Boom!
Boom!
It looked as though something was bombarding the Grand Array from behind it, and with such tremendous force that it could shake heaven and earth. After all, this was the Grand Array of the Ancestral Master's Nine Heavens Falling Sword. Even an existence in the Dao-Proving Realm could be trapped to death by a single drop of Water Without Law, and anything imprisoned inside would be unable to escape for ten thousand years. Yet this terrifying force prying at the Grand Array clearly did not belong to an ordinary artifact spirit. What exactly was imprisoned inside?
I hurried over and reinforced the Grand Array again. But when I installed the final formation core, the knocking began once more—and it was more terrifying than ever before. The deep pool probably wouldn't know peace again. The formation core I had just set in place had already cracked open once more!
"By the Ancestral Master above, what kind of monster did you imprison in there? Is it trying to destroy heaven and earth?" I muttered. But as soon as the words left my mouth, the knocking suddenly quieted down. It wasn't that the thing had lost the strength to attack the Grand Array. Rather, the knocking began to shift into rhythmic strikes!
Bang, bang-bang. Bang-bang-bang.
The sound was just like someone beating a drum behind the Grand Array. Could it be some kind of code, like Morse? Or are all the artifact spirits imprisoned by the Ancestral Master musically gifted?
I truly had no way to determine what the existence behind the door wanted to do. But afterward, I discovered a pattern: whenever I embedded a formation core, the thing behind the door would start making a ruckus, as though it knew I was on the other side and was trying