Chapter 1209: The Han Tianjun of the Fortress Array (Third Update)
Qin Mu looked up at the "sky." The cubic prison—whether its sky, ground, or four walls—was made of massive landmasses, each covered in various divine and demonic seals.
These lands were meant to trap the Heavenly Artifact Divine Clan on the Ark of the Other Shore, as well as the ark itself. The mute’s people had sacrificed countless lives to carve out a single path.
Countless clansmen died, finally allowing the mute to walk out of the seal alive.
At that time, the mute was still a child.
He walked out of the seal alone, facing the treacherous Great Ruins. Yet the mute survived, leaving the Great Ruins, only to confront a human heart far more sinister than the Great Ruins by countless times.
Qin Mu stared expressionlessly at the face emerging on the "sky." To break through layer upon layer of seals so easily, causing the land to rise and form his features—while the seals remained intact, still existing on his face—only the one who personally set the seals could achieve such a feat.
To fold six continents into this massive seal required profound cultivation and supreme skill!
His face seemed composed of countless tiny cubes, each cube a sealing formation within a continent. Countless cubes formed his facial expressions—forehead, nose, ears, mouth, and even his eyeballs were made of cubes.
"Heh heh..."
The enormous face opened its mouth and laughed, sending countless stone fragments hurtling toward the Ark of the Other Shore.
As his expression shifted, the countless cubes forming his face surged, rose and fell, changing in height and position.
His face was even larger than the Ark of the Other Shore, and his laughter echoed back and forth within the cubic prison, making eardrums buzz and drowning out all other sounds.
"Finally, I’ve waited for you—the leader of the Heavenly Artifact Divine Clan, the War Heavenly King of the Kaihuang Era!"
At that moment, the ground beneath the cube also transformed into another equally massive face, speaking urgently and laughing: "Li Youran, as a Heavenly King, you human leader are truly useless, only flirting with the Red Emperor, unable even to protect your own people!"
The other four walls of the cubic prison each revealed a face, laughing: "I was really looking forward to a fight with you, to see what the Kaihuang War Heavenly King could do, but you turned out to be a silver spear with a wax tip—all show, no use. I had to kill your people and seal the remaining old, weak, and disabled here."
He had six faces, speaking from six different directions, one after another: "I always wanted to take your head to claim a reward, but you ran away, so I had to torment your people."
"You were busy flirting with the Red Emperor back then, weren’t you? The two of you, all love and romance, like a pair of star-crossed fools—so melodramatic! And at that time, I was slaughtering your people!"
"I watched them desperately try to escape, desperately try to break the seal, while my soldiers raised their blades and butchered those fragile lives!"
"They were just a bunch of blacksmiths, powerless, unable to resist me or my army!"
Emperor Shakti Li Youran’s face showed grief and anger. On the Ark of the Other Shore, monks slowly raised their heads to look at the faces on all sides.
"But my soldiers got tired of killing. I sealed them up, trapping them here to die over the next twenty thousand years. Still, I’m playful at heart—I left them a weak spot in the seal, giving them hope."
The faces on the six walls of the cubic prison were delighted, their smiles twisting: "With hope, they’d fall into the trap, spending their entire lives trying to break the seal. But one by one, they died within it! Hee hee hee hee!"
"Killing them all would be too troublesome and time-consuming. Let them die on their own, and I don’t even have to dirty my hands!"
The six faces’ smiles grew more twisted, even their eyes distorting: "In the end, all the Heavenly Artifact Divine Clan died! Hee hee hee hee! They were so foolish, like moths to a flame, throwing themselves into that seemingly hopeful escape route, and no one walked out alive!"
He burst into laughter: "After I left here, I resolved to find you, but you went to the Buddhist realm and became a bald monk! Yes, you destroyed the Kaihuang Heavenly Artifact Divine Clan, you achieved emptiness in all four elements, you became alone—ha ha ha ha, you no longer seek revenge! Right, how did you completely sever your worldly ties and join Buddhism? Because you believed the one who wiped out your people was the Red Emperor!"
"But it was me!"
His voice came from all directions, filled with pride: "It was me, Han Tianjun of the Heavenly Court Fortress Array!"
Emperor Shakti Li Youran was furious to the extreme, about to wake from his dream, when Qin Mu’s voice pierced into his dream: "King Buddha, I’m here to protect you. Focus on repairing the Ark of the Other Shore."
His divine consciousness surged, activating the Sutra of Infinite Calamities, and Emperor Shakti Li Youran fell back into his dream.
Qin Mu stood up, expressionlessly looking at the faces on the six walls of the cubic prison: "Han Tianjun of the Heavenly Court Fortress Array, you’re still wrong. The Heavenly Artifact Divine Clan hasn’t been wiped out."
"Mu Tianzun?"
Han Tianjun’s gaze fell on him, eighteen eyes giving an extremely uncomfortable feeling. All six faces laughed: "So it’s Mu Tianzun. Mu Tianzun mixing with rebels—are you planning to revolt? Could it be that you’re a descendant of the Heavenly Artifact Divine Clan? No, you’re a descendant of the traitor Qin Ye..."
Another face laughed: "Killing a Tianzun within my great seal shouldn’t be a big deal, right?"
"Killing Mu Tianzun—the ten Tianzuns of the Heavenly Court will be overjoyed, promoting me and enriching me!"
His other faces cheered, laughing: "Not just promotion and wealth—they’ll give us endless glory and fortune, maybe even make this our chance to sit on the Throne!"
He laughed heartily as six massive landmasses, like thick, sticky liquid, dripped from six different directions toward the central Ark of the Other Shore.
These six continents had turned into six giant droplets!
Qin Mu looked at the six large droplets. Each was extremely murky, but they weren’t made of mud—they were composed of countless cubes.
The entire "droplet" was arranged from cubes, each cube containing a divine or demonic figure. They spread their arms and legs, standing within the cubes.
They formed the "droplet," but if one looked closely, one could see that these divine beings used their own bodies as basic runic marks, forming a unique array structure.
This differed from other arrays. Other arrays used diagrams or runic marks to form the formation, but the Fortress Array used gods as the basic structure.
The Heavenly Court Fortress Array referred not just to the formation, but also to the Fortress Army of the Heavenly Court forces—a army renowned for its impenetrable defenses!
The Fortress Array was an ancient formation, once controlled by the ancient god Fortress Star Lord. But Fortress Star Lord was clearly dead, taken over by Han Tianjun, and the Fortress Array was passed down.
However, Qin Mu had seen Han Tianjun’s array before, from the Western Earth formation master He Yiyi.
Qin Mu was deeply impressed by He Yiyi’s formations. As the number one formation master of the Western Earth, she was exceptionally brilliant. Now it seemed that the Western Earth’s formations, besides inheriting from the True Heaven Palace and True Heaven Old Mother, should also include Han Tianjun’s legacy.
——Huh, I was writing on my laptop during class and managed to finish two chapters, even though the teacher kept looking at me...