Chapter 411: The Mysterious Spirit Array Master

In the end, Jin Wuxie still could not make Xiao Han give up the idea of entering the Black Abyss, nor did he insist too much.

Although the Black Abyss Mountain Range was eerie, those Earth Sovereign powerhouses from before were still safe and sound; presumably, with Xiao Han's strength, preserving himself would not be a problem.

Walking out of the gates of the Ten Thousand Gold Pavilion, he merged into the dense crowd on the street amidst the complex gaze of the old man guarding the pavilion, and soon disappeared into the sea of people.

……

The Black Abyss Mountain Range.

Only upon truly arriving at this legendary, eerie forbidden land could one realize that the rumors were still conservative.

"Yo! You've come to the Outer Realm Battlefield?"

A voice that sounded like a resurrection from the dead flashed unexpectedly past Xiao Han's ears.

"You're not dead yet!?"

Xiao Han's tone carried surprise and regret; indeed, the owner of this voice was none other than the Ice Imperial, who had not made a peep since Xiao Han left seclusion.

"I'm truly sorry to disappoint you that this Imperial is not dead~"

Hearing the inexplicable meaning in Xiao Han's words, one could feel the Ice Imperial's intense resentment even through the air, and the voice spoke gloomily.

"Hmph!"

The sound emitted from his nasal cavity showed a bit of smugness.

"I have you to thank for this~"

"If it weren't for that ice-attribute supreme treasure you absorbed a while ago, this Imperial might not have been able to wake up."

"So that's how it is!"

Xiao Han nodded, his expression turning slightly cold.

"So more than half of the energy of the Nine Nether Jade Marrow Heart was absorbed by you~"

No wonder he had felt that the majority of that spiritual energy was siphoned away back then; the spiritual energy that should have been enough to push him to Upper Earth Sovereign was only at the level of a Lower Earth Sovereign Peak—he had finally found the culprit!

The resentment in his heart suddenly found a channel for release, but before Xiao Han could flare up, the Ice Imperial very tactfully changed the subject.

"There seems to be the aura of that group of fellows here?"

Hearing this, Xiao Han looked up at the thick black fog overhead and gave a light "mm," agreeing.

"The Evil Qi is very faint and cannot affect people for the time being, but if it goes on for a long time, it's hard to say..."

Xiao Han's tone was grave; he hadn't expected to run into such a troublesome matter while treasure hunting!

"How about it? Do you want to go in and take a look?"

The Ice Imperial suggested with a hint of provocation; he was a character who feared nothing but chaos.

"How much of your strength can you exert now?" Xiao Han did not rush in headlong, but asked in return.

"According to the classification system of the Da Qian World, it should be Lower Earth Sovereign."

"Of course, if you give me a suitable body, I could at least exert the strength of a Great Perfection Earth Sovereign!"

"Oh, Lower Earth Sovereign, huh."

As for the so-called Great Perfection Earth Sovereign mentioned later, Xiao Han kept silent; how powerful was the Ice Imperial's soul, or rather, his Spirit Soul? Even when he was half-dead, he could easily pull Xiao Han into an illusion, let alone now.

Xiao Han did not currently have the conditions to refine a body that would be compatible with him.

Saying no more, the figure remaining in place became illusory without warning; two or three breaths later, that afterimage slowly dissipated.

……

"Cold Spear Cage!"

"Meteor Shatter!"

"Boom..."

Countless long spears cast from ice emerged silently from the space, and under Xiao Han's manipulation, they nailed the surrounding black humanoid creatures to the ground; the latter then turned into wisps of black smoke and bizarrely vanished into the space.

After clearing the area for who knows how many times and the monsters stopped appearing, Xiao Han let out a breath of frustration.

"Was I played?"

Xiao Han smiled gently, exerting an invisible, powerful pressure on all sides.

Who wouldn't be in a bad mood after being besieged by a massive swarm of monsters the moment they walked through the door?

At this moment, he finally understood why not a single survivor remained from the first batch of powerhouses who entered; the black monsters from just now were a typical example.

The almost endless black monsters each had strength above the Spirit Soul Realm, and some were even strong enough to approach the level of a Sovereign.

