Chapter 1610: Chapter 1606: Destruction Mingwang

“Young Master Shen, due to that Wu Luo, Che Qingtian and his people are blocked Outside, so you need not be in such a hurry. Rash actions often lead to mistakes,” Fire Spirit Child reminded.

Hearing this, Shen Luo also realized he had rushed too quickly and slowed down his pace, saying:

“I don’t know why, but I always feel that things won’t be that simple. Che Qingtian regards this place as his prohibited area and won’t give it up so easily.”

“You have a point. That Che Qingtian seems rather deranged, acting as if he’s willing to do anything for the sake of Tianyan Palace. Perhaps he could catch up; however, you should still be careful,” said Fire Spirit Child, still slightly taken aback by his words.

Shen Luo nodded his head, progressing while activating the Ghost Eye of the Netherworld to survey his Surroundings.

Although his speed had decreased considerably, it still took him less than half an hour to reach the Tiangong Hall.

On the way, Shen Luo also encountered several roaming Armors attacking him, but these Armors posed no threat to him at all. He annihilated them with a flip of his hand and casually collected some Precious materials.

The Surroundings of the Tiangong Hall, which were damaged from the previous great battle, were inexplicably restored, showing no signs of repair.

“Could it be that there’s someone else inside Tianyan Palace? Or does the Heavenly Puzzling Maze have a self-repairing capability?” Shen Luo thought of Ghost Yan’s City of Dolls, which had the ability to repair itself.

He quickly shook his head and waved his sleeve.

Nine Pure Yang Swords shot out, performing the Nine Swords Unity God’s Power, striking the main gate of Tiangong Hall, while also summoning the Divine Rat to sneak inside.

A moment later, Shen Luo, using the previous method, successfully opened the main gate of the Tiangong Hall.

Inside the great hall was empty, and he ignored it, going straight to the outer part of the Secret Chamber at the deepest part.

The prohibition at the entrance of the Secret Chamber was also intact, with the black Key still inserted above, just as before.

After Shen Luo opened the door of the Secret Chamber, the first thing that caught his eye was the immense Destructive Mingwang Yan Armor.

He breathed a sigh of relief, his intuition had been correct, and he could sense that the Elder’s Token of Tianji City was still inside, and the secret door on the chest of the Yan Armor was also revealed there.

Shen Luo leaped up, grabbed the secret door on the chest of the Destructive Mingwang Armor, and pulled it open, revealing the control room.

He stepped inside, sat down on the golden chair, and began to control the Armor in the same way as before.

His Cultivation level had become much stronger than when he previously controlled this Armor, and now he piloted the Destructive Mingwang with much ease. All around the colossal Armor, colorful Spiritual Light began to flicker, emitting sounds of howling; the giant form shrank rapidly, reducing to a height of several tens of meters within a few breaths.

Shen Luo stimulated the Free and Easy Mirror, and a stream of red light enveloped the Destructive Mingwang, drawing it into the mirror.

His Divine Sense had also improved a lot, allowing him not only to operate the Yan Armor but also to have spare strength to probe the various prohibitions inside it.

The Destructive Mingwang Yan Armor was indeed powerful, but the energy consumption was also tremendous. There was a structure near the Dantian of the Yan Armor that resembled a Dantian itself, where a Smelting Spirit Array was set up. It required the input of fuel to maintain the Array’s operation to enable the Destructive Mingwang to fight.

Fortunately, this Smelting Spirit Array no longer absorbed only the Armor Crystal; Immortal jade or other objects rich in Spiritual Power would suffice as well.

Previously, when Shen Luo activated the Destructive Mingwang for the big battle with Che Qingtian, he had depleted most of the stored Spiritual Power in the Dantian of the Yan Armor, leaving very little remaining.

He flipped his hand and took out nearly ten thousand Immortal jades, tossing them into the Dantian Array of the Destruction Mingwang like scattering beans. The Smelting Spirit Array immediately emitted a bright red light, like a raging fire burning fiercely, turning these Immortal jades into accumulated Spiritual Power. Yet it still wasn’t enough to completely replenish the Spiritual Power inside the Yan Armor.

