"Heavens, this, this is a top grade immortal item!"
Yang Jue exclaimed. Even if he didn't say it, the others could tell from the palace's unique ripples that it was a top grade immortal item.
"A top grade immortal item with a space inside, a rare treasure!" Huang Qi couldn't help but lick his lips.
In contrast to Yang Jue and Huang Qi's excitement, Gu Zheng's brow furrowed. He already knew this demi-saint was a heretical cultivator, but he couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart when he saw the palace.
There were three floors in total, each with four eaves. Twelve skulls with glowing green eyes hung beneath the eaves, their teeth constantly opening and closing.
Whoosh!
While Gu Zheng and the others were sizing up the palace, a shadow shot towards the palace's open doors.
Gu Zheng's eyes were sharp enough to see that the shadow wasn't a real person, but a bronze puppet. He just didn't know when it'd snuck in nearby.
"Stop!"
Yang Jue, who'd been waiting for this moment, couldn't let anyone else enter first. He formed a giant net of immortal force and floated towards the puppet.
Creak ….
The twelve skulls beneath the eaves clenched their teeth in unison, and twenty-four rays of green light condensed into three. One hit the puppet, another hit Yang Jue's net, and the last shot towards Yang Jue.
The bronze puppet was sent flying, a large hole melted into its sturdy body. It lay motionless on the ground. Yang Jue's net burned strangely in the air after being hit. As for Yang Jue himself, he immediately used an earth escape art to narrowly avoid the green light.
"So strong!"
Huang Qi couldn't help but exclaim. The green light gave him enough pressure to understand that it had the power to kill a cultivator of Jin Xian's level.
"I told you to listen to me once we enter the treasury. Why are you acting on your own?"
Seeing Yang Jue emerge from the ground, Fang Xing immediately looked at him with displeasure.
"We haven't even entered the treasury yet!"
Yang Jue stiffened his neck and said, his face pale.
Fang Xing didn't say anything more to Yang Jue, only glaring at him before turning back to the third floor, "Although I have a treasure map, it's not that detailed! For some restrictions, the treasure map didn't specify what kind of restrictions they were. Just like these skulls, I had a way to deal with them, but I needed time to figure out what kind of restrictions they were! We haven't even entered the treasure trove yet, but it's already so dangerous. Once we enter the treasure trove, you must not let your guard down and listen to my orders! "
Seeing Gu Zheng and the others nod, Fang Xing didn't say anything else. He drew an immortal array on the ground with the tip of his foot. After making a few hand seals, he stomped his left foot on the ground. As the immortal array glowed, the skulls on the cornice seemed to be attracted to it. They all pointed straight in the direction of the immortal array, like iron attracted to a magnet.
"Come, let's enter the treasure trove!"
With Fang Xing taking the lead, Gu Zheng and the other two following behind him, they arrived safely in front of the palace.
"We can't let the latecomers take advantage of us!"
Fang Xing turned around, and a sliver of immortal power shot out from his fingertip like a spirit snake. After it flew into the immortal array on the ground, the light on the immortal array immediately dimmed, and the skulls on the cornice returned to their original state.
The moment they stepped into the palace, the scene in front of them alternated between light and dark, and they appeared in a corridor.
The layout of the corridor was similar to the Tian Luo Cave treasure trove that Gu Zheng had experienced. There were doors on both sides of the walls, but the doors here weren't as densely packed as the ones in the Tian Luo Cave treasure trove.
They didn't immediately search for the treasure. According to their previous agreement, Gu Zheng and the others immediately set up seven immortal arrays and restrictions in the corridor. These things would create some trouble for latecomers and buy them some time to act first.
"Perhaps it's a reward for latecomers. The rooms in the corridor don't have much danger, and there are treasures in each room!"
After setting up seven layers of protection, the excited Fang Xing came to a door. After the immortal power in his hand flashed a few times, the door slowly opened.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh …
Three wind-breaking sounds were heard. Fang Xing waved his hand and used the "Heaven and Earth in the Sleeve" magic power to wrap up the things that made the strange sound in his sleeve.
"Three low-grade immortal artifacts!"
