Chapter 208: Controlling the Array's Power—Fighting Fire with Fire!
"Where's Mo Tong and the others?" Cao Yu gritted his teeth and asked in a low voice.
At this point, no matter how unwilling he felt, he didn't dare take Lin Fan lightly.
"They were intercepted. It seems our intel was leaked... Experts from the Eastern Xuan Region's super sects have started to force their way into this space," said a pale-faced cultivator beside Chang Wei.
"The Eastern Xuan Region's reinforcements are here?" Cao Yu's expression changed drastically upon hearing that.
"Brother Cao! The array is breaking!"
Suddenly, a sharp voice rang out nearby, startling Cao Yu so much he jolted.
He quickly looked up and saw fine cracks spreading across the massive array hanging in the sky.
The Heaven-Sealing Array was on the verge of collapse!
Crack!
Just as Cao Yu was scrambling for a plan, it was already too late. Despite his unwillingness, the cracks across the dark formation were only growing more numerous.
The sound of shattering echoed louder and louder.
Moments later, the array was covered in fractures.
"Retreat, now!"
Seeing this, Cao Yu's pupils contracted. He knew he couldn't hold on any longer, so he quickly ordered a full retreat.
The others, including Chang Wei, were also visibly frightened and hastily pulled back.
To everyone's astonishment, the moment Cao Yu's group retreated, the massive dark array stopped fracturing.
Then, Lin Fan—who had emerged from within the giant Vermilion Bird—soared along the black chains and arrived at the core of the array, pressing his palm against it.
To everyone's disbelief, the broken array began to rapidly repair itself!
Those atop the mountain gasped, their faces filled with unease.
"What's going on? Wasn't the array about to shatter?"
"Did Lin Fan fail after all?"
"What is he doing?"
...
"We're saved! The array didn't break!" Chang Wei and the others saw this and cheered excitedly.
"Brother Cao, quickly—take control of the array and use its power to kill that bastard!"
Cao Yu's face lit up with hope. He nodded and was about to command the array—
But then he froze.
He had lost control of the array. He couldn't access its power at all!
"What the hell?! Why can't I control the array anymore?!" Cao Yu's face turned ashen, his voice laced with panic.
Without the Heaven-Sealing Array, how could they face a powerhouse like Lin Fan?
Just then, high above them, Lin Fan's hands formed a seal.
"Heaven-Sealing Array, rise!"
With his quiet command, the space around him began to churn wildly.
Then, beams of dark light erupted from the void, pouring into the array.
In the blink of an eye, the array expanded severalfold, and the mountain-rune patterns etched upon it grew clearer.
The array loomed across the sky like a celestial curtain, seeming to suppress heaven and earth.
Lin Fan had seized control of the portion of the Heaven-Sealing Array that had been under Cao Yu's command.
Even more stunning, the power Lin Fan drew from the array surpassed Cao Yu's several times over!
Not only that—everyone could now see that the space surrounding Lin Fan and the array had plunged into absolute darkness.
Only the blazing Vermilion Bird around him shone like a solitary beacon in the night.
"Go."
Lin Fan's fingers shifted again, pointing straight at Cao Yu and his allies.
Cao Yu and the other Western Xuan Region cultivators immediately turned pale.
"No way—this is impossible!"
"That bastard can actually use the array's power?!"
"Damn it! We can't match the Heaven-Sealing Array! Run!"
...
As they cried out in disbelief, they scattered in all directions, trying to flee with Yuan Power.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh!
Suddenly, beams of black light burst from the array above, forming a massive dark cage that trapped them inside.
"What the hell is this?! Since when could the Heaven-Sealing Array do this?!"
Cao Yu cursed in shock, frantically striking the cage with wave after wave of Yuan Power.
If even he didn't know what was happening, the others were even more confused.
Behind him, Chang Wei and the others unleashed their strongest attacks in desperation.
But all they managed to do was make the cage tremble slightly.
Floating in the air, Lin Fan silently watched their efforts.
He continued drawing power from the array, while also secretly infusing it with the Dark Ancestral Symbol's strength—further shrinking the cage and limiting their movements.
The dark cage was, in fact, formed using the power of the Dark Ancestral Symbol.
"Damn it! Everyone focus on one spot—attack together!"
After a round of futile strikes, Cao Yu barked an order.
"Yes, Senior Brother Cao!"
Everyone responded in unison.
They quickly channeled their full Yuan Power, prepared their strongest techniques—but didn't release them yet.
"Now!"
At Cao Yu's shout, the group launched their attacks together, all targeting the same point.
Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
Dozens of cultivators from the Western Xuan Region released their might in a terrifying wave of destruction aimed at a single spot.
"Heh... Finally figured it out?"
Lin Fan showed no panic—only a mysterious smile.
He formed a seal—and the dark cage abruptly shifted!
The direction of their combined attack was redirected in an instant.
"Scatter."
Lin Fan whispered the word, and the cage vanished.
With no obstruction in their way, the terrifying combined attack was unleashed at full force.
Its target?
The rune prison that had trapped Enlightened One Wudao and the other super sect elders.
In the original novel, Lin Dong had used overlapping lightning tribulations to disrupt the array and free the elders.
But now, Lin Fan used Cao Yu and the others' own attack to shatter the seal!
Dozens of powerhouses had launched a full-force assault.
The spatial fabric itself exploded under the pressure.
A Yuan Power storm erupted, causing the sky to convulse and tremble.
Atop the mountain, the talents of the Eastern Xuan Region turned pale at the sight of the overwhelming blast.
Even a Ninth-Stage Nirvana Realm expert would struggle to survive that!
"Cao Yu! What the hell are you doing?!"
Outside the black rune prison, Zheng Zhong—who had been holding back Wudao and the others—was shocked to see the terrifying barrage flying toward him.
His face went deathly pale.
He'd been locked in a stalemate with the super sect elders, and any disruption could ruin everything.
Let alone a combined strike from dozens of Western Region elites!
Boom!
Before Cao Yu could respond, the devastating Yuan Power storm slammed into the rune prison.
The entire sky trembled from the impact.
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