Chapter 00365: The Divine Array
# The Divine Array
Chapter 365
Novel: Abandon The Universe
Chapter 365: The Divine Array
Liu Li calmly looked at Zhong Xunxiu and said, "Back then, when you brought me from millions of miles away to the Divine Cloud Immortal Pool, I thought you only valued my talent. But later, I realized you were after my reincarnation body and the fact that I cultivated the Second Dao Canon. I know your intentions. You won’t kill me, but I’m merely a vessel for inheriting the Divine Cloud Dao’s bloodline foundation. Once I ascend to the upper realm with the missing bloodline foundation, I’ll be nothing more than a living corpse. Everything—my emotions, memories, even my thoughts—will be stripped away. Even if Big Brother Xiaobu hadn’t come to save me today, I would have chosen to end my life before that. You thought the restrictions you placed on me were undetectable, but since you knew I cultivated the Second Dao Canon, how could you underestimate it so much?"
"You knew everything?" Zhong Xunxiu looked at Liu Li in surprise.
Logically, Liu Li shouldn’t have known anything about inheriting the bloodline foundation, but her words showed she understood it all too well.
Zhong Xunxiu’s desire for the Second Dao Canon grew even stronger.
She had previously wanted Liu Li to write it down, but Liu Li’s cultivation level was too low to fully articulate it.
Zhong Xunxiu had planned to extract the information from Liu Li’s primordial spirit after the inheritance was complete.
After asking, Zhong Xunxiu didn’t wait for Liu Li to respond.
Instead, she turned to Lan Xiaobu and said, "You have thirty breaths to decide. If you want to live, join the Divine Cloud Immortal Pool. What Liu Li said isn’t true, and I won’t kill you. If you refuse, I’ll activate the array. Let’s see how you plan to break out of our Divine Cloud Immortal Pool’s Divine Killing Array."
Lan Xiaobu glanced at Qu Yue, who was lying on the ground, and sneered, "Looks like you’re useless as a deputy sect master. You can’t even serve as a hostage."
After mocking her, he sent a voice transmission to Gong Yunqi, "Brother Gong, I don’t believe this woman will activate the divine array right away. She’s brought so many Immortal Emperors and Venerables—someone as arrogant as her wouldn’t resort to the divine array immediately. So, be ready for her sneak attack…"
Before Lan Xiaobu could finish, Zhong Xunxiu casually tossed out several array flags.
Qu Yue’s face turned pale.
She believed that if the sect master and the Immortal Emperors attacked together, Lan Xiaobu wouldn’t have a chance to harm her.
But the sect master had chosen to activate the divine array.
Once the array was activated, Lan Xiaobu would surely die, but he could still kill her before that.
Even if he didn’t, she’d be doomed within the array.
Lan Xiaobu’s heart skipped a beat.
He was a ninth-grade Immortal Array Emperor, but he knew nothing about divine arrays.
He had misjudged—this woman really intended to use the divine array to trap and kill them.
Gong Yunqi was on high alert, his entire body tense.
But he wasn’t waiting for the divine array to activate; he was preparing for a sneak attack.
Lan Xiaobu’s judgment had always been accurate, and he trusted it this time as well.
As soon as Zhong Xunxiu threw the array flags, Lan Xiaobu shouted, "Brother Gong, she’s not activating the divine array—she’s going for a group attack!"
Gong Yunqi, already prepared for a sneak attack, didn’t need Lan Xiaobu’s warning.
The moment Zhong Xunxiu moved, his Xumi Scissors shot out.
Five Immortal Emperors attacked Gong Yunqi simultaneously, while Zhong Xunxiu lunged for Lan Xiaobu.
Lan Xiaobu felt his breath tighten.
With Zhong Xunxiu’s attack, the space around him was already under her control.
He was merely a survivor, his life hanging by a thread.
Fortunately, Lan Xiaobu had prepared in advance.
He immediately activated over a dozen array flags and triggered the void array patterns.
Boom! Immortal energy exploded.
Under the combined assault of the five Immortal Emperors, Gong Yunqi spat out a mouthful of blood, his energy surging uncontrollably as if his body was about to tear apart.
"I can’t hold them off…" Gong Yunqi barely managed to say these words before he felt the pressure ease.
To his surprise, the five Immortal Emperors who had been attacking him were now trapped.
"Brother Gong, retreat three steps from the Li position, then move to the Dui position…"
Gong Yunqi had complete faith in Lan Xiaobu.
If Lan Xiaobu could still send him voice transmissions, it meant the situation was under control.
Even with five Immortal Emperors attacking him, as long as he stayed in the array’s safe zones, he could pick them off one by one.
This fight was exhilarating…
Lan Xiaobu was indeed in control.
His ninth-grade Immortal Killing Array had trapped Zhong Xunxiu, and he summoned his Seven-Tone Halberd while simultaneously activating the void killing array.
"Pfft!" A spray of blood erupted as Gong Yunqi’s scissors tore through one of the Divine Cloud Immortal Pool’s Immortal Emperor elders.
