Chapter 514 The Encirclement Formation: The Eight Gates Heavenly Escape Array

The second area of ​​the Heavenly Palace Secret Realm.

It comprises a vast complex of buildings, filled with magnificent palaces made of solid black ice that never melts, hence its nickname, "the ice that never melts." (Exaggeration)

It was beautiful, yet tinged with a sense of eeriness and gloom.

The dark environment creates a sense of psychological oppression, and the area is not well-lit, making it difficult to fly high and get a clear view of the overall terrain.

This can easily lead to confusion about directions.

Wang Yu had been in seclusion at the bottom of the extremely cold lake for almost half a month, and his progress had fallen behind. Meanwhile, the Northern Demon Clan team had already entered the second area.

The three kings are Tianpeng, Huoya, and Leilin.

They stood at the front of the demon race, talking about something.

“Something’s not right. Even if this place is big, it shouldn’t have taken this long to get out. Also, we haven’t seen any of the palaces that were recorded as storing treasures.”

The Fire Crow King crossed his arms, a gesture that conveyed both complaint and confusion.

Tianpeng Wang pondered.

"Call Huo Wuji up here and let him see if this place has been set up with a bewitching trap."

Huo Wuji is a formation master trained by the Fire Crow clan, and the only transformed demon who has reached the mid-stage of the fourth rank. He looks very young and was called out by the three clan kings.

The young geomancer strode forward and said, “Actually, I’ve wanted to say this for a while. The layout here should be based on a combination of feng shui wonders and formations, with the formations as the main element and the wonders as a supplement.”

"--oh?"

"I have also studied the ancient books stored in the clan. Based on the information recorded in them, we can conclude that we have always been circling around on the periphery."

"The fact that none of the treasures protected by the restrictions appeared is proof enough! Moreover, this entry is different from the past; the entire secret realm seems to have been truly awakened."

"Although the dangers have increased, those treasures have gone from being inaccessible to being a problem that can be solved. As long as we can successfully delve deeper, the rewards will be substantial."

Huo Wuji's judgment was similar to that of the Three Kings.

King Leilin asked.

"The demon race trained you for this very moment. Is there any way to break this cycle?"

"Rest assured, King Lei Lin, I will do my utmost!"

His confident demeanor immediately gave the three kings confidence, so they asked Huo Wuji to help them break the deadlock.

He was explaining himself as he made his move.

"The Holy Lord's Heavenly Palace is based on extreme cold. The base of this palace area should be the [Taiyin Ice Transformation Formation]. It is not an easy task to preserve such a large amount of unmelted ice for hundreds of thousands of years."

"In the era of the Ice Phoenix Saint Lord, the spread of Feng Shui techniques was not widespread, and the ancestor of geomancers had not yet opened his mountain gates to spread his teachings."

"Therefore, even if the Ice Phoenix Saint Lord used the highest-level methods at the time to arrange it, in the eyes of feng shui masters of the present era... it would be outdated!"

Huo Wuji was brimming with confidence and spoke eloquently.

The Fire Crow King couldn't help but shout his approval.

"Good! The Fire Crow Clan is fortunate to have nurtured such a prodigy as you. Begin the deciphering!"

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

After taking out the feng shui compass, this unique treasure of the feng shui lineage quickly unfolded the star track instrument. He stepped out in a special way, silently chanting incantations, and made three calculations in a row.

"--really!

"The only one that can work with the Taiyin Formation is the [Triple Illusion Moon Maze]. Although this formation is of a high grade, it is a pure maze and has a fatal flaw."

"What?"

Someone played the straight man perfectly, and Huo Wuji gave a wicked smile, pointing one hand towards the sky.

"moon!"

Huo Wuji waved his hand and tore off a piece of white gauze from the inside of his robe. With a surge of demonic energy, the piece of cloth quickly transformed into the shape of a moon disc. He threw it into the sky, and it immediately became the "moon".

Under the moonlight, a crooked but clear path was pointed out.

"I have fulfilled my mission!"

"Hahaha, well done! It seems you've figured out all the ins and outs here. Wuji is indeed a pillar of our Fire Crow Clan."

The Fire Crow King was very satisfied with his subordinates' performance, which he considered a great honor. Since the demon race was mostly straightforward, they never hesitated to praise him.

"Once the journey to the secret realm is over, I will certainly reward you handsomely."

“I will never forget the King’s kindness, and I will never ask for any reward.”

Seeing that the others had started boasting to each other, King Tianpeng's lips twitched. He ignored them and turned to give an order.

"Pengzhan, Pengqing, you two will lead the charge."

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

The Northern Demon Clan team successfully entered the actual palace area from the outer perimeter of the palace area, guided by the bright moon overhead. However, what Huo Wuji did not notice was...

Above the road they entered, the character "景" (scenery) was faintly visible, disappearing in a flash.

at the same time.

Yan Ling and Yu Tangtang, a duo, have been lingering in this palace area for quite some time now, even though neither of them has any obvious special skills.

Yu Tangtang marched in step, looking utterly bored.

