After the Spiritual Academy Tournament, Mu Chen, Liu Mubai, and Luo Li, who had performed the most outstandingly, became the new national idols of the Northern Heaven Spiritual Academy.
Very soon, all three of them chose to leave the academy.
Luo Li was personally taken back to the Lesser West Heaven Realm by her grandfather, Luo Tianshen, while Mu Chen, in order to rescue his mother and also to become worthy of Luo Li, likewise chose to venture into the Great Thousand World.
However, although the former's experiences were largely similar to those in the original story, Mu Chen, as the one whose fate had been altered the most, would walk a completely different path in this life.
Although the absence of Jiu You meant that Mu Chen lacked much knowledge about the Great Thousand World, the presence of Ling Xi ensured that his journey into the Great Thousand World was not particularly dangerous.
After all, having a Spiritual Array Grandmaster by his side, combined with his own cultivation, was more than sufficient to handle many situations.
That said, Mu Chen's goals had not changed. He still wanted to gather the materials required to condense the Great Sun Undying Body, and he also wished to explore the secrets of the Everlasting Immortal Body. Thus, under Ling Xi's guidance, he once again thought of using the Mirror of Judgment to aid himself.
It was also at this time that the name Ancient Heavenly Palace appeared in his ears for the first time.
"The Skylaw Continent, one of the ten super continents of the Great Thousand World." Mu Chen learned as much information as possible about the Skylaw Continent while still at the Northern Heaven Spiritual Academy, and then decided that his next destination would be the Skylaw Continent to investigate matters related to the Ancient Heavenly Palace.
Ling Xi did not oppose this and chose to depart together with him.
In the original story, the reason Ling Xi did not remain by Mu Chen's side was because she knew that Mu Chen had the stronger protection of Jiu You and would not encounter danger, which was why she went alone to search for Qing Yanjing.
Now that Jiu You was no longer present, Ling Xi naturally took on this responsibility. In fact, when Qing Yanjing had taught her the Yin Volume of the Great Pagoda Art back then, it might also have been with the intention of letting her assist Mu Chen's growth.
At the same time, Liu Mubai was also discussing matters with the members of the Liu family.
"I want to go out and follow in Big Brother's footsteps." Liu Mubai's words were simple, but as his father, Liu Qingtian could clearly hear the determination in his second son's voice.
Throughout Liu Mubai's growth, Liu Bai had played an extremely important role. Thus, it was not strange that in his heart, his elder brother carried even more weight than his father. In fact, due to his admiration for his brother, Liu Mubai imitated Liu Bai's conduct in many aspects. If not for the fact that his strength had not increased as absurdly as Liu Bai's, others might have suspected that he had been possessed by Liu Bai himself.
"That is fine, but I will only agree to let you leave once you have truly advanced to the Sovereign realm. I will not oppose your choice, but when that condition is met will depend entirely on you." Liu Qingtian knew he could not stop him and straightforwardly stated his condition.
At present, Liu Mubai was already confident in challenging the Third Spirit Disaster Realm, but to break through to the Sovereign realm would still require some time.
However, upon hearing his father's words, he did not hesitate at all and immediately agreed.
This instead caught Liu Qingtian slightly off guard.
But since the agreement had already been made, all that remained was to wait for the result. Liu Qingtian quickly composed himself and immediately gave orders that from this day onward, all Liu family resources would be fully opened to the Second Young Master, to be used as much as he wished, sparing no effort to nurture Liu Mubai's growth.
In this way, without anyone noticing, two more people had set their sights on the Skylaw Continent.
And judging from the original story, this place truly was an extremely suitable starting point for development. From the beginning all the way to the peak, every necessary condition was already present here. It even addressed the issue of insufficient foundation by directly providing an Ancient Heavenly Palace.
After all, this was the place where the chosen one of destiny rose in the original story, so the author's configuration was indeed very generous.
However, with Liu Bai's existence, the gears of fate had already been thrown into disorder. In this life, who would ultimately dominate the Skylaw Continent was still entirely unknown.
At this moment, Liu Bai had been facing the stone wall in contemplation for a full month.
During this month, he remained completely focused, casting aside all distracting thoughts. Like unraveling threads from a cocoon, he gradually dissected the spiritual array carved into the stone wall, organizing all the chaotic spiritual energy lines and even managing to fully simulate the array within his mind.
