Chapter 712 697: 5 Spirit Meridians and an Elemental Power Fragment

"Such incredible power!"

Shen Lang gasped in amazement but showed no fear. He threw a punch upward with his right fist, summoning a tempest of wind and lightning to collide with the descending bolt!

The moment he struck, Shen Lang was inwardly stunned. 'Under the binding of this barrier's strange power, I can't even exert twenty percent of my full strength!'

BOOM!

The instant the two streams of Energy collided, an earth-shattering explosion erupted!

A mushroom cloud bloomed from the point of impact as powerful ripples of Energy spread out in every direction.

A fierce gale kicked up, shredding all the nearby head-high weeds to pieces and sending them flying!

Shen Lang let out a soft grunt as he was instantly blasted out of the air, his feet sinking deep into the ground upon impact!

Even though his power was restricted by the barrier's Rule, Shen Lang's physical body was absurdly powerful.

He had once used his physical body alone to withstand the Nine-Nine Tribulation Thunder!

Yet now, he had been knocked straight to the ground, clearly getting the worst of the exchange.

"Such incredible power!" Pulling his feet from the earth, Shen Lang looked up at the sky, his gaze cold and sharp.

This didn't mean, of course, that the Power of Thunder and Lightning within this barrier was stronger than the Nine-Nine Tribulation Thunder.

Nine-Nine Tribulation Thunder was a specific term for the highest of the Ninefold Tribulation Thunders, but its might varied depending on the Cultivation Level of the person facing it.

The Nine-Nine Tribulation Thunder Shen Lang had faced in the King Martial Realm and the one he would face at the Emperor Martial Realm or higher, though sharing the same name, were on completely different levels of power.

And yet, the lightning bolt he had just faced was indeed more powerful than the Nine-Nine Tribulation Thunder he'd endured when he advanced to the King Martial Realm.

Even though it was only a bolt of lightning as thick as an arm, its power was at least ten times greater than the Thunder Power unleashed by an ordinary King Martial Realm expert.

The power of this barrier Restriction was simply terrifying!

'Many of the King Martial Realm experts who entered this place must have suffered terribly.'

After all, not everyone possessed a physical body as monstrously powerful as his.

'The lightning's power is already immense. Under the binding of that strange force within the barrier, I can barely muster twenty percent of my full strength... If not for the might of my Chaos Divine Body, even I would have been seriously injured by that last strike.'

'The Energy required for a flight-restricting barrier is almost unimaginable. Simply drawing on the Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi from the surrounding thousands of miles wouldn't be enough to cover such a vast area. For the Yumu Cave Blessed Land to dare to do this, the Spirit Meridians in this land must have a combined length of over three hundred miles.'

Shen Lang faced the center of the Dragon Scale Divine Hall and once again activated his Silver Eyes of Truth.

He was now very close to the Dragon Scale Divine Hall, only about a thousand miles away.

Moreover, without the barrier obstructing his vision, what he saw with his Silver Eyes of Truth was completely different from when he had first entered the Yumu Cave Blessed Land.

Things he couldn't see clearly upon entering were now laid bare before him.

Surrounding the cloud-piercing Dragon Scale Divine Hall were five multi-colored streams of energy, each like a Celestial River.

These five enormous "Celestial Rivers" tightly encircled the Dragon Scale Divine Hall.

The Dragon Scale Divine Hall itself was constantly radiating a rainbow-hued divine glow, looking even more wondrous than it did to the naked eye.

'Five enormous Spirit Meridians, with all Five Elements gathered in one place!'

Although Shen Lang was somewhat prepared, he was still shocked to see these five Celestial Rivers!

A Great Spirit Meridian of this magnitude was exceedingly rare, even on its own.

Even the greatest Spirit Meridian possessed by one of the Legendary Sects that sat upon them likely couldn't compare to any single one of these beneath the Dragon Scale Divine Hall.

And yet here, beneath the Dragon Scale Divine Hall, there were a full five of them!

'Returning empty-handed from a mountain of treasure is not my style. Since everyone from the Yumu Cave Blessed Land has fled and I urgently need to replenish my Tai Chi Diagram's Energy, I'll just have to set my sights on these five Spirit Meridians!'

A delighted look appeared in Shen Lang's eyes.

With even one of these Great Spirit Meridians, a person could found their own sect and establish a legacy.

Faced with five, even someone with Shen Lang's unshakeable composure felt a flicker of excitement.

But his joy was short-lived as his expression suddenly shifted. 'Wait! The Five Elements create and destroy one another. How could five Spirit Meridians, one for each element, possibly be born in the same place? That's impossible!'

'Someone used Great Divine Techniques to move these Spirit Meridians here from other locations and used them in conjunction with the Dragon Scale Divine Hall to lay a Five Elements Strange Formation!'

'And within this Five Elements Strange Formation, something is being suppressed or hidden!'

'To use a Five Elements Strange Formation built from five Spirit Meridians as a smokescreen... it almost fooled even my Silver Eyes of Truth!'

Shen Lang was inwardly shaken. He immediately reactivated the Silver Eyes of Truth he had just dismissed.

This time, he didn't focus on the five Spirit Meridians. Instead, his gaze pierced through them as if they were a barrier, looking toward the Dragon Scale Divine Hall.

Like peeling away the layers of an onion, his Silver Eyes of Truth pierced through layer after layer of the divine glow. Finally, just as the strain was becoming almost too much for him to bear... he discovered what was hidden in the very core!

There, in the deepest part shrouded by the divine glow, a palm-sized Rhombic Crystal flickered in and out of existence, rotating slowly...

