Chapter 1042: Weird Array Master

The Too Ah five brothers quickly returned to defend, blocking in front of Mo Hua like five small mountains, not allowing anyone to approach. Cheng Mo, Si Tu Jian, and others also began to surround Mo Hua, forming up.

Feng Zi Chen, relying on his excellent movement technique, took the lead and charged towards Mo Hua.

Using Xiao Yao Step Wind Step, he closed the distance, and with Eight Trigrams Wander Wind Step, he maneuvered among the Tai Xu Sect disciples. His body turned into a white phantom, and after about ten rounds, he broke through the Tai Xu Sect's defensive line, rushing within twenty *zhang* of Mo Hua.

This was, so far, the closest any heaven's chosen among the four sects and seven gates disciples had gotten to Mo Hua.

Afterwards, Feng Zi Chen's swift sword entered the wind, directly targeting Mo Hua's vital point.

However, near the ten-*zhang* mark, the ground's rocks bulged up, turning into a cage that blocked him.

A moment later, the Too Ah five brothers immediately surrounded him. Their five giant swords chopped down towards Feng Zi Chen, a messy attack aimed at his head and face.

The giant swords had strong and heavy momentum, and their power was fearsome.

Feng Zi Chen cultivated the fast sword, so he dared not engage them head-on, only temporarily avoiding their sharp edge and retreating backward.

But he had only retreated a few steps when a wisp of spirit ink seeped into the ground, turning into a patch of quicksand.

Feng Zi Chen was guarding against the Too Ah five brothers' giant swords and was careless for a moment, stepping his right foot into the quicksand. Although it was only for a moment before he struggled out, his heart couldn't help but tremble.

In a chaotic battle, being trapped by an array, even if only for two breaths, was enough to be fatal.

Indeed, Si Tu Jian, who had been waiting for an opportunity for a long time, seized this chance. He condensed a stream of Li Fire sword *qi* that arrived with a whoosh, hitting Feng Zi Chen's back.

Feng Zi Chen dropped to one knee. Turning his head, he saw a pair of large axes.

Cheng Mo and Si Tu had the best relationship and were the most taciturn. Seeing Feng Zi Chen hit by Li Fire sword *qi*, Cheng Mo immediately saw an opening and chopped with his double axes.

Feng Zi Chen took another axe from Cheng Mo squarely.

Seeing that he was about to die, at the critical moment, Shi Tian Gang swept over with a punch, blocking Cheng Mo.

Feng Zi Chen was then able to catch his breath.

Afterwards, Song Kui of Duan Jin Sect, Qin Cang Liu of Gui Shui Sect, and many heaven's chosen from Zi Xia Sect and Ling Xiao Sect also surrounded him, attacking Mo Hua together.

But their movement techniques were far inferior to Feng Zi Chen's and they could not bypass the Tai Xu Sect disciples.

If they attacked forcefully, they could not break through the Too Ah five brothers' defensive line, let alone withstand Ling Hu Xiao's fearsome sword *qi*.

From beginning to end, they fundamentally could not get close to Mo Hua's body.

And the slender Mo Hua, just like Mount Tai, sat on a large rock in the distance.

Spirit ink, either pitch black or bright red, turned into fine threads, receiving his divine sense's traction, wandering in front of him.

Occasionally, there was spirit ink, like a fine snake, meandering on the ground.

It formed array after array, coordinating with the Tai Xu Sect disciples' killing moves, harvesting life after life.

Mo Hua's expression was calm, his gaze deep and cold.

Spirit ink wandered at his fingertips.

All the killing machines and life and death seemed to be under his control.

This strange and gloomy scene made Shi Tian Gang and Qin Cang Liu and the others feel fear.

This was the first time they had seen such a powerful and inconceivable array master in actual combat.

His power was not in his personal cultivation, but in the unfathomable depth of his array attainments, in his insight into the environment,

His control of the situation, and his arrangement of the life and death of cultivators. He must be killed!

At all costs, kill this strangely powerful Mo Hua!

This thought instantly floated in everyone's hearts.

They disregarded their lives, continuing to charge and kill towards Mo Hua, but after several more attempts, they still could not break through the Tai Xu Sect's defensive line.

Instead, their allies fell one after another in the array.

