Chapter: 5677

Fortunately, the knowledge within the _Nine Heavens Scripture_ is extremely complex, encompassing wind-water secrets, Yi Jing Eight Trigrams, even array techniques, refining equipment, and elixir production... making up for its own inadequacies in self-cultivation.

Without this, I fear that with my abilities alone, I would be utterly unable to match that Xu Changqing.

Therefore, Ye Chen asked her: "Has Wu Feiyun opened the Mudball Palace?"

"That is only natural," Cloud Ruo replied without hesitation: "Wu Feiyun has already opened the Mudball Palace over a hundred years ago. Once the Mudball Palace is opened, one's abilities surge! And she personally experienced the benefits of opening the Mudball Palace, so she selected three people with the strongest aptitudes from the Elder Council to seal themselves away for a century, all in pursuit of opening the Mudball Palace."

Without hesitation, Ye Chen asked: "Have those three succeeded?"

Cloud Ruo said: "According to legend, it will take another twenty years for them to succeed. Wu Feiyun may have promised us that once the three Elders successfully open the Mudball Palace and exit safely, she'll let us four people seal ourselves away and learn how to open the Mudball Palace from her. But little did we know that what awaited us was a whole trap......"

As he said this, Cloud Ruo clenched his fists in anger and said: "Mentioning the Mudball Palace, I still have something to tell Mr. Ye......"

Ye Chen saw Cloud Ruo's expression change, furrowed his brow, and opened his mouth to ask: "What is it? Tell me."

Cloud Ruo gritted his teeth and said: "Wu Feiyun initially told us that we four people were often in danger while performing our tasks outside. She was worried that if we encountered powerful cultivators, we'd lose our lives. So she spent several years setting up an extremely secret and powerful array within the Mudball Palace. She said that at critical moments, activating this array would allow us to preserve our residual soul, let our physical bodies die while our souls lived on, and gain a long-term advantage. Longevity Duke said he'd replace his body to seek revenge from Mr. Ye, which is because of this..."

As he said this, Cloud Ruo spoke with anger: "But I didn't expect that it wasn't actually an array to preserve the residual soul, but rather an extremely powerful self-destruct array......"

Ye Chen listened and nodded slightly: "That's why Longevity Duke initially begged me for mercy at the critical moment only to change his mind and act as if he were about to die..."

Cloud Ruo paused, looking up at Ye Chen with a calm expression: "No deception, Mr. Ye. Within the Mudball Palace, I also have an identical array that won't be any weaker than Longevity Duke's. Although my current body lacks spiritual energy, I can't activate it and don't want to, but I can't guarantee whether Wu Feiyun has a way to activate it......"

"You're not saying she'll personally resolve the problem, are you? Even if she can activate the array within your body, it's impossible to remotely activate it?" - Ye Chen said.

Cloud Ruo nodded slightly: "Remote activation is indeed impossible, but if she sends the three Elders out and tells them how to activate the array, then I'm afraid I'll become a super bomb that could explode at any moment near Mr. Ye..."

Ye Chen furrowed his brow and asked her, "What do you think Wu Feiyun's chances are of sending out the three Elders?"

Cloud Ruo thought for a moment before saying confidently: "According to my understanding of her, it's 100%! "

"Really?" - Ye Chen narrowed his eyes and opened his mouth. "As you said, those three Elders have been in seclusion, and they'll be able to break through the Mudball Palace in another ten or twenty years. If she lets them out now, they'll surely disrupt their cultivation, and if she wants them to continue in seclusion afterwards, it's likely that there will be an additional long-term loss, so will she give up?"

Cloud Ruo spoke sincerely: "Lord Ye, Wu Feiyun has repeatedly suffered from underestimating the enemy. She thought that just being a dead soldier would allow her to kill An Jia, and that just being a Roaming Cavalry would enable her to capture Miss Lin, but both times she failed. Afterward, she learned from those two mistakes and sent out four Marshals to assume the responsibility of searching out anomalies in the Roaming Cavalry's movements, only to find that one of them was turned into mush by a nearby defense cannon..."

"She thought that with Long Victory Marshal behind her and me hidden, it would be inevitable that she could kill An Jia. But now, she has also failed again..."

"In this kind of situation, I'm sure she'll send out the three Elders to thoroughly eliminate any future threats, because the three Elders are her ultimate trump card!"

"If the three Elders can resolve the issue, then it would be the best; if they can't all resolve it, then she might have no choice but to abandon everything and escape..."

"Cloud-like Song said: 'Miss Lin, I've never seen the three Elders, and since I joined the Clear Dawn Association, they have already secluded themselves. However, according to Wu Feiyun's words, when they were in seclusion, their abilities were already comparable to Long Victory Marshal's before he took a hundred-year nap. That is, they had surpassed me by a hundred years. After a hundred years of seclusion, their abilities would naturally have undergone tremendous progress. Our four people and theirs are certainly incomparable.'"

"Lei Chen and Lin Wan'er's expressions changed instantly."

"Pursuant to Cloud-like Song's words, the three Elders' abilities must be far surpassing the four Marshals by a huge margin. Even if we take one out of them, it would be extremely difficult to contend with. If they were to act together, their ability would be impossible to estimate."

"Lei Chen also knew that he could defeat Long Victory Marshal but absolutely couldn't beat those who had spent more than a hundred years in cultivation, let alone the three Elders." JrNovels.com