Chapter 968: Leaving the Palace

"Chi Buzi..." How could Tai Xi not recognize him! This person's whereabouts had been strange over the years, but his divine abilities had become increasingly exquisite, and his cultivation and Dao practice had become increasingly high... Lu River was the manifest path of the current world, how could he not fear! Back then, relying on the general trend of the North-South struggle, he still didn't dare to say a word in front of Senior Zipei. Now, although his divine abilities had improved, Chi Buzi was not Senior Zipei. More importantly—the grotto-heaven couldn't connect to the Release Earth at all. Falling here was a true fall!

For a time, Tai Xi felt cold all over: "He actually came too... and so it is... he wants to plot the gold position, such a good opportunity, how could he not come! But... but how could he come to save Seeing Si Yuanli..."

Tai Xi had always been confident, and even dared to use Chi Buzi to satirize Seeing Si Yuanli, which had its reasons. It must be known that whether it was the Si family or Seeing Si Yuanli, their butcher knives were stained with the blood and hatred of the Chi family. They didn't know how many Chi family members they had killed...

Chi Buzi, no matter how ruthless, ungrateful, or transcendent he was, his entire clan had been exterminated. Even if he didn't want to take revenge, how could he still come out to protect his enemy!

Tai Xi saw clearly that Seeing Si Yuanli himself was also very guilty! "So... it's a Great True Person..."

He replied dryly, but saw the person before him smile. The terrifying divine ability and magic power of "Chou Gui Cang" had instantly spread. This divine ability was closely related to Dao practice, reaching a terrifying level. Chi Buzi lifted his hand, seemingly without any movement, but had already raised his hand and slapped Tai Xi on the face! "Boom!"

Lu River light spread, and Tai Xi's entire face was like shattered glazed tiles, manifesting countless cracks. The golden body collapsed like a mountain, sinking down from the clouds, stirring up countless storms. Only then did that person's cold words ring through the air: "Knowing, yet still watching!"

This palm's power was not great, but the opponent deliberately displayed his Dao practice in the Lu River path. Tai Xi was agitated, and finally realized:

"This person is not willing to touch karma at all, his heart only thinks of his immortal path!"

This Jinlian Mohe shook off several white lights from his sleeves and threw them into Chi Buzi's hands, while urging the dharma wind with full strength, transforming into golden light and galloping away like crazy.

Chi Buzi didn't care at all, lifted his sleeves lightly, collected the several treasures into his sleeves, and checked them carefully and leisurely.

The bright brilliance and colorful light in the sky had long since vanished, and Seeing Si Yuanli stood in place, somewhat suffocated.

If it were said that when the two Jinlian Mohe besieged him, although he had unease, he was mostly angry. When Li Zhouwei appeared, his mood had changed greatly, but now he had fallen into the abyss again, his heart completely filled with panic and ice cold.

If Chi Buzi came to take revenge... even if he didn't specifically take revenge, just passing through this place with a few thoughts would be enough! This place was a grotto-heaven, and there was not even a Tai Xu! Seeing Si Yuanli certainly relied on inheritance to take advantage, knowing the locations of entry and exit... but could he really support it until that time?

He was not Li Zhouwei and the others, separated by a considerable distance, able to leave calmly. Chi Buzi was right in front of him! With a Lu River Great True Person so close, who knew if "Chou Gui Cang" had already prepared a spiritual sword, ready to stab him in the back at any time!

For a time, it was not right to thank him, and it was not right to turn around and leave. Seeing Si Yuanli could only silently collect the spiritual treasure, hide it in his sleeves, seemingly bowing and waiting, but actually poised for action. Only then did he see Chi Buzi turn his head back.

Surprisingly, there was no hatred in this Chi family genius's gaze, nor any negative emotions. It was extremely clean, looking at him with a gentle smile: "Yuanli... I didn't expect you to also become a divine ability!"

Seeing Si Yuanli felt cold behind his back, wisely not mentioning any affairs in the sect, and likewise manifested a smile, replying: "It's just that the old True Person's methods are high, allowing a mediocre person like me to have a day of becoming a divine ability."

"Good, good, good..."

Chi Buzi seemed very polite, as if the Chi family really had nothing to do with him, smiling:

"Living up to expectations... it is a great thing for the sect to have you!"

Seeing Si Yuanli's heart beat like a drum, not knowing whether he was being polite or sarcastic. He responded awkwardly, but Chi Buzi took a step forward, staring at him with a smile, and asked:

"Yuanli doesn't recognize me, right?"

Seeing Si Yuanli lifted his eyebrows abruptly, feeling cold behind his back. Listening to this question, which was not much different from when he asked Tai Xi, he was still somewhat unbelievable. He met the Great True Person's gaze, his hand pinching his sleeves trembling, unable to take anything out. Hoping that the person before him was joking, he replied uneasily: "Naturally..."

Chi Buzi's smile gradually increased, saying:

"Knowing, yet still watching!"

