Yi Yun found a scroll that held the details of the massive array, and began reading it while sitting beside the lake.
The scroll was extremely complex. The content was so abstruse that, even as a Desolate Heaven Master, Yi Yun needed to ponder over each word and line before he could figure out the meaning within.
Ling Xie'er just sat on the disk array and quietly watched Yi Yun study. Although she was innocent, she was still a spiritual being of the world, and thus was able to distinguish whether a person was good or bad. She could sense that Yi Yun had no ill intentions toward her.
"If only he were just a little stronger." Ling Xie'er sighed as she held her tiny face.
Suddenly, Ling Xie'er sensed something. She raised her head and looked towards the roaring pure Yang waterfall above her.
After staring at the waterfall for a moment, she lowered her head to look at Yi Yun.
Seeing that Yi Yun was completely immersed in reading the scroll, she quietly stood up and, with a flash, disappeared into a beam of light. And at the moment Ling Xie'er vanished, the gray flame in her was blocked by an invisible barrier. It could not break the obstruction, and was forced to stay in the array…
Ling Xie'er may have been the Heretical God Fire Seed, but the gray flame was her essence. If the flame could not leave the array, then Ling Xie'er would never be able to leave the land of cremation.
…
"Ah!"
In the darkness, there was a sudden tragic cry as a few figures appeared by the side of a mountain cliff.
"Stop shouting. If you attract more of those humanoid monsters, you’ll lose more than your legs," said Liu Ruyi coldly.
The person she spoke to was none other than the Heaven Secrets Chapter's Master Tianxiao.
By that point, Master Tianxiao was in a wretched state. His legs had been cleaved off from the thighs. He was covered in blood, for he had also lost an arm. If he lost the other arm, he would be no different from a punished consort.
As Master Tianxiao had lost all ability to fight, the twin childlike deputy palatial lords of the Seven Star Dao Palace had tied his body to a machine-operated puppet. The state he was in was as tragic as could be.
The moment Liu Ruyi mentioned the humanoid monsters, Master Tianxiao immediately shuddered and did not dare whimper another word.
"Lead the way properly. You only lost your legs and an arm. My Seven Star Dao Palace has already promised to reattach them for you, so what's there to be afraid of?" said one of the two children in a hoarse voice.
There were only three people left from the entire Seven Star Dao Palace expedition team. Even one of the deputy palatial lords had perished.
As for the Heaven Secrets Chapter group, only Master Tianxiao alone had managed to barely survive. And that was only because Liu Ruyi believed him to be of some use, and deliberately protected him.
Along the way, they had not only encountered terrifying humanoid monsters, they had also met ancient creatures that nearly wiped them all out.
Yi Yun's gloating words had truly come to pass.
"With three deputy palatial lords, I'm naturally unafraid." Master Tianxiao said bitterly with a despondent expression.
Unafraid? He was already terribly regretting this excursion!
He originally believed that he would garner certain boons from coming on the expedition, but now, aside from not getting a thing, he had lost two legs and an arm.
Having come this far, the three deputy palatial lords refused to retreat. They had already paid a tragic price so they were bent on obtaining the Yang spirit.
Master Tianxiao knew that if he could not lead the way, then he was a cripple of no value.
"The environment here is quite different from the places we previously passed…" Master Tianxiao used his remaining hand to hold on to a compass and attempted to divine a path. "This place is probably not far from the Yang spirit."
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