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Chapter 1141 - 907: Encountering the Real Deal

Everything happened too fast. Sang Qi had already been sent out of the Ghost Realm before she’d fully reacted.

"Come to think of it, I’ve never actually seen Daoist You make a move. I only knew he was good at Alchemy and liked planting some Spirit Plants and Spirit Medicines. Fourth Brother, what in the world happened? How did you end up bringing him here?"

With her question, everyone’s gaze shifted again to the fourth brother, Sang Chuanlu.

His heart had been going up and down more wildly than a roller coaster. Now that his siblings were safe and sound, he finally loosened a breath and realized his back was soaked with sweat.

"Don’t even mention it, it scared me half to death!" Sang Chuanlu steadied himself and started explaining from when the other party used their little sister’s waist token to visit.

There actually wasn’t much to tell, but whenever he mentioned those short yet shocking lines of the other party, he couldn’t help adding a few of his own feelings.

"A Divine Artifact? Then it really should be fine." Miss Qi, after listening, remembered how last time Daoist You casually took out a Divine Artifact and had her and Jun Yan channel Spiritual Power into it, so she told her brothers about it.

For a moment everyone clicked their tongues. Truly worthy of being a formidable Alchemist—what a deep foundation! The things he casually pulled out to use were all Divine Artifacts!

Sang Chuanlu thought to himself, no wonder Daoist You wanted to beat up those eyesore Mountain Masters the moment he saw them. With a Divine Artifact in hand, you really don’t need to fear anyone in a fight. Truly impressive!

"Just now Daoist You almost didn’t spend any time bringing us out, so why is there still no movement about going to find Big Brother?"

"We’re all inside the Array and there are no threats at our sides. Big Brother is at the central position of the Ghost Realm and likely doesn’t have an Array protecting him, so it’ll probably take more time."

"Let’s hope Daoist You has enough methods. Otherwise, barging into the Ghost Realm rashly is riddled with danger..."

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While the Sang Clan siblings were all worrying, Jiang Yuan looked at the new prompt popped up by the system and the corner of his mouth twitched.

[Precise teleportation to the location of the stranded personnel has been completed. However, the internal Arrays of the instance are in operation. Sensing abnormal fluctuations, they have randomly teleported the other party away. You may check their location on the instance map.]

In other words, Sang Lishan had still been here the previous second.

The system teleported him over, startling the Sealing and Defense Arrays Sang Lishan had set up, and they directly teleported the person away, thinking there was danger.

Sure enough, once he opened the map, he saw that the bright dot representing Sang Lishan had shifted from the position where he originally stood to behind the mountain diagonally opposite.

"Forget it, I’ll save Shi Hu first then." Jiang Yuan clicked to exit the instance again and selected the location of the other bright dot to teleport into.

Inside the small space, a few Rabbit Demons saw him suddenly appear, then instantly disappear again. He came and went in a rush, leaving behind only a faint breeze.

The next second, Jiang Yuan looked at the empty surroundings and his mouth twitched—Shi Hu had also, by pure accident, crouched inside the freshly repaired Array. He’d been staying there perfectly fine before, and now he had also been teleported away!

He could only exit once more, then turned his gaze to Miss Qi and asked, "What exactly is the operating mechanism of the Sealing Arrays in this Ghost Realm? As long as I teleport over, they’ll be randomly transferred away by the Array and I can’t find them at all."

Sang Qi was stunned and sent out a plea for help with her eyes toward her brothers.

The second brother cleared his throat twice and said, "I participated in the sealing back then, so I know the rough idea. This Ghost Realm broke through the world’s barrier with an overwhelming momentum. After Big Brother’s first attempt at sealing failed, he immediately contacted six Lords to help with the sealing.

But there were too many aberrations in the Ghost Realm and they were extremely ferocious, constantly trying to assault the Seals and contaminate the Wilderness.

After discussion, they finally decided to first join forces to seal it, then take the risk of entering the Ghost Realm. From the outer perimeter inward they drove the aberrations; every time they cleared an area, they immediately started sealing it..."

As he explained, he casually drew a few circles in the air. "Considering the safety of future Purification and inspection actions, they tried to gather all aberrations and seal them in the innermost central position.

The outermost Sealing Array has a confusing effect. Anyone not of the Sang Clan will get lost in this outermost ring. That way, even if aberrations escape layer by layer, once they reach this point they still can’t leave the Ghost Realm and will instead, due to losing their way, return deeper inside.

The remaining two Arrays are relatively simple, both wide in and strict out.

First, that leaves enough buffer space, convenient for subsequent inspection, repair of Arrays, and Purification; second, even if aberrations escape, it can delay them as much as possible, buying us time to handle the aftermath.

The last ring is crucial. Besides ensuring that all aberrations are sealed, it must also protect, as much as possible, the safety of the personnel who set up and repair the Arrays.

So it has a very special and sensitive Defense mechanism—as long as you’re inside the Array, if there’s any abnormal fluctuation around you, it will be regarded as danger and the Array will randomly teleport you to any position on this ring-shaped Array.

If you want to avoid triggering random teleportation, you can only approach steadily.

Big Brother went in precisely to repair this final line of defense. I’m guessing that Shi Hu, after barging in, lost his way, sank deeper and deeper, and eventually mistakenly entered the central region and got trapped by this Array.

To escape, he tore at it and caused some degree of damage. Big Brother sensed the Array being damaged and entered to repair and perfect it. For some reason, he didn’t manage to come out smoothly, and now the two of them are both under the Array’s protection.

The fluctuations caused by Daoist You teleporting in will trigger the Array and teleport them away. While this design can ensure that Cultivators inside the Array are temporarily safe, it also..."

"Also means they’ll be facing constant pollution and temptation from all those aberrations." Jiang Yuan understood at once, especially since he’d already dealt with plenty of aberrations before—those things had disgusting tricks.

Once your mind isn’t firm enough and you’re lured into walking in on your own, you’ll soon be contaminated and become one of them.