The group chatted idly as they made their way to the gates of the celestial palace.
Chu Huaifeng pushed open the door and said to the two behind him, "Go in like this, you two follow me." After he finished speaking, he entered the Immortal Palace.
The door slammed shut behind him with a loud "bang." Judging from the sound, the door was quite heavy.
"Let's go in too," Yang Yitian said, pushing open the door and walking in first.
Just as Qi Zhiheng was about to step forward, the door was closed again.
Helpless, Qi Zhiheng had no choice but to push the door open himself. The door was indeed quite heavy; even a Mahayana cultivator like Qi Zhiheng had to exert some effort. If one had not reached the Mahayana stage, they probably wouldn't have been able to open the door.
The door opened, and Qi Zhiheng walked in, only to be dumbfounded.
Before me was a large courtyard, its decoration and materials exquisite, and it remained undamaged despite the passage of time, as if people still lived there.
None of this was surprising; what stunned him was that Yang Yitian and Chu Huaifeng had both disappeared.
Chu Huaifeng stopped talking. Yang Yitian would never leave without waiting for him!
He tried to find Yang Yitian through the contract, but he didn't get any response for a long time.
Thinking about what Chu Huaifeng said, if some people can enter the Immortal Palace while others cannot even get in, does that mean that before entering the Immortal Palace, they were already in different spaces? Some people were lucky enough to reach the space leading to the Immortal Palace, while others were excluded early on. In this case, they might be in different spaces after entering the Immortal Palace.
Qi Zhiheng rubbed his head, feeling a bit of a headache. He carefully sensed the Daoist Contract and found that it didn't detect any danger from Yang Yitian, so he should be safe for now. This put his mind at ease.
He didn't wait any longer and went straight inside. Beyond this courtyard was a garden, filled with many flowers. Upon closer inspection, Qi Zhiheng realized that these flowers were not suitable for refining pills, but each one was a precious variety. Qi Zhiheng actually wanted to dig up a few to plant in his space, but unfortunately, a barrier was set up above them.
Qi Zhiheng was exasperated. The array was his Achilles' heel. It wasn't that it couldn't be opened, but the only way to break it was through brute force. These plants weren't medicinal, so destroying them would be going too far.
So he gave up the idea of opening the container to pick the fruit.
Continuing further in, there were rows of houses. Qi Zhiheng pushed open the door of one of the rooms.
Excellent, there are no restrictions or barriers!
Qi Zhiheng went inside. He found that what was originally a study was now in a mess. Clearly, it had been visited by outsiders.
He wondered why there were no restrictions or barriers; it turned out they had been destroyed long ago.
But it makes sense. So many people have entered the secret realm over the past few thousand years, so the path I'm on must have been trodden by others long ago. It's only natural that the restrictions here have been broken.
He took a deep breath and began to check what else was still usable in the study.
Some not-so-rare books and a few paintings were lying scattered around the study.
Qi Zhiheng first flipped through a few books that had fallen onto his undershirt. They were all common basic books, and the contents were books on talismans that he didn't like. He already had quite a few of these in his spatial attic, so he wasn't really interested in them.
But soon he thought of Yang Yitian. Perhaps these books would be useful to Yang Yitian? He picked up one of Yang Yitian's introductory books on Taoism—"The Sacred Book of Talismans".
This book was indeed in his space, which meant that the things in his attic were really good, and this fairy palace was indeed a fairy palace.
Qi Zhiheng casually put the book away. Maybe Erbao can use this book to enter the Dao in the future. He'll keep it for his son!
There were other books, but Qi Zhiheng didn't put them away, presumably they had already circulated outside.
For reasons unknown, he picked up the books and put them back on the bookshelf, also straightening the messy chairs and bookshelves. The room had a dust-purifying array set up, so tidying up these things wasn't difficult.
He also picked up the scrolls and put them into the painting basket, then spread out an already opened scroll on the table.
This is a portrait of a man. The man in the portrait is handsome, with an aloof and icy demeanor. The white fox fur he wears accentuates his noble air. This person in the painting is more in line with the attributes of an Ice Spirit Root cultivator. Qi Zhiheng couldn't help but compare him to Yang Yitian, the person in the painting. Someone as idiotic and eccentric as Yang Yitian is completely unlike what an Ice Spirit Root cultivator should be like.
His attention returned to the painting. Upon closer inspection of the figure's eyes, he noticed a gaze that seemed to hold ice and snow. Qi Zhiheng glanced at it, and the more he looked, the more familiar the figure's eyes seemed. Just as he was about to take a closer look, he suddenly felt a chill run down his spine and shivered slightly.
