Having cultivated myself into an immortal, all I want to do is raise female disciples.

So she deliberately slowed down the rate at which she injected spiritual energy, and at the same time reduced the speed of her cultivation technique, allowing her spiritual energy to slowly and gently penetrate into the stone.

On the other side, Yun Ping glanced at Fang Yan behind him.

"Come here for a moment."

"Me...?" Fang Yan felt somewhat flattered and quickly leaned closer. "Is there anything I can do for you?"

Yun Ping looked at the young man with indifferent eyes, "Are you afraid of pain?"

"I shouldn't be afraid..."

Despite saying that, Fang Yan unconsciously shrank back, clearly worried that Yun Ping might do something to him.

In fact, his worries were unnecessary.

Because Yunping was indeed going to do something to him—but not in the way he thought.

Yunping first supported Lin Yuan with one hand, then gently ran his fingers across Fang Yan's palm.

puff-

A wound that wasn't too deep but was extremely shocking suddenly appeared in Fang Yan's palm. The pain that came instantly startled him, and he quickly tried to pull his hand back.

Ke Yunping had already seen through his subconscious action and grabbed Fang Yan's wrist.

In an instant, an irresistible force gripped him. He endured the pain in disbelief, staring at Yunping in astonishment at the strength he had displayed.

"Don't get excited." Yun Ping narrowed his eyes and slowly released Fang Yan's wrist. "Place this hand on the disc-shaped spiral stone in the upper right corner. You can manipulate your blood with spiritual energy, right? Circulate your blood in the direction of the spiral."

Fang Yan blinked upon hearing this, then turned to look at his master, Chu Xin, who frowned and nodded at him.

—That counts as agreement.

With his master's permission, Fang Yan slowly stepped forward, stood on tiptoe, and placed his palm on the spiral. Then, following Yun Ping's instructions, he slowly integrated the academy into the spiral.

However, after the threads were filled with blood, nothing happened.

“Brother… what are you doing…” The man surnamed Li frowned, looking at Yun Ping with slight displeasure, “Are you making a joke of us?”

Yun Ping turned around, holding Lin Yuan in his arms, his eyes also narrowed, a sharp light transforming into a sword, piercing towards the man, "Do I look like I'm joking?"

“I have a fairly deep understanding of secret realms, but I’ve never seen a way to open one like this before.” He stared at Yunping without fear. “This doesn’t make sense.”

Just because you haven't seen it doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

"you……"

Faced with the anger displayed by the person in front of him, Yunping coldly said, "Shut your mouth and don't mistake ignorance for boasting."

……

The moment those words were spoken, the atmosphere around them suddenly became tense.

Ye Yuchan and Zhang Ruoxue seemed to have anticipated this. They didn't really like the man surnamed Li. His temperament was very similar to Zhong Tianying's back then, but they didn't have the ability or the courage to confront him.

Yunping is different; this old rogue has never been afraid of anyone.

Surprisingly, Li Junpeng did not immediately erupt in anger; instead, his expression became very calm, as if he did not care about what he said at all.

Yunping was too lazy to guess what he was thinking; all he could think about was whether Yuan'er would be alright.

If Yuan'er gets sick because of these guys, Yunping will be the first to jump up, twist their heads off, and kick them to pieces.

He pointed at Chu Xin, who was also frowning and deep in thought not far away.

"You, come here."

Before Chu Xin could reply, Li Junpeng grabbed her clothes and shook his head at her, "...Master, this person's actions are really..."

"It's nothing, let's see what he's up to." Chu Xin casually tossed Li Junpeng's hand away, walked heavily to Yun Ping's side, and looked at him with a mixture of curiosity and doubt. "What do you want me to do?"

"Have you heard of the Azure Sky Rainbow Array?" Yunping asked.

"Azure Sky Rainbow Array?" Chu Xin felt that she had vaguely heard this name before, but she couldn't remember it in a short time, so she shook her head, "I have an impression, but I don't remember."

"Alright, I was just asking." Yun Ping waved his hand and said to Chu Xin, "You should know that the most important thing in breaking the formation is to break through the formation's core, right?"

Chu Xin's face immediately darkened. She thought to herself, "Are you treating me like an idiot?" and replied immediately, "...That's common sense, isn't it?"

"Good to know. Now, please attack with all your might..."

Yunping nodded and pointed to the cold stone in front of him—this was the bottom layer of the entire ice peak.

"here."

"...Huh?" Chu Xin twitched the corner of her mouth and complained, "But there's nothing here!"

"Who told you that there isn't one?"

Yunping said with certainty.

"This is the core of the outer array of the Azure Sky Array, but you can't see it because your cultivation is insufficient."

"You're still too young."

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That's 3000 words for today's chapter.

I'm a little tired

22. The matter of breaking the formation...

Chu Xin, 375 Su, single.

