Techniques and Dao

Chapter 223 Immortal Array Bullets
Whether it's day or night, no matter where you are on Earth, there are Beidou satellites in the sky above you.

Tianjizi conjured a pair of glasses and placed them on his nose, projecting the coordinates of Chang'an onto the lenses. He turned and stomped heavily on the ground, creating a large crater, before soaring into the sky and transforming into a golden meteor heading towards the Big Dipper.

Seeing that Tianjizi had already leaped up, Hua Sheng shouted into the headset, "Supreme Lord Xiaojun! Sun Xiaoming! You must succeed! If you can't transmit the Nine Palaces Eight Trigrams Formation to the satellite, Zhiyun might cause the Big Dipper jump to fail in order to protect Tianjizi! Everything depends on you!"

The golden meteor was instantly sucked into the satellite, and just as Tianjizi entered the satellite's communication channel, a large golden net appeared in the sky, covering the entire heavens.

This network leads to any ground coordinate. If the Beidou jumper is lucky enough, stepping into any of the channels will be the correct destination!
At the other end of the Champs-Élysées, Sun Xiaoming tossed her ponytail back and raised her fist in a gesture of assembling.

"Hey sisters! This is the encore performance of Universal War Song! Haven't forgotten your positions? Form ranks!!!"

She gazed at the Big Dipper, her head held high in a gleaming light.

"When the world needs us, let's shine brightly again! This time, let's call it the Nine Palaces Eight Trigrams Fireworks Array!"

Paris, derived from the Celtic word parisio, means "princess".

An orange nine-palace eight-trigram symbol floated up, carrying the figures of sixty-four girls. The girls' toes hovered in mid-air, their light bodies bobbing up and down.

Where the wind blows, it transforms the sky above this princess city into a sea of ​​swirling skirts.

At this moment, Sun Xiaoming, standing at the highest point in the center of the immortal formation, faced the sky, her right hand forming a pistol shape, her left hand supporting the handle. She squinted her left eye, aimed her other eye at the rapidly approaching Beidou satellite, and shouted:
"Aim at the coordinates! By the power of the law! Launch the celestial array!!!"

boom! ! !
A deafening explosion and the immense recoil sent the street's windows shattering instantly. Countless tiny shards of glass flew into the air, refracting the sunlight and turning the entire street into a rainbow of crystal. The immense recoil of the magical projectiles scattered countless sycamore leaves along the street, sending them flying throughout the city and even past the Arc de Triomphe.

The Nine Palaces Eight Trigrams Formation, gleaming with orange light, transformed into a dazzling bullet that flew from Sun Xiaoming's index finger into the sky, heading straight for the Beidou satellite!

It wasn't just the glass and sycamore leaves that were shaken into the air, but also all the members of the HOPE girl group!

Shopping bags that had just been placed by the roadside flew through the air. Ribbons binding neatly packaged gift boxes were torn, and countless fashionable bags, shoes, and dresses of various colors were thrown into the blue sky. Against the backdrop of the weightless figures of the young women, they painted a strange yet shimmering picture in the sky above the art capital.

While still in surprise at Sun Xiaoming's lightning-fast actions, Tai Shang Xiaojun, who was standing below, saw Sun Xiaoming's scream coming from among the flying girls.

"Supreme Lord, quick! Catch me!!"

It turned out that Sun Xiaoming was flying straight towards Taishang Xiaojun. He hurriedly reached out to catch him, but then he heard a large group of girls crying for help.

"Help me!!"

"Somebody come!"

"Oh no, oh no, oh no!!"

"Oh my god! Mommy!!"

A cacophony of cries for help and screams filled the air, making eardrums ring. A girl, blotting out the sky, was tumbling down upon Tai Shang Xiao Jun in various poses.

Tai Shang Xiao Jun gasped, "It's raining, little sister! What... what am I supposed to do?!"

In a moment of urgency, quick thinking comes naturally, and he conjured up a basin the size of a basketball court in his hand.

"I've answered!"

Boom!Boom!Boom!
Boom! Boom, boom, boom!

