The thick and heavy stone door slowly opened and light rays extended through the cracks of the stone. The scenery behind the stone door appeared in Mu Chen's line of sight.
Behind the stone door was a huge, dilapidated hall that had clearly experienced a fierce battle. Inside the huge hall was a vast square, and on the square, there were many huge stone pillars standing tall.
The ground was covered with deep cracks. Clearly, the ground here had been strengthened by Spiritual Arrays. However, even so, it was still destroyed rather thoroughly.
Within the hall, one could still see corpses that were flickering with a lustrous light. Among them, there were a few skeletons that were still emitting a powerful pressure even after tens of thousands of years. Evidently, they were extremely powerful existences when they were alive.
The entire plaza was in a tragic state.
However, at this moment, Mu Chen wasn't bothered by the tragedy in this dilapidated plaza. His gaze was directed towards the end of the plaza in the first instant. On the lotus that was carved from the blood jade, there was a pitch-black flower that was extremely dazzling. It was quietly lowering its head.
There was a dim light blossoming around the flower. The light was extremely dark, as if it could devour light. Within the dim light, one could see numerous ancient runes appearing, showing how extraordinary and mysterious it was.
Mu Chen stared at the bewitching flower. He knew that this flower was Mandala's body, the genuine ancient Datura Flower!
"I've finally found it."
Mu Chen stared at the bewitching flower for a brief moment before he raised his head and let out a long breath. As long as he could bring Mandala's body away, he wouldn't have to be afraid of the Xia Emperor doing anything to him.
However, although Mandala's body was right before him, he did not recklessly charge forward. That's because the moment he entered this place, he had sensed that there was a Spiritual Array that was filled with killing intent hidden in this plaza.
Mu Chen swept his gaze around and stopped before eight stone pillars.
Then, it stopped before the eight stone pillars. There were eight skeletons sitting beneath the pillars. They seemed to have lost all signs of life.
They were just ordinary bones.
However, Mu Chen knew that the eight skeletons were located at the core of the Spiritual Array. In other words, they were the energy source of the Spiritual Array.
"This spirit formation.
It's no weaker than the complete Nine Dragon God-Killing Array. "
Mu Chen wore a grave expression. He could sense that there weren't any fluctuations coming from this Spiritual Array, but if someone barged in, they would definitely attract a destructive attack that could even kill a Greater Earth Sovereign.
"It's no wonder that Mandala chose to hide in this place.
I'm afraid he won't be able to stop Lu Heng. "
Mu Chen sighed helplessly. Back then, this Spiritual Array had blocked Lu Heng and also blocked him outside.
Thus, he could tell that Mandala and Lu Heng were only in the Greater Earth Sovereign Realm at that time.
Mu Chen stared at the Spiritual Array that enveloped the entire plaza. After a brief moment of silence, he sat down at the edge of the Spiritual Array. Faintly closing his eyes, he started to sense the Spiritual Array before him.
He started to explore.
No matter how powerful this Spiritual Array was, he had to break it. Otherwise, even if Mandala's main body was right before him, he could only give up.
Thus, he could only give up.
As Mu Chen closed his eyes, his Spiritual Energy senses continued to spread out and gradually, he could clearly sense the trajectory of the massive Spiritual Array.
The embryonic form of a spirit array appeared in his mind.
This Spiritual Array was majestic and profound.
It was majestic and profound, vaguely emitting a powerful aura that made Mu Chen's heart palpitate.
It was obvious that this Spiritual Formation was a mid-rank Spiritual Formation of the Grandmaster level.
Previously, when Mu Chen was in the Second Hall, he could easily break the Nine Dragon God-Killing Array because he had obtained the incomplete diagram of the Nine Dragon God-Killing Array. Furthermore, he had studied it for a long time before he could break the Spiritual Array and gain control of it.
But right now, this was a Scholar Grade Spiritual Array that Mu Chen was unfamiliar with.
Thus, it wasn't possible for him to break it in a short period of time.
However, Mu Chen wasn't impatient. On the contrary, he calmed his heart and started to explore every single detail of the Spiritual Array. No matter what, if he wanted to break this Spiritual Array, then he would have to have a sufficient understanding of it. Only then would he be able to find the weakest point of the Spiritual Array.
As Mu Chen sat down and closed his eyes, the dilapidated hall fell into an eternal silence. An ancient aura lingered around, making others feel a sense of decay.
Mu Chen closed his eyes for an entire day.
Throughout the day, his body was akin to a boulder, not moving a single inch. Spiritual light surged around his body as it continued to converge before him. Faintly, he seemed to be constructing a Spiritual Array model. However, this model wasn't complete at the beginning, as it continued to crumble. Mu Chen, on the other hand, was rebuilding it again and again as it crumbled.
The model of a Spiritual Array was clearly the powerful Spiritual Array that enveloped the entire plaza.
Mu Chen attempted to deduce it and find its flaws.
Time quietly flowed in the silent hall. In this manner, another half a day had passed.
Buzz.
