Facing the array on the small mountain, Huang Xingshi truly had some means to deal with it.
"This array is rather strange. I have studied it for many days without gaining anything, but I did manage to find a way to enter the array."
As he spoke, Huang Xingshi swiftly pressed both hands against the space before him. Immediately, a doorway about two meters tall and just over one meter wide appeared where his hands touched.
A trace of a smile appeared on Huang
Xingshi's face, and he cast a slightly self satisfied glance at Liu Bai.
It was precisely this glance that instantly dispelled the bit of pride that had just risen in his heart. This was because he saw that on Liu Bai's forehead, a vertical eye that seemed almost tangible was releasing white radiance.
"Heart's Eye State?!"
Although he already knew that Liu Bai's spiritual array master level was extremely high, he had never imagined that Liu Bai had already cultivated a Heart Eye State. Moreover, judging from its state, it even showed signs of transforming from a Void Heart Eye into a Real Heart Eye.
Such a level of attainment in the Dao of arrays would probably take even famous Spiritual Array Grandmaster a hundred years to comprehend.
Yet it had appeared on a young man who was barely in his twenties.
"This person is truly monstrous!"
At this moment, Huang Xingshi had only this single thought. He had originally been considering whether to rely on the various strange array within the ruins to take a gamble. Now it seemed that he had truly been overthinking it.
With the other party's level of attainment in the Dao of arrays, his little tricks earlier would likely be seen through at a glance. If he truly tried to scheme against him using arrays, the one who would die first would certainly be himself.
Having his courage completely shattered by Liu Bai's Void Heart Eye State, Huang Xingshi put away all his schemes. Seeing that the doorway was already open, he hurriedly said to Liu Bai, "My lord, the situation inside is somewhat special. Based on my previous experience, there should be countless arrays within that test those who enter. Each time one passes a stage, one can obtain a reward. Back then, I risked my life to pass only two stages. The Nine Heavens Locking Dragon Array flags were the reward after the second stage."
Liu Bai nodded slightly.
He had deliberately let Huang Xingshi see that scene just now. During the previous battle, when he crack formations, outsiders could not see what he was doing. As such, those people could only guess how far his attainment in the Dao of arrays had reached, without truly understanding it.
After all, they had never stood at such a level in their entire lives, so they were fundamentally incapable of imagining what kind of abilities existed beyond that realm.
Giving Huang Xingshi a bit of shock from a so called genius would also make him understand how powerful the person he was facing truly was, and prevent him from making irrational choices.
From the current situation, the effect was quite good.
Stepping into the doorway, Liu Bai felt a clear spatial displacement around his body. Then everything before his eyes changed.
Strange hissing roars came from the depths of the darkness. Within those roars seemed to be endless pain. That despair filled sound made even Liu Bai feel his scalp tingle.
Crack.
A brittle sound echoed beneath his feet.
Liu Bai lowered his head and saw bones covering the ground.
He frowned slightly. If this kind of scene were placed in his previous life, it would indeed be quite frightening. But for the current Liu Bai, this was nothing more than a trivial matter. No matter what demons or monsters appeared, once his golden body emerged, even the King of Hell would be sent on his way.
However, Liu Bai quickly noticed something abnormal. He discovered that these skeletal remains were all maintaining the same posture. Even in death, they were as immovable as rocks.
This had once been an army.
And it was an army that did not fear death even when facing it.
Looking at these bones, a profession suddenly surfaced in Liu Bai's mind.
Battle Formation Master.
"What is going on? Could Huang Xingshi have lied to me? Did he not say it was a Array trial? How did a fallen battle army suddenly appear?"
This thought had only just formed in Liu Bai's mind when he suddenly heard more sounds of feet stepping on bones coming from around him.
Liu Bai was startled, thinking that something had approached him without his noticing. But when he looked over, he realized that the sounds were produced by the movement of the skeletal remains themselves.
Ghost like wailing sounds echoed from the darkness. Liu Bai watched as the bones before him rose one by one, then formed ranks like a great army. The fist sized dark hollows where their eyes should have been silently stared in Liu Bai's direction, causing a chill to surge up his spine.
"Could this be a military formation left behind by some battle formation master? In the original work, Mu Chen encountered such things several times and eventually obtained them to enhance his combat power."
