Zhang Lan also felt a burst of numbness on his scalp.
He knew the great array was fierce, but he didn’t expect its killing power to be so terrifying.
It was clearly only a first-grade array, yet it made him, a Foundation Establishment cultivator, feel a sense of despair that he couldn’t resist.
“The great array… is it really that powerful…”
Zhang Lan and Yang Ji Yong both felt a surge of emotion at the same time, murmuring to themselves.
After speaking, both of them were stunned, and immediately they looked at each other as if they had eaten a fly, showing mutual dislike.
Zhang Lan said disdainfully, “Your Yang family also has a great array, why are you so surprised and acting like you’ve never seen the world?”
Yang Ji Yong retorted, “Doesn’t your Zhang family? You’re not much better, are you?”
Zhang Lan said, “Our Zhang family has deep foundations, no need to activate the great array.”
Yang Ji Yong also said, “Our Yang family has fought in all directions and is renowned, no petty person dares to offend, naturally there’s no need to activate the great array.”
Zhang Lan sneered, “No matter how you put it, haven’t you still never seen the great array activated?”
“Rubbish, haven’t you either?”
The two argued for a long time, equally matched, neither able to mock the other.
Afterward, they both looked towards the Five Elements Slaughter Demon Great Array in the center and let out a slight sigh.
The activation of the great array was indeed a rare sight…
Although both the Zhang family and the Yang family had built great arrays, they usually didn’t activate them.
Activating a great array required consuming a large amount of spirit stones. Even if they had spirit mines in their homes, they couldn’t withstand such waste.
Unless a strong enemy attacked, or the family faced an extermination disaster, only then would they activate the great array to resist the enemy.
Since both the Zhang and Yang families had deep foundations and vast power, no one dared to offend them, and the great array had never been officially activated for several hundred years.
Therefore, until now, Zhang Lan and Yang Ji Yong had never truly seen the posture of a great array being activated with their own eyes.
The Five Elements Slaughter Demon Great Array depicted in the Ink Painting was also the first time they had seen a great array activated at full power.
Before, although they knew the great array was powerful, they didn’t know exactly how powerful it was. Only after experiencing it firsthand today did they truly feel how terrifying the great array was.
Moreover, that wasn’t all. The Five Elements Slaughter Demon Great Array was different from their family’s protective sect great array. It wasn’t a purely defensive array, or an array that was mainly defensive and also considered offense.
Instead, it was a purely killing-oriented great array.
The power of this type of great array was even stronger than they had imagined.
This time, the two of them didn’t speak. After a long time, Yang Ji Yong only murmured:
“Array masters are truly terrifying…”
Zhang Lan didn’t retort this time, but agreed in a low voice: “Yes…”
Yang Ji Yong looked at the surging spiritual power and towering killing aura of the great array, his heart filled with shock:
“If such a great array could be built on the battlefield, it would surely suppress and kill in all directions, exterminating all strong enemies! Even cultivators of a higher realm would probably be unable to survive!”
He raised his head and looked towards a mountain peak in the distance.
The mountain peak was where the array hub of the great array was located. The young Ink Painting sat there alone, controlling the entire Five Elements Slaughter Demon Great Array.
Yang Ji Yong had never felt Ink Painting’s unfathomable nature as much as he did now.
A thirteen-year-old main array master, and what he had set up was a killing-oriented great array.
“This child will surely be a great killing weapon in the world in the future.”
“He can build a great array to save ten thousand people, and naturally he can also build a great array to kill ten thousand people…”
Yang Ji Yong’s heart was filled with alarm and fear, and his gaze became more solemn.
Meanwhile, Ink Painting at this time was focused and concentrated on controlling the great array, mobilizing the five-element array, and intending to trap and kill Feng Xi.
At the same time, Feng Xi had already escaped from the trap and killing formations of the earth system base array, the quicksand array and the golden light array. Along the stone wall, it escaped into the water system base array.
Ink Painting communicated with the array hub, cut off the spiritual power supply of the earth system base array, and then operated the spiritual power refined by the array eye through the array hub to the water system base array.
With the injection of spiritual power, the Water Array and Wood Poison Array were activated, and the ground was instantly covered with accumulated water.
Feng Xi waded through the water, its steps difficult.
And all around, bursts of ink-green wood poison gas emanated. These poison gases gradually eroded Feng Xi’s surface skin, making it numb, and corroded its blood energy.
