Novel Full Chapter 223: Buried Bones and a Hidden Array
Chapter 223: Buried Bones and a Hidden Array
Xiao Shou spread out his divine sense to investigate.
He discovered that throughout Bottle Gourd Town and the surrounding villages, every place that had been slaughtered by evil cultivators was utterly desolate.
The plants looked malnourished and withered.
As for living creatures, there were none at all.
Not even a single ant could be found.
Yet he could clearly sense that there was nothing harmful in the surroundings.
This made it even stranger.
If wild animals and insects avoided a place, there was usually a reason, such as repelling herbs, the presence of stronger predators, or a heavy aura of death.
But there was nothing like that here.
The air was just as barren, the land just as ordinary.
After being busy for quite a while, Xiao Shou felt a bit tired.
He simply sat down on the ground to rest and casually playing with the map in his hand.
Since Tushan Qiqi had not begun cultivating yet and could not record information into jade slips, the map had been drawn on paper.
As he idly turned it in his hands, he suddenly noticed something.
If the paper was viewed from a different angle and the treasure points were connected together, it formed an interesting pattern.
It looked very similar to the corners of magical arrays often seen in anime.
An array?
The moment he realized this, Xiao Shou jumped to his feet and said in a low voice, "Earth, rise."
His long hair instantly shortened as his words took effect.
The soil of Mountain, the surrounding villages, and Bottle Gourd Town all lifted into the sky as if freed from gravity.
It surged upward, blotting out the sky and revealing what lay beneath the ground.
Broken stones of all shapes and countless white bones.
Even though the flying earth cast everything below into darkness, Xiao Shou still caught a glimpse and sharply inhaled.
He took out the largest luminous stone from his storage pouch and controlled it with his divine sense, sending it high into the air to illuminate the ground below.
At the same time, he split his focus and carefully examined everything within the light.
Beneath scattered stones lay layer upon layer of bones from all kinds of creatures.
Humans, livestock, wild beasts.
Only at each treasure location was there a line extending outward in a certain direction, about one meter wide.
These lines were filled with exhausted spirit stones and completely devoid of bones.
Xiao Shou felt as though he had touched upon something crucial.
But the massive levitation of earth was reaching its limit.
He quickly recorded the lines extending from each treasure point into a jade slip.
Just as he finished, the suspended earth could no longer hold and came crashing down, carefully avoiding the area around his protective barrier.
Xiao Shou paid it no attention.
He focused entirely on the patterns within the jade slip.
The more he looked, the more familiar they seemed.
Taken as a whole, the lines resembled the Fate Devouring Array and the Fate Bestowing Array that Xiao Ran and that person had obtained in the ancient cultivator’s cave, though there were also clear differences.
What exactly was going on?
Xiao Shou’s hand trembled slightly as he held the jade slip.
Beneath the yellow earth lay countless bones.
Humans, livestock, wild beasts.
No living creature would step into this place.
Even weeds refused to grow here.
And beneath it all was a massive array formed from depleted spirit stones.
Yet Xiao Shou knew nothing about formations and could not understand what this array was meant to do.
This was Xiao Ran’s hometown.
Her mother seemed to know something and Xiao Ran herself possessed overwhelming fortune.
After reading so many novels, Xiao Shou did not have much fondness for this type of protagonists, so he could not help but fall into a conspiratorial line of thinking.
He speculated that this formation might be related to Xiao Ran’s overwhelming luck.
However, this was only a baseless guess formed from patterns he had seen in stories.
In reality, in the original Longevity Love story, Xiao Ran had never returned to this place, nor had any abnormalities here ever been mentioned in the future timeline.
So what exactly was going on here?
Xiao Shou took a sigh and thought that since he knew nothing about formations and could not understand it, he should leave it to someone more knowledgeable.
He took out his communication jade slip and infused it with spiritual energy.
Meanwhile, in Azure Origin City, at the Ao family residence, everything centered around the head of the household was being devoured by a crimson vortex.
No matter one’s cultivation level, no one could resist it.
All attacks were useless.
It was as if the vortex nullified the cultivators’ spiritual power or perhaps absorbed it.
Only its wielder likely understood its true nature.
At this moment, the entire Ao family had fallen into hell.
Only the family head and his wife remained.
They are staring in terror at the person before them whose lips were slightly curved in a faint ambiguous smile.
When the mistress of the house saw her own children being swallowed by the red vortex, she seemed to break down.
She screaming hysterically and cried, "You beast. You filthy beast. You are nothing but a lowborn bastard who should have died long ago, and yet you dare harm my children. I will kill you."
"Oh? No wonder you were so quick to act against me back then. So I was never your child."
Her words should have struck the person before her, but his expression did not change in the slightest.
His face remained as calm as still water, even the curve of his lips unmoved.
The deranged woman did not notice this.
Instead, she laughed in a twisted chilling manner and said, "Haha... trash like you, with such poor talent, how could you possibly be my child? You bastard. Bastard. Bastard..."
"It seems you have nothing more to say."