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Chapter 447 The Nine Cauldrons Boundary-Stabilizing Array (Seeking Monthly Tickets)

After traversing the perilous ancient forest for five days, Jiang Yi and the demon spirits ran for their lives to escape the pursuit of two Qiongqi beasts. After passing through a hill, the view suddenly opened up before them.

The ferocious Qiongqi behind them suddenly stopped, roared for a moment, and then turned and left.

The two Qiongqi phantoms were at the early Nascent Soul stage, and Jiang Yi and the demon spirits had no chance of winning.

"My lord, there is an altar here."

Zhenshan and Duanjin guarded Jiang Yi in front of him, looking into the distance.

Jiang Yi withdrew his spread-out divine sense and, after confirming that there were no other dangers around for the time being, turned his head to look. He saw an extremely vast circular area suddenly appear in the forest surrounded by giant trees, and in the center of the clearing was a grand altar.

The altar is so ancient that it seems to have been born at the very beginning of time, along with this dense forest.

Nine colossal bronze pillars, reaching to the heavens and the earth, are arranged in a uniform ring and deeply inserted into the base of the altar.

Each giant pillar is so thick that it takes ten people to encircle it. The pillars are carved with the images of ancient mythical beasts of various shapes. Although covered in dust, they still exude an ancient and desolate aura.

At the very center, surrounded by nine giant pillars, a platform resembling a base can be vaguely seen, but it is mostly shrouded in shadows within the pit and cannot be clearly seen.

The altar's gray-blue ground was covered with layers of overlapping circular arrays, which were riddled with cracks, and many key rune nodes were dull and lifeless.

An indescribable sense of silence and decay enveloped the entire altar area, as if it had lost its soul and was nothing but ruins. Only the faint yet incredibly pure and profound spatial fluctuations remaining in the air indicated that this place once possessed supreme power.

"Is this... the end?"

Hua Gu asked softly, her voice sounding particularly ethereal in front of the empty altar.

Hongli looked around with a serious expression. "This place makes me feel so dangerous. My tail hairs are about to stand on end."

Duan Jin crouched down to examine the cracks in the array's tracks on the ground. "My lord, I sense that this place contains a power powerful enough to crush mountains."

"Be cautious and avoid touching anything."

Jiang Yi gave a deep order and carefully entered the altar to examine it thoroughly.

For the rest of the day, Jiang Yi conducted a thorough investigation of the massive altar.

She mobilized all her knowledge of formations, combining it with her divine sense and eyesight, and painstakingly traced the outline of the broken formation.

However, this formation was far beyond her current understanding. Its complexity far exceeded that of the Azure Emperor's Five Elements Forbidden Formation. Many key parts of the formation patterns were severely damaged and could not be deciphered coherently.

Jiang Yi tried to inject a weak amount of magic power into the center of the array, but the magic power was like a stone sinking into the sea, without even a ripple.

Jiang Yi frowned, vaguely sensing that the purpose of this altar was far more than just the end of the Dao Stele dispute.

The requirement for first place on the Dao Stele is to activate the grand formation. If neither she nor Luo Qingsi can activate it, even if only one of them remains in the Primordial Secret Realm, they will not be able to get first place.

Activating the grand formation is the key to the Dao Stele Trial!

Just then, a cluster of huge ferns at the edge of the altar suddenly shook a few times.

"Who?!"

Zhenshan, who was on guard nearby, shouted, and Duanjin immediately flashed over to check. "Senior Sister, it's me! It's me!"

A figure covered in mud emerged from behind the bushes—it was Luo Qingsi!
Her white dress was no longer recognizable, stained with mud, grass juice, and withered leaves. Her hair was loose and disheveled, and her face was covered in smudges. She clutched her natal sword tightly, and the Heart-Piercing Mirror hanging at her waist emitted a faint golden light.

Although she looked disheveled, her eyes were still bright, and she did not appear to be seriously injured.

