Ancient Array Secrets

Li Jun looked at the Fiery Mane Horses. He had not expected the other party, in order to kill him, to stoop to even such despicable methods.

He knew well the cruelty of the cultivation world. For cultivation resources, people schemed and deceived one another, stopping at nothing to achieve their ends. All of that was perfectly normal.

But Li Jun had never thought of harming ordinary people. Yet Liu Pan'er and the other one, to make sure he died, had even used Louse Poison.

"Birdman, teach those Fiery Mane Horses a lesson. I'm going to purge the poison from them."

Meanwhile, inside a cave dwelling at the mine, Lu Jinxuan and several Fire Hall disciples were brewing tea and chatting idly, utterly at ease.

"Senior Brother Lu, forgive this junior brother for speaking too much, but he's only a guy at the third level of Qi Refining. Why must we spend so much effort? We could just find someone to tie him up, drag him outside, and kill him."

One of them was somewhat dissatisfied, feeling that they were being far too cautious over this matter.

"Exactly, Senior Brother. Although that brat is one of Shen Xiyue's people, when all's said and done, he's just an outer sect disciple who raises cattle. He's not worth us wasting so much time on at all."

The other three also spoke up one after another, feeling that this time they were truly making a mountain out of a molehill.

One had to know, not only had they tampered with the Fiery Mane Horses, but to ensure nothing could go wrong, they had also dosed them with Louse Poison.

In all these years, they had never seen anyone receive this kind of treatment.

"Not so, junior brothers. Don't look at this Li Jun and think he's just an ordinary outer sect disciple. Ten years ago, he was only a carpenter with no spirit roots." Lu Jinxuan took a sip of tea and said calmly.

"A carpenter with no spirit roots? But didn't I hear he was a piece of trash with Five Spirit Roots?" someone asked, puzzled.

"Yes, he is indeed Five Spirit Roots. But there's something you don't know. His spirit roots awakened that day after Shen Xiyue refined pills. That makes things rather interesting."

The few of them exchanged glances and said in confusion, "Senior Brother, spirit roots can awaken early or late. I've heard of people awakening spirit roots even in old age. That brat is twenty-eight this year; doesn't that seem quite normal?"

"If that were truly the case, then why would Shen Xiyue keep him by her side? Moreover, she even ordered those under her not to make things difficult for him or bully him. That is rather abnormal."

Lu Jinxuan set down his teacup, then looked at everyone. "I heard Senior Brother Jiang say that when Shen Xiyue refined the Purple Foundation Pill, she activated that Ancient Array of our Azure Cloud Sect. And that brat's spirit roots awakened inside the Ancient Array."

"Spirit roots awakened inside the Ancient Array?" Everyone was astonished.

The Ancient Array of the Azure Cloud Sect was not some absolute secret.

According to rumor, the reason True Person Xuanruo, founding patriarch of the Azure Cloud Sect, chose this place was because he discovered that it seemed to be connected to an ancient sect.

And the array patterns of that Ancient Array had been found on a stone wall back then.

The Azure Cloud Sect had been passed down for several hundred years, and research into the Ancient Array had never stopped, but there had never been any clues.

It was only this time, when Shen Xiyue refined the Purple Foundation Pill, that it drew the sect's attention.

"Correct. Now that Senior Brother Jiang has returned, as the chief disciple of our Fire Hall, there are some matters in which we must share Senior Brother's burdens. Therefore, with anything and anyone related to Shen Xiyue, no amount of caution is excessive. Do you all understand?"

Everyone's expressions shook. So it had been Senior Brother Jiang's intention.

"Many thanks for clearing our doubts, Senior Brother! This junior brother will surely go all out!"

"Good thing the poisoning wasn't deep. You were lucky you ran into me."

Li Jun looked at the six Fiery Mane Horses before him. After the Mystic Swan's training, they were all extremely obedient now.

After his diagnosis and treatment, the six Fiery Mane Horses had already been thoroughly convinced and no longer resisted, letting him lead them as he pleased.

