"It's you," the big boss immediately squinted. "That's right, since I'm here, you should be here too."
"You broke the agreement for me to appear," the gatekeeper replied calmly. "Naturally, I would come."
"How long have we been fighting?" the big boss suddenly changed the subject.
"I can't remember," the gatekeeper shook his head. "It seems like ever since you came to Ge City, we haven't stopped..."
"So I'm tired, I'm bored!" the big boss suddenly pointed at the grand hall next to him, his expression agitated. "Don't you want to see, the secrets inside!"
"I want to," the gatekeeper nodded. "But I can't!"
"Pedantic!" the big boss cursed. "Your family has guarded this place for generations, but what did you get in the end? What's the point of doing this?"
"These are not important," the gatekeeper glanced at him. "Because the secrets inside are too terrifying, terrifying enough to destroy our world!"
While they were arguing, Ye Fan began to ponder.
From what they said, it seemed the gatekeeper knew what was inside.
And it sounded quite scary...
Before this, Ye Fan hadn't been that interested in what was inside.
But after hearing this, he became even more interested.
This was quite normal, really.
A mentally deranged person who had lived for a million years would naturally be interested in something that could destroy the world...
Of course, Ye Fan would never admit to being mentally deranged!
While they were talking, Ye Fan used his flying bed to move the little witch and the others aside.
Their position was at the edge of the Nightmare Stair Array, precisely where it used to be...
"Since that's the case, there's nothing more to say." The big boss's true qi erupted, clearly intending to make a move.
The wind brought about by the big boss was several times stronger than that of his clone, and Ye Fan finally understood how terrifying this guy was!
If the clone's strength was only at the nascent soul stage, then the main body was at least at the second layer of the nascent soul stage!
You know, the higher the realm, the more terrifying the increase in strength.
Even a small increase in realm was more terrifying than advancing from Soul Transformation to Nascent Soul!
The gatekeeper also took his stance, his clothes fluttering wildly.
The figures of the two instantly disappeared!
The surroundings erupted with waves of violent explosions!
After all, Ye Fan was just a mortal now, and his eyes couldn't keep up with their movements...
A layer of golden light emerged, quietly enveloping Ye Fan and the others.
No need to ask, it must have been the system's doing.
Unlike before, this golden shield was quietly absorbing the shockwaves from their battle...
This situation had never happened before.
Judging from their previous conversation, they had fought often, and their strength should have been similar.
But unexpectedly, the battle ended in just one minute!
"Cough, cough..." The gatekeeper coughed up a mouthful of blood, looking at the big boss in disbelief. "How... did you suddenly become so strong..."
"Since my true self dared to appear here today, do you think I would be unprepared?" The big boss wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth. "We've been fighting for so many years, it's time to put an end to it today!"
"That's not necessarily true, I can still..."
Halfway through his words, the gatekeeper's expression changed drastically!
Because he sensed a surge of true qi within him that did not belong to him!
Too bad...
It was too late!
"Bang bang bang bang bang—!"
With a series of violent explosions, the gatekeeper fell to the ground!
His body was mangled, and even an arm was blown off!
He lay there completely still, clearly on his last breath...
The big boss slowly landed in front of the gatekeeper.
"No... you can't go in..." the gatekeeper weakly grabbed the big boss's trouser leg. "The world will be destroyed... you can't be the sinner..."
The big boss lifted his other leg and stomped down fiercely on the gatekeeper's head!
"Puff!"
The gatekeeper's head instantly exploded like a watermelon!
"Foolish!"
Leaving these words behind, the big boss walked towards Ye Fan.
"If you continued to grow, you might have become a legend like the master of this place..." the big boss suddenly sighed. "But alas, you won't have this chance!"
"That... I'm going to die anyway," Ye Fan rubbed his nose. "You seem to know something about this place, so before I die, can you satisfy my curiosity?"
"Stalling for time is meaningless," the big boss looked at Ye Fan with contempt. "Just accept reality."
Actually, he was a bit scared...
The monstrous phantom behind the little witch earlier had left him with too great a shadow.
So much so that even his true self didn't dare to face it.
While he was speaking, the big boss had already arrived.
His hand reached out towards Ye Fan!
But there was one thing he overlooked...
At this moment, his feet were already within the range of the Nightmare Stair Array...
Or rather, he thought the array had been broken, so he didn't pay attention to it anymore.
Then he saw.
Ye Fan smiled.
A sense of unease surged in his heart!
But it was too late!
The previously empty ground suddenly lit up with patterns!
A beam of light shot up into the sky, enveloping him!
Realizing something was wrong, the big boss immediately tried to flash out of the light pillar!
"Bang!"
His body made a dull thud against the edge of the light pillar!
The big boss realized something had happened!
He immediately and unwillingly attacked the light pillar frantically, but to no avail!
In fact, because he used too much force, he was injured by the rebound of his own attack!
"No! This is impossible!" The big boss was no longer as calm and collected as before. "The array clearly disappeared before!"
"Nothing is impossible," Ye Fan smiled kindly. "As you said, accept reality."
It turned out that Ye Fan had never broken the array all along!
After all, he had no cultivation now and couldn't break it himself.
And the Nightmare Stair Array, which was at the eleventh level, was far from being solved by simply directing a group of amateurs.
You know, the profession of an array master isn't just about gathering materials and drawing some array patterns.
If it were that simple, the cultivation world would have array masters everywhere.
However, although Ye Fan couldn't break it, he could make some minor modifications to the original array.
In fact, his modification was very simple, he just slightly strengthened the power of the Nightmare Stair Array a little bit...
Well, just a little bit.
At most, it was like adding a basin of cold water to a hot oil pan.
The drawback was obvious, of course.
Forcibly changing the energy circulation of the array would directly lead to the complete eruption of the array!
Coupled with Ye Fan's "adding fuel to the fire" modification...
The resulting power would be far greater than 1+1=11!
Of course, these had nothing to do with Ye Fan.
After all, he wasn't the target of the attack...
As for why Ye Fan's location was safe?
Is it strange for a designer to leave himself a safe backdoor?
The difference was that this so-called safe backdoor wasn't absolutely safe, as there wasn't enough time to make it perfect.
So Ye Fan quickly controlled the flying bed to leave the range of the array.
The greatest characteristic of the Nightmare Stair Array was that there was no movement when it erupted.
It was as if a person died in endless nightmares; the entire process was silent.
By this time, the big boss's clothes were torn, and his skin was covered with fine red marks...
The big boss had experienced the power of the Nightmare Stair Array once before.
If it weren't for his luck in stumbling upon the way out that time, he would have died on the spot!
At this moment, he could clearly feel that the power of the Nightmare Stair Array was even stronger than before!
Even though he looked fine on the outside, the true qi within his body was already boiling!
The uncontrolled true qi was violently tearing at his internal organs...
If his physical body wasn't strong enough, he would have turned into a pile of dust by now!
But he knew it was only a matter of time...
He was completely out of hope this time!
If he were facing an enemy, even an enemy much stronger than himself, he might not have felt this desperate.
After all, people are alive and full of possibilities and variables.
But when facing something like an array, which he couldn't understand, those so-called trump cards were just delaying his death...
"When did... you start suspecting me?" the big boss endured the pain and gritted his teeth, asking the question in his heart.