Chapter 2771 - 2766: Taboo Formation

All of these things have disappeared now, completely destroyed, the result of An Jiao’s many days and nights of research, that scroll is now entirely soaked with mud.

Collapsed on the ground, An Jiao finally regained his senses, then tremblingly tried to stand up to retrieve that scroll from the mud pit, but when An Jiao stood up, his crippled left foot suddenly lost strength, and he fell to the ground again.

Just as An Jiao tried once more to force himself to ignore the weakness in his left foot and stand up to approach the scroll, An Hao suddenly appeared beside him, then lifted his right foot, and stomped heavily on the joint of An Jiao’s left foot!

"Ah!" The piercing pain shot into An Jiao’s brain, "Crack!" An Jiao’s bone was almost instantly crushed by An Hao’s foot power; if previously An Jiao couldn’t stand because of the innate weakness in his left foot,

now, it was because of the injury on his foot making it impossible to stand, his foot joint bone was completely shattered, and the tendons inside were already abandoned.

Yet An Hao was relentless, pressing his foot down on An Jiao’s joint, as if he had a sadistic hobby of watching others in pain, slowly rotating his foot on An Jiao’s fractured joint, continuously applying pressure to An Jiao’s left foot.

"Ah—" The intense pain made An Jiao howl in torment, such bone-breaking agony was nearly enough to make An Jiao faint, but he still retained a sliver of conscious clarity, watching his scroll slowly transform into fragments in the mud pit, the writing and the patterns of the Array perhaps long blurred and vanished,

such a scroll that An Jiao had devoted enormous effort to, a scroll intended to change destiny, was thus destroyed.

Finally, An Jiao’s last hope in his heart was extinguished, this ruined scroll became the final straw that broke the young An Jiao.

"Ah—Roar—Ah!" The young man finally roared like a wild beast, this time not because of the fractured pain in his foot, but because his inner dignity had been trampled, indignant,

because of the profound sense of humiliation, because of the oppression from these people and the unfair treatment he received!

Why?! Why, even though I haven’t done anything wrong, are they forcing me like this? Why won’t they ever let me go!

"Ah!" An Jiao turned over, voluntarily twisting his left foot joint completely, only then could he roll over.

An Jiao stared intently at the somewhat stunned An Hao, then suddenly reached out to grab An Hao’s calf, An Jiao fixed his gaze on An Hao, his eyes gradually exuding a blood-red radiance.

"Since you wish to die so much! I’ll fulfill your wish!" An Jiao firmly gripped An Hao’s calf, then bit his finger, drawing intricate red patterns in the air with his blood, the patterns gradually forming the complex shape of an Array.

"Skulu wushae Rolando sha shuka wa..." Obscure incantations flowed slowly from An Jiao’s mouth, like the whisperings of a Demon.

An Hao realized something was wrong and wanted to pull his calf from An Jiao’s grip, but he hadn’t expected this sickly person to have such immense strength, his calf was held firmly, no matter how much An Hao struggled, he couldn’t break free.

The fat guy and skinny monkey, seeing the increasingly bright blood-red Array between An Jiao and An Hao, panicked a bit, knowing things were amiss, they immediately turned to flee.

But now it was too late, An Jiao’s Array was fully formed, this young man pushed to the extreme now demonstrated his talent and ability through this forbidden Array.

"Activate!" An Jiao shouted.

Then a violent explosion erupted from the blood-red Array between An Jiao and An Hao, the powerful shockwave immediately flung An Hao and his chain of underlings away, the immense impact shattered the ground as well.

The Array’s initiator, An Jiao, couldn’t withstand the powerful forbidden force, he was flung away, and immediately lost consciousness, but as An Jiao passed out, a sudden red force enveloped him, forming a protective film around him, shielding the fragile young man from the remaining shock force.

However, An Hao and those two lackeys weren’t so lucky, their bodies absorbed almost the entirety of the explosion’s impact, immediately causing their bodies’ tendons to shatter, bones to break, and copious amounts of blood to gush from them.

Ultimately, An Hao and the others lay in a rubble-filled ruin, having passed out.

...

By the time An Jiao woke up, he was in an unfamiliar place, he didn’t know where he was, nor how long he’d been unconscious. Upon waking, he found himself wrapped in bandages all over, his already frail body now further worsened.

Beside him was his father, An Tian, sitting atop a Giant Rock.

The awakened An Jiao realized he was lying atop another Giant Rock, the two of them in a secluded valley, no one else around, An Jiao could only hear the sounds of animals and the rushing of waterfall waters.

An Jiao opened his eyes wide trying to discern the world around him, even wanting to get up to see where exactly he was.

But An Tian spoke first, this man with his eyes closed, with a serene expression said, "Awake now, huh."

In his tone, An Jiao heard no emotion, no joy after seeing a severely injured son emerge from life-threatening danger, only indifference.

"Father, where are we..." An Jiao said, enduring the severe pain in his body, he didn’t know there was such a vibrant place in the Dark World.

"You needn’t know where we are."

"Father, I..." An Jiao wanted to say something, but countless words came to his mind, yet in the end, An Jiao couldn’t say anything.

He watched as his father slowly opened his eyes and said calmly, "No need for further words, from now on, you’ll train with me."

An Jiao felt somewhat bewildered, he didn’t know why things suddenly turned out like this, he remembered earlier he had activated a kind of forbidden Array from the book against An Hao and his lackeys, which triggered a massive explosion.

Being the initiator, An Jiao was well aware of the power of the Array, at such a close range, it was enough to kill all four of them, but now he was surprisingly alive, only heavily injured, even finding that his limbs were intact, with no injuries at all.

Could it be that the Array’s power wasn’t as great as An Jiao imagined?