Chapter 17: The Qiankun Diagram Record

  The Ninth Master spoke for an entire evening, stopping only when the sky turned white at dawn's break. He then retrieved a dusty old book from a hidden compartment in the wall.

  "The Qiankun Tu!"

  Huoran reverently accepted the ancient book passed down from his ninth ancestor, wiping off the dust to reveal the four large characters. Huoran's emotions were extremely excited as he faced Ninth Ancestor and asked: "Senior, are you really planning to pass on the Qiankun Tu Lu to me?"

  "It's no use keeping it now that I'm old." To this, Master Ji simply waved his hand and walked into the inner room alone. At this moment, Huoran suddenly felt that Master Ji seemed to have aged ten years in an instant, emitting a kind of "desolation" from his entire being.

  His surname is Liu, but as for his real name, he didn't say what it was. He only said that by this generation, he happened to be the 999th generation, so everyone called him Master Ninth or Uncle Ninth. As for Master Ninth's ancestors, they were a remarkable array master who roamed the heavens thirty million years ago and were considered one of the most outstanding figures of their time.

  According to Jiu Ye, his ancestors were people of the same era as the most recent Female Emperor - Yan Di. Even when Yan Di swept across all realms, invincible in the universe, his ancestors' prestige still spread throughout Jun Tian Realm, relying on their cultivation in the formation way!

  Array Master, a person who is proficient in the Array Method; the Array Method is a mysterious and profound formation that can absorb the power of heaven and earth to be used by oneself, with one part of strength emitting ten parts of strength, often able to kill people without being seen! And the ancestors of the Ninth Master were among the best of them, although not an emperor, at that time they were revered as the Array Emperor by the world!

  There is only one person from ancient times to the present who has not been enfeoffed as an emperor but has the title of "emperor", and that is the ancestor of the Ninth Master. From this, it can be inferred that his position in the hearts of people all over the world is no less than that of a generation of absolute beauty emperors.

  Like other great Dao lineages, after the ancestors, no one in the Jiǔ Yé family was able to reach the level of their predecessors again. Each generation declined further and by the time it reached the 999th generation of Jiǔ Yé, they had almost forgotten the glory of their ancestors. If not for Huò Rán's injury, Jiǔ Yé wouldn't have even known he could still set up arrays.

  As for the green crystal, Master Jiǔ said that its name is 'Mìng Yuán Jīng Shí', a treasure that only exists in the underground dragon veins and requires millions of years to form. It contains the power of life source, which has great benefits for cultivators, can strengthen various aspects of the body, and also has some effects on prolonging life.

  The life source force contained in the Yuanjing Stone has a certain amount, if the life source force in the Yuanjing Stone reaches a certain degree, it will produce a qualitative change and form a Yuanjing Spirit, which is dozens of times more effective than the Yuanjing Stone.

  Huoran didn't expect that in this desolate mountain village, there was actually a highly skilled person hiding. Nor did he think that this old man who disliked speaking and seemed ordinary, had such a glorious ancestry. The乾坤图录 (Qiankun Map) in his hand seemed like a massive mountain, it was the old man's only hope, hoping to restore the glory of the 'Array Emperor'!

  Back at Li Yingying's home, seeing Li Yingying's sleeping face, Huo Ran smiled lightly and then went to the outer house to study this ultimate song of the formation path.

  "Zhen is Qiankun! Qiankun is Tiandi! Tiandi is yin-yang, five elements and eight trigrams..."

  After carefully studying the Qiankun Tu, suddenly a vast expanse of land and endless starry sky appeared before his eyes. The power of yin and yang and the five elements filled every corner, existing everywhere and at all times. Sometimes it was arranged in one pattern, sometimes in another. Depending on the different patterns, the power and effect were also different.

  Some are good at attacking, some are good at defending, some are like prisons, and some can gather multiple energies into one body...

  Although there are countless types of formations in the world, they can be divided into four major categories: killing arrays, defensive arrays, trapping arrays, and auxiliary arrays. The killing array is mainly used for attacking; the defensive array is mainly used for defense; the trapping array, strictly speaking, also belongs to the defensive array, but it is a siege without attack. As for the auxiliary array, the formation laid down by Ninth Master on Horan's body yesterday is one of them - the Gathering Spirit Array, which can gather energy and converge at one place, mainly used for assistance.

  The Qiankun diagram records only a few dozen arrays, which is negligible compared to the vast number of arrays in the world. However, Hao Ran had a profound realization that the dozens of arrays recorded on the diagram actually encompassed all things in the universe!