"Close attack doesn't work, so we'll attack from afar," Qin Cang Liu said. "Ye Zhi Yuan, go and use your imperial sword!"

"I don't have an opportunity!"

Ye Zhi Yuan, who was entangled with Hao Xuan and several other Tai Xu Sect disciples, said angrily.

The method of imperial sword was most taboo when disturbed.

And precisely, Hao Xuan had good movement technique, like a sneaky stick-wielder.

Since Ye Zhi Yuan launched his first imperial sword attack, intending to kill Mo Hua, he had been targeted by Hao Xuan.

As long as he pulled back to a distance and wanted to use his imperial sword, Hao Xuan would find a moment to smash him on the back of the head with a stick.

Ye Zhi Yuan was annoyed.

In this Qian Xue State territory, among the disciples of the eight great gates, how could there still be someone who didn't practice the sword but practiced the stick?

Qin Cang Liu secretly cursed Ye Zhi Yuan for being useless.

The Ye Zhi Yuan of the past was a heaven's chosen of Da Luo Sect, with astonishing talent. Even if he was arrogant and had a foul mouth, no one dared to say anything to him.

But since he was killed by Mo Hua with one sword, his halo shattered.

The crowd also lost their awe for this "sword dao genius."

Qin Cang Liu cursed him but still pulled back to block Hao Xuan and the others for Ye Zhi Yuan.

Mo Hua's array was too strange.

With the addition of the strange armor, the Tai Xu Sect's strength was also not what it used to be.

If this continued, they would really be wiped out.

Now the only breakthrough point was Ye Zhi Yuan's "imperial sword."

"You use your imperial sword to kill Mo Hua from a distance."

"Even if you can't kill him, continuously interfering with him is fine. Don't let him continue to draw arrays—"

Although Qin Cang Liu was not an array master, he also learned arrays.

Drawing arrays required full concentration and divine sense to be highly focused.

The method of using divine sense to control ink to draw arrays was absolutely more difficult than ordinary array drawing, and it necessarily required higher concentration.

As long as Ye Zhi Yuan's flying sword could get close to Mo Hua, even if it didn't injure Mo Hua, it could absolutely interrupt his array drawing actions.

Without Mo Hua's strange array support, they could still persist for a while.

As long as the "reinforcements" outside could break through the mountain sealing complex array in time, they would have help and could rush in together. The Tai Xu Sect would still undoubtedly be annihilated.

The key lay in Ye Zhi Yuan's imperial sword.

After all, he was "once" the first imperial sword genius of Da Luo Sect, cultivating the Da Luo Flying Heaven Imperial Sword Art, which was absolutely not something to be trifled with.

Ye Zhi Yuan pulled away, starting to concentrate his hand seal and imperialize his flying sword from one hundred sixty *zhang* away.

The Da Luo flying sword was a specially made flying sword, three feet seven inches long, ancient and simple, with cloud patterns engraved on it. It could fly through the heavens and escape the earth, claiming lives with a cold light.

Ye Zhi Yuan was originally a genius with outstanding imperial sword talent. Since his last miserable defeat at Mo Hua's hands, he had been determined to improve and cultivated even more diligently.

Hatred was the best "catalyst."

Ye Zhi Yuan's Da Luo Flying Heaven Imperial Sword had advanced another level compared to before.

This sword was faster, more accurate, and sharper. From the horizon, it turned into a streak of sword light, blending with the cloud light on the horizon, and rushed straight towards Mo Hua.

Although it was ultimately blocked by the Too Ah five brothers, this flying sword had already gotten within ten *zhang* of Mo Hua.

The aftermath of the sword *qi* explosion tore the ground and stirred up the *qi* machine, ultimately affecting Mo Hua,

Causing Mo Hua's divine sense to stagnate for an instant, interrupting his array drawing action.

Qin Cang Liu was right.

Using divine sense to control ink and draw the ground as an array was extremely difficult and required extreme focus.

This sword, although it did not kill Mo Hua, also interrupted his array drawing.

Without Mo Hua's strange array support, Shi Tian Gang and the others suddenly felt as if a heavy burden had been lifted.

With the Five Elements Source Armor added to the Tai Xu Sect disciples, although they were fierce, they could still maneuver a bit in a prolonged fight.

The prerequisite was that there was no insidious and unpredictable array from Mo Hua.

