Nine Dragons Saint Ancestor

Swish!

The liquid condensed into the shape of a flag, seeing Yun Xiao’s arm reaching out, suddenly moved, its sharp tip at the top of the water flag directly stabbing angrily towards the human youth.

”Trivial tricks, do you still want to harm people?”

Seeing this, a cold smile appeared on Yun Xiao’s face, and immediately, a blood-red flame suddenly emerged on his right hand, enveloping his entire hand.

Whoosh!

When Yun Xiao’s Ancestral Vein Fire suddenly appeared, emitting a sense of chaos, the array flag seemed to encounter a lifelong enemy and turned to escape.

Unfortunately, Yun Xiao had anticipated this step. His left hand was already waiting on the escape path of the water flag, and then a burst of icy intent erupted. In just a moment, the water flag turned into an ice flag.

Crash!

Under Yun Xiao’s mind control, the array flag condensed into an ice flag instantly shattered into pieces, and with the removal of this array flag, the Death Gate of the Eight Gates Water Illusion Array was truly broken.

In the next instant, Yun Xiao felt the air clear, looked up, and saw that the water droplets that were continuously falling from the sky had completely disappeared, allowing him to see the dazzling sun in the west.

”Hmm?”

As Yun Xiao slightly relaxed, his gaze suddenly focused because not far from him, there were several figures, their movements appearing quite strange.

......

Eight Gates Water Illusion Array, within the Illusion Array!

Falling into this Eight Gates Water Illusion Array’s Illusion Door was the eldest lady of Xuanyin Hall, Xue Ningxiang. However, she was completely lost in the illusion, unable to extricate herself.

”My... my meridian qi has completely disappeared, no... don’t...”

A look of extreme horror appeared in Xue Ningxiang’s beautiful eyes, and the panic in her voice betrayed her inner turmoil, for this was the scene she least wanted to face.

Once, Xue Ningxiang was deemed Innate Pulse Cutting, unable to cultivate meridian qi her entire life, and would not survive past twenty years old. Since she became aware, she was waiting to die day by day.

Until one moment, the elders of Lianyun Mountain brought a method learned unintentionally to Xuanyin Hall, temporarily controlling Xue Ningxiang’s eighteen-year-old Innate Pulse Cutting.

Later, Xue Ningxiang met a boy named Yun Xiao, then she understood that her relief from the pain of Innate Pulse Cutting was not due to the elders of Lianyun Mountain, but this young boy of Hidden Dragon Continent.

At this moment, Xue Ningxiang discovered once again that her meridian qi had vanished, her meridians shrunk as before, a feeling identical to those eighteen years.

What made the Illusion Door of the Eight Gates Water Illusion Array so formidable was that it made you know this might not happen, yet it happened for real.

It’s a control targeting the soul, making Xue Ningxiang’s subconscious believe she is once again trapped in Innate Pulse Cutting.

If Xue Ningxiang had always been in the pain of Innate Pulse Cutting, never relieved from it, she might not have such unwillingness now.

But when one gains power, even more power than ordinary people, and then is thrown back to square one, the resulting psychological shadow becomes immensely amplified.

Xue Ningxiang is undoubtedly such a person, who rose from nothing to surpass all young geniuses in just a few years. Returning to the starting point, acceptance was unthinkable.

Lost in a certain condition, Xue Ningxiang did not realize this was actually an illusion, intentionally crafted to make her disappointed and even despairing.

Dominated by this intentionally crafted illusion, a look of despair emerged in her eyes as she slowly raised her right arm, energy coalescing on her jade palm, ready to hit her head fiercely, to free herself from such painful despair.

At this moment, Xue Ningxiang clearly didn’t think about why her energy would condense on her palm when planning to end her life. She didn’t want to endure such torture any longer; perhaps death was the only way out.

In the Half-step Heavenly Rank realm, the power contained in Xue Ningxiang’s palm was immense, and under her ”mindset to die,” a single hit to the top of her head could spell disaster.

Whoosh!

However, just then, as Xue Ningxiang’s right palm is about to touch her head, she suddenly noticed a change in the scene, an arm sturdily clamped onto her right hand like metal tongs.

”What are you doing? Let me die!”

Xue Ningxiang, who hadn’t reacted yet, was filled with a desire to die, and when she sensed her arm being grabbed, she suddenly burst into a fit of rage. A powerful surge of Meridian Qi erupted, surprisingly pushing the person back a step.

”Huh? My Meridian Qi...”

It was only at this moment that Xue Ningxiang regained some rationality. She stared blankly at her right hand, feeling the familiar aura of Meridian Qi upon it, and the despair in her eyes slowly turned into delight.

”It’s alright now, those were all just illusions!”

