Changes Within and Without

"The formation is perfectly formed!"

The core of the Four Gates Enclosure Formation is not deep; most of its structure is naturally formed through underground caves and culverts, rather than being artificially perfected.

This strategic formation, taking advantage of the Heaven and Earth to create a wide range of targeted conditions.

The fact that the person who designed the formation chose this location as the focal point is also due to the limitations of the terrain; they can only hide it at this depth, and it's impossible to hide it any deeper.

If it weren't for the centuries of dust and grime, there might still be array masters and great cultivators guarding this place, waiting for the secret realm to be broken.

The formation-based countermeasure was indeed successful, as the secret realm is short of water resources.

But this attempt also failed. The master of the secret place did not live for another thousand years; he had already died sometime in the past. No one responded, and no one negotiated. The killer was just a grass spirit.

After studying the structure for a while, Zhang Xuezhou adjusted the bronze waterwheel blades, released the Acupoint-Fixing Technique, and then injected a stream of Law Power to pull it. The waterwheel immediately began to turn slowly.

The sound of water flowing in the water room was extremely faint; if the bluestone sealing the water room was plugged, it would be almost inaudible.

"This waterwheel is too small; can it even pump water from the secret realm?"

The new emperor couldn't help but feel a little anxious as he watched the waterwheel slowly turn, fearing that before all the water was pumped out, Wei Qing would be crushed to death in the rubble.

"Formations are always about using small forces to achieve great results, like the power of a lever. We're using a small waterwheel here, but the suction force in the underground channel will be extremely strong!"

The ability to hold Jin Wanliang firmly in the culvert for a month, unable to move, indicates that the force drawing power from the end must be extremely strong. This could even weaken the Geomagnetic Primal Light of the secret place, firmly embedding the bottom of the secret place into Zhongnan Mountain.

Why isn't the water being pumped out?

"They're probably still releasing air right now!"

Zhang Xuezhou gave an uncertain reply, then manipulated his Law Power to continuously pull the device, trying to speed up the waterwheel's rotation as much as possible.

The remaining water in the passage continued to drain out, causing a gurgling sound to echo from afar.

A surge of air appeared in the water room, blowing fiercely like a strong wind. The waterwheel started spinning rapidly, and the suction force made Zhang Xuezhou, who was standing nearby, unsteady on his feet.

He slowly retreated from the water room, and saw that the water flow from the outlet gradually increased, carrying with it more turbid mud and sand.

"They're pumping water at full power!" Zhang Xuezhou thought with delight.

"I wonder if we can drain the water from those piles of withered branches and fallen leaves?" the new emperor asked worriedly.

"The suction power of this formation is very strong; I think it should be fine!"

Zhang Xuezhou thought for a moment and dug a well a hundred meters deep. When the well was completed, the waves and water surging out were extremely violent.

People can be drained away, let alone the stagnant water in the loose soil, fallen leaves, and withered branches.

Why didn't the formation masters from a hundred years ago extract it more powerfully?

"They've never entered the secret realm normally, so how would they know what's inside? Even if there's no water inside, they wouldn't know, and would assume it's because the realm's owner is resisting that the water can't be pumped out!"

"That's true!"

"Even if someone enters or leaves the secret realm safely, what they see is merely an illusion. They have no idea that the master of the secret realm has been dead for many years. They will only report what they see!"

Putting aside other factors, even if the secret realm's formation hadn't been damaged, the Geomagnetic Primal Light protecting it would have been unbearable, making it extremely difficult for anyone to enter or leave the secret realm by force.

Although the Great Han Dynasty was far weaker than the Great Qin, the conditions for the new emperor were not something that ordinary people could achieve. After a simple comparison, Zhang Xuezhou felt that very few people would be able to go in and out to check, and very few would come out alive.

Perhaps the remains of these people are buried under some of those trees.

The struggle against the dead continued unabated until the fall of the Great Qin.

