I Am Loaded with Passive Skills - Chapter 3178

Chapter 3178: Chapter 1620: The Simple Folkways of Changde Town, Crossing the Sea to Invite 8 Revered Bazhun’an

Central Region.

Qingyuan Mountain, Changde Town.

The sky is clear and the breeze is gentle.

This day was no different from any other day.

News of the renowned Seven Sword Deity that shook the five regions cannot reach this small town.

The major storm that everyone on the continent knows is coming to Sacred Mountain Gui Zhe can’t reach here either.

The small town with its simple folk customs, where residents start their day at sunrise and rest at sunset, living an orderly life.

In these peaceful and comfortable cycle of days, suddenly, a thunderclap on a sunny day, purple lightning flashed within the streets of the town and vanished into the high sky.

“Crack crack crack!”

In response, wooden windows on houses around were pushed open, and heads with bright eyes peered out.

“Swish swish swish!”

Pedestrians on the street also stopped in their tracks, turning their heads in unison towards the same place.

Yang Tieniu, who was sharpening his knife for butchering, rushed to the meat-selling table, peeking curiously.

Aunt Zhang Xiuhua, selling tofu pudding, jumped over the threshold with half a bowl of salty tofu pudding, craning her neck.

Li Zhenniang, who was sitting on a small stool embroidering, suddenly stood up with cloth and needle in hand, tilting her head back to look towards the center of the town.

The center of the town was no longer nominally the center, but under the watchful eyes of everyone, it was the collapsed and yet-to-be-rebuilt “Cao’s Blacksmith Shop.”

“Boom!”

Out of the long-inactive ruins of the blacksmith shop, suddenly, a towering figure draped in a large cloak shot up into the sky.

But before he could make a move, all the residents of the town simultaneously stretched out their right hands, raising them towards the sky.

We, unite as one mind.

“Buzz!”

The buildings, columns, streets, settings, stonework, and trees around Changde Town, placed seemingly at random and at varying heights…

Without exception, intricate divine path patterns suddenly illuminated.

At this moment, their respective positions, heights, proximity, and even the movements and standpoints of everyone at this time…

Nothing was ordinary anymore.

Everything held meaning.

An array!

An unknown level of Divine Array in harmony with the heavens, earth, path, and world!

The light converged, assembling, forming a dim water curtain barrier at the horizon.

“Boom!”

The purple lightning struck the water curtain barrier, causing a web-like fracture.

All the townspeople looked up in unison, only to grunt from their chests and each take a step back.

Quickly, they advanced forward again, returning to their original positions, continuing to raise their hands.

We, unite as one mind, never to part.

“Break!”

A furious shout bearing anger came from the horizon.

An intangible mind wave expanded, instantly engulfing the whole town, and thunder roared abruptly in the Nine Heavens, as if calamity clouds were gathering.

“Puff puff puff…”

This time, the townspeople collectively took flight, their hair standing on end and their bodies burst forth with countless purple lightning snakes, convulsing nonstop on the ground.

The high-altitude water curtain finally collapsed.

Kui Leihan, draped in a large cloak and holding a wine barrel, albeit his figure stopped mid-air, let the nine weapon prohibition orders on his neck collar swing, making a clanking sound.

After revealing his tracks, he instead lost any subsequent movements.

Yes.

Kui Leihan broke the great array.

But similarly, he was also delayed.

In that brief moment, no matter how he acted, he could no longer lock the position of his virtual image.

Recollecting in his mind the gray world that he envisioned after looking around with his virtual image moments ago, he murmured silently after a pause:

“Ran Ming.”

Invoking my true name, guiding reincarnation.

The divine priest dictates, all beings are equal.

This time, however, it was like utter nonsense; despite invoking, no power came to guide him.

Kui Leihan’s thick eyebrows furrowed tightly, his eyelids twitching repeatedly, he finally could not suppress his anger and burst out shouting at the sky:

“Dao Qiongcang!”

“Believe it or not, I will slaughter you!”

Swish.

This extreme rage passed.

The residents of the town who had fallen rose one by one.

Despite still electrified, they uncontrollably knelt on one knee, all bowing their heads and murmuring:

“I, awaken from chaos…”

“I, born from ruin…”

The ground of Changde Town lit up with divine path patterns, as nested Divine Secrets Arrays took form.

Kui Leihan clenched his teeth tightly, his cheeks quivering.

In the end, he did not burst out, only taking a deep breath and sinking back down to the ruins of Cao’s Blacksmith Shop.

“…”

The town’s murmuring ceased abruptly.

All residents quickly ended their convulsions from the electricity, took another look at the blacksmith shop, and returned to their usual lives.

Those buying groceries continued home…

Those chopping meat continued cooking…

The great array disappeared.

Windows closed.

All abnormalities ceased.

Peace and beauty returned to this beautiful town.

In the ruins of the blacksmith shop, Kui Leihan, with a grim face, leaned against a large wine barrel, his thoughts unknown.

After a long while.

He lightly lifted his eyelids.

“Clap clap clap…”

From all directions, the sound of windows being opened, curious heads peeked inside.

But this time, Kui Leihan made no grand movements, only a faint purple light shot from between his pupils.

This was not even considered a power, just a mere thought.

A demi-saint could have a thought incarnation, so could a Holy Emperor, so could an Ancestral God.

But a mere thought from the higher void under a weapon prohibition order, what effect could it have?

The purple light traveled through the underground, strangely not triggering any Divine Secrets Array, and quickly disappeared outside the town.

“Clap clap clap…”

The windows of each household closed.

Kui Leihan, with his keen hearing, could hear the rustling of pages being turned, and the sounds of pen tips writing and deducing something from all around.