Chapter 249: 249. Chapter 246: Attacking My Protective Array Is Not Allowed

249. Chapter 246: Attacking My Protective Array Is Not Allowed

Ding Huan summoned his spaceship and slowly returned to Blue Star Sect.

But before he even reached the sect, he sensed his protective array being attacked.

Ding Huan was startled and immediately retracted his spaceship, then activated Extreme Shadow Dash.

An attack on the sect's protective array is no small matter—just like him, after attacking the Twin Soul Sect's array, he casually wiped out the entire sect.

As for Yanyue Sect, he had no intention of destroying it; if he had wanted to, he would have done it.

Of course, that was under the condition that Yanyue Sect lacked a True God realm cultivator.

Now someone is attacking Blue Star Sect's protective array—clearly intending to obliterate Blue Star Sect.

Two hours later, Ding Huan sensed something was off, because during those two hours, the array had been struck only occasionally, once or twice.

Each strike was terrifyingly powerful; if he hadn't invested heavily in the array, this Level Six protective array might not have withstood the assault.

Ding Huan did not send any messages to Liu Yinzhu or the others—he didn't want the attacker to know he had returned.

As he neared the sect, Ding Huan concealed his presence and slowed his speed.

He decided that upon returning, he must install a Level Six surveillance array, otherwise he'd remain ignorant of what happened within his own sect.

"Boom!" A violent surge exploded in the air, causing the space around it to tremble.

Ding Huan had fought Elder Qi Long before—this surge was far stronger than Qi Long's power.

Not just a little stronger.

Qi Long was a True God realm cultivator; thus, the one battling outside his sect must be a Human Immortal realm cultivator.

Ding Huan sucked in a sharp breath—Human Immortal realm. Even if he finished setting up his Level Six trapping and killing array, he would still lose.

Before his poison array could even take effect, the opponent would tear through all his arrays and end his life.

Ding Huan concealed all traces of himself and stealthily approached the outskirts of Blue Star Sect.

Thanks to his cultivation of the Great Cosmos Art—which he himself had created—he was a Gene Spirit Root, and when developing the Great Cosmos Art, he naturally integrated the genes of all things.

Because during cultivation, he had fused countless genes.

Even without developing his own concealment technique, now that he had hidden among the grass, he looked like an ordinary, unremarkable weed, with not a single trace of qi leaking out.

Hidden in the grass, Ding Huan saw the two fighters: one short, with only a few sparse strands of yellow hair on his head, appearing malnourished.

The fellow looked deformed and ugly, yet his combat strength was formidable.

Clutching a halberd far too large for his frame, he forced his opponent into steady retreat.

The other was a woman, her face pretty but pale, which dimmed her beauty by a third.

Though she wielded her crescent blades with flair, she was still being dominated by her opponent.

She barely defended herself while continuously falling back.

Ding Huan's gaze fell on his protective array—its corner had been torn open; it seemed the attacker hadn't deliberately targeted Blue Star Sect's array, or else it would already be gone.

Whether intentional or not, anyone who dared touch his array would not escape his vengeance.

The woman, unable to withstand the assault, retreated steadily toward Zi Yuan Zhongshan.

The deformed man pursued relentlessly, his halberd whipping up clouds of blood mist with every swing.

Two Human Immortal realm cultivators fighting in the Daoist realm—Ding Huan couldn't understand why.

Seeing the two heading toward Zi Yuan Zhongshan, Ding Huan quietly followed.

One Human Immortal was desperate to flee, the other determined to kill.

Ding Huan concealed his presence far behind them, like an unnoticeable breeze—neither noticed him.

In an instant, both plunged into Zi Yuan Zhongshan.

The protective array of Zi Yuan Zhongshan was set by Zi Yuan City; before these two Human Immortal cultivators, it was as flimsy as paper.

In a flash, they vanished deep within Zi Yuan Zhongshan.

