572: Explore the secrets of the Immortal Execution Sword Palace! An opportunity to lure the Thousand-Handed Demoness!

"Buzz!"

"Exploration Hint: The dragon transformation pool contains a dragon secret! Use the treasure map you obtained from the Dragon Palace Main Hall to unlock the mechanism and acquire this secret!"

Su Lie couldn't help but exclaim, "Holy crap! This is a nested trap!"

Saying that, he quickly took out the transparent silk brocade scroll.

He had already used 25 minutes.

There were about 15 minutes left until 12 PM.

In other words, in 15 minutes, Mysterious Feather would personally come to the spiritual field to inspect Su Lie's work.

This wasn't because Mysterious Feather didn't trust Su Lie, but rather, it was a requirement from Heavenly Sword Peak Lord, Mysterious Feather.

At this moment, under Su Lie's gaze, there was nothing on the silk brocade.

Just then, another hint appeared in Su Lie's line of sight.

"Buzz!"

"Exploration Hint: Please drip blood on the silk brocade! If your blood contains the bloodline of a divine dragon, you can activate this silk brocade!"

Su Lie's eyes flickered after reading it, and he immediately squeezed a drop of blood from a pore on his skin.

The fresh blood dripped onto the silk brocade, emitting a dazzling light.

The light vanished in an instant.

Some lines and patterns appeared on the silk brocade.

After glancing at it, Su Lie looked at the floor, walls, and ceiling of the grand hall.

Soon, through observation, he discovered overlapping patterns on the ceiling.

Su Lie floated to the ceiling, and under his careful observation, another Exploration Hint appeared.

Su Lie found that this hint actually required him to drip blood on the patterns to activate the formation.

After seeing it, he directly dripped blood on these patterns.

Buzz!

A light lit up on the patterns.

Su Lie's eyes lit up at this, "Indeed!"

The next second, to his surprise, the entire hall suddenly burst into light.

The internal patterns automatically extended and expanded.

Five minutes later, the outside of the hall was already surrounded by Formless Ghosts.

They did not rashly enter, but instead dispatched a Formless Ghost to go outside and inform the Formless Ghost Clan.

Su Lie heard the sounds outside and felt a slight anxiety in his heart.

Buzz!

At the eleventh minute, the formation patterns inside the hall were completely activated.

A beam of light shot out from the top of the hall, landing directly on a golden brick in the central area of the hall.

The golden brick was pulled up by this force, suspended in mid-air.

Subsequently, a golden light pillar was released from underground.

This light pillar also landed on the suspended floor tile.

Under the action of the two forces, the floor tile actually transformed into a golden book.

By the time the light dissipated, fourteen minutes had already passed.

Su Lie knew time was short, so he immediately grabbed the golden book and put it into his storage slot, then scattered a pile of level 12 divine Wonder-Scent Burst-Thud Fruit on the ground.

Buzz!

The next second, he instantly teleported back to the spiritual field on the hillside behind Heavenly Sword Peak.

Su Lie immediately checked the rune stone he had hidden, and after confirming that there was no damage or contact, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Just as he emerged from his invisibility, a deafening sound reached his ears.

Su Lie hurriedly walked out of the spiritual field and looked outside.

Upon seeing this, Su Lie's heart panicked.

He saw a dense dark cloud gathering in the sky above the Great Abyss.

Thunder rumbled within the dark cloud.

At this moment, a grey shadow flew above Heavenly Sword Peak.

This grey shadow released a powerful aura, and looking at the dark cloud descending from the sky, he shouted loudly, "Stop!"

Boom!

Before his voice could even fall, within the Great Abyss area covered by the dark clouds in the sky, a pillar of lightning, large enough to occupy the entire Great Abyss, descended.

Su Lie looked up, and his pupils constricted.

This old man was none other than the old Daoist he had seen before, the Formless Ghost Ancestor of the Formless Ghost Clan.

Although this old fellow was very strong, even capable of instantly killing Su Lie, he was powerless to stop the majestic power of heaven and earth.

The pillar of lightning descended for 1 second.

The entire Great Abyss, along with the buildings next to it, completely melted and vanished the next second after the pillar of lightning disappeared.

The Great Abyss behind Heavenly Sword Peak transformed into a steep, sharp, and smooth chasm.

Although Su Lie did not go closer to check how deep it was, he could vaguely see parts of this chasm from his position.

Moreover, countless molten rocks were attached to the chasm's stone walls.

"Why?" The Formless Ghost Ancestor roared at the sky, his eyes bloodshot with rage.

