CHAPTER 624: CHAPTER 114_10

In the past, aside from natural disasters and calamities, the population mobility rate was very low; generations truly lived in one place their whole lives. But now, each family among the three surnames here has someone who has left for big cities to develop and settle.

Even the best rules set by our ancestors cannot withstand the torrent of the times.

This also gave Yu Xuzi another chance to break free from his cage, and indeed, he almost succeeded.

Li Zhiyuan remarked with emotion, "Actually, those three were really your good disciples."

"They were traitors," Yu Xuzi corrected, "When they killed the three fish I sent out, I don’t believe they never doubted whether the messages truly came from me—their master."

"Probably it didn’t matter to them because, in their eyes, their master was a lone hero who sacrificed himself to seal a monster; their master had already died a brave and great death.

And you, what are you to them?"

At this moment, Tan Wenbin inserted the last array flag.

Before Tan Wenbin could signal a warning, the Big Fish suddenly surged up, attempting to bypass the blockers and charge towards the newly arranged Array.

Run Sheng instantly activated his Qi Sea to its full potential, wielding the Yellow River Shovel, and fiercely sliced into the belly of the Big Fish.

"Puchi..."

The belly of the Big Fish was split open, and fish roe scattered all over.

Yin Meng lashed out with the whip in her hand. The whip followed the freshly cut wound into the belly of the fish, and from the wound, a large amount of pus flowed out immediately.

However, this extremely lethal offensive was completely ignored by Yu Xuzi; it would rather be injured than to reach the new Array at the earliest possible time.

Seeing this, Tan Wenbin was about to throw himself in front of danger.

"Move aside, let it go!"

Tan Wenbin immediately complied and rolled aside to dodge.

The Big Fish landed in the middle of the Array.

Inside the mouth of the Big Fish, Yu Xuzi began to activate the operation of the Array.

Run Sheng was about to intervene, but was preemptively stopped by Li Zhiyuan: "No need."

As the Array activated, a twist appeared in the Barrier in front, and the Big Fish started desperately trying to escape, seemingly on the verge of success.

But at that moment, the stone altar outside suddenly cracked open, and a skeleton dressed in a yellow Daoist robe stood up from within.

This was the skeletal remains of Yu Xuzi himself.

It walked up to the Barrier and raised its fist, slamming it down on the Big Fish trying to emerge, and at the "self" inside the Big Fish’s mouth!

"Boom!"

The entire great Array thundered.

The Yin Yang Array Eye, with the Yin Array Eye governing the inside, and the Yang Array Eye governing the outside.

With a single punch, the Barrier was restored, and the Big Fish fell to the ground in defeat.

The last shred of hope shattered, meaning he would have to wait another sixty years, but the problem was this monster no longer had sixty years of vitality left.

The yellow-robed skeleton, after sustaining the Array, returned to the stone altar and sat back down. The stone altar closed up, sealing it inside, with only a bit of the skull exposed on the tabletop like an overturned bowl.

Li Zhiyuan’s gaze once again fell onto the "brook."

It appears that the "brook" was not leading you to the door but rather helping you into that river. The previous fish could only be sent there. If they were sent directly out from this doorway or approached close to the stone table, the fish personally released by Yu Xuzi would be killed by Yu Xuzi himself.

This Yu Xuzi was indeed a great master of Arrays; he managed to create a Daoist domain within a snail’s shell.

Li Zhiyuan spoke up and asked, "Daoist Yu Xuzi, while you have been trapped here so long, did you have the leisure to write any books during your boredom?"

The Yu Xuzi within the Big Fish’s mouth raised his head and looked at Li Zhiyuan but did not speak.

Li Zhiyuan explained, "I enjoy reading in my pastime."

The other’s knowledge of Array may not be the highest, but he lived for a very long time, meaning he had ample time to accumulate wisdom.

Yu Xuzi said gravely, "I have indeed carved many steles in that river, but not a single one is complete."

"It doesn’t matter, incomplete scriptures also work. Reading while completing them can enhance understanding."

The "evil book" in his own bedroom could come in handy.

Yu Xuzi continued, "I will help you to complete those steles for your perusal. Stay here with me for sixty years, to relieve my boredom."

Li Zhiyuan shook his head: "I read quite fast, it won’t take that long. Besides, do you think you even have sixty years left to live?"

Yu Xuzi replied, "Indeed I don’t have sixty years left, perhaps only thirty or forty years remain."

Before today, he still had a vitality of seventy to eighty years, but his soul body was first struck, then burned, stripping away thirty years.

The punch just now from his own skeleton took away another ten years.

Now, only thirty or forty years remained.

"No, no, no, thirty or forty years is too long; I don’t think you’ll survive today."

Yu Xuzi: "That should have been my line after you rejected my offer, huh..."

The next moment, the two of them, in unison, let out disdainful laughter;

Li Zhiyuan: "Heh, where do you get the confidence from."

Yu Xuzi: "Heh, where do you get the confidence from."

The Big Fish’s body arched, its mouth gaping wide again. At this moment, the body of the Big Fish began to decay rapidly, while scales started to grow on the flesh of Yu Xuzi.

Li Zhiyuan cautioned, "You are already very weak."

Fury flashed in Yu Xuzi’s eyes.

The young man’s words were like poking his fish bladder.

He was like a clown on stage, putting on an act all by himself, then stabbing himself three times, before asking the audience below: aren’t you afraid of me?

"But dragging you down with me will be more than enough!"

Li Zhiyuan took a step forward and began to perform the Liu family’s customary bow, and said earnestly:

"Heir to the Dragon King of the Qin Liu families—Li Zhiyuan."