She spent most of her first half of life cultivating immortality. All she did was cultivate. Before she knew it, more than three hundred years had passed. Although she had cultivated to become a powerful cultivator in the Void Realm, revered by thousands, she had hardly done anything meaningful in her life.

For her, the past three hundred years are a dark history. If she could, she would wish that her real age was only twenty.

Women, after all, all want to look younger.

Even though she is as beautiful as a flower, it cannot hide the fact that she is over three hundred years old.

So when she heard Yunping say "You're still too young," she wasn't angry at all; instead, she felt a little happy.

If Yunping knew this, he would definitely be baffled by this bizarre logic.

After a brief lapse in logic, Chu Xin finally began to think normally. She tried to look up, and the huge mountain peak disappeared into the clouds, with no top in sight.

A look of hesitation gradually appeared on her beautiful face. "Should we really go all out? What if we collapse this mountain?"

“This mountain won’t collapse, and this Azure Sky Array is no joke. If you fail to break through the outer array’s core with your first attack, you’ll be in trouble. The array will automatically reinforce itself and may even perform a spatial jump—that would be a real problem.”

"...There are such magical formations?"

"Yes." Yun Ping glanced at Chu Xin without any emotion. "You just don't know it."

……

These words left Chu Xin speechless. Although she wasn't an expert in formations, she could still be considered a minor expert. She knew a little about most formations in the world, but she genuinely doubted the existence of the Azure Sky Formation.

However, since Yunping had already made his position clear, it was not easy for her to refuse. Even if she really blasted a hole in the mountain, she could withstand it with her Void Realm strength.

So Chu Xin simply circulated her internal energy rapidly, clenched her fists, and instead of drawing the sword from her waist, she held her breath, took a step forward, and a beam of dark yellow light instantly surged from the soles of her feet to her arms.

Whoosh!

The spiritual energy tide belonging to the Void Realm surged in like a raging sea, and Chu Xin seemed to grow several times taller at this moment, with immeasurable spiritual energy shimmering on her pair of pink fists.

This is a martial art passed down through the Chu family, and it is also the martial art that the Chu family is most proud of.

Xuanhuang Palm.

Nine golden rings suddenly burst forth with dazzling light on Chu Xin's arms. In an instant, Chu Xin's fists roared out like giant dragons, causing the surrounding space to tremble violently and even distort.

At this moment, the golden phantom of the God of War faintly appeared behind Chu Xin. That towering figure, as insurmountable as a saint, made the same move as Chu Xin.

boom!

It was like the sky collapsing and the earth splitting open.

However, this palm strike, which should have shattered the mountain, was met with a tremendous resistance. Chu Xin's palms were forced to stop in the void in front of the mountain, unable to penetrate any further.

"How could this be?!"

Hundreds of colorful threads radiated from the stone in Ye Yuchan's palm, while at the same time, surging spiritual energy spiraled out from the spiral stone that Fang Yan was pressing against.

hum-

A circular array constructed from endless colorful spirits actually appeared before Chu Xin. The incredibly profound and mysterious runes on it represented the array's construction and operation.

Chu Xin recognized this script.

She could hardly believe her eyes, and even began to doubt whether her brain had made a wrong judgment—because it was indeed an array, an array she didn't know about.

Moreover, the script on it... is a script unique to the period of the Hundred Saints.

In other words, this is a formation from the era of the Hundred Saints!

Suddenly, she remembered where she had seen this formation before!

"Dao Tian Array Saint... Eighth-Order Sealing Array... Azure Sky Rainbow Array..."

She murmured, and the strength in her hands weakened slightly.

"This is real, this is real... this is the real Azure Sky Formation! This formation hasn't been lost yet!"

"This is truly the Azure Sky Array!"

“It’s definitely not a counterfeit or substandard product.” Yun Ping stood to the side, raising his signature dead fish eyes and revealing a dissatisfied expression. “However, I advise you to try harder. If you spend any more time being surprised, you can forget about breaking this formation.”

"what!"

Chu Xin exclaimed in surprise. She was so focused on marveling at the formation that she momentarily forgot she was still trying to break it.

Upon Yun Ping's reminder, she immediately noticed that her palms were currently pressed against a slightly concave area. The colorful threads gathered around this area were the densest and most regular... Without a doubt, this was the core of the Azure Sky Array!

But... how did he know? How did he know this was the core of the formation?

While puzzled, she increased the output of her spiritual energy, and the Xuanhuang rings on her arms slowly changed from nine rings to eighteen rings. Even the golden phantom behind her solidified a bit.

At this moment, Li Junpeng was just as unable to understand the situation as she was.

His face looked incredibly ugly at that moment; his expression was like a bitter gourd, it was truly a sight to behold.

Is this... really not a joke?