Pushing open the purple-gold doors, Lu Yang found a staircase leading upward and another leading downward before him. He hesitated.
"Up or down?" Lu Yang asked.
"According to the layout of palaces, the library should be near the upper floors. Let's go to the top and see where we are," Malthus said.
"Agreed," the Blazing Demon God and the Grand Prince said together.
Lu Yang nodded. He also wanted to see where he was. He raced up the spiraling staircase, and before long, he reached the roof. Looking down, he, Turbid Wine, the Blazing Demon God, and the others all sighed.
They were positioned in the very center of the palace. If they jumped down and ran across the grass, it would be no different from running naked down the street. If the Holy King so much as looked out from above, he would immediately spot Lu Yang's conspicuous figure.
Everyone was at a loss, not knowing what to do. Lu Yang gritted his teeth and said, "Trust me. Let's take a chance. Our odds of surviving if we jump from here are definitely better than if we travel through the interior."
"Why?" The three gods were curious.
Lu Yang smiled. "I'd wager that the mirror-image array I just went through was probably the simplest array here, but it would be the most difficult for other God King Tier or Main God Tier beings. In other words, that array was the final one protecting the Holy King's privacy. Everyone agrees, right?"
Everyone nodded.
Lu Yang continued, "Since that array was the strongest one for God King Tier beings, then none of the arrays before it could be below God King Tier. There's no way I could pass an array meant for other God King Tier beings."
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