mesbooks Chapter 489 Nine Netherworld Locking Divine Array
Chapter 489 Nine Netherworld Locking Divine Array
"Good good!"
Xuanming said "good" three times in a row, his killing intent boiling to its peak. "I have not appeared for many years. It seems that people have forgotten what the name Xuanming means!"
Today, I will use your blood and souls to restore my former glory!
He held nothing back, unleashing his full power as a mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivator!
Black energy surged around him, as if the gates of the underworld had been opened, and the wailing of ghosts and wolves emanated from it, chilling the soul.
He formed a mudra with his hands and chanted obscure incantations, making the dark clouds in the sky even thicker.
Qinghe Daoist's expression was grave as he transmitted a message to Shen Rugo: "Rugo, be careful! He's about to get serious!"
Shen Rugo nodded, her divine sense highly focused, constantly adjusting and reinforcing the formation, while simultaneously holding more formation plates and runes in her sleeve.
Xuanming and Qinghe Daoist clashed once again.
This time, neither side tested the waters further; both went all out.
The swordsman of Qinghe Daoren unleashed his swordsmanship like the rushing Qinghe River, flowing endlessly; while Xuanming's methods were unpredictable and ruthless, his attacks fierce and violent, his spiritual power seemingly inexhaustible.
In an instant, sword energy and black mist intertwined and collided high in the sky, creating continuous booming sounds and flashing lights. The dissipated energy aftershocks shattered the clouds above Blackwind City.
Shen Rugo then used formations to assist her.
Although her five-array combination could not trap Xuanming, it could greatly restrict his range of movement, interfere with his divine sense judgment, and launch surprise attacks from time to time, forcing Xuanming to be distracted in his response.
The battlefield has temporarily reached a stalemate.
But Shen Rugo knew perfectly well that, despite her help, Qinghe Daoist was still a minor realm lower, and would inevitably be defeated in a prolonged battle.
Xuanming clearly saw this as well. He grinned maliciously and his attacks became even more ferocious, trying to exhaust Qinghe Daoist's magic power as soon as possible.
"We can't delay any longer..."
A resolute glint flashed in Shen Rugo's eyes.
Just then, a fierce light flashed in Xuanming's eyes, and he shouted:
"You all deserve to die for forcing me to use this!"
He suddenly retreated a hundred feet, breaking away from the battle, and then flipped his wrist, revealing an octagonal array plate that was entirely black in his palm.
The moment the array appeared, an ancient and evil aura spread out.
In the center of the array plate, a dark red crystal, like a heart, is embedded in the depression.
"That's... the array plate of the Nine Netherworld Locking God Array?!"
Qinghe Daoist's expression changed drastically, and he cried out in alarm, "Ruge, retreat quickly! This formation is one of the Wanbao Pavilion's most treasured weapons, capable of killing late-stage Nascent Soul cultivators! You absolutely cannot fight it head-on!"
Shen Rugo's heart sank.
The aura emanating from that array made her soul tremble!
Xuanming grinned maliciously and poured his spiritual power into the array plate in his hand without hesitation!
"Is it too late to escape now? Nine Netherworld Locking God Formation, activate!"
The dark red crystal suddenly shone brightly, and all the runes on the array plate seemed to come alive.
The array plate flew out of his hand, hovered above Xuanming's head, and rapidly expanded, covering the sky within a radius of a thousand feet in the blink of an eye!
The sky fell completely dark.
It wasn't the kind of blackness you see at night; it was a pitch-black darkness that swallowed all light.
Only the array plate emitted an eerie, blood-red light, like the eye of the underworld, indifferently watching down below.
Immediately afterwards, nine thick, jet-black chains emerged from the array plate, instantly filling the sky above the battlefield.
The chains were covered with countless barbs, each gleaming with a dark light, and emanated a terrifying suction force, as if even the cultivator's soul would be pulled in.
The formation is complete, and the domain arises spontaneously!
Shen Rugo and Qinghe Daoist immediately felt heavy and sluggish, and even their thinking and spiritual energy circulation dropped significantly.
