CHAPTER 825: CHAPTER 818: BLACK WATER MYSTERIOUS RIVER ARRAY

The Black Water Mysterious River Array can be formed with just nine people.

However, the power that can be exerted by an array formed by only nine people is very limited.

Only when a full set of eighty-one people is gathered, and when each of these eighty-one cultivates the Black Water True Technique, each representing a different ferocious creature, can its power truly reach an extreme.

This array inheritance is something that emerges from the Black Water Myriad Spirit Pool when the Black Water Lineage grows to a certain extent, and once a sufficient number of disciples within the sect truly receive the Black Water True Technique inheritance.

The myriad forces both above the earth and below, in great and small scales, are too numerous to count, yet the Black Water Mysterious River Array is unique to the Black Water Lineage.

Such a specialized array inheritance would be utterly useless even if it fell into the hands of other powers because, without the Black Water True Technique inheritance, they simply cannot gather the necessary people to set up the array.

At this moment, under the foot of the Black Water Immortal Mountain, at the true entrance leading into the mountain.

Countless black auras converge and transform into a surging Black River, surrounding the foot of this great mountain and completely submerging the mountain gate’s entrance.

In this vast Black Water, a large Black Snake can occasionally be seen, faintly visible within it.

At times, one can also see a black Poisonous Toad, covered entirely in pustules, poking its head out of the Black Water.

There are even swarms of sinister insects much larger than normal humans, wandering unpredictably in the Black Water.

The entire Black Water Lineage, although comprising only two Heavenly Immortals, Ye Fangxian and Sun Daniu, and around forty to fifty who have achieved the rank of Earth Immortal, has a very large number of True Immortals, numbering not a thousand but at least eight hundred.

With such a foundation, they naturally have no problem gathering eighty-one people who practice different True Techniques and represent different ferocious creatures to form the Black Water Mysterious River Array.

The surging Black River surrounding the foot of the Black Water Immortal Mountain appears similar to a tangible entity, but in reality, it is an embodiment evolved from the Black Water Mysterious River Array.

"This is..." Over at the Black Water Immortal City, of the dozens of Spirit Ships that had been rampaging for quite some time, most had already flown near the Black Water Immortal Mountain.

Numerous cultivators affiliated with the Overseas Sect Alliance had already disembarked from the Spirit Ships, gathering at the foot of this mountain.

The ones who arrived first originally organized several waves of offensives to try and take advantage of the Black Water Lineage’s True Immortals when they were defeated, to expand their victory and take the opportunity to storm into their mountain gate.

Unfortunately, at that time, the Overseas Sect Alliance Leader Ling Canghai and numerous elders were still holding the rear and had not truly arrived here.

As the vanguard, the ones who arrived first at this mountain foot, were only as strong as Earth Immortals at best.

In the absence of the Earth Immortal Domain’s empowerment, the strength that an average Earth Immortal can exert is actually not much stronger than those formidable True Immortals.

After retreating to the vicinity of the mountain gate’s entrance, the defeated Immortals of the Black Water Lineage were reorganized, and their resistance was very tenacious.

Under such circumstances, the tentative attacks by the Overseas Sect vanguard time and again naturally failed to achieve any results, ultimately ending only in failure.

To speak frankly, the Overseas Sect Alliance attack this time, despite gathering over ten thousand people, largely consisted of individuals still hovering at the Cultivation Nine Realms.

Although they held the advantage of numbers, among them, the number of cultivators above True Immortal was far less than those on the Black Water Immortal Mountain’s side.

Their truly strong point was primarily the number of top-tier experts at the Heavenly Immortal level.

After a series of attempts, ultimately futile and with severe losses, the Overseas Sect Alliance did not stubbornly continue the attack but instead chose to gather slowly at the mountain foot.

Of course, the reason they chose to do this was not to give up the attack on the mountain but to wait for their strong experts to arrive.

By that time, with a dozen or twenty alliance elders with Heavenly Immortal strength joining forces, what kind of waves could a mere Black Water Immortal Mountain make?

If they had the strength to contend with Heavenly Immortals, they wouldn’t have been defeated so miserably before!

But now, Ling Canghai and many elders within the alliance had finally arrived, and before them was such a scene...

"An array? It seems this must be the Sect Protection Array of the Black Water Immortal Mountain!"

"This power, while not impressive, not finding even a single Heavenly Immortal, from this array, they must still have some depth!"

"Who dares to fight and test the power of this unknown array?"

Amidst the throng, Ling Canghai stood with his hands behind his back, with a slight frown, glancing at the surging Black River in the distance.

Retracting his gaze, he scanned the surroundings, inquiring.

Gathered around him were not ordinary cultivators but the many elders whose status within the alliance was second only to his.

As alliance elders, their discerning eyes were still somewhat keen.

Perhaps having noticed the extraordinary nature of the Black Water Mysterious River Array, those beside Ling Canghai were looking back and forth at each other.

Some feigned ignorance, some seemed indifferent, and all remained silent. Facing Ling Canghai’s inquiry, none took the initiative to respond.

"What? No one will speak up? Simply probing the power of this array, are you expecting your alliance hierarch to personally step in?" With a face darkening, Ling Canghai let out a cold snort.

His unfriendly gaze swept over those elders around him one by one, finally fixing on that white-haired and white-browed Ancestor Baimei.

"Baimei, previously in the alliance, when discussing the matter of the Black Water Immortal Mountain, you were the loudest."

"We’re already here, just one step away from breaking through the Black Water Immortal Mountain."

"The task of testing the power of this array, I leave to you. Do you have any objections?"

Since no one responded, Ling Canghai directly started to name.

"Alliance Hierarch, I’m afraid I can’t manage the task of probing that array’s power!"

"Last night on the Spirit Ship, I revelled with several female immortals all night, strained my back, and even now my legs are weak and haven’t completely recovered."

"If I were in full strength to serve the hierarch, I would naturally not refuse, but in my current state, stepping into that surging Black Water, I worry it might spoil the hierarch’s plans!"

...

Ancestor Baimei, to begin with, was cunning and deceitful. Anyone could hear the evasiveness in his excuse.

"I’ll just ask you, can you? Or can’t you?"

Ling Canghai, already with an unpleasant expression, had a menacing chill in his words: "If you can manage this, I’ll credit you with the highest merit."

"Once the Black Water Immortal Mountain is breached, apart from the Gathering Spirit Stone, you may choose any reward you wish!"