Upon hearing the young man’s words, Zhang Chen was stunned. He glanced at the youth and was about to ask more questions when suddenly the void in front of him shattered violently. When Zhang Chen reappeared, he had returned to his own world.
"I wasn’t gone for long this time, and I hadn’t even done anything yet. How did I suddenly come back?" Zhang Chen opened his eyes before the bronze gate, a hint of surprise in his pupils.
"No, it seems as if an inexplicable force ’pushed’ me out from the Spiritual World," Zhang Chen recalled the scene within the Spiritual World carefully, a look of contemplation in his eyes.
"Unfortunately, I didn’t have time to inquire about clues related to the ’Emperor’. It seems I’ll have to wait a few hours until I’ve recovered my Essence, Qi, and Spirit to think of a way back in," Zhang Chen thought to himself.
Seeing Zhang Chen awaken, Fox Fairy Nannan leaned in and asked, "How did it go? Did you figure out a way to enter the ancient burial site?"
Hearing this, the Five Elemental divine light flowed within Zhang Chen’s body. His eyes turned to the bronze door in front of him, and he thought to himself, "I wonder if those black and white beams from the bronze door are related to the mysterious Five Elements..."
At this thought, Zhang Chen suddenly had an epiphany: "No way, could it be? The world isn’t filled with coincidences, right? Two identical beams of light? The same stone spheres, similar pronunciations..."
Zhang Chen was struck as if by lightning, his mind filled with disbelief, then he suddenly stood and moved in front of the bronze gate: "If, just if, what I’m guessing is true, then the strangeness of the black and white beams I’ve refined before, I should be able to control and sense them."
Zhang Chen slowly extended his hand, carefully placed his smooth, white palm onto the bronze gate, and quietly infused his Magical Power into the bronze stone door. The next moment, a turbulent wave surged in Zhang Chen’s heart as he truly sensed a connection with an item behind the stone gate.
"Impossible! How could this be? I clearly entered the First Heaven, how could it lead to the past? Furthermore, I even met ’Ying’ in the Ape Tribe?"
Contrary to belief, Zhang Chen silently communicated with the sense behind the bronze gate. The next moment, he withdrew his hand and looked at Zhong Xiang with keen eyes: "Boy, come here."
As he spoke, Zhang Chen retrieved Zhong Xiang’s Body-Stabilizing Rune.
"What are you planning now? This bronze gate isn’t something we can break through. Let’s request some outside help," Zhong Xiang unwillingly stepped forward and inquired, unwilling to defy Zhang Chen’s command.
Without a word, Zhang Chen’s hand formed an ice blade again. Before Zhong Xiang could react, he pressed it against the bronze door, surrounded himself in ice for protection, and let the blade fall swiftly, stabbing directly into Zhong Xiang’s buttocks.
"Crude! Couldn’t you choose a different spot?" Zhong Xiang’s voice within the flames was filled with dissatisfaction.
"Stop dawdling, hurry up and use fire to burn the bronze door," Zhang Chen urged.
"What use would that be? The black and white beams on the bronze door aren’t something we can resist, it’s just a waste of effort," Zhong Xiang’s voice was full of reluctance.
"Are you going to burn it or not?" Zhang Chen was impatient to test his hypothesis and scolded irritably, glaring at Zhong Xiang.
"Burn!"
Finding himself overpowered, Zhong Xiang had no choice but to bow his head, and flames enveloped his whole body, edging closer to the bronze gate.
As the bronze gate gradually became red-hot, no black and white beams burst forth.
"Huh?" Zhong Xiang’s face was surprised, his eyes full of confusion.
Meanwhile, Zhang Chen, standing behind Zhong Xiang, was also astonished, his emotions swirling like overturning the sea: ’I just communicated with the strangeness behind the bronze gate, and to my surprise, it actually worked?’
With the firelight burning bright, the bronze gate began to soften and transformed into molten fluid, dripping onto the stone below. Before long, it burned a hole about the size of a doghole.
As the flames stopped, Zhong Xiang turned his head and looked at Zhang Chen: "How did you do that?"
Zhang Chen did not answer Zhong Xiang’s question. He directly applied a Sealing Rune onto the hole, and the next moment he slipped through the doghole. He was eager to enter beyond the door to verify his guess—if he had it right, then the woman in the ancient burial site should theoretically be his great-niece.
"Impressive!"
Zhong Xiang was stunned by Zhang Chen’s actions, then crouched down to follow through the doghole-sized opening.
But as soon as he entered the hole, Zhang Chen was stunned because he had entered a symbol array.
The symbol array presented itself in black and white, covering a thousand meters of the void, and the whole world was a murky black and white.
In the center of the black and white world, there was an altar with a sacrificial table placed on it. On the table was a tray covered with a red silk fabric, obscuring its contents, yet Zhang Chen could sense that what he sought was within the tray.
However, Zhang Chen did not move hastily, knowing that this was a symbol array. Owning a symbol array himself, he was well aware of its dangers. Fortunately, he felt a connection to the objects on the sacrificial table, and at that moment, a stream of information flowed directly into his mind.
"This emblematic array was arranged by the ’Emperor’, leveraging the ’mysterious black and white beams’ to suppress the grand array. The ’mystical black and white beams’ are the core of the grand array. The emblematic array draws from the mysterious black and white origin to guard the grand array’s weakest entrance." Zhang Chen naturally acquired the information about the Feng Shui Grand Array.
"Treasure!"
Zhong Xiang, closely following Zhang Chen, saw the tray on the sacrificial table and his eyes lit up. Without another word, he lunged forward, intent on seizing the treasure before Zhang Chen.