"According to that poor girl, the stone egg was spat out from the Void Sky Treasure Box. If the rumors about the Void Sky Treasure Box are true, it can connect to the Ancient Immortal Realm, then the stone egg might really be an Immortal Egg that descended from the Immortal Realm," Qin Yuxian calmly said. "Since Shangguan Yun also knows this secret, we can't let him get it first. If he truly manages to grasp the stone egg, it's unimaginable what changes might occur."

"Then shall we enter as well?" Chen Ku tentatively asked.

With the nod of approval from the two elders, the three of them simultaneously stepped into the world of the wall painting.

Just before and after Chen Ku and the others stepped into the wall painting world.

In the labyrinth outside the underground palace.

Mr. Tang, the masked man from Marquis of Han Shou's Mansion, also entered the labyrinth with his hands behind his back.

Not far behind him.

Was the Peace Path leader Xu En, who had possessed a young man, and the Piao Gao Preacher possessing Dugu Wuer.

......

After Chen Ku entered the world of the painting, what appeared before him was a world covered in a vast expanse of white snow, a great snowy mountain.

"Is this Hero King Pei Dongliu's Cave Mansion Realm?" Chen Ku frowned slightly, instinctively asking in both directions, yet he didn't hear any voices beside him at all.

"Master, Senior Brother?"

Startled, he looked around again, only to find himself standing all alone:

"Huh?"

Woooo!!

The cold wind from the snow mountain blew against his face, and Chen Ku immediately forced himself to calm down, thinking, "Could it be that this place follows a rule similar to Martial Arts Heaven and Earth? Random transmission?"

Otherwise, how could the three of them step into the painting at the same time yet not appear at the same location?

"Let's release the bees and the Four Unlikes to search for Master and Senior Brother..."

Chen Ku sent out two avatars to search for his Master and Senior Brother, while he himself did not remain idle, preparing to fly up into the sky since the higher you stand, the further you see.

Immediately, clouds and mist rose beneath his feet, carrying him upwards.

But as he flew higher, the cloud layers, mist, and air currents in the sky became denser, almost so thick that he couldn't see his hand in front of his face.

"Could this also be some kind of formation?"

Chen Ku felt that the clouds and Gang Qi above seemed somewhat similar to Shangguan Yun's 'Cloud Pendant Formation.' When he hit an impasse, he had to descend from the clouds and land back on the snowy ground.

Based on his senses, he seemed to be halfway up a snowy mountain, with a path leading up the mountain visible in the distance.

Chen Ku took a deep breath and courageously headed towards that mountain path.

After half a cup of tea.

He saw that the mountain path had already revealed something like steps, although covered in snow, it was still evident that it was a man-made path.

"At least there's a path!"

Chen Ku continued walking up the snowy mountain path, discovering that even in the snow-covered mountain environment, there was vegetation, including rare flowers and Treasure Herbs, with quality even better than those in the herbal garden.

Along the way, he collected a lot of snow lingzhi and nine winter cordyceps.

Before long, he even discovered a golden apricot tree beside the path, with one golden apricot growing in the vast expanse of wind and snow.

"This… a golden apricot that looks like gold, although I don't recognize it, it seems like a good thing!" Chen Ku immediately picked it, intending to consult his Master and Senior Brother later.

Suddenly, as he walked, he found at the end of the stone steps leading up the mountain, there was actually a mountain gate.

"Hmm? Could it be that the stone egg or the Void Sky Treasure Box is in there?"

Chen Ku speculated in his mind.

But considering the importance of his life, he first released an Iron Armor Rhinoceros avatar to enter the mountain gate before him. Approximately half a cup of tea later, when the avatar was fine, he finally breathed a sigh of relief and approached.

Upon approaching the mountain gate, he saw the four grand characters on the gate, 'Hero Pass.'

Chen Ku thought, "I've only ever heard of Beauty Pass, but Hero Pass is a first."

As soon as he charged into this mountain gate, he stepped inside only to find it was a temple-like great hall, with many side rooms open.