The Mystic Swan flapped its wings, extremely satisfied with its own results.

"Gaga!"

It tapped Li Jun's back with its wing, directly demanding benefits.

"Don't worry, Birdman. How could I, Li, be someone who goes back on his word?"

Li Jun took fine wine from his storage bag and even pulled out two barrels of cow's milk, brimming with sincerity.

"Ga!"

The Mystic Swan was extremely satisfied, feeling that Li Jun was a fellow who really knew how to behave.

"Whoosh, whoosh!"

However, just after the Mystic Swan finished enjoying itself, there were suddenly more sounds of wind in the air.

"That is..."

The man and bird raised their heads. On the west side of Cangwu Mountain, at the end of the Spirit River Phantom, several figures had suddenly appeared.

Originally, there had only been a beautiful silhouette breathing in and out within the Spirit River, but now there were actually several strange figures as well.

Their forms were hazy as they sat cross-legged at the end of the Spirit River.

The woman who had originally been breathing in and out also raised her head, and from time to time she even gestured with her fingers, as if communicating with those figures.

"There's actually been a change. Birdman, let's go take a look."

Li Jun tied up the horses, then quietly went with the Mystic Swan to one side of the mountain and looked toward the Spirit River.

"There's someone near there!"

Li Jun leaped lightly and sat directly on the Mystic Swan's back, continuing to draw closer.

In the end, they hid among the branches of an ancient tree and looked toward the Spirit River ahead.

"Good grief, this is actually a grave!"

Li Jun looked toward the distant mountain stream. With the mountains blocking their view before, he and Mystic Swan had not actually seen Spirit River's true form clearly.

Now that they were a little closer, they finally discovered that the source of that Spirit River was actually a lone grave.

However, this lone grave was the same as that Spirit River—both were illusory. The others most likely could not detect it either.

At this moment, before that lone grave, Yao Yuzhi held array flags in hand, measuring out the mountain stream as if she meant to mark off the location of the lone grave.

"Birdman, I feel like that fellow knows far more than we do. You're fast, so keep a careful watch here."

Mystic Swan nodded.

As a Spirit Beast with higher intelligence, this Spirit River Phantom had always made it feel uneasy.

But no matter what, this matter had to be cleared up in the end.

Yao Yuzhi planted the array flags, then sat cross-legged on the ground and made no other movements.

Seeing this, Li Jun left Mystic Swan there and returned to the cave dwelling himself.

When Li Fugui, who was resting, saw Li Jun return, his face filled with surprise. "Li Jun, why did you come back?"

"Why can't I come back?"

"No, didn't Senior Brother Lu tell you to feed the Fiery Mane Horses? How could you..."

Li Fugui stopped in time and did not continue.

"That's right, Senior Brother Li. Are you sure you don't want to feed the Fiery Mane Horses with me?" Li Jun asked.

"No, no, I don't have that kind of free time."

Li Fugui turned and left the cave dwelling, unwilling to linger any longer.

Li Jun did not mind either. He returned to his own spot, closed his eyes, and cultivated.

Over the next few days, the Fiery Mane Horses joined the nighttime mining work.

With the Fiery Mane Horses' addition, Medicine Peak's mining efficiency improved by quite a bit, which left everyone extremely excited.

Previously, quite a few people had doubted Li Jun's ability, but after seeing how obedient the Fiery Mane Horses were, many people's impression of Li Jun also changed somewhat for the better.

After all, if someone could enter Eldest Senior Sister Shen Xiyue's eyes, it would be strange if he truly had no ability at all.

Seven days later, the sudden deaths and fatalities he had expected still had not appeared, which made Lu Jinxuan sense that something was not right.

Thus, he summoned several junior brothers to his own cave dwelling.

"Junior brothers, I would like to know why those Fiery Mane Horses still haven't had anything happen to them by now?" Lu Jinxuan said coldly.