The Immortal Clan begins with deductive intelligence.

Chapter 103 Insurmountable

With a wave of his hand, Liu Mazi caused the ship to plunge into the thick clouds of smoke without slowing down at all.

However, as soon as the ship entered the fray, its momentum suddenly diminished, as if it had sunk into a quagmire.

"Buzz—!"

Without warning, the thick fog churned and rolled from all directions, transforming into hundreds of sharp, crescent-shaped blades of energy that swept towards the ship in a devastating attack.

"Not good! Activate the defensive formation at full power!"

Liu Mazi's expression changed drastically, and he roared fiercely.

The bandits on the ship frantically activated the defensive array, and a pale blue light screen barely rose up.

"Hiss hiss hiss!"

The air blades, sharp as frost, relentlessly slashed at the light barrier.

"Boss! The compass is malfunctioning! We can't tell which way is which!" the helmsman shouted in panic from behind.

Liu Mazi's expression suddenly darkened, and his underestimation of his opponent vanished.

This kind of formation that can shield perception and direction is definitely not some cheap, low-grade first-tier item.

"That old dog from the Zhang family tricked me! The Xu family clearly had a mastermind behind them, setting up this elaborate trap!"

Liu Mazi gritted his teeth.

Retreat was too late; circling in the fog would only make us easy targets for the enemy lurking in the shadows.

"What's there to be afraid of!"

He brandished his Emei dagger and shouted sharply.

"Activate the formation with all your might, identify a target, and force your way through! Once we're ashore, those old, weak, and disabled will be lambs to the slaughter!"

Xu Dayou sat upright in the main hall of the inner courtyard, his eyes fixed on the array plate on his lap.

Above the array plate, a yellow light was flitting about between the "Rest" and "Life" gates like a headless fly; it was the ship that had broken into the array.

"So what if you're at the sixth level of Qi Refining? Today, I'll make sure you don't leave alive!"

The ship rocked violently, as if sailing through raging waves.

"Boss! The array spirit stones are being consumed too quickly! We can't hold on any longer!"

The minions at the array's core wore mournful faces as they watched low-grade spirit stones turn to ashes in the array's eye, their hearts bleeding.

Liu Mazi's face turned ashen.

He underestimated the killing power of this formation.

"Fill the warehouse with all the spirit stones! Once we reach the shore, we can take them back tenfold, a hundredfold!"

He roared hysterically, his eyes bloodshot.

Under Liu Mazi's strict orders, the warship struggled to advance on the water, braving the invisible, strangling blades that filled the sky.

Xu Dayou was not at ease either.

Although the "Eight Gates Golden Lock Cloud and Smoke Formation" is powerful, it is ultimately controlled by him, a cultivator at the fifth level of Qi Refining.

The ship was heavily fortified and constantly replenished with spirit stones; the number of spirit stones required to destroy it would be staggering.

"Click, click—"

Beside Xu Dayou, two clansmen responsible for replenishing spirit stones were busily stuffing handfuls of low-grade spirit stones into the array base grooves.

In the short time it takes for an incense stick to burn, nearly two hundred spirit stones have already been consumed!

Xu Dayou felt his heart bleed.

However, if this ship full of bandits were to dock, even with the help of Xuanjia warriors, most of the Xu family's able-bodied members would be killed or injured.

"Want to get out of here? Dream on!"

A ruthless glint flashed in Xu Dayou's eyes.

He suddenly bit his tongue, spitting a mouthful of blood onto the array plate, and his hands rapidly formed hand seals.

"Gate of Death, open! Flow back the Mystic Water!"

"Boom!"

Within the great formation, a sudden change occurred.

The cloud-like energy blades that were strangling each other in the air suddenly stopped, and then the water below the ship began to churn violently like boiling water.

A whirlpool about ten feet thick suddenly formed at the bottom of the ship.

"Crack—Bang!"

