great-warnovel Chapter 302 Yang Jian Seals the Heavenly Eye
Chapter 302 Yang Jian Seals the Heavenly Eye
Behind the stone gate of the Beast Court, there is no daylight. A gray-green rain curtain hangs from the dome, and the raindrops penetrate the animal bones and pound into the cracks all over the ground.
When raindrops touched the divine patterns on Yang Jian's armor, the water surface bulged out with animal claw prints, the four claws crawling upwards along the armor plates.
Yang Jian used the back of his knife to scrape away the rainwater, and the animal claw marks fell into the cracks in the rocks, from which came the sound of dense gnawing.
The vertical lines on his forehead spread out, and the landing point a hundred meters ahead was marked into the tactical map segment by segment by the Sky Eye. The outlines of the broken pillars and pits in the rain curtain were also revealed.
Yang Jian had an additional layer of silver crystal shell on the outside of his forehead. The crystal shell adhered to his skin and flesh, with nine tiny interfaces extending from its edge.
Lu Yan retrieved the scanning records. With each additional layer of the crystal shell, the observation data leaked out by the Sky Eye increased by one more set of return ports.
Yang Jian opened his Heavenly Eye twice more, and the group crossed the collapsed beast bone bridge. The crystal shell on his forehead had already reached the third layer.
After the Void Disc finished pushing through the ninth set of data, it displayed the results to everyone.
"Once the crystal shell is stacked into nine layers, the mobile sanctuary can take over the observation authority of the Heavenly Eye."
"You find the way, and it uses your way to find us."
Yang Jian put away his Heavenly Eye, took out a God-Sealing Cloth, wrapped it around his forehead three times, and pressed the end of the cloth into the helmet buckle.
The Qian Yuan Mountain Fire Seal on the cloth strip closed one by one, completely covering the vertical lines on his forehead.
Qin Wuyi took a half-step closer, carrying the main plate.
Who led the previous section?
Yang Jian plunged his three-pointed, double-edged sword into the rain, the hilt pressed against the stone ground, the echo traveling through the metal back to his palm.
"Start from where you stand; save your 'heavenly eye' for when you need it."
After losing his Sky Eye, his detection range was reduced to twenty meters, and only when the blade landed did a section of rock structure return to the terminal.
Qin Wuyi opened the canvas bag and divided the remaining array plates into three rows. First, he covered the rain curtain above his head, and then sealed the stone walls on both sides.
"The raindrops are governed by the formation; wherever they fall, they stay in that place and don't wander off."
Thirty-six array plates were placed in their positions in sequence, and the Qiankun Demarcation Boundary unfolded along the outer ring of the Beast Court.
Gray-green raindrops stopped at the edge of the line, dividing the dense waterline into dozens of narrow slits through which the column passed.
For every hundred meters advanced, the miasma would gnaw off one array plate along the line, the beast patterns on the plate crushing the copper shell to reveal the magic crystal core inside.
Zhao Leiguang held his two shields horizontally in front of him, with two boxes of spare array plates strapped to his back. The armor plates clattered as he walked.
"Am I now a heavily armored knight, or a formation deliveryman?"
Shen Xinglin pulled the damaged array plate from the rear, disassembled his lance into four sections, and nailed them into the ground and rock wall respectively to fill the gap in the array base.
"The deliveryman isn't as noisy as you."
"That's because you haven't seen East District delivery."
Wen Yue climbed onto the side platform, aimed the World-Destroying Thunder Crossbow at the drainage ditch above, and drove the rangefinding arrows into three water inlets in succession.
The vibrations transmitted back from the arrow shaft converged into the terminal, where twelve drainage ditches were hidden inside the rock strata, the bottom of which was piled with parasitic beast eggs.
Lin Chuxue pressed her staff into the ground, and the Blood Explosion Magic Array spread out along the outer edge of the drainage ditch, sealing the exit from which the beast eggs crawled out.
Wen Yue cocked the crossbow, and the high-explosive arrow pierced through the outermost rock layer, diverting the accumulated rainwater into the deep ravine.
Lin Chuxue then pressed down the second layer of array patterns, and the beast egg shattered in the water, the green slime being evaporated by the array.
Dozens of young beasts emerged from the third ditch, but as soon as they climbed onto the stone platform, Zhao Leiguang's shield blocked their path.
The war trampled over the stone platform, and the cubs and pebbles rolled back to the bottom of the ditch.
"Whose experience is this?" Zhao Leiguang asked.
Lin Chuxue raised her staff.
"Consider it after-sales service included with your delivery."
Two hundred meters further on, Xiao Qianyu stopped in front of a sloping stone wall.
The outer layer of gray crust on the stone wall was washed away by the rain, revealing the military pattern of the Jade Void Palace underneath, with the inscription pressed in the center of the pattern.
She scraped away the debris with her halberd, leaving two lines of old writing on the stone wall.
"Nine Lotus Palace, three hundred years."
"Guard the lamp and conceal the soul; on the lotus path, do not believe what people say."
Yang Jian stood at the foot of the stone wall, the cloth strip still in place.
The Nine Lotus Lantern left Jade Void Palace three hundred years ago, and the old man guarding the palace told him that the immortal artifact had just been lost.
The two records, when put together, contain such a large loophole that it could fit half of Qianyuan Mountain inside.
