A hundred years ago.

The cultivation world witnessed a great battle, with countless deaths and injuries, leading to a steep decline in its standards.

Numerous experts perished in that massive chaos.

Among them,

The Black Monk of the Evil Sect, one of the Ghost Abyss Seven Martial Evils, possessed formidable strength and killed an uncountable number of people, once single-handedly annihilating an entire sect of ten thousand members!

It took the sacrifice of many experts just to barely kill him.

Even leading to the old monk of Dragon Zen Temple's Dantian being completely destroyed, turning him into a disabled person, now spending his days drinking in Dragon and Tiger Village.

Later, the Black Monk's body was taken away, and there were rumors that someone wanted to resurrect him using forbidden techniques.

Thus, over the years, many people were arranged to search for him.

Unfortunately, there was no trace found.

Until three years ago, when it was highly suspected that he might be in Five Rings Mountain.

But nobody dared to publicize it, fearing that it might alert the enemy.

For the past three years, Xinghua Gully has been researching the Array in secrecy and recently managed to figure it out, sending the Holy Daughter to permanently seal the Array.

Unexpectedly, an anomaly still occurred.

If he is resurrected.

It will surely lead to another bloodshed and foul wind!

"Normally, the Holy Daughter would never do so, but if it's for that boy, it's hard to say," the female disciple furrowed her brows, "Do you remember three years ago? For that boy, she even nearly destroyed her own cultivation."

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The Daoist sighed deeply, "We really shouldn't have taken her to Dragon and Tiger Village back then."

She pondered for a moment, then said to the female disciple: "Now that the Array has started functioning, it can't be sealed anymore. The only way is to open the Array before the Black Monk is fully revived, to maximally weaken his strength. It's risky, but it's the only way left to break the Array ahead of time!"

"But, I don't have the capabilities of the Holy Daughter, I don't know if I can handle it," the female disciple said with furrowed brows, "Should we notify Yun Kong Temple, Dragon Zen Temple, and others?"

"It's too late for that, they're all too far from Five Rings Mountain, notifying them would take time, you must go alone."

As the Daoist spoke, she handed her a delicately crafted dagger.

In the handle of the dagger, a grey gemstone was embedded, twinkling with specks of crystal light.

The female disciple's eyes widened in awe, looking at the grey gemstone, she exclaimed, "Is this… the Outer Heaven Stone?!"

"Yes, using the Outer Heaven Stone should affect the Black Monk's Evil Qi," the Daoist said, "But be very careful, as the Outer Heaven Stone is rare and might attract attention, so it's better to be cautious."

"Yes, disciple understands!"

The female disciple took the dagger and headed down the mountain immediately.

...

The next day.

Although it was no longer raining and the Buddha statue had also disappeared, it was still overcast.

A thick layer of dark clouds loomed over Five Rings Mountain, occasionally emitting a thunderous roar.

Young Master Bai He was sleeping, when Qin Feng woke him up with a kick, saying, "Time to get to work."

Young Master Bai He felt helpless.

Yesterday, to decipher the Array, he had used up a tremendous amount of spiritual and physical strength, not wanting to go at all.

It felt like being able to move only fifty pounds, but being forced to move a hundred pounds, and having to run while doing so, it was extremely tiring.

At that moment.

He looked up at the sky, thinking of the thunder, and couldn't help frowning, saying, "Young Master Qin, the situation is grim, the Array is about to complete, it's an ominous omen! We should hurry and retreat!"

The others were also looking at the rolling dark clouds, an inexplicable worry rising within them.

On closer inspection.

Within the dark clouds, there was a faint connection of Qi with the center of the Five Mountains Reincarnation Map, that Qi was Evil Qi, giving one a hair-raising sensation.

"No matter what, this must be dealt with."

Qin Feng stated.

Quickly.

He led Young Master Bai He and others, along with eight hundred people from Five Rings Mountain, towards the Five Mountains.

Young Master Bai He had no choice but to bite the bullet.

He continued with the method from yesterday.

Taking the twenty-one Spiritual Energy Gems given by Qin Feng, according to the position figured out yesterday for breaking the Array, he placed them in various spots to serve as the breakthrough points of the Array.

He then sat cross-legged among the twenty-one gems, saying to Qin Feng and others, "Now we need twenty-one people to stimulate the Spiritual Energy from the gems to the maximum."

Chasing the Sun, Chasing Moon, Wang Zanggu, and others immediately followed his instructions, sitting cross-legged in front of each gem.

"Alright, let's begin!"

Young Master Bai He pinched a hand movement and then pressed a palm onto the ground.

Next.

From his palm as the center, a golden light spread and quickly connected the twenty-one gemstones!

When all the gemstones were connected by the golden thread, they flashed with a blazing light!

Then.

At the positions of each gemstone, trails of golden light also spread out, slowly covering the entire Reincarnation Map like a spider web!

Under the effect of the gemstones.

The patterns on the Reincarnation Map mysteriously began to move!

The four circles also began to rotate autonomously and emitted golden light.

In the northwest corner of the Reincarnation Map, a small dot appeared!

Qin Feng, seeing that small dot, couldn't help but be amazed and greatly admired Young Master Bai He's level of skill in arrays.

He knew that the small dot was the "Array Eye."

Every array has an Array Eye.

Or rather.

As long as one is skilled enough, even without an Array Eye, one can still find it.

The simplest method to break an array.

Is to find the Array Eye, destroy it, and then the array will lose its source of power and will be unable to continue.

For an array of this level, the Array Eye is extremely difficult to find.

That Young Master Bai He could actually find it.

Indeed, seeking him out was not a mistake.

At this moment.

After the Array Eye appeared.

The power from the twenty-one gemstones in the Reincarnation Map, all surged towards the Array Eye along the spider-web-like golden thread!

What he needed to do now was to destroy the Array Eye!

"More power is needed, continue!!"

Young Master Bai He, using all his strength while veins bulged on his forehead, called out to everyone.

Wang Zanggu and others, in front of their respective gemstones, also pinched hand movements, exerting their utmost strength to stimulate the spiritual energy within the gemstones.

Spiritual energy overflowed.

Soon, it surged towards the Array Eye along the web-like golden thread.

However.

The Array Eye seemed not to change much.

After a while.

Everyone was already breathing heavily.

Young Master Bai He stopped and looking up at Qin Feng said: "Young Master Qin, you see, it's not that I want to escape; it's just truly no way out. Being here is already hard to endure the aura, plus breaking the array, it's even harder! An array of this level requires power that is beyond us. Before the Great Formation fully activates, we should retreat first!"

At this time.

A loud "crack" resounded!

A thunderclap sounded in the sky!

Everyone looked up.

The thick clouds in the sky began to churn.

Following that.

A torrential downpour fell!!

"Quick, look!"

Young Master Bai He pointed towards the center of the Reincarnation Map.

Everyone looked.

At the center, a fist-sized black hole appeared, emitting bursts of light.

Within.

A black cloud surged into the sky and immediately began to form in the air.

Forming a fearsome, giant Buddha statue!

"This is bad!"

Young Master Bai He, seeing the two red eyes of the Buddha statue, said in panic, "The Great Formation... is about to activate!!"