314: Chapter 314 Entering the Heavenly Palace, Divine Sense Blocked

In front of the magnificent and vast Ancient Heavenly Palace gate, Su Xuanchen was mischievously pinching Ji Luanxi's fair and tender little face, causing the girl to flail her arms and legs in a frantic counterattack.

"Su Xuanchen! Let go! This Young Miss is now a Core Golden Dragon Disciple. How dare you disrespect me? Believe it or not, I'll bite you!" Ji Luanxi shouted puffily, her small hands flailing desperately.

"Tch, what does a Golden Dragon Disciple count for?" Su Xuanchen laughed arrogantly. Not only did he not loosen his grip, but he also rubbed her face with wicked humor. "I am the Lord of the Heavenly Palace. Even if you little brat become a Dragon, you still have to curl up obediently for me!"

Chang Xiyue stood to the side, watching the pair bicker. Her beautiful face was filled with helplessness, yet also a smile of extreme tenderness.

Gu Hongchen followed silently behind the three of them. She looked at Su Xuanchen and Ji Luanxi playing ahead, then at Chang Xiyue's doting eyes. The heartstrings that had been taut due to the disparity in trials and talent completely relaxed at this moment.

A look of profound realization flashed through her beautiful eyes.

"The Great Dao is ruthless, and the world of Cultivation is filled with intrigue and bloodshed everywhere." Gu Hongchen sighed silently in her heart. "Countless people, in order to seize a sliver of Opportunity, do not hesitate to turn against their own kin or betray their best friends. But in these three, I can't see even a hint of calculating for profit."

The corners of Gu Hongchen's mouth slowly curled into a relieved smile. She suddenly felt that for Su Xuanchen and the others, the supreme Opportunity and peerless treasures in this Ancient Heavenly Court—which were enough to drive the outside world mad—were perhaps far less important than the process of accompanying each other and bickering along the way.

This kind of pure emotion was even rarer and more precious than an Immortal King Legacy in the cold world of Cultivation.

"Being able to travel with them might be the greatest Opportunity of this trip for me, Gu Hongchen."

Gu Hongchen took a deep breath, put away the distracting thoughts in her heart, gripped the biluo emperor sword in her hand, took a step with her long, straight legs, and decisively followed the trio's pace, walking toward the giant Heavenly Gate leading to the interior of the Ancient Heavenly Palace.

Before the Heavenly Gate.

A thick Outer Spiritual Formation, flowing with endless Immortal Dao Runes and terrifying killing intent, was like an insurmountable chasm, tightly sealing the entrance to the Heavenly Palace. The pressure emitted by this Spiritual Formation was enough to easily grind any True Immortal Realm Expert who dared to trespass into a mist of blood.

"Let this Young Miss do it!"

Ji Luanxi proudly raised her snowy-white chin and directly pulled out that Golden Dragon Token emitting a piercing golden light from her bosom.

"Buzz—!"

As soon as the Golden Dragon Token appeared, a burst of brilliant golden radiance erupted. This radiance instantly enveloped Ji Luanxi's petite body completely.

At the same time, Gu Hongchen also quickly took out her own White Dragon Token. A beam of pure white radiance soared into the sky, enveloping her within.

Under the protection of these two beams of light, the terrifying Outer Spiritual Formation seemed to sense the aura of its own people and submissively parted to create a path. Ji Luanxi and Gu Hongchen passed through that lethal Formation barrier without any hindrance.

"Husband, you don't even have a token. Do you want this Young Miss to show some mercy and use the Golden Dragon Token to bring you in?" Ji Luanxi stood inside the Formation, arrogantly making faces at Su Xuanchen outside, taunting him wildly.

Facing the little girl's mockery, Su Xuanchen gave a disdainful cold snort.

"Bring me? You brat must not be awake yet."

Su Xuanchen casually placed his hands behind his back. Without even activating a hint of Spiritual Qi, he swaggered directly toward the Formation filled with destructive killing intent.

"Husband, be careful!" Gu Hongchen's expression changed, and she hurriedly called out to warn him. That was the Sect-Protecting Formation of the Ancient Heavenly Court. Without a token for protection, one would definitely be ruthlessly crushed by the Formation!

However, in the next second, a terrifying scene occurred!

