Beginner's Guide to Array Formations

After listening to Cheng Ziran finish explaining the general situation of the Yuan Race, Zhang Zhi said with a broad smile, "Know yourself and your enemy, and you will never be defeated in a hundred battles. Brother Cheng, you've really helped me out."

"I see you still have matters to attend to over there, so I won't bother you any longer, Brother Cheng."

A relieved expression appeared on Cheng Ziran's face. "All right, Master of the World. I still have some matters to discuss with several of my junior fellow disciples. I'll take my leave for now."

"If you have any orders regarding the Yuan Race, the few of us will go through fire and water without hesitation."

After learning the general situation of the Yuan Race from Cheng Ziran, Zhang Zhi no longer hesitated. He decided to strike while the iron was hot and attack the Yuan Race's stronghold directly.

The person leading the team this time was not Fang Yun, but Nian Xinyu.

She was a cultivator who had just advanced to the Elite Realm, whom Fang Yun had recommended to Zhang Zhi. At present, she was the only cultivator in the Small World who had displayed a talent for commanding.

Like Nian Xinyu, there was also Fang Long. The two came from the same card—the Human Card that Zhang Zhi had raised to Dark Green Rank with Mental Power.

Therefore, Nian Xinyu was also completely summoned this time. Zhang Zhi deliberately wanted to see what she was truly capable of.

This was not because Zhang Zhi was being overconfident. Rather, he now had absolute confidence that he could kill the Yuan Race on the other side.

After exchanging blows with that person, Fang Yun had returned and said that the Yuan Race cultivator in the Transcendent Realm was abnormal. He was not in a complete Transcendent state and seemed to be heavily restricted.

He speculated that the man had most likely used Divine Descent, the Heavenly Demon Disintegration Great Method, or some other method with severe repercussions to forcibly raise himself to the Transcendent Realm temporarily.

After hearing Fang Yun's explanation, several of Zhang Zhi's doubts were cleared up:

Why had the Yuan Race cultivator in the Transcendent Realm not attacked the Defensive Array Cheng Ziran and the others had set up earlier? If that Transcendent cultivator had been willing to act, the array would have been breached long ago.

It also explained why the Yuan Race's previous attacks had proceeded so slowly. They had dragged things out for so long before attacking the Human Race's Trial Tower. Zhang Zhi had previously thought there was some hidden scheme involved.

After hearing Fang Yun's words, he finally understood: it wasn't that he was unwilling, but that he was unable.

That person's Transcendent state was unstable. Besides, since all the summoned forces were merely projections, even if the Yuan Race had some trump card left, they would only lose a little World Power.

As for a Secret Realm fraught with danger, Zhang Zhi naturally stayed at home to command.

The scene of this Secret Realm was not very large. The straight-line distance between the two Trial Towers was only about twenty li. To avoid wasting World Power, this battle had to end within three hours.

Time was pressing. After Zhang Zhi ordered them to leave no survivors, Nian Xinyu led an army of nineteen Transcendent Realm cultivators and a thousand Elite Realm cultivators, charging straight toward the Yuan Race's Trial Tower.

Fang Yun naturally stayed by his side.

Meanwhile, Cheng Ziran once again set up the Thick Earth Ironwood Array outside the Trial Plaza. The Human Race cultivators who had not left also stood guard quietly inside the Thick Earth Ironwood Array.

The Tower Defense Rules were the most important regulations in a Race Confrontation Secret Realm. As long as one could touch the opposing Trial Tower, it meant that one had won the battle trial.

However, only when the number of people from the opposing side inside the Trial Plaza exceeded half the total population of the entire Secret Realm could one enter the opposing Trial Plaza and touch the opposing Trial Tower.

Although Cheng Ziran had already experienced more than ten Trial Tower Secret Realms, he was not sure whether the Retainers summoned by the Master of the World counted toward the Human Race's numbers.

To guard against the unexpected, he deployed the Thick Earth Ironwood Array outside the Trial Plaza.

Half an hour later, through the Realm Lord's perspective, Zhang Zhi learned that the army led by Nian Xinyu had reached an area less than half a mile from the Yuan Race's Trial Tower. They had not encountered a single trace of the Yuan Race along the way, let alone any resistance.

The Yuan Race seemed to have given up.

At that moment, a figure slowly walked toward the Trial Plaza.

When Cheng Ziran saw the figure, his body tensed, and he urged the array's defenses to their utmost strength.

That figure was naturally the Yuan Race cultivator in the Transcendent Realm whom Zhang Zhi had been guarding against all along.

He had left Fang Yun behind and had Cheng Ziran activate the Defensive Array precisely to guard against this man making a surprise return attack.

Or rather, he was one hundred percent certain that the Yuan Race's Transcendent cultivator would return for another attack.

Only by successfully capturing the tower could that Yuan Race Transcendent cultivator leave this Secret Realm. After all, he now counted as a Transcendent Realm cultivator, and he could no longer obtain blue tokens from this Small World.

When Fang Yun saw the man, he nodded at Zhang Zhi, then leaped up and lightly landed in front of him.

After seeing Fang Yun, the Transcendent cultivator seemed to have already foreseen his own fate. He muttered something under his breath, and then his entire aura visibly began to soar.

Extraordinary Rank Two, then Three—breaking through to the middle stage of the Extraordinary Realm, and then Four, Five.

Seeing the enemy's rapidly rising aura, Fang Yun's expression turned solemn as well. He reached out and pressed a palm toward the Transcendent cultivator's chest.

When the man saw Fang Yun attack, he did not dodge. Instead, he let out a furious roar and transformed into a massive White Light that hurtled toward Fang Yun.

The collision looked as though it would shatter the heavens and split the earth, but in reality, it made no sound at all.

Fang Yun was sent flying dozens of meters by the White Light and crashed directly into the Trial Plaza.

As for the Yuan Race's Transcendent cultivator, once the White Light faded, aside from several items falling to the ground, not a trace of him remained. He had vanished completely.

A while later, news also arrived from Nian Xinyu's side. Aside from a small number of Elite Realm cultivators and some Ordinary Realm cultivators, everyone else from the Yuan Race had disappeared without a trace.

She speculated that most of the Yuan Race had probably already left the Secret Realm through the Trial Tower.

Even after the Trial Tower announced the Human Race's victory in this Race Confrontation Secret Realm, Cheng Ziran and the others were still in a daze.

Their experience in this Secret Realm had been like riding a roller coaster. They had initially thought victory was within reach, only for a Transcendent Realm cultivator to emerge from the opposing side, leaving the Human Race with heavy casualties.

When they had been suppressed all the way to the entrance of the Trial Tower and were on the verge of total annihilation, the next moment, the enemy had actually surrendered and fled.

He looked at Zhang Zhi with a complicated expression, thinking that it was no wonder the saying that the Master of the World was the Multiverse's biological son had spread farther and farther.

It was no wonder that so many alien races had joined forces through their Main Worlds to suppress the Master of the World's Main World.

The Master of the World was a world unto himself!

After pondering for a while, he took out a book and handed it to Zhang Zhi. "I owe you a great deal from this Secret Realm, but I have nothing to repay you with. I noticed that your Retainers don't seem to have studied array formations. This contains some of my insights into array formations. It may be able to help your Retainers. I hope you'll accept it."

Zhang Zhi lowered his head and glanced at the book Cheng Ziran had handed him. Four large characters were written on the cover: Beginner's Guide to Array Formations.

Although there might have been hidden circumstances surrounding Cheng Ziran and his junior fellow disciple's affair, as a Human Race cultivator, he had performed exceptionally well in the Trial Ground.