Faced with such uncertainty, Chen Changsheng was deeply unwilling.
Yet without confirming Nian Sheng's safety, Chen Changsheng could never set his mind at ease.
In the end, Chen Changsheng glanced at the Tri-Color Teleportation Array within the Bronze Ancient Hall and sighed.
"Girl, you really know how to make trouble for me."
"Some of the patterns here have been erased. It's obvious someone doesn't want others to know certain things."
"If I want to find you now, I have to figure out which races guard the Eighteen Bronze Ancient Halls."
"You'd better not get teleported to the Giant Hand's side, or I'll really have a headache."
After saying that, Chen Changsheng began studying the Tri-Color Teleportation Array in the hall.
The patterns within this Bronze Ancient Hall were likewise incomplete. More precisely, two crucial pieces of information were missing.
Those two pieces of information were the eighteen races guarding the Bronze Ancient Halls, and the origin of the Giant Hand.
Back when he had been in the Forbidden Ground of Night Moon Kingdom, he had discovered that part of the information about these eighteen races had been erased.
He had originally thought Master Yuhua simply did not want others to learn too much.
Now, it seemed the situation was far from that simple.
Any existence capable of entering the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Ground to erase those patterns had to be unimaginably powerful.
Or perhaps the great terror within the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Ground had deliberately erased those patterns itself.
And there was also this: the Eighteen Bronze Ancient Halls had shifted position. By all rights, whatever they suppressed beneath them should have escaped long ago.
Yet that was not the case. The Calamity within the Boundless Secret Realm had already been cleared away.
That meant some living being had been silently eliminating these disasters.
No matter which of these guesses was true, the existence behind it was not something Chen Changsheng could provoke at present.
Time passed. Chen Changsheng spent two months and finally figured out how to activate the Tri-Color Teleportation Array.
He had managed it so quickly for two reasons. First, his attainments in formations had advanced greatly.
Second, when Chen Changsheng had repaired the Bronze Ancient Hall in the Boundless Secret Realm, he had already gained some understanding of the Tri-Color Teleportation Array.
Although that Tri-Color Teleportation Array had been battered beyond recognition, Chen Changsheng had nonetheless accumulated considerable experience.
He drew Spiritual Power from spirit stones and poured it into the Tri-Color Teleportation Array.
As Spiritual Power flowed into it, the Tri-Color Teleportation Array began to light up.
He filled in several tiny gaps according to his own understanding, then adjusted some possibly misplaced tri-color Array Patterns.
At last, the Tri-Color Teleportation Array began functioning normally.
Looking at the Tri-Color Teleportation Array before him, Chen Changsheng swallowed hard, then took out Hundred Defeats Immortal's Stone Coffin.
He lay inside the Stone Coffin, formed a hand seal with both hands, and swiftly shut the lid.
He had not comprehended this Tri-Color Teleportation Array at all. Being able to activate it by force was already the absolute limit.
Who knew whether the Tri-Color Teleportation Array he had modified would suffer some mishap? Under such circumstances, he would never dare to teleport with only his physical body.
"Buzz!"
The Tri-Color Teleportation Array activated, and the Stone Coffin within the formation instantly vanished.
"Clang! Clang! Clang!"
Endless blows rang through the Stone Coffin as Chen Changsheng covered his ears, cold sweat streaming down his face.
With Chen Changsheng's attainments in formations, he easily guessed what was happening outside.
At that moment, countless spatial rifts outside the Stone Coffin were slicing at it.
For this to happen, there had to be a problem with the Teleportation Arrays at both ends. Because the arrays were misaligned, so many spatial rifts had formed.
"Luckily I was cautious enough. If I'd teleported with my body, I'd probably not even have scraps left by now."
After voicing his lingering fear, Chen Changsheng began to wait quietly.
"Ho! Ha! Hey!"
Several hundred burly men clad in animal skins, their skin bronze-colored, danced around a bonfire as though they were conducting some sort of ritual.
Not far from the bonfire stood a towering bronze Sacrificial Altar. An aged High Priest kept kneeling and worshipping before it, chanting under his breath.
"Buzz!"
Suddenly, the long-sealed Sacrificial Altar emitted a dazzling tri-color radiance.
This sight left not only the people below dumbfounded, but even the High Priest beside the altar was stunned.
Everyone: ???
This ritual was held once every ten years. By all rights, it was merely going through the motions!
Why had it suddenly reacted?
Boom!
A heavy Stone Coffin crashed down onto the Sacrificial Altar, shattering the already extremely blurred tri-color Array Patterns completely.
Faced with this strange situation, everyone present fell silent.
"Creak..."
The Stone Coffin atop the Sacrificial Altar moved, frightening the people conducting the ritual into taking a step back.
The coffin lid was pushed open, and a "creature" dressed strangely, with delicate skin and tender flesh, sat up.
The instant this "creature" sat upright, thousands of eyes fell upon him.
Chen Changsheng: "..."
No way. I just landed, and I'm already greeted by such a massive spectacle? Can this still be played?
That was right. The person who had appeared on the Sacrificial Altar was none other than Chen Changsheng, who had escaped from the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Ground through the Tri-Color Teleportation Array.
He glanced at the shattered Tri-Color Teleportation Array, then at the dense encirclement around him.
After thinking for merely a second, Chen Changsheng decided to have a friendly conversation with these people.
"Where is this?"
Chen Changsheng asked tentatively. Seeing no reaction from them, he switched to another language.
Well-read as he was, Chen Changsheng was proficient in dozens of languages.
The language used by these people before him was most likely not the common tongue used by the Great Qian Dynasty and Xuanwu Kingdom.
If he wanted to learn where this place was, he first had to solve the problem of communication.
And so, Chen Changsheng switched through twenty-eight languages in succession.
At last, when Chen Changsheng used a fragmented language, the High Priest beside him reacted.
"This is the Ten Thousand Mountains. Who are you?"
Having solved the communication problem, Chen Changsheng immediately let out a sigh of relief.
"I'm an outsider. I'm not very familiar with your language. Could we communicate using Divine Sense Realm?"
At those words, the High Priest nodded, then released a strand of Divine Sense Realm that made contact with Chen Changsheng.
Yet something was rather strange. The High Priest's aura was exceedingly powerful, but his Divine Sense Realm was pitifully weak.
At that level of Divine Sense Realm, he could not even compare to a Golden Core stage cultivator.
Though the situation was strange, Chen Changsheng did not dwell on it.
All he wanted now was to quickly repair the Tri-Color Teleportation Array, then leave this place.
However, the instant Chen Changsheng's Divine Sense Realm came into contact with the High Priest's, the High Priest was so terrified by Chen Changsheng's horrifying Divine Sense Realm that he collapsed.
He immediately knelt down and excitedly kowtowed to Chen Changsheng, then turned and had his clansmen kowtow as well.
Because he spoke too quickly, and because Chen Changsheng was unfamiliar with this fragmented language, he had no idea what they were saying for the moment.
Still, Chen Changsheng struggled to make out several words he could understand from the High Priest's speech.
"Heavenly God, gratitude, White Shaman."
Chen Changsheng: "..."
Could they have mistaken me for some incredible great power?
And from the looks of it, I don't seem to be leaving anytime soon.
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