Chapter 555 - 503: Array-Breaking Technique

Chapter 555: Chapter 503: Array-Breaking Technique

Chu Mu clutched the Sound Transmission Order, staring blankly at the rolling dark clouds in the sky as lightning flashed and thunder roared.

When a Nascent Soul was enraged, their Divine Soul could stir the very Power of Heaven and Earth. In a sense, a Nascent Soul’s fury could be considered the fury of the heavens themselves!

’But... was this heavenly wrath stirred because of me? Was it coming for me?’

Chu Mu lowered his head and looked at the Sound Transmission Order in his hand, where a seal from Xu Changqing was flashing.

He knew, of course, that Xu Changqing was currently trapped within the Twelve Blood Fiend Corpse Transformation Array.

Under normal circumstances, forget Xu Changqing—not even his father, the Sword Dao Nascent Soul Great Power Xu Lingtian, could have broken through the blockade of the Twelve Blood Fiend Corpse Transformation Array to send a message.

The only explanation was that his contingency plan had been activated. Control over the Soldier Puppets was now being contested, and Xu Changqing must have exploited that momentary gap to send his message through the Grand Array.

The problem was...

In a life-or-death battle where all pretenses had been dropped, what secrets could possibly be kept in front of over a dozen Nascent Soul Great Powers? Forget a mere Divine Sense transmission from the Golden Core Realm; even a message from a Nascent Soul Great Power would be instantly exposed.

In other words, the message Xu Changqing had painstakingly sent him had surely been discovered by the Chen Family’s Nascent Soul cultivators.

And that was why this heavenly wrath had descended. They saw him as the culprit behind this unforeseen complication, and all their torrential fury was now directed at him.

A wave of helplessness washed over Chu Mu. If he could turn back time, he would never have set foot in the murky waters of Bazhou City.

No matter how precious the Nine Heavens Profound Gold was, it wasn’t worth suffering these repeated, undeserved disasters.

And now, with that message sent, this was no longer a simple case of him being caught in the crossfire.

If he couldn’t find a way out of this predicament, he would surely die!

’I owed him a favor, and this favor... heh...’

Chu Mu let out a soft laugh, though whether it was born of helplessness or sarcasm, even he couldn’t say.

’This damned favor had pushed him straight to his death!’

He glanced at the cultivators in the distance, thrown into chaos by the Nascent Soul’s fury. Then, with a single leap, he plunged into the crowd. Thanks to his concealed appearance and the Heavenly Deceit Pill that had altered his Divine Soul Aura, his disguise was utterly seamless.

Once in the crowd, he was impossible to detect.

A few moments later, having reached a room in an inn, Chu Mu concealed his aura and turned his gaze back toward the Nascent Soul Battle in the city’s center.

Just as he’d expected, his contingency plan had been activated. The twelve Tier Four Soldier Puppets—the very core of this grand, heaven-shaking scheme—were now motionless as statues.

Over a dozen Nascent Soul cultivators from both sides sat in a circle around the twelve Soldier Puppets, some inside the array and some out. Terrifying waves of Magical Power, potent enough to warp the very sky, radiated from them. They resembled a council of deities enthroned in the clouds, and their oppressive might was so immense that a direct gaze was enough to make one tremble uncontrollably.

In particular, a mottled, azure-gray radiance manifested as an ancient azure dragon coiling in the heavens, so vivid it seemed alive. The dragon circled and roared, its every movement commanding the great Power of Heaven and Earth—a truly terrifying spectacle!

Chu Mu watched for a moment before looking down at the Sound Transmission Order in his hand.

He was quite familiar with the Chen Family’s Tier Four Soldier Puppets.

After all, they had been repaired entirely according to his own designs. Even the subsequent analysis of their refining method had been performed under his guidance.

As for the Twelve Blood Fiend Corpse Transformation Array, while he hadn’t deeply studied Blood Sacrifice Arrays, all methods ultimately converge. There were common principles. For someone with his expertise in the Array Dao, the workings of this Grand Array were actually quite clear.

After all, the Grand Array was built around those twelve Soldier Puppets as its core. Based on that fact alone, he could have understood its secrets even if he knew nothing about the Array Dao.

’As for breaking the array...’

Chu Mu frowned slightly, his gaze drifting from the city’s center to the chaos in the streets below.

The annihilation of tens of thousands of cultivators had shattered all pretense of civility. The entire city was in chaos. People were fleeing, fighting, or banding together under various factions to resist the Chen Family’s onslaught, all while trying every possible means to break the array.

A grand millennial celebration had stirred a tempest across two Cultivation Immortal Realms, Great Chu and Vast Sea.

Hundreds of thousands of cultivators had gathered here from all over the world.

According to the Chen Family’s plan, these cultivators were supposed to become fuel for the Twelve Blood Fiend Corpse Transformation Array, providing the twelve Soldier Puppets with an immense infusion of Blood Qi.

But now, with the Soldier Puppets malfunctioning and control being contested, it was as if the twelve Tier Four Soldier Puppets had two masters. By extension, this meant the Twelve Blood Fiend Corpse Transformation Array also had two masters...

Lost in thought, Chu Mu raised his right hand. His fingertips moved lightly, tracing Array Patterns on the inn’s floor. Though it was only ordinary Spirit Wood, it was perfectly adequate for holding a simple Low Tier Array Pattern.

In the blink of an eye, a crude Five Elements Array Pattern took shape on the floor.

As he set down several Spirit Stones, the network of patterns received a supply of Spiritual Qi. The Array Patterns flashed, and a very crude Pseudo Five Elements Formation materialized on the inn floor.

Chu Mu’s gaze flickered, finally settling on the few Spirit Stones supplying the Array with energy.

The core of any Array wasn’t the intricacy of the Array itself, but the method used to make it run.

The most common method was to use Spiritual Qi as a power source, either from Spirit Stones or by directly connecting to a Spirit Vein to sustain a Grand Array. Other energies—such as Yin Qi, Evil Qi, Corpse Qi, Fire Qi, and the like—could also be harnessed for an Array’s use.

This simple Five Elements Array before him used a few Spirit Stones as its power source. As long as the Spiritual Qi within the stones was not depleted, the Array would continue to operate.