The Five Elements Little Ghost was deeply shocked.

Did this little array master… see through it?

Did he see through that it had peeked into the Five Elements Sect’s ancient inheritance?

The Five Elements Little Ghost’s expression changed dramatically.

It had to kill him!

At all costs, it had to kill him!

This matter absolutely could not be revealed, could not be known by the Five Elements Sect. Otherwise, its opportunity would be impossible to keep!

What insights into the Five Elements Way, what ascending to the Heaven Demon position, what Evil God level – all would be delusions!

The Five Elements Little Ghost exerted its full strength, activating the Five Elements Spirit Array.

Its body emitted dazzling five-colored light, bright and brilliant. Its entire body was composed of majestic Five Elements power, emanating astonishing might.

Ink Painting’s gaze slightly condensed.

Is this the effect of “Five Elements Array Flow”?

Proficient in the Five Elements Way, amplifying the Five Elements power, borrowing the array flow, mastering the Five Elements, amplifying oneself…

The Five Elements Little Ghost, amplified by the Five Elements Spirit Array, transformed into a fierce ghost. Ghost-like in form, it suddenly pounced towards Ink Painting.

Ink Painting remained calm and composed, performing the Passing Water Step. While retreating, he simultaneously used Water Prison Technique to restrain and Fireball Technique to attack the Five Elements Fierce Ghost.

However, his techniques had very little effect when they hit the Five Elements Fierce Ghost.

The Water Prison Technique couldn’t control it for long.

The power of the Fireball Technique also suddenly reduced greatly.

One Fireball Technique after another bombarded the fierce ghost’s body, only to be blocked by the array patterns manifested on its body. This only made it stumble, hindering its offense, but unable to cause much killing.

Ink Painting’s brows furrowed slightly.

The Five Elements Fierce Ghost, however, was overjoyed. It understood clearly in its heart and, while hastening its offense, laughed wildly:

“Array methods are profound, containing the most essential understanding of the heavenly way.”

“Divine sense manifesting arrays is even more powerful.”

“You are young and can manifest techniques, which is already not bad, but in terms of array manifestation, you are ultimately still a small path…”

“Today, you are certain to die!”

The Five Elements Fierce Ghost had a ferocious expression.

Ink Painting’s gaze was calm. He suddenly pointed his fingers frequently, “whoosh whoosh whoosh” continuously sending out Fireball Techniques to suppress the Five Elements Fierce Ghost, then retreated, widening the distance, and closed his eyes to concentrate.

The Five Elements Fierce Ghost held its arm in front to block the Fireball Technique, again manifesting array patterns to block the remaining might of the explosion, but its figure was still slightly disheveled.

It looked up and saw Ink Painting with his eyes closed, not knowing what he was doing.

The Five Elements Fierce Ghost let out a cold snort, “Playing mysterious!”

Then it suddenly accelerated, suddenly pouncing and attacking Ink Painting.

A sharp, yin wind blew!

Just as the Five Elements Fierce Ghost was about to pounce in front of Ink Painting, Ink Painting suddenly opened his eyes. His gaze was slightly cold, and he said in a clear voice:

“Lock!”

The Five Elements Fierce Ghost’s charging figure was suddenly held dead by some power.

It looked down and its pupils shrank.

On the ground, there was actually an array!

A golden array locked it in place!

At the same time, the instant the Five Elements Fierce Ghost was locked, the golden and red array patterns on the ground, like flowing water, quickly flowed on their own, forming array patterns and knotting into four arrays.

One of them was the Gold Lock Array, its golden array patterns condensing into chains, firmly trapping the fierce ghost.

The three surrounding arrays were Earth Fire Arrays. The arrays were like raging fire, their killing power greatly flourishing.

This was a set, named the Gold Lock Three Lotus Earth Fire complex array!

The Five Elements Fierce Ghost gasped.

Damn it!

It was deceived by this little ghost again!

He could actually manifest arrays too?!

Is this little ghost really only ten-plus years old? How could he possibly have such deep comprehension of the array way?

In the sea of consciousness, purely relying on divine sense to manifest arrays!

Isn’t this a method only used by those old, immortal sect masters and elders of array sects?

How exactly does he know?

