Chapter 51: Harvest; Sudden Change (Part 2)

  A purple light flashed by, and he saw Gu Xiechen sitting with his knees bent and a worried expression on his face. Zhao Yi quickly knelt down on one knee, clasped his fists and saluted: "General Zhao Yi has seen the superior lord, I wonder if the superior lord has any difficulties?"

  Gu Xiechen's spirit lifted, and he said in a low voice: "Zhao Yi, no need for courtesy, get up. Hmm, do you know what's going on?" Gu Xiechen pointed to the strange scenery around them.

  Zhao Yi's eyes sparkled as he stood up and looked around, unable to help but burst out laughing: "Oh, it's just a small **Qimen Array**. It controls the heavens and earth, gathers the clouds and mist of the four directions, condenses energy into shape, transforms the myriad phenomena of the world, collects the heart demons and refines their essence into the Flag Gate. If one mistakenly enters the array, they will naturally have heart demons reborn, causing layer upon layer of calamity."

  He shook his head, and Zhao Yi smiled at Gu Xiechen who was stunned: "At the end of my cultivation, I studied various array methods. Although my primordial spirit is damaged now and my cultivation has not recovered, the various immortal arrays I cultivated are already incomplete. However, this humble Qimen Array is just a mortal technique, although it's ingenious, it doesn't enter the true stream, and it can't be considered a powerful array method."

  "Not a formidable formation?" Gu Xie's throat felt a bit itchy and numb, he dry coughed several times, almost coughing up blood. Monte Tedi, a fantastically skilled Phantom Clan assassin master, was so easily toyed with by this **Mysterious Gate Formation**, unable to live or die, and this wasn't considered a formidable formation?

  Zhao Yi smiled and said: "The Qimen Formation, naturally it's not a particularly powerful formation, it's just that in the mortal world of cultivation, it has some slight fame."

  Gǔ xié chén bèi zhào yì shēn shēn de dǎ jī dào le, tā zhàn qǐ shēn lái yǒu qì wú lì de wèn dào: "suǒ yǐ, nǐ kě zhī dào zěn me chū qù?"

  Translation:

  Guxiechen was deeply struck by Zhao Yi, he stood up weakly and asked: "Then, do you know how to get out?"

  "This is extremely easy!"

  Zhao Yi grasped Gu Xie Chen with one hand, his feet treading an unusual pace, lightly carrying Gu Xie Chen to revolve around these halos. Sometimes Zhao Yi brushed past a halo, sometimes he charged straight into a halo with Gu Xie Chen; from time to time, Zhao Yi struck out a palm thunder against a halo, blasting it into a million rays of light, shaking the surrounding void; sometimes he carried Gu Xie Chen to rapidly run around in a certain halo's world, either shattering a bronze bell, or cutting off an ancient tree, or extinguishing a bonfire, or smashing a fake mountain, or blocking up a small stream.

  In less than five minutes, the large array that trapped Gu Xiechen and made it difficult for him to move suddenly opened up, revealing a golden light flashing in front of him.

  Gu Xie Chen and Zhao Yi stood at the entrance of a raised path, which was over ten zhang high and five zhang wide. The walls on both sides and the ceiling of the raised path were all paved with top-quality green jade, carved with countless intricate patterns. Under their feet, the raised path was paved with gold bricks, each one square mu in size. The gold bricks were also carved with dragons and phoenixes, magnificent and extraordinary. The eyes of the dragons and phoenixes were inlaid with pearls of different colors, which emitted a dazzling light, illuminating the entire length of the raised path, over thirty kilometers long, as bright as daylight.

  Gu Xie was left breathless by this magnificent and luxurious corridor, he had seen countless treasures and wealth, but a corridor over 30 kilometers long paved with gold bricks and beautiful jade was something he couldn't even imagine. Thinking of the simple and secluded valley of Dusty Dao, the master here seemed like a nouveau riche, extremely wealthy and arrogant.

  "The treasures left behind by the Dust Dao person are not few, nor is he seen setting up any **Qimen arrays** at the door of his house. He simply leaves things for those who have fate with him. The master here is a bit too stingy."

  It seems that the master here is similar to me, a cultivator of the Dust Path, with special divine powers. However, Gu Xie dust looks down on the master here by several points.

  With Zhao Yi by his side, none of the eighteen defensive formations set up in this corridor could stop Gu Xiechen. Zhao Yi easily broke through the eighteen formations that were not worth mentioning in his eyes and took Gu Xiechen straight to the end of the corridor, where a magnificent hall made entirely of white jade with nine entrances appeared before him.

  The palace made of white jade was majestic and magnificent, filled with dazzling treasures that took one's breath away. Countless gold, silver, and precious jewels were scattered all over the ground, making Gu Xian Yun's eyes widen in amazement.

  It was easy to tear his gaze away from the maddening piles of jewels, but Gu Xuan was startled once again by the arrangement at the entrance of the palace.

  To the left of the palace entrance was a pond that was one hundred feet long and wide, filled with a fragrant brown liquid that smelled like perfume. The strong smell of wine wafted through the air, making Gu Xian's head spin. To the right of the palace entrance was a soft couch, on which lay a beautiful young girl wearing a red palace dress, with half of her white leg exposed. Her face was stunningly beautiful, especially with the hint of wine on her breath and the flush on her cheeks, all of which seemed to be suggesting to Gu Xian that she had lost all resistance, and he could enjoy this beautiful woman as much as he wanted if he just pressed down on her.

