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

"Third senior brother, go for it! Fight!" Ye Yuchan even added a foreign language comment.

Jiang Shaoguang shook his head helplessly, then let out a long sigh, looking as if he had decided to take on the mission in a time of crisis.

He shrugged, then clenched his fists, making a clicking sound, as if preparing to face danger.

However, that's true—

Just when everyone thought Jiang Shaoguang was about to risk his life, he suddenly turned around and patted Gu Xingzhuo's shoulder, who seemed indifferent to the matter.

"Fourth junior brother, why don't you go in my place?"

Gu Xingzhuo was immediately startled: "Senior brother, are you going to cancel this too?"

Jiang Shaoguang silently clutched his chest, his face ashen: "To be honest, I suffered some internal injuries during the avalanche just now."

Upon seeing this, Ye Yuchan quickly slapped her thigh and hurriedly said, "Actually, I strained my ligaments when I was doing a somersault in the air, and I also injured my leg when I landed!"

Jiang Shaoguang and Ye Yuchan exchanged a glance, then simultaneously turned their gazes to Gu Xingzhuo, both wearing rather "helpless" smiles.

"I'm sorry, Fourth Junior Brother, I'll have to trouble you to give it a try."

Gu Xingzhuo: "..."

MD, two lunatics.

He muttered a complaint to himself, then walked towards Luotian Pool with a hint of resentment.

As Yu Chan and Jiang Shaoguang watched Gu Xingzhuo's retreating figure, a thought involuntarily arose in their minds.

Fourth brother, it's really useful.

Under everyone's watchful eyes, Gu Xingzhuo arrived at the edge of Luotian Pool, took a deep breath, and stepped forward, preparing to step into the cold and desolate Luotian Pool.

only--

The footsteps suddenly froze in mid-air.

An indescribable force swept in from the front. Gu Xingzhuo was terrified and hurriedly withdrew his spiritual energy, taking several steps back.

boom!

A terrifying burst of airwaves surged forth, and if Gu Xingzhuo hadn't retreated early, he would probably have been blown away by this giant wave.

Although the giant wave wasn't very powerful, at most it could only knock Gu Xingzhu off the back of the divine beast.

Gu Xingzhuo and the others around him raised their heads at the same time, looking at the mysterious array that had suddenly appeared around Luotian Pool.

Looking from this spot, layer upon layer of crimson arrays, like exquisite pagodas, enveloped the entire Falling Sky Pool. The runes engraved on them were crooked and did not conform to any language Ye Yuchan remembered, yet they inexplicably possessed their own natural order.

Vast plumes of blood-red smoke rose up, and the crimson array, like a mountain, sat atop Falling Heaven Pool, preventing any outsiders from touching it. Judging from the array's strength, it was probably at least at the ninth level.

If it were just a simple ninth-order formation, to be honest, Ye Yuchan and the other two would be confident in breaking it.

The problem is that what is presented to everyone is a pagoda-like restriction formed by a ninth-order array with hundreds or even thousands of layers! This array pagoda has completely sealed off Falling Sky Pool.

"This formation is a bit scary."

Even the well-informed Gu Xingzhuo couldn't help but find it hard to believe.

The resources required to set up a single ninth-order formation are already an enormous fortune. To construct a thousand-layer ninth-order formation by stacking towers? How much manpower and resources would that require? It might not even be possible to empty the treasury of the Lantian Empire.

Moreover, the runes on it, the runes that form the outer and inner core of its magic array, are strange characters that have never been heard of or seen before. They do not look like a language that humans have ever used, and the strokes are crooked and twisted, yet they form a unique system.

Surprising.

Upon seeing this formation, everyone felt an unsettling sense of unease.

"We don't know when this formation was set up."

Upon seeing this scene, the old village chief Pu Gong's eyes welled up with tears, and a deep sorrow escaped his lips: "Luotian Pool is the lifeblood of our Pu family village. The villagers of Pu family village are born from the spirits of Luotian Pool. It is Luotian Pool that gave us life, so if we want to live for a long time, we can only rely on the water of Luotian Pool."

“In the past, we only needed to drink a drop of water from Luotiantan every day to recover completely. We didn’t need to sleep, and everyone’s life was very stable. We didn’t ask for anything from the outside world. We just wanted to live a short life here.”

"But since the Falling Heaven Pool was sealed, we have been unable to drink its water. The older generation died quickly, and those families that did not store water in the pool had no water to nurture newborns. Many children died shortly after birth..."

Therefore, what Ye Yuchan and the others saw along the way was mostly elderly people, with very few children.

Yunping also understood. He remembered that the villagers of Pujia Village mostly had terrifyingly long lifespans, living for more than ten thousand years at most. When he last saw Pu Gong, he was still a child. It was impossible for him to have become so old and near death so quickly.

It turns out that Luotian Pool was sealed by someone.

He raised his head, his gaze falling on the array core runes floating above the pagoda formation, and squinted.

"How about it, you old rogue... this formation..."

"It can't be broken."

Yunping's answer was beyond Ye Yuchan's and the others' expectations.

Jiang Shaoguang was taken aback. "Even you, teacher, are not allowed?"

“It works.” Yun Ping stared intently at the array’s core and said, “Breaking the array is simple. This ninth-order array can’t stop me. But the problem is, if I force my way through, I’m afraid the Falling Heaven Pool will also be destroyed.”

At this point, he sighed helplessly: "So sometimes pure strength is useless; knowledge is the real power..."

"You old rogue, you can't even read the words on it?" Ye Yuchan asked.

"I can understand it, but I can't solve it."

