Chapter 315: Kunpeng Xuanwu, Array Changes

Wang Ningzhi looked at the Heaven-Luo San that supported a blue sky in the array and was completely unbroken, his expression moved slightly, and he said loudly: "This is the Qiantian Yi Qi Qing Gang, right! Sure enough, it is invulnerable to all methods and has unparalleled defense."

"But fellow Daoist should know that the longer you are trapped in this array, the greater the power of the array will be. You hold up this umbrella, but how long can you hold out?"

Qian Chen just laughed: "Come on! Let me see your array..."

He turned over and got off the deer, stood up holding the white deer, stood on the Dajiang, stepped on the tide, and put his hand on the umbrella handle inlaid with seven Mysterious Heaven Star Stones with a bamboo-boned oil-paper umbrella in his palm.

The Dajiang under his feet was calm, but in the far distance within sight, the water split, revealing a back spine transformed by the surging river water.

That back spine was dark green, like the deepest pool of water. Immediately after, wings opened under the back spine, stretching for more than twenty miles.

A big fish with wings on its back suddenly jumped out of the water.

Carrying the water of a river, it flew over a hundred miles and smashed towards Qian Chen with a boom.

"Ancient exotic beast—Luo!"

Qian Chen sighed in a low voice.

His right hand on the umbrella handle turned gently, and a cold light left the sheath. The sword qi split the river and rose, slashing towards the Luo fish that was carrying the water of a river in the sky. The hundred-mile river surface in the direction of the sword edge suddenly split, revealing a crack more than a hundred miles long that seemed to have been cut by the sword edge.

This change of the array was to transform the horizontal river—the Dajiang that isolated the north and south, continuously flowing east, inputting into the array—every moment, the river water weighing more than billions of jun—into an exotic beast, and bombarding Qian Chen with that terrifying weight!

This was the purest, strongest, and most straightforward power.

It surpassed all fancy changes and pointed directly to the essence of power.

The crowd outside the array couldn't see the Luo fish, because it was transformed by the continuous impact of the Dajiang, like the collapse of a dam that intercepted a thousand-mile Dajiang. The Hengjiang Great Array was like a dam, intercepting and accumulating the river water, and the change of the array was the various functions of the dam.

The change of the Luo fish was like opening a hole in the dam, transforming the terrifying water pressure into the form of origin qi and pouring it out.

Outside the array, the crowd could only see Qian Chen slashing at the thousand-mile Dajiang with his sword.

The "Affectionate Sword" cracked the river across the sky, splitting the exotic beast that gathered the power of the Dajiang and poured out the water of a river from the very center, neatly. The sword qi slid from the giant head of the Luo fish, which was like a small mountain, along the spine, and split the belly in one breath, all the way to separating the two tail fins.

It was just like slaughtering an ordinary river fish.

Qian Chen finished one sword, relying only on the long sword in his hand and the sword path in his heart, fighting against the momentum of heaven and earth with the strength of one person.

The crowd outside the array saw that at the center of the river, the Dajiang was slashed open by someone, the sword mark was a hundred feet deep, and even the bottom of the Dajiang in the shallower places was exposed.

Some water beasts that couldn't dodge in time, such as the Jiang Ang that blocked the tower ship before.

Were all cut open by this sword mark, and their bodies split into two halves.

Looking at the hundred-mile-long sword mark, Gao Hu, hiding behind Yuan Hao, trembled in his legs. Zhi Xia was dumbfounded, and Zhang Huaien muttered: "This... is this still a human?"

The two old men were silent, losing the mood to talk.

Yuan Hao said in a low voice: "The strength of one person, being able to do this, is indeed terrifying to the extreme. But with human strength, how can one compete with heaven and earth? Slashing the Yangtze River with one sword... but after the sword passes, the Dajiang still flows, but how many more swords can he slash?"

"The array is this Dajiang, the sword path..."

Yuan Hao pointed to the sword mark that had gradually closed and disappeared: "It's just this sword mark!"

The changes in the array were broken by Qian Chen's one sword, but the Dajiang outside the array bore the sword mark. This showed that the power of this sword was borne by the Dajiang.

The array is the Dajiang, and the Dajiang is the array.

