Chapter 124: Gathering

“Chen Xiao, what about that illusion array?”
The Great Immortal looked at Chen Xiao, who was scanning the surroundings, with a tone of disbelief.
Chen Xiao shook his head in confusion. In truth, he was utterly bewildered—he had no idea why he could control this illusion array, nor why his injuries had healed instantly, or why the terrifying sounds emitted by those stone statues had had no effect on him.
At this moment, Chen Xiao’s blood and his primary divine essence had fully returned to normal, as if nothing had happened.
The Great Immortal frowned deeply. He realized they seemed to never have left the entrance of the Tianlong Secret Treasury; in fact, he had just been circling in place.
He looked up and saw that the two giant stone statues had returned to their normal state, and the trident blades taken by the Great Demon and the Great God were back in their hands.
“Amazing… Truly amazing! This illusion array even deceived me, the Great Immortal. It’s good it stopped at some point; otherwise…”
Cold sweat beaded on the Great Immortal’s forehead. He had always thought this was a double-layered illusion array—a matrix within a matrix—but it seemed he still underestimated this place.
“The Tianlong Secret Treasury—legend has it to be the treasure hoard of the ancient Dragon God. Truly befitting a Dragon God; it’s beyond what mere mortals like us can imagine.”
The Great Immortal kept shaking his head, muttering to himself.
The Great Demon and the Great God remained unconscious. Although their injuries had improved, the terrifying sound waves had severely damaged their minds, making recovery difficult.
“Huh? Chen Xiao, since the old cripple and the old demon are still unconscious, why are you already bustling about?” Only then did the Great Immortal notice Chen Xiao’s condition.
Chen Xiao rolled his eyes and said, “Elder, the medicines you gave me just now almost blew me up. If I weren’t a water-type mutant who can control external water energy to neutralize the excess medicine and expel it from my body, I’d probably be dead by now.”
In truth, that was indeed the case, but Chen Xiao hadn’t used that method to eliminate the medicine’s effects—instead, his primary divine essence had absorbed it.
“Uh…”
The Great Immortal was stunned, his small eyes blinking a few times before he said nothing more.
“Let’s leave. The old cripple and the old demon have suffered severe mental damage; it’s unclear when they’ll recover. It’s a huge loss.”
The situation here was far too strange. Who knew what mechanisms might be triggered next, activating another array? Illusion arrays were one thing—their destructive power wasn’t very great—but if a killing array appeared, even the Great Immortal might perish here.
Of course, he didn’t know that Chen Xiao already controlled most of the arrays outside the Tianlong Secret Treasury.
“Let’s go.” With a flash of green light, the Great Immortal lifted the Great Demon and the Great God, called out to Chen Xiao, and they headed toward the passage.
When they returned to the passage and saw the carvings on the wall, they immediately realized the figures on the wall were exactly the illusions from the earlier array.

“This wall indeed hides great mysteries. Needless to say, those 108 stone carvings of exotic beasts—these seemingly ordinary reliefs are actually the core of that illusion array.”
The Great Immortal had already used the arts of Taiji and Bagua to somewhat deduce that the key to the illusion array lay in the reliefs on this wall. Yet he didn’t dare touch them at the moment.
Chen Xiao remained silent the whole time. He realized that outside the entrance to the Heavenly Dragon’s Secret Treasury, aside from those two stone statues of deities and the 108 stone carvings of exotic beasts at the entrance, everything else was under his control.
Yet Chen Xiao’s mind felt unsettled. Behind that golden door, something seemed to be calling to him… his blood!
That’s right, his blood!
If it weren’t for the protection of the Supreme God’s power, Chen Xiao’s blood would have long been drawn out by whatever was behind the door.
Curiosity arose in Chen Xiao’s heart. Though the summoning force was strong, the suppression of the Supreme God’s presence within him had no effect on it.
“It seems I’ll have to return here again soon.”
Chen Xiao resolved in his heart that he would definitely come back. He had to figure out what was going on—summoning his own blood? That didn’t make any sense.
The Great Immortal, along with the Great God and the Great Demon, along with Chen Xiao, quickly reached the end of this passage—the exit where seawater hung in the air.
But now, it wasn’t so simple for Chen Xiao and the Great Immortal to leave through there.
On the wall above the crack-like exit, the eyes of those 108 exotic beasts kept shooting golden rays, pouring into the seawater above in dense waves.
If Chen Xiao and the others went up now, they would surely be torn to pieces by those rays or completely annihilated.
“Damn it! Who came here? Not only do they seek their own death, but they also block this Great Immortal’s path!”
The Great Immortal stomped in anger, cursing at the crack above. But for now, the two could do nothing but wait quietly.
Gradually, the golden light from the beasts’ eyes diminished until it vanished entirely, with only occasional rays still shooting out.
Chen Xiao and the Great Immortal didn’t act rashly. If more people came down from above, the beasts’ eyes would shoot golden light again. If they happened to be in the same line of fire, there would be no time to dodge—light moved faster than humans could react.
Half an hour passed before a single ray more emerged from any of the beasts’ eyes. Only then did the Great Immortal and Chen Xiao slowly take off, flying toward the seawater above.
The Great Immortal used his eighth-level spiritual power to lift the Great God and the Great Demon into the air, while Chen Xiao condensed a mist of light water beneath his feet and floated into the seawater.
By now, those deep-sea pythons had scattered due to the death of their leader, and the waters had become extremely quiet. As they went higher, a bloody smell gradually appeared in the seawater, but there were only faint traces of blood, with no corpses of supernatural beings.
Those corpses had long been annihilated by the golden light.

