640: Nuclear explosion?!

Meanwhile, Shen Bei, who had escaped, was squatting at the entrance of a grand hall, staring at the Divine Wood on the ground, his brows furrowed.

"Usang Divine Wood, it looks real, but why is the power within it so strange?"

Shen Bei couldn't understand it at all, after all, it was something from the Great Wilderness.

Even if it wasn't from the Great Wilderness, even some new things from the Underground Imperial Dynasty, Shen Bei wouldn't understand.

"Forget it, I'll ask Brother Green Light when I get back, and I'll know what's going on."

Shen Bei tossed the Divine Wood into his ring.

He continued forward.

He moved through the palace complex, not daring to enter any of the grand halls with tightly shut doors.

Divine Light swirled here, and Death Qi emanated, so he didn't know what was inside these palaces.

But Shen Bei was very clear about this, so no matter what was inside these palaces, he wouldn't take risks, lest he pick up sesame seeds and lose the watermelon.

After bypassing another palace, a square stretching for more than ten li appeared in front of him, with a purple gold three-legged, pot-bellied bronze Pill Furnace in the center.

Heat emanated from it, and a faint Medicinal Pill fragrance, like light smoke, swirled in the air.

Around the square, eight stone tablets, each a hundred zhang tall, stood, each engraved with a round, pill-like rune.

Shen Bei focused his gaze, stopped, and his brows furrowed.

Here, eight stone tablets encircled a central Pill Furnace, and the purple gold bricks paving the ground also outlined complex patterns.

The Formation was still operating, and coincidentally, this was the convergence point of four paths; to continue forward, one had to pass through here, otherwise, they could only return the way they came and find a new route.

As for finding a new route, it might be even more dangerous.

"Formation..."

Shen Bei hesitated a little.

He hadn't encountered many Formation situations.

In fact, in the Underground Imperial City, he had only seen a defensive Formation once in the Royal palace, but he didn't understand its principles.

Moreover, this wasn't taught in earth's surface schools.

Or rather, earth's surface didn't know much about Formations either.

It was probably common in the Great Wilderness.

Shen Bei walked to the edge of the square and carefully examined the Formation here.

He couldn't understand it.

However, to his surprise, Bridal Gown on his back reached out and pointed.

"Hmm?"

Shen Bei immediately understood; did she know about Formations?

Shen Bei stepped into the square almost without hesitation.

Instantly, heaven and earth's surface transformed, mountains rose from the earth's surface, water veins seeped from underground, the sun and moon hung in the sky, and brilliant stars dotted the firmament.

Shen Bei's expression remained unchanged; with Bridal Gown there, he could just walk with his eyes closed.

Following Bridal Gown's instructions, he determined a direction, and strode forward, walking here as if on flat ground.

Just as he crossed a mountain, he saw a star above his head flash, turning into a streaking light that plummeted down.

Shen Bei looked up, his pupils suddenly constricted, his entire body's hair stood on end, and a sense of crisis rapidly escalated, turning into a great terror of life and death within a single breath.

He would die...

The streaking light drew closer and closer, heading straight for his location.

Shen Bei ran wildly, his eyes flashing with Divine Light, as he looked intently, he saw that within that streaking light, it was no star at all.

It was actually a pale gold Medicinal Pill, with a Medicinal Pill halo swirling around its surface!

The Medicinal Pill, like a meteor, fell on the other side of the mountain ridge, and Shen Bei, on this side, felt no safety at all; he only felt that the sense of crisis grew stronger and stronger, his Divine Soul swayed, and he clearly felt that he was certain to die.

And Bridal Gown, surprisingly, had no reaction at all...

"Boom!"

Divine Light merged, like a giant bubble being blown, instantly enveloping the other side of the mountain ridge.

Divine Light emanated, and wherever it passed, rocks shattered and vanished, and rivers were instantly evaporated.

Shen Bei ran wildly, glancing back out of the corner of his eye.

The entire mountaintop behind him silently vanished into nothingness within the emanating Divine Light, as if swallowed by a giant mouth, leaving no trace.

