Chapter 201 Barrier (1/2)

”I can break it,” Arran repeated, louder this time

”Could so's voice held a hint of annoyance, but no more than that

”Let him speak,” Elder Naran said sharply Then, he turned to Arran ”Are you certain?” There was doubt in his eyes, but he did not disht

Arran hesitated before speaking ”I am,” he finally said ”Mostly”

Ancestral Seal or not, he'd recognized the forer and formed from Fire instead of Shadow Essence, the pattern it used was a near-perfect match for the seal on his Destruction Real the seal inside him, he could not possibly fail to notice the likeness

That alone would not have given hi he could not break, and had the formation exactly matched it, he would have had no way to deal with it

But where the strands of Essence in Master Zhao's seal formed a perfect whole, that was not the case with the formation While its parts were the saether by so — someone who had blindly followed instructions to create so he did not truly cogest strength was exactly its perfect unity Each strand of Essence was linked with all the others in an intricate pattern that see it all but impossible to dismantle

Yet in the formation, this unity was absent

To so with the real seal, the formation's weaknesses would have been near-impossible to see But to Arran, they were uno at it,” Elder Feng said The annoyance in his voice had disappeared,its place ”Perhaps he will see what dozens of Elders failed to notice”

Sonored them His concentration was entirely focused on the for only when he was close enough to touch it

For the better part of an hour, henote of all the ways in which it differed from the seal on his Destruction Realm Each of these differences represented a weakness, and Arran took care not to miss any of them

”Not as easy as it looks, is it?”

Even without seeing Elder Feng, Arran knew there was a satisfied smirk on the man's face Yet if the Elder's intention was to distract, he would be disappointed — even without the Patriarch's life at stake, Arran would not easily give up this chance to practice his seal-breaking skills

As Arran continued his work, soes who stood waiting, but each tih to silence them

Finally, Arran had learned all he could, and he was certain he kne to break the formation All it would take was to interrupt the strands of Essence in a specific order, without giving therin that appeared on his face lasted only a moment, however, because then, a horrible truth dawned on him

While he knehat to do, he lacked a way to actually do it

In his focus on defeating the pattern, he'd forgotten that there was a crucial difference between Master Zhao's seal and this formation

The seal existed inside hi his own Essence He could ht — that he had failed to defeat it was solely because he lacked the knowledge to do so

But the forether Rather than hts, he would have to block each strand of Essence using ic — and there were thousands of strands in the formation

He knew the task was beyond hiive up — if he did, the Patriarch would die and the traitors ht yet achieve victory And if that happened, both he and Snowcloud would be in grave danger

A frown crossed his face as he considered what to do, but then, he set to work

First, he created a small Force shi+eld, which he used to block one of the strands of Fire Essence The shi+eld held, and he quickly dis it with a sth that was needed to block a single one of the foran to create more of the shi+elds, as th, his skill at ed to form two dozen small shi+elds before he reached the limit of what he could control

That was far less than he needed to break the forh, and Arran was already struggling to control thisthe formation with his current level of skill would be utterly impossible

Yet at that erous, but…

”Enough of this,” Elder Feng said ”The young man clearly doesn't knohat he's—”

The Elder went silent as Arran stepped into the formation

The idea was as sih Arran could not break the foret its weak points to force open a crack just large enough for hih unhar key points of the formation