CHAPTER 959: CHAPTER 81: PURPLE CLOUD SOUL-LOCKING ARRAY_2

"As for the specific location, I haven’t been there myself. I just heard the disciples of the Tianyuan Sect mention it. As long as you set off from the Tianyuan Sect and keep flying east for two hundred and fifty-nine thousand miles, you should reach it."

"Two hundred and fifty-nine thousand miles?"

Zhang Xiaoman was taken aback.

If you convert that, isn’t it over a hundred and twenty thousand kilometers? That’s equivalent to three times the circumference of Water Blue Star’s equator. Just how big is this planet!?

He was initially a bit happy when he heard the other party knew the location of the so-called Immortal Alliance, but upon hearing this distance, he immediately felt a sourness in his teeth.

He didn’t have any spaceship like the Dawn here, after all.

To fly such a long distance, relying solely on the Sword Control Technique, who knows when he’d arrive.

Moreover, on such a large map, it’s not as if he could just fly there and find the target easily.

By then, it would probably be like searching for a needle in a haystack, only wasting more time.

Zhang Xiaoman sighed softly to himself.

The area of this planet is larger than he imagined.

For now, he’s not thinking about the affairs of other sects, focusing first on digesting the gains from this Tianyun Sect.

He glanced down at Ni Yang and suddenly took out a handful of Spirit Stones from his storage ring, tossing them into Jade Spirit Lake.

Ni Yang didn’t expect Zhang Xiaoman to do this.

After a slight daze, it reacted and looked at him with a peculiar expression, saying:

"Kid, you had a fit of conscience, but these Spirit Stones aren’t even enough to fill my teeth, don’t expect me to be grateful."

"Suit yourself."

Seeing its haughty demeanor, Zhang Xiaoman didn’t bother to say much and flew directly to a nearby mountain.

Watching his departing figure, a strange gleam appeared in Ni Yang’s massive eye, as large as a house.

It then submerged back into Jade Spirit Lake and began absorbing the Spiritual Energy from the Spirit Stones.

On Tianyuan Mountain, Zhang Xiaoman began casting the Cleaning Spell and Recovery Spell around the buildings, trying to restore the dilapidated houses to completeness.

The workload for this process was quite substantial; he spent an entire day to preliminary complete the renovation.

It has to be said, after the renovation, the Tianyuan Sect increasingly had the appearance of an Immortal’s abode.

However, the unfortunate thing was that he couldn’t identify many of the plants in the herb shops, not knowing which were weeds and which were Immortal Elixirs.

Zhang Xiaoman could only leave them inside for now, not clearing them out.

When he learns to identify Spiritual Medicines from the records in books later, he can come back for redevelopment.

Glancing at the other six peaks, he sighed and decided not to manage them for the time being.

Currently, there’s only him in the Tianyuan Sect, and perhaps Master Liu if counted, with no need to handle so much.

Just after finishing his busy work, Zhang Xiaoman suddenly felt a wave of Dark Energy Fluctuation nearby.

A vortex appeared, and the glowing figure of Jiu Jiu appeared beside him.

"Jiu Jiu!!"

As soon as Jiu Jiu saw Zhang Xiaoman, it immediately pounced to snuggle, lying on its favorite spot on his shoulder.

"Jiu Jiu, why are you here?"

Seeing this, Zhang Xiaoman’s expression changed slightly.

He had been too busy these days, almost forgetting about this little creature.

Usually, Jiu Jiu often sought out its owner to cuddle and be adorable.

Having not met for several days recently, it naturally teleported over to find Zhang Xiaoman for play.

However, Zhang Xiaoman knew that the world he was in was trapped by the Ten Thousand Tribulations Soul Locking Array.

Although the formation was broken, allowing entry, it couldn’t be left.

This was why, despite knowing the area’s abundant Spiritual Energy, he hadn’t immediately called over others from the Star Alliance.

Now that Jiu Jiu had directly come over, he also didn’t know if it could return to Water Blue Star.

If it couldn’t return, the loss would be significant for him.

