Nine Dragons Saint Ancestor

”Now it’s really going to be a mess!”

Li Jizhou was as anxious as an ant on a hot pan, with a tinge of regret in his heart, secretly wondering why he had acted so clever and offered to help Ye Ku with this breakthrough.

At this moment, Li Jizhou vaguely understood that it might have been Ye Ku’s peculiar physique that made his own Spirit Gathering Array backfire.

In fact, Li Jizhou had good intentions, but this world is full of incidents where good intentions go wrong and lead to grudges. He had reasons to believe that if something untoward happened to Ye Ku, for whatever reason, the blame would inevitably fall on his shoulders.

Originally, Li Jizhou wanted to use Ye Ku as a bridge to curry favor with Yun Xiao, thereby strengthening the relationship between Ling Kong Island and Lianyun Mountain. Who would have thought it would end up like this?

As a result, not only had the relations between the Two Major Sects failed to improve, but there was also a possibility of enmity forming. Li Jizhou now felt as if he had become a great sinner of Ling Kong Island.

But Li Jizhou was an Array Master, not a Meridian Refining Master. He could control the Spirit Gathering Array, but he was truly at a loss regarding Ye Ku’s current situation.

Whoosh!

Just as Li Jizhou was sweating profusely in his anxiety, a gust of wind suddenly descended from the sky, and a gray figure appeared in the plaza, even directly entering the Spirit Gathering Array.

Having stayed at Lianyun Mountain for more than half a month, Li Jizhou was quite familiar with the young geniuses there. However, he had no impression whatsoever of this rough-clothed youth before him.

”Hey, what are you doing?”

Especially when Li Jizhou saw the youth leap into the array and, without a word, pull out one of the array flags of the Spirit Gathering Array, he was instantly taken aback.

The Spirit Gathering Array was an Earth Rank Advanced Formation, and each array flag had a fixed position and function. Pulling one out meant the entire large array was being destroyed.

”Stop!”

Seeing the youth go for a second array flag after removing the first one, Li Jizhou became furious, rushing over to throw the rough-clothed youth out of the plaza.

Li Jizhou knew that Ye Ku was at an extremely critical juncture. With the spiritual energy support from the Spirit Gathering Array, he might hold on a little longer until the bigwigs of Lianyun Mountain arrived.

However, if the Spirit Gathering Array were destroyed in an instant, Ye Ku might immediately fall into a desperate situation. In that case, the burden would likely fall on Li Jizhou, a scenario he was determined to avoid.

Whoosh...

Yet just as Li Jizhou leaped out, intending to remove the youth, he saw the latter merely wave his arm gently, sending him flying out of the plaza as if riding the clouds on a dragon.

Although Li Jizhou sensed he wasn’t injured, only propelled by the other’s strength out of the plaza, his heart was already in turmoil.

”Heavenly Rank Expert?!”

Li Jizhou was, after all, a middle-stage Earth Bending Realm genius. As an Array Master, his Power of Soul was not much weaker than some Earth Rank Advanced Meridian Refining Masters. With just one exchange, he realized the disparity between them.

But the rough-clothed youth appeared exceedingly young, seemingly just over twenty. How could someone of that age be a Heavenly Rank Expert?

Flying backward, Li Jizhou’s mind was momentarily blank. A thought hovered in his mind, yet he could not grasp it.

Until Li Jizhou felt his body steady and, turning to look back, saw it was his friend Nie Xiaosheng from the Shenxiao Sect who had caught him, preventing him from landing too disgracefully.

”Brother Nie, quickly stop him, don’t let him destroy the Spirit Gathering Array!”

Li Jizhou instinctively shouted aloud, for he knew the destruction of the Spirit Gathering Array would plunge Ye Ku into dire straits, a deeply ingrained belief of an Array Master.

But just as Li Jizhou spoke, he noticed something off with the surrounding atmosphere. Even his friend, Nie Xiaosheng, was looking at him with an extremely peculiar expression, leaving him baffled.

”Brother Jizhou, that’s Vice Chairman Yun!”

Seeing his friend’s state, Nie Xiaosheng felt a little pity and immediately offered an explanation. However, the title ”Vice Chairman Yun” left Li Jizhou momentarily bewildered.

”It’s Yun Xiao!”

This time, Nie Xiaosheng had no choice but to directly tell him the name. Upon hearing it, Li Jizhou’s entire body tensed, and cold sweat poured from his back.

”I just... actually wanted to confront Yun Xiao?”

This is the reason for Li Jizhou’s shock. You have to know that person has killed a Low Level Holy Grade Heavenly Spirit. If he had murderous intent towards him, probably just a little finger could easily crush him to death, right?

But thinking that it was Yun Xiao, Li Jizhou felt relieved. Losing to such a prodigious figure wasn’t too shameful, and at this moment, he was staring unblinkingly at the actions of the coarse-clothed youth.

