"Could it be the legendary top-grade fourth-rank grand array?
They say an array like that could turn the tide of an entire large-scale battle!"
"There is a chance it's a fourth-rank array," a lanky man beside him chimed in, "Otherwise, it wouldn't have drawn those Lord Situs from the Temple—who normally show only the Divine Dragon's head and never its tail—into nearly mobilizing in full force to personally oversee its construction here."
At that moment, the elderly-looking Old Jia slowly shook his head, a deeper misgiving flashing through his clouded eyes:
"Doesn't seem like it!
Though this old man never obtained the clan's orthodox array inheritance, in my early years, during a life-and-death struggle against human Mortal Cultivators, I was fortunate enough to acquire a fragmentary scroll containing part of a human array inheritance.
That fragmentary scroll happened to contain a rough introduction to fourth-rank arrays.
By comparison, the basic Array Patterns Lord Situ has ordered us to imprint at the cores of the Spirit Materials—
their complexity, the intricacy of their structure, even the energy circuits contained within every single rune unit—are more than a hundred times more complex and profound than the fourth-rank human arrays described there!"
He paused, lowering his voice until it was almost a whisper:
"More crucially...
I have compared them time and again. Among the Array Patterns we are imprinting, a considerable portion of their paths and energy nodes
bear a startling resemblance to an ancient Spirit Restriction involving the power of space, mentioned in that fragmentary human inheritance scroll!"
As soon as he said this, a Mortal Cultivator with scales on his face, who had remained taciturn all along, could not help speaking up:
"Now that Old Jia mentions it, I remember something.
On the battlefield, I once obtained several bone fragments recording