Lu Yang was now in a dilemma, debating whether or not to continue studying the Annihilating Immortal Sword Array.

He had just learned the basics when he heard the dreadful origin of the Sword Array, which really dampened his enthusiasm for learning.

If he didn’t study it, there were no other Sword Arrays to learn.

If he did, this was a Sword Array that the Qilin Immortal had used to bamboozle his wife, and its power was uncertain.

You don’t want to learn it only to find out it makes your sword tips go soft.

"That won’t happen," Fairy Eternity said after hearing Lu Yang’s concerns, immediately rejecting the idea.

"You don’t need to worry about the power of the Sword Array. It’s very strong. The Qilin Immortal and Ying Tian Immortal just tampered with the Immortal Sword."

"Fairy, you understand Sword Arrays too?"

"I’m relying on intuition."

"...Is your intuition reliable?"

"My intuition tells me my intuition is very reliable."

"..."

Lu Yang fell silent for a moment, sighed, and seemed resigned to his fate. He decided to study it. Regardless of its power, it must be the highest level Sword Array available to the Seek Dao Sect judging from its class.

Jiang Lianyi agreed with Fairy Eternity, believing that the Sword Array was powerful and worthwhile to learn.

𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝙬𝙚𝓫𝒏𝓸𝓿𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝙤𝓶

As for Jiang Lianyi’s opinion, Lu Yang found it completely unconvincing—he had never seen her disagree with Fairy Eternity.

"There’s one more thing I need to tell Senior Brother," said Jiang Lianyi, looking serious.

"What is it?"

"I have been living at the Seek Dao Sect for over two months now, and I have grasped the basic situation of today’s Cultivation World. It’s time for me to go out and explore. Along the way, I’ll look for Daoist Buyu and the prodigious younger generation of the Phoenix Tribe. I promised to teach her, and I must keep my word."

Lu Yang thought to himself, as expected. Jiang Lianyi couldn’t possibly stay at the Seek Dao Sect or by Fairy Eternity’s side forever. She had another purpose for leaving, which Lu Yang could guess without her saying.

The whereabouts of the Qilin Immortal and Ao Ling.

Jiang Lianyi’s feelings for these two were no less than her feelings for Fairy Eternity.

"Then I wish Elder Lianyi a smooth journey, may all your wishes come true, and may you achieve your goals soon," Lu Yang said, clasping his fists with a smile.

Although he had exposed the fact that his master was the author of "The Transformation of Dragon and Phoenix," he didn’t tell Elder Lianyi that by finding Eldest Senior Sister, she could locate their master, which allowed his master to live a bit longer.

As a disciple, he had done all that was right and just.

Fairy Eternity also came out to bid farewell to Jiang Lianyi, saying fiercely, "Achieve your goal and come back fast. If anyone outside bullies you, tell me, and I’ll have Miss Yun teach them a lesson!"

"Certainly."

Jiang Lianyi did not leave immediately but quietly departed on the fifth afternoon while Lu Yang was comprehending the Sword Array.

Two days later, Lu Yang’s mastery of the Sword Array grew more and more proficient, consuming much less energy than before.

"What’s lacking is a target to test the Sword Array’s power."

After practicing for so many days, the lawn had been sliced down several layers by the Sword Array. He felt its power was significant, but without a reference object, it always seemed incomplete.

On Sky Gate Mountain, there were only so many targets. Eldest Senior Sister was definitely not an option, neither was Third Senior Sister, leaving only that damn Puppet...

Thinking of the Puppet that had been pushing him down since he began his cultivation, Lu Yang felt he should have no problem with it now.

The perfect experimental target!

No sooner said than done.

Sky Gate Mountain wasn’t so large, and Lu Yang quickly found the Puppet, which was digging a hole to plant a tree under a pine tree.

"Hehe, I’ve finally found you. Let’s settle our new grudges and old scores together!"

...

An evenly matched battle began.

Within ten breaths after the start, the Invincible Nascent Soul fled for its life.

