Mortal Fire indeed could not burn through fine gold.
But if Mortal Fire, combined with the Great Heavenly Venerable's Imperial Decree, still could not burn through it, what did that mean?
It meant the Great Heavenly Venerable's Imperial Decree was useless.
It also meant that the will of the Heavenly Court could not even overcome a lock on Guanjiangkou's front gate.
The great could always be glimpsed through the small. If even a lock lay beyond the Heavenly Dao's jurisdiction, what that said about the golden lock's owner went without saying.
As long as the golden lock held, that was defiance of an Imperial Decree, contempt for heavenly authority.
Thus, the Fine Gold lock had to break, whether it could or not.
Crack.
With a crisp snap, the Mysterious Yellow Fine-Gold Lock split down the middle, breaking in two.
The lock had broken after all.
As for whether it had been burned through by a candle flame of Mortal Fire, crushed by the divine essence of the Great Heavenly Venerable's Imperial Decree, or shattered on its own because a Daluo Golden Immortal secretly withdrew the Magic Power protecting it-
None of that mattered.
What mattered was the result: it had broken.
The process could be explained away, but the result alone was absolute. If the Great Heavenly Venerable's Imperial Decree could not burn through it, what in the Three Realms could?
What could burn through it?
What would dare burn through it?
Once the Imperial Decree was laid over it, this lock had to break. Refusing to break was simply not permitted!
The three tests Yang Jian had set for Chen Wei were copied wholesale from the examination the Great Heavenly Venerable had once used to make things difficult for Sun Wukong.
They looked like three minor questions, but in