Chapter 316: Entering the Tower

For every cultivator who enters the Hundred Arrays Tower, the Tianyan Sect will responsibly inform them of the dangers, so as to prevent these talents from dying young.

But no matter how the Tianyan Sect advises, accidents will still occur.

As for the Bixue Sect's tradition of protecting its own shortcomings, Bai Qian does not want Lu Ye to get into trouble in the Hundred Arrays Tower.

Standing in front of the stone tower, Lu Ye stepped in and stood on a magic array in the center under Bai Qian's guidance.

Bai Qian began to place spiritual stones around the magic array, looked up at Lu Ye, and saw that he was ready, so he activated the array.

The vision was distorted and changed, similar to the feeling of entering and exiting the Lingxi battlefield with the help of the Tianji Pillar. When Lu Ye came back to his senses, he was already in an empty space.

This space is not large, about the size of a room.

Looking around, there was a protruding stone brick on the wall of the room. Lu Ye walked forward, raised his hand and pressed on the stone brick, and with a little force, the stone brick immediately sank inwards.

Instantly, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth surged, and lines quickly spread out in the room. These lines not only appeared underground, but also on the walls.

The magic array has been revealed. Lu Ye saw it clearly. This is to break the array by himself.

Over the years, Tianyan Sect and the entire Jiuzhou array cultivators have continuously come to break into the Hundred Array Tower. The specific types of tests in the tower have long been known by the cultivators.

Generally, there are three types: array formation, array breaking, and array repair.

Arrangement formation is to arrange the corresponding array according to the requirements of the Hundred Array Tower. If the array is broken, the Hundred Array Tower will produce an array, and the cultivator will break it. Repairing the array is more complicated. The Hundred Array Tower may only produce half a magic array, and it only needs to be completely repaired. It may also produce a magic array with errors, and the cultivator needs to find the errors and then repair them.

Each level has a time limit of three hours. Within the time limit of these three hours, the more tests are completed, the greater the benefits the cultivator can get.

There are more than a hundred formations in the Hundred Formation Tower. The name comes from the fact that it has a hundred layers.

Breaking formations is what Lu Ye is best at. It is much simpler than setting up and repairing formations.

Lu Ye first threw two elixirs into his mouth, chewing them while activating the insight spirit pattern.

A flash of light flashed in his eyes, and Lu Ye saw at a glance the several operating nodes of this formation. After all, it was only the first layer, and the formations that appeared were the simplest formations.

Lu Ye was not sure what the formation was used for, but he didn't need to figure it out.

He was too lazy to offer his formation flag. Lu Ye raised his hand and pulled out the Panshan knife at his waist. He stabbed at one of the nodes with a knife. Under the surge of spiritual power, the operating formation suddenly stagnated, and then collapsed.

In just three breaths, the formation was broken!

Another new pattern was quickly generated, and then another formation was formed. Lu Ye observed it for a while and stabbed it again.

After breaking three magic arrays in a row, no new magic arrays appeared this time. A fluorescent light suddenly appeared out of thin air and floated in front of Lu Ye. Lu Ye raised his hand to touch the fluorescent light and imprinted it on his forehead. A message appeared in his mind.

This time the test is to set up the array. The array diagram of the array has been presented with the message.

Lu Ye put away the Panshan knife, thought for a while, and took out five array flags from the storage bag.

Compared with breaking the array, setting up the array is undoubtedly more troublesome. In the past, Lu Ye set up the array by directly activating his own spiritual power, just like constructing spiritual patterns, to construct a magic array at one time. This is faster, but correspondingly, the consumption is also high, and the array arranged in this way is not stable enough and can be easily broken.

But it is different to set up the array with the help of the array flag. The consumption will be much smaller, the array will become more stable, and the fault tolerance rate will be much higher. Generally, array cultivators set up arrays in this way. After all, not every array cultivator can have such a strong control over their own spiritual power as he does.

As Lu Ye played the formation flags one after another and placed them in all directions, the framework of the formation was quickly built up. Then he urged his spiritual power to perfect the structure inside the formation.

This is the benefit of using the formation flags to set up the formation. Using the formation flags to first build the framework of the formation, and then to perfect and supplement the formation, is much simpler than his previous direct use of spiritual power to build the formation.

The progress was very fast. After about an incense stick, the formation was completed. As Lu Ye successfully constructed the last pattern, the formation started to operate.

After three breaths, the formation that had been formed was erased by an unknown force, and Lu Ye took back his formation flag.

Another fluorescent light appeared...

Soon, Lu Ye discovered a problem, that is, he seemed to be targeted.

Because in the next test, he had to break the formation very few times. Basically, only one or two out of ten times were breaking the formation, and the rest were setting up the formation.

As for supplementing the formation, there would be no such test in the first ten levels for the time being, and it would only appear after the tenth level.

He didn't know what tests other cultivators had experienced when they came here, but the number of times he broke the formation was only one or two percent, which was obviously not normal.

