Chapter 735 - 662: Ascend to the Peak 61, 4000 Words
At that time, Shuangshuang didn’t learn this to guard against encountering an Array Master, but because it was a compulsory course in the sect. She had no choice but to learn it. Since her mentor, Ling Wuchen, was also not adept at arrays, she learned it during classes at the sect.
However, Shuangshuang didn’t learn much because the person who taught the array class in the sect was really too dull, completely incomparable to her mentor Ling Wuchen’s teaching methods. Moreover, learning arrays was boring, not to mention having to face the vast array of computational methods.
Arrays are unanimously considered the most difficult skill to learn, much more difficult than alchemy or artifact refining. Learning arrays involves the drawing methods of each array, the transformation methods during array setup, the countless changes in array text, array patterns, and talismans engraved on arrays. Higher-level arrays have various stacking methods, the various transformations of illusion arrays and killing arrays, and the highest level Array Masters even have to create arrays themselves. Saying the knowledge of arrays is vast is an understatement.
Such a dull course, coupled with the boring instructor, resulted in few disciples attending classes able to persist without dozing off. This really wasn’t because people didn’t want to learn, but rather because they couldn’t understand it—it was like listening to a heavenly book. Only disciples with a keen interest or extreme love for arrays could stick it out.
Shuangshuang was the one who would doze off in array classes. Rather than attending array classes, she preferred climbing the Heaven-Reaching Road. The bit of knowledge she possessed was only learned because her mentor Ling Wuchen forced her to attend classes.
Although she was uncertain at the moment, Shuangshuang still tried to calm her emotions, intending to find a flaw in this illusion array. Who knew this Array Master’s skill wasn’t low? At least after trapping Shuangshuang, it was still able to make her unable to perceive any problems.
Shuangshuang sought for half a day to no avail, and a sense of frustration arose in her heart. Actually, another reason she didn’t learn arrays was because although Array Masters were formidable, their arrays could still be violently broken under absolute power.
Shuangshuang felt her combat power was decent. Generally, arrays couldn’t trap her. Those that could trap her, even if she diligently studied, wouldn’t be enough against those masters.
Previously, Shuangshuang wanted to test breaking this illusion array herself rather than resorting to violence, fearing that violently breaking the illusion array would attract the attention of its guardian.
This time, trapped and angry, Shuangshuang was somewhat inclined to recklessly break the array first. Just when Shuangshuang was about to act, a golden light suddenly shot out from the blue sphere at one end of her Spirit Mansion’s Thousand Silk Entanglement, and that light immediately rushed into Shuangshuang’s Spiritual Platform Consciousness Sea.
Shuangshuang’s head buzzed, and a scene abruptly appeared in her mind. The scene featured two extremely beautiful women—the goddesses who Shuangshuang previously saw using Thousand Silk Entanglement and arrays to fight in the void.
This time, the two goddesses were not battling. The goddess in black using Thousand Silk Entanglement was smiling gently as she spoke to the goddess using arrays to fight, who wore ornate purple attire.
"Chang Ge, your array twists and turns. I don’t understand it. I still prefer using my Thousand Silk Entanglement, or even fists, it feels more satisfying in combat."
The goddess called Chang Ge had a cool and cold beauty, but when she looked at the goddess using Thousand Silk Entanglement, her gaze warmed, and her voice was not as cold, with a touch of gentleness.
"You’re using violence instead of brains, just liking simplicity and brutality. It’s fine using your Thousand Silk Entanglement, but when you fought the Demon Clan with fists every time, you got all messy. Doesn’t it disgust you? Look at me using arrays, it’s clean every time. Wouldn’t learning arrays make your fights cleaner?"
"That’s slander! I’ll tell you, my vestment robe has a Clean Array inherently engraved, so it can’t get dirty. Chang Ge, don’t forget, this Clean Array was drawn by you personally, are you questioning your own array?"
The woman called Chang Ge couldn’t maintain her cool demeanor, showing an expression of helplessness, sighed and said: "Shuangshuang, sometimes I doubt if you’re even a woman. Why did I engrave a Clean Array on your vestment robe? It’s because you don’t pay attention to things, you, a young lady, live rougher than a man."
Seeing this, Shuangshuang felt oddly strange. When Chang Ge called out ’Shuangshuang,’ she always had the illusion that it was meant for her, and just now she almost responded instinctively.
Moreover, she felt a mysterious familiarity with these goddesses called Chang Ge and Shuangshuang. It wasn’t just acquaintance but felt as close as family, an incredibly intimate familiarity.