It had to be said that Gu Zheng and Fang Xing were really unlucky after entering the Demonic Sonar Formation. First, they met people from the Heavenly Music Sect, then the monks from the Subduing Dragon Temple. These two groups of people were killed by Gu Zheng because Fang Xing was wearing their relics.
After that, Gu Zheng and Fang Xing's luck seemed to have taken a turn for the better. They passed through the eight immortal designs relatively smoothly. In these eight immortal designs, some were empty, some had refined corpses, and some had people who were also here to hunt for treasures.
However, the refined corpses didn't pose any danger to Gu Zheng and Fang Xing. Even the group of treasure hunters they encountered were surprisingly good-natured. They didn't attack Gu Zheng and the others because of the changes in the immortal formation caused by their entry.
However, there was no special danger, so there was nothing worth mentioning. In these eight immortal designs, Gu Zheng and Fang Xing only found a treasure chest containing resources and a few immortal treasures in the one with the refined corpses.
Light and darkness alternated before Gu Zheng and Fang Xing appeared in a new immortal design.
"Alright!"
Looking at the four stone walls of the immortal design, Fang Xing's voice was a little helpless. They had been to this immortal design before. This was the first immortal design that had made them so unlucky. It was also the place where they had obtained the rare flower.
Unlike Fang Xing, Gu Zheng's brows were tightly knitted together. Although his attainments in immortal designs were far from that of the immortal treasure spirit, he was much better than Fang Xing. After all, he had the immortal treasure spirit as his teacher. Naturally, he had more exposure to it.
Gu Zheng and the others had been to this immortal design before. Before they killed the monks from the Subduing Dragon Temple, they had also mentioned this immortal design. According to Gu Zheng's understanding of this type of immortal design, there was only one way out, and they had entered the immortal design they had been through before. There could only be two possibilities! One was an endless loop. There were only so many immortal designs. The other was that this was a rather special spot in the celestial formation. It looked the same, but because of the second entry, it had become different!
Gu Zheng felt that the first possibility was impossible! This was because this was the last checkpoint in the Skeleton Palace that led to the treasure trove. This was the famous' Bewitching Sound Array '. It was unlike the other arrays that only had a few Immortal Arrays.
If it was not the first possibility, then there was only the second possibility. If it was really the second possibility, then this was a turning point, a turning point to jump out of the cycle.
Gu Zheng felt that the possibility of the second possibility was very high. Although he didn't know the use of a rare flower, it was definitely extraordinary. It was more reasonable for it to appear at such a turning point.
"Wait!"
Seeing that Fang Xing was about to walk forward, Gu Zheng quickly pulled him back.
"Fellow Daoist Bai, what's wrong?" Fang Xing looked at Gu Zheng in confusion.
"Wait a minute!"
Gu Zheng said to Fang Xing, but didn't immediately ask the artifact spirit. He knew that the artifact spirit was deducing the celestial formation at this moment.
In his inner vision, the artifact spirit's eyes were closed. When she was deducing the celestial formation, her expression was always like this.
After a while, the artifact spirit opened her eyes and smiled at Gu Zheng. "Not bad, very clever. You know that this place is extraordinary and didn't let Fang Xing move recklessly!"
"Is this really the turning point?" Gu Zheng asked with a smile.
"It is, but there are two turning points!"
The artifact spirit's voice paused, then she said, "These two turning points, if you take the left one, you will directly leave the 'Bewitching Sound Array'. If you take the right one, you will continue to stay in the 'Bewitching Sound Array'. However, the celestial formations you will experience will not be the same as the ones you experienced before."
Then the artifact spirit told Gu Zheng how to open the turning point.
Hearing the artifact spirit's explanation, Gu Zheng could be considered to have a clearer understanding.
Although everyone who entered the 'Bewitching Sound Array' entered from the entrance to the third floor of the treasure vault from the second floor, the celestial formation they would appear in when entering was different.
According to the artifact spirit, the 'Bewitching Sound Array' was made up of nine linked formations. In each linked formation, there were nine celestial formations that formed a cycle.
