Ever since he had begun plotting against Ao Bing, Wang Ping had ordered his Puppets to secretly set up arrays across the Central Continent to veil the Heavenly Secrets, lest anything unexpected happen.
No matter how well these arrays were arranged, however, they still required the power of the 'Sky-Veiling Talisman'. This required a relay array core, which Wang Ping had placed within the labyrinthine caverns beneath Sanhe Prefecture, inside the very secret cave where his communication device was located.
Not long after Liu Shuang left the Mountain Top Dojo, Wang Ping brought Yulian and silently infiltrated Sanhe Prefecture. The unknown isolating energy underground in Sanhe Prefecture prevented his transfer array from carrying out long-distance teleportation. He could only teleport when he got as close to that secret cave as possible.
The cave was still as dry and tidy as before, thanks to the Puppets Wang Ping had left behind to maintain it. These Puppets possessed only basic consciousness and lacked complicated human emotions, so they knew no loneliness. Their flaw was that they were too stupid. Like the Puppets in the alchemy room of his Mountain Top Dojo, they could only perform preprogrammed tasks.
Under the maintenance of these Puppets, the communication device still looked brand-new. The newly arranged array before it was likewise neat and orderly. Through its connection with the communication device, the array could link to arrays elsewhere in the Central Continent.
"This place is so quiet."
The moment Yulian followed Wang Ping into the cave, she rose upon the clouds and cast an 'Illumination Technique', lighting the dim cave until it was bright as day. Her voice echoed through the cave in waves.
"Ha!"
"Whoa!"
Like a child, Yulian began playing with the echoes.
Then she said to Wang Ping, "I'm going to take a