Dragon's Origin

Chapter 179: Wanting to Marry My Daughter (Part 1)

The array stone among the array masters was not an ordinary item. Rather, it was a special array that the Song family had acquired at great cost from several grandmaster-level array experts not long ago.

This array, to be honest, was quite impractical. It lacked attack, defense, concealment, and binding capabilities. It was completely useless for those who needed arrays to assist in combat. Its only function was to amplify the surrounding array fluctuations.

Although this function couldn't help cultivators in battle, it was a rare and valuable asset for array masters.

When researching arrays, being able to amplify the array fluctuations several or even dozens of times could allow array masters to clearly sense the array fluctuations, helping them determine the array's function, strength, weaknesses, and errors.

Such an array didn't exist five years ago. It first appeared three years ago as a masterpiece of a grandmaster-level array expert. Unexpectedly, the Song family knew about this latest array and even spent a fortune to buy an array stone personally crafted by the grandmaster.

It was this array stone that allowed the Song family's array expert to discover the clues. Array fluctuations that ordinary array masters couldn't detect were amplified dozens of times, finally being noticed.

The closer they moved towards the small mountain, the stronger the array fluctuations became. With the array expert announcing the changes every few steps, the hearts of the group became excited.

An array meant that someone might be controlling it. Even if no one was there, at the very least, it was an array still running within the Thousand Absolutes Ground. If Wang Sheng hadn't been here to activate the array, then who had? A demon beast?

There were precedents of demon beasts activating arrays. When Song Yan underwent her family trial, the two Thousand Illusion Poisonous Pythons had activated binding arrays. However, someone had embedded the arrays into the flesh beneath the pythons' scales, allowing them to activate it by using their spiritual energy.

Even in that case, who would provide the demon beasts with array stones? Ultimately, there were still traces of human involvement.

While the other members of the Song family were excited, Song Yan herself was also thrilled. Array fluctuations meant that someone was definitely here, still within this area, which meant her father and the others...

Everyone was excited, but there was one killjoy, and that was Wang Sheng.

Wang Sheng promptly stopped everyone, "What are you doing? No matter what's over there, if there's hostility, we're dead! This is the Thousand Absolutes Ground! Unknown dangers!"

Song Zhi glanced at Wang Sheng, and without thinking, scorned him, "If you're afraid, stand back."

"Okay!" Wang Sheng readily nodded, pulling Song Yan back with him. Old Man Song naturally followed, all the way to the back of the group.

"What are you doing?" Song Yan couldn't shake off Wang Sheng's hand. She only managed to break free at the back of the group, glaring at Wang Sheng with displeasure, her eyes seemingly spitting fire.

They had finally discovered a clue, and were about to see her father, but Wang Sheng was holding them back. How could Song Yan not be angry?

"I'm afraid of death!" Wang Sheng directly stated the reason that other cultivators wouldn't even say if they were thinking it, not feeling ashamed in the slightest, "I'm even more afraid of you dying."

A burst of laughter came from the Song family's group in front, seemingly mocking Wang Sheng's actions. They hadn't realized that Wang Sheng was such a coward.

Song Yan's fiery gaze was fixed on Wang Sheng, and Wang Sheng stared back without flinching. Finally, Song Yan's anger slowly subsided, and her gaze softened.

A person who dared to offend the five great families and was chased into the Thousand Absolutes Ground by hundreds of people said that he was afraid of death? What a joke!

Yet Wang Sheng said it without shame, and with such seriousness. What was this? If there wasn't something wrong, no one would believe it.

"Is there some kind of fierce demon beast ahead?" Song Yan softened her voice, asking with a hint of apology.

"No!" Wang Sheng directly shook his head. There was a danger warning, but it definitely wasn't a fierce demon beast. No matter how powerful a demon beast was, it couldn't have such a tacit understanding of cooperation.

"Or are there various dangerous insects?" Song Yan asked again.

In fact, it wasn't just Song Yan who wanted to know. Was Song Lao Yu, Song Zhi Ming, or any of them stupid? Wang Sheng's demonstrated ability to predict danger could be described as infallible. Now that Wang Sheng was unusually retreating, even Song Zhi Ming was feeling uneasy.

"No!" Wang Sheng still shook his head, "It's not that kind of danger."

Hearing that it wasn't demon beasts or dangerous insects in the Thousand Absolutes Ground, everyone immediately felt relieved. But what other danger could make Wang Sheng hesitate?

"Then what are you afraid of?" Song Yan asked, puzzled.

"I don't know!" Wang Sheng put on a thoughtful look, not answering with certainty, "Something intangible. I don't know if it's dangerous."

"You don't even know what you're afraid of?" Song Yan was amused by Wang Sheng's answer. It was too bizarre.

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"Precisely because I don't know, I'm afraid," Wang Sheng said with confidence, "If I really knew what it was, I wouldn't be afraid."

The people in front who were secretly listening were stunned again. Suddenly, they began to understand Wang Sheng. It was true that the unknown was frightening, and once the mystery was solved, it wouldn't be so scary.

Because they knew, they knew the opponent's weaknesses, the opponent's fatal points, and they would have ways to deal with it. There was no demon beast in the world that couldn't be dealt with. But if they didn't even know what it was, then they couldn't confirm anything, and it was inevitable to be worried.

If that was the reason, then everyone could understand. Especially Song Zhi Ming, Wang Sheng said that he couldn't judge what was ahead, which was helping him make a judgment! Wang Sheng didn't know what their real purpose was, but could Song Zhi Ming not know?

What was ahead might really be the Song family's head and the group he led who had been missing for more than ten years. People, only if it was people, Wang Sheng couldn't predict or judge.

The thought that he might soon be able to complete the task arranged by the Great Elder made Song Zhi Ming excited, and his mind was so agitated that he almost revealed his hidden cultivation.

Song Yan was ultimately pulled to the back by Wang Sheng. Even if she was anxious, she just walked at the end. Wang Sheng's words reminded her that if it was really her father, what difference did it make whether she met him first or last?

But if it wasn't, then the difference between the first one to rush up and the last one in the group could be the difference between life and death.