There was no time for it to think more, the Gold Lock Three Refine Earth Fire complex array was already complete.

Arrays inherit the heavenly way and their killing power with divine sense is also the strongest.

The Five Elements Fierce Ghost panicked and said: “Don’t…”

Ink Painting, however, said decisively: “Explode!”

The Gold Lock Three Lotus Earth Fire complex array instantly exploded!

The Gold Lock Array trapped the enemy, and the Earth Fire Arrays killed the enemy.

The three Earth Fire Arrays, like three fire lotuses, grew together, igniting blazing flames that completely swallowed the Five Elements Fierce Ghost.

The Five Elements Fierce Ghost struggled painfully within the flames.

After the blazing flames surged for a while, they gradually dissipated.

Ink Painting’s expression, however, did not relax.

Sure enough, after a moment, the smoke dissipated, revealing a “ghost” shadow – exactly that Five Elements Fierce Ghost.

Its figure was messy, but the injuries were not severe, and its figure was not much dimmer, indicating that the consumption of divine sense was not great.

The Five Elements Fierce Ghost’s shocked soul just settled, then great joy replaced hope.

It almost forgot that it was not an ordinary little ghost.

It had comprehended the origin of the Five Elements Array from the Five Elements Sect. Its resistance to the Five Elements was extremely strong. General Five Elements arrays would have their killing power greatly reduced against it.

Although this golden fire complex array was powerful, being one gold and three fire, it did not depart from the Five Elements category, so it fundamentally could not erase it.

It couldn’t even cause it heavy injury!

The Five Elements Fierce Ghost laughed loudly, then immediately looked towards Ink Painting, its eyes revealing ferocity, “Little ghost, you’ve used up all your methods, right? I see what you’ll do next?”

Ink Painting’s expression condensed slightly.

The Five Elements Fierce Ghost let out a cold laugh, bullying its way forward, continuing to pursue and attack Ink Painting.

Ink Painting sighed, only able to continue using the Passing Water Step, escaping the fierce ghost’s claws and fangs in a flash, constantly fleeing.

The two chased and fled, in a stalemate.

The Five Elements Fierce Ghost was not angry, but instead showed a playful expression like a cat catching a mouse:

“Go ahead and escape.”

“As long as you make one mistake, you will fall into my hands!”

“I want you to kneel down and beg for mercy from me!”

The Five Elements Fierce Ghost laughed wantonly.

Ink Painting’s expression remained calm. He looked at the Five Elements Fierce Ghost, and in his gaze, a hint of playfulness suddenly appeared.

After dozens more rounds, Ink Painting seized an opportunity and repeated his old trick.

He still started with the Fireball Technique, suppressing the fierce ghost and hindering its figure to gain a little time, then closed his eyes to concentrate and manifest an array.

“Again?”

The Five Elements Fierce Ghost laughed coldly.

But this time, it was completely fearless and took a big step forward.

Soon, the Gold Lock Array generated at its feet, the array patterns spreading and turning into chains, locking the fierce ghost in place.

This was within its expectations.

However, the next array manifested was not an Earth Fire Array.

It was still a Gold Lock Array.

The second Gold Lock Array added another layer of restraint.

Then the third, the fourth…

A full five layers of Gold Lock Arrays tightly locked the Five Elements Fierce Ghost dead.

At the same time, Ink Painting was still concentrating, intensely manifesting something…

The Five Elements Fierce Ghost was startled.

What does this mean?

Just trap it and not kill?

Is this little ghost stupid?

Or is he trying to trap it, then take the opportunity to escape and get reinforcements?

The Five Elements Fierce Ghost’s expression was contemptuous. It let out a cold snort, then on its body, the five-colored spirit array bloomed with dazzling light.

The Five Elements power was further strengthened.

The fierce ghost’s body also grew a bit larger, and its strength became stronger and stronger.

It suddenly struggled, then broke several chains, shattered several array patterns, then it roared ferociously and continued to exert force.

The five layers of Gold Lock broke one by one.

The dense golden array patterns also dimmed one by one.

Finally, along with the Five Elements Fierce Ghost’s long howl as it raised its head, it completely broke free from the restraint of the five layers of Gold Lock.

