Snow Fox Clan Maiden

The Flood Dragon Ship slowly docked, breaking through the ice before mooring at the port outside Ice Sea City. The refined iron ram at its prow pulled free from the thick ice sheet, dragging up a spray of shattered ice with a dull grinding roar.

Lu Changsheng was the first to leap from the deck. Beneath his feet lay a stretch of compacted ice, hard and level. He looked up toward the colossal city sprawled across the glacier, and his gaze was immediately drawn to the enormous array barrier hanging over it.

The barrier was not some ordinary, flimsy curtain of light, but a heavy crimson firmament that slowly circulated overhead. Like an immense bowl turned upside down, it enveloped all of Ice Sea City. Across its surface, nine phantom blazing suns revolved slowly along fixed paths, each radiating pure, scorching earthfire power. That power did not erupt outward in wild torrents. Restrained and transformed by some profound array, it was spread evenly through every corner of Ice Sea City.

"What an exquisite array."

Lu Changsheng's eyes narrowed slightly, and a trace of amazement flickered in their depths. Though he had yet to truly enter the ranks of a seventh-grade advanced Spirit Array Master, the growth of his soul power had made his discernment vastly different from before.

The grand array enveloping Ice Sea City was at least an eighth-grade advanced spirit array. Its array patterns were incomparably intricate, its energy immense. Even a True Monarch Realm expert attacking with all their might might not be able to shake it in the slightest. Setting up and maintaining such a grand array likely consumed an astronomical number of spirit stones each day, to say nothing of the initial construction costs—at least several billion spirit stones as a foundation.

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