[You have discovered the Knowledge-Seeking Multivision Branch Association Great Sage!]

[You let out a cold laugh, immediately raise your staff, and fly toward the Multivision Great Sage, preparing to fight him to the death!]

[But then several more figures fly out together with the Great Sage. They are precisely the remaining seven sages of the Multivision Association!]

[They raise their staffs high, causing the effective range of the Thousand Sights Hundred Eyes Formation to extend beyond the main structure of the building, gradually expanding outward like water overflowing from the surface of a lake!]

[Seeing that the countless monstrous eyes are about to surround and envelop you once more, you immediately slam on the brakes, turn around, and run, getting far away from the area covered by the Thousand Sights Hundred Eyes Formation.]

[The expansion speed of the magic formation is not fast, roughly equivalent to an ordinary person sprinting at full speed. For you, evading the coverage of the formation is as easy as lifting a hand.]

[But if you choose to fight here, under the joint siege of one Great Sage and seven Multivision sages, will you still be able to so easily evade the magic formation?]

[Your next action is?]

[1. Continue fighting near the Multivision Association. Since the sages of the Multivision School dared to set up layer upon layer of traps against the True God’s Envoy, they must wash away their sin of desecrating the true Lord with blood. You will leave none of them alive!] 𝐟𝕣𝗲𝕖𝕨𝗲𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝗲𝚕.𝗰𝚘𝐦

[2. Flee at once and lure the many enemies toward the direction of the Direct Vision Association. As long as you can reach the Direct Vision Association, you can easily counterkill all your enemies by relying on the Knowledge Sea Magic Formation. However, how to distinguish directions within the mist is a major problem.]

[3. Pretend to surrender and admit defeat, using the chance to extract information. Ask whether the Multivision Great Sage’s prophecy was fabricated, and why the Multivision School set up a trap to deal with the True God’s Envoy.]

With the tremendous threat of the Thousand Sights Hundred Eyes Formation, the second option was currently the safest and most reliable strategy.

But the premise for luring the enemies to the Direct Vision Association was that they did not know he had already replaced the Direct Vision Great Sage and gained control over the Knowledge Sea Magic Formation.

Given the current situation, luring a bunch of Multivision sages toward the Direct Vision Association was no less difficult than directly killing those sages.

As for the third option, it was obviously a trap. The Multivision sages were not low-intelligence small mobs. There was no way they would let their guard down just because he surrendered.

As soon as he surrendered, the first thing they would probably do was lock him into the Thousand Sights Hundred Eyes Formation.

There was only one way to extract information: obtain it from the enemy’s corpse!

Lin Xun narrowed his eyes. He now had the instantaneous teleportation spell Starrealm Leap and no longer needed to fear being drawn into the Thousand Sights Hundred Eyes Formation. The only concern was to beware of being entangled by many enemies and capsizing in a gutter by accident.

Besides, he still had a trump card enough to counter a group beating from many sages.

Even if it was one against eight, as long as he killed the leading Multivision Great Sage first, the remaining seven sages would no longer be a threat!

He took a deep breath and chose the first option, going head-on!

[You raise your staff, and behind you appear more than a dozen gigantic dragon lances formed of characters…]

[With shrill screams tearing through the air, the dragon lances instantly shoot toward the Multivision sages!]

[Faced with the incoming dragon lances, the sages raise their staffs and collectively raise a dense and solid knowledge light wall!]

[The powerful dragon lances only stir circle after circle of ripples on the light wall before exhausting their magical power and disappearing.]

[This is a defensive spell jointly constructed by seven sages and one Great Sage. Even if you use your ultimate – Endless Flood of Knowledge, you may not be able to break through this defense.]

[Right after tanking your probing attack, the many sages immediately begin their counterattack.]

[The seven sages unleash various spells to attack you, while the leading Great Sage starts chanting a complicated and profound incantation. It is the strongest ultimate spell of scholars, Endless Flood of Knowledge!]

[You immediately raise a knowledge light wall to block the enemy’s wild bombardment!]

