Chapter 320

Chapter 320: You Owe Me My Heavenly Tome!
No. That was not right. Things had still changed.

In this life, the only variable was her.

Only she had broken free from her original fate and walked a path completely different from her previous life.

It was clearly a Formation Array Arts formed by Master Qing Yan and the other six. So why had the only blessing fallen on her alone?

Who was secretly controlling everything from the shadows?

Su Ming?

Or someone else she could not predict at all?

While Yu Zhao was lost in thought, Master Qing Yan and the others had already followed Su Ming’s instructions and taken their places one by one at the position of the Formation Core.

Lan Zi Yu suddenly grew timid at the final moment. He stammered: “C-can I maybe…”

Master Qing Yan, Fang Cheng Lang, and the others all looked at him with open disdain, but Su Ming, unlike usual, spoke to calm him down.

Su Ming said softly: “Second Senior Brother, don’t worry. After the grand array is activated, there will not be any pain. If you truly cannot endure it, you can even choose to quit halfway.”

Lan Zi Yu asked in disbelief: “I can really quit?”

Su Ming answered: “Of course.”

Lan Zi Yu nodded half believing, half doubting. The others, however, all frowned, annoyed by this extra uncontrollable variable.

Su Ming ignored what they thought. As the one leading the grand array, he resolutely activated the Formation Array Arts.

In an instant, heaven and earth changed color.

Wild winds howled. Torrential rain poured. Thunder rolled and lightning flashed. Snow and hail fell together.

Space twisted violently, as if it would collapse in the next breath.

Standing inside the array, the seven of them felt as if their bodies and souls were about to be torn apart by the raging power of heaven and earth.

Under the dense hailstones, Quan Ye, who had already lost both his hands, was far less calm than the other senior brothers. He could barely even open his eyes.

He roared in fury: “Su Ming!”

Su Ming’s face remained calm as he replied: “It will be over soon.”

His words seemed to be some kind of special switch.

In the next moment, the seven of them felt an irresistible power begin to gnaw away at their bodies.

It was a kind of devouring that could be seen with the naked eye.

First to vanish were their toes, then the entire soles of their feet.

After that, the power continued to move upward – ankles, calves, knees…

Lan Zi Yu screamed: “Ahhhhhh!”

In such extreme pain, he was forced to watch every familiar part of his body disappear at terrifying speed. His mind, which had already been under too much pressure, collapsed again.

He wanted to run, to escape the Formation Array Arts, to stop being this damned Formation Core.

But only now did he realize that his body had already fused completely with the Formation Array Arts.

He could not escape at all.

Lan Zi Yu shrieked: “Su Ming! You lied to me! You lied to me! Ahhh!”

Su Ming raised his head and looked up at the sky.

He shouted: “Heavenly Dao, I have done what I promised you. Don’t forget your promise!”

Heavenly Dao?

Everyone was shocked.

Even Lan Zi Yu, who had been wailing miserably, fell silent at once.

Master Qing Yan stared at Su Ming and roared hoarsely: “Su Ming, what you said before was a lie!”

By now, more than half of their bodies had been eaten away. Master Qing Yan’s face twisted with pain and despair into something almost unrecognizable.

He had thought: [I can really make up for my mistakes.]

He had thought: [I can really save the Cultivation World.]

But it all turned out to be a lie.

Su Ming said with a strained smile: “I did not lie to you. This Formation Array Arts really can reverse time and return us to the past.”

Master Qing Yan froze for a moment, almost daring to feel happy, but Su Ming went on: “However, the one who can defy heaven and change fate, the one who can jump out of the rules, can only be a single person.”

When Su Ming had opened the Heavenly Tome, he had learned from it that the Heavenly Tome actually carried the will of the Heavenly Dao. It could even be seen as the embodiment of the Heavenly Dao itself.

The Heavenly Dao had told Su Ming that spirit power was exhausted, Fortune was drained, and the Cultivation World was on the verge of destruction.

There was only one way to save the Cultivation World.

They had to use the bodies and souls of seven great Fated Ones to activate the Ancient Grand Formation.

