Immortality Through Array Formations Chapter 2169 Chapter 1018: The Five Tai'a Brothers

"Earth" Sword Discussion, the day prior.

Secluded woods on Taixu Mountain.

Beneath the majestic old trees, Mo Hua gathered with the Taixu Mountain disciples joining the Earth Sword Discussion, making final preparations before the battles.

In the Xuan Character Bureau, eliminations typically hit nine in every ten participants.

The Four Great Sects see a somewhat reduced elimination ratio.

With so many entrants, Taixu Gate's elimination rate edges higher than the Eight Great Gates'.

Only a handful of teams actually progress, matching the Eight Great Gates in numbers.

From the Sword Discussion's start, Taixu Gate's edge has always been its vast participant count.

Lower-tier disciples gain from Mo Hua's early setup of "Heavenly Pride Taoist Soldiers" via Formation, Spiritual Artifact, and strategy synergy, allowing them to unleash greater fighting strength.

However, in tougher fights ahead, like the Xuan Character Bureau or the Earth Sword Discussion itself, this edge starts to fade away.

Taixu Gate lacks the elite gifted disciples compared to powerhouse sects among the Eight Great Gates, like the Vajra Sect,

Carefree Sect, or Lingxiao Sect.

Even more so against the Four Great Sects.

Thus, Mo Hua feels content with the present elimination figures.

By his original estimates, things would have turned out far grimmer.

Right now, Taixu Gate holds steady at third in the rankings.

Such a spot counts as impressively elevated, going beyond what Mo Hua anticipated.

Multiple factors contribute to this outcome.

For starters, it's due to the triumphs from Mo Hua and Linghu Xiao's squad, claiming numerous victory points and building a firm lead.

Additionally, a nod to the Sever Gold Sect goes a long way.

Their key legacy got exposed and fell into the grasp of Mo Hua, that fiendish prodigy Formation Master, causing a total rout versus Taixu Gate in the Xuan Character Bureau and handing over loads of points.

Finally, credit the sect's "Junior Brothers" for their hard work.

Certain disciples weren't standout figures in the sect before, yet through the Sword Discussion Conference's trials, fight by fight, they've been forged and begun to show their edge.

Guided by Mo Hua, their fellow Junior Brother, these disciples banded tightly, clenching jaws and battling fiercely in each bout. Most ended up ousted in the Xuan Character Bureau still.

Still, they claimed several points for Taixu Gate.

Without that, Taixu Gate couldn't have held onto third place at all.

These unassuming disciples, shaped by the Sword Discussion Conference's fires, now quietly carry a hint of "transformation."

The team showing the sharpest "transformation" and top results in the Sword Discussion hails from the Tai'a Sect.

Made up of five siblings all surnamed Ouyang, their names carry great fortune: "Fu Lu Shou Xi Cai."

But for all their lucky names, they grew up in hardship.

Hailing from a minor branch of the Ouyang Family tied by marital ties, they didn't start with the Ouyang name. Sadly, their folks passed young, leaving them to endure woes from early on, and the kin couldn't sustain five growing lads.

Boys in their teens drain their parents' resources.

This rings especially true for cultivators demanding more than just meals—they require cultivation too.

Expenses for cultivation methods, spiritual items, and spirit stones pile up hugely, far beyond a marital branch kin's means.

The five brothers possess solid talent too, and lacking real cultivation would squander their gifts.

So the family seniors placed them for adoption into the main Ouyang line, to carry on the line for an elder lost suddenly with no heirs.

The Ouyang clan's scale and riches readily cover basics like sustenance and garb for these five youths.

Naturally, being adopted, their cultivation allocations stay modest.

Luckily, having faced trials, the brothers cherish the rare chance at Tao cultivation, so they train with focus and

perseverance.

Their strong potential, paired with brotherly solidarity and support, speeds their cultivation progress more and more. Lacking any elder's tutelage, they broke into the Tai'a Sect on pure merit, a real shocker.

Still, their origins remain humble, roots not deep. Once in the Tai'a Sect, despite steady practice, amid the direct descendants' prodigies, they fade into the background inevitably.

That changed at the Sword Discussion Conference when Mo Hua "boosted" the five brothers, handing each heavy armor set and massive blade, along with an order:

"Ignore all else, just swing at whoever appears." From then, the five brothers' paths shifted utterly.

Springing from destitution without kin or mentors to steer them, and in the Tai'a Sect swarming with talents, they couldn't help feeling lowly

and timid.

They came off as rather green and dim-witted.

Intricate strategies lay beyond their grasp or handling.

But Mo Hua's "just swing at whoever appears" proved plain, blunt, lucid, and

uncomplicated.

As the five brothers stepped onto the arena, repeating Mo Hua's command, their spirits ignited with boundless valor and battle zeal, casting aside anxiety, dread, doubt, and bewilderment to zero in on "swing at whoever

appears."

Regardless of the foe.

Whatever the rival's sect, talent level, rank high or low, power great or small.

All that counts is striking ahead.

Beneath the hefty blade, reality emerges, settling win or loss, survival or end.

Raised side by side, eating the same fare, dwelling and cultivating alike, mastering identical cultivation arts and Taoist Skills, drilling as one, spurring each other on, advancing jointly, dividing joys and

sorrows alike, bound as kin deeper than blood.

The quintet's teamwork flowed with seamless harmony.

The instant they took the field, the five burly, imposing brothers arrayed in formation, clad in thick armor, gripping hefty blades, looking like five matching "War Gods," radiating an overwhelmingly dominant presence.