Chapter 901

Even without a master to direct it, the mountain-protection grand array could still unleash seven or eight tenths of its power.

The mountain-protection grand array of Bombarding Lingshan was different.

The ancestral earth vein of the Western Ox-Adoration Continent was still shattered, offering little usable power, and the limited power available had to be used to suppress demonic qi.

Therefore, the source of power for Bombarding Lingshan's mountain-protection grand array was not the earth vein, but the Buddhist disciples.

This was precisely the habitual method of Saint Zhunti and Saint Jieyin.

Using believers as fuel was often far more effective than drawing from earth veins.

First, there was no need to consider terrain.

Ordinary mountain-protection grand arrays required arrangement according to terrain, so as to draw upon the earth vein's power.

The earth veins surrounding Bombarding Lingshan were shattered and saturated with vast amounts of demonic qi; by ordinary standards, they were utterly unsuitable for deploying a mountain-protection grand array.

Saint Zhunti and Saint Jieyin had established the Buddhist headquarters at Bombarding Lingshan not to harness the earth vein power around it.

On the contrary, Saint Zhunti and Saint Jieyin established Bombarding Lingshan precisely to suppress demonic qi and repair and replenish the ancestral earth vein.

Since the purpose was to repair and replenish the earth vein's power, it was naturally impossible to draw upon or mobilize the earth vein's power.

Second, the power of earth veins had its limits.

Extracting excessive earth vein power easily disrupted the surrounding environment and accumulated vast amounts of heavenly and earthly karmic debt.

Most factions, unless at a life-and-death crisis, would never lightly unleash the full power of their mountain-protection grand arrays, precisely to avoid extracting too much earth vein power.

Heaven and Earth are perfectly impartial; Wan Ling may freely draw power from any part of Heaven and Earth, but not excessively—damage to Heaven and Earth itself invites divine retribution.

Believers were different.

Wan Ling belonged to the human path; mass slaughter or conversion of Wan Ling would normally incur guilt before the human path and accumulate human-path karmic debt.

Under the complete triad of Heaven, Earth, and Human paths, even the strongest cultivators dared not casually slaughter ordinary life.

For once too many lives were slaughtered, one would be punished by the human path.

The threat posed by the strong toward the weak was simply too great; without restraint, even a single Luo Jinxian could effortlessly destroy a small world and annihilate billions of lives.