This Is Not the Female Demon Lord I Remembered
Chapter 246 - 240: Your Name is Jian Yi?

Chapter 246: Chapter 240: Your Name is Jian Yi?

"That girl... does she know about Taoist Sect?"

While watching the three people depart in two different directions, Jianyi leaned against the doorframe, his smile enigmatic.

He hoped that these three youngsters had strong capabilities. They had already wasted so much of his breath, and what followed might consume even more of his strength. If they failed again this time, he reckoned it might take thousands or even tens of thousands of years before anyone else would come.

"Sister Apprentice, do you think that Senior Jianyi is reliable?" Su Youyi quietly asked Yu Gejing after the wooden hut had vanished from sight.

"With such immense strength, that senior surely wouldn’t lie to us, right?" Yu Gejing’s expression was as usual, completely missing the hint in Su Youyi’s words.

"Alas." Su Youyi sighed sorrowfully upon seeing her Sister Apprentice’s reaction. It seemed like she really was affected.

Both He Zhiqing and Sister Apprentice Yu were usually extremely intelligent people who wouldn’t easily trust others – a common trait within the Complete Heaven Sect.

But now, Senior Jianyi had coaxed the two of them into working for him with just a few words. How could she not find this whole situation peculiar?

Knowing that temporary persuasion was futile, Su Youyi decided not to say more, resolving to find an opportunity to help Sister Apprentice recover her memory first.

Why was Ye Lingyun, who was influenced by Jianyi, Sister Apprentice Yu’s concern?

"However, this place really doesn’t seem like it’s the location of a seal..." Yu Gejing sighed as she gazed at the increasingly sparse peach blossom trees.

Su Youyi deeply shared the same feeling; setting aside the various oddities, this place felt more like a small Secret Realm to her, seemingly not too expansive in size.

Especially for cultivators who were suspected to be of the Ninth Realm, this place was practically like a cage.

From the beginning, they had been using their Escape Skill to gradually leave the scope of the peach blossom forest, and now they were rushing towards the distant mountains. The peach blossom trees had slowly disappeared, replaced by large expanses of green vegetation and craggy paths.

Where it had been a clear sunny day in the peach blossom forest, the sun had now vanished, and the air held a certain dampness and coolness, as if rain could fall at any moment.

Tall mountains and rocks loomed as the terrain shifted from plains to mountainous areas, and they were still ascending towards even higher peaks.

According to Senior Jianyi, this place of sealing is divided into three parts: the Drizzly Mountains, the Peach Blossom Plains, and the Snowy Deep Pit.

The forces suppressed in these three locations differ sharply. The vile beast power that is weakest is suppressed here in the mountains, hence the weakest seal is here. A bit stronger is the seal formed by a courtyard in the peach blossom forest, and the strongest is where He Zhiqing was headed— the Snowy Deep Pit that almost seals nearly eighty percent of the vile beast’s power.

Their destination was the peak of the most towering mountain, and on top of that peak was the Sword Array established by Jianyi as a seal.

The Sword Array wasn’t particularly strong, but because Jianyi’s main consciousness couldn’t leave the courtyard, the Sword Array on the mountain peak could only rely on them to break through. Once the scabbard housing his previous power was retrieved after breaking the seal, the mission would be deemed successful.

Drip-drop —

The drizzle fell, wetting the already damp earth and green leaves, raising a misty layer of water vapor.

Before Su Youyi could muster her mana to block the rain, Yu Gejing gently wiped above their heads with one hand, and an invisible Array appeared above them, isolating the moisture from all directions.

"We’re almost there, let’s hasten our travels," Yu Gejing said without pausing for rest, leading Su Youyi swiftly through numerous mountains, heading straight for the cloud-piercing one at the end.

When Su Youyi and Yu Gejing arrived at the foot of the towering mountain, an ethereal, transparent figure appeared before them. They couldn’t make out the specific features of the figure, but they knew that this shadow was there to obstruct them when they saw the longsword in its hand.

As soon as the figure materialized, a colossal Sword Array also revealed itself in the Void surrounding the entire mountain. Under the vigorous Sword Intent, the clouds within a million li were directly dispersed, and the rain descending from the sky also vanished into nothingness.

"A Sword Array? To break both the Array and the sword..." Yu Gejing looked at the scene before her, recalling some knowledge she had seen in the heritage jade tubes of the sect.

As the name suggests, a Sword Array is formed with swords. This method of formation is said to have been researched by a Sword Immortal at the pinnacle of Sword Dao during the First Epoch, but such a method of formation places extremely high demands on the formator.

After all, the required Sword Qi not only demands a significant amount but also insists on its purity; ordinary Sword Qi that doesn’t meet the standard is unworthy of even setting an Array, leaving only Sword Cultivators capable of achieving this level.

However, Sword Cultivators rarely have the inclination to study the Array Dao. For those without enough aptitude and talent, such actions would only lead to mediocrity in both fields, achieving nothing.

But this world is never lacking in geniuses; for every failure, there is a success.

And the advantage of this kind of Sword Array is obvious: the power is immense, and breaking the Array is extremely difficult.

Combining the unparalleled power of Sword Qi with the ultimate complexity of Array’s calculation and variation, breaking the Array requires solving both the puzzle of the formation and the swordsmanship. Otherwise, one can only wait for the Array’s spiritual power to run out.

But any Array Master with sense will set up a small Array within these formations to automatically absorb the spiritual power from the Void.

Can you fight? No good, you need to use your brain too! Is your brain fast? Still no good, if your strength isn’t enough, you can’t break the Array!

