The cheat system is useless, but I have the strongest living dad.

The beast house flew towards the mountain, but it couldn't get there no matter what it tried. The mountain seemed to keep getting taller as the beast house flew.

Huo Die probed with his divine sense for a while: "This mountain is set with an array, and we can't get out by flying. Let's go up the mountain to find the array's core."

The Song'ao Beast House slowly descended, and the height of the mountain also decreased. They could not see the entire mountain, but they could see a house halfway up the mountain.

A house appeared halfway up the mountain in the secret realm, which was clearly unusual.

Feng Yu: "Dad, shall we go downstairs?"

Huo Die: "Go."

The Song'ao Beast House stopped above the courtyard.

The courtyard was adorned with many dark red flags bearing large black characters for "wine".

There were many wine jars in the courtyard, of varying sizes. The largest was as tall as an adult cultivator, while the smallest was only as tall as an adult cultivator's calf.

Some of these wine jars have lids, and some don't.

This residence appears to be a tavern.

Si Xiu landed in the courtyard of the tavern, and the four beast heads of the Song'ao Beast House began to growl.

Feng Yu: "Song Ao has issued a warning: there may be strange beasts or monsters in this tavern."

Huo Die: "With Dad around, there's nothing to fear from any monster."

The door to the room opened by itself, revealing ten square tables, each with four benches beside it. The backs of the benches were covered with dark red cloth covers, on which was embroidered a large black character for "wine".

Huo Die: "Hmph, playing tricks. Let's go in."

The four cultivators entered the main hall, where wine jars and bowls appeared on ten square tables. The hall suddenly became lively, with a cultivator sitting on each chair, chatting and drinking.

Hu Yawu, wielding the Golden Serpent Sword, charged toward the nearest square table. Before his sword even touched the cultivators on the chairs, the four cultivators beside the table suddenly screamed and collapsed onto the chairs in a gruesome manner.

Feng Yu also released four spirit swords, attacking the square table next to him. Just like before, before the spirit swords could even touch the cultivators on the chairs, the four cultivators next to the square table screamed a few times and fell onto the chairs, bleeding from their seven orifices.

The monks at the other eight square tables seemed oblivious to everything, continuing to chat, clink bowls, and drink.

Feng Yu released eight spirit swords, which attacked the other eight square tables together. The spirit swords did not touch the cultivators, but the cultivators around the eight square tables screamed a few times and died in their chairs with their eyes wide open and tongues sticking out.

It's really very strange.

"The guests this time are rather impolite." A strange voice rang out, and a wine jar, half the height of a cultivator and wearing a black square hat, appeared at the front of the hall...

A faint scent of blood rose from the square hat, and a head slowly emerged from the top of the wine jar, lifting the square hat off.

The face on that head was deathly pale, as if it were covered with a thick layer of white powder, and its neck was unusually long.

The head on the wine jar shook its neck and chuckled, "Hehehehe...you guys..."

"Whoosh!" Huo Die's golden wheel flashed with golden light and cut off the head of the wine jar.

The head of the wine jar rolled several times on the ground. This head had faces on all four sides, each with a different expression. What they had in common was that their faces were all covered with a thick layer of white powder, making them deathly pale.

The head on the ground quickly rotted, turning into a four-sided skull, which then weathered away and disappeared.

The large wine jar shook twice, and a square hat reappeared on the lid. A head slowly emerged from under the square hat, with an unusually long neck supporting the four-sided head and the square hat.

The four-faced man turned half a circle, and then a face covered in thick makeup, looking angry, appeared in front of him. His angry face was baring his teeth, which were chattering and making a clicking sound.

The wine and bowls on the ten square tables disappeared, and the dead monks on the chairs, grouped into fours, came together and became the wine jars on the tables.

Each wine jar is inscribed with a different character, from left to right and front to back: 'Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth, Wind, Thunder, Ice, Air, Soul.'

The font colors correspond to the colors inherent in the spirit: 'yellow, green, blue, red, brown, cyan, purple, light blue, white, dark red.'

Huo Die narrowed his eyes: "It's the Ten Spirits Array."

Shen Yao: "What is the Ten Spirits Array?"

"Boom, boom."

"Bo, Bo."

Four voices rang out, and the wine jar monster grew two arms and two long legs.

The wine jar monster charged towards the golden wine jar, and Huo Die shouted, "We can't let him break the wine jar!"

They used their spiritual energy to try and stop the wine jar monster from rushing towards the golden wine jar, but the distance was too far. Just as they flew in front of the wine jar monster, the golden wine jar was already shattered by it.

"Oh!"

A golden light shot into the sky from the square table, and Shen Yao and Feng Yu felt a pain in their golden spiritual roots.

Shen Yao: "My golden spiritual root is gone."

Feng Yu: "Mine too."

Huo Die cast the Six Directions Array, trapping the wine jar monster within. Shen Yao then used her cheat ability to defeat it instantly.

The wine jar monster in the Six Directions Array shattered on the ground, and soon rotted and weathered away.

Shen Yao: "Father, what is the Ten Spirits Formation?"

Huo Die: "The Ten Spirits Array uses ten objects as mediums for spiritual roots, each corresponding to one of the ten spiritual roots. If an object is destroyed, one of the spiritual roots of the cultivators within the array will be absorbed."

"If all ten objects are destroyed, even an Immortal Emperor will forever lose his spiritual roots and become useless."

"Hehehehehehe." Behind them, at the Soul Wine Jar, the Wine Jar Monster reappeared!

The wine jar monster shattered the soul wine jar, and Shen Yao and Hu Yawu both felt a sharp pain in their soul roots...

From the shattered Soul Wine jar, a dark red light shot into the sky.

Shen Yao: "My soul root is gone too..."

Hu Yawu: "Mine is gone too."

The wine jar monster changed into a laughing face and said to Huo Die, "You know quite a lot."

Huo Die: "Six-Directional Boundary Array!"

The wine jar monster was trapped in the boundary array. It shrank back into the wine jar and tried to roll out, but to no avail.

Huo Die: "The array's core is outside. I'll guard it. You all go find it quickly!"

The wine jar monster stretched out its limbs and head, reverting to its angry face, and roared in fury.

Shen Yaofeng, Yu Hu, and Ya Wu rushed out the door to find the array's core.

Apart from the many wine jars displayed in the courtyard of the tavern, nothing else seemed out of the ordinary.

Could the key to the formation be hidden within these wine jars?

Shen Yao took out the God-Slaying Blade and drew it to slash at the wine jars.

No twitching...

Shen Yao tried to pull the knife out twice more, but still couldn't get it to move.

Shen Yao: "Slay a god?"

The spirit of the scabbard, the guardian deity, responded to her: "Don't summon it for such a trivial matter."

Shen Yao: "Then you do it?"

The guardian spirit said, "Don't bother me with such a trivial matter."

Shen Yao: "...You guys really have personality."

"Then what use are you?" Shen Yao asked helplessly, and she put away the God-Slaying Blade.

Feng Yu: "Let me do it."

He took out a magical treasure, which was a mirror.

The mirror flew onto a wine jar, and the mirror reflected light onto the jar, turning it transparent so that you could clearly see that it was full of wine.

The mirror's light disappeared, and the wine jar returned to its original state.

The mirror flew to the next wine jar, which also contained wine.

The mirrors were collected and stored one by one...