Yang Jian took out the jade talisman from the armor. The edge of the jade talisman had burn marks on it, which was the token that the old man guarding the palace had given him before he left.
Lu Yan placed the jade talisman into the Void Plate, and the divine pathway within the talisman was dismantled, revealing a severed part of the divine soul hidden at its center.
The fragment of the soul has no complete consciousness; it can only repeatedly correct deviations along the lotus-patterned fire path, turning the wrong path back to the safe direction.
The rewritten lotus patterns in the bone marrow cavity were its distress signals.
The true guardian of the palace had long since had his soul stolen, and the old man who spoke with Yang Jian in the outside world had borrowed his identity, voiceprint, and fragments of memory.
The remnant soul was trapped in the jade talisman, unable to speak or identify the imposter, and could only gradually steer the path back on track.
Nezha took the jade talisman and tapped its surface twice with his fingers.
"The old man used to scold me, he could scold me from morning class to dinner, but the other day he only said seven sentences."
Yang Jian grasped the jade talisman.
"He's been scolding me less."
"This is more troublesome than uttering a few more curses."
Lu Yan re-embedded the jade talisman into the terminal, and the fire path corrected by the remnant soul connected into a thin line on the map, the end of which pointed directly to the inner gate of the Beast Court of No Daylight.
"The Moving Sanctuary wants us to get the Nine Lotus Lantern."
Qin Wuyi pressed down on the edge of the main board.
"Didn't it seal off the beast's lair with lights?"
"The lamp is part of the outer lock." Lu Yan pulled up a diagram of the cavity under the Beast King's sternum.
"Once the Nine Lotus Lantern leaves the Beast King, the deep seal will lose its suppression, and the high-dimensional experimental subject will be able to awaken."
"The Cave of Ten Thousand Beasts is the outer cage, and the Beast King is responsible for suppressing what lies beneath it."
Zhao Leiguang placed a box of array plates on the ground.
"Shall we make this trip and act as its locksmith?"
"So let's not take the lamp yet," Lu Yan said.
"Enter the Beast Court, investigate the experimental subjects, and sever the Holy Temple's control over the Beast King."
Qin Wuyi stared at the dwindling reserves on the array plate.
"The array plate can still advance four hundred meters."
"Reach the door."
Yang Jian untied the tassel from his knife and tied it to the middle of his three-pointed, double-edged sword.
"I'll use my knife to explore the path inside the door."
The rain curtain became denser the deeper it went, and the array plates were worn out faster. In the last two hundred meters, only fourteen array plates remained operational.
Zhao Leiguang walked at the front, shields covered in large holes from raindrops. Su Yunqing repaired the inner armor plates through the shields, preventing the healing light from penetrating the shield shell.
Shen Xinglin's lance broke once. He removed the spare locking bar, reattached it to the lance, and continued to replace the left flank.
Wen Yue's quiver was half-empty, and Lin Chuxue's staff was covered in raindrops, but the two did not stop.
Qin Wuyi pressed the main board lower and lower, and blood dripped onto the board. He wiped it away with his sleeve and pushed the front line forward another ten meters.
The inner gate of the Beast Garden, where there is no daylight, finally stood at the end of the rain curtain.
The gate is over thirty meters high, with nine-petaled lotus patterns inlaid in the gaps. The low growl of the Beast King comes out from behind the gate, causing the entire rock strata to undulate.
Yang Jian inserted his three-pointed, double-edged sword into the crack in the door, the blade parting the first lotus petal pattern.
Qin Wuyi simultaneously fixed the gravity, coordinates, and timing in front of the door to prevent the rules inside the door from flowing out in the opposite direction.
The nine-petaled lotus pattern unfolded in sequence, and what emerged from behind the door was not the roar of beasts, but the rhythmic thud of military boots.
The Nine Lotus Lantern was embedded in the Beast King's chest, its nine petals casting golden light that illuminated the entire underground forbidden area.
A silver army was standing beneath the lamps.
They wore standard Dragon Guard combat uniforms, with armor numbers, shoulder insignia, and weapon attachment points all identical to those of active duty troops.
Silver crystals emerged from under each person's neck armor, creeping along the seams of their uniforms into the backs of their hands and the butts of their rifles; not a single word was spoken in the ranks.
The officer at the front raised his right arm, revealing the insignia of the first squad beneath his epaulets.
The number is engraved as number seven.
Wen Yue raised the World-Destroying Thunder Crossbow and pressed the muzzle against the officer's chest.
The silver-clad soldiers simultaneously raised their guns, over nine hundred muzzles shining through the lights and aimed at the doorway.
Wen Yue did not immediately report the number of people.
She first counted the spacing between the ranks, then the height of the gun muzzles, and finally placed the crossbow scope on the left side of the third row.
The soldier's combat boots were covered in the anti-slip sand commonly used at the North District base, and the safety on his gun was in the standard position for the Dragon Guard patrol.
The silver-masked man didn't create any mere decorations; he crammed all of the Dragon Guard's training regulations, equipment specifications, and marching habits into this army.
Wen Yue drew the crossbow string taut.
"They are waiting for the password."
Lu Yan raised his hand, but the team did not fire.
The officer at the forefront of the Silver Army opened his mouth, but it was Qin Zheng's voice that came out.
"No clothes, bring in the stone slab."