Chapter 98 : Chapter 98
Chapter 98: Entering the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion!
【Sensing the aura coming from your body, you had no time to think and directly brought Zhuge Qing and Zi You into the broken mountain.】
【There was a barrier outside the broken mountain. After entering it, you immediately discovered that the interior space of the mountain was far larger than it appeared from the outside.】
【What surprised you, however, was that the moment you entered the interior, that destructive aura suddenly disappeared.】
【“How could this be?”】
【You turned to look at Zhuge Qing and found him staring at his own hands with a puzzled expression. Just as you were about to ask what had happened—】
【You suddenly felt Zhuge Qing’s aura rapidly declining.】
【In only a few short breaths, Zhuge Qing’s Mahayana cultivation directly fell to Void Refinement Great Perfection!】
【At the same time, you discovered that Zi You’s aura was also changing. Very soon, just like Zhuge Qing, her cultivation fell to Void Refinement Great Perfection.】
【“There is the power of laws here. My cultivation has been forcibly suppressed!”】
【Zi You stared behind her with a wary expression.】
【“Something’s wrong!”】
【You turned your gaze to Zi You and asked what was wrong.】
【Looking at the barrier you had passed through, Zi You said,】
【“Why didn’t the people from the Hao Tian Holy Land chase us in?”】
【The moment you heard that, your body trembled violently.】
【Before entering the broken mountain, you had already sensed that the people from the Hao Tian Holy Land were very close behind you. Given their speed, they should have caught up soon.】
【You had chosen to enter this broken mountain only because you had no other choice.】
【Now it seemed that your choice had been the right one.】
【The good news was that you had temporarily shaken off the threat of the Hao Tian Holy Land.】
【The bad news was that you were trapped inside this broken mountain and could not get out.】
【Outside the broken mountain, inside the Heavenly Void.】
【The Great Elder of the Hao Tian Holy Land arrived before the broken mountain and waved a hand, signaling everyone to stop.】
【“Great Elder! I didn’t expect those ants to run into this mountain. Should we...”】
【The Great Elder of the Hao Tian Holy Land shook his head.】
【“No! We’ll guard the outside. Once inside, our cultivation will be suppressed. That would give them the chance to kill us in return!”】
【Before you had entered the broken mountain, the Great Elder of the Hao Tian Holy Land had already sensed that the highest cultivation among you was no more than Mahayana.】
【For a Tribulation Transcendence expert like him, there was no need to risk fighting on the same realm.】
【Inside the broken mountain.】
【You and Zhuge Qing kept moving deeper inside.】
【At present, the only thing you could do was find the old site of the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion.】
【From the perception granted by the Heavenly Evolution Art, you could sense that the old site of the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion had to be here.】
【Suddenly, you discovered that the entire mountain range began to shake violently.】
【Right afterward, you saw figure after figure emerge from the ground on the road ahead.】
【In an instant, you were completely surrounded. Your eyes widened in disbelief as you stared at the corpses hemming you in from all sides.】
【Without exception, every one of those corpses emitted the aura of Void Refinement Great Perfection.】
【At that moment, you finally understood why the people of the Hao Tian Holy Land had refused to come in.】
【“Run!”】
【As soon as the word fell, you immediately used the Great Desolate Heaven-Imprisoning Finger and attacked the corpses ahead.】
【BANG—】
【Under the attack of your Great Desolate Heaven-Imprisoning Finger, a temporary path was instantly blasted open ahead of you.】
【But only a single breath later, that path was blocked again by the corpses.】
【What made you feel even more despair was that the corpses your Great Desolate Heaven-Imprisoning Finger had just shattered actually reassembled on the ground into complete corpses and stood back up again.】
【When you tried to use the Great Void Technique to leave directly, you discovered that because of the suppression of the laws here, your Great Void Technique could only move over very short distances along the ground.】
【After realizing you could not escape with the Great Void Technique, you and Zhuge Qing kept attacking the corpses, forcibly carving out a path through the sea of bodies.】
【At the same time, Zi You took out the Chaos Bell and helped block the corpse ambushes launched at you from every direction.】
【And so, no one knew how much time passed.】
【Then you saw a sea of blood ahead, and upon that sea of blood, you saw a majestic pavilion.】
【“The Heavenly Secrets Pavilion!!!”】
【Upon hearing that, Zhuge Qing followed your line of sight, and joy instantly appeared on his face.】
【As you drew near the sea of blood, you discovered that those corpses no longer targeted you, as though they were deeply afraid of the blood sea before them.】
【After that bitter battle, you realized that all three of you had suffered no small amount of injury.】
【Looking at the sea of blood before you, you did not dare cross it rashly.】
【Judging from the behavior of those corpses just now, you knew this place was definitely far from simple.】
【Zhuge Qing, however, could not care less about any of that.】
【Flight was impossible here, so Zhuge Qing directly took a small boat out of his Storage Ring and placed it into the blood sea.】
【Left with no choice, you and Zi You could only follow Zhuge Qing’s lead and head toward the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion.】
【Fortunately, you discovered that there was no danger in the blood sea for the time being, and you arrived before the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion without incident.】
【“The Yin-Yang Nine Palaces Eight Trigrams Grand Formation!”】
【Looking at the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion before him, Zhuge Qing said with a frown.】
【You were slightly stunned when you heard the name of that formation. You had never seen it within the Heavenly Evolution Art.】
【You asked Zhuge Qing what kind of formation it was.】
【Zhuge Qing told you that this was the formation the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion had once used to guard its treasures. It specialized in killing.】
【He also told you and Zi You that if one did not understand how to break the Yin-Yang Nine Palaces Eight Trigrams Grand Formation, anyone below Mahayana would die without question. Even a more talented Integration expert would either die or be severely wounded.】
【And right now, under the suppression of the laws here, everyone’s cultivation was restricted to Void Refinement Great Perfection.】
【Zhuge Qing told you that no one outside the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion could master the Yin-Yang Nine Palaces Eight Trigrams Grand Formation. It was one of the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion’s core formations.】
【After hearing that, you inwardly marveled at just who had conceived of hiding the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion in a place like this.】
【That also meant that aside from a successor of the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion, no person or force could lay a hand on it.】
【What Zhuge Qing said next immediately brought joy to both your and Zi You’s faces.】
【“Just because others can’t do it doesn’t mean I can’t!”】
【Zhuge Qing told you that this formation just so happened to be an array passed down solely through his Zhuge Clan line.】
【And so, you followed Zhuge Qing’s footsteps and entered the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion step by step.】
【Under Zhuge Qing’s guidance, you passed through the Yin-Yang Nine Palaces Eight Trigrams Grand Formation with ease.】
【After entering the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion, you discovered that it was divided into nine floors from top to bottom.】
【To your surprise, the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion, the Heavenly Evolution Art, and the Heavenly Secrets Art all seemed to have nine layers. You could not help but wonder whether there was some connection between them.】
【Meanwhile, after entering the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion, Zhuge Qing immediately began frantically searching through it for the whereabouts of the Heavenly Secrets Art.】
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