Twenty-five breaths into the battle, Lu Yang was beaten black and blue, howling as the shovel struck him repeatedly.

After one minute of fighting, Lu Yang was buried in the ground, becoming brothers with the pine tree planted next to him.

The fight ended with the puppet narrowly victorious.

Only after the puppet staggered away from the pine forest with a shovel on its shoulder did Lu Yang dare to crawl out, still trembling with fear.

"Indeed, it’s the puppet that has been beating me up since I was young. It’s got some skills, it seems that I am not its match at this stage."

During the battle with the puppet, Lu Yang didn’t even have a chance to deploy his ’Annihilate Immortal Sword Array’ before the fight was over.

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"Old Lu, are you there?"

Meng Jingzhou’s voice echoed through the pine forest. He was there to find Lu Yang, attracted by the noise of the fight and suspecting that Lu Yang might be around.

On hearing this, Lu Yang quickly dusted off the dirt from his body, not wanting to give Meng Jingzhou the chance to laugh at him!

After removing the pine branches stuck in his hair and cleaning himself up, he pretended to have just heard and replied irritably, "Stop shouting, I’m here!"

"What about the injuries on your face..."

The puppet had been very precise; the swelling on his face could only dissipate naturally.

Lu Yang maintained a calm expression, "It’s nothing. I just ingested an elixir, but the potency was too strong to digest. Eldest Senior Sister had to strike the acupoints on my face to help absorb the medicinal effect, that’s all."

Meng Jingzhou looked at Lu Yang skeptically, feeling that the lad was spouting nonsense.

"By the way, I just happened to have mastered a sword formation, you should try it."

Lu Yang quickly diverted Meng Jingzhou’s attention to avoid him seeing through the ruse.

Moreover, this lad was indeed the perfect target.

"Oh, so you’ve started learning sword formations. I’m quite eager to see the power of your sword formation!"

The sword array was a sword cultivator’s trump card; Meng Jingzhou could gauge Lu Yang’s abilities through it.

"Then you better be careful!"

Lu Yang knew Old Meng would agree and did not hesitate. He flicked his hands, and nine glittering swords appeared above Meng Jingzhou’s head, their sharp sword qi causing palpitations.

Meng Jingzhou let out a chant and exhibited three heads and six arms, with all six arms reaching for the sky as if to withstand the strike.

"Annihilate Immortal Sword Array!"

"Damn it, wait a moment, what’s the name of this sword array..."

As soon as Meng Jingzhou heard the name Lu Yang had called out for the sword array, he knew he was in trouble; it sounded ridiculously powerful!

Before the sword array could fall, Meng Jingzhou was seen with his six arms up, knees hitting the ground with a thud, his kneeling posture extremely proper.

Frightened, Lu Yang hurriedly retracted the sword array and helped Meng Jingzhou up, a grin spreading across his face.

"Old Meng, there was no need for such grand courtesy just for me to hold back."

Meng Jingzhou was instantly furious, "Bullshit, I wasn’t paying you any respects. It was your sword array that made me kneel. Standing under the sword array, my legs wouldn’t obey me!"

Lu Yang was utterly confused.

Seeing Lu Yang still feigning ignorance, Meng Jingzhou cursed, "Don’t play dumb with me. You did that on purpose, didn’t you? Your sword array has an effect that makes people kneel, and standing beneath it, I couldn’t control my legs!"

Lu Yang, having never stood under his own sword array, was unaware it had such an effect. He scratched his head; the experiment was truly effective, and there was even an unexpected gain.

But why would the ’Annihilate Immortal Sword Array’ have such an effect?

Fairy Eternity pondered for a moment, then figured something out, explaining, "I see now. It must be the Qilin Immortal adding an ’automatic kneeling array method’ to the sword formation, worried that his own kneeling posture wasn’t perfect, which wouldn’t allow Lianyi and Xiao Ling to forgive him."

"I knew Qilin Immortal was meticulous; there was no way he would set up a simple sword formation."

Lu Yang: "..."

It was a good thing Elder Lianyi left early. What a mess it would be if she found out about this?