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Chapter 644 - 553 First Encounter with an Extraterritorial Monk _2

Chapter 644: Chapter 553 First Encounter with an Extraterritorial Monk _2

"Hmm? Five days? What’s going on here?" Wang Zijia asked, puzzled.

The young man shook his head, saying, "Apart from a few specific places, I’ve checked the other areas multiple times, and they are almost all empty."

"Specific places?" Wang Zijia queried.

"Yes, in the core of the underground palace, there is a defensive palace that might be the formation core room, but since I’m not sure about the situation, I didn’t dare to try to enter blindly; "

"There’s another place that might be the core treasury, but I’m not sure if it’s guarded, so I didn’t dare to sneak in; "

"And then there’s an odd spot where someone delivers human pill blood food every three days."

Upon saying this, the young man paused, observing Wang Zijia’s revealed expression, and added: "The identity you are currently using to infiltrate is the only active person I’ve seen in three days."

The young man was very straightforward, directly contributing the information he had discovered.

"What are you here for? Surely it’s not to sneak into their backyard and explore the relics?" Wang Zijia contemplated for a moment before asking again.

"What about you? You seem to have not said anything after I shared the information?" Instead of answering, the young man retorted.

"I am here to break the array!" Wang Zijia also replied bluntly.

"Break the array? Attack?" The young man was taken aback for a moment, then asked in surprise: "Are you in contact with the locals of the Righteous Path? Or are you originally from here?"

Wang Zijia didn’t answer again but asked, "Your turn!"

The young man hesitated for a moment. Surprisingly, he bowed respectfully to Wang Zijia and said openly, "Central Immortal Domain, Shangqing Sword Sect, Xuanming!"

In the blink of a thought, Wang Zijia returned the gesture, "Daqian, Li Shenghong."

"Daqian?" The young man frowned slightly, obviously somewhat skeptical, but he did not press the matter any further. Instead, he continued with Wang Zijia’s previous question, "I am here to find someone."

"Find someone?" Wang Zijia curiously asked.

"Yes, one of my family’s elders has been in this Spirit Suppressing Realm for hundreds of years and has not returned. According to some special tracking methods, his last traces are in this underground palace." Xuanming answered accordingly.

’Hundreds of years without returning home? Are you sure he didn’t just die?’

’Hmm, I suppose his soul lamp or something hasn’t been extinguished.’

After a few exchanges, both of them fell silent once more.

"Shall we explore together?" Xuanming suddenly asked out of the blue.

Wang Zijia furrowed his brows and pondered for a moment.

If the other party had sneaked in to find someone, be it true or false, it wouldn’t conflict with his interests. There was even a chance that the other party might help him create a commotion, so it wasn’t implausible for him to take advantage of the disorder to search.

"Okay!" After thinking about it, Wang Zijia replied.

After speaking, he paused for a moment and specified, "First, break the array? Then you can take advantage of the chaos to search for your person?"

"Okay!" The young man hesitated for a moment, but also replied succinctly, "The formation eye is in the core area just ahead. I’m not certain if it’s being guarded. Since I haven’t seen any personnel coming and going, I didn’t dare to sneak in recklessly."

Upon hearing this, Wang Zijia didn’t hesitate. The two of them went ahead and proceeded forward quietly.

As the young man saw Wang Zijia vanish before his eyes, he felt a chill in his heart.

If it weren’t for the trace of energy that Wang Zijia had intentionally left behind, indicating that he was still there, the young man would have thought that Wang Zijia had fled.

He was a standard sword repairer. Locking on to the target before using the flying sword to decapitate it was the core fundamental. If he didn’t accomplish this, what was the point in practicing the Sword Dao?

He had never seen a monk at the same level who could disappear under his divine thought. Although he didn’t actually have Wang Zijia under his effective lock-on from the very beginning, this was right before his very eyes!

His stealth method was clearly revealed!

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After they had been proceeding for a while, Wang Zijia suddenly sensed that mana was beginning to stir, and the Five Ghosts also began to react within his body.

He subconsciously stopped his movements. Xuanming, who had gone a few steps further, only noticed that Wang Zijia’s energy had halted.

