(Zhong Xiang is a woman)
The Nine Bends Yellow River Talisman Array is currently a second-level talisman array, capable of covering three hundred and sixty meters. However, the speed of setting up this array is rather slow, requiring a full ten breaths. If both parties were to engage in a duel, it would be enough time for the opponent to run back and forth one hundred and eighty times.
Zhong Xiang’s eyes glanced over, seeing the Nine Bends Yellow River Talisman Array with "Yin wind whistling, black mist engulfing the sun and moon. Expansive and vast, dark and obscure. Grim aura soaring to the sky, gloom permeating the earth." The whole person involuntarily shivered, an inexplicable great terror surged from the depths of her heart, and her Essence, Qi, and Spirit seemed to be intimidated by the might, trembling incessantly.
"That is..." Zhong Xiang knew that her Qilin’s Heart had detected the crisis, continuously warning her of the danger of this array. The talisman array before her now threatened her life. An intuition from the Qilin’s Heart told her that if she rashly entered, she would die.
"It looks quite intimidating, but I wonder how powerful it truly is." Zhong Xiang stubbornly refused to admit her fear, even though she was terrified to the extreme, and with a mocking tone, she questioned Zhang Chen’s means as nothing but a facade.
Zhang Chen smiled upon hearing this, neither arguing with Zhong Xiang nor confronting her, but replied with a grin: "You’ll naturally know its power soon enough."
After Zhang Chen finished speaking, he gestured for Zhong Xiang to stand in front of the bronze gate while his hand sparkled with water vapor, slowly condensing into an ice dagger.
Seeing Zhang Chen conjure an ice dagger, Zhong Xiang couldn’t help but feel a pang of pain in her rear, instinctively clenching her legs tightly: "I say, can’t you stop staring at my ass all the time? Can’t you aim somewhere else?"
"Somewhere else? Where else?" Zhang Chen gleefully inspected up and down repeatedly, his eyes filled with peculiar expressions.
Hearing Zhang Chen’s words, Zhong Xiang sighed helplessly, turned her head to the bronze gate, closed her eyes, and put on a look of readiness to sacrifice herself fearlessly: "Come on! Let the storm be even fiercer!"
Zhang Chen walked behind Zhong Xiang, slapped Zhong Xiang’s bottom once, causing her to suddenly open her eyes and glare angrily at Zhang Chen, yet daring not to speak up.
Zhang Chen saw this and smiled strangely, but he didn’t want to provoke Zhong Xiang further, lest she become uncooperative. So, in the next moment, ice gathered around Zhang Chen, enveloping him, and the ice dagger in Zhang Chen’s hand directly pierced Zhong Xiang’s bottom.
Flames burst forth, Zhang Chen turned and ran. Although he was wrapped in cumbersome ice, his escape speed was not slow, because the Nine Bends Yellow River Talisman Array enveloped the entire cave, allowing Zhang Chen to rush into the array in just three steps.
Flames burned around Zhong Xiang, continually scorched the bronze gate, causing the bronze gate to once again start glowing red with signs of melting.
"Hurrah~"
Nine True Dragons at the Yang God level drilled out from the bronze gate, coiled towards Zhong Xiang, frightening her into turning and fleeing without a second word. Being someone who practiced martial arts, Zhong Xiang was much faster than Zhang Chen; in a few flashes, she jumped into the array, shouted: "I’ve already lured the True Dragons out; the rest is up to you."
She shouted while surveying the talisman array ahead, trying to decipher any clues to avoid a clueless confrontation later.
However, just as Zhong Xiang entered the array, she lost her direction. In front of her, the array was filled with black mist and even vast flying Yellow Sand, it seemed like she stepped into another world. How could she detect any flaws? She couldn’t even see through the black mist in front, her whole being seemed to stand in darkness, seeing no sight three feet away.
Zhang Chen watched Zhong Xiang; he knew Zhong Xiang’s little thoughts, but if the Nine Bends Yellow River Talisman Array could be deciphered just by naked eye, then what would be the use of this array?
The nine True Dragons roared, indeed chasing closely after Zhong Xiang. Upon entering the Nine Bends Yellow River Array, Zhang Chen promptly activated the power of the array, seeing Yellow Sand along with black mist swaying in the air. Countless Yellow Sands struck the nine True Dragons, letting them fly high and low, twist and turn, yet unable to escape the Yellow Sand’s coverage. In just a tea’s time, the nine True Dragons lost all spirituality, reduced to nine dim metallic sculptures, half-buried in Yellow Sand, completely losing any spirituality.
"My Nine Bends Yellow River Talisman Array is designed to deplete one’s cultivation, without lethal power. However, with cultivation depleted, losing all spirituality, what’s the difference between them and scrap metal?" Zhang Chen, having resolved the nine True Dragons, looked at Zhong Xiang, seeing her staring wide-eyed in the black mist, desperately scanning the array’s mysteries, unable to find even the slightest flaw.
During her daze, a hand extended from the black mist, slapped her back, suppressing the divine power within Zhong Xiang once more.
"I say, can’t you be less cautious?" Zhong Xiang was a bit speechless; she admitted defeat to this sly old fox.
"How are the nine True Dragons?" Zhong Xiang asked.
"I’ve already subdued them." Zhang Chen said while dispersing the Nine Bends Yellow River Talisman Array, seeing the nine copper lumps fall to the ground, making a sound on the bluestone.
Zhong Xiang’s eyes widened at the nine copper lumps, then turned her head in horror towards Zhang Chen, her eyes full of dread.
Zhang Chen smiled seeing this, somewhat smugly, patting Zhong Xiang’s backside: "Frightened?"
Zhong Xiang was now immune to Zhang Chen’s pats; hearing Zhang Chen’s words, her eyes were filled with complexity: "What kind of method is this?"