Chapter 287 2 (1/2)
The Three Halls of the Star Palace
The starlight before his eyes was flowing swiftly. Even with the Fu Li’s eye, Ning Fan was not able to see through the thing shrouded by starlight.
Its speed is too quick… The speed of this starlight is at least six hundred thousand li* per second…
Its speed was six times faster than that of the Golden Flame Chariot which was pulled by the black dragon! The speed of the starlight was probably on the same level as a Half Step Void Fragmentation Realm expert’s.
After being devoured by the starlight, Ning Fan had been teleported by the starlight for ten days. Ten days later, the starlight vanished. When Ning Fan opened his eyes and scanned his surroundings, he realized that he was now in a bright silver hall.
Silver bricks and silver tiles. The grass and trees around that hall were all in silver color too.
Ning Fan placed his palm on the wall of the hall. Immediately, a massive repulsive force was inflicted by the wall, greatly disrupting the regularity of his breath. He retreated tens of steps backwards from the wall continuously and his eyes narrowed with seriousness.
The wall of the palace had an extremely powerful force that prohibited anyone from touching it or going through it.
That force was the power of starlight!
So this place is the Star Palace…
The paths within the palace were complicated and confusing. The dangers lurking around the palace were hard to detect. However, Lu Daochen had given Ning Fan a map of the palace. Although it was just a general map, the labels on it helped Ning Fan instantly understand where he was right now.
“If I’m not wrong, this should be the one of the six compounds of the Hall of Humans…”
Ning Fan took out the jade slip that was given by Lu Daochen once more and placed it on his glabella. While studying the map, Ning Fan muttered to himself in a low tone. “The Star Palace is a vast labyrinth. According to Lu Daochen’s categorization, there are three domains from the internal part to the external part – the Heaven Hall, the Earth Hall and the Human Hall.
The Human Hall is situated at the outermost layer of the Star Palace. There are six mazes here which are arranged in the shape of a hexagon. Lu Daochen named them as the six compounds.
After going through the six compounds, then I will arrive at the three palaces of the Earth Hall.
The Heaven Hall would be at the end of the three halls. However, the structure of the Heaven Hall extremely resembles the medicinal garden of the Celestial Emperor that I’ve seen in samsara.
As for the location which is labelled by a red dot, it is the place where the remnant soul of Demon Marshal Lu is trapped. It is within the Heaven Hall.”
Ning Fan then kept the jade slip.
“I wonder where the others are teleported to by the starlight…”
When he spread his spirit sense, he realized that just the size of the compound he was in was already more than millions of li*. What was more troublesome was that the network of paths within the compound was tangled and full of traps. With the existence of the traps, ordinary experts would definitely be unable to fly at their full speed. Moreover, each and every step they took must be extra cautious.
Within ten thousand li, there was not anyone else. Although there was not any sign of a person, Ning Fan managed to find some thousand-year-old spiritual herbs. Moreover, some of them had even reached ten thousand years old and they could be used for concocting Fifth Revolution pills.
Spiritual herbs did not need to be cultured with care and they could stay around forever, endlessly increasing their age. The longest lifespan that a tuft of spiritual herbs could live was affected by multiple factors such as its type, the concentration of the spiritual qi, the existence of spiritual land or spiritual spring and so on…
At the sides of these spiritual herbs which were still in the middle of growing, there were thick ashes and dust. They were left by the spiritual herbs millions upon millions of years ago. They had grown to the limitations of their age and eventually wilted and turned into ashes of herbs because the spiritual qi of this land was not able to fulfill their needs.
“These spiritual herbs are precious. I must not miss them if I find any of them later…”
The purple star in his left eye flashed and the power of his sight improved. He called out his Fu Li demon wings. Travelling with that pair of wings, his speed would be comparable to that of a Peak Divine Transformation Realm expert.
He placed one foot forward and instantaneously transformed into traces of purple clouds and floated to ten thousand li away.
Flying above the sky outrageously like that had of course triggered multitudes of traps. Volleys of arrows made of starlight shot out from the dark heading directly at him. However, with the power of True Sight granted by his Fu Li’s eye, he could easily avoid each and every one of the sneak-attacks by simply moving his body.
It was not difficult to evade the traps. Even so, Ning Fan’s heart did not feel calm.
After travelling for just a brief moment, a sense of imminent danger suddenly surged within his heart.
The walls surrounding the palace shot out countless rays of starlight which carried a strong demon intent. It was as if the starlit sky had fallen upon him, pressuring him to the point of being unable to breathe.
An irresistible starlight bound Ning Fan’s limbs, restricting his movement. In a flash, he disappeared along with the starlight. At the next moment, Ning Fan was teleported back to his original location by the starlight.
“Prohibited airspace?!”
Ning Fan’s facial expression changed. Most of the labyrinths and historical remains had similar prohibitions. When the cultivators try to fly above the sky, they would then be forcibly sent back to their initial locations. The starlight of this place had clearly been fused with a domineering demon intent which carried the command of prohibiting the use of the airspace, disallowing anyone to fly within this palace.
It was completely beyond Ning Fan’s expectation that this Star Palace actually had such restrictions.
If that’s the case, does it mean that I have to travel this boundless Star Palace on foot?
He tried to flap his demon wings once more. However, the starlight which was fused with demon intent immediately encircled his body and suppressed him, causing him to be unable to move his wings for even an inch.
His gaze was filled with an unprecedented sternness.
“This Star Palace must have been planted with a demon intent by someone to prohibit cultivators from travelling using flight. I wonder if this demon intent that prohibits flying could be cancelled off using the power of another intent of the same grade.”
Ning Fan remained silent. He dismissed his Fu Li wings and trod forward with slow and heavy steps. Meanwhile, his body was gradually surrounded by a trace of moist qi.
Within the palace, rain suddenly began to fall upon a small area.
The Divine Intent of Rain!
When he was filled with the rain intent, he could obviously feel that the force that was prohibiting his flight was weakened by a great deal. When he summoned his Devil Intent of Evil Luo Mountain and his Demon Intent of Fu Li, the force of that restricted his flight was no longer forceful. Besides, Ning Fan could fly above the sky using half of his full speed.
In spite of that, the power of his current intent realms was still nowhere near enough to completely offset the power of the demon intent which restricted his ability to fly.
Even so, Ning Fan could ascertain one thing: his divine intent was able to offset some of the effects of the demon intent of the Star Palace.
If that is how it is, as long as my divine intent is strong enough, I will be able to suppress the demon intent and lift the restriction that was imposed on flying!
At the same time, he also realized that even though his Divine Intent of Rain was being restrained by the demon intent of the Star Palace, it was gradually transforming and improving with a notable speed.