Array of Sealing Stones

Inside the sect hall.

The two sat on the ground. Liao Pantu threw several storage rings and storage bags to Lin Xiao, asking him to help take inventory.

In the blink of an eye, a messy pile of various items accumulated beside them.

Before long, Liu Yunan arrived as expected and joined their little loot-sorting squad.

The items beside the three of them were of all kinds.

Spirit stones made up the largest quantity.

There were also colorful medicinal pills that didn't look very high-grade.

And a vast number and variety of low-level artifact-refining materials.

In fact, many of these low-level items, such as basic materials, were years of accumulation from the Shangyang Sect's grand storehouse, only to be hoarded by that Wei Hai for himself.

Wei Hai was originally a cultivator from the mortal realm, and for hundreds of years, he had been busy collecting various items to improve his own cultivation, so his net worth wasn't actually that wealthy.

Unlike Liao Pantu, who, in his spare time from cultivation, had the leisure to study various arts and simultaneously amass a great fortune.

On the path of cultivation, everyone's circumstances were different.

"Eh, what is this?"

Just then, Liu Yunan suddenly held up a pitch-black, fist-sized stone.

The material of this stone looked quite peculiar. A dark light flowed across its surface; it was clearly not an ordinary object.

He reached out and took it, looked at it, but couldn't figure out what it was, so he handed it to Senior Liao beside him.

Unexpectedly, even Senior Liao, who was like a walking encyclopedia, shook his head after examining the black stone for a moment.

Seeing this, Lin Xiao took the stone back, placed it in his private storage, and used the appraisal function on it.

[One of the activated array stones of the Lunar Sealing Array. Besides returning it to the Lunar Sealing Array to exert its irreplaceable function, perhaps you can only use it to physically attack others, or use it for decoration.]

Seeing this appraisal result, Lin Xiao looked up and asked Liao Pantu,

"Senior, do you know of the Lunar Sealing Array?"

"Lunar?"

Hearing this, Liao Pantu frowned slightly and thought carefully, then slowly shook his head and said,

"I've heard of some sealing arrays, but I've never heard of the Lunar Sealing Array. I have heard, however, that deep within the cultivation world, in the rarely reached Immortal Ascension Domain, there seems to be a Solar Array. But whether it's a sealing array or what it's specifically used for, I have no idea.

Why, is this thing an array stone for that Lunar Sealing Array?"

This wasn't the first time Liao Pantu had noticed that Lin Xiao seemed able to instantly understand the basic origins of many things.

He had long known that Lin Xiao possessed strange abilities.

But he didn't care much about it.

Instead, he felt it was a good thing.

Having such a sect master made things much more reliable.

Lin Xiao nodded at him.

"This seems to be one of the array stones for a formation called the Lunar Sealing Array."

Watching the two exchange words, Liu Yunan roughly understood that this stone was likely an array stone for a sealing array called 'Lunar'.

However, his focus was not on this.

He asked Liao Pantu with some curiosity,

"Senior Liao, is that Immortal Ascension Domain the same as the Southern Spirit Domain where Yuanling City is located, the one you went to before? Like a province in our mortal realm?"

Liao Pantu didn't expect him to ask about this and replied,

"More or less, but the territory is much larger than a province in the mortal realm. Moreover, no one has ever completely surveyed the Immortal Ascension Domain, so no one knows exactly how big it is... Of course, maybe someone has surveyed it but just hasn't announced it. I haven't heard of it, anyway."

Hearing this, Liu Yunan nodded thoughtfully and said no more.

Lin Xiao said to the two of them,

"This array stone is of no use to our sect anyway, so I'll keep it for now. In case it really is some crucial array stone, maybe we can even put it back."

Lin Xiao guessed in his heart that this array stone might have been dismantled from somewhere by Wei Hai, or obtained from someone else.

He didn't know what was sealed within this Lunar Sealing Array.

The name alone didn't sound like something low-level.

If it sealed some extremely vicious entity, wouldn't that be disastrous?

He'd better carry this array stone with him whenever he went out in the future.

Maybe if he was lucky enough to come across it someday, he could put it back.

Liu Yunan and Liao Pantu naturally had no objections, so Lin Xiao stored the array stone in his private storage.

While thinking, Lin Xiao suddenly thought of another possibility.

"Do you think this Lunar Sealing Array could belong to the Shangyang Sect?"

Liao Pantu stroked his beard, thought for a moment, and said,

"It's not impossible, you can ask around."

So Lin Xiao said,

"It just so happens that the Shangyang Sect cultivator from yesterday hasn't left yet. We can go and ask him indirectly."

After the Shangyang Sect cultivator was thrown onto the Path of Questioning the Heart yesterday, he regrettably failed to pass its screening.

After taking the antidote pill refined by Sun Yigao, the poison pill fed to him by the Nascent Soul cultivator lost its effect.

Originally, after thanking them, the cultivator hesitated for a moment but still planned to return to the Shangyang Sect.

Even though the Shangyang Sect now had no sect master and no elders, and nothing was left of its years of accumulation, he had nowhere else to go for the time being.

As for the fellow disciples who were sent out with him earlier to find the location of the Lingxian Sect, heaven knows where they all ran off to.

Anyway, he had stayed in Xiushui Village for a day and a night, and hadn't even seen a shadow of them.

After knowing that there was indeed a sect here, and one capable of defeating that Wei Hai, this Shangyang Sect disciple originally wanted to switch his allegiance to the Lingxian Sect.

Unfortunately, he just couldn't pass the Path of Questioning the Heart no matter what.

So after thinking it over, he could only return to the Shangyang Sect first and plan from there.

However, just as he was about to leave, the royal family's ancestor, Li Zhanying, stopped him.

Li Zhanying told him that he was quite bored being alone in this countryside and wanted to find someone to attend to him, asking if he was willing.

This Shangyang Sect disciple was naturally willing.

This was a Nascent Soul ancestor!

Although the other party wasn't taking him as a disciple, being able to attend to him was not bad at all!

What if, after spending a long time together, the ancestor took a liking to him and directly accepted him into his tutelage?

Previously at the Shangyang Sect, his master was only at the Golden Core stage. Although that was already a very formidable existence to him, how could it compare to a Nascent Soul Venerable?

Besides, he had been under his master's tutelage for some fifty years and had always been an unvalued existence.

His master was only nicer to a few disciples with excellent aptitude who cultivated quickly. Towards those with ordinary aptitude like him, it was all superficial courtesy.

Unlike now.

Didn't he hear what the Nascent Soul Venerable said?

Alone and quite bored in the countryside, wanting to find someone to attend to him.

That meant spending day and night alone with a Nascent Soul Venerable!

Thus, this Shangyang Sect disciple temporarily stayed in Xiushui Village.

Oh, by the way, this Shangyang Sect disciple was named Wang Goudan.