All of a sudden, spiritual light blossomed in front of Mu Chen. As the spiritual light gushed out, an extremely complicated Spiritual Array Model was completely condensed. Although this Spiritual Array was just a model, astonishing fluctuations were faintly being emitted from it.
Mu Chen's tightly shut eyes slowly opened at this moment. A sliver of exhaustion could be seen within them. To him, the past two days of deduction was even more exhausting than the all-out battle with elder Zuo.
However, Mu Chen knew that this wasn't the time to rest. Thus, he immediately withdrew his exhaustion and cast his gaze towards the Spiritual Array model before him as a strange light surfaced in his eyes.
"As expected of a Middle Rank Scholar Spiritual Array. It's actually so complicated." Mu Chen sighed. He had already used up all of his energy just to deduce a model of the Spiritual Array before him. If he wanted to truly set it up, he might not even be able to succeed even if he completely squeezed out all of his energy.
This Spiritual Array required at least a few million Spiritual Seals. If there was even the slightest mistake in the various connections, it would cause the Spiritual Array to collapse.
One could well imagine how difficult it was to set it up.
However, it wasn't as if he had gained nothing from this deduction.
Mu Chen's gaze turned towards the giant Spiritual Array above the plaza.
From his previous deductions, he already knew that if he wanted to break this Spiritual Array, other than forcefully breaking it with brute strength, the only way was to destroy its roots.
Mu Chen's gaze.
He looked at the corpses sitting under the eight stone pillars.
The power of the Spiritual Array originated from them, and they formed an extremely balanced connection between each other, making the Spiritual Array even more powerful.
Because of this balance, no matter which direction Mu Chen tried to force his way in, he would attract the eight corpses' counterattack. If he could break this balance, then the Spiritual Array would fall into disorder due to the imbalance of Spiritual Energy.
At that time, he would have an opportunity to take advantage of.
It sounded easy, but it was extremely difficult to do.
After all, as long as Mu Chen showed the slightest signs of attacking, he would attract a fierce counterattack from the Spiritual Array. That degree of counterattack was something that even he couldn't withstand with the Spirit-Slaughtering Army.
Therefore, he had to break the balance without triggering the counterattack of the Spiritual Array.
Mu Chen's brows were tightly knitted together as his eyes flickered.
He was pondering over a method to break the balance.
"I can't directly attack the Spiritual Array, or I will attract a counterattack."
"The balance of the Spiritual Array originates from the central control.
Right now, the central control of the Spiritual Array is the eight corpses and the stone pillars behind them. The corpses are the source of Spiritual Energy, while the stone pillars are the passageways to the Spiritual Array. "
"Therefore, if I can separate the corpses from the stone pillars, then the balance will be broken!"
Mu Chen abruptly raised his head.
Light surged in his eyes as he stared at the eight stone pillars and corpses. He carefully identified their positions, and after a long while, a smile finally appeared on his youthful face.
He gently stamped his foot on the ground, feeling the hardness under his feet, and chuckled. "So it's so simple."
Chuckling, Mu Chen began to retreat. With a wave of his sleeve, the commander's seal appeared. Blood-red light surged, and the Spirit-Slaughtering Army appeared once again. Blood-red Battle Will swept out.
Mu Chen's thoughts fused with the Spirit-Slaughtering Army's Battle Will and immediately activated it.
Roar!
The Spirit-Slaughtering Army unleashed a deep roar as the boundless blood-red cloud whistled up and turned into a blood-red python with countless Battle Runes flickering on its body.
The giant python roared and swooped down. Its momentum was exceptionally terrifying.
However, the python's target wasn't the Spiritual Array, but the northwest corner of the plaza.
Boom!
The python slammed down, causing the entire hall to tremble. Although the ground had been tempered by Spiritual Energy and was as hard as steel, the Spirit-Slaughtering Army's powerful attack still left a huge crater on the ground.
As the smoke and dust filled the air, Mu Chen did not look towards the gigantic crater. Instead, he had his eyes tightly locked onto a stone pillar on the plaza. From the point of impact, it should be able to cause some energy ripples to spread out. Furthermore, the stone pillar in that direction should be the perfect point for the energy ripples to spread out.
Mu Chen's idea was simple. Since he couldn't directly attack the Spiritual Array, he would launch an attack from the outside and transmit the energy into the Spiritual Array.
However, the energy transmission would be extremely weak due to the isolation of the Spiritual Array. But if it was effective, he would be able to achieve the desired effect.
Although it was simple, he had to be familiar with the structure of the Spiritual Array before the ripples of energy could avoid the point where the Spiritual Energy was dense. Otherwise, it would be useless.
Therefore, Mu Chen stared at the corpse under the stone pillar and calculated the time it would take for the energy to be transmitted.
Roughly eight breaths later.
Mu Chen's pupils abruptly shrank as he stared at the corpse.
That's because he saw the corpse, which had been sitting under the pillar for tens of thousands of years, tremble in an undetectable manner at this moment. Its position had also shifted a little forward.
That slight movement was practically negligible. However, Mu Chen couldn't help grinning at this moment.
He knew that he had found a way to break the Spiritual Array.
(To be continued.)