In the next instant, a blinding white light suddenly lit up from beneath, briefly depriving Yuan Ming of his sight.

Then, a misty water fog emerged all around, obscuring everything in view, enveloping him completely.

Yuan Ming felt as if all the auras around him were isolated, as if he were trapped in a water prison, unable to see anything from the outside.

"Has it finally come?" Yuan Ming murmured to himself, using his Divine Sense to probe his surroundings, but it was like probing into endless mist, finding no clue.

"What a powerful Array, almost reaching the sixth-level standard. Not to mention ordinary Returning to Void Stage cultivators, even those with Dharma manifestation would find it difficult to detect. Could it be that my true strength has been discovered?" His face showed a hint of surprise, and he quickly analyzed the characteristics of the Array with his experience as a Level 6 Array Master.

Though this water mist Great Array was elusive, it was not yet a sixth-level Array. He soon found a clue and raised his hand to grab.

A giant yellow hand emerged from his body, grabbing a part of the Array.

Outside, four cultivators wearing black magic robes revealed themselves from the surroundings.

Each of them formed a spell with their hands and seemed to be channeling Mana towards the position beneath Yuan Ming.

There, a circular silver mirror, three feet in radius, shone with dazzling light and runes flickered within.

Beneath the circular silver mirror, water mist condensed, forming an inverted bell-shaped white mist cover several tens of meters large, firmly enveloping Yuan Ming within.

At this moment, the white mist bell suddenly emitted a thunderous roar, shaking violently, showing signs of collapse.

"The Silver Light Water Moon Array alone can't hold him. Quickly, continue adding arrays!" The tallest among the four whispered urgently.

As his words fell, the four of them turned their wrists and took out a palm-sized earthy yellow seal.

Each seal had a sculpture of a mountain on top, each of different shapes but all vivid and lifelike.

"Four Mountains Linked, Suppress!" The four shouted in unison.

The seals in their hands instantly emitted yellowish light, enveloping Yuan Ming at the center.

Each layer of light that covered condensed into a phantom of a mountain, pressing down on the Silver Light Water Moon Array.

Inside the Array, Yuan Ming immediately felt as if he was carrying a mountain on his shoulders, his whole body sinking.

Layer upon layer of light covered, mountain phantoms stacking one upon another, quickly reaching four layers.

The Silver Light Water Moon Array, which was violently shaking, completely stabilized, and Yuan Ming inside seemed to be thoroughly suppressed.

"Who are you people? Why ambush us?" Not far away, a dried-up, withered, yellow-skinned Nascent Soul Stage elder, braved himself to shout.

The four ignored him, continuing to operate the Array and add more mountains.

"We are people of White Emperor City, you..." The yellow-skinned elder tried to bluff, attempting to scare them off.

But before he could finish his words, a black light suddenly attacked him.

The elder was shocked, hurriedly summoning a green wooden shield magic treasure.

Unfortunately, it was useless. The black light pierced through the wooden shield magic treasure with a puff and hit his chest, creating a bloody hole.

The yellow-skinned elder sidestepped half a foot at the critical moment, avoiding a fatal injury, vomiting blood as his body flew away, landing on the ground immobile.

"Noisy..." One of the four black robed men, a skinny monkey-like fellow, said impatiently.

The yellow-skinned elder's cultivation had reached the Nascent Soul Middle Stage, the highest among the four Nascent Soul cultivators. The others, seeing this, didn't dare say a word, quickly escaping to a distance, with another Nascent Soul Stage cultivator taking the yellow-skinned elder away.

"Hehe, this Wan Tianren indeed hid his skills. A Returning Void Early Stage cultivator couldn't last so long under the Four Mountains Linked Seal." The tallest cultivator among the four black robes spoke.

"Even if he hid his skills, it's useless. With us four brothers jointly operating the Silver Light Water Moon Mirror, he couldn't detect it at all. Falling into the Array was an unavoidable outcome. Once the Four Mountains Linked Seal stacks enough layers, even if he's in the Late Stage of Returning Void, he'll still be crushed into a pile of mud!" Another laughed heartily.

The four laughed as they spoke, but their hands didn't slow down, fully activating the yellow seal.

Inside the Great Array, Yuan Ming also felt some pressure, forming hand seals with both hands.

A gray and white light rose from his body, forming a scaled-down Dharma manifestation, finally resisting the heavy pressure coming at him.

"So it's a nested array, no wonder it has such power." He murmured.

Nesting arrays involves combining two large arrays together.

This combination is not simply placing two arrays together but merging array patterns, requiring extremely high Array Formation Cultivation to set up.

Of course, the power of a nested array is also much greater than the sum of two arrays.

Although Yuan Ming was already a Level 6 Array Master, he hadn't researched nested arrays before, and breaking it by array means would take considerable time.

He didn't bother, operating the Demon Image Prison Suppression Skill, a blood-colored giant elephant appeared behind him.

The thick elephant trunk swung with a whistling sound, causing ripples to appear in the Void, heavily striking the Great Array.

The Silver Light Water Moon Array trembled again, the mountain phantoms on the Array shook incessantly, nearly being shaken off.