Wanting to break the array with brute force is like trying to stop the Dajiang with one's own strength. Without the power of a heavenly god, it cannot be done!

"It's a pity! The changes of the array are only the Luo fish. If you could go a step further, transform this river of water into a Kunpeng, transform the weight of the billions of jun of river water into a Kun, and transform the speed of the river flow, this infinite flowing power, into a Peng."

"With the weight of the Kun and the speed of the Peng. When the Kun turns into a Peng, it is the transformation from extreme weight to extreme speed. A strike between the changes, at that time, I wouldn't be able to take this change!"

Wang Ningzhi praised: "Fellow Daoist is joking. I fear that even if a Nascent Soul True Immortal came, they might not be able to reach the Kunpeng change of this array."

"Fellow Daoist slashed the river with one sword, alive and killing one change of the array, Ningzhi admires it to the extreme."

Wang Ningzhi showed an admiring look in his eyes, shook his head and said: "I only want to block you for three hours. After three hours, you can go on your own."

"You should know that within three hours, you will definitely not be able to break this array. Why don't you and I play a game of chess, why bother with life and death for this?"

"You say this as if it came from the mouths of two different people!"

Qian Chen laughed: "Entering the array with my body is nothing more than seeing the hunt and being happy. Entering the array with excitement, seeing the array and being satisfied, why count the things behind me?"

Qian Chen lowered the Affectionate Sword to his side and issued an invitation to Wang Ningzhi to continue.

Wang Ningzhi felt a little regretful. The demeanor of this person was something even he admired. Among the three sons of his father Wang Xizhi, he was the most mediocre, Xianzhi was affectionate, Huizhi was unrestrained, all had the demeanor of famous scholars.

He often wanted to make friends who were not inferior to his two brothers, but he was always regretful and disappointed.

Wang Ningzhi sighed gently and activated the second change of the array. The horizontal river transformed by the array circled, the river water circled, forming a huge vortex with a diameter of a thousand miles.

Outside the array, Yuan Hao and others saw the river water flowing horizontally, starting to rotate, and soon another river flow from south to north formed on the other side of the array.

The array blocking the river turned into a huge vortex in the Dajiang, sucking everything in.

This suction force manifested in the array. Only a black snake was seen circling up from the river surface under Qian Chen's feet. The black snake was a thousand miles long, circling Qian Chen, a huge strangling and stagnant force completely shrouding the space of a hundred miles around him.

This powerful force included the blue sky above Qian Chen's head.

The spiritual light hanging from the Heaven-Luo San was strangled and suppressed by the black snake from a hundred miles away, shrinking rapidly... ten miles, a hundred feet, ten feet, and finally sticking to Qian Chen, only a circle of one foot.

The Affectionate Sword slashed out, and the black snake transformed by the stagnant and sluggish force of the Dajiang, carrying a continuous and extremely stagnant soft force, slowly wore down and resolved the sword light.

"Nothing in the world is softer than water!"

Qian Chen withdrew his sword and sighed, a pair of bright eyes, eyes like stars, shining brilliantly.

"The power of the wild wind is still unable to urge the white grass. Not to mention transforming the momentum of the Dajiang into extreme softness. The Dao of softness can deflect a thousand jun with four taels, not to mention using the giant force of billions of jun, soft and lingering?"

Qian Chen closed his eyes, suddenly withdrew the Heaven-Luo San, he was like a willow leaf, empty and not receiving force, extremely weak, following this strangling force, the long sword in his hand drew a circle.

Guarding weakness!

It was also the Great Dao that Qian Chen realized.

Facing the surging river water and endless soft force, he did not use the strength of the sword path, but just emptied his magic power, guarding weakness to the extreme, and the black snake was flexible and strangling, he was even softer than the black snake. Three feet of ground around Qian Chen was extremely empty, not receiving any force.

Empty!

Qian Chen slashed out with one sword, turning the three feet around him into illusion, like an illusion in a mirror, the long sword in his hand continuously... drawing circles! One ring after another, endless, each time only borrowing a trace of force from the black snake's giant force, but when the sword circle circled thousands of times, he suddenly pulled horizontally with one sword, and the power induced by this sword circle collapsed with a boom.

