Having cultivated myself into an immortal, all I want to do is raise female disciples.

Despite the terrifying scene before her, Ye Yuchan didn't feel much, a fact that even she found quite strange.

Logically speaking, someone who has never seen a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood should have been so frightened that her legs would go weak and her stomach would churn.

But for some reason, a strange sense of loneliness kept lingering in my heart.

Yunping glanced at her silently, his expression stern.

Just like what happened in the Seven Dream Tree Illusion, Ye Yuchan's temperament is easily swayed by Abyss Fear Ice. Although Abyss Fear Ice doesn't dare to directly attack Ye Yuchan at this moment, it is subtly influencing her temperament to a certain extent.

She feels blood and pain less intensely than others—a harbinger of madness. If she were ever truly possessed by the Abyss's Frost, she would become a monster oblivious to pain, her mind filled with madness.

Of course, for now, this change is for the better.

"So, what's the next step?"

Fan Luokui's words pulled Yunping back to reality from his worries.

Fan Luo Kui stared with her sharp, beautiful eyes, pointing to the end of the stone steps not far away, "Are you going that way?"

Following her finger, the stone steps, which numbered at least a hundred, were enveloped by a strange power. The gray stone bricks were covered with a faint scarlet layer, and if you got close enough to smell it, you should be able to detect the scent of blood.

These stone steps form a path that crosses the blood-red pit, slowly climbing upwards. No one knows what lies at the other end of the path; upon closer inspection, all that can be seen is a faint white light.

Thinking of what lay at the other end, Yunping nodded. "Yes, we're going to go there."

"This is a bit of a problem."

Liang Jue, the helmeted man who had been relatively quiet, changed from a crouching posture to a standing posture.

Because he was always wearing a helmet, Yunping couldn't see his expression.

At least his tone was calm: "I just carefully examined the five circular arrays inside the pit and found that they are not ordinary arrays."

"Could it be some kind of sealing formation again?" Ye Yuchan slowly walked out from behind Yun Ping.

“Hmm…no.” Liang Jue denied Ye Yuchan’s words. “To be precise, it’s more like an obstacle. If we’re going to categorize it, it should be considered an auxiliary magic array.”

"Supportive? What's its function?"

"Used to prevent us from reaching the other side of the stone steps."

Liang Jue looked around and casually picked up a stone from the ground.

The stone feels very realistic to the touch and doesn't look like a fake that was deliberately imitated by the secret realm.

He weighed the stone in his hand and tossed it onto the first step in front of him.

In an instant, the red light shone brightly.

boom!

The shattered stones shot into the sky; the poor little stone didn't even survive for half a second before it was shattered into pieces.

One can imagine what it would be like if a person could stand on it so easily...

Ye Yuchan's expression darkened: "Hey, this is clearly an attack formation! It's not a support formation at all!"

"That's not how it works. These five formations were clearly set up intentionally, and any formation can be broken."

When it comes to formations, Liang Jue seems like a completely different person, and he speaks eloquently and logically.

Under the watchful eyes of the crowd, he stepped onto the first step.

This time, unexpectedly, the red light beneath my feet did not bloom; instead, it quickly receded and eventually vanished into nothingness.

Seeing this, Liang Jue breathed a sigh of relief, "As expected..."

"Senior Brother Liang, what's going on?" Xiaoyu asked curiously as she came closer.

Fan Luo Kui frowned as well. She wasn't as familiar with formations as Liang Jue. "Liang Jue, do you consider this breaking the formation?"

"No, no, no, Captain, this formation isn't so easy to break." Liang Jue quickly smiled bitterly. "Speaking of which, the person who set up this formation can be considered a genius. They were able to come up with the idea of ​​using the five stars in a row to interlock and form this barrier formation. However, the method of setting it up is rather cruel."

"Cruel methods?" Upon hearing these four words, Ye Yuchan immediately turned her gaze to Yun Ping.

How could Yunping not know what his disciple was thinking right now?

He hesitated for a moment, then transmitted his voice directly into Ye Yuchan's mind, "Can you blame your master for this? It's all because those old bastards kept coming to attack me back then. I got tired of killing them, so I simply used their corpses to create this formation."

"But I didn't expect that after all these years, this formation would still be there..."

No sooner had he said that than Liang Jue began to analyze again.

"This formation must have been set up a very, very long time ago. Judging from the looseness of the runes and spells, it must have been at least three hundred years ago... or even longer."

