Jiang Ding's divine sense and Sword Intent shone upon the hill-sized storage treasure like a Blazing Sun. Wherever he looked, layers upon layers of restrictions filled the vast space within his divine sense, stretching beyond sight and making his scalp prickle.
Various self-destruct restrictions showed faint signs of awakening.
"Sorry!"
"I spoke too loudly just now..."
Jiang Ding held his breath. He cautiously drew back his Sword Intent and divine sense, no longer letting them run so rampant.
The Black Tortoise Heavenly Palace possessed a legacy of immortal cultivation restrictions no weaker than the Immortal Sect's, perhaps even stronger. This was no native world where he could casually sweep through and crush every restriction.
One careless move, and the entire hill-sized storage treasure would explode and destroy itself. Then he would be left wanting to cry, with no tears to shed.
Worse, touching a divine-sense restriction might grievously wound an intruder's soul, scattering it beyond recovery...
Oh. For Jiang Ding, that part was not true. At worst, he would suffer a minor injury.
The blazing sun of his sword path hid itself and vanished.
Amid restrictions as intricate as a sea of clouds, a translucent flying sword quietly appeared. It passed by here, then there.
Each time, it released an exceedingly fine thread of Sword Qi to probe a small section of the restrictions. It triggered their natural responses and swiftly recorded them from the side.
This was called the Spirit-Peeking Gap-Seeking Art, an Immortal Sect spell for breaking restrictions.
It exploited the absence of the treasure's owner. By dividing divine sense into minute fluctuations, it could test the restrictions' responses while mimicking the divine-sense fluctuations that occurred naturally in daily life, without immediately triggering the treasure's self-destruct restrictions.
In a cultivator's daily life, scanning others with divine sense and