Chapter 1223: The Shock of the Sacred Dynasty
Chapter 1223: The Shock of the Sacred Dynasty
The roguish youth snickered. "Just a nobody. But if you'd like to pay a visit to our Great Qi Sacred Dynasty, I can make an introduction for you."
Sun Luyuan mulled it over for a moment before cupping his hands. "In that case, I'll have to trouble you, young friend."
The roguish youth, Ou Shangtian, flashed a knowing smile.
"Hold on tight."
With a sharp command, he flickered forward in an instant, his hand landing on Sun Luyuan's shoulder.
Sun Luyuan's vision blurred, and in the next instant, he found himself adrift in an endless void.
Ou Shangtian was already racing ahead, leading the way.
Sun Luyuan hurried to keep up.
Moreover, the faint, seven-colored, resplendent light emanating from the youth stirred within Sun Luyuan the same sense of greed he had felt when he first faced a Spirit of Heaven and Earth.
He had been utterly confident about this trip, but now his mind was in turmoil. After flying through the void for a little longer, a magnificent scene, like something submerged just beneath the surface of water, suddenly materialized before him.
It was a colossal sphere of light, its inner details impossible to discern.
The sphere was orbited by countless stars, each one shining with a brilliant light.
Each star seemed to be its own grotto-heaven.
Even from a great distance, Sun Luyuan was utterly captivated by the sight.
"This is the Great Qi's small world?"
"What kind of small world is this massive?!"
As Sun Luyuan reeled from the shock, he suddenly realized something was amiss.
The young man who had been leading the way had vanished without a trace!
"Senior Bai Hua, I've caught a Dao Integration cultivator from the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance. He was sneaking around, clearly up to no good..."
He could faintly hear the young man's voice drifting from some unknown direction.
"Wait!"
A sense of dread washed over Sun Luyuan, and he was just about to shout an explanation.
But in the next instant, the scene before him shifted once more.
The spectacular world and its grotto-heavens vanished, replaced by a resplendent palace that resembled a towering spire.
He had been shrunk dozens of times over, now no larger than an ant.
Each step before the palace seemed like a mountain peak.
The colossal structure filled his entire field of view, causing his breath to catch in his throat.
Even more baffling, his entire cultivation base had inexplicably vanished.
He felt just like an ordinary mortal.
"An illusion?"
Sun Luyuan held his breath and focused, attempting to purge all stray thoughts from his mind.
After a long moment, his mind settled, and he opened his eyes again.
Yet the scene remained unchanged—the magnificent palace stood before him, exactly as it was.
In fact...
To Sun Luyuan's horror, he realized his body seemed to have shrunk even further.
"Is this... an array?"
The thought flashed through his mind, and he quickly took out Ji Hongdao's Formation Breaking Disc.
Sure enough, the disc began to emit an intense white light.
It flickered nonstop, spontaneously analyzing the array in an attempt to crack it.
Just as Sun Luyuan watched with rising hope, the disc began to flicker faster and faster.
Finally, as if unable to withstand the strain, it reached its limit, and cracks spiderwebbed across its surface.
Then, with a deafening crack, it shattered into dust.
Sun Luyuan stood there, stunned.
When he had borrowed the disc, Ji Hongdao had never mentioned that this could happen.
But he quickly understood.
The array was simply too complex, far beyond the capabilities of the Formation Breaking Disc.
"In that case, I'll have to try breaking through with brute force."
He waited a while longer, but nothing else happened within the array.
Sun Luyuan took a deep breath, and a dark red phantom floated out from above his head.
A Dao Integration cultivator's greatest strength lies in the Spirit of Heaven and Earth they have refined.
The Spirit of Heaven and Earth Sun Luyuan had refined was called [Blood Shadow].
The instant the Blood Shadow appeared, Sun Luyuan's body seemed to dissolve, melting away until only an empty husk of skin remained.
Then, even that was absorbed into the crimson phantom.
Like a gushing river, it flowed against gravity, surging rapidly up the towering steps of the array.
Wherever the river of blood flowed, the ground sizzled as if corroded, leaving behind a scorched trail.
But the palace steps quickly repaired themselves.
The river of blood accelerated, transforming into a streak of crimson light that no longer followed the steps but shot straight for the palace's summit.
The palace, however, changed in response.
The steps began to multiply, extending endlessly to either side as if they had no end.
Just as they reached a stalemate, the surging crimson shadow abruptly exploded.
It scattered into a rain of blood, using the force of the explosion to abandon its ascent and flee in every direction.
Each drop of blood was like scorching lava, hot enough to burn through space itself.
Wherever the drops scattered, holes burned through the fabric of the array's space.
The image of the towering palace began to tremble.
The illusion gradually shattered, and the blood that was Sun Luyuan seeped through the voids and vanished.
"I escaped!"
Sun Luyuan was overcome with joy.
Killing intent flooded his heart, and he was just about to find that malevolent youth to settle the score, but the words he heard next sent a chill down his spine.
"It was actually broken?"
"Master's going to punish me for sure. I studied so hard for half a year, and I can't even trap a single Dao Integration cultivator..."
The roguish youth's tone was one of genuine frustration; it didn't sound like an act.
"What does that mean? That terrifying array... was set by that youth? It wasn't the defensive grand array of the Great Qi Sacred Dynasty?"
Sun Luyuan couldn't believe his ears.
"And what's this about 'studying for half a year'? Is he a beginner? An array that pushed the Formation Breaking Disc to its absolute limit without revealing a single flaw... was the fruit of just six months of his labor?"
Sun Luyuan was dumbfounded.
"Your array is actually quite good. It's just that your own strength is a bit lacking. When his blood flame erupted with its full power, I doubt even other Dao Integration cultivators from the Xuanhuang Realm could withstand it directly. It's only natural your array couldn't hold."
"Focus on your cultivation. In the Xuanhuang Realm, one's realm is still paramount. Strange beasts, unique abilities, arrays... they are all merely supplementary tools."
A gentle female voice sounded from beside the youth.
"Understood, Senior Bai Hua," the youth replied, sounding dejected.
Amid a flash of golden light, Sun Luyuan felt a gaze lock onto him.
The aura emanating from this person was so overwhelming it felt like being plunged into an icy abyss.
"This is..."
"A Longevity Immortal?"
Sun Luyuan's mind went completely blank.
He never imagined that upon his arrival at the Great Qi Sacred Dynasty, he would immediately encounter a Longevity Immortal.
"Bai Hua? What logic of heaven and earth did she reverse? Why have I never heard of her?"
"You're from the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance? What is your purpose in coming to our Sacred Dynasty?" Daoist Bai Hua asked calmly.
An invisible golden light had already enveloped Sun Luyuan.
With a single thought, she could crystallize the Dao Integration cultivator and shatter him into a million pieces.
After all, she hadn't consumed all that Source Power Essence for nothing.
(End of Chapter)
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