The Lord of Void and Real-Chapter 1542 - 1538: Graffiti Map

Shen Luo, upon hearing the words of Fire Spirit Child, had his heart temporarily settled and continued to dart forward.

After traveling a distance of two to three hundred feet and turning a corner, the passage ahead suddenly doubled in width. On one side of the wall, a blue palace door appeared, hanging with a plaque inscribed with three big characters: "Golden Stone Pavilion".

The blue palace door was already half open, and there were fresh traces left from forceful strikes on it, most likely the work of Che Qingtian. The items inside must have already been plundered.

"Golden Stone Pavilion! Wait, isn’t this one of the places marked on that scroll earlier? Could it be that the scribbles on the scroll are a map of the Heavenly Puzzling Maze?" Thoughts flashed through Shen Luo’s mind, he did not stop here and continued to fly forward while taking out the scroll for a closer look.

Originally, he couldn’t make sense of the scribbled map, but after experiencing the unpredictable passages of the Heavenly Puzzling Maze, looking at the scribbles again brought a completely different result. The chaotic and intertwined routes were exactly the numerous changes within the maze, and the map detailed each of them.

"Could this really be a map of the Heavenly Puzzling Maze?" Shen Luo inwardly marveled, and soon he arrived at another intersection.

He followed the markings on the map, heading towards the path straight ahead.

"According to this map, this straight passageway is very long. After exiting, make two left turns and I should reach another marked place, Tiangong Hall." Shen Luo compared the map and moved quickly.

The passageway was indeed long, and it took him a while flying before he reached the end. Then, following the map’s directions, he turned left twice. The second time the passage was not open, so he circled around from the other side based on the map-drawn route.

A quarter of an hour later, Shen Luo arrived in front of a dark-red palace door, with a plaque above inscribed with three large characters: "Tiangong Hall".

"It really is Tiangong Hall! This map is indeed a genuine map of the Heavenly Puzzling Maze!" His heart surged with joy.

"An actual map, who could have left it in that black passage? A previous challenger?" Fire Spirit Child was also very surprised.

Shen Luo didn’t care about who left it behind; with this map and his mastery of Yan Technique, he was confident in moving unobstructed within the Heavenly Puzzling Maze.

The innermost part of the maze’s map showed a red-marked exit that seemed to be the place leading to the third layer of Tianyan Palace. He must reach there before Che Qingtian.

He took a light breath, pressing down the emotions in his heart, and looked towards the dark-red hall in front of him.

"Tiangong Hall? Could it be the place for refining Armor?" Shen Luo thought quietly.

The great hall’s palace door was tightly shut with red light faintly visible, suggesting that Che Qingtian had not yet found it.

Shen Luo waved his hand, and a silver mouse flew out from his sleeve, transforming into a streak of silver light and darted into the hall—it was the Divine Rat.

However, the silver light didn’t get far before the light ahead suddenly flared up, and a red light curtain materialized, blocking the Divine Rat’s path.

Shen Luo frowned and then, without hesitation, shook his sleeve, sending out nine Pure Yang Swords. The swords spun swiftly, merging into one, becoming a ten-foot-long fiery red giant sword, and fiercely struck the red light curtain. It was the Nine Swords Unity God’s Power.

With Che Qingtian looming behind, Shen Luo had no time to slowly unravel the prohibitions here. If Nine Swords Unity God’s Power was not effective, he would directly employ the Turn Sky Seal.

With a crisp "zila" sound, the red light curtain was slashed with a long gap but didn’t completely collapse.

"Such a sturdy prohibition!" Shen Luo murmured to himself, just about to summon the Turn Sky Seal—but the Divine Rat on the side let out an excited cry, flew through the gap in the light curtain, and once again turned into a silver light, disappearing into the palace door.

Seeing this, Shen Luo’s eyes shifted, and he halted his action.

After a few breaths, the red light curtain on the palace door suddenly dimmed rapidly and with a "bang", completely dissipated, opening a crack on the palace door.

He relaxed his expression, pushed the door open, and with a flip of his hand, closed the palace door behind him.

Inside the palace door lay a hall, broad enough to span twenty or thirty feet, resembling a warehouse filled with huge metallic boxes of unknown contents, and at the very back, there was another door that seemed to lead to another space.

Close to the Big Gate, on the right side, a red Array had been set up, and one corner of it had been chewed through.

The Divine Rat was squatting next to the Array, squeaking at Shen Luo as if to take credit for its work.

"Well done," Shen Luo praised with a smile, then took out a Golden Pill and tossed it to the Divine Rat.

This was a special type of Elixir, known as the Refining Beast Pill, a secret Dan formula of an ancient beast taming sect. It was not for human consumption but was used to feed spirit beasts.

According to the Dan formula provided by Fire Spirit Child, Shen Luo refined a batch of Elixirs specifically to feed this Divine Rat. freёnovelkiss.com

The Divine Rat caught the Elixir in its mouth and swallowed it in one gulp, comfortably squinting its eyes.

"I’ll go check inside the Hall; Fire Daoist friend, see if you can repair this Array. In case Che Qingtian comes looking, it might provide some resistance," Shen Luo said as he took out the Netherworld Furnace.

"Alright," Fire Spirit Child agreed without any hesitation, flying out from the Netherworld Furnace to examine the red Array.

Shen Luo quickly walked over to the metallic boxes, sliced through the locks hanging on top with his sword, opened the lids, and found that they contained large chunks of dark golden mineral.

"Copper of Lingxiao!" he exclaimed, waving his hand open another box, which also contained chunks of Copper of Lingxiao.

Copper of Lingxiao was a core Spiritual Material in the refinement of Armor. Tianji City was in urgent need of it, and to think there was so much here, he wondered how much Immortal jade he could get by selling it to Tianji City.

Shen Luo immediately activated the Free and Easy Mirror to collect all the large metal boxes.

Luckily, the space inside the Free and Easy Mirror was large enough; otherwise, he really would have had no choice but to sigh in longing for the treasure.

Having gathered these metal boxes, he hastened toward the depths of the Hall, passed through the door inside, and was suddenly met with a much larger White Jade Hall ahead.

Here, materials for refining Armor were laid out, with low, long Stone Platforms on either side of the Hall, on which a medley of Armor lay scattered, including the Green Snake Armor and Silver Wolf Armor he had seen before, as well as many other strange types of Armor he had never seen.

Apart from Armor, there were also many giant Weapons such as guns, clubs, axes, and so on, all covered in Yan Patterns and looking extraordinary.

Shen Luo had long memorized the Sky Machine Scroll, remembering all the Armor and their weapons listed on it, but the contents of this Hall far exceeded what was recorded on the Sky Machine Scroll, many things were not even noted on it.

"Could it be that there is a sect in this world whose Yan Technique surpasses even Tianji City?" Shen Luo wondered to himself, his gaze suddenly falling upon a gold cannon barrel about twenty or thirty feet long.

This thing looked very similar to his Divine Craftsman Cannon, only much larger in size, and the Yan Patterns on it were more elaborate.

"Is this... an enhanced version of the Divine Craftsman Cannon?" Shen Luo speculated to himself, waving his hand to send a streak of golden light wrapping around the object.

This object was extremely heavy; even with his current Mana, he found it slightly difficult to lift.

Unable to use Divine Sense here, he was unable to inspect the internal structure of the gold cannon barrel. Following the same method to activate the Divine Craftsman Cannon, he patted the end of the cannon barrel twice, and with a "click," a round slot was revealed, empty inside, not fitted with any Armor Crystal.

However, judging from the construction of the slot, it required the installation of five of the high-grade Armor Crystals used in the Divine Craftsman Cannon.