Wait, How Did My Digital Girlfriend Become a Sword Immortal? Chapter 856.9: The Demon-Locking Tower Returns to Its Place, Bi Yuewu Explores the Refining Mystic Array

When Chen Huaian reached the site, two Immortals had already come down.

Zhang Yibai, Gu Changsheng, Wang Shouyi, and Hua Jin the True One were present too. The Immortals' pressure slammed down like a massive tidal wave. Hua Jin the True One held up somewhat, managing to kneel with effort, but Wang Shouyi got flattened straight to the ground, totally unable to budge.

Zhang Yibai and Gu Changsheng found a cozy spot and lay sideways.

Standing drew too much attention.

Kneeling felt too shameful.

Lying beside Wang Shouyi proved comfy and low-key, serving dual purposes perfectly.

"What incredibly dense Spiritual Energy! This must be the place where the Celestial Jade Marrow was born, right?"

Bi Yue Wu touched down on a somewhat undamaged Demon Sealing Pagoda. He pulled out his Array Disk and started computing, his face slowly growing tense.

Meanwhile, Tu Fu Xing, the Immortal Official overseeing the earth veins of the earth element, stood with a frown in front of a Demon Sealing Pagoda cut off at the middle. He lightly caressed the pagoda wall's cut surface, shock flashing in his gaze.

"What pure Sword Qi! Since when did the Lower Realm boast such a mighty Sword Cultivator? No previous cycles ever witnessed anything like this..."

"Leave the Sword Cultivator aside for now. The Nine Heavens Refining Profound Array suffers heavy damage. It's not merely the Well of Heaven and Demon Sealing Pagodas being shifted. That Chen Niu used a mighty Divine Ability to redirect the dragon veins, effectively altering the Formation Patterns of the Nine Heavens Refining Profound Array. The array now has a rupture. If we don't rush to fix this gap, catastrophe looms!"

Tu Fu Xing's face shifted sharply at these words.

Bi Yue Wu described a crisis far graver than Mountain God Shiqing's report.

They had assumed only the Formation Core shifted and Formation Patterns blurred from earth vein changes.

Yet now, Chen Niu had battled fiercely, boldly meddling with the divine land's dragon veins, channeling their power to empower himself fully.

What foe had driven him to such desperation?

Recall that before the Well of Heaven opened, restrictions capped Ascenders' cultivation levels.

Under those limits, a Demon Immortal avatar like Chen Niu from the Divine Joy Emperor should've been the Lower Realm's supreme fighting force.

Only the Divine Joy Emperor himself might answer these riddles.

But with the Divine Joy Emperor opposing the Heavenly Emperor, talks seemed unlikely.

Such issues weren't for minor Immortal Officials like them to fret over. Before this cycle's end, they just needed to fulfill their duties.

"It's not too late to mend the fold after the sheep is lost," Bi Yue Wu told Tu Fu Xing. "The priority now is repositioning the four Demon Sealing Pagodas first."

Tu Fu Xing acted without delay upon the order.

He drew a deep breath, pulling in earth vein essence from dozens of miles around into his belly, his sturdy frame seeming to balloon larger. A subtle earthy yellow glow flickered over his skin, like he'd become a puffed-up clay statue.

No grand spells from him; he simply squatted slowly and laid his wide, heavy palms onto the charred, cracked soil.

"Hummm—" A deep rumble rose from far below ground.

Tremors followed right after, as though an ancient slumbering behemoth stirred awake.

Earthy yellow waves radiated from Tu Fu Xing's palms in expanding rings, making ground pebbles bounce. Soil and stone around the four slanted, fractured Demon Sealing Pagodas came alive, flowing and reshaping like liquid waves.

"Obey my call: Shift mountains, move peaks, revert to your proper spots!"

Tu Fu Xing bellowed softly, arm muscles swelling as he gestured upward.

Suddenly, the ground quaked and peaks swayed!

Not just the surface shook; the vast earth vein framework spanning thousands of miles underground groaned under his godly might.

The initial slanted Demon Sealing Pagoda stirred first.

Its huge base felt seized by an unseen colossal hand from earth's depths. With a thunderous growl, it got "yanked" free from the deep rock embedding it.

Myriad broken stones and hardened lava flaked off the pagoda's surface.

The pagoda didn't soar; the crustal slab below bore it along, like a behemoth vessel gliding over thick magma, "drifting" to its original site at a pace deceptively slow yet spanning thousands of miles instantly.

Its path carved endless chasms in the earth, dirt and boulders surging like waves on either flank.

The Demon Sealing Pagoda tore through the city, toppling countless skyscrapers, claiming countless mortal lives in its wake.

Tu Fu Xing noticed nothing, or if aware, cared not a whit.