It turned into the thousands of strands of origin qi of the black snake, suddenly strangling and chaotic.

The sword circle, unknowingly, pulled most of the black snake's power, because it was only pulling along the black snake's trend, so it didn't trigger the array's vigilance. At this time, one move stirred up, and the endless origin qi conflicted with each other. The rotating force began to be chaotic, and the black snake's powerful force began to wear itself out.

With a mournful cry, the black snake's body was broken inch by inch.

Outside the array, the huge vortex that intercepted a thousand miles, the water flow also suddenly became chaotic.

Under the sudden confusion of the flowing river water, the strangling turbulent flow tore everything inside. That huge twisting force, if a rope was rolled in, it would either be torn into countless segments or twisted into countless knots!

The vortex collapsed, and the giant waves swept in all directions, the wave crests were nearly five hundred feet high, rushing towards the towns on both banks, almost leveling the mountain peaks.

This place was an important ferry, and not far away on the shore was a prosperous town.

The array blocking the river had already forced the merchant ships coming and going to stay in the distance. If the aftermath of this array affected the towns on both banks, the casualties would surely be countless.

Zhi Xia and the two Core Formation old men on the ship were all prepared to make a move to eliminate it. But even if this was just the aftermath of the array, it was not something they could block. Facing a hundred-foot tide, how many cultivators could shake it?

At this time, a fluctuation spread out from the array blocking the river. Where it reached, the river surface was alive and pressed down, not allowing any wave to rise.

All the backlash power was transformed into the undercurrent in this section of the Dajiang.

In the array, the Affectionate Sword pierced into the river, and a huge yellow turtle was nailed by him in the center of the river. On the back of the yellow turtle, the Affectionate Sword was like a small thorn, a bit ridiculous compared to the thick back armor.

But the sword qi and sword intent in it completely penetrated it.

Originally, the black snake coiled on the back of the yellow turtle, forming Xuanwu, the black snake was soft, the yellow turtle was hard, with hardness as the foundation, with softness as the use, if hardness is not broken, then softness is endless.

If the yellow turtle does not die, then the black snake will rotate and be born.

"It's a pity, this Xuanwu change still failed to complete. Although the yellow turtle and black snake coiled, they failed to condense into one body after all. The hardness and softness of this Dajiang were two strands after all. If hardness and softness could help each other and turn into Xuanwu, I would also be difficult to withstand its power!"

Qian Chen pulled out his long sword, leaning on the white deer, his expression plain.

Wang Ningzhi's expression was solemn, the power of the array delayed for a while before condensing into the third exotic beast. The exotic beast's body was not big, only like an ordinary person, shaped like a carp and red, the skull was thick and heavy, like an iron-cast shield.

It was precisely the exotic beast... Henggong Fish!

It drove the Great Water and came, dissolving the power of the array into its body and turning it into magic power. With one mouth, it sprayed endless spells, water blades and ice swords, shooting out. Qian Chen opened the Heaven-Luo San, stood under the umbrella, invulnerable to all methods.

The spells created by cultivators naturally had stronger lethality than water flow, with endless changes.

But just that fierceness, this change was much worse than the Luo fish and black snake changes. The Luo fish just relied on that billions of jun of power, and it could smash all protective spells, break magic treasures, and bombard cultivators to death.

If it weren't for Qian Chen having the Heaven-Luo San, the Affectionate Sword, and also unparalleled sword path.

If it were replaced by Zhu Wuchang here, I fear he wouldn't be able to withstand a single strike.

And the black snake change had already turned into suppression, although it secretly contained the yellow turtle. But the snake and turtle failed to merge into Xuanwu, and were seen through by Qian Chen, slashing the connection between the two with one sword, breaking this change.

This time, it didn't even seek suppression, only seeking to delay and trap Qian Chen.

The Henggong Fish change, manipulating endless spells, its ability to respond was far better than the previous two changes. Even with Qian Chen's sword technique, wanting to kill this kind of exotic beast that was unparalleled in regeneration and whose essence was transformed by the function of the array, was not a matter of a moment.

But Qian Chen didn't want to play anymore.

