Aspiring to the Immortal Path
chapter-530

It was a giant gate of black stone.

It was hidden flush with the walls, and if Tutu hadn't pointed it out, Tang Jie (original body) wouldn't have found it, even if he had been standing right in front of it.

"It was really hidden rather well," Tang Jie said as he lightly patted the stone gate. "So you're saying that the world behind this gate is the infinite void?"

He pushed on the gate.

With a clacking, the gate opened inward, revealing a long black corridor, not some infinite void.

Surprised, Tang Jie turned to Tutu, who frantically said, "This isn't an ordinary gate, but one that can lead to different locations. Look at the dial on the gate."

He looked at where Tutu was pointing and found that a special dial had appeared on the gate.

Tang Jie could have sworn that this wasn't there before.

There was a pointer on the dial that was swaying, but no matter how it swayed, it never left the center point.

Tang Jie realized something. He moved the needle to the side and then backed out of the gate.

The gate slammed shut.

At the same time, the entire maze rumbled as it began to shift.

At this time, Tang Jie couldn't open the gate no matter how hard he pushed.

When the rumbling finally stopped and the maze stopped shifting, Tang Jie pushed on the gate, and he found that the world behind it had completely changed. In front of him was a garden covered in white mist, clearly the place his avatar had been through.

"So this gate really can take you to different places," Xu Miaoran gasped. "What an amazing gate."

"No, it's not just the gate." Tang Jie glanced behind him. "It's a formation. This entire maze actually exists for the sake of this gate… A teleportation formation that can constantly change its exit… that's just too amazing!"

Tang Jie's eyes blazed with a fervent light.

It was no wonder the maze could shift. It turned out that each shift was meant for adjusting the coordinates for the location behind the gate. The real pivot of this maze was the dial, but it was hidden together with the stone gate it was attached to and not easily found. If Tutu and Shi Jingzhai hadn't crossed the void and come in through this gate, he would have never known about this maze's secret.

Now that he knew that this stone gate was connected to the infinite void, he decided that this had to be an important location in the Court of Myriad Domains, one that could lead to other important locations in the court.

While everyone else was still scavenging in the underground palace, Tang Jie could use this gate to go on a looting spree.

With this thought in mind, Tang Jie adjusted the dial again.

As the maze shifted, the stone gate once more opened up to that black corridor.

"You guys go in first. If you see anything good, take it. Once you've gotten everything, come back," Tang Jie ordered Xu Miaoran.

"What about you?" Xu Miaoran asked.

"I'm going to stay here and study this teleportation formation. The formation itself is a massive treasure trove."

The Rosecloud Domain had never had a teleportation formation that could have multiple teleportation points. If Tang Jie could master it, he could set one up in the Mountain River State Diagram, giving him an excellent trump card.

Xu Miaoran nodded and led Xian Tao and Hong Yuan down the corridor.

Once they were gone, Tang Jie began to lay down a formation.

The formation he laid down was the Heavenly Divination Formation, and he used it together with the Illuminating Eye.

By using the Illuminating Eye to observe the world, he could possess peerless calculation powers. In order to understand the secrets of the maze's formation, he had to use all the observation and simulation methods he had. Not only that, Tang Jie also added on a spirit detection formation and an illumination formation, allowing him to detect spiritual energy in and clearly see his surroundings. Finally, he cast an image manifestation spell to visualize everything he was thinking and seeing.

Through all these various methods, the entirety of the maze appeared before him.

Tang Jie's eyes darted about the maze, and with the help of the Heavenly Divination Formation, wherever he looked, he would gain numerous pieces of information concerning that location. As he assembled all this data, it would ultimately be reproduced through the image manifestation spell onto a formation diagram.

Thus, the formation diagram for a teleportation formation with multiple teleportation points appeared as if it was being 3D-printed, bit by bit.

Time slowly passed.

The blank formation diagram gradually filled with detail, bursting with the mysteries of the world of High Antiquity.

Tang Jie had managed to comprehend some of these things in the observation process, but there were also some things that he only knew the shape of and not the reason, and he needed to go back and slowly research them. But regardless, through Tang Jie's thorough scanning and recording, the true face of the maze's teleportation formation was slowly revealed to him.

He was more than halfway through the recording.

At this moment, his vision suddenly blurred. Something had intruded into Tang Jie's observation zone.

He looked over and saw that it was an old Daoist, and he was holding someone in his hand: Xi Canhen!

Tang Jie was stunned.

What was going on here?

In the middle of his shock, that old Daoist gasped and began to look around as if he had noticed something.

Tang Jie also gasped.

It had to be understood that Tang Jie had used a combination of spell arts and formations to thoroughly investigate this maze, and all this together with his Dao of Insight was what allowed him to detect the old Daoist. But that old Daoist needed only a glance to sense something, meaning that he was extremely strong.

Speak-not, think-not!

He was already close to the realm of speak-not, think-not.

Was this old Daoist at Violet Palace? At the lowest, he was at the peak of Soul Transformation.

As this thought occurred to him, Tang Jie closed his eyes and stopped looking at the old Daoist.

The old Daoist sensed that feeling of being watched disappear, and he shook his head. "I'm being paranoid."

Holding Xi Canhen, he continued down the maze, navigating the turns as if he was quite familiar with the place.

Tang Jie didn't dare to look at the old Daoist, so he activated Heart Consonance and said, "Canhen!"

Xi Canhen was being restrained by the old Daoist, so he couldn't activate Heart Consonance, but he could receive. Upon hearing Tang Jie's voice, he replied in joy, "Big Brother Tang, a very formidable guy has come."

"I see him. Who is he?"

"Cang Qingfeng!"

'Cang Qingfeng'?

Tang Jie trembled in shock.

This man was Cang Qingfeng?

Having read Cang Qingfeng's history, he naturally understood how terrifying this person was.

This was a savage that even an Immortal Platform Titan of the Basking Moon Sect couldn't kill.

Xi Canhen added, "He killed everyone, everyone that Godhead Palace had deployed around the Spirit Mountains! More than a thousand people! He killed them all, this beast! He isn't human!"

In bits and pieces, Xi Canhen explained what had happened.

Tang Jie gasped, "You're saying that he passed arts to you so he could use your hands to nurture the sword? Wait; what did you say the sword's name was? 'The Immeasurable Sword'… the hiltless Immeasurable Sword."

Tang Jie's eyes gleamed.

He was almost certain now that this Cang Qingfeng had some deep connection to the master of that white jade building.

But the Court of Myriad Domains had fallen ten thousand years ago. If this was true, then how long had Cang Qingfeng lived?

Tang Jie couldn't help but shiver at the thought.

At this moment, Tang Jie received information from the Heavenly Divination Formation.

The information concerned the investigation of the maze formation, but in this process, some dissonant substance had appeared, like some outside force jumping in the middle of an intricately-arranged go board.

Cang Qingfeng!

This was the effect Cang Qingfeng was having on the Heavenly Divination Formation.

Suddenly, Tang Jie understood.

He understood where Cang Qingfeng was going!

The stone gate!

Damn it.

Tang Jie almost cursed out loud.

He had never imagined that this sort of thing would happen at a moment like this. Cang Qingfeng was rapidly approaching, but Xu Miaoran's group had yet to return.

Tang Jie hastily turned the dial on the stone gate, and then he withdrew to the side.

Tang Jie wasn't confident in his ability to deal with such a terrifying individual, so he could only beat a temporary retreat.

Cang Qingfeng quickly reached the stone gate.