Chapter 163 - 105: Shen Feiyang: Because I Am Undercover

Chapter 163: Chapter 105: Shen Feiyang: Because I Am Undercover

Five minutes earlier.

The Five Directions Array was Luocheng First High School’s School Protection Array. The Array’s greatest feature lay in its activation. Once triggered, the Grand Array would operate according to the Dao of the Five Elements, absorbing Heaven and Earth Spiritual Power as energy to maintain its stability. Therefore, as long as the enemy could not breach this Grand Array in a single instant, it could sustain itself with an endless stream of Spiritual Power from heaven and earth, giving it exceptional endurance.

Furthermore, if a Golden Core Stage Cultivator were to control this Grand Array, it could summon the corresponding Five-Direction Beasts in its five respective directions, unleashing formidable Array power. These Five-Direction Beasts were Divine Beasts in the traditional sense: the Cyan Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, Black Tortoise, and Qilin. Among them, the Cyan Dragon governed the east, the White Tiger governed the west, the Vermilion Bird governed the south, the Black Tortoise governed the north, and the Qilin suppressed the center. The positions of the first four directional beasts were very clear; only the final Qilin was somewhat special, because its suppression of the center did not refer to the center above ground, but the center underground. Thus, the range of the Five Directions Array encompassed not only twenty-five meters above ground but also twenty-five meters underground, perfectly forming a massive sphere. Although the Five Directions Array was powerful, if someone were to destroy any of its five nodes, the Array’s overall integrity would be severely compromised.

So, even though Meng Chuanping had sent the school’s Teachers outside to rescue the Luocheng City Residents accidentally swept up into the ’Palm Black Lotus’, he had also assigned quite a few people to guard these five array nodes. Stationing a full two Foundation Establishment Stage Teachers at each location was enough to show how much importance he attached to the Five Directions Array. In the underground space representing the central Qilin, Teacher Luo Yang of First High School and a Teacher surnamed Chen from Second High School had been assigned to guard it. Although these two didn’t teach at the same school, they were familiar with each other. After all, Luocheng wasn’t exactly huge, but it wasn’t small either. Most Cultivators willing to teach here were locals who had originally come from this very city. It wasn’t surprising that they knew each other.

"Old Luo, it seems like we haven’t seen each other in over two years, haven’t we?" Chen Zhengjie suddenly remarked as he looked at Luo Yang, who had already stepped into middle age with slightly greying temples.

These words seemed to evoke Teacher Luo Yang’s memories, causing his perpetually stoic, square-shaped face to reveal a rare, gentle smile. He sighed with emotion, "Yeah. If I remember correctly, the last time we met was at the city-wide faculty and staff conference two years ago.

"How is it? Has your daughter woken up yet? I recall the city authorities helped you invite an expert from the Daoist School. That should have been of some help, right?"

Hearing this, Chen Zhengjie remained silent, quietly pulling a cheap five-yuan pack of cigarettes from his pocket. Logically speaking, as a Daoist School Teacher and a Foundation Establishment Cultivator of the Immortal Alliance, his salary and benefits, while not top-tier, were definitely not bad. Even if he couldn’t afford expensive cigarettes, there was no need for him to smoke such cheap ones. However, he spent almost all his earnings on his daughter’s medical treatments. Naturally, he had to be as frugal as possible with his own expenses.

"Want one?"

Seeing the cigarette Chen Zhengjie offered, Luo Yang waved his hand. "No, thanks. I quit after I became a teacher and a grandfather.

"After all, no matter what, I need to lead by example. Otherwise, what would my students and my precious grandson think of me?"

"I see..." Chen Zhengjie looked at the happy smile radiating from Luo Yang’s face. He silently lit a cigarette, his deep gaze fixed on the distance, and soon immersed himself in puffing out clouds of smoke.

Seeing him like this, Luo Yang immediately remembered what had happened to him. In a complicated tone, he asked, "What? Even the experts from the Daoist School couldn’t cure your daughter’s Soul Loss Syndrome?"

Hearing this, Chen Zhengjie replied expressionlessly, "There’s nothing they could do. They said it’s a special circumstance, not a regular illness in the conventional sense, so it’s basically incurable."

The so-called Soul Loss Syndrome referred to a person losing a portion of their Three Souls and Seven Spirits. Whenever this happened, one either had to find a Nascent Soul Stage Cultivator capable of Divine Soul Emergence in a short amount of time to help retrieve the lost souls and spirits, or rely on a Cultivator with a special legacy to intervene. Otherwise, it was essentially a terminal illness, beyond the reach of medicine. Chen Zhengjie’s daughter had accidentally lost a portion of her soul and spirits during the Black Lotus Chaos ten years ago, leading her to contract this Soul Loss Syndrome. Although Chen Zhengjie had tried everything in his power, he still couldn’t recover this portion of his daughter’s Divine Soul. As a result, his daughter had been reduced to a vegetative state, lying in a hospital bed. So many years had passed; even though Chen Zhengjie had constantly been searching for a way to cure his daughter, he had never found one.

Perhaps knowing Chen Zhengjie’s difficulties, Luo Yang couldn’t help but pat his colleague on the shoulder. He comforted, "Don’t worry, Old Chen. The Immortal Alliance is changing with each passing day. Many things we never even imagined before are springing up like bamboo shoots after a spring rain.

"Perhaps in the near future, the Immortal Alliance will discover a cure for Soul Loss Syndrome, and your daughter will be able to wake up."

Hearing these words, Chen Zhengjie merely smoked silently, offering no response. For Foundation Establishment Cultivators like them, who had just initially touched upon the Domain of the Divine Soul, they naturally understood just how severe it was for a person when a problem arose with their Divine Soul. Therefore, resolving his daughter’s illness was definitely not something that could be accomplished through ordinary means. And because he was fully aware of this, Luo Yang didn’t say anything more after his brief words of comfort.