Quick Travel to the Clouds

Chapter 742 Hidden Mission 28

The moment Yun Chu's consciousness sank into the "Myriad Manifestations Array Diagram," it was as if she had fallen into a sea of ​​stars composed of pure rules and energy.

Countless silver-white array patterns spun rapidly before her eyes, disintegrating and recombining, transforming into mountains and rivers, the sun, moon and stars, the art of divination, and the cycle of life and death...

They are not inanimate objects, but rather contain a profound "breath" and "rhythm," each transformation carrying a massive amount of deductive problems that challenge her mind.

At first, she was like a drowning person, dizzy from the overwhelming flood of information, with veins bulging on her forehead and fine beads of sweat forming streams.

She tried to dismantle and resist the formations using her basic knowledge of formations, but it was like an ant trying to shake a tree. The formations were constantly changing and could easily shatter her thinking.

Forcing a deduction results in a severe depletion of one's spiritual energy, as if being repeatedly pricked by invisible needles.

"No! If we try to force it, even after three hours, we won't be able to reach the core!" Alarm bells rang in Yun Chu's mind.

She quickly composed herself, forcibly suppressing her anxiety, and recalled Yue Liu's words—"Imprint the array with your heart, unravel the patterns with your spirit, and comprehend the 'Tao' within it."

She took a deep breath, no longer fixated on chasing after the ever-changing appearances, and no longer trying to forcibly dismantle each rune.

She completely emptied her mind, as if plunging into a boundless still pool, letting the torrent of thousands of array patterns wash over her "consciousness".

She no longer "looked" at the shape of the array patterns, but instead "felt" their flowing rhythm and "listened" to the silent "Taoist sounds" they emitted when they collided, resonated, and annihilated each other.

Time slipped away quietly amidst the flickering of the array diagram.

An hour passed, and Yun Chu's body, which was sitting cross-legged, trembled slightly. Her face was as pale as paper, but her tightly furrowed brows gradually relaxed.

The fire-iron flying ants on her shoulder seemed to sense the subtle change in their master's state of mind. The dim light in their compound eyes was steady and focused, as if they were also silently sharing some kind of invisible pressure.

Gradually, within the seemingly chaotic and disordered torrent of array patterns, Yun Chu detected a faint yet constant "pulse".

It is not a fixed rune or position, but a core rhythm that runs through all changes, like the heartbeat of life.

All the formations and energy flows subtly revolve around this invisible "core," just as stars revolve around a stellar core.

"That's it! The array's core is neither form nor substance, but rather the 'intention' of its operation and the 'source' of its changes!" Yun Chu's mind suddenly cleared, as if the clouds had parted to reveal the sun.

She stopped analyzing the specific array patterns and instead focused all her attention on a single, purest and most resilient thought, tracing the faint "pulse" back to its source!

Her thoughts were like a pebble thrown into a deep pool, creating a silent ripple in the ocean of array patterns.

These ripples are not destructive, but resonant.

It precisely penetrated through layers of illusion and disguise, ignored the interference of countless changes, and pointed directly to the core of the "Tao"—which is not a point, but a state, the fundamental law of the existence of the "array".

"break!"

Yun Chu silently shouted in her sea of ​​consciousness, her concentrated will acting like a key to a lock, gently "touching" it.

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boom--!

Inside the cave, the "Myriad Phenomena Array Diagram," which was shrouded in clouds, constantly spinning, and full of bizarre and wonderful light, suddenly came to a standstill!

Immediately afterwards, like a bubble being punctured, or like morning mist being dispersed by sunlight, the massive array collapsed and disintegrated in an instant!

Countless silvery-white points of light, like billions of stars extinguishing simultaneously, transformed into the purest spiritual energy and vanished without a trace.

The immense power of the array that enveloped the cave receded like a tide.

The array patterns flowing on the white jade platform regained their calm, silvery-white luster, but the light seemed even more gentle and restrained than before.

Yun Chu suddenly opened her eyes, her gaze gleaming with a sharp light, retaining the shrewdness from when she broke the formation and the profound understanding that followed, before quickly concealing it.

She exhaled a long breath, her body swayed slightly, and the feeling of exhaustion from the huge consumption of her spiritual energy surged like a tide, but her spirit was unusually excited.

She succeeded!

The image of Yue Liu, suspended in the air, finally revealed a clear smile of approval and satisfaction on its eternally calm face.

That smile was like the melting snow in early spring—faint, yet full of vitality.

