Chapter 359: Activating the Array
Chapter 359: Activating the Array
Yang Jiyong dared not engage in direct combat with Feng Xi, and could only strike and retreat, angering Feng Xi and luring it forward.
Feng Xi, with its clumsy gait, crushed the mountains and forests under its massive body, pulverizing rocks in its path and scattering the magical beasts in the deep mountains.
But as it continued on, Feng Xi seemed to realize something. Suppressing the hatred in its eyes, it crouched down once more to continue refining its blood essence.
Yang Jiyong channeled his spiritual power and wielded his spear techniques to attack Feng Xi again.
However, having already expended a large amount of spiritual power using the superior Daoist technique, the Yaking Spear, his current attack lacked the power it once had. Despite the spear tip raining blows on Feng Xi, the beast paid it no heed.
Feng Xi seemed to know that as long as it finished refining its blood essence, it could descend the mountain to find food, and so it did not bother with momentary anger.
Yang Jiyong dared not continue his assault.
Once his spiritual power was exhausted, he would be in danger. If he were to be devoured by Feng Xi, not only would he perish, but the beast would also gain a Foundation Establishment "Blood Replenishing Pill" in the form of his body.
Yang Jiyong retreated, and Zhang Lan stepped forward.
His entire body trembled with spiritual power, and he condensed his fingers into a pale blue giant sword. With a distant point, sword qi crisscrossed and directly pierced Feng Xi's head.
Feng Xi's head flesh and blood scattered, only to gradually condense once more.
This was also Zhang Lan's all-out move, a spell he had just entered the Foundation Establishment stage and had not yet learned the superior techniques of the Zhang family. Nonetheless, this spell was still quite powerful and was enough to make Feng Xi wary.
Feng Xi was enraged once more and struggled to its feet, its pupils spinning wildly before fixing on Zhang Lan. With a roar, it pounced towards him.
Zhang Lan led Feng Xi on for a while longer, exhausting his spiritual power and becoming unable to cast any more decent spells to threaten the beast.
At this moment, Yang Rong's spear lashed out like a dragon, delivering a powerful strike before immediately retreating and pulling Feng Xi along.
When his spiritual power was almost depleted, Elder Yu, Zhou Zhangsi, and Old Man An took turns entering the fray.
One person focused on offense while the others restrained the beast with their weapons, taking turns to rest and replenish their spiritual power.
Step by step, they lured Feng Xi to the former Black Mountain Fortress, now the Five Elements Demon-Slaying Grand Array.
The mountains formed a natural embrace, with buildings standing tall and the array's formations stern and imposing.
As Feng Xi stepped into the grand array, it suddenly became alert and let out a roar, intending to retreat.
Yang Jiyong immediately shouted, "Seal the entrance!"
At the entrance of the array, surrounded by the embracing mountains, two massive iron gates closed from left to right, forming an inner and outer barrier of refined iron, blocking the demon's escape route.
Feng Xi paid no heed and rammed into the iron gates.
The gates, forged from refined iron and crafted by artificers, were directly broken through by Feng Xi, twisting and caving in like clay under the beast's immense strength.
The power of Feng Xi was terrifying!
Everyone sucked in a breath of cold air.
It seemed that with one more ram, the other iron gate would also be broken.
Suddenly, a golden light appeared on the iron gate, and the array patterns flashed, spreading to every corner of the gate, reinforcing the entire structure.
When Feng Xi rammed into the array formation again, it collided with the array.
The golden light on the array trembled violently, gradually dimmed, and eventually went out, but the iron gate remained intact.
Feng Xi was obstructed for a moment, and Mo Hua quickly concentrated his spiritual sense, communicating with the array's core. The spiritual power channels of the entire grand array appeared in his sea of consciousness, intricate and interconnected.
With a slight movement of Mo Hua's spiritual sense, he controlled the grand array through the array core, instantly activating all the spiritual power circuits.
Mo Hua shouted, "Five Elements Demon-Slaying Grand Array, activate!"
In an instant, the array's eye lit up, and the spiritual stones piled on the Spirit Gathering Reconstructing Array were instantly refined, transforming into a vast amount of spiritual power that surged into the entire grand array.
The spiritual power raged and flowed rapidly, causing the array to tremble and emit a deafening hum.
It was like a massive cultivation machine operating at full power or a gigantic magical beast letting out a low roar.
An incredibly powerful spiritual power aura shook the heavens and the earth.
At the same time, all the cultivators in Tongxian City were shaken in their hearts and minds, and they looked towards the Great Black Mountain.
They saw the five-colored light soaring into the sky under the morning sun.
One after another, the array patterns on the mountain lit up, connecting to form a huge five-colored curtain, with the vast spiritual power converging into rivers that flowed within the array.
The array shone brightly, enveloping the deep mountains, its splendor and grandeur suppressing the bloody aura that had lingered for a long time.
In this instant, all the cultivators were stunned, their hearts filled with indescribable awe.
