The Ghost Fire Lord released three Ghost Techniques consecutively, almost without pause, fast and fierce, striking the Earth Evil God so hard that it couldn’t counterattack, directly inflicting heavy damage.
However, such achievement caused the Ghost Fire Lord to become grave.
Indeed, he had severely damaged the Lord of Wangchuan’s Divine Separation, but from the leaking aura, it was evident that the Earth Evil God’s foundation wasn’t solely its body; part of it was connected to the Great Array here.
As such, putting aside inflicting heavy damage, even if completely obliterating the Earth Evil God, it would regenerate from this Great Array and from the massive Earth-Lung Miasma here.
Sure enough, in the next moment, the miasma’s huge pillars furiously poured into the Earth Evil God’s body.
The Earth Evil God suddenly raised its head, as if receiving precious rain after a long drought.
First, the hollow chest quickly filled, becoming saturated with miasma. Then the charred outer layer quickly peeled off, revealing beneath it a newly strengthened body. Finally, it roared towards the sky, its voice shaking the battlefield, erupting with a grand and terrifying momentum.
"As long as the miasma is endless, the Evil God will not die." The Lord of Wangchuan’s voice came through the boiling miasma, carrying a slight leisure, mockingly and provocatively asking, "Yin Jiu, can your fire burn the ten-thousand-year filth beneath the Nine Netherworld?"
Yin Jiu remained silent, seated in the Jiao Bone Lotus Platform, yet continued to act frequently.
But these Ghost Techniques only held the Earth Evil God back, focusing the attack on the endless Earth-Lung Miasma.
The Ghost Techniques frequently achieved success, dispersing most of the miasma pillars.
But the Earth-Lung Miasma is endless; however much is scattered or extinguished, will be replenished, even more than before!
The impact from the Earth Evil God also forced Yin Jiu to pilot the Lotus Platform beneath him, continuously spinning, to evade.
For the first time since the battle began, the Ghost Fire Lord found himself at a disadvantage.
"The Earth Evil God of the Lord of Wangchuan doesn’t have profound cultivation and hasn’t mastered the deities’ dojo."
"However, this Great Array is deeply bound with it, thus eliminating the Great Array entirely, or at least disrupting it so the miasma changes from infinite to finite, is crucial to solve the Earth Evil God problem."
"What really is this Great Array, I need a good look..."
The Ghost Fire Lord assessed the situation, increasingly catalyzing the Yin Crow Ghost Pupil Candle.
This candle was dark and glossy, its flame shaped like a crow’s head, entirely black in color but burning with two purple fires at the eyes’ position, resembling two embedded purple pupil eyes.
This Exotic Fire can pierce through many facades, presenting the inner secrets for the Ghost Fire Lord.
Just now, the Ghost Fire Lord had begun its activation, and with increased intensity, finally completed this observation, aiding him in unveiling the truth.
The truth emerging before him surprised even the Ghost Fire Lord.
"This is a Connecting Heaven and Earth Dual Phase Array!"
"Among them, the Heavenly Phase is the Heavenly Ghost Transformation Sacrifice Ceremony, specializing in refining heavenly ghost skulls, a blood sacrifice for sentient beings, to exchange for the Netherworld Heaven’s favor, significantly increasing lifespan."
"The Earth Phase is the Earth-Lung Miasma Barrier Screen, which specifically extracts earth energy, ceaselessly and endlessly, possessing excellent defensive effects against enemies."
It’s worth mentioning that the Heavenly Ghost Transformation Sacrifice Ceremony is a Confucian Skill, while the Earth-Lung Miasma Barrier Screen is an Earth Element Magic Treasure; neither is an Array.
The only Array is the Connecting Heaven and Earth Dual Phase Array. One feature of this Array is its ability to incorporate spells, magic treasures, and many other non-array entities as dual phases, combining into various Connecting Heaven and Earth Dual Phase Arrays.
The candle’s flame flickered, its shadows shifting, mirroring far-off indistinct imagery in the Ghost Fire Lord’s Divine Sea—not an image of the current battlefield, but an acute Immortal City, towers standing densely, situated over the River of Oblivion.
It is indeed the Wangchuan Immortal City!
And deep within the Immortal City, inside the City Lord’s Mansion, there stood a screen.
This screen was enormous, a giant stone slab. It was over ten zhang in width and not less than a hundred feet long, resembling a fossilized spine of a creature.
The fossil’s surface bore copious amounts of mud, lava, plant roots, etc., and many spiral-shaped twisted apertures.
The giant stone was deeply embedded in the ground, grotesquely extracting the Earth-Lung energy.
Earth-Lung Miasma Barrier Screen!
The candle’s flame slightly intensified, making the surface of the giant screen seem blurry, revealing deeper truths inside.
The Ghost Fire Lord immediately saw: within the giant screen, there are seventy-two Earth Lung Tubercles.
Each Earth Lung Tubercle was as large as an adult’s skull, irregular in shape, elliptical, lightly throbbing like live organs.
The Ghost Fire Lord was speechless for a moment.
Impressive!
The Lord of Wangchuan has prepared excessively thoroughly.
This Earth-Lung Miasma Barrier is the Earth Phase but is not located here on the battlefield; it’s hidden far away within the Wangchuan Immortal City.
Normally, such an important magic treasure, as the Array Heart of the Earth Phase Array, cannot be detached from the Array itself.
But the Connecting Heaven and Earth Dual Phase Array is exceptional.
Usually, the range of this Array is extremely broad. One could say its name is undoubtedly fitting.
Moreover, the Lord of Wangchuan is presently surrounding the Heavenly Phase, triggering the Earth’s Array power, which is right and proper. And it can correspond with Qiankun, utilizing the Earth Phase to enhance the Heavenly Phase!
The Ghost Fire Lord mentally calculated: "The cultivator controlling this Connecting Heaven and Earth Array has already lost many, slowing down the Array’s operation."
"Additionally, within the Heavenly Phase Array, there are Returning Ruins Finger, Silent Ghost Monk’s Life Buddha Wheel, and the Prefect’s Seal from Wangchuan Underworld. These are also significant obstructions hindering the Array’s function."
"But this only hampers the Heavenly Phase, with little connection to the Earth Phase."
"To destroy the Earth Phase, the Wangchuan Immortal City must be approached!"
Realizing this, the Ghost Fire Lord immediately understood that whether he could impede the Lord of Wangchuan’s path or achieve victory, depended not on himself.