Xing Jun answered beside the point, "You asked me how much I know about the sixty-four hexagrams, but do you and the Sky Flipping Sect understand their significance?
They are the standards of space-time and mass, the balance of the universe, the entanglement of cause and effect. Their significance far exceeds the sum of anything you’ve ever seen and can’t merely be described by ’significance’ alone."
Xing Jun’s eyes revealed a reminiscent glint, "Someone once told me this. And now, I’ve finally acquired one of the hexagrams. To me, this hexagram means breaking all arrays in the world."
Christina muttered, "This sounds so familiar. Damn, was it I who told him this?"
Zhou Bai asked, "What exactly did you tell him before? Does his ghostly appearance have anything to do with you in the past?"
Holding her cat head, Christina said with a pitiful face, "I don’t know, I don’t remember meeting him."
On the other side, Li Xiuzhu sneered, then with a punch, he instantly killed a Heavenly Demon. Stepping forward, his white Primordial Spirit energy flared up and crushed another Heavenly Demon to pieces, "Heavenly Demon? Nothing to it."
"Kill him!"
"This fool!"
The remaining members of the Heavenly Demon Sect roared and charged forward, only to see Li Xiuzhu knocking each back with a punch, his surging Primordial Spirit energy firing like the main cannon of a battleship.
The ground cracked, and walls in the distance collapsed from the shockwave.
Amidst the booming sounds, white columns of light shot straight into the sky, and Li Xiuzhu directly blasted two Heavenly Demons, tens of meters tall, into rubble. Then, with an iron-like grip, he grabbed the head of another Heavenly Demon.
The head, as large as a house, was caught in his hand. Under the pressure of the Primordial Spirit energy, accompanied by crisp cracking sounds, he brutally crushed the Heavenly Demon’s head.
Xing Jun’s eyes widened in shock, "Who... who the hell are you?"
Li Xiuzhu laughed heartily, "You pretend to be from the Sky Flipping Sect, and yet you don’t recognize me, the Sect Hierarch?"
Xing Jun exclaimed, "What?"
"Ha!" Li Xiuzhu shouted, and visible white ripples burst from his mouth, all the Heavenly Demons in sight tremored and shattered mid-air, turning into a cloud of dust.
Li Xiuzhu coldly watched Xing Jun, "I said, you can’t escape."
Zhou Bai and others watched this scene in astonishment, never expecting Li Xiuzhu to be so powerful.
Xing Jun started laughing, his scriptures releasing streams of golden light, "The Celestial Star Formation of the Dao School was crafted under the supervision of Master Qing Jing based on the secret of this hexagram I have here. If I want to leave, no one can stop me."
As Xing Jun spoke, Li Xiuzhu punched at him, but the white Primordial Spirit energy passed directly through Xing Jun’s body as if hitting an illusion.
Previously, Xing Jun had used this hexagram multiple times to experiment, even opening temporary passages to let these Heavenly Demons infiltrate.
Now, he was about to activate the hexagram in his hand again to temporarily leave Donghua City.
Indeed, by using the Heavenly Demons to hold off the strongest figures like Zhao Shouyi from the school and framing Li Xiuzhu with his feigned death, Li Xiuzhu was controlled by the school, allowing Xing Jun to comfortably complete his plan.
But at this moment, with the flickering golden light, the scripture’s radiance grew weaker, giving off an impression it might extinguish.
Xing Jun was shocked by this scene and froze.
Meanwhile, Zhou Bai and Christina watched as the gemstone on Christina’s neck kept throbbing.
Xing Jun’s body also gradually shifted from an illusion back to substance.
Li Xiuzhu punched again, with a solid blast of air pressure, fiercely pounding towards Xing Jun.
A surge of demonic aura erupted from Xing Jun’s body.
Yet, Li Xiuzhu delivered a punch that seemed to shatter the atmosphere itself, accompanied by the screeching of fierce winds, it smashed Xing Jun’s lower body entirely.
Li Xiuzhu reached out, snatched the scriptures from Xing Jun’s hand with a slight smile, and quickly left, disappearing from everyone’s sight.
And Xing Jun’s remaining body slowly dissipated into the air as he glaringly watched Li Xiuzhu’s retreating figure, then suddenly turned his head and deeply glanced at Zhou Bai, "Zhou Bai, what exactly did you write in the last chapter...."
Boom... Xing Jun’s body completely vanished, but his final expression and words deeply imprinted themselves in Zhou Bai’s heart.
Zhou Bai watched this scene in shock while also feeling the gemstone on Christina’s neck vibrating incessantly within his mind.
Circles of golden text seemed to want to leap out of the gemstone towards the scripture in Xing Jun’s hand, but no matter how they tried, they couldn’t escape, and finally, as Li Xiuzhu took the scriptures and left, they calmed down.
Zhou Bai thought to himself, ’Could it be because the gemstone absorbed the essence of that object? But the little that remained did play a role for Xing Jun, but now that little bit that’s left, is it used up?’
’Isn’t Li Xiuzhu then grabbing an empty shell?’
Thinking of the formidable strength Li Xiuzhu had just displayed, cutting down the Heavenly Demon like cutting grass, Zhou Bai couldn’t help shuddering.
Immediately, the crowd hurried to send the wounded to the hospital, then reported the encounter with Xing Jun, which quickly drew attention from the school.
Zhou Bai and the others were each interrogated.
After thorough investigation and checks, confirming they were unharmed, they were still detained, clearly, the higher-ups were suspicious of them.
However, after Zhao Shouyi and Lv Chongyang’s vigorous efforts and assurances, they were released after three days.
Later, Zhou Bai and the others found out that they were not the only ones attacked.
The school’s storage of mystical resources was raided by the Heavenly Demon, countless supplies were destroyed, and it was yet to be assessed what the Heavenly Demon found or damaged.
Fortunately, Xing Jun had not been able to activate the array to break open the grand formation again.
Later, several Level 7 experts arrived from other parts of the city to reinforce, and all the infiltrating Heavenly Demons were rounded up under the Celestial Star Formation, preventing further damage.
The issue of the Sixty-Four Trigrams that Xing Jun and Li Xiuzhu mentioned was relayed by Zhou Bai and the others to the teachers, prompting the leaders of Donghua City to initiate an Array improvement plan, aiming to rebuild the Celestial Star Formation of Donghua City to prevent further infiltrations.
Zhou Bai and the others also signed a secrecy agreement to keep the matter of Xing Jun defecting to the Heavenly Demon confidential.
...
In the utter darkness, Xing Jun slowly regained consciousness once more.
As he opened his eyes, countless flashes of memories from before his death made him recall his own memories.
"Could this be... the Heavenly Demon Pool?"
"Xing Jun," cries and screams resounded all around, "You failed. The first trigram hidden by the Quiet Daoist not only wasn’t retrieved but also fell into the hands of the most troublesome person."
Xing Jun’s face tightened slightly as he explained, "There was a problem with the first trigram at the end, but I roughly know where the issue lies, and there’s still a way to resolve it."
"What way?"
"Zhou Bai, bring him here. The secrets he holds are definitely linked to the whereabouts of the Quiet Hermit."
"That won’t be so easy."
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"There’s always a way."