Chapter 264: Beginning the Array Break

Watching Zhu Dafu's departing figure, Ji Dongming said with slight regret:

"Tianfu Shop has developed rapidly, far surpassing other shops."

"Pity. Without a powerful expert to hold the fort, the current scale is the limit for Tianfu Shop."

Every star-rated shop in the Xuantian Sect Market backed at least one Void Refinement realm expert.

Without sufficiently powerful experts, a shop could not secure high-grade supplies.

Without high-grade supplies, relying solely on managing mid-to-low-grade goods made it impossible to meet the threshold for upgrading to a star-rated shop.

Because to upgrade to a star-rated shop in the Xuantian Sect Market,

the assessment was no longer based on spirit stone transaction volume, but on spirit crystal transaction volume.

And to achieve spirit crystal transaction volume, one had to offer high-grade cultivation resources for sale.

So, in the eyes of ordinary people, Tianfu Shop perhaps had a boundless future.

Even if he knew, he wouldn't care.

As long as he served Ye Qingxuan wholeheartedly, Ye Qingxuan would tolerate his petty greed.

Everything he possessed now, ultimately, came from Ye Qingxuan.

Most importantly, Ye Qingxuan was generous enough.

He was already content merely managing Tianfu Shop now.

Zhu Dafu did not know Ji Dongming's assessment of Tianfu Shop.

Besides, Tianfu Shop had developed to its current scale, and Zhu Dafu was already fully satisfied.

He had already returned to Tianfu Shop with four hundred sixth-grade supreme-grade array-breaking talismans.

But in the eyes of the true big shots of the Xuantian Sect, Tianfu Shop was merely a trivial matter.

After Tianfu Shop grew, as its public manager, he had shown off greatly before outsiders.

Reaching this scale was already the limit for Tianfu Shop.

After sending a message to Ye Qingxuan,

Zhu Dafu returned to his private room on the third floor, comfortably drinking tea while waiting for Ye Zhaoheng's arrival.

Although sometimes he would complain verbally,

even facing the Zhu family, he could finally look the entire Zhu family in the eye as an equal, venting the bitterness in his heart thoroughly.

Because the decision on this matter did not concern him, but Ye Qingxuan.

A scholar dies for one who understands him.

But even without the constraints of a Dao vow, he would sincerely submit to Ye Qingxuan's banner.

Over these years, Ye Qingxuan had given him enough freedom and dignity.

Anyway, whenever Ye Qingxuan ordered him to purchase items, he always arranged for Ye Zhaoheng to collect them.

Inside the private room, Zhu Dafu recalled his life, a look of satisfaction on his face.

Just like this time.

Without Ye Qingxuan's tacit approval, even if he negotiated a discount and saved spirit stones, he could not keep them.

Precisely because of Ye Qingxuan's attitude toward him,

he had managed every aspect of Tianfu Shop with utmost dedication over these years.

Had Ye Qingxuan treated him even slightly worse, he would have long ago taken the channels he established and opened a new shop in the market to go solo.

After all, the Dao vow he made back then did not restrict Ye Qingxuan from leaving Tianfu Shop.

It was just that Ye Qingxuan treated him well.

Ye Qingxuan never interfered lightly in Tianfu Shop's operations, granting him full authority.

Therefore, Zhu Dafu never had any thought in his heart of leaving Tianfu Shop to go solo.

After sending a message to Ye Qingxuan, Zhu Dafu did not wait long.

Ye Zhaoheng arrived at Tianfu Shop exactly as Zhu Dafu expected.

He did not stay long. After obtaining the four hundred sixth-grade supreme-grade array-breaking talismans needed by Ye Qingxuan, Ye Zhaoheng immediately returned to the Qingxuan Blessed Land.

After handing the four hundred talismans to Ye Qingxuan, Ye Zhaoheng returned to his own cave dwelling and began a new round of secluded cultivation.

Inside the Qingxuan Cave Heaven,

Ye Qingxuan held the storage ring containing the four hundred sixth-grade supreme-grade array-breaking talismans and shifted his mind.

The clone explorer, who had already left the Void Refinement Secret Realm and was waiting in the Starlight Mountain Range, immediately activated the Gate of Worlds.

