"I overestimated my attainments in array formations!"
"The geographical environment of the Accumulated Thunder Nine Mountains is extremely repellent. It's fundamentally impossible to set up a complete defensive array. Even a Tier 3 defensive array set up by a Golden Core Immortal of the Fallen Cloud Sect would be unable to withstand a Golden Core of the same stage."
"Therefore, I spent nearly half a year adapting to the terrain and constructing a killing array—Five Thunders Strike the Top."
"Borrowing the omnipresent Thunder Force of Accumulated Thunder Mountain, this killing array was powerful enough to threaten any Late-Stage Foundation Establishment Great Cultivator."
"But I never expected that battle to come so suddenly. No one had thought a Golden Core Immortal would brazenly strike. After all, the battles before that had been limited to the Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment stages."
"When the battle erupted, I activated the thunder-killing array and blasted five Foundation Establishment Cultivators to death in one blow. I thought such a result would intimidate them, but unexpectedly, the remaining Foundation Establishment Cultivators still refused to let up."
"Wang Yuan ordered me to lead people in retreat while the three of them stayed behind to cover us. In the end, Li Yingzhang was gravely wounded, and his Magic Treasure, the Chi Dragon Sword, fell into someone else's hands. Xu Huanzhen sacrificed his Tier 2 White Crane Spirit Beast to save him. Wang Yuan unleashed his killing move, repeatedly firing the Blood God Tribulation Finger. After covering the two of them as they escaped, he was pursued and disappeared into the night."
"After we retreated to the Eighth Mountain, Duan Feng came to protect us. Only then was I permitted to return to Skybillow and bring back everyone's remains."
By the end, Min Longyu's voice had caught in his