Faced with this strange formation, the students from the various academies, who had been separated, realized something was wrong and all used their own methods without holding back.
Yan Lie roared, his arms bursting into blazing flames, and the fiery red patterns on his body lit up one by one. He suddenly clasped his hands together, and all the patterns condensed into a crimson longsword, the space twisting and melting wherever the tip of the blade passed.
"Nine Transformations of Heaven-Burning, Heaven-Burning Blade!"
With a roar, the sound shook the surrounding air. The Fiery Blade, once formed, swiftly thrust towards the clone, its momentum seemingly capable of cleaving through heaven and earth.
However, the clone opposite him formed hand seals simultaneously, just like a mirror image.
On the flaming longsword formed by the clone, dark red patterns suddenly appeared. Under the cover of those patterns, the power of the longsword instantly increased threefold, and the originally scorching flames became even more violent, with the appearance of devouring everything.
"How is this possible?!"
Upon seeing this, Yan Lie's pupils shrank, his face filled with disbelief. He never imagined that his signature move would be unleashed by his opponent in such a powerful manner.
Before he could react, the two knives clashed.
An unimaginably hot power erupted, like two stars colliding, its light so dazzling that it was impossible to open one's eyes.
Under this force, Yan Lie's flaming longsword was like a fragile, withered branch, swallowed up in reverse. He himself was like a kite with a broken string, blasted hundreds of feet away by the impact. When he landed, his chest was charred black, his breath was weak, and blood kept spilling from the corner of his mouth.
On Jiang Xian's side, the situation was equally critical. He rapidly formed hand seals, and waves of water appeared around him, condensing into a true talisman. The talisman exuded a damp, surging aura, seemingly capable of devouring everything.
"Mysterious Heavenly Heavy Water, suppress!"
Jiang Xian shouted, his voice steady yet tinged with tension. As his shout fell, the True Talisman, as if alive, swirled and danced in the air, transforming into a giant cage that enveloped his clone.
Wherever the cage went, the surrounding air was compressed into water vapor, forming curtains of water that trapped the clone within.
To Jiang Xian's surprise, the clone sneered and flicked its finger, causing the water prison that had been enveloping it to suddenly reverse. What terrified Jiang Xian even more was that a touch of blood suddenly appeared within the water prison without warning. The aura emanating from that blood clashed with the original water spirit, yet it subtly gained the upper hand.
"A Blood Curse Against the Current?!"
Jiang Xian's expression changed drastically, his voice filled with shock.
"How is this possible? This is clearly an unfinished forbidden technique of mine..."
Before he could finish speaking, the crimson light unleashed its power. It suddenly broke free from the water talisman's restraints, transforming into torrents of crimson light that surged toward Jiang Xian.
Jiang Xian had no time to make an effective defense. He felt a sharp pain in his left shoulder as the blood shadow pierced through it, leaving a bloody hole from which blood gushed out like a spring.
On Xiao Chen's side, a fierce battle was already underway. He let out a long roar, and his body shone brightly, revealing a silver dragon phantom behind him.
A phantom of a dragon hundreds of feet tall rose into the air, blotting out the sky and the sun. Every scale shimmered with a silvery luster, and at the dragon's horns, faint spatial light constantly gathered, forming a powerful torrent capable of destroying everything, ready to erupt at any moment.
"Dragon Breath that Pierces the Void!"
As Xiao Chen finished speaking, the dragon phantom let out a deafening roar, and the long-gathered torrent, like a silver lightning bolt, surged toward the clone with earth-shattering power.
Wherever it passed, space was torn apart, leaving only black cracks, as if it had been ripped open by the giant hand of the universe.
However, the clone's response caused Xiao Chen's dragon eyes to shrink sharply, filled with shock. The silver dragon clone, while spewing dragon breath, traced a mysterious trajectory in the air with its tail. As the tail swung, a crack slowly opened in the void, like a giant eye slowly opening. From that crack emanated a powerful gravitational force, completely swallowing a portion of Xiao Chen's dragon breath.
"A reversal of time and space?!"
Xiao Chen was filled with shock and anger, letting out a roar of disbelief. He was still in the process of comprehending this move and had never used it in actual combat, yet his clone had executed it perfectly.
In the massive explosion caused by the collision of the torrents, the powerful force impacted Xiao Chen's dragon body. He felt a sharp pain in one half of his dragon wing, followed by a tearing sensation. The impact ripped half of his wing to shreds, and dragon blood rained down.
On the other side, compared to the disheveled state of Xiao Chen and the other two, Yun Yin, who was at the Saint Realm, and Mu Qianran and Bai Yunxin, who were also from the Upper Three Sects in the previous generation, did not fall into too much of a disadvantage in front of their respective clones.
Mu Qianran stood in mid-air, his emerald green robe fluttering even without wind. With a light tap of his fingertips, countless vines burst forth, only to wither away the instant they touched his clone.
"Interesting, this formation can actually backfire on my wood spirit's life force, and that's..."
His eyes gleamed as he looked at the clone opposite him, whose body was surrounded by a purer form of Wood Qi than his own, and he felt a sense of surprise.
Bai Yunxin, dressed in pristine white, floated gracefully in mid-air, like a fairy descended to earth. Her footwork was incredibly mysterious, each step seeming to measure the heavens and earth. With each step she took, golden lotuses of spiritual energy quietly bloomed in the air.
The golden lotus shimmered with a holy light, its petals emitting a faint fragrance that seemed to purify the entire space. However, when she saw the clone opposite her, a hint of surprise flashed in her eyes.
The clone also moved with light steps, and with each step, the golden lotus bloomed even more brilliantly, accompanied by melodious chanting. The chanting came from the distant heavens, carrying an ethereal and peaceful quality that transcended the mortal world, yet also containing powerful divine sounds.
This startled Bai Yunxin, for this was the highest level of "Lotus Step by Step" that she had always dreamed of and had been pursuing but had never been able to comprehend. She never expected that it would be used by the clone on the other side.
On the contrary, Yun Yin, who had broken through to the Saint Realm, appeared the most calm and composed. After stepping into the spirit array, thanks to the warning given to him by the Primordial Ancient Tree, he did not use any spiritual energy. Therefore, the clone opposite him only unleashed a normal spiritual energy attack.
Through his observation, he quickly discovered the inner workings of this spirit array.
"Is this formation forcing us to break through our limits and absorb our spiritual energy before we can deduce the most perfect form of our cultivation technique?"
Thinking of this, Yun Yin's eyes shone brightly as he quickly pondered a way to break the deadlock.
Generally speaking, higher-level spirit arrays cannot rely on the continuous flow of spiritual energy from heaven and earth like lower-level spirit arrays.
After all, the power mobilized by a high-level spirit array is too enormous, and even if the spiritual energy of this place is abundant, it is difficult to supply it continuously without any loss.
This means that advanced spirit arrays must have key nodes for the gathering and transformation of spiritual energy, commonly known as the "array eyes". Once these nodes are destroyed, the operation of the spirit array will fall into chaos.
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