Even more terrifying, the nine chains, like venomous snakes and giant pythons, were already strangling towards the two of them!
Qinghe Daoist shouted and swung his sword at the two chains that attacked first.
The ear-piercing sound resounded through the heavens and earth, sparks flew everywhere, but only left faint white marks on the chains. Instead, the recoil force and deathly aura from the chains made his blood surge.
The Taoist priest of Qinghe was filled with shock and anger.
Shen Rugo controlled the Fiery Dragon and the Five Elements Sword Qi to attack the chains, but the effect was negligible.
What's even more dangerous is that these chains don't attack in a straight line; they work together, making them unpredictable and difficult to defend against.
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A chain seized the gap between Qinghe Daoist's old strength and his new strength, and lashed it hard at his protective spiritual light!
The light shattered, and the barbs of the chains tore a deep, bone-revealing wound in his left ribs.
Instead of bleeding, the wound quickly turned black, and a deathly aura crept into the body through the wound!
"Uh!"
Qinghe Daoist let out a muffled groan, his face instantly paling slightly, and he staggered backward.
"Uncle-Master Qinghe!"
Shen Rugo exclaimed in surprise.
"Haha, scared now? You'd better take care of yourself first!"
Xuanming's cold laughter rang out.
The three chains, arranged in a triangular shape, blocked all of Shen Rugo's escape routes and began to coil around her!
Shen Rugo dodged rapidly, pushing her movement technique to its limit, but under the suppression of the Nine Netherworld Locking God Formation, her speed was still half a beat slower.
A chain was wrapped around her right ankle!
Icy cold! Stinging pain! Numbness!
Three sensations spread from the ankle throughout the body.
The barbs on the chains pierced the skin, and the deathly aura of the underworld surged in wildly. Wherever it passed, spiritual energy froze, and muscles stiffened and became numb.
There was also a powerful binding force that kept her firmly locked in place.
“Little girl, to die under the Nine Netherworld Locking God Formation and become one of the thousands of wronged souls in this formation is quite your good fortune.”
Xuanming's voice was mocking.
The shadow of death had never loomed over Shen Rugo so clearly.
However, even in this desperate situation, under the corrosive influence of the deathly aura of the chains, a glimmer of starlight shone deep within Shen Rugo's pupils! And it grew brighter and brighter!
The Nine Heavens Star Technique was circulating wildly within her body at an unprecedented speed, fighting against the death energy.
At the same time, her extraordinary divine soul power "looked" at the Nine Netherworld Locking God Array, at the nine chains, and at the blood-red array plate in the sky.
Despite the myriad variations of formations, they all share the same fundamental principle: every formation must have a structure, nodes, a path for the flow of spiritual energy, and a core that sustains its existence!
Under extreme pressure, Shen Rugo's thinking reached its limit.
She "saw" it!
When the seemingly seamless Nine Netherworld Locking God Formation attacked both her and Qinghe Daoist simultaneously, a subtle disharmony and sluggishness appeared in the flow of spiritual energy within it!
In particular, each of the nine chains requires immense divine sense and spiritual power to control. When they attack different targets and perform different actions simultaneously, the nine spiritual power hub nodes connecting the chains to the core array plate will experience varying degrees of pressure and temporary fluctuations!
One of the nodes was under the greatest pressure and experienced the most significant fluctuations, and its protection was also weak!
In a flash, Shen Rugo made a decision.
Instead of trying to break free of the chains binding her ankles, she used all the spiritual power she could muster, along with thirty high-grade level-five Heavenly Thunder Exorcism Talismans, to lock onto that single point of fluctuation!
These runes are specifically designed to ward off evil spirits and yin energy; they are the nemesis of this netherworld death energy!
It's now!
"break!!"
Shen Rugo gave a clear shout, and thirty runes ignited simultaneously in mid-air!
Boom! Crackling sounds!
Not one, but thirty overlapping thunderclaps, creating a terrifying, deafening explosion!
Thirty bolts of purple lightning, imbued with the power of utmost yang and strength, converged in the air to form a blazing lightning pillar over ten feet thick, which slammed into the array node!