Chapter 400 – Secrets

Yang Junshan searched through this fake mountain for a while, and quickly stopped in front of a fake mountain. Looking around, he knew that it was fortunate that he had mastered half of the Earth Escape Technique, otherwise, it would be difficult to clear this passage without attracting attention.

He recited a chant for a while, and at the same time, spirit force circulated in his body, causing Yang Junshan to feel that his feet had relaxed, and his entire body was sinking towards the ground.

His entire body froze in midair for a moment, and then Yang Junshan saw clearly that he was now in the middle of a gigantic underground passage. Under his feet was a Glyph formation which was formed by dozens of talismans, which was a one-way escape talisman formation.

This passage was 200 feet deep underground, and most of the soil was made of stone and mud, so the Earth Escape Glyph Array that allowed people to enter and leave the underground was one-way. Aesult, even if the Heaven-Shaken Sect knew the location of this passage, as long as he did not master the Earth Escape Spirit Art, it would still be extremely difficult to find this passage.

Unless they were willing to let everyone know about it, not to mention that at the moment, although the cultivators of Heaven-Shaken Sect could not be said to be shouting and fighting amongst themselves, but at least they were pushed around by the crowd, no one was willing to admit their status as disciples of Heaven-Shaken Sect.

Since they had already entered the secret passage, Yang Junshan was not in a hurry to follow the passage and search in the direction of the Heaven-Shaking Peak. Instead, he squatted down and carefully observed the array formation that was completely made up of talismans.

This one-way escape array was completely formed by array glyphs and naturally originated from the Earth Escape Technique, unlike a single escape talisman, which could not only be used repeatedly, but could also send many people out of the tunnel at once.

Yang Junshan took a look at the Rune Circle to see if he could figure out how it was laid, but the result made him a little dejected. The Rune Circle was not something that could be set up just by looking at where the things were laid, it also involved the direction, speed, and size of the spirit energy inside. Usually, these things could only be understood by the person who laid the Rune Circle and the person who controlled the array.

Of course, an extremely skilled array master would be able to control the method of setting up the array from the operation of the array, but Yang Junshan had obviously not reached that stage yet.

Symbol Array was also a form of array arrangement, compared to the usual array arrangement method, using talismans to set up the array, firstly, it was too expensive, secondly, it could be used for a short period of time, it was impossible to set up an array by ordinary means, it could go through decades, or even centuries, and could operate as normal.

However, talismans also had advantages that other formations did not have. The reason for that was because they were laid out very quickly and their might was not affected at all. They were often used in times of crisis.

Even though Yang Junshan was unable to grasp such a novel method when he used the Earth Spirit Disappearing Technique in the formation, he could at least learn a thing or two from the arrangement of the formation. With his future achievements in the formation, he might have a chance to master it.

With regret, Yang Junshan stood up and walked deeper into the passage.

As Yang Junshan travelled quickly in the middle of the passage, he carefully examined the walls on both sides of the passage, as well as the top and bottom. He discovered that there were rune patterns of rune formations on the walls at regular intervals, and it was also because of these things that no one noticed that this tunnel was more than two hundred meters deep, and that it had been perfectly preserved over the course of time.

After walking for a few dozen kilometers, the ground of the secret passage had started to gradually move upwards, Yang Junshan knew that he was probably close to the outskirts of Heaven-Shaking Peak.

As expected, after walking for another three to five kilometers, a few broken barrier enchantment curtains appeared within the tunnel. These barrier enchantment curtains looked broken, as they were all affected by the forbidden array of the Heaven-Shaking Peak, flickering in and out of existence in different parts of the tunnel. If one was not careful, it was possible that one would be hurt by these barrier enchantment curtains.

In reality, it was not like no one had attempted to dig a secret tunnel outside of the Heaven-Shaking Peak’s forbidden array to enter the inner parts of the Heaven-Shaking Peak, but the entire forbidden array had already wrapped around the Heaven-Shaking Peak as a sphere. Whether it was on the ground or underground, all of it was covered by the forbidden array, and even the underground passage would be blocked by the forbidden array.

Perhaps the reason why Yang Junshan was walking this path was because of the formation in advance, or perhaps it was left behind by the Heaven-Shaken Sect. In short, although he was still affected by the forbidden array, he was not as severely affected as he was in other places.

But even so, it had already taken Yang Junshan three days and three nights. From the time the shattered remnants of the seal appeared to now, he had only advanced about three hundred meters forward, and the further he went, the harder it was to break through the seal that had seeped in. Even Yang Junshan could only pray that he would not return in disappointment at the last moment.

As the thick curtain of light before his eyes slowly dissipated, Yang Junshan finally heaved a sigh of relief. For this curtain of light, Yang Junshan had exhausted a large amount of materials and materials that the storage bag s had collected, and took an entire day. Thankfully the restriction was not complete, otherwise, even if he used up all of the storage bag’s belongings, he would not be able to open this curtain of light.

