Chapter 376: Nine Luminaries 3

The Zhen Family estate, a small courtyard.

“What’s going on?!”

Zhen Guangfeng heard the huge commotion outside. Cursing, he came out of his room while pulling up his pants, and then… he saw it.

Wait, what was he seeing? His eighteenth brother, Zhen Guangzheng, had just sent their family’s ancestor… flying with a single palm strike?!

Who am I?

Where am I?

What am I doing?

Zhen Guangfeng’s eyes bulged, his jaw hanging open wide enough to stuff a toad inside. As he slowly came to his senses, he subconsciously glanced back over his shoulder. He swallowed hard with a loud GULP and felt a chill creep up from his groin.

“Sister-in-law…”

He spun around with a cry.

SWOOSH!

Just then, a stray shockwave from the clash between Fang Rui and Zhen Chuyang shot out and struck Zhen Guangfeng squarely in the back, making him fall flat on his face like a toad.

…

‘A Spirit Master’s Source Technique combined with a Martial Arts Primordial Sea… The sum is far greater than its parts. Even a veteran Demi-Immortal like Zhen Chuyang is no match for me.’

‘If neither of us relies on external power, I’m confident I can finish him within ten or twenty moves!’

‘But, as I’ve been telling myself, this is his home turf. I can’t fight a real battle here. Time to leave!’

Fang Rui didn’t pursue Zhen Chuyang. Instead, he urged the energy-state Flowing Cloud Cyan Simurgh beneath him to ascend rapidly.

But at that very moment—

“Nine Luminaries Qianyang Locking Heaven Array, activate!” ⅇ

Accompanied by this furious roar, Zhen Chuyang rose into the air on his Three-Colored Dragon Carving, looking utterly disheveled.

That’s right—he was furious.

Ever since he, Zhen Chuyang, had become a Source Master and the ancestor of the Zhen Family, he had known nothing but smiling faces and preferential treatment. Who didn’t respectfully address him as ‘Venerable Chuyang’?

How many years had it been since he’d been slapped in the face like this?

But this junior before him dared… he actually dared to send him spinning through the air in front of everyone.

Does he think I have no pride?!

Thus, in a fit of rage, he directly activated the Clan Suppression Array, the Nine Luminaries Qianyang Locking Heaven Array.

The next moment.

The sky… changed!

Though it was dusk, the sky instantly brightened as if it were high noon. Nine crimson suns suddenly rose, arranging themselves in a nine-palace pattern and casting down pillars of scarlet light.

The entire Zhen Family estate was sealed within a scarlet curtain of light. A turbulent, overwhelming wave of Extreme Yang Qi surged forth, suppressing everything inside.

‘What a powerful Array!’

Fang Rui could feel it: under the Array’s suppression, the flow of his Spiritual Power became sluggish, and the Half-Immortal Dharma Aspect behind him had already collapsed by more than half.

“You little beast, die!”

Zhen Chuyang, in contrast, felt his aura skyrocket. The Half-Immortal Dharma Aspect behind him swelled to fifty zhang tall. He formed a hand seal, commanding the endless Extreme Yang Qi within the Array to coalesce into nine terrifying fire dragons that hurtled toward Fang Rui.

‘This situation is looking a little grim… but it’s not a major problem.’

“Go!”

Spiritual Essence surged around Fang Rui. Bathed in lightning, his Martial Arts Saint Body materialized, enduring the immense pressure of the Array. Then, using the Spirit Master technique, Divine Thought Transformation, it detached from his physical form and charged straight at the nine fire dragons.

—This very move was a terrifying technique born from the Super Grade combination of his Martial Arts Primordial Sea and a Spirit Master’s Source Technique.

At the same time.

“Break… open!”

He let out a low growl and suddenly formed a hand seal.

The moment he spoke.

SWISH! SWISH! SWISH!

Across the Zhen Family estate, pillars of azure light erupted into the sky, disrupting the Nine Luminaries Qianyang Locking Heaven Array. The grand construct began to flicker and sizzle like a device with a bad signal.

Earlier, when Fang Rui had that bootlicking servant lead him on a tour of the Zhen Family estate, he had been using his Divine Technique, Emperor’s Gaze, to locate the Array’s core nodes and plant Forbidden Jade Talismans.

And those Forbidden Jade Talismans were, of course, one of the fruits of his three months of preparation!

‘The Zhen Family’s Clan Suppression Array isn’t so easy to break, of course. But with the preparations I laid in advance, disrupting it for a second or two is still well within my power.’

Fang Rui mused to himself. Standing atop the energy-state Flowing Cloud Cyan Simurgh, his expression was calm. He threw a final glance at the distant Zhen Chuyang, then shot up into the sky and burst out of the array.

After he was gone.

BOOM!

The Martial Arts Saint Body—detached via Divine Thought Transformation and wreathed in lightning—brazenly dragged the nine fire dragons down with it as it self-destructed. The explosion of Spiritual Essence and celestial fire blasted nearly half of the Zhen Family estate into a barren wasteland.

“You little beast, I’LL KILL YOUUUUU!” Zhen Chuyang’s roar of uncontrollable rage echoed through the air.