Fang Xing shook his sleeve in front of everyone, and the things that were caught in his sleeve immediately floated in the air.
A flying sword, a scarf, and a copper ball with seven holes.
According to their previous agreement, each time they obtained a treasure, one person would keep it first. Gu Zheng was the first person, and these three low-grade immortal artifacts were put into his storage belt.
"Only three low-grade immortal artifacts! Time is precious. Why don't we go directly to the second floor? "
In fact, it wasn't just Yang Xin who was anxious. The three low-grade immortal artifacts weren't very attractive to the members of their group.
"According to the treasure map, the higher the level of the treasure, the better it is. However, this isn't absolute. It's better for us to look one by one, lest we miss out on something good. As for the rooms that are dangerous, and the treasure map has indicated the treasures, we can leave some behind to tie down those who come later! "
While speaking, Fang Xing arrived in front of the second door and started to break the restriction on the door.
At the same time.
Feng Weikong and Lu Piao Xiang also arrived outside the palace.
"The injuries aren't light, but it can still be used after refining it again."
Looking at the bronze puppet on the ground, Feng Weikong waved his hand and kept it into his storage belt.
Lu Piao Xiang turned his head and saw two people flying over. They were the two who were temporarily blinded earlier.
"Uncle Feng, let's hurry and enter!" Lu Piao Xiang said.
"Anxious now? Who was the one who said that they would enter later because they didn't want to meet the one with the surname Bai? "Feng Weikong mocked.
"Uncle Feng!"
Lu Piao Xiang called out like a spoiled child.
Feng Weikong trembled and hurriedly lifted his leg to draw a formation. At the same time, he muttered to himself gloomily: "Even if we enter later, we will still meet him sooner or later!"
Feng Weikong's speed was very fast. The method he used to restrain the skull under the eaves was the same as Fang Xing's. Very quickly, he brought Lu Piao Xiang into the treasure trove.
"Damn it!"
After entering the treasure trove, Feng Weikong and Lu Piao Xiang immediately encountered the restriction set up by Gu Zheng's group. This caused Feng Weikong to involuntarily curse.
"This scoundrel is quite vicious. He actually set up a restriction to stall us. Break it for the Old Man!"
Feng Weikong gritted his teeth. His hands formed a strange hand seal. Immortal energy flickered on his fingers and the first restriction was quickly broken.
At the same time.
The two people who were originally blinded were currently worrying outside the treasure trove. They had already tried to enter but were blocked by the twelve skulls.
"Master, what should we do now?"
The late stage Void Return disciple looked at the early stage Jin Xian's master.
"It's not impossible to break through the seal and enter. However, it's already so dangerous before we even enter. If we want to search for treasures inside, it's definitely impossible with just the two of us!"
The master fiercely gritted his teeth and said: "I will inform your martial uncles. Fortunately, our Truth-seeking Sect is not too far from here."
"Master, the people from our sect must have seen the light just now. I'm afraid that they are already on their way here." The disciple said.
"It's one thing for them to see it. It's another thing for us to inform them."
As the master spoke, he used a secret technique to inform the people from the Truth-seeking Sect. However, his eyes were looking into the distance. This was because he saw a group of people flying over.
There were more than thirty people. Among them, more than twenty were monks from Sangharama Temple. The rest were cultivators who had been attracted by the light just now.
"It really is a treasure trove!"
"No wonder there was that kind of light and fluctuation!"
"Just this palace alone is already a top grade immortal tool. It's really hard to imagine what kind of treasures are inside!"
"Stop talking nonsense. Everyone, let's go in together to search for treasures!"
"Don't rush in. According to the Old Man's opinion, the skulls under the overhanging eaves are not to be trifled with. If you want to enter, you have to pass through the skulls first!"
The people who had been attracted by the light seemed to be of one mind. They all seemed to want to work together to enter.
"I saw that the people who entered before seemed to have used their toes to draw some kind of immortal formation on the ground. They used the immortal formation to restrain the skulls before entering," the master of the two spoke up.
"Drawing an immortal formation on the ground with their toes?"
