Watching the others scatter, Zhang Yuanqing leaped into the air and yanked down two sky lanterns. Pulling down a sky lantern did not count as attacking it.
A few seconds later, the item information surfaced:
[Name: Sky Lantern]
[Type: Illumination Tool]
[Function: Illumination, Sword Qi Release]
[Description: A sky lantern corrupted by yin qi, component of the Seven Stars Lantern Array.]
[Remarks: The price of attacking it is more than you can bear. If you can bear it, pretend I said nothing.]
The two sky lanterns had identical item attributes.
Not the array core! *Sigh, if only there were a class in the Spirit Realm that governed good luck!* Zhang Yuanqing released the two lanterns in disappointment, leaped again, and snatched down two more to inspect their properties.
They were still ordinary components of the array, functioning for illumination and releasing sword qi. Possessing sword qi meant they were not the array core.
Because their spiritual power was sealed, Xiahou Aotian and the Palace Master of Halting Slaughter could only resort to the same method as Zhang Yuanqing. Level 8 Heavenly King Demonic Eye, however, manifested his three-headed, eight-armed dharma idol.
Suppressed by Sunrise, it was reduced to two heads and six arms.
With six arms, he could pull down six lanterns at once—doing the work of three people with supreme efficiency.
"The Kaiyang array has forty sky lanterns. Yuheng, Yaoguang, Tianji, Tianxuan, Tianshu, and Tianquan vary slightly in count, but not by much. Adding the handle connecting the seven lantern arrays, there are roughly three hundred and forty sky lanterns in total." As Fu Qingyang leaped, he relayed the figures he had observed: "Everyone, report your status."
Xiahou Aotian: "Yuheng, eight checked. No core found."
Palace Master of Halting Slaughter: "Tianquan, ten checked. No core found."
Zhang Yuanqing: "Kaiyang, ten checked. No core found."
Heavenly King Demonic Eye: "Tianji, eighteen checked. No core found."
Fu Qingyang called out clearly, "Yaoguang, ten... Yuanshi, report the time."
"Two minutes until the lantern array drifts again," shouted Zhang Yuanqing, who, as a Night Walker, was the most attuned to the flow of time.
The group's leaping frequency instantly accelerated. Like rabbits, they bounded up and down, up and down, in relentless succession.
Soon, Demonic Eye yelled in his multi-armed form, "Tianji lantern array fully checked! No array core found!"
Fu Qingyang calmly directed, "Demonic Eye, proceed to Tianshu at once. Everyone, call out your counts."
Tianshu was the furthest array, positioned at the tip of the dipper's ladle.
Demonic Eye broke into a furious sprint, flashing past Xiahou Aotian under the Yuheng lanterns, past the Palace Master under Tianquan, through the empty Tianxuan array, and surged toward Tianshu at the tip.
Xiahou Aotian: "Yuheng, twenty checked. No core found."
Palace Master of Halting Slaughter: "Tianquan, twenty-two checked. No core found."
Zhang Yuanqing: "Kaiyang, twenty-six checked. No core found."
Fu Qingyang called out, "Yaoguang, thirty... Yuanshi, report the time."
"One minute left!" Zhang Yuanqing shouted.
Everyone's leaping noticeably accelerated as anxiety crept onto their brows. The final minute was truly a race against time.
Yet they had only checked a third of the total sky lanterns.
Checking the remaining two hundred lanterns within the final minute was virtually impossible. They could only gamble on luck.
Just then, the Palace Master of Halting Slaughter called out in delight, "Found the array core!"
She gave the sky lantern in her right hand a shake and tore it apart with both hands.
The bamboo-woven ghost lantern ripped apart with a crisp tear, and the sickly green ghost flame inside snuffed out.
She suffered no retaliation whatsoever.
It truly was an array core... A jolt of energy surged through everyone, joy lighting up their faces. Even Fu Qingyang's icy expression softened slightly.
Completing his final leap, he finally finished inspecting the lantern array above his head and shouted, "Yaoguang, thirty-eight checked. No core."
With that, he sprinted forward, shooting past Zhang Yuanqing, Xiahou Aotian, and the Palace Master of Halting Slaughter to reach the empty Tianxuan array. Ahead of him was Heavenly King Demonic Eye.
"Thirty seconds left!" Zhang Yuanqing's voice arrived concurrently. At the same time, he finished checking the Kaiyang array and began pulling down the lanterns connecting Yaoguang and Kaiyang.