"What do you mean?"

Yunping pointed to the runes floating above the array's core and said, "What's written on these are dragon runes."

"Dragon script?" Gu Xingzhuo reacted the fastest, exclaiming in shock, "So, the one who inscribed this magic array... could it be..."

"That's right, it's probably Ye Xuanqiu and that mad dragon."

Yunping's expression hardened slightly, and he already had an idea in mind.

Indeed, starting with the courtyard was the right decision.

Ye Xuanqiu and that mad dragon had no need to stop others from entering the Yantianjing. The Yantianjing was nothing more than a concoction for predicting the future.

So why set up such a complex array of restrictions? They even used dragon script.

Yun Ping turned his head and glanced at Ye Yuchan beside him.

Ye Xuanqiu.

Ultimately, she didn't want to pry into the fate of those trapped in the well...

Or was she simply unwilling to let Ye Yuchan pry into her own destiny?

12. So shameless!

The seal used by Luotiantan is a pagoda-like restriction constructed from a thousand layers of dragon-patterned, ninth-order array.

Dragon script, an ancient script, can be traced back to ancient times. Back then, Yunping, as Gu Tianren, did study some dragon script, but in the end, he only learned a little bit and could only read it fluently at most.

Currently, the Dragon Pattern Thousand-Layer Pagoda's restrictions contain a large number of obscure characters, making them difficult to decipher, let alone use the dragon pattern symbols to dismantle this thousand-layer formation.

Yun Pingning frowned: "That's why Ye Xuanqiu went to the Blackwater Abyss in person and severely injured Xiao Hei, all to prevent him from interfering with the dragon pattern restriction."

"Is this Falling Heaven Pool so important to Ye Xuanqiu?" Gu Xingzhuo looked puzzled. He didn't understand what significance this Heavenly Well held for Ye Xuanqiu, that she would go to such lengths to prevent outsiders from entering it.

The well is a well for peeking into mystery and destiny. If you don't want outsiders to see it, you can just destroy it. Why go to such great lengths?

Or is there a reason why she can't destroy the courtyard?

Currently, many questions are lingering in everyone's minds, but if the restriction is not lifted, it is unlikely that the secrets within can be discovered.

Ye Yuchan looked at Yun Ping. She knew nothing about formations and could only rely on her master: "Old rogue, you really can't break this formation?"

“There’s nothing we can do.” Yun Ping lowered his eyelids, already understanding Ye Xuanqiu’s meaning: “Perhaps she already knew I would come to Pujia Village, so she placed the restriction in advance.”

"With my abilities, it's easy to break through by force, but extremely difficult to obtain it by trickery."

At this point, Pu Gong, as the village chief of Pujia Village, turned extremely pale, and seemed to have aged even more.

Ye Yuchan and the other two also had strange expressions. Even Yunping didn't know how to break the curse, so it was even less likely that they would know.

However, Yunping didn't seem to be in a particular hurry. He recalled that he seemed to have something hidden in his storage ring.

"You all step back a bit." He raised his right hand, and the next second, a strange and complex array suddenly appeared in his hand.

Ye Yuchan was startled at first, then her gaze fell upon it, and she was surprised to find that the array contained all sorts of mysteries that she could not understand at all.

Just one glance made her feel dizzy and lightheaded. Realizing that looking any longer might lead to her soul being consumed by the sight, she quickly looked away.

Not only her, but Jiang Shaoguang and the other two were the same. They didn't dare to look at the array diagram for long. They only glanced at it and found it profound and difficult to understand.

"You old rogue, what is this...?" Ye Yuchan turned away, refusing to look at the array diagram.

Yunping smiled and said, "An old friend."

"An old friend who has been dead for a long time."

With a wave of his hand.

A gentle breeze swept in, caressing the array diagram, and then countless spiritual energies gathered and formed a whirlwind that rushed into the array's core.

A dazzling light burst forth from the core of the array, followed by the rapidly expanding array light that spread outwards, first through the three palaces of the inner array, then the nine palaces of the outer array, and finally returning to the core of the array.

The mysterious light condensed and spread, and a wisp of white smoke emerged from the array's core. The white smoke slowly gathered and dispersed into the shape of a man, who stood hazily in the clouds, with a calm and composed demeanor and a handsome face with the grace of the moon and the rosy clouds.

He held a paper fan in his right hand and his left hand behind his back. He had the appearance of a refined gentleman, but he was surrounded by a misty white fog, making him look like an immortal who could only be seen but not reached in a dream.

The man turned around, first looking around before fixing his gaze on Yunping, who was all smiles, and his expression suddenly darkened.

His handsome face clearly showed annoyance and gloom as he said, "Gu Ahan, are you ordering me around again?!"

"Hehe, how can you call it casual?" Yun Ping chuckled. "Since your wisp of will is contained within this mysterious array diagram, and this mysterious array diagram is my treasure, then you naturally belong to me as well."

"Ahan?" Ye Yuchan found it strange. "Is that your name too?"

Gu Xingzhuo explained, "The former Emperor Wu was surnamed Gu, named Tianren, and styled Ahan."

"Oh~" Jiang Shaoguang looked enlightened, then looked at the man who appeared from the array with interest, "So, the two of you must have a good relationship, since you can call each other by our courtesy names."

"Not bad my ass."

The handsome man immediately launched into a tirade, glaring angrily at Yun Ping, "This kid is a damn scoundrel, utterly shameless! How could I associate with such a despicable person?"

"Don't put it so harshly~" Yunping picked at his ear and laughed, "We've been friends for so many years~ so don't throw a tantrum here."

"Humph."