Jiang Yi walked over quickly, "What happened to you? Did you run into a powerful beast?"

As she asked, she quickly scanned Luo Qingsi's body with her divine sense to confirm that apart from some minor abrasions and excessive consumption of spiritual energy, she was indeed unharmed.

Luo Qingsi took a breath and waved her hands repeatedly, "No, no, I listened to the mirror and avoided those big guys all the way. I crawled around in the forest and even dug a hole to come down from underground."

"It's good that you're alright. You can rest and recover on the side. Leave the rest to me."

Jiang Yi took out a few pills and handed them to Luo Qingsi. He then used a cleansing spell to cleanse her body of dirt and retrieve the Heart-Piercing Mirror.

"Sister Qingsi, let me comb your hair."

Hua Gu had nothing to do, so she came over and led Luo Qingsi to sit down on the steps by the altar, helping her tidy her messy hair.

Jiang Yi hung the Heart-Piercing Mirror back on his waist and led him slowly and carefully across every step of the altar, every broken array pattern, every bronze pillar, and the most central base.

A moment later, Zhu Xin's surprised voice rang out in Jiang's mind.

"No way? Could this altar, along with the nine pillars surrounding it, form the legendary 'Nine Cauldrons Boundary-Stabilizing Array'?"

This was the first time Jiang Yi had heard Zhu Xin speak with such uncertainty and shock.

Zhu Xin remained silent for a moment, as if he was seriously considering his options.

"That's right! It's the Nine Cauldrons Boundary-Stabilizing Array!"

The tone of "Zhu Xin Jian" was resolute and carried the authority of an ancient entity.

"The Nine Cauldrons Boundary-Stabilizing Array is extremely ancient and mysterious. Legend has it that nine divine cauldrons guard the nine directions of the Mountain and Sea Realm. Its core array eye connects with the power of the nine cauldrons, using supreme laws to stabilize the realm. It is the foundation that protects the entire Mountain and Sea Realm from the erosion of the external void and the impact of chaotic currents! Although this altar array is not the main array itself, it is very likely a node projection of the entire array's operating law system, or rather, an 'array eye'!"

"This formation is severely damaged. The core spiritual energy nodes are shattered, the operating runes are scattered, most of the protective nodes are ineffective, and the power of the stars connecting the nine directions is also severed! If it weren't for the remaining foundation of the Great Dao being tough enough to maintain the last trace of connection, this formation would have collapsed completely long ago! If this formation is repaired and successfully activated, it might be able to trigger a resonance of a trace of the true power of the Nine Cauldrons Grand Formation."

The analysis in "Zhu Xin Jian" was like a sudden awakening.

Jiang Yi instantly understood the key point: the grand formation that was ultimately activated in the battle for the Dao Stele was actually the key array eye of the protective formation that was crucial to the safety of the entire Mountain and Sea Realm.

The weight of this responsibility far exceeded her imagination.

"If that's the case, then if we could fully activate the Nine Cauldrons Boundary-Stabilizing Array, could we eliminate the demonic tide?"

Jiang Yi immediately thought of this question and suddenly understood the meaning of what Chonghe Daojun had told her: "Many things in the world depend on fate; when everything is ready, the east wind will arrive."

Could this Nine Cauldrons Boundary-Stabilizing Array be the 'East Wind' that will solve the problem of the demonic tide?
Zhu Xin said in a deep voice, "I have heard the Azure Emperor mention that, in addition to the Four Heavenly Pillars, the Nine Cauldrons Boundary-Stabilizing Array is the only thing guarding the Mountain and Sea Realm. I think the reason why those nine people dared to attack Xuanwu, one of the Four Heavenly Pillars, is because they knew that the Nine Cauldrons Boundary-Stabilizing Array was still there to stabilize the Mountain and Sea Realm and prevent it from collapsing directly."

"I see. Now, do we have a chance to repair this key point of the formation?"

　More to come later~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)