The others: “…”
Everyone didn’t know what to do. Originally wanting to unanimously shout “Sheng Jiao, save us!” But Sheng Jiao was already in the array. They could only all look at Fu Man.
“Fu Man! Quickly think of a way!”
Fu Man: “?!”
This was Fu Man’s first time being “what everyone hoped for.” Flattered, he went “Ah!” trembling: “Sheng Jiao, protect Ling’er’s life first. Just—just don’t let the array complete!”
Liu Changxing had already slashed again, shaken until his head trembled: “You—you make it—it sound easy!”
This sacrificial array was forbidden precisely because once you started drawing, you absolutely couldn’t stop. Both the sacrifice and the array drawer would perish together.
Just as everyone was at a loss, Fu Man suddenly said: “Leave here first!”
Because Fu Man suddenly discovered—the array in the inner chamber was just the inner ring of yesterday’s array. Outside should be a large outer circle. By distance, it should precisely cover the entire quarters.
Just as Fu Man’s words fell, Xi Jue without a word activated ‘Wheresoever I Roam,’ instantly transferring everyone outside the quarters.
The next moment, the outer ring array instantly activated. Just shy of pulling in the last escaping Xi Jue.
Xi Jue, still shaken, looked at the ominous blood-red array light, his heart pounding wildly.
Yan Ling…
Xi Jue’s thoughts had just stirred when Fu Man, as if sensing it, directly ordered Rang Chen and the others to forcibly hold Xi Jue down, lest he voluntarily go in to die.
Xi Jue raged: “So we can only watch helplessly?!”
Lezheng Jiu was even angrier than him: “Better than you actively going to die? Brave but brainless fool!”
Xi Jue was scolded until he nearly spat out blood.
Just then, the pitch-black night sky suddenly split with a deafening thunder roar. With a boom, it fell, instantly razing the quarters to the ground. Dust and wood chips flew chaotically.
Everyone froze, hurrying to look.
At the critical moment, Sheng Jiao directly summoned heavenly thunder, shattering the barrier over the quarters.
Dust scattered everywhere. Sheng Jiao’s figure embracing Yan Ling vaguely appeared. Because his back was to everyone, he seemed inexplicably tall.
…Once again full of the two words “reliable.”
One bolt of thunder wasn’t enough to shatter the sacrificial array. Sheng Jiao forcibly endured his internal organs’ severe pain when activating spiritual power, again using Tianyan Pearls to summon bolt after bolt of heavenly thunder—actually like experiencing tribulation thunder, continuously falling on the two overhead.
But the array remained unmoved, still extracting fresh blood from Yan Ling’s wrist.
Feeling the vitality on Yan Ling’s body growing weaker and weaker, Sheng Jiao’s face finally completely darkened. With one hand, he tightly held Yan Ling in his embrace. The other hand gripped the one hundred and seven Tianyan Pearls, violently activating spiritual power.
Muffled sounds rang out. The Tianyan Pearls flew into mid-air one by one, suspended around the array, emitting threads of lightning patterns.
As Sheng Jiao’s spiritual power shattered, over a hundred Tianyan Pearls instantly exploded.
Boom!
Sounds like fireworks exploding echoed all around. One Tianyan Pearl exploding could raze several li to the ground—let alone over a hundred all exploding.
The spiritual power that originally could have razed all of Central State City was directly isolated within the array. In the continuous explosive sounds, the immovable forbidden array finally cracked open.
In that instant, Sheng Jiao scooped up Yan Ling. But his legs were like mired in a quagmire, unable to pull out. He could only throw him forcefully.
Xi Jue instantly appeared by the crack, catching the light-as-air Yan Ling in one motion, swiftly retreating not far away.
The moment he broke free of the array, Yan Ling sharply gasped. The gold in his pupils receded like a tide. His unfocused vision gradually focused.
Lezheng Jiu rushed over swiftly, stuffing several spirit pills into him.
Yan Ling belatedly, blankly looked at Sheng Jiao in the crimson array not far away. Shocked, he immediately tried to rush over: “Sheng Jiao—!”
Lezheng Jiu grabbed him in one motion: “Don’t move!”
Yan Ling had lost too much blood. Even his feet were unsteady. Panicking: “But Sheng Jiao…”
Lezheng Jiu was so angry at this continuous death-seeking he couldn’t contain it: “Worry about yourself first!”
Sheng Jiao could blast that ghost array into cracks to send Yan Ling out—no need to worry he’d die inside.
In everyone’s eyes, Sheng Jiao was always reliable and steady, omnipotent—fundamentally not needing others to worry.
At such a young age, he’d solved countless cases at Xiezhi Sect. Though a gentle jade-like gentleman at Tianyan Academy, at Xiezhi Sect he was a cruel, cold Living King of Hell everyone knew.
Sheng Jiao stood alone in the shattering array’s center, replacing Yan Ling’s position at the array eye. As long as he could move himself from the array eye, he could completely destroy the entire array.
Over a hundred Tianyan Pearls had all shattered. But that array, having consumed Yan Ling’s blood and Tianyan, was actually healing bit by bit, continuing to spread toward the outer ring.
The Tianyan spiritual power on Sheng Jiao’s body was already completely exhausted. His meridians transmitted intermittent dull pain, but his face didn’t show half of it.
But Xi Jue’s sharp eyes discovered that bastard Sheng Jiao was clearly about to collapse yet still putting on airs. Unable to contain his anger, he directly formed hand seals, using ‘Wheresoever I Roam’ to teleport several small round beads overhead.
“Sheng Jiao!”
Sheng Jiao looked up, instantly understanding what they were.
—This Xi Jue was a typical wastrel. The Tianyan in his meridians wasn’t enough—he constantly extracted a pile of Tianyan spiritual power from the Xi family’s Tianyan earth veins, compressing them into small balls to store, lest he need them urgently one day.
Most likely, Tianyan spiritual power consuming so fast couldn’t be separated from this wastrel Xi Jue’s abuse of his xiangwen either.
Seeing the entire array about to completely condense, Sheng Jiao’s face like still water, he activated the last trace of spiritual power in his meridians, summoning earth-shaking thunder from the horizon.
Rumble rumble—
Deathly pale lightning echoed across the horizon. Thunder crackling, it fell straight down, accurately striking the small round Tianyan beads Xi Jue suspended in the air.
Though this compressed Tianyan spiritual power couldn’t match true Tianyan Pearls, the danger was still sufficiently enormous.
Again, deafening fireworks blooming sounds. Lightning mixed with the radiance of exploding Tianyan beads thunderously burst into brilliant, gorgeous fireworks in the pitch-black horizon.
At the same time, the array below showed momentary distortion, as if forcibly holding on, unwilling to accept fate.
Then, Liu Changxing slashed with his sword again, finally splitting open a gap in the array.
Xi Jue’s ‘Wheresoever I Roam’ instantly activated, yanking Sheng Jiao out from the array eye in one motion.
The sacrifice at the array eye disappeared. The crimson array abruptly shattered. In place, it twisted into a shadow brandishing claws, lunging toward Yan Ling.
Yan Ling couldn’t even stand steadily. His ear cuff had fallen who knows where.
In his ears, the Tianyan origin seemed to silently roar, question. Finally, just about to rush to his face, it completely transformed into an imperceptible sigh.
Yan Ling subconsciously wanted to extend his hand, but brushed past that crimson shadow.
The Tianyan origin, struggling on death’s door for eight years, finally silently disappeared in spring days.
Winter snow has stopped. All things revived.
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