Chapter 1611: Chapter 1607: Take the Lead

Shen Luo did not stay long in the Spirit Beast Garden, quickly leaving for the last area: Refining Device Hall.

With the guidance of the map, the Heavenly Puzzling Maze seemed non-existent to him, and he soon arrived at his destination.

The Refining Device Hall was similar to the previous Tiangong Hall and Spirit Beast Garden, also located in a very spacious area, consisting of four or five large stone chambers; unfortunately, this place was also empty, evidently someone had beaten him to it.

However, unlike the Spirit Beast Garden, the traces of looting here were fresh, indicating that it had happened not long ago.

“Fire Daoist friend, can you discern anything?” Shen Luo transmitted his voice to Fire Spirit Child.

He had already cast spells to investigate the residual aura here, but the person seemed to have intentionally hidden their tracks, erasing all traces cleanly, leaving nothing for him to discover.

Fire Spirit Child, upon hearing this, did not say much. He flew out from the Carefree Mirror and summoned the Gu Xuan star disk to trigger one of the arrays on it, a milky white light pillar shot straight up, striking the ceiling of the Refining Device Hall.

A series of white spirit patterns emerged from the light pillar, spreading rapidly across the ceiling’s stone wall.

Fire Spirit Child did not stop casting his magic, forming hand seals and stimulating another silver array on the Gu Xuan star disk, spreading countless silver lights.

With both hands forming quick seals, the light from the two silver and white arrays merged together, revealing numerous tadpole-like silver-white spirit texts that seemed alive, swiftly moving around.

Seeing this, a hint of admiration flashed in Shen Luo’s eyes.

Tao Xiang had also simultaneously triggered several arrays in the Gu Xuan star disk before, but these were individual actions. The fact that Fire Spirit Child could combine two detection arrays showed that his abilities were more than ten times superior to those of Tao Xiang.

The white tadpoles quickly filled the entire Refining Device Hall, searching for clues everywhere, and many tadpole runes swirled even in the void.

Just then, a flickering white light suddenly emerged from the depths of the Refining Device Hall.

“Found it!” Fire Spirit Child and Shen Luo hurriedly headed there, reaching a dark crimson wall. The wall was covered with numerous white tadpole runes, flickering incessantly.

Just as Shen Luo was about to move forward to inspect it, Fire Spirit Child had already taken a step ahead, emitting a red light that struck a small protrusion in the corner of the dark red wall, barely noticeable at a casual glance.

Boom!

The dark red wall vibrated and moved sideways, revealing a door about three meters high.

“A secret chamber?” Shen Luo’s face brightened, and he stepped into it.

Inside was a fiery red stone chamber, not very large, about several dozen feet in size, with a complex fiery red array engraved on the floor, which also had many slots, probably for installing Immortal jade or fire crystal stones.

Currently, these slots were empty, unknown whether they were originally empty, or the installed stones had been taken by someone.

At the center of the fiery red array, there was a hole about a foot in diameter, occasionally letting out small flames, emitting terrifying high temperatures.

“Is this an Artifacts Refining array?” Shen Luo looked at the fiery red array on the ground.

“This array is very interesting. It combines the Leaving Fire Profound Yang Array, Ninety-nine Refining Fire Array, and Dragon and Tiger Cauldron Furnace Array. Truly an ingenious creation,” Fire Spirit Child said, his eyes exceptionally bright as he observed the fiery red array.

Shen Luo, not knowing much about arrays and even less about large refining formations, couldn’t see the marvels of this fiery red Great Formation and approached the hole to look down.

Below the hole floated a black magic array, faintly showing a vortex shape, still slowly rotating. Through the black vortex, deeper down was a crimson sea of flames, countless crimson bright flames swirling within it, mixed with streaks of golden flame, emitting thunderous noises.

