“What?!”Lord Dog’s words ca as a shock to both Yellow Spring Great Sage and Bu Fang.
Why was he so pessimistic? That did not sound like his usual self!
Watching Lord Dog stick out his tongue and lick the corners of his mouth, Bu Fang felt that the fat dog just wanted to eat Sweet ‘n’ Sour Ribs, and what he said just now was just an excuse.
“That realm is really dangerous, so you have to be careful,” said Yellow Spring Great Sage. “Also, once you start to break through, those Nether Prison guys will definitely find out. If Di Ting and Nether Puppeteer break through before you do, we cannot stop them.” Since he knew more things than others, he thought he’d better warn Lord Dog first.
That realm was abstruse and unfathomable. Di Ting and Lord Dog both touched it, but it was extrely difficult for them to break through. In fact, it was much more difficult than breaking through from a Little Saint to a Great Saint.
There were many obstacles to overco, but Yellow Spring Great Sage didn’t really know about those obstacles. After all, he was still a little far from that level, even after he ate the Fortune Flatbread and beca bald. That was why he could only warn Lord Dog. As for what should be done, he did not know.
“Don’t worry...” Lord Dog yawned. “I found an array here. It should be a relic of the previous age. Black Demon was going to use it to break through, but he died too suddenly,” he said, sniffling. “The power of this array is incredible as it contains the power of ti. When I found it, I rashly stepped into it. I then realized that a thousand years inside is just one day outside.”
A thousand years inside was just one day outside?
Bu Fang and Yellow Spring Great Sage both gasped.
How could there be such an incredible array in the world?
“So you have cultivated in that array for a thousand years, mangy dog?” Yellow Spring Great Sage took a deep breath. He had lived only tens of thousands of years since he was born, and half of that ti, he was playing with grass. Had he not, his cultivation base would be even more terrifying now. If he could go back in ti, however, he would still play with grass because it brought him spiritual pleasure.
Still, he was taken aback by what Lord Dog said.
‘No wonder this mangy dog touched that realm so quickly. In fact, with his previous cultivation base, he may be able to break through after so ti. Now that he has cultivated for one thousand years, it certainly made it easier for him to get to that level...’
Bu Fang, on the other hand, was lost in thought.
‘A thousand years in that array is just one day outside... Is this an array that can control the flow of ti? Is it an array that contains the Ti Gourt Array? Could it be left by the previous host?’
What he knew now was that the previous host was probably a figure from the previous age. This could be inferred from what the Patriarchs of the nine Nether Prison clans and Black Demon had said.
Sothing major must have happened in the previous age, which caused the Patriarchs of the nine Nether Prison clans to kill the previous host.
What he couldn’t figure out was whether these Patriarchs were experts of the Netherworld or the followers of the previous host? The answer might be known only to the previous host and the nine Patriarchs.
But that was not what he had to think about right now. It was the Ti Gourt Array that concerned him.
‘Can the Ti Gourt Array be used like this? No...’
Bu Fang frowned and felt that things were not as simple as he had imagined.
He had experinted with the Ti Gourt Array in the Heaven and Earth Farmland. It could indeed control the flow of ti, but once soone stepped into the flow of ti, everything about that person, both physical and ntal, would gradually age with the passing of ti.
However, he did not observe such side effects in Lord Dog. Although Lord Dog was giving off an air of soone who had lived a thousand years, his body was exactly the sa as a thousand years ago, and his ntal strength had not declined.
After living thousands of years, even a Great Saint’s body and mind would show the side effects of aging.
Judging from this, there was no doubt that this array must contain more than the Ti Gourt Array.
The atmosphere in the Black Temple beca sowhat frozen. After a long ti, Lord Dog broke the silence.
“Bu Fang boy, do you still have... Sweet ‘n’ Sour Ribs?” he asked, sticking out his tongue and looking at Bu Fang. “I can only have the strength to fight when I’m full...”
