Beast Taming Clan: I Have a Jade Book Chapter 980 - 682: Ancient Treasure Displays Its Might, Securing the Array (Double Release)

Spotting the Storage Bag holding a Tier Four Top-Grade Spirit Gathering Array, Ye Jingcheng immediately felt much of his tension melt away.

Though he'd detected the Wood Demon and Teleportation Array before, the destination beyond it might not have been the Desert Sea. Yet now, the Tier Four Top-Grade Spirit Gathering Array's presence left Ye Jingcheng utterly convinced.

Ye Jingcheng wondered briefly where this Spirit Gathering Array had come from; how had a mere Purple Mansion Cultivator gotten hold of a Tier Four one?

Of course, Ye Jingcheng quickly pushed that curiosity aside.

He kept inspecting the rest of the items, uncovering vast amounts of Magical Artifact Materials and Spirit Beast Meat.

Plenty of those materials were rare finds in the Desert Sea.

The Spirit Beast Meat, obviously, served to raise new talents in the Cultivation world.

Even in the Desert Sea, Spirit Beasts probably weren't abundant.

Thinking back on the old alliance between Jia Family and Ye Family, most of the Spirit Rice and Spirit Beast Meat likely hadn't been sold off but shipped straight to the Extreme West Desert Sea.

While Ye Jingcheng rummaged through the loot, the others stayed ever vigilant.

"I checked that Token; it reports the position every quarter of an hour. Good thing we're on the final one!" Ye Xuefan sent via voice transmission.

Ye Jingcheng gave a small nod upon hearing this.

Apart from Ye Xuefan, other Ye Clan members also sent their updates to Ye Jingcheng.

They detailed every bit of information.

In the distance, Fire Peak loomed ever nearer.

Thick Earth Fire erupted with dark smoke, shooting skyward to scatter the clouds and weave a faint black veil.

As it enveloped the peak, Ye Jingcheng slowed the Spiritual Ship.

Far off, Fire Peak's formation flags appeared clearly.

Recalling the family's records, Ye Jingcheng followed the Jia Family's route, circling overhead before landing right before Fire Peak.

"Why are you only arriving now? You're a whole quarter hour late!" A voice boomed suddenly from inside Fire Peak.

Recognizing the speaker at once, Ye Jingcheng knew it was merely a probe.

Thus, Ye Jingcheng furrowed his brow right away.

"Ancestor, I told you about this earlier!" Ye Jingcheng mimicked Jia Yunian perfectly.

Sure enough, Fire Peak's formation parted, unveiling four or five silhouettes.

"Did you bring back the items?" Master Jia Yun demanded once more.

"I brought them back!" Ye Jingcheng stayed put but pulled out the Storage Bag.

Yet he held back from throwing it, inquiring instead:

"Shouldn’t Ancestor reveal the Bright Pattern first?" Drawing from the Zhang Family's Artifact Furnace Spirit Pattern and Wan Family's Celestial Sword Spirit Pattern, Ye Jingcheng guessed the Jia Family had their own Spirit Pattern.

"Oh, my memory!" Master Jia’an smacked his forehead, acting like he'd truly overlooked it.

Grinning, he prompted Ye Jingcheng to display the pattern.

Ye Jingcheng hiked up his sleeve and advanced, as if offering a better look.

With Ye Jingcheng a mere ten zhang distant.

His sleeve unfurled at last, revealing no Spirit Pattern within.

A hidden Cloth and Silk shot from the sleeve instead, soaring upward to blanket all of Fire Peak.

The instant Ye Jingcheng acted, Fire Peak's formation blazed to life.

A Tier Four Defense Array threw up a Spirit Shield first, as Zhang Yongxin and the surviving Jia Family cultivators burst forth, encircling from all sides.

They clearly aimed to slaughter Ye Jingcheng along with Ye Haicheng, Ye Xuefan, and the rest aboard the Spiritual Ship.

"When did you find out?" Ye Jingcheng asked, genuinely taken aback.

"You’ll know when you’re dead!" Zhang Yongxin and Master Jia Yun spat without delay, refusing to spill secrets. They'd seen no flaws at first, and Ye Jingcheng passed the initial checks smoothly.

But suspicion arose when he approached to bare the Spirit Shadow Tattoo.

What's more, the Jia Family's unique Spirit Shadow Tattoo resisted Soul Search detection, making fakes impossible.

Added to that, they sensed Ye Jingcheng's Late Stage Purple Mansion cultivation aboard the ship, with others merely at Purple Mansion, so they went with the ploy.

Especially since the Tier Four Top-Grade Spirit Gathering Array was probably still on Ye Jingcheng.

Hence, a strange spectacle erupted in the skies.

The mystical Cloth and Silk draped over Fire Peak and everyone atop it.

Meanwhile, the mountain's formation trapped Ye Jingcheng and his Ye Clan comrades.

Zhang Yongxin and Master Jia Yun instantly spotted Ye Jingcheng boasting the strongest cultivation, unleashing their strikes with pure killing intent right from the outset.

