Stealthily cultivating in the chaotic world of demons and martial artists
Chapter 530 - 528: Gourd (Please Subscribe)_1

Chapter 530: Chapter 528: Gourd (Please Subscribe)_1

The Yin Yang Nine Nether Profound Wood Array transformed into a vast expanse of pitch-black mist, shrouding the territory of Thousand Island Lake.

Within the darkness, three hundred and sixty-five rays of starlight flickered.

Fang Xi, with the help of the "Taiyi Sutra," coordinated and controlled everything.

In an instant, everything within Thousand Island Lake, however big or small, every Nascent Soul Cultivator, every Core Formation, every mortal... even the Dongfus and hidden treasures left by predecessors... were all listed by Taiyi, as if observing the lines on the palm of one’s hand.

"Hmm? So I missed a few Nascent Soul old monsters, who relied on their exquisite escape techniques to hide on other spiritual islands... But now they are all within my Array, and with just a thought, they could die with a thousand woods piercing their hearts!"

"And not a few mortals have been taken in. As long as they survive this time, they are all seeds... Huh?!"

Just as Fang Xi’s Divine Consciousness swept across Thousand Island Lake without limit through the Great Array, and was returning to Jade Island, he suddenly noticed something and let out a soft exclamation.

From a high altitude, one could see that Jade Island was turquoise in color, shaped like a gourd.

Fang Xi had always found the island’s shape to be peculiar but never thought deeply about it.

Now, with the power of the fifth-order ’Yin Yang Nine Nether Profound Wood Array,’ his Divine Consciousness, which could reach everywhere, had discovered some clues.

"This island... is not an island... but a gourd?!"

Fang Xi took a slight breath of cold air, "No wonder... I said why the Spiritual Vein of Thousand Island Lake was barren, and then suddenly a fourth-order one appeared..."

Thinking back to when the Nine Leaves Sect settled here, it indeed had profound implications!

"That Dark Energy of Geocentric Vein... seems to be a crack in this gourd..."

"This gourd is quite powerful, probably of the fifth-order, but I don’t know why it’s somewhat damaged..."

"This is also a good thing, otherwise if that old ghost could have communicated with the spirit of the treasure, I would’ve been done for..."

Thinking back to the ancient times when the Nine Leaves Sect was suddenly destroyed, Fang Xi felt that the waters of Jade Island were deep and unfathomable.

"Could it be that within this Spirit Communicating treasure gourd, something terrifyingly powerful is sealed? Did the ancient Nine Leaves Sect encounter this fearsome creature, causing it to crack open the gourd, leading to their annihilation? Otherwise, where could that surging evil Qi have come from?"

Fang Xi’s curiosity was piqued, but he pressed it down for the moment.

No matter what, he had to first get through the great calamity of the Monster Clan’s uprising.

If he recklessly disturbed the seal, or caused the gourd to become unstable, even the Array Eyes he had set up would be troubled.

"Luckily, by fluke or by design, I used the Ancestral Demon Tree as the Array’s core and eyes, so even if Jade Island were to collapse, it wouldn’t be much of an issue..."

In Fang Xi’s design, the Spiritual Vein of Jade Island merely served as an energy source, while the Ancestral Demon Tree was the core of the Array; even if Jade Island suddenly collapsed, it would not affect the operation of the Yin Yang Nine Nether Profound Wood Array.

Moreover, the Ancestral Demon Tree could also provide energy on its own...

Of course, it would be better if it didn’t collapse; drawing from a fourth-order Spiritual Vein, the consumption would also be smaller.

"Unexpectedly, there was such a secret beneath Jade Island."

A thought stirred in Fang Xi’s mind.

A fifth-order Spirit Communicating treasure, although seemingly damaged, was still an extremely rare object.

But soon, he cast this thought aside as his Divine Consciousness detected something interesting.

...

Somewhere in Thousand Island Lake.

A streak of light soared, revealing a majestic white Monster Bird.

The Monster Bird opened its beak and let out a piercing cry, and a bead was released.

Boom!

