Chapter 577: Trapped in a Illusion Array

Within the Absolute Martial Ark, after a full five million years, Ye Feng finally completed the creation of domains for all his laws and divine powers, and mastered the technique of stacking two such law domains. He then used the Nine Directions Method to refine three batches of Star Condensing Pills. The medicinal materials he had were only enough for three batches. With about 150 pills in total, this was sufficient for Ye Feng and the others. The effects of these pills were excellent when taken the first three times, but diminished starting from the fourth time, so there was no need to refine too many.

After completing the pill refinement, Ye Feng stepped onto the ninth level of the Martial Training Hall and took the pills. Another three million years passed, and his cultivation finally reached the peak of the Star level. Only then did Ye Feng leave the Absolute Martial Ark. During this time, the Mantis Beast had been tightly sealed by the space law. Outside that room, Ye Feng added a medium-sized composite array composed of an illusion array, a trapping array, and a killing array. The core of this array was even a sword-shaped mid-grade spiritual treasure he took from the Absolute Martial Ark.

Over these years, more than a dozen powerful individuals had arrived in the Holy Realm from the main plane. The weakest among them had an early Star Cloud level cultivation, while the strongest reached the mid-stage Star Sea level. The Star Sea level was roughly the highest cultivation level that reverse teleportation could sustain, indicating how serious the main plane took this situation.

Ye Feng was not isolated from information either. His communicator remained active throughout to ensure he could obtain relevant updates promptly. Upon learning about the arrival of so many powerful beings from the main plane, he realized he didn’t need to worry about a crisis for at least another decade. Thus, he calmly decided to follow the coordinates given by the Heavenly Dao to search for further law secrets and related treasures.

He knew well that law secrets were key to mastering divine powers. The more law secrets he understood, the greater the chance of transforming his laws into divine powers, and this process would accelerate exponentially. With the ability to transmit divine powers through space, it took only a few days for Ye Feng to locate the coordinates provided by the Heavenly Dao.

“Judging from the map, this area should be the Holy Realm’s most dangerous place—the Fallen Saints Abyss,” Ye Feng said, standing on a cliff and looking down. Below, thick clouds shrouded everything, making it impossible to see anything at all. What surprised Ye Feng even more was that when his soul energy encountered those clouds, it was absorbed like water by a sponge—without any return, and even resulting in loss.

Frowning slightly, Ye Feng still jumped down. The moment he jumped, he was shocked to find that his ability to fly had vanished, and he began falling straight downward at an increasing speed. It was unclear how much time passed—whether it was the time it took to drink a cup of tea or an hour—before Ye Feng finally landed on solid ground. With a loud thud, his feet sank nearly ten centimeters into the ground, and the surrounding soil cracked slightly. He also felt a tingling sensation in his feet. He hadn’t expected the ground to be so hard; if not for his body having reached the strength of a spiritual treasure, he would likely have died from the fall.

He looked around. The area was completely free of fog. To his surprise, there were over thirty skeletons around, all with shattered bones. In an instant, Ye Feng guessed that these must have been powerful warriors who died from the fall. Disappointingly, their equipment, weapons, and storage rings had all disappeared, clearly having been looted long ago. After checking carefully and finding nothing valuable on the skeletons, Ye Feng shook his head and left, muttering, “They really cleaned things up thoroughly. Even I can’t match such skill…”

However, moments later, he frowned again, thinking of a possibility: what if someone else had entered alive and taken the inheritance left by the Heavenly Dao before him? With this thought, he quickly rushed toward the entrance of the canyon.

After running for about half a minute, Ye Feng noticed something strange—he seemed to be circling in the same place. “Is this… a illusion array?” He finally realized he had entered an illusion array as soon as he fell. But then he resigned himself to it. Since it was a test given by the Heavenly Dao, the content of the test would surely involve arrays and secret patterns. He calmed down and sat cross-legged in place. His soul power scanned the area and confirmed his suspicion—the place seemed endless. Given the strength of his soul power now, it was enough to scan all seven sacred sites in the Holy Realm once. But since this was just a remote corner of the Holy Realm and his soul power couldn’t cover it completely, it proved that this was indeed an illusion array. Knowing it was an illusion array, Ye Feng stopped rushing. In an illusion array, the more anxious one became, the more trapped they would get.

“What kind of illusion array is this?” Ye Feng fell into deep thought. It would be easy to break such an array in the outside world, but since he had stepped into it from the very first step after falling, he had no idea what kind of array it was. He observed his surroundings, but found no trace at all, which meant the person who set up this array must be at least as skilled as him.

After a while, he finally stood up and continued walking toward the entrance of the canyon, but slowly. With each step, he paused, keeping his eyes fixed on any changes around him. His soul power was fully activated, scanning every detail within a ten-meter radius around him, leaving no detail unexamined. “As long as it’s an illusion array, there must be some clue. It can’t be exactly like reality. Finding that flaw is the key to breaking the array.”

Ye Feng moved forward slowly step by step, with the scenery around him constantly changing. His soul power’s scanning still revealed no abnormalities. His steps became increasingly erratic—fast at times, slow at others, moving left and right—trying to disrupt the array’s patterns through his own movements in order to spot the flaw.

Yet even so, the results were unsatisfactory. Despite his strange movements and even using space-based teleportation techniques, there was still no sign of disruption in this eerie place.

This made Ye Feng frown. He knew he had truly encountered a difficult problem—the person who set up this array was definitely more skilled than him.

“Since indirect disruption doesn’t work, I’ll try force. Breaking it with brute strength might not be possible, but even causing a slight change would be good.” Ye Feng narrowed his eyes slightly, channeling all his energy into his hands and unleashing his most powerful space-annihilation technique at the ground.

“Boom!” A violent explosion echoed into the sky, but Ye Feng’s soul power continued to scrutinize everything around him without pause.

“Roar!!!” Soon after, a beastly roar came from afar. Ye Feng knew he had finally found the flaw in this array…