A Man Like None Other

A trace of disdain flickered in Jared’s eyes as he stared directly at the talisman imprint at the center of the Array of Eight Trigrams.

“Trying to compete with me in the art of charms? Too naive!”

Jared’s lips curled into a smirk as he swiped his hand, and the charm imprint in the middle turned to ash in an instant.

As the charm imprint turned to ash, the light from the other charm imprints also vanished immediately.

The entire sword-cleansing lake was plunged into darkness, and the sword marionettes seemed to lose their frenzy.

Though they were still attacking, their strength had clearly diminished.

Some sword marionettes even stopped attacking altogether.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief and looked toward Jared in unison.

Sworder walked over with his sword and asked, “Mr. Chance, are you okay?”

him. “Sworder, what’s going on with this secret room? And

his head. “I don’t know either. I only know that there’s an arcane array at the bottom of the sword-cleansing lake. As for this secret room

inside, must have been left by the ancestors of the Divine Smithing Sect,”

“Why would you say that, Mr. Chance?

of Five Elements and Eight Trigrams inside were likely left behind by the Divine Smithing Sect’s ancestor as a backup, to prevent the sword-cleansing lake from being destroyed. If the arcane

An ancestor of the Divine Smithing Sect couldn’t have set up an

in the Array of Five Elements and Eight Trigrams was tampered with, which caused the evil energy to seep into the arcane array. This is also why

if that’s the case, does that mean the sword-cleansing lake has lost

array, the sword-cleansing lake

“Ah!”

Sworder could

create divine weapons not only because of

ordinary lake, the Divine Smithing Sect might

and Eight Trigrams work again. It might not return to its original state, but at