"An Elemental Power Fragment!"

Shen Lang was overjoyed, nearly crying out loud in his excitement!

He had previously only suspected that an Elemental Power Fragment might exist within the Yumu Cave Blessed Land.

He had no actual information to back this up; it was pure speculation based on the mysterious and powerful nature of a Pocket World Blessed Land.

Theoretically, if the people of the Yumu Cave Blessed Land had truly possessed an Elemental Power Fragment, they would have taken it with them long ago.

The probability of it being left behind should have been extremely low.

To think he would actually find an Elemental Power Fragment now!

'Unbelievable. The Elemental Power Fragment isn't inside the heavily restricted Dragon Scale Divine Hall, but deep underground beneath it!'

'No, wait. To get to that underground area, you still have to go through the Dragon Scale Divine Hall... The people of the Yumu Cave Blessed Land were incredibly cautious, using so many methods to conceal it layer by layer.'

'If not for a tool like my Silver Eyes of Truth, even a Great Emperor in person might not have been able to discover it.'

Shen Lang's mind raced as he cast his gaze to the northeast of the Dragon Scale Divine Hall.

In that direction, the Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi was in turmoil. It looked like a group of Emperor Martial Realm Powerhouses were in a heated battle.

Shen Lang wasn't interested in the affairs of Taotie and Candle Dragon for the time being.

After all, he couldn't get involved in a conflict of that scale right now.

If he *could* get involved, he would gladly help one side eliminate the other, then turn around and deal with the side he'd "helped," annihilating them completely in the end.

Unfortunately, for now, he could only find a way to avoid them and get his hands on the five Spirit Meridians and the Elemental Power Fragment.

With his current Cultivation, trying to seize these treasures right under the noses of the Demon God Hall's powerhouses was tantamount to pulling teeth from a tiger's mouth.

And it wasn't just one tiger, but a whole pack of them!

His only advantage was the Silver Eyes of Truth, which allowed him to perceive and evade danger before it arrived.

Furthermore, he now knew of the existence and location of the Elemental Power Fragment and the five Spirit Meridians... This knowledge, at least, gave him the initiative!

Shen Lang's expression shifted several times before he leaped into the air.

After a few attempts, Shen Lang confirmed his suspicions...

Within this barrier, one could not fly more than two meters off the ground.

As soon as he surpassed that height, bolts of lightning would rain down from the sky incessantly.

Moreover, the higher or more frequently he tried to fly, the tighter the barrier's restrictive force became, making it increasingly difficult to resist.

'This is a huge restriction on Quasi-Emperor and Emperor Martial Realm Powerhouses, but it's actually quite convenient for me!'

Shen Lang let out a great laugh, keeping his body parallel to the ground and shooting forward, practically skimming the tops of the grass.

The area within the barrier was devoid of human life. The grass grew overhead, trees towered hundreds of feet into the air, mountains pierced the clouds, and Demon Beasts ran rampant.

After confirming that the powerhouses from the various factions were gathered to the northeast of the Dragon Scale Divine Hall, Shen Lang concealed his aura and shot off toward the northwest, intending to steer clear of the conflict between Taotie and Candle Dragon.

After flying at a moderate speed for over three hours, Shen Lang gazed into the distance, and his eyes narrowed slightly.

On the distant horizon, he could faintly make out a dense complex of ancient buildings, like a mirage.

From a distance, these halls and pavilions all appeared to be perfectly preserved, exuding a magnificent aura as they sat atop cloud-piercing mountain peaks.

On these peaks and outside the halls, he could already see many figures leaping and moving about.

It seemed the King Martial Realm experts from the various Major Sects had all gathered in these areas.

Shen Lang slowed his pace, using his Silver Eyes of Truth to search for the auras of the Elder Ancestors from the Profound Dao Sect and the other great sects.

'Can't be too hasty,' Shen Lang thought. 'What if Lin Yafeng and Dingdang went to stop Taotie, and I just happen to run right into them? That would be a disaster.'

'I might as well deal with the people from the White Bone Hall first.'

'Otherwise, it would be a real loss if the White Bone Hall managed to kill the Elder Ancestors of the Profound Dao Sect and the other four of the Five Sects.'

'Those few who were scheming with the Third Prince back in the Dragon Bone Wilderness can't stir up much trouble anymore, even if they weren't finished off by Duanmu Zheng.'

'I already gave the Imperial Dragon Sect and the other two of the three major sects a heads-up. Plus, Xian'Er already negotiated a collaboration with the Blood Wing Demon Sect, another Spirit Copper Level Influence in the Celestial Defying Demon Realm. The White Bone Hall is basically besieged from all sides, so the Fourth Ancestor and the others should be fine.'

His Silver Eyes of Truth swept over the mountain peaks one by one, finally settling on an active volcano with sheer, towering cliffs.

On the outer slopes of the massive volcano, a dense complex of halls and pavilions was also situated.

Flames shot up from the crater, seeming to burn half the sky red in a bizarre and spectacular sight.

Under his Silver Eyes of Truth, he could see powerful auras of various colors and sizes constantly pulsating above the volcano.

'Well now, things are certainly lively. So many Sects gathered in one place... it's a total free-for-all!'

'The White Bone Hall has some nerve, still refusing to change their ways!'

'You want to play games? Fine. While the Candle Dragon is preoccupied, I'll play a big one with you!'

Killing intent flared in Shen Lang's eyes. He abruptly accelerated, shooting toward the active volcano like a meteor...