Under everyone's horrified gaze, the Blood River Sword's light erupted without warning. Without a trace of hesitation, it slashed straight at the Flameflow Imperial Heir.
Compared with that sword light, the Flameflow Imperial Heir was no more than an ant.
Yet—
Clang!
Just as the towering, blood-red sword light was about to cleave the Flameflow Imperial Heir in two, devour all his blood essence, and reduce him to ash, it stopped. It struck a fiery-red barrier that had appeared out of nowhere, scattering sparks.
The Blood River Sword's light recoiled as though struck by lightning, suffering a grievous blow in an instant.
The fiery barrier had not even attacked. Its force of recoil alone had scattered the sword light of an invincible king.
The barrier was as thin as a hair. Threads of scarlet flame flowed across it, along with an aura of chaos. Some unknown power lay within it, instantly setting it apart from anything ordinary.
"...A quasi-imperial array..."
Jiang Ding closed his eyes briefly and gripped the Blood River Sword, which trembled ceaselessly in his hand, gripped by fear.
The sword had suffered a grievous blow from a single strike!
And the fiery barrier had not even attacked!
The array's light contained no spell of reflection, either. It was simply as though a mortal's wooden sword had struck an iron ingot and been damaged by the impact.
The Immortal Sect had another name for an array like this: a quasi-sixth-tier array!
This was essentially the strongest array that could be established within a small chiliocosm. Any stronger array had to reach into the starry sky and link multiple small chiliocosms together. A single small chiliocosm could not supply a sixth-tier array with power; even if one were built, it could not display its might.
The clearest hallmark of