Immortal Reincarnation Tribulation

Chapter 273 Golden Core Strike

"Senior, we need your help. Just inject your powerful Foundation Establishment realm divine sense into the sub-array above. If the requirements of the array's restrictions are met, the array will be fully activated," Guo Huaifu said, his breathing slightly rapid.

Du Fan nodded slightly, and a surge of divine sense immediately flowed out, instantly affecting the upper sub-array.

Before things became clear, he naturally wouldn't send out all of his divine sense. The divine sense he had just sent out was only about one-tenth of his divine consciousness.

The sub-array suspended in mid-air emitted a piercing shriek after receiving the divine thought from Du Fan. Then, at the center of the array, a flash of light appeared, revealing the outline of a lion beast, identical to the one that had disappeared earlier. However, it was faint and indistinct, as if it might vanish at any moment.

At this point, there was no need for Guo Huaifu to say anything more. Du Fan already had some guesses in his mind. It seemed that the lion beast was a manifestation of a mysterious restriction, and it was also the key to measuring the strength of the person who activated the formation.

"Interesting." Du Fan smiled slightly, and immediately sent another wisp of his divine sense to the magic array.

As divine sense flowed in, the sub-array suddenly flashed with light, and the outline of the lion beast on it became more solid. However, judging from its appearance, it was still in a phantom state, and obviously had not yet met the requirements of its restriction itself.

Guo Huaifu didn't find anything wrong with Du Fan's probing behavior. In fact, he would have been puzzled if the other party hadn't done so. So he just watched quietly without saying anything.

As Du Fan continuously outputted his powerful divine sense, the lion beast in the center of the magic array also solidified. When Du Fan released about 70% of his divine sense power, the lion beast was already as if it were a tangible thing, and it looked very lifelike.

At this moment, Du Fan suddenly frowned and stopped releasing his divine sense. Seventy percent of his divine sense power was already comparable to that of an ordinary early Foundation Establishment cultivator. Logically speaking, he should have met the requirements of the restrictions in the formation by now.

Just as Du Fan hesitated about whether to release another ten percent of his divine sense, the lion beast in the center of the sub-array suddenly raised its head and let out an extremely ferocious roar.

Then, the light on the surface of the sub-array flashed wildly, and a loud bang suddenly came from the sub-array. The lion beast was seen to collapse again, and in the blink of an eye, it turned into a white ray of light. After hovering in the air for a while, it swept the entire sub-array and the mother array below into it.

After the three merged, the white light, carrying an astonishing aura, rushed towards the wall behind Du Fan and his companion, arriving in an instant as if by teleportation.

The next moment, the entire stone chamber emitted a deafening roar, followed by a violent tremor like an earthquake. Countless dust and stones fell from the ceiling of the chamber, and even the four walls showed faint, dense, fine cracks.

Du Fan and Guo Huaifu were both taken aback, as this scene was clearly completely different from what they had imagined.

However, this strange change came quickly and went quickly, gradually subsiding after only two or three breaths.

Du Fan turned around abruptly, but before he could ask anything, his eye twitched involuntarily, and his face darkened completely.

"This is the teleportation array you mentioned, completely powerless against attacks?" Du Fan raised a finger and asked in a deep voice.

The direction Du Fan pointed to was one of the walls in the stone chamber. However, most of that wall had disappeared, forming an enormous cave entrance that was over a hundred feet deep. At the end of the cave entrance, another stone chamber could be vaguely seen.

It goes without saying that such a massive opening was created by the attack formed from the mother-child magic array.

Guo Huaifu swallowed hard, slowly turned around, and shuddered when he saw the enormous hole behind him. He then looked at Du Fan with a wry smile, spread his hands, and said innocently, "Senior, do you think my expression is fake?"

Du Fan scrutinized Guo Huaifu for a while, but in the end, he didn't make things difficult for him. He just rolled his eyes in annoyance and then walked towards the cave entrance.

As the two entered the cave one after the other, Du Fan was startled again. He discovered that there was no soil or debris on the four walls of the broken cave entrance. Everything he passed through was made of bluestone. In other words, the force of the attack from the Mother-Child Formation had actually pierced through the entire bluestone wall, which was over a hundred feet thick!

Although Du Fan only had the cultivation level of Qi Refining Realm and could not understand how powerful a Foundation Establishment Realm expert really was, he had used the talisman wood twice. According to what Senior Jiu Yang said, the power contained in that talisman wood was the full-force attack of a Foundation Establishment Realm Great Perfection cultivator.

