Cultivating for a hundred lifetimes to ascension

Chapter 346: Chapter 258 Truth_2

As he understood more about the mysterious Great Array, his eyes became increasingly fervent.

On the other hand, Iron Pan Master, unwilling to return empty-handed with a heavy treasure in front of him.

He first tried to use a long-distance grabbing technique to shake the Chi Demon Banner, but no matter whether he used his True Yuan to capture or his Divine Thought to remotely retrieve it, he could not affect the Chi Demon Banner at all.

Then, Iron Pan Master hastily rummaged through a pile of Storage Bags and finally found a Second-tier Puppet.

While he was wholeheartedly refining the puppet, a quarter of an hour had already passed.@@novelbin@@

During this period, Zhao Sheng had no choice but to consume another bottle of Elixir Pills to replenish his Spiritual Power.

By now, not only he, but the other three had also realized that the longer they stayed in this palace, the faster their Spiritual Power dissipated.

Fortunately, they all had a batch of Foundation Establishment Cultivator relics on hand, and the remaining Elixir Pills were still plentiful, so they wouldn’t face the crisis of Spiritual Power depletion anytime soon.

Time passed bit by bit.

The atmosphere inside the palace was both heavy and eerily harmonious.

The four people in the hall could be said to be each minding their own business, not interfering with each other.

Iron Pan Master kept trying to take the Chi Demon Banner, but failed every time.

Wei Yong’an studied the Formation as if obsessed, paying no attention to the others’ minor movements.

The last survivor, other than Zhao Sheng, sat cross-legged in a corner of the palace with his eyes closed, continuously running his Cultivation Technique, striving to recover his Spiritual Power while desperately resisting the increasingly strong draining of Spiritual Power.

However, Zhao Sheng was not as alert as the others.

Thanks to the effect of the Immortal Golden Body, Zhao Sheng’s rate of Spiritual Power dissipation was much slower than that of his peers, and even compared to the two Golden Core practitioners, he was not at a disadvantage.

After consuming the Spirit Pill, he didn’t need to give it his all, but was able to barely maintain the balance of his Spiritual Power with only half of his efforts.

Taking advantage of this rare opportunity, Zhao Sheng slowly began to carefully explore around the corners of the palace.

What surprised him a bit was that the palace was quite spacious, with an empty interior and exceptionally few items.

Apart from things like the Chi Demon Banner, Great Chi Jian Golden Body, True Dragon Skeleton, and top-grade spiritual pearls placed in plain sight, there were no other superfluous items at all.

The palace seemed to have been specifically emptied out, just for the purpose of storing those few treasures.

No, perhaps not for storage, but for imprisonment.

A thought suddenly sprung to Zhao Sheng’s mind, “This palace might be a prison, specially designed to confine something.”

“What is it confining? The Chi Demon Banner? The True Dragon Primordial Spirit, or… the Great Chi Jian itself?”

As he thought, Zhao Sheng carelessly picked up the relics left behind by Fu Yue.

Then, he slowly paced to the front of the Great Chi Jian Golden Body.

Looking at the giant Golden Body over three zhang tall, his gaze suddenly focused on the Big Hole at the brow of the Great Chi Jian.

In that instant, Zhao Sheng’s mind lit up with a flash of inspiration, as countless fragmented memories inexplicably surfaced in his mind.

A myriad of memory fragments mixed together, as if numerous events were linked together by a crucial thread.

The truth seemed to be on the verge of emerging!

Zhao Sheng stopped abruptly, his thoughts racing as his brain worked at full capacity to clarify his ideas.

After five or six breaths, a sharp glint flashed in his eyes, and his heartbeat pounded violently.

He remembered!

In his fourth life, he had encountered strange Blood Stains in a secret mansion,

After joining the Origin Return Sect, a series of mysterious and odd events had occurred.

Following a friend’s death, the bizarre “Blood Spirit Pill” found deep within that friend’s Purple Mansion.

In his fourth life, he failed to unravel the mystery of the Origin Return Sect until he was reborn in his fifth life in the Shattered Star Sea.

At that time, the Origin Return Sect had fallen to the point of being reviled by everyone and operated under the name of the Blood Demon Sect amidst the darkness of the Shattered Star Sea.

At the black market grand feast on Dragon Head Island that year, he overheard a Nascent Soul Ancestor mentioning that the Blood Sea Ancestor, Li Wufeng, suffered from “Blood God’s Son’s body-seizing calamity.”

The Blood Demon referred to the Blood God’s Son!

“This so-called ‘Blood God’s Son,’ could it have escaped from here?”

Thinking back, those strange Blood Stains had exactly fallen from just above the secret mansion.

Further associating it with the strong stench of blood in the palace and the devouring blood light of the Chi Demon Banner.

