The seal was stirring-had that thing awakened?
[Blazing Dragon Venerate]: Flame Sun Volcano! I love places with Fire attribute the most!
[Nine Heavens Divine Lightning]: It shouldn't be selected based on preference. It should be sorted by distance and difficulty.
[The Myriad Poisons Divine Farmer's Canon]:... Have you noticed that the inscription says, "Each stone contains an Origin Principle"? This means that each stone corresponds to a Principle attribute. After obtaining it, our Cultivation Method will also benefit.
This sentence silenced everyone.
Five stones. Five Origin Principle.
It's not just about Sealing Formation.
It can also allow the Cultivation Method to advance further.
Su Zhan grinned.
"Okay. Let's go back and prepare first, we'll leave tomorrow."
He turned and walked towards the Altar.
He took two steps and then stopped.
Because the ground beneath his feet was shaking.
The vibration wasn't caused by him stepping on it.
It came from deeper places.
From the direction of the Sealing Formation.
[Shadow Thousand Silk Lock]: Boss... there's an unusual fluctuation coming from the Sealing Formation layer.
Su Zhan quickened his pace.
Su Zhan rushed back to the Altar as quickly as possible.
He stepped onto the God-Ascending Steps, leaping three hundred steps in one stride, and arrived at the top platform a few breaths later.
In the circular groove at the center of the platform—the former location of the Blood Pool — the Rune on the ground were flashing. They weren't normal gold, but rather a gold mixed with a very faint gray.
At the entrance to the spiral staircase, Yuan Ji was standing guard, gripping his cane. The old man's face was as white as paper.
"Did you feel it?"
Yuan Ji's voice trembled. "The core sphere... emitted three pulses. After each pulse, a wave of vibration emanated from the Sealing Formation layer. The frequency was increasing."
Without hesitation, Su Zhan rushed down the spiral staircase.
Inside the Core Space, the suspended translucent sphere trembled slightly.
The golden patterns inside the sphere—those that Su Zhan had previously replenished to 24% using the Nine-Turn Reincarnation Lotus —pulsated like a heartbeat, flickering on and off. With each pulse, fine cracks appeared on the surface of the sphere, only to be quickly repaired by the golden light.
Su Zhan reached his hand an inch from the surface of the sphere, but didn't touch it.
His senses penetrated the outer shell of the sphere and went deeper inside.
At the deepest part of the sphere, at the entrance to the Sealing Formation layer—a passage blocked by golden Rune —three gray spots appeared on the Rune.
It's like three mold spots growing on a white wall.
"These gray spots weren't there when I came last time," Su Zhan said in a low voice.
[Shadow Thousand Silk Lock]: I've confirmed it. The positions corresponding to these three gray dots are exactly at the boundary between the second and third layers of the Sealing Formation.
[Thunder Emperor Divine Seat]: It is testing.
Su Zhan withdrew his hand.
What are they testing?
[Thunder Emperor Divine Seat]: Testing the strength of the Sealing Formation. Those three gray dots are not attacks—they are probes. The Primordial Demon Embryo is emitting extremely weak sensory pulses to test the remaining energy threshold of each layer of the Sealing Formation.
[Thunder Emperor Divine Seat]: If the Sealing Formation is strong enough, these probes will be automatically erased. But now the Sealing Formation is only 24% intact—not enough. The probes are gradually eroding the outer structure of the Sealing Formation.
Su Zhan got goosebumps again on the back of his head.
How fast is it?
[Thunder Emperor Divine Seat]: At the current rate of erosion, the Sealing Formation energy is decaying at a rate approximately three times faster than under normal conditions.
Three times.
The original nine-month buffer period has been shortened to three months.
Su Zhan gritted his teeth.
Is there any way to remove those three probes?
[Thunder Emperor Divine Seat]: I can try to purify it with Divine Soul Attack. But the probe is stuck in the Sealing Formation, so hitting the probe is the same as hitting the Sealing Formation. Hitting it too hard will only help it open the door.
It's frozen.
If the probes cannot be removed, the Sealing Formation will weaken faster. However, removing the probes may damage the Sealing Formation itself.
A few breaths of silence Sea of Consciousness.
[The Myriad Poisons Divine Farmer's Canon]: I have an idea.
Su Zhan focused his attention on that.
[The Myriad Poisons Divine Farmer's Canon]: The probe is an extremely weak form of consciousness—similar to the "instinctive activity" of the toxins within my body. If I reverse the formula of the Law-Eroding Poison —instead of corroding the structure of the Principle, but rather "paralyzing" the consciousness activity—theoretically, I could put the probe into a dormant state, temporarily losing its corrosive ability.