Chapter 700: Changes in the Array Eye

Inside the Star-Plucking Tower, just at the moment Zu Ju's fireworks ignited, the Du Yun Chief, who had been silently chanting in front of the Heavenly Book, suddenly opened his eyes and pointed to the mid-air: "Come, reinforce the array eye!" Footsteps rose, and more than ten guards in the Star-Plucking Tower acted immediately, not rushing toward the Kaiyang Peak, but running into the room behind the shrine.

That room itself was an array, with all six walls engraved with runes; once someone ran in and correctly triggered the switch, the runes immediately lit up, teleporting them into the array eye!

Actually, the incident was sudden, and it happened to be blocked by the fireworks all over the sky, so everyone didn't see whether the figure jumping toward the array eye had entered or died.

The Du Yun Chief was exceptionally cautious and still sent people into the array eye to inspect.

Just as the guards were running into the teleportation array one after another, several large characters appeared on the Heavenly Book: Enemy entered the array eye, counterattack! Seeing this, the Du Yun Chief's heart sank. The Heavenly God had confirmed that the enemy hadn't died and had successfully broken into the array eye.

That meant the turbulence and defensive array outside the array eye hadn't taken effect on them.

The most critical thing was that the opponent had already probed the location of the array eye and figured out its operating pattern, otherwise they wouldn't have jumped so decisively!

Prepared, the enemy was prepared.

Although there were layers of restrictions and protection inside the array eye, the Du Yun Chief couldn't be optimistic at this moment.

Who knew how many more trump cards the incoming enemy had? Several lamp-guarding envoys rushed over and were also assigned by him to reinforce the array eye: "Bring the lamp spirits!"

"Summon the garrison army under the peak to go up the mountain and guard the Star-Plucking Tower!"

"Activate the restrictions on Zu Ju, quick!"

Following this series of orders, the entire Star-Plucking Tower became busy.

At this time, the Du Yun Chief hesitated for a moment, wanting to speak but stopping.

The next second, a line of handwriting appeared on the Heavenly Book: "Awaken Chenyuan and Xiao Guang!"

The words were blood-red, which could be called soul-stirring. Clearly, the Heavenly God also felt it was a matter of extreme urgency.

Sure enough, the Heavenly God also wanted to dispatch Chenyuan? It could be seen that the situation was not optimistic. The Du Yun Chief was shocked and hurried to handle it.

Just talking about awakening Chenyuan required several preparatory steps.

If an external enemy invaded, Lingxu City had multiple reliances. One had to know that the last time the great demon Chifeng invaded Mount Xushan, he had tangled with the Tiangong for a full four hours, and later, many great powers of Lingxu City arrived one after another, so it wasn't difficult to settle the matter.

But this time, from the attack on the Spirit Gathering Array to now, only a few breaths had passed! Just a few breaths! In the time it took to sneeze a few times, the enemy had invaded the array eye.

Even with ever-changing means, the Tiangong didn't have time to display them.

How did they get in? They had truly encountered a strange event today!

At this time, Zu Ju also arrived in response to the bell, probing its huge figure from the lava pool.

Bai Ziqi had already arrived at the Star-Plucking Tower, rushing to the eaves corridor, happening to be able to look down at it: "Who jumped into the array eye!"

Zu Ju scratched its head: "I don't know what you're talking about."

This was purely lying with eyes open. Honestly, when Bai Ziqi saw it firing fireballs into the sky, he understood everything; this thing that ate inside and out!

"Where are his accomplices?" Invading Mount Xushan and destroying the array eye was a huge project, absolutely not something a single person could complete. Bai Ziqi warned the mountain swamp monster, "Your betrayal of the Tiangong will definitely be severely punished; as long as you turn back now and confess the enemy, I can still put in a good word for you in front of the Heavenly God."

"I didn't see his accomplices." Zu Ju grinned. "Maybe, they are inside the array eye?"

The Du Yun Chief rushed over from the rear, heard this, rushed into the shrine, and extended his long staff into the sand table, stirring it a few times.

This sand table occupied a long table and could be called a three-dimensional miniature map of the entire Mount Xushan. Even after the array eye removed its invisibility ability, it was displayed on the sand table in real-time.

It could be said that whatever happened in Mount Xushan in reality would be fully displayed on the sand table. Even "Zu Ju" appeared in the sand table, standing in front of the Star-Plucking Tower.

Actually, this treasure has another name, called the "Painting of Shanhe," and it is a magic treasure of the Immortal Sect left behind by the Great Return Sect. Using it as the anchor for the entire Spirit-Gathering Array was a suggestion personally put forward by the Holy Venerable Lingxu.

It was also part of the great array, or rather, a command platform.

Through this "Map of Shanhe," the Star-Plucking Tower could perform real-time control over the entire great array.

The Du Yun Chief zoomed in on the local area on the sand table, so everyone could clearly see that there was someone in the array eye, a living person jumping around!

But there was only one, and he was wearing a mask.

One person wanted to destroy the great array? It was truly outrageous.

The great demon Chifeng who broke into Mount Xushan before actually had helpers.

No, that's not right. The intruder at the moment also had a helper, which was Zu Ju!

Chief Du Yun did not know what method the other party used to persuade the cunning Qu Ju, and now was not the time to consider this problem. He raised his long staff, thrust it directly into the bottom of the magma pool within the Painting of Shanhe, and even gave it two forceful stirs.

This was punishment for Zu Ju's disobedience to the Tiangong.

Zu Ju rolled in the lava pool in pain, roaring repeatedly: "Stop, stop!"

It slapped the natural bridge in front of the building twice unconsciously, but the bridge surface glowed, reflecting its force back completely.

