The people of the Tai Chu Sect mistook them for demonic cultivators, while the demonic cultivators mistook them for members of the Tai Chu Sect.
Hearing the shouts of fighting from both sides, the group was completely bewildered.
In this situation, there's no way to hide. As long as they're still in the secret realm, no matter where they hide, they'll be caught up. Now, the only option is to fight back and find a way to break the deadlock.
The only hope is that those phantoms aren't too powerful.
The ten people were divided into two teams.
Shen Sangruo and the four from Feiyun Sect dealt with the people from Taichu Sect, while Shi Zhili and the four from Ye Huai dealt with the group of demonic cultivators.
The five people behind them had close ties with the Taichu Sect, and Shi Zhili was even a member of the Taichu Sect. It would be rather cruel to make them fight against the illusory figures of the Taichu Sect.
This is also to prevent it from affecting their mindset and to allow them to give their all.
On Shen Sangruo's side, although Feng Heyun and the other three only had the cultivation level of the early stage of Nascent Soul, her cultivation level of the late stage of Nascent Soul and several contracted beasts could completely raise the overall level.
They divided the battlefield into two parts, with each team fighting independently.
As Shen Sanruo held the feather fan, she activated the Sunset Glazed Fire Technique, instantly unleashing a sea of fire that caused the surrounding temperature to rise sharply.
The tendrils of the dodder flower demon spread across the entire ground, entangled the footsteps of those phantoms, while the Kui Niu seized the opportunity to release purple lightning, which shone brightly against the red of the Liu Huo.
Feng Heyun drew his sword, Wen Xuan activated his poison, and countless Gu worms appeared around Lu Shiqing. Luo Chu summoned a series of formations.
Shi Zhili conjured a red-tasseled spear out of thin air and desperately thrust it at the demonic cultivator in front of him.
Ye Huai's sword intent was cold and sharp, the Nine-Lives Spirit Cat kept hissing in a low, hoarse voice, Song Weiyan quickly made hand seals and chanted incantations, Bai Ruoan burned one talisman after another between her index and middle fingers, and Su Xiyu picked up the alchemy furnace and started smashing it.
The sounds of magical artifacts colliding, spiritual energy clashing and exploding, and various sounds of battle were incessant.
What was once a sunny and peaceful place has now become a devastated battlefield.
After some probing, it was found that most of the phantoms were around the early stage of the Nascent Soul realm. Among the ten, only Shen Sangruo could barely fight them; the attacks of the others could not cause them much damage.
If there were only a few, perhaps a few people could work together to defeat one, but the phantoms in front of them seemed endless.
Soon, all of them had some kind of injury.
If this continues, they will all die here.
Shen Sanruo raised her hand and used the feathers that transformed into sharp feathers to block a large sword that was slashing at her. She then struck down the opponent with her backhand, and the feathers returned to her hand, combining to form a feather fan.
Her eyes fell on the illusory figures of the Primordial Sect, then she quickly glanced at the battlefield of the demonic cultivators in the distance, constantly thinking of a way to break the deadlock.
Every formation has a key point, which is the crucial element of the formation. The best way to break a formation is to destroy its key point.
In addition, it can also be forcibly destroyed by brute force, or its own formation can be used to interfere with or disrupt the formation that needs to be destroyed.
However, the formation set up by the evil cultivator was too powerful, already a top-tier formation in the cultivation world. Under such a critical situation, the latter two methods would definitely not work.
The only way to break the formation is to destroy its key points.
But what is the key element of this formation, and where is it located?
The core of the formation is closely related to the content of the formation, and what she can see at present are only these phantom images.
She wasn't a formation cultivator and didn't dare to speak definitively, but she felt there was at least an 80% chance that the formation's core was related to these phantoms.
Should we kill all these phantoms? Or are they all the key elements of the formation?
She dodged an attack by sidestepping, then unleashed a burst of fiery energy with her backhand, dismissing her own thoughts.
If that's the case, such a large number of array nodes would require an enormous amount of energy, which this array simply cannot support.
It's not worthwhile for those evil cultivators either. If they had extra energy, they would definitely use it all on the function of extracting spiritual energy.
Unable to find a breakthrough, she focused her thoughts on the origin of these phantoms.
Clearly, these phantoms were all members of the Taichu Sect and demonic cultivators who had died in that great chaos, because she didn't see Shi Zhili and Jingxin Daoren among them, nor did she see Yalan and Shi Mu among the demonic cultivators.
The method those evil cultivators used to make the dead reappear in the secret realm couldn't have been entirely fabricated; there must be some connection between the phantoms and the real people.
The battle intensified, with everyone trying to cope while pondering a solution. However, the disparity in strength and numbers forced them to retreat repeatedly, leaving them no choice but to focus all their attention on defense.
Feng Heyun had just been struck by a palm, the impact causing a sharp pain in his chest and also igniting a surge of anger within him.
He wiped the blood from his mouth, and while dealing with the attacks, roared at Luo Chu, "Luo Chu! Aren't you an array cultivator?! Hurry up and think of something!"
"Fourth Junior Brother, do you have any clues? The lives of the ten of us are all in your hands." Wen Xuan gasped for breath, his voice filled with difficulty.
As the only array cultivator, Luo Chu knew how heavy the burden on his shoulders was. Under such immense pressure, his heart was about to jump out of his throat.
"Stop rushing me! I've been trying to come up with a solution, I haven't stopped since the beginning!" Luo Chu's mind was in complete turmoil.
But since it was a matter of life and death, he still thought of many things and immediately spoke them out.
"The array's core! Find the array's core! The core is among these phantoms, and there might be more than one! Once the core is destroyed, the other phantoms will disappear!"
Shen Sanruo's eyes flashed; her guess was correct.
This was indeed a very useful piece of information, but after hearing it, the solemnity on the faces of the group did not ease at all; instead, their expressions became even more grim.
Lu Shiqing gritted his teeth, "We can't even handle so many phantoms, how are we supposed to find them?"
Each of them was surrounded by phantoms, making it difficult to escape, let alone find the array's core amidst so many phantoms.
"Well, there's nothing I can do about it, my abilities are limited!" Luo Chu howled. "With my early Nascent Soul stage strength, it's already quite good that I can glean this information from those ancient evil cultivators' top-tier formations!"
"If I could find the core of the formation directly, would I still be getting beaten up here?!"
"How do we destroy those phantoms that act as the core of the formation? Should we just attack them directly?" Shen Sangruo finally asked after hearing this.
Luo Chu was overjoyed when Shen Sangruo took the initiative to speak to him, even though it was to disrupt the formation.
Given the current situation, he truly didn't know any more information and could only hesitantly reply, "We should just kill them directly."
After saying that, he added, "If you encounter any suspicious persons, just take action."
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