Immortality Through Array Formations Chapter 2190 Chapter 1024: Minor Collapse (Part 3)

Eliminating the invaders assaulting the city obviously ensures the city's protection.

Victory in this sword conference will naturally ensue.

Particularly for Mo Hua...

A sharp gleam ignited in Shen Cangfeng's gaze.

The Shen family held deep grudges against Mo Hua as well; if the chance arose,

he absolutely desired to strike Mo Hua down beneath his blade.

Thus, while others truly defended the city for its sake,

Shen Cangfeng's aim was pure slaughter.

He planned to bolster the city gate, turning it into tempting "bait" to drain the Taixu Gate's forces.

Taixu Gate presented two dangers.

One stemmed from Linghu Xiao's prowess with the sword, the other from Mo Hua's array skills. The gate stood firm already, fortified by five second-grade mid-level formations. Breaching it by force would demand that Linghu Xiao deploy an advanced lethal

technique...

Or that Mo Hua unleashed his entire arsenal of formations.

Or perhaps both combined.

Should Linghu Xiao resort to a lethal strike, he'd pose no further danger briefly, unable to regain his composure.

Once Mo Hua depleted his formations, he'd become utterly ineffective.

At that point, Shen Cangfeng could hold back his own lethal techniques, preserving energy to unleash devastating blows when Taixu Gate finally stormed through.

Hence, the very instant Taixu Gate shattered the gate, it would mark their total downfall.

Shen Cangfeng's eyes held a chilling frost.

Beyond the city gate, Mo Hua observed the formation ahead, detected the murderous aura lurking behind, and his thoughts churned, piecing together Shen Cangfeng's scheme with a quiet sigh.

He reckoned that in a head-on clash, their small group couldn't overcome this Shen Cangfeng.

Although Shen Linsu from the Qian Taoist Sect possessed great strength,

Shen Cangfeng matched her in might.

The Four Major Sects of the Qianxue State Boundary proved truly troublesome this way.

Talented youths abounded like hopping insects, plentiful and tough.

Furthermore, given the situation at hand, Shen Cangfeng's strategy was indeed clever.

Shattering the city gate demanded substantial exertion.

Either Xiaoxiao had to release powerful strikes, or he needed to exhaust his formations.

This approach meant that, even if they broke through, facing the Qian Taoist Sect's sword Qi assaults would prove impossible.

A gradual attrition could work without relying on major strikes or formations.

Yet the problem lay in the sword discussion's strict time constraint. The city had to fall swiftly, or they'd lose by default when the timer expired.

"This Shen Cangfeng possesses a profoundly cunning mind..."

Mo Hua pondered in silence.

Regrettably, these foes remained ignorant of the true extent of his formation expertise.

Second-grade formations with nineteen patterns weren't the pinnacle of their grade.

Beyond nineteen patterns lay numerous intricate formation truths.

"Guard me briefly,"

Mo Hua directed Cheng Mo and the rest.

Cheng Mo and his companions nodded their assent.

Subsequently, Linghu Xiao summoned sword Qi, hurling it at the city gate to pressure the Qian Taoist Sect disciples.

Ouyang Xuan joined the assault from the flank.

Situ Jian remained vigilant, warding off sneaky strikes from Qian

Taoist Sect members.

Cheng Mo, gripping his massive axe, positioned himself protectively near Mo Hua.

With support from his sect mates, Mo Hua proceeded to inscribe formations onto the city walls.

The initial array was the Earth Stone Formation.

This array wasn't for breaching but for "sealing the city," confining all Qian Taoist Sect disciples within, barring their escape. Following that, Mo Hua deployed three sets of second-grade nineteen-pattern superior killing formations.

One belonged to the metal element: the Golden Light Killing Formation; another to wood: the Wood Burial Killing Formation; and the last to fire: the Earth Fire Killing Formation.

These three killing arrays cleverly wove in the Five Elements Cycle and Mutual Conquest principles, mutually reinforcing to elevate their destructive force to

an elevated degree.

Additionally, these killing arrays were precisely aimed.

Yet they didn't target the arrays set by the Qian Taoist Sect disciples.

Nor did they fixate on the city gate proper.

