Chapter 325 - 306: Yang God
"If I’m not reckless, how am I supposed to go fishing?"
"Fishing? You..."
Upon hearing this, Mo Wenxuan froze. Then, as if he’d realized something, his pupils contracted violently. A cold dread shot from the soles of his feet to the top of his skull, leaving him chilled to the bone.
"You did this on purpose?!
What are you trying to do?
That’s a Yang God Great Power!
You’ll get us all killed!"
He vaguely guessed at Qi Yun’s insane idea, and his voice cracked.
’Using the murder of a Moonlight Sect Elder to deliberately lure out their Yang God expert?’
’This isn’t fishing, it’s playing with fire.’
’No, it’s luring a destructive sun down upon them!’
’What does he think he can use to fight a Yang God?’
’Just the few of them?’
’Or... the Heaven-Deceiving Array they haven’t even gotten their hands on yet?’
In that instant, Mo Wenxuan’s reverence for Qi Yun was utterly replaced by a chilling mix of fear and disbelief.
The audacity of his actions, the ruthlessness of his schemes, the inscrutability of his mind—this seemingly young Master was simply beyond his comprehension!
"You’ll find out soon enough."
Qi Yun didn’t explain. He simply raised his head, his gaze seeming to pierce through the heavy fog and the omnipresent pressure of the Yang God, locking onto a specific direction.
It was the location of the Heaven-Deceiving Array: the No Return Abyss.
He could clearly sense that the supremely powerful will of the Yang God, having swept over the area and detected the lingering aura of its disciples’ brutal deaths, was now suffused with icy fury.
Like a hawk locking onto its prey, it was rapidly descending upon their position!
"Move."
Without further delay, Qi Yun flicked his sleeve. A gentle yet irresistible force lifted the two injured Royal Court Attendants as he signaled for Mo Wenxuan to keep up.
Mo Wenxuan gritted his teeth, swallowed the terror churning within him, and hurried to follow.
At this point, he had no other choice.
His only option was to place all his hope in the inscrutable Qi Master.
The dense fog parted swiftly before them, then closed just as quickly in their wake.
Far behind them, high in the Celestial Vault, a point of light as brilliant as a scorching sun was tearing through the outer barrier of the Cloud Dream Marsh at reality-bending speeds, descending toward the core of this deathly silent sea of mist.
Wherever it passed, the gray-white mist scattered and evaporated as if it had met its nemesis.
It left behind a perfectly clear trail, tinged with a scorching Pure Yang aura.
...
The deepest part of the Cloud Dream Mist Sea was completely different from its periphery.
An unimaginably massive chasm stretched across the sea of mist.
The edges of the chasm were jagged and irregular. Looking down revealed nothing but a bottomless darkness that seemed to swallow even light itself.
Above the abyss, the mist formed a slowly rotating vortex, emitting a low moan like the gasping breath of a colossal beast.
This was the forbidden land recorded in the secret archives of the Great Cang Royal Family: the "No Return Abyss."
A few hundred yards from the edge of the No Return Abyss, on a relatively flat expanse of black rock, stood a truly incongruous sight.
A section of obscure, ancient Array Patterns was carved into the very fabric of this place, exuding a profound and subversive aura.
These Array Patterns were "flowing" at an extremely slow pace.
They contained a strange Dao Rhyme, one utterly alien to—and faintly repulsed by—the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Mechanism of the Cangque Realm.
Qi Yun led Mo Wenxuan and the other two to the edge of the Array Domain, moving at the very limit of their speed.
Behind them, the pressure of the Yang God—a presence that followed like a shadow and threatened to ignite their very souls—was now dangerously close.
The scorching, pure, and wrathful will of the Divine Soul cut through the dense fog like tangible sunlight, locking onto them from a distance of just a few dozen miles!
"Qi Master! This is the location of the Heaven-Deceiving Array, but only a Royal Secret Technique can activate the Grand Array!" Mo Wenxuan transmitted urgently, his face deathly pale. His Purple Mansion was already cracking under the constant searing pressure of the Yang God.
A single glance was all Qi Yun needed to understand the situation.
’He had no need for any Royal Secret Technique.’
"Find a place to hide. Leave the rest to me," Qi Yun instructed calmly, positioning himself at the very edge of the Array Domain to face the incoming pressure head-on.
Though Mo Wenxuan didn’t understand, he had no choice but to trust him. He immediately helped his two heavily injured companions stagger to the side and take cover.
The very instant they were concealed—
KABOOM!!!
The dense fog in the Celestial Vault was violently torn asunder by an overwhelmingly dominant power!
A "small sun" suddenly descended!
It wasn’t a real sun, but a sphere of light over thirty feet in diameter, condensed purely from the Power of the Divine Soul, blazing white with a faint golden luster.
