Fang Yi shook his head.
Sure enough, he had to do it the way they did in Shrouding the Heavens. If the Heavenly Heart refused to acknowledge him, he would simply overpower it and force it into his body.
Hopefully, the Plane Embryo would know what was good for it when the time came.
Otherwise, it wasn't as though Fang Yi couldn't do what Fang Han had done: use the great devouring art and swallow the Plane Embryo whole.
They were both members of the Fang family. His own mouth was no less sharp!
Fang Yi turned into a streak of light once more and headed back toward the place where he had entered. As for the Creation Martial Tablet, he wouldn't bother going there. There was no need.
He passed the guardian suppressed beneath the Five Elements Divine Mountain once more.
With a casual gesture, he dispersed the Five Elements Divine Mountain. Once the guardian emerged, it let out a roar and tried to attack again.
Fang Yi vanished from the desolate world in a flash, leaving only the guardian's skeleton roaring behind him.
Outside.
As soon as Fang Yi entered, the entire Great Desolate Ancient Plain erupted. After all, there was still some time before the Great Desolate Ancient Tablet opened, yet someone had gone in just like that.
More importantly, the inexplicable hole had led some people to believe that the Great Desolate Ancient Tablet's rules had changed.
They summoned the forces backing them one after another, with the Great Devil Sect, the Martial Alliance, and the Yin Puppet Sect arriving the fastest.
After all, they already had bases nearby.
A vast crowd had gathered outside the Great Desolate Ancient Tablet. At their head stood Mu Qianqian of the Great Devil Sect, Wu Ci of the Martial Alliance, and Teng Kui of the Yin Puppet Sect.
They were among the foremost powers in the Great Desolation Commandery, and as local strongmen, they also had the home advantage. No powerful expert or faction wanted to clash with them here before the Great Desolate Ancient Tablet.
A group of people kept examining the Great Desolate Ancient Tablet's surface, trying to find out what had changed, but discovered nothing different about it.
"We found nothing..."
The Qi Creation Realm elders returned to their respective camps and made their reports.
Teng Kui frowned and looked at the disciple reporting to him. "Did someone really go in?"
"It's absolutely true. A lot of people saw it," the disciple said hastily, well aware of Teng Kui's brutality.
"Then we'll wait for that fellow to come out. Could he have some connection to the Great Desolate Ancient Tablet, and that's how he got in?"
After some thought, Teng Kui sent for Mu Qianqian and Wu Ci. Although the three sects were constantly competing in the Great Desolation Commandery, they shared a common goal regarding the Great Desolate Ancient Tablet.
Others could come and take part when the Great Desolate Ancient Tablet opened, but if anything unusual occurred, they had to keep it under their control. Even the Four Great Clans of the Great Yan Dynasty couldn't stand against the three of them working together here.
"Set up a formation and capture that person the moment he appears. I'm worried he has some connection to the Great Desolate Ancient Tablet. If it falls into his hands, the Great Desolation Commandery will exist in name only."
So said Teng Kui, taking it for granted that the Great Desolate Ancient Tablet belonged to the Great Desolation Commandery.
Mu Qianqian, however, knitted her slender brows slightly. The Great Desolate Ancient Tablet hadn't changed for so long, yet now it suddenly had.
For some reason, she thought of what had happened two nights ago, and a glimmer appeared in her eyes. Could she see that senior again?
"I don't agree. I only came to take a look. Since the seal hasn't been broken, if someone else got in, that's thanks to their own ability."
Mu Qianqian spoke up.
Even Wu Ci looked at Mu Qianqian now. This wasn't like her.
He feared there was something going on that he didn't know about.
After some thought, Wu Ci also shook his head. "Miss Mu is right."
"Heh, if I get anything from him, I won't be sharing it with you!"
Teng Kui swept his blood-red robe aside. Those two didn't know what was good for them. As he saw it, someone had probably just found a loophole and slipped inside. Could someone have broken the seal?
What a joke. Not even someone in the Nirvana Realm could break it.
Would those major figures come back to covet the Great Desolate Ancient Tablet?
What a joke!
