Chapter 442

Chapter 442: When in Doubt, Trust the Mystic Arts
Ancestor Sui Bian stared again and again at Yu Zhao, who was smiling across from him, feeling there was some strange thing he could not describe.

He finally said, “Little Yu Zhao…” then suddenly covered his mouth after saying just those three words.

At once, he was shocked to find that his broad, strong hands had turned into a pair of chubby little hands.

The babyish voice, the strange angle of view.

He finally realized what was wrong.

He looked down.

Sure enough, he had turned into how he looked at three years old.

His old face flushed red. He quickly shook his head, broke free of the Dao Intent at once, and returned to his original form.

He pretended to be angry and said, “Little Yu Zhao, you are too bad, you actually played a trick on this old geezer.”

Before Yu Zhao could apologize, Ancestor Sui Bian was already laughing, laughing so hard that his eyes were full of tears.

He said, “For my Five Elements Dao Sect to have you, Yu Zhao, is my sect’s good fortune! Hahaha!”

Yu Zhao said softly, “Ancestor…”

“It is fine, I am just too excited,” Ancestor Sui Bian said as he wiped the tears from the corner of his eyes. “Before, I always felt that repairing the Teleportation Channel was a far off dream. But now that I see you, I finally feel like I see the first light of dawn.”

Yu Zhao said, “This disciple’s lifelong wish is to rebuild the Heavenly Ladder.”

“Good,” Ancestor Sui Bian said. “This time I came to Godsfall Land to collect Starry Sky Stone. It is the most important material to build a Teleportation Channel. Since you ran into me, then the two of us will form a team. Once we have almost enough Starry Sky Stone, I will take you to the Qi Lan Realm to meet the other seniors.”

“Okay,” Yu Zhao replied.

Yu Zhao’s original plan had been to search for the coordinates of the Cultivation World. Now that she had met Ancestor Sui Bian and their goals were the same, she naturally changed her plan and moved together with the Ancestor.

“You should know this,” Ancestor Sui Bian said. “This old man has cultivated in the Middle World for more than a thousand years. Right now my cultivation level has just reached the early Body Integration Stage. In this Godsfall Land, I barely have the strength to protect myself. But if we really run into someone powerful, all I can do is tuck my tail and run. While you follow me, I will of course try my best to keep you safe. But if something happens, you must listen to my orders. If I tell you to run, you run. You cannot hesitate, or we will both die together.”

Ancestor Sui Bian nagged on and on, telling Yu Zhao many things she needed to pay attention to.

In short, it came down to two words.

Obey.

Yu Zhao agreed obediently, then, right in front of Ancestor Sui Bian, she took off the Spirit Bracelet and let the Ancestor see her true face.

Then, under Ancestor Sui Bian’s anxious urging, she put the Spirit Bracelet back on and changed to another face again.

Ancestor Sui Bian clicked his tongue and said, “No wonder those big family clans almost beat each other like dogs fighting over you. If you did not have this Spirit Bracelet, I am afraid even this old geezer would not be able to protect you.”

Yu Zhao asked humbly, “Ancestor, do you have any way to remove this Jade Ruyi?”

“I cannot,” Ancestor Sui Bian said, “but I know someone who might. When we leave Godsfall Land, I will take you to find him.”

“Okay,” Yu Zhao said.

After the two of them finished exchanging all the information they each had, they did not hurry to leave.

Yu Zhao needed to stabilize her cultivation level, so Ancestor Sui Bian stood guard at the side.

During this time, a few cultivators did pass by the abandoned cave residence and wanted to come in to have a look, but Ancestor Sui Bian drove them away.

Half a month later, Yu Zhao and Ancestor Sui Bian flew out of the cave together.

Ancestor Sui Bian said, “This Godsfall Land is made up of countless fragments of land. Space here is unstable, so Space Rifts often appear. If a cultivator is not careful, it is very likely they will be swept into a Space Rift. But before a Space Rift appears, it does not show up without any sign. First, there will always be strange spatial ripples in the area…”

Walking together with Ancestor Sui Bian, Yu Zhao could feel more and more how important it was to have a senior by her side to give guidance.

