Chapter 212: Master Is Surrendering to the Holy Sect!

Lu Yang did not rush to seek out Ye Gu.

After all, Ye Gu's strength was not weak; the reason he had been injured and driven back before was mainly due to Sui Ying's restraint, allowing him to strike successfully amidst the chaos.

Now, without Sui Ying to hold her back, and with his 【Star-Hiding Obscuration】 divine ability already known to Ye Gu, she would surely be on guard, making it difficult to achieve success again. Therefore, instead of seeking out Ye Gu, Lu Yang turned his attention to this fragment of the blessed land, planning to wait for his prey like a farmer guarding a tree stump.

The result was exactly as he had expected.

"This fragment of the blessed land is actually gradually collapsing, but it has been condensed by Master Master Chongguang's great magic power, making it much more stable than other fragments."

Its nature was the same as the previous blessed lands.

As time passed, it would collapse from the periphery inward, step by step collapsing toward the center, forcing everyone to move toward the central region.

"The exit is also at the center."

Since that was the case, what needed to be done was simple.

Lu Yang directly summoned 【Embrace-Guard Mountain】, firmly suppressing the exit of the blessed land fragment, and then began arranging arrays around it.

In this way, Ye Gu had only two options to leave the blessed land fragment: either force her way out, which would inevitably trigger the backlash of the blessed land fragment, resulting in a loss outweighing the gain; or engage Lu Yang in direct combat, kill him, and leave safely through the exit.

Lu Yang actually preferred her to choose the former.

Because if she chose to force her way out, she would inevitably suffer heavy injuries afterward, and when Lu Yang pursued and killed her then, he would have a ten-out-of-ten chance of capturing her alive.

However, Ye Gu had also calculated this point.

"Forcing a departure is inadvisable; the most urgent task is to break the array!"

Ye Gu's beautiful eyes turned cold as she stared straight at Lu Yang on the mountain, feeling her sword heart and sword intent issuing warnings, causing her delicate body to tremble slightly.

Had it been anyone else, she might have already driven her sword to strike, but facing Lu Yang, Ye Gu maintained her calm. Moreover, arrays were a means of borrowing the power of heaven and earth to allow the weak to overcome the strong; Lu Yang's cultivation base was already similar to hers, so the risk of rashly charging into the array was far too great.

Thinking thus, Ye Gu immediately shifted her gaze: "Daoist Duobao, I must trouble you to make a trip."

Upon hearing these words, Boy Duobao was instantly stunned, then hurriedly shook his head: "With my meager cultivation, if I enter the array, won't I surely die?"

"This is precisely your karmic opportunity."

Ye Gu nodded and said matter-of-factly: "To die breaking the array for us is a merit beyond measure; after you reincarnate, I promise you a position as a true disciple."

"..."

Boy Duobao was furious; what the hell did he want with a true disciple position in Jiange? His Great Dao was already set, and he couldn't possibly use Jiange's methods to establish his Foundation!

To truly integrate into Jiange, become a direct disciple of Jiange, and use that to establish his Foundation, he feared he would have to wait until after his fifth life, when his soul and true spirit had been completely scrubbed clean by the power of reincarnation. But by that time, he would no longer be him! He would be a new consciousness; what meaning would that hold for him?

Thinking of this, Boy Duobao immediately spoke up:

"If you want me to go break the array, then return 【Ageless Toon】 to me. If I have this spiritual material to protect myself, I might have some chance of self-preservation within the array."

"Ridiculous!"

Upon hearing this, Yun Zhiqiu immediately became displeased and hurriedly said: "Spiritual materials are one thing, this is another; how can Daoist lump them together?"

"Now that you are one of our Righteous Path, naturally you must shoulder the heavy responsibility of eliminating demons and protecting the Dao!"

Boy Duobao immediately retorted: "Then why doesn't Daoist go?"

Are you kidding? How could I go!

Yun Zhiqiu knew clearly in his heart that Lu Yang's reputation was, to him, completely deserving of the description 'thunderous,' because his own ancestor had died at Lu Yang's hands!

Thinking back to those years, first his ancestor had gambled his life in a desperate struggle, only to be killed by Lu Yang, and then their family's genius, Yun Miaoqing, had died on the Dao-Seizing Battlefield. The Yun family had been teetering on the brink; if he hadn't bumped into heavenly luck, gained a great opportunity, and unexpectedly broken through to Foundation Establishment, the Yun family would likely have vanished without a trace long ago.

