Secret Records of the Leader of the Beichen Sword Sect

Chapter 1238 - 608: The Myriad Phenomena Radiant Profound Lamp

The first Mystic Gate Five Elements Array is foundational, but its threshold is incredibly high. Considerable cultivation is required to ensure one isn’t suppressed on the spot. Additionally, strategic insight is needed to solve and pass through, making the first stage already challenging.

The second Immortal Palace Secret Formation is naturally not merely a simple illusion trap with mind-poisoning heart demons. Walking through the mural passageway to the end reveals a Jade Plaza, where clouds of smoke rise from the Pill Furnace. Before you stands a series of palace doors, branching into three different paths.

Each palace door has a compass-like array diagram mechanism, comprising eighty-one keylocks that require advanced algorithms to unlock. Beyond these doors, countless pavilions and structures can be faintly seen, clearly designed as a Qi Sect Nine Revolutions maze with innumerable branching paths, essentially an underground city. Complemented with an Illusion Realm, it can indeed generate endless challenges, allowing for a grind of hundreds of levels. Moreover, there’s the constant threat of poisonous insects clouding the mind and heart demons usurping the path. The second array is, without a doubt, filled with hidden dangers and is extremely perilous.

However, there’s no need to worry. Chen Xuantian was naturally hacking from the start. When he maneuvered the ten claw walk earlier, he already explored inside and outside the array thoroughly, knowing clearly that the core of this second array is actually a Yin Yang Treasure Mirror.

Indeed, it is a magic treasure, a Divinity Transformation and Entry Rank treasure mirror, placed in the deepest part of the Spider Cave, obscured by layers of webs, making it difficult to ascertain its specific rank. The various illusions before us, the underground palace, the Heavenly Demon bewitching the mind, are all illusions born of that Divine Mirror. And the demon which confuses the mind within the array is likely the Artifact Spirit in the mirror.

Therefore, if someone is beguiled by the mirror’s allure and struggles deeper into the maze, they’re actually entangling themselves further in the web trap. If truly obsessed with passing the array and stubbornly calculating, they won’t just have one or two Heart Nightmare Dream Spiders on them—it’ll be one or two million spiders...

Heh, the thought itself is quite chilling. But again, any array can indeed be forcefully broken. You only need substantial skill and power. Even this array can be cracked by calculation, passing through it, and maintaining a resolute Daoist Heart, unperturbed by any illusion or heart demon. Naturally, one can obtain the treasure mirror’s favor in the end and conquer a Divinity Transformation Treasure.

Hmm, Chen Xuantian is actually confident about acquiring the mirror, but it’s unnecessary. After all, it’s just a Divinity Transformation Treasure mirror; besides being used to oversee the array, it’s also intended to partition some of the Immortal Fate meant for the Breaking Dao Divine Weapon. Taking the mirror might forfeit the sword; hence, he naturally turns his nose up at it. Better to leave this spider web to block the bugs coming from behind.

So, Chen Xuantian chose to take a direct shortcut, not delving deeper into the array’s core, directly leading the team into the fire pit.

Yes, directly flipping the Pill Furnace, in front lies the deep pit of Fire Prison, a bottomless pit with no intricate Five Elements changes—just a sheer fiery abyss, waves of flame searing, intensely scalding, and about to refine a person in an instant. Looking far, it seems like a fiery path leading straight to the Eighteen Layers of Hell.

Indeed, this is actually the smoke passage of the sword casting furnace. Earlier outside the array, weren’t there nine streams of sword light erupting forth that illuminated hundreds of miles? That is one of the Daoist energy outlets of the smoke passage.

So, it’s worth mentioning the design of the Sword Array again. The Iron Egg Flow’s Sword Casting Array essentially can be seen as a high furnace steel refining process, using high temperature, high pressure, and intense firepower to condense Daoist materials for swordmaking, while also expelling impurities such as dust, smoke, and ash. This is done to refine the sword body to its utmost purity.

Thus, with each cycle of quenching weapons and casting swords, the sword power in the sword pool erupts periodically. The high-temperature Daoist energy accelerates the impurities mixed within the sword power, violently shooting forth like a plasma cannon, scorching the Daoist energy walls into a magma fire sea. In a sense, this deeply buried smoke passage also becomes a kind of cyclical high-energy earth vein, and the layers of great arrays outside surround these smoke passage earth veins, utilizing the residual geothermal heat to power the operations.

So it’s understood—the smoke passage is a shortcut directly to the sword pool. Initially, Chen Xuantian, opening the pressure relief valve to detonate the smoke outlet, wanted to speed through the smoke passage, head straight to the sword pool, and grab and go.

However, as mentioned before, due to the many people meddling over the past decade, they’ve blocked the smoke passage to use it as an earth vein to array, adding one layer of restriction array upon another, leading to immense pressure accumulation in the Sword Array. The smoke passage is immensely high energy, and with each sword casting, it ejects once, just like the barrel of a plasma cannon. Therefore, unless the timing is calculated accurately and the Red Evil Divine Power and Flame Escape Technique are cultivated to the peak realm, passing through this route is exceedingly difficult.

Moreover, don’t think that just because the Demon God Ancestor refined the Red Evil Dao, this shortcut will net you much advantage. Because in sword casting, it’s all about this highest-level Red Evil attribute charcoal, peak-grade fuel. Everyone would love for you to willingly contribute, shining brightly, and add some firepower to forge the treasure sword. There’s definitely a dirty trick waiting for you.

So, Chen Xuantian scouted the route with a UAV and realized that the shortcut directly to the bottom of the sword pool had become a dead end. You can go down, but not come up, a one-way trip into the fire pit.

Heh, but don’t panic; Chen Xuantian obviously understood this. If you can’t directly reach the sword pool, don’t charge straight in; sprinkle a shortcut, jump over two levels, and it’s still possible.