Clan Rise: Starting as a Grandfather

Chapter 1294: Chapter 841: Ancient Array Activated, the Beishi Family

On the hillside stood Elder Ming Shuzi of the Nether Prison Sect, gazing deeply at the mysterious Ancient Relic Array.

He was dressed in a dark purple robe with cloud patterns, the cuffs embroidered with silver chain designs, and his waist tied with a black mystical iron belt adorned with nine bronze lock-shaped jade pendants.

His pupils were grayish-white swirls, subtly reflecting faint ghostly shadows. A mere gaze from him could cause an ordinary cultivator’s soul to tremble.

Ming Shuzi possessed a late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivation and was a key figure within the Nether Prison Sect.

This time, the Nether Prison Sect sent him personally, demonstrating their serious interest in the Ancient Relic Array.

In fact, the Nether Prison Sect had coveted the Ancient Relic Array for quite some time. Whether it was the resources or cultivation techniques within the array, they were impossible temptations for them to resist.

“Elder, they’re about to begin breaking the array!” a tall man beside him reminded.

He was Liu Changfeng, a Martial God expert from the Nether Prison Sect, also an elder, but his status was far below that of Ming Shuzi.

The Nether Prison Sect was primarily a martial artist sect, but they valued immortal cultivators far more than the Lingxiu Three Sects did. Although the Lingxiu Three Sects had always wanted to cultivate Golden Core cultivators, their actual investment in immortal cultivation was far from sufficient, as evidenced by Master Jing Shui of the Illusion Moon Sect.

If the Illusion Moon Sect had provided more resources to Master Jing Shui, while perhaps unable to reach the Golden Core Realm, they would still have a significant chance of reaching late-stage Foundation Establishment.

In comparison to the Lingxiu Three Sects, the Nether Prison Sect greatly invested in immortal cultivation, where immortal cultivators held high status. As for Ming Shuzi’s position in the Nether Prison Sect, it was only below that of a few Martial God experts.

Upon hearing Liu Changfeng’s reminder, Ming Shuzi turned his gaze towards the Lingxiu Three Sects.

This time, leading the array-breaking for the Lingxiu Three Sects were Duan Qingyun from the Wuxiang Sect, the venerable monk Shan Yuan, and Yue Su from the Illusion Moon Sect.

In addition, there were Master Yuqian from the Beishi family, Sun Bugu from the Sun family, Nong Yutian from the Nong family, and Lu Fusheng, who was considered a junior among these Martial God experts.

Duan Qingyun glanced at the Nether Prison Sect’s members, exchanged a look with Shan Yuan and Yue Su, and the three stepped forward, preparing to open a breach in the Ancient Relic Array.

Ming Shuzi watched quietly from not far away.

Soon, Duan Qingyun and the other two simultaneously stimulated a strand of True Yuan Jin Qi that pierced straight into the array.

“So this is breaking the array’s node, but the location of this node?”

Grayish-white spiritual light flashed in Ming Shuzi’s eyes as he stared at the breached array, contemplating.

Such an Ancient Relic Array was not easy to break a hole in, even if its current power was only a fraction of what it once was, it wasn’t something an ordinary Array Master could open.

Ming Shuzi himself was a Second Order Array Master, with extensive expertise in arrays.

Yet, facing the Ancient Relic Array, he was powerless.

Watching Duan Qingyun and the others breaking the array, he gleaned some insights, but he could not fully comprehend the entire layout of the Ancient Relic Array.

The crowd entered the Ancient Relic Array one by one, the entire process quiet and eerie, without any disturbances, as if both sides were restraining themselves to avoid unnecessary conflicts.

This time, the personnel entering the array differed from before. In the past, the Three Sects and Twelve Families sent a group of elders whose lifespans were nearing an end to venture inside, but this time, they sent elite warriors instead.

This was entirely because the Nether Prison Sect had dispatched its finest this time, and the Lingxiu Three Sects refused to be outdone, thus sending a team of elite warriors while simultaneously preventing the Nether Prison Sect from staging a massacre within the array.

As the group entered the array, the breach slowly closed.

Meanwhile, far on a distant hill, Yang Zhenshan stood under a tree watching the scene.

This time he was relatively close to where the array was being opened, only less than ten miles away, standing high and having a clear view of the situation in the hollow of the mountain.

As the array opened and the crowd entered, Yang Zhenshan stroked his beard and contemplated, “It seems there shouldn’t be any trouble here for a while.”

With the breach closing, one would have to wait a month before it could reopen. Even if something went wrong inside the array, outsiders would know only after a month’s time.

Regarding the situation within the array, Yang Zhenshan wished he could go in and have a look, but unfortunately, he could no longer enter the array.

Golden Body Realm Martial Artists and Foundation Establishment cultivators alike could not enter the Ancient Relic Array, for if Yang Zhenshan entered it, he would be attacked by the Guardian Array.

Scanning the position of the mountain hollow, Yang Zhenshan was about to leave but suddenly sensed a spiritual sense sweeping towards him.

Yang Zhenshan’s eyes narrowed slightly before he turned to gaze at the mountain hollow once more.

Within the hollow, Ming Shuzi was looking towards Yang Zhenshan’s hill, their eyes and spiritual senses almost colliding simultaneously.

“Such strong spiritual sense!”

Both similarly thought to themselves.

In terms of Divine Soul, Yang Zhenshan could already rival late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivators, ranking almost equally with Ming Shuzi’s late-stage Foundation Establishment.

Gazing at Ming Shuzi’s figure, Yang Zhenshan’s silhouette, enveloped in a black robe, slowly vanished on the spot.

Ming Shuzi’s pupils suddenly contracted, “Who is this person? Such a bizarre technique!”

The method by which Yang Zhenshan disappeared was extremely strange in Ming Shuzi’s eyes. Just as he was using his spiritual sense trying to explore Yang Zhenshan, yet following Yang Zhenshan’s disappearance, the spiritual sense vanished too, leaving only an empty hill when his spiritual sense swept back.