Chapter 1043: Explosion

Ink Painting's cultivation, Dao methods, nothing to be dreaded.

But his array methods, yet cannot be underestimated.

Even last time in the sword discussion war, Ink Painting was defeated in Shen Linshu's hands.

Ink Painting's sword controlling could not break his defense, Ink Painting's arrays were all split through by him.

Ink Painting in the end also became a coward, not fighting and fleeing.

Shen Linshu for this gave birth to contempt, but he also would not really just not place Ink Painting this array Dao leader in his eyes.

Especially, the current Ink Painting, again showed a side that was even more powerful and "fierce" compared to before.

Divine sense controls ink, paint ground as array.

Re-array seals mountain, kill completely and absolutely.

This is a kind of strange array master he had never seen before.

If not stopped, letting Ink Painting this array master continue painting arrays like this, painting the entire valley, what would happen in the end, no one knew.

Three five sets of high-tier arrays, he could split with one sword.

But if thirty sets, fifty sets?

One hundred sets?

Once arrays piled up, the threat produced would grow exponentially, ultimately reaching a degree that was hard to estimate.

Even if he was a heavenly pride bearing the Qilin bloodline, the most top-notch outstanding talent in Qian Xue state, he would not dare to truly let Ink Painting continue painting arrays...

But if he truly made a move against Ink Painting, Shen Linshu also had scruples.

He was scrupulous of the other three of the Qian Xue four heavenly prides.

Even, it also included Ye Qingfeng of Da Luo Men.

Everyone only knew that Da Luo Men had a sword controlling heavenly pride, Ye Zhiyuan, yet did not know that Ye Qingfeng's strength was actually still above Ye Zhiyuan.

Ye Qingfeng was always low-key, and intentionally borrowed Ye Zhiyuan's name to cover himself, concealing his brilliance and nurturing obscurity.

This person's heart, schemes, means, and cultivation were all first in Da Luo Men.

Moreover, his sword arts were cultivated to an extremely profound level.

If he did not use the Qilin blood's ability, Shen Linshu also had no assurance he could win against Ye Qingfeng's Da Luo Return to One Sword.

With these four people checking and balancing, Shen Linshu would not easily make a move.

After all, what he wanted to fight for was first, so everyone in the field was an enemy.

Ink Painting, who only knew arrays, might not be enough to fear, but it was impossible for him not to place these heavenly prides like Xiao Wuchen, Ao Zhan, and Duanmu Qing in his eyes.

If the enemy doesn't move, I won't move.

As long as others did not make a move, it was naturally impossible for him to make a move either.

And if they were to make a move, then only all four of them could make a move together.

But the seven great gates joining hands was not a problem, even the one or two grade heavenly prides of the four great sects joining hands also had no impact.

But for them, the four Qian Xue heavenly prides, the four most top-notch talents of the four great sects, sons of heaven bearing bloodline power, to join hands together to deal with one Tai Xu Men, to deal with one Ink Painting, was inevitably giving them too much face.

Even if they won, it would be a kind of shame.

Not only would they lose face, but even the four great sects like Qian Dao Sect would also be looked down upon.

Thinking this, Shen Linshu suddenly startled, realizing a problem:

"Could this... also be within Ink Painting's calculations?"

Utilizing the mutual scruples between their four heavenly prides to balance the situation, and delay time?

Did this Ink Painting anticipate this in advance?

Shen Linshu vaguely felt there was this possibility, but also felt that this seemed to overestimate Ink Painting's intelligence a bit too much.

The war situation changes in an instant, Ink Painting is not a god stick, how could he possibly calculate everything...

Shen Linshu's brows slightly furrowed.

Not only Shen Linshu, Xiao Wuchen and Ao Zhan and several others also had roughly similar guesses in their hearts.

But with the situation like this, whether they made a move or not, they had scruples, so they could only continue to consume like this.

Time passed little by little...

In the valley, Ink Painting paid no attention, only focused on painting arrays.

When his divine sense was used up, he meditated, and when his divine sense recovered, he continued to paint.

