Heaven Refining physique-Chapter 157: You aren’t Allowed

They seemed to be on the lookout for someone. There was no need to think about who they were looking for.

Jiang Hao turned his eyes to the area in front of the city. He looked at it for a while, nodding to himself internally.

Finally, something that can give him trouble. But before that, he had to convince Senior Sister Ming Yue not to follow him inside the array.

This time, the danger was far greater. Maybe she could handle it, but taking chances with her safety wasn’t something he would accept.

This time, he wouldn’t listen to her complaints or tantrums no matter what.

"Senior Sister."

"What is it, Junior Brother?"

"You will be staying out of this."

Ming Yue’s eyes squinted.

"Hn?... no way, Junior Brother. How could you expect me to do that?"

"This time, you have to stay out of it, Senior Sister."

Jiang Hao shook his head and continued.

"You wouldn’t be able to handle it. They have definitely created some kind of array, and it is certainly something far more dangerous because it can definitely hurt me.

So I am not going to allow you to take this risk. Getting hurt wouldn’t matter to me, Senior Sister, but even with your regeneration ability, you might not be able to stay capable of fighting.

I won’t listen to a ’no’ this time, Senior Sister. Senior Huan gave me the responsibility of taking care of you, so instead of asking, I have to order you if the need arises."

Ming Yue gritted her teeth. She really looked wronged here but didn’t continue insisting.

She just looked at him reproachfully. Jiang Hao didn’t care. She could become as angry as she wanted, as long as she was safe enough to show that expression.

"Please stay here, Senior Sister."

"Whatever. Just come back alive, Junior Brother."

Jiang Hao sighed. At least she didn’t say, ’Please don’t come back alive, Junior Brother,’ with that expression.

They were standing on a tree. Jiang Hao jumped down and made his way towards the city. There was only a 400-meter clearing before the safe pathway started. The danger he could sense lay in this whole clearing.

When he emerged from the trees, the eyes of the cultivators on lookout fell on him immediately.

Seeing that plain mask was enough for them to become instantly alert. They didn’t go inside the city to announce his arrival, as some spirit beasts must have already done it already.

As expected, it didn’t take long before Soul Sea realm cultivators from all those sects came out.

This was the entirety of Soul Sea cultivators who had come for this mission from these sects, as none of them had died until now.

There were about 500 in total. They had agreed to send this number, 200 from each of the two sects, while 100 came from the Golden Lotus Sect.

The interesting part was that there seemed to be exactly the same number of spirit beasts. Jiang Hao didn’t know if all of them had contracted beasts or not, or perhaps some had two. He didn’t care either way.

But this time, he was truly interested in their blood cores, if they survived intact, that is.

All the cultivators came out of the city and stood at the safe pathway, along with all the spirit beasts.

"Nice to meet you, Jiang Hao."

Zi Rui spoke calmly, although inwardly he was anything but that. He continued.

"You have far surpassed our imagination. Who would have thought that a special constitution could make someone this formidable?

But it is also quite sad that you chose the wrong path.

By killing so many of our disciples, you have just crossed a line that should never have been crossed. Had you stayed hidden, you might have survived a few more years, but now, that is no longer a possibility.

Even if, by some luck, you made it out alive from this inheritance site, you would not survive for much longer.

Since you came here by your own will, it means you want to kill us, right? Very well. Come, we will not hesitate to step out of the safe pathway."

Jiang Hao looked at Zi Rui. Although he said he wouldn’t be afraid to come out of the safe pathway, he didn’t stepped out to show his resolve, Nonetheless, it didn’t matter.

He disappeared and reappeared exactly at the center of whatever array they had prepared for him and Ming Yue.

"Oh... where is Ming Yue? Is she planning to do sneak attacks?"

Zi Rui asked again.

Since they had prepared this trap, he wanted to kill both Jiang Hao and Ming Yue.

Jiang Hao still didn’t reply, but how could Ming Yue, who was already feeling sour, stay quiet?