A late-stage Jin Xian cultivator frowned. He immediately used his toes to draw an immortal formation on the ground, then used his hands to make a series of hand seals. He also successfully attracted the skulls under the overhanging eaves.
The crowd cheered and followed the late-stage Jin Xian cultivator to the entrance of the treasure trove.
"Hmph, since you monks aren't in a hurry to enter, I'll let you go through some trouble!"
The late-stage Jin Xian cultivator looked at the monks in the air and smiled. Like Fang Xing, he destroyed the immortal formation on the ground, returning the skulls under the overhanging eaves to their original state.
The monks of Sangharama Temple weren't in a hurry to enter because their leader, Monk Fu Yuan, was performing a ritual.
Fu Yuan was a Grand Elder of Sangharama Temple. His cultivation was on par with the mid-stage Daluo Jinxian. Although he knew Hui Ming and Zhi Guang were dead, he didn't know how they'd died or who had killed them. Therefore, he performed a ritual to replay the scene around them.
The scene reappeared under Fu Yuan's divine ability. A circular light screen appeared in the void. Everything that happened within a radius of 50 miles around the light screen was quickly replayed on the light screen.
The process took a very long time, but the scene was replayed very quickly. In just five minutes, everything that had happened within a radius of fifty miles was already clear in his mind.
"Amitabha!"
Fu Yuan chanted the name of Buddha, then calmly said to the monks waiting for his orders, "The culprits have fled into the treasure trove. I will imprint their faces in your minds! These three killed Sangharama Temple monks. Even the Buddha will not forgive them. Once you enter the treasure trove and see them, kill them without mercy! "
With a flick of Fortune's finger, the speck of light on his fingertip split into more than twenty and entered the glabella of the monks of Sangharama Monastery. The appearances of Gu Zheng and the others immediately appeared before the monks.
"Amitabha!"
The monks chanted the name of Buddha in unison. Under Fu Yuan's guidance, they easily entered the treasure trove.
About three minutes after the Sangharama monks entered the treasure trove, another twenty or so monks arrived in front of the palace and entered the treasure trove as well. These monks were from the Subduing Dragon Temple. Their temple was located much closer to the treasure trove than Sangharama Temple.
After the monks of the Subduing Dragon Temple entered the treasure trove, within the time it took for an incense stick to burn, another thirty people came one after another. Some of these people were killed by the skulls under the eaves, but most of them entered the treasure trove.
As time passed, more and more people entered the treasure trove. Gu Zheng and the others were still on the first floor of the treasure trove, trapped by a three-layered immortal formation.
The third layer was a killing formation. Although Fang Xing had dealt with the killing moves, the formation wasn't yet broken. It still required Fang Xing's immortal force to break it.
The key to breaking the formation was a light formation on the stone wall. Fang Xing poured a steady stream of immortal force into it, hoping to break it as soon as possible.
Yang Jue finally grew impatient as he watched Fang Xing's departing figure. "That's enough. Is the treasure map you spoke of real or fake? We've been trapped in this formation for a long time, when will you be able to break it? "
"Of course the treasure map is real. Before entering this immortal formation, I already told you that this is a three-layered immortal formation that is very difficult to deal with, but the rewards are more generous. You also agreed to enter the formation to search for treasures. How can you blame me now? Furthermore, I explained when I was at the first and second level that because someone else entered and touched some of the restrictions in the treasure trove, the third-level immortal formation changed because of that. This caused the method I knew to be ineffective. You all know the reason as well, so why are you blaming me now? "Fang Xing's voice also carried a hint of anger.
"Alright, that's enough. Why are we fighting amongst ourselves?" Huang Qi scolded the two.
"I don't want to fight amongst ourselves, but if Fellow Daoist Yang continues to be so angry, you'll make things difficult for me!"
Fang Xing sighed, and then he said, "However, it's already very gratifying that we were able to arrive at our current state within the 3rd level Immortal Formation that underwent two unexpected changes in such a short period of time. This shows that our strength is formidable! If it was someone else's group of four, I'm sure they wouldn't be able to break the formation. Even if they didn't die, they would be extremely lucky! Fellow Daoist Bai deserves the most credit! "
Gu Zheng appeared to be very silent. He only smiled at Fang Xing's words and didn't say anything else.