Ye Qingxuan transmitted the storage ring in his hand through the Gate of Worlds into the clone explorer's grasp.

Then, his main consciousness also descended onto the clone explorer's body.

Using sixth-grade supreme-grade talismans to break a seventh-grade remnant array, a single slip would render all efforts futile.

So, Ye Qingxuan decided it was safer to deploy his main consciousness personally.

However, he had not yet fully mastered that Void Refinement Secret Realm and could not control the realm's entry and exit passages.

After waiting in the Starlight Mountain Range for over a month,

when the time came to the ninth day of the ninth month, Ye Qingxuan once again entered the Void Refinement Secret Realm through the purple rhombus stone.

The moment he stepped into the secret realm, Ye Qingxuan immediately fled toward the Starlight Hall.

He decided to proceed from easy to hard, first breaking the array formations outside the Starlight Hall, which possessed power reaching sixth-grade supreme level.

Arriving before the Starlight Hall,

Ye Qingxuan waved his hand, and one hundred sixth-grade supreme-grade array-breaking talismans scattered out, covering every position around the Starlight Hall.

Then he took out a pile of supreme-grade spirit stones and suspended them beneath himself in mid-air.

With his current cultivation base, it was naturally impossible to activate one hundred sixth-grade supreme-grade talismans at once.

Fortunately, breaking the array's restrictions did not require an instant solution.

He only needed to use these one hundred Grade Six supreme array-breaking talismans to wear down the key array patterns, and the array would collapse on its own.

As Ye Qingxuan formed the hand seals, the Grade Six supreme array-breaking talismans floating around the Starlight Hall lit up and activated one by one.

While expending spiritual power to activate these talismans,

Ye Qingxuan also continuously absorbed the spiritual energy radiating from the supreme spirit stones beneath his feet to restore his own spiritual power.

Fortunately, the frequency at which he activated the Grade Six supreme array-breaking talismans was not high, and the speed at which he absorbed the supreme spirit stones to restore his spiritual power kept pace with his consumption.

As the array-breaking talismans were activated one after another,

waves of intense array-breaking force struck the various array nodes outside the Starlight Hall.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

The sounds of fierce impacts rang out continuously.

The energy was of the same Grade Six peak level.

Even though the array restrictions outside the Starlight Hall had the Starlight Hall itself as the array core,

under the successive impacts of the array-breaking force from the Grade Six supreme array-breaking talismans,

the core array patterns of the restrictions outside the Starlight Hall began to slowly wear away and dissipate.

After spending a full three days, Ye Qingxuan had activated all one hundred array-breaking talismans.

One hundred waves of Grade Six peak array-breaking force struck the various nodes of the array outside the Starlight Hall in succession.

This kept the array restrictions in a state of overload operation throughout those three days.

Coupled with the continuous impacts of one hundred waves of Grade Six peak array-breaking force,

this damaged array, which had the Starlight Hall—a three-star inferior spiritual treasure—as its core,

finally emitted a series of cracking sounds after three days and then completely collapsed and dissipated.

Seeing the Starlight Hall now unprotected by the array, Ye Qingxuan, with a face full of joy, flew toward it.

Without any cultivator controlling it, and with the protective array already broken,

as long as one did not actively attack the Starlight Hall,

the Starlight Hall would remain like a lifeless object and would not actively launch an attack against Ye Qingxuan.

Extending his spiritual sense, Ye Qingxuan began to explore the interior space of the Starlight Hall.

Under Ye Qingxuan's spiritual sense investigation,

the internal layout of the Starlight Hall quickly appeared in his mind.

Although named a hall, the interior of the Starlight Hall resembled a city, filled with various buildings.

The internal space was comparable in size to the mysterious shopping mall Ye Qingxuan had established in the Xuanmu Realm.

After entering the Starlight Hall, Ye Qingxuan bypassed the other buildings and flew directly toward the core area of the Starlight Hall.

Finally, inside a floating palace at the very center of the Starlight Hall,

Ye Qingxuan found a palm-sized miniature Starlight Hall floating within the main hall.

(End of this chapter)