Journey to the West: I have Nine Golden Crows Inside Me
Chapter 326 - 326 Three one five the essence of Innate the great formation of four constellations

326: Three one five, the essence of Innate, the great formation of four constellations.

326: Three one five, the essence of Innate, the great formation of four constellations.

“Run the Array!”

Seeing this, not surprised, Jiang Chen ordered another array, the Shenxiao Lightning Array, to be activated.

The moment it was activated, the sky darkened abruptly.

Several thunderbolts, as thick as water tanks, descended one after another from the sky, hitting the ground and setting off a canopy of electric sparks.

In just an instant, the thunder met the ground fire, with explosions of light and fire bursting out, creating unparalleled destruction.

The earth fire python that was struggling in the fire had no time to react before it was torn apart by the terrifying power, exploded into a sky full of blood rain, and scattered all over the ground and magma.

It didn’t take long before the combined attack of the earth fire and sky thunder had killed all the earth fire pythons, except for the two ancestral pythons.

For a moment, the ground was covered with flesh and broken bones.

It looked horrifyingly grotesque and bloody.

Roar~~

The two ancestor pythons, wounded by the sky thunder and earth fire, were in pain.

Their scales shattered, and bits of their flesh flew around.

They roared and attacked wildly within the array, attempting to break through the array’s blockade and charge at Jiang Chen and his party outside the array.

As the first generation of fierce beasts, these two ancestor pythons were incredibly strong.

Even the array Jiang Chen set up using his innate divine gold was showing signs of trembling and had indications of breaking under their wild attack.

“Again!”

Moved by thoughts, Jiang Chen activated the third array he had set up – Earthly Fiend Yin Array.

Boom boom boom!

In an instant, the earth vein churned incessantly, and the Yin Qi gushed out from the depths of the earth.

The oncoming waves of coldness diffused, causing the air to condense.

Both earth fire and sky thunder were the strongest of the strong, while the Qi from Earthly Fiend Yin Array was a kind of extreme Yin power.

The meeting of the extreme Yang power with the extreme Yin power did not result in the coexistence of Yin and Yang, but in the opposing and intolerant interaction of yin and yang – more like the elements of water and fire meeting.

The two forces met, causing the most intense reactions.

They could not tolerate each other, becoming deeply entwined.

As Yin and Yang collided, terrifying forces of destruction surged out, sweeping around like swimming fish.

However, wherever they passed, everything ceased to exist.

The two ancestral pythons, accidentally touched by the force of Yin and Yang, immediately lost a chunk of their flesh.

No matter how tenacious their vitality was, they could not regenerate their flesh.

“It’s over!”

Seeing the ancestral pythons’ bodies melt away by the force of Yin and Yang, a smile appeared on Jiang Chen’s face.

Suddenly, he rose to his feet, came straight to the center of the array, and stood there.

At the same time, he revolved the Sun and Moon force within him to form a Yin Yang Taiji chart, drawing in the Sun and Moon powers within the array.

After breaking through to a new level, Jiang Chen had gained a deeper understanding of the Tao (principle) of the Yin and Yang changes.

He could temporarily maintain the situation of Yin and Yang balance, coexistence with full strength.

Under Jiang Chen’s lead, the array’s Sun and Moon powers gradually balanced.

A virtual Yin Yang Taiji chart slowly formed and enveloped the two ancestral pythons, turning slowly.

Every time the Taiji chart rotated, a portion of the pythons’ origin was refined, and their strength decreased by a bit.

In the meantime, the power of the Taiji chart also grew stronger.

Roar!

Unwilling to be trapped, the two ancestor pythons struggled desperately, trying to break the blockade of the Taiji chart.

However, under the oppression of the array and Jiang Chen, all their struggles proved futile.

Regardless of how they struggled, they couldn’t break the suppression of the Taiji chart, being easily suppressed by the Yin and Yang forces.

They could only watch helplessly as their strength gradually faded and death approached.

As time passed, the Taiji chart’s power grew stronger and stronger while the two ancestor pythons grew weaker, struggling feebly, unable to resist anymore.

Seeing this, Jiang Chen’s figure flickered, leaving the array and returning to his original position.

After Jiang Chen left, the Yin-Yang Taiji chart did not collapse but still continued to operate, gradually eroding the two ancestral pythons bit by bit.

Jiang Chen had been running the Taiji chart for so long that he had formed a momentum.

Unless a powerful external force broke it, the Taiji chart would not collapse but would continue to operate until its power was exhausted.

Five days later, the Yin-Yang Taiji chart above the array had nearly materialized.

The two ancestor pythons being suppressed by it were on their last breaths and ready to die at any moment.

“Retrieve!”

At this moment, Jiang Chen suddenly pointed at the array, refining the resting powers of celestial thunder, earth fire, and earthly Yin into the Yin-Yang Taiji chart.

Boom boom boom!

The Yin-Yang Taiji chart trembled and turned into a ball of Yin and Yang Qi, twisting down heavily and killing the two ancestor pythons.

The three arrays smoothly linked together and, in nearly ten days’ time, killed the two half-step Dao Monarch level fierce beasts and hundreds of Golden Immortals.

With this performance, Jiang Chen somewhat entered the door of the Tao of array formations.

If placed in the ancient Jiejiao Sect, he could be considered to have reached the level of an average disciple.