"Excellent! Excellent!" Yue Liu's voice rang out directly in Yun Chu's sea of ​​consciousness, with a touch more warmth and admiration than before.

"After a long period of silence, a fine talent has finally emerged. Your ability to grasp the essence of array formations—the meaning of its operation—without being bound by appearances in such a short time is truly unprecedented in my life."

Her ethereal figure slowly descended and came before Yun Chu, her gaze gentle yet solemn: "Yun Chu, you have passed my test and are qualified to inherit my mantle and carry on the unique skills of my Array Dao Sect."

Before she finished speaking, Yue Liu's figure suddenly burst forth with an unprecedentedly dazzling moonlight!

The "star" crystals on the ceiling of the entire cave resonated with this, projecting billions of pure beams of light that converged on Yue Liu.

Her figure became increasingly ethereal and transparent in the light, as if she were about to merge into this sea of ​​light.

"The inheritance of the Dao of Arrays, be activated!"

With a clear and melodious shout from Yue Liu, the radiance that gathered the pure spiritual energy of ten thousand years and the imprint of Yue Liu's lifelong divine consciousness surged into Yun Chu's sea of ​​consciousness between his eyebrows like the Milky Way pouring down from the heavens!

"Ugh—!"

Yun Chu let out a suppressed groan, her body shuddering violently as she was instantly overwhelmed by an unparalleled and massive flow of information!

This is not a simple indoctrination of knowledge, but contains all of Yue Liu's understanding, insights, experience, and deductions about the Dao of Formations, as well as the secret formation diagrams, essential restrictions, and formation refining methods accumulated by the Formation Dao Sect over countless generations... as vast as the sea of ​​stars and as profound as the universe!

Her mind felt as if it were about to burst, and intense pain accompanied by an indescribable feeling of fullness.

Countless mysterious runes, array patterns, and deduction trajectories flashed, combined, and imprinted wildly in her mind.

She saw the trajectory of the shifting stars, the spiritual core of the mountains and rivers, the mystery of space folding, and the manifestation of the passage of time within the formation... This is the crystallization of the wisdom of the Formation Dao Sect over ten thousand years!

The fire ant fluttered its wings anxiously on her shoulder, emitting a faint buzzing sound, as if trying to share its owner's pain.

Yun Chu gritted her teeth, closed her eyes tightly, bulged the veins on her forehead, and frantically circulated her spiritual power, desperately guarding the last bit of clarity in her mind, like a reef in a raging sea, absorbing and digesting this overwhelming torrent of inheritance with all her might.

Yue Liu's figure faded further in the light, her voice becoming ethereal and distant, carrying a hint of relief and a final plea:

"The Way of Arrays is not a technique, but a method close to the Way. Observe the heavens and earth with arrays, perform the universe with arrays, and control all laws with arrays... I hope you will uphold this inheritance, understand your true nature, make good use of its power, and protect your own path... As long as the Way of Arrays continues, my heart... will be content..."

As the last word fell, Yue Liu's figure, composed of pure light and shadow, vanished completely into the dazzling sea of ​​light, like a candle flickering in the wind, turning into specks of crystalline dust that slowly merged into the air and stone walls of the cave.

Only her last, relieved smile seemed to linger in the air.

The light from the crystals at the top of the cave has returned to its original softness.

The massive flow of information gradually subsided, transforming into a profound imprint of knowledge etched into Yun Chu's soul.

The excruciating pain receded like a tide, replaced by an unprecedented clarity and fulfillment.

She slowly opened her eyes, and countless tiny silver-white runes seemed to flash and disappear in her pupils, eventually settling into a profound light of wisdom.

She looked down and discovered that, without her noticing, a jade slip—neither gold nor jade, warm to the touch, shimmering with a faint moonlight, and covered with intricate and mysterious patterns—was quietly floating above her outstretched palm.

The jade slip exudes an aura of the same origin as Yue Liu, making it the ultimate vessel for the inheritance of the Array Dao Sect.

Yun Chu tightly grasped the jade slip that carried the legacy of ten thousand years and the last hope of an ancient great being, feeling the vast power and knowledge contained within it, her heart filled with mixed emotions.

She bowed deeply and solemnly before the void where the moon and willow had vanished:

"I will never forget the kindness of my predecessors in passing on their teachings! I will certainly live up to your trust and make the unique skills of the Array Dao Sect reappear in the world!"

Inside the cave, all was silent.

Only the array patterns on the white jade platform still emitted a faint silver light, as if silently witnessing this handover of inheritance that spanned ten thousand years.