With the array activated, the lightning-attracting light was brought out to meet the sixty-nine bolts of tribulation lightning. With a deafening crash, the sky seemed to split open as a sea of lightning—broad enough that it would take seven or eight people joining hands to encircle it—crashed down toward Li Dai, instantly submerging her. Outside, the defensive array that Li Dai had believed to be quite sturdy let out a cracking sound under the immense force of the thunder, fracturing and causing Li Dai's expression to falter slightly.
Although she had never systematically studied arrays, armed with the extremely rare *Basic Array Encyclopedia* provided by Xinxin, she considered her skill in arrays to be quite good. Had she not incorporated her split divine soul into her Hunyuan Array to turn it into a spirit array? Besides, judging by her past duels, her arrays were certainly not weak.
Yet, why was such a formidable array unable to withstand even a single blow from the tribulation lightning? Li Dai had to admit that she had grown a bit complacent. Believing herself quite talented, she hadn't put genuine effort into studying arrays the way she had with alchemy. In alchemy, she had toiled away for a million years in the black ring's time-dilation zone, pushing her mastery to the highest level she could currently achieve and becoming a Tier 9 Spirit Alchemist. She firmly believed that if not for the fact that spiritual energy circulated through her body while immortal alchemy …
Chapter 648