Sword Array

Sword Array

An hour later, Mo Hua stared at the battered Gold-Breaking Sword before him, its edge curled inward and its surface charred black, and fell into deep thought.

This precious high-grade Gold-Breaking Sword had been completely ruined in his hands in less than an hour.

Mo Hua had confirmed one thing:

The sword arrays inside spirit swords really would self-destruct.

At least, the spirit sword before him had destroyed itself.

Though he had been cautious again and again, employing every artifact-refining technique he knew, it had still been useless.

The Gold-Breaking Sword would rather die than submit, utterly destroying itself.

The sword array inside had burned itself away as well.

Mo Hua had not even had time to glimpse it. He did not know which array system the sword array used, nor how many array patterns it contained.

Mo Hua let out a deep sigh, his heart aching terribly.

What a fine spirit sword, gone just like that.

What a waste of heaven's gifts.

Mo Hua observed a moment of silence for the high-grade spirit sword, then considered when he should toss this "broken sword" to Master Gu and see whether it could be melted down in the furnace and put to use as scrap.

But for now, he still had to consider the matter of the "sword array."

"Since sword arrays self-destruct, even if I seize a spirit sword, I can't obtain its sword array by dismantling it."

"Then if I want to obtain a sword array, where should I begin?"

Mo Hua found himself in a bind.

He began pondering ways to solve the problem.

Capture a Duanjin Gate disciple and torture him for answers?

Ever since he could no longer leave the sect to capture Sinful Cultivators, his improved Array Torture Board had gone unused for