"Oh no, I got it wrong."

Lu Yang finally realized the reason, these past three days he wasn’t communicating with the Seven-star Sword Array, but with the Sword Washing Pool!

"Little Junior Brother you..."

Because her eyes were closed, Third Senior Sister sensed the movement outside through her other senses and took a moment to figure out what her little junior brother had done.

He’d lured the Sword Washing Pool away!

"Hold on, it was an accident, I can explain!" Lu Yang quickly shouted, frantically trying to sever the connection with the Sword Washing Pool in secret.

But the emotional bond he had formed with the Sword Washing Pool over three days wasn’t something he could simply cut off.

After several unsuccessful attempts, he had to admit something—the Sword Washing Pool had latched onto him.

Buddy, you don’t have to do this, right? Can you follow someone else, please? I’m just a minor figure with little power, I dare not claim you.

Blatantly taking a sect’s treasure for oneself is unacceptable anywhere.

Third Senior Sister wore an expression that said ’you don’t need to explain too much’: "Eldest Senior Sister always said that our little junior brother was immensely talented, just a bit unorthodox, and seeing it today proves it."

She hadn’t had the chance to see it in the Demon Territory, but now she finally had.

"..." Eldest Senior Sister, couldn’t you say something good about me?

"It’s just that an accident occurred during communication, I didn’t practice it wrongly," Lu Yang said earnestly, correcting Third Senior Sister’s misconception.

"Fairy, why didn’t you remind me that I was communicating with the Sword Washing Pool all along?" Could Third Senior Sister not notice something was off? Could you, a Fairy, not notice either?

"Ah? I thought you wanted to control the Sword Washing Pool first, and then use it to control the Seven-star Sword Array."

"...It indeed seems possible to do so."

Following Fairy Eternity’s train of thought, Lu Yang realized he could indeed control the Seven-star Sword Array by controlling the Sword Washing Pool.

The Seven-star Sword Array felt comfortable in the Sword Washing Pool and wouldn’t fake it. Having experienced it once, they would definitely want to experience it again.

To enjoy it a second time, they would have to behave themselves!

"Forget it, then I’ll just inform Eldest Senior Sister about it."

At this point, he couldn’t forcibly separate himself from the Sword Washing Pool.

Lu Yang collected the water he had poured out back into the Sword Washing Pool, and then packed up the Sword Washing Pool along with the Seven-star Sword Array into his Identity Jade with practiced ease, as if cleaning up a crime scene.

On their way back, passing through the great grassland, he took out his Identity Jade, and sure enough, the demon beasts no longer attacked them.

By this time, Eldest Senior Sister and Jiang Lianyi had already finished their tour of Captive Peak. The Ancient Cultivators imprisoned in Captive Peak were shivering with fear.

What kind of background did the Seek Dao Sect have to be able to dig up the Phoenix Ancestor who had been missing for hundreds of thousands of years?

If before they had looked down on the Seek Dao Sect because of their ancient status, now they had lost even that last bit of pride.

When it came to antiquity, who could surpass the Phoenix Ancestor?

Even summoning the Four Ancient Immortals, they were contemporaries of the Phoenix Ancestor; there was no precedent or priority.

As for Grandmaster, his reaction was barely any better than Elder Tao’s, especially when he heard from Eldest Senior Sister that it was Lu Yang who had unearthed the Phoenix Ancestor, his expression was spectacularly expressive.

A student outdoes his master indeed. This youngster, Lu Yang, was much more adept at causing trouble than his own master was.

Grandmaster was relieved that he had already retired. If he were still in the position of Sect Leader, he wouldn’t be able to settle the chaos that Lu Yang had stirred up.

...

"Are you saying you’ve refined the sect’s Sword Washing Pool?"

Eldest Senior Sister was startled for a moment upon hearing her little junior brother’s report.

If I remember correctly, I told you to go to the Sword Washing Pool to refine the Seven-star Sword Array—not to refine the Sword Washing Pool itself.

"It was accidental," Lu Yang reiterated that there was a reason behind the incident.

