Cultivating for a hundred lifetimes to ascension - Chapter 677: 411 Half a Six-Year Cycle

Chapter 677: Chapter 411 Half a Six-Year Cycle

From the day the Earth Flame Palace fell, half a month had passed in the blink of an eye.

Once Zhao Changdu had initially straightened out all matters on Earth Flame Island, he immediately rushed to the secret chamber at the heart of the Seven Flames Array.

As soon as he opened the door to the chamber, he saw two figures chatting and laughing—Sixteenth, Zhao Qiongtian, and the Array Master, Huang Yu.

Seeing Zhao Changdu arrive, Zhao Sheng’s face showed no surprise, and he immediately laughed, “Taoist Huang and I were just making a bet on when you would come here. Taoist Huang bet it would be at least a month, but who knew it had only been half a month and you couldn’t stay away any longer.”

“Taoist Zhao, you came too soon. You made this old man lose,” Huang Yu said, feigning complaint.

“Hmph, you two hide here, only caring for your leisure and even finding the interest to wager, completely unaware that these past half months I’ve been nearly driven mad by that pest, Shangguan Longhu,” Zhao Changdu strode into the chamber, his face expressing annoyment.

“Has Old Thief Shangguan left yet? How many concessions did you agree to give him?”

Zhao Sheng waved and a Jade Heart Meditation Seat flew out, landing on the ground.

Zhao Changdu unhesitantly walked over, sat down cross-legged, and casually said, “Old man here had to give away quite a number of Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures to barely send away that debt-collecting ghost. Heh, he doesn’t seek fame, only benefits! Shangguan Longhu is indeed not a man to underestimate!”

“That is indeed the case. Among the many Nascent Soul Ancestors in recent centuries, there are hardly any who are likely to break through to the Late-stage Nascent Soul, except Shangguan Longhu,”

Huang Yu continued, “In my opinion, Shi Ri’s death will definitely push his cultivation further, and it might not be long before he breaks through to the Late-stage.”

“If Shangguan Longhu wants to smoothly break through to the Late-stage, he will need at least a hundred years of secluded cultivation. It’s still a long time, and there’s no need to talk about him now.”

At this point, Zhao Changdu changed the topic, calmly saying, “Dong Zhi and Shi Ri, the two demons, have both fallen, and the remnants of Earth Flame Palace and the Three Great Families have submitted. The situation is now under control, it’s time to open the Earth Flame Star Cave!”

At these words, Zhao Sheng and Huang Yu immediately became serious.

At this moment, Zhao Changdu’s gaze shifted to Huang Yu, and he said with a gentle smile, “The task of moving the pillar will trouble Taoist Huang.”

“This matter is easy for me; I have been waiting for a long time already,” Huang Yu responded immediately after hearing this.

After finishing speaking, Zhao Changdu then looked at Zhao Sheng and ordered, “Qiong Tian, come down with me!”

“Yes, Ancestor!” Zhao Sheng nodded in response.

Soon after, Elder Huang stood before the Array Formation Jade Pillar, surrounded by eight Yin Yang Array Plates circling the pillar, casting down a wide swath of pale glow, from which numerous Yin Yang Talismans emerged, pouring down like a waterfall.

Following the Array Formulas given by Master Fu Xin, Huang Yu continuously formed Dharma Seals with his hands and recited Array Spells, sending waves of Divine Thought continuously spreading out, transforming into hundreds of Divine Lights, which connected with the many Bright Pearls on the Array Pillar and vibrated at a specific frequency.

Not long after, the Array Formation Jade Pillar suddenly burst into a dazzling brilliance, and huge flares shot out from the base of the pillar.

As the flares burst, an invisible and vast vibration instantly permeated the chamber, evoking a sense of desolation and antiquity.

With a loud rumble, the thick Array Formation Jade Pillar slowly moved aside, revealing a roughly six-feet wide orifice, with both the flare and vibration continuously erupting from it.

“Let’s go!”

As soon as the words fell, Zhao Changdu burst into a layer of Light Shield around his body and flew into the fiery orifice. Zhao Sheng quickly followed suit.

After one breath, the two had descended a thousand feet deep, and their surroundings had become much more spacious. The inside of the cave featured flaming columns a hundred feet wide, and the temperature had risen sharply to the point where it could easily vaporize Mystic Iron.

Th𝐢𝑠 𝐜hⱥp𝘵ҽr 𝘪𝘴 pՕṡ†ꬲ𝐝 b𝑦 Ḱ𝗂ţᥱṅɵ𝗏𝓮𝙡

After another breath, Zhao Sheng’s range of Divine Thought detection suddenly increased, sensing that they had arrived in an extremely vast space.

Plup, plup!

Zhao Sheng and Zhao Changdu burst out of the Fire Sea one after the other, and the scene before them suddenly became clear—it was a magnificent and vast underground cave.

This cave looked like an inverted bowl, with a vast dome rising high, its surface a thick layer of smooth and fine glaze, reflecting beautiful fiery light.

Below the cave was a lake of molten lava, and on its surface was a gigantic vortex about ten miles in diameter, from the center of which spewed… no, a tremendous column of lava was being sucked up, about a thousand feet thick.

The thousand-feet-thick column of fire, like a tornado, slowly spun, continuously drawing in vast amounts of scorching lava.

Zhao Sheng quickly glanced over the column of fire and looked towards the top of the column, where a huge metallic sphere about three hundred feet in diameter, entirely gray-black and with a smooth and round surface, was suspended.

The metallic sphere was desolate and ancient, yet constantly emitted powerful and ancient gravitational waves.

The passage through which Zhao Sheng and Zhao Changdu came was precisely aligned vertically with the metallic sphere below, and between the passage and the sphere was a funnel-shaped flame vortex.

This huge metallic sphere was undoubtedly the core of the entire underground cave, with all arrangements centered around it.

“Is this the legendary ‘Indeterminate Star Core’?” Zhao Sheng murmured to himself, his gaze quickly sweeping around the Star Core.

At that moment, the outer perimeter of the Indeterminate Star Core was surrounded by a layer of dazzling red light, which lingered like an atmosphere and seemed to be gathering and thickening.

And two hundred feet away from the Star Core in the Void, six types of Heaven and Earth True Fire formed into huge Fireballs, distributed in the positions of a Hexagram, slowly revolving around the Indeterminate Star Core.