Zhang Yongxin whipped out the Golden Hook Treasure.

This Magical Treasure stood out as exceedingly scarce yet overwhelmingly potent, a Tier Four Magical Treasure hurtling straight at Ye Jingcheng.

Master Jia Yun, meanwhile, unleashed a Flying Sword alongside a Tier Four Spirit Puppet.

Rumors held that Ye Jingcheng had seized this Tier Four Spirit Puppet from the female cultivators Zhang Yuling and Zhang Yuxue, though the Ye Family remained clueless on controlling it.

Three Golden Core strikes zeroed in on Ye Jingcheng, regarding him as a Golden Core Cultivator—a sign of extraordinary vigilance.

Ye Jingcheng stomped with Desolate Step, exploding backward in retreat.

Simultaneously, a Void Profound Bottle Magical Treasure materialized in his grasp, unleashing Void Profound Magical Light.

It swallowed up the two Tier Four Magical Treasures.

"Tianfu the Daoist!" Zhang Yongxin blurted out first in shock.

He had crossed paths with Master Tianfu before and stumbled upon knowledge of this very treasure.

The thick Void Profound glow matched his memory perfectly, completely reflecting his Magic Sword and Golden Hook Treasure.

A helpless sensation of powerless strikes left the pair deeply unsettled!

The Tier Four Puppet got momentarily ensnared by the Void Profound Bottle, unable to escape just yet.

"Secure the Teleportation Array!" Zhang Yongxin snapped to action first.

But it proved far too late.

At some point unnoticed, a colossal Mammoth Long Elephant Demon King had emerged.

Its razor-sharp tusks drove a horrifying charge, dense golden radiance like a golden behemoth mountain thundering across the field.

Several Tier Three Array-Breaking Talismans hovered calmly before it.

Though only Tier Three, the Jia Family and Zhang Family Array masters panicked wildly, channeling the Array to engulf those Array-Breaking Talismans.

Yet the true devastating blow came from the Mammoth Demon King!

Boom!

Fire Peak quaked violently throughout, the Tier Four Lower Grade Defense Array flickering as cracks spiderwebbed across it!

Mammoth Demon Kings excelled in raw physical power and charging might.

During previous beast tides, one such Mammoth Demon King made short work of shattering Arrays!

Cracks alone at this stage showed the Zhang and Jia families’ Arrays held impressive strength.

Right then, a Golden Giant Lizard and enormous Jade-Scaled Flood Dragon materialized overhead.

Their gold and white tails hammered down on the Array.

The already fractured Spiritual Shield exploded into scattered Spiritual Lights, crumbling to nothing!

"Destroy the Teleportation Array!"

"Destroy the Teleportation Array!" Zhang Yongxin shouted over and over.

Master Jia Yun echoed the cry.

"Transmit to the Desert Sea!"

"Quickly, everyone try!"

Conflicting commands rang out, but the Array guards failed to smash the Teleportation Array before endless mountain forms piled onto it.

Layer after layer stacked up, erecting a Spirit Mountain atop the Teleportation Array.

Their Magical Artifacts and Treasures all slammed uselessly into the Mountain Prison.

Meanwhile, the Jade Qilin Flood Dragon ejected its Demon Pill, invoking the Divine Skill Profound Yuan Ice Fury.

A ferocious blizzard engulfed all of Fire Peak, freezing even the volcano solid into swirling icy flames.

Sporadic melting water drops made it look like the fire ice was perspiring, utterly eerie.

Falling ice chunks shattered into vicious ice crystal blades on impact, shredding the mountain's cultivators.

The Teleportation Array survived intact, yet most defenders lay slain.

Just then, hordes of cultivators and Great Demon Demon Kings poured from the Spiritual Ship.

The Three-eyed Demon King, Thunder Roc Demon King, and Double-headed Turtle Demon King all burst forth.

Their enormous forms and signature demon essence pulses chilled Zhang Yongxin’s already half-frozen heart to the bone!

"Sound Transmission can’t get through either; that thing outside is an Ancient Treasure!" Master Jia Yun shared the bitter despair at that instant.

Like Jia Yunian before him, he failed to send any sound transmission and tried crushing the Token for a fractured Sound Transmission Token alert.

Even with the Token shattered, no message escaped, all blocked by the sky’s Cloth and Silk Ancient Treasure.

In their direst hour, he realized they couldn’t last much longer.

Meanwhile, even though they possessed their Soul Talismans, those on the other side absolutely couldn't respond fast enough.

The Teleportation Array's destruction was practically guaranteed.

"Are you from the Beast Desolate Wasteland?" Zhang Yongxin asked, desperately trying to buy time.

However, with countless Great Demons and Demon Kings suddenly emerging, the Ye Clan members—except for Zhang Yongxin and Master Jia Yun—couldn't endure even one breath!

On top of that, Ye Jingcheng showed zero patience for any explanations!