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"This junior obeys!" Lin Miaoyin's voice was slightly hoarse, yet exceptionally clear.

She quickly turned around, and led several core disciples of the Array Hall who also had solemn expressions, transforming into several streaks of light as they rushed out of the main hall and headed straight for the array hub.

The inner city of Meteor City, the core array hub.

A giant water mirror floated in the air, its surface divided into three sections, each reflecting one of the three crucial array cores deep underground within the inner city.

The spirit stones were being pushed by an invisible hand, continuously flowing into the bottomless spirit channel in the core area.

With each large amount of spirit stones invested, the protective array covering the entire inner city would light up slightly, then visibly dim again.

Lin Miaoyin sat cross-legged in front of the main control disc, her ten fingers flying across the complex array of runes as if playing a zither.

A pale blue spiritual light flowed from her fingertips, and with each touch, she precisely guided the raging spiritual energy, attempting to smooth out the subtle ripples caused by the overloaded operation of the great array.

Large beads of sweat slid down her pale forehead, down her taut neckline, and into her clothes.

"The spiritual energy flow in the southwest Kun position is abnormally slowed down, showing signs of stagnation!" A disciple from the Array Hall reported urgently, his voice trembling uncontrollably.

"Draw the Gui Water array pattern, circle around the Li Fire node, and forcefully break through!" Lin Miaoyin's voice was calm, her eyes fixed on a rapidly darkening spot of light on the magic plate representing the southwest region.

Her fingers traced a complex array of runes, forcibly altering the flow of energy.

The Dharma disc hummed, and the spot of light struggled to shine a little, but it still seemed powerless.

"The spirit stones in the Kun position array eye are being consumed three times faster than in other areas! At this rate, we won't last more than half an hour!"

Another disciple watched the rapidly descending projection of spirit stone reserves, his voice filled with despair.

Lin Miaoyin's heart sank.

Three times the energy consumption? This is abnormal! No matter how fragile the array structure is, the energy distribution should not be so unbalanced.

Unless... someone sabotages from within, or a powerful external force continuously applies pressure and wears down a specific location!

She immediately separated a wisp of her divine sense, like the finest thread, and probed in reverse along the massive spiritual flow supplying the Kun position array eye.

The pure spiritual energy released after the spirit stone was shattered flowed like a rushing river, surging towards the Kun position along the mysterious array pattern channel.

However, just as she was about to reach the front of the core array, Lin Miaoyin keenly detected an extremely faint "noise".

This noise is not a sound, but a subtle fluctuation caused by an abnormal absorption of energy.

Just like a rushing river, when it flows through a certain section of the riverbed, it is frantically absorbed by an invisible sponge.

"Something is stealing our spiritual energy!" Lin Miaoyin exclaimed in a low voice, her face turning ashen instantly.

This is definitely not a loss of the formation itself. Is it an internal traitor? Or some kind of trap that the Blood Sea Cult has already laid?

She immediately reported this discovery to Elder Lingyu and Su Qingxian on the city tower via a communication jade slip.

"What?!" Elder Ling Yu's authoritative voice was filled with rage.

"Immediately pinpoint the source of the theft! Elder Gu, lead a team of Enforcement Hall guards, following Lin Miaoyin's instructions, to root out the corrupt officials!"

"Yes, sir!" Elder Gu's voice was as cold as ice, instantly rallying the several Core Formation cultivators behind him with their sharp auras.

Lin Miaoyin's divine sense closely followed the "black hole" that was devouring spiritual power.

As her spiritual energy surged, her divine sense flowed upwards, piercing through layers of rune barriers, and finally locking onto a disciple of the Array Hall responsible for maintaining the basic rune array near the Kun position array eye!

The disciple looked no different from the others, sweating profusely as he poured spirit stones into the array's eye, his movements seemingly more strenuous than the others.

However, Lin Miaoyin's divine sense clearly "saw" that every time he poured out spirit stones, a faint, dark red light flashed beneath his sleeves.