[The intensity of the seven sages’ spell attacks is far higher than you imagined. They seem able to draw a large amount of spell power from the Thousand Sights Hundred Eyes Formation to strengthen their own spell potency.]

[Under the repeated bombardment of the seven sages, your light wall defense only holds for a few seconds before shattering. You have no choice but to cast another defensive spell to block the enemy’s attacks.]

[With the Thousand Sights Hundred Eyes Formation present, not only are the sages’ spell attacks strengthened, even their mana seems inexhaustible. They can continuously draw from the magic formation to replenish their own mana deficit.]

[You can only constantly raise light wall defenses, hardly getting any chance to retaliate. Only occasionally can you seize a gap to unleash dragon lance attacks…]

[But your dragon lance attacks are completely unable to break through the enemy’s defenses. Faced with the enemy’s ferocious bombardment, you simply do not have time to charge up and chant Endless Flood of Knowledge…]

[You understand that if you continue to stay here, once the Multivision Great Sage finishes chanting, you will never again have a chance to escape.]

[Do you wish to immediately escape the battlefield?]

Right now, shifting the battlefield and leaving the range of the Thousand Sights Hundred Eyes Formation so that the enemy could no longer borrow the formation’s power was indeed the most reasonable and safest strategy.

Lin Xun gave a cold smile. “You’re enjoying yourselves now. Once that’s over, it will be your time to die.”

Not only did he not flee the battlefield, he doubled down on casting defensive spells, no longer even seizing the occasional chances to counterattack from before.

He became a model spell target who took a beating without fighting back.

[…]

[The Multivision Great Sage appears to possess some kind of special eyeball that can greatly shorten spell chanting time.]

[The Endless Flood of Knowledge, which originally required an extremely long casting time, has already reached its final stage of preparation in such a short time…]

[If you let him unleash this peerless ultimate, then with the empowerment of the Thousand Sights Hundred Eyes Formation, you will absolutely have no power to contend with it.]

[You know this is your last chance to escape the battlefield.]

[Do you wish to immediately pull back and turn to flee?]

Lin Xun glanced at the skill bar. After being pounded for so long, he finally saw that the skill had finished charging.

He smiled confidently and immediately triggered the skill.

[…]

[While you are blocking the sages’ spell attacks, you suddenly yank open the front of your robe, revealing the gigantic eye embedded in the center of your breastbone.]

[The gaze of that bizarre giant eye is filled with malicious cold. Its stare fixes straight upon the Multivision Great Sage who is chanting the final incantation!]

[Mythic+ grade skill Petrification Curse activated!]

[This skill is a rule-type sure-death skill and requires a strength check…]

[If the enemy’s strength is greater than yours, Petrification will transform into Imprisoning Petrification. While in Imprisoning Petrification status, the enemy will suffer a forced imprisonment state lasting at least 1 second and at most 30 seconds, during which all charging/channeling skills are interrupted, and they cannot move or attack. All damage they receive will be increased by 20%.]

[If the enemy’s strength is lower than yours, Petrification will transform into Sure-Death Petrification. While in Sure-Death Petrification status, any attack suffered by the enemy will immediately kill them!]

[Strength check in progress…]

[…]

[Check successful!]

[Your overall strength surpasses the enemy’s. Target Knowledge-Seeking Multivision Great Sage is about to enter Sure-Death Petrification state!]

[The malicious gaze in your chest pierces through the impregnable light wall defense and falls upon the chanting Multivision Great Sage…]

[The increasingly high-pitched chanting abruptly ceases!]

[Under the horrified stares of the other sages, the Multivision Great Sage’s expression goes blank and his limbs stiffen. Stone-like patterns visible to the naked eye rapidly spread from his extremities toward his torso and head.]

[As the echoing profound chant fades away, the Branch President Lord of the Multivision Association, the Great Sage who commanded countless scholars, turns into a cold and fragile stone statue.]

[The statue preserves the Great Sage’s blank expression, and its surface is covered with cracks. Even a passing breeze can blow layer after layer of dust off the statue.]

[It looks as if the slightest touch will cause the statue to collapse into countless tiny fragments of gravel and stone dust!]