Qi Zhiheng was reflecting on his own background and resources.
The Six Paths of Reincarnation? It's useless.
Buddhist prayer beads? They're useless too.
He took out a book on formations from his spatial storage, hoping to find a way to break the formation.
After the time it takes for an incense stick to burn...
Qi Zhiheng closed the book again.
Okay! He really doesn't have any talent for formations!
After a while, he remembered something and released the Soul-Devouring Insects. A large swarm of mutated and non-mutated Soul-Devouring Insects immediately appeared in this space.
It's just an array, it needs spiritual energy to support it, right? What if that spiritual energy is consumed? Let's see how this array can continue to function then.
At Qi Zhiheng's command, a large swarm of spirit-devouring insects rushed toward the formation, beginning to gnaw at the spiritual energy on it.
Then, a large swarm of spirit-devouring insects was bounced back.
Qi Zhiheng: "..."
Even the insect king was not spared from the formation's rebound. Fortunately, they only wanted to consume spiritual energy, which was not a particularly powerful attack, otherwise the rebound would have been even more severe.
The Soul-Devouring Insect King felt wronged, so it approached Qi Zhiheng, bared its teeth, and indicated that the array had hurt its teeth.
Qi Zhiheng was exasperated and poked its forehead: "You eat so much, but you're useless when it matters! Besides planting, what else can you do? You can't even break a formation!"
Soul-Eating Insect King: If you're so good, then you do it!
Qi Zhiheng pretended not to hear: "I've been raising you for a thousand days to use you for one. I've been raising you for over a thousand years. Why don't you do something useful? I can't fight this battle all by myself, can I?"
Soul-Devouring Insect King: ...
Qi Zhiheng walked around the herb garden with the Soul-Devouring Insect Kings. The garden was very large and contained many different kinds of herbs. Unfortunately, he could only look on, not because he didn't want to continue exploring the Immortal Palace, but because he couldn't bear to give up the spiritual herbs before him.
After wandering around the herb garden for a while, Qi Zhiheng still couldn't break any of the formations, and in the end, he could only leave sheepishly.
After visiting several places within the Immortal Palace, he truly realized the malice the palace harbored towards him. Everywhere he looked, there were array formations and restrictions. Recalling the books about talismans and arrays in the study outside, it seemed that the owner of this place had a deep understanding of talismans and arrays.
Of course, this indirectly troubled Qi Zhiheng! He had never realized so deeply that the formation was such a big weakness of his.
In the past, when he watched Yang Yitian deal with formations, he always thought they were very simple and easy. But when it came to him, he couldn't even leave this small courtyard.
Yes, besides being unable to break the seal on the herb garden, he was also trapped in a small courtyard. Fortunately, apart from being unable to get out, there wasn't much danger in this courtyard.
The path they came from was now blocked. Qi Zhiheng calmed himself down and picked up the first book on formations again. It seemed that this time he couldn't do it without his own help.
Qi Zhiheng didn't want to waste his time here, so he took the book and led his group of spirit-devouring insects into the space.
The books on formations were indeed a major headache for him, but if he could overcome them, he would have one less weakness in the future. No matter how strong he was now, if he encountered a cultivator who was skilled in using formations and the two sides were evenly matched, he would likely end up losing.
Having figured out the key point, Qi Zhiheng was no longer opposed to learning formations.
Learning formations is not something that can be accomplished overnight, let alone for someone like him who has absolutely no talent. It would be quite difficult for him to master it in a short period of time.
Fortunately, his space provided him with enough time to learn formations, and Yang Yitian had also left behind a lot of formation materials, which he could use.
Reading books alone wasn't enough, so he decided to put his knowledge into practice.
He really couldn't use the formation flexibly, so he tried to memorize the historical records first. For Qi Zhiheng, who had strong soul power, memorizing was not a difficult task, but he still had to carefully search his memory to use it.
His alchemy skills are different; he can make good use of the medicinal properties of various spiritual herbs and even improve them. However, he is not good at array formations and finds it difficult to learn them.
Qi Zhiheng recorded the formations one by one by learning them while setting them up.
Thirty years passed in this space.
Qi Zhiheng has devoted the last thirty years to studying formations. With his powerful soul force, it is not impossible for him to decipher at least some simple level eight formations.
After putting away the books on formations, Qi Zhiheng went out again. A month had passed outside, and he was still in the same courtyard. His first priority was to check the herb garden. Many of the restrictions in the herb garden were level eight. Qi Zhiheng had just crossed the threshold of level eight formations, and he didn't know if he could remove some of them.
Qi Zhiheng walked to the spirit herb he had his eye on and spent two hours breaking the formation. He was still somewhat excited to obtain his first spirit herb, but after a while, he calmed down. Having spent two hours breaking one formation, it was unlikely he could claim the entire herb garden for himself.
