#106 - Chapter 106: Two Doors

You enter the depths of the Heavenly Devil Sect's palace, a magnificent black palace.

Inside the black palace, colossal black pillars stand tall, and you notice some scriptures on them. You approach to read, and the words inscribed on these pillars are "Heavenly Devil abounds, Devil is emptiness, Heavenly Devil myriad voids..." Through reading, you understand that these are likely some scriptures of the Heavenly Devil Sect.

These scriptures all record a creature called a Heavenly Devil, introducing their grand achievements.

The Heavenly Devil Sect is rumored to worship the Heavenly Devils of the Devil Realm. The Heavenly Devil race is also a relatively powerful race in the Devil Realm. In the future, when cultivators undergo the Yuan Infant Tribulation and the Transformation God Tribulation, they will encounter attacks from Heavenly Devils during the Inner Demon Tribulation.

Therefore, it is not surprising that there are pillars inscribed with scriptures deep in the Heavenly Devil Sect's palace, promoting the achievements of the Heavenly Devils.

After briefly reading these black-annotated Heavenly Devil scriptures, you continue forward. Finally, you arrive at the deepest part of the black palace. It seems you've reached a council hall, with a black round table and five or six black skull chairs. You guess that this might be where Qiu Yue and some Heavenly Devil Sect elders hold meetings.

You walk to the black round table and find some letters and papers on it. You pick them up to examine.

"March 27th, the Four An Prefecture Demonic Path branch urgently requires 5,000 low-grade magic tools, 1,000 middle-grade magic tools, and 500 high-grade magic tools. Requesting dispatch from the Heavenly Devil Sect headquarters."

"April 13th, Wan Ku Zi of the Heavenly Capital Prefecture requests the headquarters to send three Core Formation Late Stage great cultivators to attack the Zhengyang Sect's spirit stone branch mine."

"May 8th..."

These letters and papers are mostly information from various places where demonic cultivators are attacking, reporting to the headquarters. After reading these letters and papers, you are even more certain that this is a council hall, and this might be where Qiu Yue and the Heavenly Devil Sect elders direct the demonic path cultivators in various parts of Qing Province.

"Could the Xuan Bird Token and the Mermaid Pearl be here?" Lin Changqing didn't forget the purpose of his visit to the depths of the palace. He put down the letters and looked around.

You scan the area with your spiritual sense, spending ten minutes carefully scanning the surroundings of the black round table and this council hall, both above and below, but you find nothing. You do find some pills, which are placed in a cabinet on the left side of the council hall, but these are not what you want.

You didn't find the Xuan Bird Token and the Mermaid Pearl on Qiu Yue's corpse, and you haven't found anything here in the deepest part of the palace either.

"Is there really nothing?" Lin Changqing frowned, carefully examining everything in this black palace.

For some reason, he always felt that there was something in this black palace. This was intuition, and a cultivator's intuition is very accurate, especially at his level.

Intuition told him that this black palace was hiding something.

In fact, the reason why you are so eager to find the Mermaid Pearl and the Xuan Bird Token in this black palace is also related to the unease hidden deep within your heart. You defeated Qiu Yue too easily, and you always feel that something is wrong, but you don't know where the problem lies.

If you could find the Xuan Bird Token and the Mermaid Pearl, your unease could be lessened a little, but unfortunately, you searched here for another ten minutes and still didn't find them.

"I'm really stupid, there's a simple method, but I'm just foolishly searching here by myself." Lin Changqing suddenly slapped his head.

After another five minutes, you suddenly cursed yourself for being stupid. If you want to know what's in this black palace, just find a few core disciples of the Heavenly Devil Sect to ask. These people definitely know everything about the Heavenly Devil Sect's black palace better than you.

Now that Qiu Yue has been killed by you, and the entire Heavenly Devil Sect has been defeated by you, isn't it a matter of asking whatever you want?

Thinking of this, you immediately walked out. The righteous path outside was still celebrating, and some demonic path cultivators were either fleeing or surrendering. You found a surrendered Core Formation Heavenly Devil Sect demonic cultivator to question. This demonic cultivator's name was Mo Huo.

"My lord, what do you want to know? I will tell you everything I know. I am the Law Enforcement Elder of the Heavenly Devil Sect and know all the secrets of the Heavenly Devil Sect. You can ask anything, and I will tell you everything, my lord." Mo Huo looked at the blue-clothed man in front of him with fear and flattery. He knew that the blue-clothed man in front of him was the man who controlled the fate of Qing Province, and with just a word, he could decide his future life or death.

In addition, he had just witnessed with his own eyes this god-like and devilish man splitting Qiu Yue, who had always been invincible, alive.

So at this moment, Mo Huo's tone was both fearful and flattering.

"Oh, you are quite sensible. I'll ask you. What's in this black palace?" Lin Changqing asked.

"The black palace?" Mo Huo frowned and thought for a moment, then said, "The black palace is where Sect Master Qiu Yue and the Supreme Elders hold meetings. Only those above the eighth level of Core Formation are qualified to go to the depths of the black palace. I have never set foot there, being only at the fifth level of Core Formation."

"However, I once had some relationship with a Supreme Elder at the ninth level of Core Formation. Once, I heard him speak after drinking, saying that the black palace hides a great secret of the Heavenly Devil Sect. The elder told me triumphantly after drinking, 'When you reach the eighth level, you will know what benefits there are under the round table.'"

"To be honest, I still don't know what that round table refers to, after all, I have never entered the black palace."

After Mo Huo finished speaking, Lin Changqing narrowed his eyes upon hearing these words. He keenly extracted two key pieces of information from Mo Huo's words.

His intuition was indeed correct, the black palace does hide something.

Second, under the round table...

You carefully considered Mo Huo's words, 'When you reach the ninth level, you will know what benefits there are under the round table.' Could it be that the secret of the black palace is under that black round table?

While thinking, you began to walk back to the black palace. You wanted to see what exactly was under this round table. However, just as you turned around to leave, Mo Huo's voice came from behind.

"I've told you everything you wanted to know, my lord. Can you spare my life?" Mo Huo begged for mercy.

Facing Mo Huo's plea for mercy, you didn't even turn your head back, just casually waved your hand. Immediately, two righteous path Core Formation cultivators dragged Mo Huo away.

Now, after killing Qiu Yue, your prestige in Qing Province has reached a peak. Many righteous path Core Formation cultivators are willing to follow you. You are very satisfied, which coincides with a certain plan you will implement in the future. After all, to implement that plan, you need many 'your own people.'

Five minutes later, you returned to the depths of the black palace and arrived at the black round table.

"Under the round table." Lin Changqing narrowed his eyes, then suddenly exerted force and pushed the black round table aside. Then, he squatted down and quietly touched the ground under the round table with his palm.

This touch really allowed Lin Changqing to touch something. He actually faintly felt that the ground was absorbing his spiritual power!

You increased the input of spiritual power. Five minutes later, the ground no longer absorbed it, seemingly saturated with spiritual power. Then, gradually, you felt the ground surge wildly. Subsequently, with a bang, you were blasted five meters away by a huge force. Then, from a distance, you discovered that the ground under the round table suddenly cracked, revealing two huge pits!

You stepped forward to look with surprise, and then discovered that under these two huge pits, there were two huge doors!