Chapter 26 (2/2)

The layer was about 1,000 feet deep into the mountain. There were also a middle layer and a bottom layer underneath. Jiu Jiu also helped with burying the foundations of the huge, core arrays in the middle and bottom layers.

However, this was only the situation when the arrays in this area were activated in the horizontal plane.

These array foundations also had several hidden programs laid vertically and obliquely. Among them were many killing array formations.

At that moment, the secret room, which Li Changshou was in, was the center of all the array formations.

The secret room would only appear in this rock when all the vertical core array formations had been activated, and all the horizontal ones were reversed.

There was no need to fear even great masters of Earth Escape. Without the jade token in Li Changshou’s hand and his special controlling hand techniques, one would have to break the Little Qiong Peak into pieces in order to find this secret room.

If the day came where the Little Qiong Peak had to be broken apart, even the Immortal Du Sect might perish. Before then, there would be a 99% chance that Li Changshou would already be…

‘Cough, there’s no meaning in living and peris.h.i.+ng with the sect. It is more righteous to remain alive in order to take revenge for my fellow masters and disciples!’

On a side note, the arrays on the bottom layer were meant to absorb the earth meridians’ energy.

In order to avoid absorbing too much power from earth and spirit meridians, which would attract the attention of other cultivators or seniors in the sect, Li Changshou had to avoid all the spirit meridians. Instead, he chose to absorb ‘turbid’ power, which the earth had the most of, and then use the cleaning array left behind by the mage race to filter the power.

Although this would slightly impact the power of the killing arrays, it was the most appropriate solution.

What’s more, even if experts in the sect noticed the group of arrays on the Little Qiong Peak, as long as he did not activate the vertical and oblique planes, they would only see trapping arrays and mazes. They could not blame him for breaking the sect’s rules.

Before this, he had been using mediocrity as his disguise. This was known as ‘pa.s.sively camouflaging’.

Now, however, he was forced to do more since he needed a Pill Chamber to refine pills. He had to take ‘active disguise’ to the extreme. As for the direction he would take in the future, Li Changshou had already thought about it.

He would take all the array formations’ foundations under the Pill Chamber as his base. From there, he would slowly expand outwards. Little Qiong Peak would become a fortress in the sect, which no one would notice.

He had only one life, and the Primordial Times were way too exciting.

‘For cultivators in my generation, seeking longevity and the Great Dao should come first. It would not be too late to appreciate the Trichiliocosm’s beautiful views after that.’

“Finally,” said Li Changshou as he rubbed his hands together. He kept his sheepskin and jade token and retrieved several storage sacks. Then, he poured out several storage Dharma treasures from within.

After two years, he could finally take stock of the surprise rewards he had reaped from his expedition to the North Continent.

“First, I’ll see how poor that Immortal Yuwen Ling was.”

Li Changshou chuckled as he took out two paper dolls and turned them into his clones. The clones lifted up two storage Dharma treasures, took one corner of the room, and began to melt them.

Half a day later, the paper doll manning the furnace almost ran out of power. Li Changshou kept his rewards, got to his feet, and left the secret room.

He held an embroidered case in his hand. Inside the case were two sleeping ‘beetles’.

If he was not wrong, these should be—Love Parasites!

“Good stuff,” exclaimed Li Changshou. “It’s a pity I have no use for them now. I’ll keep them first. In the future, if the immortal and spirit beasts I rear do not show signs of reproducing, I can use this to push them. That would increase their reproduction rate and save these rare breeds.”

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Time flew by. It was now the day that Jiu Jiu had agreed to help Li Changshou with refining the pills.

Jiu Jiu yawned as she put on a hemp garment that one of her senior sisters had washed for her. Sleepily, she mounted her wine gourd and headed towards the Little Qiong Peak.

As one of the main Perfected Immortals in the sect, Jiu Jiu had many powerful figures behind her. Thus, she flew without many restrictions. She could go wherever she wanted to go, except for the prohibited areas.

“Is today the 20th day?”

Jiu Jiu squeezed her fingers together and counted. Immediately, she felt confused.

Before this, she had tried the Drunken Immortal ‘concentrate’ because she had been seeking excitement. In the end, she had slept for five or six days straight.

As she rushed along, she neglected to expand her immortal awareness. Thus, she failed to notice the floating cloud in the forest beneath her.

Once Jiu Jiu arrived at the Little Qiong Peak, two heads popped out of the cloud. The one on the left was the short Daoist, Jiu Wu. The one on the right looked like a teenage girl, no more than 16 or 17 years old.

Although she looked like a teenage girl, with beautiful features and full curves, she was filled with youthful energy. Both of them were about the same age—more than 2,000 years old.

The teenage girl’s Dao name was Jiu s.h.i.+, and she was the fourth disciple of Exalted w.a.n.g Qing. She was also Jiu Wu’s Dao companion and the girl whom Jiu Wu often used the Strong-Pupil Three-Headed Spider’s web to spy on.

Jiu Wu said in a low voice, “It doesn’t seem right for us to do this. This is the Little Qiong Peak after all.”

The teenage girl retorted irritatedly, “What are you afraid of? If they’re unhappy with us, we’ll just have to fight the Peak Leader of this peak!” Then, she narrowed her apricot eyes and said, “She came here the moment she woke up. There must be something wrong. When have you seen Little Jiu this hardworking? I want to see whether this Junior Brother Qi Yuan has grown three heads or six arms. How can he attract our Little Jiu here every day even before ascending to immortality?”

Jiu Wu smiled bitterly as he raised his short, thick eyebrows. “There are array formations here? I can’t sense Little Jiu’s aura anymore.”

“What array formation do we have to fear? Haven’t we all learned these?” Jiu Wu pursed her lips and grabbed Jiu Wu’s collar. Without another word, they hid their figures and auras and turned into two shadows, which flew towards the Little Qiong Peak’s forest.

“We are both halfway to the Heaven Immortal Realm. Must we fear array formations set up by someone who hasn’t even ascended to immortality?”

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