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Chapter 88 There's no such thing as talent, it's all about the mechanics [Fourth Update]

Upon hearing this, everyone's expressions turned strange!
Breaking through realms as easily as drinking water is one thing, but to actually decipher this ancient and ominous formation?

This is absolutely outrageous!

They didn't initially believe it, but Chen Qing's confidence and the way he carried the talisman made him seem exceptionally reliable.

Despite their bewilderment and doubts, the group followed without thinking.

The gray fog surged, concealing a deadly intent.

Yun Cang stared at Chen Qing's every turn and every step he took, his expression gradually changing from solemn to surprised and doubtful, and finally settling on horror!

"They've completely bypassed it! Absolutely perfect!"

The array nodes he had previously deduced flashed through his mind, and he felt a chill run down his spine! He knew that those nodes were not fixed, but constantly changing, and only by deciphering the rules could one easily bypass them!

Although the others were not familiar with array formations, they also sensed something unusual while in the midst of it, since they had not encountered any obstacles along the way!

The chilling atmosphere of violence and the eerie sense of being lost were both avoided!
Feng Guang, being straightforward, couldn't help but exclaim, "Fellow Daoist Yun! Didn't you say that it would take more than a dozen array masters several days and nights to deduce it..." He stopped mid-sentence, realizing his mistake, and quickly cupped his hands towards Yun Cang, saying, "Old Feng is just being blunt, please don't take offense, fellow Daoist!"

Yun Cang seemed not to hear him, staring only at Chen Qing. After a while, he finally couldn't help but say, "Chen Jun! Although you have only just begun to understand the Dao of Arrays, you have already grasped its profound mysteries! You are a gift from heaven! You must study this path deeply in the future, lest your pearl be covered in dust! Otherwise, it would be a waste of your talent!"

I don't have any talent; it's all thanks to the system.

A thought flashed through Chen Qing's mind, but he remained calm on the surface and said, "That's a matter for later. We'll talk about it after we leave the formation. Everyone, stay close."

They continued on their way, making turns and avoiding obstacles, moving smoothly and effortlessly.

After a while, the gray fog gradually thinned out, and after turning a corner on a mountain ridge path, the view suddenly opened up, revealing a huge, bottomless mountain ravine lying in front of us!

The dark mountain ravine was like a giant mouth of the earth, with cold currents surging at its bottom, emanating a chilling aura.

Chen Qing stood by the stream, a thought flashing through his mind, and once again activated the Star Forbidden Technique!

"Om-"

A clear sense of resonance came from the deepest part of the mountain stream!

This time, there was no resistance whatsoever!

His eyes flashed, and he spread his five fingers wide, grabbing at the air!
"Come!"

call!
A dazzling starlight, like a shooting star, shot into the sky and landed in Chen Qing's hand, transforming into a bead the size of a longan, its entire body shimmering with starlight!
Star-Fixing Bead!
A strange feeling of being connected by blood and mind arose spontaneously!

"Finally got it!"

Chen Qing felt much more at ease and was about to investigate further.

"Boom!"

The ground beneath my feet trembled without warning!
Above, in the "sky" shrouded in gray mist, several thick chains of starlight suddenly appeared, then collapsed and disintegrated!
The scattered starlight did not disappear, but transformed into thousands of tiny streams of light, shooting in all directions and disappearing into the mountains, deep ravines, and mist!
"what happened?"

Feng Guang, Lin Zhuan, and others were on high alert.
Everyone was on guard.

"Don't panic!" Yun Cang suddenly looked up, staring at the dissipating starlight, and calculated with his hands. "So that's how it is! This mountain stream is the key to the formation! We triggered the formation when we came here!"

He smiled and said, "Fellow Daoist Chen! You have found the core of this formation! That's why you led us all the way here! This place is like the eye of a typhoon! Outside, there is lurking danger and raging storm, but here it remains unaffected!"

Upon hearing this, everyone looked at Chen Qing, and then they were all taken aback.

"Where is Fellow Daoist Chen?"

But Chen Qing, who was standing by the mountain stream, had disappeared without a trace, leaving only a bewildered little golden monkey.

"squeak?"

"Where did you bring me?"

Chen Qing stood in a strange void, with flowing starlight beneath his feet and flickering talismans above his head.

With a slight thought, he raised his hand and made a gesture.

"call out!"

A streak of dark light pierced through the air and landed steadily in his palm.

It was a jet-black talisman, with twisted and tangled patterns on it, exuding a cold and resentful aura!

"The Yin God Talisman, things have changed, and the world has turned into mulberry fields."

An indescribable sense of vicissitude swept over Chen Qing, and he also realized where he was.

"Inside the fixed star bead!"

His gaze shifted to the center of the void. There, an array diagram unfolded!
Mountains and rivers, misty dangers, spatial folds... every detail is revealed!
A miniature projection of the Primordial Grand Array!
Chen Qing focused his gaze and spotted several figures.

Here it is!

The gray mist tore apart, and two figures stepped out into the air.

The blood-robed man at the front held a black spear, his aura as deep as the sea, and the oppressive power of his perfected Yin spirit caused the surrounding gray mist to stagnate.

Beside him followed a beautiful young female cultivator in a wide, light red robe. The robe could not conceal her exquisite figure, and the fabric flowed like waves as she moved.

The female cultivator held a jade compass in her hand, its jade light shimmering.

