A Man Like None Other (Jared Chance) novel Chapter 6178

Following behind him, Evelyn grew more and more shaken. After a while, even the whole climb started feeling unreal.

She realized Jared's understanding of wards had reached a point that simply shouldn't have been possible.

No matter how airtight those wards looked, there was always a tiny flaw in front of him.

And every single time, he caught that flaw and passed through with ease, as if the lightning beams that could kill even High Immortal Realm experts were nothing more than a breeze brushing his face.

Even when he occasionally brushed the edge of a formation, all he did was flick a finger lightly. The violent lightning beam that should have erupted at once bent away like a tamed snake, circling around them before smashing into an open patch in the distance and throwing up a cloud of dust.

"Young Lord, h-how are you this familiar with the Celestial Basilica's wards?"

She finally couldn't hold it back anymore. Her voice shook as the words came out. "The Godslayer Grand Array took the Celestial Basilica a hundred years to complete. Three Grand Elders at the True Immortal Realm joined hands to set it up.

Even disciples inside the Celestial Basilica couldn't get through this easily without specially made passage tokens. Even if an Elder came in person, they'd still have to move carefully."

Jared didn't look back. His steps stayed light, as if what lay beneath his feet wasn't a bottomless cliff at all, but a flat open road.

"I'm not familiar with them. These wards are just too crude." Jared's tone carried plain disdain.

The corner of Evelyn's mouth twitched, and she nearly choked on her own saliva.

Too crude?

This was the Mountain-Guarding Grand Array the entire Luminous Sanctuary took pride in.

Across the whole Fourteenth Firmament, no one knew how many forces had tried to imitate it and failed.

Countless powerful cultivators had tried to sneak in, only to return defeated—or die inside it so completely not even their bones were left behind.

And in Jared's mouth, all of that became "too crude"?

All at once, Evelyn realized she still knew far too little about Jared.

This man looked young, but just how many secrets was he hiding?

Who exactly was he?

Why did even the Celestial Basilica's highest secrets look like a joke in his eyes?

Could he have once been some reclusive formation Grandmaster who never showed himself to the world?

"Young Lord,"

Evelyn drew in a deep breath and tried to steady herself, but the questions pressing inside her only grew heavier. "If you can break these wards this easily, then why did you go up and ask questions earlier? Wouldn't it have been better to come up like this from the start? Why bother doing something extra and putting them on guard?"

Jared's steps paused for half a beat, and he turned his head to glance at her.

Something deep flickered through those dark eyes, like layer after layer of calculation hidden underneath.

"That was to test them. I wanted to see whether the Celestial Basilica was really as good as the outside world says."

He paused, then went on. "If I really could have swaggered straight through the front entrance, that would've meant there was a serious problem inside the Celestial Basilica—or that they were deliberately baiting people in, waiting with their mouths open for prey to walk in on its own.

But from what I can see now, their vigilance is high. Their frontal defenses are tight. What they neglected was this side path, and that exposed the arrogance underneath. They think no one in the world can break this formation, so they left behind this one blind spot."

When Evelyn heard that, a chill ran straight through her.

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