400: Chapter 400 [The Master's Back View is So Majestic] Ye Qingyao is Completely Fallen for Him

In the center of the front hall, there was a half-moon-shaped stone platform.

A Formation Diagram was carved on the stone platform, its lines still faintly glowing; it was the only core node in the entire front hall that was still functioning.

Su Changge walked to the stone platform and looked down for two breaths.

Information from the Great Dao Scripture Pavilion welled up.

This was the key to the lower level—the stone platform's Formation Diagram was a teleportation node. Once activated, one could teleport directly to the space where the Seal's body was located.

However, activation required a specific technique.

The Scripture Pavilion had it.

Su Changge went over the activation steps in his mind. There were seven steps in total, and each step required inputting spiritual power into a specific position on the Formation Diagram.

The problem arose again.

He only had the spiritual power of the Qi Refining First Layer.

The minimum activation threshold for this Teleportation Array was the Nascent Soul Stage.

[So it still has to be Ye Qingyao.]

He stood up straight from beside the stone platform and scanned the crowd following behind him.

Tu Lie and all his confidants had entered the front hall; Halberd Demon Elder had also come in, followed by the White-Robed Old Woman, with Liu Can at the very back.

Everyone felt the pressure of the Sealing Formation.

Tu Lie's expression darkened; two of his twelve confidants were at the Soul Transformation Stage and had already begun to grit their teeth.

Halberd Demon Elder's expression wasn't good either.

Only Liu Can's expression had calmed down; it wasn't that he was no longer afraid, but that he had given up struggling. He didn't want to make any expression now; he just wanted to watch Su Changge and see what other common-sense-defying things he could do.

Su Changge stood by the stone platform and spoke once everyone had arrived.

"The stone platform Teleportation Array leads to the core of the Seal."

He paused for a breath.

"It needs to be activated."

He looked at Ye Qingyao.

He didn't directly ask her to do it but signaled with his gaze.

Ye Qingyao received the signal and stepped forward.

Su Changge stepped aside, and as she passed him, he transmitted the details of the seven steps to her via sound transmission.

Sound transmission was very fast. The key points of the seven steps, the positions, and the intensity and rhythm of the spiritual power injection were all transmitted within three breaths.

Ye Qingyao received the information.

She didn't act immediately.

Standing before the stone platform, she went over the seven steps in her mind.

The design of each step—exquisite.

It wasn't just ordinary exquisiteness; it was the kind that even a Mahayana Stage Cultivator like her needed to savor carefully. Su Changge had only looked at the stone platform for two breaths and had already figured out all seven steps.

Two breaths.

Looking at the Formation Diagram on the stone platform, a judgment she couldn't deny surfaced in her heart.

[Revered Master's understanding of the Dao of Formations has surpassed any level I know of.]

She suppressed her emotions and began the operation.

Spiritual power of the Mahayana Stage was injected into the Formation Diagram, executing the seven steps Su Changge had given her in sequence.

Step one.

The edge of the Formation Diagram trembled slightly.

Step two.

The patterns of the Formation Diagram began to glow.

Step three.

The light intensified.

Step four.

The stone platform was vibrating slightly.

Step five, step six, step seven—all in one go.

The entire Formation Diagram on the stone platform lit up, and a half-moon-shaped light rose from the surface, forming a hemispherical light membrane that covered the entire platform.

The Teleportation Array was activated.

Ye Qingyao stepped back from the stone platform and walked to Su Changge's side.

Su Changge nodded.

Then he did something no one expected.

He was the first to walk up.

Alone.

Entering the Teleportation Array first.

While no one knew what the situation was on the other side of the Teleportation Array, he was the first to step in.

His figure was swallowed by the hemispherical light membrane.

Disappeared.

At the moment he disappeared, Ye Qingyao's heart suddenly tightened.

Her body was one step faster than her logic.

She lifted her foot, stepped onto the stone platform, and chased after him.

The light membrane flashed.

Both of them disappeared.

The light on the stone platform continued to function steadily.

Tu Lie looked at the empty stone platform, stood for three breaths, and then walked up.

He couldn't not follow.

Before leaving, he glanced back at Liu Can.

Liu Can stood in place, his grey-white pupils staring at the stone platform, his expression as complex as an abstract painting.

The other end of the Teleportation Array.

Su Changge's feet landed on solid ground.

The first thing he did wasn't to observe the environment.

It was to curse himself in his mind.

[Why did I come in first?]

[Is my brain broken?]

[What if there's something dangerous here? I'm only at the Qi Refining First Layer!]

[...Because if I didn't come in first, my Master persona wouldn't hold up. Everyone was watching; if I let others scout the path first, what would I be? A coward hiding in the back.]

[So I had to come in first.]

[This is the price of acting cool.]

He suppressed the regret in his heart and began to observe his surroundings.

This was an immense Underground Space.

So large that the end couldn't be seen.

The ceiling was extremely high, at least a hundred zhang or more, covered with dense formation patterns whose light was faint, barely illuminating the upper half of the space.

The ground consisted of black stone slabs, and the formation patterns on them—

Su Changge's pupils constricted slightly.

These formation patterns were different from all the previous ones.

They were moving.

Flowing slowly and rhythmically across the stone slabs like living things, like some sealed power pacing back and forth in its cage.

A slight sound came from behind him.

Ye Qingyao landed.

As soon as she landed, she was by his side, standing almost against his arm. Her eyes quickly scanned the surroundings, and then spiritual power circulated within her body, ready to strike at any moment.

Su Changge felt her standing very close; his arm could feel the fabric of her sleeve.

He didn't move away.

Because at this moment, with her standing next to him—he felt very secure.

This wasn't a psychological sense of security.

It was a physical sense of security at the level of cultivation.

With a Mahayana Stage person standing right next to him, what did he have to fear?

Ye Qingyao stood by his side. While her gaze scanned the vast space, her peripheral vision fell on Su Changge's profile.

Under the faint light of the formation patterns, his profile was clearly defined; the line of his brow bone, the curve of his nose, and the angle of his jaw—every part seemed to have been meticulously carved.

She withdrew her peripheral vision.

[He entered one step ahead of me.]

[Without knowing what was on the other side, he entered first.]

[He was scouting the way for me.]

[No... he was scouting the way for everyone.]

[This is Revered Master.]

Something solidified in her eyes.

That something was no longer flowing admiration and shock.

It was something settled, stable, and unshakable—

Faith.