The Purple-Gold Divine Dragon stretched across the heavens, shattering the void layer by layer wherever it passed. Quasi-Saint power intertwined with Celestial Court Fortune; even from hundreds of thousands of miles away, it gave ordinary Golden Immortals the terrifying sensation that their Primordial Spirits were about to be utterly crushed.
Yunxiao stared unblinkingly at the battlefield.
She knew that what her master wanted her to see was not merely how powerful this strike was.
What truly mattered was where its strength lay.
Just as the divine dragon came within a hundred miles of Luxuan, he finally moved.
He did not meet it head-on.
He merely took half a light step to the left.
Buzz!
The space that had already been completely sealed by Quasi-Saint power rippled like water. Luxuan vanished from where he stood, reappearing behind and to the side of the Purple-Gold Divine Dragon.
Dongwang Gong's gaze narrowed slightly.
"Space Dao?"
Luxuan ignored him and looked toward Yunxiao in the distance.
"One of the greatest differences between a Quasi-Saint and a Great Luo is the ability to more completely command the laws of the Great Dao and the momentum of heaven and earth."
"This attack appears to come from the Dragonhead Staff, but the forces truly supplying it are not only his own magic power, but also Celestial Court Fortune and the spiritual energy of the surrounding heaven and earth."
Yunxiao focused her attention on the scene.
The first time she looked, all she could feel was boundless vastness.
The second time, after following Luxuan's instructions and deliberately ignoring the enormous Purple-Gold Divine Dragon itself to observe the surrounding flow of spiritual energy, a flicker of surprise finally appeared in her eyes.
Between the divine dragon and heaven and earth—
There were lines.
Not lines truly visible to the naked eye.
Rather, invisible connections formed from aura, magic power, and the momentum of heaven and earth.
Only when these connections gathered together did that divine ability possess such terrifying power, far beyond that of an ordinary Great Luo.
"So that's how it is..."
Yunxiao fell into thought.
Dongwang Gong had already attacked again.
The Dragonhead Staff swept across the air.
Purple-gold radiance filled the skies like an overturned galaxy, sealing every inch of space around Luxuan. This time, he clearly had no intention of allowing his opponent to evade so easily with spatial laws again.
"I'd like to see how long you can keep dodging!"
Great Dao patterns emerged beneath Luxuan's feet.
His figure flickered continuously amid countless rays of purple light.
Every evasion appeared perilously close.
Yet every attack somehow missed by just a fraction.
What made Dongwang Gong even more uncomfortable was that Luxuan was not merely dodging—he was actually lecturing while he dodged.
"Do you see?"
"The range of his attack has expanded tenfold, but the momentum of heaven and earth he can command has not increased accordingly."
"Once the power is dispersed, it looks more frightening, but its force at any single point is actually reduced."
"The same principle applies if you are setting an array."
"A larger array does not necessarily mean a stronger one."
"Once there are too many nodes and your divine sense cannot fully control them, even a grand array is nothing more than a sieve full of holes."
In the distance.
Bixiao's expression gradually became more animated.
"Second Sister."
"Why do I feel like Dongwang Gong's expression is getting worse and worse?"
Qiongxiao could barely suppress the curve of her lips as well.
"If you were fighting someone and they dodged while using you as a negative example, your expression would not look much better either."
Bixiao thought about it seriously.
"Then I might just start cursing."
Qiongxiao looked into the distance.
"He should be reaching his limit soon."
Sure enough.
Purple energy around Dongwang Gong suddenly surged.
"Luxuan!"
"Do you truly think there is nothing I can do to you?!"
The Dragonhead Staff slammed into the void.
Boom!
Invisible ripples swept across hundreds of thousands of miles.
The previously active spatial laws around Luxuan were instantly suppressed by an even higher level of Quasi-Saint power.
Immediately afterward, Dongwang Gong formed seals with both hands.
The scattered purple-gold divine light rapidly flowed back from every direction, ultimately converging at a single point.
A purple orb no larger than a fist appeared at the tip of the Dragonhead Staff.
Compared to the immense divine abilities from before, each spanning tens or hundreds of thousands of feet, this attack looked pitifully small.
Yet the instant the orb appeared, Yunxiao's expression suddenly changed.
Danger!
Utter, extreme danger!
