Chapter 123: Trajectories

“Those who desecrate the gods shall die!”
“Those who desecrate the gods shall die!”
……
One after another, these roaring voices echoed through space, deafening in intensity.
“Pfft!”
The four people in front of the golden gate felt a sweet taste in their throats as blood gushed out. Just that sound alone had severely injured the three super-powered beings, including the Great Immortal.
As for Chen Xiao, his mental strength was at level five, but his physical strength was only at the peak of level two—extremely fragile. The moment his body was struck by those sound waves, he felt like it was about to collapse.
Immediately, the Life Water among the nine types of water powers within Chen Xiao transformed into a stream, beginning to repair his damaged body. But then, something unexpected happened.
A beam of golden light appeared out of nowhere and flowed into Chen Xiao’s body, instantly restoring his nearly broken body and even raising his physical strength from the peak of level two to level three.
“Those who desecrate the gods shall die!”
The voice continued to echo in space, but now it had no effect on Chen Xiao at all.
Boom!
The two stone statues, which had been inspected by the Great God and found to be normal, suddenly began to tremble. Their limbs moved, and they came back to life.
“Those who desecrate the gods shall die!”
“Those who desecrate the gods shall die!”
The statues kept shouting these words, nearly driving the Great Immortal and the other two mad.
“Go!”
A green light burst from the Great Immortal’s body, instantly wrapping around the unconscious Great God and the Great Demon. He then grabbed the still dazed Chen Xiao and rushed through the passage they had come through.
The terrifying voices coming from the statues were directed at the Great God and the Great Demon, while the Great Immortal and Chen Xiao were only indirectly affected.
“Kill! Kill! Kill!”
Suddenly, three deafening shouts of killing rang out from another part of space, shaking the entire void.
“Two idiots! Without even understanding the situation, you recklessly messed around with these things—looking for death!”
The Great Immortal’s mouth was covered in blood, his face pale. Although he had also been severely injured, his condition was far better than that of the Great God and the Great Demon.
While running, he quickly took out three jade bottles filled with healing pills and shoved them into the mouths of the three people with him.
In fact, Chen Xiao’s body was already fine, though his blood-soaked appearance was terrifying. The Great Immortal, overwhelmed by the urgent situation, didn’t pay attention to Chen Xiao’s actual condition. But since the Great Immortal himself had suffered serious injuries, it was even worse for Chen Xiao, a novice at level five.
The Great Immortal dragged the three of them into the passage, only to find that the situation here was even worse than outside the main gate.
Outside the gate, there were only those terrifying stone statues. But inside this passage, countless illusory shadows had appeared at some point, armed with various weapons, charging at the Great Immortal and the others.

“An illusion array?!”
The Great Immortal’s eyes sharpened, and two streams of green light shot out from them in an instant, piercing through those illusions directly. Any illusion struck by those green beams vanished instantly.
Without hesitation, the Great Immortal stepped forward and entered the passage.
“Illusion array, illusion array—since I don’t believe you’re real, then you’re not real.” A cold smirk appeared on the Great Immortal’s lips; clearly, such an illusion array posed no threat to him at all.
The fact that he could devise a grand array like the One That Upsets Heaven and Earth proved he was a master of arrays, proficient in various types. Almost immediately, he determined the true nature of this array.
The illusion array in this passage was extremely sophisticated, but it still couldn’t stump the Great Immortal. The green light emanating from his eyes seemed to be the nemesis of these illusions—those menacing illusions vanished the moment they came into contact with it.
Chen Xiao, held under the Great Immortal’s arm, saw these overwhelming illusions and his expression changed slightly. To him, these illusions appeared utterly real, each emitting terrifying energy, even stronger than that of the ninth-tier Ghost King Xiu Mang.
Bang!
Suddenly, one of the solidified illusions struck the Great Immortal’s back with a palm strike. If not for the Great Immortal’s rapid reaction as he dodged aside, that strike would have shattered his already severely injured body.
“Kid, if you don’t want to die, close your eyes for this Great Immortal!”
The Great Immortal slapped Chen Xiao on the head. Chen Xiao felt a chill in his heart and immediately closed his eyes.
This illusion array clearly transformed the illusory into the real, making things tangible—a truly terrifying technique, rather than one that confused people’s minds, causing them to fight each other.
Although these illusions were illusory, each one could absorb the thoughts of those inside the array. Once those thoughts conveyed a genuine intent, they would be captured and absorbed, turning those originally illusory shadows into reality.
Just now, Chen Xiao had sent such an intent, and instantly, a dozen or so illusions absorbed his thoughts and turned into reality.
Fortunately, Chen Xiao’s mental strength wasn’t very strong at the moment. His fifth-tier thoughts gave those transformed illusions fifth-tier power.
But to the Great Immortal, that was practically weak.
The Great Immortal raised his hand, and the green short sword he had been holding turned into a dozen streams of cyan light, instantly annihilating those transformed illusions.
However, from those destroyed entities, a bizarre intent spread out, covering an area of thirty meters. In an instant, all the illusions within that radius turned into reality!
And these transformed illusions all possessed sixth-tier strength! They all charged at the Great Immortal.
“Damn it! What a sophisticated illusion array!”
The Great Immortal’s gaze sharpened as he cursed out loud.
“But thankfully, this array operates autonomously, without anyone controlling it. Otherwise…”

