How come the celestial technique I stole is so powerful?!

Lin Xiaosu sat cross-legged!

Throughout the night, he remained motionless.

However, the light in his eyes flickered.

Just now, the Helmsman's move, "Li Ren Tears," strictly speaking, was elusive.

A move of "Li Ren Tears" that was elusive, yet easily defeated his original "Li Ren Tears," simply because of one point: Sword Dao Will!

The Helmsman's Sword Dao Will was at the High Realm of Qinghua; he truly manifested the charm of "Li Ren Tears."

What Lin Xiaosu needed to do was not to replicate that charm, but to let his own charm take shape.

Throughout the night, he vaguely felt a touch.

The next day's dusk, Misty Rain Jiangnan blossomed around him.

It was his first time in life without wielding the sword in his hand, yet Misty Rain Jiangnan naturally blossomed.

These flowers, under the dusk rain, seemed so desolate.

However, the regret of a late spring where hundreds of flowers all wilt did not occur; amid the drizzling rain, the flowers bloomed vividly, always vividly, just like the real nature.

Outside the Misty Rain Jiangnan circle, the old Helmsman held a wine jug in his hand, his eyes slightly squinting.

This kid seems to have gained some insight, and next should be that essence point, let's see what "A Flower Flies" can fly out?

However, after waiting a long time, Lin Xiaosu's "A Flower Flies" from "Li Ren Tears" still did not fly...

All night long.

He seemed just captivated by the Misty Rain Jiangnan scene he created.

His steps traversed this Jiangnan land.

Seeming reluctant to destroy this earthly Miao Realm.

Dawn!

The darkest time of the day!

Suddenly, the wind rose and the clouds flew!

Fierce beasts roared, the earth sunk!

With a loud rumble, the Misty Rain Jiangnan ground and sky overturned, petals rolled into the muck, the last lotus carried away by the wild wind...

This lotus flew towards the Helmsman.

The small boat beneath the Helmsman suddenly stabilized, his surroundings perfect Misty Rain Jiangnan.

Hundreds of flowers wilt as a flower flies.

The Qinghua flew towards the remaining flower shot by Lin Xiaosu.

With a loud collision, the two flowers simultaneously shattered into bits, fragments cascading down, all green in hue.

The Helmsman's face changed: "Sword Intent Green Flower!"

Lin Xiaosu smiled, and with this smile, the Misty Rain Jiangnan Miao Realm completely vanished.

"Entering Qinghua in just one day and two nights! How... how is this even possible?" the Helmsman muttered.

"Observing the predecessor's Sword Dao, empathizing with this move 'Li Ren Tears,' triggered this intricate mechanism," Lin Xiaosu slightly bowed: "Still must thank the predecessor for guidance."

"Observing Sword Dao triggers intricate mechanisms, how many people observe Sword Dao, yet how many can trigger mechanisms? Empathizing with 'Li Ren Tears'... boy, you were born in a peaceful and prosperous era, never witnessed the sorrow between heaven and earth, yet how did you empathize?"

Lin Xiaosu said: "During past times, indeed leisurely brewed time and slowly brewed tea, the years were peaceful, however, the future, not difficult to imagine... Reminiscing the day 'Li Ren Tears' flies, ultimately when prosperity ends."

"Reminiscing the day 'Li Ren Tears' flies, ultimately when prosperity ends!" the Helmsman sighed long: "Well said! Truly well said! Boy, the old me might as well reveal my true intention."

This also fulfilled what he said before, after receiving his three swords, reveal his true intention.

Now Lin Xiaosu's Sword Dao entered Qinghua, matching his sword evenly, naturally counted as receiving his three swords.

However, Lin Xiaosu gently shook his head: "The junior still wishes to speak directly with the senior's true self."

The Helmsman's eyes widened: "You can actually discern that the old me is not the true self?"

"Yes!"

The Helmsman sighed long: "A prodigy indeed!"

As the sigh faded, his figure suddenly disappeared into thin air.

Transformed into a wisp of Sword Qi.

With a sharp noise, it shot upwards through the forest...

Lin Xiaosu moved his foot, following the direction of this wisp of Sword Qi, journeying onward.

