Chapter 259: Exploration

In the outer region of the secret realm, the concentration of spiritual energy is not high.

Therefore, the array formations and prohibitions in the outer region are the most damaged.

Nowadays, the array formations and prohibitions in the outer region possess only the power of second or third-rank arrays, which Ye Qingxuan can dismantle with ease.

It took merely over ten days.

Ye Qingxuan had already dismantled most of the array formations and prohibitions in the outer region of this secret realm.

The few remaining undismantled array formations and prohibitions were used to confine demonic beasts.

Numerous demonic beasts still survive within this secret realm.

For these demonic beasts, Ye Qingxuan has not yet devised a proper method to handle them.

Directly slaughtering them, Ye Qingxuan feels, would be somewhat wasteful.

Thus, he plans to decide how to handle these demonic beasts only after thoroughly exploring the entire secret realm.

Inside the last palace of the outer region, Ye Qingxuan waved his hand to store the various magic treasures placed within the palace, pondering in his heart:

"It seems the former master of this secret realm was not a lone wanderer."

In some stone chambers and palaces within the outer region, Ye Qingxuan discovered quite a few elixirs and magic treasures.

Besides using them to reward and cultivate subordinates, Ye Qingxuan could think of no other purpose for these elixirs and magic treasures.

Among the elixirs, some had already been phased out in the Earthly Profound Realm and held little value.

After dismantling most of the array formations and prohibitions in the outer region of the secret realm, Ye Qingxuan had already explored half of the territory within this secret realm.

As for the magic treasures, although they appeared somewhat ancient, their power had not diminished much.

The locations where these elixirs and magic treasures were stored were all set with crude time prohibitions.

However, the grades of the elixirs were basically at the third rank or below.

But due to the low concentration of spiritual energy in the outer region, the spiritual herbs growing in the herb fields were mostly of the first, second, or third rank.

Among the array formations and prohibitions he dismantled, most were abandoned herb fields.

He temporarily did not dismantle the array formations and prohibitions confining the demonic beasts, to prevent the beasts from causing havoc throughout the secret realm.

However, in the outer region, Ye Qingxuan's gains were not significant.

Nevertheless, the elixirs and magic treasures Ye Qingxuan obtained in the outer region, though numerous,

after completing the exploration of the outer region.

the magic treasures were mainly magical tools, with only a small portion of mid-grade and low-grade true artifacts remaining.

Even if their value was discounted, it would not drop to an absurd degree, which was better than nothing.

Although numerous spiritual herbs still grew chaotically within these herb fields.

The presence of so many low-grade elixirs and magic treasures within the secret realm certainly was not for the former controller of the secret realm to use personally.

These spiritual herbs held little significance for Ye Qingxuan.

They could allow the storage time for these elixirs and magic treasures to be extended infinitely, preserving the medicinal power of the elixirs and the spiritual nature of the magic treasures to the maximum extent.

As for the rest, Ye Qingxuan could sell them through Dongxuan City and the Mysterious Market to consume them externally.

Ye Qingxuan turned his gaze toward the depths of the secret realm.

The entire secret realm can be divided into the outer region, the inner region, and the core region.

What truly made Ye Qingxuan anticipate was the contents within the core region.

Circulating the spiritual power within his body, Ye Qingxuan's eyes displayed the flow of Daoic meaning.

He probed the remaining array formations and prohibitions in the inner region.

Ye Qingxuan discovered that the strength of the remaining array formations and prohibitions in the inner region had reached the fourth and fifth ranks.

In the last few areas near the core region, the remaining array formations and prohibitions had even reached the sixth-rank level.

After probing the strength of the array formations and prohibitions in the inner region, Ye Qingxuan put aside his sense of ease.

He began to seriously dismantle the array formations in the inner region of the secret realm.

As array formations and prohibitions were dismantled one by one, Ye Qingxuan gained a large quantity of spiritual herbs and magic treasures once again.

Moreover, the quality of the spiritual herbs and magic treasures obtained in the inner region had improved.

Ye Qingxuan even discovered some spiritual herbs that had not yet been planted in his Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven.

This discovery made Ye Qingxuan slightly delighted in his heart, and his exploration speed increased significantly.

In the inner region, after dismantling the array formations and prohibitions, Ye Qingxuan discovered numerous spiritual veins in various places.

In the areas already dismantled, spiritual veins of the third to fifth ranks were available in abundance.

"Voom!"

As the last fifth-rank remaining array formation and prohibition in the inner region, which did not confine any demonic beasts, was dismantled.

Ye Qingxuan had arrived before a mountain peak.

The remaining array formations and prohibitions atop this mountain peak had a power that had clearly reached the early stage of the sixth rank.

Ye Qingxuan soared into the air, circled the mountain peak once, and then

his heart was already full of confidence.

Within this Void-Exploration-level secret realm he was exploring,

the array formations and prohibitions scattered in various places were all fragments of a large array, inherently incomplete.

Therefore, the flaws existing within these array formations and prohibitions were not few.

Otherwise, his speed in dismantling the array formations and prohibitions would not have been so fast.

Merely by circling once, Ye Qingxuan had already found the weakest point of the array formations and prohibitions atop this mountain peak.

This time, Ye Qingxuan did not proceed as before.

He did not dismantle the array formations and prohibitions in the secret realm by breaking the array patterns.

Ye Qingxuan himself was only a Grade Six late-stage Array Master at present.

If he attempted to dismantle a Grade Six array by unraveling its array patterns, even if that Grade Six array was riddled with flaws, it would not be something Ye Qingxuan could completely break in the short term.

Therefore, after locating the weakest point of this Grade Six array formation's restriction, Ye Qingxuan decided to break it through brute force.

"Minor Divine Art · Minor Five Elements Millstone!"

As Ye Qingxuan uttered a soft exclamation.

A vast amount of the Dao resonance of the Five Elements began to converge.

Under the control of Ye Qingxuan's Minor Divine Art, the converging Dao resonance of the Five Elements began to reverse at extreme speed.

Beneath the reversal of the Five Elements, the destructive power of the Five Elements that was born quickly formed a large millstone.

Under Ye Qingxuan's control, this large millstone, condensed from the destructive power of the Five Elements,

slammed fiercely into the mountain peak not far in front of Ye Qingxuan, at the spot where the array formation's restriction was weakest.

"Boom!"

When the Minor Five Elements Millstone collided with the array formation's restriction, a violent roaring sound erupted.

The entire array formation's restriction within the mountain peak glowed faintly and began to automatically revive, attempting to obliterate Ye Qingxuan's power.

The collision of the two forces sent up layers of energy tides.

"Minor Divine Art · Minor Five Elements Shield!"

Facing the layers of energy tides attacking from all sides.

Ye Qingxuan uttered another soft exclamation, condensing a Minor Five Elements Shield around him to block the advancing layers of energy tides.

The standoff between the two forces did not last long.

Even though Ye Qingxuan had sent only an ordinary clone, its strength was still extraordinary.

And although the array formation's restriction within the mountain peak possessed power comparable to a Grade Six early-stage array,

it was merely a broken formation, riddled with flaws, and furthermore, no one was present to maintain its operation.

Thus, the array formation's restriction within this mountain peak lasted only half an incense stick's time.

Then, amidst a series of cracking sounds, it collapsed with a thunderous crash.

After the array formation's restriction was broken.

Ye Qingxuan's spiritual sense surged out, enveloping the entire mountain peak, and a look of joy appeared on his face.

(End of this chapter)