Chapter 464 - 240: The Heart Demon Emerges

In truth, his Divine Sense had never left the cave dwelling where Liou Yuan was in closed cultivation.

The fat Daoist trudged through the snow, but even if he tried to hide his tracks, he couldn’t deceive the young man.

Yet he still approached in this manner, a smile on his face.

"The Patriarch doesn’t really need to come every day; I can watch over Mr. Liou for you."

"It’s more reassuring to see it with my own eyes," Liou Zhen replied softly.

Liou Hongjun naturally wouldn’t miss such a perfect opportunity to flatter him, speaking firmly, "Mr. Liou has your presence from back in the day, a mere Heart Demon can’t stop him. I reckon he’ll awaken from it all before the spring."

"The Heart Demon trial is different from the power at the opening of the Qi Mansion; it varies from person to person."

During the months of Liou Yuan’s secluded cultivation, Liou Hongjun had diligently performed, leaving Liou Zhen unable to fault him, giving him a bit of a kind look, saying gently, "The Five Extremes Mountain has seen countless outstanding talents fall at this trial."

"According to the Liou Family’s records, those geniuses who perished in this Heart Demon trial did so because they touched upon or were influenced by wills far beyond the Foundation Establishment Realm, which magnified the Heart Demon’s power and led to their downfall."

Liou Hongjun consoled with a smile, "Mr. Liou’s actions are all recorded within the Sect, so you can rest easy. Now, with the Five Extremes Mountain asserting control over Jiuli State and the Jin Dynasty, peace prevails."

Liou Zhen shook his head; his brother had too many secrets, and he truly couldn’t guarantee whether Liou Yuan had come into contact with those forces that could amplify the power of the Heart Demon trial.

He could only silently think, "Let’s hope so."

On the other side.

Inside Liou Yuan’s cavern dwelling.

The Qi Mansion, just recently subdued by Liou Yuan’s Calming Spell, fell into a brief calm.

Crash! The entire Qi Mansion erupted like boiling water scorched by fierce flames, unleashing waves severalfold more intense than before.

The entire Qi Mansion churned like a raging sea.

Within Liou Yuan’s Heart Demon illusion.

After shattering countless illusions with the Calming Spell, his conscious world had lingered in chaos for a long time.

But through it all, Liou Yuan never relaxed, silently chanting the Calming Spell in his heart, maintaining the reflection of the Buddha in his eyes.

At the instant the Qi Mansion boiled.

A thick white mist suddenly emerged in this chaotic world.

Instantly they engulfed Liou Yuan and encircled this chaotic world.

Unknowingly, Liou Yuan was dragged into another illusion.

He saw two towering giant peaks.

At this moment, he was positioned at a crossing underneath these giant peaks.

The white mist surged from the void, suffused with strands of peculiar Spiritual Power, spreading wantonly, quickly obscuring all details of the crossing.

"Cyan Feather Gui Character Crossing!" Liou Yuan’s eyes widened as if recalling something terrifying, his body shivering beneath the mist’s embrace.

Simultaneously.

Outside the crossing, the surface of the water, the thick mist began to recede.

A gigantic ship slowly sailed from within the mist.

The years had etched profound grooves across its hull, like a ship abandoned at the world’s edge, now crossing the rivers of history, re-emerging.

The ship, from bow to stern, stretched immeasurably long, its towering stature surpassing even the two giant peaks behind Cyan Feather Gui Character Crossing.

As the ship moved, the black chains wrapping its hull occasionally clashed, emitting deafening roars that reverberated at the crossing.

"Boom!" The moment Liou Yuan’s eyes caught sight of the ghost ship, his mind exploded in a roar, instantly losing all ability to think.

After a slight stiffness, his body involuntarily began stepping forward, moving slowly toward the ghost ship.

As Liou Yuan became ensnared in the ghost ship illusion.

At the Outer Sect of the Five Extremes Mountain, the mist array protecting the mountain gate suddenly quaked.

The array mist, billowing among the many peaks, seemed agitated by an invisible hand, furiously ravaging the mountain ranges.

The winds stirred up even swept toward the five peaks of the Outer Sect of the Five Extremes Mountain.

Near the Array, in the frost forest, the wind’s ripples disturbed the snow clinging to branches, causing clusters to fall, startling some white-feathered celestial cranes into flight from the woods, spiraling fearfully above the Outer Sect of the Five Extremes Mountain, occasionally letting out sharp, high-pitched cries.

The Outer Sect disciples were roused by the cranes’ cries, emerging from their cavern dwellings to look toward the Guardian Mist Array over the snow-laden five peaks.

The wildly surging, ocean-wave-like mist made the Outer Sect disciples’ expressions change dramatically.

"An attack!"

"Bold! Who dares trespass on our Five Extremes Mountain?"

"Quick, notify the Disciplinary Hall! We have invaders!"

The disciples of the Five Extremes Mountain fell into chaos, many rushing directly to the Disciplinary Hall atop each of their peaks, eager to report what they had witnessed.

However, the Foundation Establishment cultivators within the Sect had already sensed it ahead of time.

As the light surged at the gateway connecting the Outer and Inner Sects, a dozen Foundation Establishment cultivators swiftly emerged from the Inner Sect, standing in the void over the Outer Sect, gravely watching the stirring scene of the Five Extremes Mountain’s grand array.

Leading them was the Protector of the Five Extremes Mountain, Zhao Zhuoran.

Yet, even for a Foundation Establishment cultivator, a glance revealed no enemy.

A sweep of the Divine Sense only detected emptiness within and outside the mist array.

This prompted Zhao Zhuoran and the other Foundation Establishment cultivators to furrow their brows.

The absence of visible enemies didn’t mean there weren’t any.

As time went on, the Outer Sect’s mist array of the Five Extremes Mountain churned more violently, the mist within the array even being blown towards the Five Extremes Mountain itself.