"And the foundation of this formation is this strange blood-red pillar below, which appears to be composed of the essence and blood extracted from the bodies of the dead."

"and many more!"

Fan Luokui suddenly spoke up, her expression grave, "If this formation was set up three hundred years ago, or even longer, then it means that the people of the Northern Ice Palace also died several hundred years ago?"

Liang Jue was taken aback upon hearing this, and nodded blankly, "That's how it is."

“No wonder…” Fan Luokui muttered to herself in sudden realization, “No wonder I didn’t know about this.”

Yun Ping gave Fan Luo Kui a strange look. "What do you mean by that?"

"It's very simple. Our Palace of Judgments was established about two hundred years ago, and what we have collected is only what happened in the last two hundred years. We have no way of knowing about the history that is much older."

Yunping said "Oh," thinking to himself that that made sense.

Thinking about it carefully, that's indeed the case.

Back when he was still in the Northern Ice Palace, there were no outer or inner palaces. There was only the Northern Ice Palace, where a few pretty girls lived, a few brainless young men who were jealous of him, and a guy named Yin Hanxuebing whose brain circuits were probably a bit off.

The Palace of Judgment? What was that? He'd never even heard of it.

Having resolved this question, Fan Luokui refocused on breaking the formation. "Liang Jue, do you have a way to break this formation?"

"Break?" The helmet tilted slightly, as if expressing its doubt. "There's no need to break it at all. Support formations only need to withstand the damage."

"Get through it?"

Before Liang Jue could explain the difference between auxiliary formations and sealing formations to Fan Luokui, Yun Ping's voice came over.

"It means just walk straight ahead, bearing the negative effects of this formation, and walk directly to the other side."

"Is that right?"

Perhaps because she didn't trust Yunping, Fan Luokui turned her attention to the helmeted man.

Liang Jue was a straightforward person, and nodded immediately, "This brother is absolutely right."

"So……"

Yunping looked around and then at the three members of the trial team.

"Which of you three wants to go up and test the waters first?"

78. Are you stupid?

Yunping was absolutely right when he said he was just testing the waters.

Because so many years have passed, he has completely forgotten what level of formation he set up back then.

He had no idea how powerful the formation was.

Although I'm certain that walking up there will be no different from walking normally, the problem is, what about the three members of the trial team?

If they were to fall and die by accident, how would they explain it to the girl in the Palace of Judgment?

Thinking of that little girl who had once made him cry, Yunping looked like a victim, utterly helpless.

"I……"

As the captain of the trial team and the strongest person present, Fan Luokui naturally had to take the lead.

If something goes wrong, and even she can't handle it, then everyone else will probably be doomed too.

But before she could finish speaking...

Tap—the sound of footsteps.

The young man wearing a helmet had already taken a step forward.

He didn't look very tall, and was even somewhat thin.

The red light on the brick beneath their feet instantly subsided and then vanished without a trace.

He didn't turn around, but spoke to the girl with cherry-red hair.

"Captain, don't rush. I'm quite familiar with formations, let me go first."

“Liang Jue…”

"It's okay."

Perhaps sensing Fan Luo Kui's thoughts, he turned his head slightly and said, "Although the way this formation is constructed has not changed, its power has been greatly reduced, and it is also very fragile. So, there will basically be no problem with every brick I step on."

"Captain, you can follow behind me. If I encounter any danger, you can lend a hand, right?"

Hearing Liang Jue's words, Fan Luokui felt a sense of rejection.

As the captain of the trial team, she couldn't be at the forefront of such a dangerous operation; instead, she let Liang Jue, who was less capable than her, take the lead...

I always feel a kind of unpleasant feeling of being protected.

Moreover, a heavy burden called responsibility has already weighed on her shoulders.

“Liang Jue…”

"Alright, Captain, it's really nothing. This formation is hundreds of years old, and its power has long since diminished to the point of being negligible. At most, it can only stop cultivators at the Spirit Platform stage, and it can't stop me at all."

As if to prove himself right, he deliberately took several quick steps up the stairs.

The red light that could shatter rocks was crushed at his feet like ants.

Come to think of it, this formation has held up for so long, it must be a man...

cough cough.

Any formation would be rendered useless.

Seeing this scene, Fan Luokui's heart finally calmed down a bit.

However, her stunningly beautiful face still maintained a cold expression. "Even so, I must stay behind you. If anything unexpected happens, you mustn't act recklessly."