The person at the very center of the array would receive a chance to defy heaven and change fate, to repair his past mistakes.

The chance would appear only once.

And yet, they had seven people.

Su Ming had not hesitated at all before taking that single chance for himself.

Ye Cong Xin had once said that among the five senior brothers, he was not the most outstanding one, but his luck was terrifyingly good.

He had too many regrets he wanted to fix. He was the best candidate.

Su Ming knew this news would certainly cause dissatisfaction, so he chose to hide it. He lied and said everyone would get to start over.

As expected, his decision was wise. After a few small twists and turns, the grand array had finally been successfully activated.

Now he was eager to see the Heavenly Dao fulfill its promise.

But after his shout, he waited a long time without any response from the Heavenly Dao.

The smile on his face slowly turned into fear.

He cried out again: “Heavenly Dao! Hea…”

His voice cut off halfway.

That strange power had already eaten through his throat.

He was about to be completely swallowed.

Quan Ye, the burliest of them all, threw his head back and laughed without mercy when he saw this: “Hahahahaha!”

Su Ming had lied to them.

And the Heavenly Dao had lied to Su Ming.

This was truly retribution.

Thinking that he was about to die, Quan Ye’s first emotion was not fear, but a sense of release.

Master Qing Yan, Fang Cheng Lang, and Cui Jue all thought the same way as Quan Ye.

They were angry at Su Ming’s deception for a brief moment, but they quickly let it go.

They should have died to atone for their sins a long time ago.

Wu Shao Zhen and Lan Zi Yu, however, could not accept it.

Up until their very last moment, they still stared at Su Ming with eyes full of hatred and unwillingness.

When the seven figures vanished completely, Yu Zhao suddenly felt a powerful pressure coming from all directions.

The world was rejecting her.

Yu Zhao did not want to leave.

She still had too many doubts that had not been answered.

At that moment, a glowing sphere suddenly appeared where the seven of them had disappeared. Without any warning, the ball of light shot straight toward Yu Zhao.

An ancient, weary voice sounded by Yu Zhao’s ear: “Savior, return to the place where you should be.”

Yu Zhao jerked awake.

She found herself staring into a pair of eyes that had also weathered many years.

Dean Mo Xin looked at her with curiosity and asked: “What did you just see?”

Yu Zhao opened her mouth, but did not know where to begin.

She could not possibly tell Dean Mo Xin that her consciousness had left her body and returned to her previous life, and that she had watched the Heavenly Tome play Su Ming and the others like a joke.

She could finally be certain of one thing.

She had been reborn with her memories not because of Master Qing Yan and the other six.

They might say they were doing it to save the world, but in their hearts, each of them had their own selfish motives.

The one who had sent her back was someone else.

Thinking of that mysterious voice she had heard just now, Yu Zhao suddenly had a wild guess.

Could it be…

Before she could think further, Dean Mo Xin suddenly cried out: “Ah! The Heavenly Tome!”

Yu Zhao looked down.

The Wordless Heaven Tome in her hands suddenly turned into countless points of light and collapsed.

Dean Mo Xin hurriedly reached out to grab it, but it was useless. He could only watch as the light quietly faded away.

His heart hurt so much that he could barely breathe. He grabbed Yu Zhao by the wrist and shouted: “You owe me my Heavenly Tome!”

Yu Zhao let out a small “Ah” and felt terribly guilty.

The fact that the Heavenly Tome had disappeared while in her hands could not be denied.

Even if she wanted to shrug it off, she could not.

Yu Zhao forced out an awkward smile and said: “Dean Mo Xin, please don’t be angry. Let’s talk this out slowly.”

Dean Mo Xin snorted heavily and tugged her wrist.

In the blink of an eye, the two of them were back inside the bamboo hut.

On one side, Yu Zhao was racking her brain and talking nonstop.

On the other side, in the Five Elements Dao Sect, Fang Cheng Lang and the others almost all fell into a nightmare at the same time.

Even Master Qing Yan, who was still in his cave residence struggling against the Otherworldly Soul, was no exception.