The Array Dao Ancestor's Composure

In the blink of an eye, three days had passed.

As the Pill Tribulation descended, another Nine Revolutions Yang Restoration Pill appeared in the world.

Another guaranteed success!

Even Ancestor Danyang couldn't help bursting into laughter.

Of course, the materials and pill furnace had been provided by the Murong Clan.

And it was impossible to prepare only one set of materials when refining a Nine Revolutions pill, so the Lu Clan took all the leftovers.

"Ancestor, you truly are worthy of being called the greatest alchemist under heaven!"

Lu Qingshan said with a look of worship.

Ancestor Danyang nodded slightly, then tossed the Nine Revolutions Yang Restoration Pill to Lu Qingshan. "Go on."

"Yes, Ancestor."

Only half a day after the Nine Revolutions Yang Restoration Pill was refined, Murong Yu came to the Lu Clan again.

"Lu Clan Patriarch, we meet again."

Murong Yu spoke with a faint smile.

Lu Qingshan nodded slightly, but secretly studied Murong Yu.

Strange, why does she seem a little different from last time?

She seems to be in a very good mood.

Just then, Murong Yu continued, "Patriarch Lu, as agreed, the Lu Clan may send thirty members of its younger generation to cultivate in my Murong Clan's Time Blessed Land."

The agreement, of course, concerned the Nine Revolutions Yang Restoration Pill.

Lu Qingshan wasted no words and took out the Nine Revolutions Yang Restoration Pill.

"This is the Nine Revolutions Yang Restoration Pill."

Murong Yu was a little nervous as she carefully accepted the tiny pill.

This was a legendary Nine Revolutions pill.

It really could buy her life.

Meanwhile, Lu Fan, the academy elder, had arrived with thirty of the Lu Clan's heavenly talents.

"Lu Fan, you'll be in charge of this matter."

Lu Qingshan patted Lu Fan on the shoulder.

Lu Fan said seriously, "Rest assured, Patriarch. I'll make sure they stay safe."

Entrusting this matter to him showed the clan's trust in him. At the root of it all, he wasn't truly a member of the Lu Clan, yet the Lu Clan had still entrusted him with an important task. Lu Fan couldn't help feeling moved.

After all, even after so many years of development, it had been no easy feat for the Lu Clan to raise these thirty heavenly talents.

Murong Yu, standing nearby, also spoke. "Lu Clan Patriarch, the Murong Clan will see this matter through as well."

If anything happened to the Lu Clan's heavenly talents in the Murong Clan, it would have a tremendous impact on the Murong Clan as well.

Hearing that, Lu Qingshan felt reassured.

In Central Province today, there probably wasn't a single force that had the nerve to provoke the Lu Clan.

After all, there was a ninth-grade alchemist right there for all to see.

Murong Yu then took out a spatial artifact and placed Lu Fan and the others inside it.

"Lu Clan Patriarch, I'll take my leave."

Outside the Lu Clan.

A Murong Clan expert stood in the void, waiting patiently.

Just then, Murong Yu emerged from the Lu Clan.

He appeared at once.

"Is everything settled?"

Murong Yu nodded, then took out a storage ring.

The Murong Clan expert inspected it and immediately exclaimed with delight, "Good, good! It really is the Nine Revolutions Yang Restoration Pill."

"Delay invites trouble. Let's go."

The Murong Clan expert swiftly disappeared into the void with Murong Yu, his cultivation clearly formidable.

At the same time, the Lu Clan's third ancestor, Ancestor Xuanzhen, wasn't idle either.

He was diligently setting up the clan-protecting grand array.

The Lu Clan might look incomparably mighty now, but enemies could come knocking at its gates one day.

He knew full well that although the Lu Clan had three Saint King ancestors, none of them excelled at fighting.

One was a fortune-teller, one refined pills, and the other set up arrays.

If a fight really broke out, the three of them together might only be a match for one.

But when it came to fighting from a fixed position, that was another matter entirely.

Given enough time, an expert in the Dao of Arrays could fight ten opponents alone.

In the past, there had been a legendary incident in which a top powerhouse in the Dao of Arrays, shortly after entering the Saint Realm, had lured seven veteran Saint Realm experts to their deaths.

"Come to think of it, in my day, the Lu Clan wasn't weak, but it wasn't all that strong either. The Dao of Arrays consumed a great deal of resources. Back then, I developed many arrays, but the clan didn't have enough resources to let me put them into practice."

"Now the clan not only has the Yellow Pill Grotto-Heaven, but also a ninth-grade alchemist. I, a powerhouse in the Dao of Arrays, can finally be of the greatest use."

At the thought, Ancestor Xuanzhen smiled.

Some of his old regrets had been laid to rest today, countless years later.

Inside the Lu Clan's ancestral shrine.

Ancestor Tianyan sat cross-legged, his eyes closed. But just then, his eyes snapped open, and a thin trickle of blood slowly seeped from the corner of his mouth.

Someone is actually divining the true strength of my Lu Clan. Is this a sign they're preparing to make a move?

