The lightning that filled the sky suddenly shattered, turning into snowflake-like gleams scattered around. He Ao lowered his head, amidst the radiance scattered beside him. "The sixteenth time." Li Cheng slightly furrowed his brows, gently raised his hand, reining in the electric light in the void, "Is there something we’ve overlooked?" As he spoke, he raised his hand, and the scattered electric light gathered in the sky once again, forming an array covering the two of them. Compared to the incomplete array engraved on the hall floor, the array in the sky was greatly improved, almost completing nearly half of its content. He Ao gazed at the gap above and slightly furrowed his brows, "Theoretically, we shouldn’t have drawn this line wrong," He pointed at the line near the gap and said slowly, "This is actually a simple connecting rune. We’ve seen it many times in the previous ’repairs,’ and we’ve successfully repaired more than one of such runes. If there was a problem with this line, then the gaps we filled earlier should have collapsed by now." "Could it be similar runes?" Li Cheng slightly furrowed his brows, his gaze sweeping over the electric light flickering beneath the sky, "Perhaps the symbols in the blank spaces are not just a line?" He Ao also looked up, gazing at the surrounding runes. The densely packed runes were reflected in his pupils. He and Li Cheng cooperated well. Originally, he thought that deciphering and repairing this array from scratch would be very difficult, especially considering his limited basic knowledge. But Li Cheng utilized the power of Andaville’s Spear to construct the array, resulting in unexpected ’advantages.’ The entire array remained in a state of ’activation,’ and the ’energy’ within the array was active. Li Cheng was able to keenly perceive the power of this array. Whenever He Ao made modifications to the array, the power within the array would change. Before the array shattered, Li Cheng could sense the ’smoothness’ of the energy flow within the array and then inform He Ao. This allowed He Ao to, as long as he had a general idea, use an enumeration approach to repair the array to some extent. This greatly increased the speed of their array repairs. And in the process of ’repairing’ this array, He Ao further deepened his understanding of runes and arrays. The creator of this array was a true master of arrays. In this array, he had encountered the runes used on the Navigator to seal A02, as well as numerous basic runes used in his own strengthening magic arrays. The most fascinating was the part of the strengthening magic array he was most familiar with. Many runes used to enhance energy circulation and improve energy flow efficiency were embedded in some complex runes by this rune master. Through reverse acceleration and counteraction, those runes unexpectedly obstructed the overall energy flow. Before discovering this design, He Ao had never thought of using the rune in this way. And in this array, there were countless such similar designs, filled with various ingenious ideas. For someone like He Ao, who was self-taught, it was indeed quite a ’supplement.’ Through continuous learning and understanding, he also gained a rough grasp of the array creator’s mindset, and the goal gradually became clearer. Although he had only repaired a small part of the array, these repaired parts were actually all parts of the array’s ’lock.’ That is, the parts of the array he truly needed to use. The gap before him was already the last gap in the array’s ’lock.’ Once this gap was repaired, the array’s lock part would be completed. This gap was just a basic connecting rune, repairing this rune was like connecting two broken wires and then the entire wire would electrify. But the problem lay in this connection, where theoretically the simplest action encountered a problem—these two ’wire ends’ couldn’t connect. "Have you found similar runes?" He Ao furrowed his brows and asked softly. While repairing the array, he was also sharing some basic array knowledge with Li Cheng. With the perception and understanding of the entire array, Li Cheng was now able to identify basic rune structures and, because of the array he constructed, could accurately find similar arrays that He Ao wanted. Just like a search engine. Whenever He Ao came across a completely unfamiliar rune structure, he would have Li Cheng ’search’ for it. A rune structure, most of the time, wouldn’t appear only once, and their incomplete parts might be entirely different. With that, by piecing together elements, they could often quickly figure out the general idea of a new rune. Li Cheng’s gaze quickly scanned over the radiance above, replying. They hadn’t encountered any runes similar to the connecting rune before, so they assumed this gap was a connecting rune. However, not encountering it doesn’t necessarily mean it doesn’t exist. Soon, Li Cheng’s gaze paused slightly, and he lowered his head, looking at He Ao, "I think I found one." He raised his hand, a radiance shone on the array. He Ao followed the radiance and looked ahead, seeing a rune flickering in the light. This rune had some incomplete parts in its overall structure, but overall it looked quite similar to the gap rune. Its complete sections exactly complemented the incomplete parts of the gap rune. "Are there other similar runes?" He Ao gazed at the rune, slightly furrowing his brows. This rune’s overall structure seemed like a few overlapping parts approaching a rune, not like a single rune, whereas that gap rune looked like a single rune at first glance. Li Cheng shook his head, looking up at the rune. Clearly, he also noticed that this rune was an overlapping rune. "Let’s give it a try." He Ao didn’t dismiss this rune but instead memorized its form. He returned to the gap rune, gently raised his hand, and drew a line. And that gap rune above his head followed his hand, gradually illuminating with radiance. Eventually, the light completely connected, linking the entire rune together. That flickering radiant rune flashed once. However, it didn’t completely shatter. In the pitch-black space, eyeballs hung down from the darkness, gazing at the scene on the screen. Their pupils contracted slightly, seemingly also nervously watching everything on the screen. Li Cheng looked up at the array above with some excitement and asked. He Ao suddenly looked up at the stable radiance, and observing the energy flowing in the glow, he turned his head towards Li Cheng, loudly saying, "Cut off the energy supply!" At this moment, Liu Zhengyun seemed to have sensed something and immediately held the spear horizontally. At that very instant, the previously stable ’Array’ in the sky suddenly contracted its glow and then exploded, unleashing a fierce thunderous storm. The storm swept through the