That light, like a miniature black hole, greedily devoured the vast spiritual energy flowing past him toward the array's core!

Lin Miaoyin's divine sense locked onto the dark red light that was faintly appearing in the disciple's sleeve, and she quickly activated the communication jade slip:

"Elder Gu! The gray-robed, square-faced disciple at the Kun position, Bing 3 rune platform! He has a magical artifact in his sleeve that absorbs spiritual energy!"

Almost the instant she transmitted her voice, a sudden change occurred!

The disciple suddenly looked up, a fleeting look of struggle on his face before turning into utter ferocity.

He no longer concealed it; his right sleeve suddenly ripped open, revealing a dark red bone bell embedded in his flesh.

The bone bell trembled violently, transforming into a massive blood-red vortex that swallowed up the vast amount of spiritual energy surrounding the rune platform.

"Dedicate yourself to the Holy Church!" he roared, his veins bulging and his skin cracking rapidly, oozing black blood. He was about to self-destruct the array!

"You wicked creature, how dare you!" A thunderous roar exploded forth.

Elder Gu's figure appeared above the rune platform like a ghost, and his azure longsword, carrying the chill of freezing space, slashed down!

Click!

The icy sword energy struck first, instantly freezing the disciple and the blood-red bone bell into an ice sculpture.

Spiderweb-like cracks burst open on the surface of the ice sculpture, and the black and red blood energy frantically impacted the ice layer, but could not break through for the time being.

"It's sealed!" The disciples of the Array Hall had just breathed a sigh of relief when Lin Miaoyin's pupils suddenly contracted:

"No! The spiritual energy is still draining away!"

She was horrified to discover that the spiritual energy funnel at the Kun position array eye had not stopped collapsing, but was instead collapsing at an even more terrifying speed.

"Blood Sea Corrosion Spirit Array! They've already corrupted the array's foundation!" Elder Gu's beard and hair bristled with rage as he swung his sword and plunged it fiercely into the ground.

The icy sword energy spread along the array patterns, attempting to freeze the source of the pollution, but it was too late.

Rumble!!!

The entire Kun position array eye trembled violently, and the contaminated core area suddenly collapsed, forming an ever-expanding dark red vortex.

This vortex, like a greedy wound, frantically devoured the energy supplied by the city's protective array, and also emitted a foul, bloody aura that corroded the surrounding array patterns in the opposite direction.

The protective array's protective shield dimmed at a visible speed.

Especially in the southwest direction, the pale blue light curtain instantly became extremely thin, fluctuating violently like a punctured bubble, and even began to emit wisps of blood-red mist from its edges.

Above the inner city, the once solid blue sky now looked as if it had been splattered with thick, foul blood, cracking open with a hideous gap.

"The Kun position array eye has been defiled! The southwest corner of the great array is on the verge of collapse!" Lin Miaoyin's shrill warning echoed throughout the Xuan Shui Palace through the communication jade slip, trembling with despair.

On the city tower, Elder Ling Yu and Su Qingxian's faces instantly turned ashen.

"Blood Sea Sect! What a vicious scheme!" Ling Yu's eyes widened in fury as she instantly understood the other party's plot.

The traitor's self-destruction was a ruse; the real purpose was to detonate the Blood Sea Erosion Spirit Array, which had been buried at the core of the array!

This was a meticulously planned sabotage operation, targeting the very foundation of the city's protective formation!

"It's too late!" Su Qingxian's cold voice carried an unprecedented solemnity as she abruptly looked up towards the outside of the city.

As if to confirm her words, at the very moment the light curtain at the southwest corner of the city's protective array dimmed and blood mist filled the air, a sudden change occurred.

Uh...

A deep, desolate horn sound, as if from the deepest abyss, suddenly resounded throughout the heavens and earth!

The sound pierced through the thin protective barrier, clearly reaching the ears of every city-guarding cultivator, carrying a chilling declaration of death.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Three bone ships, even larger and more ferocious than before, emerged from the thick, blood-red clouds on the horizon like three floating, crimson mountains!

