Cultivation : I'm an Ancient Giant Bear-Chapter 458 - 431: Success Depends on Preparation

"Reached the preset test objective, fifty thousand miles."

"Maximum peak duration lasted 0.09 seconds!"

"Maximum peak output was 12,980 points of Red Flame Spiritual Qi."

"Energy radiation exceeds the average of conventional mode by five times, requiring one day before it can avoid detection by Level 18 Spirit Essence Perception."

"Spiritual Qi level assessment is complete; theoretically, your Red Flame Spiritual Qi slightly surpasses Senior Sister Qin’s Wind Spiritual Qi. Simulation finished, if she departs 0.1 seconds early, you will successfully intercept her at sixty-seven thousand five hundred and forty-two miles, estimated to require fifteen thousand points of Red Flame Spiritual Qi."

"Recommendation to adopt the second plan, i.e., use the city outskirts array for concealment!"

"Currently three hours remain until dawn; recommend immediately returning to start cracking an array."

——

The Four Clowns’ evaluation data matched Wang Wu’s own answers perfectly.

So far, the first half of the plan to strike halfway has been settled.

Wang Wu didn’t delay, after maximally recovering Spiritual Qi at the two most severely radiated locations, he quickly returned to that giant city. Here, using Level 18 Spirit Essence Perception, he easily found an outer array that could be cracked.

This giant city’s outer array is quite complex, nested arrays, chain arrays, compound arrays, with complexity as its main feature.

Without a passage key, it’s impossible to crack it in a short time, which is its biggest advantage, but also its greatest disadvantage at this moment.

That’s because of too many arrays causing excessive changes, making real-time monitoring impossible, nor can there be a central hub to regulate it.

Because the cost would be exorbitant, even for figures like Baiyu, or Senior Sister Qin.

Therefore, even if occasionally a unit of the array malfunctions, there will be no early warning.

These details, Wang Wu knows all too well, having been here before.

Combining Spirit Essence Perception, he cracked and took control of the array in moments, then began deploying a new array.

He hasn’t systematically, professionally studied array deployment, but many things have universal principles, like the relationship between Five Elements Spirit Pills and the Five Elements Spirit Array.

A good array should have a universal internal structure.

The biggest lesson Wang Wu learned from Xu Taiping is the saying: "Broadly speaking, anything goes", like how everything can be transformed into a sword.

Thus, he need not bother with the original guidelines, only needs to let the array run freely, effectively, and meet his requirements.

What he needs is a cold-start array capable of providing strong propulsion, the specific concept borrowed from the Quick Reaction Sword Array, but deployed in a broader scope.

For instance, Wang Wu intuitively deployed, according to the five systems of Gold, Wood, Ice, Wind, and Fire.

And this structure happens to embody Xu Taiping’s five spirit pills.

To be fair, Wang Wu now understands this structure better than his own Five Spirits Pill System.

No choice, since Xu Taiping doesn’t have the Earth Spirit Pill.

After some deployment, the array has completely transformed, showing a new appearance.

Wang Wu learned so much good stuff from Xu Taiping that he hasn’t had time to retreat and comprehend, yet now he finds himself adeptly applying it to this array, blending theory with practice.

Deploying towards the end, he even got excited, almost ecstatic, forgetting himself, feeling like shouting to the sky, dancing, yes, an epiphany, an epiphany, yet another epiphany!

For this, he even dismantled the array shortly after deploying it, then redeployed, dismantled again, then redeployed for a third time, finally revealing a relieved, intoxicated expression of satisfaction, indeed, indeed, this humble Taoist has realized again!

If earlier he had only fifty percent confidence in intercepting Senior Sister Qin, it can now increase to fifty-five percent.

This special array, like a person’s Five Spirits Pill System.

While he currently stands within the array, he’s akin to a Maximal Common Denominator Pill.

Once activated, he can be ejected anytime, anywhere——

And this ejection isn’t rigid, physical ejection, but a transformation of five powers, forming an external escape technique, using the array itself to apply this technique onto him, thus completing the cold start.

"Do not destroy this array; leave it, because it will be the greatest evidence, since I don’t possess Wind Spirit Pill."

Wang Wu joked, as it’s also the truth, though he feels this array is cleverly deployed, it’s only fitting for this assassination, who uses a cold-start ejection in their array without reason?

Surely, afterward investigation experts will consider this concept quite novel, suggesting the assassin has an exceptional understanding and command of these five spirit pills and such explanations, which undoubtedly will mislead them somewhat.

In conclusion, should Xu Taiping be accidentally harmed, all Wang Wu could say is sorry.

Of course, Wang Wu finds it unlikely.

Since achieving this, within the Cultivation Noble Families, there are certainly many such people.

It might even suspect the Black Emperor.

After all, this city, and the complex array cluster outside, were all built by the Black Emperor’s esteemed disciple Song Guangming.

Next, taking advantage of the limited time, Wang Wu sat within the array, closed his eyes, quietly meditated, conserving energy for the upcoming interception grand array.

As time ticked away, when dawn began to break, a sudden thought struck him - the target appeared.

