Peak Master of Heaven Mending

In his previous life, Lu Yang had painstakingly studied array formations. The grand array he had ultimately inscribed upon the Blood Sun Sword Pellet was a sword array named the "Blood-Washing Heavenly River Sword Formation Map."

The array was divided into the Three Powers and Nine Palaces, with the river of Sword Qi unleashed by the Blood Sun Sword Pellet as its core and the Heavenly Demon Blood-Dissolving Divine Light as its support. Lu Yang had also specially designed three hundred and sixty array eyes. According to his plan, as long as he found three hundred and sixty cultivators to occupy them, the array's power could be brought to its utmost limit.

He had thought through that point as well.

Once he reclaimed his Primordial Breath Ten Thousand Spirit Banner from Liu Xin, he would have the Banner Spirit occupy the array eyes. Not only would that save effort and be convenient, but he could also carry it with him.

But for now, he could only preside over the array himself.

"Open!" Lu Yang formed a hand seal. The Blood Sun Sword Pellet rang out, and a Heavenly River surged from south to north within the array, spanning the heavens as far as the eye could see, with no end in sight.

Lu Yuanchun, Zhao Xuhe, and all the others had fallen into the Heavenly River. Its waters roared and churned, equivalent to endless Sword Qi slashing at them every moment. Several weaker cultivators only had time to let out a scream before becoming blooms of blood within the Heavenly River.

Lu Yuanchun's expression changed drastically at the sight.

"This is impossible! Master did say before that this man understood array formations, but I never gave him time to set up an array. Why have we still fallen into one?"

Naturally, Lu Yuanchun could not understand.

That was because the Blood Sun Sword Pellet was no ordinary magical treasure, but an Array Treasure. An Array Treasure was a treasure made from an array itself; with a thought, the array formed, requiring no setup whatsoever!

And falling into the array now had already exceeded Lu Yuanchun's expectations.

After all, array formations borrowed the wonders of Heaven and Earth and drew upon their power. They were said to be invincible among those of the same realm. Though he prided himself on his considerable strength, once trapped in an array, even he had lost his confidence.

Could it be that he would truly capsize in a gutter today?

At that thought, Lu Yuanchun's expression grew increasingly ugly, no longer carrying his former certainty of victory. Even Zhao Xuhe beside him became uneasy.

"Senior Brother, this array..."

"Junior Brother, be careful. There may be another Variable in today's matter." As Lu Yuanchun gave his quiet warning, he raised the Golden Light Treasure Mirror into the air to protect himself.

Lu Yuanchun still harbored a sliver of hope. In his eyes, Lu Yang was merely an ordinary disciple who had stumbled upon some fortuitous opportunity. Though he knew quite a few things, he had entered the sect only recently. Even if he understood array formations, how much could he possibly have mastered? As for this array before them, perhaps it was some legacy left behind by a predecessor?

Yet in the very next moment, Lu Yang shattered his fantasy.

Lu Yang's expression was icy. With a thought, he raised a hand and pointed. The originally clear Heavenly River of Sword Qi immediately took on a piercing scarlet hue.

Heavenly Demon Blood-Dissolving Divine Light!

Though this divine ability possessed tremendous power and was said to "harm when it grazed, kill when it touched," that also meant it could only display its might after striking its target.

If it failed to hit, it achieved nothing.

Yet within the Blood-Washing Heavenly River Sword Formation Map, Lu Yang had eliminated this flaw. As long as one stood within the array, it was equivalent to being immersed in the divine light!

In other words, once it was unleashed, it was certain to strike!

In an instant, Lu Yuanchun felt the earth shake and the mountains sway. His remaining junior brothers screamed one after another, then turned into human skins in the blink of an eye!

"Not good!"

Lu Yuanchun's face changed sharply. He clenched his teeth, shifted the hand seals in his hands, and the Aura of the Golden Light Treasure Mirror above his head instantly became chaotic and violent.

Lu Yang understood at a single glance.

"Self-destructing a magical treasure? Naive!"

