Chapter 362: Unraveling
Chapter 362: Unraveling
The remaining Spirit Stones were instantly refined, transformed into spiritual energy, and channeled into the grand array, setting it in motion.
As the spiritual energy reached the first Reverse Spirit Formation, it instantly reversed, shattered, and turned a void black, forming a terrifying force of unraveling.
The spiritual energy, like a spark, traveled along the grand array, triggering each Reverse Spirit Formation in succession, causing layer upon layer of deeper and more intricate unraveling.
Finally, these forces of unraveling, following the path of the grand array, reached every corner, undoing each and every formation, accumulating into an incredibly formidable power that instantly caused the entire grand array to collapse and self-destruct!
...
The cultivators who had evacuated to the outer mountains were now retreating towards Tongxian City.
Mo Shan had a bad feeling, and he searched for Mo Hua's figure among the crowd, but no matter how hard he looked, he couldn't find her. Just then, he spotted Zhang Lan and hurried over to grasp his sleeve, anxiously asking, "Where's Mo Hua?"
Zhang Lan, busy with the evacuation, was startled and finally realized what was happening. He turned his head towards the depths of the mountain.
At that moment, the world fell into a deathly silence.
As if all sounds had been devoured by the boundless void, the entire Great Black Mountain went quiet, an oppressive silence that foretold the arrival of a catastrophic storm.
Zhang Lan and Mo Shan's faces turned deathly pale.
Far away in Tongxian City, Liu Ruhua suddenly felt her heart palpitate. She looked towards Great Black Mountain and tears streamed down her face.
A surge of black spiritual energy soared into the sky, parting the clouds and revealing a terrifying presence.
The powerful reversal of spiritual energy caused the deep mountains to turn into flying ash, bit by bit.
Though it appeared incredibly frightening, there was not a sound to be heard.
It was as if the world had been reduced to the dead silence of black and white.
At this moment, all the cultivators in Tongxian City were filled with awe and dread.
Not just in Tongxian City, but all the cultivators within the Black Mountain State, a second-rate state, looked up in shock and saw the terrifying sight of the black spiritual energy unraveling at the horizon, their bodies trembling uncontrollably.
The unraveling of the grand array was earth-shattering, causing all the cultivators within the state to be filled with terror.
They didn't know what had happened, only feeling an inexplicable dread.
However, Zhang Lan and the others in the outer mountains witnessed everything that unfolded.
They saw the surging spiritual energy reverse, the collapse of the grand array, the unraveling of the formations, and Feng Yi in the midst of the unraveling force.
The force of unraveling was like countless sharp, black, and fine blades, slicing and dicing Feng Yi's physical body over and over, disintegrating his bones, eradicating his demonic thoughts, and dissipating his death energy.
It seemed as if this force was trying to erase his existence from the face of the earth!
This process was accompanied by extreme pain.
Feng Yi struggled and roared.
Countless faces appeared on his body, wailing, crying out in despair, and pleading.
But even these sounds seemed to be completely dissolved, not making a single noise.
Everyone was bewildered and stunned, and Zhang Lan's pupils shook violently.
What kind of power was this? He had never heard of it, nor had he ever seen anything like it.
Zhang Lan paused, suddenly remembering that this might be what Mo Hua had meant by "rearguard action." At this very moment, Mo Hua was within the self-destructing grand array.
Zhang Lan's heart was filled with boundless guilt and regret.
Mr. Zhuang, witnessing the surging and tumultuous black unraveling force of the grand array in the distance, could not hide his astonishment.
"The grand array is unraveling... How did he manage to do this..."
The unraveling of a grand array required an immense amount of calculations and consumed an astronomical amount of spiritual sense.
How did Mo Hua manage to calculate all of this?
Mr. Zhuang was perplexed and filled with disbelief.
Guai Lao was equally shocked and speechless.
With his extremely high realm and long life, he had witnessed many grand scenes, but the impact of what he was seeing now might surpass them all.
This unbelievable unraveling of a first-rate grand array...
After a while, Guai Lao said solemnly, "I hope nothing goes wrong."
Mr. Zhuang, after a moment of calculation, relaxed and said, "He left himself an escape route."
He had prepared an escape route, which meant that everything was planned in advance...
Guai Lao also felt slightly relieved and said, "That's good." Then, looking at the horizon, he sighed, "This child has guts."
"Yes," Mr. Zhuang said with a complicated expression.
The two of them stared at the terrifying yet majestic scene of the grand array unraveling in the distance, unable to speak for a long time.
As they watched, a chill suddenly ran through their hearts, and their pupils contracted.
In the distance, thunderclouds gathered, and within the thunderclouds, there was a hint of red.
Guai Lao said incredulously, "Is that..."
Mr. Zhuang's eyes lost focus, and his voice trembled slightly as he said,
"Tribulation Thunder?!"
In the outer mountains, Yang Jiyong also noticed the anomaly and exclaimed in fear,
"Zhang Lan, look! What is that?"
The unknown pitch-black spiritual energy was too powerful. It had broken through the restrictions of the Heavenly Dao's laws, invoking the calamitous thunder that eradicates all existence!
But who, or what, was this thunder aiming to annihilate?
