Chapter 1038: How Huge!

"This..."

Witnessing this scene, President Han seemed to recall something, his pupils constricting, his voice trembling: "I understand..."

"Understand?"

"What exactly is going on?"

He understood, but the others were still full of confusion, unable to help looking over.

Even a powerful seal that could not be damaged by the full-force attack of a Saint Domain Fourth Layer master like Wu Shi—how could it vanish and begin to collapse after being sprinkled with... this stuff?

"If I'm not mistaken, this seal should be of pure yang attribute, most intolerant of filthy things and water... If it were just water, breaking it would be extremely difficult. But using the unbearable green swill liquid, it cannot defend itself and automatically collapses..."

President Han said.

"A pure yang seal doesn't have this characteristic, does it? I've never heard of it before," Wu Shi frowned.

He had seen many pure yang seals, but never heard that urine could break them. If it were that simple, such formations would have no reason to exist.

"A simple pure yang seal naturally wouldn't have this characteristic, but... if it were a flawless pure yang seal, it's hard to say. In fact, many formations fear filth. For example, some people trapped in a formation cannot break it by any means, but when a woman gives birth, the spiritual energy disperses and the formation completely collapses!"

President Han said.

"This... I think I've heard of that..."

Master Mu on the side nodded.

Women are yin. Many believe that the blood shed during childbirth is the ultimate yin substance, most suitable for breaking stable formations. Many people use this to refine formation-breaking tools specifically for cracking formations.

"Just by looking, he understood the seal's flaw. Dean Zhang's understanding of formations is truly astonishing..."

Seeing that everyone understood, President Han again looked at the young man hovering not far away and sighed.

A flawless pure yang seal—easy to say, but in reality, not simple at all. Even with a great filthy substance like urine, if you can't find the seal's nodes, pouring it on won't break it; instead, it might trigger a counterattack.

It's like attacking with force: the greater the force, the stronger the counterattack, eventually overwhelming you.

This seal was like that.

It seemed Dean Zhang's action was simple: take the wooden barrel into the sky, break it, and the seal was undone. But in reality, the height of the barrel, the impact force of the liquid, the nodes it landed on... not a single detail could be off.

The requirement for control was extremely high.

Probably only this freak could come up with such a breaking method and succeed in one go without any error.

"Such a bizarre breaking method... then how did Zhang Yinqiu and the others from Hongyuan Academy get in back then?" a battle master couldn't help asking.

The others were also very curious.

This strange method could probably only be thought of by Dean Zhang. Zhang Yinqiu was upright and rigid; even if he knew, he probably wouldn't be willing to do it.

"I'm not sure exactly how they got in, but... this relic didn't appear for so many years before, and after they entered, we were able to come here... They probably mastered some secret we don't know, or obtained the key to enter here!"

After thinking for a moment, President Han said.

Any relic, if it wants later generations to enter, must have a so-called key or a passage artifact. With such an item, many seals that are difficult for them to solve become very simple, certainly much easier than their method of breaking formations head-on.

"That's possible..." Everyone nodded simultaneously.

Indeed, without the so-called "key," entering would be really hard. Without Dean Zhang, they would probably still be trapped above the lava, helpless.

Creak! Creak!

During the conversation, the urine in the barrel kept flowing, and the seal it contacted cracked and slowly dissipated. Before long, the huge gate fully appeared before everyone.

"We can go in..."

With a flicker, Zhang Xuan flew down, threw away the barrel, and breathed a sigh of relief.

The library showed the flaw, so he knew this was a flawless pure yang formation, and urine was just the counter. Hence this bold idea, and it turned out to work.

"Good..."

Everyone nodded simultaneously and flew toward the gate in unison.

Wu Shi entered first as before. After confirming no danger, he called for the others to go in.

Earlier, outside the seal, they felt scorching heat, but upon entering, that heat disappeared, replaced by a hint of coolness seeping from the gate, as if their previous sensation was an illusion.

"Could we have been mistaken?" a battle master couldn't help saying.

Just now, outside the seal, they had used the heat radiating from it to cultivate, greatly benefiting their cultivation... They thought entering would be unbearably hot, but the situation was completely opposite—not only did they not feel heat, but they felt cool.

Could everything they experienced before be false?

This was too bizarre!

"Everyone, don't panic. If I'm not mistaken, what we experienced before was real, and what we're experiencing now is also real!"

