Chapter 301: Chapter 129: To Go or to Stay? The Moon Worship Sect’s Greatest Conspiracy Revealed, Cyan Yang Ancient City in Extreme Peril

Yue Mankong was speechless.

’This damn kid is definitely up to something, coming up with such a flimsy excuse.’

He couldn’t press the issue, so he could only urge him, "Go on, and be quick about it! Don’t let this hold up our real business!"

Chu Fan said no more. With a flicker of his body, he vanished into the night like a specter, speeding toward his home.

Before long, he returned to his familiar, slightly dilapidated home.

The courtyard was silent under the cold, clear moonlight.

Without a shred of hesitation, he immediately approached the location of the Array.

As soon as he drew near, lines of Spiritual Threads and countless strange Runes appeared on the ground.

Chu Fan held his breath and focused, circulating the Primordial Qi within his body to carefully sense the fluctuations in his surroundings.

Soon, he sensed a faint but peculiar fluctuation, one that resonated subtly with his own Primordial Qi.

The fluctuation was coming from beneath a seemingly ordinary corner of the courtyard wall!

Chu Fan went to that corner of the wall, crouched down, and began to dig with his bare hands.

The soil was damp and tangled with the roots of grass and plants.

After digging about a foot deep, his fingertips brushed against something hard.

He carefully brushed away the surrounding soil, revealing a palm-sized, dark gray, irregularly shaped, diamond-like stone.

The stone’s surface was covered in natural patterns that seemed to hold some profound truth. It felt warm to the touch, yet exuded an ancient, weathered aura.

But as he crouched there, the stone showed no trace of Primordial Qi fluctuation, as if it were just an ordinary rock.

’This is the Array Stone?’

Chu Fan reached out and carefully gripped the diamond-shaped Array Stone.

The instant his fingers made contact with the Array Stone—

BUZZ!

A soft hum seemed to explode directly inside his mind!

The dim patterns on the Array Stone suddenly lit up with a faint glow. A powerful, current-like energy surged through the meridians in his arm and shot into his body!

Chu Fan felt his arm go numb and sore.

"Such terrifying power..."

’If I didn’t possess the Vajra Undying Body, that last jolt would have likely left me severely injured!’

This was just a Teleportation Array, not a Trapping Array or a Killing Array.

’If this were a Trapping or Killing Array, using this Method to break it would have been far too risky.’

Not daring to be careless, Chu Fan immediately closed his eyes. Following the Method Yue Mankong had taught him, he slowly infused his pure Primordial Qi into the Array Stone.

The next moment, he "saw"!

In his perceptive "vision," with the diamond-shaped Array Stone at its core, countless "Spiritual Threads" as fine as hairs appeared out of thin air. Glowing with a faint blue light, they crisscrossed to form a complex and profound three-dimensional pattern.

These Spiritual Threads pulsed slowly like living things, connecting to the other nearby Array Stones.

They were interlinked, forming stable energy circuits that created a small yet stable vortex of energy.

That was the source of the teleportation power.

The beauty and precision of this network of Spiritual Threads secretly astonished Chu Fan.

’Whoever set up this Array must have an extremely high level of skill in the art of arrays.’

He had no time to admire it. His Mental Power highly focused, he quickly discerned the paths of the Spiritual Threads.

Soon, he locked onto the three thickest and most brilliant Main Spiritual Threads.

Like the main roots of a tree, they supported the entire network of Spiritual Threads.

’Break!’

With a thought as fast as lightning, Chu Fan guided the Primordial Qi pouring into the Array Stone, condensed it into three invisible blades, and viciously slashed at the three Main Spiritual Threads!

TCH! TCH! TCH!

A series of sounds, like snapping strings, exploded within his perception.

The three Main Spiritual Threads snapped, and their blue light instantly dimmed and dissipated.

With the Main Spiritual Threads severed, the entire network seemed to lose its support, twisting and fluctuating violently.

The other, smaller Spiritual Threads flashed chaotically before breaking apart and being annihilated.

CRACK!

The diamond-shaped Array Stone in his hand made a crisp cracking sound as several clear fissures appeared on its surface. Its warm touch and subtle energy fluctuations vanished completely, leaving behind nothing but an ordinary rock.

Chu Fan opened his eyes and let out a long sigh of relief.

He noticed that after the Array Stone was removed and the Spiritual Threads were destroyed, the once-hard soil around it had become much looser.

A thought struck him, and he continued to dig. Sure enough, in the soft soil, he found several palm-sized flags of various colors, made of a material that was neither cloth nor silk.

The flags were inscribed with Runes similar to those on the Array Stone. Now, however, the Runes were dim and showed no trace of Primordial Qi fluctuation, making them look like ordinary trinkets.

He collected each of the Array Flags.

After finishing, Chu Fan approached the corner again, even deliberately standing on the spot where the Array used to activate.

However, the area was completely silent, with no spatial fluctuations to be felt.

The Array was completely destroyed.

A great weight was lifted from his heart. Not daring to linger, Chu Fan tucked the Array Stone fragments and Array Flags into his robes. His figure once again melted into the night as he sped back toward the Seven Stars Gang.

...

After returning to the Seven Stars Gang, Chu Fan immediately immersed himself completely in cultivating the Ghost Shadow Illusionary Body Step.

His figure darted and weaved across the field, his Step Technique strange and difficult to follow.

At first, his trajectory was still clear. But later, with every step he took, he left several blurry, lingering Residual Images in his wake. His True Body seemed to melt into the gaps between light and shadow, flickering erratically like a specter in the night.

Time slipped away like sand through fingers...

["Ghost Shadow Illusionary Body Step" Experience Points +4]

[Skill: Ghost Shadow Illusionary Body Step (Perfection) Progress: (1/2500) (Trait: None)]

When the final moment arrived, Chu Fan closed his eyes and exhaled a long, turbid breath.

In his mind, every detail of his past training in the Ghost Shadow Illusionary Body Step replayed with crystal clarity.

Control of his Primordial Qi;

The flaws in his Step Technique;

The coordination of his waist and stance...

All his shortcomings were corrected.

’The Ghost Shadow Illusionary Body Step at the Perfection Realm... even an expert stronger than the Divine Power Realm might not be able to cultivate it to this level!’

Chu Fan felt the Primordial Qi rushing through his body and the perfectly harmonious flow of his steps, and his confidence grew even stronger.