The "Eight-Gate Golden Light Sword Array" reminded Li Yan of the golden-armored giant's myriad abilities. That opponent had excelled at wielding sword-shaped magic treasures, but whether this was the sword array he had cultivated himself or one he had acquired from someone else, Li Yan could not determine with certainty.
Once deployed, this sword array could seal off the eight gates of heaven and earth: Rest, Life, Injury, Obstruction, View, Death, Terror, and Opening. At the same time, it used "the Life Gate to nourish weapons and the Injury Gate to subdue enemies," forming a cycle of heaven and earth where offense and defense became one.
Though Li Yan was not a sword cultivator, after reading it, he felt that once this array was unleashed, it would not be inferior to his own Five Elements Heavenly Dao Cycle method.
Li Yan did not know that he had truly missed out on a great heaven-and-earth array—the array he and Luo Beixi had been teleported into underground while searching for the Strength Soul Gu.
There, Li Yan had narrowly escaped death. Fearing that some other unforeseen change might still lurk underground, he had not dared to return and investigate, much less come into further contact with that great array.
Moreover, he had felt that he could likewise break through the arrays there one by one and eventually find an exit. Thus, he had only thought the array was powerful, not so powerful as to defy all reason.
Yet Li Yan did not know that it had merely been an incomplete remnant array, one that had not even been fully laid out. Less than half of its power had been brought forth. Otherwise, Li Yan would certainly have coveted it greedily.
After examining everything one by one, Li Yan finally took out the