The Unruly Immortals

Li Huowang stood in place, his eyes wide as he beheld everything before him.

Although he had always been indifferent about wealth, he was still incredibly shocked when a golden palace appeared before his eyes.

The golden palace before him seemed exceedingly solemn and sacred, and even the snowflakes that fell from the sky gradually disappeared upon it.

"They all went inside...." Li Huowang observed the bloody footprints on the distant gold bricks. Carefully maintaining his invisibility, he walked towards the interior.

Walking alone in a realm of gold, Li Huowang stepped on the golden bricks and looked at the Golden Hall, feeling as if he were dreaming. How wealthy must Da Liang be to construct such a colossal city of gold.

Following the trail of bloody footprints, Li Huowang soon approached the grand entrance of a Golden Hall, the couplet on the left read, "The emperor's command is formed around the nine perimeters, this is truly difficult, alas, why not revere it."

And the couplet on the right read, "The heaven's heart aids the singular virtue, may it be forever secured, earnestly seeking its peace."

Li Huowang looked up to see three dazzling golden characters on the massive plaque, "Golden Throne Hall."

"Golden Throne Hall, huh...." Frowning, Li Huowang stepped inside. He didn't care what the place was called; what mattered more was where Xinsu Bei Feng, the person he was searching for, could possibly be at the moment.

The Golden Throne Hall was incredibly spacious, and there was nothing in it except the giant pillars coiled with six-clawed golden dragons.

So much so that Li Huowang, intentionally slowing his steps, could hear the faint echo of his own footsteps.

"How did these Oblivion Path followers escape so fast? And what are they doing in the Da Liang Imperial Palace?"

Li Huowang, while battling the anxiety and unease in his heart, hurried toward the Six-Fan Gate behind the hall, but when he got there, he found that there were no doors at all!

"Huh?! Ghost hitting the wall? In the Da Liang Imperial Palace?" An ominous feeling clutched Li Huowang's heart.

"Dad...." Li Sui suddenly spoke up.

"What's wrong? Now is not the time to talk."

"Dad, there are characters written on your arm."

Hearing Li Sui's words, Li Huowang instinctively raised his arms, only to see characters carved into the skin on the inner side of his left forearm.

"This place is strange, time and memory will be forgotten, carve it with a knife!"

Li Huowang was very clear that this was his own note, yet he could not recall when he had carved it.

"Wait! I've seen this scene before!"

Just as Li Huowang was about to carve the characters for Heart Turbidity, he found that the words were already written on his arm.

Moreover, beside those two characters, something else was written. "He is nearby, hurry and search! I've been trapped here for half an hour already!"

These words made the current Li Huowang feel a chill run down his spine. In his memory, he had only been in the Golden Throne Hall for a few minutes, so how had so much time passed?

It was then that Li Huowang also noticed a deep wound on his thigh, revealing the bone.

"I'm injured? When?!" Gritting his teeth, Li Huowang pried apart the flesh only to find a cracked bone marked with divinatory signs.

Clearly, he had cast divination in search of Heart Turbidity without his own knowledge.

Firmly memorizing the distorted shape of the bone fissures and carving them onto his hand, Li Huowang began to search within the Golden Throne Hall.

During this time, the writing on his arm grew more and more.

"Have you checked the southeast corner?"

"I've turned up the area behind the dragon column in the east, no need to search there."

After quickly searching for a few rounds, Li Huowang stopped in front of the very center of the Golden Throne Hall, the only place without a mark of writing to guide him.

Gazing at the familiar patterns on the gold bricks, a solemn Li Huowang gripped the handle tightly and thrust down hard into that spot.

Gold, although valuable, is relatively soft compared to other metals. In front of the Purple Tassel Sword, famed for cutting through iron as if it were mud, it was really no different from yellow clay.

Li Huowang easily pried open the gold brick, and when he looked inside again, he saw that the solidly rammed earth pile underneath, which had been piled to one side somehow, revealed the red-tiled roof of a building.

This structure, buried in the earth, was very small, probably just taller than a person. It was similar to some small local temples.

Without a second word, Li Huowang raised the Copper Coin Sword in his hand and with a flick from afar, chanted, "Tai Ming Da Tuo Wa La, hasten, hasten, capture!"

Suddenly, the small temple's roof was directly lifted off, revealing a familiar face in front of him—that was Heart Turbidity, the corpse of Heart Turbidity that Record of Appearance had captured with great difficulty!

Now, its limbs were bent and completely sewn onto its body with golden thread, and it wasn't just the limbs; its eyes and mouth, everything on him was stitched up with gold filament, turning into a Heart Turbidity corpse stick.

In such a state, apart from its head and front chest, his entire body was painted with gold, covered with intertwining Swastika symbols as if wearing a Swastika Kasaya.

These Swastika symbols were not just on its body but also spreading from it into the surrounding earth.

Li Huowang once again flung his Copper Coin Sword forcefully, directly hooking onto the Heart Turbidity and yanking fiercely.

The one seated in the small temple was instantly airborne, and as he separated from those golden Swastika symbols, the whole Golden Hall seemed to dim a few shades.

When Li Huowang saw that no new marks had appeared on his body, he finally breathed a sigh of relief, hoping that was the last of the troubles.

He had already wasted enough time, and Li Huowang could not afford to waste any more. He glanced at the corpse of Heart Turbidity and quickly headed towards the distant exit.

This time, without any surprises, Li Huowang successfully made his way out, but as he looked towards the distant Golden Halls, he froze. "Wait, don't tell me there is a Heart Turbidity under every Golden Hall?"

"There is, but not all of them," Hong Zhong, who had been silent up to now, spoke again.

"These Golden Halls form a Constellation Formation Method. I know very little about which specific one it is, I can't tell. Ha ha, it seems that the Heart Turbidity you went through so much trouble to find has been used by them as a focus for the formation."

Upon hearing Hong Zhong's words, Li Huowang's complexion turned somewhat unsightly. Such dangerous Heart Turbidity was merely used as a formation focus in this place; what on earth were they trying to do.

With no time to consider anything else, Li Huowang quickened his steps and continued inbound. This was a big problem now. If Bei Feng got involved in such a dangerous place, nothing must happen to him!

Once bitten, twice shy, Li Huowang tried to avoid the Golden Halls as much as possible, sticking only to the open corridors and squares.

When there were absolutely no other routes, he would forcefully dig a hole through the Golden Wall.

Maybe Li Huowang's method was effective, or perhaps the people ahead of him had triggered the traps for him; at any rate, everything went normally for some time.

So, following the bloodstains, Li Huowang continued northward, and just as he passed through a tall wall, his keen sense of hearing caught chanting and the sound of metal striking from several walls away.

"Found them!" Unable to contain the excitement in his heart, Li Huowang hurriedly approached the direction of the sounds.

As Li Huowang pushed through another golden wall with effort, the view suddenly opened up before him.

Foremost was a vertical black-and-white pupil in the extremely low dark clouds, surrounded by a full set of sixty-four Bronze Hexagram Symbols.