Then the second, third followed...

The fourth, bisected pagoda too wrapped in soft yet overpowering earth force.

Its severed halves glowed with earthy yellow spirit light, briefly joined by Tu Fu Xing's immortal strength, repositioned with the rest.

Though the Demon Sealing Pagodas merely returned to place, this mended the earth veins as well.

Beneath Zhang Yibai and others' stunned stares.

Distant mountain outlines warped and realigned, river paths seemingly tweaked by hidden forces.

Earth energy, torrent-like, trailed the Demon Sealing Pagodas' paths, reweaving the mountains and rivers' "order".

In under time for a tea sip, the terrifying rumbles and shakes faded.

The four Demon Sealing Pagodas vanished from view—Tu Fu Xing had hurled them back to their dragon vein nodes, miles apart by tens of thousands at least!

Tu Fu Xing exhaled deeply, sweat beading at his temples. Evidently, the task drained him heavily.

He glanced at Bi Yue Wu and gave a slight nod. "Mission complete, no failure of command. Pagodas restored to positions."

Bi Yue Wu promptly checked the bronze compass in his grasp.

The nine starlight points marking the Nine Heavens Refining Profound Array's core at the compass center steadied, no more erratic drifting.

He nodded, brows knit tight, face not easing but turning sterner. "Core secured, yet dragon veins rage unchecked, Formation Patterns still in pieces.

Right now, the Nine Heavens Refining Profound Array resembles cracked porcelain. Any nudge risks total shatter."

His Divine Sense probed the formation veins gingerly.

Instantly, chaos unfolded: myriad "frenzied dragons" of thick earth energy mixed with grudge-filled baleful force, charging wildly through torn Formation Patterns. Devoid of sense, driven by ruin and outburst instincts alone. Each clash deepened the Nine Heavens Refining Profound Array's frailty, its spirit glow blinking erratically.

"The dragon veins rage berserk. Forced realignment brings Backlash!

One must plunge into the Formation Core depths, soothe the earth energy, before Formation Patterns can be retraced." Bi Yue Wu pulled back his Divine Sense, countenance ashen.

What lurked sealed in the Nine Heavens Refining Profound Array? Even Heavenly Court Immortal Officials like them knew scant details.

Only that it hailed from antiquity, perilously so.

Blind entry? Forget calming dragon veins; safeguarding one's true spirit hung in doubt.

Tu Fu Xing looked equally vexed. "Fortunes inside shift unpredictably. True spirit harm here shakes our true bodies' foundations, vanishing ten thousand years' hard-won cultivation in a flash..."

The pair eyed each other, spotting mutual doubt and dread.

Yet the Heavenly Emperor's order rang: "Any failure, you answer for it."

No escape.

Then Bi Yue Wu's eyes flicked to nearby Zhang Yibai, Gu Changsheng, Wang Shouyi, and the deferential Hua Jin the True One.

Cunning spark lit his gaze, faint scheming crossing his gaunt features.

These Ascenders packed fair power. With the Nine Heavens Refining Profound Array's innards so hazardous, why not deploy these mortal Cultivators as probes?

Should true terror lurk, he and Tu Fu Xing could withdraw smoothly, summon Upper Realm aid.

Thus decided, he pointed at Hua Jin the True One, voice brooking no refusal. "As Kunlun Cultivators, safeguarding this world is your bound duty.

With the Nine Heavens Refining Profound Array broken and dragon veins amok, one must delve into the Formation Core to steer earth energy and quell the dragon veins.

This vital to all life, your chance to redeem sins and revive Kunlun's honor!"

Irrespective of facts, pile on charges first.

Dumping every issue on mortal Cultivators was standard play.

Still, Hua Jin the True One, orthodox Kunlun under Lingxiao Immortal Palace, merited some regard.

So Bi Yue Wu eased his tone slightly. His eyes dwelt on "tolerable"-looking Zhang Yibai and Gu Changsheng. He paused, then pressed, "True, Formation Core holds perils, yet vast Opportunity too.

Success brings earth vein backlash enough to surge your cultivation, maybe peek higher realms.

Well? Will you tread this for heaven and earth?!"

Hua Jin the True One's expression shifted. She grasped Immortal orders weren't lightly taken.

But Zhang Yibai, Wang Shouyi, Gu Changsheng remained ignorant!

As she moved to plead, immortal pressure clamped her, silencing her utterly.

Wang Shouyi stayed ground-pinned, thoughts muddled.

Zhang Yibai and Gu Changsheng traded looks, alarms blaring inwardly.

Who at their age could be naive?

These abrupt Immortal Palace arrivals clearly plotted ill!

Blast it! Cannon fodder to scout the way!