Yunxiao Comprehends the Array; One Day Surpasses Others' Ten Thousand Years of Bitter Cultivation

Nine cloud rivers stretched across the skies above Penglai.

Each was formed from countless currents of innate Cloud Water qi. They looked like ordinary clouds, but once they connected along some mysterious trajectory, the surrounding heaven and earth immediately underwent obvious changes.

Southeast was no longer southeast.

Northwest might no longer be northwest either.

A cloud drifted past one's eyes.

By the time it appeared again, it might already be tens of thousands of miles away.

Bixiao had originally been standing by the shore, watching with great interest, but after taking only a few steps forward, the scene before her suddenly changed.

Qiongxiao, who had just been within arm's reach, vanished without a trace.

In her place was a boundless sea of clouds.

"Hmm?"

Bixiao's first reaction was not nervousness.

It was excitement.

"Has Elder Sister's array succeeded?"

The spatial mana within her immediately began to circulate.

Her figure vanished.

Several breaths later, she reappeared.

Then she discovered—

She was still in the same place.

The smile on Bixiao's face gradually faded.

She tried again.

Still the same place.

The third time.

She even retreated several hundred zhang.

"..."

She finally behaved herself.

This array was rather lacking in martial virtue.

She had clearly used spatial teleportation, yet the surrounding space itself had been altered by the formation. Her so-called "escape" was merely jumping back and forth inside a circle someone else had drawn for her beforehand.

Yunxiao stood at the heart of the array, seeing everything clearly.

She did not attack her younger sister.

She merely controlled the nine cloud rivers, constantly shifting their positions.

The core of the array was not Slaughter.

It was trapping.

Confusing.

Weakening.

After an enemy entered, their bearings would be reversed, their divine sense obscured by Cloud Water, and even their mana circulation disturbed by the Primordial Unity Golden Dipper's Primordial Unity Dao resonance.

The lower one's cultivation.

The greater the effect.

If cultivators of the same realm fell into the array, trying to force their way out through brute strength alone would be almost as difficult as climbing to heaven.

"Second Sister."

Yunxiao looked toward Qiongxiao outside the array.

"You should come in and try as well."

Qiongxiao did not hesitate.

The Mystic Origin Immortal-Slaying Sword left its sheath.

A razor-sharp flash of sword light tore directly through the clouds before her, and she stepped into the grand array right after it.

Her method was entirely different from Bixiao's.

If she could not find a path.

Then she would carve one out.

With the first strike.

A sea of clouds split down the middle.

With the second strike.

The connections between the nine streams of cloud qi ahead briefly loosened.

Instead, delight appeared in Yunxiao's eyes.

What she lacked most was precisely this kind of real feedback.

An array was not set up for one to admire alone.

Whether it could trap someone.

Whether it could withstand attacks.

Which places could most easily be forcibly broken open.

All of this required battle after battle before it could truly be perfected.

Thus, for the following several years.

Sword cries occasionally rang out above Penglai.

Sometimes, Bixiao's exasperated voice could be heard as well.

"Elder Sister!"

"Did you alter the array again?"

"I clearly found the exit just now!"

Yunxiao answered with a smile.

"If you can find it, that means it can no longer count as an exit."

Bixiao: "..."

For the first time, she realized that her usually gentle and tender elder sister was actually so vindictive when it came to arrays.

Every time she broke it once.

Yunxiao changed it once.

Was she supposed to live at all?

Qiongxiao, meanwhile, grew increasingly serious.

At first, she could still forcefully break open portions of the cloud rivers with the Mystic Origin Immortal-Slaying Sword.

But as Yunxiao continuously refined the array, the nodes that had originally borne attacks in fixed positions were gradually shifted. When Qiongxiao struck with her sword, its power was often dispersed by the entire formation across all nine cloud rivers.

To break the array with one sword strike.

The difficulty soared by more than tenfold.

Luxuan did not interfere throughout the entire process.

He merely sat outside the array and watched.

Only occasionally, when he noticed an obvious issue, would he offer a brief remark.

For the vast majority of the time, he let Yunxiao resolve things herself.

Another ten years passed.

The nine cloud rivers had completely stabilized.

On the day the array was completed.

A boundless water-and-cloud phenomenon suddenly descended over Penglai.

The nine massive cloud rivers joined head to tail, like nine heavenly rivers encircling the firmament. The Primordial Unity Golden Dipper hung at the very center, pale golden divine light cascading into the array.

Bixiao and Qiongxiao were both trapped within it.

The two had already joined forces.

One used the Mystic Origin Immortal-Slaying Sword as the main attack.

The other wielded the Golden Flood-Dragon Scissors, constantly cutting at the nodes with spatial techniques.