"Wang Yu lied, saying that you could take any treasure you wanted, but we didn't even see the palace doors, just dark and cold walls."

Yan Ling was quite helpless.

"He's never been inside before, and besides, secret realms are always accompanied by danger..."

Before she finished speaking, the soul mark on Yan Ling's hand suddenly flashed, and she abruptly turned her head to look at a black ice wall, walking towards the wall as if she had lost her mind.

Unaware of what was happening, Yu Tangtang was still complaining to herself.

When she came to her senses, she saw Yan Ling crash headfirst into the wall and disappear from sight. Without any hesitation, the little bean tucked her head in and rushed over.

He was still muttering curses under his breath.

"Hey, just because I call you 'sister' doesn't mean you can just abandon me!"

This silly child has no idea what's going on.

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The "deceitful" team consisting of the Hehuan Duo and the Ancient Beast True Lord was the slowest to progress. Although they were the first to enter the palace area, they lingered for the longest time.

Ji Changjing found this situation of doing nothing and gaining nothing unbearable. In this situation, it would be more interesting to stay in the cave and cultivate together.

Unable to resist, he transmitted his thoughts telepathically: "Red Dust, the Heavenly Narrative Guide given to me by my father-in-law..."

The beauty and gentleness of this life in the mortal world.

He is also a famous second-generation member of the Hehuan Demon Sect. His father, the Red Dust Old Demon, is one of the Nascent Soul Great Perfection cultivators in the Hehuan Sect, and his strength and status are top-notch.

The so-called Tianming Yin is an ancient treasure of the Dao of Talismans.

Specializes in breaking through the world's mysteries and ingenious schemes.

Seeing that his Daoist partner was getting impatient, Yu Hongchen glanced at the Ancient Beast True Monarch and secretly replied via telepathy.

"This guy got bumped into... Can't we find a way to get rid of him, you filthy beggar scum?"

Ji Changjing's beautiful eyes sparkled with interest.

"Why don't we discuss it with him and let him take the lead? If he can still play a role, then Tianming Yin won't be wasted."

"Too."

Yu Hongchen immediately suppressed his disdain and smiled at the Ancient Beast True Monarch, saying, "Fellow Daoist, I have a method..."

At a time when all living beings are in different states of being.

Wang Yu also arrived at the outermost edge of the palace area, but before he even entered, he sensed an even stronger anti-flight restriction than before, and his brows furrowed.

He released his divine sense to sense the wall, which was made of unmelting ice. It seemed that some kind of talisman was buried in it. As soon as his divine sense entered, it disappeared without a trace, like a mud ox sinking into the sea.

Flying and divine sense, two major abilities of cultivators, are restricted.

Although this type of restriction is universal and exists in almost every secret realm, its strength is so great that only this one exists!

Even before entering, he could tell what kind of problems he would encounter.

"A maze? A trapping formation?"

Stroking his chin, Wang Yu took out a feng shui compass.

Above, in the due north direction where water vapor permeates, the sound of endless waves seems to resound from the Water Ancestor's Decree. As the Star Orbiter unfolds, the Golden Eyes of Gazing at Qi secret technique is performed.

The Taiyin Ice Transformation Formation and the Triple Illusion Moon Maze that Huo Wuji saw were also clearly visible to him, but Wang Yu was habitually cautious.

I was once tricked by multiple bewitching traps at the ancient Tianhun Sect ruins. As the saying goes, once bitten, twice shy, and I applied my past experience to this situation.

Feng Shui secrets reveal the secrets of the earth's energy flow.

By tracing the invisible threads of spiritual energy, Wang Yu quickly deciphered the superficial layout and entered the interior of the palace area, aided by the Water Ancestor's Decree.

His feng shui skills have become much more effective.

Immediately afterwards.

His eyes widened in surprise, as if he had seen something incredible, and he murmured to himself.

"The Eight Gates Heavenly Escape Formation?"

The Eight Gates Formation is a type of Qimen Dunjia, and it is the human method of overcoming the heavens among all the Qimen formations created by the ancestor of geomancers!

It was created by imitating the seventh chapter of the Heavenly Bureau, the "Eight Gates Eternal Life Wonder".

The conditions for the creation of a Heavenly Bureau are extremely demanding. The legacy of the Ancestor of Earth Masters was not entirely created by him, and the Ice Prison Realm does not have such perfect conditions to nurture every Heavenly Bureau.

The art of Feng Shui is generally believed to have originated from the upper realm.

However, the feng shui masters of the Ice Prison Realm also acknowledge his status as the ancestor of the feng shui masters, since he is indeed the source of the feng shui tradition in the Ice Prison Realm.

Legend has it that the "Eight Gates of Immortality" can permanently open the eight gates of the human body, granting the power of immortality. But whether this is just boasting or true remains to be seen.

According to Wang Yu's knowledge from the records in the Earth Mother Classic.

The Eight Gates Heavenly Escape Formation was the first fifth-order formation created by the Ancestor of Earth Masters that incorporated the Qimen Dunjia formation. Judging from the timeline, it is very likely that the Ancestor of Earth Masters set it up by himself!

