Supreme of the Heavenly Realm
Chapter 283 - 280 Array Spirit

Chapter 283: Chapter 280 Array Spirit

"The prohibition is broken."

With astonishment gracing her lovely face, Yu Wuxin could clearly feel the looseness of the prohibition around the altar; its power was weakening.

"This guy really has a way with it."

Yu Wuxin’s curiosity about Ye Xuan grew more and more intense—she, the Holy Daughter of the Mist Sea, had no choice but to admit defeat and feel inferior. No one in the Beichen Domain had managed to do this before.

Crack, crack!

As Ye Xuan manipulated it, layer upon layer of the prohibition on the altar was dissolved. In the end, out of the nine layers of prohibition, only the last one remained, and the ground beneath their feet was riddled with cracks and shattered.

Taking a deep breath, Ye Xuan stimulated his soul power to the extreme, and with one final touch on the altar, a thunderous "boom" sounded, shaking the entire ground. The earth abruptly split and collapsed beneath their feet, the altar itself became covered in cracks, and finally crumbled. Before them, a staircase leading underground revealed itself amidst the collapsing ground.

Both reacted quickly, and as the ground collapsed, they had already flitted to the side. Stepping on the collapsing boulders, they arrived at the entrance to the underground staircase.

"Let’s go."

Ye Xuan’s eyes also lit up with excitement. This staircase must lead down to the true main hall of the Ancient City suspended in the sky.

With a leap, Ye Xuan went down, with Yu Wuxin following him without hesitation.

However, about ten minutes after they entered, a blood-covered figure appeared and immediately charged into the staircase too.

Underground.

Ye Xuan and Yu Wuxin descended the staircase. Ye Xuan clapped his hands together, and between them, a flame suddenly flashed, illuminating the surrounding darkness.

The walls around them were natural stone, seemingly uncarved, and after a moment’s journey, an ancient grey hall came into their field of view.

"This is it."

Yu Wuxin’s beautiful eyes also brightened, unable to suppress ripples of excitement. This, surely, was the core of the entire Ancient City suspended above.

Ye Xuan was not particularly surprised; he walked into the hall. Inside the hall, it was incredibly spacious, with huge stone pillars reminiscent of towering trees, supporting the underground palace and exuding an ancient and majestic aura.

With a squeeze of his hand, Ye Xuan flicked his fingers repeatedly, and wisps of flames ejected from his hand, igniting the fire basins on both sides of the hall.

With the illumination of the firelight, the surrounding environment became clearly visible. At the four cardinal directions of the hall, there stood four bronze sculptures. Each sculpture was a ferocious beast with an evil countenance, staring menacingly towards the center of the hall, exuding a sinister aura.

"The Four Fierce Gods Trapping Array."

Ye Xuan recognized the formidable array in the hall. It was extraordinary, requiring the collection of the powerful blood of four different fierce beasts, and would then take time to set up such a large array. However, there were no longer any living beings in the suspended Ancient City, and the array should have long been abandoned.

While Ye Xuan was contemplating, Yu Wuxin had already walked ahead. Behind the stone wall at the deepest part of the hall, there seemed to be subtle fluctuations coming through. But just as she took a step, the ground beneath her suddenly trembled, and a surge of extreme malevolence suddenly swept through the hall.

"Don’t move," Ye Xuan’s expression changed slightly, signaling Yu Wuxin not to continue forward.

"Two little kids, this is not a place you should have entered. I advise you to leave quickly; otherwise, once I activate the killing array, both of you will undoubtedly die without a complete corpse."

As Yu Wuxin wondered in astonishment and dared not make any rash moves, a voice suddenly echoed in the hall.

"Who?"

Yu Wuxin’s complexion changed, and she furrowed her brows, instinctively retreating a couple of steps.

"Who am I? You tell me, who am I?" The voice resounded again. "Since you’ve come here, you should know my name. But I will tell you. I am the master of this suspended Ancient City, the Ancient Saint of the Air."

"It’s impossible, the Ancient Air Saint is from the Middle Ages. How could he possibly still be alive?" Yu Wuxin was startled but soon regained her composure. Even Semi-Saints had a lifespan of only a thousand years at most, and the Middle Ages had passed more than a hundred thousand years ago.

Let alone a Semi-Saint, a real Martial Saint would have long since been turned to dust.

"Little girl, do you think the divine skills of a Semi-Saint can be imagined by you? A powerful being like myself is not something that can be erased by time. Even though my body has decayed, I still have a hundred ways to survive and be immortal. You two kids, leave quickly; I’ll overlook your intrusion," the voice’s owner spoke.

"An Ancient Air Saint, is it? Since you’re so strong, why hide? You might as well show yourself, and let’s have a proper chat," said Ye Xuan with a calm expression, his eyes playfully scanning around.

