A Sword That Startled the Soul

The assault on the barrier had already continued for two days.

Earlier, Xu Wangliang and the others had been slowly luring out and killing the spider demons one by one, a process that had taken a great deal of time. Though it had taken rather long, the results had been excellent.

The spider demons throughout the entire cave had been killed by the six of them one after another. Even the final, strongest spider demon had been unable to do anything to them.

Aside from a few minor injuries, the six had suffered almost no losses, and they had obtained many herbs of extremely high age.

The corpse discovered at the end was an even greater surprise. Xu Wangliang and the other six had never expected such a treasure to be hidden here.

Unfortunately, no matter how the six attacked, they could not break the barrier. It did not even tremble. This left Xu Wangliang and the others both excited and increasingly agitated.

The six understood that the barrier was an array, and they had tried searching for its nodes, hoping to destroy them first and make the barrier collapse on its own.

Unfortunately, Xu Wangliang and the others had studied arrays far too little. They simply could not tell where this barrier was drawing its power from.

In the end, they had no choice but to use the crudest method: directly battering the barrier with brute force, hoping to smash it apart and seize the black box within.

The one thing that reassured the six was that this barrier had no offensive capabilities. It was purely defensive. Otherwise, if an array laid down by such a powerful expert had truly harbored malicious intent, everyone present would likely have died.

It was precisely because they had discovered that the barrier