Chapter 110: Yan Luo Array of Ten Directions
"Founder Kuiyin's renowned astra was called the Yan Luo Array of Ten Directions. It was arranged using ten Yan Luo Banners, with an unpredictable and fearsome power. In the past, it caused righteous cultivators to tremble with fear, and even Spiritual Infant Realm cultivators dared not challenge him lightly."
"Later, when Founder Kuiyin was attempting to transcend his tribulation, five of the Yan Luo Banners were destroyed by minor heavenly tribulations[1]. Before his passing, he distributed the remaining five banners to his disciples and passed down a method for crafting artifacts similar to the Yan Luo Banner, which could be used even by cultivators at the Foundation Building Realm and below."
"To craft this artifact, one needed to select an immortal cultivator whose cultivation level didn’t exceed the sixth stage of the Qi Refining Realm. Before their primordial spirit and physical body underwent a second transformation, they would be tricked into switching to a specific cultivation method and cultivating with the Yan Luo Banner. The Soul Pill helped immortal cultivators quickly absorb spiritual power, making it easy to break through bottlenecks. However, few had the mental fortitude of Junior Brother Qin to resist such temptation."
"Due to the numerous rare spiritual materials required to craft the Yan Luo Banner and the extremely demanding techniques, the Kuiyin Sect had a limited number of Yan Luo Banners. Thus, they lured promising immortal cultivators to the Yin Malevolent Abyss under the guise of recruiting disciples, where they provided the necessary malevolent yin qi."
"These cultivators believed they would be taken in as disciples of the Kuiyin Sect, but in reality, they were destined to become sacrifices for crafting the artifacts."
"While cultivating with the Soul Pill, as their realm rapidly increased, their primordial spirit would unknowingly be slowly assimilated by both the Yan Luo Banner and King Yan. The higher their cultivation level rose, the fiercer the backlash from King Yan, for the deeper the connection between their primordial spirit and King Yan, the harder it became to resist. Only those with extraordinary talent and iron will could suppress King Yan."
"However, once they broke through to the tenth stage of the Qi Refining Realm, even the strongest of wills would be useless. They could no longer resist, and their primordial spirit would be fully assimilated by King Yan, merging into one, becoming the primary soul of the Yan Luo Banner."
"Once a Yan Luo Banner gained a primary soul, the artifact was complete. Very few people could continuously suppress King Yan without being devoured, so even now, there weren’t many Foundation Building cultivators in Kuiyin Sect who had managed to gather all ten Yan Luo Banners. Fortunately, with six banners, one could barely arrange the Yan Luo Array of Ten Directions."
"After that, as the Yan Luo Banners absorbed more living souls and blood sacrifices, their power would gradually increase until they became top-grade artifacts. By then, the Yan Luo Array would reach terrifying levels of power."