A thread of spirit ink moved, a path of array patterns wound, and a set of arrays were engraved on the earth, wood, stone walls, forming a complex and vaguely echoing grand array diagram.

Seeing more and more arrays, with more and more perfect structures, Shen Linshu's heart suddenly jumped, realizing he could not wait any longer.

Absolutely could not let him continue painting.

This Ink Painting, absolutely could not be left!

He looked at Xiao Wuchen and the others.

Several people understood in their hearts, but none spoke, obviously their hearts were not unified.

Just at this time, after observing the words and expressions, Ye Qingfeng slowly offered a suggestion:

"The four of us together make a move. I, Da Luo Men, will be the auxiliary, joining hands to break the re-array, exterminate Tai Xu, and kill Ink Painting."

"If he is not killed, I fear there will be variables."

"This is a sword discussion assembly, and sect interests should be paramount."

Shen Linshu looked at Ye Qingfeng, remaining silent for a moment, just about to speak, when Duanmu Qing instead first nodded:

"Good, first kill Ink Painting."

Among this group, only she had the heaviest killing intent towards Ink Painting.

It was just that previously, for the sake of the sword discussion assembly, she had always maintained a cold face, deliberately enduring.

"Good!" Ao Zhan said, revealing an arrogant smile.

Xiao Wuchen didn't speak, but also nodded.

The four people reached a consensus.

Then the burly, dragon-essence tiger-fierce Ao Zhan, took the first step towards the valley mouth, his entire body's blood energy surging, dragon roars arraying.

"First kill the obstructive one, after that we will again divide a victory and defeat, fighting for first."

The heavenly prides of the surrounding various sects, deterred by Ao Zhan's momentum, all changed color, successively retreating, making way for Ao Zhan.

Ao Zhan walked straight to the front of the valley mouth, suddenly throwing a punch, carrying unparalleled dragon blood power, bombarding towards the earth-wood seal mountain re-array laid by Ink Painting on the mountain mouth.

For a time, mountain stones shook, array spiritual power surged.

Several array patterns immediately dimmed down, even the ground that was one with the array, appeared with paths of cracks.

The power of one punch was so powerful.

Ao Zhan's expression was cold, but in his heart, he felt slightly surprised.

He didn't expect this re-array to be even tougher than he thought, no wonder so many people couldn't break it previously.

It wasn't that they were useless, but truly, the arrays laid by this boy Ink Painting were indeed strange.

Even his Dragon Cauldron Refining Body Arts punch only wasted several array patterns, yet failed to break the array.

To break the array, he would still need to spend some effort for the time being.

Ao Zhan's gaze flashed, yet he was unwilling to continue making a move, instead standing to the side, waiting for others to make a move.

He might not want to waste too much spiritual power in breaking Ink Painting's arrays.

Shen Linshu let out a cold laugh, drew out his long sword, urged his purple energy golden Qilin sword energy, and attacked towards Ink Painting's arrays.

Then came Duanmu Qing's spells, Xiao Wuchen's heaven sword arts, and finally Ye Qingfeng's Da Luo Return to One Sword arts.

The four great heavenly prides, together with Da Luo Men's great senior brother Ye Qingfeng, each took a turn breaking the array, one person one move.

For a time, powerful spiritual power fluctuations rose and fell, light flowed above the re-array, a path of array patterns were on the verge of breaking, and the cracks also became more and more numerous...

In the valley, Ink Painting's expression was calm, still wholeheartedly painting arrays, regarding everything around him as nothing.

Outside the field, as the four Qian Xue heavenly prides joined hands to attack the array, not a few people exclaimed:

"To actually force these four top heavenly prides like Shen Linshu to join hands to break his arrays, this Ink Painting is also enough to be proud."

"Yes ah..."

"Worthy of being the array Dao leader of the Qian Xue state boundary, the ten thousand sects..."

Successively some people sighed.

Up to now, the array strength that Ink Painting had revealed had already far exceeded their cognition.

They fundamentally did not understand the deeper array mysteries, even if they wanted to praise, they did not know how to praise, ultimately only sighing this sentence:

Worthy of being the array Dao leader.

