Chapter 641
Chapter 641
?Chapter 641: Chapter 272 Huang Qingling Disappeared Chapter 641: Chapter 272 Huang Qingling Disappeared Lin Jing gazed at Qinghuang Peak and paused for a moment.
Then he directly changed direction and flew toward Qinghuang Peak.
Seventy years had passed since he last left, and Lin Jing had grown from a Foundation Establishment Cultivator at the time of his departure to a Divine Transformation Cultivator now.
He wondered how the few people on Qinghuang Peak were doing after so many years.
Lin Jing wanted to go up and take a look…
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Before long, Lin Jing arrived at the foot of Qinghuang Peak.
Standing at the base of the mountain and looking upward, Qinghuang Peak stood toweringly tall.
From Lin Jing’s position below, it was as if he were an ant facing a towering tree.
Moreover, there were many formations and prohibitions on Qinghuang Peak, their purpose being to prevent anyone from reaching the summit.
When the Demon Race Secret Realm first opened, the ancestors of the three major sects had tried to reach the top.
Despite resorting to all sorts of methods at that time, they only managed to climb a kilometer in height.
They didn’t even come close to reaching halfway up the mountain.
Lin Jing’s current cultivation was not even comparable to theirs, so his chances of climbing up were probably even less than theirs.
But since he had come, he had to give it a try.
After that, Lin Jing hesitated no more and began to make his move.
The formations at the foot of the mountain were all of the lowest level.
Lin Jing could completely disregard them and forcefully break through them without suffering any harm.
However, Lin Jing didn’t go straight ahead but instead turned to the other side of the mountain base.
This other side, thanks to the previous efforts of the ancestors from the three major sects, had a pathway paved, making it completely unobstructed to ascend from there.
Using this pre-established path to climb the mountain, Lin Jing naturally would not go through the trouble of carving out a new path.
Stepping onto that path, Lin Jing ascended all the way up, encountering no obstacles in the middle.
In doing so, he climbed a kilometer up to the end of this path.
Beyond that point was a forest, and within that forest floated countless formation patterns.
The sudden appearance of these formation patterns looked out of place against the forest.
Lin Jing took one look and knew what was going on.
This entire Qinghuang Peak was protected by many formations.
Some formations were visible in plain sight, and others had their traces concealed.
If one did not step into them, one might not even be able to detect them at all.
Clearly, the forest in front of him was one such formation.
However, this formation had already been half-solved by the three major sects, and its concealment feature had lost its effect.
Hence, the situation presented as it was now.
Upon seeing the forest, Lin Jing did not rush forward but extended his Divine Sense to scout it first.
After a while of scouting, Lin Jing didn’t find anything else, so he directly gathered a ball of Five Elements Power and attacked the formation within.
This ball of Five Elements Power radiated colorful glows and swiftly advanced towards the forest ahead.
Right after it entered the forest, an intensely hot aura suddenly exploded from within.
A burst of flames fiercely appeared out of the forest and raced towards Lin Jing.
The temperature of this flame was extremely high, and even from a distance, Lin Jing already felt the searing heat.
Fortunately, the speed of the fire was relatively slow compared to Lin Jing.
At the moment the flames approached, Lin Jing had already dodged.
But just then, an unexpected change occurred…
The flame, which Lin Jing had initially dodged, suddenly changed direction and continued to chase after Lin Jing.
At the same time, another hot aura emerged from between Lin Jing’s eyebrows.
And then…
A phantom image of the Divine Phoenix emerged from between Lin Jing’s eyebrows and shot out.
The flame, seemingly like a long-lost child reunited with its mother, rushed toward Lin Jing with even greater speed.
No…
It was actually rushing towards the phantom of the Divine Phoenix that had appeared from Lin Jing’s forehead.
Seeing this, Lin Jing no longer tried to avoid it.
Following that.
The flame arrived and collided with the Divine Phoenix phantom.
The phantom then directly engulfed the flame.
After swallowing the flames, the Divine Phoenix phantom immediately solidified, and then it seemed to be reborn from the ashes, its eyes filled with fiery flames.
It then looked towards the summit and, with a flap of its wings, flew straight towards the top of Qinghuang Peak.
Where the Divine Phoenix passed, it left behind a corridor, and the formations on either side of the corridor directly lost their effectiveness.
Seeing this, Lin Jing quickly followed after the Divine Phoenix phantom, charging towards the summit of Qinghuang Peak…
With no formations to block him, the ascent to the top was actually very fast.
In less than a quarter of an hour, Lin Jing had already arrived at the top of the peak.
At that moment, the Divine Phoenix phantom, as if it had exhausted all its energy, returned to being a phantom state and merged back into Lin Jing’s forehead.
This Divine Phoenix phantom was exactly the one sent by Huang Qingling.
It had been a long time since it had last appeared, leading Lin Jing to think it might have run out of energy and dissipated.
Yet unexpectedly, it had reappeared this time.
After coming up, Lin Jing looked at the familiar Qinghuang Palace in front of him with some emotion.
After so many years of absence, he had returned to this place once again.
Then, Lin Jing stepped inside.
Entering Qinghuang Palace, Lin Jing immediately headed toward the largest hall in the center of the palace.
Whether it was Huang Qingling herself, Elder Bai, Elder Yu, or Zhang Yuan, all three were inside that hall.
Lin Jing walked quickly towards it, and it was only in front of the hall that he realized something was amiss.
The doors of the hall were wide open.
Yet despite the wide-open doors, there was no sign of life emanating from within.
Lin Jing hurriedly quickened his pace and walked into the hall.
However, to his surprise, he found that not a single person was inside the hall.