Just as Xue Ningxiang was both surprised and overjoyed, a familiar voice suddenly reached her ears, causing her to lift her head abruptly. She immediately saw a slim figure that was not the least bit unfamiliar.

”Yun Xiao, I...”

Seeing this plainly-dressed young man, Xue Ningxiang naturally remembered her previous actions, and a tinge of embarrassment involuntarily appeared on her face.

”Follow me, they’re still trapped in the array!”

The one who had suddenly intervened was Yun Xiao, who, seeing that Xue Ningxiang was in the most critical situation, was the first to rescue her. For him, already outside the large array, breaking this Eight Gates Water Illusion Array was nothing.

Yet, the force of Xue Ningxiang’s earlier strike also secretly alarmed Yun Xiao, making him think that this Illusion Yin Ghost Body was truly extraordinary. Without caution, he might have met his doom unexpectedly.

Simultaneously, Yun Xiao was secretly relieved that he had broken the array just in time. Otherwise, even a moment’s delay, and this young lady of the Xuanyin Hall might have taken her own life, a narrow margin between life and death.

Fortunately, compared to Xue Ningxiang, the others were in a relatively better state. Among them, Liu Hanyi was covered in fragrant sweat, seemingly struggling against an unknown poison. A blackish-green light occasionally flickered across her face, appearing quite mysterious.

It was clear Liu Hanyi was trapped in the Poison Gate of the Eight Gates Water Illusion Array. Thankfully, with her Immortal Poison Body abnormal physique, although the toxins were terrifyingly strong, reaching Heavenly Rank power, they could only trouble her rather than take her life.

As for the other talent from Lianyun Mountain, Mo Qing, her eyelids were drooping as if about to fall into a deep sleep at any moment. With Yun Xiao’s discerning eyes, he immediately recognized this as the Mist Gate among the Eight Gates.

The Mixed Element One Qi Body Ling Wan had already turned into a ball of flesh, continuously crashing around in a particular space, but never managing to break through that boundary.

”What’s Ling Wan doing?”

Seeing this, while following Yun Xiao forward, Xue Ningxiang asked aloud. In her view, nothing was present where Ling Wan was ramming, only the water droplets falling from the sky.

”That’s the Sealed Gate of the Eight Gates Water Illusion Array. Though we see nothing else, Ling Wan, trapped in the Sealed Gate, faces numerous obstacles around him. It seems he’s trying to break through layer by layer!”

Yun Xiao was naturally well-informed about this Eight Gates Water Illusion Array. Sadly, Ling Wan, caught in the array, had no idea he was struggling in vain.

Even if one layer is broken, two more await him. Without external help, exhausting his Meridian Qi with this endless crashing would bring his demise.

As Yun Xiao spoke, his gaze shifted in another direction, where a small fiery red figure kept bouncing around like a headless fly trapped in darkness.

”That’s the Dark Gate of the Eight Gates. Once trapped in the Dark Gate, one is rendered sightless, and even the Power of Soul is severely hampered!”

Seeing the puzzled look in Xue Ningxiang’s eyes, Yun Xiao once more explained the situation, supposing that Chi Yan was frantically struggling in a pitch-black space, just like Ling Wan, doing so in vain.

With Yun Xiao’s explanation, most of the worry in Xue Ningxiang’s mind dissipated. At least none of the companions faced lethal danger, so a brief delay was not alarming.

”Ah, sister Ying’er indeed lives up to being a Heavenly Rank expert, seemingly unaffected!”

When Xue Ningxiang shifted her gaze to another direction, she couldn’t help but voice her admiration. In truth, the Hu Ying’er she mentioned was only a half-step Heavenly Rank expert at the moment.

Yet, after witnessing Hu Ying’er slay an Intermediate Silver Grade Heavenly Spirit with a single hand, no one considered her merely an Earth-rank cultivator, viewing her superficial cultivation level as false.

Over these past ten days, Hu Ying’er, being the youngest and most kind-hearted among the girls, was treated as a younger sister by the others, despite her being the strongest.

Now watching the girl’s face, more composed than the others, Xue Ningxiang realized how formidable the younger one, with a cultivation akin to hers on the surface, truly was.

”She should be trapped in the Silence Gate, but with her abilities, indeed there’s no need for concern!”

Yun Xiao also glanced that way, confident in his understanding of Hu Ying’er’s Double Flower Pure Lotus Body, far more than Xue Ningxiang, which reassured him to handle her situation last.

So, the first person Yun Xiao rescued was Liu Hanyi, who was contending with poison in the Poison Gate. With Liu Hanyi’s Immortal Poison Body physique, she was already out of danger the moment the array flag was removed.

What followed needs no detailed explanation. Under Yun Xiao’s methods, each of them was brought out of danger, though they all felt a sense of profound awe in their hearts.