However, after Chen Ku wandered around inside, he found nothing, so he directly looked towards the main hall of the temple.

Once he stepped inside, he immediately recognized the sculpture inside:

"The statue of Mountain-Lifting Heavenly King Xiong Ying?"

Chen Ku understood, thinking, "Is this another Heavenly King Temple?"

But compared to the Mountain-Lifting Heavenly King Hall outside, this smaller mountain temple was much smaller, and even Xiong Ying's statue was only one zhang tall.

At this moment, Chen Ku discovered on the shrine in front of the statue, there actually was a golden casket:

"What is this?"

Cautiously standing a distance away, he used the Spiritual Capture technique, transforming into an invisible spiritual hand, and opened the casket.

Clang—

As the lid of the metal box opened with a sound, a bright light flashed, revealing a token quietly lying on red embroidered cloth inside the casket.

Under the control of his spiritual hand, the token was flipped over, showing one side inscribed with the bird seal script 'Order,' and the other side with the name 'General Control Hall.'

Seeing this token, Chen Ku thought for a moment and was pleasantly surprised:

"Could this... be the token for entering the General Control Hall, where the 'Array Suppression Stone' that can control all formations in the underground palace is located?"

Since entering the underground palace.

Chen Ku gradually discovered a pattern; any hall within the underground palace required a token to open, such as the Seed Storage Hall and the Mountain-Lifting Hall. Shangguan Yun was able to enter the Mountain-Lifting Hall because he had the token for it…

He had long suspected that the 'General Control Hall' would be similar, requiring a token known as the 'General Control Order.'

Unexpectedly, it was indeed so.

Moreover...

This token was just lying quietly in the casket beneath the statue in the 'Hero Pass' temple on the Upper Snow Mountain, as if someone intentionally left it here for a certain person to take.

The mind suddenly turned:

"Could it be that this is also a gift Xiong Ying prepared for his descendants?"

This is Hero Pass, the token that can control all the underground palace formations is here. However, acquiring the token posed no danger.

Reflecting on how he entered from the Mountain-Lifting Hall and came directly onto this path...

Chen Ku was ninety percent sure that Xiong Ying created this place to provide many benefits for his descendants.

"So thoughtful, feel somewhat embarrassed..."

Chen Ku accepted the token, waiting for the moment to meet up with his master and senior brother, to thoroughly enter the General Control Hall and seize the underground palace formations, possessing the entire underground palace's treasures.

Suddenly, at this moment...

The starlight divine water he had taken in the herb garden completely fused into his meridians and body, Chen Ku felt that his Fifth Layer Huntian Overlord Body was about to be perfected.

"Good timing, I can shelter from the wind and snow here."

On the verge of breaking through, Chen Ku could only sit cross-legged in a side room, beginning to operate the Fifth Layer 'Weak Water Technique' of the Huntian Overlord Body.

This Fifth Layer Weak Water Technique, once perfected, would allow him to control all the waters in the world, altering their mass just like his master.

Making them light as a feather, or heavy as ten thousand tons.

Weak water, originally in mythology, referred to water so light that feathers couldn't float, but heavy enough to anchor down reed flowers.

Thus, after sitting cross-legged for about the time of three sticks of incense, a breath that was both light and heavy suddenly erupted from his body.

Eyes wide open.

His gaze was filled with a watery glint, shimmering bright.

Splash~

Looking at the palm of his hand, Chen Ku saw a stream of blue true qi, constantly shape-shifting in his palm, sometimes light as a feather, sometimes weighing tens of thousands of pounds.

"This is the power of the Weak Water Technique!"

He wondered:

"My Flood Dragon Transformation already has the water domain ruler's talent, a swipe of its tail can raise hundred-meter-high waves. If paired with this 'Weak Water Technique', it's perfectly a 'Water God's' template, a king over water, easily stopping even the most skilled from passing through my territory without contending against my 'Weak Water'."

