The Sims: I Open the Immortal Path for All Beings

Chapter 2217: Chapter 2162–2163: The God Formation Returns, Gambling Duel

If previously he still held some disdain for this person, thinking they were merely a powerhouse who had relied on resources to reach this point—impressive in appearance but useless in practice.

Then at this moment, no matter what, the Great Instructor is already worth his serious regard, and he absolutely will not underestimate the opponent in the slightest.

The foundation of the Taoist Academy is indeed unfathomable, originally with True Monarch Qingyang overseeing it.

Since this is an opponent worth taking seriously, he wouldn’t hope to defeat them with ordinary means, instead, he would go all out, sparing no effort.

“Qian, Kun, Zhen, Dui, Kan, Li, Gen, Xun, Eight Trigrams Divine Array, activate!” Dayan True Monarch softly beckoned, and the Array Plate flew from the sleeve, directly enveloping the Grand Instructor, encasing him within.

The Eight Trigrams Divine Array was mastered by their disciples, but this array was created by Dayan True Monarch, so he maneuvered it with ease.

Since their disciples’ road was barred by the Eight Trigrams Divine Array and continually broken by the opponent, it was only natural for him to use the Eight Trigrams Divine Array to avenge his disciple.

This was also to prove to his disciple and to bring fame to the Eight Trigrams Divine Array.

Although it only borrowed the power of the Array Plate, without being laid by eight cultivators carefully harnessing the Heavenly Earthly Force, at this moment it’s bursting forth in the hands of this immensely powerful True Immortal, its power not inferior to the divine formation that absorbed countless Heaven and Earth Evil Qi, possibly even stronger.

After all, as the creator, Dayan True Monarch’s mastery over the divine formation far surpassed those few, and his skill in utilizing the array is exceptional.

Still recall at the very beginning, those few once said, the Eight Trigrams Divine Array wasn’t in its true peak state in their hands, because the peak state of the Eight Trigrams Divine Array should be the convergence of eight arrays, interconnected and transforming among them.

At that time, the Eight Trigrams Divine Array reached its complete state, attempting to break it wasn’t purely about dismantling each array one by one, for it wasn’t meaningful.

Because regardless of any single array being broken, the forces from the remaining arrays could completely transfer over, restoring the array back.

At that moment, to break an array, either you find ways to isolate and separate these Eight Directions Array, preventing them from interlinking, or you directly suppress them with formidable strength simultaneously.

Unfortunately, the eight experts from the Dayan Sect had only grasped their divine formation, not yet truly achieving the step of mutual linkage in the Eight Trigrams Divine Array.

But Dayan True Monarch was completely different, having created the Eight Trigrams Divine Array himself, unlike those eight managing eight great arrays, all eight directions arrays remained in his control, so he could harmonize them completely, making it difficult to break.

Heaven Severance, Earth Annihilation, Xun Wind, Cold Water, Azure Light, Fiery Flame, Linked Mountain, Water Marsh — eight great arrays surround the Grand Instructor.

Mountains, rivers, lakes, Wind and Thunder, and Water and Fire encircle him, leaving no escape route.

“Since my disciple got into a skirmish with you all over the Eight Trigrams Divine Array, then let this Eight Trigrams Divine Array serve as the wager. If you can break this array today, I won’t say another word, I’ll depart with my disciples, and the Great Ming Divine Dynasty troops will clear the path and retreat for ten thousand li.” Dayan True Monarch declared.

Though he had now entered the field, he didn’t wish to immediately fight to the death, not that he couldn’t, but it was truly unnecessary now, not yet the time for life-and-death combat.

Or rather, his personal entry had already presented his allegiance to the Jade Emperor’s side, what reciprocity should the other provide?

Given everything started because the Eight Trigrams Divine Array blocked the way, it’s just as well to gamble on this again.