Looking at the broken hole in the Great Chi Jian’s brow, Zhao Sheng affirmed his speculation once more.

After all, there couldn’t be that many coincidences in the world!

With that in mind, Zhao Sheng stepped forward, and the tip of his War Halberd lightly traced across the giant’s knee.

But as soon as the War Halberd touched the surface of the Golden Body, the huge Great Chi Jian Golden Body silently collapsed.

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Rustle, rustle, gold powder fell down, quickly adding a thick layer of golden powder on the ground, as well as a huge azure-black head.

This sudden change immediately alarmed the others.

Iron Pan Master angrily bellowed, “Kid, what did you just do?”

Having failed to collect the Chi Demon Banner several times, he took the opportunity to vent all his pent-up frustration on Zhao Sheng.

Wei Yong’an turned his head, his eyes twinkling but he did not open his mouth to question.

As for the last person, he was insignificant and could be ignored.

Zhao Sheng used the War Halberd to lift the Great Chi Jian’s head and put it into his Storage Belt, while his right hand swept out a whirlwind of Spiritual Power, cleaning the gold powder from the ground.

“Stop!” Iron Pan Master became even more uncontrollably angry upon seeing this.

Zhao Sheng turned his head, raising the War Halberd in his right hand towards Iron Pan Master, expressing unexpectedly strong opposition, “Master, do you wish to have a few more exchanges with me?”

“Impudent!”

With a thunderous yell, Iron Pan Master suddenly donned half a suit of profound black Treasure Armor, and his whole person transformed into a thick black rainbow, with an overwhelming momentum, furiously rushing towards Zhao Sheng.

This time, he was serious.

Seeing this, Zhao Sheng’s mouth curled into a smile; with a light tap on the ground, his figure instantly disappeared from its original place.

Boom, boom

In an instant, whirlwinds tore through the palace, and a series of thunderous sounds echoed throughout.

One could see a white and a black streak of light chasing each other around the palace at frightening speeds, creating long afterimages.

If any mortal was present, they would be unable to see any streaks of light or afterimages, only to despair as the sonic booms shattered their organs and killed them.

At this moment, Iron Pan Master was furious. That damnable kid was too quick and agile; he couldn’t catch up at all.

Moreover, ordinary Breaking Void attacks couldn’t threaten him in the slightest.

Even if they exchanged a few moves midway, that kid would just touch and go, never entangling.

The characteristic of Body Refinement Cultivators to “escape if they couldn’t win” was displayed to the fullest by this youngster.

Damn it!

At this time, Iron Pan Master suddenly realized the youngster in front of him had hidden part of his strength.

His realm was at least at Foundation Establishment Perfection; he was certainly not a mid-to-late-stage Foundation Establishment Practitioner.

With that thought, he immediately set aside the pride of a True Immortal and pleaded with Wei Yong’an, “Brother Wei, quickly help me capture and kill this kid!”

However, at this moment Zhao Sheng spoke from a distance, laughing, “Senior Wei, how about we join forces? Kill Iron Pan Master and all the treasures will be yours!”

At that moment, Wei Yong’an was tempted!

But after pondering for a moment, he shook his head and sighed, “Both of you, please stop! If we continue to delay like this, we will all die here.”

“What do you mean by that?” Iron Pan Master was suddenly alarmed and immediately stopped in his tracks.

Zhao Sheng sneered, “Heh, haven’t you noticed that the Great Array is drawing Spiritual Power faster and faster? If it continues to strengthen at this rate, in less than half a day, even if we consume Spirit Pills like food, we won’t escape the fate of being drained into dry corpses.”

“Young Master Yang’s observation is keen. That is exactly what I meant,” Wei Yong’an nodded in agreement.

“Brother Wei, did you find a way to break the Array?” Iron Pan Master asked urgently, his face ashen.

Wei Yong’an shook his head with a hint of disappointment, “Even if you give me several months, I might not be able to break such a high-level Array.”

Everyone was deeply disappointed upon hearing this.

“However, there is a crude method!” Wei Yong’an suddenly emphasized.

“What method?”

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Boom!

Boom, boom!

An hour later, the palace echoed with one boom after another from massive chiseling sounds.

In the southwest corner of the palace, a thick layer of stone powder had already been collapsed.

Zhao Sheng and Iron Pan Master had become laborers hammering down walls, each taking turns to fiercely smash for a while before switching to the other person.

It turns out that Wei Yong’an had previously examined that the main gate was sealed by the Great Array, and the material of the gate made it impossible to break out.

Fortunately, for some reason, there was a collapse on the outer side of the great hall, which resulted in numerous cracks appearing on one of the interior walls.

This spot was where the weakness of the Great Array lay.

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