Lin Xuan could not help narrowing his eyes, secretly sucking in a cold breath. A sword array, as the name implied, was a formation laid down by cultivators joining hands against an enemy.
It had points in common with restrictions set up using Formation Disks and Formation Flags, but its power was far more extraordinary; if one savored it carefully, it was much more profound and subtle.
After all, Formation Disks and Formation Flags were dead objects. However they were refined was how they were, and even if someone presided over them, there would not be too great a variation or difference.
A sword array, however, was different. It was completely arranged and controlled by people.
Usually, the immortal cultivators of a sect would drill one or two sets of sword arrays to use against enemies.
Relying on the power of an array, they could produce an effect where one plus one was far greater than two. For example, if nine Core Condensation Realm cultivators faced an existence at the Nascent Soul level, then the result would certainly be defeat without victory. However, if they used a sword array as support, the result might be different...
And in the immortal cultivation world, there were many kinds of sword arrays, too many to exhaust in a single breath. The smallest sword arrays could be formed by two or three people, such as the "Yin-Yang Sword Array" and the "Heaven, Earth, and Man Three Talents Array."
However, those were only the simplest. Truly profound and formidable arrays required a large number of cultivators, usually formed by several hundred or even over a thousand people.
Such sword arrays were certainly extraordinary in power, but their weaknesses were also obvious to the extreme: the coordination between cultivators. The more people there were, the easier