surrounding passage entrances, grinding fragmented stones into powder and melting scattered machinery into molten iron. Simultaneously, a thunderous curtain enveloped He Ao’s body, shielding him from the thunderstorm above. Soon, the storm subsided, and the scent of charred and heated qi swept across the faces of both individuals. The eyes gathered in front of the screen watched this scene, first in a daze, then the pupils bent into crescents, repeatedly lifting up, as the entire body shook violently in the darkness. As if they were clutching their stomachs laughing. Li Cheng raised his hand, gathering the surrounding electric light, walked over, and stood beside He Ao. "That rune was a ’trap,’" He Ao recalled the situation of the Array just now, "left deliberately by the designer, that rune would directly ’cut off’ part of the structure within the Array, causing the entire Array to become clogged and self-destruct." His gaze swept over the runes on the ground, "It’s not a structure consisting of multiple overlapping runes, but instead a genuine rune, designed by the creator to appear as if it were multiple overlapping runes, to make us lower our guard, thinking that even if drawn incorrectly, it would be insignificant and thus tempting us to try recklessly." "If we had drawn the rune according to that method," Li Cheng looked down at the rune with some lingering fear, "if you hadn’t reacted quickly, I might have been blown up by my own power." "It wouldn’t just cause an explosion," He Ao gazed at the lines on the ground, frowning, "If we modified the Array directly on this hall under normal circumstances, the Array of this hall would be directly destroyed." The master who had drawn this Array previously exhibited their ingenuity without reservation, without setting any traps, leading him to a certain inertia in thinking. And then he encountered the bomb set by the opponent. However, he hadn’t completely let down his guard, and his willingness to test this ’trap’ rune was because the Array he attempted was simulated by Li Cheng, everything was controllable. And because he remained vigilant, he could quickly discover the issue and give a warning. This kind of ’hiding needles in cotton,’ is the easiest to fall for. Perhaps this master wanted to teach him that before drawing an important Array, one must first simulate it. People can’t teach people, but events teach them once. Thinking idly, He Ao looked down again, and once again examined the surrounding runes. "If that rune wasn’t it either," Li Cheng frowned deeply, "then what exactly is that missing rune?" "It’s exactly the connecting rune we tried before," He Ao said with a slow smile, looking at the lines on the ground, becoming more and more enlightened, "The creator of this Array has already given us the answer." Li Cheng was a bit puzzled. "The effect of the trap rune just now was ’blockage,’" He Ao looked down at the lines under his feet, quickly saying, "This is an important energy circuit within the Array. Since ’blockage’ would cause an explosion, the only way is to connect it." "But we just tried the connecting rune." Li Cheng slightly frowned and said, "And there’s one more problem, why did the creator of the Array know that we would get stuck on the connecting rune?" "He knew the reason why we got stuck here quite simply," He Ao looked at the runes on the ground, pointing to the incomplete runes around the missing rune, "These runes are all unstable, if we don’t repair the runes around this missing rune, there will be no energy for the missing rune, even if it’s supplemented, it’s useless," He paused, continuing, "This is the main stream of all rivers; before other rivers connect, this can’t be connected, "To repair this Array, it can only be repaired from the edges, following the logic of energy flow, but no matter which branch you start from, you will eventually encounter this rune; without connecting this rune, the entire Array cannot be repaired correctly. "And before repairing other parts of the Array, we cannot determine if our method to replace this missing rune is correct, so we have to repair other parts first. "No matter what method is used for repairs, it will always get stuck at this rune, then encounter the trap rune." He Ao’s tone briefly paused, "This rune was likely ’deliberately’ destroyed during a specific issue within the Array. It’s not that he knew we would get stuck here, but under his design, we were bound to get stuck here," He turned around, looking again at the Stone Lotus in the center of the hall, "As for why the connecting rune didn’t take effect, the problem actually doesn’t lie in the connecting rune." In the blink of an eye, he appeared directly in front of the Stone Lotus, turning over and jumping in. "Is there something wrong here?" Li Cheng immediately followed in, looking at the runes on the ground with He Ao. This Stone Lotus also had some runes inside, but none had been destroyed; the structure was intact. These runes were also included in the complete Array that He Ao and the others simulated. He Ao gazed at the ’lotus platform’ plane beneath his feet, frowning slightly. The plane inside this Stone Lotus, just like a lotus platform, wasn’t completely flat. The entire plane, just like the lotus outside, was carved vividly, even the depressions and scars on it were as though real, like a realistic lotus platform. He Ao gazed at those lotus platform textures, which crisscrossed with the Array carved on this plane, forming the entire plane’s structure. He Ao reached out to touch these textures, speaking softly. Before he could finish his words, Li Cheng raised the spear in his hand, sparkling electric light filled the sky. In the sky directly above the Stone Lotus this time, various fine fissures had already spread out, depicting a phantom ’lotus platform’ structure. But those lotus platform textures merely existed singularly, without energy flowing through. He Ao immediately jumped onto the lotus, watching those textures. This time, he didn’t add strokes anymore, but reached out to erase certain lines one by one. As these ’superfluous’ lines were wiped away, some simplified runes slowly emerged. These runes linked with the original Array, beginning for thin strands of energy to flow through. A new, complete Array was gradually forming. This was the overlapping Array, those lotus platform textures themselves were also an Array, nested within the entire Array, and the structure of this Array had been completely destroyed by the superfluous ’traces,’ causing it to utterly lose its power. Adding to the outside of the lotus, subtracting from inside the Lianhua. He Ao’s gaze turned toward the direction of the missing rune. The brilliant lines slowly advanced, filling in that rune. This time, the entire Array did not collapse.