Zhang San, please behave yourself!
Chapter 309 - 297: Sorry, Internal Information, No Access!

Chapter 309: Chapter 297: Sorry, Internal Information, No Access!

In the following seven days, Zhang San had been cultivating at Qu Pond Fang.

Although nominally, Zhang San said he was studying formations, even occasionally completing a small piece of a formation’s pattern, which he had Ximen Jinxing send over.

But in reality, those were all patterns that Zhang San had prepared beforehand.

The assassination attempt by the Wen Family, coupled with the news that the Crown Prince and Zhang San were at odds, had been released.

Now everyone knew that right upon arriving in the Capital, Zhang San had offended the Crown Prince, yet the Crown Prince generously proclaimed it was no issue.

If someone were to trouble Zhang San in the future, or even attempted to assassinate him as before, everyone would rightfully suspect the Crown Prince of making a move against Zhang San.

Therefore, not only were the city guard troops increasing their numbers at Qu Pond Fang, but even the Magistrate of Metropolitan prefecture’s Government Office and the Ministry of Punishment dispatched many experts there under the guise of investigating the case.

Everyone was afraid that if something were to happen to Zhang San, it would raise complications for the Crown Prince.

And if the Crown Prince were to fall into misfortune, how could he let those below him off the hook?

Nowadays, when the Minister of Punishment, Shen Wei, heard the words "Zhang San," his head would ache.

Of course, it was the upper head that ached.

During these seven days, Zhang San, while consolidating his own cultivation, had Wang Ziteng help him obtain a massive amount of cultivation resources, perfecting 306 of the 720 Qi Acupoints throughout his body.

Zhang San originally estimated that following his normal routine of absorbing the Essence of the Sun each morning, it would take at least half a year to achieve the current effects.

But now, in merely seven days, such a breakthrough had occurred.

However, the consumption required for this was immense.

Originally, in addition to various cultivation resources and some golden bronze and jade artifacts, Zhang San had almost exhausted all the gold he had obtained from Hu Feipan.

Now, aside from some Pills for healing and recovery and what he would need from the stage of True Core to the Sea to the Spiritual Platform Realm, Zhang San only had two hundred thousand taels of gold left.

It was precisely half a cube.

Zhang San needed to rely on half a cube of gold to conduct Golden Fluid Shape Refining and thus acquire a Golden Body Technique to strengthen his defenses.

This was a crucial life-saving measure, and even in the pursuit of enhancing his strength, Zhang San knew he could not deplete his trump cards.

Zhang San understood that he had already reached a new bottleneck and aside from continuing with slow Body Refinement, only encountering danger and making a breakthrough in combat had the potential to further improve his abilities.

In a place as complex as the Capital, Zhang San felt it best to maintain his current Realm.

With everything planned out in his mind for the next steps, Zhang San pushed open the door and stepped out of the room.

Upon leaving, Zhang San noticed many people outside inspecting the constantly changing virtual images of the Formation on the ground.

Everyone had long wanted to bring down the six corpses suspended in mid-air, but no one had managed to do so.

Although some masters who were knowledgeable about formations had tried.

But they didn’t know that the formation on the surface was just an illusion, not the real Formation.

Even some of the top Array Masters who realized the real Formation was beneath, deliberately kept it to themselves, wanting to solve it secretly, but the problem was that the Formation below was very complex, and they struggled to understand it in a short time.

And some masters who could barely understand part of the Formation attempted to break it, only to find their methods completely ineffective.

After all, they were unaware there was another layer of Formation underground.

The two layers of Formation, one above and one below, combined with the surface illusion, were difficult to discern without several powerful Observation Skills.

Even some people from the Shen Family who were brought in to help, because they only cultivated up to Double Scrutiny, were unable to see the first underground layer of Formation clearly.

Zhang San felt it was time to push the case forward.

Thus, he took steps towards the center of the Formation.

Seeing someone about to enter, an elderly man studying the Formation immediately cried out, "Young man, don’t move, this Formation is inaccessible, if you proceed, you’ll find yourself back in the same spot..."

The old man hadn’t finished his words when he noticed Zhang San had already stepped into the Formation.

Zhang San turned his head to look at the old man and asked, "What did you say just now?"

"No... nothing... I... I was telling my disciple that if you can’t enter a woman’s heart, don’t be a sycophant," the old man replied.

Zhang San continued walking towards the center of the Formation.

At this moment, the surrounding Array Masters were astounded.

They hadn’t refrained from entering the Formation because they didn’t want to; every person who tried found themselves seemingly in their original position, as if they had never taken that step.

Zhang San knew that the nature of the entire Formation was the Sky Heart Stopping Clouds Formation, it had merely been released using other methods on the ground, fixing the time within the lower sacrifice Formation.

However, it was unclear what had gone wrong during the Formation’s operation, resulting in the Sky Heart Stopping Clouds Formation not dissipating as it should have.

Nonetheless, this was fortunate because otherwise, Zhang San wouldn’t have had the chance to learn this Formation.

At present, the reason Zhang San was able to enter the range of the Formation was because he too had deployed Sky Heart Stopping Clouds.

Others were unable to enter because the Sky Heart Stopping Clouds Formation was forever fixing the moment of the six corpses’ death.

Thus, when others from the "future" stepped into the "past" stabilized by the Formation, time would push them out, returning them to the "future" moment, so no matter how strong they were, entering the Formation was impossible.