“What is this black array? Its aura is neither demonic nor of yin attribute. And these crimson, golden flames–are they earth flames? They don’t seem so,” Shen Luo furrowed his brows, feeling increasingly that the Tianyan Palace was unfathomably deep.

He raised his hand, shooting out a red sword Qi, slashing it on the cave’s black magic array. The array was immediately torn with a long crack, strands of black Qi drifted from the crack, emitting a unique breath fluctuation.

“Witchcraft Power!” A silver light flashed through the void nearby, and Nie Caizhu’s figure appeared, her face full of astonishment.

“There is a Witch Array beneath us.” Shen Luo also recognized the fluctuation of the aura and pointed downwards.

Nie Caizhu hurried over and looked down at the Black Magic Array.

The Black Magic Array had strong restorative powers. The Spirit Patterns inside the formation flickered, the fissure quickly shrank, and soon entirely healed, the witchcraft aura that was emanating also disappeared.

“Such a powerful Witch Array, it can even hide its aura to this extent!” Nie Caizhu exclaimed with a flash in her beautiful eyes.

“Cai Zhu, can you tell what kind of Witch Array this is?” Shen Luo asked.

“I can’t see clearly. I only inherited the power of God Hou Yi and don’t know much about the Witch Clan. However, according to my feeling, it seems to be a summoning Witch Array, and the flames below are summoned by this formation,” said Nie Caizhu.

Shen Luo was not surprised by her words and nodded.

The Tianyan Palace is a structure suspended in mid-air, not connected with the earth’s fire; the fact that these flames were summoned is not strange.

“Cousin, what place is this? Why is there a Witch Array here?” Nie Caizhu asked.

She had been consolidating her cultivation level inside the Carefree Mirror and only came out after sensing the fluctuation of witchcraft power, unaware of the current situation.

“Fire Daoist friend, don’t just admire the array. Check out who exactly looted the Refining Device Hall blank,” upon hearing this, Shen Luo remembered their purpose here, quickly explained the current situation to Nie Caizhu, then turned to the Fire Spirit Child, who was still engrossed in watching the fiery red array, and urged him in a serious tone.

The Fire Spirit Child was fixated on the Ground Array, not even looking at Shen Luo, and waved his hand.

Countless white tadpole runes appeared out here, forming a giant white hand that grasped in the void.

Subtle black strands appeared and then gathered together, turning into a thick stream of Black Qi, which landed in front of Shen Luo.

“Demonic Qi!” Shen Luo’s pupils contracted as he immediately recognized the origin of this black qi.

“It seems that all of this is Wu Luo’s doing. She indeed also made it to the Heavenly Puzzling Maze,” Nie Caizhu said with slightly furrowed brows.

She was exceedingly sensitive to Demonic Qi, able to sense where this demonic Qi came from.

“You haven’t been in this second layer of Tianyan Palace for long, yet Wu Luo was able to find this Refining Device Hall and looted everything inside in such a short time. It’s quite abnormal, could it be that she also has a map?” Fire Spirit Child finally stopped observing the array and came over.

“Perhaps.” Shen Luo’s gaze flickered, then he turned and left the place.

Fire Spirit Child and Nie Caizhu did not linger either, quickly following after him.

The main sites inside the maze had been swept through, and Shen Luo did not stay long, heading towards the exit of the Heavenly Puzzling Maze.

An hour later, he reached the end of the maze.

A white light gate floated in front, identical to the one that appeared on the first layer after defeating the Human-shaped Armor.

Nie Caizhu stood by his side, while Fire Spirit Child returned to the Carefree Mirror.

Shen Luo originally intended to have Nie Caizhu return to the Carefree Mirror as well, but facing the unexplored third layer of the Tianyan Palace, Nie Caizhu insisted on accompanying him.

Unable to dissuade Nie Caizhu, Shen Luo had no choice but to let her follow.

“Cai Zhu, stay close to me,” Shen Luo said, leading Nie Caizhu into the light gate; their figures vanished into thin air.