Zi Yuan Zhongshan blocked spiritual sense; even though Ding Huan's spiritual sense far surpassed ordinary cultivators, he dared not extend it to follow.

In Zi Yuan Zhongshan, any spiritual sense that ventured out became conspicuously obvious.

Ding Huan stepped into Zi Yuan Zhongshan as well.

Though he was the sect master of Blue Star Sect, this was his first time setting foot on Zi Yuan Zhongshan.

Last time, he killed the Yuan Hun elder of Nine Sound Sect, Hao Wudao—still only at the mountain's base, never entering its depths.

Upon entering Zi Yuan Zhongshan, Ding Huan immediately understood its significance.

The gravity here was more than ten times stronger than outside—this was just at the entrance.

And with every step upward, the gravity continued to increase.

No wonder so many coveted Zi Yuan Zhongshan—it was not only an excellent place to cultivate the body, but also for refining the spiritual soul and techniques.

No, Zi Yuan Zhongshan must be reclaimed as soon as possible—it was a vital secret realm for Blue Star Sect, its status no weaker than Sword Storage Mountain.

Along the way, Ding Huan saw nearly a hundred corpses—these must have been cultivators training in Zi Yuan Zhongshan, all slaughtered by the two Human Immortal cultivators.

After walking only a few hundred meters, Ding Huan felt as if each foot dragged a planet—so heavy he could barely lift his legs.

His body was also being crushed relentlessly, giving him the illusion that he was shrinking ever shorter.

Ding Huan immediately activated the Great Cosmos Art—and to his delight, he sensed a type of primordial force he had never encountered before, drawn into him.

After just a few Great Zhou Tian cycles, he felt the stars in his consciousness becoming clearer.

Soon after, he was even more delighted to discover that the Great Cosmos Art's Zhou Tian could channel the gravity he endured into his star system within his consciousness, integrating it into his own stellar motion.

This was undoubtedly gravity's rule—the Great Cosmos Art's Zhou Tian had assimilated this rule. Unfortunately, his cultivation level limited him—he could only perceive the gravity rule, unable to comprehend it fully.

He knew it was gravity's rule only because of the knowledge in the hide scroll—his insight was extraordinary.

Having assimilated the gravity rule, Ding Huan's speed surged dramatically.

Zi Yuan Zhongshan, once terrifying, now felt as level as flat ground to Ding Huan.

However, Ding Huan's speed was still very slow; he understood that once discovered by the Human Immortals, he would be dead for certain.

Scheming is fine, but face-to-face won't work.

One hour later, Ding Huan saw the two Human Immortal experts at a spot only a little over a thousand meters from the peak.

Ding Huan lurked to one side, clearly sensing the two people's bodies trembling.

Clearly, at this two-thousand-meter position on Ziyuan Zhongshan, the gravity also made them hard to bear; with their Human Immortal strength, they were actually still unable to reach the summit.

"Your Changyan Academy is the dregs of the Ascension Realm. Shi Qiqiu puts on a sanctimonious front, yet behind the scenes he does every vicious thing to the extreme. Your Shi clan will get what's coming to you."

The woman seemed to know she could never escape again, her tone carrying anger and unwillingness.

The blond man chuckled:

"Whether Changyan Academy is the dregs or not, what does it have to do with me, Shi Jiantian? Whether Shi Qiqiu is sanctimonious or not has nothing whatsoever to do with me either.

Liu Yinyu, just hand the thing over to me, and then I'll give you a quick end. Otherwise, I'm a man, you know the consequences."

Liu Yinyu stared at Shi Jiantian in shock:

"You're actually going to betray Changyan Academy?"

"Haha, don't put it so harshly. Changyan Academy is Changyan Academy, I am me, the Shi clan is the Shi clan." Shi Jiantian laughed heartily.

Liu Yinyu grabbed out a jade box and tossed it to Shi Jiantian:

"The thing is yours, from now on we have nothing to do with each other…"

The moment Shi Jiantian reached out to grab the jade box, Liu Yinyu's pair of Half-Moon Slashes simultaneously blasted toward Shi Jiantian.