Meanwhile, Zhong Xunxiu, trapped in the ninth-grade Immortal Killing Array, hastily retreated, only to find herself caught in an eighth-grade void killing array.
While she could still sense the dangers of the ninth-grade array, the eighth-grade void array was a death trap she couldn’t comprehend.
"Everyone, listen up! On the count of three, rush out immediately. I’ll activate the divine array…" Zhong Xunxiu no longer cared about anything else.
She quickly dropped several array flags and sent a voice transmission to all the Immortal Emperors.
She could only activate the divine array, not control it.
She counted to three because, by then, the divine array would activate, and Lan Xiaobu’s arrays would lose their effectiveness.
As the divine array activated, Lan Xiaobu’s killing array and void patterns were immediately suppressed.
With Zhong Xunxiu’s warning, the trapped Immortal Emperors of the Divine Cloud Immortal Pool rushed out.
In just a few breaths, Lan Xiaobu and Gong Yunqi, who had been in complete control, were now locked down by the divine array.
Lan Xiaobu’s heart sank—his arrays were useless against the divine array.
Even Gong Yunqi’s face turned pale.
He couldn’t sense any trace of the natural laws anymore.
In this array, he couldn’t even move.
Without the laws, all his divine abilities were meaningless.
"Brother Xiaobu, can you break this array?" Gong Yunqi asked, though he already knew the answer.
Lan Xiaobu’s divine sense swept out but was immediately blocked.
Despite being able to set up eighth-grade void array patterns and being a ninth-grade Immortal Array Emperor, he couldn’t even begin to comprehend this array.
Breaking it was out of the question—he couldn’t even scratch its surface.
Was this what a divine array was like? Lan Xiaobu thought of the broken sealing array at the bottom of the Mysterious Profound Canyon.
He now wondered if that broken array was also a divine array.
At least with that one, he had some idea of where to start.
But with this array, he was completely lost.
For so long, Lan Xiaobu had been the one using arrays to trap and kill others.
Now, someone was using a divine array against him.
"Don’t move! If we move, we might lose each other… Wait, no…" Lan Xiaobu immediately sensed something was wrong.
The distance between him, Liu Li, and Gong Yunqi was gradually blurring.
It wouldn’t be long before Liu Li and Gong Yunqi disappeared from his sight.
"Brother Gong, open your mind and soul. I’ll send you and Liu Li to my small world…" Lan Xiaobu urgently called out.
"It’s no use. Unless this world’s rules are higher than the divine array’s, we can’t enter another world from here. And they’re watching us…" Gong Yunqi’s voice grew fainter.
"Hurry!" Lan Xiaobu didn’t have time to explain.
He suspected Zhong Xunxiu could only activate the divine array, not control it.
Otherwise, she would have attacked him immediately.
But she hadn’t.
Liu Li immediately opened her mind and soul, trusting Lan Xiaobu unconditionally.
Lan Xiaobu tried to use his divine sense to pull Liu Li into the Cosmic Dimension Matrix, but his divine sense was almost completely suppressed.
He frantically activated his Spirit Refining Technique, and to his delight, his divine sense extended slightly further.
Even within the divine array, the Spirit Refining Technique could still temper his divine sense.
"Pfft!" A blade of energy slashed across Lan Xiaobu’s waist, drawing blood.
He paid it no mind, as he had already sent Liu Li and Gong Yunqi into the Cosmic Dimension Matrix.
Several more spatial blades swept toward him, leaving over a dozen deep wounds on his body.
The worst one nearly cleaved him in half.
"Where is this place?" Gong Yunqi looked around in amazement, no longer feeling the killing intent of the divine array.
"Incredible," Lan Xiaobu muttered, swallowing a few pills and a drop of Void Immortal Marrow.
He didn’t have much time to heal—there was still a battle ahead.
Once his injuries were mostly healed, Lan Xiaobu explained, "This is my world. Although its level isn’t very high, it has its own rules. The rules of the divine array outside can’t lock down this world."
Lan Xiaobu had only carved out a small space within the Cosmic Dimension Matrix for the three of them.
While he and Gong Yunqi were in this together, the Cosmic Dimension Matrix was something Gong Yunqi didn’t need to know about.
"Amazing… This must be a higher-level True Spirit World," Gong Yunqi sighed.
Lan Xiaobu didn’t explain.
He did have a True Spirit World, and Yu Ruo was currently recovering there.
But his True Spirit World wasn’t advanced enough to allow entry from within the divine array.
Originally, Lan Xiaobu had planned to use the Heavenly Pivot Transformation to turn the three of them into stones.
If they became stones, Zhong Xunxiu wouldn’t be able to detect them, and once she deactivated the divine array, he could ambush her.
But as soon as the divine array activated, Lan Xiaobu realized his plan was wishful thinking.
Not only did he lack the time, but he also couldn’t use the Heavenly Pivot Transformation within the divine array.
Even if he succeeded in turning into a stone, the array’s killing rules wouldn’t spare him.
Only if he were a deity could he escape the higher-level rules.
But he wasn’t even an Immortal Emperor yet—he had no way to contend with such rules.
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(End of Chapter)