Chapter 163 Ancient Sealing Array

Chapter 163: The Ancient Sealing Formation

"You really should get checked out at the hospital, miss. Besides, we're already on the way and will arrive soon," Lan Kai said, glancing at the rearview mirror.

In the mirror, Bai Yu's face was pale and pitiful; she clearly needed medical attention.

Wen Yu added, "You really should get checked out."

Xu Qianyu also urged, "Yes, miss, getting checked will give you peace of mind. You have no idea how scary it was to see you lying there."

In the middle of nowhere, her first thought upon seeing the scene was that it was a murder and a body dump, which had terrified her.

Bai Yu stroked the rabbit's back with one hand and shook her head. "I really don't need to go. I know my body best. Thank you for your kindness."

"Stop the car. I'm getting out."

Lan Kai was surprised. "Huh? Stop now?"

Bai Yu replied, "Yes, stop now."

Lan Kai said, "But there's nothing around for miles. It's not a good place to stop. Miss, where do you want to go? I can take you."

Bai Yu had just emerged from seclusion and was injured. She needed to find a place to heal, anywhere would do.

She wasn't familiar with Blue Water Star and couldn't recall the name of Jiang Yingxue's home at the moment.

"Where are you going?"

"T..." Before Lan Kai could finish the word "city," Wen Yu said, "Y City. We're going to Y City."

"Y City," Bai Yu murmured. She seemed to recall hearing about Y City from Jiang Yingxue before. Besides the capital, Y City and S City were the most prosperous cities in the country. She might as well go take a look. "Then I'll go to Y City too."

Wen Yu said gently, "We happen to be going the same way. Why not go together?"

"Alright."

"I'm Wen Yu. I don't know your name yet, miss."

"Bai Yu."

...

After some conversation in the car, everyone exchanged names.

Xu Qianyu said, "Bai Yu, is that your rabbit? It's so well-behaved, as if it understands human speech."

Bai Yu smiled. "Yes, very well-behaved."

Although this rabbit is clever and can understand simple words, it is still just an ordinary rabbit.

Previously, she hadn't considered keeping a pet. Now, she had.

She decided she would keep this rabbit.

Hearing her words, the rabbit nuzzled against her chest eagerly.

Bai Yu didn't have human documents like an ID card, but fortunately, Wen Yu had come by helicopter this time, so they smoothly made their way to Y City.

Meanwhile, after receiving Bai Yu's communication talisman, Jiang Yingxue told her family and then cast a spell to travel to Fairy Peak.

By the time she arrived at Fairy Peak, Bai Yu had long since left.

Jiang Yingxue released her spiritual sense, conducting a careful, carpet-like search around and on Fairy Peak.

Finally, she found two formations on Fairy Peak, both located within chambers. One stone chamber had collapsed, while the other was intact.

Jiang Yingxue first went to the intact stone chamber, which was located halfway up Fairy Peak.

Pushing through layers of mist, she arrived at the cave entrance halfway up the mountain. A stone stele, twice the height of a person, stood at the entrance.

Carved on the stele were eight characters: "Guard the Mortal World, Suppress Taowu."

Despite the passage of countless years, the characters on the stele remained vivid.

Jiang Yingxue entered the cave. Inside was a passage wide enough for four people to walk side by side, with both walls covered in murals.

The patterns on the murals were brightly colored, vividly depicting the origin and purpose of this stone cave.

According to the murals, ten thousand years ago, Blue Water Star had experienced a great catastrophe.

An ancient ferocious beast from another realm, Taowu, had come to Blue Water Star and begun slaughtering. This Taowu was cruel and violent, devouring all cultivators—human cultivators, monster cultivators, and demonic cultivators alike—as its prey.

Within just a few months, half of Blue Water Star's cultivators perished. When Taowu couldn't find cultivators to eat, it would massacre human villages.

Taowu's actions on Blue Water Star undoubtedly brought the planet to the brink of destruction.

For their homeland, for future generations, and for the future, the remaining human, monster, and demonic cultivators united, willing to sacrifice themselves to suppress Taowu beneath Fairy Peak.

In this battle against Taowu, the cultivators suffered heavy losses, nearly annihilated. Even at great cost, they only managed to suppress Taowu, not kill it completely.

This was part of the content depicted in the murals. The other part consisted of diagrams related to the suppression formation, to facilitate later generations in reinforcing or repairing it.

This was an ancient sealing formation. Although complex, the annotations beside it were thorough. Jiang Yingxue spent most of the day studying this formation.

After understanding it sufficiently, she copied the formation to study in depth later. For now, the most important task was to repair it.

Beside the formation murals were some materials for repairing the formation. Jiang Yingxue took these materials to the sealing site.

Although the ten-thousand-year-old sealing formation showed no signs of human damage, the ravages of time were not to be underestimated.

Following the formation diagram on the murals, Jiang Yingxue used the repair materials to fix it bit by bit.

Deep underground, Taowu, sensing something amiss, awoke from its slumber. Seeing a human cultivator repairing the formation, it was so enraged its eyes nearly burst, and its fangs gnashed wildly.

One tiger had left, and now a human cultivator had come.

"Hmph! Just a cultivator at the Nascent Soul stage, how presumptuous!"

Large amounts of malignant qi surged from underground, but Jiang Yingxue neutralized it all.

Seeing its malignant qi easily dispelled, Taowu was filled with disbelief. Were Nascent Soul cultivators this powerful now?

It looked closer, its crimson eyes spurting streams of blood. "You're not a Nascent Soul cultivator! Damned Soul Transformation cultivator! Hah! So what if you're at the Soul Transformation stage? You're still just a meal!"

Jiang Yingxue sneered, "You look so disgusting; your flesh must be foul too. You're not even fit to be cooked."

Taowu roared angrily, "You! Sharp-tongued!"

Seeing it couldn't harm the human cultivator, Taowu lowered its stance, offering the dream of most cultivators. "Little human girl, how about I make a deal with you? Help me escape, and I'll assist you in ascending to the Immortal Realm."

"I can truly help you Ascend to Immortality. If you don't believe me, I can swear a Demonic Heart Oath."

Jiang Yingxue pretended to be tempted and said, "Really? You can truly help me ascend to the Immortal Realm?"

Seeing she was hooked, Taowu's voice became friendly and coaxing. "Of course! I am Taowu, one of the four ancient ferocious beasts. There's nothing I can't accomplish!"

Jiang Yingxue feigned confusion. "Since you can help me ascend to the Immortal Realm, why don't you ascend there yourself?"

Taowu boasted, "I came from the Immortal Realm!"

Jiang Yingxue's expression instantly turned cold. "Then there's no way I'm letting you out!"

A Taowu from a higher plane—if it were to break free, the entire Blue Water Star would be doomed.

This Taowu must not only be sealed but also eradicated for good!