Subsequently some people said:

"Once the four heavenly prides make a move, then this Shura war will also head towards its end."

"Once Tai Xu Men is exterminated, the four heavenly prides, plus Ye Qingfeng of Da Luo Men, can also decide the victory and defeat."

"Didn't think that the final decisive battle of this Shura war would come so fast."

"Now, let's just see how long Tai Xu Men can hold on..."

And as the four Qian Xue heavenly prides inside the field began to join hands to break the array, a set of array patterns dimmed, a path of arrays broke, and the seal mountain re-array was also being weakened little by little.

The sect master, elders, and a crowd of disciples of Tai Xu Men, including Wen Ren Wan, Yu Er, Zhang Lan, Gu Changhuai, Murong Caiyun, Hua Qianqian, and other cultivators acquainted with Ink Painting, all involuntarily held their breath.

Ink Painting and the others had already performed very strongly.

But helplessly, their opponents were equally too strong.

Sure enough, after one incense stick of time, with a boom sound, the ground cracked, and the arrays thoroughly shattered.

The seal mountain's re-array was destroyed, and the one-line sky was broken.

The burly and domineering Ao Zhan was the first to step into the valley.

Then came Shen Linshu of Qian Dao Sect with his purple gold noble energy, the cold and beautiful Duanmu Qing of Wan Xiao Sect, the graceful and ethereal Xiao Wuchen of Tian Jian Zong, and the concealed-light and nurtured-obscurity Ye Qingfeng of Da Luo Men.

And behind these few people, over a hundred heavenly prides from the four great sects and seven great gates, again like a tide, surged in, completely surrounding Tai Xu Men.

The situation seemed to have returned to before.

Tai Xu Men, against one hundred Qian Xue heavenly prides.

But this time's enemies were completely different from before.

Not only were there the four most top-notch bloodline heavenly prides of Qian Xue, but also Da Luo Men's great senior brother, and the rest of the crowd of disciples were also mostly the true "elites" of the four great sects.

The numbers were similar, but the strength was several times stronger than before.

This truly was a force of heavenly prides gathered from the most top-level disciples of the four great sects and seven great gates in the current Qian Xue state boundary.

This lineup of heavenly prides, just looking at it was enough to make people suffocate.

And opposite them, Tai Xu Men's forces were single and isolated.

Having experienced the previous fierce battle, even with Ink Painting's five elements source armor and arrays adding to their defense, Tai Xu Men had also lost ten people.

Now, Tai Xu Men only had twenty remaining.

Twenty against over one hundred, especially including the one hundred plus cultivators with the four Qian Xue heavenly prides, this was a truly despairing situation.

But at this time, these over one hundred heavenly prides did not move lightly.

Because in front of them, there was still a large piece of dense arrays separating them.

These arrays were all Ink Painting's "masterpieces", pure two-grade high-tier arrays, even including part of the two-grade high-tier re-arrays. Looking at them, they almost covered the entire valley.

And Ink Painting was still sitting on that large stone.

The only remaining twenty disciples of Tai Xu Men, like a human wall, protected Ink Painting in front.

Dense arrays surrounded them completely.

From this posture, it seemed that only by exterminating Tai Xu Men's disciples, stepping on their corpses, could they ultimately kill Ink Painting.

And to exterminate Tai Xu Men's disciples, they would have to wade out a blood road from Ink Painting's arrays.

Looking at the dense arrays in front, the disciples of all four sects and seven gates felt their scalps go numb.

They found it somewhat hard to believe.

Just how strong was this Ink Painting's divine sense, to be able to paint out so many arrays in such a short time...

Was he really a Foundation Establishment cultivator?

But at this moment, it was only about you dying or I living, there was no room for so much nonsense.

Shen Linshu only lightly said:

"Kill..."

With one order, the heavenly prides of the four sects and seven gates began to rush towards Ink Painting's arrays, killing towards Tai Xu Men, killing towards Ink Painting.

The moment they stepped into the arrays, the ground and mountain stones rose, turning into barriers.

Earth prisons rose, forming prisons.