There were not many of them—only ten in total.
Leaping and diving like striking falcons, everyone cursed their mothers for not giving them more arms, wishing they possessed three heads and eight arms.
"Last twenty seconds!" Zhang Yuanqing yelled.
At this stage, count updates were no longer strictly necessary, but he still gave his teammates the reminder to heighten their sense of urgency and vigilance.
"Last ten seconds."
Zhang Yuanqing finished inspecting the last pair of lanterns. With seven seconds remaining, he blurred into an afterimage, shot past the overhead Kaiyang array, leaped up, and pulled down the lanterns connecting Kaiyang and Yuheng.
The moment he finished checking the pair and found neither was an array core, he turned and roared, "Only three seconds left! Get back, now!"
Instantly, everyone dashed back. No one tried to be a hero, and no one lost their head; their execution and synergy were flawless.
Zhang Yuanqing canceled Sunrise and Blazing Sun God of War.
One second after they returned to the Kaiyang array, the Seven Stars Lantern Array began to rotate counterclockwise.
Without needing Xiahou Aotian's reminder, they moved in synchronized Pace of Yu, treading upon the seven stars to follow the overhead Kaiyang array, keeping themselves entirely within the lanterns' glow.
Fearing that speaking might disrupt the order, none of them dared utter a single word.
They only stopped once the entire Seven Stars Lantern Array completed its counterclockwise rotation, the ladle handle shifting from pointing east to pointing south—entering summer.
Fu Qingyang immediately said, "Compile the data at once!"
After sharing their findings, they concluded: Yaoguang had no core; Kaiyang had no core; Yuheng had no core; Tianquan had one core; Tianji had no core; Tianshu had no core.
Of the thirty-eight lanterns in Tianxuan, Fu Qingyang had only checked twelve.
Demonic Eye had inspected two full arrays single-handedly, but luck had simply not been on the poor fellow's side, and he had found nothing.
Furthermore, among the six connecting paths, the path between Yaoguang and Kaiyang had no core (checked by Zhang Yuanqing); the path between Tianxuan and Tianshu had no core (checked by Demonic Eye); and the path between Yuheng and Tianquan had no core (checked jointly by Xiahou Aotian and the Palace Master).
Having compiled the information, Fu Qingyang said:
"Currently unchecked are the path connecting Kaiyang and Yuheng, the path connecting Tianquan and Tianji, and the path connecting Tianji and Tianxuan.
"Among them, Yuanshi checked two lanterns on the path between Kaiyang and Yuheng. Thus, twenty-eight lanterns remain unchecked across those three connecting paths.
"Additionally, I only checked twelve lanterns in the Tianxuan array, leaving twenty-six unchecked."
He paused, then concluded, "The total number of lanterns we still need to check is fifty-four."
Heavenly King Demonic Eye immediately said, "Fifty-four lanterns—I can finish checking them within a minute. The question is, how do we pass through the Yuheng, Tianquan, and Tianji arrays to reach Tianxuan?"
Each lantern array held different hazards, and deciphering them required time.
The ladle handle now pointed to summer; next would be autumn.
From summer to autumn was five minutes, and from autumn to winter was another five minutes. Subtracting the time they had just spent compiling data, they had less than ten minutes remaining to crack the arrays.
"Two and a half minutes have passed since we compiled the data; we have seven and a half minutes left," Zhang Yuanqing said rapidly.
As he spoke, he summoned a yin corpse and said, "Let's first figure out the path between Kaiyang and Yuheng."
With that, the group and the yin corpse stepped into the Pace of Yu, treading the seven stars to the edge of the Kaiyang array.
The yin corpse took a step beyond the Kaiyang array's perimeter, while the rest halted at the edge.
The connecting path was safe, possessing no hazard mechanism.
Zhang Yuanqing steered the yin corpse to leap and descend, finishing the remaining eight lanterns along the path. Regrettably, none was the array core.
Only forty-six lanterns remained unchecked.
Just then, a mental ripple came from the old grandfather in the ring: "Do not stop inside the Yuheng array—run straight through! Do not ask why, and do not think of anything!"
*Run straight through? Don't think about anything?* Zhang Yuanqing was startled for a moment before clearing his mind of stray thoughts, driving the yin corpse forward without stopping to sprint across the Yuheng array.
