Chapter 397

In the cold, dark universe.

Lu Li sat cross-legged.

Before he brought Lan Xing to traverse the universe, in order to block the Great Saint Xuanlin who came from the Ten Thousand Beast Divine Nest, he had deduced a super array to be set up in the cosmic space.

With the help of that array!

He successfully suppressed Great Saint Xuanlin.

Using star cores as the core and fusing them with killing Qi, the array could possess invincible power.

Precisely because of this!

He was able to surpass the Great Saint realm while in the Saint King realm.

However, facing a Fierce Beast Emperor.

Relying only on this!

Was still insufficient!

For this reason, Lu Li continued to deduce with the help of that fused hundred-thousand-fold talent, not only expanding the forty-nine dead star cores to the limit but also integrating the realm of illusion.

In this way, perhaps it would be enough!

"Next, it all depends on how many stars with star cores they can find!"

Lu Li murmured softly.

Originally, forty-nine dead star cores allowed Lu Li to kill a Great Saint as a Saint King; if this army of a thousand could find four hundred and ninety dead star cores this time, he would have the confidence to hold off the Fierce Beast Emperor.

However, every dead star with a star core was a life star before it extinguished.

Four hundred and ninety!

That was a bit too many!

It would be very difficult to find them all before the Fierce Beast army arrived.

After all, when setting up the God-Slaughtering Array back then, Yu Sheng and Qian Wang spent a full half-month searching for forty-nine dead stars with star cores.

Lu Li sat cross-legged.

Waiting quietly!

……

In the blink of an eye.

Several hours passed.

Lu Li remained sitting cross-legged in the dark void.

According to his deduction!

In less than two more hours, the Fierce Beast army would arrive here. The remaining time was the limit for setting up the God-Slaughtering Array; if the array could not be successfully set up before the Fierce Beast army arrived, then this trip would lose its meaning.

Therefore!

Around Lu Li.

The army of a thousand had all returned.

Dead stars with star cores were lined up, already reaching the limit of what they could find.

However, it was still not enough!

Lu Li slowly opened his eyes.

His divine sense had long since perceived everything happening outside.

Less than four hundred!

Although a powerful God-Slaughtering Array could still be set up, it would likely fall quite short of stopping the Fierce Beast Emperor.

Just as he was shaking his head slightly.

A Great Saint Perfection-realm powerhouse stepped forward and tentatively asked, "Great Emperor, I also know a little about the Dao of Arrays. Did you have us search for dead stars with star cores just to utilize the power of the star cores within them?"

"Naturally!"

Lu Li's gaze was calm.

"The core of the Dao of Arrays only needs to utilize the most original power. Since you know a little about the Dao of Arrays, you should also know that for those dead stars with star cores, the power contained in other parts has already completely extinguished and is of no use at all."

"Since that is the case, we have nearly two hundred more star cores here, enough for the Great Emperor's use."

That Great Saint Perfection-realm powerhouse's expression brightened, and he explained, "The Great Emperor may not know, but the war between the Ten Thousand Beast Divine Nest and the Saint Star Court has already broken through all the key passages of the Di San Jie of the Saint Star, blocking our retreat."

"In order to sustain a long-term war of attrition with the Ten Thousand Beast Divine Nest within this Di San Jie of the Saint Star, the Saint Star Court collects all usable cultivation resources in addition to fighting, and dead star cores are the most powerful and ranked first."

"We retreated all the way here before we managed to collect these nearly two hundred."

"In that case, that is enough!"

Lu Li nodded with satisfaction.

He reached out and grasped!

In this eternally silent cosmic starry sky, dead stars burst open one after another, as brilliantly and splendidly as fireworks.

They transformed into over three hundred star cores!

Immediately following!

He reached out and beckoned again!

He retrieved over a hundred star cores from that Great Saint Perfection-realm powerhouse and then dismissed the crowd.

"Leaving me alone here is enough; you all go back."

The crowd did not dare to linger.

Led by the six Great Saint Perfection-realm powerhouses, they turned and left one after another.

Once everyone had completely left this part of the universe.

Lu Li waved his large hand.

Within these thousands of miles!

Endless brilliant golden light flashed out.

Endless terrifying vitality gestated upon those four hundred and ninety dead star cores, blooming in this cold, dark cosmic starry sky like brilliant moonlight!

They turned into streams of light, flying through the air!

They landed one after another on the key nodes of this thousands-of-miles-wide cosmic void.

Then!

Under Lu Li's control.

The great array surged up with a boom!

Within these thousands of miles of cold, dark universe, endless array patterns surged, outlining streaks of brilliant golden light, like long dragons swimming, intersecting and connecting those four hundred and ninety key nodes.

The nodes shone brilliantly!

Utilizing Lu Li's origin, they inversely supported the entire array, blooming with waves of destructive fluctuations.

Even in this dead, silent universe!

It still made one shudder.

Lu Li stood up tall.

The array, up to this point!

Had only completed the first step!

The second step required condensing endless killing Qi to fill it, utilizing the endless slaughter to drive the array's killing power.

Back when he was a Saint King!

To gather endless killing Qi, Lu Li had once utilized the killing intent of all the humans on Lan Xing.

But now!

He had broken through to the Emperor realm!

The Emperor realm integrates the body with the Dao and can derive ten thousand techniques!

Killing Qi!

Could naturally be condensed at will!

Lu Li did not linger.

Between his palms.

That vast origin poured into the array; the origin transformed, and endless killing Qi manifested, turning into streaks of killing intent that submerged into the four hundred and ninety key nodes of the God-Slaughtering Array.

Rumble!

When the last wisp of killing Qi merged into it, the entire array flashed with a heaven-shaking killing radiance that pierced through the universe and straight into the dark cosmos, as if lighting up the entire universe and shaking the nine heavens and ten earths.

"What powerful killing force!"

In the distant universe.

The army of a thousand led by Wan Liuhen and the other six Great Saint Perfection-realm powerhouses turned back.

The moment they felt that killing Qi, they were all shocked to the core, their faces filled with disbelief.

Within those thousands of miles of universe.

Killing intent ran rampant!

The terrifying power released within it was such that even a Great Saint Perfection-realm powerhouse would be reduced to ashes upon stepping inside; with thousands of miles of destruction surging, it was feared that it could truly block even an Emperor-realm powerhouse.

"Such an array is truly something never seen before!"

"I really didn't expect this young Great Emperor to have such accomplishments in the Dao of Arrays!"

"Indeed, even if he weren't a Great Emperor, this Dao of Arrays alone would be enough to place him among the highest echelons of the Saint Star Court."

……

The crowd exclaimed repeatedly.

But in the crowd, someone suddenly smiled bitterly: "Everyone, although the array's power is strong, with such a huge commotion, can it really lure the Fierce Beast army into it?"

"This..."

Everyone was stunned.

That's right!

If the array were displayed so grandly there without any concealment, after sensing its power, the Fierce Beast army would only need to guard outside the array and wait for that Saint Stone Emperor to arrive, then join forces to destroy the array.

It would be impossible to heavily damage the Fierce Beast army!

Blocking them for too long!

It would be very difficult to rely on this array to hold out until the reinforcements arrived!

……

(End of this chapter)