Cultivating for a hundred lifetimes to ascension

Chapter 1329: Chapter 718: Spirit Core Secret and Entering the Mountain Gate

A moment later, a green tunneling light soared out from the depths of the Cloud Mist Mountain Range, racing towards the vast Cloud Sea.

Outside the bamboo pavilion, Zhao Sheng watched as the tunneling light disappeared into the Cloud Sea, then turned and entered the pavilion.

Upon returning inside, he gazed at the pile of treasures that resembled a mountain, a glint of impatience in his eyes. Suddenly, with a sweep of his long sleeves, the enormous Treasure Mountain vanished into thin air, replaced by thirteen beast-headed, human-bodied Spirit Core Law Puppets, all in various states of disrepair.

Each Puppet occupied quite a bit of space, with the thirteen lying scattered on the ground, nearly covering the entire floor.

Zhao Sheng walked among the Puppets, his gaze sweeping over them. He quickly and accurately picked out some suitable Puppet parts.

Pa!

Before long, he suddenly snapped his fingers.

The next second, the pavilion echoed with a series of soft creaks, somewhat akin to the sound of gears turning and mechanisms dismantling.

The Law Puppets unfolded like "flowers in bloom," driven by the penetrating manipulation of Divine Thought, constantly disassembling into thousands of intricate Puppet Mechanisms.

In the blink of an eye, the entire floor was layered with a thick carpet of "mechanism parts."

Zhao Sheng hovered in mid-air, his ten fingers continually flexing and flicking, as if he were manipulating countless invisible threads.

In just a few breaths, fist-sized Five-Colored Crystal Beads suddenly flew out from the interiors of the Puppet heads. These Crystal Beads soared up, slowly revolving around Zhao Sheng. Some emitted a faint five-colored radiance, while others appeared dim and dull, as if completely damaged.

These Five-Colored Crystal Beads were the most crucial core components of the Spirit Puppets: the Central Spirit Cores.

As waves of Divine Thought and willpower continuously poured into the Five-Colored Crystal Beads, the numerous secrets of the Central Spirit Cores gradually unveiled themselves.

The more Zhao Sheng delved into "decoding" them, the more he was astounded by the complexity of the Spirit Cores.

These Spirit Cores resembled incredibly intricate "planets," possessing multiple "crusts." Each "crust" was inscribed with countless ancient symbols, with a level of intricacy and quantity almost comparable to the Primordial Cells of the human body.

Fortunately, due to the passage of time, the "energy" within the Spirit Cores was nearly exhausted, causing the initial defensive Prohibition to lose its effectiveness, allowing Zhao Sheng to "easily" seize them.

Of course, if he hadn’t reached the Returning to Void Realm, he wouldn’t have been able to perceive the deepest secrets of the Central Spirit Cores!

Just as Zhao Sheng was engrossed in deciphering the Spirit Core secrets, time seemed to accelerate by billions of times.

It wasn’t until a desolate, silent Dead Star appeared in his "vision" that Zhao Sheng abruptly snapped out of his fascination and quickly redirected part of his spirit to another "perspective."

"Has it arrived so soon? Time flies!" he murmured to himself, suddenly extending a finger to gently tap on one of the Five-Colored Crystal Beads.

The very next moment,

the Five-Colored Crystal Bead seemed to activate, its surface suddenly radiating circles of dazzling spirit light, expanding instantly in all directions.

The array barrier within the bamboo pavilion immediately responded to the stimulation from the spirit light. The array map scrolls on the walls glowed brightly, forming landscapes of mountains and rivers to try and contain the five-colored spirit light. But they had little effect, as the spirit light seemed to possess incredible penetrative power, nearly ignoring the array barrier as it continued expanding at the speed of light.

Zhao Sheng was slightly startled; the Will Field that enveloped the outside immediately retracted and solidified into layers of "Barriers," instantly containing the five-colored spirit light within the pavilion, suspending it in mid-air.

Ka-ka!

The Five-Colored Crystal Bead emitted a series of crisp sounds, its smooth, translucent surface suddenly swelling with dense Crystal Clusters, then rapidly enlarged and expanded.

In just a few breaths, this Spirit Core suddenly expanded to a diameter of thirty-seven or thirty-eight feet, appearing enormous like a floating "Small Mountain."

By this time, the dense Crystal Clusters had transformed into finger-length "Crystal Columns," intricately inscribed with three-dimensional symbol patterns, which remarkably resembled individual strands of Tao True Text.

"Tao True Text... Huh, it seems these all... originate from the same source, as if representing the Tao True Text ’Emptiness’." Zhao Sheng immediately made a judgment.

In his previous life, he had "memorized" several strands of Tao True Text, and the ’Emptiness’ True Text was among them.

It was fortunate he recognized this Daoist text; otherwise, he would have been completely at a loss.

After observing for a moment, he directed his gaze into the interior of the Crystal Ball. Through layers of Crystal Shell, he vaguely saw a mass of "fragmented" Spiritual Light Cloud.

The Light Cloud roughly pieced together the form of a "leopard," matching perfectly with the external appearance of this Leopard Head Human Puppet.

Zhao Sheng gazed at the Spiritual Light Cloud for a long time, continually stimulating it with Divine Thought. For a moment, his mind was flooded with spirit light, and countless mysteries related to Puppets flowed through his thoughts unceasingly.

Two points of light shone in his eyes, as a layer of lightning suddenly emerged on his body. Immediately, a vast yet mountain-like weight of aura erupted.

The void for hundreds of miles around suddenly shook violently, with nature’s spiritual energy rapidly converging towards the bamboo pavilion. Dark clouds gathered from all directions, soon accompanied by a chorus of thunder and flashes of lightning.

This change in the heavenly phenomenon instantly alerted the entire Zhao Family clan. Countless people stepped outside, looking up at the sky, but soon shifted their gaze towards the Ancestor’s secluded cultivation site.

"What on earth is happening? Is the Ancestor about to break through?"

"Look quickly, the spiritual energy is condensing into clouds, a Heavenly Tribulation is approaching! Which of the Foundation Establishment seniors is about to undergo the Golden Core Thunder Tribulation? Could it be that senior from the Hai lineage, or perhaps ’Qingfeng Sword Obsession’ Zhao Youge?"