Chen Zong's speed of passing through the first three sections of the Myriad Formation Through Heaven Road was shocking. Soon, he entered the fourth section.
The fourth section belonged to the core disciple level, which was also Chu Mu's current level. The difficulty of passing through it suddenly increased by a lot, and his speed instantly decreased. However, he was still faster than the others.
"Seems like he might be able to reach the fifth section." An elder muttered.
"This disciple is truly talented."
"Could he really be a genius that only appears once every ten thousand years?"
The elders were secretly surprised as they discussed. Elder Jian Xuanzi was beaming with joy.
Chu Mu was only accepted into the Sword Phase Hall after Jian Xuanzi competed with the other five halls. If Chu Mu failed the esoteric disciple assessment, Jian Xuanzi wouldn't suffer any substantial loss, but he would definitely lose face. If he could reach the fifth section of the Myriad Formation Through Heaven Road and become an esoteric disciple, Jian Xuanzi would also gain face.
Compared to the others, Jian Xuanzi was the one who hoped that Chu Mu could pass the assessment in one try. Now that he saw Chu Mu's speed of passing through the Myriad Formation Through Heaven Road, he was naturally the happiest.
In the fourth section, Chu Mu was in a killing array. Sword Light was everywhere, and it was incomparably sharp. It was as though there were hundreds of swords clashing, wantonly releasing sharpness and bombarding Chu Mu who was in the array.
Array Dao was classified into killing array, trapping array, defensive array, illusion array, and special array. Among them, trapping array was the simplest. Killing array and defensive array were the most commonly used. Illusion array was more difficult, and special array was the rarest.
The fourth section's killing array was an earth rank array dao. Its power was extremely shocking. Every sword qi could easily kill a Great Emperor expert. Under hundreds of sword qi, even a peak third step Great Emperor expert would be killed.
Chu Mu was a Minor Sovereign expert, and his cultivation had also recovered to Minor Sovereign realm. Dacheng wouldn't be at a disadvantage even if he fought with an ordinary perfect circle Minor Sovereign expert. However, one couldn't use brute force to pass through the Myriad Formation Through Heaven Road. Chu Mu could only use array dao cultivation to break through the array. Otherwise, it would be judged as a failure.
To a formation cultivator, using brute force to break a formation was a humiliation.
Chu Mu rapidly evaded the hundred strands of Sword Light. He used the All-heavens Swords to set up a defensive formation around him, which was the so-called Defensive Formation. The Defensive Formation was used to block the attacks of the Sword Light while evading. It was also used to find a flaw in the Killing Formation before breaking it.
With Chu Mu's astounding observation skills and profound mastery of formations, he was able to find the flaws of the killing formation. Without moving, he directly controlled the swords to fly out and strike the flaws of the killing formation, breaking it.
Nothing was absolutely perfect, and there would definitely be flaws. The only difference was the size of the flaws and whether or not they could be discovered. Perhaps this killing formation might seem perfect to some people, but that was only relative. At the very least, Chu Mu could find the flaws in it.
For example, if you look at a very smooth ball, you can't see the small holes on it with your eyes, but you can see them with a magnifying glass. If you can't see a smooth ball with a normal magnifying glass, you can use a high-power magnifying glass.
Chu Mu entered the next formation. This was an incomplete formation. Chu Mu needed to perfect this formation before he could continue.
Perfecting a formation was not easy, and it was an Earth Grade formation, so the difficulty was even greater. If it was ten years ago, he would definitely be helpless, but ten years later, he did not know what level his attainments in the Array Dao had reached, because his progress was simply too great.
Without much time, Chu Mu studied the incomplete formation and continued to perfect it.
After completing it, Chu Mu entered the next formation. This was a defensive formation that blocked Chu Mu outside. He needed to break the defensive formation before he could continue.
Defensive formations and killing formations were the most common formations, but in terms of difficulty, the defensive formation surpassed the killing formation and was second only to the illusory formation.
After breaking through the defensive formation, Chu Mu took a step forward. The surrounding scenery instantly changed and he found himself in an Asura Hell. Countless evil spirits charged at him from all directions. A terrifying killing intent and blood stench assaulted him.
If Chu Mu was not a Minor Sovereign Realm expert, he would probably think that the scene in front of him was real and fall into it. At this moment, he immediately reacted. This was an illusory formation. When facing an illusory formation, one must first control one's mind and not be confused.
To put it bluntly, an illusory formation was a type of deception. It deceived one's five senses, and at a higher level, it deceived one's six senses. It made one feel that everything in front of them was real and affected one's subconscious. Under such circumstances, if one felt that they were injured, then they would really be injured. If they were killed and thought that they were dead, then their soul spirit would be destroyed and they would truly die.
However, if one knew that they were in an illusory formation, then their six senses would not be affected too much. However, one had to break the formation as soon as possible. Otherwise, the longer it took, the more they would be affected. In the end, the fake would become real.
After a period of time, Chu Mu found the flaw of the illusory formation. He quickly took action and broke the formation.
