Unrivaled Miracle Doctor: The God-Defying Demonic Consort

Chapter 877: Chapter 312: Breaking Through Array Mountain, Entering the Divine Tomb (Part 1)

”Then this Divine Status, is it real or fake?” Ji Yaohua was a little restless.

”Naturally it’s fake.” Before Mu Qingge could answer, Xi Qianxue had already spoken with certainty.

”Fake?” Ji Yaohua was somewhat astonished.

Xi Qianxue nodded and said, ”Strictly speaking, this place doesn’t even count as one of the Divine Tomb’s burial chambers yet, so how could there be a Divine Status? According to the records in the Divine Hall, after a Divine Status leaves the body, it can only be trapped around the burial chamber; it’s impossible for it to be this far away.”

”So, this is just an illusory Divine Status, meant to provoke slaughter among those who enter the tomb.” Yao Xinghai gave an almost imperceptible nod as he concluded.

”What do we do now?” Ji Yaohua asked.

”Break the array.” Mu Qingge answered simply.

She had no intention of interfering with the others. After entering the Divine Tomb, everyone shared the same goal; in a sense, they were all competitors. She was not kind-hearted enough to help her own opponents solve their problems.

Mu Qingge began carefully observing, not joining the struggle for the Divine Status.

This array didn’t confuse the mind, nor did it cause one to lose their sanity. It merely used the simplest method, manifesting a fake Divine Status, and thus drew out the myriad faces of the crowd.

Mu Qingge carefully searched for the formation core, while the other six tacitly surrounded her, closely watching the movements around them.

They could not help with finding the formation core, so they could only do what was within their power, allowing Mu Qingge to devote herself fully to unraveling the Forbidden Technique.

At this moment, that illusory Divine Status actually flew toward them.

The Divine Status was about the size of a palm, diamond-shaped and crystalline, emitting a faint halo. Wherever it passed, it dragged out a long tail behind it, like a shooting star.

The difference was that a shooting star was firelight, while it was silver light like flame.

Ji Yaohua’s eyes narrowed, and he cursed, ”That Divine Status, seeing that we won’t fall for it, actually wants to lure people over to us. How sly!”

Sure enough, behind that illusory Divine Status, those who had been slaughtering each other now charged toward them.

Previously, these people had still been wary of these few who ranked among the strongest on the Green Talent List. But now their eyes were bloodshot, and they no longer cared about anything except hacking them to pieces.

The others came on fiercely, and the six immediately grew vigilant, their weapons ready to strike at any time.

And at this critical moment, Mu Qingge stood up, raised her right hand, and shot a beam of golden light from between two fingers, striking the Divine Status that was flying back and forth in the air.

Crack—!

A crisp sound rang out from the air.

The Divine Status struck by Mu Qingge froze in mid-air and shattered into fine starlight.

All of a sudden, the entire space began to tremble. In their shock, the scene around them changed once more.

When Ji Yaohua and the others saw the scene before them clearly again, there were no longer any other figures around, and the former green mountains and clear waters had turned into a world of snow and ice.

”That Divine Status was actually real!” Yao Xinghai suddenly reacted and looked at Mu Qingge.

Mu Qingge shrugged. ”I didn’t expect that someone would actually be willing to use a real Divine Status as the formation core.”

”Too intricate! Who could have guessed that the Divine Status that was flying around seducing people into slaughter was actually the formation core?” Xi Qianxue exclaimed as well.

Before, they had been speculating that the Divine Status was merely something conjured by the Forbidden Technique to lure those who entered the array into killing each other. Who could have guessed that the Divine Status was real, and moreover, was the formation core of that array!

”Qingge, how did you see through it?” Yao Xinghai couldn’t help asking.

He was truly impressed—impressed by Mu Qingge’s understanding of Forbidden Techniques, impressed by how she seemed to know everything.

”Its aura.” Mu Qingge’s answer was still simple.

It wasn’t that she was deliberately being cryptic; breaking a Forbidden Technique was also a kind of comprehension of Daoist Techniques. If you understood, you understood; if you didn’t, you didn’t. It was hard to explain clearly.

Just like Ji Yaohua—he didn’t understand Forbidden Techniques at all. No matter how much Mu Qingge explained, he still wouldn’t get it. So what he focused on was the desolation around them. ”Where are all those others?”

”The array was broken; they were probably teleported into other Array Formation Restrictions.” Ying Ze answered.

”How many Forbidden Techniques are there here, exactly? When will we finally reach the end?” Wei Molili frowned, voicing the longest sentence he had said since entering the Divine Tomb.

That question really stumped everyone, including Mu Qingge.

The Forbidden Techniques on Array Mountain were like a maze, and also like interlocking rings. Once you went in, you had to break them before you could take the next step. And that next step could mean countless different branching paths.

As for when the end would come, who could say?

The only thing they could do was continue breaking their way through the arrays.

”For now, we can only keep going down.” Ji Yaohua said.

Wei Molili, however, looked at Xi Qianxue.

Xi Qianxue shook her head and said, ”I don’t know either. Regarding the Forbidden Techniques in Array Mountain, the Divine Hall doesn’t have any clear records. The only mention is that, apart from saying Array Mountain is the closest route to the burial chamber, the Forbidden Techniques within it are ever-changing.”

”Then what about now? We don’t feel any confinement around us, nor is there anything bewitching our minds. What is the meaning of this array?” Ji Yaohua asked blankly.

