The King Of Warriors novel (Jared Chance) novel Chapter 6177

Luminous Sanctuary, beneath Saintlight Peak.

Jared stood with Evelyn in a hidden hollow at the base of the mountain and looked up at Saintlight Peak, wrapped in that sacred glow.

The mountain wind howled and dragged banks of spirit mist through the hollow, but it couldn't strip away the weight pressing down on either of them.

"Young Lord, are we... still going up?"

Evelyn asked it under her breath. The strain in her voice didn't hide well.

She reached out and lightly held Jared's arm, and the second her fingertips brushed his sleeve, she caught the change in him.

His face looked the same as ever. His eyes were even sharper than before. But a faint coldness was coming off him, and she caught it at once.

It was the kind of chill that seemed to rise out of the Ninefold Hells. In this Luminous Sanctuary, where sacred aura filled everything, it stood completely out of place, as if the two forces were quietly pushing against each other.

In the distance, Saintlight Peak rose into the clouds, and the palace at the summit showed through the mist now and then like the celestial palace.

Golden light spilled down through the clouds, sacred and solemn, washing over every inch of ground.

But to Jared, that light looked painfully harsh right then, like countless golden needles stabbing into his eyes and scraping at his nerves.

Jared stayed silent for a moment, staring hard at the half-hidden palace complex on the summit as if his gaze could pierce all those wards and drag out whatever truth lay behind them.

"We're going up."

His voice was flat, without the slightest ripple, but the weight in it landed like iron. There was no room to question it.

Evelyn froze, her brows pulling tight. "But that young man said the Basilica Lord is in seclusion. No one is allowed to disturb him. He said people can't even get close.

If we force our way up there again, we could lose our lives. The Celestial Basilica's Mountain-Guarding Grand Array is famous across the Fourteenth Firmament. This isn't something to take lightly."

"In seclusion?"

The corner of Jared's mouth lifted just a little.

There was no warmth in that smile. It only sharpened the mockery. "He says the Basilica Lord is in seclusion, and we're supposed to believe it? He says we can't go through the front gate, and that means all we can do is stand here and stare at the mountain?"

He turned to Evelyn, and something hard flashed through his eyes, mixed with a trace of playfulness. "What I said was that we're going up. I never said we were taking the front gate."

Evelyn just stared at him, her eyes full of confusion.

Not through the front gate?

Then how were they supposed to get up there?

All around Saintlight Peak, the Godslayer Grand Array had been laid down. The stories said even a True Immortal Realm expert couldn't slip through it without a sound.

Back then, there had been a demon called the Bloodhand Butcher whose name shook the world. He had tried to sneak in from the side, and the formation had ground him into a bloody mash. Not even his soul and sense were left behind.

Jared didn't explain. He only raised his right hand slowly.

In the center of his palm, a golden light flickered.

It wasn't the same pure gold shining off Saintlight Peak. This light carried a thread of dark gold through it, as if ancient dragon blood were moving inside it, old and mysterious.

He closed his eyes, and his spirit sense spread out at once like invisible feelers, sweeping toward Saintlight Peak.

At that moment, the world in his sight changed. What had looked like an unbreakable barrier showed him a completely different face.

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