Teng Kui quickly gathered the Yin Puppet Sect's disciples and used Talisman Puppets to set up a formation near the Great Desolate Ancient Tablet.
The Yin Puppet Sect excelled at using puppets to form arrays, and two Initial Qi Creation Realm puppets and Teng Kui served as its formation cores.
Even someone in the Creation Realm would be held up if they fell into it, perhaps even gravely injured.
Mu Qianqian stood with her arms folded, a trace of anticipation on her face. Over the past three days, she had been slowly studying the Heart Demon Scripture.
She knew what a great existence that senior was. Teng Kui's actions were simply courting death.
But...
Mu Qianqian frowned slightly. If the senior knew she was standing by and watching the show, would he take back the martial art he had bestowed on her?
Her heart tightened for no apparent reason. She hurriedly summoned the Great Devil Sect's Qi Creation elder and whispered something to him.
The Qi Creation elder looked troubled, but when he saw Mu Qianqian's expression, he nodded.
The Great Devil Sect's disciples received their orders and began moving around the vicinity. Teng Kui was on full alert and didn't notice what they were doing. Even if he had, he wouldn't have cared.
He didn't believe Mu Qianqian would dare risk offending the Yin Puppet Sect by attacking them right now.
In the sky.
Gu Mo was explaining the Dao Sect to Jiang Yinyin. Although he didn't know why Fang Yi had taken her as a disciple on their master's behalf,
the young sect master surely had his reasons.
Jiang Lei and Jiang Xue sat cross-legged, refining the pills Gu Mo had given them. After listening to Gu Mo explain the differences between the four great halls, Jiang Yinyin asked, worry on her little face, "Why hasn't senior brother come out yet?"
"Don't worry. This place can't hold your senior brother back."
Gu Mo's gaze fell on the Great Desolate Ancient Tablet. Fang Yi never did anything he wasn't confident of, and he had sounded so familiar with this place.
He had probably made plans long ago.
It was only the ants below that made him frown slightly. Never mind. Among them was a woman the young sect master had met before.
He would wait for the young sect master to come out before dealing with them.
The next moment, a whirlpool of energy appeared on the ancient tablet, and a figure stepped out.
Seeing this, Teng Kui struck first to gain the advantage. He roared, "Everyone, attack! Lesser Yin Sha Formation!"
All the Yin Puppet Sect's disciples stirred their Origin Energy and Mental Energy.
A formation hundreds of feet across appeared in the sky. At the same time, they took out Universe Bags, and pale black stones flew out one after another.
Dense Yin Sha Qi rolled forth and gathered into a black python hundreds of feet long, which hissed incessantly.
Just then,
a woman's shout rang out. "Great Devil Sect, attack!"
Teng Kui was about to shout at Mu Qianqian for trying to snatch the fruit of his labor when she had refused to take part earlier, but he saw that the Great Devil Sect's disciples weren't targeting the person who had emerged from the energy whirlpool.
They were targeting the Yin Puppet Sect's disciples.
Teng Kui's pale face filled with rage. "Mu Qianqian, are you courting death?!"
Caught off guard, the Yin Puppet Sect's disciples were attacked by the Great Devil Sect's disciples, and the python, which had only just stabilized, immediately became somewhat illusory.
Mu Qianqian stared at Teng Kui. She had just gotten a clear look, and sure enough, it was that senior. Since that was the case, she couldn't possibly sit idle. She said coldly,
"That senior has shown me, Mu Qianqian, the grace of giving me a new life. If you want to offend him, Teng Kui, you'll have to get past me first."
The Yin Puppet Sect's disciples came to their senses and immediately fought the Great Devil Sect's disciples. Cries of battle and fluctuations of Origin Energy rang out across the Great Desolate Ancient Plain.
Seeing this, Teng Kui spoke in a voice as cold as ice. "Since you're courting death, you bitch, I'll capture you first and refine you into a living puppet. I'll play with you day and night and get a taste of that naturally charming body of yours!"
Just then,
"Arrogant."
A calm voice suddenly rang out from the horizon, indifferent as the words of the heavens themselves.
At the same time, a wisp of black light appeared.