A wisp of Netherworld's Qi spiraled up from the depths of the forbidden zone's mountains, like a plume of black smoke rising from a ghostly city.
Song Yan clearly felt the sky halt for a moment, and the earth suddenly grew tranquil for a fleeting instant. Then, as if on cue, dust and stones flew in a frenzy, and half an incense stick's time later, the distant sound of beasts charging grew increasingly intense.
The ground trembled, and the mountains quaked.
Song Yan ascended into the air, floating above the array shield.
Although the array was layered hundreds of times, it wasn't composed of any special array formations. It could easily fend off ordinary cultivators, but not a Purple Mansion cultivator. Each array could withstand only a few strikes from them. There was no other choice, for array patterns cannot be deduced; the array you can set up entirely depends on the array plate you possess or the arrays you've studied.