Now, Mo Hua's array was finally restrained.

The heaven's chosen of the four sects and seven gates all felt a surge of spirit.

"Continue!"

Ye Zhi Yuan continued to release flying swords at Mo Hua from a distance.

Mo Hua was being interfered with and could not continue to use divine sense to control ink and form arrays.

The Too Ah five brothers, in order to protect Mo Hua, were also restrained.

Hao Xuan and the others had decent movement techniques, but their cultivation was far inferior, making them unable to break through the defenses of the heaven's chosen of the four sects and seven gates to interfere with Ye Zhi Yuan.

Ling Hu Xiao was entangled with Shi Tian Gang and several Jin Gang Sect disciples.

Yang Qianjun and the others' charge could not break through the defensive line and kill Ye Zhi Yuan for a while.

The situation was reversed.

The Tai Xu Sect's formation was also forced to disrupt.

The situation instantly became a bit worse.

Just at this moment, Mo Hua, who was sitting in the rear, had a slightly cold gaze.

"Interfere with me drawing arrays?"

He took out a spirit sword, used his divine sense to communicate with the sword array, then pointed with his finger, instantly launching a streak of golden light that shot out with a whoosh, killing towards Ye Zhi Yuan.

Using an imperial sword against an imperial sword.

This sword was faster and more accurate.

Ye Zhi Yuan's heart tensed, and he immediately became vigilant.

The last time he was hit by Mo Hua's imperial sword was because it was unexpected. He completely didn't think that Mo Hua, this array master, would still use an imperial sword. He wasn't on guard, so he was instantly killed by one sword.

But now, he was already sufficiently on guard and would absolutely not make the same mistake again.

Ye Zhi Yuan retreated without the slightest hesitation, flashing his body and fully retreating thirty to forty *zhang*.

This distance far exceeded the imperial sword range of a Foundation Establishment cultivator.

Moreover, Ye Zhi Yuan knew that Mo Hua's unorthodox and wicked "imperial sword" would explode.

This distance also kept him far from the imperial sword's explosion range.

Not only that, for insurance, two Jin Gang Sect body cultivators held shields and protected Ye Zhi Yuan in front of him.

Mo Hua's imperial spirit sword first hit the shield, then immediately exploded.

The sword array was overloaded, the sword body shattered, and the sword *qi* mixed with sword blade fragments spread out in all directions, creating a large cloud of smoke and dust.

Within the smoke and dust, the two Jin Gang Sect disciples were also enveloped by the sword *qi*. Their skin and flesh were cut, and even though they held gold shields, they were seriously injured.

But they still blocked Mo Hua's imperial sword for Ye Zhi Yuan.

Under this sword, Ye Zhi Yuan was unharmed.

Exploding thirty to forty *zhang* away, Ye Zhi Yuan breathed a slight sigh of relief. The shadow in his heart concerning Mo Hua also faded slightly:

"Mo Hua's imperial sword is, in the end, just so."

"As long as I'm on guard, he can't kill me."

This thought just surfaced.

Ye Zhi Yuan's suspended heart just relaxed.

Suddenly, from within the smoke and fog, another simple Tai Ah sword shot out.

There was no sword *qi*, no sword technique, it was just an ordinary spirit sword, yet it contained fearsome killing intent.

Ye Zhi Yuan suddenly glared his eyes wide, full of disbelief.

Two hundred *zhang*!

At this distance, how did this spirit sword of Mo Hua's fly in front of him?!

This Mo Hua, was he still hiding his strength when he killed himself before?

His imperial sword could actually fly two hundred *zhang*?!

Ye Zhi Yuan panicked in his heart. He wanted to retreat, but it was already too late.

He was on guard against the imperial sword at one hundred sixty *zhang*, so it couldn't kill him.

But the imperial sword at two hundred *zhang* exceeded Ye Zhi Yuan's understanding.

Moreover, Mo Hua's first imperial sword suppressed the Jin Gang Sect body cultivators, making them unable to do anything else, and then exploded into smoke and dust, confusing the line of sight.

This second imperial sword was faster, farther, and more covert.

No one blocked the sword for Ye Zhi Yuan.

Even the chaotic exploding sword *qi* confused perception, and the diffusing smoke and dust blocked Ye Zhi Yuan's line of sight.

This was a dead end.