Su Lie also secretly breathed a sigh of relief, "Hehe! Now I don't have to worry about whether I left any traces!"

Immediately after, Su Lie suddenly froze in place.

It took him more than ten seconds to snap out of it, "Holy crap! Can this move deal with the Formless Ghost Clan?"

At this moment, a thunderous rumble echoed from the sky, and an emotionless voice rang out, "This realm! All non-native Dao foods are forbidden!"

This sentence made Su Lie's eyelids twitch, and he hoarsely cried out in his heart, "the rules have changed! the rules have changed!"

When he first arrived, all non-native items and food from this world were forbidden.

But now it had only changed to food.

This indicated that the rules of this world were indeed affected by the mist rule, undergoing a huge change.

However, the wrath of this world's rules was indeed terrifying.

If discovered, immediate annihilation!

This attitude was chilling.

"Fortunately, I teleported away, otherwise, I would have truly been crushed by the rules!" Su Lie muttered with a solemn expression.

In the sky, the old Daoist's brows were tightly furrowed. He looked down at the Great Abyss and couldn't help but let out a long howl, "You vile creatures, do not let this old man catch you, otherwise I will exterminate your nine clans! May you never reincarnate for all eternity!"

Buzz!

Afterward, the old Daoist returned to the Sword Pavilion of Heavenly Sword Peak.

Immediately after, a large number of sword guards poured out from various parts of Heavenly Sword Peak, guarding all critical checkpoints.

Su Lie sighed inwardly at this, "The consequence of startling the snake is that every step is difficult!"

If he wanted to explore the Immortal Slaying Sword Residence without using the Invisibility Rule, it would probably be impossible.

"Fortunately, I still had a trick up my sleeve!" Su Lie secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

It was also at this moment that Mysterious Feather jogged over to Su Lie, smiled solemnly at him, and then entered the spiritual field to inspect it.

After confirming everything was in order, he then took Su Lie to the front mountain restaurant for a meal.

Along the way, Mysterious Feather said to Su Lie, "Junior Brother! The Sword Pavilion Ancestor's anger is all because the Great Abyss Divine Dragon was destroyed by the Heavenly Dao rules! Although the Divine Dragon obtained the extraterrestrial rule Dao treasure, it is still our Sword Sect's guardian beast, how could it be so easily killed!"

"Alas!"

"From the Ancestor's meaning, it seems there are enemies plotting!"

"Recently, the sect will be particularly strict, and I'm afraid I won't have much time to attend to various matters!"

"Enough said! Enough said!" Mysterious Feather shook his head.

After the two finished eating, Su Lie went directly to the rootless rice Grotto-Heaven. After completing his daily tasks, Su Lie used the same trick again, using the power of the invisibility ring to teleport near the spiritual field on the back mountain.

This time, he set his time limit to 10 minutes.

Because the power he had previously demonstrated allowed him to complete the spiritual field's arrangement and regulation tasks within 30 to 40 minutes.

Since this place was within the Grotto-Heaven's management hall, no one came in to inquire.

Only when Su Lie left would the guards of the Grotto-Heaven hall ask for a work signature.

It was precisely because he confirmed this point that he dared to do so.

When he returned to the spiritual field again, sword guards were already patrolling, and layers of formations, as well as various sensing talismans, had been set up.

There were also some sect disciples burying various detection tools everywhere.

Not just Heavenly Sword Peak, Su Lie also saw a large number of sect disciples flying on swords, entering mountain ravines and forests for deployment.

"This truly scared the Formless Ghosts!" Su Lie said with a hint of pride.

He instantly teleported to the entrance of the Immortal Slaying Sword Residence.

The buildings here had already collapsed.

The entrance to the internal cave passage was sealed by a sealing formation.

Around it, there were nearly a thousand heavily armored sword guards.

These sword guards were holding an urgent meeting due to the recent events.

Su Lie directly passed through the sealing formation. When he arrived inside the sword residence's cave, he felt the aura within the cave.

"Huh? The Formless Ghost Clan's pollution here is so dense! It's almost the same as the pollution density in the Dragon Palace!" His eyelids twitched.

At this moment, an Exploration Hint appeared again.

"Buzz!"

"Exploration Hint: The lowest level of the Immortal Slaying Sword Residence contains an Avici Purgatory, where the souls of one hundred thirteen thousand five hundred forty-six powerful experts from the Sword Sect's upper echelons are imprisoned!"

"Exploration Hint: The Immortal Slaying Sword Residence hides one million powerful Formless Ghosts. They are hidden everywhere and have set up a large number of mechanisms and traps here!"