Had it not been for Xiao Han mastering quite a few large-scale area-of-effect skills, dealing with them would indeed have been troublesome.

And this was only the beginning.

"These should be arrays, right?"

Inside Xiao Han's body, the Ice Imperial speculated.

"Mm."

Xiao Han nodded slightly; he had discovered the abnormality of those black shadows the moment they clashed, but because he was busy clearing out the small fry, he hadn't found an opportunity to dismantle this Spirit Array.

However, what puzzled Xiao Han quite a bit was why that batch of Earth Sovereigns had returned empty-handed; could it be that this Spirit Array bullied the weak and feared the strong?

Did he look like such a soft persimmon to them?

"Help me intercept for a while later."

The Ice Imperial's vision blurred, and in an instant, he saw that the scene around him had changed; he had actually been expelled from the body by Xiao Han!

"Really..."

Glancing helplessly at Xiao Han, who sat cross-legged with his eyes closed, the Ice Imperial shook his head incessantly. Then, a cold aura rose from his body, condensing into gorgeous ice flowers on the ground, which crawled toward the distance unhurriedly.

At this time, in Xiao Han's dim consciousness, as the probing deepened, one light point after another lit up. The light points were connected by complex lines, and the simple patterns became increasingly intricate, finally outlining a massive Array Diagram that filled the space of his consciousness.

……

"This is going to be difficult..."

After merely studying this Array Diagram for a dozen minutes, Xiao Han's brows locked tightly; it was not that he could not break it, for although the Spirit Array was complex, it was only equivalent to an ordinary Eight-Grade Spirit Array, a piece of cake.

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What was truly thorny should be the method of drawing the Spirit Array, or rather, the Spirit Array Master who set up this Spirit Array.

He was no longer the same person who was completely clueless when he first arrived in the Da Qian World; he could at least be considered half a local, and while his understanding of the Da Qian World's Spirit Arrays could not be called the pinnacle, he was no amateur either.

The Spirit Array system of the Da Qian World had been perfected long ago over the long years, and almost every Spirit Array Master in the Da Qian World followed the same laws when casting Spirit Arrays, without exception.

Casting a Spirit Array requires the assistance of Spirit Seals, using Spirit Seals to carve Array Patterns, and basic Array Patterns are then combined into those Spirit Arrays of immense power in the eyes of the world.

Over the long years, predecessors have already explored a complete set of methods for carving basic Array Patterns.

They have the highest efficiency in utilizing Spirit Power, the lowest difficulty, the strongest power, and the minimal consumption.

Therefore, the carving of basic Array Patterns mastered by any Spirit Array Master in the Da Qian World is completely identical, with at most some differences arising from strength and personal style.

However, in this "Spirit Array," Xiao Han could not find a single trace of the Da Qian World's Spirit Array heritage.

This made him think of himself; the array techniques of the Dou Qi Continent were likewise vastly different in style from the Da Qian World, completely distinct.

What made things difficult for Xiao Han was precisely this; the owner of this "Spirit Array" must have come from a lower plane just like him, with a different heritage.

This meant that in the short term, before Xiao Han could figure out the rules by which the other party set up the Spirit Array, he had no choice but to choose the most foolish way to break the array—breaking it by force.

Thinking this, Xiao Han's tightly closed eyes suddenly opened, and under the stunned gaze of the Ice Emperor, he waved his hand to summon hundreds of Ice Spears, shooting them out toward the surrounding space, severing all the places where Spirit Power converged that he had identified.

Unable to find the location of the Array Eye, Xiao Han had to settle for the next best thing: destroying the entire Spirit Power circulation of the array to make it dissipate on its own due to the collision of conflicting Spirit Power.

The spears pierced into the space, and dense golden patterns emerged on the pitch-black ground, then collapsed with a boom amidst a humming sound.

"Solved?"

The Ice Emperor asked curiously; he had thought Xiao Han would need more time.

Xiao Han nodded, then shook his head.

Immediately, under the impatient and puzzled gaze of the Ice Emperor, he slowly opened his mouth,

"We might be in trouble this time."