Sacrificial Artifact System: From Bell-ringer to the Ancestral Patriarch of the Sect

Chapter 655: Chapter 357 Trouble

Donglai Immortal Palace.

This Immortal Palace, which had been abandoned for many years, was reactivated, and after the Array Masters from the Seven Treasures Pavilion moved in, they started a comprehensive repair and maintenance of the Array.

Li Qian understood why this task only recruited Array Masters who surpassed the twenty Base level; it was mainly because the Array of this Donglai Immortal Palace was too advanced.

If he hadn’t broken through to a twenty Base Array Master before, he wouldn’t have been qualified to participate.

There’s no help for it; the difference between nineteen Base and twenty Base is indeed a massive chasm.

Even now, he can only assist in minor ways.

The main repair work is primarily led by the Head Array Master Nie.

A twenty-one Base Array Master and a twenty Base Array Master have a significant gap again.

Beyond twenty Base, the gap for each Base is enormous.

Like this, Li Qian devoted himself entirely to the task of repairing and maintaining the Array.

It lasted for a full three years, during which time Li Qian spent most of his time in the Donglai Immortal Palace.

Since he had the White Fox incarnation, he could still replace his true form during breaks.

Otherwise, he truly would be unable to manage everything at once.

Fortunately, now that the Heavenly Dao Domain and Chenzhong Cave Heaven have merged, even if he is not in the Earth Immortal Realm, the Immortal Device Chen Bell’s absorption and purification of Immortal Energy is unaffected.

During these three years, Li Qian improved his Array Formation Skill significantly by studying the Arrays of Donglai Immortal Palace. In particular, he gained a lot from exchanging Array knowledge with other Array Masters and consulting the Head Array Master Nie.

This day.

Li Qian was inspecting a Solid Array Pile.

The Solid Array Piles of Donglai Immortal Palace are immensely large, each several hundred meters long, with incredibly complex Array Patterns etched on them.

"Huh, what is this?"

Li Qian suddenly discovered something abnormal in the operation of this Solid Array Pile.

There hadn’t seemed to be such a situation before.

When he attempted to probe with his Immortal Sense, it was as if he heard a whispering sound.

Following that, there was a resonant ringing in his mind.

"What is this?"

Li Qian was quite surprised.

This was definitely not an illusion.

Since the Chen Bell reacted, it indicated that the whispering sound he heard earlier was real.

Moreover, this whispering sound posed a threat to him, which is why the Chen Bell passively protected him.

But when he probed again with Immortal Sense, the whispering sound did not reappear.

Yet this Solid Array Pile still operated abnormally.

So Li Qian promptly found Head Array Master Nie to report the situation.

Nie came with others to inspect.

Li Qian observed Nie and his team’s reactions closely, wondering if they could also hear the whispering sound when detecting the Solid Array Pile.

Suddenly, Li Qian keenly noticed Nie and the others seemed distracted, as if in a trance, but quickly returned to normal.

"It seems they were influenced by that whispering sound, which means this sound only manifests once..."

Li Qian sensed there might be a hidden secret within Donglai Immortal Palace.

He suspected he might be drawn into it.

However, as an Ancient Cultivator of the Unity Realm, with his Law World Tree at level three, he could still protect himself.

"This Solid Array Pile indeed has anomalies...."

After inspecting, Nie also found something amiss.

He then immediately had the entire Immortal Palace’s grand Array run; overall, there seemed to be no issue... but after a detailed inspection of this Solid Array Pile, there were still abnormal fluctuations.

Even though it was just a small anomaly, it could become a hidden flaw, causing unimaginable effects on the operation of the whole grand Array.

And so, a few more days passed.

Suddenly, Head Array Master Nie gathered everyone.

"We need to withdraw."

Nie said.

"Nie, isn’t the problem unresolved? The acceptance check might fail."

Someone asked.

If the acceptance check doesn’t pass, it will severely affect the reputation of the Seven Treasures Pavilion.

"Don’t worry, I’ve already communicated with the Immortal Court; this time the repair and maintenance of Donglai Immortal Palace’s Array is considered successfully completed."

Nie said.

Everyone was very puzzled, wondering how it could be considered complete without acceptance check.

Li Qian speculated it might be related to the anomaly of the Solid Array Pile, perhaps there were some implications.

However, it had nothing to do with him.

Having completed this Array task, he could return to obtain a twenty Base level Array Secret Manual from the Seven Treasures Pavilion.

That day, Li Qian and the other Array Masters left Donglai Immortal Palace, returning to the Seven Treasures Pavilion headquarters through the Transmission Array.

Li Qian also successfully acquired a twenty Base level Array Formation Book.

After reading it, he assessed it was not as good as the Green Lotus Scripture.

But.... this Array Formation Book still had some unique merits and was quite beneficial to his Array studies.

So this task was indeed worthwhile.

...

Red Cloud Immortal Sect.

The Immortal Sect of the Thirty-Three Heavens.

Throughout the Thirty-Three Heavens, Red Cloud Immortal Sect ranks in the top five, with several powerful Immortal Golden Immortals within the Sect.

Moreover, the lineage of Red Cloud Immortal Sect is long-standing, tracing back to before the destruction of the Immortal Realm. The founder was the renowned Red Cloud Immortal Lord.

Even though Red Cloud Immortal Sect has since adopted the conventional Immortal Dao, they still honor Red Cloud Immortal Lord as the founding ancestor.

In fact, at least half of the Immortal Sects in the Thirty-Three Heavens existed before the destruction of the Immortal Realm.

In a secret chamber.

Two figures sat cross-legged.

"I heard an anomaly occurred in Donglai Immortal Palace?"

One of them asked.

"Yes, it happened during the repair and maintenance of the Array... with many of your Seven Treasures Pavilion’s Array Masters on site."