Chen Ping opened the void passage to the Eighth Heaven with the aid of a hundred cultivators.
After casting a glance at the assembled crowd, Chen Ping stepped resolutely into the void passage.
Boom!
With a resounding crash, the void passage sealed shut. Chen Ping felt the scene before him grow increasingly blurred as everything around him surged forward at breakneck speed. His body seemed to pierce through countless spatial realms.
Abruptly, Chen Ping sensed an anomaly in his form. The sword intent within him began to coalesce, and a searing heat surged from his core. Moments later, his body ignited in flames.
Chen Ping’s heart filled with alarm. He had not invoked the Supreme Fire, so why was his body suddenly ablaze?
The excruciating pain drilled into him, causing sweat to bead instantly on his forehead.
Soon, Chen Ping’s mind grew muddled, his velocity accelerated, and a sea of fire engulfed his vision, blotting out all else.
Clenching his teeth to ward off unconsciousness, Chen Ping strove to maintain clarity while activating the Indestructible Golden Body to shield his flesh.
He had traversed void passages many times before, yet never encountered such peril, not even amid the chaos of void currents.
Beneath these flames, the Indestructible Golden Body crumbled in an instant, and Chen Ping plunged into oblivion!
At that moment, Chen Ping resembled a fireball hurtling through the endless void.
…
In the Third Palace of the Eighth Heaven.
The Third Palace Lord curled his lips in a smirk, his gaze brimming with cruelty and chill.
“This time, that Chen Ping shall never reappear.”
The Third Palace Lord said coldly!
“Third Palace Lord, you have employed the Divine Clan’s forbidden technique without authorisation. Should the Divine King learn of it, he may well take offence.”
The Fifth Palace Lord said with evident concern.
“It will not come to pass. The Divine King is in seclusion at present, while the First and Second Palace Lords reside in the Ninth Heaven. None shall know. As for the Fourth Palace Lord, I shall deal with her in due course.”
The Third Palace Lord gnashed his teeth, his eyes gleaming with lascivious intent.
“But what if the Fourth Palace Lord discovers this and moves to rescue Chen Ping?”
The Fifth Palace Lord inquired.
“Even if the Fourth Palace Lord intervenes, she cannot extract Chen Ping from that void passage. As long as he survives, he shall remain ensnared within it indefinitely.”
The Third Palace Lord chuckled smugly.
Meanwhile, in the Divine King Palace, the Fourth Palace Lord, Ling Xi, sat in meditative repose with eyes closed.
Since her return from the Sixth Heaven, Ling Xi had been gradually restoring her strength. Her battle against the Soul Devourer Sovereign had inflicted considerable wounds upon her.
“Fourth Palace Lord, the Third Palace Lord has invoked the Divine Clan’s forbidden technique and trapped Chen Ping in the void passage. Chen Ping is now in grave peril.”
The maidservant Yun Xiu said to Ling Xi in a state of alarm.
Ling Xi furrowed her brow and rose sharply. “This Third Palace Lord is so audacious as to wield the Divine Clan’s forbidden technique. Does he not fear the Divine King’s retribution or the Divine Clan’s enforcers of reward and punishment?”
Ling Xi’s breathing quickened, her expression fraught with anxiety.
The Divine Clan’s forbidden techniques were not to be used lightly, not even by the Divine King himself. Should the Divine Clan’s patriarch learn of it and dispatch enforcers, the entire Divine Hall would suffer the consequences.
The Divine Hall was but one faction within the vast Divine Clan. How dare it defy the clan’s edicts? Ling Xi vaguely recalled that many powerhouses in the Divine Clan had long attained the realm of Great Luo Golden Immortal.
“I cannot sit idle. I must confront the Third Palace Lord and demand an explanation. His actions imperil the whole Divine Hall.”
Ling Xi could no longer remain seated. She rose hastily to seek out the Third Palace Lord and press him for answers.
The Divine Clan’s forbidden techniques were expressly prohibited. No cultivator of the Divine Clan could employ them at will.
Yet the Third Palace Lord had resorted to one solely to confine Chen Ping within the void passage.