As for graduating from apprenticeship?

That was still a long way off.

In ancient times, disciples of the Jiejiao Sect had to create a powerful array of their own to graduate.

For instance, the Ten Ultimate Arrays of the Ten Heavenly Lords or the Great Nine Bend Yellow River Array of the Empress Tristar; these arrays, which made them famous, boasted exceptional power.

If Jiang Chen wanted to graduate, he too needed to invent a uniquely powerful array.

His mastery of previous people’s array only made him a master, not a grandmaster.

Naturally, this could not meet the standard for graduation.

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“Everyone, listen up.

Start refining the divine flags and setting up the Soul Refining Array.” Seeing the two ancestral pythons fall, Jiang Chen waved his hand and ordered his subordinates to invoke the refining flags and launch the Soul Refining Array to refine these Fierce Beasts’ bodies.

Swish…

In the void, divine lights flashed, and one hundred and eight refining flags emerged, hanging mid-air, blanketing this area.

Boom!

Boom!

Boom!

The power of refining surged from the void, smashing the flesh of Earthfire Python scattered on the ground into the primary innate Qi, subsequently refining the essence within, gradually condensing into a mass in the mid-air.

A normal Earthfire Python could be refined in a few days, extracting the essence from its flesh.

However, those two ancestral pythons, owing to their formidable strength, were not easy to refine.

The Soul Refining Array refines for more than a month before extracting the essence from their flesh – about the size of a fist, appearing like a blood crystal, it hovered mid-air, emanating an intoxicating blood-glow.

This was the essence of the Earthfire Python’s flesh.

Fierce Beasts were born with the Innate.

Therefore, the essence of flesh that Jiang Chen refined from the Earthfire Python was the Innate Essence, free of impurities, a rare treasure in the world.

Talking about this Innate Essence, if given to a master artifact refiner, it might be refined into an innate magic treasure.

If given to the Grand Supreme Elderly Lord, the Three Realms would gain another Nine Revolutions Golden Pill.

Without exaggeration, the original source of life transformed from billions of living beings in the Shu Region could be compared with the innate essence transformed from the flesh of Earthfire Python.

However, this mass of innate essence, even though precious, was not immediately usable,

because it was entangled with a dark red gas – unique Fire Fiend Aura of the Earthfire Python.

Toxic to cultivators, a single brush would cause great trouble.

Any carelessness could risk falling.

Therefore, if one wants to use this Innate Essence, they must refine the Fire Fiend Aura on it.

The Soul Refining Array had the ability for this.

“Keep refining!”

While giving orders, Jiang Chen released his divine consciousness to secretly observe the surroundings.

The trouble should be arriving now.

From the start of Jiang Chen’s refining of the Fierce Beast until now, ten days had passed.

In that period, incidents of earth fire and heavenly thunder had caused quite a hullabaloo, alerting many.

If it’s merely slaughtering Fierce Beasts and attracting attention from others, it didn’t matter.

Jiang Chen was influential, so they wouldn’t necessarily dare to confront him.

But now, as Jiang Chen is refining the Fierce Beast, once the Innate Essence emerges, driven by jealousy, these people might dare to take action to snatch it.

The demons and evil ways here wouldn’t fear Heaven Court.

If they actually feared Heaven Court, they wouldn’t take evil paths in the first place.

That would be the real test.

Previously, Jiang Chen had ordered 280 Sun Warriors to carry 28 Star Mansion flags and lay in ambush nearby.

The objective was to trap these people.

How astute Jiang Chen was, planning ahead, he deduced that once he started refining the Fierce Beast, someone would definitely try to steal his hard-earned results.

Looting and plundering – this was the true cultivation world.

Especially in a place like the Little Cang Mountain Range which was beyond the jurisdiction, where law and order was a mere formality, and anything could happen.

So, Jiang Chen prepared in advance and set traps, waiting for people to fall into them.

If those people didn’t take action, then be it.

But if they did, this place would turn into their graves.

The twenty-eight Star Mansion’s power alone was enough to refine and kill a Great Luo Golden Immortal.

But the twenty-eight Star Mansion flags could also set up other arrays, not just the twenty-eight Star Mansion.

There was also the legendary Innate Four Mansion Array.

This was the most powerful aspect of the twenty-eight Star Mansion flags.

The Innate Four Mansion Array was an integral part of the Cycle Star Array.

Once suspended, it could summon the power of Four Star Mansions, forming the illusions of the Four Sacred Beasts to battle the enemy.

Eastern Azure Dragon Star Mansion, Western White Tiger Star Mansion, Southern Vermilion Bird Star Mansion, Northern Black Tortoise Star Mansion; these were the Four Star Mansions.

They were the manifestation of the Four Sacred Beasts in the starry sky and also vessels of the Four Seasons’ Dao.

Being ancient and profound, they were formidable and unfathomable.

Once the incarnations of the Four Sacred Beasts descended, even a Daluo Dao Monarch could put up a fight against them.

Of course, this was because Jiang Chen was too weak.

If he was strong enough, like the Chan Teaching’s Nine Golden Immortals, then once the Innate Four Mansion Array was unleashed, even a Quasi-Saint would struggle to blunt its edge.

However, although Jiang Chen was weak, with the help of the Innate Four Mansion Array, it wouldn’t be difficult to smite a few Great Luo Golden Immortals.