Power Beyond the Nascent Soul Realm

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The silent bamboo forest stood utterly still, its branches and leaves unmoving, as though even the mountain wind had frozen. Only steady footsteps echoed along the stone path through the grove.

The Longevity Sect Master was already nowhere to be seen. On the bamboo forest's stone path, only Chu Mu and Xu Changqing remained, walking slowly onward.

Though the bamboo forest was silent, that silence was clearly only temporary, like a volcano that could erupt at any moment. Even to Divine Sense, it remained an unquestionable Great Terror! Xu Changqing walked ahead, cautious yet clearly familiar with the way.

Chu Mu followed behind, his mind taut as a drawn bow. Under the Spirit Radiance Blessing, he occasionally surveyed this peculiar bamboo forest.

With his discernment, it was naturally not difficult for him to see that this bamboo forest sword formation was no ordinary cave abode array. Rather, it resembled the Nine Dragons Divine Soul Grand Array formed by his Nine Dragons Suppressing Prison Tower.

If nothing unexpected had happened, this formation should have taken the Sword Dao Nascent Soul's Sword Intent as its core, transforming ten thousand stalks of bamboo into swords and thereby forming an array.

The source of the bamboo forest's power did not lie in its formations or restrictions, but purely in the might of that Sword Dao Nascent Soul's Sword Intent.

In such a place, there was naturally no rule to speak of. Everything depended upon a single thought of that Sword Dao Nascent Soul. And now, that Sword Dao Nascent Soul had been forced to seal away his own mind and imprison himself within this cave abode after his consciousness and soul were eroded.

If his mind went out of control, then without a doubt, this bamboo forest would also spiral out