This was the grand and majestic array...
The array they had built with all their might...
The array's formations seemed like a manifestation of the grand heavenly dao.
It was so powerful that it made one's heart palpitate and so magnificent that it inspired awe.
Behind him, Guilai wore a blank expression, his eyes narrowed as he murmured, "So it really was... completed..."
At the same time, Feng Xi sensed a deadly danger and let out a frenzied roar.
It struggled with all four limbs, trying to break free from the array.
But once it entered Mo Hua's grand array, escaping was no longer an easy task.
Mo Hua merely glanced at it indifferently, her small hand lifting slightly. The patterns in the center of the array core flashed.
Suddenly, the ground within the array turned into quicksand, rapidly flowing and forming a vortex that pulled towards the center.
The Earth-style Quicksand Array! One of the Five Elements!
Feng Xi's eyes blazed with ferocity as it struggled with its hands and feet, but the ground had turned to quicksand, offering no leverage. It was pulled by the vortex, its massive body dragged to the center of the array.
And at the heart of the Five Elements Demon-Slaying Grand Array was the core of its entrapment and killing mechanism:
The Five Elements Entrapment and Killing Array.
This array utilized the earthen foundation constructed by the artisans as its medium, resembling a labyrinth of the Five Elements in a cyclic pattern. It was composed of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, arranged according to the Five Directions.
The west corresponded to metal, the east to wood, the north to water, the south to fire, and the center to earth.
In each direction, the primary attribute of the Five Elements took precedence, with a base array filled with array patterns, forming a labyrinth of the Five Elements.
Its fundamental principles lay in "entrapment" and "killing."
On the left was the Metal Lock Array for entrapment, with the Metal-begets-Water principle, accompanied by the Water Sword Array for killing.
On the right was the Wood Prison Array for entrapment, with the Wood-begets-Fire principle, accompanied by the Fire Rain Array for killing.
Above was the Water Cover Array for entrapment, with the Water-begets-Wood principle, accompanied by the Wood Poison Array for killing.
Below was the Red Fire Array for entrapment, with the Fire-begets-Earth principle, accompanied by the Earth-Splitting Array for killing.
At the center was the Quicksand Array for entrapment, with the Earth-begets-Metal principle, accompanied by the Metal Light Array for killing!
The Five Elements arrays were interconnected, forming a seamless system of entrapment and killing.
The entrapment arrays hindered Feng Xi's progress, while the killing arrays depleted its blood essence and took its life.
At the same time, the Five Elements concept of generation was utilized, with the attributes of the entrapment arrays amplifying the killing arrays, maximizing the use of spiritual power and enhancing their lethality.
The Five Elements base arrays were connected to each other, forming the labyrinth.
Surrounding the labyrinth were sturdy earthen and wooden structures.
On top of these structures were reinforcing array patterns, primarily earthen and wooden, with metal as a supplement, interspersed with water and fire-style arrays. Combined with the overwhelming spiritual power of the grand array, they were impenetrable.
Feng Xi had no way to break through the encirclement and was left with no choice but to navigate the labyrinth of the Five Elements, darting left and right, only to encounter the entrapment and killing arrays in an endless cycle until its blood essence was completely depleted.
The Five Elements flowed in a cycle, cutting off all chances of survival—this was the might of an eleven-pattern first-rate grand array, the Five Elements Demon-Slaying Array!
Feng Xi was pulled into the Quicksand Array and found itself in the central earthen base array first.
The surging spiritual power of the grand array and the rumbling sound of the flowing spiritual power made the ferocious and foolish Feng Xi aware of the immense threat it faced.
It threw itself at the walls of the labyrinth with all its might.
A loud rumble echoed, but the walls, empowered by the grand array's spiritual power, remained intact, although the array patterns dimmed slightly, indicating significant spiritual power consumption.
Mo Hua's thoughts stirred, and her spiritual sense guided more spiritual power to flow and replenish the array, restoring the brightness of the array patterns on the stone walls.
Feng Xi's attempts to break through the walls proved futile, so it began to flee through the labyrinth.
However, the Quicksand Array trapped it, and the sinking quicksand made its strides clumsy and slow.
At the same time, the Metal Light Arrays on both sides lit up one after another, condensing into thousands of golden sword auras that rained down like a storm, enveloping Feng Xi and eroding its blood essence with each cycle.
The overwhelming spiritual power and the fierce killing intent made the outer perimeter of the array a chilling place for all the Foundation Establishment cultivators.
"So, this is the might of a first-rate entrapment and killing array..."
Although the grand array was only first-rate and the array patterns were merely at the Qi Refining level, the sheer number of array patterns was terrifying!
When the killing arrays were activated, it was like thousands of cultivators casting spells simultaneously, dense as pouring rain, leaving no place to hide and no means of defense.
If one fell into such an array, even if there were hundreds of Foundation Establishment cultivators, forming a formidable force, there would likely be no chance of survival!
(End of Chapter)
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