Ambush

The next instant, a blinding white light suddenly lit up beneath him, briefly robbing Yuan Ming of his sight.

Then a hazy veil of water mist emerged all around, obscuring everything within view and enveloping him entirely.

Yuan Ming felt all surrounding auras cut off, as though he had been locked inside a water prison, unable to see anything beyond it.

"So they still came?" Yuan Ming muttered, extending his Spiritual Sense in every direction, only for it to seem to plunge into boundless fog, unable to find the slightest clue.

"What a formidable array. It has nearly reached the sixth level. Ordinary Void Return Stage cultivators would never notice it, and even Dharma Aspect Stage beings would find it difficult. Could someone have discovered my true strength?" A look of surprise crossed his face, but he swiftly began analyzing the array's properties with the discernment of a Sixth-level Array Master.

Though this great water-mist array was ethereal and elusive, it was not yet a true sixth-level grand array. He quickly found a flaw and raised a hand in a grasping motion.

A massive yellow hand emerged from his body and seized a point within the array.

Outside, four cultivators clad in black robes revealed themselves from the surrounding area.

Each formed hand seals, seemingly channeling mana toward Yuan Ming's location below.

There, a circular silver mirror roughly three feet across shone with dazzling light, runes flickering within it.

Water mist condensed beneath the circular mirror, forming a bell-shaped white fog barrier dozens of zhang wide that tightly enveloped Yuan Ming.

At that moment, the white mist bell suddenly gave a thunderous roar and shook violently, showing signs of collapse.

"The Silver Light Water Moon Array alone can't trap him. Quick, stack the arrays!" the tallest of the four said