Medicine Capital, deep in the mountains.
Ye Xuan returned alone to the entrance of Divine Valley, shrouded in endless Array Patterns.
This was the Forbidden Zone of the Medicine Capital, and the place where the First Spirit Root of the Lower Realm resided.
Ahead, the void twisted beneath a thick veil of mist.
The valley entrance looked peaceful, but concealed a murderous intent that could shake the heavens.
It was the renowned "Fifth Killing Array" of the Upper Realm, said to be deadly even to Supreme-level figures who entered it. Even True Immortals could fall here.
"The Fifth Killing Array..."
Ye Xuan stood before the array, Chaos Qi slowly swirling in his deep eyes.
An ordinary person faced with a damaged killing array of this caliber would have fled long ago.
But in Ye Xuan's eyes, there was nowhere in this world he could not go.
Humm—
A yellow-black seal floated above Ye Xuan's head, cascading billions of strands of human-path violet qi that shielded him.
It was the Human Emperor Seal. Backed by the supreme fortune of the human race, it made him impervious to all laws and warded off every evil.
Then Ye Xuan opened his eyes.
His Chaos Heavy Pupils pierced through illusion.
The array's intricate patterns, once indistinct to him, now appeared crystal clear.
Every rune's movement, the position of each array core, even the shifting of the gates of life and death—all lay exposed.
"Break."
Ye Xuan stepped forward.
He didn't use brute force to attack the array. Instead, he moved through it as casually as if strolling through a courtyard, placing his feet precisely on one life-gate node after another.
Sword qi and killing light, powerful enough to slaughter gods, howled past him, yet never so much as brushed his clothes.
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