  A surge of evil fire rose from Gu Xiechen's lower abdomen, and the more he looked at the girl, the more he felt that she perfectly matched his ideal female image. The evil fire burned so fiercely that Gu Xiechen's head was dizzy and his blood vessels were swelling all over his body. He couldn't hold back his surging lust and was about to pounce on this drunken girl.

  A loud shout came from beside him, Zhao Yi loudly rebuked: "Evil demons and heretics, how dare you bewilder the superior?"

  A loud "zi" sound, three golden electric lights fell from the sky and heavily struck the girl's body.

  The girl's body rippled with a hint of disturbance, and a burst of pink light suddenly exploded, the girl's enticing body had vanished without a trace. The evil fire in Gu Xiechen's body suddenly dissipated, and a cool air flowed into his head, slowly calming the surging blood energy in his body. Zhao Yi pressed one hand on Gu Xiechen's forehead, slowly using his internal energy to help him calm down, while smiling and saying: "Your Excellency, this is not the way of the unorthodox path, I will take care of her for you."

  Gu Xie's old face turned red, he snorted a few times, and with a gloomy expression, he strode into the grand hall.

  Fortunately, after entering the grand hall, the wine color wealth and gas layout no longer existed, and Gu Xiechen never lost face again. In each of the halls, there were countless small seals and arrays protecting them, but these small seals and arrays were all broken open by Zhao Yi one by one. According to Zhao Yi's words, these seals and arrays were very simple, although the people who set up these seals and arrays had a strength that was hundreds of times stronger than Zhao Yi's current strength, but the arrays and seals were really too shallow, so breaking these seals and arrays didn't require much effort at all.

  The front eight halls were empty and nothing valuable was left behind. Gu Xie dust went straight to the last great hall.

  This is a circular grand hall, and in the center of the roof of the grand hall is a blue crystal with a diameter of three zhang. A hazy blue light column hangs down from the top of the house, just covering the middle of the grand hall. In the center of the grand hall, there is a throne surrounded by 36 golden phoenixes with their wings spread as if they are about to fly. On the throne, which is three zhang six chi wide, sits a woman dressed in extremely luxurious clothes. With her star crown and cloud cape, pearl and jade rings and pendants, this woman's face is ordinary, but her attire is matchlessly resplendent with pearls and precious stones.

  The blue light shone on the woman's body, and her body became almost completely transparent, just like Mont Blanc, hazy and seemingly a virtual shadow.

  Gu Xie dust carefully measured the woman, Zhao Yi then swept the woman with a glance and smiled: "Upper honor, this is a true shadow illusion left by a certain Daoist who wasted his law power. Look at her body which is almost transparent, apparently the law power she left on it has been almost consumed."

  Zhao Yi struck out a few spiritual incantations, and several golden lights shot onto the woman's true shadow. The woman's body was surrounded by a flash of light and shadow, with a few wisps of colorful clouds scattered about. Zhao Yi smiled and said: "This woman has protected her own true shadow quite well, and the seals are also quite formidable. Supreme One, General End has already broken through all the seals around her."

  "Huh?" Gu Xie asked subconsciously, his eyes scanning the circular grand hall up and down, but the hall was spotless, without a single speck of dust or anything that would obstruct one's view.

  Zhao Yi continued to smile and said, "It's clear that this woman's magical power when she attained the Dao was not particularly strong. Even if she had ascended to the 33rd Heaven and had her name recorded in the Purple Register of Immortals, it would only be a minor position among the scattered immortals. Hmph, if it were truly a powerful being's true shadow image that had survived many calamities without dispersing, would it look like this?"

  "Huh?" Gu Xie dust didn't understand Zhao Yi's nagging, he circled around the exaggerated golden phoenix throne a few times, carefully searching up and down.

  Zhao Yi blinked and subconsciously asked: "Is the Supreme looking for something?"

  "Indeed!" Gu Xie sighed, pointing to the empty grand hall and sighing: "We've finally managed to get in once, if we don't take some treasures back, wouldn't that be an empty trip to the treasure mountain?"

  "Huh?" Zhao Yi looked at Gu Xie Chen in surprise, then bowed respectfully and pointed to the woman's shadow, laughing: "Your Excellency, if a cultivator left behind a true shadow image, their treasure must be on their true shadow. Huh, apart from this, what can be considered a treasure in this great hall? Only that 'Tian Xue Blue Crystal'!" Zhao Yi pointed to the three-zhang-diameter blue crystal embedded in the roof.

  "What's a Tianqu Blue Crystal?" Gu Xiechen raised his head and looked at that massive circular crystal.

  "Yes, the Tianqu Blue Crystal is born with the ability to gather all energy between heaven and earth. After refining it, the extracted energy can be transformed into any form and released. It's an excellent material for refining various passive defense treasures and active attack treasures! Especially, the Tianqu Blue Crystal is extremely difficult to melt, unless there is a power above Jinxian, otherwise it is impossible to destroy."