Don't Cause Trouble Chapter 121: Lightning Tribulation Strike Exchange

Tu Shi’s array handbook, Ye Su couldn’t understand more than half of it.

However, Gu Liangtian on the opposite side was a ready-made teaching model. Whether it was the method of forming an array or the rhythm of each movement, Ye Su copied him perfectly.

Other than their faces being different, Ye Su looked like Gu Liangtian’s mirror image, which left the sect masters on the high platform and the cultivators below the ring utterly shocked.

Could a human really do something like this?

In the first half of the match, she had only managed to form a half-baked array and got knocked to the ground by Gu Liangtian several times. But suddenly, she stood back up and began forming the exact same arrays as the Buddha’s disciple.

"Ye Su is a bit scary," Ma Congqiu tapped his temple and said to Xu Chengyu beside him.

"That’s why I’m curious why she doesn’t use a sword." Xu Chengyu had always known Ye Su’s ability to mimic and learn was practically against the heavens, she could even surpass the original.

They had already seen this before when it came to talismans.

It was exactly because Ye Su’s improvement was so exaggerated that even Lian and Cheng Huaian went from shock, to a will to fight, to complete calm, all within less than two years.

The one most shaken was still Gu Liangtian in the ring.

In the second round’s reversal array, he had already realized Ye Su wasn’t simple, but he hadn’t expected she could reach this level.

The two stood in the ring, forming and canceling arrays one after another.

Finally, Gu Liangtian stopped. He didn’t want her to learn the entire Wanfo Sect’s arrays.

"You’re strong enough," Gu Liangtian admitted. He looked at Ye Su, his gaze cold. "But this is as far as you go."

He gripped his Four-Sided Earth Treasury Staff and slammed it hard onto the ground. The light array at the base rippled outward, while he tossed his prayer beads upward and formed an array with one hand.

The prayer beads instantly expanded, almost enclosing the entire ring.

In moments, Ye Su realized the spiritual energy around her was slowing down, drifting toward Gu Liangtian.

"Array Domain," the Sword Sect master Zhou Qi said from the high platform, watching Gu Liangtian in the ring. "No wonder he was chosen as the new Buddha’s Son."

In the cultivation world, only great powers could open a domain. Even the major sect masters couldn’t casually do it, it took immense energy.

The Wanfo Sect’s unique Array Domain, as its name implied, was similar to a domain.

It used the square lotus-platform staff to lock the ground and the prayer beads to seal the sky, temporarily forming a personal realm.

Within this realm, only the array master had control, they were the ruler. Any opponent caught inside would have their strength greatly reduced.

"I bet on Ye Su to win the first round," the Hehuan Sect master Wu Yue suddenly said. "She has to win."

The other sect masters turned to look at her. The Shangque Sect master’s expression was complicated: "You bet on Ye Su?"

What kind of move was that? Normally, sect masters either bet on their own disciples or on the contestant with the most potential that year.

Ye Su?

She was decent, but not to the point of making a sect master put money on her.

"I was going to bet on You Fushi," Sect Master Wu sighed. "The best-looking disciple this year."

Sure enough, the Hehuan Sect was still the Hehuan Sect.

The other sect masters withdrew their gazes and turned their attention back to the match.

Only Zhou Qi, seated beside Wu Yue, shifted his posture, propped an arm on the tea table, and asked in a low voice, "Why did you change your bet to Ye Su?"

"I figured if the two of them meet, You Fushi definitely won’t fight," Wu Yue said confidently.

Zhou Qi understood. "That’s entirely possible."

By now, Ye Su had completely fallen into Gu Liangtian’s Array Domain.

When she tried to copy his array again, she had barely finished forming it when Gu Liangtian tilted his head slightly and the array vanished, as if it had never existed.

Instead, Gu Liangtian formed a single array, then suddenly split it, one became two, two became four, each one coming at Ye Su from a different direction.

