C13 Is in or out

As the night fell and it was already late in the morning, the streets of the capital were filled with fewer pedestrians. Soon, the bright lights of the capital dimmed.

On top of the city walls, squads of imperial guards were patrolling back and forth. Although these imperial guards could prevent people from getting close, they were unable to guard against cultivators.

With a blade of grass in his mouth, the Shura followed Dugu Bai's group out of boredom.

"I say, we should just directly fight our way in. Why do we have to be so secretive? Isn't it too unworthy?"

Dugu Bai rolled his eyes. "Do you have the ability to deal with that old geezer Yuan Xin's array formation?"

The Shura shrugged. "Didn't you already prepare this? Otherwise, why would you come to find me?"

Yuan Xin's formation was renowned in the cultivation world of the Great Yong Empire. This fellow was currently in the palace, and if Dugu Bai and the others didn't have any countermeasures, they wouldn't have taken the risk.

"That's why we can't alarm anyone. Hehe, Asura, we have no way of dealing with the formation around the core. But, we can lure the snake out of its hole." Dugu Bai was very pleased with himself.

The Duke Wei Palace must be heavily guarded, and wherever that old geezer Yuan Xin was, a formation must have been set up waiting for them.

Unfortunately, Dugu Bai was not that stupid.

"What do you want?" The Shura's heart skipped a beat and he asked without batting an eyelid.

"This is the Imperial City." Dugu Bai gave her a look that said 'you understand'.

"I say, Little White, it can't be that you want to capture Old Man Emperor, right?" The Shura said snappily.

"You are an immortal cultivator. Don't tell me that cultivators can interfere with the mortal world and kill the emperor?"

The cultivation world had its own unwritten rules. Otherwise, the Golden Horse Hall and the Great Yong no longer needed to use armies to wage war. It wasn't impossible for them to just send out cultivators and demon generals and exterminate them.

Dugu Bai pouted. "Who said anything about capturing the emperor? We only need to capture the crown prince or something, we're not afraid that Shangguan Yue and the rest won't come out."

Killing an emperor was too much of a burden, but a crown prince was nothing to be concerned about.

"I've already made up my mind. Alright then, let's go." The Shura didn't either.

To him, what these people wanted to do was useless.

In the manor, Shangguan Yue woke up from his cultivation and revealed a disdainful sneer.

"If you want to lure a snake out of its cave, it will depend on whether you have the ability to do so."

There was no direct connection between Shangguan Yue and the Shura, and the distance was quite far. However, after gathering all six karma, Shangguan Yue's control over karma had reached an unimaginable level.

After knowing that Madan Cheng bribed the rogue cultivators to deal with the reverends, Shangguan Yue divided the legion into two parts. Naturally, he didn't need to worry about the regiment.

Just now, the Shura had activated the nearest army formation, allowing Shangguan Yue to sense it first.

Without disturbing anyone, Shangguan Yue flew out of the palace and arrived first at the palace in the East Palace.

"Greetings Uncle Huang. Uncle Huang, you've come so late, is there something you need?" When the Crown Prince heard the news, he was very surprised.

After Shangguan Yue returned to the capital, other than the palace, he had never visited any other princes. Even if the crown prince and others wanted to visit the Acropolis King's Mansion, Shangguan Yue might not be able to meet them.

It could be said that there were no interactions between Shangguan Yue and these Crown Prince and princes.

"Let me borrow your Eastern Palace. Crown Prince, let everyone withdraw." Shangguan Yue did not have the time to greet the crown prince and immediately ordered.

The crown prince was a bit surprised, but he did not object. After knowing that Shangguan Yue was a cultivator, the third prince and the others had as much respect for Shangguan Yue as they did for the emperor and the others. They no longer viewed him as an ordinary prince.

Since Shangguan Yue wanted to borrow the East Palace, then something must have happened.

The people from the Eastern Palace quickly retreated. Even the crown prince had retreated from the Eastern Palace.