“Little ghost, now kneel down and beg for mercy, and I can let you die a bit more comfortably!”

The Five Elements Fierce Ghost laughed ferociously, its long tongue blood red, its fangs sinister.

Ink Painting’s calm little face, however, smiled brightly. He pointed at the Five Elements Fierce Ghost and commanded in a clear voice:

“Kneel down!”

The Five Elements Fierce Ghost was startled, then laughed out of anger, “Little ghost, are you stupid? You…”

Before it could finish, the smile on its face suddenly disappeared.

It discovered a terrifying fact:

Its own body was uncontrollably, slowly, bit by bit, bending its knee and kneeling down towards this little ghost?!

I can’t control myself?!

I’m kneeling?!

The fierce ghost’s expression was panicked, “How can this be?”

It suddenly lowered its head and looked towards its chest, only to discover that at the location of its heart meridian, a blue array had suddenly appeared at some unknown time.

This array was profound and complex, and did not belong to the Five Elements. It had never seen it before.

Even more terrifying, this array had twelve array patterns!

First grade, twelve patterns!

The Five Elements Fierce Ghost lost its voice and said: “Absolute array?!”

It looked at Ink Painting, its face full of disbelief, “You still know other absolute arrays?!”

Moreover, it was a non-Five Elements absolute array!

It had comprehended some Five Elements origin and could resist Five Elements class arrays, but it could not resist non-Five Elements class arrays, let alone an absolute array!

Little Spirit Hidden Sect’s Spirit Hub Absolute Array!

Ink Painting smiled calmly.

He first used five layers of Gold Lock Arrays to lock the Five Elements Fierce Ghost, then took advantage of its single-minded focus on breaking free, when its heart was not distracted, to secretly draw the Spirit Hub Array on its chest!

And now, the Spirit Hub Array’s spirit threads were gradually spreading and eroding, little by little controlling the fierce ghost’s body until it was completely controlled!

“No!”

The Five Elements Fierce Ghost exclaimed.

Although it did not know the specific use of the Spirit Hub Array, it could vaguely perceive that it was gradually becoming “unable to help itself.”

This was a control-class array.

Once it was completely controlled, it would become this little ghost’s plaything!

It would be like fish on a chopping block, allowing him to butcher it!

The Five Elements Fierce Ghost struggled intensely, exerting all its strength to resist.

It absolutely could not kneel down!

It absolutely could not submit!

But this kind of thing was not up to it to decide.

Even the Half-step Dao Evil Corpse King knelt, let alone a mere fierce ghost?

The Five Elements Fierce Ghost bit its teeth tightly, its face ferocious. Although it resisted intensely, it was still pulled by the light blue spirit threads. Its whole body trembled unsteadily, slowly, bit by bit, kneeling down towards Ink Painting.

Finally, it completely knelt in front of Ink Painting!

The Five Elements Fierce Ghost’s face was ashen.

Ink Painting smiled slightly and pointed a finger.

The Spirit Hub Array on the fierce ghost’s chest instantly bloomed with ten thousand spirit threads, wandering and sewing through its four limbs and hundred bones, turning it into a puppet, completely dominating it!

The Five Elements Fierce Ghost was greatly shocked, and said in a trembling voice:

“You, what do you want to do?”

Ink Painting smiled cunningly and commanded again:

“Now, you, yourself, kill yourself!”

The Five Elements Fierce Ghost’s eyes widened, looking at Ink Painting with a panicked gaze.

It suddenly realized.

It wasn’t the fierce ghost; this smiling, cute little ghost in front of it was the real evil ghost!

Full of evil intentions!

Too despicable, shameless, and vicious!

The Five Elements Fierce Ghost wanted to refuse Ink Painting’s command, but it was no use. It could no longer control itself.

Under the domination of the spirit threads, the Five Elements Fierce Ghost, unable to help itself, raised its sharp claws and stabbed towards itself, starting to harm itself with one claw after another, non-stop…

Ink Painting smiled, squinting his eyes, and sighed:

“The Spirit Hub Array is really easy to use…”

Then he lay on the ground, crossed his legs, while resting and nurturing his spirit, while waiting at ease for the exhausted enemy. From afar, he watched the Five Elements Fierce Ghost kill itself…

After a long time, when the Five Elements Fierce Ghost was covered in scars, its figure miserable, and its divine sense dim, Ink Painting finally let it stop.