She could only dodge in all directions. Caught off guard, one of the arrays struck her, knocking her half-kneeling to the ground. Swallowing back the blood in her throat, she looked up at him. "A domain?"

"Good eye," Gu Liangtian said, gripping his staff as he stepped toward her. The domain shrank as he advanced, all the pressure concentrating on Ye Su, threatening to crush her spine bit by bit.

"Interesting," Ye Su said with difficulty, forcing herself to stand.

The array’s pressure was so intense and focused that as she rose, she could clearly hear the sound of her bones breaking, her spiritual power repairing them, only for them to break again, and be repaired again, until she was fully upright.

In the distance, Xin Shenzi clicked his tongue. This generation really was insane.

Seeing her stand, Gu Liangtian quickened his steps. "This is my Array Domain. Struggling is useless."

Ye Su’s hand went to her qiankun bag. "Is that so? Then I’ll try too."

The Four-Sided Earth Treasury Staff she had found back in the small secret realm was taken out now. This item contained an overwhelmingly powerful force, and Ye Su had almost never brought it out before.

The all-black Four-Sided Earth Treasury Staff had a floating black Earth Illusion Lotus above the lotus platform at its top. The moment it struck the ground, Gu Liangtian immediately sensed the flow of the array realm becoming sluggish.

The cultivators below erupted in shock.

"She has a Four-Sided Earth Treasury Staff too?!"

"As expected from someone from a weapon-forging sect."

"Why does it feel like the staff in Ye Su’s hands is even better than the one the Buddha disciple of Wanfo Sect has?"

Ye Su gripped the staff, letting her spiritual sense flow into the lotus platform. She sensed something unusual, but at this moment, her mind was fixed solely on breaking the array Gu Liangtian had set and defeating him.

She didn’t have prayer beads, but her Four-Sided Earth Treasury Staff was far stronger than Gu Liangtian’s.

Ye Su copied Gu Liangtian’s array-setting techniques. Black light swirled over the staff, and the Earth Illusion Lotus slowly opened.

Gu Liangtian sensed his array realm gradually slipping out of his control. He quickened his pace again, wanting to fully suppress Ye Su, but to focus all the realm’s power onto his opponent’s body required time.

Just a few steps away from success, Ye Su finished forming her array!

The Four-Sided Earth Treasury Staff blazed with black light that surged outward, then flew forth and sliced through Gu Liangtian’s array realm.

The prayer beads, which had been magnified in the air, suddenly snapped. The beads returned to their normal size and scattered across the ground.

On the high platform, a strange light flashed quickly through someone’s eyes.

"That belongs to my Wanfo Sect!" Sect Master Le Ji of the Wanfo Sect suddenly stood up, staring fixedly at the staff in Ye Su’s hand.

"How could it be yours?" The Sword Sect’s Sect Master looked at him. "Sect Master Le, if I’m not mistaken, she most likely obtained it as a fortuitous encounter in some secret realm. She’s never been inside Wanfo Sect territory."

The Wanfo Sect’s sect master sat back down, calming himself. "I meant that staff was used by our sect’s Buddha disciple before the Godfall Stage. But later it disappeared, and we replaced it with the White Jade Lotus staff."

"Since it’s now in her hands, it belongs to her," Daoist Feng Chen advised. "If Sect Master Le wants it back, you can ask her and offer to trade something else for it."

Sect Master Le gave a perfunctory response, but his eyes showed clear determination to obtain it.

On the stage, Ye Su looked at Gu Liangtian. "I’ve learned enough. Now, why don’t you try Senior Tu Shi’s array?"

Imitate, learn, and use one to infer ten.se

From the moment she stepped onto the stage, Ye Su had never stopped thinking. Inside her spiritual sea, her consciousness had transformed into miniature Nascent Soul avatars, exact copies of herself. There weren’t just one or two, but ten little Ye Sus, all floating above her sea of consciousness, constantly recalling Senior Tu Shi’s notes, forming arrays, and learning them over and over.

