Chapter 321: Chapter 172: An Unexpected Joy, the Martial Scripture, Array Chapter

The power of tens of thousands—even hundreds of thousands—of people now surged into the sky, creating a massive shift in the battle. Feeling the endless stream of Energy coursing through his body,

Li Chang’an looked up at the sky again, his gaze fixed on the twelve Cultivators. A slow grin spread across his face. "You said we were all ants, right? Today, I’ll give you a good look at the power of ants!"

This Array was personally set up by Elder Hun.

Gathering the power on the battlefield was only one of its functions. Its greater purpose was to materialize Destiny, acting as a form of Guiding to grant Li Chang’an a power that far surpassed this world’s limits!

As the personification of the World Consciousness, Elder Hun had taken action personally, and the Array Patterns he inscribed contained a portion of the fundamental laws of heaven and earth.

One could only imagine how heaven-defying its effects were.

Sensing the increasingly terrifying energy radiating from Li Chang’an, the faces of the twelve once-composed Cultivators all changed.

One of them looked down at the Array Patterns that covered nearly the entire battlefield and couldn’t help but exclaim in shock, "This is the Heaven and Earth Soul Refining Array! How could it possibly appear on a battlefield?"

Their confusion was straightforward.

And Li Chang’an’s response was even more direct.

Like a cannonball, he shot up from mid-air, appearing in an instant before the bearded man who was preparing to hurl a hill.

Reaching out, Li Chang’an shattered the hill in the bearded man’s hand with a single punch before it could even be thrown!

The bearded man didn’t even have time to react before Li Chang’an smashed him into the ground with a single punch, pulverizing the body that housed his incarnation into a mist of blood!

Reduced to a soul, the bearded man slowly floated out of his physical body.

His eyes were filled with unparalleled shock and horror.

The bearded man realized that the power dynamic of this fight had been completely reversed. In a panic, his soul shot dozens of meters away, and he turned to flee.

’Right now, under the enhancement of the Heaven and Earth Soul Refining Array, Li Chang’an has gathered an unimaginable amount of power,’ he thought. ’Unless our true bodies descend personally, these few incarnations will be nothing but fodder, no matter how many we have.’

The bearded man’s reactions were admittedly fast. The moment he sensed Li Chang’an’s power, he was already determined to escape.

But Li Chang’an’s speed was even greater.

With a flash, he appeared directly in front of the bearded man. His long saber, wreathed in Soul Fire, slashed down. The terrifying Soul Fire ignited the bearded man’s soul, incinerating him until nothing remained.

The others now came to their senses.

Most of them chose to turn and run.

Only a few who still hadn’t grasped the situation tried to fight Li Chang’an to the death.

Li Chang’an ignored those who stayed behind, instead flashing into the distance to furiously intercept the fleeing Cultivators.

Elder Hun had been silently preparing in the shadows for this day for countless years.

Originally, this was meant for Lu Shang to end everything, but now it had been placed in Li Chang’an’s hands.

At this moment, Li Chang’an felt more powerful than ever before. No matter what stood in his way, he was confident he could easily tear it to shreds.

The Cultivators scattering in their attempt to escape would obviously not get their wish.

Faced with Li Chang’an’s terrifying strength, the twelve Cultivators lasted less than the time it takes for an incense stick to burn before they were all slain by him, refined into clumps of pure Soul Energy.

Standing in mid-air, Li Chang’an took several ragged breaths. He then walked through the sky to the Five Elements Technique the Cultivators had laid out and began to study it intently.

Because Destiny and power were continuously pouring into his body, Li Chang’an felt he was in excellent condition. He even felt faint signs of transcending the level of a Tier Five Martial Artist and breaking through to Tier Six.

He knew this was just an illusion.

But even if it was an illusion, it was not one to be wasted.

’I must quickly see if I can learn this Five Elements Array and maximize this fortunate opportunity.’

When Li Chang’an’s eyes fell upon the Five Elements Array left behind by the Cultivators, his Heaven-defying Comprehension talent immediately began to operate at full capacity.

Clearly, this Array was a true treasure.

It was the kind that would be considered a rare find even in the Cultivator World.

Li Chang’an had killed so many Cultivators, but the loot they dropped was mostly junk that wasn’t good enough to use, yet a waste to throw away. This time, he had finally found something significant!

[Heaven-defying Comprehension: You have gained insight while observing the ’Five Elements Immortal Array’. Your understanding of the Way of Arrays has deepened!]

[Heaven-defying Comprehension: You have gained insight while observing the ’Five Elements Immortal Array’. Your understanding of the Way of Arrays has deepened!]

[Heaven-defying Comprehension: You have gained insight while observing the ’Five Elements Immortal Array’ and have learned its inscription method!]

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[Heaven-defying Comprehension: You experienced a Satori while observing the ’Five Elements Immortal Array’, further integrating this knowledge with the ’Martial Scripture’ to create the ’Martial Scripture: Array Chapter’!]

Perhaps it was because his temporarily enhanced power was simply too terrifying.

This time, his Heaven-defying Comprehension was operating far more efficiently than ever before.

Li Chang’an felt streams of information flash across his vision, and before he could even react, his head felt as if it would explode in an instant, flooded with a massive amount of new knowledge!

An ocean of knowledge had appeared!

In the past, Li Chang’an had actually studied quite a few Array Patterns.

However, those Array Patterns were all fragmented, Second-class things. Without extensive preparation, even inscribing them would provide little benefit to him.

As a result, though Li Chang’an had learned them, he rarely ever put them to use.

After all, in his simple view, it was better to properly improve his Cultivation than to waste a great deal of time and effort inscribing mediocre Array Patterns.

’I can’t believe that after learning the ’Five Elements Immortal Array’ from these Cultivators, I’ve actually created the ’Martial Scripture: Array Chapter’ based on the original ’Martial Scripture’?!’

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