What lay ahead was already the summit of Two Realms Mountain.

Incomparably perilous.

Floating clouds drift, silence in all directions.

With three leaps, Lin Xiaosu landed on the summit.

On the summit, an old man sat cross-legged.

This old man, identical to that Helmsman, with only one difference, the Helmsman sat on a boat, and he, on the rock on the mountain top.

"Greetings, senior!" Lin Xiaosu bowed deeply.

The old man slowly opened his eyes: "My true intention was originally a trade, yet, you've made the old me quite distressed."

"Why?" Lin Xiaosu inquired.

The old man replied: "My true intention was to help you break into Qinghua, using this as a bargaining chip, for you to do something for me, but you entered Qinghua, the old me truly did not assist, the chip therefore is not a chip, presently asking you to do something really hard to mention."

Lin Xiaosu smiled: "Entering Qinghua, was achieved by observing the predecessor's sword, how can it be said I did not benefit from your grace? Whatever the senior desires accomplished, as long as within my ability, I will undoubtedly accomplish it with full effort."

"You are very straightforward, then the old me will not be pretentious!" the old man said: "I want you to go out to the outside world, find the Three Realms, find someone there, and tell him something!"

"Find who inside?" Lin Xiaosu's heart pounded.

The Three Realms, this is a very mysterious place name.

With Wing Blade as his eyes, he found the place left by Taoist Lu Yun, yet, did not find the temple of the Three Realms.

"A blind man, three feet three inches tall! His surname doesn't matter, for he could traverse the mortal realm under a hundred different identities. Any name I give you might lead you astray."

Blind man!

Lu Yun?

But Lu Yun is only three feet three inches?

No, Lin Xiaosu had seen him in person, and he was of normal height.

However, on the path of cultivation, height can also be deceiving. Is the old man truly seeking Lu Yun?

"What does the elder wish to tell him?" Lin Xiaosu cut to the heart of the matter.

The old man replied, "Tell him that to unravel the world-ending calamity, only the Three-character Book will do! The 'Human Character Scroll' of the Three-character Bone Book is in the Heavenly Abyss."

Three-character Bone Book!

A great wave surged in Lin Xiaosu's heart...

This was the second time he heard the name Three-character Bone Book.

The first was learned from the Primordial Spirit Imprint of the Venerable Hydra Snake.

This Lord, in constructing the colossal Nine Headed Snake on a global scale, aimed not for the organization but to leverage its pervasive power to seek out the Three-character Bone Book worldwide.

The thing even the Nine Headed Snake could not find, theoretically, no one else could either.

Yet, in this Kun Cang, the elder sitting atop the mountain, explicitly informed him that the Human Character Scroll of the Three-character Bone Book was in the Heavenly Abyss.

"But where is the Heavenly Abyss?"

"Heavenly Abyss, the old man does not know either, but the one from the Three Realms might have a way to find it."

Lin Xiaosu took a deep breath, "Elder, if by chance I meet the one from the Three Realms, and he asks from whom the information originated, how should the younger generation reply?"

The old man's gaze slowly lifted, "You can tell him this message comes from the sole orphan of the Ancient Array Sect, Gu Jian Youchen!"

"Gu... Elder's surname is Gu?" Lin Xiaosu's heart was greatly stirred. When he traversed through the Ancient Array Sect, he had seen some steles and knew that the sect master's surname was peculiar, a surname Gu.

"In the past, the old man was not surnamed Gu; he was surnamed Jian and named Jian Wuchen. After roaming the world for a thousand years, upon returning to the ancestral land, realizing things had changed, I returned to the ancestral surname, broke my sword, leaving dust—tell him these, and he naturally knows who I am."

"Elder, to be honest, I... I've received the inheritance of the Array Sect! I'm also considered a disciple of the Array Sect."

Gu Jian Youchen's eyes suddenly brightened!

This brightness was like starlight from beyond the heavens!

"You... you have received the inheritance of the Array Sect?"

"Yes!"

"How could you enter the forbidden ground of the Array Sect?" His voice grew excited.

"The younger generation was born with an innate Array Eye!" Lin Xiaosu said, "I can clearly see that the peak under the elder is an Array Eye of an Ancient Array, and moreover, I can see..."

