The leading elder slowly opened his eyes. In the depths of those clouded pupils, a nearly crazed gleam flashed.
"Su Tao, do you think that because your cultivation is high, you are invincible?"
His voice was not loud, yet it echoed unceasingly through the space shrouded by the grand array, layer upon layer, like countless people whispering at once.
"This array is called the Ten Thousand Buddhas Demon-Slaying Grand Array."
"It was personally laid down by the founding Emperor when our Tranquil Heart Imperial Dynasty was first established."
"On the day the array was completed, the founding Emperor once said... beneath this array, even a seventh-layer Quasi-Saint could be slain."
The elder's voice grew louder and more confident, as though he were stating an undeniable truth.
"You killed the Emperor of our dynasty and destroyed our foundations, but you cannot destroy this grand array."
"Because it was forged from faith."
"So long as faith remains, the grand array shall remain."
He pressed his palms together, Buddhist light surging around him, a trace of madness flashing across his face.
The next moment, the tens of thousands of Buddha phantoms seated in the void opened their eyes at the same time.
Tens of thousands of golden eyes fixed uniformly upon Su Tao. Within those gazes was no mercy, no compassion—only a cold indifference, almost like judgment.
Immediately afterward, the golden patterns on the ground began to spin wildly.
Those golden threads seemed to come alive, rising from the ground and weaving together in the void, outlining one incomparably complex pattern after another.
The patterns grew ever more numerous and dense, eventually transforming into an enormous golden cage that tightly trapped Su Tao and the other three at its center.
Countless Buddhist true words flowed across the cage. Every single one glowed, trembled,