Chapter 4415: She Has Returned
Ear East discovered a tiny crack. When he saw what was inside, his eyes immediately sparkled with excitement.
He was like a blazing sun in the darkness; his entire aura shifted, energy surging, and behind him illusory formations manifested one after another.
He saw a chaos rune he had never encountered before so complex and advanced it shocked him.
And behind that rune, an even more unimaginable grand array was hidden.
All of Ear East's focus was captured by this formation; he forgot everything else.
At that moment, in his eyes, there was only the chaos rune left by Catastrophe Supreme, and the grand array behind it.
He had no idea that, inside the grand array beyond the rune, a pair of eyes were silently watching him.
Aboard the Calamity Boat, Lin Moyu saw Ear East and observed his reaction.
"A real formation fanatic," he muttered.
As Wine Sovereign had said, Ear East was truly obsessed his devotion to formations had reached a unique level.
Yet Lin Moyu shook his head. "It's a shame... such obsession means he can never use arrays to become a quasi Supreme. His path is wrong."
Little Tree, listening, looked doubtful. "Master's point is interesting, but doesn't obsession make enlightenment easier?"
Lin Moyu replied, "Not so the obsession allows you to touch the peak, but to surpass it becomes even harder.
What I've realized lately is: if you worship your path too much, you are shackled by it.
Wine Sovereign has his own path, but he learned to forget let go of his faith in the path and create something entirely his own in order to break through."
"Ear East is the opposite too fixated on formations, he venerates them. That limits him.
Sometimes faith is a shackle you can use it, but don't trust in it too much."
Little Tree pondered this idea: use the Dao, but don't let it bind you.
Lin Moyu smiled, "Don't think too hard these are just my recent insights. If you and Chaos Child recover all your memories, you'd know this better than me; your realm was once far above mine."
Little Tree shook his head, "No, our power wasn't gained through our own cultivation, so our understanding is shallow. Your words really inspire me. We were too dependent on innate strength; that's why we were stuck."
"If I'd understood back then, maybe things would have been different."
Lin Moyu smiled again, not pressing further. Whether right or wrong, only time could tell.
Little Tree soon found an ancient desolation path now their work in ancient desolation was done and it was time to return to chaos.
From earlier conversations, Lin Moyu knew this spot was close to the western pole of chaos
though "close" meant a several thousand year flight for the Calamity Boat.
Luckily, Little Tree could locate ancient paths, shortening the journey.
There were paths everywhere, even in ancient scars whether they led directly to the west pole depended on luck.
Once back in the west pole, he could search for Catastrophe Supreme's next array.
With the ancient desolation array now refined, Lin Moyu could much more accurately sense the remaining arrays' locations.
Little Tree quickly found a path; the Calamity Boat plunged in, rushing toward the west pole.
The force of the path battered the boat with a hammering sound.
Lin Moyu refined pure water and monitored Ear East's movements, who was still studying the rune with little progress.
Lin Moyu knew Ear East would never try brute forcing it that would stain his pride and reputation.
Watching, Lin Moyu could roughly judge Ear East's skill. After a dozen days, Ear East began his attempt.
But his method was wrong the rune didn't react. He tried over and over for days, but never even approached the solution.
Lin Moyu noticed his patience never wavered; to such a cultivator, decades or centuries made no difference.
One year passed, and still Ear East had no success.
He paused, sent out many array disks, and started reviewing what had happened here
since time at this spot had been erased, he surveyed faint shadows in other voids to reconstruct the record.
The result was murky, but enough.
"That's Old Wine and that old bug, Myriad Legs…
So Myriad Legs bought my triple formation to take on Old Wine?
He really doesn't know himself; to take on Old Wine was suicide. But behind Old Wine... there's a formation!"
He saw the shadow of the grand array even faint, it was enough.
He instantly resolved to track down Old Wine.
"Old Wine. Time to find Old Wine!" Ear East muttered.
At that moment, the void warped and Wine Sovereign appeared: "No need I'm here."
Ear East eyed him. "You're back already?"
Wine Sovereign replied, "Of course I came to find you."
Ear East said, "I didn't know Myriad Legs was buying arrays to fight you. He owed me, so I sold him my main triple array."
Wine Sovereign replied, "That's not why I'm here that's trivial. Even with your formation, Myriad Legs is just a plaything to me."
He continued: "I'm here to tell you one thing you cannot harm that little friend. He's a friend of mine, and I don't have many friends. You understand what that means."
A warning was clear in his tone.
They were on good terms, but for others, Wine Sovereign might already have struck.
Ear East said, "I never intended to hurt him just to discuss arrays with anyone who breaks my formations. That guy is clever; he wiped my marks, so I can't find him.
And there's a grand array here, more worth studying."
Wine Sovereign said, "Good. You must've noticed this array is from a Supreme you can't break it easily.
That young man was entrusted by a Supreme and refined this formation."
"If you wish to compete in formation arts, use this array as your test see if you can solve it."
Ear East replied, "I thought the same. How long did it take him to reach this point?"
Wine Sovereign held up a finger; Ear East guessed, "A hundred years?"
Wine Sovereign shook his head, "A day."
"That's impossible!" Ear East shouted. He'd spent a whole year and made zero progress; how could anyone have managed in one day?
Wine Sovereign lowered his voice, "A day. Believe it or not, I never lie. Hm?"
Suddenly, he looked up, startled.
Ear East did the same.
In the far distance, a fierce sword aura surged skyward.
With shock, Ear East said, "What incredible sword intent!"
Wine Sovereign's face lit with joy: "She's back!"
And with that, Wine Sovereign vanished on the spot.
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