This made him doubt. Does the Hundred Arrays Tower have its own thoughts? Does it think that it is too fast to break the array, so it increases the difficulty?

Even so, Lu Ye's speed of setting up the array is also slowly increasing. After all, it is only the first level. Even if he is asked to set up the array, it will not be difficult. The internal structure of many arrays is universal. Lu Ye has set up many times and is familiar with it.

The only problem he needs to consider now is the consumption of spiritual power. Now he has opened 179 orifices, and only one orifice is left to advance to the ninth level.

This number of openings is the progress from half a month ago. In the past half month, he has been following Bai Qian to build the formation flag, which consumes a lot of spiritual power. He has no chance to open the last one.

However, there is no need to rush, because as long as he passes the test of the first level, he can be promoted to the ninth level. At that time, the Hundred Array Tower will gather enough spiritual energy for him to practice and recover.

Lu Ye was immersed in the continuous formation and breaking formation, and completely forgot the passage of time.

Until a certain moment, when Lu Ye arranged a formation according to the requirements of the Hundred Array Tower, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth in the room suddenly increased rapidly. In just a few breaths, the room was foggy and almost pitch dark.

The three-hour time limit has arrived.

The test of the Hundred Array Tower is actually not difficult. No matter which level you are in, as long as the person who breaks the formation, sets up the formation or replenishes the formation once, he will pass the test.

The more times you complete it, the richer the reward you can get when the time limit is up.

The reward of heaven and earth spiritual energy is just incidental. In any case, it takes a lot of spiritual energy for the cultivators to complete the test here. After the time limit is up, the Hundred Array Tower will create a suitable environment for the cultivators to recover so that they can cope with the test of the next level.

Lu Ye did not count how many times he completed the test in these three hours, but only roughly estimated that there were always forty or fifty times, because the probability of him encountering the formation was too high. If it were not for the Hundred Array Tower, this number would be greatly increased.

Completing forty or fifty tests on the first level is an extremely terrifying achievement. If the stone tablet list in front of the tower base is still in effect, then Lu Ye must be on the list, and he will be ranked very high.

This leads to extremely generous rewards from the Hundred Array Tower, and this rich and atomized spiritual energy is the best proof.

Not only that, there is also a fist-sized fluorescent light that appears out of thin air and floats in front of Lu Ye.

This group of fluorescent light is the most important benefit of breaking through the Hundred Array Tower.

Without rushing to touch the fluorescent light, Lu Ye first checked his own spiritual energy consumption.

After three hours of almost non-stop battles, even though he was taking elixirs to restore himself, his spiritual power was almost exhausted.

His mind moved slightly, and he constructed a series of spiritual patterns in his spiritual cavity. In just one stick of incense, 179 spiritual patterns were formed. Under the influence of the spiritual patterns, the misted spiritual energy around him continued to flow into his spiritual cavity, allowing his almost dried up power to recover quickly.

After finishing all this, Lu Ye raised his hand to grab the ball of fluorescence in front of him and pressed it against his forehead.

The fluorescence was imprinted and disappeared.

The complex and complicated information suddenly appeared in Lu Ye's mind, and the feeling was... very sour.

If Lu Ye's previous acquisition of the information about the spiritual patterns from the leaves of the talent tree was like someone prying open his head and stirring his brain with a red-hot iron, then the feeling at this moment was like someone holding a hammer and hitting him hard on the head.

Lu Ye's head was thrown back and he almost fell to the ground.

His head was swollen, his temples were beating violently, his eyes were wide open, and bloodshot, this was because he received too much information in an instant.

This is the biggest danger of breaking into the Hundred Array Tower! It is also the reason why Bai Qian repeatedly told Lu Ye to do it within his ability.

The fluorescent light contained a huge amount of array knowledge, which was injected into Lu Ye's mind in a way of enlightenment, regardless of whether he could bear it or not.

If he did not have a strong enough willpower and a tough soul, this alone would cause him to faint on the spot at best, or even suffer mental damage or even sudden death at worst.

If any other Lingxi Eighth Level came here, he would definitely not be able to bear it.

But Lu Ye had experienced the destruction of the talent tree again and again, and he was not unfamiliar with similar feelings.

Of course, the most important thing is that he had cleansed his soul in the Soul Washing Pool, and his soul was much tougher than that of cultivators at the same level.

Another point is that he had entered the mirage realm to kill enemies many times before, and he would "die" from the mirage realm every time. Every time he died, it would have some tempering effect on his soul. It was not obvious once or twice, but with more times, the power of his soul would naturally increase, but he himself was not aware of this situation.

So, the more tests you pass in the Hundred Array Tower, the better. Instead, you should try to pass as many tests as possible within your own limit. Once you exceed this limit, the cultivator may not be able to bear the benefits of the enlightenment, which will inevitably lead to bad consequences.

Many cultivators who entered the Hundred Array Tower did not die in the tests of the Hundred Array Tower, but died in this last benefit. How sad.