Suddenly, the surrounding restrictions seemed to be stirred up, and they were all activated. Layers of restrictive light appeared around the Nangong family cultivators, then transformed into various sharp blades, shooting towards them.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh—
As beams of light shot towards her, Nangong Yan immediately cast a spell to create a shield.
"What happened?"
"Who triggered the remaining restrictions?"
Everyone was shocked.
At first, a barrage of sharp blades shot out from all directions in the void, followed by layers of magic arrays appearing. The roars of strange beasts could be heard from within the arrays, and then ferocious giant beasts emerged from the arrays, attacking Nangong Rou and the others.
The cultivators of the Nangong family all unleashed their respective magical treasures.
Rumble—
The sounds of battle echoed between heaven and earth.
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On the flying boat, Xu Fengzhi, who had already stepped out of the cabin, stood behind A Yao with a fan in his hand. He looked behind him and heard the sounds of battle. Since fierce battles were taking place everywhere in this secret realm, he didn't pay any attention to them.
The twenty-odd guards following the flying boat used their divine senses to see Nangong Rou and the others, but they were just guards, and since the young master hadn't spoken, what business was it of theirs?
Their sole purpose is to protect the young master.
The restrictions created by A Yao were a minor problem for Nangong Rou and the others. By the time they resolved the problem, they had already lost track of A Yao and the others.
Ayao stood at the bow of the boat, her clothes fluttering, like a fairy. Xu Fengzhi looked at her beautiful figure, his eyes filled with tenderness, and said, "Ayao, are you going to the front?"
Ayao nodded.
“I’ve searched that area ahead with my men, but there’s nothing left,” Xu Fengzhi said.
Ayao said, "Perhaps you didn't see it clearly enough."
Xu Fengzhi smiled and said, "Alright, go if you want!"
He said that, but in his heart he was already convinced that Ayao wouldn't gain anything. Anyway, he just wanted to be with his sweetheart, and it didn't matter where they went.
After flying forward for about five thousand miles, a light blue mist began to appear ahead. This mist was miasma emitted by the nearby trees. Xu Fengzhi said, "This miasma is not poisonous, but it can interfere with divine sense, so we still need to be careful."
Ayao nodded.
Giant trees loomed all around, some hundreds of feet tall, with vines like giant pythons crawling on their thick trunks. As they passed through a grove, they discovered hundreds of skeletons hanging from the giant trees nearby. These skeletons were all cultivators who had entered the secret realm. They had died not long ago, and their flesh and blood had probably been eaten by the poisonous insects here.
They traveled another hundred li or so, and then two towering peaks, each ten thousand zhang high, appeared ahead, with a canyon over twenty zhang wide between them. Ayao said to Xu Fengzhi:
"Your people don't need to follow you anymore."
Upon hearing this, Xu Fengzhi didn't ask why, but instead sent a telepathic message to the guards behind him, instructing them to wait there. The guards, upon hearing this order, stopped in their tracks.
Xu Fengzhi had previously led thousands of disciples to sweep through this area, and anything of value had long been looted. Similarly, the Shenmeng Sect had completely removed all kinds of traps and restrictions from this area. The guards all felt that there was no danger here, and that the young master must want to be alone with Miss Lu Qi and find them in the way.
The guards had no objections and even exchanged knowing glances with each other.
After passing through the canyon between the two mountains in their flying boat, Xu Fengzhi and A Yao arrived at a valley. A Yao saw traces of magical artifact attacks in the valley ahead, so she disembarked from the flying boat and landed on the ground. Xu Fengzhi followed suit.
"Ah Yao, there's really nothing left here..."
Before he could finish speaking, he saw A Yao standing in front of a mountain wall. With a wave of her hand, a beam of light shot out from the storage bag at her waist, transforming into an array plate with eight small array flags floating on it.
She summoned the array plate, and the eight small flags flew into the sky, transforming into banners over two zhang (approximately 6.6 meters) long, which were planted on the surrounding rocks. Then, beams of light shot out from the tips of the banners, connecting together to form a magic array in the sky—a golden dome that covered the area.
Xu Fengzhi looked at her in confusion. This was a hidden formation. What was she trying to do?
"Ayao, what are you going to do?" Xu Fengzhi asked.
Ayao turned to look at him, amused, and asked, "You have no idea what I'm planning? I told you not to bring any guards, and you did? Aren't you afraid I'll murder you here?"
Xu Fengzhi laughed and said, "Then I can say that even if I die under the peony, I'll still be a romantic ghost."
Ayao: "..."
Looking at the handsome and elegant man in front of her, the smile on her face disappeared, and she said, "You really are not a decent person."
After saying that, she turned and walked away. Xu Fengzhi thought that his flippant words had angered A Yao, so he quickly explained to himself, "I didn't mean anything by it, don't misunderstand. I'm a respectable person, the most respectable person I can be. Those rumors about me are not true."
Ayao ignored him and took a few steps forward. Her expression became serious as she formed hand seals and released rays of restrictive light.
Xu Fengzhi stopped and watched A Yao from the side. A Yao's fingers moved so fast that they became afterimages, and large numbers of runes began to appear around them. These runes were very mysterious. Xu Fengzhi had always thought that his expertise in restrictions was not low, but now he found that he did not recognize a single one of them.
A gust of wind rose from the ground, causing A-Yao's dress to flutter, and ripples of blue waves appeared in the previously empty space in front of her.
A Yao's body began to float, and the ripples became more and more numerous, forming a blue vortex. A Yao felt that the spiritual power in her body was being frantically absorbed by the vortex in front of her. She didn't have enough spiritual power, so she had a thought, and purple light surrounded her body, and the Purple Cloud Heavenly Robe was put on.
Wearing the Purple Cloud Heavenly Robe, A Yao radiated a purple glow, surrounded by wisps of celestial energy. Her beautiful face was like a flower glistening with morning dew, or a piece of jade holding a bright pearl.
Xu Fengzhi stared at her, mesmerized. He had imagined a thousand times how this dress would look on A Yao. Now that he saw it with his own eyes, it was a hundred times more beautiful than he had imagined. As he gazed at A Yao, everything in the world seemed to vanish into nothingness, and only A Yao's figure remained in his eyes.
As soon as she put on the Purple Cloud Celestial Robe, she activated the immortal power within it, and A Yao instantly opened the door to the hidden cave. This cave had been discovered by her earth-elemental clone. If one were to forcibly break through, it would require two Nascent Soul stage cultivators to open it. Even if she knew how to break the restrictions, A Yao, with her late-stage Golden Core strength, was helpless.
If it weren't for obtaining the Purple Cloud Heavenly Robe, A Yao would have had to keep it and slowly figure out a way to deal with it.
The blue vortex expanded to a size of ten zhang amidst a rumbling sound. Through the center of the vortex, part of the scene inside the cave could be seen. The sound of the cave opening brought Xu Fengzhi back to his senses.
He was dumbfounded.
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