403 Heading Overseas Again

He Ping found the location of the underground palace. It lay within a mountain valley, where jagged rocks and skeletal remains littered the ground, along with scattered fragments of ancient weapons. A faint corpse-decay miasma lingered throughout the valley.

Observing the terrain from the air, he knew there was a spiritual earth aperture deep within the valley, formed from the baleful aura gathered from the desolate wilderness in all directions. That was also where the underground palace lay.

"The countless boulders in this valley resemble a military formation, with only the central point serving as the earth aperture. The heaven-and-earth essence in this world of corpses is exceedingly strange. Even the great dragon within the earth veins is a massive dead dragon!"

Before entering the underground palace, he surveyed the surrounding terrain and gradually gained a clear understanding.

"This underground palace is no simple place. It was likely built specifically by some cultivator of the past to shut himself away and refine his arts. I wonder how Dugu Lin found this place..."

He wasted no time. Dropping downward, he passed straight through the earth and slipped directly into the underground palace. There was no entrance to the palace; one could only enter by using an earth-escape art.

Following Wangji Daoist's instructions, He Ping dove more than ninety zhang beneath the ground and immediately sensed an unusual fluctuation.

As he moved through the earth, he probed with his true qi. At that moment, his Ten-Transformation Heavenly Net True Qi encountered the obstruction of some force.

"Even my Ten-Transformation Heavenly Net True Qi has been repelled. This must be the underground palace, just as Wangji Daoist and the others said. Special materials were used in its construction, capable of blocking outsiders' prying eyes."

He continued diving deeper, boring down to a depth