After everyone had retreated, Shangguan Yue's two hands formed seals, condensing the karmic soldiers. One after another, the six-coloured soldiers were formed by the seals and disappeared into the void.

"It's good that I can use you guys to test the effectiveness of my research on formations in a short period of time." Shangguan Yue had set up a trap array with his soldiers and was looking forward to it.

In this short period of time, Taoist Master He and Cao Wenshan had studied the Dao of Formation, and Shangguan Yue had gained a lot from it.

In addition to the formation dao insights that Daoist Yuan Xin had spent his entire life providing, Shangguan Yue had also contributed all the formation dao manuals he had obtained from the Sky Void Sect.

The eighteen meridians of the Ancient Heavenly Void Sect were proficient in alchemy, array dao, sword dao, and five elements techniques. They had been passed down for a long time and were passed down by orthodox Daoists.

The round heart Taoist looked at these array dao manuals and directly sold himself to Shangguan Yue. To him, who had been obsessed with array dao his whole life, there was nothing in this world more attractive than this.

As for Shangguan Yue and Cao Wenshang, under the selfless sharing of Daoist Yuan Xin, their understanding of the Dao of Formation also increased rapidly.

Shangguan Yue and Cao Wenshang, as well as the Taoist leader of the round heart, set up their formation in a completely different way.

The two of them used the traditional formation flags as the base for the formation plate. Shangguan Yue, on the other hand, directly condensed soldiers in the air and used them to lay the formation.

There weren't that many formations that could be used by the army, but under the selfless sharing of Daoist Yuan Xin, Shangguan Yue still researched dozens of formations. They could be used by the army, and their effects could be described as strange.

In addition, during Shangguan Yue's experimentation with the array, he also made another important discovery. It was to use some simple array as the core to condense karmic soldiers. The karmic soldiers he obtained would have the effect of magical equipment.

After some experimentation, Shangguan Yue found a few methods to condense the soldiers into reality. The six-coloured soldiers that were used to set up the formation were one of them.

The materialization of the army gave Shangguan Yue's strength a qualitative increase. Now was the time to test it out.

"I hope you won't let me down." Shangguan Yue laid the formation and looked towards the direction of the Imperial City with anticipation. From there, 12 people quickly arrived.

Dugu Bai's group's first target was the Eastern Palace. When they arrived outside the Eastern Palace, they discovered that the lights within the Eastern Palace were all dark, and there weren't many people walking about, so Dugu Bai wasn't surprised.

"It seems the East Palace is in peace. Fellow Daoist Li, why don't you go with Fellow Daoist Wen and bring the Crown Prince out?" Dugu Bai was very cautious as he ordered two rogue cultivators.

In his opinion, there shouldn't be any mishap for a cultivator to deal with a mortal crown prince.

The Shura didn't stop them. What he was doing now was just watching the show.

The two rogue cultivators entered the East Palace, their figures quickly disappearing into the darkness.

Dugu Bai waited for a while and realized that the two of them had not come out. There was also no movement from the Eastern Palace.

"What's going on?" Doubt arose in Dugu Bai's heart.

If it were before, the crown prince would have had a group of people guarding him. However, during this period of time, they had investigated very clearly, and they knew that all of the people in the group had already retreated to the team section and Prince Wei's Mansion. Besides the emperor, there were still people guarding the other imperial clans, but not a single Immortal cultivator was by his side.

"Did those two guys get lost?" The Shura teased.

In this place, only he knew what had happened to the two of them.

Within a hundred meter radius, he and his original body could share their vision. At this time, the Shura was looking at Shangguan Yue with great interest as he teased the two cultivators.

Lost? The other rogue cultivators couldn't help but laugh bitterly.

Would Immortal cultivators get lost?

"You guys go in and take a look." Dugu Bai and the others were a little anxious. This was only a convenient location, their main goal was to stay in the Residence of the Duke of Wei for too long. If they were to be discovered, an accident would definitely happen.

