1777 Sword Array

"He's getting stronger," Hannah messaged Alex directly using her Spiritual sense. "What do we do?"

Alex felt the sudden burst of Immortal Qi from the Emperor and teleported next to his sister, who quickly formed a water shield to protect the two of them.

He was protected from the might and the shockwave of the Immortal attack, something that was starting to look mundane the more he saw it being used.

It was still dangerous, but it simply didn't feel as grand anymore.

He looked far away where the group of nearly 500 strong soldiers had formed the Dragon Array for the Dragon Emperor.

"They keep adding to their numbers," Alex replied to Hannah. "Even though the teleportation formation is gone, more fighters are joining. The number is low for now, but something needs to change soon or we will lose."

Hannah's dark sword burned with bright firelight, as she gracefully swung her sword around. Bright flower petals blew out from her sword, twisting in the wind as though spinning in a horizontal spiral as they moved toward the Dragon Emperor.

When they reached the Dragon Emperor, they burst on his shield, causing multiple small, but strong bombardments that he had to protect himself from.

"The only good thing about the array seems to be that they can't improve the power of our Immortal Qi," Hannah said. "If his Immortal Qi had somehow gotten stronger, then I would've been in trouble right now."

Alex nodded. He was not yet sure if the lack of improvement to the Immortal Qi came from neither of them actually being in the Immortal realm, or if it was because the world they lived in did not allow for an Immortal to exist without hiding himself.

It could also have nothing to do with either of those and just be a flaw of the array where the cultivation base could not be improved beyond what the majority of the individuals had in the array.

"Should we go attack them then?" Hannah asked Alex.

"No," Alex said. "Their defense will be strong. And we can't afford to divert our attention anywhere except for him. Either we both leave, or neither of us do."

Zhou Linfan was still being tied down far away, unable to come to help them.

Alex felt more and more powerful individuals enter his spiritual sense, meaning more and more soldiers were coming to help them.

It was a miracle perhaps that none of the sects or other organizations had sought to come help. Or maybe they had and the soldiers were given priority for teleportation.

Alex wished it was the first. If it was the latter, they could be in quite the situation.

"Is Huan doing okay?" Hannah asked Alex as she sent out another attack to keep the Emperor busy.

Alex closed his eyes for a second, seeking to see through Whisker's eyes.

"He must be still working," Alex answered. "He'd be fine."

Alex stepped out from behind Hannah and brought out a large number of swords, making them all fly around him. They slowly came to fly next to him in a sort of cone-like spiral pattern, forming his sword array.

The 21 Sword Array he received after killing a member of the Jin clan back in the Western Continent was something Alex had already guessed belonged to the senior from the Central Continent.

It was something that had come down in the meteor storm, and as such it was an incredible treasure for anyone who owned it.

The array formed 3 layers of swords, with 3 at the front, 6 in the middle, and 12 at the end. The sword that attacked were the ones in the front and the purpose of the sword in the middle and the back was just to support the ones at the front.

Learning that, Alex had managed to improve that technique a long time ago, adding another 2 layers of swords to the array with 21 swords on the fourth layer and 33 swords on the fifth.

Each additional layer increased the difficulty of handling the array, as it came with a mental burden. Which was why Alex had stopped at 75 swords in total.

However, after all these years, it was time he added some more.

6 layers of swords flew in an array, with 48 swords on the 6th layer. However, Alex did not have enough good swords to make up the entire number at all.

As such, he had to use substitutes.

A faintly glimmering white spiritual sword appeared at the first layer, along with Midnight. Next to it, a blood sword appeared, one that was the strongest Alex had created yet.

Alongside those, Alex also made a lot of swords made from just Qi or blood to fill the rest of the layers to make a total of 123 swords, turning the technique into 123 Sword Array.

The Dragon Emperor watched the hundred-plus swords fly in front of Alex, each gleaming with a Sword Aura of the strongest variety he had ever seen.

He frowned a little but welcomed the attack.

The swords spun around, blazing with Qi and aura, and flew directly toward the Dragon Emperor.

The Dragon Emperor put up his shield and activated a golden barrier. The sword crashed into the shield, and the Dragon Emperor realized just how mistaken he was about the force behind the attack.

The barrier shook for a second, rippling as though ready to break. The Dragon Emperor instantly poured in some Immortal Qi to shield and barely stopped the attack from destroying it.

Even with the Immortal Qi, the Dragon Emperor could tell just how strong the attack had been, and it didn't look like it was stopping.

The sword array spun on top of the shield, drilling into the barrier that now held quite easily. However, having to constantly put up Immortal Qi to stop the sword wasn't something the Emperor wanted.

At the same time, Hannah moved to the side and started sending out a barrage of Ice spears at the Emperor again.

The Dragon Emperor moved his spear at once, empowering it with light lightning, and sent out an attack where the lightning bolt forked into dozens of different smaller lightning bolts, each one of which destroyed the many icicles while moving for Hannah.

Alex poured his intent into the attack and put some more power into the spinning swords while adding his Spiritual energy to the attack more and more.

The Dragon Emperor didn't notice it at first, but slowly he could feel his head start to grow somewhat cloudy, and his reflexes becoming slightly slower.

He instantly employed the Dao of Space Expansion to increase the distance between him and the attack and used the opportunity to escape.

"Swarm them!" he ordered at the same time and many of the free soldiers came for Alex and Hannah.

Alex and Hannah started fighting the new soldiers and quickly realized it was going to take a lot to go through these soldiers easily.

At that very moment, a long and loud ringing sound echoed throughout the battlefield, causing many of the people to look at what was making the sound.

"That…" one of the soldiers slowly spoke. "Is that the Newsboard?"