A thick plume of smoke rose from the core of Yuzhou Prefecture City's defensive array.
The enormous, costly array hub was wrenched free from the vast formation by a single palm of Lu Qian.
It was a formation hub a hundred zhang in diameter, forged from countless rare metals.
Various spirit crystals were inlaid on it; even the smallest were the size of a water jar.
At its center sat a single spirit crystal that supplied energy to the entire city-array — a crystal roughly thirty zhang across.
That one core spirit crystal alone contained a concentration of heaven-and-earth energy comparable to the entire magical power of ten ordinary Condensed Dao Fruition cultivators at the half-step-to-Illumine-Void level.
Together with the other crystals and the linked ley veins, Yuzhou’s city defense array could have withstood the bombardment of a half-step-to-Illumine-Void powerhouse for more than three months.
But the array wasn’t even activated when Lu Qian forced his way in.
With no experts guarding that hub, Lu Qian naturally took it without ceremony.
Not far from the pavilion where the city-array’s core sat was the void-transference array that led Yuzhou to the outside world.
Lu Qian didn’t hesitate.