The Hun Tian Qing Luo Umbrella rose again, a piece of blue sky, hanging down spiritual light, blocking the endless spells outside the spiritual light. Qian Chen looked up at the sky, holding the Affectionate Sword, the seven Mysterious Heaven Star Stones on the hilt shining brilliantly.

He drew his sword and rose, slashing the sky with one sword...

The blue sky cracked, the top of his head was no longer a piece of clear light, the sky curtain was slashed open by this sword with a huge crack, revealing a pitch-black mysterious universe. In the universe, it seemed that countless stars were twinkling, and the most dazzling among them were the seven stars arranged in the Big Dipper.

At this moment, the space in the array was suddenly slashed open by Qian Chen with a crack connecting to the outside world.

Leaking a trace of qi.

Wang Ningzhi's expression changed greatly. He changed the array again. Under the night sky, the Henggong Fish retreated its heavy shell, endless water flow surged, circling it. From the fish body, a god surprisingly struggled out.

He picked up a long halberd transformed by the boundless river water and stabbed it towards Qian Chen suddenly.

Thunder roared, endless thunder light wrapped around the long halberd, as if it were a divine punishment descending under the rage of a god, almost having the power of a Yang Spirit making a move. The operation of the array was broken by Qian Chen, and the aura leaked to the outside.

Yuan Hao and others only felt a breath that made them tremble, coming from the array. With a thunderbolt, heaven and earth had already changed color.

Drizzling, the thick fog on the Dajiang dissipated, and it began to rain lightly.

Above the center of the river, Qian Chen faced the Henggong Thunder God, backhanded with one sword, slashing through the thunder light, the sword light carrying a trace of Zixiao Divine Thunder, slashing the Thunder God under the sword.

In the crack of the blue sky, seven stars shaped like the Big Dipper gathered starlight, projecting towards the North Star of the outside world. In the array, with the help of the North Star, Qian Chen fixed the north.

Once the direction was fixed, Qian Chen saw through the location of the Gate of Life.

He calculated all 18,000 changes of the Eight Gates, led the white deer, walked through the heavy array gates, and arrived in front of Wang Ningzhi.

"It's a pity..." Qian Chen said regretfully: "Failed to fight with the person who set up this array. She manipulated the changes of the array from a distance, and there was always a trace of delay. Between the operation of the array, a flaw that shouldn't be there would appear."

"This allowed me to see the three changes of this array blocking the river, and then I saw through the location of the Eight Gates of the array's operation."

Qian Chen smiled suddenly and said: "Otherwise, it could really have trapped me for three hours!"

Wang Ningzhi laughed: "Sure enough, it's not one's own ability... after all, it can't be hidden! My talent is plain, far less than my father and brother! But the grace of the sect, finally had to be repaid... Fellow Daoist, this time it is really Shuping who is going to make a move!"

"Without relying on the array, you are not my opponent at all!" Qian Chen shook his head. He asked: "What is the name of this array?"

Wang Ningzhi laughed: "My wife studied this array, and now it is the first time it has appeared in the world. Set up to block the river, and there is also Brother Wuchang making a move, delaying until the array was set up. It occupied all the advantages of geography, time, and people, but it was still broken by you."

"So, she wants to ask fellow Daoist to name this array!"

Qian Chen thought for a while and said: "The fundamental reason for this array still stems from the Eight Gates, the Eight Gates rotate, blocking the river to form an array. I watched the changes of those exotic beasts, and there should be twelve subsequent ones... Brother Wang thinks, is it better to call it the Great Array of the Golden Lock Blocking the River? Or is it more appropriate to call it the Great Array of the Twelve River Gods?"

Wang Ningzhi lowered his head slightly, he should have gone to talk to his wife. After a while, he raised his head and said: "Many thanks to fellow Daoist for naming it!"

But he was not prepared to tell Qian Chen the chosen name.

Qian Chen knew that this kind of narrowness was not his personality, so he knew it was the idea of the wise helper behind him.

It seems that the real name of this Great Array of Intercepting the River will only be known by the juniors of the Wang and Xie families in the future when they look through the classics.

Qian Chen flicked his long sword, the sword sound was clear, signaling Wang Ningzhi to make a move... ===== CHAPTER 316 =====