Ch 79 Part 3 – Winning the Bet (III)
July 6, 2021August 12, 2021By koffeam
ng Qi focused her mind on the dicine she was refining, but she couldn’t help being distracted. She knew that her Master had helped her again and gave Ji Wujiong a lesson for her sake. However, he left so quickly that she had no ti to say anything, not even goodbye.
She didn’t know when they would et again.
ng Qi looked at the bright Lihuo fla. Her eyes were a little dazed. The euphoria she felt before losing consciousness had totally been deflated when that person suddenly disappeared again. Even though he had just promised to find her a blood moon, and also to slowly teach her the arrays Ji Wujiong used…
ng Qi absent-mindedly picked up a dead branch and drew the last array Ji Wujiong failed to activate. This array was pretty complicated, with many overlapping and interconnecting lines, and actually was very difficult to draw in one go. ng Qi didn’t inject any aura into it and simply drew line by line exactly by her mory. Like this, even if spirit stones were embedded, the array couldn’t be activated.
Ji Wujiong was originally just standing aside, glancing lightly at ng Qi from ti to ti. Later, he saw her using a dead branch to draw an array on the ground. Her head was drooped, seemingly was lost in thought, so he began to watch her openly. Then he saw her drawing line by line skilfully before finally closing the last line, completing the array in one go.
Ji Wujiong: “…”
He suddenly felt speechless. Wasn’t the art of arrays supposed to be declining in Three Thousand Worlds, and had barely reerged one or two centuries ago? Wasn’t it supposed to be fallen behind other cultivation branches, and now was regarded rely as a tool for refinery cultivators to refine magic weapons?
How could soone still in the Foundation Establishnt stage was so profound in arrays that he was caught off guard?!
“Hey!” Ji Wujiong finally lowered his posture. He squatted down in front of ng Qi’s bronze cauldron and looked straight into her eyes: “You have also learned this array before?”
“What?” ng Qi returned to her sense and glanced at Ji Wujiong. She then lowered her gaze to the ground and looked at the array she had just drawn: “No.” She said matter-of-factly. “Isn’t this the array you drew before? The one you claid to have no spirit stones to activate? I never see it before.”
Ji Wujiong: “… …”
Even though he had just being mocked, he didn’t get very angry. It was even rarer for him to not answer back sarcastically.
Ji Wujiong examined ng Qi’s expression. This girl was unconscious for almost one day. Once she woke up, she imdiately began to refine the antidote. On top of that, she looked totally unhappy, and didn’t show the slightest joy of winning!
She also said that she had never learned this array before. But she picked up a dead branch and drew such a complicated array without missing one stroke?!
A complex emotion suddenly flashed in Ji Wujiong’s eyes. He looked at ng Qi with a scorching gaze, his tone was full of disbelief: “Just now, you…” He frowned, seemingly was still unable to fathom: “Did you really morize this array by looking at drawing it just once, and even from such a distance?”
Just now, he clearly saw ng Qi drew the array in one go. If she injected her aura when drawing, then this array…
Heh! No, it wouldn’t!
She was only a weak Foundation Establishnt cultivator. With such a pitiful cultivation base, she didn’t even have one-tenth of the aura needed to draw this array.
Ji Wujiong stared at ng Qi for a mont, then stood up suddenly. Seemingly had just made a difficult decision and looked a bit anxious, he walked toward ng Qi.
“ng Qi.” Ji Wujiong stopped and lowered his gaze at ng Qi. “Have you ever learned arrays systematically?”
ng Qi shook her head.
As expected!
Whether it was when ng Qi used the dead branch to draw this array, or when she drew the Thousand Cranes array before, it took him only one glance to see that she had never studied arrays in a systematical manner!
However, this made the situation even more exciting.
“Ahem…” Ji Wujiong paced back and forth a few steps and coughed several tis before ng Qi finally looked up at him.
“Since I have nothing to do anyway, let tell you about the history of arrays.” Ji Wujiong’s tone suddenly changed drastically. It was no longer was full of thorns like before.
ng Qi looked at him suspiciously and reminded: “We need to pass the Grand Tournant’s test as soon as possible to leave this place. Have you forgotten?
“Cough, cough, cough…” Ji Wujiong coughed again, “Am I not waiting for you to finished refining the antidote?”
Without giving ng Qi a chance to refute again, Ji Wujiong quickly continued: “Ten thousand years ago, arrays were thriving in three realms of Three Thousand Worlds, Demon Realm, and Devil Realm. At that ti, sword cultivators and spell cultivators already had the sa status as now, and they could run rampant in the three realms. However, cultivators who specialized in arrays, as long as they had reached the pinnacle of their art, were able to contend with several sword cultivators and spell cultivators of the sa cultivation base. That’s how powerful they were!”
ng Qi: “…What about dical cultivators?”
“dical cultivators…” eting ng Qi’s clear eyes, Ji Wujiong quickly changed his words: “…have always existed peacefully with others. They are kind and benevolent, and totally indispensable in any era!”
ng Qi: “…”
He sounded insincere!
Ji Wujiong actually praised dical cultivators thrice in one breath, which was totally unthinkable compared with his previous attitude. Just by looking at his attitude towards the dical Society Alliance, it was clear that his disdain towards dical cultivators ran deep in his bone.
“But dical cultivators always disdain to participate in conflicts.” Ji Wujiong continued. “So, it was sword cultivators, spell cultivators, and those who specialized in arrays who dominated the world of that era.” He paused for a while. “At that ti, cultivators who specialized in arrays were called array cultivators.”
“Yes.” ng Qi nodded.
“Sword cultivators, spell cultivators, and array cultivators were the three major cultivation branches, and no side could overwhelm the others. In addition, that was a very chaotic era. The three realms had yet to be completely separated, and the three races of human, demon, and devil often fell into various disputes. Bloody battlefields were everywhere, and the world was full of murderous air. Cultivators of the Comprehending Perfection and Great Ascension stage, which in this era had almost been never unheard of, often fought for seven days and seven nights. Blood perated from the ground to the sky, and even the sun, moon, and stars seed to be dim.”
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