At the same time,

As he felt the achievement in his Five Elements Body, a sense of endless life and infinite cycle arose, spontaneously protecting his internal organs, instantly programming the qi film of his organs.

The organs represent the five elements, now that his Five Elements Body has attained great achievement, feeds back to the organs, creating a new internal balance and moving toward the second layer of Inner Strength 'tendons and membranes'.

A small realm achieved, Chen Ku immediately felt that his five viscera could expand and contract according to changes in the qi film.

"The Fifth Realm of Inner Strength has entered the mid-phase!"

Chen Ku appreciated the benefits brought by the Huntian Overlord Five Elements Perfection, directly pushing his cultivation to complete a minor breakthrough, which was just an enhancement in cultivation.

He thought to himself:

"Now I can feel the endless circulation of Five Elements True Qi within me, forming its own cycle, even if I activate the Golden Light Technique for three days and nights, I wouldn't worry about depleting true qi."

Wood generates fire, fire generates earth, earth produces gold, gold produces water, water generates wood...

This internal circulation granted his true qi extremely rare endurance.

"Since I'm settled down, I might as well transform those few strands of Evil Qi."

Chen Ku immediately inwardly viewed the Transformation Diagram, beginning transformations regarding the Golden Shocking Thunder Mastiff and Fur Bear.

[Golden Shocking Thunder Mastiff Transformation!]

[Golden Shocking Thunder Mastiff possesses one ten-thousandth of the Ancient Mutant 'Golden-Haired Hou' bloodline, roar like thunder, shaking hundreds of miles, can eat human qi, if able to revert to ancestry and transform into a Golden-Haired Hou, it can spray Purple Gold Smoke and Sanmei Wind,]

[Golden Shocking Thunder Mastiff Transformation·Shape Shifting]

[Shape Shifting Feature: Eating Human Qi (absorbing living vital energy)]

Seeing the skill revealed by the shape-shifting of the Golden Shocking Thunder Mastiff, Chen Ku's heart thumped, thinking secretly, "Isn't this the ability of zombies? Absorb human's vitality? Am I meant to become an ancestor of the Demon Sect?"

He then began transforming the Fur Bear.

[Fur Bear Transformation!]

[Fur Bear Transformation·Shape Shifting]

[Shape Shifting Feature: Stomach Space]

Chen Ku rejoiced.

Just feeling helpless due to the Golden Shocking Thunder Mastiff's bad fortune, and unexpectedly, the Fur Bear Transformation revealed the most critical ability.

Stomach Space!

Chen Ku instantly inwardly viewed his stomach, immediately discovering an extra small space in his belly. Though small, it wasn't small at all. When he spiritually explored inside, there was space equivalent to three large halls.

"A Fur Bear's stomach in the Sixth Realm has such a large stomach space. It's enough to store food for ten thousand people for a month, perfect for military supply, with merely ten stomachs eliminating logistical issues."

Comparing his eldest brother's gifted storage bag space with this stomach space, it was incomparable. The stomach space inside him was ten times that of the storage bag.

"I wonder how Shangguan Yun encountered this Fur Bear. Seems like he raided a nest of Fur Bears, not only giving Sui Youdu a storage bag but also keeping one for himself."

While pondering this...

Boom!

Suddenly, a sound resembling the world's explosion came from the mountaintop behind Hero Pass, Chen Ku instantly leaped onto the rooftop, seeing...

Shockwaves spreading from the mountaintop, blowing away thousands of miles of clouds, clearing the wind and snow, revealing the dazzling white sky.

"Master! Senior Brothers!"

Chen Ku focused his gaze, seeing at the mountaintop beyond a hundred miles after the wind and snow cleared, several figures floated in the air, among them were his master Shan Lingguan and senior brother Qin Yuxian.

Beneath the group stood a giant stone measuring three zhang and six chi, shooting golden light into the sky, causing the terrifying thunderous explosion.

"Is it the Stone Egg? Could it hatch a monkey?!?"

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