As soon as the Five Elements Fierce Ghost stopped, its breath was weak, but it still stared angrily at Ink Painting, “Stinky little ghost…”

Ink Painting curled his lip, “Kneel down!”

The Five Elements Fierce Ghost “thumped” down, kneeling again.

“Slap your face!”

Ink Painting instructed.

The Five Elements Fierce Ghost, with a palm like a big fan, just slapped itself in the face.

It slapped itself more than twenty times.

Ink Painting said: “Stop.”

The Five Elements Fierce Ghost stopped.

Ink Painting looked at it and said faintly: “Are you being honest now?”

The Five Elements Fierce Ghost was angry but nodded honestly.

Ink Painting was satisfied with this, then asked about the proper matter:

“Exactly what did you steal from inside the inheritance dojo?”

The Five Elements Fierce Ghost’s expression changed, “If I tell you, will you let me go?”

Ink Painting smiled brightly, “If I say I will, will you believe it?”

The Five Elements Fierce Ghost’s eyelid twitched.

I believe you are a ghost!

“I’m going to die anyway, why should I tell you?” The Five Elements Fierce Ghost said in a deep voice.

Ink Painting didn’t waste words. He pointed a finger, the spirit threads spread, and again dominated the Five Elements Fierce Ghost, making it kill itself.

It was really painful to stab oneself with claws.

If it killed itself again, it would really die!

The Five Elements Fierce Ghost panicked and immediately said:

“I’ll tell you!”

Ink Painting nodded, “Go ahead.”

The Five Elements Fierce Ghost said helplessly: “What I stole from inside the dojo is… an array pattern.”

Ink Painting frowned, “One array pattern?”

The Five Elements Fierce Ghost nodded.

Ink Painting’s gaze condensed, “Are you deceiving me again? How could it be one array pattern?”

The Five Elements Fierce Ghost secretly cursed.

This stinky little ghost is really suspicious.

However, matters had reached this point, and it didn’t dare to tell lies again.

The Five Elements Fierce Ghost sighed and said helplessly:

“This is not a general array pattern. It is called the ‘Source Pattern,’ condensed from five colors, five elements, and five paths of ink, forming this one array pattern.”

“The five colors correspond to the five elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth. Every stroke contains a source flow of one of the five elements.”

“This ‘Source Pattern’ symbolizes the source flow of Five Elements Sect’s arrays, condensing the blood and sweat of Five Elements Sect’s ancestors, and is the inheritance of the great achievement of the Five Elements Array!”

Ink Painting was slightly shocked. He thought for a moment and asked the question he cared about most:

“Then where is this array pattern now?”

The Five Elements Fierce Ghost murmured: “It was… damaged by me…”

“Damaged?”

The Five Elements Fierce Ghost said: “At first, I was only in the transmission dojo, pretending to be a transmission elder, swindling… Later, by chance, I mistakenly entered the inheritance dojo, and then I saw that one array pattern in the center of the dojo…”

The Five Elements Fierce Ghost’s eyes showed longing, “That array pattern, with five colors flowing, crystal bright…”

“I clearly don’t know arrays, but just one look, just one look, and I felt like I had comprehended the most Five Elements arrays in this world…”

“Then I knew that this is the Five Elements Sect’s top inheritance.”

“It is the unspeakable secret of the Five Elements Sect!”

“This is an absolute secret inheritance that the current Five Elements Sect itself doesn’t even know!”

“This array pattern is too beautiful…”

“Then I sat on the cushion, always looking, always looking. Although I still didn’t know arrays or understand array principles, I seemed instinctively able to manifest various Five Elements arrays…”

“Even including… the Five Elements Spirit Array!”

“But as I looked, greed was born in my heart.”

“I felt that such a treasure should not be left to gather dust.”

“If I took it out, visualized it every day, comprehended it every day, and conveniently ate some people and supplemented some divine sense, one day, when my divine sense grew big, would I be able to master and manifest all the Five Elements arrays in this world?!”

“This array pattern is mine! I want to take it out of the dojo!”