The Tai Ah sword overloaded and exploded, the sword array shattered, and the sword *qi* overflowed, strangling everything around it.

Just like before.

Ye Zhi Yuan died again.

He was again killed by Mo Hua with one sword.

And with Ye Zhi Yuan's death, the situation instantly took a sharp downturn.

No one could threaten Mo Hua from a distance again, and no one could interfere with him drawing arrays again.

In the valley, the black and red spirit ink, like poisonous snakes, began to writhe again. Array after array, like life-taking totems, began to manifest.

Shi Tian Gang, Qin Cang Liu, and the others felt a chill in their hearts.

But they were already powerless to reverse the situation.

The light of the Five Elements Source Armor began to flash.

Mo Hua injected his divine sense, urging the amplification of these source armors to the extreme, bestowing power like a "god,"

Powerful strength descended upon the Tai Xu Sect disciples.

They knew that their junior brother was telling them to finish the battle quickly.

The Too Ah five brothers roared together, their battle intent high, their spirit power boiling, as if they were five revered demon gods, unfolding their final slaughter with their giant swords.

Wearing a water element source robe, imbued with the power of water moon, Ling Hu Xiao began to accumulate sword *qi*. The power of Chong Xu Solution Sword further climbed.

The other Tai Xu Sect disciples also had high morale and began to surround and kill.

Adding to this was Mo Hua's divine sense controlling the ink, with ubiquitous arrays cooperating.

The disciples of the four sects and seven gates began to fall one after another.

Song Kui of Duan Jin Sect was stabbed to death by Yang Qianjun with a spear;

Qin Cang Liu of Gui Shui Sect died under Ling Hu Xiao's sword *qi*;

Feng Zi Chen of Xiao Yao Sect, exhausted from the long battle, was blocked by Si Tu Jian and Cheng Mo working together, and finally died under Ou Yang Xuan's sword;

Shi Tian Gang of Jin Gang Sect died under the chaotic swords of the Too Ah five brothers.

With the deaths of these top heaven's chosen of the eight great gates, the rest of the disciples had no power to fight back and were slaughtered like dry branches being pulled out, wiped out completely.

Thus, all the disciples of the four sects and seven gates inside the valley were annihilated.

The valley was thoroughly cleared.

This was Mo Hua's first public display of the Five Elements Source Armor.

And this first display, this first slaughter, helped the Tai Xu Sect defeat the strong with the weak, slaughtering and annihilating more than a hundred heaven's chosen of the Qian Xue State sects.

Outside the discuss sword field, it was silent as winter cicadas.

All the cultivators watching the battle were startled and their hearts pounded.

"Killed them all—"

"The Tai Xu Sect, with thirty people, killed all the more than one hundred heaven's chosen of the four sects and seven gates, including some of the true top heaven's chosen of the eight great gates?!"

Is this the Tai Xu Sect?

Is this the array dao leader Mo Hua?!

Truly ruthless—

Intermittently, sounds of gasping cold air rang out across the field.

Only then did they understand that in this discuss sword field, they had been wrong from the beginning.

This was fundamentally not the "surround and annihilate" of the four sects and seven gates against the Tai Xu Sect.

But the "counter-surround and annihilate" of the Tai Xu Sect against the four sects and seven gates!

The Tai Xu Sect's purpose was not to defend, but to kill!

And the Tai Xu Sect also displayed this strength.

In this Shura battle, with the addition of the Five Elements Source Armor and the assistance of the arrays, the Tai Xu Sect, united as one, burst out with killing power that could be called fearsome, even enough to compare with the four great sects.

The cultivators watching the battle were all shocked.

Some cultivators who had previously looked down on the Tai Xu Sect now involuntarily felt respect.

Some cultivators who had previously looked down on Mo Hua and ridiculed him in a hundred ways now felt their faces hot and stinging. And the Tai Xu Sect, from elders to disciples, watching Mo Hua and the others kill in all directions, all felt happy and excited, their blood boiling.

Even the sect masters of the San Shan felt their hearts surge.

This battle had fought out prestige and style, truly giving them, as sect masters, a great deal of face.

In contrast, the faces of the sect masters of the other seven great gates were as ugly as black pots.

Even some old ancestors of the sects began to frown, their faces showing displeasure.

Inside the field, the discuss sword continued.

