Star Palace. Beneath the towering palace halls, Lu Yang walked across the gloomy ground. The icy chill felt warmer to his heart than when he had met Ming Feng's gaze before.
Soon, thirty-six stone statues came into view.
Yet before Lu Yang could speak, a beam of light suddenly enveloped him, almost instantly soothing his previously anxious mood.
Because this light was very special.
The instant it covered him, Lu Yang's Dao Heart automatically reacted. This seemed to be a method for checking whether one's Dao Heart had been affected.
Star Palace knows too!
What normal person would test for something like this? Only those who understood the World Honored One's methods—who knew he could alter other people's Dao Hearts—would specifically guard against it!
At that thought, Lu Yang immediately breathed a sigh of relief. Whatever the reason, this precaution at least showed that Star Palace and the World Honored One were probably not wearing the same pair of pants. That was enough. Otherwise, he would have had to consider immediately self-destructing his avatar and having his true body hide inside the Responding King.
Still, he deliberately showed a puzzled expression.
"Hao Yuan Upper True, what is this?"
As soon as his words fell, Hao Yuan Upper True's Divine Thought surged. "Just ordinary measures. Every cultivator who has visited the Mother Star must undergo this step."
".Oh?"
At those words, doubt immediately arose in Lu Yang's heart. Yet when he recalled the Mother Star's layout, a conjecture swiftly surfaced in his mind.
*Star Palace's Mother Star appears to hold an exalted position, the holy land in the hearts of all array treasure masters. But in truth? The Flare Nebula Belt arranged around its perimeter, the vast stretches of void, the retaliatory array treasures capable of killing True Lord Cheng Tian