Seeing the black hole in the sky, Zhang Ling looked surprised.
Releasing his divine sense to check, he sensed that the black hole had the power of teleportation, obviously a special means of teleportation.
Below the black hole, Zhang Ling also felt a bloody aura, indicating that a battle had taken place here not long ago, with scattered animal bone fragments and some bloodstains.
However, there were no human corpses, and no wild beasts or cultivators around, so he felt relieved. He walked under the black hole and saw a tall stone tablet standing there. He swept his divine sense over it, and a piece of information entered his mind.
After a moment, Zhang Ling had a certain understanding of the platform under his feet.
The current platform, which resembles an altar, is a relic built by ancient cultivators and serves as a core area for a formation that suppresses the turbid Qi of Tianyuan(Tianyuan: a place name).
The black hole in the sky is the entrance to the fourth level.
After understanding the situation here, Zhang Ling did not delay any longer. After putting on another layer of protective cover, he turned into a ray of light and entered the black hole.
In the blink of an eye, he arrived in another space.
The sky was filled with dust, presenting a dim yellow color, with no sunlight visible. The ground was also covered with a layer of strange white mist, allowing visibility of only a few dozen feet with the naked eye.
At this moment, Zhang Ling stood in the white mist, releasing part of his divine sense to observe the surroundings.
He was now in a square that was neither large nor small, about fifty to sixty feet wide, paved with whole pieces of bluestone.
He could also hear the sound of flowing water. On each of the four sides of the square, there was a white jade bridge, and the rushing water flowed straight down like a waterfall. Each bridge led to a different place.
The building on the east side of the square was a giant pillar reaching into the sky. The entire pillar emitted amazing spiritual power, covered in a layer of light, and pierced into the clouds, its top unseen.
This pillar was engraved with dense ancient characters and many array patterns. After Zhang Ling identified them, he roughly understood that this pillar might be a merit monument, with many names engraved on it.
The building on the west side was a circular archway, more than ten feet in diameter. The archway was surrounded by clouds and mist, with spiritual light flowing inside, forming a constantly rotating spiritual vortex.
This archway seemed to be a teleportation array as well, leading to an unknown location. To the north, there was a well-preserved black palace, occupying a considerable area, hidden in the clouds and mist, like a celestial palace.
The south side was empty, with several bluestone paths extending downwards.
Zhang Ling roughly examined the situation here and walked towards the palace on the north side. As for what this place was, the stone tablet had briefly described it when he teleported in.
The place now is called Sifangtai(Sifangtai: Place Name), passing through here will reach the fourth level of Tianyuan(Tianyuan: Place Name), and enter the central area of Tianyuan(Tianyuan: Place Name).
It is said that there are treasures left by ancient cultivators in this place, and every cultivator who comes here can obtain one.
In this way, the palace in the north is likely to be the place where the treasure is hidden.
There is a no-fly restriction here, so one cannot fly. Zhang Ling crossed the white jade bridge on the north side and spent half an hour to reach the front of the palace.
Looking up, he found that the palace was more than twenty feet high, without a gate, and a white light curtain shone at the entrance. A stone plaque hung above, but it was as smooth as a mirror, without a single word, it was a blank plaque.
In front of the palace was paved with bluestone road, and on the left and right sides stood a row of tall humanoid statues, more than a dozen, each statue was seven or eight feet high, wearing iron armor, holding knives, swords and other weapons.
These statues were gray and covered with dust.
As soon as he sensed it with his divine sense, he found that these statues were engraved with dark spiritual patterns, and the spiritual light would flash from time to time. They were actually a group of high-level puppets.
Zhang Ling was shocked and carefully looked at these humanoid puppets.
The puppet closest to him was black and red, wearing a scarlet armor, holding a black iron spear. It was only ten feet long, and the tip of the spear was glowing with golden light. Even from a distance, he could feel a sharp aura.
The style of this spear was the same as the huge spear found in the ancient骸地带(古骸地带: ancient skeleton area) in the desert before, and it may be a product of the same period.
When approaching within twenty feet of the palace, the puppets lit up with spiritual light, and Zhang Ling instantly sensed more than a dozen auras no weaker than the middle stage of the Golden Core realm, all locked on him.
His face froze immediately, and a cold sweat rose from his back. Looking at these humanoid puppets again, their eyes were also staring at him. At the same time, the two puppets closest to him shook a few times, as if they were about to recover.
Zhang Ling raised his hand, and a Tianyuan Token(Tianyuan Token: A token related to Tianyuan) appeared in his hand. As soon as he took out this token, the spiritual light on these puppets dimmed again, and the emitted aura disappeared instantly.
It seems that as long as there is a Tianyuan Token(Tianyuan Token: A token related to Tianyuan), these puppets will not attack him.
Without this token, Zhang Ling absolutely believed that these puppets would swarm up and kill him. It would be difficult to resist so many high-level puppets attacking together.
Looking at the same style of these puppets, it is clear that they were specially made to guard this place. After this scene, Zhang Ling was even more convinced that there were treasures hidden in the palace.
Then he walked to a puppet and carefully looked at it. He couldn't recognize the material on the puppet for a while, and the refining technique was very different from the Heavenly Puppet Art he obtained.
This is also a common thing. The way of puppets also belongs to one of the hundreds of arts of cultivating immortals, but few people can master it. Not only because refining puppets consumes a lot of materials, but also studying various puppets is a very time-consuming thing.
Moreover, to refine puppets, one must also master a series of methods such as formation, weapon refining, etc., which is even more difficult.
If it weren't for the Heavenly Puppet Art he obtained, which clearly recorded more than a dozen methods of refining puppets, he would not be able to refine them even if he had the refining materials.
Zhang Ling thought, raised his hand, and a yellow light shone on the humanoid puppet in front of him. With a thought, he wanted to put the puppet into the storage bag.
But as he imagined, the puppet did not move.
He smiled bitterly, this result had already been expected. But these high-level puppets are in front of him, which makes people very envious.
Then he threw out a few sword lights to attack the puppet, and saw a layer of five-color spiritual light appeared on the puppet, and the sword light was bounced off when it was cut on it. At the same time, the aura on this puppet instantly increased.
Seeing this scene, Zhang Ling did not hesitate at all, and immediately retreated a distance. After retreating more than twenty feet, the aura on the puppet dimmed again.
He couldn't help but touch his chin, thought for a while, and walked to other puppets. Then he used various methods, but he still couldn't take these puppets away.
Although this situation had been expected, Zhang Ling was still quite sorry in his heart.
But thinking about it, these puppets have been standing here for many years, and the cultivators who enter here are not weak, and there are even Nascent Soul cultivators. If they can really be taken away, they may not be left until now.