To everyone's surprise, the yin corpse passed through the Yuheng array unharmed, suffering no attack whatsoever.
Zhang Yuanqing turned in astonishment toward Xiahou Aotian's thumb. "Senior, what was that about?"
The old grandfather in the ring chuckled. "Yuheng governs disputes. What is a dispute? A crowd breeds dispute, and impure thoughts also breed dispute. That is why I had you clear your mind and test crossing alone.
"Even if it failed, it would only have cost a yin corpse."
Zhang Yuanqing gave a thumbs-up. "An elder in the family is a treasure indeed. As expected of an immortal master from the Qin dynasty! Senior, why don't you abandon darkness for light and just follow me instead?"
Xiahou Aotian instinctively tucked his ring behind his back and huffed, "This old thing is cunning and full of tricks. You can't handle him; only the protagonist can."
Zhang Yuanqing had neither the time nor the inclination to banter with him, so he asked, "Senior, how do we pass Tianquan? We have one and a half minutes left."
The old grandfather fell silent for a second. "Scout ahead and observe." Then he added, "Tianquan governs balance."
*Tianquan governs balance?* Wasting no time, Zhang Yuanqing maneuvered the yin corpse into the Tianquan array. In the next instant, dense yet orderly arcs of sword qi rained down upon it.
Zhang Yuanqing steered the corpse to dodge two waves of sword qi before it fell on the third wave.
The moment this yin corpse went down, a second yin corpse had already dashed through the Yuheng array and entered Tianquan, enduring until the fourth wave before being destroyed.
A third yin corpse followed immediately. After it evaded the fifth wave of sword qi, Fu Qingyang's voice sounded in Zhang Yuanqing's ear:
"Two meters right, one meter forward, two meters left, one meter forward—exit the array!"
Without a second thought, Zhang Yuanqing immediately stepped three paces to the right. Sure enough, the ground he had just vacated was blasted by sword qi.
Just like that, following Fu Qingyang's directions, he evaded three strikes of sword qi with uncanny foresight and smoothly traversed the Tianquan array.
At that exact moment, the Seven Stars Lantern Array began to move counterclockwise.
Everyone hurriedly stepped in the Pace of Yu, moving along with the array.
The ladle handle pointed west, entering autumn. The next rotation would be winter, which would activate the slaughter formation.
They had only five minutes left.
"Fu Qingyang, did you figure out the pattern of the Tianquan array?" Heavenly King Demonic Eye looked toward Fu Qingyang.
The latter nodded slightly. "Tianquan's sword qi strikes emphasize balance. Forty lanterns divided into five groups, with only eight lanterns releasing sword qi at any given time. Each group's positions are perfectly symmetrical and balanced. Furthermore, because the Palace Master tore down one array core lantern, forty lanterns became thirty-nine. Consequently, one group lacks the requisite number, violating the way of balance, and will no longer fire sword qi."
It was precisely by discerning this phenomenon that he could deduce the timing and landing spots of the falling sword qi.
Heavenly King Demonic Eye nodded. "Time is running short. I'll go assist Yuanshi. Direct my path."
Already at the edge of the Kaiyang array, he stepped beyond the boundary, ran along the path without pausing through Yuheng, and followed Fu Qingyang's instructions through the Tianquan array to rendezvous with the yin corpse.
He quickly finished checking the connecting path between Tianquan and Tianji.
Joy spread across everyone's faces. By now, only the path connecting Tianji and Tianxuan (ten lanterns) and the twenty-six lanterns of Tianxuan remained.
Thirty-six lanterns were something Demonic Eye, with his three heads and eight arms, could clear within a single minute.
And they had four whole minutes.
However, obstacles remained: the Tianji and Tianxuan arrays still stood before them.
The hazards of both arrays were still unknown.
Refusing to shrink back, Zhang Yuanqing piloted a yin corpse into the Tianji array.
The moment it stepped inside, a streak of sword qi descended from above. Just as Zhang Yuanqing swerved aside to evade it, the sword qi executed a sharp turn and pierced right through the yin corpse's glabella with a shrill whistle.
Back in the Kaiyang array, Zhang Yuanqing's head snapped backward as he grimaced in pain.
The sword qi had injured the portion of his astral body inhabiting the corpse.
*Homing sword qi?*
Enduring the ache, Zhang Yuanqing said, "Tianji's rule is that the sword qi curves; it can't be dodged through footwork. But from what I've seen, each target only draws a single streak of sword qi, and the strength isn't overwhelming. Let me send another corpse to probe further."