Looking at Lord Dog’s trembling fat, Bu Fang couldn’t help twitching the corner of his mouth.
He took out so dragon ribs and began cooking. Soon, a delicious aroma perated the air in the Black Temple, and a plate of glittering and steaming Sweet ‘n’ Sour Ribs was placed in front of Lord Dog.
Lord Dog’s fat trembled as he bent over the plate and began attacking the ribs once again.
Yellow Spring Great Sage sighed. He asked Bu Fang for three blue-and-white porcelain cups, then took out his precious jade wine jar and filled all three cups with wine. A refreshing bouquet filled the air instantly, making their mouths water.
“Co, since you have chosen to take that path, then I will use my treasured wine to wish you success!” Yellow Spring Great Sage said with a smile as he set a cup of wine in front of Lord Dog, who was eating the ribs. After that, he gave Bu Fang the other cup.
Colorful liquor sloshed in the cups. The bouquet of the supre-grade Yellow Spring Helplessness Wine seed to drift tens of thousands of miles away. It was an extrely rich wine.
Lord Dog looked up. His nose and the hair around his mouth were all stained with the ribs’ sauce. He opened his mouth and inhaled, and imdiately, the wine in the cup went into his mouth.
“Excellent wine!” He grinned, licked his lips, then bowed his head and continued to eat his Sweet ‘n’ Sour Ribs.
When he finally finished eating, he belched and lay motionlessly on the ground. After a short rest, he rose to his feet and said, “You two, co with ...”
Lord Dog led the way, strutting his enchanting cat-like steps. After turning left and right again and again for a while, they ca to a secret room. The location of this room was well hidden, and it was likely that only a few people in the Black Temple knew about its existence.
Bu Fang and Yellow Spring Great Sage followed the fat dog into the secret room. Inside was a completely different world. There were mountains and rivers, while the wind was gusting and a light rain was falling from the sky. But that was all. There was no life here.
In the middle of this world was a complicated and intricate array.
“See, that’s the array I told you. I’ve been lying there for thousands of years, and that’s how long I have not tasted Sweet ‘n’ Sour Ribs. How I miss them...” Lord Dog said.
His heart was still filled with lingering fear. He was worried that if he stayed in the array for tens of thousands of years and didn’t eat Sweet ‘n’ Sour Ribs, he would go crazy.
Bu Fang looked intently at the huge array. He was shocked.
It was rotating, giving off a mysterious aura. It looked completely detached from this world and did not seem to belong to this world at all.
Even Yellow Spring Great Sage was stunned. Such an array was completely beyond his imagination. It was like a miracle left by so god. “An array that can manipulate ti... It is indeed a wonder!” As he said that, he couldn’t help reaching out his hand to touch it.
Bu Fang was sensing the array. He could clearly feel the aura of the Ti Gourt Array contained in it. It was the sa aura as the array that was carved on the food container he was given so ti ago. The difference was that the array in front of him consisted of more than just a Ti Gourt Array. It also included many different arrays, which were not even known to him. He felt that they should be other Gourt Arrays that he had not yet acquired.
He couldn’t believe that by combining the different Gourt Arrays, they could create such a marvelous effect.
Bu Fang’s eyes lit up as he looked through the whole array. He saw several rotating dishes inside, which were located in different corners.
Yellow Spring Great Sage and Lord Dog couldn’t see them, but he could. There were four dishes located in the four corners of the array, and the light they emitted ford into four mythical beasts: a dragon, a phoenix, a turtle, and a tiger.
The four mythical beasts were seated in the four corners of the array, maintaining its operation.
This was a Four Quadrants Array.
Bu Fang withdrew his gaze, shocked. He was becoming more and more curious about the origin of the previous host.
Previously, when he was cooking a dish in the God of Cooking’s nu, his spirit sea turned into a Yin-Yang-Four-Quadrants spirit sea. Bu Fang thought he was the first one in this world who had ford this array, but it turned out that the previous host had also created a similar array.