After opening this barrier of light, the secret passage instantly became much smoother. Yang Junshan continued to walk forward for nearly three hundred meters before he met another damaged restriction that obstructed the passageway once again.

Fortunately, it was broken …

It had been a full seven days and seven nights since he had entered this underground passage. After Yang Junshan removed the last broken light barrier, he rubbed at the storage bag that was almost dried up and laughed bitterly in frustration. Just as he was about to step forward, he suddenly realized that there waint of blurry light several tens of meters in front of him.

Yang Junshan was startled for a moment at first, but then he realized what this speck of light meant and quickened his pace towards that speck of light.

Approaching closer, Yang Junshan finally realized that this bit of light was vaguely shrouded by a layer of faint red light. It was only until he arrived at the end of the secret passage and saw that the hole was right in front of him, did Yang Junshan realize that this faint red light was actually emitting a layer of red mist from outside the hole.

Carefully probing the entrance of the cave, after discovering that there was no danger, Yang Junshan jumped out of the cave entrance. He immediately looked around and found that this was only an empty stone room, but at the entrance of the stone room, there was actually a corpse lying prone on the ground.

Yang Junshan was immediately shocked in his heart. He sucked in a deep breath of air and was secretly vigilant, yet unexpectedly, a dense wave of spiritual energy that felt as if it had substance immediately rushed into his chest.

Yang Junshan was secretly surprised, and started to pay attention to the spirit energy in the stone room. He discovered that compared to the West Mountain’s spirit source, the spirit energy here was like a mountain stream compared to a surging river.

They were definitely at the most important point on the summit of Heaven-Shaking Peak!

Only in ten Spirit Origin locations could one spirit vein be condensed, ten spirit veins could one spirit river be formed. Rumor has it that the entire Heaven-Shaking Peak itself was a gigantic spirit river.

Although Yang Junshan did not know what realm the true spirit energy produced by the spirit river could reach, he guessed that this stone room was definitely the most important place at the top of Heaven-Shaking Peak.

Then, if he could use this place to cultivate in seclusion …

With great difficulty, Yang Junshan finally calmed his excited mood and started to carefully walk around the spacious stone room, touching some kind of invisible restriction on one side. Since this place was already an important place for the Heaven-Shaking Peak, it was best to be careful in everything you do.

After walking around, he realized that there was no danger in the stone room, so he was relieved. He immediately walked towards the corpse lying on the ground at the entrance of the stone room.

He suddenly thought of something. He recognized the clothes that the corpse wore, it was the green robe that the cultivators of the Xi’an County’s Damascus Seal Sect usually wore!

On the day of the Heaven-Shaken Sect’s destruction, the various sects and families surrounded and attacked the Heaven-Shaking Peak. In other words, not only was this body the cultivator from the Damascus Seal, it was also the corpse of a Adept Realm Cultivator!

At this moment, he was even able to restore the scene that happened at the time. After the Heaven Punisher Great Formation was broken, the various Spiritual Masters charged into the Heaven-Shaking Peak to loot and kill him. This Master from the Damascus Seal Faction barged into the stone room, but right at this moment, the forbidden array of the Heaven-Shaking Peak was activated, and the entire mountain collapsed.

In other words, the body of this Master from the Damascus Seal Sect was likely to be carrying all the treasures that he plundered from the Heaven-Shaking Peak.

It was just that Yang Junshan did not know if the forbidden array that could kill the Adept Realm Cultivator still existed in the vicinity. At least, he did not find any Inhibition residual array with the forbidden array at this time.

Just in case something happened, Yang Junshan took out a few Jade Coins s from the storage bag s and crushed them before casting the Flying Sand Technique. With the help of the magnetic light, the Jade Coins’s dregs rolled under the corpse and then carried the Daoist Master’s corpse over through the air.

Yang Junshan heaved a sigh of relief, and then carefully examined the corpse’s face. Adept Realm Cultivator’s corpse was nourished by the spirit energy in his body throughout the year, and even after many years of death, it was still in good condition. This corpse did not seem to have any injuries on its face, only a look of disbelief and terror on its face.

He extended his hand and pointed at the corpse’s waist, and a green storage bag appeared in his hands. He tried to inject his spirit sense into it, but did not expect to be able to enter it smoothly, which surprised Yang Junshan.

Adding a spirit consciousness restriction on the storage bag would definitely be able to protect the treasures inside the storage bag from falling into the hands of others, but at the same time, it would also make it inconvenient for the owner to take out and put them away. In order to speed up the Heaven-Shaking Peak’s looting process, this Master from the Damascus Seal Sect naturally removed the seal on the storage bag.