Xu Yuan knew there was a teleportation array inside the tree hollow beneath the Beguiling Divine Sakura. He also knew this place could lead to many locations, the library, the treasure vault, even the sect master’s bedchamber.
In Azure Point, the way it worked had been extremely simple. The player would be taken to a map, then click the destination with the mouse. But now, when his soul intent connected with the array, the scene before him left him slightly stunned.
It was as if his consciousness had been uploaded into the sky above the Dome Palace. From there, he could see everything below with perfect clarity. Jade towers and immortal pavilions hid among drifting clouds. Mist rolled gently with the wind. Spirits and monsters wandered leisurely through the palace complex.
Xu Yuan did not rush to teleport. Instead, he searched through the vast Dome Palace for the figure of a woman in black. When he had entered the secret realm, he had deliberately let go of Ran Qingmo’s hand, causing her to be teleported somewhere else.
Still, he had already told her about some of the things inside this secret realm beforehand. By now, that iceberg of a woman might already have entered this space.
After searching for a while, he still had not found Ran Qingmo. Instead, he spotted a barefoot young girl in pale red palace robes.
She was currently hopping along a vermilion corridor with bare feet, wandering around with a face full of curiosity. She looked left, then right. She did not look like someone who had entered a deadly forbidden zone at all. She looked more like she was here for a picnic.
Tian Yan had come in too. And what was more, this woman had already reached the Soul Bewildering Corridor of Sakura Leech Lake. As he watched her, something even more alarming happened. The woman seemed to know the route as well, and she was walking straight toward the Beguiling Divine Sakura.
Xu Yuan fell silent for a moment. Then, all of a sudden, Tian Yan looked up at the sky. Her golden eyes were still as brilliant as ever. It lasted only an instant, but for some reason, Xu Yuan had the distinct feeling that she could see him.
While Xu Yuan hesitated, the barefoot girl had already raised her hand and waved toward the sky with a beaming smile. Her red lips parted slightly. Judging from the shape of her mouth, she seemed to be saying, “Xu Changtian, I found you.”
Xu Yuan frowned and gave a soft snort. He prepared to use the soul key granted to him by the Beguiling Divine Sakura to control the illusion array outside. Earlier, the Soul Bewildering Corridor had merely been in standby mode. If it were truly activated, that vermilion corridor would become a complete trapping formation.
Once someone entered, unless they could break the formation by force, there would be no way out.,
“Xu boy, run!” Suddenly, a shout exploded in Xu Yuan’s mind. The Sage’s remnant soul spoke rapidly. “That one is fake! Her real body has already reached the entrance!”
Xu Yuan’s pupils shrank slightly. He trusted that the Sage’s remnant soul would not lie to him about something like this. Without the slightest hesitation, his soul intent immediately locked onto the Dome Palace’s library.
BUZZ! A low hum rang out. White light flashed, and Xu Yuan’s figure vanished in an instant.
The tree hollow, which had been bright as day only moments ago, gradually dimmed. In the blink of an eye, everything returned to silence.
Tap, tap, tap... The sound of bare feet stepping on the stone floor was soft, yet perfectly clear.
Tian Yan slowly walked down into the tree hollow. She looked at the place where Xu Yuan had disappeared, her willow-leaf brows knitting together in slight distress. “I clearly should have caught up. So why... did I miss again?”
The Dome Palace’s library was called the The Deep Archive. It had thirteen floors in total. Each floor was guarded by arrays and spirits, and there were likewise three ways to go upstairs.
The first was to break through by force and slaughter your way up floor by floor. The second was to use the token dropped by a certain madwoman. The third was to travel directly through the teleportation array beneath the Beguiling Divine Sakura.
Since the teleportation distance was not particularly far this time, Xu Yuan did not pass out. After a brief wave of dizziness, he raised his eyes and looked around. It was an elegant, antique room, carrying the faint, unique fragrance of paper screens. Three rows of bookshelves stood neatly in the center of the room.
And at this moment, in the middle of those shelves, a young married woman stood quietly in the aisle between the bookcases, dusting the secret manuals.
Xu Yuan’s gaze sharpened slightly at the sight.
The woman wore a jade-green skirt of fine silk on her lower body, though it did very little to hide the perky curve of her hips. Her upper body was covered only by a traditional chest wrap and a half-transparent black silk robe, revealing large stretches of skin as fair and lustrous as snow.
She seemed to notice Xu Yuan, who had suddenly been teleported in. And at that moment, the sakura mark between his brows appeared once more.
The young woman glanced at it. Her killing intent faded at once, and a thick, seductive charm filled her brows and eyes. She half-crouched and bowed, accidentally revealing a generous glimpse of spring scenery.
“Lady Saintess, you have arrived.”
Xu Yuan froze for a moment when he heard this, but then quickly understood.
Yuchu, who had been sacrificed in the blood ritual, had once been the Saintess of this Splendorbloom Sect. Naturally, the soul key she had given him was hers.
Thinking of this, Xu Yuan let out a long breath. He should be safe for the moment. This Deep Archive had thirteen floors in total. Each floor had its own boss. From the first to the eighth floor, the bosses were all level seventy or above. From the ninth to the twelfth floor, they were level eighty or above.
In other words, there were now eight Grandmasters and four Origin Awakener experts guarding the door downstairs for him.
Xu Yuan refused to believe that, after becoming reality, these bosses would still behave like they did in the game, standing there like idiots in their own boss rooms after an intruder showed up, politely waiting for a one-on-one duel.
Eight third rank, and four second rank cultivators. Plus this alluring young matron at the peak of the second rank on the top floor...
Xu Yuan felt that even if Xu Changge came here, he might not be able to fight his way through. Once his nerves relaxed, he sat down heavily on the stone steps behind him. His eyes, quite naturally, drifted toward the only woman in the study.
A few breaths later, the young matron noticed his gaze and smiled sweetly at him, then slowly walked over. Her silk robe swayed. Her waist and hips moved in a gentle rhythm. A slender waist, a flat lower abdomen, and the occasional perfectly timed glimpse of thigh.
As she drew closer, a soft, decadent melody even seemed to rise in the air around them, dripping with temptation.
In the end, this charming young matron very considerately knelt before Xu Yuan. Every tiny movement she made carried a hint of longing.
At that moment, Xu Yuan suddenly remembered something.
The Splendorbloom Sect, like the Joyous Union Sect, seemed to practice dual cultivation. And dual cultivation did not necessarily have to be between a man and a woman.
Xu Yuan swallowed and was just about to speak when he suddenly heard the Sage’s remnant soul sneer inside his mind.
“Heh. I’m starting to believe what you said.”
And with that sneer, the scene before Xu Yuan’s eyes shifted. The library was still the same library. The bookshelves were still exactly as they had been.
The only thing that had changed was the young matron kneeling in front of him. It was a movable stone carving, sculpted into the lifelike form of a young married woman.
Perhaps because too many years had passed, faint cracks had already appeared on the surface of the stone. Even so, the seductive charm in those eyes remained as vivid as ever.
Xu Yuan’s eyelid twitched, and he quietly backed away a little. A man could not. At the very least, he really should not.
With a light cough, he stood up directly and said, “I came here to find a cultivation technique.”
The stone-carved matron did not continue pestering him. She slowly rose and gave a respectful bow. “Yes. Which skill is Lady Saintess looking for?”
Xu Yuan pondered for a moment, then said in a low voice, “The Nine Origin Calming Art.”
“Yes.” A faint glow flashed through the stone matron’s eyes. She stood and walked toward the bookshelves. And even as she walked, her waist and hips still carried a certain lingering charm.
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