Quicksand trapped the ground, turning into traps.

Grass and wood derived, becoming thorns with every step.

These mountain stones, earth prisons, quicksand, grass and wood, were all transformed by the array's spiritual power. But because their grade was two-grade nineteen patterns, close to Golden Core, they already had some entity shape.

And these arrays, like firm "cities", blocked the invading crowd of Qian Xue heavenly prides.

The Qian Xue heavenly prides who fell into these dense defense arrays and trap arrays found their steps difficult.

The sword energy of Linghu Xiao and several others began to kill from afar.

Ye Qingfeng then said: "Do not disperse, kill past along one road."

Ink Painting had laid too many arrays, breaking them all was fundamentally impossible.

Breaking them separately was also time-consuming and laborious.

It was better for everyone to gather together, break open one road together, and kill towards Ink Painting.

Injuring its ten fingers is not as good as breaking its one finger.

Damaging its ten arrays is not as good as breaking its one array.

Ye Qingfeng took the lead, with Da Luo Return to One Sword as the guide, gathering everyone's power, carving out a passage from the weak point of the arrays laid by Ink Painting.

Everyone followed this passage, enduring the sword energy of Tai Xu Men's Linghu Xiao and several others, breaking through arrays step by step, killing towards the depths step by step...

While Shen Linshu and the other four, however, did not make a move rashly.

They still stood on the periphery, indifferently looking at everything in front, especially the dense arrays in front.

They wanted to know what trick Ink Painting was playing.

Whether these arrays of Ink Painting's hid some profound mystery.

A lion fighting a rabbit also uses its full strength.

They might not place Ink Painting in their eyes, but they must give enough respect to Ink Painting's arrays.

As Ink Painting's arrays were broken through with a passage, the outer appearance of the entire arrays "city" also gradually revealed itself.

These arrays were strong, but they seemed to be just ordinary two-grade high-tier arrays.

Moreover, their types were all firm defense arrays, and trap enemy trap arrays, and no killing arrays.

Ink Painting's purpose seemed to be just "guarding".

The longer they guarded, the better.

"But really... just like this me..."

Shen Linshu raised his head, looking towards the distant Ink Painting who was still unmoved under the encirclement and killing of over a hundred heavenly prides, still focused, regardless of everything, single-mindedly painting arrays, his brows gradually furrowed tightly.

And as Ye Qingfeng led the team, wading out a blood road, killing towards the depths of the arrays.

Disciples from both sides met, and the slaughter became more and more intense.

Under the amplification of the five elements source armor, Linghu Xiao drove the Chong Xu Solution Sword True Arts, confronting Ye Qingfeng's Da Luo Return to One Sword Arts head-on.

The giant swords of the Tai A five brothers then blocked the first-rate heavenly prides like Ao Zheng of Dragon Cauldron Sect.

Secondly, Shen Cangfeng of Qian Dao Sect and Xiao Ruohan of Tian Jian Zong also joined the slaughter with the Tai Xu Men crowd.

And this time, it truly became a life and death war.

No one dared to take it lightly, and no one held back.

Tai Xu Men was at a numerical disadvantage, but with the source armor amplification, within the small range defined by Ink Painting's arrays, their frontal burst of killing power was extremely strong.

At the same time, thin threads of black and red half-and-half spirit ink wandered in the field, assisting in the killing with array control.

Everyone on both sides fought desperately, urging all their spiritual power, tangling and killing together.

The confrontation place was truly like a "meat grinder".

One knife after another, one sword after another, mixed together.

Sharp killing intent blended, airtight.

Lun Dao Jades shattered one after another.

Cultivators died one by one.

Truly miserable to the extreme.

And seeing that the heavenly prides of the four sects and seven gates were successively defeated and retreated, while Tai Xu Men was still desperately fighting, and fighting more fiercely, the four people of Shen Linshu ultimately could not hold back.

They could not die down any longer...

They could not let Ink Painting and the others kill any longer...

Although previously they had a丝丝 of dread towards Ink Painting's arrays, not knowing what trick this Ink Painting was playing.

But having fought until now, all of Ink Painting's tricks were out.

