The enormous nine-cornered palace had a smooth, sealed exterior. There were no visible windows, doors, or other entrances. It seemed to be cast in a single piece.
To Gao Xian, this enormous nine-cornered palace resembled the alien spacecraft from movies in his previous life.
An eighth-rank Celestial Venerable flying through the heavens with something like this must have looked incomparably imposing and domineering.
Fortunately, the structure was riddled with damaged breaches, as though some external force had forcibly shattered it. On the other hand, after the passage of more than a dozen calamities, the Nine Luminaries Palace had still remained largely intact. That alone showed how extraordinary it was.
Gao Xian studied the exterior for a while before entering the Nine Luminaries Palace through one of the breaches.
On a hill a thousand li away, Zhi Zhen set up a Supreme Jade Emperor Demon-Subduing Grand Array. The array covered a hundred li, and with thirty-six Array Flags and seventy-two earth needles embedded a hundred zhang underground, it formed a formidable grand formation.
Zhi Zhen had no idea what Gao Xian might encounter. The Nine Luminaries Palace was so enormous that exploring it could take an unknown amount of time. To ensure their safety, naturally, she had to set up an array.
Once such an array was completed, the spiritual qi it gathered would naturally manifest strange phenomena. Even beasts with no real knowledge would not dare blunder into it.
Not long after Zhi Zhen finished setting up the array, light and shadow flickered beside her. Gao Xian's blank-eyed substitute vanished, replaced by Gao Xian himself, his face filled with alarm.
"Something happened so quickly?" Zhi Zhen was rather surprised as well. She knew full well how formidable Gao Xian was. His cultivation alone surpassed hers by a great deal, not