Some of the wood poison gas seeped into the water, and borrowing the principle of the mutual generation of the Five Elements, where water can generate wood, the toxicity became even more fierce.
Feng Xi waded through the water with all four feet, suffering from the erosion of poison gas. With every step it took, its flesh corroded a bit. Soon after, only white bones were left. After its blood energy condensed, it was corroded again…
Feng Xi was trapped in the Water Array for several hours. By the time it walked out of the trap array, its blood energy had obviously weakened significantly.
And waiting for it in front were the Golden Lock Array, Water Sword Array, Wood Prison Array, Fire Rain Array, Red Fire Array, and Ground Crack Array, forming layers of arrays.
As long as it couldn’t get out of the great array, it would be forever trapped within the Five Elements trap and kill formations, until it was ground to dust by thousands upon thousands of array laws.
All the cultivators who witnessed this scene were shocked at this moment, and at the same time, a glimmer of hope arose in their hearts:
Perhaps they really could, by relying on the great array, kill the great demon!
Everyone’s hearts were excited.
Afterward, it was a long process of suppression and killing.
The killing power of the great array was terrifying, and it was also very effective against Feng Xi.
But Feng Xi’s blood energy was too thick. To suppress and kill it completely, they had to maintain the continuous operation of the great array, constantly driving it, trapping and killing, consuming Feng Xi’s blood energy, and finally making it die.
This was not something that could be done in a morning or evening.
This suppression and killing could continue for several days, or even more than ten days.
During this interval, all cultivators could not slacken or deviate, otherwise, once Feng Xi escaped, it would probably be difficult to let it enter the array again, and even more difficult to strike and kill it.
Ink Painting always stayed in front of the array hub, controlling the entire great array.
If Feng Xi wanted to break through the wall, he would control the spiritual power to strengthen the stone wall.
If Feng Xi was trapped somewhere, he would activate the array there, and at the same time urge the nearby killing arrays.
Except for unnecessary arrays, he would cut off the spiritual power to save some spirit stones.
Ink Painting’s divine sense was always being consumed.
If Feng Xi was trapped and temporarily unable to escape, he would meditate to recover some divine sense.
If Feng Xi escaped, Ink Painting would consume divine sense, manipulate the array hub, and activate the nearby arrays to restrain Feng Xi.
Feng Xi was always being manipulated by Ink Painting within the complex formations of the Five Elements trap and kill, being trapped and restrained by the arrays, and at the same time being attacked by the killing arrays.
Feng Xi didn’t stop, and Ink Painting didn’t sleep or rest.
Master Luo, who was watching from the side, couldn’t help but sigh.
How deep a divine sense foundation, and how rapid a divine sense recovery…
Master Luo was not surprised that he could control the great array alone.
But to be able to control the great array alone, drive the great array as if commanding an arm, and at the same time not sleep or rest, without knowing fatigue and with abundant divine sense, could a Qi Refining cultivator really do this…?
At least if he were to manipulate the great array, he would probably be mentally exhausted within a few hours.
Master Luo sighed.
He originally thought that if Ink Painting was tired, he could help replace him for a while.
But now Ink Painting was not tired, and he felt tired just watching from the side.
Moreover, the array hub looked complex, but in actual manipulation, it was even more complex. One had to be completely familiar with every part of the great array to open, close, rotate, and bear it, and to schedule it properly.
Master Luo realized that he had overestimated himself.
This kind of thing, he himself couldn’t do it, he could only hand it over to the main array master of the great array, which was Ink Painting, to do.
Master Luo looked at Ink Painting, feeling emotional:
“Indeed, there are always people outside of heaven…”
Ink Painting still controlled the great array without distraction.
The great array was vast, and under long-term operation, even if Ink Painting controlled it precisely, there would always be errors.
Either the spiritual power flow was wrong, or there was a compatibility problem with a single array, or the array medium was insufficient to bear the load, causing the array patterns to break and wear out, etc.
The great array would have an instant when the spiritual power supply was insufficient and the array could not take effect.
At this time, the Foundation Establishment cultivators in the great array, as well as the stationed Dao soldiers, needed to take action to slightly restrain Feng Xi and prevent it from escaping.
Feng Xi was trapped and killed, and was extremely angry.
Taking action to restrain it at this time was abnormally dangerous.