At the absolute moment Su Xuanchen's foot was about to touch the edge of the Formation!

"Buzz buzz buzz—!!!"

That indestructible terrifying Formation, capable of killing a True Immortal, actually trembled violently! Immediately afterward, those violent Immortal Dao Runes, as if seeing some terrifying supreme Dominator, frantically retreated and fled in all directions!

Su Xuanchen just walked into the interior of the Heavenly Palace with his hands behind his back, overbearing and domineering!

Not only did the Formation not launch any attack against him, but it also humbly restrained all its killing intent, fearing it might scratch even a bit of this master's skin!

"This..." Gu Hongchen's red lips parted wide, her face full of disbelief.

Chang Xiyue smiled proudly: "Elder Gu, do not be alarmed. Husband is now the supreme Dominator of this Ancient Heavenly Palace. Every blade of grass, every tree, every brick, and every tile in this Heavenly Palace, as well as all the Formations and Restrictions, must submit before him. How could a mere Outer Spiritual Formation dare to block the path of the Lord of the Heavenly Palace?"

Ji Luanxi looked at Su Xuanchen's arrogant pace that recognized no kin, curled her lip gloomily, and muttered softly, "Big pervert, even the Formation is afraid of you."

Crossing the Heavenly Gate and the Formation.

The four of them officially stepped into the interior of this Ancient Heavenly Palace, which had been silent for several epochs.

The moment they entered the Heavenly Palace, the scene before everyone's eyes underwent a world-shaking change!

Although this place had once experienced a tragic and destructive war, and there were even hideous cracks left by the Immortal Kings' battle in the Void Realm, this space still retained its extremely magnificent and vast building complexes and ancient ruins.

Everyone looked out.

They saw massive Immortal Islands emitting supreme immortal light, miraculously floating in mid-air. On those Immortal Islands, ancient palaces with carved beams and painted rafters stretched endlessly. Although many were in ruins, they still couldn't hide the peerless elegance of those years.

In the distance, mist-shrouded Sky-Reaching Green Peaks pierced the Nine Heavens. On the peaks grew rare Ten-Thousand-Year Immortal Herbs, emitting a refreshing and strange medicinal fragrance. Huge waterfalls, like the Milky Way, cascaded violently from the Nine Heavens, splashing water that turned into dense Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi.

Such a magnificent and grand scene fully displayed the extreme brilliance and absolute strength of the number one power of the ancient epoch!

Su Xuanchen stood on a huge White Jade Square and comfortably spread his arms.

He took a deep breath of the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi here, which was so dense it almost materialized. His handsome face was filled with extreme shock and fanaticism.

"Great place! This is a damn great place!"

Su Xuanchen's eyes sparkled, and he rubbed his hands excitedly, a crazy idea popping into his mind.

"The Spiritual Qi concentration in this Ancient Heavenly Palace is more than a hundred times stronger than the outside world! Who knows how many undiscovered peerless Immortal Veins and Ancient Medicine Gardens are hidden inside." Su Xuanchen calculated frantically in his heart, "Since I am now the Lord of the Heavenly Palace, all these things are my private property!"

"Once I've thoroughly explored this place, I must find a way to uproot this entire Ancient Heavenly Palace and pack it up to move back to the Xuanhuang Great World! I'll set it as the Su Family's ancestral land!"

Su Xuanchen secretly made the decision. As long as he had the resource support of this Heavenly Palace, combined with the assistance of the System, the Cultivation speed of the Su Family's descendants would definitely take off like a rocket!

Standing to the side, Gu Hongchen was also completely shocked by the magnificent scene before her.

Her hand holding the biluo emperor sword trembled slightly due to extreme excitement, and her beautiful eyes were full of wonder: "Is this the Ancient Heavenly Court that suppressed an epoch? Even if it has declined, such a foundation is enough to make all the ancient orthodoxies in the outside world feel despair."

Meanwhile, Chang Xiyue looked at this familiar yet strange world, and a rare mist rose in her ice-blue eyes.

She saw the Floating Immortal Island where she used to practice swordplay, and the Sky-Reaching Green Peak where the Lady Empress used to Cultivate in seclusion. The scenes of the Heavenly Court's peak period, when ten thousand immortals came to pay homage and bells and drums chimed together, flashed through her mind like a lantern.

