"Then this Divine Status, is it real or fake?" Ji Yaohua was a little restless.
"Naturally it’s fake." Before Mu Qingge could answer, Xi Qianxue had already spoken with certainty.
"Fake?" Ji Yaohua was somewhat astonished.
Xi Qianxue nodded and said, "Strictly speaking, this place doesn’t even count as one of the Divine Tomb’s burial chambers yet, so how could there be a Divine Status? According to the records in the Divine Hall, after a Divine Status leaves the body, it can only be trapped around the burial chamber; it’s impossible for it to be this far away."
"So, this is just an illusory Divine Status, meant to provoke slaughter among those who enter the tomb." Yao Xinghai gave an almost imperceptible nod as he concluded.
"What do we do now?" Ji Yaohua asked.
"Break the array." Mu Qingge answered simply.
She had no intention of interfering with the others. After entering the Divine Tomb, everyone shared the same goal; in a sense, they were all competitors. She was not kind-hearted enough to help her own opponents solve their problems.
Mu Qingge began carefully observing, not joining the struggle for the Divine Status.
This array didn’t confuse the mind, nor did it cause one to lose their sanity. It merely used the simplest method, manifesting a fake Divine Status, and thus drew out the myriad faces of the crowd.
Mu Qingge carefully searched for the formation core, while the other six tacitly surrounded her, closely watching the movements around them.
They could not help with finding the formation core, so they could only do what was within their power, allowing Mu Qingge to devote herself fully to unraveling the Forbidden Technique.
At this moment, that illusory Divine Status actually flew toward them.
The Divine Status was about the size of a palm, diamond-shaped and crystalline, emitting a faint halo. Wherever it passed, it dragged out a long tail behind it, like a shooting star.
The difference was that a shooting star was firelight, while it was silver light like flame.
Ji Yaohua’s eyes narrowed, and he cursed, "That Divine Status, seeing that we won’t fall for it, actually wants to lure people over to us. How sly!"
Sure enough, behind that illusory Divine Status, those who had been slaughtering each other now charged toward them.
Previously, these people had still been wary of these few who ranked among the strongest on the Green Talent List. But now their eyes were bloodshot, and they no longer cared about anything except hacking them to pieces.
The others came on fiercely, and the six immediately grew vigilant, their weapons ready to strike at any time.
And at this critical moment, Mu Qingge stood up, raised her right hand, and shot a beam of golden light from between two fingers, striking the Divine Status that was flying back and forth in the air.
Crack—!
A crisp sound rang out from the air.
The Divine Status struck by Mu Qingge froze in mid-air and shattered into fine starlight.
All of a sudden, the entire space began to tremble. In their shock, the scene around them changed once more.
When Ji Yaohua and the others saw the scene before them clearly again, there were no longer any other figures around, and the former green mountains and clear waters had turned into a world of snow and ice.
"That Divine Status was actually real!" Yao Xinghai suddenly reacted and looked at Mu Qingge.
Mu Qingge shrugged. "I didn’t expect that someone would actually be willing to use a real Divine Status as the formation core."
"Too intricate! Who could have guessed that the Divine Status that was flying around seducing people into slaughter was actually the formation core?" Xi Qianxue exclaimed as well.
Before, they had been speculating that the Divine Status was merely something conjured by the Forbidden Technique to lure those who entered the array into killing each other. Who could have guessed that the Divine Status was real, and moreover, was the formation core of that array!
"Qingge, how did you see through it?" Yao Xinghai couldn’t help asking.
He was truly impressed—impressed by Mu Qingge’s understanding of Forbidden Techniques, impressed by how she seemed to know everything.
"Its aura." Mu Qingge’s answer was still simple.
It wasn’t that she was deliberately being cryptic; breaking a Forbidden Technique was also a kind of comprehension of Daoist Techniques. If you understood, you understood; if you didn’t, you didn’t. It was hard to explain clearly.
Just like Ji Yaohua—he didn’t understand Forbidden Techniques at all. No matter how much Mu Qingge explained, he still wouldn’t get it. So what he focused on was the desolation around them. "Where are all those others?"
"The array was broken; they were probably teleported into other Array Formation Restrictions." Ying Ze answered.
"How many Forbidden Techniques are there here, exactly? When will we finally reach the end?" Wei Molili frowned, voicing the longest sentence he had said since entering the Divine Tomb.
That question really stumped everyone, including Mu Qingge.
The Forbidden Techniques on Array Mountain were like a maze, and also like interlocking rings. Once you went in, you had to break them before you could take the next step. And that next step could mean countless different branching paths.
As for when the end would come, who could say?
The only thing they could do was continue breaking their way through the arrays.
"For now, we can only keep going down." Ji Yaohua said.
Wei Molili, however, looked at Xi Qianxue.
Xi Qianxue shook her head and said, "I don’t know either. Regarding the Forbidden Techniques in Array Mountain, the Divine Hall doesn’t have any clear records. The only mention is that, apart from saying Array Mountain is the closest route to the burial chamber, the Forbidden Techniques within it are ever-changing."
"Then what about now? We don’t feel any confinement around us, nor is there anything bewitching our minds. What is the meaning of this array?" Ji Yaohua asked blankly.
As soon as he said that, everyone’s gaze fell on Mu Qingge.



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