“But this source pattern was embedded within dense array patterns, as if it was derived from these array patterns and resonated with them, connected together, making it impossible to take out separately…”

“I didn’t know arrays, didn’t understand derivation, didn’t know how to do it, so later I simply, directly forcibly broke the array and destroyed all the surrounding arrays…”

“But when I destroyed the arrays, this ‘Source Pattern’ also seemed to dim, and the Five Elements power dissipated, gradually annihilating…”

The Five Elements Fierce Ghost felt both regret and heartache.

“The Source Pattern annihilated, and I only comprehended a small part of the Five Elements arrays. Fearing that I would be discovered by the Five Elements Sect, I could only secretly leave the dojo, then think of a way to escape and leave the shrine…”

“If the ‘Source Pattern’ were in my hands, I…”

The Five Elements Fierce Ghost secretly glanced at Ink Painting.

Although it didn’t say it clearly, its gaze was very obvious.

It meant that if it had the Source Pattern in its hands, Ink Painting would fundamentally be no match for it.

Ink Painting furrowed his brows, feeling some doubt.

He felt that the words of this Five Elements Fierce Ghost were highly suspicious, but looking at its gaze and expression, it seemed not to be lying.

This was just a bit strange…

Ink Painting recalled the situation in the dojo and the sudden missing arrays in the center of the dojo. They seemed to have indeed been forcibly destroyed, leading to their absence…

If what this Five Elements Fierce Ghost said was true, then the Five Elements Sect’s inheritance might have truly annihilated…

Source Pattern…

Ink Painting stared at the Five Elements Fierce Ghost for a few more moments, thought for a while, then suddenly was startled, a shock in his heart. He said in a deep voice:

“You are deceiving me!”

The Five Elements Fierce Ghost hurriedly said:

“I am not deceiving you.”

Ink Painting shook his head, “No, it’s not that you are deceiving me, it’s that you are also being deceived…”

The Five Elements Fierce Ghost was startled, “By whom am I being deceived?”

Ink Painting’s expression condensed, “You are being deceived by the array pattern!”

“No, how is this possible?” The Five Elements Fierce Ghost shook its head, “What exactly are you saying?”

Ink Painting’s voice was slightly cold, “How do you know the words ‘Source Pattern’?”

“Source Pattern…”

The Five Elements Fierce Ghost was startled, thought carefully, and then its eyes revealed panic.

Right, how did I know?

Who told me?

Where did I hear it from?

Ink Painting’s gaze condensed and he continued:

“I have never heard the words ‘Source Pattern,’ and my master also never mentioned it…”

“This must be an extremely obscure ancient inheritance.”

“Since it is an ancient inheritance lost by the Five Elements Sect, then the current Five Elements Sect, including the Five Elements Sect of hundreds of years ago, is equally almost impossible for anyone to know…”

“No one knows it, so no one mentioned it…”

“You are a little ghost who doesn’t understand arrays. No one told you, how could you possibly know?”

“No one told you, unless…”

Ink Painting’s gaze was slightly bright, and he said slowly, “‘Source Pattern’ told you!”

The Five Elements Fierce Ghost’s pupils shrank.

“Or perhaps…”

Ink Painting’s tone was heavy:

“You have been parasitized by that ‘Source Pattern’!”

“The current you is actually already the puppet of that ‘Source Pattern’!”

The Five Elements Fierce Ghost was stunned and lost its composure, then laughed blankly, murmuring:

“What nonsense are you talking about?”

“How could I be parasitized and not even know it myself…”

“How could this be…”

It didn’t finish before suddenly pausing, then its whole body began to tremble uncontrollably, twisting irregularly.

At the location of its heaven gate on its forehead, a five-colored pattern suddenly lit up.

This pattern was ancient and profound.

There were a total of five strokes, corresponding to the five elements, divided into five colors. The colors were variegated, dazzling to the eye, and the shape was ancient and strange, like the pupils of five strange beasts.

Within the pupils, there was the cruelty and indifference of the heavenly way.

Ink Painting’s gaze was shocked.

This was the “Five Elements Source Pattern” that the Five Elements Sect, thousands of years ago, had exhausted the calculation power of their entire sect to derive!

(End of this chapter)