Because on Ziyuan Zhongshan, the killing momentum stirred up by the Half-Moon Slashes was much weaker.

Shi Jiantian laughed wildly, simultaneously unleashing his Fangtian Painted Halberd; clearly he had long been prepared for this little trick of Liu Yinyu's.

Ding Huan watched with great delight; so it turned out that at this place, these two Human Immortals were only equivalent to the Void God Realm, nothing to be afraid of.

Before, he didn't dare make a move; now he had no reservations.

Liu Yinyu was also helpless; she had no trump cards left.

She also knew clearly that today she would surely die here.

Rather than being humiliated to death by Shi Jiantian, she might as well end it herself sooner.

Just as Liu Yinyu was preparing to burn her lifespan to perform a forbidden art and give Shi Jiantian another strike, she was shocked to discover that a flaw seemed to have appeared in Shi Jiantian's Fangtian Painted Halberd killing-momentum domain…

How could she let such a good opportunity slip? Her essence blood burned madly; one Half-Moon Slash cleaved toward Shi Jiantian's brow, while the other Half-Moon Slash swept horizontally at his waist.

Shi Jiantian's wild laughter cut off abruptly; he was horrified to discover that a killing-momentum vortex had suddenly appeared within his own killing-momentum domain.

This killing-momentum vortex was not his, yet it directly caused cracks to appear in his killing-momentum domain.

Although his divine ability wouldn't collapse, the one he faced was Liu Yinyu.

Don't be fooled by him having crushed Liu Yinyu all along; that was because he had studied Liu Yinyu's divine abilities and methods for too long.

He also knew the cultivation arts of Luosheng Palace inside and out.

Someone had definitely intervened from the side.

Thinking that someone had intervened in his and Liu Yinyu's magical duel, and that the opponent's divine ability had torn open his divine ability domain before he even knew it, Shi Jiantian's heart filled with dread.

This was absolutely a powerhouse no weaker than him; if the opponent joined forces with Liu Yinyu…

Shi Jiantian didn't dare think further; at this moment Liu Yinyu's Half-Moon Slash had reached his brow.

Shi Jiantian threw a punch, wanting to disintegrate the killing momentum of this Half-Moon Slash.

What made him both shocked and furious happened again; the killing momentum gathered by his punch was once more interfered with by a vortex killing momentum, and then cracks appeared in his fist momentum.

This time Shi Jiantian felt it clearly: a vortex of divine sense had blasted into his divine ability.

Based on this vortex of divine sense, Shi Jiantian caught Ding Huan's location.

"Puh!" The Half-Moon Slash pierced through Shi Jiantian's brow.

Shi Jiantian retreated madly, but Liu Yinyu's other Half-Moon Slash tore open half of his waist.

From the start of her duel with Shi Jiantian until now, this was the first time Liu Yinyu had gravely wounded Shi Jiantian; naturally she knew to strike while the iron was hot.

Before Shi Jiantian could withdraw from the range of her domain killing momentum, Liu Yinyu's twin slashes blasted toward Shi Jiantian once more.

Shi Jiantian burned his essence blood frantically; doing so while gravely wounded was no different from drinking poison to quench thirst.

Just as his Fangtian Painted Halberd was about to be unleashed, a terrifying aura of death came from his back.

Only at this moment did Shi Jiantian finally realize that someone else was hiding nearby.

"The thing is yours…" Shi Jiantian tossed the jade box in his hand toward Ding Huan's position and turned to flee.

"Puh!" Blood light exploded; Liu Yinyu's Half-Moon Slash completely tore open Shi Jiantian's waist, cleaving him in two.

Logically speaking, Liu Yinyu should have continued the attack; what puzzled Ding Huan was that Liu Yinyu instead turned around and rushed madly down Ziyuan Zhongshan.