"Fellow Daoist Bai, what's wrong with you?"
Huang Qi knew Gu Zheng better, so he knew that Gu Zheng wasn't usually so quiet. He couldn't help but worry.
"It's nothing. We just have to be careful in the treasure trove." Gu Zheng shrugged and smiled.
Gu Zheng's abnormality stemmed from two things. First, it was related to Fang Xing.
Gu Zheng didn't trust Fang Xing and felt that he had other motives.
Second, before entering the treasure trove, Gu Zheng felt a chill in his heart. This chill naturally came from the treasure trove!
In fact, whether it was towards Fang Xing or the chill in his heart, Gu Zheng's sixth sense warned him.
"Don't think too much, just be careful. I don't think your sixth sense is wrong. After all, this is the treasure trove of a Pre-Sage. It's not impossible for there to be great danger."
In response to the weapon spirit's consolation, Gu Zheng nodded and smiled at her. He didn't say anything else.
"Crack …"
With a crisp sound, the light formation on the stone wall shattered. The entire space shook and shattered into pieces.
"What's going on?"
After the space of the immortal formation shattered, the scene before everyone's eyes changed drastically.
Under normal circumstances, after the space of the immortal formation shattered, everyone would appear in a room on the first floor of the treasure trove. However, this wasn't a room, but a scene of mountains and rivers.
"This is also an immortal formation!" Fang Xing's forehead was covered in sweat as he gritted his teeth.
They were on a huge rock protruding horizontally from a mountain peak. The rock wasn't very big, only about the size of two rooms. In the distance, a waterfall rushed between the mountains. Nearby, where the rock connected to the mountain peak, there was a stone door. In front of the door was a five feet long and two feet tall golden chest.
"We've seen chests before, but they were all silver chests. This golden chest must contain something special." Yang Jue licked his lips.
"Don't act rashly. We'll leave everything to Fellow Daoist Fang," Huang Qi said.
"Thank goodness!"
Fang Xing exhaled. In this short time, he had already investigated the immortal formation.
"This is only a trap array. As long as you follow my footsteps, we won't make any mistakes. Once we take the chest and pass through the door, we'll most likely appear on the second floor of the palace!"
Fang Xing said to everyone, then walked around the platform in a zigzag manner, approaching the chest.
At a suitable distance, Fang Xing put the golden chest into his storage belt.
"Phew …"
With the golden chest in hand, Fang Xing heaved a long sigh of relief, as if he'd eaten a pill of reassurance. But just then, the light in the immortal formation suddenly dimmed!
"Damn it, don't move!"
Fang Xing's reaction was quick. He hurriedly warned everyone, his voice filled with shock and anger.
As someone who understood immortal formations, Fang Xing understood that outsiders had also entered this immortal formation! Every time a group of people entered an immortal formation like this, it would change! In other words, the original trap array could become an illusion array, or even a killing array!
The darkness quickly cleared. In the place where Gu Zheng and the others had been standing, there were seven monks.
"It's you!"
The monks roared in unison, their eyes filled with undisguised hatred. But they didn't dare act rashly.
"Looks like you're all monks from Sangharama Temple! But as monks, is it really appropriate for you to be so angry? "
Facing the enemy, the taciturn Gu Zheng seemed to have come back to life. Looking at the monks who were glaring at him, he had a cheerful and witty appearance.
"Evil disciple, don't be so arrogant!"
Roared the leader of the monks. If looks could kill, Gu Zheng would've been torn to shreds before his eyes.
"Every one of you wants to kill me, right?"
Gu Zheng, who'd been chatting wittily, now looked very calm.
"That's right. Today, we'll definitely send you off to the afterlife …"
The old monk took the lead, but before he could finish, Gu Zheng waved his hand and a huge fire dragon surged forward.
Gu Zheng actually dared to attack. This shocked not only the monks, but also Fang Xing and the others. But when they saw that the immortal formation hadn't changed at all because of Gu Zheng's attack, the scene instantly turned chaotic. The space within the immortal formation shook from the fighting.
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