Seeing Si Yuanli lifted his eyebrows abruptly, only then discovering that the rolling Lu River had already surrounded this place. No matter how reluctant, hateful, or angry he was, at this moment he could only shake out the white light in his sleeves, his heart bitter: "... So it is a disaster!"

Chi Buzi accepted it casually, took a look, and shook his head: "You are also top-level greedy, not willing to share a single point with those two high monks, no wonder people refused to let you go, and kept dragging you here..."

"I remember... the Sima family also has people in Wanling Heaven? I don't know which peak they are cultivating on, and what ability they have."

He looked at his face with a scrutinizing gaze, and without opening the brilliance in his hand, just rode the Lu River and rose into the sky, leaving Seeing Si Yuanli to straighten up, extremely embarrassed.

"Fellow daoist Minghuang!"

Li Zhouwei rode the light and drifted over. Lady Xiangchun was flying up from the mountains, leading him closer, whispering: "The time is coming."

Li Zhouwei was still pondering Chi Buzi's affairs:

"The affairs of the past have been completely forgotten, but could he have forgotten the affairs of the East Sea? It should be that there are many Golden Cores outside, and he also has to be careful. For Chi Buzi, the Li family naturally has full of suspicions. The matter of him peeping at immortal objects back then was already extraordinary, and later he came to the East Sea again, saying a lot of terrifying words. Whether it was his own wishful thinking or whether there was really such a thing, from then on, it was a matter that could no longer be mentioned... but whether it was the original Chi Buzi... I am afraid even Chi Buzi himself doesn't know! He could only suppress everything in the bottom of his heart, returned a salute to Lady Xiangchun, and replied:"

"I saw that True Person Buzi also came, there must be a major event here."

"Chi Buzi..."

Lady Xiangchun frowned, replying: "He has now colluded with the Guan Xie orthodoxy, and he dares to be so ostentatious. I don't know what the adults are thinking!"

Li Zhouwei nodded thoughtfully, not letting this woman's words fall to the ground, while approaching this place with her, all the way to the front of the great array, moving his thoughts silently, and his dark investigation ability operated.

Sure enough, even the great array that connected Xuan Tao and guarded the most core secrets in the grotto-heaven was invisible before the dark investigation.

But the moment he entered the array, infinite golden light appeared in his eyes, with nothing else, only this overlapping brilliance, dazzling and piercing, thick brilliance intertwined, like looking directly at the scorching sun, almost causing his main body to have an abnormality!

"This is..."

The intense brilliance shrank instantly. Only through the hazy mist could he see ninety-nine segments of swaying golden light, circling in the air. Although he didn't need to face this object directly, it still made him feel great suffocation:

"Golden Core Dharma Treasure!"

He narrowed his eyes slightly, moved his gaze away from this object rapidly, and no longer looked at the treasure hall at the highest point. Only then did he fall onto the many gorgeous immortal palaces on the side of the mountain, crossed the two Wanling flower trees planted at the foot of the mountain, and four Dao towers appeared in his eyes, the four spiritual treasures suppressed were manifested in his mind one by one.

"Sure enough, there are spiritual treasures!"

This was not unexpected. There were traces of spiritual treasures outside the array, and there must be more inside the array... He looked at the four spiritual treasures carefully. The 【Tianwu Tianwu Binghuo】 object was a pot, the 【Gathering Wood】 object was a ruler, the 【Prefecture Water】 object was a bead, and the 【Treasure Earth】 object was a seal. They were clearly spiritual treasures that were formed and matched.

"Not to mention the rest, Wei Wei Xuan Yin and Chi Buzi have both come... perhaps there are more Great True Persons, or even seventh or eighth generation Jinlian Mohe, all of them have their eyes on this place, it is not easy to get."

But his heart stirred, and he didn't stay on these four Dao towers at all. On the surface, he pretended to close his eyes and concentrate, his dark investigation ability operated, and he searched one by one.

These palaces were scattered, some empty, clearly the owners of some palaces were in the grotto-heaven, some had left early before the grotto-heaven closed, and there were even traces of two sitting in meditation, with Purple Mansion spiritual materials scattered on the ground.

"Nearly forty percent are empty. Often when these ancestor-level figures leave, they will take away a large number of disciples... that is to say, the 【Wanling Heaven】 being plundered by the cultivators right now... is only sixty percent of its peak period..."

But even if forty percent were empty, the abundance of spiritual objects and spiritual materials here still made him click his tongue, and he secretly counted in his heart:

"Two, four, six..."

There were actually six spiritual treasures scattered in the surrounding immortal palaces!

"Plus the four in the center... a total of ten spiritual treasures... a full ten spiritual treasures! There are even two spiritual weapons that are clearly incomplete because of the change in fruit position..."

"Even if it is the Solar orthodoxy... it is nothing more than this!"

The Solar orthodoxy had been the hegemon of the south of the river for a long time. The Chongming six veins must have more than ten spiritual treasures, but Wanling Heaven was only sixty percent... and it didn't even count the spiritual treasures outside the array...

Li Zhouwei didn't have time to sigh, his gaze swept rapidly among these immortal palaces: "At this moment when the crowd rushes in, the several Great True Persons will definitely snatch the spiritual treasures under the most obvious Dao towers, which is the best time to snatch the other scattered spiritual treasures..."