The reason it was only a simulation rather than an actual deployment was because although this array had no particularly special effects, it required more than ten thousand spiritual seals to be formed, an utterly terrifying expenditure that Liu Bai could not currently withstand.
However, this array was clearly a test deliberately left behind by the owner of the relic for future generations and served no other purpose, so Liu Bai naturally did not need to waste energy or experience points on it.
After passing the assessment, the array barrier vanished, and the originally smooth stone wall transformed into a massive stone gate. At the center of the gate, a golden vortex continuously rotated. When Liu Bai approached, the light directly engulfed him.
Once everything returned to calm, the stone gate disappeared once more. In its original position, the smooth stone wall reappeared along with the array carved upon it, quietly waiting for the next challenger to arrive.
After being swallowed by the golden light, Liu Bai felt a dizzying sensation. Soon after, he arrived in a new world.
Here, he could sense an ancient and savage aura permeating the surroundings. The spiritual energy was extraordinarily dense, but within it was a sense of ancient heaviness. After absorbing it, the flow of spiritual energy within his meridians actually slowed down somewhat.
This scene greatly shocked Liu Bai. If the spiritual energy of the outside world was like flowing water within heaven and earth, then the spiritual energy here was like heavy mercury. If an ordinary cultivator were to enter this place, prolonged exposure might even cause their spiritual energy meridians to solidify, turning them into a metallic statue.
Sensing these abnormalities, Liu Bai could not help but frown. He then circulated the Innate Five Elements Art, using Innate Five Elements spiritual energy to neutralize it. He quickly resolved the heavy spiritual energy that had entered his body.
"Fortunately. It seems that if one wants to remain here for a long time, only by cultivating Innate level ancient divine scriptures can one avoid being assimilated by these special spiritual energies."
After understanding this point, Liu Bai felt relieved and began to explore the relic space.
The scope of this space was extremely vast, even larger than Great Heavenlaw Domain itself. Throughout heaven and earth, towering green peaks rose straight into the sky, strange rocks were scattered everywhere, and despite having been abandoned for countless years, the place was still filled with boundless heavenly and earthly spiritual energy. From this, one could tell that in ancient times, this had been an exceptionally high grade cultivation sanctuary.
Liu Bai raised his head and vaguely saw countless palaces rising and falling atop the green peaks that stretched to the end of his vision. Between the mountains, waterfalls cascaded down like giant dragons, their thunderous sounds echoing throughout heaven and earth.
If he wanted to gain anything next and uncover the true nature of this relic, then he would have to search for clues within those buildings.
With this thought, Liu Bai did not delay. He directly transformed into a streak of light and swiftly arrived before a dilapidated palace.
At a glance, it was nothing more than ruins. The broken walls and shattered remains showed no trace of spirituality. Occasionally, items that resembled spiritual objects could be seen, but their spiritual energy was faint, clearly having been destroyed by the erosion of time.
However, what Liu Bai truly cared about was not these things, but the sixteen coiling dragon jade pillars that still stood firmly in place.
From each jade pillar, a faint fluctuation of spiritual power spread outward. Ordinary people would not notice anything unusual. Even spiritual array masters might find it difficult to detect any anomaly.
But Liu Bai was different.
At this moment, with his three eyes open, the truth of everything around him was laid bare before his third eye. The sixteen coiling dragon jade pillars before him precisely formed the foundation of a grand array.
Although he did not know why, this grand array had already lost its function. However, judging from the fluctuations on the jade pillars, the array itself had been preserved rather well. As long as sufficient spiritual energy was injected into its core, the array could be reconstructed once more.
"Not bad, not bad. If I take this thing back, it would be quite suitable for guarding a residence or sect in the future."
Even now, Liu Bai could not determine the name or rank of this array. However, since it had been used by such a powerful force to guard their palace, it was certainly not an ordinary formation.
At the very least, its grade was absolutely not low.
Of course, obtaining these sixteen coiling dragon jade pillars was not such a simple matter.
This was not a case where one could simply pull them out and stuff them into a storage ring and be done with it. Even if one succeeded in forcibly extracting the pillars, doing so would directly destroy the array. In the end, it would all be for nothing, resulting in wasted effort with no gain.
If one wished to take this array, the first step was to locate its core. And to find the core, the array itself had to be thoroughly studied. Otherwise, even if one were to destroy the entire palace ruins dozens of times, they would still never find where the core was hidden.
