The array seemed connected to the entirety of Earth Vault City, and yet it also seemed like an enormous seal. It was chiefly divided into two poles: one was the Huayan, the other the lion-headed, dragon-bodied beasts. Both were natives of Earth Vault City, and the bond between them seemed even tighter than ordinary people could imagine. Yet from the outside, the two races did not seem to get along nearly so well. In fact, they had quite a few disputes.
Perhaps after the Heart of the Earth Palace lost its function, the two races had lost their central force of cohesion. Unable to join forces, the rifts between them had gradually grown wider over time.
The lion-dragon centipede-bodied monster had once been a giant beast with a lion's head and a dragon's body. Lu Xiaotian could sense that, although the two races on this chessboard were connected, a small rift had appeared between them. It was as though the array had absorbed the resentment each race had accumulated while living alongside the other in the outside world, creating a flaw in an array that had once worked together without the slightest hitch.
"What an astonishing array!" Even Lu Xiaotian, with his discerning eye, couldn't help but feel admiration when he saw it. Among the Buddhist inheritance he had obtained were similar arrays, but they were far beyond what he could set up with his current abilities. Besides reaching a considerable level of mastery in arrays, one also needed a cultivation realm of comparable stature. Otherwise, there was simply no way to achieve this.
This had already gone beyond the scope of ordinary arrays. It infused a race's fortune into the array, making it part of the formation. As long as the race endured, the array would be exceedingly difficult