I Can Extract Divine Power

This flat, contemptuous reply immediately enraged Emperor Tianyun.

"What do you mean by that?"

Shen Bai shrugged. "It means nothing. I just think this place is big enough that I’d like to explore it thoroughly. I’ll leave right after."

Emperor Tianyun sneered, "I know what you’re trying to do. You want to provoke me and find a way out, right? It’s useless. This place is indeed large, but you’ll eventually grow tired of it."

"All that awaits you are the long, passing years. Don’t think you can find your way out just by exploring every inch of the Celestial Pride Hall."

"This place is hidden well enough. By the time the Emperor of the Great Zhou Country figures out its secret, I’m afraid you’ll have long since turned to dust."

"Really? I don’t believe you," Shen Bai said. "It seems this Celestial Pride Hall prevents you from attacking me. Or perhaps, you just don’t have the power to. Guiding my Divination Skill must have already exhausted all your strength, right?"

Emperor Tianyun didn’t deny it. "That’s right," he said. "The Celestial Pride Hall suppresses me. I spend every moment accumulating my power, but there’s a limit."

"However, that limit is enough to guide your Divination Skill. It’s just not enough to kill you. But you can’t harm me either."

"What’s the use of all your talk? This is a dead end—for you. As for me, I just need to wait for one more person to lure in here."

Shen Bai let out an "oh." "In that case, I’ll be on my way."

Emperor Tianyun said flatly, "Go on, then. I will wait for you to come begging. And when you do, I’ll let you have a taste of what it’s like to plead with someone."

Shen Bai said, "What I mean is, I’m leaving this place."

Emperor Tianyun’s eerie green flames flickered. "Leave? How will you leave?"

Shen Bai raised his hand and swiped, and a rift appeared in the empty space before him.

Emperor Tianyun was slightly stunned.

Then, he watched Shen Bai step into the rift, who left behind a single, breezy phrase.

"Goodbye."

As soon as he spoke, the rift sealed shut, and Shen Bai vanished.

Emperor Tianyun was completely dumbfounded. He couldn’t believe what he had just seen.

’How in the world did that kid get out? No, that was a Space Type Cultivation Technique. Does he actually have the power to tear through the Space of this hall?’

’Impossible!’

Emperor Tianyun sat on his Bone Throne, completely lost in deep thought.

All sorts of thoughts surfaced in his mind.

Then, Emperor Tianyun raised his skeletal hand and swiped lightly in front of him.

A rift appeared in empty space.

’This is the real way out. How could he possibly have torn through the Space of the Celestial Pride Hall?’

Only he knew that he controlled the method for people to enter and exit.

But this method could only be used once every so often, and he himself could absolutely not escape.

’But with Shen Bai’s level of strength, how could he leave a place like this?’

Just as he thought this, in the next moment, another spatial rift appeared.

Immediately after, Shen Bai turned into an afterimage, passed through the two rifts, and disappeared, leaving only a single sentence that left Emperor Tianyun stunned on the spot.

"Even after living for so long, you can still get tricked. You’re just too stupid."

The next moment, Shen Bai’s figure vanished.

Emperor Tianyun was completely stunned. He looked at that Space and the vanishing traces of Shen Bai’s Qi, then suddenly roared in fury.

"You little bastard! You dare to plot against me?! You dare to trick me?! When I get out of here, I’m going to tear you to pieces and make you experience the despair of agony every second of every day!"

The Bone Throne shook violently, but no one responded to him anymore.

He knew he had been deceived.

Putting the pieces together, his vast experience was enough to tell him exactly how Shen Bai had outwitted him.

Shen Bai was an expert in a Divination Skill and also possessed a unique spatial ability.

First, he stepped into his own space, pretending to have left.

Then, inside, he used his Divination Skill to calculate the timing.

And Emperor Tianyun, in his confusion, would definitely open the real gate to verify.

Because his entire strength was sealed, and the power he had accumulated was used to guide Shen Bai’s Divination Skill, he was now as helpless as a blind man.

And Shen Bai’s Divination Skill was no longer affected by him.

Through the Manipulation of his Divination Skill, he seized this sliver of a chance to survive and escaped with his life.

The trembling of the Bone Throne gradually weakened.

After a long while, Emperor Tianyun let out a heavy sigh.

"Even if you get out and tell them, it doesn’t matter. I still have hope. There must be... there must be..."

The voice echoed from Emperor Tianyun, reverberating endlessly in the cavern.

The Water Flow returned, once again submerging the underwater cavern.

...

「Outside.」

Zhou Qing was currently covered in blood. He stared at the things in front of him, a grave expression in his eyes.

It wasn’t just him; all the surrounding celestial prides had the same expression.

Not long ago, after passing through a long corridor, they had arrived in another room.

This room was enormous, large enough to hold over ten thousand people at a glance.

In a room of such immense size, even a single person walking around would feel a profound sense of powerlessness.

And within this room, besides the bare floor, were rows upon rows of puppets clad in armor.

Each puppet was forged from an unknown metal and looked extremely terrifying.

They held Blades, standing on the ground as if they were soldiers awaiting orders.

When Zhou Qing and the others stepped inside, they were immediately attacked.

These puppets moved like living people, and each one possessed the strength of the Void Realm. Furthermore, they were skilled in a type of Battle Array, and together they displayed an almost unparalleled offensive might.