As long as the Spirit Gathering Array existed, Zu Ju couldn't destroy the buildings and mountains of Mount Xushan, and couldn't harm the people of the Tiangong.

It looked toward the Star-Plucking Tower, fire spraying from its eyes.

It was truly spraying fire.

The Du Yun Chief didn't miss the resentment in its eyes. This ungrateful thing, Lingxu City had worshipped it for hundreds of years, and couldn't get a bit of loyalty in return.

Truly a white-eyed wolf.

"I'll ask you one more time, how do these people plan to destroy Mount Xushan!" The Du Yun Chief said angrily. "If you don't confess again, I will lock you in the lava pool and not allow you to step out for ten years!"

The lava pool looked wide, but that was for humans. For Zu Ju, this was a bathtub.

Being trapped in a bathtub for the next ten years was even more miserable than being in jail.

Zu Ju was in unbearable pain and hurried to beg for mercy: "Fine, fine, I'll say, I'll say!"

It stood up from the lava pool again and slowly leaned over.

"Not good!" At this time, Bai Ziqi suddenly called out, "Changes in the array eye!"

He had always been calmer than others and rarely looked so shocked.

The Du Yun Chief looked down at the Map of Shanhe and saw something he never expected: "This..."

The turbulence was about to end; He Lingchuan held the Wind-Fixing Bead tightly in one hand, formed a seal with the other, his heart as calm as stagnant water.

Just before hitting the defensive array, the Li Dai Tao Jiang (Substitution) technique was activated just in time.

He and the Ghost Shadow Cicada Slough that had fallen into the array eye swapped positions.

This step was extremely dangerous; if he had miscalculated even a little, he would have been charred charcoal at this moment.

However, He Lingchuan was as calm as an ancient well throughout, his mind clear and serene.

The more dangerous it was, the calmer he was;

The more dangerous it was, the better he performed.

Invasion plan step two, achieved!

After landing, He Lingchuan turned over and stood up. This was already inside the array eye, and the scenery was completely different from the outside world; even though Zu Ju had described it beforehand, this first look at entering the array still made him feel very strange.

It wasn't too complicated, but too simple.

The shape of this array eye was like Saturn, with a huge round ball in the middle and a whole ring of stars on the outside.

It was made of colorless glaze, so it was completely transparent from inside to outside, without any impurities.

Besides that, there was nothing. The star ring was empty, without half a miscellaneous object.

An array with such a simple style really didn't look like a product of this realm. It had been more than ten years, hadn't the Tiangong added anything to it?

At this moment, He Lingchuan was standing on this star ring.

And directly in front of him, in the center of the round ball, was one of the goals of his trip, Zhu Xiuer—her demon immortal slough!

Yes, he looked up and met the eyes of that magnificent slough, which was four feet tall.

It stood there quietly, lifelike.

The last time he saw it, it seemed to be in the cave of the Ghost Needle Stone Forest in the Panlong world.

A strange light source was also placed inside the round ball, which could actually shine through the thick belly of the spider slough, directly hitting the star map on its belly!

So this star map flew out, floating in mid-air like a slide, and was even magnified several times.

The dark clouds in the sky didn't know when they had dispersed. Now there were two star maps in the night sky, one in the array eye and one in the night sky.

The stars in the two star maps were exactly the same, flickering synchronously.

At a glance, a bit of realization arose in He Lingchuan's heart.

So that's how it was.

By means of the abdominal map of the spider immortal slough, the Tiangong actually made the stars in the sky and the great array on the ground into a symmetrical shape.

The Big Dipper Nine Peaks + Array Eye on the ground was a replica mirror image of the Big Dipper Ten Stars in the sky—to put it bluntly, it was like the Big Dipper stars were looking in a mirror.

Through the constant changes in the position and angle of the array eye, the Spirit Gathering Array could achieve coordinated unity with the stars in the sky.

What it wanted to achieve was the effect of heaven and earth working together, which was the only way to continuously absorb spiritual energy for the city's use.

And the spider demon slough was also completely fixed inside the round ball by eight huge glazed pillars.

These glazed pillars were probably melted and wrapped around its eight legs, and then welded firmly to the inside of the round ball. No matter how the round ball rolled, the slough and the star map imaging remained motionless.

Now what He Lingchuan had to do was to take out the slough.

Looking at this situation, as long as the slough left the round ball, the array would lose the power to coordinate heaven and earth, and it would automatically fail.

It sounded quite simple.

At this time, He Lingchuan also heard the bell ringing from afar.

In the middle of the night, the Star-Plucking Tower wouldn't ring the bell for no reason; it could only be that his and Zu Ju's behavior had alarmed the enemy—

Making such a big scene, it would be strange if it didn't alarm them.

That is to say, the guards would arrive immediately, and time was tight.

The little spider had been screaming in his arms, meaning it was too far from the spider slough, to get closer, closer.

Seeing that his bottom-of-the-box belongings were right in front, it couldn't stay calm either.

He Lingchuan performed the Swallow Return movement technique, and after rushing two steps, he felt his feet go soft, as if sinking into a quagmire, and he couldn't pull them out.

Looking down, the originally solid glazed ground had turned into a solution, thicker than water, and also carried terrifying high temperatures. Because he saw other small objects falling on the star ring, at this moment they let out a white smoke with a "chi" sound and vaporized.

There was an external invasion, and the array eye's another defensive array was activated automatically.

However, he was wearing the Divine Bone Necklace, so he could be safe and sound.

At this time, one after another transparent monsters appeared on the star ring; some had large heads and fins, shaped like sharks, others were like giant eels, but their mouths were full of sharp teeth.

The star ring seemed to have turned into a glazed ocean, and they were the monsters swimming in it, coming aggressively.

He Lingchuan, well, prey.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 701 =====