The Most Powerful Bodyguard

The instant Yang Yan’s words fell, the array roared to life.

The Snow Spirit Python seemed to sense something, anxiously twisting its body, trying to escape.

Unfortunately, no matter how it struggled, it was futile.

Its body seemed tightly restrained by a strange suction, unable to escape.

Roar—

With an unwilling roar, its body was enveloped by a golden light, then quickly slumped, finally falling to the ground with a plop, its eyes dim, barely alive.

Yet even so, he dared not be distracted.

The reason he left the Snow Spirit Python its last breath was that it was full of treasures, and after such effort to subdue it, he certainly couldn’t let it go easily.

First, he used Nascent Void to forcibly strip away its Primordial Spirit and store it, then Yang Yan took a pill and used the recovery time to skin and extract everything useful from the already dead Snow Spirit Python.

After processing the massive creature, Yang Yan returned triumphantly to the grand hall.

In one breath, he collected the spirit stones and treasures in the hall, not even sparing the slightly inferior gems on the stone pillars.

After scouring everything around cleanly, his gaze finally turned to the coffin in the center of the hall, made entirely of Spirit Marrow.

To be honest, Yang Yan felt a bit apprehensive about this stone coffin.

Unfortunately, the Nascent Void’s Spiritual Sense had yet to awaken, so he couldn’t get any answers from it.

For a moment, Yang Yan hesitated whether to risk opening the stone coffin.

After a moment of silence, he decided to take the risk.

Without a doubt, this was the most valuable thing here; he couldn’t just leave it alone.

No sooner said than done.

Yang Yan took a deep breath and started cautiously probing with his Spiritual Sense.

But after trying for a long time, he sadly realized he couldn’t detect the situation inside the coffin at all.

Finally, he mustered his courage and boldly approached.

Once he looked, he was immediately stunned.

Inside the coffin lay an exceedingly beautiful woman, with skin like congealed fat and brows like ink paintings, a beauty of autumn water for spirit, jade for bone.

She lay peacefully in the coffin, a faint smile on her lips, making one reluctant to disturb her.

For a moment, Yang Yan was mesmerized.

But the next moment, he snapped back to consciousness, secretly startled, and began to speculate on the woman’s identity.

Uncertain why she had come here to heal using the array.

After fruitless contemplation, he had to give up.

After a thorough exploration with his Divine Sense, he noticed a soul fluctuation and stored her in the Nascent Void, creating a special space for careful preservation.

Yang Yan, adhering to his principle of leaving nothing good behind, continued searching for Secret Treasures within the Secret Realm.

At this point, Yang Yan had little expectation for Secret Treasures, having become indifferent after witnessing the unknown woman’s artifact.

However, he still made some discoveries along the way, although they were far inferior to the previous finds, it was relative.

These items, once taken out, although he couldn’t use them, would be great for the sect’s disciples.

Finally, he found a Secret Treasure under the underground vault.

This was a Cultivation Technique for cultivating Spiritual Power, documenting methods for utilizing Spiritual Power.

Yang Yan was somewhat happy.

This Cultivation Technique was called the "Godslaying Technique," capable of devouring others’ Spiritual Power to strengthen one’s own, with four forms of Spiritual Attack Technique.

They were Godslaying Sword, Godslaying Halberd, Mental Fusion Technique, and God Explosion Technique.

Especially the last one, it was virtually a Forbidden Technique.

Once executed, it could temporarily increase Spiritual Power tenfold, with the side effect of weakness for a period.

Moreover, if one was not careful, it could even damage the Primordial Spirit, hard to repair.

Yang Yan paused for a few seconds after reading.

This Cultivation Technique’s ability to briefly increase Spiritual Power tenfold was secondary; the most astonishing aspect was the minimal side effects if used properly.

Such a technique was virtually defying the heavens.

After sighing for a moment, Yang Yan continued searching around, finally satisfied, he headed towards the Teleportation Array.

Within the grand hall, when Yang Yan intended to leave using the Teleportation Array, he discovered it was merely decorative, long abandoned and unusable.

Yang Yan was not disheartened, starting to look for a way out.

After fruitless exploration, Yang Yan couldn’t help returning to the original spot, lost in thought.

This time, the Secret Technique he gained was for Spiritual Power, thus the teleportation here should be related to it...

With that thought, Yang Yan had a moment of enlightenment.

Without hesitation, he immediately extended all his Divine Sense, covering the entire hall.

This spiritual insight expanded his sea of consciousness dozens of times over, greatly improving his control of the spirit.

Therefore, even though the hall was vast and had spiritual interference, Yang Yan handled it with ease, successfully covering the whole area with his Divine Sense in an instant.

After enveloping the entire hall with his Divine Sense, Yang Yan indeed made a new discovery.

There existed a place in this space that his Divine Sense could not penetrate regardless of what he tried.

It felt as though a barrier stood there, keeping his Divine Sense at bay.

Perhaps the answer lay here!

Since he couldn’t probe it, there must be something odd.

Yang Yan immediately stood up, soared into the air, swiftly flying toward the location on the floor positioned at the center of the hall.

Upon landing in front of the floor, Yang Yan carefully observed the small board that even his spirit couldn’t detect.

At first glance, this floor looked no different from other floors laid inside the hall, but when Yang Yan used his fingers to carefully feel it, he discovered it carved with subtle, hard-to-see symbolic patterns.

Moreover, these symbols matched those that appeared in his mind during spiritual insight.

After a moment of consideration, Yang Yan decided to probe once again with his Spiritual Power.

He focused, gathering and condensing his Spiritual Power into a single beam, pouring it all into the floorboard.

As the Spiritual Power continuously flowed in, the board finally trembled slightly, beginning to emit a dazzling light.

Eventually, the light formed into a beam piercing through the entire hall’s dome.

Success!

Excitement gleamed in Yang Yan’s eyes.

It had to be the gate to the next Trial Ground, surely with new Secret Technique awaiting him.

Without any hesitation, he stepped into the light beam.

The light twisted ceaselessly before his eyes while the surroundings grew increasingly blurred, eventually fading into darkness.

After the light disappeared, Yang Yan indeed found himself in a new grand hall.

He quickly scanned his surroundings, only to find it empty except for a scroll placed before him.