Sect: Starting with Comprehending Thunder Skill Chapter 1349 - 576: Feng Shui Formation

"Right here."

Xu Xun guided the ship to hide within the kelp beds, his voice carrying a faint tremor. "Last time I got bounced back by the Restriction from three hundred zhang away. There has to be some terrifying Restriction inside that hall."

Li Yunjing stared toward the depths of the palace. The Turtle Shell suddenly let out a low buzz, and three dark red light points surfaced on its shell.

It was precisely the life aura of the three Elders of the Four Seas Commerce Association.

It was difficult for Li Yunjing to calculate the exact transaction site, but once he was near the Water God Palace, deducing certain people’s auras was no longer any challenge.

Ji Zixuan suddenly pointed to the right side of the deep palace. "Look! Something’s moving over there!"

From the depths of the sea grass a team of black shadows swam past. The leader had a Celestial Net Dao Sect waist token hanging at his hip—there were actually people from the Celestial Net Dao Sect here as well.

Li Yunjing pinched his fingers, the Celestial Secret Technique continuously deducing the heavenly secrets. Golden Light rippled across the Turtle Shell.

The Innate Eight Trigrams began to operate on their own, unexpectedly revealing an omen of "when misfortune reaches its extreme, fortune will follow."

"Brother Wen, Liao Fairy, you two stay with Miss Ji and hold the battleship."

Li Yunjing shoved the Dragon and Phoenix Yin Yang Celestial Secret Pendant into Ji Zixuan’s hand. "Wait here for me and Brother Xu!"

Ji Zixuan clenched the Jade Pendant, then suddenly grabbed his wrist. "I..."

She wanted to say she would follow Li Yunjing inside, but when she thought of her own Cultivation, she wisely swallowed the words back down.

"Brother Li, don’t worry! We’ll take good care of Miss Ji!"

Wen Bin and Liao Wanqing both pledged to Li Yunjing.

As long as it wasn’t a lethal crisis, the two of them would absolutely never dare abandon Ji Zixuan. Otherwise, the Bibo Immortals would let them learn what it meant to live a life worse than Death!

The Celestial Patrol Ship hid itself within a patch of kelp. Li Yunjing took Xu Xun, quietly slipped out of the Celestial Patrol Ship, felt their way into the fissure in the dark, and entered the outskirts of the Water God Palace.

Xu Xun suddenly lowered his voice. "Careful, this is a variant of the Nine-Curve Soul-Luring Array."

"Mm."

Li Yunjing nodded. In truth, he didn’t need Xu Xun’s reminder—he had already seen through it.

As the head of the Seven Star Palace, someone who built his foundation on Array Dao, could Li Yunjing possibly fail to recognize it?

He was even confident that, beneath an Array Dao Grandmaster, no one’s attainments ran deeper than his!

So as not to alarm the people from the Celestial Net Dao Sect, Li Yunjing brought out the Profound Celestial Compass. In a short while, they saw the pointer spin madly at the position of the "Life Gate."

At the instant they passed through the fissure and stepped into the Water God Palace’s domain, a wave of decayed Spiritual Energy rushed at them.

The Celestial Patrol Ship hid itself within a patch of kelp. Li Yunjing took Xu Xun, quietly slipped out of the Celestial Patrol Ship, felt their way into the fissure in the dark, and entered the outskirts of the Water God Palace.

Xu Xun suddenly lowered his voice. "Careful, this is a variant of the Nine-Curve Soul-Luring Array."

"Mm."

Li Yunjing nodded. In truth, he didn’t need Xu Xun’s reminder—he had already seen through it.

As the head of the Seven Star Palace, someone who built his foundation on Array Dao, could Li Yunjing possibly fail to recognize it?

He was even confident that, beneath an Array Dao Grandmaster, no one’s attainments ran deeper than his!

So as not to alarm the people from the Celestial Net Dao Sect, Li Yunjing brought out the Profound Celestial Compass. In a short while, they saw the pointer spin madly at the position of the "Life Gate."

At the instant they passed through the fissure and stepped into the Water God Palace’s domain, a wave of decayed Spiritual Energy rushed at them.

At the split-second they crossed the Life Gate, the rotten Spiritual Energy surged up like viscous tidewater.

Li Yunjing’s sleeves fluttered though there was no wind. A few probing strands of Silver Silk floated out barely three feet before they yellowed and withered at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Creeeak! Creeeak!"

The sole of Xu Xun’s boot crushed half a carved floor tile, and the crack-lines spread like a spiderweb, the sound shredding the silence with grating clarity.

He lowered his head. In the seam of the blue Gold Brick, a ghostly blue moss was actually seeping out. Those phosphorescent fungal threads were climbing along the tread marks of his boots, like countless prying feelers.

After they entered here, a gigantic Barrier separated out the seawater, putting this place into an isolated state.

Only, at the bottom of the deep ocean, there was still some lingering dampness.

At the outskirts of the Water God Palace, twelve coiling dragon pillars leaned askew within the clammy mist. The Profound Iron chains that were originally meant to wind around the pillars had long since rusted and snapped.

On the end of one chain hung a set of dry bones, and in the hollow eye sockets perched silver-scaled strange fish. Their gills opened and closed, producing a tinkle like broken Copper Bells.

"Look at the dome."

Starlight gathered at Li Yunjing’s fingertips.

Under the faint glow, the entire glazed Barrier overhead was revealed, covered in vein-like cracks. Most terrifying of all, those fissures had countless pearls embedded within them.

Inside each pearl a twisted human face was sealed, appearing and disappearing as the halo of light flowed across them.

"What is that?"

Xu Xun was startled. He hadn’t seen anything like this last time he’d come.

"Heh heh! What ’Water God Palace’? Looks more like a ’Water Demon Palace’ to me."

Li Yunjing let out a cold laugh and pressed down on the Profound Celestial Compass that was trembling nonstop.

"Look again."

Li Yunjing pointed a finger toward a patch of open ground.

With a hiss, about three zhang to their right the ground caved in, forming a deep pit. At the bottom were piled hundreds of jade-like skeletons.

Every corpse maintained a posture of worship, and at the center of their kneeling circle, a Bronze Sword overgrown with coral-like crystals was slowly seeping scarlet drops.

"Holy shit!"

Xu Xun’s face went pale. He was starting to wonder if this was an Illusion Realm!

The last time he’d entered, out here on the outskirts of the Water God Palace, he hadn’t sensed anything nearly this bizarre!

Of course, as a top-tier gifted Cultivator, he had felt a vague unease.

Back then, Xu Xun had assumed it was only nervousness from witnessing the people of the Celestial Net Dao Sect and the Four Seas Commerce Association scheming together.

Now, he seemed to understand where that unease had truly come from.