The God of War.

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"Click, click!..." It seemed like the sound of some kind of bracket expanding and contracting was constantly coming from underground, entering people's ears and making people's nerves tense.

Lin Fei looked at the roof slowly rising from the ground from afar, and his heart was restless.

What kind of existence is King Shuo? How much ability and resources does it take to build such a large and mysterious palace?

In fact, everyone was not calm. Lin Fei could feel from afar that their fiery gazes were not only full of greed, but also a kind of awe and fear of King Shuo hidden behind the greed.

The palaces were still rising, and one magnificent palace after another appeared in people's sight. These palaces were like bamboo shoots, constantly growing out of the ground and rising higher.

Some external forces had somehow gotten the news and rushed over. Anyone who got the news about such a huge treasure house would reach out and take a bite.

The Tomb of King Shuo! That was a legendary existence. Although such a sacred object had disappeared for thousands of years, it had never disappeared in people's hearts. Various legends and records prompted people to constantly search and explore, although they had found nothing.

Now, this sacred object appears before people's eyes, how can it not drive people crazy?

"Above is the Jade Emperor's Palace, below is the Shuowang Palace." The legend of the Shuowang Tomb has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. From this folk song, we can see the status of the Shuowang Tomb in people's hearts, as well as people's yearning and enthusiasm for the Shuowang Tomb.

The treasures in King Shuo's tomb have long aroused people's infinite yearning and infinite fantasy in their hearts. Now this mysterious heavenly palace is right in front of them. Everyone would want to try their best. If they succeed, they can be said to have a bright future and glorious success.

Before the palace was fully risen, everyone just looked at it from afar and no one dared to go forward. Everyone knew that opportunity also meant danger and even death.

For two days, people watched helplessly. Everyone was so excited that they didn't close their eyes for a rest. Although two days without rest was not too long for a monk, excitement and tension also consume spirit and energy. So it was obvious that some people began to lose energy.

Anyone would feel tired after two days of high tension without rest.

Two days passed, and finally, the crackling sound from the ground stopped, and everything returned to calm. The Shuowang Palace appeared intact before people's eyes.

Looking at the Tomb of King Shuo that had completely protruded from the ground, everyone felt like they had taken stimulants, even those who were originally exhausted became excited all of a sudden.

The size of the entire Shuowang Palace has completely exceeded people's imagination. It did not seem strange when watching it rise, but once it completely stabilized and looked at the entire Shuowang Palace again, almost no one could think of any words to describe its grandeur and height.

If the imperial palace of the ancient Qinglian Kingdom is the tallest and most majestic building in the entire Qinglian Kingdom, then compared with the Tomb of King Shuo, it is nothing but a dwarf compared to the giant. This shows how huge the entire palace of King Shuo's Heavenly Palace is.

To exaggerate a little, even if all the people in Yibang City lived here, it would not feel crowded.

The palace is surrounded by a wide wall that is hundreds of feet high. The entire wall is made of precious purple gold and black iron stone. Each stone weighs ten thousand pounds, and every two stones are tightly connected without any gaps. It is extremely strong and can withstand a blow from a master of the Saint Mirror.

There are four closed doors on the four sides of the palace. The doors are made of an unknown material, which is as strong as iron. There are complicated runes and patterns flowing on the doors, which are extremely gorgeous.

There are couplets on each door, starting from the east, which are:

East Gate: Purple air descends from the sky. The Cangshan Mountains are blessed with longevity, and the East Sea is peaceful.

South Gate: Blessings, luck and peace. A wind blows from the south, and the sky is blessed. Birds sing and the ground is filled with smoke.

Simon: Great virtue. With one hand, he wields a sword to quell the demonic calamity, and the black blood flows and drowns the ghosts' roars.

North Gate: Great Heavenly Grace. The nature of no calamity arises from greed, so there is no result and it is all in vain.

The couplets on the four doors show that King Shuo's life was full of killing and enlightenment, and he felt that everything was in vain when he died. He told people that all causes and effects are caused by greed. If you don't wake up and stop greed in time, you may end up like King Shuo. Even if you are in the spire, you will not be able to achieve immortality because of the cause and effect, and finally die with hatred.