Those who entered the 'Bewitching Sound Array' would start from the celestial formation they first entered. After going through nine celestial formations, they would return to the starting point again. At this time, the turning point would appear, and only then would they have the opportunity to jump out of the 'Bewitching Sound Array'.
This meant that when the monks of the Subduing Dragon Temple entered the starting point of the celestial formation on the second floor, the turning point had already appeared. However, they didn't understand the 'Bewitching Sound Array' and blindly walked, causing the turning point to be hidden. This was why Gu Zheng, who had a certain understanding of the turning point, had stopped Fang Xing from taking a step forward! Because at this time, although a wrong step wouldn't cause any danger, it would cause the turning point to disappear.
According to the artifact spirit, Gu Zheng led Fang Xing to the left and used his celestial strength to hit several points in the air. After a series of attacks, the two's vision alternated between light and dark, and they finally walked out of the 'Bewitching Sound Array'.
"Wow!"
After his vision recovered, Fang Xing was shocked by the scene in front of him. Although Gu Zheng was relatively calm, his eyes were also wide open.
This was a starry sky, and the stars were twinkling.
"Although many years ago, I also experienced the coldness of the starry sky, that was many years ago. Although the stars were even more dazzling then, they weren't as shocking as now!"
Fang Xing's words were completely understandable to Gu Zheng. After all, when every cultivator entered the Void Return realm and their celestial bodies could withstand the environment in space, they would all do the same thing, and that was to fly away from the planet they lived on and travel in space.
Gu Zheng had done similar things before he entered the Untainted Land. The feeling of traveling in space was really good. Looking at the living planet and the stars in the sky in a special environment, that feeling could indeed be described as cold and elegant.
However, the planets were very big, and the human body was very small. Although it was shocking to see them, it wasn't as shocking as it was now! This was because the overall environment here looked very realistic, but everything had been shrunk countless times to help people look like giants here. The realistic planet looked about the size of a coconut.
"When will I be able to travel in space with my celestial body?"
Fang Xing looked at Gu Zheng and smiled, which made Gu Zheng feel a little confused.
When Fang Xing spoke of traveling through the void, it wasn't as simple as traveling through the void. In reality, he was using his physical body to travel through the void of another plane.
There were many planets in a space. What a cultivator of the Void Return realm could do was to travel in space in his own space. If he wanted to go to another space, he would need to use special means.
For example, he could use the Teleportation Immortal Formation across the space, or find a spatial connection point to cross the space, etc. These methods were all tricks, and couldn't be considered as breaking through by force. However, if he wanted to tear the space apart and enter another space with his own strength, even Daluo Jinxian's celestial body couldn't withstand it, let alone the celestial body of a cultivator of the Void Return realm. In order to do this, his cultivation had to be at the Sage-to-be level!
"Let's go. I thought the third level would be some special building, but I didn't expect it to be a starry sky."
As Gu Zheng spoke, he flew toward a star.
Fang Xing had a map of the interior of the Skull Palace, but this map was very general. It wasn't the kind of map with particularly clear markings. Especially the outline of the third level, which was just some lines and dots. As for the map of the hidden treasure, it was also relatively simple. It only marked a location and a dot.
However, with the two maps, in addition to the clear scenery as a reference, Gu Zheng and Fang Xing immediately knew where they were going.
There were a total of ninety-nine stars in the starry sky. They corresponded to the ninety-nine dots marked on the map, and each star was not a decoration! Once touched, one would enter the space of the Immortal Formation or be transported to another place.
"I didn't expect the third level of the treasure to be like this! Originally, I thought we wasted a lot of time on the way, but now it seems that even if we go to the place we want to go, and then go to the hidden treasure, we may not be later than the others. After all, they don't have the treasure map, so it's inevitable that they will take detours along the way, "Fang Xing said happily.
"These people don't include Lu Piao Xiang and the others," Gu Zheng reminded.
"After all, there are only two of them, and the danger hidden in the treasure is probably not something that the two of them can deal with," Fang Xing said longingly.