"What!" The four black robed men exclaimed in shock, hurriedly struggling to maintain the Array.

"Scram!" the scrawny monkey among the black-robed men suddenly remembered something and shouted at the squad in the distance.

The heavy injury of the yellow-skinned elder threw the rest of the squad into panic, and as they saw the scrawny monkey roar, almost everyone chose to flee.

The twin brothers were no exception.

However, when Niu Gengtian was pulling on Niu Fengshou's arm, trying to drag him away, Niu Fengshou suddenly seemed to be triggered by something and charged madly towards the cage that trapped Yuan Ming.

"This is bad..." Niu Gengtian's face changed suddenly.

The reason their master fell years ago was due to an ambush during an outing, suppressed by four cultivators using an array, and severely injured. If not for him and Niu Fengshou arriving in time, their master would have perished on the spot.

Even though he was saved, their master ultimately succumbed to his injuries and passed away.

The situation back then was exactly the same as Yuan Ming's current predicament.

But neither Niu Fengshou nor he had the ability to rescue Yuan Ming.

"Come back!" Niu Gengtian chased after him.

Niu Fengshou's palms radiated with yellow light, and dozens of Earth God Thunder, head-sized, shot out towards the four black-robed men.

"Courting death!" The black-robed scrawny monkey, upon seeing this scene, was both surprised and greatly annoyed.

A Core Formation Stage cultivator dared to attack them!

With a wave of his arm, another wave of black light swept over, easily extinguishing the dozens of Earth God Thunder and continued slashing towards Niu Fengshou.

Niu Gengtian arrived in the nick of time, crashing heavily into Niu Fengshou, knocking him away.

A burst of blood light appeared, and the two brothers were simultaneously knocked away.

Niu Fengshou's right arm was severed, gushing blood.

Niu Gengtian's body was cut in half, the Golden Core in his dantian shattered, and his divine soul collapsed and dispersed, leaving him as a mere corpse.

"You insignificant wretch, dare to meddle in this?" The scrawny monkey sneered coldly, ignoring the two and continued to intensify his casting.

Yet, just as he finished speaking, a dazzling light suddenly erupted within the Four Mountains Linked Formation, which had already stacked twelve layers of mountains.

An indescribably powerful presence surged forth, shattering the stacked mountain shadows with a boom, dispersing countless golden fragments, as a blood-colored elephant phantom enveloping Yuan Ming emerged.

The four black-robed men were violently shaken, forced back by the immensely strong shockwave.

In panic, they retreated. The tall leading cultivator exclaimed, "He's a body cultivation, a Body of Wanxiang!"

Yuan Ming's divine soul power broke through the formation's control, sensing that most cultivators had already fled, thus he chose to break the array and emerge. However, he didn't expect to see the severely injured twins upon coming out.

Niu Fengshou was clutching his brother's corpse, his face full of panic and helplessness.

A flash of murderous intent appeared in Yuan Ming's eyes, yet he didn't immediately act. Instead, he restrained his mana and dispersed the blood-colored elephant phantom, pretending to have forcibly broken through the array and had his aura disturbed.

"Something's not right; his aura is chaotic," shouted one of the black-robed men loudly.

As his voice sounded, Yuan Ming, as if his facade of strength had been uncovered, showed a brief moment of panic in his eyes, and then instantly sprang up and fled rapidly into the distance.

"He's used a secret technique that harms his qi-blood, chase him; don't let him escape," the tall cultivator quickly reacted, shouting loudly.

The other three snapped back to their senses and immediately gave chase.

In just a few dozen breaths, the five engaged in pursuit and escape had reached a desolate area.

The four black-robed cultivators flying through the air saw Yuan Ming standing calmly in the middle of the wasteland, facing them with a composed demeanor.

The four immediately sensed something was amiss. Having lived together since childhood, they were of one mind, understanding one another without communication. Simultaneously, they formed sealing signs and jointly struck a palm towards Yuan Ming.

Black light lit up on their bodies simultaneously, and four streams of intensely water attribute power burst forth, converging into an extraordinarily thick giant pillar of light, smashing toward Yuan Ming.

Yuan Ming's eyes focused, and the Nascent Soul within his dantian slowly opened its eyes, releasing an indescribable vast power from his body.

In the next instant, a brilliant white light surged behind him, and a three hundred zhang high grand dharma manifestation arose, swinging its small mountain-sized palm to press down on the four men.

"Dharma manifestation stage..." the four exclaimed in unison.

They couldn't believe that the man in front of them had hidden his power so deeply, that he wasn't some Returning to Void Stage cultivator, but a Dharma manifestation stage great power.

But by the time they realized, it was already too late.

The giant dharma manifestation hand was already covering the void above their heads, its immense power seemed to bring the press of the heavens and earth, leaving them no place to hide.

"Quick, use the Four Mountains Linked Seal formation," shouted the tall black-robed cultivator in a panic.

The other three immediately approached him, urgently activating their mountain seal, radiating brilliant golden light.

The surging golden light condensed into a massive mountain peak, enveloping and shielding the four, facing the giant hand.

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