"Ah..."

Sighing, he patted its head.

Since Jiu Jiu already came, regretting was pointless now.

After soothing Jiu Jiu, the little creature stopped being cute and snuggly, curiously observing the surrounding environment while perched on Zhang Xiaoman’s shoulder.

After wrapping up the remaining work on the Tianyuan Sect Main Peak, Zhang Xiaoman left a Star Alliance Marker there and activated Unlimited Teleportation to return to Water Blue Star.

He used the summoning ability to try and summon Jiu Jiu back, but it didn’t succeed.

As expected, Jiu Jiu was still trapped there.

"Now this is troublesome..."

He cursed under his breath and teleported back to the Tianyuan Sect.

Though Jiu Jiu usually seemed like just a snuggly and adorable pet, its role was quite significant.

Not mentioning other aspects, the fact that it could purify spiritual pollution made it an indispensable ability for the current development of the Star Alliance.

It’s needed frequently on Guleng Star; even the research department within the Star Alliance occasionally required Jiu Jiu to purify the power of Calamity Stones.

Calamity Stone, as a material currently researched by the department, had high potential. It was an essential raw material for mass-producing special materials and weapons, indispensable.

This stone, once purified, had high strength, high toughness, and self-replicating properties, making it a strong future support for both the Star Alliance and humanity.

Regrettably, all these research plans would likely stall temporarily after Jiu Jiu’s departure.

Zhang Xiaoman hurriedly went to Jade Spirit Lake to call out Ni Yang.

"Kid, why are you back again? Don’t you know I need to recuperate?"

Ni Yang was displeased with his interruption.

Zhang Xiaoman didn’t waste time with trivialities and got straight to the point:

"Ni Yang, there’s something I forgot to ask you. Do you know how to break this Ten Thousand Tribulations Soul Locking Array?"

"Ten Thousand Tribulations Soul Locking Array? What’s that?"

Ni Yang looked puzzled.

Seeing its expression, Zhang Xiaoman realized he might have asked the wrong person.

Although the other party was the Demon King of the Immortal Realm, it had been exiled to the Mortal World a thousand years ago, hiding within the Tianyuan Sect.

And the Ten Thousand Tribulations Soul Locking Array was deployed by the Immortal Palace three hundred years ago; it was still hidden in Jade Spirit Lake back then, so it didn’t know was reasonable.

But just when he was disappointed and about to leave, he suddenly heard Ni Yang say:

"Kid, are you sure you didn’t mistake? I don’t know about the Ten Thousand Tribulations Soul Locking Array, but I’ve heard of the Purple Cloud Soul-locking Array."

"What do you mean?"

"Naturally, it’s a Sealing Array, but this formation is only legendary. It’s rumored to have been created by the Primordial Heavenly Emperor, using the Innate Divine Artifact Purple Cloud Divine Sword as the array eye, to set up a grand array that seals all space, impossible even for the Heavenly Emperor to escape from."

"But this array had never been set up; later, it’s said that the Immortal Palace’s Treasure Purple Cloud Divine Sword was mysteriously lost, so it completely vanished."

"Heh, maybe the Ten Thousand Tribulations Soul Locking Array you’re talking about is a downsized version with a changed appearance, who knows... Why are you asking?"

Purple Cloud Soul-locking Array?

Purple Cloud Divine Sword?

Zhang Xiaoman paused slightly, subconsciously glancing at the black, unnoticeable Flying Sword beneath his feet, feeling odd inside.

Shaking his head to brush off the thought, he responded to Ni Yang’s statement:

"The space in this world has already been sealed by the Ten Thousand Tribulations Soul Locking Array. The prophecy says there will be an invasion by the Heavenly Demon, so the Immortal Palace used a grand array to close it off."

"Oh? So, you’re intending to reinforce the array?"

"Heh... Kid, not to discourage you, but since this grand array was set up by the Immortal Palace, the array eye must be within the Immortal Palace. If you want to access it, you’ll have to cultivate to the Immortal Realm and ascend to the Upper Realm first."