The speed of the Divine Light's emanation far exceeded his escape speed, and that terrifying, all-suppressing power was about to catch up to him.

Or rather, when it was about to catch up to Bridal Gown, Bridal Gown raised her hand and gently brushed it...

The giant, expanding bubble of light was easily punctured, turning into a howling gale that dispersed in all directions.

Shen Bei was propelled into the sky by the strong wind, and as he looked down, he saw that where the Medicinal Pill had fallen, it had become a giant crater four or five li long; the former mountain range had completely disappeared...

Then, with a somersault, he landed on the ground, and everything around him also twisted and transformed, turning into nothingness.

Everything returned to the original appearance of the square...

Only, the eight stone tablets around it were all shattered, and on the central Pill Furnace, there was a delicate handprint, at least three inches deep; the surface of the Pill Furnace was covered with cracks, and its luster was dim, clearly it had been destroyed...

Shen Bei secretly clicked his tongue in amazement, a bitter smile on his face.

He had overlooked the most central Pill Furnace...

Indeed, one couldn't look at things in a conventional way.

Who would have thought that the Formation posed no threat, but he almost got killed by a Medicinal Pill in the end?

Who would believe it if he told them? What kind of Medicinal Pill, just falling to the ground, could unleash a scene comparable to a nuclear explosion?

Opening the Pill Furnace, which had lost its power, he found more than a dozen Medicinal Pills inside, but most of them had lost their Medicinal Pill halo and had a pungent Medicinal Pill fragrance; only three, like golden pellets, were covered with a layer of Medicinal Pill halo.

He put them into his ring, planning to study them later...

Having successfully passed through the square, Shen Bei wasn't happy.

He glanced at Bridal Gown's red veil, thinking about what had just happened, and then recalling Bridal Gown's previous actions...

A realization dawned on Shen Bei.

He had probably been mistaken before; Bridal Gown was probably not trying to help him at all...

Her getting on his back might have been instinct; her previously blocking his vision was probably because Bridal Gown sensed something else, something that might threaten her...

This time, she acted because she felt a threat to herself, acting on instinct.

Although the outcome was the same, doing it to help him and doing it because she felt threatened were two completely different things.

Shen Bei looked dejected, having thought things were a bit too good, and had been self-indulgent.

Even the reason why Bridal Gown appeared on his back, whether his previous guess was correct, now had to be questioned.

Bridal Gown wouldn't help him at all, and that was fatal.

Shen Bei's thoughts shifted, and from an opposing perspective, he thought of ways to kill himself.

As long as there was no threat to Bridal Gown, he probably wouldn't act even if he died.

He couldn't gamble; he could only prepare for the worst-case scenario and couldn't rely on Bridal Gown.

With many questions and worries, he continued forward.

Three days later, he finally bypassed the building complex centered around Medicinal Pills and arrived at the core central area.

This was a large blank area without buildings.

When he entered here from the building complex, many people had already arrived, the atmosphere was somewhat tense, and several groups stood in confrontation.

Little Devil Buddha was dressed in black, his expression somewhat fierce, his Aura greatly changed.

Duan Kong held a wooden sword, his face gloomy.

There was also a woman with a voluptuous figure and an extremely enchanting appearance, with fierce resentment between her brows and cold light flashing in her eyes; if there were no surprises, this woman should be Blood Depletion Dao Consort, who had escaped by corpse-dissolution.

She already had a new body, presumably prepared in advance, but her Aura was significantly weaker than when he last saw her.

What surprised Shen Bei was that the young Sect Master of the Lantern Sect and the Grand Elder of the Lantern Sect were not standing together, but were a certain distance apart, wary of each other.

Not far away lay a corpse, that of the middle-aged man from the Lantern Sect's trio.

The middle-aged man's neck had several blood holes, and his head was tilted to one side, clearly indicating he had died from a crushed cervical spine.

As soon as Shen Bei appeared, everyone who was in confrontation immediately turned their gaze to him.

Some were filled with murderous intent, others with vigilance, and everyone's Qi suddenly locked onto him.