As soon as he said that, everyone’s gaze fell on Mu Qingge.

Mu Qingge clasped her hands behind her back, gazed off at the Snow Peak, and said calmly, ”Keep going.”

The six of them moved in a line, climbing up along the ridge of the Snow Peak. Great flurries of snowflakes drifted down from the sky.

Yao Xinghai raised his hand to catch a snowflake, a hint of doubt in his eyes.

Suddenly, his pupils shrank abruptly. He shouted a warning, ”Not good! These snowflakes will gnaw away our Spiritual Power!” After devouring Spiritual Power, the snowflakes would melt and vanish into nothing.

Each tiny bit of Spiritual Power being eaten away was almost impossible to notice. By the time one discovered it, they would likely find that the Spiritual Power in their body had already been completely consumed.

If not for Yao Xinghai’s timely discovery, they might all have fallen for it without a sound.

”Looks like we are the array core of this Array.” Mu Qingge stopped, turned, and looked at the others as she spoke.

”We’re the array core?” Ying Ze asked back in astonishment.

The others also cast puzzled gazes over.

Mu Qingge did not answer immediately. Instead, she sat cross-legged on the snow, and in those clear eyes of hers, complex calculations began once more.

Array Formation Restriction was a kind of precise calculation that made use of the laws of heaven and earth.

Like different equations that could yield different results, and the ways to solve those equations would never be just one.

Once one understood the underlying principle, unraveling it was only a matter of time.

Mu Qingge’s contact with Forbidden Technique had been quite accidental. If not for Si Mo, she would not have become interested in Array Formation Restriction; if her Artifact Refining Technique bloodline had not failed to awaken on its own at the start, she would not have taken another path, focusing on Array Formation Restriction to imbue the Weapons she refined for herself.

Proficiency, coupled with her understanding of the Dao, had allowed Mu Qingge to make great progress in Forbidden Technique. In this Array Mountain, what was hardship for others was, for her, an excellent opportunity to study. Every time she unraveled a Forbidden Technique, it marked her growth in that field, and meant she had learned a new Forbidden Technique.

If not for the limited time, she would have liked to spend a few years in Array Mountain properly studying these Array Formation Restrictions.

”I understand now!” The deductions faded from Mu Qingge’s eyes. She revealed a confident smile. Standing up, she explained to the others, ”This Array runs by having these snowflakes devour our Spiritual Power. Once there is no Spiritual Power to supply it, it will stop and collapse on its own.”

”Then do we have to wait until these snowflakes eat up all our Spiritual Power before we can get out?” Xi Qianxue asked.

Yao Xinghai shook his head. ”No need. We can seal off our six senses and temporarily seal our Spiritual Power, creating the illusion of Spiritual Power depletion.”

This method was not bad, and the six of them began preparing at once according to Yao Xinghai’s instructions.

In no time at all, they felt their vision blur, and the scene changed again!

Before them was no longer a world of white snow and silver mountains, but blades and swords flashing everywhere!

”Damn! Sneak attack!” Ji Yaohua narrowly dodged the blade that came slashing toward her and let out a startled cry.

In front of them, densely packed blades of all kinds were flying chaotically through the air. It was as if they had stepped into a mountain of blades, treading beneath ten thousand edges.

”Qingge, we’ll block for you, you focus on finding the array core!” Ji Yaohua shouted, and the five of them tacitly formed a circle around Mu Qingge.

Break one Array, and another follows; each ring linked to the next.

When the six of them, somewhat bedraggled, escaped from the mountain of blades, they plunged into a sea of fire.

In just two short hours since entering Array Mountain, they had already experienced dozens of Forbidden Techniques—large and small, some hiding lethal intent, some with their peril blatant.

A month passed.

No one knew how many were still trapped within Array Mountain, nor how many had already lost their lives to its Forbidden Techniques.

Mu Qingge and her five companions, over the course of this month, had gone through tens of thousands of Forbidden Techniques on Array Mountain. Even with their astonishing recovery abilities, they all looked somewhat weary by now.

Especially Mu Qingge; unraveling Forbidden Techniques was an activity that consumed an extreme amount of Spiritual Sense.

If her Spiritual Sense had not already become extremely formidable after being tempered by the Divine Strategy Middle Volume, she would likely have collapsed long ago in the process.

They had been walking along this ridge for a long time, yet still could not see the summit.

”Qingge, what’s going on now? Have we gotten out, or not?” Ji Yaohua could not help asking for the third time.

No danger, no traps, and no illusions.

Yet they had been walking for several days and still could not reach the mountaintop.

”I feel like we’re just marching in place, never reaching the end.” Ji Yaohua sighed.

The other four did not speak, but their dejection was about the same as his.

”Marching in place?” Mu Qingge murmured, glancing at the sheer cliff beyond the ridge.

Suddenly, her eyes narrowed, and the brows that had been furrowed for days relaxed completely.

She turned her gaze back to the five of them, the corners of her lips lifting in a faint smile. ”This is the last trial. Stay close to me!” With that, she leaped forward, as if jumping off toward the bottom of the cliff.

”Qingge—!” Xi Qianxue called out anxiously, and jumped after her.

The remaining four exchanged a look, then all jumped off the cliff one after another.

Yet, after they jumped, they discovered that what they felt was not the sensation of falling, but rather a force drawing them upward...