He sighed softly and shook his head as if he wanted to shake so thoughts out of his mind. He told himself that it was no use thinking so much—all he needed to do was to take asures according to what the situation called for. After all, he was only a chef, and his main job was to cook delicious food. All this fighting and protecting were just to make him better at cooking.
“Well, I’m going in. Bu Fang boy, don’t let anyone disturb , or I could never taste your Sweet ‘n’ Sour Ribs again,” Lord Dog said half-jokingly, his gentle and magnetic voice resounding through the air. After that, he walked toward the array with his enchanting cat-like steps.
The array was activated the mont he stepped into it. The light of the Ti Gourt Array was flashing, while the four dishes representing the Four Quadrants were rotating.
Standing outside the array, Bu Fang looked at the scene solemnly with his hands behind his back, while Yellow Spring Great Sage held his jade wine jar and took a deep breath.
A few monts later, the array began to rumble and burst into light, and then Lord Dog’s aura was gone completely.
Bu Fang and Yellow Spring Great Sage exchanged a glance, said nothing, and turned and walked slowly out of the secret room. The door was shut with a crash behind them.
The two of them ca to the center of the palace and sat down on the ground. Since Lord Dog asked them to protect him from being disturbed, he must have his reason.
...
At the Di Ting Clan’s holand...
A fearful black vortex was spinning rapidly with vast energy gathering into it. Two figures stood beside it. One of them was a thin old man with sharp eyes. He was none other than Nether Puppeteer Patriarch, and beside him was Sword Demon Patriarch.
They both gasped as they watched the vortex and felt the terrible energy inside.
“That realm is indeed supre... How I envy him,” Nether Puppeteer Patriarch said.
Sword Demon Patriarch carried a sword on his back. He didn’t speak because he didn’t know what to say. That realm was too far from him, and he only knew that it was a supre realm. Even so, he was well aware of the horror of that realm.
He still rembered the devilish figure that had fought alone against the supre existence of the great world at the end of the last age, as well as that mighty power that could destroy heaven and earth.
Unfortunately, that man died after all.
Nether Puppeteer Patriarch tapped Sword Demon Patriarch’s forehead with a finger, bringing the latter to his senses.
“Don’t just stand there gaping... After fighting with that Earth Prison Dog in the battlefield of the stars, I found that he had also touched this realm. He should have used so ans of the forbidden lands in Earth Prison,” Nether Puppeteer Patriarch said.
“Just as we used the ans of the forbidden lands in Nether Prison,” Sword Demon Patriarch said, nodding.
“We can’t let him succeed. The Netherworld only needs Di Ting to step into that realm.”
Nether Puppeteer Patriarch’s eyes were full of enthusiasm as he looked at the black vortex. Then, he glanced at Sword Demon Patriarch and took out an old gourd.
“Take this gourd to Earth Prison. You must sabotage that dog’s breakthrough. Don’t worry, there’s enough wine in the gourd to make you even stronger than Tyrant. But rember not to drink too much. I’ll send you another helper. This helper... will surprise them.” A sneer brushed Nether Puppeteer Patriarch’s lips.
Sword Demon Patriarch took the gourd with intense excitent in his eyes. He knew what the wine in it was capable of.
“You can go now,” Nether Puppeteer Patriarch waved.
Sword Demon Patriarch nodded. The next mont, a silver ray appeared under his feet. Stepping on the sword, he sped away and disappeared into the distance in a flash.
With his hands clasped behind him, Nether Puppeteer Patriarch looked at the bottomless black vortex and sighed softly. “It’s almost there...”
Suddenly, the void behind him tore apart, and a burly figure enveloped in black smoke erged.
“I’ve worked hard to put you together. You are my proudest masterpiece. It’s ti to let the world know your existence... Go now,” Nether Puppeteer Patriarch said, without looking back.
The eyes of the figure in the black smoke turned scarlet in an instant. The next mont, the void healed, and the figure sped away with a rumbling sound.
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