It was Senior Sister Qin, emerging from the giant city in the dim light of dawn. The terrifying and complex array cluster provided her absolute safety while also preventing her from directly using escape techniques within the city.

Even if she is a Taiyi True Immortal.

Today she wore a different black outfit, sharp and proud, her jade-like beauty astonishing, deeply moving Wang Wu.

But it’s just a sigh.

This Senior Sister Qin, for her rival Baiyu, truly can do anything, even use her own life as a stepping stone.

Alas!

Alas, indeed!

Wang Wu watched her silently, seeing her take out the Key Jade Token, activate the Array, and then soar into the sky like a startled swan. Spell cast, a breeze flickered above, and she had already used the Wind Escape Divine Techniques, crossing ten thousand miles in one second, and in two seconds she could arrive outside Dragon Head City, seeing Wang Wu kneeling there throughout the night, motionless.

However, almost the instant she used the Wind Escape Divine Techniques, the Array around Wang Wu also instantly activated at full speed, directly ejecting Wang Wu using the Five Spirits Escape Technique.

All energy radiation was left in place, Wang Wu escaped five thousand miles away without leaking a hint of breath, then he operated the Fire Spirit Pill at full speed, Level 6.5 Red Flame Spiritual Qi exploded completely, and the Fire Escape Divine Techniques formed perfectly at this moment, speeding towards Senior Sister Qin!

Though it sounds complicated, in reality, it took only 0.2 seconds.

The cold start of the Array projecting Wang Wu five thousand miles away took 0.1 seconds, and Wang Wu’s Fire Spirit Pill fully activated, employing Fire Escape Divine Techniques to catch up to Senior Sister Qin, also took 0.1 seconds.

Not to mention ordinary people, even common Earth Immortals could not clearly see what had happened.

Because it was too fast, the entire half-crossing strike plan had almost no flaws.

As Senior Sister Qin’s Wind Escape Divine Techniques were racing past sixty thousand miles, at the moment she was about to reveal her figure forty thousand miles away, Wang Wu had already arrived behind her.

Wang Wu didn’t employ any more complex or powerful attack; he simply rammed into her.

Because at this terrifying speed for both sides, though it was a collision from behind, it’s already incredibly terrifying due to the impact.

A Taiyi True Immortal might use this escape speed to travel ten thousand miles per second, but dare use this speed for a life-and-death battle?

At this moment, Senior Sister Qin didn’t react at all; she couldn’t react. Who would have thought of it, like singing songs while eating hotpot only to be robbed like a bandit.

Her Wind Escape Divine Techniques were directly interrupted.

Yes, interrupted in every sense!

Then lost control!

She still had the opportunity to recover, but Wang Wu wouldn’t give it to her, even though Wang Wu had already endured nearly six million points of damage in the instant of collision.

A layer of Fire Armor was directly scrapped.

But Senior Sister Qin suffered about twice as much damage.

Because her Wind Escape Divine Techniques backfired, and her Wind Spirit Pill was directly torn with several terrifying cracks by this force.

The reasoning is simple.

The Wind Spirit Pill, like an engine, operates along a fixed path, communicating flexibly and effectively according to gear commands from above, only to receive a neutral gear command suddenly from above, plus a hundred handbrake impacts.

Like a bear hanging on you, not tearing is weird!

Not having the engine blowout and catch fire is already fortunate!

Then Wang Wu didn’t even have a chance to make the next move, nor did he need to; he and Senior Sister Qin crashed head-on into a high mountain.

This mountain, with over a thousand miles in circumference, majestic and grand, instantly seemed like a cake tower hit by a fast-flying stone, collapsing? Pierced?

No, no!

It directly vanished and vaporized.

First, it was sliced into countless fragments by chaotic Wind Spiritual Qi sharp to the extreme, then burned to ashes instantly by the frenzied Red Flame Spiritual Qi.

Nothing left!

Even the ground directly plowed out a huge gorge about three thousand miles wide, several hundred miles deep, and close to ten thousand miles long!

This is the marginal destructive effect caused by the simultaneous failure of two Escape Divine Techniques.

As for Wang Wu and Senior Sister Qin, they were merely injured.

Wang Wu had previously stacked twelve layers of Fire Armor.

Senior Sister Qin had a full nine Body-Protecting Immortal Talismans on her!

Extravagant, each Body-Protecting Immortal Talisman can absorb five million points of damage.

Just ask if you’re impressed!

And this was just the first second!

Wang Wu and Senior Sister Qin had no opportunity to attack each other, only dealing with the out-of-control Escape Divine Techniques.

By the second second, they simultaneously recovered their attack abilities.

Senior Sister Qin directly morphed an External Incarnation, although Wang Wu was pressing on her, she evolved into thirty-six External Incarnations.

Taiyi True Immortal, truly lives up to the name.

But Wang Wu had foreseen this earlier and had corresponding countermeasures.

He also understood very well the core bottom line of External Incarnations.

That is, incarnations can never ever replace the main body unless someone with immense determination, courage, insane madness would abandon their own body to provide each incarnation with an identity card, leading like a madman dragging a corpse would dare to do it.

Therefore, no matter how many incarnations, when I strangle your main body’s neck, do you not quickly call me daddy!