The Devil Array Unleashes Its Might, the Righteous Path in Dire Straits

Hum... The enormous Devil Array over the Azure Seclusion Plain slowly began to turn. Every disciple of the righteous immortal sects caught within it felt the spiritual power throughout their body falter. The next moment, their spiritual power slipped from their control and flowed toward the sky.

"Bai Junhao, you deserve to die!" the Grand Elder shouted furiously. Even she could feel the spiritual power in her body slipping somewhat out of her control, to say nothing of the disciples below, whose cultivation was low. Seeing the battle below turn on its head in an instant, the Grand Elder struck in anger, driving Leng You back with a single move before charging to kill Bai Junhao.

Seeing this, Bai Junhao did not dodge. Instead, he smiled with easy confidence, summoned a longsword and moved to meet the Grand Elder. The two exchanged several moves, but neither could gain the upper hand. Bai Junhao twirled his sword, held it behind his back and smiled at the Grand Elder. "Senior sister, after all these years, you still can't beat me."

The Grand Elder snorted coldly but did not argue. Bai Junhao was right. There was little difference in their talents, and they had studied under the same master. If Bai Junhao had not made a grave mistake in his cultivation back then, he would now be their master's most prized disciple. At the thought, the Grand Elder's gaze grew complicated.

Seeing the Grand Elder fall silent, Bai Junhao smiled even more broadly and pointed his longsword at her from a distance. "Senior sister, if you want to save these disciples today, then make your move."

The Grand Elder flicked her longsword and fought fiercely with Bai Junhao once more. She did not notice in the slightest that he had drawn her away from the very center of the battlefield. The two fought as they went, making their way toward the edge of the array without realizing it.

Qin Yi looked up at the battle in the sky. The elders of the various immortal sects were already fighting fiercely with the Devil cultivators, but they were only evenly matched. If they could not break the array, the righteous disciples across the Azure Seclusion Plain would surely be worn to death by it.

At the same time, Qin Yi noticed that the array did not seem to have fully formed, because it was still absorbing blood from the battlefield. The enormous mass of light in the sky, formed from the spiritual power of the gathered cultivators, filled Qin Yi with even greater unease.

After running the Devil cultivator before him through with his spear, Qin Yi raced to the edge of the Heavenly Demon Great Array. But when he tried to attack it, he found that he could not shake it at all. The array had been crafted by the Devil path from countless treasures. How could Qin Yi, a mere Foundation Establishment Early Stage cultivator, possibly damage it?

By now, everyone on the Azure Seclusion Plain had killed until their eyes were red. There was no one who could help Qin Yi break the array. The elders dared not let their attention wander, for fear that their opponents would find an opening. The righteous path seemed to have fallen into a trap the Devil path had long prepared-a deathtrap.

No one knew how long the slaughter had lasted. Blood now covered the Azure Seclusion Plain, and the righteous disciples had fallen completely on the back foot. The array had been absorbing their spiritual power all along, and they could not recover it as quickly as they spent it. Countless disciples were killed by their opponents after exhausting their spiritual power.

"Elder, hurry and save us!"

"Help, Elder..."

Countless disciples could not see the slightest glimmer of hope and called out to their own elders for help. But the elders, who had been fighting fiercely for so long, were themselves beginning to struggle to hold on, let alone free themselves to save the disciples.

They had already tested the array. Not only did it cut off the inside from the outside, preventing them from calling for aid, it was also so sturdy that they could not break it. After observing it, some elders who knew something of arrays had reached a conclusion: unless a Nascent Soul expert intervened, the only way to break it was to find the array core.

The array core? The elders were already hard-pressed just dealing with the Devil cultivators before them. How could they spare anyone to search for it? The Devil path had clearly made thorough preparations this time. They intended to wipe out all these elders and disciples in one fell swoop.

The Grand Elder was now completely tied down by Bai Junhao. She understood that he was stronger than her and that his only purpose was to keep her from disrupting the main battlefield. But even though she understood, Bai Junhao would not let her through. As long as he kept her occupied, the righteous path would be defeated sooner or later.

As the situation grew increasingly unfavorable, Qin Yi's gaze darkened. It was all because his own strength was insufficient. If he were strong enough, what could a mere array like this do to him? Bolts of lightning gathered around Qin Yi. The low-level cultivators could not withstand their power at all, dying the moment they touched them.

Only Foundation Establishment Early Stage cultivators could exchange a few moves with Qin Yi, but even they could only slow him down for a time. It was not until a Foundation Establishment Middle Stage cultivator appeared that Qin Yi was stopped in his tracks.

Just as Qin Yi was trading moves with the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage cultivator, a Golden Core elder in the sky finally could bear it no longer. He took out a Jade Slip and crushed it. The Heavenly Demon Great Array trembled, and a vortex appeared in midair out of nowhere. A giant hand formed from spiritual power reached out of the vortex toward the Devil path elder opposite him.

The Devil Cultivator showed no fear at the sight. Instead, a faint smile appeared on his face. "Just what I've been waiting for." As the giant hand was about to seize him, the mass of light in the sky, formed from the spiritual power of countless cultivators, suddenly surged and transformed into a pillar of light that shot toward the hand.

Boom!!!

When the smoke cleared, the giant hand had been blasted to pieces. Bai Junhao's voice came from afar. "This battlefield is not yours to meddle in. Get back where you came from!"

A cold snort came from the vortex. "Bai Junhao, I will remember what happened today." As soon as the words fell, another pillar of light descended from the mass of light, shattering the vortex in an instant.

The immortal sect elder's face darkened when he saw the vortex shatter. The Devil path had made every preparation long ago. They had anticipated every means the righteous path could employ.

The disciples on the Azure Seclusion Plain saw the scene in the sky clearly. The Devil path disciples threw back their heads and cheered, while the immortal sect disciples' faces darkened.

"Kill!!!" Someone suddenly shouted. The immortal sect disciples tightened their grips on their weapons and charged at the Devil path disciples. Today, it was kill or be killed.

"Tsk, tsk. Senior sister, look at them. How foolish," Bai Junhao said. Even as he kept the Grand Elder occupied, he did not forget to remind her to look at how vulnerable the righteous path she protected was.

"Bai Junhao, don't forget that you were once a disciple of the righteous path too!" the Grand Elder shouted at him, seeing the excitement on his face.

Bai Junhao smiled disdainfully. "The righteous path? Senior sister, do you believe that if I called out right now that anyone who killed an Eight Gods Pavilion disciple could leave, the righteous path you've always protected would slaughter every Eight Gods Pavilion disciple in an instant?"

This time, the Grand Elder was unusually silent. If Bai Junhao really did that, she believed the Eight Gods Pavilion disciples would all be torn to pieces in the blink of an eye.

"Senior sister, from the moment the old man expelled me from our master's sect, I understood one thing."

"The human heart is the least able to withstand a test."