He could only select a few spiritual herbs that he didn't have in his own space to start working on breaking the formation.
Unfortunately, these formations were all incredibly difficult, and he had no choice but to give up when he couldn't solve them.
After collecting about ten spiritual herbs, he planned to leave the courtyard. There might be more rare items to come, and he couldn't spend all his time in the courtyard.
It's no joke that Qi Zhiheng's talent in formations is mediocre. It took him ten days to loosen the formation in this courtyard. He couldn't help but think of Yang Yitian.
If the master of this immortal palace truly has a profound understanding of formations and talismans, Yang Yitian would probably have already acquired quite a few treasures by now.
Qi Zhiheng's breakthrough of the formation is nearing its end.
Just then, the ground trembled. Qi Zhiheng was puzzled; even if most of his formation had been deactivated, this shouldn't have happened.
He frowned slightly, the most likely explanation being that something unexpected had happened at the Celestial Palace.
He quickened his pace; he couldn't stay here any longer and had to leave quickly. Although he didn't know what was happening outside, given the unclear situation, he wanted to find Yang Yitian even more.
With the final step completed and the formation activated, Qi Zhiheng pushed open the door in front of him and stepped out.
The moment his feet touched the ground, a bright aura shone around him, and when he came to his senses, he found himself on a grassy field.
As he looked around, he saw other cultivators. He had finally encountered other cultivators in the Immortal Palace. Just as he was about to see what was going on, he noticed that they looked shocked, as if they were very puzzled by his presence there.
How did I get here?
Qi Zhiheng heard the man say this.
He stopped in his tracks just as he was about to walk away. Then a white light flashed in the distance, and after the light faded, only a figure remained.
The figure also seemed puzzled as to how it ended up there.
Then, several more cultivators appeared one after another, each with a look of surprise and doubt on their faces.
Suddenly, no one shouted, "The Celestial Palace! How did I get out here?"
"Where is the Celestial Palace?"
Following his gaze, everyone saw the distant phantom of a celestial palace, as if projected into mid-air.
More and more lights and shadows appeared. One by one, these people were teleported out.
Qi Zhiheng soon spotted Chu Huaifeng. He went up to meet him.
However, he looked around but couldn't see Yang Yitian, and didn't know if he was in danger.
After Chu Huaifeng and Qi Zhiheng searched around, they still couldn't find Yang Yitian. At this point, the Immortal Palace had stopped throwing people out, and everyone began searching for their companions.
Qi Zhiheng couldn't see Yang Yitian anywhere, and his heart skipped a beat. He tried to contact him using the communication jade slip, but couldn't send any message. He was afraid that Yang Yitian was still in the Immortal Palace.
"How is it? Have you been able to make any contact?" Chu Huaifeng asked Qi Zhiheng about the situation.
Qi Zhiheng was about to say that he hadn't been able to make contact when he suddenly heard someone say, "The Immortal Palace has disappeared!"
This news was like water being poured into a frying pan, causing it to explode.
The most precious place in the Celestial Palace Secret Realm is naturally the Celestial Palace itself. If the Celestial Palace were to disappear, the value of this secret realm would be greatly diminished.
"How could the Celestial Palace have disappeared!"
"I had heard rumors before, but I never thought it would actually happen today." A monk with a goatee, dressed as a scholar, spoke, uttering a statement that left everyone bewildered.
Someone immediately asked, "Scholar Yu, do you know what's going on?"
Yu Shusheng stroked his beard, looking inscrutable, and said, "I do know some things, but not much."
"Stop keeping us in suspense, everyone's waiting for your answer."
Yu the scholar coughed lightly, drawing everyone's attention to himself, and then said, "I am not very talented, but there happens to be a rogue immortal in my sect. This rogue immortal also entered the secret realm of the Immortal Palace back then, and I obtained some information from him."
Knowing his temperament, everyone waited quietly for him to speak.
Yu Shusheng continued, "Back then, that senior immortal mentioned that building this immortal palace was originally an immortal artifact!"
The crowd was somewhat taken aback, clearly not expecting to hear such inside information here.
"At that time, those rogue immortals all wanted to subdue the immortal artifact. Unfortunately, the immortal artifact had a spirit and was not willing to form a contract with a group of rogue immortals. Moreover, all the rogue immortals were within its control, and none of them were a match for the spirit of the immortal artifact. So, of course, the contract fell through."
"Now that the celestial palace is gone, could it be that a contract has already been signed?"
Upon hearing this, everyone was shocked!
Soon, someone realized what was happening.
"No rush! Even if someone manages to subdue the spirit of the Immortal Palace, the spirit won't run away."
"Yes! The Celestial Palace originally belonged to everyone, how can it be taken over by one person?"
Just how many treasures are there in the Immortal Palace? So many Mahayana cultivators have visited several times and found them extremely valuable; who wouldn't be tempted by this Immortal Palace?
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