Chapter 1066: Map Fusion

The ten kings of the Qingtian lineage had each reached the fourth level of the Saint Domain and could stand on their own. Any one of them, if placed in the Hongyuan Empire or even the Qingyuan Empire, could stir up a bloody storm and bring calamity to countless humans.

They had thought that with their intervention, this relic would be easily captured, and even the Qingyuan Empire, a titled empire, would suffer heavy losses, with countless masters falling...

But the result... eight kings had been sent out, and not even a ripple was made before they were all wiped out. They had assumed that the headquarters of the Master Hall or the Warrior Hall had sent people, leaving them no chance to escape... Who would have thought that all were killed by a mere Half-Saint?

The more he thought about it, the more frustrated he became, and the more he felt like going mad.

Fortunately, Qingtian Emperor didn't know. If he learned of this news, would he faint on the spot?

What grudge? What enmity?

Why did they have to mess with our ten kings?

I don't want to find any relics anymore. I want to go home...

His heart was full of depression, but at this moment, he had no time to dwell on it.

This formation was mostly set up by him, already at the peak of the seventh level, with immense power. Even though he had many tricks, trapped inside now, he had no way out and could only passively take the beating.

Just as he dodged a few attacks and tried to find a way to escape the formation, he heard the voice of the young man above.

"President Han, you take over the formation and kill this guy as soon as possible..."

As the words ended, the formation seemed to be driven by greater power, and its might increased sharply.

"You..."

Red Leaf King's face turned deathly pale.

Although this formation was set up by him, he didn't know its specific type. To study it and find the life gate would take at least half an hour.

His opponent was only at the Half-Saint level and struggled to drive the formation. By enduring injuries, he could still hold on... But if the formation was driven by Han Xu, he truly couldn't withstand it.

This guy himself had reached the peak of the fourth level of the Saint Domain and was the president of the Formation Masters Guild. He had a thorough understanding of formations. With him driving it, the power would be even greater. It seemed escape had become impossible!

Red Leaf King was in despair, while above the formation, President Han and the others' eyes lit up.

Hearing the shout, they came out from their hiding place and saw that Red Leaf King was already trapped in a powerful killing formation!

No extra moves were needed; just by operating the killing formation, they could surely kill him alive.

"Master Zhang... if I'm not mistaken, this formation is at the peak of the seventh level, right? Did you... set it up?"

While operating the formation, President Han couldn't help but look over.

They had been hiding earlier and didn't know how Zhang Xuan had dealt with Red Leaf King.

This killing formation had reached the peak of the seventh level. Even he would need to spend a great deal of effort and time to set it up. How could this Master Zhang, who was only a Half-Saint, have completed it so quickly?

"I didn't set it up; it was Red Leaf King..." Zhang Xuan shook his head, not daring to take credit.

"Red Leaf King?" Everyone was dumbfounded.

Setting up a forbidden technique himself and trapping himself inside... Was this guy sick?

"Maybe he wanted to commit suicide... You know, the minds of the alien race aren't too bright..." Zhang Xuan shook his head with a smile.

He couldn't say too much about tricking Red Leaf King into falling for it; otherwise, it would be hard to explain the matter of disguising as Purple Leaf King...

Letting President Han and Master Wu cooperate in operating the formation to kill Red Leaf King below, Zhang Xuan went behind the others, found a place to sit cross-legged, immersed his consciousness in the library, and began studying the relic introduction he had obtained from Red Leaf King.

This book was written entirely in what the other party called "ancient divine language." He couldn't recognize a single word, but he could vaguely see that it was very similar to many of the characters on Wu Yangzi's map.

With a flick of his wrist, an object appeared in his palm.

It was an ancient piece of sheepskin, who knew how old, densely marked with a map annotated in a strange script.

"The terrain here doesn't resemble this place at all..."

Looking down, Zhang Xuan was puzzled.

Although he didn't recognize the characters on the sheepskin, he could make out the terrain and landforms... and they had no similarity to this place.

Because of this, he hadn't thought that this map would be related to this relic.

"This map is probably tens of thousands of years old... Could it be that when it was drawn, the terrain was like this, but now the seas have changed into mulberry fields, turning into a different appearance?" A thought struck Zhang Xuan, and he speculated.

The continent and terrain are not static; they change over time. Could it be that because of the passage of time, the terrain had changed, causing the map to be completely different from here?

"No... This is a folded space, with no crustal movements or water erosion. How could it change?"

This idea didn't last long before Zhang Xuan shook his head.

Folded space is different from the outside world; it lacks various natural changes. Moreover, this place was full of formations. Even if changes occurred, they couldn't be so thorough that no place matched.

"Hmm..."

Just as he was puzzled, he suddenly noticed that the book in his hand and the sheepskin before him seemed to have some similarities.