The Great Immortal was secretly relieved. He stopped struggling with those solidified illusions and used the cyan light in his eyes to instantly destroy the illusions before him. Then, leveraging his advantage in rank, he accelerated and rushed forward.

But as he ran, the Great Immortal realized something was wrong. He had already covered thousands of meters yet still hadn’t reached the exit to the area marked with 108 exotic beasts where they had come from.

“Damn it, a matrix within a matrix—a dual illusion array!”
The Great Immortal suddenly became alert and stopped in his tracks.

At that moment, he closed his eyes tightly, allowing those illusions to wander around him without reacting even to their howls. As for those that had solidified, he had long left them far behind.

Behind him, the cries from the stone statues and those three consecutive killing sounds grew louder.

Suddenly, the Great Immortal stretched out his hand and placed Chen Xiao under his arm, along with the Great God and Great Demon enveloped in cyan light, on the ground.

A Yin-Yang Taiji diagram slowly rose from behind him. The Taiji and Bagua symbols rotated slowly, continuously calculating.

“Heir of the Guardians?”
Suddenly, the voices from the two stone statues changed, uttering such a nonsensical phrase.

Immediately afterward, the voices of the stone statues, along with those murderous sounds, disappeared. Only the array continued to operate endlessly.

Without anyone controlling it, once activated, as long as those inside the array didn’t die, the array would keep running—no end in sight.

……

“Nine Heavens Mysterious Spirit, Mysterious Spirit Seal of the Nine Heavens—both seals and unlocks.”
Suddenly, such thoughts echoed slowly in Chen Xiao’s mind. This voice didn’t come from the Main God’s space nor from the outside world; it existed within him, in his bloodline.

At this moment, the blood in Chen Xiao’s body had completely turned golden. This golden blood began to resonate with his Main God essence.

The originally light blue Main God essence emitted intense beams of light the moment it touched the golden blood, instantly enveloping Chen Xiao’s consciousness sea.

Chen Xiao was unconscious.

Or rather, his consciousness had entered another realm.

No sky, no earth, no space, no concept of time—everything was void. Within this void, a chaotic trajectory suddenly emerged. It began to move slowly, then faster, gradually carving out a tiny space as it moved.

The space grew larger, and more and more concepts emerged within it. One by one, laws took shape and moved along their own paths.

Finally, with a loud explosion, the space seemed to reach its limit and burst open, creating an even larger space. As various trajectories and laws interacted, countless stars formed.

“What is this? Is it the origin of the universe?”
Chen Xiao’s consciousness seemed to be moving, yet also still.

Suddenly, Chen Xiao opened his eyes.

“How could this be? What just happened? Was it just a dream?”
Curious, he looked around. Suddenly, he remembered his current situation.

“This… how…?” Suddenly, Chen Xiao’s mind stirred. He realized that his mental energy could merge with the surrounding environment and control those illusory shadows. “I can actually control this illusion array?” Chen Xiao was astonished. Without hesitation, he used his mental power to take control of the array and bring it to a halt. Chen Xiao slowly stood up, turned around, and saw the unconscious Great God and Great Demon. After a brief hesitation, he waved his hand, sending two streams of life energy into their bodies, restoring them to consciousness. Meanwhile, the Great Immortal sat cross-legged on the ground, his expression solemn. Above his head, the Taiji and Bagua symbols were spinning rapidly, calculating something. “Hahaha… This Great Immortal has finally figured it out! The core of this illusion array… Huh? Why has the array stopped?” The Great Immortal stood up, looking around in disbelief. …