Heavenly King Demonic Eye cut him off: "We only have four minutes. Inspecting the lanterns takes one minute, leaving three minutes to conquer two arrays. Where do we have the time for you to test with yin corpses?
"Leave attacks of this magnitude to me."
Manifesting his three-headed, eight-armed form, his physique abruptly swelled into a three-meter-tall giant as he strode into the array.
*Whoosh!*
Sword qi whistled toward him.
Demonic Eye advanced steadily without dodging or flinching. His eight arms brandished various weapons, shattering the incoming sword qi one by one, holding a defense as solid as Mount Tai.
Every time a streak of sword qi was shattered, another descended. Occasionally, one would splinter the weapons Demonic Eye had condensed and leave puncture wounds on this Ancient God of War, yet none posed a threat to his life.
Demonic Eye quickly charged out of the Tianji array. Under everyone's expectant gazes, he checked the path connecting Tianji and Tianxuan, finding no array core.
At this point, only the twenty-six lanterns of the Tianxuan array remained.
"The array core is among those twenty-six lanterns," Zhang Yuanqing said. "We have two minutes left. Demonic Eye, there's no time—enter the array immediately."
Demonic Eye strode into Tianxuan.
The instant he stepped inside, the thirty-eight sky lanterns overhead slowly descended, hovering all around him.
All thirty-eight sky lanterns lit up simultaneously, and thirty-eight beams of sword qi fired in unison.
Demonic Eye's face changed drastically. All eight arms swung into motion, weapons blurring in a whirlwind of afterimages.
He had run into the most terrifying onslaught since entering the lantern arrays.
*Bang! Bang! Bang!* The eight weapons in Demonic Eye's hands shattered relentlessly. In less than three seconds of resistance, every single weapon broke apart.
Thirty-eight streaks of sword qi converged on a single point, obliterating his central head.
Demonic Eye's body stiffened abruptly, and he crashed heavily to the ground.
A sigh from the old grandfather drifted out of Xiahou Aotian's thumb ring: "Tianxuan is also known as the Jumen Star, governing supreme authority. As expected, it is the most terrifying. There is no trick to that array; it can only be broken by sheer force."
The Palace Master of Halting Slaughter immediately retrieved the Demon Refining Pot, intending to resurrect Demonic Eye.
"Wait!" Zhang Yuanqing stopped her. "Don't resurrect him yet. If you bring him back now, he'll just die again, which would doom him completely. Wait a moment."
Pressing down on the Palace Master's hand, he turned to Fu Qingyang, his expression graver than ever before: "Boss, Demonic Eye took about a minute. We have three minutes left, and subtracting the time to find the core, only two minutes remain.
"We don't have enough margin; we must take a gamble."
Fu Qingyang looked at him. "How do we gamble?"
Zhang Yuanqing said in a deep voice, "If one person enters, they'll easily be targeted by focused fire. We go in together to shoulder the pressure for Demonic Eye, freeing his hands to inspect the lanterns.
"However, before Demonic Eye finds the core, we can only afford to die once each. Otherwise, we truly fall in this dungeon."
Xiahou Aotian looked thoroughly anxious. "With our defense, we won't last at all. Dammit, our team lacks an Earth Monster!"
He understood Yuanshi Tianzun's tactic.
Everyone would act as cannon fodder together, taking the swords for Demonic Eye.
Zhang Yuanqing said, "Unless you have a better idea. Besides, I'm not discussing this with you—it's an order from the guild leader. Oh, and our talking just wasted thirty seconds."
Xiahou Aotian, who rarely swore, couldn't hold back a vehement "Fuck!"
He raised no further objections.
Zhang Yuanqing handed the Immortal Slaying Flying Dagger to the Palace Master.
Taking the yellow gourd, she stripped off her rattan armor and tossed it to Xiahou Aotian. "This can block a few strikes for you."
As the wielder of the Demon Refining Pot, she did not need to take risks. If she died, the team would lose its healer.
The dead would not be able to return.
Xiahou Aotian's complexion improved slightly. He quickly caught the rattan armor and put it on while stepping out of the Kaiyang array alongside Yuanshi Tianzun and Fu Qingyang.
