In the center of the Northern Territory, in front of the Black Pillar.
Su Tong now understood everything.
"So that's how it is. For thousands of years, the Northern Territory had it all wrong!"
Su Tong also understood why the sects in the Northern Territory were all so weak.
Even those at the Returning Void Realm were few.
And beyond the Returning Void Realm, there were the Spirit Void Realm, Divine Soul Realm, Divine Spirit Realm, Spirit Divine Realm, and Saint Divine Realm.
None of the experts at these five higher realms had ever appeared in the Northern Territory before.
And now, from this Hidden Spirit Pillar, Su Tong understood it all.
"So it was wrong from the very beginning!"
Su Tong also realized why, apart from the Hidden Spirit Sect, no other sects had experts breaking through to the Spirit Void Realm.
And why all disciples of the Hidden Spirit Sect had entered the Returning Void Realm.
"So the root cause was the flawed cultivation techniques."
Su Tong shook his head helplessly.
If not for his ability to understand the ancient divine text,
Perhaps he would have thought the same as the other experts in the Northern Territory.
"But was this intentionally concealed by Shi Yun, or did the newcomers reach a consensus?"
Su Tong was not sure now why this situation came to be.
But he felt both reasons could be true.
Shi Yun intentionally hid everything, while the other experts agreed to conceal it.
"It seems I must go take a look at the Hidden Spirit Sect!"
Although the Hidden Spirit Island had closed off and disappeared.
Su Tong still had ways to find it.
After all, the small box held the key to the Hidden Spirit Formation and Hidden Spirit Island.
Su Tong had learned how to set up the Hidden Spirit Formation.
So using the formation to locate the Hidden Spirit Island would not be difficult.
Thinking of this, Su Tong closed his eyes, and carefully sensed everything around him.
"This place... Interesting, so the island didn't leave, it's just that others can't see it."
Su Tong sensed that the Hidden Spirit Formation was still in its original place.
Only now another formation was activated, concealing the entire Hidden Spirit Island.
With this formation, even experts like Luo Zi Yin at the Returning Void Realm could not detect the Hidden Spirit Island's existence.
This was why the Hidden Spirit Island had "disappeared" from the Northern Territory!
"Lei Jing Beast, let's go!"
Su Tong opened his eyes and called out to the Lei Jing Beast not far away.
"Roar!"
The Lei Jing Beast roared back at him.
Then it transformed into a purple ray of light, shooting over from afar.
When it passed Su Tong, he leapt up onto its back in one swift movement.
In an instant, they vanished into the horizon.
At this moment, a black glow flashed within the Hidden Spirit Pillar. Shortly after, more words appeared along with the original text.
Today a little fellow came here, he had broken into the Hidden Spirit Sect before and saw the existence of the Blood Shadows.
He came here and seemed able to understand everything. The Northern Territory may change because of him soon.
Now he heads to the Hidden Spirit Sect. He has clearly understood it all!
...
Su Tong did not know about the added words in the Hidden Spirit Pillar.
Right now he hurried towards the location of Hidden Spirit Island.
If his guess was correct, there was still a secret within the Hidden Spirit Sect.
A secret that even experts like Luo Zi Yin of the sect were unaware of.
Riding the Lei Jing Beast, Su Tong went very fast.
In just about an hour, he arrived at his destination.
"As expected, nothing can be seen!"
Upon arrival, Su Tong looked down.
There was nothing, only lush greenery.
Whether flying high above, skimming low, or walking right through,
Even Returning Void Realm experts would not notice any formation here.
But Su Tong was no ordinary Returning Void Realm expert, he was also a third-grade formation master.
Most importantly, he was very familiar with the Hidden Spirit Formation.
So even with the isolation formation, Su Tong could still sense it.
His spiritual sense then spread out immediately.
Carefully searching every blade of grass, flower, and tree around.
What Su Tong looked for was not the Hidden Spirit Formation itself, but the core of the concealment formation.
Because he was certain the formation was here.
So slowly searching with his spiritual sense here would uncover that core.
But this search was extremely tedious.
It took a full half a day.
"Here it is!"
Su Tong's eyes shot open.
In that last probe, he had successfully located the core of this formation.
This was also the most crucial hub of the formation.
With a stomp of his foot, Su Tong's body flashed out.
In a moment, he stopped under a towering ancient tree.
"The Hidden Spirit Sect is indeed cautious, concealing the formation in this huge tree!"
Su Tong looked at the ancient tree before him.
Within it were mysterious runes.
These runes formed the hub of the entire formation.
Since no third-grade formation master had ever appeared in the Northern Territory before.
This formation had gone completely unnoticed.
"Boom!"
Massive spiritual sense surged out from Su Tong's dantian.
It then enveloped this towering tree.
To enter Hidden Spirit Island, Su Tong had to break this formation.
But he did not plan to destroy it directly.
He did not know the Hidden Spirit Sect's specific reasons for setting up this formation.
But Su Tong was certain it was unrelated to the current Hundred Sects Great Battle.