"Shut up, you moron. Stop your stupid babbling. And don’t worry, if you manage to reach the point of killing Junior Brother, then I will definitely enter whatever trap you prepared willingly."

Her voice was clear, even if others couldn’t see her.

Zi Rui didn’t speak further and looked towards Jiang Hao in the middle, then nodded.

"Start."

Immediately, the first thing Jiang Hao noticed was dark clouds. They weren’t far above, only about 400 meters from his head.

After two breaths, he felt the hair on his hands stand up.

"Junior Brother, that’s a killing array. It uses lightning strikes to attack the opponent. It’s quite deadly, as this array doesn’t belong to this world. Also, the lightning strikes will keep increasing the longer you stay inside. The number of strikes can vary depending on how many spirit stones these bastards have used."

Ming Yue could immediately tell which array this was. But she knew Jiang Hao would be able to handle it.

The real problem was that their enemies wouldn’t remain idle. No wonder he didn’t let her come in, this would have truly turned dangerous for her relatively lower regeneration speed compared to him.

"It’s already too late. You can only escape with teleportation, but if you did that, then I have given you too much praises unnecessarily."

Zi Rui didn’t want Jiang Hao to escape. The only way to stop that was to hurt his pride.

Jiang Hao shook his head internally. This guy really talked too much. If he wanted to escape, he would escape, he didn’t care for his reputation or image anyway.

But escaping from them? This guy really thought too highly of himself.

Jiang Hao paid no attention to the spirit beasts surrounding him. None of the disciples entered for the time being. They wanted Jiang Hao to get badly hurt first.

"What a bunch of cowards, sending spirit beasts, yet acting all mighty."

Ming Yue mocked immediately upon seeing that.

Jiang Hao was still looking at the clouds which had spread over 400 meters. After some time, lightning flashed within them. It was completely crimson in color. It didn’t strike Jiang Hao but didn’t disappear either, it remained in the cloud.

Eventually, many of these lightning arcs began forming and roaming within the cloud. After some time, several began connecting among themselves, forming a vein-like structure.

The black clouds now looked dark red due to the crimson lightning veins, it looked like the sky is bleeding. Quite intimidating indeed.

Just as he was wondering how long it would take to complete, he sensed danger. It gave him no time to react, a red thunder streaked toward him.

It was as though the moment the array decided to attack, it acted instantly. The speed of thunder was far beyond his, so dodging was impossible.

The thunder struck him on the chest. It immediately penetrated through his robes and created a lacerated wound on the left side of his chest.

Jiang Hao didn’t move from his position and looked at the wound. It was definitely the strike of a Nascent Soul realm. Only attacks at that level could hurt him this badly.

The wound on his chest was filled with lightning for a moment before it was refined into pure qi, and since it was close to his body, it got absorbed inside.

After the lightning arcs were refined, there was nothing to stop his regeneration, so he immediately healed.

This was the first time he had truly been hurt inside this inheritance site.

When the others saw him getting hurt, they sighed in relief. This meant the array was effective. Now all they had to do was wait for the strikes to increase.

Just as they were sighing, their eyes widened to the extreme, the wound on Jiang Hao’s chest was gone. There wasn’t even a mark left.

"What the hell? Was that attack an illusion?"

Shao Xuan couldn’t believe his eyes. How could a wound like that disappear like nothing happened?

Nobody answered him. They all knew it wasn’t an illusion, as Jiang Hao’s robe still had a hole and was stained with blood.

"This is troublesome..." Jia Yi took a deep breath.

Zi Rui looked at Jiang Hao with fear in his eyes before saying,

"It’s alright. We still have a chance. When this array reaches its peak, the strikes will be continuous, and if we strike at that time, then we can definitely kill him."

The disciples of Ethereal Cloud Sanctuary hadn’t reported this aspect of Jiang Hao. Although it wasn’t exactly their fault, no one had managed to hurt Jiang Hao before, so it was a given that no one knew about his insane regeneration.

Jiang Hao had different thoughts right now. He was lamenting over his robes.

Looks like this fight was going to cost him another one.