“Hmm, what’s that?”
Suddenly, Daxian noticed a spherical object about twenty meters away, slowly descending along one side of the crack. Two bright searchlights emitted dazzling light, constantly scanning the surroundings.
“A deep-sea submersible,” Chen Xiao recognized it at a glance. By now, the two of them were only dozens of meters away from the top of the crack, and light could already penetrate this far.
In an inconspicuous corner on the surface of the submersible, the flag of Japan was engraved.
“These Japonese are really arrogant, boldly sending a deep-sea submersible into China’s territorial waters,” Chen Xiao thought with disdain.
Daxian said nothing. With a single push, he generated a massive wave of force that struck the surface of the submersible.
With a loud explosion, the submersible burst apart. In the next moment, three beams of golden light shot out from the depths of the sea crack, instantly killing everyone inside.
“Hm?” Daxian’s eyes lit up.
“This thing can even block spiritual energy?”
Inside the submersible were clearly three Japonese superhumans. When the submersible exploded, their spiritual energy fluctuations spread instantly, killing them with the golden light.
“These Japonese are quite clever, using this method to block spiritual energy,” Daxian laughed. His body instantly turned into a blur, moving swiftly upward like a fish in water.
As for the Great Demon and the Great God, he left them to Chen Xiao.
Chen Xiao curled his lips. Of course he knew what Daxian intended. There were still a dozen such submersibles above the crack.
With a gesture, Chen Xiao enclosed the bodies of the Great God and the Great Demon in two bubbles, then followed Daxian upward.
At this moment, the seawater in this area was trembling slightly, with continuous explosions echoing in the air.
By the time Chen Xiao emerged from the crack, all the Japonese submersibles around had been destroyed by Daxian. Now, he saw Daxian use a single gesture to gather all the wreckage of aircraft carriers and various ships and planes from the seabed.
These were the latest military weapons developed by the United States, playing a crucial role for China. As a member of the Soul of China, Daxian naturally wouldn’t let them go.
By then, many superhumans had gathered on the sea surface. They were all superhumans from various countries who had come to investigate after hearing the news.
Some of these superhumans wanted to claim the wreckage of the aircraft carriers here, while others had heard that Team 17 of China had been wiped out here.
After all, no wall is impervious to leaks, and there might be spies from other countries among the Soul of China.
“That’s right, it’s right below. I can already sense the call of the Primordial Sacred Object.”
On a luxury yacht, Chris and the others frowned slightly. Looking at the dozen or so private yachts around them, their expressions were not good.
“I thought only the Dark Blood Clan would compete with us. I didn’t expect these people to come to China’s territory too. Did China’s previous tough measures not deter them?” Chris murmured to himself.
“Your Highness, we actually don’t need to worry. Master Chen Xiao has three seventh-tier powerhouses under him…” Duke Akashi started speaking but was interrupted by Chris.

“Akashi, shut up.” Chris’s expression changed, and he snorted coldly, “Remember, never place your hopes on others! Although Chen Xiao is useful to us, we still have to rely on ourselves!”
The other vampire dukes also lowered their heads in embarrassment.
In fact, after learning about the situation here, the Soul of China didn’t even bother to intervene anymore. Any supernatural beings with spiritual power who approached the Hidden Treasures of Tianlong would suffer devastating blows; anyway, they couldn’t get close enough.
It wouldn’t be too late to drive them away after they lost more of their people.