Chapter 401: A Shocking Change and Assassination (2/2)

”Who, who has such guts!” Yan Yuntian bellowed.

The odd change happened so fast that nobody saw it coming. Those ministers kneeling outside of the bedchamber also stood up in shock. Looking at the light column that dropped from the sky, their brains all went blank for a moment.

”Assassin!”

A shrilling yell rang behind them. It turned out that the guards of this palace were the first ones to realize what had happened and had hurtled towards the bedchamber. However, before they could reach the gate of the chamber, they were thrown into the air by strong airflows that were being emitted from the chamber.

”Run away! Or do you want to die here?” A dark golden streamer shot out of the bedchamber and landed in the center of the square. They were Zhou Bao and, Yan Yunfei, who was thunderstruck and still muddle-headed.

Hearing the shout, all those ministers went haywire. Most of them scrambled to run outside, except for that purple-robed old man in the lead, Pei Tianming.

”What on earth happened?” asked Pei Tianming with a gloomy face.

”How could I know!” Zhou Bao looked very innocent. He was only paying a visit to his dying mother-in-law, not preparing to be buried alive with her dead body as a sacrifice. He would be overwhelmed by such an unexpected blow.

”Zhou Bao, what, what is all this?” Yan Yunfei finally came to realize the situation, with astonishment written all over her face.

”Seems that someone wanted to assassinate your dad and we happened to find ourselves in the middle of it.” Zhou Bao eyed the surroundings of the bedchamber, only to see that the whole place was ruined by the crash of that white light column and the golden Gang Qi. Waves of airflows produced by the collision between the Gang Qi and white light column had overturned all the cyan flagstones on the ground, unveiling many deep nicks underneath.

”It's a formation!” Zhou Bao's brows furrowed more tightly. With his eyesight, it was easy for him to discover that this was a newly-carved formation, existing for definitely no more than one year. Moreover, this was not a smart formation, whose function was also monotonous. When it was not in operation, it sent out no energy fluctuation, and that was why it was hard for ordinary people to discover it, as it was perfectly concealed under cyan flagstones.

Even Yan Yuntian, an expert at the peak of Level Nine, had not noticed that there was such an eccentric formation under his Queen's bedchamber until it was launched.

Formations were actually divided into many categories, with each of their functions differed. But generally speaking, all formations mainly focused on defense. Don't be fooled by the names of many killing formations, which sounded impressively murderous as if they could destroy the whole world, that wasn't the norm.

Factually speaking, most formations were fixed at one place—They were not portable at all and neither were they set up temporarily. As long as the opponent never stepped into your formation, even if your formation could trap an Innate Deity, it would be useless. Let's take the sword formation of the Golden Lights Cave in Qianyuan Mountain as an example. That formation was extremely powerful and brimming with murderous intent, whereas, if Zhou Bao had not entered the attacking range of that sword formation, it would have remained as a decoration there.

The same went for this formation. Comparing it with the one made by Golden Lights Cave in Qianyuan Mountain, this formation was much simpler, and Zhou Bao found out its secret with just one glance. But that was not enough. It was precisely because he had seen through its secret that he frowned so hard.

In most cases, the simpler the function of a formation was, the easier it was to break. However, if it abandoned other functions, the sole function it had would be extraordinarily strong. As was the case with the one sitting in front of Zhou Bao.

This was a formation for constraining space. Given that Zhou Bao had refined the Spatial Core in that mysterious grey space, it could be said that he had a fairly deep understanding of space, but that did not mean he could break the formation. The reason he easily escaped from it with Yan Yunfei just now was precisely that this formation was launched a short while ago, still with many flaws in it. But now that the formation had been fully launched, the surrounding space impediments were stronger and more compact than diamonds, and no flaws existed at all. If one wanted to go in, he had to break Space Ramparts. Facing those overlaid Space Ramparts, which looked as hard as diamonds, Zhou Bao lost faith in himself.

This was an intact space. You could imagine it as a house. If you had the key, you could open the door and enter it, which was just like using Zhou Bao's Three Realms Division and Two Realms Fragments. If you didn't have a key, but had enormous strength, you could break in through the door or even the wall, as if using Zhou Bao's Yin and Yang Heavenly Sword and Great Fusion Technic. However, if you demolished the entire house, all its bricks would pile up together and form a sturdy construction—a thick and solid wall. Even if you had the ability to break in or open the door at first, you would feel helpless in front of this kind of wall. It called for a power several times, dozens of times, or even hundreds of times greater than you used to break in through the door and the wall. For now, Zhou Bao just didn't possess that kind of power.

At that moment, what he saw was exactly such a wall, a thick and compact wall of space.