673: Chapter 673 The Core of the Formation

"Rest assured, it's not that exaggerated."

Xiao Chen wrapped an arm around her slender waist, pressed against her petite face, and said softly, "Only five days have passed, it's not a big problem."

"Only five days? Do you have any idea what five days means?"

"Of course I do! I forgot to tell you a secret: while five days have passed in this System Space, only six hours have passed in the outside world."

Tang Youlan widened her eyes, looking at him, "What nonsense are you spouting?"

"Do I look like I'm spouting nonsense to you?"

"How can such a place exist?"

"This is my independent world, where the internal time flow is ten times faster than the outside."

Tang Youlan didn't believe him at first, but seeing his earnest expression, she asked, "What kind of Treasure Trove is this? How does it contain both Time and Space Laws simultaneously?"

"Hahaha, that is, of course, a secret."

"Stingy!"

Xiao Chen smiled triumphantly and did not explain it to her; after all, for this woman, it was still necessary to maintain a bit of mystery.

"And another thing, just how many women are you keeping? I've detected dozens of female auras over these past few days; their cultivation levels range from Foundation Establishment Stage, Golden Core Stage, Nascent Soul Stage, to Soul Transformation Stage. You really aren't picky, are you? You want to taste every Realm, right?"

"Cough, cough, cough... We should continue clearing the levels!"

Xiao Chen hurriedly changed the subject, "Yuehua and Chi Mei, you two should stay here and Cultivate, right? Compared to the underground palace, it is very safe here, and the Spiritual Qi is abundant."

"Brother Xiao Chen, but I want to be with you..."

"Silly girl!"

Xiao Chen pinched her petite face and said softly, "The underground palace is fraught with crises. I must ensure your safety, so I would inevitably be held back."

"Yuehua, let's just stay here, so as not to distract him." The Red-Tailed Fox King patted her shoulder.

"Oh."

Yuehua nodded, grabbed Xiao Chen's arm, and said, "Then you must return safely; you cannot have even the slightest mishap."

"Of course! I still have to come back and discuss life with my little girl every day!"

Yuehua's pretty face instantly flushed red, and her ears turned even more enticingly crimson; she immediately let go of his hand.

Afterward, Xiao Chen brought Tang Youlan out of the System Space and returned once more to the long bridge of the underground palace.

"Great! Finally, it's just me by your side!"

Tang Youlan linked her arm with Xiao Chen's, looking triumphant. Unbeknownst to her, her feelings were already quietly undergoing a change.

She didn't even realize it herself, but she was enjoying every moment spent alone with Xiao Chen, and this man had completely walked into her inner world.

Xiao Chen gently lifted her jade-white chin, "Since it's just you, what do you want to do?"

"Monopolize you!"

"You are so greedy."

"Hmph!"

Tang Youlan tilted her petite face up slightly and said with a serious expression, "I am just such a greedy woman, so what? Do you regret it? It's too late to regret it now!"

Xiao Chen's lips curled up, and he gently kissed her lips. In front of him, this woman would never again refer to herself as 'this palace'.

Tang Youlan responded to him, her tongue entangling with his, while timely stopping that dishonest hand attempting to slip into her collar.

"Bad egg, didn't you just sleep with Chi Mei? Are you really this impatient?"

"This is called being unable to restrain oneself."

Tang Youlan rolled her eyes at him, "Always making excuses for your own lust. Once we leave this place, I'll let you have enough!"

"That's what you said!"

"What else?"

Xiao Chen looked triumphant as he held her hand and flew forward, their fingers interlocked like a pair of Dao Companions in the midst of passionate love.

Tang Youlan turned her head to look at him. After hesitating for a long while, she still decided to confess, "Actually... I also have a big secret that I haven't told you."

"That's very normal."

"Then don't you want to know?"

"When you want me to know, you will naturally tell me; if you don't want me to know, asking you would be useless, right?"

"Once we leave this underground palace, I will tell you everything from beginning to end."

"Okay."

Xiao Chen gave her a reassuring look, and the two soon arrived at a wide platform ahead, where, as always, an array diagram appeared.

Xiao Chen tentatively stepped onto the platform and walked into the array diagram, but it was the same as the previous Wind Spirit Formation.

It had no reaction.

"Is this Formation damaged again?"

"Mm-hmm."

Xiao Chen nodded and scanned a crack in the corner of the array diagram, "If my deduction is correct, this should be the Earth Spirit Formation."

Xiao Chen immediately sent a telepathic message to the Red-Tailed Fox King in the System Space: "Mei'er, I want to ask, has the Earth Lizard King also gone missing?"

"How did you know!"

The Red-Tailed Fox King blurted out.

Realizing this, her pretty face couldn't help but flush red. Having Cultivated for thousands of years, no one had ever called her by such an intimate nickname before.

"If I haven't guessed wrong, the Earth Lizard King should have fallen."

The Red-Tailed Fox King looked dejected. The seven kings of the Wild Ancient Marsh had passed down their Legacy for thousands of generations, and for tens of millions of years, nothing had happened, but now, incidents were occurring one after another.

"Is it really like this?" Xiao Chen muttered to himself, "Then why is the sequence wrong?"

The Red-Tailed Fox King's Soul Sound arrived, "The first to go missing was the Gale Wolf King, followed by the Earth Lizard King, and finally the Thunder Toad King."

"I understand."

Xiao Chen felt a chill in his heart.

"What exactly did you discover?" Tang Youlan looked at his thoughtful expression and couldn't help but ask.

Xiao Chen did not explain to her, "Let's go further ahead and see; perhaps the truth will be known very soon."

"Alright."

The subsequent path was quite smooth, and they did not encounter any obstacles along the way, until another wide platform appeared ahead.

Before they even got close, Xiao Chen caught sight of an exceptionally conspicuous crack on the array diagram.

Upon closer inspection, based on the array patterns and grooves, he deduced that this was the final Formation, the Thunder Spirit Formation.

"This array diagram is also damaged."

"Yeah!"

"So, do you know the truth now?"

Xiao Chen's expression was indifferent, "I know one of the truths; I know why they wanted to extinguish the Red-Tailed Fox King."

"Why?"

"Because the array cores of the Wind Spirit Formation, Earth Spirit Formation, and Thunder Spirit Formation have already been removed, and the Red-Tailed Fox King is the array core of the Fire Spirit Formation."

Tang Youlan widened her beautiful eyes, "You mean that the seven kings of the Wild Ancient Marsh are actually the array cores of the seven great spirit Formations?"

She had never heard of such an inconceivable theory; that the array core of a Formation could actually be a living creature.

"Mm-hmm."

Xiao Chen nodded, "Therefore, that mysterious existence is trying every means to wipe out the seven great races here."

"Could it be that they are also coveting the secret buried in this underground palace?"

"Isn't that obvious?"

Xiao Chen let out a long sigh, his gaze cold and imposing, "With such a Heaven-Defying Treasure Trove, who wouldn't be tempted?"

"But isn't there an Immortal Rank Formation, the Seven-Star Soul-Extinguishing Array, at the entrance of the underground palace? What is the use of them destroying the array cores inside the underground palace?"