The couplets on these four doors were not written by King Shuo himself or by someone else, but they generally serve as a warning to future generations that all changes in cause and effect are caused by greed, and people must not be too greedy, as greed is the root of all evil.

Someone started walking towards the Heavenly Palace, but just when he reached the palace, he was suddenly bounced back by something.

Formation! Only then did people realize that entering the Heavenly Palace was not that easy.

The entire Heavenly Palace seemed to be shrouded in a mysterious formation. The Heavenly Palace, which was originally within reach, seemed to be thousands of miles away, making it out of reach for people.

Only then did people realize that if they really wanted to enter the Heavenly Palace, they would not only have to break through the mysterious formation, but they might also have to unlock the runes on the door.

An important point is, can all four doors lead into the Heavenly Palace? Can every door lead into the Heavenly Palace? Are there any dangers inside the doors?

Each of these seemingly simple questions, when it comes to people's minds, is a huge problem that is difficult to solve.

Soon, a negotiation meeting that was originally unnecessary was held in the tent of the City Lord's Mansion at Gao Mingyuan's call with a thousand reluctances. It was called a negotiation, but in fact there was no need for negotiation at all. No matter whether it was an external force or a local force of Yibang City, since they had come to Gao Tian's territory of Yibang City, Gao Tian had the final say.

The result of the meeting was that the City Lord's Mansion was responsible for coordinating the various forces, whether it was the Three Swords Sect, the Fire God Sect, the Xuanyang Sect or the late-coming forces from outside the Yibang City area, such as the Divine Fire Palace, the Tianyang Sect, the Qitian Palace and some large families and gangs, all of them unconditionally recognized Gao Mingyuan's command authority at this time.

People have two sides. Gao Mingyuan also knows that although these people are apparently obeying his dispatches and commands at this moment, as long as they enter the Shuowang Palace, everyone will have a different face.

However, everyone knows that the key now is how to enter the palace, which is the real top priority.

In order to break the formation, a team of twenty people composed of various sects, forces and independent cultivators who were familiar with formations and runes came to the outskirts of the palace. Their first task was to break the formation outside the palace, then to decipher the runes on the door, and finally to open the gate of the Heavenly Palace.

There is no reason, because they are the only ones who are familiar with the formation runes, so this job must be done by someone else. Otherwise, they will have to leave this place and completely lose the opportunity to enter the Heavenly Palace.

No one wants this to happen, so they have no choice but to devote themselves to breaking the formation. Breaking the formation is a seemingly simple but actually dangerous task. If you are not careful, the formation will backfire and you will be injured at the very least, or even lose your life.

Lin Fei, who was familiar with the formation, understood the danger of this task. However, sometimes driven by interests, he could not care about all this.

One day passed, and it seemed that nothing had progressed. However, this was not the case. Several monks seemed to understand the structure of the formation, tried to write their own runes to remove it, and began to crack the formation.

Being familiar with a formation and dispelling it are two completely different things. It is like when you see a person in front of you, you even know whether it is a man or a woman. However, if you want to know what this person is thinking and what actions he or she will take, you have to spend some time and energy to study, prove, and finally find the real answer.

In the evening, more than 20 people gathered together to summarize the day's work progress and developed a complete and effective working method, waiting for the arrival of the next day.

A day's work is very tiring for them. Stressful and energy-consuming work often makes people more tired than simple physical work.

Whether it is to cultivate formations or martial arts, one must maintain adequate rest and vigorous energy. Don't think that they only make some gestures and carve some runes when breaking formations. It's very simple, you are wrong. Carving runes is more energy-consuming and spiritual energy-consuming for cultivators. If there is no strong mental power as support, it is impossible to do the work of carving runes.

Generally speaking, cultivators who practice formations and runes must train their mental strength to be stronger than others. As for the degree of training, that depends on the level of cultivation and talent of the cultivator.

Generally speaking, only sects with profound cultural foundation will have earth-level spiritual power training techniques. However, there are very few techniques for training spiritual power. Therefore, ordinary sects do not even have high-level mortal techniques, let alone earth-level or higher techniques.

Compared to them, Lin Fei is an incredible person.