As Liu Bai thought this, he looked at the revived skeletal army.
Boom boom boom.
What Liu Bai had imagined did not happen. Instead, after forming ranks, the skeletal army charged straight toward him.
Seeing this, Liu Bai raised his hand and fired a beam of spiritual energy, instantly clearing a large area as bones shattered and flew everywhere. However, those shattered bones quickly reassembled into skeletal soldiers once more. Even mottled blades and swords appeared in their hands as they continued to charge.
"Undead creatures? Or have they also been corrupted by demonic energy and transformed into evil beings?"
Watching this scene, Liu Bai frowned and could not help but think so.
What he did not expect was that just as this thought arose, pitch black liquid resembling filthy water appeared on the ground, rapidly spreading upward along the skeletal bodies.
In the blink of an eye, the skeletal army that had looked decayed a moment ago had transformed into a demonic army completely covered in black radiance.
"What is going on?" Liu Bai was stunned. He hurriedly raised his hand and struck out with a gigantic spiritual energy palm, which slammed heavily into the military formation.
Purple Undying Fire spread forth, attempting to incinerate everything before him.
But an even more shocking scene appeared. The Undying Fire, a top tier divine flame that burned all things, was firmly blocked when facing the black liquid. The two burned and corroded each other continuously, yet neither could gain the upper hand.
"It truly is demonic transformation. Such a great army has been alienated into a group of monsters. What a pity. If it could be subdued by a battle formation master, it could probably unleash power comparable to a Fifth Grade Sovereign."
Before this thought had even finished forming, Liu Bai saw that at the front of the mutated skeletal army, the black liquid rapidly bulged upward. A black armored general entirely condensed from black liquid quickly took shape.
It was as if countless eyes filled with madness appeared beneath the armor formed from liquid. Immediately after, a thunderous low roar resounded.
Boom.
The spiritual energy of heaven and earth suddenly gathered into a storm. Countless strands of gray black battle intent transformed into a ferocious skeletal demonic beast that charged straight toward Liu Bai.
"Battle intent taking form. Heh."
Liu Bai's gaze sharpened. Then a thousand zhang giant shadow appeared behind him. The five colored canopy appeared once more, firmly protecting him within.
Boom.
The skeletal demonic beast slammed directly into the radiant light. Violent fluctuations raged. Liu Bai even felt that this battle intent demonic beast was slightly stronger than the combined attacks of the eight Third Grade Sovereigns earlier. In the end, however, it was firmly blocked by the radiance. Only after the beast exhausted its power did Liu Bai's Five Spirit Canopy gradually dissipate.
As the enemy before him grew stronger and stronger, Liu Bai instead revealed a smile.
"This array is quite interesting. It can actually change itself and increase its power according to what the person inside thinks."
At this moment, Liu Bai could already confirm that he was currently within an illusion array space. Everything he saw was transformed by the illusion array based on his own thoughts.
Of course, just because it was an illusion array did not mean that everything he saw could not cause him harm.
Just like the battle intent demonic beast earlier. If he had been unable to block it, he would probably have become one of the bones beneath his feet.
However, since it was a array, then things became much simpler.
No matter how powerful or strange a array was, as long as one could grasp its core and find the array nodes, breaking the array would not be difficult.
Next, Liu Bai no longer confronted the skeletal army head on. Instead, he used his Void Heart Eye to rapidly search for the core node of the array.
This process did not last long. Soon, Liu Bai's body stopped in a certain area of empty space.
In the distance, the terrifying battle intent demonic beast roared and charged once again. Liu Bai ignored it completely. Instead, he condensed a mass of purple flames in his right hand, then smashed his fist toward a certain point in the void before him.
Crack crack crack.
The space before Liu Bai was like shattered glass. Countless cracks spread outward in all directions with Liu Bai's fist at the center, then with a loud bang it completely shattered.
The broken space swept away the battle intent demonic beast and the skeletal army together. When Liu Bai opened his eyes again, he was already standing inside an ordinary stone chamber.
At the center of the stone chamber stood an altar. Bright spiritual light radiated from it, illuminating the surrounding darkness. A black scroll was suspended within the light, and dense cold yin spiritual energy continuously poured out from the scroll, making one feel a chill to the bone.
