696 Soul Locking Array

Devouring Ancestral Symbol

When those three words entered his ear, Lin Dong felt a chilling sensationstart to gush out from within his heart, before it finally spread to every partof his body. In the next instant, his body reflexively tensed up like adangerous beast that was being threatened…

Ever since he had obtained the Devouring Ancestral Symbol, Lin Dong wasusually very cautious and would not use it unless it was a critical moment. Itwas because he knew how enticing the Devouring Ancestral Symbol was. Its allurewas enough to cause even some elite practitioners to manifest a greedy desirein their hearts.

He did not know how the sect master before his eyes had discovered hepossessed the Devouring Ancestral Symbol. However, this did not stop themultitude of thoughts and ideas that now churned within his mind.

However, while he was secretly feeling anxious, he still felt slightlyrelieved. At least… his greatest secret, the Mysterious Stone Talisman had notbeen discovered.

Although he still did not know the exact properties of the Mysterious StoneTalisman, through intuition alone, he had a vague feeling that it was veryimportant. In fact, from a certain perspective, it was perhaps even morepowerful than the Devouring Ancestral Symbol…

Dao Sect master, Ying Xuanzi. One of the Eastern Xuan Region’s strongestpractitioners. This was the information that he received from Wu Dao. Eventhough he had exercised plenty of discretion, he had never imagined that hissecrets would be discovered by such a character…

Such an expert was truly terrifying.

“Little one. You are exactly as Ying Huanhuan has described. Overly cautiousand prudent.”

While Lin Dong felt a chill spread across his entire body, the Dao Sectmaster, Ying Xuanzi faintly smiled instead. With eyes that seemingly containeda sea of wisdom within them, it was as if he had read Lin Dong’s mind.

In response, Lin Dong could only remain silent. There were some issues wherebyhe had no choice but to remain cautious.

“The Devouring Ancestral Symbol is indeed precious. However, not everyonedesires it in this world.” Dao Sect master Ying Xuanzi continued in a slow andgentle voice, causing Lin Dong’s originally tense heart to quietly relax anotch.

Lin Dong raised his head and looked at the warmly smiling Ying Xuanzi, as someof the deep weariness within his eyes quietly disappeared. He had seen allkinds of people over the years, and could hence faintly sense the boundlessgrace of the man before him.

This was the true bearing a master of a super sect should possess.

“I know about some of your past experiences. Perhaps it is necessary for youto be cautious in the past. After all, you were all alone. Therefore, youalways had to tread carefully and exercise discretion.”

“However… you only need to remember one thing now. As long as you are adisciple of the Dao Sect, the sect will always support you.”

“The current you is no longer alone.”

After hearing that last statement, Lin Dong could not resist as his expressionturned weird for a while. What did it mean that you are not alone… Althoughthis statement made Lin Dong choke for a while, he nevertheless felt a raresour feeling in his nose for some time, while his eyes even turned a littlemoist. After a while, he raised his head and looked at this peak practitioner,who was famed across the Eastern Xuan Region. This time, his eyes did not havemuch reverence, and he said with a smile, “ Truly worthy of lord sect master.After your statement, I almost had the urge to go through hell and high waterfor the Dao Sect…”

“You’ve already done such things,” replied Ying Xuanzi with a smile.

“The reason why I was able to discover the Devouring Ancestral Symbol in yourbody was because I was paying close attention to you when you were at thebottom of the Pill River. At that time, you had used the power of yourDevouring Ancestral Symbol…”

“No wonder.”

Only at this moment, did Lin Dong finally understand why. Promptly, hesecretly feeling helpless. He truly had no way out when faced with the scrutinyof such a powerful practitioner. Looks like he needed to be even more cautiousin future.

“The Devouring Ancestral Symbol is indeed a powerful object. However, youshould refrain from using it in future. Wait till the moment when you are ableto call forth its full strength before revealing it to the outside world.”warned Ying Xuanzi.

“Yes, this disciple understands.” replied Lin Dong respectfully as he noddedhis head.

Ying Xuanzi gave a faint smile before turning around and looking towards thelake in front of him. With a wave of his sleeve, the lake was directly splitinto two. Following the formation of the fissure in the lake, a gigantic whitearray came into view and floated upwards. Light rays began to extend from itand enveloped the entire lake, while wave after wave of shocking energyfluctuations started erupting from the light array.

At the center most position of the light array was a black sapling that wasaround half a meter in size. A fluorescence light scattered from it and itlooked just like one of the stars in the night sky. It was extremely beautiful.

“Is that the… Ancient Immortal Yuan Tree?”

Lin Dong gazed at the black sapling at the centre of the large array andgawked for a while before he suddenly asked.

“Yes, this sapling was the result of the Ancient Immortal Yuan Seed that youguys brought back…” replied Yuan Xuanzi.

“So fast?” exclaimed Lin Dong in shock. Hasn’t it only been just over tendays? Yet, the seedling had already grown to such a stage?

“The Ancient Immortal Yuan Tree is just that mysterious. In addition, this‘Soul Locking Array’ has absorbed all the energy from this domain. Furthermore,the bottom of this lake is connected to the four pill rivers in the Dao Sectand they have been used to nourish this ancient tree.” replied Ying Xuanzi.