The Tai Xu Sect, relying on the Five Elements Source Armor and Mo Hua's arrays, counter-surrounded and annihilated the four sects and seven gates, more than a hundred heaven's chosen.

This slaughter was a back and forth, seemingly complex.

But the entire process did not take even half an hour.

During this period, the heaven's chosen inside the valley suffered the Tai Xu Sect's surround and annihilate.

The heaven's chosen outside the valley were also always attacking the mountain sealing complex array laid down by Mo Hua.

But the One Line Heaven formation was narrow.

This was a formation reinforced by the Lun Dao Mountain elders with a third-grade array, specially because they were afraid of Mo Hua "making a scene," and it was difficult to change.

Therefore, at the same time, it was fundamentally impossible to accommodate many people to break the array.

And Mo Hua's complex array was a second-grade top complex array, integrated with the mountains and rivers, echoing the earth.

Given that Shen Lin Shu and the other heaven's chosen of the four great sects made a move, it was difficult to break.

Just like this, the disciples of the four sects and seven gates outside the valley were isolated by Mo Hua's complex array, and could only watch with their own eyes as their fellow sect members were slaughtered and cleared out by the Tai Xu Sect.

This scene was equally fierce and shocking to them, so much so that for a time, a chill was born in their hearts, and they all dared not break the array again.

Breaking the array, then what?

They would also rush in, and then be slaughtered and cleared out by Mo Hua and the others again?

They saw clearly the slaughter happening inside the valley.

The Tai Xu Sect's current strength could be called terrifying.

The giant swords of the Too Ah five brothers had killed countless people, a sight that simply made people tremble with fear.

Not to mention, there was also the sword dao heaven's chosen Ling Hu Xiao, and the array dao leader Mo Hua.

Even the leaders of the seven gates like Shi Tian Gang, Qin Cang Liu, and Feng Zi Chen were all killed one by one, let alone them at this moment. The reason they didn't die wasn't because of their strength.

But only because they were lucky enough not to step into this valley and were isolated by Mo Hua's complex array.

If they had taken a step into the valley, they would have been the ones to die.

Thinking of this, everyone subconsciously took a step back.

The valley entrance of One Line Heaven now truly appeared to them like the "Ghost Gate Pass," where anyone who entered would die.

And Mo Hua, in their eyes, was the gloomy "Little King Yan" sitting on his throne.

The situation strangely calmed down again.

The heaven's chosen of the four sects and seven gates outside the valley temporarily dared not act rashly.

And inside the valley, Mo Hua and the others finally got a moment to breathe.

But the most crucial thing, Mo Hua did not forget:

"Gather all the storage bags for me."

This was also his purpose for slaughtering and annihilating these more than a hundred heaven's chosen.

He wanted to seize the storage bags of these heaven's chosen.

In the discuss sword assembly, the storage bags of the heaven's chosen contained spirit tools, array mediums, pills, spirit stones, spirit ink, and other things.

Among them, what was crucial to Mo Hua were spirit stones and spirit ink.

The discuss sword assembly had strict control over the "materials" of the cultivators.

Therefore, the spirit stones and spirit ink of the Tai Xu Sect disciples were fundamentally not enough for Mo Hua to use.

He wanted to lay more arrays, and he needed more spirit ink.

And to urge more arrays, he similarly needed more spirit stones.

This kind of thing could only be obtained by "slaughtering" quite a few heaven's chosen and seizing a large amount of storage bags.

And only with sufficient spirit ink and spirit stones could he continue, according to his own plan, to carry out array building.

This is called supporting war with war.

Now, his plan had succeeded halfway: he had sufficient spirit stones and spirit ink in hand.

Mo Hua also wanted to start carrying out the next step of his plan.

And what he wanted to do was very simple: just draw arrays, ceaselessly draw arrays, draw more and more arrays, filling the entire valley with arrays.

Mo Hua meditated for a while, recovered his divine sense, then continued to start drawing arrays.

Spirit ink of all colors turned into wandering threads, receiving his traction, winding in the valley, condensing into dense array patterns, forming array after array—

And outside the valley.

Shen Lin Shu, who was indifferent and unmoved by everything, suddenly felt a trace of unease in his heart.

He slowly frowned, his gaze also gradually becoming cold.

He detected a trace of obscure, inexplicable unease—