The Golden Light Treasure Mirror was clearly a high-grade magical treasure. If Lu Yuanchun detonated it, he indeed had a chance to tear apart the Array Diagrams and carve out a path to survival.

But that was only if Lu Yang did not understand array formations.

Ordinary arrays, even when someone presided over them, could only operate according to established rules. They were dead arrays. But an array master overseeing one was completely different.

A qualified array master could adjust an array on the spot according to changes in the battle. Thus, a dead array became a living array, and its power naturally could not be mentioned in the same breath. Not to mention that the Blood-Washing Heavenly River Sword Formation Map had been personally created by Lu Yang; he wielded it as easily as an arm obeyed a hand.

Thus, at the very instant Lu Yuanchun detonated his magical treasure, Lu Yang moved.

One hand calculated with finger techniques while the other manipulated the array patterns. In an instant, he dispersed the explosive force that had originally been focused on one point throughout the entire array.

Once the explosion was dispersed, its power abruptly fell severalfold.

The array that should have been torn open naturally remained unscathed. It even seized the opening created by the Golden Light Treasure Mirror's destruction and swallowed Lu Yuanchun and Zhao Xuhe in one stroke.

Zhao Xuhe did not even have time to scream before he instantly became a dried corpse.

"Impossible! This bastard is actually an array master!?"

Lu Yuanchun's face was pale as paper. He felt the flesh and blood all over his body pour away like floodwaters after a dike burst, and he was about to follow in Zhao Xuhe's footsteps and die a violent death.

"Blood-Transforming Divine Light..."

At the critical juncture between life and death, intense fear swiftly extinguished his rage. Lu Yuanchun's eyes were wide enough to split, yet he was helpless. At last, as though resigned to his fate, he lowered his head.

"Rumble!"

In the next moment, a Jade Pendant at Lu Yuanchun's waist silently shattered, then erupted with endless Radiance, breaking through Lu Yang's grand array in a single instant!

Lu Yang's pupils contracted. He raised his head to look skyward.

Where his gaze fell, the Radiance outlined a gigantic face above his head, high in the sky ten thousand zhang above. It was calm and solemn, possessing an authority that did not need anger to inspire awe!

That face showed not the slightest emotion. Its eyes shone like sun and moon. Lu Yang had merely met its gaze for an instant, yet tears flowed from his eyes due to the stabbing pain. The True Qi throughout his body was inexplicably weakened by seventy or eighty percent, and he nearly failed to sustain his flight, almost falling from the sky.

The face looked down, its voice like thunder emerging from the mountains.

"Insolence!"

The voice was not loud, yet it seemed to hold the decrees of Heaven in its mouth, turning Lu Yang into someone loathed by Heaven and Earth. Even the surrounding Spiritual Qi fled from him as though avoiding him at all costs.

An invisible gaze pressed down upon Lu Yang with the weight of Mount Tai.

Even the ground around him cracked inch by inch beneath it.

Such a scene naturally alarmed all of Mending Heaven Peak.

For a time, countless disciples in secluded cultivation throughout Mending Heaven Peak were startled awake. They emerged from their cave abodes and looked upon the enormous face in the sky with terror on their faces.

"Greetings, Peak Master!"

"Greetings, Peak Master!"

Some older disciples of Mending Heaven Peak recognized the face. Their scalps went numb, and without another word, they dropped to their knees and repeatedly kowtowed in salute.

Peak Master of Heaven Mending!

At last, Lu Yang knew the identity of Zhao Xuhe's mysterious master—the Peak Master of Heaven Mending, a Foundation Establishment True Person of the First Saint Sect who governed one of the Four Inner Peaks!

"Rumble, rumble!"

As his words fell, the Array Diagrams Lu Yang had painstakingly refined in his previous life began to collapse like mountains crumbling and earth splitting apart. Vast swathes of array patterns even exploded where they stood.

Seeing this, Lu Yang could not help revealing a trace of helplessness.

The gap between Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment had completely exceeded his imagination. The result of twenty years of painstaking work had actually failed to withstand even two words from a Foundation Establishment True Person!

A single mild rebuke had brought matters to this point?