Bai Zhu stepped into the groove below.
The moment his sole touched the line, a system panel covered most of his vision.
The low platform behind the altar was divided into dozens of layers.
The palm-shaped groove at the top connected to forty-eight primary locks, each of which branched into hundreds of fine lines leading to streets, houses, metal rings, and city walls. Every sealing groove in the inner city was laid out before Bai Zhu, layer upon layer.
[Sealing Jutsu detected] [Analyzing sealing compatibility routes]
The numbers began to rise.
One percent.
Five percent.
At the same time, countless unfamiliar routes appeared in Bai Zhu's mind. Each one had to pass through dozens of nodes. The slightest deviation would cause the power sent in to be bounced back by the primary locks.
"No wonder Zhang Ye used an entire city as an array."
Bai Zhu stared at the grooves on the low platform and edged forward.
"If I had designed this, I'd have flipped the table by the third line."
He was only a dozen meters from the sealing core.
Hecatos's bone wings suddenly swept outward.
A gale tore across the altar, sending all the skeletons piled around the low platform flying. A feather over ten meters long fell from the broken wing and shot toward Bai Zhu along the ground.
"Again?"
Bai Zhu lunged aside and rolled into a pile of bones.
The gigantic feather plunged into the ground before the low platform.
Boom!
The stone slabs caved in, and corrosive Nen flowed out from the feather's base. The groove leading to the recess snapped apart, then was ground into a deep pit several meters wide in the blink of an eye.
Bai Zhu pushed himself up from the ground.
"Can't you take