Heavenly Dao Engine
Chapter 1213 - 1213 0702 Ideal Outcome

Chapter 1213: Chapter 0702 Ideal Outcome Chapter 1213: Chapter 0702 Ideal Outcome Chapter 0702: Ideal Outcome

The princes once again reached an impasse, bickering endlessly without being able to convince each other. In the end, as before, they once again turned their gaze to Qi Tian, waiting for Qi Tian to make a decision.

Qi Tian now also found himself in a dilemma. Objectively speaking, he had already used the sensing function of the Heavenly Dao Engine on the Spirit Qi and had also employed his powerful Divine Sense to scan the entire Inner Underground Palace multiple times. From start to finish, he hadn’t detected anything unusual. From this perspective, one could say that the Inner Underground Palace was safe.

However, Qi Tian had also not forgotten what had happened to the ten Gold Core realm experts of the Vanguard Team after they had entered the Inner Underground Palace. Their experience told Qi Tian that they must have encountered at least two types of attacks within the Inner Underground Palace: one was a spiritual pressure, and the other was very likely a highly adept Illusion Skill.

The combination of these two methods was what caused them to faint en masse shortly after entering the Inner Underground Palace and also induced the illusion for Qi Tian and the others in the Outer Palaces that a fierce battle was taking place inside the Inner Underground Palace.

These two methods of attack might come from the same place or could belong to two different entities. If it were the former, the black heart would be the most suspicious, but Qi Tian had personally set up a trap for the black heart, which was now his captive. During the trapping process, Qi Tian had clearly mastered the attack methods of the black heart—solely using overwhelming spiritual pressure and at no point revealing any use of Illusion Skills.

This meant that aside from the black heart, there must be another special existence capable of creating illusions within the Inner Underground Palace. However, despite employing all kinds of methods, Qi Tian and his team had not managed to find such an existence.

After weighing his options for a long time, Qi Tian never turned off the Heavenly Dao Engine during this process. Instead, he kept using its function to sense the Spirit Qi to cover the entire Inner Underground Palace and swept over it again and again, hoping to detect any anomalies at this time, but to no avail.

Qi Tian even doubted whether there might be a small space within the Inner Underground Palace. He used the methods he mastered to detect small spaces to repeatedly analyze the three-dimensional images fed back by the Heavenly Dao Engine, but found no small spaces.

Such an outcome made Qi Tian doubt his own judgement to some extent. He wondered if he was being overly suspicious. However, Qi Tian soon dismissed this thought. At such a critical moment, it was absolutely inappropriate to harbor a stroke of luck; no amount of caution could be too much. He had no wish to lose his life here right on the brink of victory due to his own carelessness or complacency.

Qi Tian waved his hand and said, “Princes, please stop arguing. None of you are ordinary people; you all have extraordinary experiences and possess much more extensive life experiences than others. You know better than I what we should be doing at this moment. Now is definitely not the time for us to enjoy the fruits of victory. We must step carefully at every turn, and not make any errors. Otherwise, we might inadvertently fall into an irreparable place. The dangers lurking in the Saint’s Tomb are unprecedented. We absolutely must not succumb to greed. We would rather postpone grasping the fruits of victory rather than be in a hurry to pick them without watching our step and fall into a pit, because then, we would all be finished.”

Qi Tian’s message was quite clear. Emperor Jianwu, Emperor Bahuang, and the other princes could say nothing against it. Besides, Qi Tian’s words did have reason. Since the fruits of victory were within sight, making some extra preparations could never be wrong.

Therefore, Emperor Jianwu and the other princes all expressed their willingness to follow Qi Tian’s arrangements. They would not touch the coffin until they were one hundred percent certain of their safety.

Committing was easy, but implementation was extremely difficult. After all, they had just moved together to make a full round of the Inner Underground Palace, with everyone using all the detection methods at their disposal, yet they had found nothing dangerous or unusual within. At this point, it was an immense difficulty to discover something new based merely on Qi Tian’s words.

Of course, such thoughts could only be pondered internally; no one dared to voice them aloud.

The princes looked to Qi Tian together, hoping that he could guide them in the direction of exploration. This way, even if they discovered nothing, they could at least assume less responsibility.

At this moment, Qi Tian also had no clear idea. If he only used his Divine Sense, he would be no different from a headless fly, unable to find a direction. Fortunately, he had the Heavenly Dao Engine. Through it, he had discovered two places within the Inner Underground Palace that were most suspicious: one was the coffin placed on the central platform of the Inner Underground Palace, and the other was the walls of the Inner Underground Palace—all twelve of them, each excessively suspect.