Liu Bai looked at everything before him. He knew that he had passed the first stage of the trial, and the scroll on the altar should be the reward for clearing the stage.
However, the difficulty of his first trial was dozens of times greater than what Huang Xingshi had described. Back then, Huang Xingshi had only been a First Grade Sovereign and still managed to reach the second stage. If he were placed in Liu Bai's current trial, he probably would not last even a single breath.
"Could it be that the difficulty of the trial varies from person to person?"
A sudden realization arose in Liu Bai's heart. This secret realm was very likely left behind by some great expert in the Dao of arrays specifically to seek a successor.
This made him even more interested.
Stepping onto the altar, Liu Bai directly picked up the scroll that served as his reward.
"Ding. A Seventh-Rank array has been detected, Skeleton Illusion Array. Do you wish to record it?"
"Yes."
The Skeleton Illusion Array was the illusion array Liu Bai had just encountered. This array was somewhat special. One had to accumulate enough slaughter to condense a Bone Heart as the array core before its true power could be unleashed.
Just like the piles of white bones Liu Bai had seen earlier, those were all remains left behind after powerful cultivators died. Under the control of the Bone Heart, they could launch any form of attack in accordance with the changes of the grand array.
Therefore, although this array was an illusion array, all of its attacks were real. If one attempted to break it using methods meant for ordinary illusion arrays, one would likely die miserably.
After Liu Bai put away the Skeleton Illusion Array diagram, the spiritual light on the altar flickered for a moment, then actually transformed into a small teleportation array.
Without needing to think, it was obvious that this was the entrance to the next stage of the trial.
He just did not know what the second stage would be like. However, one thing was certain. Its difficulty would still be far greater than what Huang Xingshi had experienced back then.
Taking a single step forward, heaven and earth instantly shifted.
When Liu Bai opened his eyes again, he had arrived on a vast and boundless plain.
Liu Bai carefully sensed his surroundings. Everything felt extremely real. The gentle breeze brushing his face and the swaying grass showed no flaws at all, aside from the absence of any living aura.
For a moment, Liu Bai could not tell whether this was an illusory space constructed by an array or if he had truly entered a special small world.
However, he soon had no time to dwell on this.
This was because the opponent of this stage had appeared. To Liu Bai's surprise, the opponent seemed to be a person. To be precise, it was a true spirit phantom body.
At the moment the phantom body appeared, it wasted no words. Spiritual seals immediately began to emerge around its body.
"A spirit array master?" Liu Bai was shocked. Was he being made to fight a decisive battle against a spirit array master?
Instinctively, Liu Bai prepared to summon his Celestial body and directly crush the opponent.
Daring to openly set up an array in front of him like this. Was this person a fool?
Unfortunately, his action did not succeed. Liu Bai discovered that he could not even summon his Celestial body. Although spiritual energy still flowed within him, the Five Spirit Deity gave no response to his call at all.
This shock was no small matter. If this place could seal his Celestial body power, then the situation was truly serious.
"Use arrays to break arrays."
Suddenly, these four words appeared in Liu Bai's mind.
"So I am only allowed to use arrays to counter the opponent's array? I did not expect the content of this trial to be like this."
Once he understood the rules of the trial, Liu Bai immediately focused on facing the enemy.
Because the opponent struck first, Liu Bai was currently at a disadvantage.
In a battle of arrays, whoever completes their array first naturally holds the initiative. The slower one can only respond passively.
However, Liu Bai was not overly worried. From the speed at which the opponent condensed spiritual seals, their attainment in the Dao of arrays was inferior to his.
Having reached the advanced level of the Void Heart Eye, Liu Bai could condense spiritual seals at astonishing speed. As long as his spiritual energy was sufficient, he could form several thousand spiritual seals within a few breaths.
One could see spiritual seals rapidly flying out from Liu Bai's hands and quickly sinking into the void.
"Red Cloud Grand Array, arise!"
"Azure Lotus Sword Array, arise!"
Although the opponent had the advantage of striking first, both sides ultimately completed the deployment of their arrays at the same time.
What Liu Bai deployed was the Red Cloud Array he had obtained earlier from the Thunder Flame Plain. It was an Earth Grade low level array, and among the arrays currently in Liu Bai's possession, its power was second only to the complete Demonic Lotus Slaughtering Spirit Array.
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