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The further he advanced, the more traps were triggered. Although they could not harm his true self, Yandao Demon Lord still felt a chill run down his spine, sensing that he had fallen into a trap.
After pondering for an hour, Yandao Demon Lord decided not to move forward anymore. A mass of black mist floated in place, but all of Yandao Demon Lord's presence suddenly vanished.
The Spirit of the Hall had been closely monitoring Yandao's movements and was somewhat puzzled. What was this Old Demon doing? He wanted to report to Li Hong, but saw that Li Hong was enthusiastically recruiting Skyward Valley Disciples and was too busy to pay attention. The Spirit of the Hall thought for a moment and decided to ignore Yandao Demon Lord, focusing instead on the Purgatory Ten Kings.
He separated the ten of them again, leading each into different side paths and activating traps. Watching their reactions—some panicked, some confused, some shouting—the Spirit of the Hall suddenly found that the tasks assigned by Star Sovereign were quite amusing.
He did not notice that as his attention shifted to the Purgatory Ten Kings, Yandao Demon Lord's black mist quietly split apart. Two identical masses of black mist appeared in place; one remained floating still while the other swiftly retreated along the path it came from.
The Spirit of the Hall remained completely unaware.
In the first space of the Ancient Celestial Field, everyone was busy chopping wood.
Trees large enough for dozens of people to embrace fell down, causing chaos in the entire space. The Strange Fowl and Beasts were frightened and hurriedly fled, with strange roars and unwilling cries echoing everywhere. The first space was bustling like a boiling pot.
About ten Skyward Valley Disciples worked together to lift a massive square log with a diameter of ten zhang into the air above a flat meadow. Under the guidance of Chuming and Chuxuan, they slowly lowered it with a thunderous crash as it hit the ground. They turned and flew away while Chuming, Chuxuan, and about ten others flew over.
Summoning their Flying Swords, they displayed their skills as brilliant lights flashed by. The log was sliced into perfectly flat wooden boards and then cut again. At this moment, Yue Changzi flew over and used his Cosmic Bag to collect the stacked wooden boards.
Everyone was busy except for Li Hong.
Li Hong was also collecting materials. In the second space, the poisonous Red Coral forest continued to produce corrosive tree sap drop by drop, with fiery red everywhere. The basin below was shrouded in toxic miasma. Li Hong was collecting the massive pincers of Exotic Poison Scorpions beneath one basin filled with toxic miasma.
Now with over a hundred disciples present, crafting magical tools had officially become a priority. Heavenly Grain was completely inexperienced in refining tools; what he distributed to the disciples seemed utterly pitiful in Li Hong's eyes. Even Wuwei only had a Low-Grade Spirit Tool Flying Sword, while most disciples possessed nothing more than subpar artifacts. These artifacts would be utterly ineffective against the spirit beasts guarding celestial herbs in the third group to sixth group spaces within the Ancient Celestial Field. Li Hong finally understood why Qing Yizi had said that disciples suffered heavy casualties in the Ancient Celestial Field—it turned out it was due to insufficiently powerful magical tools.
Li Hong initially intended to distribute the treasures from Temple City, but Yue Changzi strongly opposed this, arguing that he had not yet examined them and needed to thoroughly study the Ancient God's Refining Technique first. However, Li Hong understood that the real reason was Yue Changzi's reluctance to part with them. Upon further reflection, Li Hong realized he felt a similar attachment. The Treasure Mountain was a genuine product of the Ancient God, with each item being a Superior Spirit Artifact. The craftsmanship was ingenious, and some treasures had uses that were simply astonishing; using them could enhance one's strength by more than thirty percent.
After discussing, they decided to establish a rule: only those who made outstanding contributions to their sect or were promoted to elders could receive one of the treasures.
This meant they would have to refine their own artifacts. Fortunately, Yue Changzi had brought along many refining materials he had collected over the years, most of which were donations from the Beast Cultivation. He felt justified in taking them and now found them quite useful, taking pride in his foresight.
However, refining over a hundred artifacts at the spirit artifact level required more materials than they currently had. Li Hong thought of the large Venomous Scorpion Claw, an authentic Ancient Beast. With additional auxiliary materials, it was possible to refine it into a mid-grade or even Superior Spirit Artifact.
While the refining materials were resolved, the fire for refining remained an issue. Li Hong pondered over the Venomous Scorpion Claw and kept thinking. Neither Temple City nor the Ancient Celestial Field had the Heaven and Earth Fire Spirit Eye found in Nine Li Cave Heaven. How to transmute the refining materials and eliminate all impurities posed a significant challenge.
Looking at his half-full Cosmic Bag, Li Hong took out the mysterious Azure Jade Plate obtained from Center Restriction and placed his hand on it to input his Awareness. A flash of light later, Li Hong found himself in the Center Sealing Cabin. He chatted casually with the Spirit of the Hall before activating Restrictions to teleport himself into the first group space.
