Chapter Eighty-Five: The Way of Array

  Today's second update~~~

  "Impossible." Zhang Chong felt a bit dizzy after hearing this, he had been working hard for half a day and finally managed to refine the Ling, but he didn't expect it wasn't for his own use, instead it became his master. What kind of rule is this? No wonder Lansi Ping died early, he didn't follow the usual path, how could he last long? However, although Zhang Chong thought so, he secretly felt that he was the most pitiful one.

  What a great opportunity, but it's just to find someone to experiment on this dead Lansi Ping. The so-called Xuanji Fu treasure is just an illusion, and what chance does one have of getting it?

  Thinking of this, Zhang Chong said bluntly

  "I don't want a ghost as a master, you go ahead and busy yourself." With that said, he was about to leave the Xuanji Ring.

  But unexpectedly, Yue smiled and said,

  "This matter can't be decided by you alone."

  As he said this, Zhang Chong suddenly felt his body stiffen, as if it had been fixed in place. The scenery around him instantly turned silver-white and became empty and desolate. No matter how hard he tried to move, he couldn't escape.

  "What's going on, Yue?" Zhang Da asked in surprise.

  "You are in the illusion array I set up, if you can't break through it, then you won't be able to get out," Yue said.

  "Mirage, this mirage, can it change the scenery you see?" Zhang Chong heard this and couldn't help but think of the scene he had encountered earlier in the forest, the trees that could disappear without a trace, perhaps they were also a mirage.

  "It's like that, looking at you, you should have only understood the Heaven and Earth Three Talents Formation. Whether or not you've learned it, I don't know, but as for formation techniques, you're still far from mastering them. Let me tell you a thing or two."

  At this point, Yue began to talk endlessly.

  Originally, the formation method has different names depending on its effect. Just like the three people who used the formation method called Tian Di San Cai Zhen, in general. However, from a broad perspective, it can be divided into two categories: killing formations and illusion formations.

  Killing array, as the name suggests, is all about killing and chopping. Once you enter the array, it will trigger an attack, like the green fruit that Zhang encountered earlier, which belongs to the killing array. However, most of the illusion arrays are harmless to people, their purpose is only to trap people in the array, making them unable to get out.

  According to Zhang Zhong's description of the ancient city and forest, they couldn't tell directions and couldn't get out, it should be an illusion.

  "Most of them are harmless, so should there still be illusions that can harm people?" Zhang Chong asked after hearing Yue's words, somewhat perplexed.

  Yue smiled somewhat sinisterly after hearing Zhang Chong's words and then said

  "This formation is quite dull when explained in words, why don't I just show it to you instead?"

  Zhang Chong heard this sentence from Yue and suddenly felt a thud in his heart, feeling the enormous risk. He wanted to stop him, but Yue was no longer speaking to him.

  Before Zhang Chong's eyes flashed a silver white color, slowly fading into an ocean of fresh flowers. In this lush sea of flowers, five or six extremely beautiful women suddenly appeared. These women had enchanting figures, wore extremely revealing clothes, held flower branches in their hands, danced and walked slowly towards Zhang Chong, with unending flirtatious intentions in their words and actions.

  "What is this?" Zhang Chong's heart was gazing at these women, although he didn't know what their dance meant, but he felt his throat dry and a strong desire to drink water, and his body also had an unusually hot and dry feeling, making him extremely uncomfortable all over.

  And those women who were dressed extremely revealingly seemed to be hinting that he should take off his clothes, Zhang Chong was stroking this hint and was about to move his hand onto his body. As he did so, his mind also became somewhat bewildered. Just at this moment, he suddenly remembered the treacherous smile of Yue Ying from earlier, that smile instantly poured like a basin of cold water over his head and body, causing him to snap back awake in an instant.

  "It's an illusion~~~" This was Zhang Chong's first reaction. At the same time, he also heard Yue Qianqian's "huh~~~", apparently with great surprise.