Thump thump thump thump thump thump thump thump thump!
Thump th ...
After a series of loud drumbeats and a flurry of activity, all sixty-four members of HOPE fell into the large basin without exception!

But there were still too many people. Tai Shang Xiao Jun's wrist went numb, and the large basin tipped over. Ironically, it landed squarely on Sun Xiao Ming's chest.

Although the members were all lying on the ground, no one was injured, and Tai Shang Xiao Jun was immediately greeted with applause from the girls.

Sun Xiaoming pressed her face against Taishang Xiaojun's and said smugly, "I knew you were good to me, you ignored them and only hugged me."

Tai Shang Xiao Jun could only let out a long sigh and slump down on the side of the street.

"Little Strawberry! How is Tianjizi doing?"

The sound of Hua Sheng's voice came through the headphones, instantly drawing Tai Shang Xiao Jun's attention back to the battle.

The little strawberry voice in the earpiece replied, "You mean that young man who jumped from Beidou just now? He just jumped onto a satellite!"

Tianjizi had vanished without a trace, while Taishang Xiaojun, preoccupied with the Big Dipper leap he had just witnessed, anxiously pressed, "Little Strawberry, quickly let me see how Chang'an is!"

The rapid tapping of Strawberry's keyboard filled my headphones. "Don't rush me! Don't be impatient!"

"I want to see it now!"

"The portable computer's chip is too slow." Little Strawberry's fingers flew across the keyboard, and after a few seconds she said, "Okay! The link has been sent to everyone's headphones, figure it out yourselves!"

Tai Shang Xiao Jun slid his hand through the earphone, sending the image transmitted by Xiao Cao Mei into the air, where a huge holographic image, half the height of a building, immediately appeared in front of everyone.

The image shows satellite images of the sky over Chang'an from various angles. In one image, an object resembling a glowing ruby ​​enters the atmosphere.

The holographic image quickly switched to the lower view, where the city was no longer what it used to be. The outer edge of the city was covered by more than twenty layers of the Chaodu Xuan City, like a glass dome. Apart from the lights of the city buildings, it was impossible to see what was inside.

Upon seeing this scene, everyone gasped in shock!
Upon closer inspection, the ruby-red figure in the sky was engulfed in flames, while the others were plummeting downwards.

Little Strawberry exclaimed in surprise, "Wow! There really are people this lucky! A BeiDou jump with a probability of one in four hundred trillion trillion!"

Seeing this, Hua Sheng shouted into his headset, "This is too fast! Does anyone know if the Nine Palaces Eight Trigrams Immortal Formation has gone to Chang'an yet?!" Just as everyone was extremely anxious, Jin Fan's shout, mixed with signal noise, came through the headset.

"The teleportation location of the immortal array was accurate and in place. After arriving in Chang'an, the immortal array seemed to split into three immortal array platforms!"

"Celestial Array Platform One! Fully activated!"

"Celestial Array Platform Two! Full Activation!"

"Immortal Array Platform Three! Full Activation!!"

After waiting for two seconds, Jin Fan continued to reply:

"The Nine Palaces have now been fully deployed!"

"The core of the Immortal Array Eight Trigrams has been activated!"

For a moment, the huge image in the sky above Paris turned into a white blur due to overexposure, and the dazzling light made everyone squint.

Everyone held their breath and remained silent.

A moment later, the image dimmed slightly, revealing the sky above Chang'an.

The night sky over Chang'an in the picture is filled with countless huge and colorful fireworks, and the dazzling light of the fairy array illuminates the world as bright as day.

Tianjizi adjusted his position by pushing up his glasses and passing through a cluster of fireworks. His descent speed immediately slowed down, and the flames on his body caused by atmospheric friction instantly decreased by 30%.

The sound continued through the headphones:
"BeiDou Jumper is slowing down!"

Tianjizi was falling too fast, so he immediately adjusted his direction and body to pass through another colorful firework array.

"Jumper has slowed to a safe descent speed! Passing through the stratosphere!"

"The jumper has entered the safe troposphere!"

Jin Fanyin's voice rang repeatedly in the earpiece: "Beidou jump teleportation complete!"

"Success! Tianjizi will arrive in Chang'an in three seconds!"