Zhang Yuanqing summoned the Purple Gold Shield, activated Blazing Sun God of War, and took the lead through the Yuheng array, accurately evading Tianquan's balanced sword strikes under Fu Qingyang's guidance.
In the Tianji array with its curving sword qi, his Purple Gold Shield was shattered twice.
Soon, the three converged outside the Tianxuan array.
Zhang Yuanqing roared, "Palace Master, resurrect Demonic Eye!"
The Palace Master rubbed the pot's surface and tilted its spout, scattering golden specks of light that glittered like stars. Drifting across several lantern arrays, they enveloped Demonic Eye's headless corpse.
In the next second, Demonic Eye's bones, blood, and brain matter reversed as if winding back through time, reconstructing themselves entirely.
Heavenly King Demonic Eye stood up once more.
The thirty-eight sky lanterns descended again, encircling Demonic Eye and blazing with intense, sickly green light.
Zhang Yuanqing darted into the array to guard Demonic Eye's rear, activated the Purple Gold Shield's Absolute Defense, and shoved it forward!
After the fierce battle in the Yaoguang array, the baptism of sword rain in Kaiyang, and the attacks sustained on the way over, the Purple Gold Shield's energy was already fully charged.
A purplish-gold brilliance surged, forming a shield-shaped wall.
Nearly twenty streaks of sword qi slammed into the barrier, shattering upon impact.
With his cloak fluttering wildly, Fu Qingyang stood to Demonic Eye's left, holding a sword in each hand. His blades moved like blurred phantoms, shattering every incoming sword qi.
Xiahou Aotian stood to the right, tracing out a defensive array that ground seven or eight streaks of sword qi to pieces.
Demonic Eye charged forward, arms shielding his head while his remaining six arms grabbed six sky lanterns to read their item descriptions.
*Pfft!*
Several streaks of sword qi pierced through Xiahou Aotian's chest. His body stiffened instantly, and the unrelenting barrage riddled him into a sieve.
A second later, he was revived by the Palace Master and stood up again.
By then, the illusory wall formed by the Purple Gold Shield dissipated as Absolute Defense expired.
Zhang Yuanqing immediately cast Nullification to weaken the sword qi, buying Demonic Eye more time, but he was riddled with holes in an instant.
The sword qi's power sat between the mid-tier and peak of Level 8. Even weakened, it was not something a Level 7 Day Wanderer could withstand.
Apart from Fu Qingyang, who held his ground with ease, both Zhang Yuanqing and Xiahou Aotian fell into dire peril.
Occupying four distinct positions, they shifted constantly as Demonic Eye proceeded with his inspection.
Fu Qingyang called out the locations of already-checked lanterns to prevent duplication.
"Thirty seconds left! Did you find it?" Zhang Yuanqing yelled. Activating his Purple Gold Set and Golden Dragon Shield, he brandished his short blade to parry.
"Not yet!" Demonic Eye answered heavily.
"Hurry, hurry..." Xiahou Aotian urged repeatedly, pulling out various props—defensive, healing, and swordsman items alike.
Just then, Demonic Eye sharply caught sight of a sky lantern blended among its fellows.
When the surrounding lanterns blazed with light, it lit up as well and fired sharp sword qi, but its sword qi was an illusion, not real.
The array core possessed no offensive power!
"Found it!" Riddled with puncture wounds, Demonic Eye felt a rush of joy. Grabbing that sky lantern, he tore it apart directly without even reading its attributes.
The ceaseless barrage of sword qi came to an abrupt halt.
The entire Seven Stars Lantern Array extinguished.
Sky lanterns fell like rain.
At this sight, everyone felt completely drained, and even the old grandfather in the ring sighed with relief.
Though this dungeon had not taken long, it was exceptionally perilous, keeping them teetering on the edge of life and death every second.
Spirit Realm walkers truly were pitiful creatures.
The Palace Master of Halting Slaughter hurried over, rubbing the Demon Refining Pot and pouring out Life Source Fluid to heal her teammates' wounds.
The group rested on the spot. Feeling the tingling itch of his wounds closing, Xiahou Aotian silently swore never to run a dungeon with Yuanshi Tianzun again.
Two consecutive high-difficulty dungeon runs within half a month had placed an immense strain on his body and mind.
"The Seven Stars Lantern Array is broken, but the dungeon hasn't ended. There should be a boss for this stage." Fu Qingyang spoke in a relaxed tone. "Rest for a quarter of an hour, then enter the hall to take down the boss."
