Simplification System: From Perfect Arrow Skill to Immortal-Chapter 153 - 119: Inspiration from Watching Beautiful Women Dance, Setting Sail, Celestial Array of Earth Fire Heaven-Burning Spirit Locking!
This Fire Radiance Dunes was set up by someone using array formation—looks like it’s really possible.
"No, he said he once received the inheritance of an array master, which let him see through this formation, but actually breaking it requires enlightenment and time to study! It’s not something that can be solved in a day or two!"
Yu Lingfei shook her head as she spoke.
"Uh..."
Hearing Yu Lingfei’s words, Zhuo Yijian, Zhang Aoxue, Fu Qingyu, and the others all had a look of hope flash in their eyes.
There’s a chance. They were willing to wait!
"Junior Sister Yu, did that Daoist Long say he needed help with anything? If there’s anything we can do, we’ll do it!"
Zhuo Yijian’s eyes flickered, his voice low and determined.
Right now, all the cultivators here were in the same boat. If they wanted to get out, they had to help Long Ping’an, maybe even build a good relationship with him. If you don’t help now, how will he lead you out when the time comes?
"He said... he said that in order to gain insight into array formations, he needs a calm mind, clarity, and a happy mood. He said watching beauties dancing... helps him to feel the array. Didn’t say he needed any other help!"
Yu Lingfei said seriously.
Of course, she wasn’t about to mention how she’d caught Daoist Long looking at those illustrations that can’t be described—a detail too embarrassing to share.
"So Daoist Long needs to watch girls dance to gain enlightenment on the formation? That’s... isn’t he just making things up?"
"Senior Sister Yu, don’t believe him. That guy must be a pervert!"
"Yeah, yeah, I bet he’s just using it as an excuse to do something shady! What a creep!"
"......"
Upon hearing Yu Lingfei’s words, several of Zhuo Yijian’s junior brothers all wore looks of contempt—for them, it was complete BS.
"Junior Sister Yu, did you agree to his request?"
Zhuo Yijian looked at Yu Lingfei and, after thinking for a bit, asked.
Zhuo Yijian was different from his junior brothers—his only goal was to escape. He was a prodigy disciple of the Celestial Sword Immortal Sect, someone destined to carry forward the Celestial Sword Dao!
If Daoist Long could open the array after letting Junior Sister Zhang and the others dance, and this meant he could get out, then why not? It’s not like he had to personally give anything up.
"Mm."
Yu Lingfei nodded. "But I don’t know how to dance, so I came back to ask Junior Sister Zhang and Junior Sister Fu if either of them can dance?"
Instantly, everyone in the great hall turned their eyes toward Fu Qingyu and Zhang Aoxue.
"I... I don’t know how to dance either."
Fu Qingyu looked troubled as she spoke.
With everyone staring at her, Zhang Aoxue’s beautiful eyes sparkled. "Actually, I do know two types of dances—the Feather Garment Dance and the Drum Dance. Though... we don’t have any drums here."
"Really? That’s awesome!"
Upon hearing Zhang Aoxue’s words, Yu Lingfei’s eyes lit up with delight. "Then teach us, Junior Sister Zhang!"
No matter what, as long as there’s even a glimmer of hope to get out of this Spirit-Seizing Land, she would give it a shot.
........
Five days later.
[Celestial Array of Earth Fire Heaven-Burning Spirit Locking—Perfection.]
Lin Chang’sheng sat in the great hall, more than ten volumes of illustrations laid out before him—all finished. Meanwhile, his entry-level Heaven-Burning Spirit Locking Array had reached perfection.
"Finally perfected. Five days of staring at these illustrations wasn’t for nothing."
Lin Chang’sheng gazed at his status screen, satisfied, finally able to relax.
At the same time, a torrent of information flooded his mind.
This influx immediately merged with his consciousness: detailed instructions on array formation, secrets, required materials—everything about the Heaven-Burning Spirit Locking Array.
In that moment, Lin Chang’sheng felt as if he’d spent over a hundred years mastering this Celestial Array of Earth Fire Heaven-Burning Spirit Locking.
"To get out you need a Golden Core Stage Divine Sense to open the array door?"
After merging with the array methods, Lin Chang’sheng searched for the life sect of the formation. When he saw this, he was stunned.
The main entrance to the array was right above Fire Radiance Dunes, but unless you had Golden Core Stage Divine Sense, you couldn’t open the gate at all.
