Chapter 333 - ?????? (Part-1)

Leo and Zarina both frowned hard upon hearing how brutally Ryuu dealt with his enemy as Antariskh waved it off without a care in the world as she spoke, "I blame Sylvana and mama Celestia's influence."

Sylvana snorted at that as she spoke, "Pot meet keetle at least I do not hide my sadistic nature but what I want to know is that what was it that caused him to act like that."

Cezary frowned at that as he replied to Sylvana, "Well from what I had asked him about it but he only said they used an illusionary attack but what he was forced to witness was labeled as 'private' by him as such we do not know."

Shamiran frowned at that as she spoke, "This is troubling so many plants and spies it is really troubling, the past few centuries the Preta Lok has really been on the rise, the quality and quantity of their soldiers have not only improved they have become much more bolder the future looks a bit bleak."

Others sighed at that as Sylvana spoke with a dejected frown at that, "I wish Ryuu would have told us about it."

Both Saidhal and Zarina snorted at that as he spoke, "Get used to it sister, he is grown up child no longer a little boy that would seek comfort during nightmare he will have secrets like we used to have and remember how we got annoyed when our elders tried to poke their nose in."

Ryuu let out a huge yawn as he lazy sat on his chair as Zywia spoke in amazement, "You passed the trials of the heart how?"

Ryuu shrugged at her question as he spoke, "Well according to my teachers my karma is so humongous that I managed to bypass it."

Zywia was slack jawed at that as she sputtered out in disbelief, "But how? How did you manage to gain such a huge amount of karma, it is extremely difficult for us cultivators to gain as we always walk a very thin line between virtue and sin."

Ryuu nodded at that as he spoke, "It is true that line between virtue and sin for a layman is very thin but for us it is bit more complicated as long as we do not touch any innocent we are safe even then powerful cultivators like my teachers or your parents are already beyond the influence of Karma.", Zywia nodded at that in agreement as Ryuu continued, "Well as for my karma well it so happened I managed to save every species in my planet from complete annihilation."

Zywia whistled out lowly before she spoke with a frown, "But how did you kno..", before she could say anything anymore her eyes widen a bit as she spoke with a knowing look on her face, "You are either a cultivator who retained his memory or your masters told you, am I right."

Ryuu chuckled at that as he passed the bottle of seven glacier wine to her as he spoke, "Sorry sis, but you are wrong I was a simple normal human and as for my masters no they never did say anything about that in fact the reason I know about that is because a certain someone forcibly made me relive my previous life which made me comatose and was also the reason I had such a large advancement in my cultivation."

Before Zywia could speak anything a sharp pain arose from both of their hands as Zywia dropped her cup as she hissed in pain, a burning smell arose from their hand as they looked their skin and flesh on top of their hand began to burn as a number 0 appeared, to them it looked as if someone had branded it with hot poker.

Ryuu grimaced at that as he spoke with an excited smile, "So it has begun."

His smile was mirrored by Zywia who spoke with equal amount of enthusiasm before it turned into a tired frown, "It has but now we have to gather down 5000 5th level and above Mystic Immortal Beast Nucleus."

Ryuu rubbed his chin as he narrowed is eyes in deep thought, "Well 2500 Nucleus each we have to sacrifice in an altar though it would be difficult as I am sure there will be many who would be waiting setting up an ambush and most importantly how do we kill that many spirit beasts who has been enlarged like that within 3 days time."

Zywia looked down with a depressed look on her face, "Now what, this is why people travel in bigger groups it is easier for the…", whatever she was about to say was stopped by a pious whoop of Ryuu.

Ryuu gave a big smile as he spoke, "Well I have an idea but it will be a bit gory and bloody I hope you could stomach it."

Zywia raised one of her delicate brows as she spoke in a curious manner, "What is your plan?"

Ryuu grinned at that as he spoke, "Well it is creation of my years of research an array..."

It took them a whole day to find an appropriate place, a caldera of a volcano, the duo stood at the edge of a large what seemed to be a super volcano, with a diameter of 200 Kms, as Ryuu let out a small curse at that, "Who makes such a big caldera."

Zywia huffed at that as she spoke, "Do your work we have only 2 days left."

Ryuu grumbled at that before he kneeled on the ground closing his eyes before he nearly jumped up in elation, "Wonderful, wonderful this place has a lot of KI stored inside it and would be useful very useful and power the array like no tomorrow."

Zywia gave him a pointed look causing him to slump as he spoke, "You are too serious, now let me do my job while you keep an eye for any attackers."

Zywia huffed as she stood aside as he watched Ryuu going towards the center of caldera, before he bit his spit some blackish blood in his right hand and some pills on his left, before he clasped his hand in form of a prayer as he kept his eyes closed for a few moment before his aura flared briefly as he slammed his hand on the ground and he glowed for a moment, as the ground rumbled the sky darkened a bit and a few lightning bolt fell on a pattern that was rapidly consuming the ground of the caldera Zywia knew whatever Ryuu was attempting had triggered a small tribulation, and tribulations being triggered during an array creation was extremely rare but not unheard off but it also signified the array that Ryuu used his blood and from the look of it a bit of his natal blood from his Dantian tethered around border between Forbidden and Taboo with rapidly moving towards the Taboo art her heartbeat increased upon seeing that, the array that covered the caldera to the edge glowed before 16 pillars rose in perfect circle and then it vanished, Ryuu had a smile on his face as he took to the sky before he dashed towards Zywia.

As he reached Zywia with a smile he was greeted by a frown by Zywia who spoke in a accusatory tone, "That was an array of Forbidden category well more like a border line Taboo."

Ryuu gave a weak chuckle before he spoke, "Well it is but do not worry since I know its inner workings properly I won't suffer the backlash even if it is border line Taboo since I am its inventor though I do not recommend others to use it, unless they are at least a Grandmaster tiered array master with a good knowledge in alchemy since it is fusion between the two, now use this talisman on yourself otherwise you might get caught in it."

As he handed the talisman he looked at the array as he spoke with a smirk, "Now let us activate it."