Chapter 2083: The Clone Cannot Enter

"No danger?"

An identical figure appeared before the clone.

He had thought that upon teleporting, he would be besieged by countless false gods, but there wasn't even a single person in sight.

"But this place is a bit strange!"

The more deserted it seemed, the more unsettling it felt.

Jumping down from the altar, he was about to wait for Kui Xiao and the others to cross over when suddenly his heart tightened, and he quickly reached forward to grab.

Before his palm could touch the altar, a sword light shot up from the ground.

Crack! Crack! Crack!

A violent force swept through, and the altar, unable to withstand it, shattered into several pieces on the spot.

The continuously flashing light ceased due to the altar's destruction, and the spatial gate vanished from its place.

Pfft!

On the other side, Wu Chen spat out a mouthful of blood, his face sallow, his body trembling incessantly.

"What happened?"

Seeing him like this, Kui Xiao and the others quickly looked over.

"Someone destroyed the altar, completely cutting off the connection. Master Zhang... he can't come back!" Wu Chen's face turned pale.

"What do you mean, can't come back?"

Everyone was stunned.

Wu Chen said, "The Star Chasing Palace has only one altar. If it's destroyed, the passage into the temple is completely broken. Even if we want to rescue him, we can't. Similarly, he can no longer return through the passage..."

"This..."

Everyone trembled uncontrollably.

Zhao Ya and the others' eyes reddened simultaneously.

Can't come back... Will the teacher be in danger?

It's all our fault for not being strong enough; otherwise, the teacher would never face such danger!

We must improve our strength as soon as possible...

Several of them gritted their teeth, determination shining in their eyes.

...

Looking at the shattered altar before him, Zhang Xuan clenched his fists.

It wasn't that he reacted too slowly, but that the other party had already laid a formation under the altar. As soon as he arrived, the formation would activate, automatically destroying it and completely cutting off his retreat!

In other words, from now on, no matter what trap the other party set, he could only face it alone, unable to return.

"Aren't you always after my library? Without the altar, how will you perform the sacrifice?"

Calming his mind, Zhang Xuan looked around and said in a deep voice.

The other party had sent Fushenzi and others to capture Palace Mistress Du Qingyuan precisely for this item. After laying such a long scheme, to destroy it now was beyond imagination.

Could it be that the other party no longer wanted his library?

His voice echoed through the passage before him, spreading in all directions. He waited for a while, but there was no response.

It seemed that the Master Kong was not here at all, or perhaps there was no other life here besides himself.

"I can only move forward..."

Not knowing what the other party was up to or what their purpose was, Zhang Xuan felt as if he were walking into a trap but had no choice. Frowning, he still stepped forward.

The clone followed closely behind.

The passage was not long. Before long, a magnificent hall appeared before him.

Unlike the temples he had seen before, it was even more majestic and towering, pressing down upon a huge vortex of airflow, completely sealing it so that not a trace of power could leak out.

Zhang Xuan frowned.

The scene before him was like a water vortex being blocked by a ten-thousand-ton giant ship; waves surged around but could not shake it in the slightest.

This hall was exactly like that.

The dark black vortex, as if leading to an unknown darkness, was unsettling, yet it was suppressed by the hall before him, like a valve blocking a water flow or a stopper at the bottle's mouth.

With the altar destroyed, there was no retreat; only forward.

"Let's go in!"

No matter what scheme lay ahead, he had to enter and find answers. Staying outside would certainly not solve anything.

Arriving at the door of the hall with his clone, two enormous pillars pierced into the void, as if nailing the entire palace here, preventing it from drifting with the waves.

Frowning, he activated his Eye of Insight and looked at the pillars.

"Are they... false god-level weapons?"

His heart shook.

The level of these two pillars had actually reached the false god level.

The Tongshang Sword appeared in his palm, and he tapped it lightly. Sword qi roared, shattering space into fine lines.

Ding ding ding!

Striking the pillars, sparks flew, but not a single mark was left.

"If even a pillar is this formidable, what kind of place is this?"

His eyes narrowed.

An ordinary pillar, which he couldn't break even with all his strength, suggested that this hall was at least as strong as the previous temples, if not stronger!

The hall's door was neither locked nor closed, so Zhang Xuan stepped inside.

"Why aren't you coming?"

Turning to look, he found that the clone hadn't followed, and Zhang Xuan frowned.

"I can't get through..."

The clone took a step forward but immediately felt a special pressure, involuntarily stepping back. It tried again and again, but each time it was pushed back, as if an invisible barrier at the hall's entrance blocked it from entering.

"Can't get through?"

Taking two steps back, Zhang Xuan came to the spot where the clone was blocked and reached out. There was nothing there, but the clone simply couldn't move forward no matter what.

"First, go into the storage ring!"

