Immortality Through Array Formations Chapter 2145 Chapter 1010: Shi Tiangang (2)

Shi Tiangang remained oblivious to what was truly happening.

Yet the onlookers perceived everything with perfect clarity.

Beyond the sword arena, projected via the Fan Tian painting, almost every cultivator observing the fight grasped the details sharply.

Mo Hua employed no sophisticated movement skill whatsoever.

Throughout, his footwork stayed as elementary as the Flowing Water Step.

That said, he layered the Concealment Technique atop the Flowing Water Step!

As Shi Tiangang gave chase, Mo Hua evaded, and when evasion proved impossible, he slipped into thickets, ducked behind massive boulders, or weaved past trunks. By leveraging rocks and woodland foliage to block lines of sight, he secretly activated the Concealment Technique, faded from view entirely, and casually looped back, positioning himself right behind Shi Tiangang.

After that, he dropped the concealment, exposed his form once more, and kept drawing Shi Tiangang onward into deeper pursuit.

In truth, this approach isn't particularly ingenious.

It's merely the fundamental Flowing Water Step combined with the sneaky Concealment Technique.

Onlookers beyond the action spotted its mechanics instantly.

Shi Tiangang, however, immersed in the chaos, acted like a fool blinded by his own ignorance, flitting about aimlessly like a fly without direction, blind to Mo Hua's deceptions.

The watchers felt frustration on his behalf.

"Concealment Technique!"

"A straightforward ploy like this—why hasn't Shi Tiangang caught on?"

"Toyed with by the Concealment Technique, chasing his tail endlessly, what a prominent cultivator, looking every bit the gleaming idiot..."

The majority of cultivators felt a mix of worry and fury.

Furious over Mo Hua's slyness, worried about Shi Tiangang's ineptitude.

Yet certain Daoist elders among the observers knitted their brows. In particular, those from different sects who had researched the Concealment Technique, practiced it, and explored its depths appeared thoughtful after brief reflection. They realized the matter wasn't nearly so straightforward.

Shi Tiangang wasn't failing to consider it; rather, Mo Hua's handling of the Concealment Technique proved far too unorthodox.

Typically, when cultivators invoke the Concealment Technique—be it for "entering concealment" or "exiting concealment"—they need time to cast the spell and undergo a "gradual concealment" phase.

Mo Hua stood apart in this regard.

The pace at which he deployed the concealment was incredibly swift, rendering the gradual process negligible; within an instant, he

vanished without a trace.

Furthermore, he always employed timber and rock to shield his form during concealment.

His execution of the Concealment Technique left absolutely no hints behind.

For Shi Tiangang to overlook it momentarily was entirely expected.

Were it not for the Fan Tian painting that revealed Mo Hua's actions in vivid detail, even a few Daoist Law elders on site might have missed spotting Mo Hua's peculiar minor ruse right away.

"This young one's mastery of spells is genuinely... extraordinary..."

"Indeed, his mind is sharp, perception keen, naturally gifted in Taoist Skill."

"Fortunately, his Spiritual Root is weak, his Spiritual Power limited; else... should he master even a couple of Superior Daoist Magic, bolstered by that outrageous Divine Sense and his grasp of spell usage, the results would be downright frightening..."

"Quite so..."

Many elders exchanged hushed marvels about their insights.

One elder then inquired:

"Yet this Shi Tiangang—why hasn't he sensed anything amiss?"

"Regardless of how craftily the Concealment Technique is wielded, it remains a Concealment Technique at heart. This Mo Hua kid, darting about in hiding, must leave some clues behind."

"Overlooking it at first makes sense."

"But after this prolonged game of cat and mouse without grasping it, that's truly inexcusable..."

Could it be that... the body cultivators of the Vajra Sect possess only brute strength, paired with

simplistic thinking?

Naturally, such notions lingered only in their thoughts; voicing them would stir offense.

Body cultivators of the Vajra Sect are hulking brutes whose fists dwarf sand pots, and they aren't ones to cross lightly.

At the same time, within the sword arena.

Shi Tiangang's thoughts hadn't yet clicked into place.

For there existed a detail that most Daoist elders viewing through the

Fan Tian painting had overlooked in that brief span.

Namely, Mo Hua's Concealment Technique wasn't merely an ordinary Concealment

Technique.

Instead, it was the Minor Five Elements Stealth Skill.

The Minor Five Elements Stealth involved blending into the Five Elements, concealed amid

heaven and earth.

This had been a signature Ultimate Technique of the Five Hidden Sect, among the Qian Learning Hundred Gates.

That said, the Five Hidden Sect had faded long ago, withdrawing from the Qian Learning State Boundary to parts unknown, perhaps even perishing entirely. Its sole heir, the Hidden elder-second, fell into

Mo Hua's possession through nefarious deeds.

Mo Hua had shattered his teeth and thereby claimed this Stealth Technique.

Thanks to his distinct strengths, Mo Hua's Minor Five Elements Stealth Skill likely outshone that of the sect's native practitioners by multiples.

Boasting potent Divine Sense, a Five Elements Spiritual Root, and command over the Five Elements Formation, he masked his presence via heaven and earth's elements, while drawing on vast "daring" know-how from countless narrow escapes to refine his hiding methods.

Shi Tiangang had no hope of sensing him.

Even if an Initial Golden Core cultivator arrived in his stead, they might fail to pierce Mo Hua's Stealth Technique.

Should Mo Hua genuinely seek to flee, he could simply vanish into concealment, leaving Shi Tiangang unable to track him.

His intermittent appearances served only to occupy Shi Tiangang, luring him into the pursuit.

In this way, Xiaoxiao and her companions could more effectively eliminate the remaining Vajra

Sect disciples.

The pair persisted in their woodland pursuit and evasion.

Additional cycles unfolded, yet Shi Tiangang failed to unravel Mo

Hua's concealment, oblivious even to the use of a Concealment

Technique.

Still, he detected an oddity.

Mo Hua's motions struck as profoundly eerie, materializing and vanishing like a specter, popping up here one moment, there the next.

What's more, his aura would abruptly fade.

It scarcely resembled a proper movement technique, resembling instead a "deception."

And he himself was the "plaything" in this game.