novelapdf Chapter 222: The Sword Shatters the Array Eye
Chapter 222: The Sword Shatters the Array Eye
The three of them made their final preparations for departure by the Spirit Pool.
Mo Chengyue squatted in front of the entrance to the secret passage, sorting the supplies in his storage bag one by one.
The offensive talismans were collected separately, while the recovery pills were distributed among the three people to carry.
He didn't throw away the few scrap spirit stones and miscellaneous broken copper and iron pieces he had confiscated from the demon's storage bag.
They were all stuffed into a separate small bag.
Yu Jianhuan leaned closer and asked him.
"Why keep that pile of scrap metal?"
Mo Chengyue said.
"It's for scouting ahead; you can't just risk your face to test a trap."
Su Qingying stood beside the entrance to the secret passage, her Azure Spirit Sword held horizontally in front of her.
My gaze slowly moved along the array patterns on the walls of the secret passage, as if I were reading a silent book.
She reminded Mo Chengyue that the array patterns on the walls of the secret passage had the function of interfering with spiritual energy.
Their divine sense would be blocked after probing thirty feet, meaning that once inside, they would be marching in a semi-blind state.
Mo Chengyue nodded, setting the rules for the journey.
He led the way with his divine sense, while Su Qingying stayed in the middle to identify the array patterns and issue warnings.
Yu Jianhuan stayed behind to guard the way, with the three of them no more than five steps apart.
The three stepped into the secret passage.
The golden-white mist of the spirit pool continued to shine behind them.
The air inside the dark passage was dry and stale, and each step produced a subtle echo.
Mo Chengyue's divine sense spread forward like tentacles.
But as Su Qingying said, the array patterns on the wall were like an invisible net, crushing divine sense at a distance of thirty feet.
He could only see what was happening within a 30-zhang radius.
The secret passage stretched straight ahead, its walls covered with intricate patterns, and the ground was unnaturally flat.
Yu Jianhuan complained in a low voice from behind, "This is even more stuffy than the forbidden area of the Hehuan Sect."
Mo Chengyue told her to shut up and not to make any rhythmic footsteps.
"Some formations are triggered by sound wave frequencies."
Yu Jianhuan rolled her eyes but did as she was told, and started walking forward with a cat-like gait.
As Su Qingying walked, she lightly touched the array patterns on the wall with her finger, mimicking the patterns without actually touching them, her lips moving slightly.
Mo Chengyue turned around and glanced at her.
Su Qingying felt his gaze and spoke softly.
"I'm memorizing the route. The direction of these patterns subtly follows some guiding logic."
"If I encounter a fork in the road, I can tell which one is the right path."
Mo Chengyue said nothing, turned around and continued walking.
The three walked for about a hundred feet, and the dark passage remained straight.
There are no forks in the road, and no traps.
It was unusually quiet.
Mo Chengyue suddenly stopped.
His divine sense detected an extremely faint fluctuation of spiritual energy twenty feet ahead.
It didn't come from the wall patterns, but from the ground.
He squatted down, his gaze sweeping over the stone slabs beneath his feet.
A nearly invisible, thin thread of runic light was flowing slowly through the cracks in the stone slab.
He took a piece of old spirit stone out of his small bag and threw it to the ground in front of him.
The moment the spirit stone hit the ground, nothing happened.
Mo Chengyue narrowed his eyes.
"Wait a moment."
He took out another spirit stone, this time actively infusing a trace of true essence into its surface before throwing it out.
The spirit stone fell to the ground.
boom--
The area within twenty feet in front of the secret passage exploded instantly.
Dozens of grooves on the stone walls on both sides, engraved with runes, simultaneously lit up with dazzling golden light.
Beams of spiritual energy shot out from all directions like a torrential rain.
That secret passage was turned into an impenetrable killing zone.
At the same time, the secret passage behind the three people also lit up.
The wall patterns along the way were also activated.
A semi-transparent barrier of spiritual energy descended from five zhang behind them, sealing off their retreat.
Yu Jianhuan cursed.
Su Qingying's Jade Spirit Sword was already unsheathed.
Mo Chengyue stood still.
He stared at the area of intertwined spiritual energy beams strangling in front of him, a flash of purplish-black lightning disappearing from his pupils.