Waving his hand, he put the clone into the ring, turned around, and walked in. When he reached the barrier again, the clone suddenly appeared and was once again thrown outside.

Zhang Xuan was startled.

Even hidden in the storage ring, it was expelled?

This invisible barrier was too domineering!

"Since you can't get in, stay here..."

After trying several times with various methods, the clone simply couldn't enter like him, so Zhang Xuan had to instruct.

"It seems the other party knows the clone is powerful and used some method to restrict its entry..."

He became inwardly vigilant.

Previously, Master Kong, though formidable, was only evenly matched with the clone. He must have assessed Zhang Xuan's strength and used some means to make him enter alone.

This meant it was extremely dangerous inside!

To enter or not?

Gripping the Tongshang Sword in his palm, Zhang Xuan took a deep breath.

Not to mention that his retreat was cut off, but now that his cultivation had broken through to the false god level, if he still dared not face Master Kong, then his future aspirations of breaking through space and entering the divine realm would be nothing but fantasies.

For a cultivator, the state of mind is crucial.

Only by being fearless can one advance unyieldingly.

Perhaps the other party deliberately made the clone unable to enter, to wage a psychological war against him.

After all, life is only once; if the true body encounters danger, he would truly die.

Casting aside all negative emotions, Zhang Xuan stepped into the hall.

Since he had decided to act, nothing else mattered to him.

Inside the hall, it was pitch black, and nothing could be seen.

The darkness before him seemed to invade his senses and spirit, and even the Eye of Insight could not penetrate it.

"I'm in. If you want to kill me, make your move!"

Holding his longsword, Zhang Xuan looked around.

His voice echoed within the hall, reverberating everywhere, but there was no answer.

Taking a few steps back, Zhang Xuan felt a chill down his spine and frowned.

He had only walked a few steps from the entrance, yet the door behind him had disappeared!

In other words...

He had probably fallen into some strange formation.

"Flaw!"

His hand touched the wall behind him, gently feeling it.

No matter what formation or strange thing it was, as long as the library was there, he could immediately find out the truth.

Hum!

With a soft sound, no book appeared in his mind.

"Can this place... isolate the Heavenly Dao?"

His face turned ashen.

This was undoubtedly the work of Master Kong. No one except him and Luo Ruoxin knew about his possession of the Flawless Heavenly Dao. First, he prevented the clone from entering, then isolated the Heavenly Dao, making the library unusable and even the Eye of Insight ineffective...

The other party wanted to treat him like a blind man and kill him!

"Eyes can't be used, divine sense can't probe, I can only rely on my ears..."

Though nervous, he was not flustered. Zhang Xuan closed his eyes and listened carefully with his ears.

Drip! Drip!

From afar came the sound of water droplets.

"Go!"

With a flick of his longsword, a sword qi shot straight toward the direction of the water droplets.

A drop of water fell into the sea.

Not even a trace was left, and there was no reaction at all.

Just as he was puzzled, Master Kong's voice rang out: "Before the water droplets are exhausted, leave this room, or else... leave this place!"

"Leave this place?"

Zhang Xuan frowned.

Hadn't the other party deliberately lured him here?

Why did he want him to leave this place?

"The altar is destroyed; leaving this place won't let me return, and I'll be trapped here forever... So I can only follow his request, find him, rescue Palace Mistress Du, and... kill him!"

Taking a deep breath, he understood the other party's scheme.

Even if he went out now, he couldn't leave. He could only continue forward as the other party demanded, breaking through whatever purpose there was, and presumably he would then meet the other party!

"I can't see anything, there's no attack; it should be a trapping formation..."

Having made up his mind, Zhang Xuan stopped making futile efforts and began to ponder.

Unable to see anything, with divine sense and spirit isolated, and even the library unusable, the hall must contain an unimaginable trapping formation.

"Since it's a formation, the surrounding spiritual energy must not be uniform. As long as I find the pattern of spiritual energy and determine the positions of the formation core and flags, breaking it will be simple..."

Reviewing the method of breaking formations in his mind, Zhang Xuan carefully sensed his surroundings.

In a formation, with formation flags and a core, the spiritual energy is inevitably not evenly distributed.

As long as he found the pattern, he could find a way to break it.

This was also the most basic method of breaking formations on the continent.

As the most powerful formation master on the Master Teacher Continent, he was already familiar with it.

"No, the spiritual energy here seems completely uniform..."

After sensing, he found that the spiritual energy around him was exactly the same in density, without any deviation. Zhang Xuan couldn't help but be startled.

He took two steps forward and sensed again; the spiritual energy density was the same.

He took a few steps left and right; it was also the same!

Could it be that there was no formation core or flags?

That shouldn't be!

As long as it was a formation, these things should exist.

A compass appeared in his palm.

Although he couldn't see the needle on it, holding it in his palm, as long as the needle moved, he could still sense the direction and force.