Although he was confident in his divine ability to charge, in this chaotic situation, he should be quick to decide... So he examined it carefully, and finally stopped at the second palace on the very edge of the south.

This palace was pitch-red, with four arches in front of the palace, all with mysterious patterns of red lacquer, curved rulers and flower towers, vermilion railings and colorful thresholds. In front of the gate stood a bird treading on fire, majestic—it was a palace of departure fire! "There is much combined fire in Wanling Heaven... it is rare to have a departure fire palace!"

Under his careful scanning, this palace actually enshrined a spiritual treasure, the left side hall even had a spiritual weapon, and the right side hall had departure fire spiritual objects, cultivation methods... it could be said to be extremely perfect. It was estimated that departure fire was not valued in this grotto-heaven, only the owner of this palace had profound cultivation, and all the good things went to him... Excluding the spiritual treasure, in terms of the preciousness of the treasures within, it was undoubtedly one of the best among so many palaces on the side of the mountain, even comparable to the palaces around the Dao tower! He secretly remembered the location and examined it again.

It was not that there were no Bright Yang palaces in the mountain, but there were only spiritual weapons inside. Although the quality of this spiritual weapon was not low, it was ultimately a chip worse than a spiritual treasure, not to mention that the Bright Yang weapons in the Li family's hands were already enough. Continuing to take them was not just a repetition of efficacy: "The day I die... the clan will definitely no longer use Bright Yang to carry the tripod, so I need to prepare early..."

He looked down from the mountain all the way, stopped for a moment at the plaque of 【Wu Si Tian Gang】, and only then saw the endless corpses at the foot of the mountain.

That headless corpse draped in a crane cloak and scriptures stood gloomily, still holding a spiritual treasure in his hand! But the spiritual treasure did not look dazzling on him, and what made people unable to help but move their eyes away was the extremely terrifying sword intent on this corpse!

"Good sword path..."

His heart shook, he cautiously disconnected the dark investigation for the first time, but still felt his eyes lost, silently glanced at Lady Xiangchun, who was calculating silently to the side, and exhaled without changing his expression:

"The miraculousness of this sealing and storage is becoming more and more intense, I don't know what kind of miraculousness it is."

His concern was indeed correct. The closer he got to this dharma treasure, the stronger the sealing and storage power became. It was just that his body divine ability was powerful, so it didn't have much influence, but the Purple Mansion cultivators who hadn't cultivated body divine abilities were afraid they would also have a headache.

"If so, when we arrive in the great array, I don't know how terrifying it will be."

His concern was clear, causing Lady Xiangchun to withdraw her divine ability, replying:

"【Wanling Heaven】 has a dharma treasure, left by 【True Sovereign Chong Yuan】 back then, called 【Ling Yang Uneasy Palace】, which has the function of sealing and storage, it is just the leakage of the dharma treasure's miraculousness."

"As for fellow daoist's concern... actually, the sealing and storage power here has already weakened a lot. If it were just entering the grotto-heaven and coming to this place, I am afraid we would be unable to move... several True Sovereigns are lifting the dharma treasure into Tai Xu, otherwise how could this great array be opened? We seem to be opening the great array, but actually it is just waiting for good news from outside."

"So it is."

Li Zhouwei whispered:

"I don't know what kind of dharma treasure it is, actually needing several adults to work together."

This was asking about Lady Xiangchun's doubts. She nodded with deep feeling, replying:

"There should be some concerns..."

She was pondering, but suddenly her expression changed, whispering: "There is movement!"

Li Zhouwei lifted his head slightly, and sure enough, he saw the white light curtain traversing the sky was fading bit by bit. The surroundings were restless, divine abilities manifested repeatedly, and the massive roaring sound became louder and louder.

"Boom!"

Almost in the blink of an eye, the white light in the sky had already drifted and shattered, falling like rolling white wind. In an instant, various colorful lights manifested, heavenly fire and spiritual water erupted in the sky, all making a move together! "The great array is broken!"

The dazzling colorful light was like a group of stars falling, dragging long tail flames and flying toward the depths together, either observing the situation, changing direction, or casually sprinkling water and fire, interfering with others. But the big forces like Golden Feather and Guan Xie had clear targets, and they were indeed flying toward the top of the mountain!

"Monarch Treads on Danger"! Li Zhouwei had long been poised for action. His divine abilities operated to the extreme, golden patterns flashed on his face, like a comet galloping over, smashing through the water, fire, and golden light blocking his front, and likewise flew toward the mountain!

Characters appearing in this chapter——

Li Zhouwei 【Early Purple Mansion】

Chi Buzi 【Late Purple Mansion】

Seeing Si Yuanli 【Early Purple Mansion】

Xiang○chun 【Mid-stage Purple Mansion】 ===== CHAPTER 969 =====

Chi Buzi 【Late Zifu】

Seeing Si Yuanli 【Early Zifu】

Lady Lady Xiangchun 【Mid Zifu】