Chapter 278: The Mystery of Basic Array Patterns

Magic light descended, and the figure of Ao Yun manifested. His handsome face showed no signs of his origin being depleted, and even his hair appeared crystalline.

"Haha! I was just wondering why I suddenly felt your aura; I didn't expect you to have really returned!"

Ao Yun laughed heartily. Although it hadn't been long, he always felt as if a great deal of time had passed. After coming out of seclusion, he had been very bored; there was no one left on the entire continent who could talk to him.

Qin Jiang glanced at Ao Yun and bowed slightly, "Congratulations, Senior, on the full recovery of your origin. In the future, you will surely have the opportunity to attain the status of Immortal Monarch."

Upon hearing this, Ao Yun's expression shifted slightly. He waved his hand in a somewhat evasive manner, "Luck, just luck. It was a fluke."

In truth, he didn't know what had happened either. He had originally intended to go into seclusion to recover his withered vitality, but when he opened his eyes, his origin had fully recovered, and even his strength had returned to the late stage of End Realm Holy Lord.

Although it was still some distance from his peak state, it was not far off. In the future, he might truly have a chance to challenge the great realm of Immortal Monarch.

"Speaking of which, how did you return so quickly? What about your spouse? Didn't you go to find her? Why didn't you bring her back?" he asked.

Just after speaking, he realized what he had said and comforted him, "Don't be anxious. Once I recover to the End Realm Peak, I will accompany you on a trip then; I will definitely help you find her."

The Zhongyuan Continent was vast and boundless, with Immortal Sects standing like a forest. When he went there back then, he had only just managed to walk out of the Eastern Region and reach the border of the Central Region.

As a result, he was targeted by a Holy Land Master who wanted to use him as material.

Thinking about it, the treatment this kid Qin Jiang received couldn't have been any better than his own.

Qin Jiang shook his head gently, "Senior, you misunderstand. My wife has already been found. I came here originally intending to take the Renhuang Sword, but I did not expect that the Renhuang Sword had already been taken away by someone else in advance."

Hearing the words "Renhuang Sword," Ao Yun felt a shock in his heart, "The Renhuang Sword you speak of... is it an Immortal King Weapon? The Dao Weapon left behind by that Renhuang?"

Hiss—it had been a long time since an Immortal King had appeared on the land of Shenzhou, but there were still some records of them on the Zhongyuan Continent.

Therefore, he knew very well what an Immortal King Weapon signified.

That was the ultimate weapon capable of suppressing the Zhongyuan Continent! With an Immortal King Weapon to anchor a sect's foundation, even if there were no Immortal Monarchs within the sect, who would dare say it was not a Daotu-level power? "No! It was taken away?! Who was it!"

Only then did he react; that was an Immortal King Weapon! How could he let someone else take it? Qin Jiang nodded slightly, "I do not know who it was either. However, it should have been an Immortal King-level figure, and the time should have been 180,000 years ago."

As the words fell, Ao Yun's eyes became clear.

"Oh, I see. That was too long ago, so it was unavoidable. Keep a normal heart, just keep a normal heart."

He couldn't help but click his tongue. Immortal Kings, these Immortal Kings were truly... tsk, from time to time they would reveal some traces, declaring their power.

Even if they ascended to the heavens, they were not beings that those below the Immortal King level could fathom.

Qin Jiang nodded. In truth, he didn't really care much about the Renhuang Sword; it was merely an E'nianshen. With his current strength, he could suppress it alone.

He was only worried that some accidents might occur.

"I am leaving. This time, it might be a very long time before I return."

Ao Yun was stunned upon hearing this, "You're leaving already? Have a drink with me before you go?"

He had finally found someone he could talk to, and now they were leaving?

"The Hell Gate over on the Zhongyuan Continent is about to open. I must go back to make some preparations," Qin Jiang said.

"Hell Gate? What is that? No, wait, why do you need to prepare? What exactly is your strength now?"

Ao Yun inquired. From the moment he arrived here, he had sensed that the aura on Qin Jiang was not quite right.

Compared to before, there was a kind of... hmm... a cold, indifferent feeling like the Heavenly Dao.

But judging from the other's speech, that feeling wasn't there. In short, it was very contradictory.

Moreover, the most important thing was that he actually couldn't perceive how strong Qin Jiang's strength was.