"Annihilation Formation"
His tone was calm.
"It triggers automatically upon sensing fluctuations in spiritual energy; the spirit stone I infused with true essence is the switch."
"Our escape route is also blocked."
"Therefore, the person who designed this secret passage did not intend for any intruder to have a way back."
Yu Jianhuan's voice came from behind, tinged with a tense smile.
"Junior brother, you're quite calm."
"We're stuck in the middle, you know?"
Mo Chengyue ignored Yu Jianhuan.
His entire attention was focused on the annihilation array ahead.
Dozens of beams of spiritual energy swept across the area at an extremely high frequency.
It covered every inch of space twenty feet in front of the secret passage.
For the three of them to force their way in with their current cultivation levels would be tantamount to walking into a trap.
But Mo Chengyue stared at those beams of light for a long time.
He stayed in the secret room for so many days.
I fall asleep every day facing the array patterns on the four walls.
The logic behind the arrangement of those patterns and the way spiritual energy circulates have long been unconsciously imprinted into his sea of consciousness.
The runes of the annihilation array before us—and the array patterns in the secret chamber—were created by the same person.
The same brushstroke style, the same way of condensing spiritual energy.
This means that they share the same underlying logic.
He closed his eyes.
The memories of the array patterns on the four walls of the secret chamber in his mind were all mobilized and compared with the rune arrangement of the annihilation array in front of him.
Three breaths later, he opened his eyes.
"Found it."
He pointed to a mark on the right-hand stone wall that appeared to be no different from the other runes.
"That's the key point of the formation."
Yu Jianhuan and Su Qingying looked over at the same time.
That location was within the cross-sweep range of the spiritual energy beams.
Mo Chengyue turned to look at Su Qingying.
"Senior Sister Su, the Azure Spirit Sword Qi has the highest level of refinement and penetrating power among the three of us."
"I need you to deliver a sword to the core of the formation during the gaps between those beams of light."
"Precision requirements—within a tiny space."
"You only get one chance."
Su Qingying did not answer immediately.
She was also watching the rhythm of those beams of spiritual energy sweeping across the field.
The beam of light has an extremely high frequency, but it is not entirely random.
Every two breaths or so, a gap of less than half a breath appears between the third and fourth beams of light on the right side of the stone wall.
A gap less than two feet wide.
Within this half-breath, a precise sword aura must be sent from the current location to the array eye twenty feet away.
She couldn't do it if she were in the early stage of Core Formation.
But now she is at the peak of the mid-stage of Core Formation.
The Azure Spirit Sword hummed softly in her hand, its emerald green sword energy flowing across the blade, thin as a cicada's wing and sharp as a needle.
Su Qingying gripped the sword hilt tightly, her gaze fixed on the center of the formation.
Her voice was cold and steady.
"Two breaths apart, a half-breath window."
That's enough.
Mo Chengyue stood up and took a step back, giving her space to draw her sword.
He whispered something to Yu Jianhuan.
"Don't make a sound or move."
Yu Jianhuan, unusually, kept quiet.
Only the buzzing sound of spiritual energy beams sweeping through the dark passage remained.
Su Qingying stood at the edge of the beam strangulation zone.
The Azure Spirit Sword stood upright in front of him, its tip trembling slightly, like a bowstring about to be stretched to its limit before coming to a standstill.
She is waiting.
Take a breath.
Two breaths.
The third and fourth beams from the right simultaneously swept to the left.
A gap appears.
Su Qingying drew her sword.
The Azure Spirit Sword Qi, like a jade-green needle, silently pierced through the two-foot-wide gap.
It pierced straight towards the array eye mark on the right wall, twenty feet away.
Click.
The core of the formation shattered.
Starting from the point of shattering, all the spiritual energy beams of the annihilation array flickered simultaneously.
Then, as if their souls had been ripped away, they went out one by one.
The secret passage returned to darkness and silence.
The spiritual energy barrier blocking their retreat behind them also dissipated.
Mo Chengyue let out a long breath.
Yu Jianhuan came up from behind and patted Su Qingying's shoulder hard.
"Junior Sister Su, that was a beautiful sword strike."
Su Qingying did not respond to Yu Jianhuan's praise.
She only glanced at Mo Chengyue.
Mo Chengyue gave a thumbs up.