As they watched the giant image of Tianjizi flying downwards, Taishang Xiaojun and the entire HOPE team cheered!
But it was not over yet; in fact, for Tianjizi, it was just the beginning.

Chang'an, enveloped by layers of the Chaodu Xuancheng, shimmered with a floating fluorescent light, its glow flickering like an irregular heartbeat. Once Chang'an was reset, everything within it would become a sacrifice to protect the dragon vein. Even if the Chaodu Xuancheng could withstand the impact of the six-pointed star magic array, the cost would be devastating.

Little Strawberry then added, "Calculations show that the impact of the current teleporter on Chaodu Xuancheng is approximately 1.25 billion tons!"

"Not enough! Not enough! This power is not enough to break through the Xuan City Barrier!" That was the voice of Master Ruokong.

Jin Fanyin exclaimed, "Not enough? Are there any alternative plans?!"

The moment he finished speaking, the giant image suddenly turned into a blinding gold.

Hanamori exclaimed, "No way! Did we bump into something?"

Upon closer inspection, everyone realized that a thin, extremely bright white line had appeared in the sky above Chang'an. From the image, the white line appeared to pierce the sky almost instantly. Its brightness was so intense that everyone nearly mistook it for an explosion caused by the collision of the Celestial Pole with the capital, Xuan City.

This white line has no physical form. Unlike light that dims with distance, this luminous white line maintains a uniform brightness from near to far. The white light appears substantial because it abruptly stops in the sky above the city, as if obstructed by something. Yet, there is nothing in front of the light. It's as if the light travels its expected distance and then suddenly stops in mid-air.

Perhaps because the image is too far away, the glowing white line appears as thin as a hair on the screen. Even excluding the distance issue, it's certain that the line isn't very thick.

The white line was over Chang'an at one end, but its origin was nowhere to be seen at the other end. Perhaps Little Strawberry also wanted to find out the origin of the white line, so she zoomed in and out on the screen and tried to use satellite imagery to find out where the white line came from.

But no matter how small the Earth is, the other end of that line is still in the dark void of space. People can only see one end of this white line; the other end connects to the unfathomable depths of the universe.

Just as everyone was wondering what was going on, a satellite appeared on the screen, and the white line happened to be in the satellite's orbit.

The next second, the satellite was right in front of the white line, and then an incredibly strange scene unfolded: the light actually passed right through the satellite. The satellite, in turn, seemed to encounter no obstruction, smoothly slicing through the center. The satellite wasn't cut in two; it and the white line seemed like two projected images that overlapped for a fleeting moment, then separated without interfering with each other.

Before anyone could react, Little Strawberry pointed out an even more unbelievable place.

"That's strange! No matter how the image is zoomed in or out, the thickness of the glowing white line remains the same!"

The Earth in the current image has been magnified to its smallest size, appearing to viewers to be no larger than a fist. Even at this size, the white line is still clearly visible. Based on this, the cross-sectional area of ​​the white line is estimated to be at least equivalent to a small city; otherwise, it would have been ignored by the satellite camera and could not have been captured so clearly.

When the image is zoomed in to the sky above Chang'an, the white line remains the same thickness, defying the common sense that things appear smaller from afar and larger up close. If the image is held upright with the Earth below, the luminous white line resembles a thin white cotton thread emerging from deep darkness, making the Earth appear like a glass bead tied to that thread. This evokes an indescribable sense of strangeness, as if the distant darkness possesses some power that alters the laws of physics.

The glass bead appears still, but if you stare at it, there's a strange, almost hypnotic quality to it, like a glass marble swaying back and forth, creating an image that exudes a maddening sense of oppression.

Little Strawberry probably sensed something was wrong immediately. She immediately abandoned the vertical view of looking at the Earth from afar and switched the view back to the sky above Chang'an.

Suddenly, Tai Shang Xiao Jun and Mie Ying realized something almost simultaneously, breaking the silence in unison.

"The Light of Heaven!"

Hua Sheng looked completely bewildered by the term, while Mie Ying pointed at the white line in the image and shouted, "That's right! The other side of the white light is the Heavenly Court!"

(End of this chapter)