As they spoke, Ghost God Sword clearly sensed something. His voice abruptly paused, and a thread of his gaze swept past the shadow of Black Robe's hood, yet failed to pierce that shadow to reveal his true appearance.
He surely knew Black Robe's identity, but made nothing of it, merely telling Yu Ci and the others to head toward the plaza.
As the ashram of Donghua True Lord, Donghua Palace as a whole took Donghua Main Peak as its head. With clusters of peaks gathered together, there were as many as thirty-three in total. Its halls were arranged upon them, running from east to south, then turning west to north, and finally ascending to the main peak, rising sequentially. There were over ten thousand palace chambers, among which thirty-three were main halls and over a hundred were important halls.
It was not that Lu Chen was particular about pomp and circumstance, but rather that this naturally fit the mysterious gate's layout of "Heaven Beyond Heaven," and there should also be corresponding formation layouts. Yet, no matter what formations there were, they were all meaningless now.
After a great battle, four or five peaks in both the eastern and southern directions had collapsed. The mountain body of True Sun Peak in the north—second only to Donghua Main Peak—had been pierced by overwhelming force, leaving a fissure that was transparent from front to back, which was also currently undergoing continuous collapse.
The location where the group currently stood was the starting first peak of the eastern peaks, named Heaven's Gate Peak. It was the great gate of Donghua Palace, but unfortunately, its original majesty had been entirely replaced by ruin and disarray.
Ghost God Sword gathered the cultivators and said, "Back when the array of Donghua Palace was activated, without permission from