Either Qin Jiang had some secret treasure to conceal it, or the gap in strength between him and Qin Jiang was too vast.

He himself, of course, still leaned toward the idea of a secret treasure, but thinking of Qin Jiang's monstrous talent, he couldn't help but feel uneasy.

"My current realm, let's call it Ultimate Immortal Monarch for now," Qin Jiang said. Gulp—Ao Yun couldn't help but swallow, and he stroked his hair as if nothing were wrong, "Oh, Ultimate Immortal Monarch, huh... No wonder, no wonder."

Qin Jiang nodded slightly, and with a wave of his hand, he condensed a book, shimmering with silver, inscribed with "Ten Directions Hegemony Record," and handed it to Ao Yun.

"This is my Ten Directions Hegemony Record, which points directly to the end of the Immortal Monarch path. If one day, Senior, you do not wish to practice the Mo Zu Sweeping Heaven Record anymore, you can switch to this technique; it is sufficient to cleanse all the demonic Qi from your body."

Ao Yun looked at the book being handed over and was stunned, taking it somewhat woodenly.

This was Qin Jiang's main cultivation technique, and he was just giving it to him? "Actually, I can be considered to have broken free from the Mo Zu Sweeping Heaven Record. The original Mo Zu Sweeping Heaven Record was a unity of god and demon, while I specialize in the demonic path; it is actually very suitable for me."

Ao Yun said. Although he was plotted against back then, it could be considered a blessing in disguise, as he achieved a pure Demon Dragon body.

By comparison, although the god-demon unified dragon body was stronger, he preferred his current Demon Dragon body.

"Keep it. You might use it someday," Qin Jiang said, manipulating his power to force an unnatural smile onto his face.

Ao Yun hesitated for a moment upon hearing this, then nodded, "Alright then, I will keep it. When are you leaving? I'll prepare some wine."

Qin Jiang shook his head, "No need, I am leaving now."

As the words fell, a distorted vortex of light appeared, emitting a faint black aura.

Ao Yun's pupils constricted. Is this, is this the means of an Immortal Monarch? To actually be able to open a Haiyuan?

He could tell that this was not any Haiyuan passage; no, no, this was not a Haiyuan passage that had existed since ancient times.

It was a Haiyuan passage that Qin Jiang had opened with his own hands just now!

"I'm off. If there is time, I will return," Qin Jiang said, then walked directly into the Haiyuan passage.

Not until the distorted passage was smoothed over by the surrounding space did Ao Yun come back to his senses. He looked at the "Ten Directions Hegemony Record" in his hand and couldn't help but sigh softly.

On the surface of the Hei Zhi Hai, Qin Jiang walked slowly, each step sending out a circular Array Pattern.

Wherever the Array Pattern passed, all the strange fish and snakes stood frozen in place, then turned into fly ash and slowly merged into the seawater.

He was experimenting, experimenting with exterminating these creatures born from death-life force.

Before becoming an Array Dao Supreme, these creatures with death-life force were existences without the concept of "death," and even he had no way to completely exterminate them.

But now it was different. Every existence, whether active or inactive, was in his eyes nothing more than things formed by the convergence of Basic Array Patterns.

One only needed to tear apart these Basic Array Patterns that composed the biological body, and that biological body would, from a conceptual level, become individual Basic Array Patterns.

In this way, even strange fish without the concept of "death" would directly become the most basic components of heaven and earth.

This was equivalent to directly erasing the concept of their "existence."

It must be said that even he himself found this method somewhat inconceivable when he used it.

Since all things are composed of Basic Array Patterns, why then does self-awareness emerge after Basic Array Patterns converge?

He did not know.

He raised his hand slightly, and the strange fish that had just turned to fly ash reappeared, but in the next moment, it became a heap of rotten flesh.

He tried several more times afterward, but the results were without exception the same.

Even though he had followed the initial arrangement of the Basic Array Patterns, there was not the slightest change.

At his current level of cultivation, he was still unable to replicate the existence of "consciousness," let alone replicate the concept of "no death."

On the path of the Array Dao, he was currently only just starting, having only gained the qualification to progress from simplicity to complexity.

He did nothing more; after moving forward for a long time, a bright light appeared, and his figure vanished.

(End of this chapter)