Chapter 429: Enlightenment Stone

Chapter 429: Chapter 430: Enlightenment Stone

Everyone present stared at the trio’s attacks, eagerly awaiting the moment the array would be broken.

But the result…

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

After their three tyrannical attacks struck the array, the trio was once again blasted back.

This time, they were even more severely injured, spitting up blood repeatedly.

Ripples appeared on the array Su Mo had deployed, spreading out like waves on water, but they quickly vanished.

The array returned to its original state.

Seeing this, everyone present was stunned.

These were the trio’s most powerful attacks, after all.

And they still couldn’t break the array?

Fang Xi said in disbelief, “Impossible! Even a Saint-level Array shouldn’t be able to withstand a combined blow from the three of us. It couldn’t possibly…”

“Old man, your Heaven-Sundering Sword is broken!”

Su Mo interrupted.

Fang Xi subconsciously glanced down at the sword in his hand and saw, sure enough, that his Heaven-Sundering Sword was covered in dense cracks.

CRACK!

The next second, the Heaven-Sundering Sword snapped in two.

Fang Xi froze.

His Heaven-Sundering Sword was a Tier Nine Spiritual Soldier, said to be capable of sundering even heaven and earth itself! It was second only to a Holy Soldier, yet it had just been shattered by the rebound.

CRACK. CRACK.

Before Fang Xi could even react, the sound of two more Spiritual Soldiers shattering echoed through the area.

“Elder Yuan Jie, your Heaven-Overturning Sea-Suppressing Seal has shattered into dust.”

“Elder Ye Mingli, your Golden Mace has snapped in two.”

Yuan Jie and Ye Mingli looked at the remnants of the Spiritual Soldiers in each other’s hands, their faces masks of utter disbelief.

These were their prized treasures, baptized in blood and fire, that had accompanied them through countless years of battle. They had even been used to slay Saints in the past.

And now, they had been shattered by the rebound from a single array.

‘What kind of array is this?’

‘It’s too tough!’

Su Mo quipped, “The quality of your Spiritual Soldiers is just too shoddy.”

‘After all their bragging, I thought they were supposed to be something special,’ he thought.

‘But in the end… pfft!’

Ye Mingli held out his hand, revealing the torn and bleeding flesh between his thumb and forefinger. “Elder Su,” he pleaded pitifully, “you’ve seen it yourself. The three of us have given it our all, but we truly can’t break your array. Please, just spare us.”

Yuan Jie and Fang Xi also revealed their bleeding arms.

Their arms had almost been twisted into knots by the force.

Su Mo suggested, “Since brute force won’t work, you should try another method. For instance, you could look for a flaw in the array and see if you can crack it that way.”

“This…”

The three men looked at each other hesitantly but finally gritted their teeth and agreed.

“We’ll try!”

the three of them said.

Su Mo nodded. “Mm, finding a flaw in the array will probably take a while, so I won’t stay to keep you company. I’ll be taking my leave now.”

“Farewell, Elder Su!”

the crowd said, cupping their hands.

As he was leaving, Su Mo added a reminder, “We have over a thousand arrays just like this one in Qingyang City, you know. You’d better hurry.”

“What?”

The bodies of everyone from the Three Great Sacred Lands went rigid, their faces darkening.

‘A single array had nearly cost them their lives.’

‘Over a thousand…’

‘How are we supposed to break all of those?’

Fang Xi stammered, “Elder Su, are you sure there are over a thousand arrays like this?”

Su Mo nodded. “Don’t you dare slack off. Otherwise, you might never get out in this lifetime. You could even die of old age in here.”

With that, Su Mo vanished, leaving the despairing crowd behind.

“Do you think there are really a thousand arrays like this here?”

“That should be impossible!”

“Our Jizhen Sacred Land has a legacy spanning tens of thousands of years, and even we don’t have this many powerful arrays. Qingyang City has only been around for a few months.”

“I get it. He’s just saying that to scare us.”