Because this time, Dongwang Gong had compressed nearly all the power of heaven and earth within hundreds of thousands of miles into that single point.
"Now that's more like it."
Luxuan instead revealed a trace of satisfaction.
"Second lesson."
"Concentration of power."
Dongwang Gong: "..."
He suddenly realized that talking to this man was liable to shorten his life.
The next instant.
The purple orb abruptly vanished.
It moved so fast that even an ordinary Great Luo's divine sense could barely track it.
Yet Luxuan did not dodge again.
He raised his right hand.
His index finger lightly pointed forward.
To onlookers, the spot where his finger landed was not even on the purple orb's direct path.
Dongwang Gong was stunned at first.
Then his expression changed dramatically.
"How dare you!"
It was already too late.
Luxuan's fingertip landed on a point in the void that appeared to contain nothing at all.
Pop.
The sound was faint.
Yet as that finger descended, one of the core aura connections Dongwang Gong had formed by drawing upon the power of heaven and earth was forcibly severed.
One connection broke.
Ten connections fell into chaos.
The purple orb, which had been perfectly maintaining its balance, immediately began to shake violently.
Yunxiao's eyes lit up at once.
Nodes!
Her master had not attacked Dongwang Gong's divine ability itself.
He had attacked the node connecting that divine ability to heaven and earth!
Boom!
Before the purple orb could reach Luxuan, it exploded prematurely due to the imbalance of its internal power.
Purple light swept through the void for tens of thousands of feet.
Yet an invisible barrier seemed to stand before Luxuan. When all the aftershock reached within a hundred feet of him, it automatically slid away to either side.
"Do you understand now?"
Luxuan turned back and asked.
Yunxiao suppressed the excitement in her heart.
"This disciple understands a little."
"Arrays have nodes, divine abilities have nodes, and even the momentum of heaven and earth borrowed by cultivators has nodes as well."
Luxuan nodded in satisfaction.
"All paths of the Great Dao lead to the same destination."
"If you understand arrays only as array flags, array disks, and fixed array patterns, you will ultimately remain at a lesser level."
"A true grand array—"
"Heaven and earth can become an array."
"All living beings can become an array."
"Even an enemy's divine abilities can become part of your array."
Yunxiao's Primordial Spirit shook violently.
It was as though something that had always remained hazy suddenly had been completely cleared away in that instant.
The clouds around her, previously still, began to move on their own.
One stream.
Nine streams.
Thirty-six streams.
These clouds did not form any fixed array diagram. Instead, they continuously shifted through heaven and earth, each circulation perfectly following the fluctuations of the surrounding spiritual energy.
At the same time, an insight into Array Dao far purer than before surged into the depths of Luxuan's Primordial Spirit.
Yunxiao had only taken a single step forward.
But the hundredfold feedback received by him was like completely pushing open an enormous gate.
The heaven and earth in Luxuan's eyes changed once more.
The Great Dao nodes he had previously only been able to sense now began to reveal far more complete trajectories of operation.
Dongwang Gong also keenly sensed the change in Luxuan.
His expression completely darkened.
"While fighting me—"
"You still dare use this opportunity to comprehend the Dao?"
Luxuan flexed his fingers.
"For that, I have you to thank."
"My few disciples usually lack Quasi-Saint-level teaching material."
"You came at just the right time today."
A vein finally throbbed on Dongwang Gong's forehead.
Fine.
Very fine.
He, the dignified leader of the male immortals, had personally come to Penglai to demand accountability.
Yet in the end, he had been used to teach several Golden Immortals a public lesson.
If word of this got out, would he have any face left?
Boom!
An aura several times more powerful than before erupted from Dongwang Gong's body.
At this moment, his Early Quasi-Saint cultivation was no longer held back in the slightest.
Boundless purple energy stained the heavens.
A Violet-Gold Dharma Form, a hundred thousand feet tall, slowly rose behind him.
The Dragonhead Staff likewise expanded with the wind.
Dongwang Gong looked at Luxuan, genuine killing intent rising in his eyes for the first time.
"Teaching?"
"Today, I will first teach you—"
"Between a Great Luo and a Quasi-Saint—"
"Just how vast the difference truly is!"
Luxuan raised his head to look at the Dharma Form that covered the sky.
"This lesson—"
"Finally has a little difficulty to it."
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