Chapter 866: Seventh-Rank Mixed Divine Array

This guy's got a serious sense of guilt.

But…

Wait!

He Pingsheng's spiritual sense swept over Hu Chen.

No way!

Broke?

Did this guy break through his bottleneck too?

"Hu Chen, come here!" He Pingsheng waved him over.

Hu Chen jumped, thinking He Pingsheng was about to cause trouble, stepping back and waving his hands: "Master Taixu, I… I didn't mean to! I was just telling Bingyao that story about the big battle with Prince Qingqi, got carried away… and… hehehe…"

He Pingsheng said: "Forget that. I'm here to congratulate you on breaking through your bottleneck!"

"How did you break through?"

"Did you swallow a heavenly treasure?"

He Pingsheng was genuinely curious.

Hearing this, Hu Chen immediately relaxed and said: "Hehe… this? No, I didn't swallow any heavenly treasure!"

He walked up to He Pingsheng's counter: "It was your fortune blessing me—I didn't even notice, and I just broke through!"

"Actually, I've been stuck at this Body Integration bottleneck for two thousand years. This breakthrough? Purely thanks to your help—natural and effortless!"

"Thank you!" He'd always had a vague feeling that following He Pingsheng would let him break through.

But he never imagined it would happen this fast—in just a few years.

"Congratulations!" He Pingsheng said. "Now that you've broken through, you're facing Mahayana Emperor Realm. But to enter Mahayana Emperor, you need an eighth-rank elixir: the Great Transformation Elixir…"

"Did you get the elixir?"

"No!" Hu Chen shook his head. "How rare is that thing? You won't find it at any ordinary auction!"

"Even if one appeared, I might not even win it!"

Hu Chen spoke the truth.

He Pingsheng asked: "So what are you planning to do?"

Hu Chen said: "What else can I do? I'm gathering materials to have someone forge it for me. I've already collected all the auxiliary ingredients. I've got one of the four main ones—still missing three!"

He Pingsheng smiled.

The main ingredients are the most critical.

If you're still missing three main ingredients, you're looking at an endless wait.

"Fine!" He Pingsheng said. "Once you've gathered all the materials, hand them to me—I'll forge it for you!"

"You?" Hu Chen looked at He Pingsheng skeptically. "Master, I know you're amazing at alchemy—you can forge beyond your rank."

"Seventh-rank is already beyond your rank. Forging eighth-rank? Isn't that…"

"Hehehe…"

Hu Chen didn't finish, but his eyes made it clear—he didn't trust He Pingsheng.

He Pingsheng said: "Relax. By the time you gather all the materials, I'll have already broken through to Body Integration myself!"

"What?" Cangqiong Dao Ren's spiritual sense swept over He Pingsheng. "Y-you-you… Master, you broke through too?"

He Pingsheng nodded.

"Master!" Feng Wu had been out, and now returned to the shop, bowing to He Pingsheng.

He Pingsheng asked: "How much elixir is left in the shop?"

"Not much!" Feng Wu said. "Almost all gone… If I hadn't controlled sales during your thirteen-year seclusion, we'd have sold out long ago!"

"Hahaha…" He Pingsheng laughed. "Good. I'll go forge some elixirs right now!"

Alchemy is fast.

He Pingsheng picked up the Wind-Moon Treasure Mirror and waved it at Luo Bingyao. "I'll study it for a few days—I'll return it in a couple days."

After speaking, he returned directly to his small house.

Inside the house, He Pingsheng tossed the Wind-Moon Treasure Mirror straight into the Treasure Basin.

He'd claimed earlier he had one himself.

He didn't.

But copying one? Easy.

Now, begin alchemy!

He summoned two alchemy furnaces and forged simultaneously.

In one day, he forged eight batches of elixirs.

At night, He Pingsheng stared nonstop at the Treasure Basin.

When the Wind-Moon Treasure Mirror inside split into two, he snatched one out with lightning speed.

The original must be returned to the disciple.

The second one would be strengthened further.

After one night, the next morning, the mirror was fully enhanced.

The mirror was no longer round—it had become a perfect octagon.

Made of golden material.

Both sides were densely engraved with countless talismanic patterns and lines.

He Pingsheng held it in hand, probed with his spiritual sense—and instantly, information surfaced.

Name: Heaven-Imprisoning, Earth-Bound Eight-Gate Mirror.

Rank: Supreme Heaven-Connecting Magic Treasure.

Function: After cultivation, it can activate a seventh-rank 【Mixed Divine Array】. The Mixed Divine Array consists of a seventh-rank Spirit-Sealing Array and a seventh-rank Alert Array—it blocks Body Integration spiritual sense intrusion and detects Mahayana Emperor spiritual sense, triggering an alert.

Holy shit…

He Pingsheng's eyes flickered: This is incredibly useful.

Previously, seventh-rank arrays were useless to him.

Body Integration cultivators could shatter them—even if one blow didn't break it, a few more would.

But now? Not the same. This isn't a defense array—it's a Mixed Divine Array.

It's equivalent to a seventh-rank Spirit-Sealing Array and a seventh-rank Alert Array combined.

It blocks Body Integration spiritual sense probes.

And it alerts to Mahayana Emperor spiritual sense.

Meaning, even a Mahayana Emperor couldn't spy on He Pingsheng—his spiritual sense would trigger the alarm the moment it arrived. He Pingsheng would instantly hide anything incriminating. Even if the Mahayana Emperor's spiritual sense entered the array afterward, he wouldn't care.

That's how powerful it is!

Perfect!

But to cultivate it, I'm still missing something.

After a brief tidy-up, he resumed alchemy.

Days later, He Pingsheng sent out batch after batch of enhanced elixirs.

At the same time, he returned the Wind-Moon Treasure Mirror to his disciple.

"Wahhh… Master doesn't value my gift!" Luo Bingyao was heartbroken. "I'll get you something far better someday!"

He Pingsheng said: "It's not that I don't value it—I just can't use it. You'll make better use of it."

"Besides, I have something similar myself!"

"Fine…" Luo Bingyao said. "Let me see your mirror—I won't believe you otherwise!"

He Pingsheng pulled out the Heaven-Imprisoning, Earth-Bound Eight-Gate Mirror and placed it before her. "Take a look yourself."

"My mirror is a Supreme Heaven-Connecting Magic Treasure—it can activate a Spirit-Sealing Array. This is far more useful to me."

"Ohhh! So it's real!" Luo Bingyao finally believed.

In the following time, He Pingsheng forged elixirs while cultivating the Heaven-Imprisoning, Earth-Bound Eight-Gate Mirror.

Simultaneously, he used the Treasure Basin to continuously strengthen elixirs.

Yet despite this, elixir supply still couldn't meet demand.

Because production was extremely low.

Not because He Pingsheng forged slowly—but because the Treasure Basin's output was too limited.

For example, sixth- or seventh-rank elixirs? The Treasure Basin could strengthen only one batch at a time—no more.

There was nothing to be done.

Day after day, another fourteen years passed—He Pingsheng finally cultivated the Heaven-Imprisoning, Earth-Bound Eight-Gate Mirror.

A Mixed Divine Array unfolded across his courtyard.