforce this formation's power."
"But what's unfair about that?"
"From the very beginning, I never said that reinforcing a formation's power was prohibited."
"Don't forget — I'm the one who set these rules. I know them better than any of you."
However, to everyone's surprise, Li Muzhi not only didn't deny it but was completely open about it.
What's more, his attitude carried no shame whatsoever — he even seemed to think it was perfectly natural.
This attitude rubbed people the wrong way, but nobody dared say a word against him.
"If you feel it's unfair, we can end the competition right here."
"I wasn't the one who demanded this contest in the first place. I couldn't care less."
After saying this, Li Muzhi turned to Chu Feng. "Well? Do you want to keep going? If so, I won't hold back."
"Keep going," Chu Feng said.
Boom—
The moment Chu Feng's words fell, countless swords glowing with silver light came hurtling toward him like a torrential downpour.
Each of those silver swords packed formidable power, and their sheer number was beyond counting. The destructive force they carried could rightly be described as world-ending.
This was the formation Li Muzhi had set up.
Although he had learned this formation from Chu Feng, this was his first time deploying it.
Yet the formation's power had already been pushed to near its absolute limit.
"Formation, activate!"
Suddenly, a sharp command rang out.
It was Chu Feng.
Chu Feng extended a single finger forward.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh—
From within Chu Feng's formation, countless golden swords also shot forth into the sky.
The imposing might of his formation actually surpassed Li Muzhi's by a considerable margin.
This was a formation Chu Feng had learned from Li Muzhi.
Although the two formations were somewhat different, their methods of attack were remarkably similar.
Li Muzhi had done this deliberately.
He had learned Chu Feng's formation first and already knew its attack patterns.
Then he had presented his own formation — deliberately choosing one with attack methods similar to Chu Feng's — and had Chu Feng set it up as well.
His purpose was to prove that when it came to mastering the same formation, he, Li Muzhi, stood above Chu Feng.
High above in the void, golden and silver light intertwined.
In an instant, ripples spread outward and deafening booms erupted all around.
Countless luminous swords clashed against one another in a dazzling storm of light.