The Master and His Wealthy Fiancée

Li Zhixuan snorted. "Chen Dong may trust you, but I don't. You've betrayed the Yun Gu Sect before. Who knows if you'll betray us too!"

The other Golden Core cultivators immediately roared, "What do you mean by that?"

Li Zhixuan tilted his chin up. "I don't mean anything by it. Just stay outside. Don't come in!"

A cold glint flashed in Zhang Jun's eyes, but he understood Li Zhixuan's reasoning. "Fine," he said. "We'll stay out here!"

Upon entering the hall, Chen Dong immediately took out a hundred Top-Grade Spirit Stones and began laying out the Array. If he had two more months, he would be one hundred percent certain he could repair the passage. As it was, his confidence was less than thirty percent.

As he worked, he simultaneously used the Six Paths of Radiance in his sea of consciousness to deduce the final parts of the Array. Every little bit he could figure out would increase his chances of success.

Chen Dong had analyzed the Sacrificial Array deployed by the Umbral several times before, so laying it out was a familiar process. A few moments later, a grand Array took shape within the hall.

The entire Array pulsed with a faint light, and Chen Dong took out a vial of Demon Beast Essence Blood, pouring it over the formation.

The Demon Beast Blood flowed along the Array's inscriptions, staining the entire formation crimson and coalescing into fine, glowing filaments.

Chen Dong immediately began using these filaments of light to mend the damaged Array of the Realm Passage. He used every available second, knowing that Feng Fu, filled with boundless rage, would descend upon the Yun Gu Sect at any moment.

The seconds and minutes ticked by.

Two hours later, a vast crimson cloud descended over the Yun Gu Sect, forming into the giant face of Feng Fu.

His face lacked its usual smile, twisted instead with rage.

"No matter who you are, I will hunt you to the ends of the earth to avenge my You'Er!" His roar shook the very heavens.

Everyone outside the hall was aghast. 'Feng Fu arrived so quickly?'

Chen Dong's voice drifted out. "Don't panic. This is just a wisp of Feng Fu's divine sense. Knowing his personality, there's no way he'd arrive in person this fast!"

The giant face sensed the location of Feng You's corpse and devoured it in one gulp. Its murderous eyes swept over the crowd, then fixed on Chen Dong's position inside the hall before finally dissolving into a crimson streak and vanishing.

Chen Dong's voice sounded again. "Feng Fu is extremely cautious. There's no way his first visit would be in person. But now he knows what's going on here. I expect he'll be here himself within six hours."

He then commanded, "Xiaoli! Zhang Jun! Get the Demon Beast Blood! And be quick about it!"

Chen Dong could no longer afford to construct the Array with meticulous precision. He had to focus on the main structure and get the Realm Passage functional, no matter how crudely.

Doing so would require a massive amount of Demon Beast Essence Blood. The supply he had on hand might have been sufficient for a slow, careful construction, but not for this rushed, wasteful approach.

Thankfully, Chen Dong had deduced the Sacrificial Array used by the Umbral, which allowed him to use Demon Beast Essence Blood to create these pure filaments of light as a substitute for standard materials. Otherwise, just gathering the components for a Seventh Rank Array in the Wangyou Realm would have been a monumental, if not impossible, task.

"Demon Beast Blood?" Zhang Jun asked, still confused.

Li Zhixuan snapped, "What are you spacing out for? He means the demon beasts you're raising in your menagerie."

"Those demon beasts were my master's hobby, I can't..."

"'You can't' what? This is no time for hobbies! Besides, your master is dead! Since you're their keeper now, summon them at once, or I'll go kill them one by one!"

Zhang Jun sighed, then flashed away to gather the demon beasts...

A massive Flying Boat soared through the sky at extreme speed. Onboard were not only the grim-faced Feng Fu, but also Feng Qing, Wei Yanlan, and two elderly Supreme Elders from the Liucheng Sect.

A crimson streak of light flew into the vessel, and Feng You's mangled corpse fell before them.

"His... his Golden Core is shattered, and his soul is gone. The Daoist can't be revived," one of them stammered. "Sect Leader, who could have possibly done this?"

Feng Fu said coldly, "Li Zhixuan, Zhang Jun... and Chen Dong!"

Feng Qing and Wei Yanlan were stunned. Feng You's death was shocking enough, but the identity of the culprits was even more astonishing. 'How could Li Zhixuan and Zhang Jun be working together?' they thought. 'And isn't Chen Dong supposed to be dead? Besides, the Sect Leader holds a wisp of Zhang Jun's soul. How could he possibly dare?'

But Feng Fu's next words shocked them even more.

"They're repairing the Yun Gu Sect's Realm Passage!"

"Impossible!" the four exclaimed in unison. 'An Array Master capable of repairing a Realm Passage doesn't exist in the Wangyou Realm.'

Feng Fu shook his head. "Nothing is impossible. I underestimated that Saint, Chen Dong. If he could escape under those circumstances, perhaps he really can repair a Realm Passage! No... he must be quite confident. Otherwise, why would they linger at the Yun Gu Sect after killing Feng You instead of fleeing?"

Feng Qing's expression darkened. "If they succeed in repairing the Realm Passage, our plans will be ruined. The moment the Yun Gu Sect's cultivators descend from the Upper Realm, we'll lose all initiative!"

Feng Fu's voice was low. "Therefore, we must not only avenge Feng You, but we must also stop them!"

A Supreme Elder from the Liucheng Sect spoke up. "This is the Flying Boat's top speed. It will still take us four hours to reach the Yun Gu Sect!"

Feng Fu's murderous eyes narrowed. "Four hours? Far too slow! I want them dead in fifteen minutes!" As the words left his mouth, he transformed into a streak of brilliant light and shot out of the vessel, his speed far surpassing that of the Flying Boat.

His body became one with the Dao, his will shaping reality. The explosive speed of a cultivator who had one foot in the Divinity Transformation realm was far greater than that of a fifth-rank Flying Boat!

If not for his cautious nature, Feng Fu would have gone to the Yun Gu Sect alone from the start. Now that he knew the situation and was certain it wasn't a trap, there was no longer any need to wait!