Under these circumstances, how could he dare to cross swords with Lu Yang?

"My cultivation base is still too low!"

Yun Zhiqiu said in a deep voice: "If I enter the array, even if I die, I will hardly be able to test the power of this array, but if Daoist goes, it will be different."

Upon hearing this, Boy Duobao fell into complete silence.

He could only turn his head and look at Ye Gu: "Daoist truly wants me to go break the array empty-handed?"

Upon hearing this, Ye Gu pondered briefly, then shook her head: "If I lend 【Ageless Toon】 to Daoist, and Daoist dies, wouldn't the spiritual material be lost?"

"In that case, we would fail to break the array and instead aid the enemy."

Thinking thus, Ye Gu had already made her decision: "Daoist should still go empty-handed; dying is no obstacle, and I will naturally guide your return in the future."

"... ery well."

Boy Duobao spoke no more, turned around, mounted a beam of escape light, and flew into 【Embrace-Guard Mountain】. Upon finding the array gate, he said nothing further and charged straight in.

Seeing this, Lu Yang immediately laughed: "Isn't this Daoist Duobao? It's been a long time."

"Yuan Tu..." Boy Duobao's expression was equally complex.

As his voice fell, the Myriad Souls Banner appeared in his hand. He shook it forcefully, and in an instant, spiritual light from all directions surged, countless banner spirits pouring out to occupy the array eye.

"【Blood Sea Filling Heaven Great Array】!"

The next second, boundless blood light interwove throughout the sky, transforming into waves. Wave upon wave layered upon layer, filling the heavens and reaching the earth, 然 forming a surging sea of blood!

Once this array unfolded, there were no mysterious changes; it simply overwhelmed people with quantity, using the boundless blood waves to forcibly extinguish the magic power of anyone entering the array. If Lu Yang had catalyzed it with his own magic power, there might have been limits, but he was using the array to intercept a portion of the blessed land fragment's power.

In this way, the magic power operating the array was supplied by the blessed land fragment.

The result was that his magic power remained undiminished, while those entering the array had to face the surging sea of blood to fight him; under these waxing and waning conditions, how could they be his match?

Not to mention he was also using 【Embrace-Guard Mountain】 to bolster the array.

Therefore, although each blood wave appeared merely a thin layer, in reality, each carried a weight exceeding that of mountains and rivers, suppressing spiritual energy; one could not escape without expending magic power.

Moreover, he had other tricks up his sleeve.

Thinking of this, Lu Yang removed the 【Three-Nine Soul-Extinguishing Gourd】 from his waist, held it in his palm to circulate it with magic power, and then sacrificed it into the center of the array.

The next second, rolling clouds of smoke poured out from the gourd.

【Soul-Extinguishing, Spirit-Scattering, God-Seizing Smoke】!

With the addition of this smoke, the blood waves within the array gained several means to shake the soul, making things even worse for anyone entering the array.

Seeing this scene, Boy Duobao hesitated no longer.

只见 Boy Duobao, without the slightest hesitation, knelt directly on the ground, raised his hands high, withdrew his magic power, and shouted loudly: "This humble one Duobao is willing to surrender to the Holy Sect!"

"I beg Your Lordship's mercy; spare this humble one's life!"

What kind of person was Boy Duobao? In the past, because he had been robbed by a True Person of the Holy Sect, he had held a grudge for most of his life; what he hated most in his life was being robbed.

But now he was being robbed again, this time by Jiange, and his heart was already filled with resentment he could barely control. Furthermore, his merit and karma had previously been scraped completely clean by Master Master Chongguang and he hadn't had time to accumulate or restore them yet. If he died like this, without three to five lifetimes, he shouldn't even think about becoming human again.

So what was there to fight? Master is surrendering to the Holy Sect!

Such a straightforward surrender was something even Lu Yang had not anticipated, yet he was happy to see it happen and immediately laughed heartily: "Daoist is willing to submit; no merit could be greater."

Outside the array, Ye Gu, who witnessed this scene, immediately sank her pretty face.

She completely could not understand why Boy Duobao would betray them; clearly, she had already promised him the karmic opportunity of Jiange, a good fortune that many people begged for and could not obtain.

Therefore, in the end, she could only snort coldly:

"... n the end, he is a demonic head from Jiangbei; his evil nature is hard to change!"

(End of Chapter)