Chapter 1568: Old Three's Cultivation Exposed!

Holy shit? What place is this?

The white donkey went dumbfounded, its donkey face drooping long, 'I clearly anchored to the western starry sky borderlands!'

Xiao Liang and Xiaoyaozi, among others, were left speechless.

They looked around.

Boom boom boom!

Here the wild wind howled like ghosts wailing, extremely mournful; looking around, all was a hazy chaos, and farther away lay endless darkness and dead silence.

Roar roar roar!

These wild winds erupted with destructive force, sweeping an ancient hall into the gale, which instantly shattered it into dust.

Soon, a massive destructive frenzy swept in, tearing heaven and earth wherever it passed.

Xiao Liang frowned and directly slashed a sword at the wild wind.

Swish!

This terrifying sword qi was actually swallowed whole by the wild wind, like a mud ox entering the sea, causing not a ripple.

Xiaoyaozi's face grew somewhat solemn: 'I sense soul power within the wild wind; this wind seems not merely condensed from spatial turbulence, but driven and transformed by soul power.'

Soul power!

Seeing this terrifying wild wind approaching, the white donkey bared its teeth, again drawing a space dao diagram beneath its feet, instantly shifting everyone away.

But the next moment, they were stunned again.

They had fallen into a strange place.

Here floated many huge ghost faces, all formed from soul power, with ferocious visages, immensely large, solemn and heavy, exuding terrifying pressure from above the void.

The white donkey's spatial shift instantly attracted those ghost faces.

One after another, ghost faces charged straight at Xiao Liang and the others!

The white donkey gritted its teeth, 'I'll shift again!'

It again inscribed a heaven-reaching dao diagram, causing Xiao Liang and the others to vanish from the spot, making those ghost faces lunge at empty air.

Boom!

Crack!

After several breaths, they looked around.

They stood upon a broken altar floating in midair, above it the wild wind swept, below lay layers of ghost faces, and around floated dozens of corpses.

Some corpses still had fresh blood undried, appearing to have died not long ago.

Mo Diaomao looked speechless, 'White donkey, I...'

The white donkey, however, wore a serious expression and said, 'Now we must stay calm...'

But Mo Diaomao's fist came at them like a violent storm.

The white donkey knew it was in the wrong, took a punch, and immediately shifted to the other side of the altar.

It tried to activate its shifting power, but found it couldn't shift at all.

Strands of black light scattered, blocking the white donkey from using its spatial power!

This altar is weird!

Only entry, no exit!

'Master, uh, uh... we seem unable to leave.' The white donkey coughed a few times and said, 'But don't worry, let me study the spatial array pattern Lord Lu gave me.'

Everyone: '......'

A moment of silence.

Xiaoyaozi took out a star map and analyzed: 'Given the white donkey's current spatial skill, it definitely can't shift out of the Azure Cloud Star Sea, so we must still be within it.'

'The soul power fluctuations here are extremely strong, with ghost faces all around, very dangerous; we must be in a perilous place.'

Hearing this, everyone immediately checked the star map.

'Perilous place, perilous place...'

Everyone quickly saw a perilous place to the north: 'Wind Soul Valley!'

Xiaoyaozi said, 'This is almost certainly Wind Soul Valley!'

Mo Diaomao wore a questioning expression, 'White donkey, I'll kick your ass—just now we were at Cloud Cliff Academy, and now we've shifted to the northern Wind Soul Valley, I...'

The white donkey remained silent, simply meditating on the dao patterns aside.

Hiss hiss hiss!

Divine Light shot up to the heavens.

Everyone looked at Xiao Liang, 'How is it?'

Xiao Liang took a sip of spiritual liquor, 'Trust the white donkey once more?'

The white donkey's confidence surged, 'Still gotta be the master!'

Everyone could only sit on the ground and start drinking to drown their sorrows.

Mo Diaomao said, 'Then give this donkey another chance. I'm truly speechless...'

Elsewhere.

Azure Cloud Star Sea, northern region.

Chen Zhangsheng and Lu Xuan shifted back, he flicked his sleeve and summoned a multitude of puppets.