This bead was as large as a fist, with countless inscriptions on its surface and a small Array inside.

The bead fell onto the fog wall, exploded into thousands of silver floods, battering the black fog.

The black fog quickly thinned...

Just as the white Monster Bird’s heart was filled with joy from the dispersing fog, after it cleared, more showings of Wooden Element roots appeared, shooting at it like arrows!

"Impossible... this is a fourth-order Breaking Array Bead given by the Heavenly Phoenix Clan!"

The Monster Bird’s beak emitted a crisp female voice, its wings fanning fiercely.

Emerald Wind Blades gathered, with strands of golden runes flickering on them, flying towards those tendril-like arrows.

The Monster Bird didn’t wait to see the result; it flapped its wings, intending to use the Wind Escape Skills to flee.

But the heaven and earth suddenly trembled!

Countless pitch-black vines fell, piercing straight through the Monster Bird’s defenses and body!

"Kikiki..."

Numerous branches of the Demon Tree, like wooden spears, pierced through the white Monster Bird’s body, skewering it.

The Monster Bird opened its beak, and its Essence Soul, wrapped around its Demon Pill, was about to use Instant Teleportation Skills when a beam of black light fell from the sky, immediately suppressing it!

After all, inside the fifth-order Great Array, there was no need for Fang Xi to take action himself; with the power of ’Taiyi’ controlling the Array, he could suppress a lower-tier fourth-order member of the Monster Clan.

Even after the suppression, those tendrils immediately burrowed into the Monster Bird’s body, devouring and replacing its original bones.

Subsequently, that Demon Pill was reprocessed and inserted back into the Monster Bird’s body.

In the blink of an eye, this lower-tier fourth-order Monster Bird had transformed into a fourth-order lower-tier wooden Puppet!

At the same time, beneath a certain spiritual island, a massive earth-brown worm was penetrated by countless roots... moments later, it too became sluggish in motion.

"This is called instant transformation, what Monster Clan soldiers, they are all my wooden Puppets!"

Fang Xi withdrew his Divine Consciousness, extremely pleased with the outcome.

A Puppet Master had limits to how many puppets he could control, but it seemed that there were no limits to the wooden Puppets of the Demon Tree...

With this move, if the Monster Clan thought they could deplete the magic power of the Great Array with sheer numbers, that would be a joke!

"No, I can’t be too strong... What if I scare the enemy away? The Ancestral Demon Tree is still waiting to be fed!"

"I must learn to disguise, to give the enemy a glimmer of hope when they are on the brink of despair, to create the illusion that one more strike will kill me... to lure them into cutting again and again..."

...

After instructing the pseudo-Array Spirit ’Taiyi Sutra’ to keep an eye on the Great Array, Fang Xi returned to the Evergreen Hall to begin his seclusion.

In front of him were several bottles of Essence Blood from the Land Mountain Turtle, the Gold Dragon Turtle, and Daqing...

"The more Demon Clan Essence Blood refined into the Thousands Demon Armor Secret Skills, the more powerful it becomes..."

Fang Xi first picked up the turtle blood of the Land Mountain Turtle, and in an instant, his aura transformed, turning into a late-stage Transformed Demon Clan.

It was in this state that he had beaten Tian Xingzi to death, not even sparing his Nascent Soul, which he fed to the Demon Tree.

His face bore green patterns, his voice was hoarse and deep, reminiscent of a beast’s roar as he chanted a Demon Clan incantation.

The jade bottle shattered, and all of the Turtle Essence Blood flew out, quickly refined by a stream of Demon Qi.

On Fang Xi’s body, the ’Heavenly Phoenix Qilin Armor’, mainly composed of Colorful Feathers and Jade Scales, emerged, rapidly drawing in the Essence Blood.

A heart guard slowly condensed at his chest, subtly marked with turtle shell patterns.

After refining the ’Gold Dragon Turtle’ Essence Blood, many gold threads appeared on the heart guard.

Fang Xi clenched his fists, quite satisfied with the result, and then picked up the jade bottle containing Daqing’s Essence Blood.