His process of laying arrays had already been watched over and over countless times by the four people of Shen Linshu.

Divine sense controls ink, paint ground as array.

Using arrays to defend, using arrays to牵制, using arrays to trap enemies, using arrays to assist...

This little bit of array routine had also all been seen through.

Tai Xu Men, their fate was exhausted...

Xiao Wuchen was the first to step into Ink Painting's arrays "city".

Then came Duanmu Qing and Ao Zhan.

Finally was Shen Linshu.

Shen Linshu was the last person to step into Ink Painting's array range.

Stepping in, Shen Linshu's heart inexplicably felt a丝丝 of alarm again. Subsequently, he lightly self-mocked with a smile:

Mere Ink Painting alone, I am actually alarmed because of him, truly laughable...

The four great heavenly prides entered the fray, and the situation was thoroughly rewritten.

Xiao Wuchen, Ao Zhan, Duanmu Qing, Shen Linshu, every single person, all possessed absolutely powerful cultivation, bore the most superior arts, and the most top-notch Dao methods, their spiritual power Zhou Tian numbers tending to perfection.

Every single person, every single punch, every single sword, every single spell, all contained powerful combat power, and all needed great effort to resolve.

The Tai Xu Men crowd fought with all their might to cope.

But the strength gap was truly too big.

No matter how desperately Tai Xu Men's disciples fought, no matter how strong Ink Painting's arrays were, fighting until their oil was exhausted and their lamps were dry, killing until their spiritual power was dry, they were ultimately powerless to reverse heaven.

Tai Xu Men's disciples began to fall one after another.

Hao Xuan died to Xiao Wuchen's heaven sword arts;

Yang Qianjun was chopped by Shen Linshu's purple gold sword energy;

Cheng Mo confronted Ao Zhan for several rounds, then was blasted to death by one punch;

Situ Jian died under Duanmu Qing's indiscriminate spells bombardment;

Among the Tai A five brothers, Ouyang Lu, Ouyang Xi, and Ouyang Cai, exhausted from the long battle, died under the encirclement and killing of people like Ao Zheng and Shen Cangfeng...

Ultimately, the entire Tai Xu Men, fought until only five people remained: including Ink Painting, only Linghu Xiao, Ouyang Xuan, Ouyang Fu, and Ouyang Shou remained.

While the heavenly prides of the four sects still had fully fifty plus people remaining.

A fully ten times numerical gap.

Among these fifty plus people, those who remained were all the most outstanding sons of heaven in the four great sects.

Besides that, there were also several outstanding individuals from Da Luo Men led by Ye Qingfeng.

As well as, the four most top-notch bloodline heavenly prides of Qian Xue.

Now, Ink Painting's divine sense was close to dry, his spirit ink was also consumed, because of the repeated virtual consumption and overdraft of his divine sense to paint large amounts of arrays, his whole person's face was pale, and his breath was weak.

In front of Ink Painting, the arrays used to protect him were already few.

His little junior brothers who had desperately guarded him were also almost dead and injured.

Only Linghu Xiao and several others, whose oil was exhausted and lamps were dry, still gritted their teeth and stood in front of Ink Painting.

While opposite them, the over fifty heavenly prides, the most top-level in the Qian Xue state boundary, yet like fifty plus sharp exposed spiritual swords, each breath deep, their entire bodies emanating killing intent, indifferently looked at Ink Painting, as if looking at a dead person.

"Tai Xu Men... is finished..."

Outside the field, the crowd saw this scene, successively took a deep breath, and sighed with emotion.

If it was before, this sentence would be full of幸 and sarcasm.

But now, the crowd's hearts instead felt pity and respect.

With the power of one sect, against the four great sects and seven great gates, to fight to such a step, to fight to such a desperate situation, tragic and grand, how could it not make people admire them in their hearts.

With such strength, Tai Xu Men was worthy of being the first of the Qian Xue eight great gates.

Even, saying it was a new "four great sects" was not excessive.

The disciples of Tai Xu Men also personally witnessed the scenes of their senior brothers, their fellow disciples, fighting desperately, their hearts surging, and the corners of their eyes moist.

