Chapter 123: Worries Of A Demigod [6] (1/2)

Zhang Xiu Ying sat behind the closed doors as she gathered herself after a gruesome encounter with the dreads. What in heaven's tears, got into them? How could entities like that even existed? She asked herself thoughtfully. They were more than mere mutation, they were heavens forsaken. Despite her advancing due to the energy water, she had only managed to escape them by pushing vast amount of chi and her divine energy into her evasion technique.

The defensive formation on her robe had been exhausted after bearing much of the brunt of the dreads. Even with the robe, she had barely escaped with long scratches and slahes to her body. That was mainly due to her own evasive skills. Checking her body properly, she put one bloodroot medicinal pill into her mouth as she tilted her backwards. The injuries were nothing that medicinal pills couldn't take care of.

After resting for a while, she examined her sorroundings. She was in an alleyway that led to a large emerald hall. She noticed there were images and symbols lining the alleyway up to the large hall. Looking closely at the images and symbols, she felt a tug at her memories. There was something about this that looked familiar but she couldn't place her hand on it. She proceeded cautiously, towards the center of the hall while she continued to observe the images and symmbols.

The massive doors and walls of the hall, had no image or symbol. Only the floors. As she entered the massive hall, she noticed that the images and symbols had intertwined to form a spiralling image all over the floor of the hall. Fourteen images and fourteen symbols. Eyes farting back and forth, realization dawned on her as she remembered the words of uncle Luoyang.

”Images you see, the shadows you don't. Symbols you notice, the signs you don't. On the path you thread, are the threads of your path. As you thread the path, a spiralling threads you see.”

Titan's torso!

Zhang Xiu Ying had seen something like that inside the mountain abode of uncle Luoyang. Although, this one was much more bigger than the one inside uncle Luoyang mountain. The only visible thing about the images and the symbols, was their beauty. The deadly arrays of pure-grade heavenly formation they contained, wouldn't be noticed at all. After seeing her lost in the seductive illusion of the images and symbols, uncle Luoyang had told her about the godly arrays. She clearly remembered what he had called the arrays.

Infernal lock.

Quite different from what she initially thought of them. When she first saw them, she thought they were just magical images. It was to her utter surprise when she eventually learned about them. Once activated, this array was one of the most deadly and dangerous heavenly arrays. And, much more difficult to fully understand, if not impossible.

Arrays like this could only be in place by a god or higher entity, to protect immense treasures and artifacts. Could they be protecting the martial legacy? Possible. But, there was no way she would face an array like this? Inspite of her advancement, she knew little of formations to be able to deactivate this one.

”I'll be careful, if I were you.”

The demigod turned to the sight of a tall old man in a black-green robe with a divine aura emanating from his body. The human appearance could only mean one thing,  an Asura demigod. Coiling out from under his robe and resting its head on his shoulder, was a Thorne viper, his divine beast.

”Uh?”

”The heavens Infernal lock and it's already active. Any wrong step and you'll be locked in the infernal chains. Given, for a million years but I reckon your soul wouldn't be the same again, after that long in those chains. All these you already know, I believe.”

She materialized her phoenix sword as she took a few steps back. Flaming force-field bust into life around her as she kept her gaze on the demigod before her.

”Relax, Asura. No need for all that. If I meant you harm, I don't think you'll still be alive. Though, you've reached the gates of the peak-stage nascent soul, you are still a late-stage nascent soul. But you see me, believe it when I say I'm something else entirely. So, you can relax. By the way, It seems you're surprised to see me here. Hmm. You probably thought you were the only one here, didn't you? Well, sometimes I'm surprised I'm still here too. Hehe.”