Xu Ping’an’s voice echoed through the Mist Forest.
The next moment, the Sun Star standing atop the Yang point in the sky suddenly moved, rapidly enlarging before his eyes.
Not good!!
With a silent curse of ‘not good,’ Chai Ruo Cheng could no longer care about anything else. He raised his hand, took out his treasured artifact, and poured all his spiritual energy into activating this Mirror.
He hoped this precious Mirror could block the Sun Star.
But unfortunately, a Mirror was still just a Mirror, while what was crashing down was the Sun Star!
With a crisp ‘crack,’ the Mirror lasted less than a second before the Sun Star before shattering apart.
Immediately afterward, the incomparably massive Sun Star—which had already come to occupy the entire world—came crashing down!
“Senior, spare my life!!!”
Chai Ruo Cheng was filled with regret, but could only use everything he had to resist.
Even though the Sun Star had not descended with its full force, even so—
It nearly drained Chai Ruo Cheng of every ounce of strength.
He gritted his teeth tightly. The Sun Star was now less than a mere thousand meters from him.
If it truly crashed down, there would be nothing left to say—his body and soul would be annihilated.
Scorching waves of heat battered his body relentlessly. Before it even touched him, his clothes were already burning up.
The searing heat torched his flesh, making him shriek in agony again and again, yet he dared not relax even for a moment.
“Senior~ ugh ah~~ Senior, this junior knows his mistake, knows his mistake… Ah!!!”
Xu Ping’an raised his head to look at the sky, then glanced around.
The spiritual energy nearby had almost been completely drawn out.
If he continued any further, draining too much spiritual energy would also attract the attention of the Heavenly Dao.
He himself, as a body of chaos, did not fear the scrutiny of the Heavenly Dao. But this Array Formation would truly provoke the Heavenly Dao’s wrath.
This thing simply shouldn’t exist under the current Heavenly Dao.
If the Heavenly Dao saw it, it would definitely do everything possible to seal off this Array Formation.
If he wanted to use it again in the future, it would become much more troublesome.
If he truly wanted to kill Chai Ruo Cheng, it wasn’t impossible.
But if he killed him, there would be no way to conceal the aura of the Array Formation, and once discovered by the Heavenly Dao and hunted down, that would be far from ideal.
“Enough—consider today as a lesson for you. Only this once. Do not let it happen again.”
“If there is a next time, Senior may take my life as he pleases!”
Chai Ruo Cheng gritted his teeth, enduring the blazing heat of the Sun Star.
Hearing this, Xu Ping’an sneered in disdain.
If he did not have other means, he would have already been slaughtered by this so-called Valley Master.
“Little Celestial Cycle Stars Return.”
Xu Ping’an recited aloud, stepping out with Star Steps. Working in concert with the Array Formation, he gradually dissipated the gathered power.
The Sun Star, which was about to crash down, paused slightly, then rapidly retreated, returning to the Starry Taiji Diagram.
“Three Hundred and Sixty-Five Stars Return.”
As the words fell, the three hundred and sixty-five stars vanished without a trace in an instant.
“Sun and Moon Stars Return.”
The Sun Star and the Yin Star also disappeared in the blink of an eye.
“Universe Chaos, Heaven and Earth Divide Yin and Yang.”
With the incantation and the steps beneath his feet, only now did the Array Formation finally cease its operation.
In the next instant, the dark, profound black sky vanished, replaced by a sky shrouded in thick, ominous clouds.
Only at this point did Chai Ruo Cheng finally gasp for breath, his legs giving out as he collapsed to his knees.
There was barely a patch of intact skin left on his body, and all his clothes had been burned to charcoal, sticking to his flesh.
Just as he grimaced in pain, a hand suddenly stretched out from the dense fog.
In the hand was a small porcelain bottle.
Chai Ruo Cheng was momentarily stunned, then instinctively took it.
“Drink it.”
Did he have a choice at this moment?
Even if it was poison, he would have to drink it now, or else he surely wouldn’t make it out alive today.
Thinking this, Chai Ruo Cheng gritted his teeth, closed his eyes, and raised his head to pour the contents into his mouth.
A cool liquid slid down his throat, and in the next instant, all his pain seemed to vanish, a wave of refreshing coolness coursing over his skin.
When he stood up again, all the dead skin on his body had fallen away, revealing new skin no different from before.
“You may leave. If there is a next time, don’t blame me for showing no mercy.”
The thick mist beside Chai Ruo Cheng suddenly parted, revealing a bewildered Wan Shanxin.
“Master, you?!”
Seeing Chai Ruo Cheng standing atop a pile of charred remains, completely naked, Wan Shanxin was utterly dumbfounded.
He had no idea what had happened. All he knew was that his master had entered the dense fog, and in just a short while, emerged before him without a single thread of clothing.
Could it be that his master had been…
Terrifying!
Thank goodness he was smart enough not to follow inside, or else he might have suffered the same fate!
Chai Ruo Cheng could naturally guess what his rather unreliable disciple was thinking, but he dared not scold him here.
He quickly took out a set of clothes from his Sumeru Ring, changed in haste, then turned to bow deeply toward the mist.
“Thank you, Senior, for sparing my life. From this day forth, everyone in Burning Wheel Valley will avoid this place for ten miles in all directions.”
He had no choice but to avoid it. A hidden expert living here could kill him with a mere flick of the wrist.
No matter how bold he was, he wouldn’t dare come back.
He didn’t receive a reply, but Chai Ruo Cheng understood in his heart that the Senior inside had already acquiesced.
Only then did he retreat step by step out of the mist.
Hearing what his master said, and looking at that pile of burnt remains on the ground, Wan Shanxin finally understood what had happened.
In a hurry, he also retreated backward out of the mist.
It was only after they had completely left the range of the mist that Chai Ruo Cheng let out a long sigh of relief, a trace of lingering fear still in his eyes.
“Master, what’s going on?”
Wan Shanxin wanted confirmation, but Chai Ruo Cheng turned to look at him.
“Inform everyone in the entire valley, including myself, that from now on, we must keep at least ten miles away from this place. Anyone who disobeys will be expelled from the sect and executed on the spot.”
“Master, why? Could it be that this Senior…”
Chai Ruo Cheng glanced at the thick mist, deep wariness in his eyes.
“The one inside is no mere Nascent Soul Stage cultivator. At the very least…also a Great Ascension Stage!”
Wan Shanxin drew a sharp breath!
Great Ascension!!
How terrifying!
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