After a brief scare, a touch of pride in the depths of Li Jizhou’s heart surged forth again. In terms of Meridian Qi Cultivation Combat Power, he admitted he couldn’t compare to Yun Xiao, but in Array Formation, he was extremely confident.

Although when the Second Elder Mo Yu returned to Ling Kong Island, he had spoken highly of Yun Xiao’s array techniques, praising him incessantly, the prideful young genius Li Jizhou couldn’t help but be a bit unconvinced.

Ling Kong Island has always been a gathering place for Array Masters from the Tenglong Continent, and wherever the Array Masters from there go, they are always treated with respect.

Now, a young array genius from outside actually made the Second Elder of Ling Kong Island feel inferior. Li Jizhou had always wanted to compete with Yun Xiao in Array Formation.

Even though Yun Xiao is now a true Heavenly Rank Expert, Li Jizhou believed that in Array Formation, he definitely wouldn’t lose by much, and it wasn’t impossible for him to win once by luck.

”Vice Chairman Yun Xiao is here, now Brother Ye Ku is saved!”

Si Mo, who had been anxiously pacing and shouting for the Dean, now saw the coarse-clothed figure and seemed to find a stabilizing force, showing a relieved expression.

The one who appeared here was indeed Yun Xiao. He had just left the Refining Treasure Hall with Wu Zhukong when he sensed the commotion here, so he came straight over and immediately noticed Ye Ku’s unusual condition.

Yun Xiao still had quite a good impression of this former top talent of the Sky Poison Institute, knowing that he wasn’t one of those hypocritical people. He was straightforward and forthright, a person of passionate straightforwardness.

Ye Ku’s abnormal physique, which Yun Xiao now understood somewhat, was a strange poison carried from the womb. After the methods of Qingmu Wu, it had become closely related to Ye Ku’s Poison Meridian Skill.

Thus, neither Yun Xiao nor Qingmu Wu ever thought of completely neutralizing Ye Ku’s strange poison, as that would cause his Poison Vein Talent to be lost entirely in an instant.

But now, Ye Ku was obviously unable to control this congenital poison, and coupled with the activation of the Spirit Gathering Array, his congenital poison was fully erupting, even making his Poison Meridian Skill entirely uncontrollable.

What Yun Xiao was currently doing was adapting the existing Spirit Gathering Array created by Li Jizhou into one that suited Ye Ku’s current state.

Even such a technique didn’t reveal the slightest clue to Li Jizhou, an Earth Rank Advanced Master.

In Li Jizhou’s mind, Yun Xiao’s action of removing the Array Flags was just reckless and random. Even though he knew this youth’s Meridian Qi Cultivation Combat Power was formidable, it was a completely different thing from Array Formation.

Especially when he saw Yun Xiao already holding ten entire Array Flags, Li Jizhou smirked inwardly, thinking that the Second Elder Mo Yu had exaggerated the youth’s array techniques, probably just understanding them one-sidedly.

Li Jizhou had never seen the Thousand Stars Blood Gathering Array on the Slaughter Spirit Battlefield; he had only seen the Sealing Array Point Array Diagram Mo Yu brought back to Ling Kong Island. In that situation, he thought it was nothing much.

After all, that Sealing Array Diagram was deliberately simplified by Yun Xiao, so much so that even some Earth Rank Low Level Array Masters could successfully execute it, let alone an array genius like Li Jizhou.

”What’s he going to do?”

At this moment, Li Jizhou was really curious about what Yun Xiao intended to do. As soon as this thought arose in his mind, the coarse-clothed youth had already taken his next step.

Swish, swish, swish...

Yun Xiao’s right arm moved gracefully, tracing a beautiful arc, and the ten Array Flags in his hand scattered like celestial maidens spreading flowers, shooting towards ten extremely unfamiliar positions for Li Jizhou.

”This... this is really reckless!”

As a naturally meticulous Earth Rank Advanced Array Master, Li Jizhou couldn’t help but murmur softly upon seeing Yun Xiao’s actions, attracting strong dissatisfaction from many Lianyun Mountain cultivators nearby.

”Li Jizhou, please mind your language!”

Especially Si Mo, who had long regarded Yun Xiao as his idol, didn’t even call him ”Senior Brother” at this point but directly called his name, seeming to indicate that if this Ling Kong Island guy dared to speak ill of Vice Chairman Yun Xiao again, he would immediately drive him away.

”Apologies!”

Prompted by Si Mo, Li Jizhou remembered where he was. Besides, apart from this being Lianyun Mountain’s territory, his Meridian Qi Cultivation Combat Power was also not at all comparable to that of the coarse-clothed youth.

However, while Li Jizhou apologized verbally, a peculiar light flickered in his eyes. In his conception, Yun Xiao’s method of recklessly throwing Array Flags was nothing but a haphazard mess.

The art of Array Formation is extremely precise. This Earth Rank Advanced Spirit Gathering Array was a familiar one that Li Jizhou had studied for many years, and the arrangement of the Array Flags’ positions was deeply rooted in his mind.