However, even if there were reasons, Lu Yang was not in the right on this matter. Taking the Sect’s property for his own, no matter how you look at it, there must be punishment.

"I remember you promised me, Master, that I could take anything from our Sect?" Jiang Lianyi stepped forward, coming to her Senior Brother’s defense.

"If that’s the case, what if I take away the Sword Washing Pool?"

"Of course, you can."

Thus, the reasoning behind this matter was explained.

The Eldest Senior Sister’s original intention was just to find a reason to rightfully give the Sword Washing Pool to Lu Yang.

To the Seek Dao Sect, the Sword Washing Pool was a dispensable asset; only two sword cultivators had emerged in the past two thousand years, and the pool was scarcely used.

It was only that it could not be given directly to the Junior Brother, as that would be considered disregard for the Sect’s rules and regulations, unfavorable for the unity of the Sect.

"Well, since you’ve already acquired the Sword Washing Pool, in just a few days you’ll be able to master the Seven-star Sword Assembly and have the foundation to practice the Sword Array."

The Eldest Senior Sister took out a small booklet from her bosom.

"This is a spoil of battle I claimed after encountering an enemy. It just so happens there is a Sword Array in it. This is the first level; you take it and learn first."

Lu Yang took the booklet, and seeing the name of the Sword Array, his hand shook, almost failing to hold it steady.

"Destroying Immortal Sword Formation."

"Can this Sword Array really ’destroy the Immortal’?" Lu Yang asked with a trembling voice.

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It was a rhetorical question—if it couldn’t destroy the Immortal, why would it be named such?

"It can’t really. I suppose it’s just a name meant to intimidate."

Lu Yang: "..."

𝑓𝘳𝘦𝑒𝑤𝑒𝘣𝘯ℴ𝘷𝘦𝓁.𝑐𝑜𝑚

Who was the lunatic who came up with this name?

"I don’t know who the other party was either."

The Eldest Senior Sister recalled the events: "I stumbled upon him by chance. He was plotting a major move in secret, and once successful, it would have turned Great Xia upside down. The situation was urgent, with no time to seek help. I was forced to act and then killed him."

"He was undoubtedly an ancient cultivator, but I am not sure if he was from Great Yu or Great Qian."

"This Sword Array, as well as your Green Peak Sword, were possessions of that person."

"I’ve tested the power of the Sword Array myself. It can’t destroy the Immortal, but its power is still quite considerable. What you have is the first level; I will give you the subsequent ones once you raise your realm."

"Was the opponent a sword cultivator?"

"No, he merely knew how to wield a sword. It seemed he had some knowledge of talismans, array methods, and the like, but his grasp wasn’t very refined. With his realm, he could bully a Semi-Immortal, but against someone of the same level, he would be outmatched."

"...wait, he was an Immortal?!"

The Eldest Senior Sister didn’t understand why Lu Yang was so shocked: "Of course, he was an Immortal. Even a Semi-Immortal wouldn’t dare to give their Sword Array such a name."

"He was probably the weakest Immortal I’ve encountered, even weaker than the one I met in the Eternity Sect."

It wasn’t just Lu Yang who was unsettled, even Jiang Lianyi was not calm.

The Eldest Senior Sister spoke lightly, but the opponent was the weakest of Immortals. Even the weakest Immortal was still an Immortal, and she had just killed him!

Fairy Eternity recalled the aura of the Dao Fruit she sensed deep within the treasury of the Seek Dao Sect, which must have belonged to this person.

"Psh, just killing an Immortal, talking as if nobody else could do it. It’s only because I didn’t come across the opportunity, otherwise, I could kill one too."

Lu Yang was about to thank the Eldest Senior Sister and start bonding with the Seven-star Sword Assembly, then begin to practice the Sword Array to become a qualified sword cultivator when he detected a change with the Nine Nether Order. Someone from the Jiuyou Sect was contacting him.

After reading the text on the Nine Nether Order, his face showed a strange expression.

"What’s wrong? Has the Jiuyou Sect contacted you?" asked the Eldest Senior Sister.

"The Jiuyou Sect is telling me that the Master of the Yaoyang Sect wants to meet me."