This was a secret Li Hong had just discovered.
After entering the Ancient Celestial Field, he recalled the mysterious Azure Jade Plate he had kept in his Cosmic Bag. He took it out and tried inputting his Awareness, initially just wanting to play around without any expectations. To his surprise, a flash of light later, he found himself transported to the Celestial Field Center Forbidden Cabin.
It turned out that this Azure Jade Plate not only contained some kind of memory array but also had a special function: inputting Awareness could teleport its bearer to the Center Sealing Cabin. It seemed to contain a small Teleportation Array within itself.
Previously, due to insufficient cultivation, he could not activate this function; now that his cultivation had improved, he accidentally succeeded! This discovery thrilled Li Hong, prompting him to frequently take out the Azure Jade Plate for further study.
Besides this function, the Azure Jade Plate seemed to hold many secrets; for instance, it should also serve as a key. Unfortunately, when he first saw it, he could not reproduce the beautiful patterns formed by light points. Moreover, although such light point patterns would originally appear in Jade Cottage, Li Hong noticed they had also vanished upon entering this time.
He suspected that Xiao Rushi and Qingqinzi might have tampered with things. They could enter the Center Sealing Cabin and perhaps deciphered the secret of the light point patterns before finding a way to collect these mysterious light point designs.
However, this was merely a guess, and Li Hong did not blame the Spirit of the Hall for it. Li Hong had long realized that the Spirit of the Hall was actually a very peaceful "being." He did not like killing; even when he saw someone intruding into his territory, as long as no major incident occurred, he would let it be. The most ruthless thing he might have done was to command the Yandao Demon Lord and the Purgatory Ten Kings.
Thinking about how the Spirit of the Hall was currently toying with the Yandao Demon Lord made Li Hong feel quite satisfied, almost euphoric.
Yue Changzi flew over and called out, "Little Monkey, my Cosmic Bag is full of wood and can't hold another piece! Shouldn't we head to Temple City now?"
"Alright, let's go today. But I must remind you, Master, that it's very desolate there; there's nothing at all. If you want to eat or drink anything..."
"Stop rambling! Let's go!" Yue Changzi impatiently interrupted Li Hong.
Li Hong once again used the Azure Jade Plate to return to the Restrictions cabin and contacted the Spirit of the Hall. In a flash of light from both sides, moments later, everyone appeared on the silver-white beach by the sea at Temple City.
In the distance where the water met the sky, there was a faint white dot in the middle of the azure sea; that was Temple City. Even from here, one could still feel a terrifying aura and pressure.
Looking at that white dot, everyone fell silent, their breaths halted.
Li Hong chuckled, "There are no Ancient Gods here; from now on, this will be our home. Who is afraid of their own home? Let's go!" He flew ahead, a flash of golden light, and in the next moment, Li Hong had already stopped in front of the island.
After waiting for a long time, everyone finally gathered.
The entire Great City was enveloped in a massive egg-shaped Restrictions emitting Azure Light. Layer upon layer of snow-white walls surrounded it, with wide and clean white stone streets broad enough for ten horses to walk side by side winding around the fortress and leading up to an unknown number of stories high. There were deep corridors and dark windows. At the very top stood a sword-like White Tower, its pointed tip piercing into the clouds.
Yue Changzi looked up at the White Tower with an expression of astonishment on his face.
Everyone felt similarly; Wuwei's mouth could practically fit two duck eggs as he stared wide-eyed in shock.
Chuxuan first came to his senses and pointed at the substantial Azure Light Restrictions barrier outside Temple City, asking, "How do we get in?"
"It's simple, just call someone to open the door," Li Hong chuckled, flying down to the massive Azure Jade Gate and jokingly shouted, "Open up, I'm home!"
With a playful grin, Li Hong caught everyone's curiosity. Suddenly, a gigantic white figure appeared on the ten-zhang-high gate, towering like a Giant Spirit, yet its expression was as obedient as a child.
The Spirit of the Hall bowed and greeted, "Welcome, Star Sovereign."
The gate thunderously swung open, and Li Hong boldly flew into the hall. The enormous copper chandeliers on the high ceiling immediately lit up one after another, illuminating the entire hall. The deep and vast hall revealed rows of magnificent stone pillars to everyone.
With a rumble, the gate closed tightly behind them.
Yue Changzi walked slowly down the center of the hall, exclaiming, "What a spacious hall! It can easily accommodate tens of thousands of people. Let me count... one, two, three, four, five, six, seven... there are actually nine rows of stone pillars! This perfectly divides the hall into eight long sections. I see now; it means our Nine Li Sect should build eight veins. Ha ha." Just as he was saying this, he suddenly stopped in surprise and exclaimed, "Little Monkey, why did you put such a large statue of yourself here? It's so disrespectful; it should be a statue of Grandmaster Jilianzi!"
