Chapter 26 (1/2)

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

‘Aunt-Master Jiu Jiu is… perfect.’

Li Changshou had turned into green smoke. As he twisted and turned through narrow gaps, and charged downwards at top speed, he pa.s.sed by array formation after array formation. Each one made Li Changshou feel a deep sense of satisfaction.

Why did he say Aunt-Master was perfect?

Jiu Jiu knew very little about array formations. She was a Perfected Immortal and was approaching the Heaven Immortal Realm. Her foundations were st.u.r.dy, and her immortal powers were pure. She also had unexpectedly strong control over her own immortal powers.

Most importantly, she could follow the directions of the younger generation!

Perhaps calling them ‘directions’ would be overboard. Li Changshou admitted that there was an element of trickery. However, one was willing to beat, and the other was willing to endure beatings. Both were willing parties—it was beautiful.

‘Aunt-Master Jiu Jiu helped me out a lot this time. I have to thank the elders in the Punishment Hall for punis.h.i.+ng Aunt-Master Jiu in this manner. I also have to thank Uncle-Master Jiu Wu for throwing Aunt-Master Jiu into a wine vat to be bathed when she was young. I also have to thank myself, for finding those few pieces of torn sheepskin in the bookshelf at the corner of the Dao Sutra Outer Hall. That was how I successfully ‘tested’ incapacitating agents used in battles like the Drunken Immortal and Soft Immortal Disperser…’

The green smoke descended about 1,000 feet before stopping in the middle of a narrow gap between two rocks. Li Changshou then transformed into a human again.

In his hands, he held a jade token, which could control the array formation. His fingers rubbed the surface several times, causing the diagram on the jade token to change slightly.

At the same time, ripples appeared in the rocks in front of him like water. Li Changshou walked into the rock, and then the rock reverted to its original state.

Uninhibited, Li Changshou took a few steps into the big rock. A small wooden door appeared in front of him. He pushed it open and walked into a secret room, which measured 30 feet per side.

He took out the array-controlling jade token and turned it around in his palm. Once again, the array formation outside changed slightly. The secret underground room immediately disappeared in the various gaps around the array formation.

Even Heaven Immortals, who were intentionally looking for this room, would not be able to find out its location from any direction unless they destroyed the array formation outside.

This was Li Changshou’s main objective in building this Pill Chamber.

‘Men need their secret s.p.a.ces.’

There were two bookshelves in the secret room, filled with old, ancient texts.

Li Changshou sat behind the desk and retrieved tens of sheepskin. He studied them closely and then took out the jade token again. After closing his eyes, a complex, three-dimensional structure surfaced in his mind.

This three-dimensional structure looked like a building in a city that he often saw in his previous life. However, this ‘building’ was embedded inside the Little Qiong Peak.

Li Changshou breathed out slowly.

‘It’s been a long time since I last felt so hidden and safe…’

“Ah.” Li Changshou sighed as a smile spread across his face. “It’s not a bad idea to bathe here. What a joke. I cannot relax, even for a second. I have to keep checking the different parts of this huge array formation.”

It was a good thing that Aunt-Master Jiu Jiu was of such a high cultivation level. That was the only reason he could turn his dreams into reality—a huge, three-dimensional, complex group of arrays!

Li Changshou had carefully pieced together the puzzle through Jiu Jiu’s hands, based on the design and ideals he had for this array formation.

Based on Aunt-Master Jiu Jiu’s understanding, she had helped Li Changshou put together more than 100 medium and small-sized array formations. Moreover, these array formations overlapped to form a natural-like array formation, which covered the environment within a 30-kilometer radius of the Pill Chamber.

The combined effort of Li Changshou and Jiu Jiu produced this huge array. This huge array—a Perfected Immortal’s handiwork—could not be broken even by Heaven Immortals.

Perhaps only Heaven Immortals with a deep understanding of array formations would be able to break it.

However, Jiu Jiu only knew of this first step. She did not know of the second, third, and fourth steps.

The foundation of the main array formations was made out of precious ingredients, spirit stones, and specially-refined treasures. Since the foundations were all interconnected, the Heaven and Earth powers were activated. That allowed the huge array to have multiple different effects.

The Array Formation Dao was vast and deep. Li Changshou knew that he had not yet learned enough about array formations to be called an expert.

He had to have a realistic and clear view of his own understanding and skills.

However, he could not help his bold and unconstrained imagination. What’s more, he could repeatedly expound on these imaginations to make his dreams become a reality, step by step.

About 60 to 70 years ago, when Li Changshou’s had been enjoying a break from cultivating, he had studied the array formations set up around the Immortal Du Sect. By chance, he had discovered that the foundations of common array formations in Primordial Times were mostly laid on a horizontal plane.

At the time, he thought, ‘What if they could be laid on a vertical plane? The effect should be the same.’

Take the spherical mountain-protecting array formation, for example. If its foundation were laid vertically, the half-sphere would be able to rotate 90-degrees.

Of course, most mountain-protecting array formations needed to make use of power from the earth meridians. It was not possible to lay their foundations vertically.

However, protective array formations aside, mazes, trapping array formations, and killing array formations could rotate freely.

‘On this basis, what would happen if I lay the array foundations on an oblique plane? What would happen if I laid the foundations of several array formations in a criss-cross fas.h.i.+on? For example, between two array formations, one could be laid horizontally and the other vertically. They would share 1/3 of their foundations. When I activate the horizontal array, the vertical one will be deactivated, and vice versa. That would create an ‘interference-free switching array’!’

Li Changshou had slowly fumbled his way and eventually figured out how to allow spiritual power to flow through the array formation. He had also resolved problems with applying the theory to various array formations’ foundations.

All his work had culminated to this day.

Little Qiong Peak’s Pill Chamber’s huge, three-dimensional, complex array formation was the successful realization of Li Changshou’s theory!

If one divided up the huge arrays on the horizontal plane, they would find three layers.

Jiu Jiu only knew about the top layer—the array formation surrounding the Pill Chamber. This contained more than 100 trapping arrays and mazes.