Ling Tian eliminated Yun Hai and Yun Luo, disciples of the Tianshan Sword Sect, and confiscated two jade pendants from them.
These two jade pendants were inscribed with extremely complex patterns. Ling Tian's eyes acted like scanners, memorizing all these patterns, then breaking them down into individual formations.
Following this, Ling Tian's brain worked at lightning speed, like a computer processing data. Soon, Ling Tian figured out the purpose of these formations.
"Heh heh, this is interesting!" Ling Tian muttered to himself.
The primary function of the formations on the jade pendants was to provide shielding. For a certain period, the wearer of the jade pendant could be protected from the attacks of the mountain protection array.
Of course, this shielding was only temporary. Once the energy within was depleted and not replenished in time, the wearer would still be attacked.
The formation patterns also served a purpose for positioning. Those who possessed the jade pendants would be sensed by the controller of the formation, who could then determine their location within the mountain protection array.
Just as Ling Tian was about to continue his research, a sense of danger suddenly arose in his heart. Without hesitation, Ling Tian directly threw the two jade pendants into his Spiritual Realm space.
More than ten kilometers away, in a meditation room, Yun Qiuyue was about to control the formation to detonate those two jade pendants when he sensed that the owners of the jade pendants were dead!
These jade pendants not only had the two functions mentioned above but also served to establish a spiritual connection between the controller of the formation and the holder of the jade pendant, allowing the formation controller to always grasp the status of the jade pendant holder.
Yun Qiuyue's heart was wracked with pain. Two outstanding disciples had died just like that. At this moment, he also discovered that the jade pendants were still moving. He immediately used the magical artifact in his hand to remotely detonate the jade pendants.
The jade pendants also contained spirit gathering formations, which could slowly replenish energy. Once detonated, their power would be enough to injure someone.
However, he never expected that Ling Tian possessed a Spiritual Realm space and had directly thrown the jade pendants into it, cutting off the connection between the outside world and the jade pendants. The expected explosion did not occur.
Yun Qiuyue opened his eyes and summoned his subordinates.
"Everyone assemble, prepare to meet the enemy!"
At this moment, a man in his early fifties hurried to Yun Qiuyue's side.
"Great Elder, what has happened!"
The man who arrived was named Yun Chongxiao. He was the junior brother of Yun Hantian. This man's martial arts were extremely high-level, and his strength was even comparable to that of the sect leader, Yun Hantian.
However, Yun Chongxiao had a very violent temper and a stubborn personality, which was why he had not been appointed as the sect leader.
Although Yun Chongxiao was slightly inferior to Yun Qiuyue in his mastery of flying swords, Yun Qiuyue was already over eighty years old, and his energy and physical strength were greatly diminished. If they were to truly fight, with their lives on the line, it was still unknown who would emerge victorious.
"Chongxiao, someone has invaded our mountain gate and has already breached two layers of the mountain protection array. Our disciples Yun Hai and Yun Luo went to investigate. Those two are likely already dead!"
Upon hearing this, Yun Chongxiao's eyes immediately widened.
"Who is it? Who dares to have the audacity to come to our Tianshan Sword Sect and cause trouble!
Senior Brother, tell me where he is. I will go and confront him now. I will let this scoundrel know that trespassing into the Tianshan Sword Sect was the most foolish thing he has ever done!"
Yun Qiuyue pondered for a moment and finally nodded in agreement, because this third layer of the mountain protection array, the Heavenly Killing Sword Array, would consume a large amount of spiritual energy from heaven and earth once it was activated by an external enemy.
The power of this mountain protection array was astonishing, and the spiritual energy it consumed was also terrifying. Even if it was only slightly activated by an intruder, the spiritual energy consumed in just a few dozen seconds would take over a month to accumulate.
He handed Yun Chongxiao a jade pendant identical to those of the two disciples. Yun Chongxiao turned and left the room, rushing towards the mountain protection array.
However, unlike others, Yun Chongxiao carried four long swords on his back! Among them, one sword was for his own use, and the other three were actually flying swords!
Ling Tian had now reached the edge of the second layer of the array. Before him was the third layer of the array, the Heavenly Killing Sword Array!
He stopped and carefully observed this layer of the array. On the surface, it appeared to be a dense forest, seemingly no different from the illusion array he had encountered earlier. However, Ling Tian felt something was amiss.
He then condensed more of his true essence into his eyes, activating his Heavenly Eye divine ability. In an instant, the scene before him completely changed.
What appeared before Ling Tian's eyes was a ring-shaped area approximately three kilometers wide. This was the outer ring of the Heavenly Killing Sword Array. The forest and other things he had seen earlier were all mirages, merely reflecting scenes from other places in the vicinity.
The terrain of the outer ring of the Heavenly Killing Sword Array was completely different from what Ling Tian had seen. The entire area had almost no vegetation exceeding one foot in height. The shrubs on the ground were limp and scattered, cut into pieces. Scattered among the plants on the ground were also some mottled, long-damaged swords and sabers.
Ling Tian condensed more true essence into his eyes, and his Heavenly Eye divine ability initiated a deeper level of exploration. This time, Ling Tian clearly saw that within the Heavenly Killing Sword Array, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth was circulating according to specific patterns. These patterns were very fine, forming grids that filled almost every space within the Heavenly Killing Sword Array.
This formation was very complex, and breaking it would likely require great effort. Ling Tian decided to first test the quality of this formation. Thus, Ling Tian drew his sword and cut down a tree about as thick as a bowl beside him.
Ling Tian made two cuts, one at the root and one at the top of the trunk, cutting off a piece of wood about two meters long and as thick as a bowl.
He then carried this piece of wood and slowly approached the Heavenly Killing Sword Array. With a sudden exertion of force, this section of the tree trunk, imbued with Ling Tian's true essence, flew out more than 20 meters, embedding itself into the Heavenly Killing Sword Array!
Through his Heavenly Eye divine ability, Ling Tian clearly saw that the tree trunk directly broke the circulating spiritual energy of heaven and earth. Immediately, almost instantaneously, within a radius of more than 10 meters centered on the tree trunk, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth became violent!
This spiritual energy of heaven and earth spun rapidly around the tree trunk, and at the same time, the discarded swords and sabers among the shrubs on the ground also began to spin at high speed with the vortex formed by the violent spiritual energy of heaven and earth.
After a series of clanging sounds, Ling Tian saw that the sturdy tree trunk was literally cut into wood chips by the rotating discarded swords and sabers. The wood chips, carried by the wind generated by the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, flew everywhere. In just a few dozen seconds, the entire tree trunk was gone!