An astonished expression appeared on Lin Dong’s face. They had actuallyconnected the four Pill Rivers just to nourish this Ancient Immortal Yuan Tree.Such a huge investment. Surely, only a super sect could afford to raise such athing. In the hands of another faction, even if they managed to obtain theseed, they would likely be unqualified to groom it.

“When the Ancient Immortal Yuan Tree has thoroughly matured, the trainingprogress of our Dao Sect’s disciples will be raised to another level. This isextremely important for improving the overall strength of our sect,” said YingXuanzi as he looked at the black sapling at the centre of the large array.

Lin Dong nodded his head. He had devoured five Ancient Immortal Yuan Fruits.Hence, he naturally knew the mysterious effects of this fruit. If they weretruly able to raise and produce more of it, it would indeed be a momentousoccasion for the Dao Sect.

“It seems that you’re about to make a breakthrough?” asked Ying Xuanzi as hesmiled and suddenly changed the topic.

Lin Dong nodded his head again, unsurprised by this. Since Ying Xuanzi coulddiscover the Devouring Ancestral Symbol in his body, how could he possibly hidesuch a thing…

“Since you have made a big contribution, there will be a need to reward you.This sealing array will be thoroughly sealed off in a couple of days to focuson nourishing the Ancient Immortal Yuan Seed. Before this happens, you canenter the array and cultivate. I think it will be enough to help you with yourbreakthrough. Besides this, I will personally protect you while you are at it.”Ying Xuanzi said while pointing at the great array at the bottom of the lake.

“In addition, the opening of the Great Desolation Tablet is in half a month.This is an extremely important event for the entire Dao Sect. You should beaware just how tyrannical the Great Desolation Mysterious Scripture is. In thepast hundred years, only Zhou Tong had been able to successfully learn it …”

From the corner of his eyes, Lin Dong saw an unexpected minor disturbance inthe peaceful eyes of Ying Xuanzi for the first time when he mentioned Zhou Tong.

“Senior Zhou Tong…” Lin Dong hesitated for a while before he could not resistbut ask.

“He is my disciple…” Ying Xuanzi replied in a soft voice.

Lin Dong was faintly startled before proceeding to nod his head. He had neverexpected that senior Zhou Tong was actually Ying Xuanzi’s disciple. Looks likethat matter was truly quite complicated…

“Although you have only joined the Dao Sect for only a short time, you areregarded as the Desolate Hall disciple that has the greatest chance ofcomprehending the Great Desolate Mysterious Scripture. Of course, don’t feelstressed over this matter. Just focus and try your best. That is enough.” YingXuanzi said as he changed the topic. The fluctuations within his eyes settleddown extremely quickly.

“Yes.”

Lin Dong nodded his head and did not dare to ask any more questions regardingZhou Tong.

“Go in.”

Ying Xuanzi shifted his attention towards the bottom of the lake. With a waveof his sleeve, the black sapling was shifted away, revealing a small lightarray below. Within that light array, was a faint and seemingly majesticfluctuation of energy.

Upon seeing this, Lin Dong did not procrastinate. His body flashed as hedashed towards the bottom of the lake. In a flash, he appeared above the smallarray, before slowing descending onto it.

Seated on the small array, Lin Dong glanced at his surroundings. From thisangle, he could see innumerable threads of energy spreading out in alldirections, with him at the center. Looking up, he could faintly see theoutline of the mysterious array.

One could tell that this was an array that required quite a large investment.Just by sitting here, Lin Dong could already feel wave after wave of vigorousenergy continuously flowing into his body.

“This is really a good place for cultivation…”

Lin Dong could not help but mutter. However, it was a pity that such a goodplace was being used to raise the Ancient Immortal Yuan Tree. After enjoying itfor a while, this place would be thoroughly sealed…

“Let’s begin…”

At the edge of the lake, Ying Xuanzi’s reminder rang out. He proceeded tochange his hand seal, causing the lake to start whistling, while bright strandsof light and the gigantic and complex array gradually started to rotate.

Roar Roar!

When the array began to rotate, wave after wave of vigorous energy akin to atide started to crazily rush in from all directions. In the end, they viciouslyexploded towards Lin Dong, who was currently seated in the middle of the array.

Huff!

As he gazed at the tangled and boundless amounts of energy that were rumblingand rushing towards him, Lin Dong took a deep breath. He suppressed the faintexcitement in his heart and slowly closed his eyes, before Devouring Powersuddenly exploded out of him.

Since Ying Xuanzi had already discovered the Devouring Ancestral Symbol in hisbody, Lin Dong did not need to hide it anymore. Furthermore, he had Ying Xuanziprotecting him. Therefore, even in the entire Eastern Xuan Region, there washardly anyone who could disrupt him…

Devouring Power burst out, and transformed into a gradually rotating blackhole behind Lin Dong’s body. It completely devoured the boundless energy thatwas flooding over…

Under this frantic devouring, the Yuan Power and Mental Energy within LinDong’s body started to gradually surge towards the critical breakthrough point.