What Dugu Bai did not know was that the accident happened when he was looking for the Shura.

In the East Palace, within the formation set up by Shangguan Yue's soldiers, two rogue cultivators were wandering around in confusion, but they couldn't find the way.

It was just as the Asura had said; the two rogue cultivators had gotten lost.

"That's strange. Why is the Eastern Palace so wide? We've already walked for so long, but we still haven't reached the main hall." The rogue cultivator surnamed Li said with a puzzled expression.

As Immortal cultivators, their speed was very fast, but they were still walking in circles.

"Not good, I'm afraid we've fallen into a formation." The rogue cultivator surnamed Wen reacted.

Originally, they did not care much about the Eastern Palace. Although this was the residence of the crown prince, it was nothing in their eyes.

"Formation?" The rogue cultivator surnamed Li was extremely surprised as he casually cast a spell.

The moment the spell was cast, the palace they saw changed and slowly disappeared.

"Did you find out?" Shangguan Yue sneered, he casually activated the array and it immediately changed.

The two rogue cultivators suddenly noticed that the people beside them had disappeared.

"Rong'er, it's you?" The rogue cultivator surnamed Li was startled when he saw a woman striding towards him with graceful steps.

This was the girl he loved when he was young. She had already died a hundred years ago, but he didn't expect her to appear.

"Li Lang, do you still remember me?" The woman slowly raised her head.

It was at this point that the rogue cultivator Li realized that the woman's eyeballs had disappeared.

"Ah!" The rogue cultivator named Li let out a scream and backed up three steps. It was only at this moment that he remembered that this woman's eyes were personally dug out by him just to please the rogue cultivator that took him as a disciple.

"Li Lang, I've been waiting for you for a long time." The woman's voice was like a voice that demanded life from all rogue cultivators surnamed Li.

The rogue cultivator surnamed Li didn't notice that when he saw this woman appear, streams of karma came out from his soul and connected with her.

This woman was impressively drawn out by Shangguan Yue from the soul of a rogue cultivator surnamed Li through karma.

Everything had its reasons and rewards. Every person's soul would produce karma because of what they had done. This karma was formless and intangible, and could not be seen normally, but it constantly affected everyone's lives.

Karma is intertwined with the body, due to karma. In ancient times, the Underworld judged ghosts based on karma, to determine which of the six paths to enter.

Even though his six paths had collapsed, karma still existed in the depths of everyone's soul.

This was Shangguan Yue's first time luring a karmic root of a person's soul. This was also a secret technique revealed in the Six Paths of Revolutions after the six karma was gathered.

Six of them converged, Shangguan Yue controlled six types of origin karma, all sorts of secret techniques from the Six Paths of the Revolving Scripture were finally released to him.

While the rogue cultivator Li was stuck with the woman, on the other side, the rogue cultivator Wen had also fallen into a karmic maze, triggering the deepest memories in his soul.

Outside the Eastern Palace, Dugu Bai and the others were getting impatient.

Two more people entered, but there was still no movement. This made everyone realize something.

"Shura, do you think there's anything strange inside?" Dugu Bai had no choice but to ask the Shura. Amongst everyone present, the only one that he was afraid of was the Shura.

The Shura shrugged his shoulders, "How would I know? There aren't any traces of formations here, and there aren't any movements. If you want to know if there's anything strange, you can only go in and take a look."

Dugu Bai could only nod as he stared at the pitch-black East Palace.

There were no ripples of formations inside, nor were there any sounds. He really couldn't think of anything that could trap four cultivators without making any sound.

"Come, let's go and take a look. Let's see what's so special about this Eastern Palace." Dugu Bai decided.

Their actions were already much later than Yun He and the rest. If they did not act as soon as possible, it would be troublesome once Yun He and the rest had finished their mission.

When everyone entered the Eastern Palace, the Shura and Shangguan Yue both revealed a mocking smile. The Eastern Palace had entered yet no exit.