His voice abruptly stopped, and his face was full of shock.

Gu Jian Youchen stared at him intently, "Tell me, what else have you seen?"

"Elder, your... your body... your body is this mountain peak! You are one of the eighty-one elders of the Array Sect who transformed their flesh into an array in ancient times!"

"Indeed, you have an innate Array Eye! Good! Good! Heaven has eyes, the Array Sect has heirs!" Gu Jian Youchen laughed heartily, extremely elated, yet his laughter ceased suddenly, turning forlorn, "However, you have misunderstood one thing—I'm not one of the ancient eighty-one elders. They who transmuted their flesh into an array, how could they return to the soul? I merely use my body to maintain this grand array, preventing its extinction!"

Using the body to maintain, preserving the grand array!

Over thousands of years, inevitably the grand array, full of numerous holes and flaws, struggles to operate, and Gu Jian Youchen uses his flesh and blood to inject life into the grand array formed by the bodies of the eighty-one elders, ensuring the protective world-sealing array isolating the Desolate Ancient Realm continues to operate.

Lin Xiaosu was shaken.

The Ancient Array Sect paid the price of the sect's complete annihilation to create such a grand array.

Its successors were also maintaining this grand array.

The rebellious disciple Jian Wuchen, who left the sect to follow the sword path, also resolutely returned, willingly exhausting his very life's blood, spanning thousands of years, unshakably fulfilling the sect's dying wish.

Gu Jian Youchen said, "From this moment on, I shall call you junior brother!"

"Senior brother!" Lin Xiaosu grasped his hand.

"As for me, my body is fused with the array; I cannot leave Luanyun Heaven. Even though my Primordial Spirit can extend my perception for hundreds of miles, I cannot leave Kun Cang. Therefore, the task of finding the Three Realms rests upon you! Otherwise, should the Desolate Ancient breach in your world, Kun Cang would inevitably be affected. The Heaven Sealing Array constructed at the sect's great cost, exhausting the sect's foundation, would no longer be an array, but a joke—do you understand?"

"This younger brother understands!"

This great array has one purpose, to block the Desolate Ancient from breaching the realm.

If this sole outlet remains, and the array remains unbroken, the Desolate Ancient cannot intrude, and thus the array would have served its purpose.

However, the Desolate Ancient has more than this one outlet—it can breach from the outside world.

If it breaches from the outside world, entering through Kun Cang, arriving before Gu Jian Youchen—what, then, is the point of building the grand array by the Ancient Array Sect?

Wouldn't it be a joke?

Gu Jian Youchen released a long, endless sigh, "Junior brother, is the world really so unpredictable, isn't it?"

"Yes indeed!" Lin Xiaosu replied, "Senior brother, why, in the vast sea of humanity, did you choose me?"

"I chose you because you are an outsider. Seeking someone beyond the world is greatly advantageous. Moreover, your strike of Li Ren Tears in Luanyun City greatly moved me. I believe your cultivation road will be boundlessly high and far; therefore, I wished to form a good connection with you. Who knew I would first create a bond of the same sect, hence why this is called fate."

"Thank you, senior brother, for the regard, yet my cultivation road... has encountered an issue! Can you, senior brother, help remove this shackle?"

"An issue?" Gu Jian Youchen's face slightly changed, his fingers lightly raised, pointing at Lin Xiaosu's forehead...

At that point, his expression completely changed, "The Blood Tower is perfect, yet there are only Eight Stars Shining in the Sky. Where is your Heavenly Star Tear? Where did it go?"

His voice held a distinct panic.

For this ancient great power, it was an exceptionally unusual thing.

Lin Xiaosu confessed sincerely...

There were originally nine, but one was untimely, faced with a dilemma, so he used it to save someone...

The dialogue unfolded thus...

Gu Jian Youchen sighed heavily, "Junior brother, how should I speak of you? To scold you—with such a compassionate and righteous nature, I truly can't. To not scold, my heart harbors unrest, junior brother, such an incredulous genius, to be ruined instantaneously!"

Lin Xiaosu's heart turned icy cold.

Even this truly great power of ancient level judges his path as no longer viable?