On the Myriad Formation Path, one formation after another was broken by Chu Mu. He continued to move forward, getting closer and closer to the fifth section. The elders outside the Myriad Formation Path were all nervous.
When the last formation of the fourth section was broken by Chu Mu, Chu Mu stepped into the fifth section.
"He finally entered the fifth section."
"It's still not enough. At the very least, he has to break a fifth section formation to pass the esoteric disciple test."
The elders' breathing became hurried.
In the Sword Phase Hall, there was more than one person who could break through to the fifth section. However, in just ten years, there was no one who could break through to the fifth section from a core disciple.
Chu Mu was the first. Perhaps he would also be the first. After just ten years as a core disciple, he would be able to become a esoteric disciple. He would create a brand new record.
The anticipation in Jian Xuanzi's heart surpassed that of the other elders.
Chu Mu stepped into the first formation of the fifth section. This was a formation that only esoteric disciples could learn. It was a Heaven level formation dao. Compared to the Earth level formation dao, it was naturally many times more profound.
Fortunately, this was a trapping array. It only trapped Chu Mu and would not attack him, giving him some time to adapt.
Only at the fifth section did Chu Mu feel the difficulty. He also mobilized all of his ten years of learning and immersed himself in studying the trapping array.
This time, Chu Mu spent an entire hour before he finally figured it out and began to decipher it.
After the trapping array was broken, Chu Mu stepped into the second formation of the fifth section. Outside the Myriad Formation Heavenly Road, the elders were first shocked and then overjoyed.
"Elder Jian Xuanzi, your eyesight is too good."
"A peerless genius, another peerless genius of the array dao."
"Great, our Sword Phase Hall actually has such a peerless genius of the array dao."
The elders roared as if they had gone mad. They were incomparably excited.
Chu Mu continued to break the formation.
The fifth section of the formation was broken one by one. This was a Heaven level formation dao. Each of them was incomparably profound. The more one broke, the higher one's attainments in the array dao.
If one only broke the first formation of the fifth section, one could be considered to have just reached the level of esoteric disciple. Then, continuing to break the formation meant that one's attainments in the array dao were stronger among esoteric disciples.
"How many formations do you all think he can break?" An elder asked.
"I don't know." The other elders shook their heads. Their previous dissatisfaction with Chu Mu had all disappeared. Although they said they didn't know, each of them hoped that Chu Mu could break more formations.
The subsequent formations became more and more difficult to decipher. Each formation took Chu Mu more and more time to decipher.
After Chu Mu broke the 101st formation, he finally stopped. Because he spent a few hours, he was still unable to break it. He knew that this was his current limit.
Although it was a pity that he couldn't pass through the Myriad Formation Heavenly Road, Chu Mu also knew that his improvement in these ten years was incomparably huge.
In this way, he could become an esoteric disciple and read more books to learn more profound array dao.
"Congratulations, Chu Mu. From now on, you are the esoteric disciple of the Sword Phase Hall." Elder Jian Xuanzi laughed heartily. He was very happy.
The other elders also congratulated Chu Mu one after another. Their attitude had undergone a huge change compared to before.
After becoming an esoteric disciple, Chu Mu's identity array token had also changed. The cave residence he lived in was also different. It was higher and better.
One must know that there were only forty esoteric disciples in the entire Sword Phase Hall. Their treatment was much better than that of core disciples. At the very least, the value of a heaven-level formation disk far exceeded that of an earth-level formation disk.
Chu Mu didn't use the earth-level formation disk previously. Now, he didn't plan to use the heaven-level formation disk for the time being. Instead, he devoted himself to the study and research of array dao.
Chu Mu discovered that it was very difficult to use array dao to unleash the potential and power of the All Heavens Sword beyond its limit. This was because it was something completely different from ordinary array dao. It was something that belonged to him. In other words, he had to learn array dao to a certain extent and then modify it to make it his own unique array dao.
He spent a period of time trying and found that the difficulty was too great. This was because his accumulation of array dao was not enough. He lacked sufficient foundation and stability.
"It's okay. I'm not afraid of not having a way." Chu Mu thought to himself.
The array dao that esoteric disciples could learn was far better than core disciples. Perhaps, when he completely grasped the array dao that esoteric disciples could learn, he would have enough accumulation to try to modify it.
"Chu Mu, there's another level above esoteric disciples in the Phaseless Palace." Elder Jian Xuanzi said to Chu Mu.
"What level is it?" Chu Mu wasn't surprised. He was just a little curious.
"Your Highness." Elder Jian Xuanzi smiled and said: "Your Highness is higher than esoteric disciples. In terms of status, you are not inferior to the elders. This is because they will be the candidates for the future Palace Master."
The Palace Master naturally referred to the six palace masters. As a candidate for the Palace Master, the position of the Palace Master was very high.
"Your talent in array dao is outstanding. Perhaps, you have the ability to become a Palace Master." Elder Jian Xuanzi said.
However, he didn't know that Chu Mu wasn't interested in becoming a Palace Master.
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