I have an Apocalypse City Chapter 1230

Chapter 1230: Chapter 1232 Breaking Through Chapter 1230: Chapter 1232 Breaking Through Song Jian sat cross-legged by the lake, perceiving the array that constituted the Wine Lake. Soon, his brow furrowed.

The array contained within this Wine Lake turned out to be a series of linked formations, made up of at least a dozen individual arrays looping into each other. If one were to simply break one of the arrays, it could easily trigger the collapse of the entire chain.

As Song Jian was comprehending the Wine Lake Array, a disciple from the Imperial Sword Sect accidentally triggered one of the minor arrays. Suddenly, the surface of the previously tranquil lake erupted into tumultuous waves that surged toward the shore.

Song Jian's expression changed, and he hastily stopped his contemplation. Flickering like a shadow, he quickly retreated backward while the other disciples also cast a blaming glance at the disciple who had triggered the array before retreating swiftly.

“Damn it, I had already grasped the sixth layer and hadn't even decided where to start, yet you dared to recklessly trigger the array!” one of the Imperial Sword Sect's disciples shouted with a face full of anger.

“Junior Brother Wang, retreat quickly! The counterattack from the Wine Lake Array is at least equivalent to the full-strength blow of a level-100 sovereign-class BOSS; we can't withstand it!”

“Rampart of the Rock Wall, manifest the Array Diagram!”

“Golden Light of the Earth, activate!”

With time pressing, the disciples used various methods to flee the vicinity of the Wine Lake. The disciple who had accidentally activated the array took a tad longer to react since his mind had been fully immersed, and by the time he stood up to dodge, a wave over ten meters tall had already crashed in front of him.

Grinding his teeth, the disciple pulled a palm-sized Eight Trigrams plate from his bosom and threw it into the air, shouting loudly, “Eight Trigrams Array Diagram, manifest!”

Around the disciple, a mist sprang up, forming a protective circle with the Eight Trigrams Array Diagram at its center.

Boom!

The giant wave crashed against the Eight Trigrams Array with a force like a giant pressing down with an open palm. The roaring sound pierced the heavens, and the vicinity shook as if an earthquake had struck, the ground trembling slightly.

Song Jian's eyes lit up as he scrutinized the Eight Trigrams Array, observing that after the impact of the giant wave, it radiated a dazzling light. It split the wave into more than ten streams of water circulating within the array, gradually weakening its force.

The onslaught lasted a full three minutes before the light from the Eight Trigrams Array began to flicker erratically, clearly indicating that the array was about to collapse due to the disciple's insufficient Mental Strength.

Pop~
After a short while, the Eight Trigrams Array indeed collapsed into countless specks of golden light that faded into the air. The mist also slowly dispersed to reveal the disciple struggling in a watery pit, desperately trying to extricate himself.

With the destructive power of the wave reduced by ninety percent thanks to the Eight Trigrams Array, the remaining water posed no threat to the disciple's life, and the stream slowly receded.

This disciple, whose Mental Strength had been completely exhausted, had only swallowed a few mouthfuls of water and faced no threat to his life.

“What a pity. The closely guarded secret of Sword Howling Peak, the Eight Trigrams Array Diagram, has been wasted because the user's Mental Strength was insufficient. An array that could have been used a few more times was directly ruined!” remarked a disciple of the Imperial Sword Sect from a distance, watching the struggling figure in the water with a derisive laugh.

“The power of the Eight Trigrams Array wasn't fully utilized, deploying at most two or three layers of its strength. Otherwise, it would have withstood the blow without any damage, and might even have been able to counterattack, possibly breaking through one or two of the minor chained arrays!”

“You didn't see his Mental Strength, maintaining the array is extremely difficult for him, or else the array disk wouldn't be damaged, turning what could have been reusable into a one-time consumable!”

A few disciples from the Imperial Sword Sect were whispering schadenfreude among themselves, and Song Jian suddenly realized that not all disciples within the Imperial Sword Sect got along as harmoniously as he had imagined.

“Alright, fellow junior brothers, the counterattack has ended, and we can continue to move forward and comprehend!” An older disciple of the Imperial Sword Sect said with a smile, “The Jade Liquid Wine in Wine Lake, our seniors specifically instructed us to fetch some. If that junior brother is the first to decipher the array there, please share some with us. I, of course, will not let the junior brother suffer any loss!”

“Well said, well said, but the one who can be the first to break the array there, I believe it has to be none other than Senior Gui Chuan!” A disciple of the Imperial Sword Sect laughed heartily, fawningly speaking.

“Indeed, indeed, among us, Senior Gui Chuan has the highest array mastery, and it will definitely be Senior Gui Chuan who breaks it first!” Other disciples also echoed one after another.

Laughing and chatting, the group slowly approached the edge of Wine Lake again, starting to continue their comprehension of the array contained within.

Song Jian hesitated for a moment and then headed in a different direction, stopping only after he was more than two hundred meters away from the group and started to carefully comprehend the sequential arrays within Wine Lake.

As Song Jian comprehended, lines of system prompts would occasionally pop up in the information bar;
System: As you comprehend the Wine Lake array, your Sword Array Atlas skill earns a slight increase in proficiency;
…

The array contained within Wine Lake was very unfamiliar to Song Jian, totally different from the previous Stone Beast Array. Even for a single small array within it, Song Jian felt as if he were looking at flowers through the fog, not able to discern any clues, let alone the large sequential array composed of dozens of small arrays.

Therefore, although there were occasional system prompts for increases in comprehension proficiency, each instance of gained proficiency was too little, and it couldn't compare at all with the previous comprehension of the Stone Beast Array.

Song Jian sat by the lake and had been comprehending for more than three hours, yet his Sword Array Atlas proficiency had not even reached one-tenth of the progress, and he felt a sense of impatience in an instant.

“With such a slow and methodical comprehension, when will I understand it all? Am I to waste all the exploration time of the secret realm on this single array within Wine Lake!” Song Jian thought to himself.

To know, the Sword Array Record Secret Realm also has an opening time limit, which is only thirty days. Once the time is up, everyone inside the secret realm will be forcibly expelled, and entering again would require waiting until the opening the following year.

Given Song Jian's current rate of comprehension, fully understanding the entire Wine Lake Array might indeed take tens of days or even dozens of days, leaving no time to comprehend other arrays.

Thinking this, Song Jian steeled his heart and directly chose the simplest loop array, and his Mental Strength, like a sharp long needle, thrust fiercely towards the array eye he had guessed.

If his guess was correct, and this was indeed the array eye of the loop array, then the simple loop array would be immediately deciphered by Song Jian. If not, it would trigger a counterattack from the entire Wine Lake Array.

Puft~
Song Jian felt his Mental Strength as if piercing into a bubble, a feeling of hitting nothing solid, and his heart suddenly sank.

“Oh no, I guessed wrong; this is not the array eye of the loop!” The thought flashed through Song Jian's mind, and with a thought, his figure shook violently, the Sword Shadow Clone Skill instantly deployed. An identical Song Jian stood in the original spot, while Song Jian's real body swiftly retreated backwards.

Chapter end

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