The female cultivator held a shimmering jade compass in her jade-like fingers, her eyes sparkling with natural allure: "Senior Brother Hong, just now someone used a sophisticated forbidden technique to disrupt the star orbit within a hundred miles, disturbing your divine sense and soul lock. It must have been the work of the juniors' master! Fortunately, I'm here! The True Immortals are mutually restraining each other, and in terms of searching for qi and tracing traces, no one can surpass me!"

Her eyes sparkled, her charm was natural: "Senior brother, don't forget that you need to help me break the Star Lock Void Formation and retrieve the inherited treasure. I heard it's a formation treasure."

"A formation treasure that can form an array upon landing?" A hint of greed flashed in Senior Brother Hong's eyes, but it quickly disappeared. Instead, he said, "Don't worry, this time I only captured those juniors to give them the opportunity of the Holy Sect. I'm here to convert them. I don't care about anything else!"

Having said that, his cold gaze swept over the fragments of the flying ship below. His eyes then turned to the sky where the starlight had dissipated and its lingering glow remained.

"What about people?"

"Don't worry, senior brother. Once we're in this formation, they're trapped like turtles in a jar. They can't escape!" The female cultivator patted her waist, and a scream came from there, followed by a spurt of blood. She caught the blood with her slender fingers as if picking a flower, and gently flicked and guided it on the compass. "With the Xuanji guiding the way and the starlight as our guide, go!"

"Buzz!"

A condensed silver light shot out from the center of the compass like a serpent, instantly sweeping past the wreckage and locking onto the direction.

"Follow it!" The female cultivator's figure flickered, and with a gust of fragrant wind, she had already sped away with the streak of light.

"Boom!"

Before the aftershocks of the collapsing starlight chains had subsided, several powerful auras tore through the gray mist and arrived in mid-air!

"Mount Xuyuan is full of opportunities! Such an unusual phenomenon must be the birth of a rare treasure!" A giant man, nine feet tall with bulging muscles, his body radiating with aura, wielding two giant axes, galloped in from the northwest!

"Chong-"

The sound of a sword pierced the deathly silence!

In the southeast, a cultivator dressed in white arrived on a sword, surrounded by seven gleaming flying swords that formed a chilling sword formation!
The sword intent soared to the sky, cleaving through the gray mist!
His gaze swept across the area below like lightning: "To test the sword against the world, one must drink the blood of the strong! This treasure shall be my whetstone!"

"Hiss..."

In the southwest corner, a man dressed in brightly colored clothes walked out slowly. Wherever he passed, the rocks under his feet crackled and wisps of green poisonous smoke rose up!
A small, bright green snake with a fleshy crest on its head was coiled around his fingertip, and a foul stench filled the air as its tongue flicked in and out!
From the due north, a cold wind howled, and an old woman, leaning on a white bone cane and dressed in a funeral shroud, appeared from the mist.

Her eyes were sunken, her skin was withered, and she was surrounded by an aura of death. She stood on a floating platform made up of countless pale white skulls!
"Hehehe! This old woman has landed from the sea and guarded the mountains for thirty years. Finally, the change has come! Go ahead and rob, go ahead and rob that formation eye, but little do you know, the real treasure is not there at all! But with these few people going through the formation, the calamity can be averted!"

Within the Star-Stabilizing Pearl, the Milky Way surged, and talismans floated and sank.

Chen Qing stood in the center of the void, coldly looking down at the miniature array below.

"The Star-Stabilizing Pearl can send us out of the formation, but not out of the mountain. If we don't take advantage of this formation to suppress this Yin Spirit Perfection cultivator, we might not have another chance if we go elsewhere! Speaking of which, where are the reinforcements from the Great Yan Dynasty? Are they really abandoning this ship full of Yuan Qi seeds? Or have they been influenced by someone?"

On the array diagram, flashing lights indicated that these ferocious men were rapidly approaching the mountain stream from different directions!

“That brute, sword cultivator, poison cultivator, old hag... none of them are good people! Although their auras are strong, they each have their own agendas, and they rely solely on brute force. One of them is not much stronger than Ling Xiao, but his experience and methods may be more abundant.”

His gaze finally settled on the southwest corner of the array, on the two almost overlapping, fastest-moving scarlet dots of light.

One of the points of light, with an aura as deep and condensed as an abyss, and a dazzling scarlet color, was none other than Senior Brother Hong, who had reached the perfection of Yin Spirit!

The other one, though slightly weaker, was agile and unpredictable—the red-robed female cultivator holding a jade compass!
Chen Qing narrowed his eyes, pondering: "The rest of us can use the power of this remnant formation to hold them back, making them wary of each other and buying time. But if we lure them away to deal with this person..."

He shook his head slightly.

"Using wolves to devour tigers? Difficult! This person has the highest cultivation level, ruthless methods, and that female cultivator guides him to avoid the dangers within the formation. Even if the other cultivators join forces, they will only be providing him with food and resources, merely increasing his power! It will only allow him to arrive here faster! Hmm?"

As he was pondering this, he suddenly noticed that within the array, a figure did not choose to rush towards the array's core, but instead went to a secluded place.

"eccentric."

He followed the man's route and his gaze swept over a grove of withered bamboo. Suddenly, his heart skipped a beat, and a strong feeling of excitement arose within him!

In villainous terms, it would be—

"There is something hidden inside that is destined to be mine, and it is meant to be mine."

　Just posting this now, the fifth update is still being revised, and the sixth update will probably be very late...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)