In Xiao Yixue's recollection, the might of the Eight Gates Binding Array had always depended almost entirely on its interlocking gates;
Usually, there would be eight of them, with unpredictable attacks. They could manifest eight puppet-like phantom soldiers; or evolve eight formation chains, weaving themselves into a net of entrapment, and so on;
The form they took depended entirely on the arrangement of the formation patterns inscribed by the one setting the array;
Yet one thing remained unchanged amid all transformations: regardless of the form of attack, it would always retain an unbroken, link-after-link continuity. Once an enemy became entangled by the array, escape would inevitably become difficult;
Some powerful Eight Gates Binding Arrays could sometimes contain sixteen gates, or even thirty-two, though sixty-four gates was the utmost limit;
Xiao Yixue considered herself well-read in countless tomes on the art of arrays, yet she had never heard of an Eight Gates Binding Array producing hundreds or thousands of gates like this...
It truly overturned her understanding... even her imagination!
Even in her dreams, she would never have dared to be this reckless.
It was hard to imagine how terrifying it would be if these gates were not merely empty feints, but each truly possessed the foundational might of an Eight Gates Binding Array!
Before long, the scene in the distance gave her an answer.
Gate after gate evolved into existence, standing in orderly rows;
Then, the broken stones and dust forming the gateframes gathered toward the center, transforming into humanoid phantoms;
The phantoms, which should have been formed by the array alone, became both illusory and tangible after mixing with the rubble and dust of their surroundings, gaining considerably greater might.
This was another characteristic of the Eight Gates Binding Array: it could mesh seamlessly with its environment and create