“Hmph, in that case, he’s sorely mistaken. With our hundreds of experts here, plus the support of Nie Xiang’s Green Ghost Eye, we’ll break out of this array in no time. Let’s see what he has to say then.”

“Let’s start breaking the array!”

The group began working to break the array in a flurry of activity.

Huang Xu asked, “Elder Su, are you really planning to leave them in there to break the array?”

“Of course!”

Su Mo said coldly, “They offended our Qingyang City. Did they really think they’d be forgiven so easily?”

Huang Xu shook his head, feeling a bit sorry for the men.

To have reached the Martial Emperor Realm meant that all of them had been monstrous geniuses in their youth. Now, they were major figures renowned throughout the Central Profound Domain.

And now, they were imprisoned in an array by Su Mo.

How utterly humiliating.

Su Mo instructed, “In a few days, toss some food in for them. Don’t let them starve. If they manage to find any flaws in the array, you just patch them up. That way, our Qingyang City will be even more secure.”

“Yes!”

Huang Xu said.

After taking care of these matters, Su Mo returned home to spend some tender moments with Xiao Qingxue and give her some pointers on her cultivation.

「On that day.」

Second Elder found Su Mo and said, “Young Master, we have purchased the breakthrough materials you required.”

“Oh?”

Su Mo said, pleasantly surprised.

‘Originally, he hadn’t been in a hurry to make a breakthrough, but that was no longer the case.’

‘Because the King of Reincarnation was about to break through to the Saint Level.’

‘Yama Hall and the shadowy forces behind it posed an even greater threat. They were all powerful, seemingly invincible existences, and extremely dangerous.’

‘Then there was that mysterious eye from a few days ago, and the matter of the Descent.’

‘Netherworld had said that the Descent would be a great catastrophe, and when it happened, the entire Cangxuan Realm would be plunged into misery and death.’

‘All these various crises made it imperative for him to achieve a breakthrough as soon as possible.’

Su Mo asked, “You found everything?”

“Well…”

Second Elder said with some difficulty, “We’ve gathered most of the materials, and we have leads on the few that are still missing. The only exception is the Enlightenment Stone; we have no clues about it.”

Hearing this, Su Mo’s brows furrowed tightly.

The Enlightenment Stone was the most crucial ingredient for his advancement to the Martial Monarch realm. If he couldn’t find it, his entire breakthrough plan would be ruined.

“Not a single clue?”

Su Mo asked, unwilling to accept it.

Second Elder shook his head. “The Enlightenment Stone allows one to comprehend the Celestial Dao. It only appeared once, ten thousand years ago, in Meteor City, and then it mysteriously vanished. Since then, an Enlightenment Stone has never again appeared in the Cangxuan Realm—there haven’t even been rumors of one.”

‘Comprehending the Celestial Dao…’

This was something countless Martial Artists dreamed of achieving, but it required the aid of an Enlightenment Stone.

Therefore, anyone who obtained an Enlightenment Stone would surely hide it away.

Some would even go into seclusion for ten thousand years, refusing to emerge even on pain of death, all for the chance to comprehend the Celestial Dao with its help.

“This is trouble!”

Su Mo felt a headache coming on.

Zhuge Su, who was standing nearby, suddenly spoke up. “Second Elder, are you certain the Enlightenment Stone appeared in Meteor City?”

Second Elder shook his head.

That was what the reports said; he didn’t know for certain himself.

Zhuge Su mused, “I, for one, believe the information is true. And it is indeed possible that an Enlightenment Stone can be found in Meteor City.”

“Really?”

Su Mo asked.

Zhuge Su nodded. “Meteor City is the territory of the Meteor Sect. One of their ancestors was a Divine-level Powerhouse. The training grounds of this powerhouse might contain an Enlightenment Stone, and may even hold Divine-level secrets.”

“Divine-level secrets?”

Su Mo’s interest was instantly piqued. “In that case, I’ll pay a visit to the Meteor Sect myself. Even if I can’t get the Enlightenment Stone, obtaining some Divine-level secrets would be a great haul in itself.”