Put Away Your Divine Techniques Now! Chapter 1493 - 447: Purgatory Arena

A street spans hundreds of meters, with buildings densely packed on both sides, narrow earthen houses lined one after another. If you roughly calculate, on both sides of this street, including the rear row of buildings, there must be at least several hundred houses—and this is on the low side.

Such a setup has been arranged within a radius of five hundred meters.

Moreover, from Chen Yan’s perspective, the rough rune looks quite low-level and crude.

In terms of a cultivator’s talisman art and array techniques, setting up an array indeed requires inscribing symbols.

But generally speaking, when runes are used on an array, the smaller the better, the more exquisite the higher the grade.

Each stroke of each character is extremely particular. Outsiders can’t see it, but insiders can notice at a glance: a seemingly simple stroke on a talisman, during the creation process, the artist actually employs numerous subtle forces with the wrist, using Primordial Qi to make how much spreading and diffusion of the rune’s paint.

But the surviving runes Chen Yan found in the remnants of this street are just two words: crude!

Like a top-tier painter looking at the scribbles of preschoolers.

This ought to be a kind of talisman art, but one created extremely primitively, even at a stage where the basic principles of talisman art are incomplete.

Hence, arranging an array requires painting runes on every house, every wall of the entire street.

Because single runes are too crude, mobilizing heaven and earth’s power is too limited, so only victory in numbers suffices, the whole street must be filled.

"So, it’s indeed unrelated to me." Chen Yan smiled and pursed his lips.

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To paint runes on the entire street, including the rear row of buildings on both sides, every wall of each house...

How much workload is this? It would take several days to accomplish.—This isn’t merely painting walls with color!

It’s not something that can be done by randomly hiring a few people, handing each a brush and a bucket of paint!

It requires someone knowledgeable in talisman art to personally handle it.

How long does such a workload take?

Since arriving in the small town of Gusanka, it’s been merely two and a half days.

Moreover, preparing such a large amount of "special paint" for rune painting, how long does that require?

And designing such an array capable of leveling the whole street, how much time is needed for planning, design, and preparation?

All of this couldn’t possibly have been initiated by South District zealots immediately after I killed that female robber in the South District within just one and half days!

This is a planned, prepared conspiracy!

I merely stumbled upon it by accident, providing the South District group with an excuse to initiate trouble.

But even without me, this group would still carry out this conspiracy aimed at the Mayor of the North District!

Such a massive array project is the evidence!

"No wonder the Heavenly Dao didn’t attribute the cause and effect to me."

After standing at the street for a minute, from the north, the sound of truck engines roaring and flashlights shaking relentlessly could be heard...

Chen Yan knew this was the rescue from the North District—or calling it a rescue might not even be accurate, considering so many lives have been lost here, the Mayor of North District hardly has any manpower left to do anything.

The people sent are merely there to connect, if any survivors remain, quickly facilitate their retreat, and perhaps find out what exactly happened during this midnight’s explosion.

Listening to the truck engines growing closer, Chen Yan turned and vanished from the scene, transforming once again into a bird, soaring over to a nearby building’s ruin.

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Only one truck arrived, and the rear bed of the truck wasn’t even full, instead scattered with just over twenty soldiers.

The driver was temporarily recruited from the police department.

Rushing into this street area, the car stopped at the streethead, everyone stared at the flattened street before them... it was evident that terror and even despair were etched upon each face!

Next, soldiers and police who jumped off the vehicle could smell the air’s grilled meat-like scent!

Add to it the ground has become ruins, and suffusing all around, the ground is littered with human corpse fragments—the whole area within hundreds of meters resembles a purgatory arena!!

This horrifying scene made quite several soldiers bend over and vomit on the spot.

More of them clung tightly to their guns, eyes filled with a kind of suppressed panic and even despair, cautiously looking around.

"It’s over! They’re all finished!!!"

Some soldiers shouted in despair.

The leading junior officer attempted to maintain some order, planning to let everyone spread out searching for useful clues.

But this order quickly met with resistance from the soldiers.

"What’s there left to search! They’re all dead! Didn’t you see the street littered with corpse pieces?"

A soldier screamed fiercely at the officer: "There must be enemy ambush here! We must leave here immediately!"

"Exactly! Only demons can commit such fearsome acts!!"

The soldiers babbled, while the police responsible for driving went straight into the cockpit, reinitiating the car engine.