“Then if I cannot break the array, please have the Dean to restore the Divine Bodies of True Monarch’s disciples, and the Fire Divine Dynasty will not act in the next half-year.” The Grand Instructor replied.

Initially, before engaging with Dayan True Monarch, he was also full of confidence, but after truly crossing paths with the opponent and engaging in sparring of this caliber, even with assurance of being undefeated, truly pushing the opponent back wasn’t easy.

If the opponent truly sought life-or-death confrontation, he would certainly reciprocate.

But since the opponent suddenly changed his approach to gamble anew, the Grand Instructor didn’t mind.

Thus when the opponent stated his losing conditions, he promptly stated his own conditions.

These conditions were roughly balanced on both sides; regarding those who had fallen, although difficult for others, for the resources the Taoist Academy possesses, reconstructing their physical bodies was incredibly easy.

“Good!”

Dayan True Monarch nodded, afterward saying nothing more, simply waiting quietly for the opponent to make a move to break the array.

He wasn’t worried the opponent would default post-defeat, as such formidable figures naturally wouldn’t renege on their words.

The Grand Instructor wasn’t worried about the opponent reneging either, instead focusing his attention within the Eight Trigrams Divine Array.

“The Eight Trigrams Divine Array is indeed extraordinary!” With just a brief observation, he recognized the terror of the array and deciphered its profound mysteries.

However, knowing some things doesn’t mean you can readily break them; there is still much difference between understanding and accomplishing.

“This Eight Trigrams Divine Array quite resembles the Eight Trigrams Swordsmanship initiated by the Ancestral Master. The eight directional spaces interlink, their forces nearly identical, absorbing, and dispersing damage among themselves—truly superb,” the Grand Instructor thought.

The eight-direction arrays of the Eight Trigrams Divine Array are interconnected; when focusing on breaking one, forces from the remaining arrays transmit to bear and dissipate pressure, concurrently drawing upon other arrays’ strength.

It can be said the apparent effort is addressing one direction’s array but essentially confronting the strength of the entire great formation, with your strength neutralized and offset by the Eight Trigrams Divine Array. A single directional array only bears one-eighth of the eight directions’ power.

In other words, if truly wishing to break a direction’s array, the required strength is at least eight times that of the array itself, just to demolish it.

But such array breaking is deemed futile, leastwise if unable to isolate the other seven directional arrays’ forces, then within a short span, this directional array would reconstruct again.

Even though it might drain the energy from other directional arrays, this remains an extremely daunting prospect. After all, considering it, the speed at which this array absorbs Heaven and Earth Essence Qi doesn’t lag much behind a True Immortal.

“This is rather tricky now, the Eight Trigrams Divine Array interconnected, breaking it is immensely challenging.”

“Indeed, the forces among the eight-direction arrays circulate mutually; simply unleashing power eightfold the array’s is achievable with certain secret techniques and Divine Abilities, yet sustained effort remains unaffordable. Even if one direction’s array breaks, how about the others?”

“Right, this great formation holds eight, not merely one. Each array breaking requires unleashing power surpassing the array eightfold; if merely so, this isn’t called secret techniques or Divine Abilities – it denotes innate power of such a level.”

“An array laid by an expert of True Immortal Sixth Layer Heaven, this array at least reaches True Immortal Sixth Layer. If strength eightfold that level, what hierarchy would that be? Even at an equivalent realm with eightfold battling capacity, that qualifies as a Quasi-Taoist Monarch.”

“Quasi-Taoist Monarch—if this array becomes empowered, unleashing Quasi-Taoist Monarch’s level, is it fundamentally unbreakable?”

“Friends, bear in mind, this Eight Trigrams Divine Array interconnects, if isolation fails, within a short span it will restore back to original!”

Though trapped within the array was the Grand Instructor, yet observing the duel between both sides were multiple formidable figures, upon witnessing the Eight Trigrams Divine Array take form, stirred into endless debates about how they would break the array.

It seemed they were trapped within it, urgently requiring an array break.