Because he understood this clearly, Liu Bai did not rush things at all. Instead, he began studying the sixteen coiling dragon jade pillars one by one.
In this manner, another three days passed.
By the time the third day was coming to an end, Liu Bai had finally completely deciphered the array patterns on all sixteen jade pillars and learned the name and grade of this grand array.
"Ding. Congratulations on obtaining the incomplete chapter of the Heaven grade high level spiritual array Sixteen Earth Dragon Array. Would you like to complete it?"
Liu Bai's eyes lit up. He had not expected the very first array he encountered to be a Heaven grade high level spirit array. Although it was incomplete due to damage, this was not a problem for him. As long as the value was high enough, he could rely on experience points to complete it.
However, after hearing the system prompt, he hesitated slightly and chose not to complete it.
After all, this array was a defensive formation and was not particularly useful in combat. At present, he only needed to take control of the array core. With the sixteen coiling dragon jade pillars, he could already unleash about seventy percent of the array's power, which was more than sufficient.
Having made his decision, Liu Bai followed the array layout and easily located the core of the formation. It turned out to be a three foot long stone carved jade dragon.
The jade dragon shimmered with flowing light, and especially its eyes, which were like those of a real dragon, flashing with a dignified and awe inspiring brilliance.
"No wonder this array was able to remain preserved for so many years. This core has been absorbing the earth's spiritual energy from its surroundings, allowing it to maintain nearly seventy percent of its power."
This discovery greatly excited Liu Bai. After collecting both the jade dragon and the coiling dragon jade pillars, he searched the surroundings and found nothing else of value. He then immediately moved on toward his next objective.
Thus, he continued searching along the way. Although most places yielded nothing, even an occasional gain was enough to make Liu Bai happy for quite some time.
There was no helping it. Anything that could still remain intact up to the present day was a good item. Although most had some defects, that did not hinder their use.
At the moment, however, what Liu Bai cared about most was information regarding this relic.
The amount of harvest could be discussed later. If he could obtain concrete information about this relic, he would be able to search for treasures with clear objectives instead of wandering around aimlessly like a headless fly, relying purely on luck.
Finally, inside a stone chamber that had been preserved, Liu Bai found a jade slip.
This jade slip did not record any high level spiritual arrays, nor did it contain divine abilities or spiritual techniques. Instead, it contained a distribution map of the relic and some simple introductions.
It turned out that this was once an ancient power known as the Three Emperors Sect.
Just from the name alone, one could tell that this was a sect that revered the Three Emperors. However, these Three Emperors were not the Three Emperors of the Great Heavenlaw Domain. Rather, they were three individuals who ruled this sect and were each powerful enough in their respective paths to be Emperor.
These Three Emperors were known as the Sky Formation Emperor, the Spiritual Array Emperor, and the Divine Refinement Emperor.
The Sky Formation Emperor was familiar to Liu Bai. He had appeared during the Great Hunt Battle in the original work and was a terrifying battle formation master with a Ten million runes. The Four Spirit Battle Formation under his command, formed by the Four Spirit Army, was renowned throughout the ancient era.
As a battle formation master, the Sky Formation Emperor represented the path of battle formation. The second emperor, the Spiritual Array Emperor, was a genuine high level spiritual array scholar. His mastery over spiritual arrays was ever changing. With a casual gesture, he could release hundreds or even thousands of grand arrays. Even when facing three Great Perfection Earth Sovereigns, he would not fall into a disadvantage.
As for the Divine Refinement Emperor, he was a weapon refiner.
Although his style seemed somewhat out of place compared to the other two, the three of them together represented the three branches that emerged from the development of array dao in the ancient era.
Battle Formation masters who combined battle intent with arrays, traditional spiritual array masters, and a new refining path that fused arrays with weapon forging.
Speaking of which, Liu Bai actually had some connection with the Divine Refinement Emperor. The Divine Refinement Method he inherited from Elder Huo was originally created by this Divine Refinement Emperor and only later passed down through the generations.
So he had actually stumbled into his ancestral master's old home.
Liu Bai scratched his head, feeling somewhat strange. Was this fate at work behind the scenes, or was it truly the Heavenly List silently guiding the rotation of destiny in this world?
"Well, since this is my ancestral master, I hope you old seniors will bless me so that I can find more good stuff. That way, I can also leave behind some inheritances for the three of you."
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