"Chat? Young man, with my status, why would I casually chat with you? Leave quickly, or don’t blame me for being merciless."

"I do want to try, and see if your Four Fierce Gods Trapping Array can really trap me."

A glint flashed in Ye Xuan’s eyes, and he also drew out his Spiritual Edge Sword, turning to Yu Wuxin and saying, "Follow my commands."

As his voice fell, he took a step forward.

"Young man, don’t act rashly."

The previous voice came again, this time tinged with a hint of panic.

"Move seven steps to the left, attack to the right front."

Ye Xuan wouldn’t be scared off by just a voice. Although the Four Fierce Gods Trapping Array was tricky, it wasn’t without a solution.

The pair swiftly moved out seven steps, and just at that moment, a fierce beast’s phantom, baring teeth and claws, rushed at them. They joined forces to shatter it.

"Move forward eight steps, at a seventy-five-degree angle to the right, attack."

Following Ye Xuan’s command, their attacks were perfectly coordinated. Even with the hindrance of beast phantoms, they successfully broke through, slowly making their way out of the array.

"The voice just now seemed to be coming from behind this stone wall."

Ye Xuan’s soul power was not ordinary, and he had heard clearly the voice of the ancient sage, which had come from behind the stone wall in front of him.

Breaking this stone wall should allow them to see the ancient sage.

Having reached the stone wall at the end of the array, Ye Xuan swung his sword at it.

Crack!

The stone wall was much more fragile than expected, breaking at the sound, being cleaved in two, revealing a secret chamber full of mechanisms.

Entering the chamber, they were greeted by a peculiar sight. In their vision, there was no ancient sage suspended in mid-air, only an enormous grey rat, about half a meter tall. In front of it was a mini-sized Array Plate covered with dense runes. The patterns and the models of the four fierce beasts on the plate were identical to the Four Evil Trapped God Array outside.

Seeing this, Ye Xuan’s expression grew intrigued. Could it be that the voice they heard was not from some ancient sage, but this oversized rat?

"What a huge kangaroo," Yu Wuxin couldn’t help but exclaim in surprise.

"Kangaroo? You ignorant little girl, I won’t even bother with you. Have you ever seen a kangaroo as handsome as I am?" the grey rat replied discontentedly, "I am not some kangaroo, but a noble Array Spirit. Forget it, even if I explained, you wouldn’t understand."

Hearing the term ’Array Spirit’, Ye Xuan’s expression grew contemplative. Treasures have spirits, artifacts have Artifact Spirits, so an Array Spirit would be the spirit of an array. Only very high-rank arrays could possibly give birth to an Array Spirit. It seemed the ancient sage’s mastery of the Array Path was quite profound.

"Array Spirits are usually just spiritual bodies without their own will. How did you end up like this?" Ye Xuan asked with some surprise.

"Huh? Young man, I didn’t expect you to know so much," the grey rat replied in surprise, "Before leaving, the ancient sage sealed me within the Four Fierce Gods Trapping Array. Over the long passage of time, I developed my own will and eventually took over a rat’s body, becoming what you see now."

"I see," Ye Xuan nodded, understanding. The Middle Ages were too far removed from their own time. Over such a long stretch, anything could happen.

At that moment, Yu Wuxin looked around them only to find emptiness, with nothing else of value present.

"The ancient sage was only a Semi-Saint and has fallen for two eras now. Although this place was once his residence, his body is not here," the grey rat articulated.

"So, you’re saying that there are no secret treasures of the ancient sage in this Ancient City?"

Disappointment filled Yu Wuxin. After all her hard searching, what she found was just a bragging rat.

"Little girl, not to criticize you, but here I am, a great treasure right in front of you, and you say there are no treasures in the Ancient City? I really question your eye for value," the grey rat clicked its tongue and shook its head.

"Enough noise."

Yu Wuxin, already in a bad mood, grew annoyed with the rat’s incessant rambling. A sword appeared from her sleeve, pressed against the rat’s neck.

"Spare me, valiant lady. I am just a poor, kind little rat. First, I was sealed by the ancient sage for tens of thousands of years. And just when I finally escaped, I got trapped in this underground palace, doing odd jobs and fixing mechanisms. I just talk too much. Do you really have the heart to kill me?" the grey rat immediately lay prostrate, looking pitiful.

Ye Xuan smiled and said, "Why bother with a rat? Besides, if it truly is an Array Spirit created by the ancient sage, then its mastery of arrays must be extremely high, certainly much stronger than those so-called Array Masters of the Chaotic Sea Domain. Learning arrays from it will definitely be more useful than your current teachers. One day, to dominate the Chaotic Sea Domain in the Array Path, or even become a saint through arrays, isn’t out of the question."

"Oh?"

Hearing Ye Xuan’s words, Yu Wuxin paused, then looked skeptically at the rat before her. Could this unimpressive creature truly be so profound?