He took a single step!
And the scenery changed.
Zuo Jin found himself inside another great array. Twelve sword phantoms coalesced in the air around him, then their blades trembled, unleashing terrifying sword qi.
In an instant.
A sense of immense danger surged in his heart.
There was no time to think.
Zuo Jin stepped to the left, dodging the sword qi as he spread his Divine Sense in every direction. Using its power, he rapidly traced runes in the air, assembling a Defensive Formation to block the subsequent attacks.
"A Slaying Array!"
At that moment, his expression turned exceptionally grave.
Of all the arrays available, he had been unlucky enough to draw a Slaying Array.
And—
It was no ordinary Slaying Array, either.
"An array within an array?"
"Or did I never actually enter the array before, and only truly trigger it now?"
Faced with the two changes in scenery, Zuo Jin drew a deep breath.
The methods of an Array Dao Grandmaster.
Once again, they had shown him something extraordinary.
At this point.
Zuo Jin dared not waste any more time. He spread his Divine Sense outward little by little, searching for weaknesses in the array. In his eyes, the twelve sword phantoms surrounding him might well be its core.
The Defensive Formation he had laid around himself.
Was silently enduring the sword qi's attacks.
Though this was a Miniature Array, its attacks were anything but weak.
Zuo Jin could sense the aura of death within the sword qi.
If it struck him head-on, even as a great cultivator of the manifestation realm, he would never withstand it.
Whenever the Defensive Formation was about to shatter.
Zuo Jin reinforced it again, keeping the Defensive Formation functioning.
Likewise.
Every reinforcement consumed a portion of his Divine Sense. That was