This is quite a strange thing. Such a painting actually has such effects. Perhaps it contains some kind of inheritance or something. Of course, this is just Qi Zhiheng's guess.
He knew this painting was extraordinary, but hesitated whether to accept it.
If we don't accept it, it's clearly not an ordinary piece; but if we do accept it, it turns out to be a portrait.
What kind of thing is it for a married man to collect portraits of other men?
He set the painting aside for the time being and went to look at other paintings.
After opening the Anxie Scroll, they were surprised to find that several more scrolls depicted the same man.
Qi Zhiheng guessed that if the person in the painting was not the master of this celestial palace, then he must be someone the master of the celestial palace admired; otherwise, there would not be so many portraits.
Qi Zhiheng assessed the value of the scroll. If it was a portrait of the Immortal Palace Master, it might contain some kind of inheritance. If it was the Immortal Palace Master's lover, it would also be valuable, and there might even be something else inside.
He took out the scroll he had opened at the beginning and tried to input the spiritual power of his rule-controlling abilities into it. There was a dense layer of fine lines on the surface of the painting.
An ordinary person might not be able to see it clearly, but Qi Zhiheng saw it clearly! The silk threads hidden in the painting, aren't they the lines of law?
How many lines of law are hidden within this painting? I wonder if I can absorb them and transform them into my own power of law. Qi Zhiheng was somewhat tempted. Although he had comprehended a few laws, his understanding of laws was still too low. If he could absorb the lines of law within this painting, he would surely be able to strengthen his own power of law.
Qi Zhiheng temporarily suppressed his pounding heart and channeled the power of rules into another painting. This painting did not depict figures, but rather a landscape, probably a scene from somewhere in the Immortal Realm. Qi Zhiheng did not comment on the scenery; naturally, one could not discern the beauty of the Immortal Realm from the painting, but it did show some similarities between the scenery of the Immortal Realm and the cultivation world.
He inputted the rules and spiritual energy into the painting for a while, but the painting did not react at all, so it seemed that there was nothing special about the painting.
He put down the landscape painting and picked up a figure painting. He inputted the spiritual energy of the rules into it and saw that it was indeed filled with dense lines of rules. Qi Zhiheng was very envious, but unfortunately, he was unable to absorb the lines of laws inside for the time being.
He then examined several more scrolls. The scrolls depicting figures all contained lines of law, while the scrolls depicting non-figures did not.
This is bad! This huge pile of portraits, including one of a handsome man, if I keep them, what if Yang Yitian finds them one day and sees that one of them is a very good-looking man? Wouldn't he think I've fallen for someone else?
No! There's something even more serious! Yang Yitian might be bewitched by the beauty of the person in the painting and try to snatch the scroll from me!
Is Qi Zhiheng reluctant to part with the painting?! He simply can't bear to see Yang Yitian bewitched by another man!
So he immediately made a decision: these paintings absolutely had to be hidden away! To prevent Yang Yitian, that sucker for good looks, from seeing them!
Qi Zhiheng carefully put away the paintings one by one and hid them in a secluded corner of the attic.
As for the remaining landscape paintings and other scrolls, he put them back into the painting basket.
After tidying up the paintings, he opened the door and went out.
He then walked to another room, which looked like a guest room. It didn't seem to have any signs of life inside. Of course, it's also possible that the things that did have signs of life had been looted by the previous cultivators who broke in.
That's right, there were no restrictions here when Qi Zhiheng came in.
There really wasn't anything good left in the room. The tea set on the table had all been taken away, leaving only a tray...
All signs indicate that this place has already been thoroughly exploited.
He then went to several more rooms, and the results were similar in each one. Apart from the fact that no one had discovered the power of the rules in the scroll in the first study, everything in the other rooms had already been searched and taken away.
Qi Zhiheng then walked to other locations.
After passing through the long corridor, we finally arrived at a medicinal herb garden.
As an alchemist, Qi Zhiheng's interest in the herb garden naturally far surpasses that of other things.
Even if you can't get high-quality spiritual herbs, getting some seeds would be good. Not to mention there are also immortal herbs here.
However, it's likely that this immortal herb won't survive once it enters the space, since there's no immortal spiritual energy in Qi Zhiheng's space.
He examined the plants carefully and found that they were all spiritual herbs! They were all within his usability, but the restriction was a bit troublesome.
Qi Zhiheng's biggest headache is nothing more than formations and restrictions!
He was afraid that violent destruction would destroy the spiritual herbs inside, and for a moment he couldn't think of a solution.
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