Chapter 770 - 228: Red Eyes Level 6 (4)

Shen Bai said pensively, "I’m a simple man. Everything you’re saying is too sophisticated for me to understand."

His reasoning was simple.

The Forbidden Land had its own rules, and his goal was to shatter them all.

As for the rest, Shen Bai couldn’t be bothered.

"Where is the control core for the City Lord’s Mansion?" Shen Bai asked.

The City Lord was already beyond saving. Under the destructive power of Shen Bai’s Sword Qi, he was only managing to cling to life for a few more moments.

The City Lord gave a bitter smile. "It’s right inside the City Lord’s Mansion. My study has a secret passage that leads directly to the control core. You want to destroy it?"

"Molten Rock City will be destroyed."

"But perhaps that’s for the best. We’re all living a lie anyway. It might be better if everything is destroyed."

With those words, the City Lord could hold on no longer. He disintegrated into a cloud of ash, from head to toe.

Once the ash settled, nothing at all remained.

Shen Bai narrowed his eyes, then cast his gaze to the City Lord’s Mansion below.

Every Cultivator in Molten Rock City had witnessed the battle between Shen Bai and the City Lord.

After they saw Shen Bai win, a trace of panic flashed in their eyes, but no one dared to step forward.

Even their strongest, the City Lord, had died at Shen Bai’s hands. For them to go up now would be to senselessly add to the body count.

Shen Bai looked at the crowd below, shook his head, and paid them no mind. He became a blur and descended into the City Lord’s Mansion.

Molten Rock City was huge, and the City Lord’s Mansion was equally vast.

As Shen Bai landed in the City Lord’s Mansion, the Molten Rock Guards, clad in fiery red armor, exchanged uncertain glances, hesitating to advance.

Shen Bai glanced around and said, "Leave."

He didn’t want to fight anymore, nor was there any reason to.

The most important thing now was to find the control core and uncover the truth of the Molten Rock Forbidden Land.

No one stood in Shen Bai’s way.

Shen Bai stepped into the largest room and activated his Void-breaking Red Eye, enveloping his surroundings in its perception.

This was the City Lord’s study, and nothing could hide from the Void-breaking Red Eye.

Shen Bai’s gaze fell upon a corner of the study, and he walked over.

This corner looked perfectly ordinary, with nothing unusual about it.

Shen Bai raised his right hand and pressed it against the corner wall.

A square tile on the wall promptly sank inward.

After the square tile sank in, a deep pit appeared in the very center of the study floor.

The pit seemed bottomless, but its walls were studded with Luminous Pearls.

The light radiating from the Beads felt even hotter than fire.

Shen Bai took his hand off the wall, walked to the edge of the pit, and jumped in without a moment’s hesitation.

Wind rushed past his ears. After several seconds, with a loud THUD, Shen Bai landed on the tunnel floor.

The shaft he’d entered was narrow, but the space he landed in was exceptionally wide.

Ahead was a passage wide enough for ten people to walk abreast, and at its end was a stone door.

Shen Bai walked up to the stone door and placed his hand on it.

The stone door was heavy, but in Shen Bai’s hands, it felt as light as paper.

Shen Bai easily pushed the stone door wide open.

When Shen Bai pushed the stone door open, the scene inside was revealed.

Behind the stone door lay another vast, yet completely empty, underground Space.

Except for a wooden box placed in the very center, there was nothing else.

Under the perception of his Void-breaking Red Eye, Shen Bai sensed the object inside the wooden box and walked closer.

The wooden box was not locked, and Shen Bai opened it with ease.

The moment the wooden box was opened, a fist-sized ball of light shot out from it and hovered in mid-air.

The ball of light was fiery red, just like a flame, but no scorching heat emanated from it.

Shen Bai stroked his chin. ’So this is the control core. But what should I do now?’

His plan had been to find the control core and try to understand it first. If that failed, he would destroy it and see if that would allow him to leave the Forbidden Land.

For the moment, Shen Bai wasn’t sure where to begin, but that wasn’t a major issue.

Shen Bai circulated the Qi in his body and cast the Infinite Divination Skill.

He had gathered enough clues by now, so he should be able to get more Information by using the Infinite Divination Skill.

As the Eight Trigrams of the Infinite Divination Skill materialized in mid-air, an increasing number of threads appeared before Shen Bai’s eyes.

Threads emerged from the Eight Trigrams and then plunged into the fiery red control core before him.

To an onlooker, it would seem Shen Bai was just standing before the control core, doing nothing. But only he knew that streams of Information were continuously flowing from the core into his mind.

’I see. If I destroy this, the Molten Rock Forbidden Land will transform into something else entirely.’

Shen Bai now had a plan.

According to the instructions given to him by the Infinite Divination Skill, the reason people here experienced the so-called madness and awakening was all related to the control core.

To call it the control core of the City Lord’s Mansion was perhaps not quite accurate.

This so-called control core was actually the core of the Molten Rock Forbidden Land itself.

Once it was destroyed, all the rules of the Molten Rock Forbidden Land would cease to exist.

The common people and Cultivators of Molten Rock City would all become awakened.

They would realize they were merely birds in a cage, but they would still be unable to leave.

If they were to leave Molten Rock City and the Molten Rock Forbidden Land, their bodies and souls would be annihilated.

"Living in a daze versus living in clarity... I don’t know which you would choose. But for me, my choice is to break the Molten Rock Forbidden Land."