Trapped, Seeking a Way Out

He was still inside the formation!

"Fuck! Wasn't all that just a waste of time?"

Chen Mo cursed inwardly. Even Void Space had no effect—or rather, this entire area had been completely sealed off.

If he could not destroy the formation here, he would never be able to leave.

After quite a while.

Chen Mo calmed himself down again and began studying the formation while evading its attacks.

The formation's attacks came in countless forms: illusions, lightning tribulations, flashes of blades and swords, volleys of arrows, and more. There were also Mental Attacks and the erosion of strange auras, seeking to invade his Sea of Consciousness and control his soul.

Chen Mo's foundation was solid. His True Essence, Spiritual Power, and Laws were all powerful and abundant, allowing him to weather every crisis without real danger.

After more than an hour of probing, Chen Mo finally discovered some clues.

Following those clues, Chen Mo found one of the formation's nodes—a real one, not an illusory node.

Earlier, he had found several illusory nodes. Destroying them had no effect whatsoever; instead, it had only made the attacks more intense.

Having found this formation node, Chen Mo did not destroy it immediately. Instead, he studied its relationship with the other formation nodes.

This formation node seemed to exist independently, yet it also seemed connected to the other nodes.

Unable to make sense of it, he could not draw a conclusion right away.

Chen Mo began examining the source and destination of the energy flowing through the node. As long as he understood those two points, he could roughly determine the node's purpose and its relationship with the other nodes.

Tracing the source and destination of this node's energy, Chen Mo continued probing and studying until he discovered more nodes.

The nodes were