550 The trial.
Yang Dao was scolding everyone standing around him, he did not spare a single thought to the confidence and pride these genius disciples held for themselves. He even tagged them as disappointments. Natalie Brooke felt a twitch at the corner of her mouth and said, “Young Master Yang, don’t you think, you are getting overboard with your words?”
Yang Dao turned to face her and said in a serious tone, “I understand that you all have your own train of thoughts, it is not something that you can look past all of a sudden, but you all need to realize that we are all standing in a place that we know nothing about and that we are all the strongest young generation disciples from our sects.
Every moment that we spent here in conflict is an unnecessary risk. I am not a blood-thirsty person, that is why I only asked him to apologize just now. We all fight against those who commit wrongful deeds, whether it is a human, a demon, or a daemon. The damage to our sect’s strengths will be too much if any of us was to lose our lives here.
This is why I said that you all disappointed me. You are all older than me, yet I have to teach you that before you get into the trial of being the strongest sect, pass the trial of being a human being. Competition is good and it can help you advance more, but that is applicable only when you have a rival to push you forward. If I were you, I’d rather focus on doing my best than looking for the mistakes made by others.”
His words stopped and the shame in the hearts of the four sects grew deeper. The leader of the Immortal Sword Sect said, “This is the first time, I have looked at things from a new perspective, thank you. I will make sure that my fellow disciples do not provoke internal conflicts.”
Yang Dao nodded silently, he did not have the mind and mood to preach anymore than he had already done. He asked, “Where is that Array located?”
Seth, who was still reeling in from the defeat and the words spoken by Yang Dao, said, “It is up there.” with that said, he pointed his finger up at the sky.
The people all raised their heads to look at the sky but they found nothing. Yang Dao channeled the elemental source of energy inside his pupils and his eye widened, “Good heavens, this thing is massive. But what a shame that it is only one-time use.”
Shakti asked, “Dao, what is it?”
The boy replied, “It is a peak grade eight array, must have been cast by a saint level expert.”
The people sucked in a cold breath. Natalie asked, “How do you know, that it is a level eight array?”
Noah replied, “This kid has sucked our libraries dry. Only his cultivation is stopping him now.”
Yang Dao smile and glanced at the floor as he said, “Senior Brother Noah, you embarrass me.”
The sovereign sect people rolled eyes at him, while the others all had complicated expressions. They did not expect him to be such a ferocious reader and also so unpredictable. A moment ago, he was about to kill Seth, then he scolded the people, and now he is acting like a ten-year-old. This was too much for them.
Well, this was Yang Dao’s trick to prevent the people from looking through his temperament. He asked, “Any thoughts on how to start this array?”
Seth replied, “We were thinking that it needs blood essence to trigger this array?”
Yang Dao cast a gaze at the Immortal Sword leader and asked, “Senior Brother, what do you think?”
The young man was surprised by this address and said, “Junior brother Yang, I am not too sure. Also, my name is Bai Hu.”
Yang Dao clasped his palms towards the guy and then he turned his head to the leader of the prestige school. He was asking for his advice obviously. The other party shrugged at Yang Dao, indicating that he was not sure either.
Natalie Brooke said, “I have never heard of any teleportation array that would need blood essence to be triggered.” she pressed her doubt clearly.
Yang Dao, Bai Hu, and the leader of the Prestige School nodded. The Dao Child thought for a bit and said, “I think this array can be triggered by inputting the trace of spiritual essence.”
Seth was the first person to ask, “How do you conclude that?” ρꪖꪕᦔꪖꪕꪫꪣꫀꪶ
“Well, you see, that arrays mostly work with spiritual essence circulating through the formation. Now, this array as you suggested is capable of sending all of us inside the trail zone at one time, but the limit should not be up to fifty. Correct?” said the Dao Child.
Seth nodded, and Yang Dao continued, “So, just like our blood essence, our spiritual essences are also different in nature, even the vibrations of our spiritual essence are different from each other, so it is possible that this array uses these two things to determine, how many people are there for it to send over, correct? Also, it will be safer to try this method, lest our blood triggers some trap and cause us to die here.”
The leaders were convinced by his words. They all turned to discuss the logic presented with their fellow disciples, when they turned over to express their opinions, they found Yang Dao eating something that looked like a roll.
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Inside the spaceship, Alisha said, “You know Athena, sometimes I think, Young Master will make my heart explode from his actions.”
Athena sighed and replied, “Yang Dao is both the disease and the cure for our hearts, Senior Sister Alisha.”
The latter nodded at this statement. Behind them Captain Herald was also nodding, he did not know why but he could relate to their statements.
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Bai Hu said, “We are ready to input our spiritual essence inside the array. What do you all think?”
The others all raised a hand to express their willingness. Yang Dao said with his mouth half full, “Okay, I go first.”
He did not wait for anyone and began to channel his spiritual essence to the array embedded in the sky. The disciples of the sovereign sect followed his intensity and pace, followed by all the other groups. Yang Dao said, “Make sure that the spiritual essence is controlled and raises like a pillar from your bodies. Do not let it dissipate.
Yue Jing asked in a low voice, “Dao, I do not have spiritual essence yet, what should I do?”
The young boy smiled and said, “You do not have spiritual essence but you have the manipulation technique of an alchemist. Focus the flow of your spiritual energy into the shape of a pillar and go as high as you can. Believe me, you can go very high.”
Yue Jing did not doubt his words. She focused on raising the spiritual energy the way he told her to. The others all concentrated to raise their spiritual essence together and after half an hour they all sensed something. Bai Hu said, “Do not lose focus now. Pour out your reservoirs.”
Yang Dao said, “He is correct, do not hold back.”
The people squeezed out all the energy they could, after emitting spiritual essence from their bodies for half an hour like they had rivers flowing in their bodies, they were all tired and now they had to give it one last push with the strength they kept in check for emergent situations.
Yang Dao was the only one who still had half his energy left untouched. After another five minutes, the sky lit up. The disciples of all the groups raised their heads and spotted a gigantic array map glowing with folding light over their heads. However, before they had the time to appreciate the beauty of it, they sensed some external energy wrapping around their bodies.
Some disciples tried to struggle but Yang Dao said, “Don’t resist, it is the array formation.”
His words made them all stop and soon they all vanished from their spots.
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In the spaceship, Athena panicked at the sudden disappearance. She tried to look at the other spirit screens scattered in the void, but she did not find any of them showing the group of disciples. She cast a gaze at Alisha who said, “Probably we should call for Elder Cao.”
As if the old man was waiting for her to speak, he appeared in front of the people and said, “We cannot find them now, They are inside the trial zone, that place forbids all the prying forces and artifacts. However, they will not die inside, do not worry, as they fail, they will appear back at the place they disappeared from.”
His words did not calm down Alisha and Athena in the slightest but they were helpless.
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Yang Dao and the rest appeared in a place that was quite the opposite of where they have been to. Suddenly a voice sounded, “Welcome to the trial of the Pentagon.”