All the skills that Liu Wuqiong gave to Lin Fei, including those for practicing martial arts, formations, and elixirs, were all above the high-level heavenly grade. It was also because Lin Fei's realm was too low that many skills could not be practiced. This also made Lin Fei seem a little helpless.

While others are asking for high-level skills, Lin Fei is looking for a low-level skill that is suitable for his current stage. Don’t you think it’s ridiculous?

If other people knew about this, it would not be spread as a joke.

The next day, the work of breaking the formation continued.

So no one expected that the Shuowang Palace would be so difficult to enter, especially those who had never had such experience. They thought that if it was so difficult to even get in, wouldn’t it be even more dangerous if they entered?

Some cultivators began to back off, while some individual warriors or teams with small numbers began to recruit people to expand their teams in order to enhance the strength and capabilities of their teams.

Soon, teams began to form one after another. In order to avoid trouble, Lin Fei and Tian Lin did not join any team in the end. Lin Fei knew that although the team was large and powerful, it would also cause a lot of trouble.

It was noon of another day. After almost two days of research and evidence, the formation finally showed some signs of loosening.

At this time, a formation master from the Demon Heaven Palace was so exhausted that he mistakenly entered a detonation rune into the formation, causing the formation to vibrate violently and produce a backlash. A formation master from the Divine Fire Hall was caught off guard and fell to the ground seriously injured by the backlash. Fortunately, his life was not in danger, but he was afraid that he would never be able to practice again in this life. In the end, he had to quit.

The Divine Fire Palace and the cultivator therefore demanded compensation from the Demon Heaven Palace. When no agreement was reached, a fierce fight broke out between the Divine Fire Palace and fortunately Gao Mingyuan from the City Lord's Mansion arrived in time and forcibly suppressed the fight between the two teams, allowing the work of breaking the formation to continue, otherwise the entire work would have been wasted.

Therefore, the Demonic Heaven Palace and the Divine Fire Palace formed a feud, but this is a story for later and we will not discuss it for now.

Three days passed, and with the input of the last rune into the formation, the entire formation began to ripple like water waves. Then there was a sound of glass shattering, and the formation was completely destroyed.

The formation was broken, and an unexpected thing happened that made everyone's face show a look of surprise, that is, the four doors opened at the same time.

Seeing the four gates suddenly open, everyone rushed to be the first to rush into the Heavenly Palace as if crazy. However, just when they reached the gate, they heard a whistling sound of wind from inside the door. The people in the front heard the wind and felt the danger and wanted to turn back, but the people behind them did not give them a chance to turn back.

When everyone felt the danger, the wild energy inside the gate was already rushing towards them. The wild energy carried a bloody smell, like an extremely domineering killing, rushing towards everyone who wanted to enter the gate.

As if they had sensed the smell of doomsday, everyone retreated frantically. However, those who had rushed in front had no chance to avoid this murderous aura. It was like oil meeting a raging fire. Those who were swept by the wild aura had no chance to struggle, no matter if they were foundation building, spiritual phase, or a prince. They were soon slowly dissolved in this murderous aura and instantly became a pile of bones, with nothing else left.

Suddenly, a miserable atmosphere spread like a plague. Seeing the bones of dozens or hundreds of people in front of them, people began to clear their own teams. When they found that there were fewer people in the team, everyone felt an ominous feeling in their hearts.

That wave of primitive energy came and went quickly, leaving only a shadow in people's hearts before disappearing without a trace. The sadness in people's hearts also disappeared along with the disappearance of the primitive energy.

No matter what, the road to martial arts is always accompanied by death. If a person's success is a combination of luck and hard work, I would like to calculate it this way: nine parts luck and one part hard work. If you don't have luck, no matter how hard you work, everything will vanish at some point.

Looking back, looking at the wide-open magnificent door, everyone's heart couldn't help but feel a surge of excitement. After all, this was a palace of a great emperor, and the treasures inside were always attracting people's greed.

Greed is a mental disaster that can never be eliminated by people.

It is precisely because of greed that there is a life-and-death struggle, recklessness, bloodshed and killing...

After everything calmed down, people began to slowly explore the Shuowang Palace.