Moved by the scene, a strong sense of sorrow welled up in Chang Xiyue's heart.

But soon, she took a deep breath, forced back the tears in her eyes, and a bright, relieved smile bloomed on her beautiful face again.

"Although the Heavenly Court is destroyed, the Lady Empress is still alive and has even broken through to the Immortal King Realm." Chang Xiyue said to herself tenderly in her heart, "As long as the person is still there, the Legacy will not be broken."

Just as everyone was lost in their own emotions.

Su Xuanchen casually closed his eyes.

The Legacy Jade Seal deep within his glabella flickered slightly, and a vast Divine Sense, like a bursting ocean, spread out frantically from him toward the entire vast Ancient Heavenly Palace.

As the Lord of the Heavenly Palace, he should have easily controlled every corner of this palace and understood all its secrets.

However!

When Su Xuanchen's Divine Sense spread to several core areas deep within the Heavenly Palace.

"Hmm?!"

Su Xuanchen suddenly opened his eyes. Two sharp beams of light shot out from his deep eyes, and his brows were tightly furrowed.

He keenly noticed that in this Heavenly Palace, which should have belonged entirely to him, several areas were actually tightly shrouded by a terrifying and eerie Dark Power!

Once his Divine Sense approached those areas, it was like hitting an indestructible black wall of despair. Not only could he not investigate at all, but that Dark Power even tried to follow the Divine Sense and venomously erode his Sea of Consciousness in reverse!

"This aura..."

Su Xuanchen's gaze was cold. He instantly associated it with the Fallen Devilish Qi that had erupted from the Golden Dragon Puppet earlier, as well as the "Strange Darkness" lurking deep in the Boundary Sea that Yun Lingxiao had solemnly mentioned before leaving!

"It seems that the destruction of the Ancient Heavenly Court back then was definitely not that simple. Deep in this Heavenly Palace, there are actually remnants of that disgusting stuff that even an Immortal King would be wary of."

A strong sense of foreboding suddenly rose in Su Xuanchen's heart. This Heavenly Palace, which seemed to have become his possession, actually hid a deadly and terrifying killing intent!

Unlike Su Xuanchen's vigilance.

Standing at the back, Gu Hongchen's gaze stared heatedly at those faint ancient ruins deep in the Heavenly Palace.

Her beautiful face was filled with firm determination.

Gu Hongchen's goal in coming here was clear. The status of a White Dragon Disciple was not enough for her. She wanted to obtain the true supreme Opportunity in this Ancient Heavenly Palace! She wanted to use it to catch a glimpse of the lofty Immortal King Realm!

"The path of cultivation is like rowing upstream; one must compete with others and with the heavens!" Gu Hongchen tightly gripped the biluo emperor sword and secretly made a blood oath in her heart, "To restore the supreme reputation of the Gu Family back then, even if there are mountains of blades and seas of fire ahead, I will definitely not miss any sliver of Opportunity in this Heavenly Palace!"

Just then.

Ji Luanxi's crisp and charming voice suddenly broke the surrounding silence.

"Sister Xiyue!"

Ji Luanxi excitedly pulled Chang Xiyue's sleeve, like a little money-grubber who had found a treasure, her eyes sparkling as she pointed at the vast cluster of Immortal Islands ahead.

"This place is simply too big! We should have a plan for where to go next. Where are the peerless treasures? You used to live here, so quickly lead us to find the treasures, lest we bump around like headless flies and take detours!"

Hearing Ji Luanxi's blunt words.

Gu Hongchen's gaze also quickly focused on Chang Xiyue, her eyes showing clear expectation. After all, in this peril-filled Ancient Heavenly Palace, having a "local" who was familiar with the terrain to lead the way would definitely save a lot of trouble.

The three of them looked at Chang Xiyue in unison, waiting for her guidance.

Standing at the very front, Su Xuanchen still wore that lazy, nonchalant smile and said nothing. But because of the eerie situation where his Divine Sense was obstructed just now, in the depths of his extremely deep eyes, there was a bit more solemnity regarding the unknown and a sense of vigilance toward this Ancient Heavenly Palace that seemingly belonged to him.