Chapter 2326: Space Transformation Secrets

"Leave the palace?" The Demon Lord frowned.

Zu An explained, "If you, my Lord, are in the palace, no matter what method I try, it seems unlikely I'll successfully help Salome rescue Mogad. Even if they are rescued, Salome and Mogad will surely suspect that you deliberately let them go, and then they'll become suspicious of me."

"But if you happen to be absent from the palace when they rescue Mogad, then it would be perfectly reasonable for me to help Salome successfully rescue him."

The Demon Lord grinned, "Excellent, you've thought this through thoroughly. So, when do you suggest I leave?"

Zu An thought for a moment and said, "How about the night after tomorrow?"

The Demon Lord nodded slightly, "Good, that's not too late, nor will it be so quick as to arouse Salome's suspicion. The night after tomorrow, then."

"Thank you for your approval, my Lord." Zu An tentatively asked again, "May I ask what you plan for me to do after gaining Salome's trust?"

"I've told you before, help them rescue the Lord of Slaughter. As for what happens next, I will inform you when the time comes," the Demon Lord said indifferently.

"Understood!"

Zu An's heart grew even more perplexed, but he couldn't show it.

Back in the True Demon clan's cave dwelling, the women all breathed a sigh of relief. "Ah Zu truly is resourceful; he returned safely."

"It was just luck. I still haven't figured out what exactly the Demon Lord is planning, and it gives me a faint sense of unease," Zu An said, without a hint of satisfaction on his face.

Yun Yuqing asked, puzzled, "Now that both the Demon Lord and Salome trust you, it'll be easier to cooperate and complete your respective tasks, won't it? Isn't that a good thing?"

Zu An shook his head slightly. "This is just a temporary illusion. If we don't know what the Demon Lord is truly plotting, once he makes his move, the situation might become irreversible."

Pei Mianman consoled him, "Ah Zu, don't worry too much. It's not surprising that we can't find out more with insufficient information right now. Moreover, with your identity as the True Demon Clan's young master, the Demon Lord's enemies are certainly the Lord of Slaughter, Salome, or even the Doomsday Beast. Why would he pay attention to you? This actually makes you safer."

Jiang Luofu also said, "That's right. Your Myriad Life Transformation technique is truly amazing; even those close to you like us can't see through it. How could the Demon Lord? You've been too tense lately; you need to relax appropriately. Don't keep your guard up so tightly."

"I hope so." Zu An also felt that he had been in a state of high tension lately. If he continued like this, it would drain his energy and spirit, and over time, his thinking would become dull.

At this moment, Ji Xiaoxi volunteered, "Brother Zu, let me massage your head."

As she spoke, she was already behind Zu An, her slender fingers gently rubbing his temples. She was already a gifted healer, skilled in therapeutic arts, and now, being very concerned for Zu An, she put her whole heart into it.

A faint white light appeared on her fingers, and Zu An immediately felt two streams of coolness gradually spread through his mind, and his entire body's fatigue was noticeably relieved.

Yun Yuqing saw this and thought, *I need to secretly find an opportunity to ask Xiao Xi to teach me, so I can massage Ah Zu like this in private later.*

Pei Mianman's face, meanwhile, flushed slightly. She thought, *If it were just the two of us, I could let Ah Zu rest his head on my chest; he likes that kind of massage from me the most.*

*But now, only Xiao Xi can be intimate with him without seeming abrupt. It's quite irritating.*

Her gaze fell on Ji Xiaoxi's rather unremarkable chest compared to her own, and she felt a little better.

However, she immediately felt ashamed of such thoughts...

Xie Daoyun looked at Ji Xiaoxi with envy. She and Brother Zu had clearly gone through a lot together, and had even kissed, yet she always felt there was an unexplainable barrier between them, making it hard to interact with him as naturally as Xiao Xi did.

Sorens had already come to terms with things these past few days. These girls all had deep relationships with Brother Zu, while she was merely a somewhat familiar friend in comparison. She sighed softly, then shifted her thoughts back to the main topic: "Brother Zu, should we inform Salome of the time now?"

"No rush. If I tell her so quickly that I've handled the Demon Lord, she'll definitely be suspicious. Let her wait two days," Zu An said calmly.

He quickly opened his eyes and asked everyone, "How are you all progressing with those jade slips?"

Pei Mianman said somewhat dejectedly, "It's like reading an undecipherable text. Only Daoyun and Xiao Xi seem to understand it."

