Cultivating with Top Enlightenment Chapter 858 - 364: Burial Destruction Thunder Tribulation

Cultivators from Fan City and their harmonized allies suddenly realized their strikes no longer harnessed the power of rules around them, igniting instant panic.

Although Fan City’s assaults reached right before the Yin Yang Diagram conjured by Ning Qi, the Divine Mountain Illusion from the Mountain Ancestor’s magical treasure—the Mountain Stabilizing Seal—effortlessly repelled those weakened blows.

Fan City couldn’t help but ponder, confronting Ning Qi’s three hundred interlocking powers of rules, whether his attack, even if it truly struck the Yin Yang Diagram, could inflict any real harm on Ning Qi.

This wave of self-doubt, combined with the eerie Heavenly Tribulation Ning Qi was summoning—though it hadn’t begun—left them all shuddering in terror!

Therefore, despite his deep reluctance, Fan City was compelled to withdraw temporarily.

More than four hundred harmonized cultivators under his command rapidly fled southward.

However, after flying barely three kilometers, they all collided with an invisible, unbreakable wall, bouncing back forcefully.

"When did a barrier appear here?"

Fan City lacked expertise in the Array Path, so he quickly turned to an array specialist among their ranks.

That cultivator, named Park Fang, instantly comprehended and stepped up to examine it.

Everyone watched as Park Fang rubbed his hands over his eyes, which abruptly transformed.

Countless array patterns flickered in his gaze, turning his normal eyes into Dharma Eyes that pierced through reality and illusion in an instant.

As Park Fang swept his Dharma Eyes forward, he first saw little amiss, but with focused scrutiny, his face shifted repeatedly.

The others stayed active too; while he probed the barrier, many launched Divine Techniques at the transparent wall ahead.

No matter how fierce their strikes, they impacted the barrier like pebbles dropped on a pond, stirring only faint ripples.

Those ripples dissipated instantly, as though the barrier had swallowed their attacks whole.

"Do not attack this barrier!"

Park Fang, the array expert, hurriedly yelled to halt them.

"The intricacy of this barrier’s setup is the finest I’ve seen in my lifetime. If we can’t find the key array eye, no matter the attack, it will be absorbed, actually enhancing its power!"

Some remained doubtful.

"Is it really that uncanny?"

Yet Fan City held unwavering faith in Park Fang, who had once directed the grand array spanning the entire Celestial Fire Realm under his domain.

Fan City swiftly signaled his followers to cease their assaults.

With the attacks stopped, Fan City questioned Park Fang anew: "How exactly did this barrier form?"

Fan City’s inquiry betrayed his true motive.

Obviously, he wanted to know if Ning Qi’s Heavenly Tribulation had spawned this barrier or if Ning Qi had set it up himself.

Park Fang’s Dharma Eyes roamed heaven and earth, but he hesitated to give a clear verdict.

Moments later, wary of Fan City’s impatience, he answered tentatively:

"Brahma Domain Master, to be truthful, even with my understanding of the Array Path, I can’t discern whether this barrier is formed by the Heavenly Tribulation or laid down by Ning Qi."

Park Fang turned to eye the group.

"If it’s the former, it’s fine. But if it’s the latter, we might be in trouble!"

As their top array master, Park Fang’s words were hard to dismiss.

Profound unease surged in their hearts; neither scenario promised anything good.

Fan City pressed: "What do you mean?"

Park Fang replied: "If it’s the former, it’s the creation of heaven and earth, and it’s reasonable even if I can’t see through it. But if Ning Qi laid it down, then his ability in arrays must far surpass mine, yet that’s not the point. The point is..."

"If indeed he laid this down, then Ning Qi’s depth of scheming and breadth of calculation is nothing short of uncanny wisdom..."

Fan City cut Park Fang off abruptly: "Impossible! The kid might have some talent, but for you to say all this is his machination, I absolutely do not agree!"

Beside him, Domain Masters Jin Guanghua and Mu Qingtian shook their heads and chimed in denial.

"Big brother is right, that Ning Qi is just a rising talent from the lower tier, how could he plot against us, along with the thousand harmonized on the opposite side in Vast Realm?"

After Fan City’s trio spoke, they scanned their harmonized subordinates, noting the tension on their faces easing somewhat, and exhaled in relief.

Even if Park Fang’s assessment held truth, they couldn’t concede it, lest morale collapse and breed endless trouble!

Park Fang could merely sigh in resignation.

Arrogance frequently blinds folks to harsh realities.

He’d shared everything possible; if they wouldn’t accept it, what recourse remained?

"You should focus on breaking the barrier. If you break the barrier, our cultivators under the three can temporarily follow your orders."

Fan City told Park Fang additionally.

Park Fang met his gaze steadily, then nodded.

For now, his sole task was to shatter the barrier for everyone without delay. Staying so near Ning Qi, the descending Heavenly Tribulation would inevitably drag them in!

In the past, they might have ignored a Heavenly Tribulation for an Integration Realm breakthrough cultivator, but everything differed now.

Before resuming his barrier decoding, Park Fang peered north.

There, Vast Realm’s harmonized had pulled back ahead of them, yet they too were now caged within three miles northward.

Witnessing their rivals equally trapped by the barrier, Park Fang felt notably calmer.

At least, they weren’t suffering solo!

He glanced once more at the brooding dark clouds overhead, now pressing down to scarcely a hundred meters above their heads.