Therefore, in the First Epoch, the mighty feared neither Sword Cultivators’ strength nor the cunning of Array Masters but dreaded encountering those capable of forming Sword Arrays.

Because even the strong are not omniscient and omnipotent, one can only say that most strong individuals have sufficient power, but it’s uncertain whether their minds keep up with their strength.

"Hmm... The beginning doesn’t seem hard, leave the array to me, and you’ll handle the welcome, right?" Yu Gejing carefully extended a finger, tapping several times in the void, each tap hitting a crucial node of the sword array, quickly discerning the rough difficulty of setting up this sword array in just a few breaths.

Indeed, it was confirmed that it was an array she wouldn’t be able to set up even if she went bald from stress.

But the reason she couldn’t do it was due to her insufficient Sword Dao cultivation, not because she was weak in Array Dao. The saying "The new waves of the Yangtze River push forward the old waves; and the old waves die on the sandy shore" wasn’t just empty words. One might not be sure of other things, but this principle applied quite well to areas like Array Dao or Forging Dao that have been passed down through generations.

In the First Epoch, the cultivators were generally stronger than those of the Second Epoch, but when it came to research in Array Dao, they were merely beginners in comparison.

The Array Dao experts of the Second Epoch had long been standing on the shoulders of the First Epoch, bringing forth innovation and pushing the inheritance of Array Dao to a terrifyingly higher level. What might have seemed like complex knowledge to the cultivators of the First Epoch might only be the most basic level in the eyes of the Second Epoch.

Therefore, in terms of technique, this array was not unreachable for Yu Gejing, it just might take her a bit longer.

Meanwhile, He Zhiqing was standing on the Endless Ice Field with a grave expression, looking towards the pitch-black hole below that seemed to have no bottom. Before coming here, he hadn’t felt anything amiss, but standing here and seeing this deep pit, a sense of foreboding ominously rose within him.

The wind and snow howled past, with mournful wind howls echoing in the air, causing He Zhiqing’s clothes to flap loudly. The big black hole before his eyes was unfathomably deep, resembling the gaping maw of the Abyss on the icy tundra, sending shivers down one’s spine without even being cold.

At this moment, He Zhiqing also sensed that something was amiss, but the next second, an inexplicable voice in his mind urged him to quickly complete the task entrusted to him by his senior fellow, trying to lull his consciousness to sleep.

Although this strange voice kept urging, He Zhiqing did not feel anything unusual and simply assumed it was his own inner thoughts.

Above the furious blizzard, a mysterious gaze quietly watched He Zhiqing next to the pit, only slowly exhaling after seeing that figure activate the Cloud Ascension Technique and leap into the deep pit, murmuring softly:

"Let’s hope you don’t disappoint me..."

This sentence was unknown to anyone, directly buried by the vast whiteness of the world. Even the Sword Immortal in the sky failed to notice the mysterious purple glint that flitted across He Zhiqing’s eyes before he jumped in.

While Su Youyi was still in the mountains assisting her senior fellow apprentice with the array, she was unaware that her yearned-for senior brother had already entered this sealed place.

However, the situation for Liang Yi was completely different from He Zhiqing’s and the others’; as soon as he entered, he was confounded by someone...

What he came into was a pitch-black space with chaos in all four directions, and only darkness within the void.

What was eerie was the sight of a person sitting cross-legged before him, and even more bizarre was that this middle-aged man with closed eyes was bound by chains emerging from an unknown point in the void,

"You’re not from this epoch, are you?"

Looking at the young man who suddenly appeared before him, the middle-aged man with sword-brows in a dark Daoist robe evaluated him with his eyes closed for a moment before asking.

Although it was a question, his tone was extremely affirmative.

Liang Yi almost thought his Divine Soul defenses had been silently breached by this man. How else could a person from a small Secret Realm within an Illusion Realm of the Second Epoch reveal his origins in one sentence?

"May I ask how the elder addresses himself, and what is this place?"

Despite the shock in his heart, Liang Yi kept his composure and asked without revealing any emotion.

"Call me ’Master’ first and see how it sounds." This statement from the man before him left Liang Yi with a stupefied expression once again. Who was this person? Could he have encountered a madman?

Although the man in the dark robe had his eyes closed, he could already sense the disrespectful look in Liang Yi’s eyes, yet the man did not show anger. Instead, he continued to calmly say,

"Endless Dao at the fifth level, a beginner of Sword Births All Techniques and Qinglian Creation, having learned so many fundamental inheritances from the Taoist Sect, what’s wrong with calling me ’Master’?"

"May I ask, which senior of the Taoist Sect is the elder?" If someone could reveal the core of his Cultivation Technique and Daoist Skill like this, unless his memory had been read, this person must undoubtedly have a deep connection with the Taoist Sect.

"My name is ’Sword One.’" The middle-aged man in the dark robe not until then opened his eyes, gazing directly at Liang Yi.

"Clang!"

The sword heart trembled, Liang Yi was so frightened that he broke into a cold sweat, daring not to look directly into the middle-aged man’s eyes again.

Just one glance, and Liang Yi could feel the endless and boundless aura from this man’s eyes, as if he had once slaughtered innocents, the murderous aura of Corpse Mountain and Blood Sea crashing directly into his mind, filling his mouth and nose with the stench of blood, making him feel nauseous.

And on the peak of the Corpse Mountain in the illusion stood the middle-aged man before him.

Just one sword strike had piled up a Corpse Mountain that clogged the widest and most turbulent river, with blood even replacing the river water, a million corpses lying across, and blood flowing for thousands of miles.

This was simply absurd!

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