With many ideas sorted out, past events gradually came to light.

This is probably the only area in the Great Qin that left behind intact benefits without causing harm.

Although many powerful medicinal herbs in the secret realm have been soaked in water for over ten days, this will not affect their future usefulness.

The only pressing matter at hand is determining Wei Qing's fate.

If it weren't for this incident, the new emperor would also find it difficult to calm his joy, since this secret place would indeed bring countless benefits.

"The water level is rising!"

Inside the water room, murky muddy water kept gushing out and flowing into underground drains through the drainage holes.

To prevent the underground channel from getting blocked, normal drainage is clear and transparent. This forceful extraction would inevitably lead to blockage, but it also proves that the water in the secret place is no longer seeping downwards, but is being forcibly and forcefully extracted, even the unstable soil is being pumped out.

"Let's find the normal entrance!"

Zhang Xuezhou glanced at it, and the new emperor nodded.

The Imperial Shuttle began to rise slowly, continuously traversing the mountains.

Looking out from the secret place, the Zhongnan Mountains appear hazy, and the same is true when looking into the secret place from within the Zhongnan Mountains.

Unless one is in the area and familiar with the terrain, it is almost impossible to notice that there is another mountain in the Zhongnan Mountains.

"Boom!"

After searching for half an hour without finding a place to enter normally, just as the new emperor was about to suggest whether to forcefully rush into the Geomagnetic Primal Light again, a sound of mountains collapsing and the earth splitting open was heard.

"The secret realm has collapsed!"

Zhang Xuezhou raised the Sky Shuttle, and the mountain in the secret place shook for a moment before settling down.

He had previously caused the external underground channel to collapse within the secret realm, and now he was using the Four Gates Enclosure Formation to draw out the collapsed area inside the secret realm.

"There!"

With a quick glance, Zhang Xuezhou accurately located the overlap between his well-digging site and the collapsed area.

The seemingly insignificant drilling of a well turned into a dam bursting due to an anthill, something even Zhang Xuezhou had never anticipated.

In the collapsed area, part of the secret place overlapped with Zhongnan Mountain, forcibly squeezing out a path in and out.

The Geomagnetic Primal Light still exists, but it is noticeably missing, appearing as patches of flickering light.

"You can enter and exit normally now!"

Zhang Xuezhou let out a shout and then rushed towards the area.

"Protect yourself with the Vajra Talisman!"

The new emperor only had time to grab a protective Vajra Talisman before a beam of light appeared around him.

When his scalp started to tingle, he felt the Sky Shuttle moving back and forth.

"Can it fly while twisting like that?"

The new emperor thought about the Imperial Shuttle that Zhang Xuezhou was piloting and realized that even boatmen sailing on the water would find it difficult to turn around like that.

Just like martial artists making short-distance dashes and leaps, Zhang Xuezhou controlled the direction of the Sky Shuttle with great ease, without even using the power of his feet, flying as if he could do whatever he wanted.

Aside from the fact that the Imperial Shuttle broke down relatively quickly in Zhang Xuezhou's hands, the Imperial Shuttle under Zhang Xuezhou's control was almost flawless.

The soft, withered leaves and branches, stripped of most of their moisture, crashed into us, only to be forcibly penetrated and expelled by the Sky Shuttle, bringing everything in the secret realm back into view.

"Boom!"

Compared to the sounds of landslides and earthquakes heard from the outside, the sounds inside the secret place, sealed by the Geomagnetic Primal Light, were amplified by almost three to five times.

It was as if a chain reaction had occurred, or perhaps this secret place was sinking into Zhongnan Mountain, no longer maintaining its independent state, with the entire secret place collapsing everywhere.

Streams of Geomagnetic Primal Light floated across the sky, then transformed into various eerie colors.

Before the new emperor could even ignite the withered branches and fallen leaves drained of water, sparks emerged from the friction of the collapsed rocks, and patches of flame were already spreading everywhere.