Heavenly King Demonic Eye yawned. "I'm sleepy, want to take a nap. Why not push it back half an hour?"
Xiahou Aotian snorted, "Clear it earlier so we can go back earlier. If you're so inclined to sleep, lie there by yourself."
Everyone looked relaxed, displaying none of the tension typical before facing a boss.
Just as Zhang Yuanqing was about to speak, he felt a sudden premonition and looked toward the Golden Summit Hall.
Almost in the next second, boundless yin qi surged out from within the hall.
Zhang Yuanqing raised his palm at once, generating a golden sun half a meter in diameter.
Under the pure, brilliant golden light, everyone saw a figure walking slowly out from the endless yin qi.
He wore robes reminiscent of Tang dynasty attire, with withered straw-like hair hanging loose, skin dark green and wrinkled like tree bark, and bulging, bloodshot eyes.
In his hand, he held a rust-covered sword.
"Who dares disturb this seat's slumber!"
The yin creature sent out a shrill mental ripple.
"He says you wretches have the nerve to disturb his rest," Zhang Yuanqing translated for his teammates. "Judging by his aura, he's a weak Level 9."
This was within his expectations, as well as Fu Qingyang's and the others'.
From the Yaoguang Hall to the Hall of Upright Qi, and on to the Seven Stars Lantern Array, the difficulty had been frighteningly high.
A dungeon's overall difficulty had a ceiling. With the first three stages already perilous and boasting a sky-high mortality rate, the final boss could not possibly be a true Level 9.
Otherwise, this wouldn't be an A-grade dungeon, but an S-grade one.
Thus, the level of the yin creature in the hall matched their predictions. And against a weak Level 9 foe, their team's combined strength could essentially steamroll it.
"'Wretches' is something a Tang dynasty person would say?" Xiahou Aotian eyed him sidelong.
"It's called a free translation!" Zhang Yuanqing said loudly. "Palace Master, give me the gourd. Let's take him!"
The Palace Master tossed the yellow gourd hanging at her waist over to him. Zhang Yuanqing dispersed the golden fireball, stepped back to the side, and began his sacrificial dance.
Xiahou Aotian stepped in ritual pacing, chanting under his breath.
A circular array formed beneath his feet and rapidly expanded, encompassing the yin creature boss.
An illusory cauldron descended from the sky, trapping the dungeon boss within. Xiahou Aotian immediately hurled Samadhi True Fire, attempting to refine the enemy.
*Boom!*
A tremendous burst of sword qi shattered the cauldron. Wielding his sharp blade, the powerful yin creature charged toward the group, cloaked in terrifying yin qi.
Demonic Eye removed his sports headband, unleashing a beam of golden-red light.
The charging yin creature froze violently, its yin power and sword qi thrown into total disarray.
Fu Qingyang merged sword and body into a golden rainbow, piercing through the creature's chest.
With its spiritual power in turmoil, the yin creature clashed fiercely with Fu Qingyang, like peerless swordsmen clashing in a martial arts novel, their sword qi sweeping crisscross as metal clanged incessantly.
At that moment, Zhang Yuanqing concluded his sacrificial dance and bowed.
"Please turn, treasure!"
A white beam shot from the gourd's mouth, striking the yin creature's glabella with lightning speed, and twisted violently.
The creature's head dropped cleanly.
A yin creature would not die simply from decapitation, but the Immortal Slaying Flying Dagger's sealing power took effect, imprisoning the soul inside the severed head.
The grotesque head shook violently as the soul within struggled to break the seal.
Zhang Yuanqing finally seized the opportunity to activate the Heaven Swallowing Beast's second-stage ability.
The ferocious eyes of the Heaven Swallowing Beast lit up. Gazing at the yin creature from afar, it abruptly opened its mouth.
Its fist-sized maw acted like a black hole, generating a swirling vortex that sucked the yin creature's head straight inside.
In roughly a minute, they had disposed of a weak Level 9 yin creature.
*What an incredible treasure! If only I could bring it out of the dungeon—I'd be invincible below Level 9, and could trade one-for-one above it!* Zhang Yuanqing stroked the yellow gourd, unable to put it down, and said:
"The Heaven Swallowing Beast is still digesting; it'll take about a quarter of an hour. Daode Tianzun, you can take a nap. I'll go check if the White Emperor Crown is inside."
He strode toward the Golden Summit Hall.
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