So Su Tong only used his spiritual sense to slightly block the core of the formation.
Suddenly, the scene before him changed.
Su Tong returned to Hidden Spirit Island.
"Roar!"
Seeing the changed surroundings, the Lei Jing Beast let out a low roar.
It looked around warily.
Su Tong patted its head to reassure it.
"Indeed, still the same place!"
Su Tong smiled.
Then without any hesitation, he headed straight for the Hidden Spirit Sect's location.
Soon, he found the mountain cave.
After breaking through the barrier, he entered the Hidden Spirit Sect again.
"Where could it be?"
Su Tong frowned slightly.
Then unrestrained spiritual sense surged out from his dantian.
Inch by inch, he began searching the entire Hidden Spirit Sect.
"Not here!"
"Nothing here either!"
"Still not here!"
"Here... Is this the square? So it's here!"
Su Tong finally discovered something different within the Hidden Spirit Sect.
Shortly after, he appeared in the square of the Hidden Spirit Sect.
"Lei Jing Beast!"
At Su Tong's shout, the Lei Jing Beast carried him up into the sky.
"Elders of the Hidden Spirit Sect, junior Su Tong has offended you all!"
Su Tong cupped his fists and shouted to the surroundings.
Then a powerful spiritual force poured out.
Condensed into a formidable attack, it smashed directly at the square's ground.
"Boom!"
In a moment, a huge fissure appeared on the square's floor.
Su Tong glanced down at the crack, and said to the Lei Jing Beast: "Go down!"
s the Eldest Princess, renowned for her cold and aloof detachment, became the most docile of lambs, obeying his every command without question. But when the final move was played on the chessboard, as Gu Chenghan seized everything and ascended on the verge of apotheosis, that very Princess suddenly embraced him from behind, her tone carrying a dependence never heard before: "Wait... you haven't yet... commanded me to love you forever." Gu Chenghan froze abruptly. She... hadn't been hypnotized?! ... [The Eldest Princess's Diary] [When my soul was extracted, becoming the sole spectator outside my own shell] [At first, there was overwhelming fury, until I saw] [How he used my sword to effortlessly shatter my inescapable doom] [How he wielded my authority to eradicate fatal conspiracies I had never even detected] [Like a deity, he rescued me from the deep mire I was trapped in] [If not for those annoying vixens, he and I would be a match made in heaven] [I think I am ill, gravely ill] [My deity should belong to me alone] ... "Hypnosis? Oh, it succeeded, my dear Master." "Only this time, it's my turn to hypnotize you."
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
e bizarre and supernatural had descended. The previous emperor was a thoroughgoing tyrant; no longer satisfied with human women, he had set his sights on a stunningly beautiful supernatural entity. He met his end in his bedchamber, drained of all his vital essence. As the legitimate eldest son and crown prince, Wang Hao was thus hastily enthroned, becoming the young emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty. No sooner had he awakened the "Imperial Sign-In Intelligence System" than he was assassinated by a Son of Destiny—a classic villain's opening. The Great Zhou, ravaged by the former emperor's excesses, was in national decline. The great families within its borders harbored their own treacherous schemes, martial sects began to defy the imperial court's decrees, and border armies, their pay and provisions in arrears, grumbled incessantly against the central government. Fortunately, the central capital was still held secure by the half-million Imperial Guards and fifty thousand Imperial Forest Army who obeyed the court's orders, along with the royal family's hidden reserves of power, barely managing to suppress the realm. As the Great Zhou's finances worsened and supernatural activities grew ever more frequent, the court sat atop a volcano. Ambitious plotters everywhere dreamed of overthrowing the dynasty, and even some reclusive ancient powers emerged, attempting to sway the tides of the world. At the first grand court assembly, the civil and military officials nearly came to blows, fighting tooth and nail over the allocation of fifty million taels of silver from the summer tax revenues. The spectacle opened Wang Hao's eyes—the Great Zhou's bureaucracy was not only corrupt but also martially proficient, a cabinet of all-rounders. Some officials even had the audacity to suggest the emperor release funds from the imperial privy purse to address the emergency. Wang Hao suddenly felt weary. Let it all burn.
. As long as he maintains the villain image and follows the plot to the grand finale, he can obtain generous rewards and return to the real world. So Gu Chen'an entered the role and began to act as a scumbag villain, but who would have expected that the female leads could hear his inner thoughts. Miss Su from the Su family was shocked: "I originally thought Gu Chen'an was a scumbag, but I didn't expect he turned out to be a gentleman! What? You said I have to call off the engagement? I definitely won't, I'll piss you off!" Bai Yuan Tian was dumbfounded: "Young Master Gu is usually unreasonable and a complete brat, but he actually calls me little sweetie in his heart? What, Young Master Gu even said he likes me?" As the female leads' images collapsed more and more, the plot also collapsed with it. Gu Chen'an looked at all this chaos. "Ladies, don't aggro me, if you keep this up the male lead really will stab me, I still need to survive to the grand finale!"