"Flood Dragons are hard to find, ah..."

He sighed slightly.

Indeed, during the recent great battle of the Monster Clan, a Flood Dragon had appeared, but as the situation turned dire, it had simply fled...

And now, even though Fang Xi knew the creature was among the Monster Clan’s forces, he dared not entertain thoughts of killing a Flood Dragon.

Could a fifth-order Heavenly Phoenix be blind?

"However, with fourth-order Flood Dragon Blood Essence, I can barely make do with a ’Small Four Spirits Armor’, which should serve as a last resort against a Transcendent God from the Monster Clan..."

He murmured to himself and made a decisive gesture.

The Heavenly Phoenix Qilin Armor roared, absorbing all of Daqing’s Essence Blood.

The armor’s color and shape shifted, and on his shoulders appeared two Flood Dragon head pauldrons, along with claw decorations, making it look quite magnificent!

"The Small Four Spirits Armor... is complete!"

Fang Xi tapped on his armor and felt that even a full-blown strike from a Transcendent God might not be able to destroy it.

"And... with my physical body and strength now, I should be comparable to a late-stage Transformed Demon Clan member, right?"

He dismissed the ’Small Four Spirits Armor’, and couldn’t help but look forward to the arrival of the Monster Clan...

...

More than ten days later.

In Yu County, the Monster beasts swarmed like a black tide, converging around Thousand Island Lake and almost encircling it on three sides.

Qing’er stood behind Elder Luan, gazing at the Great Array shrouding Thousand Island Lake, and couldn’t help feeling anxious.

"It’s a fifth-order array..."

Elder Luan sighed as she looked upon the Demon Realm-covered, star-strewn wooden cage: "No wonder the scouts we sent earlier never returned..."

"A fifth-order Array, almost capable of seizing the creation of heaven and earth..."

With a flash of colorful light, a feathered elder appeared.

He was slightly hunched, resembling an ordinary human elder with not a single trait of the Monster beasts.

But with this person’s arrival, Elder Luan and several late-stage Transformed Demon Clan members promptly bowed: "Supreme Elder!"

"This Array..."

The Supreme Elder of the Heavenly Phoenix Clan gazed at the Yin Yang Nine Nether Mysterious Wood Array and suddenly raised his hand.

In an instant, the wind and clouds changed color!

Countless crimson Fire Attribute Spiritual Power turned into bright spots of light, emerging from the void, stirring up the Primordial Energy within a thousand miles, forming one streak of Fire Formation Divine Light after another.

The concentrated Fire Attribute Power formed an exquisite Flame Phoenix, spreading its wings nearly a thousand yards across, the flames fiercely burning, tracing radiant streaks in the void.

Screech!!!

The Flame Phoenix let out a sudden long cry, vibrating its blazing wings, and plunged into the Array before it.

Pop!

The streaks of Fire Formation Divine Light exploded violently, quickly dissolving the vast amount of black fog, revealing the innumerable roots and tendrils within the Array.

Many tendrils turned to ash instantly, revealing the misty and vast lake behind them.

"The Supreme Elder’s God’s Prestige!"

Seeing their Supreme Elder crack open a large hole in the Array with a single strike, Qing’er couldn’t help but cheer.

But the next moment, more vines converged from all directions, forming a grid-like blockade.

Trails of pitch-dark mist gathered, resealing the gap that had been opened...

Witnessing this sight, the Transformed Demon Clan members present exchanged glances.

"Indeed, it’s a fifth-order Great Array..."

The Heavenly Phoenix Clan’s Supreme Elder remained composed: "The Green Emperor Mountain cultivator who took my feathers and killed Elder Qing is also inside..."

A cold glint flashed in his eyes, just as he was about to make another move, Elder Luan quickly interjected: "Supreme Elder, you are suppressed in this realm and despite the backlash of Spiritual Power, you strike regardless. It’s simply using a sledgehammer to crack a nut. It would be better to let us deplete the strength of this Array a bit first..."

The Heavenly Phoenix Clan’s Supreme Elder pondered for a moment and said: "Good!"