At the bow of the central bone boat, Bloodburn, clad in a scarlet robe, stood with his hands behind his back.

A cruel grin spread across his face as his gaze pierced through space, fixed on the massive gap in the southwest corner of Meteor City.

"Ling Yu! Su Qingxian! Meteor City will fall today! Old Monster Li Ming can't save you!"

The sound of Blood Burning was like rolling thunder, carrying the terrifying demonic power of a mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivator, and crashed heavily into the crumbling city-protecting array, causing the light screen to ripple violently once again.

As he spoke, on both sides of the bone boat, countless Blood Sea Sect disciples, like locusts, rode on crimson escape lights.

They roared and shouted, their voices merging into two murky torrents of blood, rushing straight towards the weakest point of the great formation, the southwest corner!

Even more chilling is that beneath the surface, countless completely corrupted sea beasts, driven by sharp whistles, are stirring up towering waves.

"Blood Demon Trapping Spirit, rise!" Beside Blood Burn, the Blood Dove Granny, whose injuries had not healed but whose resentment was even greater, shrieked sharply, her withered hands pressing down suddenly.

Suddenly, the two remaining Blood Fiend Crystal nodes and the nascent array previously set up in the sea area surrounding Meteor City lit up with a blinding blood light!

Seven thick, blood-red beams of light shot into the sky, weaving together in the air to form a massive, dark red net covering an area of ​​hundreds of miles.

As soon as the net was formed, the spiritual energy between heaven and earth instantly became thin and viscous, as if it were being choked by an invisible giant hand.

The already dim light shield of the Meteor City's protective array seemed to have been drained of its last bit of strength, and its light diminished rapidly once again.

Especially at the gap in the southwest corner, the suction force of the blood vortex suddenly increased dramatically, and the thin light curtain emitted a hissing sound that could not bear the burden, and it looked like it was about to completely collapse.

"All cultivators, heed my command!" Elder Ling Yu's voice, like the clang of metal, forcefully suppressed the panic on the city walls and resounded through the sky.

"Southwest Kun position! Hold the breach at all costs! We cannot allow those demon bastards to set foot in the inner city! Sect Leader Su, follow me to stop the enemy!"

Before the words were even finished, Ling Yu's figure had already transformed into a stunning golden-blue blade rainbow, tearing through the air and fiercely facing the most terrifying aura of Xue Fen on the central bone boat!

He knew he had to keep this most powerful demon at bay, otherwise no one could withstand his might.

"Miaoyin, stabilize the central core of the formation! Elder Gu, this is for you!"

Su Qingxian gave an order to the communication jade slip in a very fast voice, while at the same time his ten fingers suddenly swept across the Jiaowei Qin.

"Zheng..."

A resounding melody, capable of shattering metal and splitting stone, shook the heavens and the earth!

The sound of the zither transformed into visible blue ripples, spreading outwards from Su Qingxian's center.

Wherever it passed, the foul and bloody aura permeating the air melted away like ice and snow, forcibly purified and dispelled.

The music contained a powerful calming and soul-soothing force, instantly sweeping across the city walls.

This revitalized the spirits of the city-defending cultivators, whose minds had been shaken by the collapse of the great formation, and rekindled their fighting spirit to the death in their eyes.

"Useless Sect Leader Su!" Granny Blood Dove's shrill laughter pierced through the waves.

"How could the Soul-Eating Demon Seed, nurtured by my Nascent Soul essence and blood for a hundred years, be broken by a mere musical technique?"

She formed a hand seal with her withered claws, and the vortex at the gap suddenly expanded, splitting into dozens of dark red tentacles that, like venomous snakes, eroded the array patterns in the opposite direction, causing the Xuan Shui Palace array patterns to crumble inch by inch wherever they passed!

"Form the Profound Abyss Sea-Suppressing Formation!"

