Jiang Fan ignored the varied looks everyone gave him.
He hovered in midair inside the Underground Palace as the cultivation instructions of the Blood-Fiend True Scripture flipped through his mind, page by page.
Previously, when I broke the Black Demon Array in the Secret Realm, I used a method of reversing its channels and severing its foundations!
But this Grand Formation before me is far larger and more complex than that one!
The Gray-Robed Elder spent a hundred years establishing it in Black Wind Valley, using the earth vein's yin grotto as its root and gathering all the earth energy from the mountains and rivers within a hundred miles to form this array!
Trying to destroy it by force would be no different from pitting one man's strength against an entire earth vein!
So I can't meet force with force. I need finesse, unraveling it thread by thread and breaking it layer by layer!
Jiang Fan closed his eyes, dismantling and reconstructing the countless arrays and formation patterns in his mind.
After a long while, he opened his eyes.
If I peel this array apart layer by layer, there should be four layers!
The first three are outer protective layers!
The last is the core where the Gray-Robed Elder is!
I can't rush breaking it. I need to start with the outermost layer!
Jiang Fan's gaze sharpened slightly, and his hands formed an ancient seal.
Pulsing crimson-gold runes sank into the ground beneath his feet, turning into tiny swimming fish that burrowed into the scarlet patterns.
The crimson-gold runes swam along the formation patterns. Wherever they went, rather than immediately destroying the patterns, they drew out a strand of the blood-fiend power contained within and guided it toward another formation pattern.
The blood-fiend power shared the same source to begin