  At the thought that he was being deceived by an illusion, Zhang Chong became enraged and immediately charged towards the several women in front of him. Although these women were dressed revealingly and had a seductive demeanor, at this moment, they appeared to Zhang Chong as nothing more than sinister, smiling fox spirits.

  "Go to hell!" Zhang Chong threw a fierce punch at the women, but it was a wasted effort. The women smiled and their bodies slowly became blurry.

  "Don't be angry anymore, your spirit is still very strong." Yue Youyou said.

  "Don't get angry, you're just playing with yourself. How dare you play with me?" Just thinking about how he was almost toyed with by the instrument spirit of Xuanji's ring made Zhang Chong furious. But Yue ignored his anger and continued to say,

  "You just saw it, this kind of tangible illusion array can disturb your mind, and even more powerful illusions can directly cause your mind to become abnormal, from then on you will be like a living dead person, this is an offensive illusion array."

  So that's how it is, Zhang Chong listened to these words and suddenly understood. However, as for how to break the formation, he was not quite clear, and being in the midst of Yue Bu's illusionary formation, he continued listening:

  "Array method and talisman method are similar, both are through various materials, condensing the power of heaven and earth, and drawing out a space that belongs to oneself can be controlled. In this space, the rules are what you set. Therefore, if you want to lay an array, you must first break the array, so as to understand the essence of the array method."

  "Although there are countless ways to set up formations, the method of breaking them is only one: observe its subtlety, comb out its logic, and find its weak point."

  "Observe its subtlety, comb out its logic, and seek its key." Zhang Chong listened to these few sentences, but felt that they were extremely profound and difficult to understand. In his heart, he had already guessed that this was the main point that Yue wanted to say.

  "Observe its subtlety, and you will see the effect of this formation, just like the one you saw earlier, called [Hundred Flowers Fairy]. It is a bewildering illusion that confuses your mind through the fragrance of flowers and women, making you lose your focus. If you ignore the fragrance and women, most of the effectiveness of this formation will be lost. Of course, this effect is obvious, and because of this, this formation cannot be considered high-level, it's just a third-level formation. If it were a higher-level formation, it would be a combination of various low-level formations that confuse people without them realizing it, making them enter the illusion unknowingly, unable to observe its subtlety. That is truly a high-level illusion."

  Listening to Yue's words, Zhang Chong finally understood the danger of that forest. He had entered it unknowingly and even eaten its fruits, treating it as a real forest. If he hadn't accidentally attacked that tree, he might still be unaware that he was in a high-level illusion array.

  "It's indeed the case, although I couldn't see this forest myself, but from what you've described, this illusion array should be a combination of reality and fantasy. The fruits you ate were real, it's just that among these trees, some are real and some are fake, which is why even though it's an illusion array, it still gives people a sense of reality. I think this forest should at least be a sixth-level or higher array."

  "What I have laid out for you now is a three-stage illusion array. You will break it first and gain some benefits, then let you break the higher-level illusion array. With good luck, after eight years, you may be able to break this six-stage array."

  "My goodness, eight years!!" Upon hearing Yue's words, Zhang Chong couldn't help but let out a mournful sigh in his heart, while Yue remained completely unaware of his current feelings and continued to speak.

  "Observe its subtlety, comb out its logic, and seek its focal point. Just like looking at a tree, you see its branches and flowers, which is observing its subtlety. But the reason why the flowers are in that place is because of the relationship between the branches. The formation is the same, what you see here is also connected by subtle threads behind it. Finding these will bring you closer to breaking the formation. And the most crucial thing is to seek its focal point, just like the core part of a tree is its roots deep in the ground. If you destroy its roots, the branches and flowers will all disappear. Therefore, the way to break the formation lies in observing the effects of the formation, understanding its structure, and finally finding its focal point, and then breaking it."

  Zhang Chong's heart was suddenly enlightened by Yue's words.