He was confident that with the power of that talisman wood, breaking through a mountain rock ten or twenty feet thick would not be a problem, but the scene before him was definitely not something that the power of the talisman wood could accomplish.

"The attack formed by that magic array definitely surpasses the scope of the Foundation Establishment Realm. That power should belong to the Golden Core level..." Du Fan took a deep breath, and a judgment was vaguely formed in his mind.

"If Guo Huaifu isn't lying, then there's something wrong with his ancestors. It seems this matter is probably beyond his control, so we can't rely on him too much from now on," Du Fan thought to himself, his eyes flashing.

Although the two deliberately slowed their pace, they still quickly reached the end of the mere hundred-odd feet.

What came into their view was yet another stone chamber, but this one was completely sealed off, with no doors or windows, and much smaller than the one outside, only half an acre in size and about two zhang high. The walls were still made of bluestone slabs, and inlaid with lighting beads that emitted a milky white glow.

The furnishings in the secret chamber were quite simple, consisting of only a stone bed, a stone table, a stone chair next to the table, and a magic circle on the floor in the center of the chamber.

Du Fan guessed that this array should be a real teleportation array. After all, this stone chamber was completely sealed, and it would be illogical if there were no teleportation array.

In the entire secret room, besides these, there was only one other thing left...

When Du Fan's gaze fell on a corner of the secret room, his pupils involuntarily contracted slightly. There, he saw a futon about half a zhang in diameter, and on the futon, there was a pile of white bones. It was a human skeleton, and judging from the way it was sitting cross-legged, the owner of the skeleton had probably passed away while cultivating.

"This person must be your ancestor," Du Fan said calmly, a sigh of relief washing over him. Now that the person was dead, any schemes he might have had in life were as insignificant as smoke dissipating.

"That's probably it." Guo Huaifu glanced at the skeleton, his face not showing much sorrow. He just sighed softly, walked slowly to the skeleton, and solemnly bowed three times.

Du Fan ignored Guo Huaifu's actions and instead looked around.

"There's nothing particularly extraordinary in the secret chamber. It seems that all of our ancestor's treasures are stored in that storage ring. It would be disrespectful for me to handle this personally. Since you are a descendant of this senior, you should take care of this matter." After a moment, Du Fan's gaze returned to the skeleton, and he said calmly.

"Yes, senior, please wait a moment." Guo Huaifu naturally had no objections. After nodding in agreement, he walked a few steps to the skeleton, bent down, and carefully removed a pale yellow ring from the skeleton's left index finger bone.

"Huh?" Du Fan stood not far away, watching the scene before him. Just as the ring detached from the bone finger, he seemed to see a faint white light flash out from the ring. However, when he swept his divine sense over it, he found nothing unusual.

"What's going on? Could it be an illusion, or a reflection..." Du Fan was unsure, but after several attempts to investigate, he still found nothing. He could only scan Guo Huaifu with his divine sense and found that the other party's expression was normal. He seemed to have no feeling about the barely perceptible scene just now. Helpless, Du Fan could only put aside this doubt for the time being.

"Senior, this must be our ancestor's storage artifact. Please take a look." Guo Huaifu was clearly excited after receiving the ring, but he dared not examine it on his own in front of Du Fan. Frustrated, he could only respectfully hand it over to the other party.

Without saying a word, Du Fan immediately raised his arm, grabbed the ring from Guo Huaifu's hand, and held it firmly in his grasp.

After acquiring the ring, Du Fan immediately scanned it and discovered that the ring was pale yellow in color, with a soft halo emanating from its surface.

This ring, though only the size of a jujube, appears to have an infinitely magnified spatial distortion under the halo surrounding it, which is truly wondrous.

He instantly realized that this was a Qiankun Ring, but in terms of grade, it was somewhat inferior to the blue Qiankun Ring in his storage bag.

However, this difference in grade has its own advantages. This grade of Qiankun Ring does not have the function of blood recognition. In other words, this Qiankun Ring is like a storage bag to Du Fan, which he can open at will.

Du Fan subconsciously separated a wisp of his divine sense and roughly scanned the items stored in the Qiankun Ring. When his divine sense landed on one of the items, he was slightly stunned at first, but then a look of great joy appeared on his face.