At the core of the sphere, a faint, illusory figure could be seen sitting cross-legged. It wore a white Daoist Robe embroidered with a silver full moon, its face indistinct.
Only its eyes were visible—as bright as two burning orbs of pure gold, gazing down mercilessly upon them.
The Sect Leader of the Moonlight Sect, Hao Yue Master!
A genuine Yang God Great Power!
"Abomination!
For killing my disciples, I will refine your Divine Soul for a century as a warning to all others!"
The majestic, cold voice echoed directly in the depths of everyone’s Divine Soul, carrying the undeniable weight of judgment.
However, the Moonlight Sect Leader did not attack immediately. He scrutinized the area, and when he saw the Array Patterns on the ground, a barely perceptible flicker of doubt and caution crossed his golden eyes.
’Such an ancient and peculiar array exists in the depths of the Cloud Dream Marsh?’
In that brief moment of hesitation—
A fleeting glint of nine-colored light flashed through Qi Yun’s eyes!
VMMMM—!!!
It was like a drop of water falling into a skillet of boiling oil.
The entire Heaven-Deceiving Array erupted in a violent tremor!
CRACK, CRACKLE...
The section of Array Patterns on the ground sprang to life, spreading, weaving, and lighting up in a frenzy!
With Qi Yun at the center, radiant rings of runes—each imbued with extreme Daoist Intents like "Subversion," "Chaos," "Illusion," and "Deceit"—shot outwards. They instantly covered the entire Array Domain and surged upward into the sky.
"What?!"
A flicker of astonishment crossed Hao Yue Master’s face.
He felt the connection between this area and the outside world being forcibly severed and twisted by a domineering and bizarre Array Power!
It felt like watching a clear scroll painting suddenly get splattered with thick ink, then ruthlessly crumpled by a pair of invisible hands!
"Deceive the heavens, delude the earth! I command the very laws of order!"
Qi Yun let out a sharp cry, and the Dao Rhyme in his palm erupted with full force!
KABOOM—!!!
The Heaven-Deceiving Array became fully operational. A boundless sea of mist billowed out, completely isolating the area and blocking all forms of external observation.
"The Heaven-Deceiving... Grand Array?!" Hao Yue Master shot to his feet, his eyes wide with shock!
But he was a Yang God Great Power, after all. His will was iron, and his shock quickly turned into a tidal wave of killing intent.
"So what if you’ve cut this place off from the heavens?
Before absolute power, a mere Array can be shattered with a flick of my finger!
I’ll start by slaying you, junior, who dares to control it!"
Hao Yue Master raised his hand and waved. Endless light and heat coalesced into a beam of incandescent white light, so pure it seemed capable of cleansing the world of all "impurity."
Like the first ray of light at the dawn of creation, it shot down toward Qi Yun, who stood in the center of the Array Domain!
This was the power of a Yang God, imbued with Pure Yang Dao Intent.
It held a natural, suppressive power capable of destroying any Yin Soul, malevolent spirit, or any Divine Soul that had not yet reached the Pure Yang Realm!
In Hao Yue Master’s eyes, while Qi Yun’s methods were bizarre enough to activate this strange array, the essence of his aura still belonged to the domain of a Yin Spirit.
Under the divine light, he would be utterly purified and annihilated!
Everything in the path of the incandescent divine light was annihilated.
The terrifying pressure made Mo Wenxuan and his two companions, who were hiding behind a stone pillar, close their eyes in despair. Even with the Array shielding them from the worst of it, they felt as if their Divine Souls were about to be incinerated.
Yet, in the face of a Yang God’s strike—an attack powerful enough to instantly obliterate the body and soul of any ordinary Yin Spirit Realm Cultivator—
Qi Yun, who had stood with his hands clasped behind his back and an impassive expression, finally moved.
He didn’t dodge or defend.
Instead... he took a single, gentle step forward.
Just one step.
"Heh..."
A soft chuckle rang out with impossible clarity, cutting through the roar of the incandescent divine light and the thunderous din of the Array.
As he took that step, the disguise enveloping Qi Yun’s body shattered and dissipated like a cicada’s sloughed-off shell.
And then—
BOOM—!!!!!!
An indescribably terrifying aura erupted from within Qi Yun’s body, held back no longer!
It was a form of power unknown to the Cangque Realm.
Boundless and immense, it was like the sudden arrival of an entire world!
Completely revealing his full cultivation as the Profound Yellow Master, with the Daluo Realm of Ten Thousand Laws surging into existence behind him and Nine-Colored Divine Radiance shining in his eyes, Qi Yun looked down imperiously at Hao Yue Master.
"Before me... Kneel!"
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