After I left the sect, the entire sect knelt down and begged for forgiveness.

Its armor hasn't been retrieved yet!

Lin Yan took the spirit stones and carried the two little ones as she continued towards the next door.

The door closed as soon as she entered, and many black tentacles emerged from the ground, attacking her all at once.

After skillfully dodging the attack, she disregarded the possibility of the secret chamber collapsing and proceeded to bombard it with fireballs.

He wanted to summon his spirit sword, but found that he had cut off his connection with the outside world and couldn't summon it, even though it was his natal sword.

Oops! I didn't put the spirit sword into the mark first before teleporting in to "search for treasure."

Tangyuan and the rabbit reacted very quickly, jumping down and transforming into their battle forms the moment the tentacles appeared.

Her cultivation was suppressed to the Foundation Establishment stage, so the damage of her attack spells was limited, and it took a lot of time to char the tentacles.

The aroma of grilled octopus wafts from the enclosed room; just sprinkle some cumin and chili powder and it's ready to eat!
After defeating the tentacles, the ground opened up, and going down the stairs led to a place with doors on all four sides.

Amit said that every door that is opened may have a "surprise", but if it is not fully opened, you will not know where the door to the next floor is.

Lin Yan thought that since she had to open all the doors anyway, she might as well just randomly choose one to open and see.

She looked at one of the doors, condensed a fireball, and hurled it at it.

--boom!

The doorway burst open.

The room was pitch black. As soon as she stepped inside, she felt a chill, as if someone was behind her.

But there was no one behind her...

Suddenly, the secret room became a fog. Tangyuan and the rabbit who came in with her were gone. Only the white crocodile was still on her shoulder, and the door had turned into a complete wall.

"Master, Master, where are you?"

She heard a rabbit's voice behind her. She didn't turn around, but instead tried to contact the two little ones mentally. Thankfully, she could reach them; they said they had been following their owner...

Lin Yan's heart tightened. With her eyes open and her divine sense blocked, she felt very insecure because she couldn't see anything.

The two little ones said they had been following her, but she couldn't see the rabbit and the dumpling; she could only see Amit.

She quickly cast a spell, adding a protective shield to the existing barrier. She then contacted the white crocodile through a contract. "Are you on my shoulder?"

"exist."

Thankfully... it's just Amit on my shoulder. If something else had been replaced on my shoulder, that wouldn't be good.

Tangyuan and the rabbit were separated from her, probably because, like the illusion array in her array plate, it was divided into sections.

She immediately contacted Tangyuan and the rabbit, telling them to be wary of the "master" following them, to stall for time as much as possible to ensure their safety, and to wait for her to break through the formation.

The two little ones responded with "Okay" and waited where they were.

Just then, she heard a deep roar coming from the dark corner. A huge monster slowly emerged, its body enormous and its eyes filled with ferocity.

This big guy looks very fierce, but she can't sense any power fluctuations from the monster at all, and for a moment she can't tell whether this thing is fake or real.

"Amit, can you tell if this monster is real or fake?"

"No."

"You used to be the overlord of this place... how come you can't even tell the difference?"

"Because I'm blind." Lin Yan rolled her eyes helplessly. It seemed she would have to figure out a way to deal with this unknown situation on her own.

She cautiously approached the monster, gathering spiritual energy in her hands, ready to launch an attack at any moment.

When she was only a few steps away from the monster, it suddenly opened its blood-red maw and pounced on her.

Lin Yan quickly dodged to the side, while simultaneously unleashing her spiritual power at the monster.

When the spiritual energy was applied to the monster, it felt like it didn't even have the effect of scraping!
Good heavens, is this thing's defense too high, or is her cultivation level too low?

Lin Yan frowned, unable to find any weakness in the monster for the time being.

Just as she was pondering a countermeasure, the monster launched another attack. This time it was even faster, and before she could react, her robes were torn by the monster's claws.

Blood instantly stained her sleeves, but she only frowned, quickly dodged, and took out a healing pill to swallow.

The bleeding stopped, and the wound began to heal.

This monster is so strange! Her attacks are ineffective against it, but its attacks work on her. How can she fight it?
Lin Yan tried attacking the monster with different spells again, but the results were unsatisfactory.

Just as she was feeling a sense of despair, she suddenly felt a lightness on her shoulder, and Amit's voice appeared in her mind. "Help me distract it!"

Lin Yan nodded. Although she didn't know what it was going to do, she felt that the white crocodile must have come up with a way to subdue the monster.

The way to distract a monster is to fight it, preventing it from focusing. However, spell attacks are ineffective against monsters. So, what if we don't use spells?
She took out the Frostwind Sword from her storage bag and slashed at the monster, cutting into its flesh.

Pure physical damage didn't have much effect on it either, so she couldn't help but wonder what this thing was.
The leather is so tough that even a fifth-grade sword can't cut through it! I can't even imagine how wonderful it would be to use it to make magic robes!
Her attacks were like tickles to the monster; it remained unmoved, letting her hack away at it.

Lin Yan concluded that the monster had extremely strong defense and was also quite powerful, but it seemed that there was a time interval between each attack.

So far, the monster has only attacked it three times, then it has put itself in a defensive posture, as if it were letting the monster attack it. Its eyes are haughty, as if it is looking at some toy.

What an arrogant monster!

Fortunately, just as the monster launched its fourth attack, Amit reappeared like a god. With a single move, he knocked the monster to the ground.

With a scream, the monster vanished in a puff of smoke.

Lin Yan breathed a sigh of relief, glancing at the imposing and domineering Amit, who had only maintained his form for less than a minute before shrinking back into a palm-sized white crocodile.

She used her spiritual power to lift the white crocodile out, went to find the key to the formation, and destroyed the entire illusion array.

Lin Yan had also studied this art and had some understanding of illusion arrays. However, this illusion array was clearly more advanced than the one she had set up; at least the array's core was not obvious, and she couldn't find it.

When asked, Amit rolled its eyes and said, "Do you think I'm omnipotent?"

Lin Yan asked with a serious expression, "Isn't that right?"

"..."

In short, it silenced everything.

They couldn't find the key to the formation, but they found two little ones. The rabbit and Tangyuan were very obedient; they didn't run around with the fake her, but stayed still.

Other monsters would appear and attack, so they would fight back and then rest again.

Lin Yan took out spirit stones from her storage bag and absorbed spiritual energy with them to recover. Once they were almost fully recovered, she continued to lead them to the area with the rich spiritual energy within the illusion array.

All formations require spiritual energy to function. The formation's core is the conversion point, transforming the invested spiritual energy into the power to maintain the illusionary formation. Therefore, the closer one is to the core, the denser the spiritual energy should be. (End of Chapter)