Shi Xuan was prepared and jumped to a high place to dodge the rapidly approaching weapon.
The spear missed its target, instead embedding itself in the trunk of a tree beside her, piercing through the massive trunk that would require four or five people to encircle, demonstrating the immense force with which it flew.
But as soon as Shi Xuan landed, another wave of attacks came, this time not with weapons, but with fallen leaves on the ground.
Under the influence of a strange wind, the fallen leaves gradually began to swirl and rise, gathering in circles to form a "fallen leaf whirlwind".
With the support of the array's spiritual power, the fallen leaves spun and moved at extremely fast speeds. They seemed to have a target in mind for Shi Xuan, and no matter which direction she dodged, the whirlwind followed closely behind.
Two stray leaves caught Shi Xuan off guard and scratched the skin on her arm. They were as sharp as knives. These fallen leaves were now a huge whirlwind of sharp knives, and the consequences of being touched by them would be unimaginable.
Lu Shenzhi came out and observed for a while, then said, "We can't find the array's core yet. If you want to break the array, you'll have to walk through this area and let me take a closer look."
I'll try my best.
As Shi Xuan swiftly dodged, he also tentatively expanded his movement range, his mind racing. How did these fallen leaves form a tornado? It's spiritual energy! Such a large formation requires an immense amount of spiritual energy, and the spiritual energy of the formation controls the movement of every blade of grass and tree, supporting the operation of the entire formation!
These fallen leaves are so vibrant because they have too much spiritual energy. As the saying goes, "They're just too full to handle!" If they weren't "fed" enough, wouldn't they be less energetic?
Thinking this, she had already begun. The myriad things were more active than usual recently. Shi Xuan had been on the edge of the Luoyin Sect's spiritual vein a while ago, where spiritual energy was abundant, but he had artificially restricted the myriad things. Now that the restriction was lifted, he had increased his strength even more, determined to compete with the fallen leaves for spiritual energy.
All things are in full swing, and they are all revolving around the leaf tornado. At this moment, they don't care where the spiritual energy is denser, and they only focus on the leaf tornado.
If tornadoes had spirits, they would only wonder why they suddenly lost their strength. They could no longer maintain their towering height and wide waist, and they visibly shrank, and their speed also slowed down.
Shi Xuan did not let her guard down. At this moment, she treated herself as if she were in a training ground, desperately trying to improve her strength.
Although the power of the fallen leaves had decreased, they were still absorbing the spiritual energy of the formation. As all things grew, they followed the whirlwind like shadows. New spiritual energy could not be replenished, and the existing energy was still being lost. Soon, the fallen leaves were no longer a threat and became nothing more than pitiful fallen leaves drifting in the wind.
However, the Seven Kill Formation would not give up so easily. The falling leaves were abandoned immediately, and then the wild grass under Shi Xuan's feet suddenly began to grow wildly, instantly wrapping around Shi Xuan's ankles.
The grass grows at an astonishing rate. If left unattended, it could grow to the top of a person's head in the blink of an eye and become a cocoon, trapping the person inside.
Shi Xuan immediately mobilized all things to respond to all changes with constancy, using the same method as when dealing with the fallen leaves to entangle the wild grass, while simultaneously drawing his Concealed Sharp Sword, working together from both inside and outside.
Sure enough, the grass growth stopped, while the Concealed Edge Sword rapidly harvested it from the outside in. As a result, grass clippings were scattered all over the ground.
The chopped grass covered the ground in a thick layer, and the grass could no longer grow quickly, so it could only lie helplessly on the ground.
While chopping up the wild grass, Shi Xuan did not let her guard down. She simply covered herself with the power of all living things and absorbed all the spiritual energy from the outside in. It didn't matter that she ate a variety of things; she could digest them slowly.
Lin Daozi, who had broken out of the formation at the other end, was fighting two against one, Lei Zhi and Pang Jia. Two early-stage Nascent Soul cultivators were fighting one Great Perfection Nascent Soul cultivator, and with the added bonuses of various formations, they could barely manage a draw.
However, Lei Zhi soon sensed something was wrong; the spiritual energy in his control array was draining away faster.
At first, he thought it was because the battle with Lin Daozi had taken too much to bear, but later he found that even when Pang Jiaxiang joined the battle and he took a short break, his spiritual energy was still draining away very quickly. If he sensed it carefully, he could tell that the spiritual energy was flowing into the Seven Kill Formation.
This is very abnormal.
However, he is currently stretched thin. If he were to control the formation while fighting Lin Daozi, who is at the peak of the Nascent Soul stage, they would likely be defeated very quickly.
Just now, I thought Shi Xuan was just a minor cultivator in the Foundation Establishment stage, and that a sixth-order formation would be enough to trap her, making her too busy to take care of herself, and incidentally kill the "prisoner" she had captured alive.
It seems something has gone wrong inside.
In order to reduce the loss of spiritual energy, he had no choice but to give up using all his own spiritual energy and take out a large number of top-grade spirit stones from his storage space and put them into the array control area to support the operation of the array.
Unexpectedly, this move played right into Shi Xuan's hands. She was now handling things with ease within the formation and led Lu Shenzhi through the entire formation area.
Lu Shenzhi had already calculated the key to the formation, but Shi Xuan was in no hurry to break it. She was very satisfied with the formation and wanted to gain some more from it.
So Shi Xuan simply sat cross-legged, closed her eyes, and meditated. The power of "All Things Grow" spread around her, absorbing all the spiritual energy she could. Gradually, she could feel the barrier loosening. The familiar feeling of pressure returned, and she exerted even more effort to activate "All Things Grow," frantically collecting energy from the formation.
At this moment, Lei Zhi's sense of unease intensified, because the top-grade spirit stones he had invested in the formation had been completely used up, and the formation had begun to draw spiritual energy from him again.
He just wanted to end the battle quickly so he could see what had happened in the formation.
This was something that had never happened before. How could his sixth-order Seven Kill Formation not even be able to deal with a mere Foundation Establishment cultivator, and require such a long time and spiritual energy consumption!
He suddenly recalled the conversation between the master and disciple when the formation took effect. What did Shi Xuan say? She said she was prepared! What was she prepared for? Had she seen through his disguise long ago?
Then he thought to himself, a Foundation Establishment cultivator is nothing more than an ant that can be crushed with one hand in front of a Nascent Soul cultivator.
Even if they release her now... If they release her, Shi Xuan is not a problem. The real fear is that Lin Daozi, who is at the Great Perfection of the Nascent Soul stage, will snatch the hostage and run away before they can. They really won't be able to do anything about him.
Now that these two people are trapped, Lin Daozi is unlikely to abandon his disciple. After they join forces to defeat Lin Daozi, they can deal with Shi Xuan and take away the hostages. At that time, it will be a piece of cake.
The formation is currently consuming a lot of energy, so there must be a fierce battle going on inside. It seems that this junior Foundation Establishment cultivator is, after all, Lin Daozi's disciple, so it's normal for him to have some life-saving magic artifacts.
By this point, Lei Zhi was in a bind and had no choice but to grit his teeth and take out another handful of top-grade spirit stones to throw into the formation.
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