Senior Sui Bian really kept nothing back from her. He said everything he knew, as if he wanted to pour all of his knowledge into her at once.

Yu Zhao’s understanding of the Power of Space advanced by leaps and bounds.

If someone taught her formation array arts related to space now, she would definitely no longer find them so obscure and hard to understand.

Sadly, she had no way to learn more formation array arts from Tu Xiao anymore.

She could only keep an eye out in the future, collect more formation disks and array diagrams related to space, and comprehend them on her own.

One day, Yu Zhao and Ancestor Sui Bian flew to the edge of the land fragment they were on. All around them was extreme darkness, and from within it there came sharp howling sounds from time to time.

“The edge of Godsfall Land is also called the Death Rift,” Ancestor Sui Bian said. “The dreaded Gang Wind comes from here. There is only one way to get from here to another fragment.”

Yu Zhao asked, “What way?”

“Wait,” Ancestor Sui Bian said.

“Wait?” Yu Zhao asked.

“Every three days, the Gang Wind will stop for three hours,” Ancestor Sui Bian explained, “and during those three hours, you can move through the Death Rift. But inside the Death Rift you cannot tell directions. If you cannot reach another land fragment after three hours, the Gang Wind will grind your soul to pieces and you will die.”

Yu Zhao sucked in a sharp breath.

Before this, she had still been wondering how she had run into Space Rifts and ferocious beasts that fed on Nascent Souls in Godsfall Land, but had never come across the Gang Wind that was as famous as they were.

So the Gang Wind was inside the Death Rift, and it was a trial that they had to go through.

Yu Zhao asked, “Ancestor, do you have any way to find another land fragment to land on inside the Death Rift?”

“There is no method,” Ancestor Sui Bian said, “but we can guess.”

“Guess?” Yu Zhao repeated.

Ancestor Sui Bian chuckled and said, “Have you really never heard the stories about this old geezer in the Five Elements Dao Sect?”

Yu Zhao thought for a moment, then at once remembered the stories about Ancestor Sui Bian that were passed around in the Five Elements Dao Sect.

Ancestor Sui Bian got the name “Sui Bian” because every time he had to make a decision, he would only say “whatever”.

When he was unsure what to do, he would draw lots or roll dice to choose.

The most legendary part was that any decision he made by drawing lots and the like had an amazing rate of accuracy, and almost never went wrong.

Because of this, the words “sui bian” became his catchphrase.

Later, he simply changed his Dao title to Sui Bian as well.

“Follow me. I can definitely lead you to the right path,” Ancestor Sui Bian said, full of confidence.

At this time, Yu Zhao suddenly thought of how she had used the Heaven Divining Shell and gotten an ancient spell formation. She thought, could Ancestor Sui Bian use his special skill to figure out the coordinates of the Cultivation World?

The corners of her eyes and brows had just started to show some excitement when Ancestor Sui Bian poured a bucket of cold water over her head.

“Stop thinking about it,” Ancestor Sui Bian said. “We already tried long ago. It is useless.”

Over this thousand years, Ancestor Sui Bian and the other seniors had basically thought of every method.

Ancestor Sui Bian alone had drawn lots more than a thousand times.

But the results and the real situation were as far apart as heaven and earth.

Yu Zhao asked, “Aside from the coordinates, do you still keep that high accuracy in other things?”

“That is right,” Ancestor Sui Bian replied.

Yu Zhao lifted her brows slightly, deep in thought.

Ancestor Sui Bian’s special skill just happened to fail when it came to finding coordinates. Was it because the method was wrong, or because of human interference?

She leaned more toward the second.

Yu Zhao decided to wait until they left Godsfall Land and then have Ancestor Sui Bian try again. Maybe they could get other clues.

She kept that thought in mind, then waited with Ancestor Sui Bian at the edge of the fragment for another half day.

The howling sounds inside the Death Rift grew weaker as time passed.

Ancestor Sui Bian’s face turned solemn.

He said, “It is almost time for the Gang Wind to stop. Wait until I go in first, then follow.”