With a flick of his finger, he placed the two items together.

Hum!

With a soft chime, the map and the introduction slowly approached, and with a "whoosh," they merged together, instantly forming a brand-new sheepskin scroll map.

Zhang Xuan was startled: "This... was the same map split in two?"

No wonder the introduction alone was incomprehensible, and the map alone was unclear. It turned out that each was only part of the complete map.

He quickly picked up the merged sheepskin scroll and looked down.

What he saw was completely different from before; it was another scene.

"Is this the lava we passed earlier? This is the Sea of Thunder, and this is the Black Dust?"

Feng Xun, who had come behind him at some point, pointed at the content on the map and couldn't help exclaiming.

"Yes."

Without him saying it, Zhang Xuan had already recognized it. The merged sheepskin scroll depicted all the contents of this relic vividly, and even the scenes within the map seemed alive, moving on their own as if they might jump out at any moment.

"Could this red line be... the correct path? There's actually such a road? Why haven't we discovered it before?"

Feng Xun then cried out.

Hearing this, Zhang Xuan looked over and indeed saw a light red line starting from the lava and running through the entire map.

"This line is indeed the correct path, but without this sheepskin scroll, it wouldn't appear at all..." Zhang Xuan shook his head.

If they had had this before entering the relic, they could have followed the route marked on this line and advanced unimpeded, encountering no danger. The reason they hadn't discovered this road was not due to poor eyesight, but because without the complete map, this road simply wouldn't appear.

It also involved spatial mysteries that he couldn't understand at this moment.

Following the map, he soon saw the location of the Heavenly Palace.

"So the deepest part of the relic is behind this waterfall..." Quickly confirming the direction and path, Zhang Xuan breathed a sigh of relief, stood up, and looked at President Han and the others.

President Han and Master Wu, two fourth-level Saint Domain experts, joined forces, and with the peak seven-star killing formation, Red Leaf King, though powerful, couldn't hold out and was finally killed.

If Fire Leaf King's death by being crushed on the spot by the Golden Source Cauldron was humiliating enough, Red Leaf King's was even more so.

Killed by the formation he himself had set up, the dignified second king indeed died miserably.

"Let's go. With the map, the rest will be safe..."

Having eliminated the threat of Red Leaf King, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Zhang Xuan smiled, raised his hand, and the sheepskin scroll in his palm flew up, instantly transforming into a rainbow-like bridge that stretched over the Heavenly Palace and extended deep into the waterfall.

"Let's go!"

He called out and stepped onto the bridge first. After walking a few steps, he remembered something, grabbed the formation flags of the killing formation below and put them into his ring, and with a light tap, Red Leaf King's storage ring fell into his palm.

As the dignified second king of the Qingtian lineage, he must have many good things in his possession. It would be a waste not to take them.

Following the bridge all the way, they soon passed through the Heavenly Palace, which they had been unable to get out of before, and then entered the waterfall.

They had already seen that this waterfall and the Heavenly Palace were actually a huge painting, obscuring a certain world. Passing through the waterfall, the scene changed, and they immediately entered a massive palace.

"Such rich spiritual energy..."

As soon as they entered, they felt their pores open wide and their true energy jumping wildly.

The spiritual energy in this palace was so dense it seemed ready to condense into water at any moment. If one cultivated here, even without using high-grade spirit stones, one's cultivation speed would greatly increase!

"Is that... carved from spirit stone?"

Taking a few steps forward, everyone's breathing became rapid.

Before them stood a huge stele, crystal clear and emitting dazzling light. It was actually carved from a single piece of high-grade spirit stone.

"Does such a large piece of spirit stone exist in the world?" Everyone swallowed their saliva. Even Zhang Xuan's eyes widened, his eyeballs nearly falling out.

This stele before them was five or six meters high, two or three meters wide, and over half a meter thick. Such a huge object, entirely carved from high-grade spirit stone, was simply too astonishing.

The largest high-grade spirit stone he had ever seen was only the size of a baby's fist. This one weighed hundreds of tons...

If it were to be split into individual high-grade spirit stones, how many would there be?

Hundreds of thousands? Millions?

They had just entered the depths of the relic and saw this. How many treasures were inside?

"Qiuwu Palace... Could this be the relic left by the ancient sage Qiuwu?"

Seeing the characters carved on the stele, Master Wu was astonished.

Only then did Zhang Xuan notice that the stele indeed had three large characters carved on it: "Qiuwu Palace!" The script was exactly the same as that on the earlier "Walker Without Boundaries" manual.

"It seems... this is indeed left by the ancient sage Qiuwu..."

He turned to look at Luo Ruoxi, and they both nodded.

Previously, it was just speculation, but now it could be one hundred percent confirmed.