Instead, they honed in on the advanced second-grade formations inscribed inside the "city walls" by the Mount of Tao elders prior to the battle.

The assault focused on the city gate.

As it represented the frailest spot.

Flanking the gate extended vast and immensely robust "walls."

These walls marked the perimeter, originally not intended for disciple assaults.

This served as an implicit guideline.

Such walls, broad and solid, had been personally etched with second-grade superior formations by the Mount of Tao elders for city defense.

The choice of second-grade superior formations arose because Foundation Establishment disciple clashes rarely invoked Golden Core might, exceeding third-grade scale.

And in essence, second-grade superior formations proved adequate.

No rational disciple would bypass the vulnerable "city gate" to hammer the dense and

unyielding "walls," courting hardship.

That held true before.

Alas, these walls now faced Mo Hua.

During the previous sword discussion, as he huddled behind the wall sketching formations, Mo Hua had accidentally spotted the array of superior formations carved into the wall by the Mount of Tao elders.

Mo Hua felt a surge of excitement.

His hands tingled with the urge to act.

By his reckoning, it had been quite some time since he last dismantled formations.

The prior instance of array breakdown likely occurred in Tongxian City,

where he unraveled a grand formation to slay the mighty demon Feng Xi.

Naturally, Mo Hua refrained from attempting a full-scale "dismantling."

For one, he hadn't mastered the authentic second-grade Reversed

Spirit Formation completely.

Secondly, amid the Sword Discussion Conference with observers everywhere, he avoided stirring massive uproar and drawing scrutiny.

Mo Hua's method was direct.

Provoke the detonation of the three superior killing formations, leveraging the five elements' energies to disrupt the superior formations embedded in the wall, destabilizing their spiritual power framework.

Within these killing arrays, Mo Hua hid a "Reversed Spirit Pattern."

This Reversed Spirit Pattern lacked completeness.

However, it acted as an initiator, a "spark" to "kindle" the unstable spiritual power, sparking a reversal that triggered chain-reaction explosive failures across the superior formations in the wall.

These three killing formations alone couldn't demolish the walls.

Mo Hua never anticipated they would.

The trio of arrays merely served as lures, forging a breach to slip the Reversed Spirit Pattern's spark into the powder keg, setting off a chain of formation blasts...

Mo Hua had meticulously computed this reversal scheme in full.

Upon detonation, with flames erupting wildly, it would self-erase the traces.

No one would discern his covert alterations inside.

Regarding its might...

As it wasn't authentic "dismantling," but instead employed "dismantling" merely as a trigger for the formations' self-destruction,

the raw power hinged on the superior formations' inherent strength. The exact force varied by how many superior formations in the

wall the Reversed Spirit Pattern could unsettle.

Theory was one thing, execution another; results stayed somewhat uncertain. Still, Mo Hua believed it wouldn't fall short.

Besides, it emerged as their sole path to triumph.

A straightforward assault on the Qian Taoist Sect disciples would probably end in defeat.

In short order, Mo Hua completed inscribing every formation and then declared: "All of you, step back a little."

After Linghu Xiao and the others retreated, Mo Hua initiated the "ignition."

Within the walls, Qian Taoist Sect disciples detected a subtle anomaly. One tried to exit for a look but discovered the gate blocked by Mo Hua's

formation.

Escape proved impossible.

Shen Cangfeng and his fellow Qian Taoist Sect disciples exchanged glances, faces tinged with unease.

At that instant, they remained unaware of the impending disaster.

Not just them—even the observing cultivators were oblivious to what loomed.

For Mo Hua's array setup seemed overly elaborate,

The sword discussion's opponents hadn't clashed for real

yet.

The majority of spectators still lounged in casual ease.

In the Sword Observation Pavilion, the Three Mountains Sect Leader sipped tea idly.

The very next instant, like thunder from clear skies—a abrupt "boom"

echoed.

All felt their eardrums throb painfully.

Their vision sparked with intense brilliance.

Then, atop the sky's depicted scenes, flames raced outward, the burst's inferno mimicking a barrage of fireworks engulfing the vast mural, forming a luminous sea that nearly seared their sight.