  Moreover, the biggest characteristic of the Law Array is its uncertainty. Originally a simple killing array, with some slight modifications, it can be transformed into a defensive array or an imprisoning array, and even all three - killing, defending, and imprisoning - at once!

  It has to be said that the ancestors of Jiuye were a generation of geniuses, and their concept of array formation was different from others. Most array masters arrange arrays from outside to inside, but he does it from inside to outside, reversing the normal way. This makes his array methods even more mysterious, perhaps in the previous moment it was still a defensive array, but in this instant it would turn into a killing array, and in the next moment it would become an imprisoning array...

  If it were just this point, the ancestors of Jiǔ Yé would not have been able to obtain the name 'Zhèn Dì'. Almost all array masters use crystals or energy bodies that contain the five elements or yin and yang as the base of their arrays to mobilize the power of heaven and earth. However, the ancestors of Jiǔ Yé used their own magical powers to set up arrays, and as their cultivation in the way of arrays became deeper, they could even merge with heaven and earth, using the power of all things in heaven and earth to set up arrays! In other words, others need an array base, but he uses the entire heaven and earth as his array base...

  The difference is undoubtedly terrifying, one is tangible and intangible, its power depends on the strength of the array base; while the other is intangible and tangible, as big as the heart, the larger the array method's power will be!

  Perhaps the power of his array is not as great as that of the Great Emperor, but that's because the Great Emperor can input his own unique power into the array he sets up, making the array almost equivalent to an imperial weapon! In terms of array cultivation alone, even if all the Great Emperors were combined, they would still be no match for him!

  Also because Liu's ancestors used the heaven and earth as their foundation, he was exceptionally sensitive to the heaven and earth. The rarest of spiritual energies were to him like an endless supply! Not only that, other heavenly treasures were also the same...

  The Qiankun Tu Lu records the insights of Liu's ancestors on the Tao, and if it were to spread out, it would surely stir up a storm that shakes the heavens, its influence not inferior to that of a true imperial sword!

  It's worth mentioning that Liu's ancestors recorded in the Qiankun Tu Lu, if he cultivates his array with the Seven Treasures Linglong Heart, it will be twice the result with half the effort! Because people born with the Seven Treasures Linglong Heart have a profound understanding of all things between heaven and earth, far surpassing ordinary people, with a kind of terrifying sensitive insight!

  Qī qiǎo líng jiāng xīn bù shì xīn zàng tè bié, ér shì yī gè rén de shí hǎi bù tóng, jiào zhī cháng rén yào shén mì de duō.

  As for the matter of having a Linglong Heart, Huo Ran had always been perplexed. He couldn't understand how someone from Earth could possess this legendary physique known as 'Born with Seven Cleverness, Become a Great Emperor'. Logically speaking, in a place like Earth where pollution was severe, it was impossible for anyone to have such a special physique...

  At this point, he suddenly remembered the scene of himself silently reciting the Daoist purification mantra in that colorful space-time tunnel. He clearly recalled that at the time, every time he recited the purification mantra once, a clear stream would overflow from his mind, and after eighty-one times, there was no longer anything unusual.

  He had long known that the Sea of Recognition was located between his eyebrows, in the depths of his brain. At this time, he couldn't help but suspect that his innate Seven Treasures Ingenious Heart was due to his clear mind and decisive decision-making. But if that were true, why didn't he have any reaction when reciting the Clear Mind Decision on Earth? Moreover, even if it was due to the Clear Mind Decision, who created this widely spread incantation on Earth that could actually enable someone to open their Seven Treasures Ingenious Heart?!

  Everything was unclear, and suddenly he stopped thinking about it and began to carefully deduce the typical formations recorded in the Qiankun Tu Lu.

  Tap tap...

  Huoran, who was studying the Qiankun diagram, did not notice Liyingying walking out of the inner house. Everything around him seemed to be non-existent, and his mind only had yin and yang, five elements, eight trigrams, qian and kun...

  Seeing Huo Ran's focused and determined reading of the book given to him by Ninth Grandfather, Li Yingying quietly gazed at his resolute face, her pretty face involuntarily flushing with a hint of shyness.

  "Oh no! Something's gone terribly wrong!"

  Just then, a shout came from outside the house. He Ranyi, who was in the middle of performing the Fa array, was interrupted by the sound and only realized that Li Yinying had appeared beside him at some point. With a gentle smile, she closed the diagram and walked out to see what had happened.