Yet after struggling for several days straight, neither had managed to truly tear open the formation.

In the end, Bixiao was the first to admit defeat.

"Elder Sister."

"I'm not fighting anymore!"

"If we keep circling like this, I won't even know where I am anymore."

The array slowly dispersed.

The two reappeared beside Three Lights Divine Water Lake.

The first thing Bixiao did was look up at the sun.

Only after confirming that east, south, west, and north were still normal did she let out a long sigh of relief.

Qiongxiao put away the Mystic Origin Immortal-Slaying Sword, but her gaze toward Yunxiao was full of seriousness.

"Elder Sister, if this array were used against real enemies, what realm could it trap?"

Yunxiao pondered for a moment.

"Early Taiyi should not be a problem."

"If I personally preside over the array, with the Primordial Unity Golden Dipper suppressing it as well, even Mid Taiyi should not be able to escape in a short time."

The moment those words fell.

Bixiao's eyes widened at once.

They were still only Golden Immortals.

In other words.

Her elder sister could already use an array to formally cross an entire major realm and trap enemies.

That was a little outrageous.

Yet Luxuan had no mind to care about the shock of his two disciples at that moment.

Because the instant Yunxiao truly created the Nine-Bend Cloud River Formation, an unprecedentedly vast comprehension of the Array Dao suddenly surged into his Primordial Spirit.

Boom!

If Yunxiao's observation of the Myriad Immortals Formation and subsequent improvements to her array had previously given him only scattered feedback.

Then this time was a qualitative transformation born from completely creating an array technique.

A hundredfold Array Dao comprehension instantly unfolded.

The nine cloud rivers rapidly expanded within Luxuan's Primordial Spirit.

The array that could originally only trap Taiyi cultivators had its flaws automatically filled in layer by layer under the hundredfold deduction.

How the array eye should be concealed.

How Cloud Water should circulate in cycles.

How space should overlap.

Even the connection between the Primordial Unity Golden Dipper and the formation revealed countless entirely new methods of application.

In only a few breaths.

Luxuan had deduced Yunxiao's array to a wholly different height.

Of course.

He did not directly stuff all the answers back into Yunxiao.

That would certainly allow his disciple to become stronger immediately, but it would also be equivalent to blocking off her own path of growth once more.

A master could teach.

But could not comprehend in the disciple's stead.

"Master."

Seeing Luxuan staring at the grand array, Yunxiao felt somewhat nervous.

"This disciple's array still has many shortcomings."

"There are indeed quite a few problems."

Luxuan nodded.

Yunxiao was not surprised.

But in the next moment, she heard him continue:

"Still, for your first self-created array, reaching this level is already quite good."

"Using the nine cloud rivers as its foundation, let it be called the Nine-Bend Cloud River Formation."

"The Nine-Bend Cloud River Formation..."

Yunxiao softly repeated it once, and her eyes gradually brightened.

"This disciple likes the name."

Bixiao immediately crowded over.

"Master, then since I was led around by Elder Sister in the array for three days, does that mean I also helped name it?"

Luxuan glanced at her.

"What did you contribute?"

"I contributed being trapped."

"..."

That reason was so powerful that, for a moment, no one could refute it.

Qiongxiao could not help turning her head away, the corner of her lips curling into a faint smile.

Luxuan, meanwhile, raised his hand and rapped Bixiao on the head.

"Instead of wasting your time on this, you should go cultivate."

"Your eldest sister can already trap Taiyi with the body of a Golden Immortal."

"What about you?"

Bixiao's smile vanished in an instant.

This was bad.

She had been eating melons, only for the melon patch to land on her own head.

Qiongxiao silently tightened her grip on the Mystic Origin Immortal-Slaying Sword as well.

Naturally, she could tell that their master was not speaking of Bixiao alone.

The three sisters had become disciples at the same time.

Their eldest sister had already created a true core formation that belonged to her alone.

The two of them could not keep resting on the laurels of the spirit treasures in their hands.

Very soon.

Qiongxiao returned to Sword Valley.

Bixiao, meanwhile, hugged the Golden Flood-Dragon Scissors, her face full of misery, and headed for Void Cliff.

Luxuan watched their clearly provoked backs with considerable satisfaction.

A proper amount of internal competition.

Was good for body and mind.

Especially for a master like him.

The harder his disciples competed.

The more he earned.

And as the Nine-Bend Cloud River Formation took shape, Yunxiao's magical power, already at Golden Immortal Perfection, began to undergo an obvious transformation under the feedback of the Array Dao.

An aura of the Great Dao, more complete than that of a Golden Immortal.

Was quietly gestating.