"The true counterstrike from the Alliance of Thousands of Immortals should be arriving soon."
Whispers of fluctuation transmitted through the sealed moonlight, and Sun Erlang made such a judgement.
Tianquan Province, Moonlight Boundary.
Lu Qixian watched as the rising Qing Qi shrouded the moonlight, and a hint of joy involuntarily flashed through her eyes.
Although only eight days had passed in reality, the Immortal Alliance Headquarters had already derived countless iterations.
Finally, a slim chance to break the array had been found.
Since the Array Technique was so transcendent that it was beyond comprehension, it was decided to abandon the idea of "breaking" it.
Instead, "Extinct Spirit Qi" was used directly to corrode the array units.
Extinct Spirit Qi could suppress all fluctuations of spiritual power.
Under its unceasing, hazy steaming, it indeed had an effect.
The moonlight, originally like a silver silk ribbon, slowly began to look as though enveloped in Qing smoke.
It seemed as if at any moment, the array would be breached.
Yet...
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The moon in the sky shined down its radiance once again.
In a mere moment, it replenished the lost sectors.
Even though Lu Qixian had anticipated this and ordered everyone to resist desperately, they were ultimately unable to prevent the descent of the moonlight.
Looking at the array that had restored itself to its original state, Lu Qixian’s complexion turned ashen.
"Chief..."
Her subordinates, the array masters, also turned pale upon witnessing this, with despair in their eyes.
"I’ll request the Breaking Formation Disc," Lu Qixian said solemnly, admitting the fact that she had failed to break the array.
Transforming into a rainbow light, she vanished into the horizon.
Shortly after, Lu Qixian returned from where she went.
Following her was a cultivator wearing an indigo Taoist robe, with a forehead engraving that seemed like a mirror.
Face obscured and gender indistinguishable.
Had Li Fan been there, he would have recognized at a glance that this was the distinctive attire of the Mirror Handler lineage of the Alliance of Thousands of Immortals.
The Mirror Handler paid no heed to all the array-breaking cultivators present, first looking up at the silver moonlight enveloping the wilderness, nodding slightly.
Then, they bowed slightly towards a certain spot in the void.
The mirror marking on their forehead emitted rays of light. A white jade disc, along with the illumination of the light, appeared amidst the crowd.
The Jade Disc spontaneously flew, drawing closer to the moonlight cascading from above.
The moonlight twisted and was absorbed by the White Jade Disc.
Upon the Jade Disc’s burst of light and shadow, one could faintly see countless Array Technique transformations.
The Mirror Handler observed for a moment and then slightly furrowed their brow.
They then released another White Jade Disc.
But it seemed the effect was still not satisfactory, so they directly released all nine discs at once.
The nine discs encircled each other, drawing the moonlight to the center.
The changing illusions of the array accelerated countless times in an instant.
"What Breaking Formation Disc is that? It’s so formidable?"
"As Chief Lu mentioned, it is the Secondary Life Entity born from the Tianxuan Mirror, named ’Dissociation Disc’."
"Hisss, to think there were such wondrous objects in the world. If formations can be so easily broken, what use are array masters like us?"
...
Array masters present discussed through their spiritual transmissions.
Lu Qixian, however, kept her eyes fixed on the changing patterns at the center of the Dissociation Discs, still with furrowed brows.
"Venerable One, it seems..."
The Mirror Handler nodded, their gaze at the sky-borne Array Technique becoming all the more solemn.
Then, they paused their motion, having made a definite decision.
They flew above everyone’s heads and took a strange posture. Then they kowtowed toward an apparently empty space.
With a light bow, a burst of light emanated from the marking on their brow.
A silhouette of an object then quietly emerged.
The Mirror Handler knocked nineteen times.
Nineteen different phantasmagorical objects appeared in the area.
Some were discs like the Dissociation Discs, but in different colors.
There were also White Jade Rulers, as well as a Jade Scroll of Verdant Hue...
The nineteen objects with their own spirituality flew outside the nine Dissociation Discs.
Rotating rapidly.
The already somewhat illusory images became even more blurred in the rotation.
Their shapes changed, unexpectedly resembling the inner circle’s Dissociation Discs!
With the aid of the outer Dissociation Discs, the visuals within the ring’s center sped up again, making them almost impossible to see clearly.
After observing for a while, the Mirror Handler spoke, "In three days, an opening in this array can be breached."
"We must take the opportunity to completely resolve the trapped array."
The Mirror Handler pointed at the moon overhead as they spoke.
Lu Qixian bowed her head and said, "I will explain to the Dharma Transmitters."
The Mirror Handler said nothing more but concentrated solely on the Dissociation Disc and the nineteen virtual images.
The array masters who were watching this spectacle, after being slightly stunned for a moment, finally began to regain their senses.
"How did nineteen more Dissociation Discs appear? The breaking power of one Dissociation Disc is already terrifying. Nineteen stacked together..."
"I get it! The Xuanqing Mirror, Heart Measuring Ruler, Heaven Earth Book... These are all Secondary Life Entities of TianXuan!"
A word stirred a thousand ripples, and all the array masters present felt immense turmoil inside.
"Nineteen of them, I only knew Tianxuan Mirror had Secondary Bodies, but I never imagined there could be so many!"
"No, no, no... After so many years, having nurtured nineteen is understandable. But I’ve never heard that they could transform into each other! Doesn’t that mean that each Secondary Body can unleash more than a dozen times its own strength?"
Lu Qixian, perhaps sensing the rampant talk among her subordinates, coldly glanced over and said via transmission, "Don’t just stand there watching, discuss and study the parts of the Array that the Dissociation Discs have deciphered."
"Don’t think that just breaking the array solves everything. If we can’t make up for our past mistakes, look forward to a complete overhaul of personnel from top to bottom in our Immortal Alliance Formation Hall."