Behind Elder Gu, the twelve Core Formation deacons simultaneously formed hand seals, and a surge of powerful water spirit rose into the sky, transforming into a deep blue giant tortoise phantom that crashed down on the gap.

The giant tortoise phantom collided violently with the blood-fiend tentacles, causing ice crystals and blood mist to explode wildly!

The array platform shook violently, and Elder Gu, blood trickling from the corner of his mouth, roared hoarsely, "Freeze him for me!"

The phantom of the Xuan Turtle burst open its four legs, creating ice rings that froze the churning blood mist tentacles for half a breath.

It was in this split second of life and death that Elder Lingyu's golden-blue sword rainbow slashed towards Bloodburn's face!

"Break for me!!!"

Before the blade even arrived, the sharp blade intent had already torn through the air, slicing a deep ravine open at the front of the bone boat.

Bloodflame flickered in Xue Fen's eyes. Without flinching or dodging, he swept his scarlet robe sleeves and declared, "Blood River Buries the Heavens!"

A towering wave of blood surged from his sleeves, the foul-smelling, viscous blood emitting a sound like the wailing of ten thousand souls, instantly engulfing the sword rainbow.

The golden and blue light surged and darted through the river of blood, slaying countless writhing faces of vengeful spirits, but it seemed to be trapped in a quagmire, its speed decreasing drastically.

"Old ghost Ling, your knife is dull!" Xue Fen grinned maliciously, his five fingers like hooks grabbing at the air.

Five giant claws, as large as mountains, suddenly emerged from the Blood River and fiercely gripped Ling Yu at the core of the Blade Rainbow.

Boom!!!

A surge of golden-blue and blood-red energy exploded high in the sky, shocking the Blood Sea Sect disciples charging below as if they had been struck by a heavy hammer. Those with weaker cultivation were instantly blasted into blood mist.

Ling Yu's figure shot out from the raging tide, her protective aura dimmed, and five claw marks tore in her golden robe, revealing glimpses of black energy.

Bloodfire retreated half a step, the bow of the bone boat shattered, but the ferocity in his eyes intensified: "Let's see how many claws you can withstand!"

Meanwhile, the life-or-death struggle at the breach has reached its limit.

"Hold on!" Elder Gu bled from all seven orifices, and the phantom of the Xuan Turtle was cracked all over under the frenzied counterattack of the Blood Fiend Tentacles.

Several Core Formation deacons collapsed to the ground, their spiritual energy exhausted.

The crimson vortex took the opportunity to expand again, and the light curtain at the edge of the gap emitted a piercing tearing sound.

"You monstrous creature from the sea, clear a path for me!" A deep, thunderous roar boomed from the sea.

The Blood Lord Demon Lord stood on a demonized dragon whale the size of a small mountain, creating a hundred-foot-high wave that crashed into the crumbling breach.

The dragon whale's eyes were as red as lava, and its massive tail, covered in bone spurs, lashed out with immense force at the phantom of the Xuan Turtle.

"Oh no!" Su Qingxian's pupils shrank suddenly.

She gripped all the strings with her fingers, spitting a mouthful of blood onto the scorched tail of the zither, which then emitted a mournful cry as if on the verge of death.

Countless solidified cyan sound blades shot towards Blood Lord and Dragon Whale like a rain of pear blossoms.

The Blood Lord laughed wildly, his body condensing into armor of blood and evil energy, yet he neither dodged nor evaded.

The sonic blade struck the blood armor, sending sparks flying and leaving only shallow marks, while the dragon whale's massive tail continued its relentless advance.

But just as the illusory image of the Xuan Turtle was about to collapse, a faint, almost imperceptible, dark blue light flashed and disappeared from the depths of the Xuan Shui Palace in the inner city.

Time seemed to stand still for a moment.

The demonic dragon whale's massive tail, which had been aimed at the breach, hovered eerily in mid-air.

The churning vortex of bloodlust inexplicably slowed its expansion.

Even Ling Yu and Xue Fen, who were engaged in fierce combat high in the sky, paused for a moment...