The Journey of Immortal Cultivation

Various thoughts flashed through her mind, and Changtian already laughed: "Why bother to think about it?" Raising his hand, Chi Wen’s large mouth opened as if pried by an invisible lever, revealing sharp teeth and a deep throat. Looking at this large mouth, it could easily fit a train engine.

The most crucial part was, inside the giant mouth, deep in the throat, there was actually a patch of mirror-like, faintly black glowing ripple.

Teleportation Array!

Without a doubt, Yuan Hou crawled in here, entering the deepest part of the underground palace.

Seeing this, Ning Xiaoxian couldn’t help but admire the ingenious design of the palace builders.

This core cave mansion needed no command? Several times Chi Wen swallowed people, she hadn’t seen this teleportation gate at the bottom of its throat, showing that this gate could only be opened when it fell into sleep.

This way, it usually shuts its mouth to sleep, and the teleportation array is blocked by the giant mouth, naturally invisible to anyone; if someone disturbs, waking Chi Wen up, the gate immediately closes, leaving no clues for intruders, at most they might discover the Earth Evil Gathering Spirit Array in Chi Wen’s belly, and make a similar guess without realizing they needed to hypnotize the big guy.

If someone killed Chi Wen, that would naturally align perfectly with the palace builder’s intention, for the cave mansion would thus be forever separated from the Mortal World.

However, in this world, there’s a kind of fortune called "fortunate coincidence," a millennium dam might be breached by an ant hole, and even the most meticulously constructed array can be destroyed, or a painstakingly built fortress may be conquered, perhaps every design is near perfect, but it depends on which side the God of Fortune chooses. Yuan Hou’s method of using Sea Demons to lull Chi Wen was perhaps intentional or accidental, but coincidentally met the requirements to open the array.

Changtian took a step forward, about to stride into Chi Wen’s large mouth, then suddenly stopped: "Since the Spirit Gathering Array is engraved in the fish belly, the concentration of Evil Qi inside might be extremely high."

Ning Xiaoxian nodded and said: "Inside isn’t suitable for me to go. I’ll support you here, if Chi Wen wakes up, I’ll knock it out again."

"Silly girl, the potency of the Drunken Dragon Grass should last a little while longer. The Evil Qi also affects you, unless necessary, don’t attack it." He raised his long eyebrow, smiling wildly, "Under Heaven, no cave mansion can constrain me." With that, he pressed her shoulder, injecting a stream of pure Divine Power into her body.

Originally the Heavenly Residence forcibly closed the Little Thousand Mirror, yet he broke through the space barrier and freed himself, trapping several elders inside instead. Changtian’s power at this time was much stronger compared to when he first emerged from God Demon Prison, hence his words didn’t strike her as odd.

As for the Drunken Dragon Grass...

Aji was injured by the Mountain Anchor, she smelled a strong scent of Bitter Earth Alkali in his blood. This substance, also known as Drunken Dragon Grass, the name itself suggests it has a dizzying effect on the Dragon Clan. Though she hadn’t seen a dragon, it’s estimated that after eating Drunken Dragon Grass, dragons would feel intoxicated. Later she noticed, among Boss Kun’s group of seven people, six carried the scent of Drunken Dragon Grass, only one was clean, naturally that person was Yuan Hou.

Drunken Dragon Grass is often seen in Bashe Forest, she certainly knew the nature of this thing.

Yuan Hou probably knew early that a Dragon Child would be in the underground palace, so he poisoned the six or seven decoys, most likely in their food and water, starting at least half a month earlier, otherwise, the concentration of Bitter Earth Alkali in the blood wouldn’t be so high. After all, Bitter Earth Alkali has no effect on humans, but can drive away insects and ants, so even if others noticed, they would only think it was a kind gesture from Boss Kun.

Ning Xiaoxian speculated, he originally hoped Chi Wen would eat them and become sluggish, giving Yuan Hou the chance to seek the entrance to the palace core.

Now it’s clear, Yuan Hou was likely the mysterious boss who hired this group.

No wonder Boss Kun’s group were all mortals, yet the boss who hired them was willing to hand them treasures like the Heavenly Artifact Stone Axe, turns out Yuan Hou was among their ranks, firmly controlling everyone’s actions!

Delving deeper, Yuan Hou went to great lengths to hire a Heavenly Master to enter the palace, probably out of helplessness. The Earth Evil Vein itself is a forbidden area for cultivators, even with the Stone Axe, Yuan Hou probably wouldn’t find it very useful in the deepest part of the palace. Thus, unless his cultivation was not above True Immortal Realm, or his Cultivation Technique was too special to resist the invasion of Evil Qi.