Li Hong scratched his head, unsure how to explain himself. He said aggrievedly, "I didn't make this; this person isn't me; this statue has always been here!" Li Hong shouted into the void, "Come out, Spirit of the Hall, explain this."
"Yes, Star Sovereign." A transparent Spirit of the Hall appeared in front of the statue at a normal human size and bowed, saying, "Reporting to you, Master Star Sovereign, this statue is of the Star Sect Fire Saint, which is..."
"Which is the Ancient God!" Li Hong quickly interrupted the Spirit of the Hall.
The Spirit of the Hall suddenly realized and regretted its slip of tongue. It hurriedly added in accordance with Li Hong's meaning: "It is indeed the Ancient God, who was the former master here. However, the current master is Li Hong Star Sovereign."
"Master, now you understand," Li Hong said with a grin.
The more Yue Changzi looked at the statue, the more it resembled Li Hong. He suspiciously glanced back and forth between the statue and Li Hong, muttering after a while, "I understand why you could come in and why you were recognized by the Spirit of the Hall. It turns out you look like his old master."
"Yes, that's right," Li Hong said with a grin. He thought to himself that there were too many secrets here to discuss openly in front of everyone. Once Master Yue Changzi had some free time, he would have the perfect opportunity to ask him about what the Divine Realm and the Star Sect were, as these terms that occasionally slipped from the Spirit of the Hall's mouth were truly strange.
"Haha, so you have a nickname called Little Monkey, that's hilarious!" A silver bell-like laughter floated in from behind the hall. A person emerged from behind a statue, dressed in a flamboyant peacock-like colorful silk dress, with seven or eight colorful ribbons tied in bows in her hair. The lively Yan Luo suddenly appeared, unable to contain her laughter.
Li Hong had already known she was coming, but Yue Changzi was taken aback. "Who is this young lady?"
"I am Yan Luo, here to pay my respects to Master Yue Changzi," Yan Luo said with a cheerful bow.
Yue Changzi furrowed his brow and stared at Yan Luo for a while before hesitantly saying, "You are from Qixia Palace."
"Indeed, my master is Dai Yunzi, the head of Qixia Palace," Yan Luo said proudly, raising her eyebrows.
Yue Changzi looked at Li Hong with obvious reproach, clearly indicating that he couldn't believe Li Hong had brought an outsider into such a secretive place.
Li Hong wore a bitter face and stammered. This Yan Luo was like a sticky plaster that couldn't be shaken off; he had no choice but to bring her along.
However, he couldn't say this in front of Yan Luo. Instead, he changed the subject: "Master, let's start choosing our residence and making furniture. There are plenty of houses here with ample space, but there is no furniture; we'll have to make our own tables and chairs."
Yan Luo was delighted to hear this and clapped her hands. "Great! I've been wanting a bed for ages!" With that, she jumped over to Li Hong's side, linking her arm through his and playfully said, "I've already chosen my residence; can you make me a bed first?"
Seeing their "intimacy" and hearing Yan Luo unabashedly mention "bed" in front of so many people made Chuming and Chuxuan—who were familiar with Li Hong and Chu Xi's situation—frown deeply. As for Yue Changzi, he wasn't opposed to Li Hong associating with Yan Luo; rather, he felt uncomfortable thinking that someone from Qixia Palace could enter his "home."
Only Wuwei and others were puzzled and thought that Yan Luo might be the future sect master's wife. They all approached respectfully to greet her, making Yan Luo beam with joy.
Taking advantage of the situation, Yue Changzi and the others left. In the crowd, Li Hong heard Chuxuan say, "That girl was quite cunning during the last newcomer competition; she's not someone to be underestimated. It seems Sixth Senior Brother has definitely been set up by her..." The voice faded into whispers.
Li Hong forced a smile and turned to Wuwei, saying, “Let’s go up.” Just after taking a couple of steps, a thunderous dragon roar echoed from afar, rapidly approaching and growing louder. Li Hong chuckled, “Black Abyss has arrived.” He flew up the temple's back steps and turned to look outside. Over the Vast Ocean, a gigantic black dragon broke through the water's surface and soared straight into the sky, creating a massive Water Dragon vortex that stretched over a hundred miles, splashing water everywhere with its immense power. The black dragon shook its head and tail, letting out another long dragon roar. Its mountain-like body suddenly shot straight toward Temple City. Just as Li Hong frowned, he heard a loud crash as Black Abyss slammed into the Azure Light Restrictions of Temple City. The entire Temple City shook three times from head to toe. Wuwei and the others fell to the ground. Black Abyss proudly raised its head and let out another deafening roar. Wuwei exclaimed in shock, “Divine Dragon!”
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