The elders were filled with emotion.

Even the sect masters of the Three Mountains, who had lived for several hundred years, were at this time inevitably both sad and hot in their hearts.

They all personally experienced what was called "though defeated, still glorious".

These were their Tai Xu Men's disciples.

These children, able to unite as one, fight with all their might, to fight for the sect to such a step...

How could they, as sect masters, not be surging with emotion for this, not take this as honor?

At this moment, whether they won or lost was no longer important.

In the View Sword Building, some old ancestors of sects silently looked towards old mister Xun, their eyes containing envy.

How can there be no clothes, with my son the same robe.

Between sect disciples, to have such powerful cohesion, such powerful centripetal force, such powerful will force, such powerful unity force...

This was truly a great spiritual wealth.

One person having a Dao heart was still rare.

One sect having a Dao heart that moved forward without hesitation, that was true value like a city.

In this field of Qian Xue sword discussion, Tai Xu Men, though they lost, they also won.

Old mister Xun also slowly exhaled a breath, his heart filled with emotion.

Truly the ancestors of Tai Xu Men bless... Ink Painting this child, initially accepted correctly ah...

While in the valley.

This field of tragic sword discussion also finally came to a conclusion.

Over fifty absolutely top heavenly prides surrounded Ink Painting.

This was a desperate dead end.

Shen Linshu's gaze was indifferent, raising his golden Qilin sword, pointing towards Ink Painting, and again asked that one sentence:

"Will you die by yourself, or die under my sword?"

Ink Painting's face was pale, his expression calm, in his heart he silently counted the arrays he had already painted, these arrays reconstructed in his mind, derived into a complex spiritual hub, deriving and calculating their spiritual power direction, then calculating his global arrays construction...

Finally, Ink Painting again confirmed he had calculated correctly, then raised his head, looked towards Shen Linshu, the corners of his mouth outlining a丝丝 of a shallow, strange smile:

"No one can kill me inside my arrays..."

This丝丝 of a strange smile made people's hearts panic.

A丝丝 of an omen suddenly floated in their minds.

Shen Linshu's gaze suddenly widened, and immediately one sword split towards Ink Painting.

He didn't know exactly what would happen, but he knew something definitely had gone wrong.

"Kill him!"

At this time, not only Shen Linshu, but also Duanmu Qing, Xiao Wuchen, and Ao Zhan, all detected a丝丝 of warning from their bloodline.

Must kill Ink Painting!

Duanmu Qing condensed her Wan Xiao spells, Xiao Wuchen sacrificed out one sword, Ao Zhan let out a tiger roar, and his fist blasted towards Ink Painting like a dragon.

Linghu Xiao fought with his last breath, urging the Chong Xu Solution Sword True Arts, counteracting Shen Linshu's purple energy golden Qilin sword energy.

But he was already at the end of his strength, the Chong Xu Sword could not block the purple gold sword energy, so he simply used his flesh as a shield, blocking in front of Ink Painting, bearing Shen Linshu's sword energy killing move.

Ouyang Shou义无反顾, rushed towards Ao Zhan, using up his last絲丝 of strength, desperately entangling him.

Ouyang Fu's spiritual power was completely gone, similarly making himself a "meat shield", protecting in front of Ink Painting, blocking Duanmu Qing's spells with his life.

While Ouyang Xuan, then fought with all his might,迎上 Xiao Wuchen's sword energy.

From the beginning, he didn't like Ink Painting.

But having fought alongside his fellow disciples until now, he didn't know why, didn't know what he wanted to do, anyway, in his mind, there was only one thought: Ink Painting cannot die.

Linghu Xiao and the other four were all protecting Ink Painting with their lives.

But the Linghu Xiao and the other four, who were originally at the end of their strength, were fundamentally no match for the four Qian Xue heavenly prides.

With just one confrontation, within several breaths, they were on the verge of death.

And just at the moment when several people were on the verge of death, Ink Painting's gaze suddenly deepened, and he lightly chanted:

"Explode!"

(This chapter end)