Immortality Through Array Formations Chapter 2149 Chapter 1011: Invisible (Part 3)
"That cursed brat, he's way too sly!"
Once the Peeping Mirror stopped working and the Revealing Dust got scattered by the wind, every single strategy the Longding Sect had prepared against Mo Hua fell flat.
The Longding Sect had believed they were extending sufficient "respect" to Mo Hua.
They arrived with spiritual artifacts in hand and deployed the Revealing Dust.
Yet it turned out that this level of "respect" remained far too shallow, without any real depth.
And right then, Linghu Xiao along with his three companions rushed into the fray.
With Mo Hua nowhere in sight, the five Longding Sect members had no choice but to engage Linghu Xiao's team directly.
Luckily, their power held strong, matching Taixu Gate evenly in close-quarters fighting, and they outnumbered their foes with five against four.
However, as the clash intensified, fireballs suddenly started launching from the nearby thicket.
Mo Hua emerged once more, lending magical support to his allies. "Take him down!"
The head disciple from Longding Sect swiftly aimed at Mo Hua and barked out in a frosty tone.
Two Longding Sect disciples bolted forward without delay, bellowing like fierce beasts, powering up their movement arts, and plunged into the woods. Yet after scanning the area, the trees loomed dark and shadowy, with no trace of Mo Hua anywhere.
Frustrated, they pulled back once again.
But the moment they withdrew, Mo Hua appeared anew, snapped his fingers, and unleashed a barrage of fireball spells and water prison spells toward them...
Fuming with rage, the two Longding Sect disciples pushed ahead into the woods despite the incoming magic.
The instant they entered, Mo Hua disappeared yet again.
As they fell back, Mo Hua popped up once more, firing off additional spells their way.
The five Longding Sect fighters were seething with fury, on the verge of erupting. The onlookers beyond the field were equally stirred, their minds reeling in outrage. Utterly vile!
Absolutely vile!
Over all these years and countless Sword Discussion Conferences, no one had ever witnessed such a shameless and devious disciple.
This was, after all, the Sword Discussion Conference, surrounded by crowds of observers.
If he acted without shame, did that mean his entire sect lacked honor too?
Persistently hurling these basic spells just to irritate foes, was that truly enjoyable?
Yet Mo Hua discovered it to be... incredibly entertaining.
He fled when enemies advanced; he hid when they pursued; he struck from distance when they withdrew.
Furthermore, through this constant evasion, he managed to tie down two of the Longding Sect disciples.
The other three found themselves overwhelmed by Linghu Xiao's four-person squad, already battered by numerous bursts of Chongxu Sword Qi.
Mo Hua further shattered the Longding Sect's battle array.
The Longding Sect disciples knew this couldn't drag on:
"Forget about Mo Hua, target Linghu Xiao first."
This stood as their final option.
The remaining two Longding Sect disciples heeded the command, abandoned chasing Mo Hua, and rejoined the main fight, uniting all five against Linghu Xiao's four.
Suddenly, draconic aura exploded outward, cauldron echoes thundered, sword energy slashed wildly, slicing through metal and stone alike.
Now that no one paid him any mind, Mo Hua grew even more delighted. He positioned himself at the woodland's fringe, extending his divine sense to survey the whole battlefield, and freely unleashed spells without worry.
Chiefly fireball spells, interspersed with Golden Sound Skill, Golden Flash Skill, Water Prison Technique, Wooden Binding Skill, Quicksand Skill... along with various other minor Five Elements Skills that packed little punch but irritated endlessly.
The Longding Sect disciples suffered greatly.
Previously, these elite heavenly pride disciples wouldn't spare a second look at such rudimentary Five Elements Skills.
To them, only grand and mighty Taoist arts held value.
Resorting to these trivial little spells would merely draw scorn.
But at present, they endured endless torment and mockery from these very basic spells, appearing utterly wretched and laughable.
