The inner hall of the Void Heaven Palace was a magnificent tower-like structure known as the Void Heaven Tower, standing alone within an independent space.
The interior of the tower was constructed like an enormous maze. Countless crossroads filled the inside, and at each intersection stood a small door leading further inward.
Because divine sense could not be used to探查 the area, once someone chose the wrong path, they would become permanently lost within the maze.
Of course,
this alone was not the most terrifying aspect.
What was truly frightening was that numerous ancient puppets guarded the tower.
Each of these puppets possessed strength comparable to a late-stage Core Formation cultivator.
Moreover, due to the special materials they were made from, even a Nascent Soul cultivator would need to expend great effort to destroy them.
Although Zi Ling had conducted some research before entering the Void Heaven Palace, her knowledge only extended to the outer hall. She knew nothing about the inner hall.
After all, she had never imagined she would ever step into this place.
Now, facing this palace-like maze, she felt completely helpless and could only follow closely behind Zhu Chen.
Zhu Chen himself had never studied maze formations.
However, he firmly believed in one principle—
breaking technique with absolute force.
Any maze relied on its surrounding environment to trap its target.
So he would simply destroy the environment and walk straight to the end.
No matter how complex the maze was, he would create his own path.
Without hesitation, Zhu Chen chose a random direction, walked straight to the maze wall, and threw a powerful punch.
Boom!
The wall shattered, opening a large hole.
Zhu Chen stepped through, pulling Zi Ling with him, instantly arriving in another area.
He continued using the same method—
punching through walls and forcibly advancing deeper into the tower using the most direct and domineering approach possible.
As he destroyed the walls, the surrounding maze continuously shifted and rearranged itself, attempting to confuse him.
Zhu Chen simply closed his eyes and kept punching forward.
Whenever ancient puppets appeared and launched attacks, Zi Ling would warn him in advance.
The two cooperated in this manner, steadily advancing deeper and deeper into the tower.
They had no idea how much time had passed.
Eventually, they arrived at an octagonal array platform.
Zhu Chen immediately recognized that they had reached the correct location and led Zi Ling onto it without hesitation.
Boom—!
The moment they stepped onto the platform, it suddenly trembled violently before rising upward like an elevator, rapidly ascending toward the dome of the tower.
During the ascent, ancient puppets continuously emerged from the surrounding levels of the atrium and launched attacks.
However, none of these posed any real threat to Zhu Chen.
With a casual movement, he shattered every puppet that approached.
What did puppets made of hard materials fear the most?
Fists that were even harder than themselves.
And Zhu Chen might lack many things—
but his fists were definitely not one of them.
Still, his overwhelming methods left Zi Ling deeply shaken.
Although her cultivation was not high, as the sect leader of the Miaoyin Sect, Zi Ling possessed sharp perception.
The walls of the inner tower were protected by powerful formations, and their materials were extremely special.
Even a Nascent Soul cultivator would find it nearly impossible to destroy them.
The same applied to the ancient humanoid puppets.
Yet Zhu Chen did not rely on spells or divine abilities—
he used pure physical strength to blast through everything with ease.
This way of clearing challenges completely ignored the structure of the formations, almost tearing the entire inner tower apart.
She had never seen such a method of breaking formations before.
This wasn't breaking an array...
it was outright destruction.
Crack!
Just as Zi Ling was lost in thought, the array platform beneath them suddenly came to a stop.
Without saying a word, Zhu Chen decisively jumped off the platform.
He continued charging forward with Zi Ling, smashing walls and destroying puppets along the way, radiating an aura of slaughtering gods and Buddhas alike.
Under this unstoppable momentum, Zhu Chen's comprehension of the Invincible Path unconsciously deepened.
Every punch he now threw carried a terrifying force.
It was no longer just brute strength.
It was a state of mind.
A fist intent that belonged to him alone—
an invincible fist intent.
Zhu Chen continued advancing, breaking through obstacles without pause. After roughly an hour, he finally exited the maze-filled tower and arrived at the central platform of the Void Heaven Palace.
This was the true core of the inner palace.
The supreme treasure of the palace—
the Void Heaven Cauldron—
was located here.
However, this treasure required the Treasure-Connecting Technique to use, and Zhu Chen had no interest in it.
His purpose here was simple.
He had come for only one thing—
the Azure Ice Flame.
This Azure Ice Flame had burned here for tens of thousands of years and had likely condensed into a seed similar to a Strange Flame.
If he could absorb and refine it, it might allow his Burning Technique to advance to a higher level.
Although the Burning Technique was not considered particularly powerful in the Perfect World, it had one unique characteristic—
it could evolve without limit.
The main reason was that Zhu Chen's Vermilion Bird Treasure Technique and the True Phoenix Treasure Technique, which he was about to cultivate, were both fire-attribute divine abilities that perfectly complemented the Burning Technique.
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