President Han's expression was grave. "It's highly possible that this is a formation blending cold and heat, similar to climate-control formations, capable of altering temperature at will and giving people different sensations."

Many formation masters' guilds would set up formations that could control temperature; perhaps this gateway was such a case.

Earlier, everyone found it unbearable outside, but upon entering, it was highly likely that some specific mechanism was triggered, making the temperature suitable, hence this feeling.

"Could be..." Hearing this explanation, everyone nodded simultaneously.

Although they found it hard to believe that a formation alone could cause such a drastic temperature difference, the person who left this relic was a powerhouse of unknown cultivation level, so setting up such a formation was not unreasonable.

After all, limited by their own cultivation, what they found incomprehensible did not mean it couldn't be done, just like Dean Zhang using urine to break the seal.

"This is not a formation..."

Everyone nodded and was about to proceed further inside when they heard a faint voice. The speaker was neither Master Wu nor Zhang Xuan, but the usually silent Luo Ruoxin.

"If it's not a formation, then what is it?"

Seeing her speak so confidently, everyone looked at her curiously.

"It's an application of space!" Luo Ruoxin said.

"Space?" Everyone exchanged glances, puzzled.

"Like folded space and storage rings, this gateway leads to another space. It doesn't belong to the same plane as the one hidden under the seal earlier, so naturally it feels different."

Luo Ruoxin said.

"Leads to another space?" Everyone felt a jolt, filled with shock.

When it came to formations, everyone could understand, but space was a level beyond comprehension.

The senior who left this relic could touch upon this level—how powerful must he be?

"It is said that Saint Domain Ninth Layer powerhouses can comprehend spatial laws and arrange folded space, allowing living beings to enter without feeling suffocated... Could it be that the owner of this relic has already reached that level?"

Master Wu clenched his fists.

As a Seven Star upper-grade master teacher, he knew many secrets. Though Saint Domain Ninth Layer powerhouses were rare, he had read relevant books and knew how terrifying they were.

The things left by a powerhouse of such level were rare opportunities for them, but any mechanism or formation was beyond their understanding.

Luo Ruoxin shook her head, whether she didn't know or was denying his answer was unclear.

"Only Saint Domain Ninth Layer can understand spatial laws?" Zhang Xuan blinked.

To be honest, this news was shocking to him.

At the Sealing Sage Platform, he had entered a folded space and had the Queen Ant Bee collect it. So... was that place left by a Saint Domain Ninth Layer powerhouse?

At that time, Confucius had just broken through, so he couldn't have arranged it himself. It was highly likely that such a level of powerhouse was following him, loyal and devoted.

With Confucius's unique charisma and ability, it shouldn't be difficult for him to recruit a few followers stronger than himself.

"When I first went to the Master Teacher Academy for the open class, I saw Luo Ruoxin walking through the crowd without a single collision, as if she had mastered space..."

A thought emerged, but he immediately smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Impossible! She's just a Six Star master teacher. Even if she's stronger than me, it can't be by much. It's probably some special secret technique..."

Having read all the books in the Master Teacher Academy, he knew that this Master Teacher Continent not only had special physiques but also bloodlines. Many powerful families, relying on bloodline power to activate secret techniques, had power far exceeding martial skills.

For this reason, the Saint Domain clans were so fearsome that no one dared to defy them.

Puzzled, he couldn't help but look at the girl before him: "How can you be sure this is not a formation but involves space?"

Wu Tianqiong and the others also looked over curiously.

Indeed, involving space was too profound, truly hard to understand.

"It's simple. Just look ahead and you'll know..."

Luo Ruoxin blinked and pointed forward.

Everyone looked up and indeed saw that after passing through the gateway, the scene before them had changed.

Behind the gateway was a stretch of rolling mountains, endless as far as the eye could see, covered with lush vegetation. A warm, moist air wafted over, giving the feeling that they had left Fire Source City and arrived in a city resembling spring.

"This is... folded space? So big..."

Zhang Xuan was stunned.

Since first seeing the Queen Ant Bee nest, he had seen several folded spaces, and even had one himself... but one this large, he had never seen or heard of.

His folded space was only a few hundred meters in diameter at best, but this one contained mountains and rivers... endless, which was terrifying!

You see, the larger the folded space, the greater the external pressure, and the worse its stability...

How was something this large even possible?

"No, this is not folded space, but... a spatial formation!"

Just as he was shocked, President Han's voice rang out from the side. Turning to look, he saw Han frowning, his body stiff.