Plus—
The array’s biggest function was absorbing the earth vein’s essence and Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi.
It used four or five nearby islands within 100,000 miles, with their submarine earth veins as foundation, to seal off the Spiritual Qi across over a hundred-thousand-mile radius. The downside? It drew the Earth Vein Fire right into the formation.
Because of the rushing Earth Vein Fire, the whole place gets covered in burning-hot yellow sand.
"Who the hell set up this Earth Vein, Heaven-Burning Spirit Locking Array?"
"What are they after?"
Lin Chang’sheng’s brow furrowed deeply. He might understand the array, but he still didn’t know where all the Spiritual Qi and Earth Vein Essence being sucked up was actually going.
And he had the feeling that the Celestial Pit which dragged him, Zhuo Yijian, Yu Lingfei and the rest inside was itself a giant teleportation array, one specifically designed to absorb Spirit Contracts and Earth Vein Essence straight into this Land of Poison Spirit.
At that moment, an outrageous thought flashed across Lin Chang’sheng’s mind.
"You need Golden Core Stage Divine Sense to open the gate. But my Divine Sense isn’t even two zhang yet! Does that mean I’ll have to wait years and years before I cultivate to Golden Core Divine Sense?"
Lin Chang’sheng frowned hard. No way he wanted to wait so long.
"So you enter Fire Radiance Dunes from here, but unless you’re like the mummy-less Jiang Yukun... Did he actually have Golden Core Divine Sense?"
He thought back on what Xuan Feng and Tu Mu had said.
He recalled that no matter your cultivation, once you came in, both divine sense and magical power were suppressed. If you wanted out of this grand array, you had to rebuild your Divine Sense until it reached Golden Core Stage.
Even with Refining God Skill, Lin Chang’sheng knew reaching Golden Core Divine Sense wasn’t a matter of a year or two.
But then, how did Jiang Yukun do it?
"Right, the overseas islands! According to tribal records, Jiang Yukun only entered Fire Radiance Hill after returning from a trip to sea. Looks like I’ll need to head for South Sea Island and check it out!"
As the thought hit him, Lin Chang’sheng’s eyes brightened.
There was a path. All he had to do now was strengthen his Divine Sense to Golden Core Stage, open the array, and get out.
"Mo Yu!"
Lin Chang’sheng called out in a firm voice.
"Second Commander, what do you need?"
Mo Yu entered the room and bowed.
"Go tell the Grand Commander to get me a big ship. I’m heading for that island he mentioned."
Lin Chang’sheng ordered in a steady tone.
"Understood."
Mo Yu turned and left.
"Greetings, Senior Brother Long."
"Greetings, Daoist Long."
"......"
Just then—
Steps echoed outside the hall, and soon Yu Lingfei, Zhuo Yijian, Fu Qingyu and the rest appeared at the door, all bowing with clasped fists.
"No need to stand on ceremony. Come on in and sit."
Lin Chang’sheng waved them in.
He knew what they were after—they wanted to see how his array progress was coming along. He didn’t waste words: "After a few days of enlightenment, I finally have some clue about the Celestial Array of Earth Fire Heaven-Burning Spirit Locking. Bottom line: you need powerful Divine Sense!"
"And as everyone knows, inside here our Divine Sense is suppressed to almost nothing. We can’t even open our own storage bags. But from what I’ve found, three hundred years ago there was a cultivator named Jiang Yukun who went into Fire Radiance Dunes. But no mummy of his was ever found, so I suspect he actually escaped the Spirit-Seizing Land."
"And according to the Fire Radiance Tribe’s records, before Jiang Yukun left the tribe, he visited an island a thousand miles away."
"I want to check out that island for anything unusual."
"Daoist Long, in that case, let’s go together."
Zhuo Yijian paused to consider, then spoke gravely.
"Yeah, let’s go as a group—there’s a chance we might actually help out."
Zhang Aoxue and the rest all nodded as well.
"Sounds good. We’ll pool our ideas and hopefully get out of this Spirit-Seizing Land sooner."
Lin Chang’sheng nodded.
After all, he’d still need Yu Lingfei, Fu Qingyu, and Zhang Aoxue to stick around for the dancing. He had to keep grinding his Immovable Golden Buddha Technique!
"Mm!"
Yu Lingfei, Zhuo Yijian, and the rest all nodded in agreement.
