624: Chapter 624 An Unexpected Scene

The protective Restriction on the palace gates sensed an attack and instantly activated automatically.

Dark gray Law patterns suddenly spread in all directions, forming an airtight gray Law barrier in an instant.

"This kind of Restriction can't stop me!"

Seeing this, Su Yun's expression remained calm, and his movements did not change.

His fingertips instantly released an invisible force that surged toward the main hall.

The surrounding space seemed to be squeezed, becoming overlapping and distorted.

Crack—!

The gray Law barrier shattered at the sound; the protective Restriction outside the main hall was broken in less than a breath's time, dissipating directly.

Su Yun waved his hand again, opening the palace doors without meeting the slightest resistance.

He flickered into the main hall and looked around.

The interior of the hall was incredibly empty and dim; let alone tables and chairs, he didn't even see a single shelf for placing items. There were no furnishings at all.

It looked like it was neither a hall where people lived, nor one for storing items or holding meetings.

It was more like...

Right, it was more like an abandoned, uninhabited hall.

The only special place was a room whose door was covered in Restrictions.

Among the many rooms in the hall, only this one was closed; the doors to the other rooms were all open, and they were empty inside.

Su Yun took a step forward and appeared not far from that room.

He released his Divine Sense and instantly investigated the state of the Restrictions outside the room.

"The Restrictions outside this room are much more powerful than the protective Restrictions outside the hall, but they still can't stop me."

"Open for me!" Su Yun reached out and gave a gentle pat forward, and a vast Power of Law gushed out.

The powerful aura caused the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi within the hall to become chaotic.

Countless phantoms of ancient trees appeared behind him, followed by the release of numerous Towering Wooden Hands that slammed toward the surrounding Restrictions.

Those Restrictions instantly erupted with dazzling light of laws, transforming into Law Seals that radiated golden light.

These Law Seals condensed into walls of Law, surrounding the room layer by layer in an attempt to resist the Towering Wooden Hands.

Bang—!

The walls of Law shattered directly, and the Towering Wooden Hands smashed through the surrounding Restrictions with unstoppable force.

At this moment, all the Restrictions outside the room dimmed and then dissipated into scattered bits of spiritual light.

With all obstacles gone, Su Yun arrived directly at the room's door.

"With so many layers of Restrictions, I want to see exactly what is inside this room."

He gave a casual wave, and the room door, now devoid of Restrictions, instantly swung open.

The space inside the room was very cramped.

More importantly, the scene inside the room was somewhat different from what Su Yun had expected.

What? Where are the secrets of the Jiyuan Palace?

How can there be nothing at all?

Is it just an empty room?

Su Yun frowned slightly; this situation was indeed beyond his expectations.

"That's not right! With such powerful Restrictions set outside this room, how could the inside be empty?"

"Who would be so bored as to set such Restrictions on an empty room?"

Su Yun walked into the room, a hint of doubt flashing in his eyes.

Immediately, he released his Divine Sense to investigate the entire room.

He didn't miss a single corner.

But such a small room was fully scanned in an instant, and nothing was found.

"Still nothing?"

Su Yun stroked his chin; a flash of inspiration seemed to cross his mind, but he didn't catch it.

"It's impossible! Where exactly did things go wrong? Perhaps... it's just hidden very deeply and I overlooked it?"

He released his Divine Sense again, even employing several Divine Sense secret techniques to re-investigate the room.

This time, Su Yun investigated even more meticulously than before, spending several full breaths on it.

Even within the surrounding Void Realm...

...he investigated it too, but similarly came up empty-handed.

There was still no harvest at all.

Judging from the results, this was simply an empty room.

"Wait, with Jiyuan Palace's consistently cautious way of doing things, would they grandly set up a powerful Restriction to surround a room containing some secret?"

Su Yun suddenly recalled Jiyuan Palace's previous style of operation and abruptly discovered a blind spot.

Although this hall had Restrictions to hide its aura, it could still be detected with the naked eye, and its location wasn't particularly remote—it was right in the depths of the Xu Family Ancestral Land.

Yet the Restrictions outside this room were very conspicuous; as long as one could detect this hall, they would be able to discover these powerful Restrictions.

Combining these two situations, isn't it equivalent to telling others that there's a problem here?

But doing this makes no sense at all? What exactly is the purpose?

Could it be...

A sharp light suddenly flashed in Su Yun's eyes: "I understand. This room might just be a decoy to trick people!"

"It's used to alert the Jiyuan Palace Cultivators that someone has discovered this place."

"Is it possible that this hall is purely for early warning and doesn't actually hide any secrets regarding the Jiyuan Palace?"

He looked around again, and a sudden flash of inspiration hit him.

"No, if that were the case, the multiple layers of Restrictions set within this hall would be meaningless! Furthermore, there are no other special places in the Xu Family Ancestral Land."

"Therefore, there must be secrets regarding the Jiyuan Palace hidden within this hall!"

"Not good. If my guess is correct, I need to hurry!"

Su Yun's gaze sharpened; upon realizing this, he didn't dare relax in the slightest and flickered out of the room.

Generally in such situations, following the classic tropes, the place where the secret is truly hidden might be elsewhere in the hall.

Thinking from another perspective, if he were the one hiding it, there was a high probability it would be hidden near this room.

Only then could it be unexpected—a classic 'darkness under the lamp' play.

This way, even if a Cultivator cracked the multiple Restrictions inside and outside the hall, they would only find that the room just now was empty. They would assume nothing was hidden in the hall and leave immediately.

After leaving the room, Su Yun suddenly noticed an obscure fluctuation flashing within an ordinary room in the corner of the hall whose door was wide open.

"Wait, could it be in that room?"

Su Yun's eyes lit up, and he flickered into that room.

He had finally found it!

"This feeling is... an illusion?"

Su Yun sensed it again and speculated.

If he hadn't previously devoured the ancient Illusion Demon Bloodline...

...he wouldn't be so sensitive to any illusions.

Add to that the help of the Heavenly Illusion Immortal Pearl...

...and the fact that he was currently releasing his Divine Sense with full force, using various Divine Sense secret techniques to investigate every part of the hall...

...he probably wouldn't have discovered the illusion fluctuations in this room at all.

Even a Cultivator at the Mahayana Peak Realm would find it difficult to discover the abnormality in that room.

An illusion of this Rank was already nearly an immortal art!

"All falsehoods, break for me!"

With a thought, Su Yun began to activate the Heavenly Illusion Immortal Pearl within his body.

His eyes stared straight ahead as a colored stream of light flashed within them.