Therefore, Zhang Lan, Yang Ji Yong, Elder Yu, and others were all on high alert, not daring to be careless in the slightest. Everyone only attacked once, and after repelling one strike, another person would take action.
This way, they could both restrain Feng Xi and prevent the crowd from fighting with Feng Xi for a long time, exposing flaws, being swallowed by Feng Xi, losing their lives, and also allowing Feng Xi’s blood energy to grow again.
Zhang Lan and the others were under immense pressure and were extremely cautious in their actions.
Fortunately, Ink Painting quickly adjusted the array hub, making the great array re-operate, trapping Feng Xi in the array again, activating the array, and strangling it in turn…
This process was extremely long…
Outside the great array, in Tong Xian City, the mood of all cultivators also changed from shock and surprise to anxiety and torment.
They didn’t know how long the great demon would need to be killed, nor did they know if it could be killed in the end. They could only fall into a long wait…
In the following ten-odd days, whether it was day or night, the five-colored light in the deep mountains never disappeared, and powerful spiritual power fluctuations rose and fell.
Feng Xi’s roar also continued day and night.
Its body’s blood energy gradually faded, but its fierce aura became thicker, dyeing the sky of the deep mountains red, like a gate of purgatory slowly opening in the sky.
And the Five Elements Slaughter Demon Great Array was like a five-colored shackle, tightly locking this gate of purgatory.
Finally, after more than twenty days, Feng Xi’s roar weakened and gradually calmed down.
And the blood color in the sky also gradually dimmed.
The evening glow sprinkled down, dyeing the big black mountain a golden color. A glimmer of hope arose in everyone’s hearts.
In the great array, after more than twenty days of fierce fighting without sleep or rest, all the cultivators were exhausted, and the spirit stones collected were also almost consumed.
All the cultivators worked together and finally consumed Feng Xi’s blood energy completely!
Feng Xi’s body’s blood energy dissipated, becoming gray and defeated, and slowly collapsed to the ground.
Elder Yu and others were pale, gasping for rough breaths, biting their teeth, and persevering for more than twenty days.
When Feng Xi fell to the ground at this time, everyone’s hearts were initially numb. After a long time, they gradually came back to their senses and said incredulously:
“Died?”
“Killed?”
“The great demon died, it was killed…”
Joy then surged up like a tide, and they couldn’t help but let out cheers.
Ink Painting also let out a long sigh of relief and sprawled on the ground.
But before Ink Painting could be happy, his heart suddenly palpitated.
He hurriedly crawled up and looked down, his pupils shrinking.
The fallen Feng Xi, silent and without sound, slowly stood up again…
Just like the pig demon that had died once initially, it stood up silently like this, without a sound, and swallowed the Qian family ancestor in one mouthful.
The cheers stopped abruptly. The crowd also saw this scene and couldn’t help but say in shock:
“This great demon is actually still not dead?”
“Impossible, its blood energy is clearly exhausted…”
“What to do?”
At the same time, Feng Xi’s aura changed. There was no longer scarlet blood energy around its body, but black and gray dead gas diffused.
Its pig face also gradually distorted, deformed, and reconstructed, turning into a huge human face.
This human face was like a strange Daoist.
It opened its mouth, without lips or teeth, speaking words that were indistinguishable between male and female.
It was like one person speaking, and also like many people speaking together, strange and noisy:
“Who are you? Ruining my great matter!”
“Ruining my great matter!”
“Who? How dare you?”
“Ruining… my great matter!”
Many disordered voices were mixed together, both sounding in the ear and sounding in the sea of consciousness.
Zhang Lan and the others all changed color:
“What is this thing?!”
“This pig… is it human?”
At the instant of seeing the human face, a spiritual light flashed in Ink Painting’s mind. He finally understood why this pig would die and revive.
Because within its body, another Daoist’s divine thought was always hidden.
That strange Daoist’s divine thought!
Feng Xi’s demonic consciousness had already perished. What drove its revival was that Daoist’s divine thought.
That Mr. Zhuang had told him not to ask, not to think, and not to mention… the strange Daoist!
Feng Xi revived, a human face emerged, grievances intertwined, and dead gas was deep.
Mr. Zhuang in the mountain residence also had a solemn expression and murmured:
“Dao Heart Planting Demon…”
Today’s update is finished.