"Exploration Hint: This is a dead end!"

Su Lie's eyelids twitched at this.

He instantly teleported back to the management hall of the rootless rice Grotto-Heaven.

His purpose in coming here was to live for 24 days and acquire enough resources within these 24 days, and to complete the mist rule task by the way.

Currently, he thought this Immortal Slaying Sword Residence was the birthplace of the Formless Ghost Clan.

Unexpectedly, this place was actually a trap.

Although he really wanted to save the souls of the Sword Sect's experts, as someone who also possessed the Avici Purgatory Talent, he could not step into another person's Avici Purgatory.

Because in another person's Avici Purgatory, the Purgatory Lord is the rule of the purgatory and can control everything within it.

Su Lie was worried that once he stepped into the purgatory, he would immediately be found by the Purgatory Lord, then instantly transferred to a prison to suffer endless despairing punishments.

This was not the outcome he wanted.

Moreover, the various masters of the Sword Sect only had their souls left.

Even if rescued, they would not bring much combat power to Su Lie.

What's more, according to Su Lie's investigation, it could be foreseen that the Formless Ghost Clan was not merely torturing these souls in the Avici Purgatory, but rather using these souls as emotional converters to temper negative emotions.

He didn't want to try to gain something and end up losing more, even risking his own life.

Therefore, after much consideration, Su Lie still decided not to venture there: "Since the Immortal Slaying Sword Residence is not the birthplace of the Formless Ghost Clan, then where is their birthplace?"

"Wait a minute!" Suddenly, Su Lie thought of a question: "Could it be Tangshan?"

When he seized the silver radiance moon from the side hall of the Great Abyss Dragon Palace, he saw the panel of the silver radiance moon through his Identification Talent.

From this panel, he learned that Tangshan Demon Prison was a demon prison set up by the first sect master of the Sword Sect.

Presumably, that should be Su Lie's destination.

"However, the light holy sword didn't mention Tangshan Demon Prison among these few places. Could this be an even older demon prison? This demon prison doesn't look like a good place at all!" A hint of doubt surfaced in Su Lie's mind.

He decided he must find time to thoroughly search for this place.

Afterward, Su Lie waited in the rootless rice Grotto-Heaven for about 35 minutes before leaving the grotto-heaven.

He signed the work log with the guards at the grotto-heaven entrance.

By the time Su Lie returned to Emperor Sword Peak, it was around 1 PM.

Su Lie stayed in his dormitory on the mountainside until close to 3 PM, then went to the main hall on the mountaintop.

This time, when Su Lie entered the underground secret chamber of the main hall, he happened to encounter Yu Jianying, whose arm was wrapped in bandages. He quickly feigned concern and asked, "Master! Are you injured?"

"Slaying demons and devils is the duty of us righteous sects! It is inevitable for a master to suffer some injuries while upholding justice and eradicating evil! Also, you don't need to go to the back mountain of Heavenly Sword Peak tomorrow!" Yu Jianying said to Su Lie solemnly.

Su Lie was stunned and quickly told Yu Jianying about his work these past few days and the additional tasks he received from Mysterious Feather.

Yu Jianying's eyes flickered after hearing this: "Two hours should be enough for your morning holy light bath and meal! Then, between 12 PM and 2 PM, you can have free time! The rest of the time, help me in the laboratory!"

"Yes!" Su Lie nodded in acceptance.

Yu Jianying smiled slightly and handed Su Lie a refining manual about 20 centimeters thick: "These are the treasures I need to refine. You need to help me process the preliminary materials! This is also a good opportunity to verify the relevant theoretical knowledge of the Artifact Sword Path! Pay close attention, and start following me tomorrow!"

"Yes!" Su Lie nodded in response: "This disciple will not fail your trust!"

Subsequently, Su Lie began cleaning.

Since Yu Jianying hadn't conducted experiments in the secret chamber these past few days, Su Lie found it particularly easy and simple to manage.

After completing the management and fertilization of the spiritual field, he returned to his dormitory and carefully examined the refining manual given by Yu Jianying.

Time passed bit by bit.

At midnight, 12 AM, a ripple of time fluctuated from Su Lie's room.

After Su Lie and everything around him fell into a frozen state, the Thousand-Hand Demoness slowly walked out of the clock.

She floated in the air, looking at Su Lie with a knowing smile, her face full of fatigue: "Friend! I'm back!"

Su Lie noticed that the Thousand-Hand Demoness's wings were now only three, and her aura had become incredibly weak, even her temporal power, which was previously unshakeable, had become precarious...