He glanced at the place where Wang Zijia had stopped and said, "This is one of the three unusual points I told you about, and also where the person pretending to be you regularly feeds human pill treasure pills."

"I staked out for two days, only sighting people entering and leaving once, which I followed secretly. Inside, there’s just one altar and I don’t know what’s being fed to the thing on the opposite side. I didn’t dare try it rashly. Wanna give it a shot first?"

In fact, five days of staking out was far from his patience limit. If he could, he would choose to stake out for a year or so, waiting for the right time to clarify everything.

But now, Wang Zijia had infiltrated and detected an array, perhaps even disturbed the regular staff here, so clearly, he didn’t have time to stake out slowly.

Moreover, if what he was looking for was truly in this underground palace tomb, this was the likeliest place.

Wang Zijia sensed the mana movement within his body and cast his attention on the Five Ghosts again.

"Master, there’s delicious food!"

"It smells so good, master!"

"Master, master, Tong’er is really hungry!"

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As soon as his thoughts touched the Five Ghosts, they all started begging impatiently.

Because these five little guys were born of Wicked Ghost material, they were very special. Therefore, their spiritual wisdom evolved with great difficulty. Even though they were now in the late stage of Infant God and could speak, they still seemed childlike.

Because of his former intimidation, they were generally well-behaved in front of Wang Zijia, rarely active or impatient.

"First, go to the formation eye, and then decide based on the situation." Wang Zijia suppressed the restlessness of the Five Ghosts, his body swayed slightly, and he ignored the active mana, speaking thus.

Xuanming also took a glance at the Great Hall in the distance, and without saying more, followed Wang Zijia and continued toward the core palace.

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After a while, a huge core Great Hall appeared in front of Wang Zijia.

It was over 20 meters high, not at all like an underground tomb, but more like some kind of ancient temple. However, judging by the style, it seemed to be the type for burying gods.

"If I’m not mistaken, this should be the Control Room. Of course, my Array Dao cultivation is only at the Sword Formation level, so I can’t rule out the possibility of light and dark double formation eyes and mother-and-son core control rooms." Xuanming stopped at the entrance of the temple, communicating with divine thought.

Wang Zijia was not blindly following Xuanming, he was also investigating the situation of the array as he walked and felt it should be in this Great Hall too.

However, this place was different from the empty palace, it had special array protection.

Wang Zijia quietly stepped forward, started to try various means.

However, as a seventh-grade Immortal array, even though he had entered its interior, it was impossible for him to infiltrate undisturbed with his current cultivation and the little knowledge of talisman, sword, and Implement Array Dao.

As for a forceful entry... then why would he sneak in here?

After much research, Wang Zijia couldn’t come up with any means.

After slight hesitation, he revealed himself and asked Xuanming, "How did you sneak in here?"

"I don’t have your unpredictable, true and false indefinable diversification means." Xuanming glanced at Wang Zijia and explained, "This is my second time here."

"Last time I was trapped outside and didn’t dare act rashly. After staking out for several days, although I noticed someone regularly entering and leaving, it was difficult to infiltrate."

"That’s why after returning to the clan, I asked the clan’s Patriarch for some Stealth Shadow Talismans of the sixth grade, which allowed me to sneak in quietly."

Wang Zijia’s eyes lit up and said, "Can it take us inside here?"

Xuanming nodded and said, "It can, but even if this Great Array is damaged, it’s impossible to sneak quietly into the core formation room unscathed."

"Although it won’t cause too much noise, the fluctuation it will cause, no matter how small, will surely be exposed if there is someone guarding inside."

However, Wang Zijia didn’t care at all and said, "As long as we can get in first, it won’t matter if we’re discovered afterward."

Once he was in, even if he was discovered, he could just smash this place and start a hard fight. After all, he came to declare war.

But before entering, it simply wouldn’t work!

It’s just like sneaking into a fully automated military base.

Once you’ve found and entered the server room, it doesn’t matter if you’re discovered. You could just smash up the core server room, paralyze the automated weapons, and then stage a strong attack. After all, that’s what he’s aiming for.