Each Nascent Soul avatar was learning a different array, while Ye Su herself focused on learning Gu Liangtian’s.

In the short time on stage, the audience only saw her learning from Gu Liangtian, unaware that inside her spiritual sea, ten Nascent Soul avatars were also learning arrays simultaneously.

Ye Su planted the Four-Sided Earth Treasury Staff beside her and closed her eyes slightly.

At that moment, the ten Nascent Soul avatars in her spiritual sea froze simultaneously, then followed her movements, joining their hands, starting the array, and then separating their hands, drawing circles outward with their palms to form it.

Tu Shi’s array was brutally aggressive and steeped in killing intent, yet deep within it hid a vast, oppressive restraint. As soon as the array began, Gu Liangtian felt a suffocating murderous aura.

He quickly began forming his own array to defend himself, but he couldn’t stop his mind from drifting toward studying Ye Su’s technique, almost instinctively trying to copy her.

However, while the hand gestures for forming the array were easy to imitate, getting spiritual energy to attach to the array required repeated practice to perfect.

Ye Su clearly wasn’t giving him the time. Once the array was complete, she flung it upward, and when it came back down, it crashed toward the top of his head.

Gu Liangtian raised his hand, the array in his palm acting like a shield. But it didn’t hold for long, his array shattered, and the one above his head struck him.

Unable to dodge, he took the heavy blow and coughed up a mouthful of blood.

Clutching his chest, he slowly straightened up. "…You’re impressive."

"This is only one of the arrays," Ye Su replied calmly. "I have others."

After steadying himself, the aura around Gu Liangtian shifted. Above the arena, black clouds suddenly appeared.

These clouds gathered incredibly fast, and everyone present recognized the sight. Not far away, Yi Xuan was still in the middle of advancing, enduring heavenly tribulation lightning, which was why the other arenas had been moved farther away.

"He’s advancing to the Spirit Transformation stage now?"

"The Buddha disciple is too bold, he already failed once before. If he fails again, it might damage his mental state."

"You’re wrong. Once the heavenly lightning comes, Ye Su will have no choice but to leave. If she stays, she’ll get caught up in it. This move of Gu Liangtian’s is ruthless, and he already has experience with lightning tribulation."

Sure enough, when the lightning came, Gu Liangtian moved closer to Ye Su. He was like a human lightning rod, wherever he went, lightning struck.

The lightning tribulation for the Spirit Transformation stage was no small matter. After a few strikes, the protective barriers around the arena shattered, and the spectators had already fled far away.

The arena wasn’t small, but once the lightning struck, it felt like there was almost nowhere safe to stand.

Ye Su kept dodging, but arrays and talismans were useless for blocking the heavenly lightning of the Dao.

In contrast, Gu Liangtian, already prepared with all kinds of anti-lightning artifacts, was much more at ease.

In the cultivation world, the laws of the Dao dictated that you could not interfere with someone’s advancement, or you would suffer consequences during your own in the future.

That meant Ye Su couldn’t just attack Gu Liangtian, but if she stepped off the stage, it would be considered surrender. If she stayed, she’d be struck by lightning.

Realizing this, Ye Su simply stopped running, turned, and looked at Gu Liangtian. "To win, you’d go this far?"

"You don’t seem to understand how important the Rotating Tower is," Gu Liangtian replied, holding up a magical artifact to block a lightning strike. He pushed it toward her, actually redirecting the lightning in her direction.

Ye Su didn’t dodge. She let the lightning strike her, her face instantly turning pitch-black with soot.

"There’s something you seem to have overlooked." She wiped her face and said, "If you’re willing to go to such extremes, I can learn from you too."

Gu Liangtian froze, an uneasy feeling creeping over him.

Ye Su tilted her head back, looking at the sky. The clouds were growing darker, almost turning into black water that seemed ready to pour down at any moment. "If you’re going to share your lightning tribulation with me, then I’ll share mine with you."

She wanted to see whether Gu Liangtian’s lightning tribulation was stronger than hers—