The two of them didn't fly for long in the void before arriving at the place they wanted to go before going to the hidden treasure.
"This is the star."
Gu Zheng and Fang Xing pointed their fingers at the coconut-sized star at the same time. As the star shook, a ripple was produced. Gu Zheng and Fang Xing's vision instantly turned pitch black.
Their vision quickly recovered. Gu Zheng found that there were continuous mountain ranges in front of him. The concentration of Celestial Core Power in the air was much lower than that of the Primitive Era. The flowers and trees around them looked strange.
"Looks like we've been transported to another plane. Let's split up and explore the border first!"
Having been teleported once, Gu Zheng's brows furrowed slightly. After all, the last time he was teleported to a different plane, he encountered a rather troublesome ancient giant worm.
Compared to the previous plane, this plane was even more barren. Gu Zheng's Divine Telekinesis had already explored a border, and the highest grade of ingredients he found was only medium grade.
After a while, Gu Zheng and Fang Xing finished exploring one after another. The two of them combined the information they obtained and located the location of the treasure.
After flying in the air for about five minutes, Gu Zheng and Fang Xing stopped. Below them was a mountain peak that pierced through the clouds. There was a huge entrance on top of it, and the treasure was located in the belly of the mountain.
"Let's go."
Fang Xing flew down directly, but was stopped by Gu Zheng.
"Just in case, let's split our Divine Telekinesis to explore first!"
As they spoke, Gu Zheng split his Divine Telekinesis and quickly entered the cave.
It was not as humid as most caves. This super huge cave was very dry, and the light inside was very bright. This was because there were glowing moonstones embedded in the stone walls at regular intervals.
There was no strange smell in the air, which made Gu Zheng feel much more at ease. He did not want to encounter any strong corpse refinement products or any demons or ghosts here.
However, Gu Zheng's Divine Telekinesis exploration was not a smooth journey. After going a few hundred meters into the cave, Gu Zheng's Divine Telekinesis encountered a barrier.
"Did you find anything?" Fang Xing asked.
"There's a barrier that prevents Divine Telekinesis from exploring. This means that there's something wrong inside. Be careful when you go in later!" Gu Zheng said.
"Phew …"
Fang Xing could not help but exhale.
"What's wrong?" Gu Zheng asked.
"It's nothing. At least we didn't find anything like the ancient giant worm. This is something to be happy about. I'm traumatized by that thing!" Fang Xing smiled bitterly.
"Let's go!" Gu Zheng nodded.
Although the barrier could prevent Divine Telekinesis from exploring, it would not prevent people from entering. After Gu Zheng and Fang Xing entered the area that could not be explored, Gu Zheng quickly smelled a strange smell.
"What is this smell? It's very fishy, like the smell of some kind of creature. But I've never smelled it before. "Gu Zheng muttered.
"What do we do now?" Fang Xing asked.
"Since we're already here, we have to take a look no matter what lies ahead. Let's go!" Gu Zheng raised his guard.
As the two of them moved forward, the fishy smell in the air became stronger.
After a while, the path ahead turned. When Gu Zheng and Fang Xing turned the corner, the scene in front of them made them frown.
After turning the corner, they saw a huge stone room. In the middle of the stone room hung a huge ball wrapped in blood-red flesh. In a corner of the stone room, there was a huge golden chest.
The huge ball was not an inanimate object. It was expanding and contracting as if it was breathing. Its surface kept protruding, indicating that it was wrapped in some kind of living creature.
Almost as soon as Gu Zheng and Fang Xing saw the ball of flesh, cracks began to appear on it. Gu Zheng immediately used his Immortal Power to sweep the golden chest. However, the result was not unexpected. The chest was protected by some kind of barrier, and Immortal Power could not directly sweep it over.
"Crash …"
It was as if a huge pile of internal organs had fallen out of an animal's body. The number of things that fell out of the cracked ball of flesh was no less than twenty! Their bodies were wrapped in blood, making it difficult to see what they looked like. However, one thing was certain, these things were all humanoid.
