Chapter 61 - Heaven and Earth Shift (2/2)

7th elder blinked in a daze, then face-palmed, “Damn it, someone’s playing us.”

He rushed higher in the air and saw thousands of light pillars in the distance.

“There!”

7th elder seethed in rage as he charged, “You’re dead if you think you can play me!”

Meanwhile, the stream before Zhuo Fan’s party was gone, replaced by a dark hole that was soon spewing lava along with fine and shiny particles.

“Diamond Sand!” Xie Tianyang was overjoyed as he turned to Zhuo Fan in shock, “Brother Zhuo, you’re great. How is the Diamond Sand erupting here?”

Grinning, Zhuo Fan flatly said, “This array is called Heaven and Earth Shift. It is a mere 1st-grade array, but it can reverse yin and yang, shift mountains and rivers. I only switched Diamond Sand’s flow to here.”

Zhuo Fan said it dully, but Xie Tianyang was shocked to the core.

As far as he knew, only 6th grade and above arrays could do that, and they were all lost. But Zhuo Fan not only did it but used just a 1st-grade array in the process.

He started to recall Zhuo Fan mentioning Veiled Dragon Pavilion’s alliance agreement.

[It might not be far fetched for Veiled Dragon Pavilion to make such an agreement if they knew of brother Zhuo’s outrageous talent.]

Xie Tianyang watched Zhuo Fan closely with a secret smile. He didn’t think he’d meet such a man when he decided to get the Diamond Sand.

[There may not be a second person in the empire who can set this array.]

Xie Tianyang then spoke, “Brother Zhuo, would you like to come into Sword Marquise Abode as a Venerable?”

Xue Ningxiang was tongue-tied. Zhuo Fan was so young yet he’d get to be a Venerable in one of the seven houses!

Zhuo Fan rolled his eyes and almost made Xue Ningxiang stumble with his next words, “Save it. Veiled Dragon Pavilion tried it already and I refused them all the same. That’s why they changed to having an alliance agreement!”

“Brother Zhuo, you’re showing off here.” Xue Ningxiang clearly doubted his words.

But Xie Tianyang nodded and said, “Alright, I will send someone with an alliance agreement when I get back. Where do I send it?”

“Windgaze City’s Luo clan. I will return when I am finished with my affairs!”

Xie Tianyang hesitated, “Then I will wait for your return. I want to sign it with you. With your skills, when you leave the Luo clan in the future, we won’t lose out then!”

Zhuo Fan shook his head, [Why are all seven houses the same?]

Xue Ningxiang gasped as her face twitched. [Sword Marquise Abode is so unruly, why would they want to sign an agreement with an outsider?]

And it wasn’t with a clan, but with a single man!

But what escaped her thoughts was that precisely because Xie Tianyang was from the seven houses that he valued Zhuo Fan so much. The average clan would never see Zhuo Fan’s value.

At this time, the dark cave let out a final eruption of lava. Seeing this, Zhuo Fan urged, “Get the nets!”

“Why the hurry?”

Xie Tianyang waved and continued with a smile, “The nets are made of spirit metal. They won’t break in lava.”

Zhuo Fan snorted, “You think I don’t know that? If we don’t go now, we may not have a life to enjoy it.”

Xie Tianyang was startled as Zhuo Fan continued, “You think all elders from Hell Valley are blind? Who wouldn’t notice the light pillars? Just wait, and you will have a Profound Heaven expert hovering overhead!”

Xie Tianyang rushed in with his hand signs to recover the net. As the nets rose, the trio saw the glitters among the lava. And on the net’s threads was shining sand.

“What do we do now?”

Xie Tianyang was happy seeing the net but was aware of the imminent danger. Zhuo Fan dragged them for 12 hours to this place for a reason most obvious–to buy time. Even a Profound Heaven expert would need two hours to reach here.

During this time, they could retrieve the Diamond Sand and leave. But where to run was the question? Where was safe?

Noticing Zhuo Fan gazing at the stream’s opposite bank, the pair shouted, “The second area?”

“Wrong!” Zhuo Fan said dryly, “The third area!”

Gasping, the two stared at Zhuo Fan in a daze.

[Is this guy crazy? The second area is dangerous enough, but going to the third is suicide!]

But they both were oblivious to the fact that Zhuo Fan’s aim from the start was in that area.

6th level spiritual beast, Thunder Skylark…