To be safe, Ancestor Tianyan urgently contacted the other two ancestors to discuss the matter.

A moment later, two illusory figures appeared in the ancestral shrine.

They were the avatars of Ancestor Danyang and Ancestor Xuanzhen.

Both of their main bodies were busy, one refining pills and the other setting up arrays.

"Tianyan, has something happened?"

Ancestor Danyang asked, looking puzzled.

Ancestor Tianyan nodded slightly. "I have a feeling that a force is already itching to make a move against my Lu Clan."

"What? How dare they! They don't even take me, a ninth-grade alchemist, seriously."

Ancestor Danyang looked furious.

Alchemists held a revered status, to say nothing of a ninth-grade alchemist.

Yet the other party still intended to make a move.

Clearly, there was something in the Lu Clan that attracted them, something worth risking the consequences of angering a ninth-grade alchemist, even offending the entire Alchemists' Guild.

"I don't think we need to panic at all."

Just then, Ancestor Xuanzhen suddenly spoke.

The other two immediately turned to him.

Ancestor Xuanzhen smiled. "I'm currently setting up the clan-protecting grand array. Once I finish it, with me personally overseeing it, the Lu Clan will be able to put up a fight even if ten Saint King experts come."

And as long as the other party couldn't take down the Lu Clan quickly, Ancestor Danyang's influence as a ninth-grade alchemist would surely bring a great many people to their aid.

When that happened, the enemy would fall apart without the Lu Clan having to attack.

Hearing Ancestor Xuanzhen's words, Ancestor Danyang was slightly surprised, while Ancestor Tianyan looked thoughtful.

Danyang was a figure from more than eight hundred thousand years ago and didn't know much about Ancestor Xuanzhen, but Tianyan knew what Ancestor Xuanzhen was capable of. In Ancestor Xuanzhen's time, the Lu Clan had not been a particularly powerful force, but it had never been afraid of trouble.

With Ancestor Xuanzhen's grand array bolstering it, the entire Lu Clan had been as impregnable as a fortress, impossible to breach.

The sect-protecting grand array he had set up had guarded the Lu Clan for more than three hundred thousand years.

With such an outstanding ancestor of the Dao of Arrays present, there seemed to be no need to worry about the Lu Clan's safety.

"Then we'll be relying on you, Senior Xuanzhen. If you don't have enough resources to set up the array, take whatever you need from the clan treasury."

Ancestor Tianyan smiled.

Beside him, Ancestor Danyang nodded as well. "Don't worry. The clan has plenty of resources now."

Seeing how much the two trusted him, Ancestor Xuanzhen laughed. "What more is there to say? You can put your hearts back in your bellies."

Soon, Ancestor Tianyan was once again alone in the ancestral shrine.

And so, although none of the Lu Clan's three awakened ancestors excelled at fighting, together they propelled the Lu Clan soaring ever upward. The entire clan developed rapidly and shone brilliantly.

One month later.

The Murong Clan.

Several Murong Clan experts with profound presences stood guard before a passage glowing with a faint light.

This was the renowned Time Blessed Land.

Even the Murong Clan's own geniuses and experts had to make contributions to the clan before they could enter the Time Blessed Land.

But at this moment, thirty young people from the Lu Clan were cultivating inside the Time Blessed Land.

"It's been a month now. It's time to close the Time Blessed Land."

A Murong Clan elder arrived just then.

Following beside him was Lu Fan, the Lu Clan's academy elder.

Looking at the Time Blessed Land so close at hand, Lu Fan's eyes betrayed a powerful longing, but he held himself back.

His task this time was only to escort the Lu Clan's thirty young heavenly talents. He had no place in the Time Blessed Land, nor was he qualified to enter.

Hum-

The passage suddenly began to stir, and space and time twisted.

Several indistinct figures slowly began to walk out of it.

"Is it already time to leave? I still haven't had my fill."

The first Lu Clan heavenly talent walked out of the Time Blessed Land, reluctant to leave.

When Lu Fan saw him, he exclaimed in shock, "Lu Zhen, you-you've already reached the Divine Palace Realm!"

The Divine Palace Realm was the realm immediately after the Spirit Concentration Realm.

He remembered clearly that before entering, this fellow had only been at the Void Shattering Realm. Now he had actually advanced two major realms at once. It was terrifying.

Seeing Lu Fan's shocked expression, Lu Zhen smiled. "Elder, save your surprise for now. There's something even more surprising to come."

As soon as Lu Zhen finished speaking, the other Lu Clan heavenly talents appeared one after another.

Their cultivation was the same as Lu Zhen's: every one of them had reached the Divine Palace Realm.

"That's how the Time Blessed Land works. Time flows differently inside and outside. A month passed in the outside world, but these young people cultivated for more than a month. It could have been a year, five years, or even ten."

The Murong Clan expert wasn't particularly surprised and explained it to Lu Fan.

Of course, a difference in the flow of time alone wasn't enough to make people so eager for it. The true treasure of the Time Blessed Land was the chance to comprehend the power of time.