Jiang Luofu was also a bit frustrated at this point. She had always prided herself on being well-read, but the array knowledge recorded in this world was too profound for her to truly comprehend. As for the medical texts, since she wasn't familiar with the various herbs, reading them was pointless.

Ji Xiaoxi said excitedly, "With these systematic medical texts, I believe that after a while, I should be able to refine poison pills capable of dealing with the demons of this realm."

Zu An couldn't help but smile, pinching her delicate cheek. "Xiao Xi is truly amazing."

Xie Daoyun, however, said faintly, "Actually, I didn't understand many parts, or rather, I understood almost nothing at all. The array knowledge recorded on it is completely different from what I've learned before. If my intuition hadn't told me this was a profound text, I would have suspected Salome deliberately gave you a fake to deceive you."

"Oh? Let me see," Zu An said, surprised. Xie Daoyun's attainments in the field of runic arrays were already quite advanced, especially since he had specifically taught her some array knowledge from the *Baopuzi True Scripture* before. In this aspect, she was already showing signs of surpassing her teacher.

After all, she specialized in this path, while he had to divide his attention across various fields.

With that, he took the array jade slip from Xie Daoyun's hand.

He tentatively activated his skill system and was immediately startled by the long string of zeroes indicating the anger points required for direct comprehension. This array knowledge actually demanded such an exorbitant amount of anger points?

He hastily gave up on learning it directly with the skill system. With the Demon Lord's plans still unclear, it was best to conserve anger points whenever possible.

If he could first learn some basics through his own understanding and then use the skill system, the anger points consumed should be significantly reduced.

Of course, he was more curious about what kind of array content required so many anger points and was incomprehensible even to Xie Daoyun.

His spiritual sense probed into the jade slip, and streams of array knowledge flooded his mind.

*Mysteries of Spatial Transformation*!

Just hearing the title, he knew it was the spatial teleportation array they needed most.

He hadn't held much expectation initially, as Salome had said the best array texts were in the palace treasury. He figured what she had would only be some incomplete copies left over from when her father was in power.

Who knew that after reading the content, Zu An's expression would turn grave.

It was likely Salome didn't recognize its value; the array texts in the palace treasury probably couldn't compare to this one.

The array concepts elucidated within were in no way inferior to the array level of the *Baopuzi True Scripture*. More crucially, it explained spatial arrays from an entirely different perspective.

Generally, spatial array theory posits that space is composed of various basic runes like horizontal strokes, falling strokes, vertical strokes, pressing strokes, dots, lines, and planes. However, *Mysteries of Spatial Transformation* suggests that most people view things from the perspective of temporal change, observing their trajectories. But what if time is merely an artificially added concept?

If one assumes time does not exist in the world, and that all things in the universe are not measured by time but observed through other perspectives, then another world would become visible.

These two worlds are, in fact, one; it simply depends on the standard and angle from which you view them. Each method of expression conceals its own unique information and naturally has its own advantages.

According to *Mysteries of Spatial Transformation*, although it is very abstract to understand, it offers unparalleled advantages in spatial teleportation.

The more Zu An read, the more familiar it felt. It somewhat resembled the concept of Fourier transform he had learned in university in his previous life: when time is the x-axis, the observed motion is a time-domain image of various waveforms, but if frequency is the x-axis, the projection of the same target is a simpler frequency-domain image...

*Mysteries of Spatial Transformation* precisely recorded how to express this world in another way.

Although analogizing it to the Fourier transform he learned in his past life wasn't entirely accurate, with various details and implementation methods being completely different, there were significant commonalities in principle...

With this foundational understanding, Zu An found it much easier to comprehend; otherwise, it would have been truly abstract to grasp.

Seeing his expressions, at times focused, at others filled with admiration, Xie Daoyun was utterly shocked. "Brother Zu, you really understand it?"

Feeling the strange gazes of the other women, Xie Daoyun's face immediately flushed. She quickly said, "I... I didn't mean it like that."

At the same time, she felt immensely annoyed with herself; her words just now sounded as if she was looking down on Brother Zu.

After Zu An's careful study, gaining a comprehensive understanding of *Mysteries of Spatial Transformation*, the skill system prompted that immediate comprehension would now only require 100,000 anger points.

Zu An couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. He then casually said, "Come to my room tonight; I'll teach you."

Hearing his words, the women's eyes instantly widened.