No matter what those humanoid things were, they weren't anything good in the end. Gu Zheng didn't hesitate. A fire dragon roared as it rushed over.
With the experience of the ancient giant worm, Gu Zheng did not expect a fire dragon to be able to get rid of these strange things. Releasing the fire dragon was purely to test the strength of these strange things.
A scene that made Gu Zheng's eyes widen happened. When the fire dragon approached, the originally weak strange things actually jumped up at an incomparably agile speed. They actually lay on the fire dragon's body, as if they were hitching a ride, and were carried around in the stone room by the fire dragon.
Almost in the blink of an eye, Gu Zheng's huge fire dragon had become a bag of bones. The fire energy it had lost was all absorbed by the monsters on its body.
The fire dragon was completely crippled! And the monsters that had absorbed the fire dragon's energy all jumped down from the fire dragon's body. They, who were originally like cartilage, now looked a lot harder.
Moreover, the blood that was originally stuck to their bodies had dried, allowing Gu Zheng to see their appearance clearly. This was a type of monster that he had never seen before. They had blood-red skin. Although they were humanoid monsters, their overall appearance was like that of a bat without any hair, wings, or eyes!
"Immune to fire type immortal spells, then let's try water type immortal spells!"
Gu Zheng coldly laughed. The 'natal true water' in his body vibrated, and a huge ice dragon appeared. With a powerful and extremely cold aura, it flew towards the bat monsters.
The cold aura caused the bat monsters to pause, but it was only for a moment. Just like how they dealt with the fire dragon, they jumped onto the ice dragon's body and crazily devoured the ice type energy.
At this moment, Fang Xing also made a move. He took out a golden and dazzling ring.
The golden and dazzling ring was a high-grade earth type immortal item. It could summon two earth type giants to help in battle. This was an immortal item that he had obtained not long ago from the 'illusory sound trap'.
Two earth type puppets that were 12 feet tall appeared. They waved their huge fists and smashed towards the bat monsters.
A few bat monsters flew from the ice dragon's body to the earth type puppets, and also began to devour the earth type energy that formed them.
"What kind of monsters are these?!"
Fang Xing cried out in alarm. Up until now, the immortal techniques of fire, water, and earth were not only useless against the bat monsters, but they were also like nourishment for them, increasing their strength. This could be seen from the aura they were exuding.
Gu Zheng wanted to try another round of attacks on the bat monsters, but the weapon spirit's voice suddenly rang out.
"Leave this place immediately. I think I know what these things are!"
Hearing the weapon spirit's nervous voice, Gu Zheng hurriedly told Fang Xing to retreat. At the same time, he asked in his heart, "What the hell are these things?"
"I've heard from Lord Glutton Immortal that in a special plane, there's a kind of monster that never sees the light of day. This kind of monster's strength is nothing to be afraid of, but it's almost impossible to kill them. Any power that tries to kill them will be absorbed by them, making them stronger!" said the Artifact Spirit.
"Ah? If there is such a monster, then wouldn't it be invincible? "Gu Zheng asked in shock.
"How is that possible! There is almost no invincible existence in this world. Everything has an existence that can restrain it. Even Divine Immortals have to go through Chaos Tribulations, not to mention these small things. If you want to kill them, you don't have to do it yourself. You just have to let the sunlight shine on them! "the weapon spirit said.
"Sunlight is not a harsh thing, but it is very harsh here!"
Gu Zheng furrowed his brows because he discovered that a black barrier had appeared at some point in time along the way.
If it was just an ordinary barrier, it would not be a big deal. However, this was a treasure left behind by a Divine Immortal. It would not be easy to break the barrier set up by him. Moreover, the whole cave was protected by a special restriction. It was also impossible to break through the cave walls and attract sunlight.
With a flash of inspiration in his mind, Gu Zheng suddenly recalled something.
"Fellow Fang, quickly use your 'Heaven's Light Mirror' to deal with these monsters!" Gu Zheng said.
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