I Have a Compass for Opportunity

Clang! As the Canglan Sword burst forth with dazzling light.

The Canglan Sword carried Liou Yuan’s body, soaring into the heavens and diving toward the high sky.

From afar, a bright blue sword light shot up to the firmament.

Liou Yuan’s black hair danced in the air as the fierce wind whipped past his cheeks again and again; his heart pounded loudly.

Whether in his past life or this one, he’d never experienced what flying to the heavens felt like.

Watching the mountains on the earth become smaller and smaller, the distant Yufengcheng shrinking to a black dot, and clouds beginning to appear in the surrounding void.

Liou Yuan couldn’t help shouting aloud: "Awesome!"

Whoosh! Liou Yuan’s playful spirit surged; standing atop the Canglan Sword, he swept toward Bai Ling’s mountain peak. A journey that usually took two or three days, he reached in less than half a day.

Then, glancing at Bai Ling’s mountain, he swiftly turned back toward Qiwen Mountain.

By the time he returned to his own cave abode, it was already deep into the night.

Liou Yuan finished a day of sword flight, still with excitement on his face.

"If my Celestial Calculation Skill for Taming Objects reaches great success, Liou Tao couldn’t escape a hundred miles in Erosion Land if his life depended on it!"

With the ability for sword flight, whether chasing enemies or fleeing, things would become much more convenient.

Heavy snow sealed the mountain.

Liou Yuan had already been cultivating in this mountain cave for nearly two months.

Looking around, all the mountains and hills’ trees were bent under the weight of snow.

Thick trunks piled layer upon layer of white snow.

The branches were as if wrapped in crystalline, transparent crystal, sparkling faintly in the dim light.

"Counting the days, there are less than five days until the next star rotation."

Liou Yuan gazed out from the entrance of the cave, murmuring to himself.

Every day, he counted time by pinching his fingers.

"Auspicious Star has been on rota for three months straight by now. There’s no way it’ll be Auspicious Star again next time."

Although he’s taking elixirs for cultivation now, and where he cultivates doesn’t affect his progress, after all it can’t match the safety of his own cave at Five Extremes Mountain.

Now, aided by elixirs, he’s half a step into Qi Cultivation Ninth Layer, but has long hesitated to break through here.

After all, breakthrough is the most dangerous time—not only does he have to drop all defenses, but must guard against being disturbed by others.

If the vital moment he goes astray with his qi, not only would he fail to break through, he’d suffer internal injuries.

"After settling Qiwen Mountain matters, rush back to Five Extremes Mountain for secluded breakthrough to Qi Cultivation Ninth Layer."

"Don’t let my serious business get delayed."

So thought Liou Yuan.

Day by day passed, and the date of star rotation drew ever closer.

Liou Yuan’s spiritual power at Qi Cultivation Eighth Layer was almost saturated, so at night he stopped cultivating and devoted himself to studying arrays in the cave abode.

It proved that arrays were indeed invaluable at critical moments.

During his leisure, Liou Yuan didn’t mind spending more time on them.

He could already inscribe two peak Qi Cultivation arrays: Earth Mother Prison Array and Refined Gold Breaking Mountain Array.

Next, he studied the third array—Cold River Illusionary Water Array—a type of Illusion Array used for trapping enemies.

That array must be set in a river or where water-type spiritual power is abundant; it needs the advantage of location to arrange it.

If he had a water-type Spiritual Object to serve as the array’s core, it could be laid on flat ground as well.

Now, with all this snow, which is another form of water, it happened to be perfect for Liou Yuan to research this array.

And the Cold River Illusionary Water Array is of the water element; metal gives birth to water, so he could take the advantage from Refined Gold Breaking Mountain Array.

The Refined Gold Breaking Mountain Array itself arises from the Earth Mother Prison Array.

Stacking the three arrays together could push the power of Cold River Illusionary Water Array to a new level.

Though it can’t match Foundation Establishment, Liou Yuan believed trapping a half-step Foundation Establishment cultivator shouldn’t be difficult.

If he could arrange all five peak Qi Cultivation arrays specially marked in Five Elements Birth and Destruction Array Derivation by Han Zhenzi—

Completing all five elements would allow him to deploy an array with power rivaling Foundation Establishment.

That’s why Liou Yuan called Han Zhenzi a master of arrays and revered him so much.

Linking five Qi Cultivation Realm arrays together, using the birth and destruction laws of the five elements, and unleashing power on par with Foundation Establishment arrays—isn’t that genius?