From the ancient Immortal Dynasty to the era ruled by the Ice Phoenix Saint Lord, and then to the third ancient period... during the reign of the Taiyin Sect, the ancestor of the Earth Masters completely disappeared.

The special effects of this formation are said to be related to the power of life, but the specifics are not recorded in the Earth Mother Scripture.

Wang Yu stood at the edge of the palace area, hesitant to move forward.

They were worried about the treasures stored in the palace area, and also concerned that the intensity of the fifth-order grand formation set up by the ancestor of geomancy was too high. Entering the formation voluntarily and breaking through from the outside were two completely different concepts.

Therefore, he is still hesitant.

At that time.

A beam of ice-blue light suddenly rose into the sky, illuminating the entire dark palace complex. An ice-blue feather floated within the beam of light.

The aura of the pure-blooded ice phoenix was particularly eye-catching.

"The true feathers of the Ice Phoenix?"

Wang Yu immediately understood after a moment's thought.

That's right. To perfectly impersonate the Ice Phoenix, the Ice Phoenix of the Ice Clan must possess treasures related to the real Ice Phoenix; otherwise, the Demon Clan wouldn't be so easily fooled.

"So... Yan Ling directly benefited from the soul mark? It's definitely different when God feeds you.

After muttering to himself for a moment, Wang Yu quickly made up his mind.

He could dominate the Eastern Capital, so he could naturally replicate his past achievements in the Heavenly Palace Secret Realm, even though there were no special treasures like the Panlong Ring here to help him cheat.

However, the Water Ancestor Token on the Feng Shui compass is a sacred object of the Feng Shui lineage, personally refined by the ancestor of geomancers. It may play an unexpected role in the formation set up by its former owner.

Having reached this point in his thoughts, Wang Yu no longer hesitated.

He decisively broke through the outermost layer of the illusionary moon maze, taking a step forward and entering the inner area of ​​the palace district.

...

Before a stick of incense.

When Huo Wuji, brimming with confidence, led the Northern Demon Clan into the inner perimeter of the palace area, the scene that greeted him was like a bolt from the blue, leaving him stunned on the spot.

The so-called Eight Gates are: Open, Rest, Life, Injury, Block, View, Death, and Shock!

It is derived from the Eight Trigrams.

The three auspicious gates are Open, Rest, and Life; the three inauspicious gates are Death, Fright, and Injury; the two gates of Block and View are the most neutral and peaceful; the direction from which the Northern Demon Clan enters is through the View gate.

But they themselves were unaware of it.

Huo Wuji shouted, already somewhat out of control.

"This is bad, this is bad! This is an Eight-Element Formation... We've probably entered through a dead end..."

The plaza where the Northern Demon Clan was located was covered with a layer of fleshy fungus, which began to pulsate the moment the group entered.

Blood splattered everywhere, and flesh and blood flew everywhere.

Humanoid flesh and blood bodies, each two meters tall, grew out of the fleshy blanket and began to mutate at a visible speed, becoming either giants with bulging muscles or monsters with sharp claws and scales.

More like it was absorbing too much life energy, causing the body to proliferate uncontrollably, resulting in explosions that quickly turned into a hellish scene of torrential blood.

Everyone was stunned.

"—Run!"

King Tianpeng shouted loudly.

These monsters derived from the formation are not a significant threat; at least for Nascent Soul cultivators, they are easily dealt with.

However, the sinister and distorted life force within them can even affect the transformed bodies of demons, and even greatly suppress the bloodline power of demons.

It's a trap formation specifically designed to target the demon race!

King Tianpeng had excellent eyesight and saw the real problem. He immediately ordered the demons to retreat, but they were trapped in the formation and had nowhere to go.

The Fire Crow King immediately flapped its wings and released the Fire Crow True Flame.

The intense heat seemed to be able to restrain the spread of this power, and he also lost his composure and shouted loudly.

"Huo Wuji! Look at the path you've led us down! I command you to do your utmost to find a way out as quickly as possible!"

The latter trembled under the cannibalistic gazes of the demons.

Trembling, he unfolded the feng shui compass and began to calculate with his fingers.

"In the Eight Gates Formation, retreating the way we came is the worst option. If we are in the Death Gate, going to the right leads to the Shock Gate, which is also extremely dangerous. Going to the left leads to the View Gate, which should be much safer."

But... since a deadly trap has been set up.

How could a single choice of direction solve the problem? Under the operation of the formation, as long as the key is not found, one will only move closer and closer to the gate of death, truly a place where there is no way to escape death.

For someone like Huo Wuji, who has absolutely no understanding of the Eight Gates Heavenly Escape Formation, to try to decipher the mysteries of the Eight Gates by simply reciting from a textbook, it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that he's lost his mind.

Seeing his panic, King Leilin immediately mocked him.

"It is truly a blessing for the Fire Raven Clan to have nurtured such a prodigy as you."

The same words can have completely different meanings!

(End of this chapter)