Chapter 633: Take My Hammer

Chapter 633 -304: Take My Hammer

After Chen Cheng and Ke Dali passed through the Array Gate, the scene before them abruptly changed, as if they had stepped into an endless, dark, and profound void.

The tyrannical and peerless might of the Array suddenly erupted, generating a colossal force out of thin air that easily absorbed all the Heaven and Earth Origin Qi gathered by the Mountain-Suppressing Xuanwu Armor.

The Xuanwu Illusion instantly dissipated!

Immediately after, violent torrents of Heaven and Earth Origin Qi, like turbulence in the void, enveloped Chen Cheng and began pulling him inward.

This was the pulling power of the cave mansion’s Array Gate. It had no offensive capabilities, so Chen Cheng activated his True Force to protect his body and offered no resistance.

He felt his body moving at extreme speed, as if breaking the sound barrier. After a few breaths, the scene before him changed once again, revealing a world where the Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi was exceptionally dense.

Chen Cheng found himself several hundred feet high in the air of this new world, plummeting toward the ground.

If one’s strength were insufficient, a fall from such a height would mean being smashed to pieces and dying on the spot.

There were, in fact, quite a few precedents for this.

The cave mansion was protected by various Arrays. Even if the entrance was open, one needed a specific Array Banner to be guided in and out freely.

Without the guidance of an Array Banner, rashly entering the cave mansion through the Array Gate would often lead to being randomly transported by the Array to different locations within.

Being transported by the Array to a high altitude, as Chen Cheng had been, was one of the worst possible scenarios.

Because one appeared at an extremely high position, it was as if a Celestial Gate had opened. This phenomenon of appearing from a Celestial Gate was often called the Gate of Celestial Revelation.

Upon encountering the Gate of Celestial Revelation, if one hadn’t cultivated a Realm that negated falls, even a Perfect Martial Artist of the Organ Refining Realm would be smashed half to death!

Fortunately, Chen Cheng was not afraid of heights; he could easily handle a fall of several hundred feet.

‘Well now! To think that on my first time entering an ancient cave mansion, I’d run into the legendary Gate of Celestial Revelation. My luck is really something else!’

Chen Cheng smiled faintly. Within a radius of a few dozen feet around him, surges of icy aura suddenly welled up, instantly condensing into a thick, icy fog.

More icy aura surged in from the distance, and the icy fog slowly expanded. From afar, it looked like a dark cloud floating in the sky.

Pulled by gravity, the dark cloud slowly descended. Chen Cheng stood atop it, a calm and carefree expression on his face as he observed the cave mansion from his high vantage point.

He saw that this cave mansion was vast, spanning no less than two thousand li.

Three colossal, cloud-piercing mountain peaks stood tall. The nearest was covered in pristine white snow, and the surrounding hundred-li area was a world of ice and snow.

A distant peak spewed scorching magma, and its surrounding hundred-li area was a scorched and blackened landscape.

Between these two peaks was a region shrouded in mist, where an even more majestic mountain could be vaguely glimpsed.

Besides these three mountains, there were various other terrains—rivers, lakes, and Water Realms—laid out like coiling dragons and snakes, guiding the flow of the earth’s ley lines.

Furthermore, all sorts of birds and beasts could be faintly seen, along with powerful Demon Beasts roaming about.

The dark cloud, condensed using the Xuanshuang Realm, could not stay airborne for long and consumed a large amount of Qi Blood Power.

After about ten breaths, Chen Cheng had descended with the cloud to a height of just over a hundred feet, having already consumed a full ten percent of his Qi Blood Power.

The cave mansion was fraught with peril. Chen Cheng didn’t form the cloud again; instead, his figure flashed as he erupted with True Force, using the wind to land steadily on a Short Mountain.

He pulled out a century-old mountain ginseng and began chewing on it to replenish his Qi Blood Power, all while gazing thoughtfully at the turquoise lake below the Short Mountain.

‘With ley lines as the bones, Demon Beasts as the sinews, and Spiritual Objects as the blood… Nine Palaces Locking Yin Yang.’

‘The Array laid out in this cave mansion must be the Nine Palaces Locking Spirit Heaven and Earth Array. And my current location seems to be on the edge of the Kan Palace, which contains Profound Nether Heavy Water.’

The conditions for setting up a Nine Palaces Locking Spirit Heaven and Earth Array are extremely demanding. It requires finding a place where three ley lines rich in Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi converge and using a large number of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Objects as the Array Hubs.

Beneath these three mountain peaks were undoubtedly the three ley lines, and their convergence point had to be under the central mountain.

Besides the Array Hub at the Main Peak’s Central Palace, there were eight other Array Hubs: the northern Kan Palace, the southern Li Palace, the eastern Zhen Palace, the western Dui Palace, the southeastern Xun Palace, the southwestern Kun Palace, the northeastern Gen Palace, and the northwestern Qian Palace.

The nine Palace Array Hubs form a single entity. The Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi is most concentrated at the Central Palace Array Hub, making it the best treasure ground for Cultivation, with the other eight Palace Array Hubs being secondary.

To enter the Central Palace Array Hub, one must collect the Array Banners from the other eight Palace Array Hubs.

This was obviously not easy.

This cave mansion was extremely vast, two or three thousand li in circumference. Simply traversing it all once would take a great deal of time.

Moreover, the locations of the Array Hubs were extremely well hidden, and finding even one would require a great deal of effort.

Furthermore, with so many people entering the cave mansion, someone was bound to get there first and find some of the Array Hubs.

Once someone entered and took control of the Array Banner, they could manipulate the Array Hub to unleash a portion of the Array’s power, making it extremely difficult for others to snatch it away.

Therefore, collecting all eight Palace Array Banners to enter the Central Palace Array Hub for Cultivation was already next to impossible.

Even Ji Lingxiao, who possessed a Profound Tier Spiritual Artifact, couldn’t possibly do it.

For Chen Cheng, the most urgent priority was to find an Array Hub, enter it, and obtain its Array Banner as quickly as possible.

Although the Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi at an Array Hub was dense, it was not infinite and would be slowly depleted through Cultivation.

Once the Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi at each Array Hub was more or less depleted, those who held the Array Banners would naturally gather at the Central Palace Array Hub.

At that time, it would naturally come down to who had the bigger fist to decide who was qualified to enter.

At this thought, Chen Cheng couldn’t help but shake his head slightly and mutter:

“That bastard Ji Lingxiao… bringing a Profound Tier Spiritual Artifact into a mere cave mansion. He has absolutely no martial virtue!”

“No wonder people like Zhao Wuji and Li Xuanqi didn’t want to come to the Fog Concealment Cave Mansion!”