These puppets were all humanoid, men and women, old and young, like an army.

Among them, some still had dirt on their bodies, as if they had just been digging in some secret realm.

Lu Xuan pursed his lips; he knew the Bronze Ancient Hall buried countless ages and endless secrets.

Now Old Three sits in possession of the Bronze Ancient Hall, seemingly becoming the greatest grave‑robber under heaven.

Soon.

These puppets complained as they worked, but they could tirelessly rearrange the twisted abyss.

Hiss!

They ripped open the northern border's heaven and earth, then placed the twisted abyss within.

These puppets possessed numerous spatial sigils in their hands, and their strength was considerable.

Figures began to busy themselves.

Lu Xuan and Chen Zhangsheng were lying on the Yan Chuang, utterly relaxed.

Chen Zhangsheng inwardly called his master superb.

Thinking it over, since taking him as a disciple, the master had never demanded anything of him.

He possessed the greatest freedom!

A warm current welled up in his heart.

Several hours later.

This stretch of heaven and earth sprouted a narrow, elongated chasm; within, the twisted forces surged in great might, killing intent everywhere, making it a perilous natural barrier.

"Master, let's continue."

Chen Zhangsheng stood and said, "Let's head to Wind Soul Valley."

Lu Xuan nodded. "Good."

The two shifted once more, arriving at Wind Soul Valley.

Before them stretched a huge canyon, inside which violent winds raged, ceaselessly howling like wailing ghosts, making one's flesh creep.

A haze of mist surged and flowed, the soul power fluctuations extremely dense.

Within the deep valley lay the remnants of an ancient Dao lineage; those dead spirits had become soul power, having endured countless ages, and some remnants had gained a hint of sentience.

This Wind Soul Valley is also a perilous spot in the Azure Cloud Star Sea.

Lu Xuan activated his Insight Eye and scanned the interior, whereupon he froze.

Isn't it?

How did Xiao Liang and the others wind up in Wind Soul Valley?

They were trapped on an ancient, shattered altar; this place radiated a murderous aura, with several chains sealing space, incredibly ferocious.

The white donkey stood to the side, continually scraping at the Dao markings with its hooves.

Lu Xuan merely took a casual look and discovered that the Dao markings it had etched contained dozens of mistakes...

Obviously, it's the white donkey's fault!

Not far off, Mo Diaomao shouted at the white donkey, "Donkey, how's your research coming? Half a day of battle has passed."

The white donkey flicked its tail, "Almost there, almost there."

Mo Diaomao looked speechless.

Just then, Lu Xuan's voice rang in everyone's ears.

"Xiao Liang, come out."

Lu Xuan flicked his sleeve, a surge of spatial power surged forth, pulling Xiao Liang and the others out.

Before Lu Xuan, the white donkey dared not act rashly, lowered its head, and pretended nothing had happened.

Mo Diaomao said, "This donkey is really playing dead."

He informed Lu Xuan that he had shuttled the white donkey, moving them to the Cloud Cliff Academy and then to Wind Soul Valley.

Lu Xuan and Chen Zhangsheng struggled not to laugh.

Next, Lu Xuan began to instruct the white donkey: "This Dao marking, you inscribed it incorrectly; that one, you only etched halfway; and that one..."

The white donkey looked stunned, "Uh..."

Xiao Liang and the others were also convinced; given how many mistakes the white donkey had made in its Dao markings, it would be astonishing if it could teleport to the western starry sky.

Soon after, the white donkey's confidence surged again, "I've figured it out!"

Mo Diaomao let out a dismissive "tsk."

Xiao Liang and the others then learned of Chen Zhangsheng's plan; he curiously asked, "Third Senior Brother, you're not just a one-star Dao Lord realm, are you?"

Everyone replied, "We don't believe it."

Chen Zhangsheng's face twitched; he said, "Actually, I'm a three-star Dao Lord realm."

He released a surge of pressure.

Xiao Liang again said, "We don't believe it."

Chen Zhangsheng again said, "Actually, I'm a five-star Dao Lord realm."

He again released a surge of pressure.

Everyone still said, "We don't believe it."

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