The Pastoral Life of a Cultivation Master

Chapter 3127 Array Nodes
The entire sect moved away, but he was left alone beneath the lake, enduring the daily scouring of the icy water.

Furthermore, with no one left in the sect, his meals became a problem. Although cultivators eat little, and even after reaching the Foundation Establishment stage, as long as there is spiritual energy, they can use cultivation to replace eating and drinking.

However, because of the poisonous Gu worms in his body, he could not cultivate, otherwise the possibility of going into qi deviation would torment him to the point of death. Before the sect moved away, he had fasting pills to eat, but after the move, although he had many fasting pills, he was running out of them.

Fortunately, the honey from the red bees saved him. He could simply eat the honey whenever he was hungry.

Honey, in particular, has many health benefits, and long-term consumption is very beneficial for spiritual practice.

From then on, he made honey from red bees his staple food.

This is also why he saw that there were many small beehives in the Red Bee area, so he wanted to find the beehives, otherwise what would he eat and drink in the future?
This is why he got so angry after seeing that many of the red bee hives had disappeared.

However, he misunderstood Qian Ying and Zhou Zixing because of this.

He didn't even want to listen to their explanations and simply crushed them on the spot. Fortunately, he discovered Chen Mo hiding in the shadows, which prevented him from killing them in time.

It could be said that Chen Mo was the one who saved these two old men.

Of course, it was also because Chen Mo removed too many beehives from the Red Bee area that he attracted Du Xing's retaliation. It's hard to say whether the two old Dengs were unlucky and took the blame for someone else, or whether they were lucky and ultimately saved their lives because of Chen Mo.

With a loud "boom," the pressure within the formation increased dramatically. The beast beneath his feet seemed unable to withstand the pressure, its limbs went limp, and its entire body collapsed to the ground.

"Hmph!" Du Xing snorted coldly, not expecting that this little mouse who had been hiding was actually a master of formations.

But it doesn't matter. An array is an array after all. As long as it's destroyed, what can happen to this hidden little mouse?

Du Xing picked up the stick with one hand, jumped down in a flash, and then the entire Panlong Stick hit the ground, creating a violent shockwave that spread outwards in a circle from the impact of the stick!

Suddenly, the white mist circulating within the formation paused and began to dissipate instantly.

"A mere trick, how dare you act so recklessly!" Du Xing's lips curled into a smirk, which, combined with his skull-like face, made him even more sinister and terrifying.

He picked up the stick and swung it toward the spot he had just noticed. With a loud bang, lightning flashed, and a thick bolt of lightning struck the stick. However, the stick was not a conductor of electricity, so the lightning traveled along the stick toward the hand that was holding it.

With a "sizzle!" sound, Du Xing's withered, black palm was instantly struck by the electric current.

Fortunately, his strength was still formidable; he numb the man's entire body, but the man was not injured.

The power of that lightning strike was actually a thunderstorm talisman that Chen Mo had prepared beforehand. When the shadow attacked the array barrier, the thunderstorm talisman was activated, which naturally led to the scene just now.

This caused Du Xing's bloodshot eyes to flash, and his face to turn even blacker. He became even more furious with the person who set up the formation.

He had originally intended to attack the array node, but unexpectedly, the node was protected, triggering a lightning storm attack. "Damn it!" Du Xing cursed under his breath, then dodged to retreat, worried that if the array node hit him again, it wouldn't just be a momentary numbness.

However, unexpectedly, just as he was rapidly retreating, Chen Mo continuously used his hand seals to activate the array, instantly suppressing and pulling hundreds of strange beasts into the illusion array. Now, if he wanted to kill all these strange beasts, it would not only take time, but he would also have to be wary of the shadowy figure's attacks.

The attack on the array node by the dark figure had startled him.

He hadn't expected that this shadowy figure possessed such knowledge of formations, and not just ordinary knowledge. Fortunately, he had placed lightning storm talismans on the formation nodes; attacking a node would detonate the talismans, thus attacking the enemy.

It's important to understand that if a node in the formation is attacked and breached, the formation will malfunction. The more nodes are destroyed, the less effective the formation will become.

A single formation typically consists of eight bases that form a functional formation. Only two to four nodes make up the formation's nodes. If any node is destroyed, the formation will become ineffective.

As for composite formations, it depends on what formations they contain. If a composite formation is composed of eight single formations, then there will be sixteen or thirty-two main nodes. The more single formations there are, the more nodes there will be. However, the number of nodes will not exceed the number of the formation's base. Therefore, destroying a node is the beginning of breaking the formation.

Furthermore, destroying the array nodes is most difficult with the first few, as they are hard to find and also hard to break. This is because the initial array nodes contain the strongest spiritual energy, so breaking them requires immense power to repeatedly attack and deplete the array's spiritual energy.

Of course, the strength of spiritual energy is related to the level of the formation and the spiritual energy contained within it.

The complex array Chen Mo released had a total of sixty-four nodes. Although it contained a spirit-gathering array with strong spiritual power, the array he used was only a medium-level array among the primary arrays. Once a node was discovered and subjected to a powerful attack, the array node might not be able to withstand it for long.

Of course, if Chen Mo used some spirit stones, the energy of the formation would be even more abundant, and the only way to destroy it would be to exhaust the spiritual power in the spirit stones.

Unfortunately, Chen Mo was reluctant to use spirit stones, but he also did not expect that the dark figure in front of him could find the array node so quickly, which was really beyond his expectations.

Therefore, Chen Mo first activated the formation to forcibly lure the hundred strange beasts into the illusion, and then activated the entire formation to shift the nodes to other places.

As long as someone controls the formation, the node positions can be changed. Of course, this change also requires the consumption of spiritual power.

Chen Mo, naturally unafraid of depletion, took out spiritual liquid to replenish his true essence.

Du Xing retreated, only to find that the strange beast that had been lying on the ground had disappeared, indicating that the formation had changed. He immediately used his divine sense to search for the formation's nodes.

However, in an instant, the illusion array contained within the formation attacked his sea of ​​consciousness.

"Hmph!" Du Xing snorted coldly, shut down his consciousness, and then forcefully countered the mental energy that was attacking him.

The spiritual energy consumption of the entire illusion array increased dramatically, and the attack was neutralized by its divine sense.

Chen Mo also received feedback that the illusion array attack was ineffective. It seems that the shadowy figure's mental sea is very powerful, and ordinary mental attacks cannot be effective against it.

(End of this chapter)