A Dilemma

In this world, there were always certain coincidences lurking in the unseen.

When Zhou Yang left the secret realm with his Dao companion Xiao Ying and the other two women, using the teleportation array established by Daoist Lan to return to the Zhou family,

the Heaven-Connecting Demon King, who had infiltrated the Boundless Sea of Sand several years earlier to investigate the revival of life force there, happened to arrive near the sinkhole.

The enormous sinkhole, along with the unusual hardened soil surrounding it, easily drew the demon king's attention.

When he descended into the depths of the sinkhole, the bronze altar that Zhou Yang had merely concealed with a Fifth-tier Illusion Array immediately lay exposed before his eyes.

"An ancient cultivators' teleportation altar, used to open certain secret realms. It appears that True Person Zhou has already used it."

"Yet as far as I know, when such teleportation altars were constructed, special activation incantations and hand seals were set into them. Where did True Person Zhou obtain the inheritance of those incantations and hand seals?"

Deep underground within the sinkhole, the Heaven-Connecting Demon King stood atop the bronze altar. His eyes gleamed as he examined the altar below, quickly identifying both its origin and function.

Many Human Race Cultivators knew what kind of strange beast the Heaven-Connecting Demon King of the Cloud Severing Mountain Range truly was.

But very few Human Race Cultivators knew that besides his profound cultivation and tremendous strength, the Heaven-Connecting Demon King was also an exceedingly rare Formation Grandmaster among the Demon Race, particularly skilled in spatial teleportation arrays.

After only a few glances at the bronze altar, he already understood its purpose and origins.

Yet even a Formation Grandmaster could not use the bronze altar without knowing the proper incantations and hand seals.

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