“As expected of the Yan Armor of a Half-step Heavenly Venerate, the consumption is truly astonishing.” He chuckled, took out another five thousand Immortal jades, and tossed them in. Only then was the Spiritual Power of the Yan Armor fully restored.

The restored Spiritual Power of Destruction Mingwang emitted a terrifying aura of annihilating everything once again, which even with Shen Luo’s current strength made him feel a tinge of alarm.

Fortunately, this formidable power was now completely in his hands.

A flicker of excitement passed through Shen Luo’s eyes, but then he quickly regained his composure, left the Carefree Mirror, and left the Destruction Mingwang inside the Carefree Mirror.

This Yan Armor was his biggest trump card at the moment, to be used at the most critical time.

He immediately walked out of the Secret Chamber and destroyed the prohibition outside with a single sword stroke to prevent others from discovering the secrets here.

After finishing all this, Shen Luo left the Tiangong Hall, took out a map to look at it, and then flew away in a different direction.

Inside this Tian Xuan Heavenly Puzzling Maze, besides the Golden Stone Pavilion and Tiangong Hall, there were two places he had not visited: the Refining Device Hall and the Spirit Beast Garden. Surely they couldn’t be empty. Having the map in hand, he naturally couldn’t miss them.

Shen Luo followed the map and, a quarter of an hour later, arrived at the Spirit Beast Garden, his expression somewhat startled.

The layout of the Spirit Beast Garden was similar to the Tiangong Hall, with a huge Stone Door as the entrance, but the Big Gate was half-collapsed at the moment, as if it had been destroyed by brute force, with the interior also appearing to have suffered considerable damage.

He hurriedly entered. The space inside the Spirit Beast Garden was ten times larger than the Tiangong Hall, looking almost like a small Secret Realm, with a blue sky dotted with floating white clouds. The ground was dominated by two small mountains rising over a hundred feet tall, lush with flowers, trees, and plants. A stream meandered between the two mountain peaks. The scenery was very beautiful.

Several black beast cages were placed throughout the Spirit Beast Garden, both on the mountains and below them, haphazardly numbering twenty or thirty. Each cage was dozens of feet in size, shiny black, and made of unknown materials that looked incredibly sturdy. Complex patterns, clearly prohibitive Spirit Patterns, were also carved around the cages.

However, all the cages were now broken open with a big hole, the Spirit Patterns around them dim and without luster, clearly all destroyed. Each cage contained a dried-up carcass of a Monster, apparently the original spirit beasts of the cages.

“What happened here? Could someone have gotten here before me? It doesn’t seem like it.” Shen Luo muttered to himself.

Whether it be the Big Gate of the Spirit Beast Garden, the broken parts of the cages, or the carcasses inside the cages, it all appeared to be many years old.

He swept his sleeve over a carcass, his brows quickly knitting together. This carcass was nothing but an empty shell; all its Spiritual Power had disappeared, leaving it without any value.

“It seems to have been drained of all its essence and spirit by some kind of Spirit Devouring Divine Technique. Throw the skeleton into the Carefree Mirror, and I will take a closer look,” Fire Spirit Child said.

Shen Luo flipped his hand and put the carcass into the Carefree Mirror, continuing to inspect different places in the Spirit Beast Garden.

All the spirit beasts in the cages had perished, leaving behind only carcases. However, three cages were just broken with a big hole, and the inside was completely empty without any carcasses to be seen.

“It seems that the spirit beasts from these three cages have escaped. If my guess is correct, the carcasses of the spirit beasts in the garden are likely related to these three escaped spirit beasts,” voiced Fire Spirit Child from within the Carefree Mirror.

“Most likely so,” Shen Luo shared the opinion, his expression revealing a hint of regret.

He had thought he would be able to rake in a large amount of treasures like in the Tiangong Hall and make a fortune, only to end up empty-handed.