Zhang Lan's eyes widened as he suddenly realized, and he quickly looked towards the depths of the mountain.
Within the mountain, the grand array had finished collapsing. Peaks crumbled, and all vegetation and rocks turned to black ash, dissipating along with the spiritual energy.
Only one mountain peak remained standing.
The mountain was riddled with pits and craters, resembling a pillar that had weathered the ages.
This was the gate of life within the grand array.
And at the peak of this mountain stood a slender figure.
That figure was Mo Hua.
Mo Hua's face was pale, but his aura was steady.
Apparently, he had been unaffected by the terrifying spiritual energy from earlier.
Mo Shan, Elder Yu, and the others who had been worried about Mo Hua couldn't believe their eyes, and their joy knew no bounds. But before they could fully rejoice, they witnessed a scene that filled them with even greater dread.
Above Mo Hua's head, thunderclouds gathered, and the scarlet Tribulation Thunder, carrying the aura of obliteration, loomed over him.
Everyone's hearts sank.
Was Mo Hua the target of the Tribulation Thunder?
Was the Heavenly Dao's law aiming to eradicate Mo Hua?!
Despair filled their eyes.
The Heavenly Dao's law was supreme, and cultivators had no means of resisting it. Even the most powerful cultivators would undoubtedly perish under the might of the Tribulation Thunder!
Just as everyone was consumed by despair, the situation took another turn.
The scarlet Tribulation Thunder descended, about to strike Mo Hua, but it hesitated for a moment.
It seemed that even the Tribulation Thunder hadn't expected that the one who had triggered the Heavenly Dao's law, the one it was meant to annihilate, was just a child of ten or twelve years old.
Moreover, his cultivation was low, only at the seventh layer of Qi Refinement.
There were no other sinister energies emanating from his body as well.
The Tribulation Thunder hovered around Mo Hua, as if confirming, hesitating, and deliberating. Finally, it seemed to conclude that there was a flaw in the array, and it slowly withdrew from Mo Hua's side, returning to the thunderclouds...
As the Tribulation Thunder dissipated, the grand array completely collapsed, and the world returned to silence.
The terrifying fluctuations in the deep mountains vanished.
Whether it was Feng Yi, the grand array, or the Tribulation Thunder, they were no more.
In the depths of the mountains, only Mo Hua remained.
At this moment, all the cultivators who had witnessed the terrifying spectacle turned their gazes towards the deep mountains, towards the mountain peak where Mo Hua stood.
The grand array had collapsed, wreaking havoc on the heavens and the earth, turning the deep mountains into flying ash, yet Mo Hua remained unscathed.
The mountains and rocks around him crumbled, leaving nothing but desolation.
Feng Yi, the unrivaled great demon within this realm, had been reduced to dust beneath his feet, leaving only shapeless black ash remains.
The scarlet Tribulation Thunder, capable of erasing all existence, had gathered above his head, circled around him, and ultimately dissipated by his side.
Mo Hua stood atop the vast Great Black Mountain, his figure seemingly frail yet towering over the heavens and the earth, as if in harmony with the Heavenly Dao itself. He had endured the collapse of the heavens and the earth and the descent of the Tribulation Thunder, yet he remained unharmed.
This incomprehensible scene was forever etched into the minds of all the cultivators from Tongxian City.
And at this moment, Mo Hua looked up at the sky, his eyes filled with shock.
He had witnessed a sight that shocked him even more.
He saw the Tribulation Thunder, the thunderclouds, and above the clouds, an array pattern!
The Heavenly Dao wanted to eradicate him, but it didn't.
As the Tribulation Thunder came and went, tearing open the sky as it dissipated, Mo Hua, through the torn heavens, caught a glimpse of an array pattern in the void!
It was just a single array pattern.
Simple and ancient, grand yet abstruse, it encompassed the ultimate truths of the heavens and the earth, and it also concentrated the power to annihilate all things. It struck fear into one's heart and yet inspired awe.
Mo Hua glanced at it in astonishment, wanting to commit this array pattern to memory.
However, his spiritual sense was too weak to comprehend the Heavenly Dao's grand array, and after just a glance, his spiritual sense was instantly depleted, and a tearing pain assailed him as his sea of consciousness threatened to collapse.
At this critical juncture, the stele suddenly appeared, protecting Mo Hua's sea of consciousness.
His collapsing sea of consciousness was reshaped.
Mo Hua's consciousness experienced a moment of clarity.
This fleeting clarity brought enlightenment to Mo Hua.
He understood that his spiritual sense was limited and couldn't retain this array pattern.
But the stele could!
If he couldn't keep it in his sea of consciousness, then he would imprint it on the stele.
Even if he couldn't remember the entire array pattern, remembering just a stroke would be enough!
The Tribulation Thunder would dissipate in an instant, and the rift in the sky would soon close.
Mo Hua tilted his head back, blood flowing from his eyes as he exerted all his strength to imprint a stroke of the array pattern on the stele within his sea of consciousness.
Just a single stroke!
But this single stroke of the array pattern was incredibly profound and powerful!
It was derived from the grand array that reached the heavens and the earth, a true immortal pattern from an array of the immortal rank!
(End of Chapter)
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