NOVPUBThe war horn he had just blown had been requested from his father, Xu Qingshan, who had accepted the inheritance of the True Martial Great Emperor, and the horn was indeed left behind by the Great Emperor himself.
As for the sound of the horn, it was not played haphazardly; it was an ancient war song.
In the days of yore, following the acceptance of his heavenly mandate, the Monster Race, led by the ten sacred beasts, initiated an apocalyptic, Heaven-shaking war upon the human race.
When the war song was sounded, the Monster Race would rejuvenate its past glory, shining like the sun through the Eternal Ancient.
They are the Monster Race,
The dominators of the Wild Desolation era.
The Monster Race would never retreat,
The Monster Race would never surrender.
When that heart-stirring war song played, the Monster Race would face the light and splendor, spilling their hot blood and giving up their lives.
They would revitalize their kin, just as they had in the brilliant Wild Desolation era.
Alas, the emperor named True Martial was too powerful; with just a single glance from the firmament, millennia sank into oblivion, as he swept across everything.
The True Martial Great Emperor used the horn of the Ice Armor Horned Demon Dragon, which was one of the nine Divine Beasts that perished in battle, to create this horn.
He took it as a memento of that battle.
And so, when Xu Zimei took up the horn of the Divine Beast and blew the war tune they had once marched to, the slumbering remnants of the souls of the nine Divine Beasts buried deep within the earth finally awoke.
After the True Martial Great Emperor slaughtered the nine Divine Beasts, most of their lingering souls were destroyed, and what remained was hardly mentionable.
But after tens of thousands of years of recovery, these remnants had now regained consciousness.
On their own, each remnant soul might not be powerful, but when the nine were fused together, their power was nearly equivalent to that of the Emperor Pulse Realm.
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"I know you are the son of the Deputy Sect Master, and that you have many treasures about you. Did you think I wasn’t prepared?" Zhong Xin looked at Xu Zimei and snorted coldly as he took out a talisman from his Storage Ring.
This talisman was dark in color, and as soon as it appeared, the sword qi that had been attacking Zhong Xin suddenly slowed down.
As threads of spiritual energy emanated from the talisman, the entire formation started to tremble and seemed about to collapse.
"A Formation Breaking Talisman," Xiao Guizi said, looking at the talisman with some surprise.
"This talisman is able to break any formation below the seventh level," Zhong Xin hummed in response.
Xu Zimei narrowed his eyes slightly; he hadn’t expected Zhong Xin to have such an item.
The Formation Breaking Talisman was an extremely rare item, and for good reason.
In Yuan Central Continent, every martial artist who reached the Esteem Vein Realm wanted to carve out their own Martial Path to Heaven.
Array Masters also sought to forge their own path, and the ultimate goal for every Array Master was to one day develop a formation without any weaknesses.
The profession of the Array Master was nearly as ancient as that of the martial artist. As everyone knows, whether it’s any formation,
Be it a divine-level or mortal-level formation, they all have a core—generally, one who aims to break a formation only needs to find its core to destroy the formation.
Moreover, most formations do not just have one weakness.
The Array Masters, through millennial effort, have been reducing the shortcomings of formations bit by bit.
The most formidable formation known today was the Six Elements Indestructible Array left by the Taoist Array Great Emperor.
This formation minimized flaws to the extreme, such that a person trapped within could not break the formation from the inside.
Only by forcibly destroying the formation from the outside could one escape.
All the Array Masters in Yuan Central Continent regard the Six Elements Indestructible Array as the pinnacle of formation mastery.
The problem of breaking formations from the inside had been solved. Now, many were researching how to prevent formations from being broken from the outside.
Striving to create an unsolvable formation, impregnable from both inside and outside.
From the developmental laws of all things, this theory is actually absurd.
The world will not have an absolute unsolvable, as the River of Fate grants every being a glimmer of hope for survival.
Nevertheless, this conception is what many array masters fight for their entire lives.
Hence, a strange phenomenon has emerged on the Yuan Central Continent.
Low-grade array masters lack a great sense of belonging to their formations, wishing to craft "array breaking talismans" but having to abandon the idea due to insufficient strength.
Although high-grade array masters could craft "array breaking talismans," they feel that these talismans are an insult to formations, an insult to array masters.
Every array master should strive to create unsolvable formations, not to break others’ creations.
This goes against the ultimate goal of formations and does not align with their vision.
So, the peculiar situation is that low-grade array masters desire to practice the crafting of "array breaking talismans," but cannot due to lack of strength.
High-grade array masters are capable of crafting "array breaking talismans," but they are unwilling to do so.
This also leads to the scarcity of "array breaking talismans."
Just like the True Martial Holy Sect’s Ten Thousand Arrays Elder, who is a seventh-grade array master. Logically, with his presence, the True Martial Holy Sect should not lack "array breaking talismans."
However, the Ten Thousand Arrays Elder has never crafted a single "array breaking talisman."
Ordinary array masters would only craft them if they owed someone a huge favor or were utterly desperate.
An array master who helps others create "array breaking talisms" will not get the approval of the circle, and would even be spurned by array masters all over the world.
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At that moment, Xu Zimei looked at the "array breaking talisman" in Zhong Xin’s hand, slightly surprised.
As the "array breaking talisman" dispersed within the formation, cracks began to appear in the once tottering formation.
Finally, it exploded with a loud bang, completely shattering.
At that moment, the beast formed by the convergence of nine beast shadows had fully fused; its fist-sized eyes stared at Zhong Xin as it stomped directly toward him.
Now without the restrictions of the formation, Zhong Xin had no intention of lingering in battle and prepared to flee, planning to report the situation back to the Sect Gate.
Seeing Zhong Xin about to escape, Xu Zimei drew out Tyrant Shadow and charged to kill him.
As Xu Zimei approached to strike him down, Zhong Xin let out a contemptuous sneer; as an Esteem Vein Realm powerhouse, he ridiculed Xu Zimei’s audacity to challenge him after such a short period of cultivation.
"Path-Asking Nineteen Styles, the sixth style, Slaughter Blade," when boundless blood energy enveloped the blade and charged toward Zhong Xin.
Zhong Xin was engulfed by the vast Sea of Blood, his heart shaking a bit.
The Curved Blade collided with the Longsword, and Zhong Xin only felt an immense force coming through, almost causing him to drop his Longsword.
However, Xu Zimei gave him no time to rest, as he slowly raised the tip of the blade, creating a large circle in midair along its trajectory.
A profound and mysterious aura emanated from the blade.
"Path-Asking Nineteen Styles, the seventh style, Wind and Cloud Transforming Dragon."
As those softly murmured words rose to Zhong Xin’s ears, the world fell silent.
It was as if a frigid wind from the northern steppes mingled with the warm breeze under the scorching sun escaping the Blood Demon Secret Realm.
Winds churned and clouds swirled in the sky, as if roars from ancient dragons resounded.
In that moment, all beings lost themselves in the wind and clouds, trembling at the dragon’s roar.
What was left before Zhong Xin’s eyes was only that blade.
"Wind and Cloud Transforming Dragon!"