The defensive aura that had been holding on for so long finally shattered under the combined attack of the strangling force from the underwater and the countless air blades.

Liu Mazi's eyes were bloodshot with rage. Without the protection of the defensive array, the ship was being cut by countless heavenly blades, with wood chips flying everywhere and sails torn apart.

Then, it was suddenly sucked in by that terrifying underwater whirlpool.

The massive ship broke in two and was quickly swallowed by the murky river water.

"Ah! Help!"

"Boss, give me a hand!"

The bandits who had fallen into the water thrashed about in the icy, swift river like dumplings being dropped into a pot.

Invisible cloud-like blades of energy darted back and forth across the water's surface.

Each sweep of it left behind a trail of tragically beautiful blood and mutilated limbs.

Those lackeys who were only at the early stage of Qi Refining or ordinary martial arts practitioners were crushed in the river before they could even cry for help, turning that area of ​​water crimson.

Xu Dayou looked at the large patch of light on the array plate that gradually dimmed and eventually disappeared, and let out a long breath.

"It finally sank—"

Just when Xu Dayou thought the situation was settled and was about to withdraw the great formation to fight,

On the array plate, the death gate that originally represented the warship suddenly lit up with an extremely piercing scarlet light!

Unlike the other minions, this point of light did not disappear. Instead, it broke through the layers of clouds and smoke at an astonishing speed and approached the ancestral hall in the inner courtyard!

"Liu Mazi is not dead!"

Xu Dayou was shocked and abruptly stood up.

Within the great formation, the water surged and churned.

Liu Mazi was soaked to the bone, and his face was covered with tiny cuts from the air blades, with blood flowing down his face mixed with the river water, making him look ferocious and terrifying.

Just as the ship was sinking, he managed to escape from the strangulation of the qi blades by relying on the powerful spiritual energy of his sixth-level Qi Refining stage.

He stood on a broken piece of ship wreckage and grabbed without hesitation a trusted henchman who was still struggling beside him.

He hurled it forward, using the momentary obstruction created by the minions being shredded by the air blades to cross several meters again.

This process was repeated over and over.

Xu Dayou's expression was solemn. Although he kept activating the great formation, it was no longer possible to trap such a high-level cultivator who was determined to fight to the death in a short period of time.

With a slash of his Emei dagger, Liu Mazi shattered the giant air blade that was coming at him, and staggered as he landed on the mudflats of Cangwu Island.

He was dressed in rags and was panting heavily.

"You old bastard! What kind of skill is it to use an array to show off your power! Die!"

With a sweep of his divine sense, Liu Mazi locked onto the location of the array base.

The spiritual pressure of the sixth level of Qi Refining was released without reservation. The Emei Thorn was covered with a layer of viscous blood-red aura, and it was about to forcefully rush into the main hall and kill the person controlling the formation.

It was at this moment.

"Thump!"

A muffled thud, like a heavy hammer striking a drum, came from the mudflat ahead.

The earth trembled slightly.

A burly figure clad in dark iron armor blocked his path.

His face was as red as a jujube, his eyes were bloodshot, and he held a heavy steel sword that gleamed with cold light in both hands, like an insurmountable mountain.

"puppet?"

Liu Mazi was already in mid-air, but after a brief inspection, he realized that the armored body was only emanating the fluctuations of the fourth level of Qi Refining. His initial anxiety subsided, and he couldn't help but chuckle.

"Trying to use this inanimate object to block my way? The Xu family has truly run out of tricks!"

He was in mid-air when he twisted his waist forcefully.

The Emei dagger in his hand transformed into several chilling blue afterimages, all of which poured down on the chest and vital joints of the Xuanjia warrior.

"Jingle bells!"

A series of rapid clanging sounds echoed through the night sky, sparks flying everywhere.

Liu Mazi felt a violent tremor in the tiger's mouth of his hands, and the Emei dagger almost slipped from his grasp.

"What...what is this?!"