Chapter 489 - Ancient Ferocious Beast (1/2)

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They seemed to be combining their forces to hold up an array. It looked like an extremely complicated array. It took Lonemoon a long time before he recognized it to be a huge seal. However, it did not look stable. Instead, it looked like it was going to break apart at any time. The array contained cool yin aura, which was seeping out continuously.

The group of them combined their forces to hold the array in place, as if afraid that whatever was inside it would escape. However, even their combined powers were not strong enough. The yin Qi inside the array grew and grew, and the thing captured inside of it continued to crash against the boundaries of the array. Each time it collided with the boundaries, the entire Hao Ran Sect shook.

Lonemoon frowned. He turned to face the person beside him. “Fatty, go and help them out.”

“Yes, Master.” Fatty immediately rushed over. It was almost as if he couldn’t have waited a second longer. Since he just learned how to conjure this array, he had no difficulty in remembering how to help out. He immediately faced the ball of yin Qi, conjured his own array, and moved it so as to support the powers of the other disciples around him.

“Why are you…” Chan Ji looked shocked when he saw Fatty next to him. He turned around and addressed Lonemoon and the two other elders.

“Focus on the array!” Lonemoon shouted to him. “You haven’t finished setting it up!”

Chan Ji turned back to focus on the array. Now that Fatty was helping them, the pressure on each of them was lightened considerably. Yin Qi finally stopped flowing out of the array.

Within half a minute, the collision against the array stopped as well. The sea went back to being calm. The glow around the array slowly disappeared.

“Thank you for your help, Fellow Daoist!” Chan Ji nodded at Fatty, and then turned to face Lonemoon and the others once again.

“It was convenient for us to land a hand. Please don’t stand on ceremony, Court Lord,” Fatty responded, smiling.

“May I ask you, Court Lord, what exactly is this thing captured in the array?” Lonemoon asked as he watched the seal. “Your disciples are all Soul Formation cultivators. What exactly was it that was so hard to subdue despite the combined forces of more than ten of you?”

“Well…” Chan Ji’s expression changed. He hesitated.

“It’s a fierce beast!” The elderly man behind Chan J interjected. It was that Earth Immortal.

“Patriarch…”

“There’s no harm in letting them know!” The man waved his hand, stopping Chan Ji from objecting any further. “They don’t look like evil people. For all we know, we can get more help fighting this thing by telling this group of people.”

“This Fellow Daoist is…?” Lonemoon took one look at the Earth Immortal and asked. This Earth Immortal could remain in the lower realm for such a long time without ascending to immortality, and not as an itinerant cultivator as well. It was amazing.

“This is the Patriarch of our sect – Exalted Immortal Jing De,” Chan Ji introduced.

“So it’s Fellow Daoist Jing De.” Lonemoon cupped his fists respectfully and greeted him.

The expressions of the other cultivators present changed immediately. Jing De’s status in the Sacred Arrival Realm was different from the other cultivators’. Some might even say that he was one of the first people to enter the immortal realm. Perhaps because he was a True immortal, everybody addressed him as “Exalted Immortal”. Yet, Lonemoon only referred to him as a fellow Daoist. Even Jing De could not help but frown, but he did not go so far as to correct him.