During the esteemed Sword Discussion Conference, beneath the gaze of sects, noble houses, and cultivators across the Nine States,
to suffer "humiliation" from mere low-tier Five Elements Spells...
At last, the Longding Sect disciples grasped why countless sects and cultivators despised Mo Hua so intensely.
The sword discussion pressed onward.
The cultivators on both sides remained locked in a frenzied melee.
Sword qi and spells whizzed through the air, while fists and feet collided with savage force.
Yet in a battlefield where Mo Hua roamed unchecked, defeat loomed inevitable.
Slowly but surely, the Longding Sect began faltering.
Their collective might was formidable, but the issue lay in lacking
a figure like Linghu Xiao, a genuine "heavenly pride."
In prolonged stalemates, it often fell to a "heavenly pride" to
shatter the impasse and turn the tide.
That's precisely why heavenly prides earned such widespread admiration and anticipation.
Absent a heavenly pride to break through, matters only deteriorated further.
On top of that, following the clash with Shi Tiangang from Vajra Sect.
Linghu Xiao had sharpened his skills, rendering his sword qi even fiercer.
Ouyang Xuan and his comrades had learned to counter "powerful body
cultivators" more effectively.
Mo Hua's spells grew sharper, more devious, and sneakier.
Thus, the Longding Sect was forced into steady withdrawal.
Still, this wasn't the worst of it. The true agony came as Longding Sect came to see that victory had been impossible from the outset in this sword discussion.
For it was an "assassination" bout.
Mo Hua served as the "leader."
This leader possessed the ability to vanish from sight, with no one able to pierce his invisibility.
Which placed him in an inherently invincible stance.
Even slaying all four of Linghu Xiao's team would prove pointless.
Should Mo Hua simply find a spot to hunker down and trigger his concealment, detection became impossible.
Without locating him, elimination was out of reach, and decapitating the
leader stayed unattainable.
This fight formed a "death trap" right from the beginning, utterly impossible to win!
Realizing this, a cold dread gripped the Longding Sect disciples' hearts.
How could one persist in an unwinnable fight?
Even giving their utmost, they'd at best force a "draw," though Taixu Gate would never accept it.
Besides, should Mo Hua, the rival "leader," detect peril, he could
vanish and dodge all threats.
But Longding Sect lacked such capability.
Their leader couldn't "vanish."
Not only unable to "vanish," he stayed perpetually vulnerable to
Taixu Gate's assaults, forever open to Linghu Xiao's sword qi strikes.
Despair crept into their hearts, growing ever deeper. Yet this was the Sword Discussion Conference, and as disciples of
the Four Great Sects, they refused to yield despite the grim odds.
In the battles that followed, Longding Sect disciples hunted for alternative tactics to shatter this impasse.
Their primary goal: draw out Mo Hua and eliminate him.
Mo Hua remained too fragile, with scant margin for mistakes.
A single lapse, the tiniest exposure, and any of the five Longding Sect members could end him with one blow.
However, Mo Hua's divine sense proved overwhelmingly potent, and his wits were razor-sharp. At the first hint of threat, he'd instantly vanish and dart into the woods.
No one could pinpoint his "hiding" spot.
The external spectators, though, were aware.
They yearned to shatter the fifth-grade formation, soar into the Sword
Discussion arena, and directly inform the Longding Sect disciples of Mo Hua's whereabouts.
To reveal that Mo Hua hadn't strayed far at all!
He merely stood invisible, perched on a branch, observing them with amusement.
Regrettably, such intervention lay beyond their power.
And thus, the predicament spiraled downward relentlessly.
Ultimately, a proud heavenly pride disciple from the illustrious Longding Sect,
one of the Four Great Sects, fell victim to Mo Hua's concealment art and met defeat.
A strange unease stirred in everyone's chest.
They all sensed that Mo Hua's concealment technique carried an extraordinary edge...
This invisibility defied all attempts to "see through" it.
It also implied Mo Hua was an "invisible" spiritual cultivator...
How does one slay an invisible spiritual cultivator?