Lady Providence's worries were unnecessary. Su Chen quickly came to a stop, and the demon sword didn't continue its pursuit.
This kind of trap formation was not a problem for Su Chen at all. Very soon, he found the location of the formation eye. With a slight modification, the formation completely lost its effect.
Su Chen flashed again, arriving beside Lady Providence and extending his hand.
Su Chen wanted to take her with him into the Heavenly Palace.
Luo Xuanji hesitated for a moment, then extended his hand, allowing Su Chen to take it.
"Ding, Luo Xuanji's favorability towards the host + 1."
The Tribulation Sharing Card was still in effect.
Holding Lady Providence's hand, Su Chen's figure flashed, and he stepped through the Ancient Gate into the Heavenly Palace.
Su Chen naturally let go. Her favorability towards him wasn't high enough, and Lady Providence changed her mind faster than one could flip a book. If Su Chen didn't control his actions well, her favorability would drop in a matter of minutes.
The two of them walked side by side, arriving at the first great hall of the Heavenly Palace.
It was a four-sided hall with no pillars supporting it. The roof was suspended in the air, twenty-six meters away from the stone floor. The entire hall was over five thousand square meters in total, and there were thirty-nine stone slabs of varying sizes. They seemed to have been haphazardly pieced together, and the gaps between them were all different. It was almost like someone with obsessive-compulsive disorder would die.
Fortunately, Su Chen didn't have obsessive-compulsive disorder, so he didn't feel anything when he saw the marks on the floor.
However, Su Chen noticed that Lady Providence seemed to be clenching her fists, and her expression was one of annoyance and irritation.
Su Chen was amused. The dignified sect leader of the Soul Mountain Sect, a Saint King expert, actually had obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Of course, Su Chen wasn't stupid enough to expose her. He still had to give her some face.
Su Chen went ahead and searched the hall. The divine inscriptions were all-pervasive, and even after digging three feet into the ground, he didn't find anything out of the ordinary.
But this in itself represented something out of the ordinary.
This Heavenly Palace was so extraordinary; how could it have anything to do with the word 'ordinary'?
Su Chen was very sure that this hall was definitely not as ordinary as it looked on the surface. There should be some kind of power concealing some special existence here.
Perhaps he would have to enter a deeper dimension before he could see the true appearance of the hall.
However, Su Chen had relied on his connection with the Deviant Ghost Doppelganger to cross over to the Hyperdimension. However, this was still too low and not enough.
Su Chen's gaze fell on Lady Providence.
She was the only one who could enter the higher dimension.
Su Chen was just about to speak when Lady Providence's figure suddenly swayed. Her eyes went black, and she almost fell to the ground.
Su Chen hurriedly rushed forward to support her. Lady Providence began to retch uncontrollably, and large amounts of spiritual energy leaked out of her body. This spiritual energy seemed to have been contaminated by some mysterious power; it actually turned black, and was even more terrifying than demon qi.
Su Chen sensed that something was wrong. He hurriedly grabbed Lady Providence and leapt out of the hall. At the same time, he took out a resurrection card and used it on her. But to Su Chen's surprise, the resurrection card had no effect on Lady Providence. On the contrary, her condition worsened. Every time she retched, a huge amount of black spiritual energy leaked out.
Su Chen's heart was in turmoil. What should he do?
"Urgh … I'm fine … I'll be fine … after a while … I'll be fine …"
Hearing Lady Providence's muffled voice, Su Chen was shocked.
What did she mean by 'after a while'?
Her situation was clearly very bad.
But worry aside, Su Chen couldn't do anything to help. He couldn't even get close to Lady Providence, or else he'd be corroded by the black spiritual energy she kept 'vomiting' out. He could only hide far away and worry helplessly.
After a full ten minutes, Lady Providence's condition began to recover. She stopped retching spiritual energy, but her spirit was extremely weak, and she couldn't move at all.
Su Chen dispersed the black spiritual energy lingering in the air, then approached Lady Providence. He pulled out a soft leather recliner and helped her sit down to rest. He also tried the resurrection card. This time, it seemed to have some effect. Her depleted spiritual power instantly recovered quite a bit, but her mental state still wasn't at its best.
"Lady Providence, what happened just now?" asked Su Chen seriously.
Something that could weaken a Saint King to such an extent couldn't be simple.
Luo Xuanji glanced in the direction of the great hall with a complicated expression. "Just now, when I explored the depths of the great hall, I discovered that the space here is extremely ancient. It's already on the scale of the Origin Star, and has twelve layers of dimensions. Now that I think about it, I was too careless. Places with super dimensions like this are always accompanied by great danger."
"So …. Lady Providence, what exactly did you encounter?"
"A terrifying creature from a higher dimension. It seems to be … a primordial chaos beast. I've never heard of its existence, but its strength is extremely terrifying even in the Primordial Chaos Universe. The dark energy gathered on its body has reached an unimaginable level. I merely glanced at it, and my sea of consciousness was contaminated. That's why I kept expelling the contaminated spiritual energy from my body. If I hadn't released it in time, my life would've been in danger."
A primordial chaos beast?
If it could make Lady Providence feel so threatened, then it had to be a genuine primordial chaos beast.
There weren't many of them in the entire Primordial Chaos Universe. She'd actually encountered one here?
It seemed that the origins of this heavenly palace really were extraordinary.
"Since the primordial chaos beast didn't chase after us, it probably doesn't care about us. As long as we don't provoke it, there shouldn't be any problems," said Su Chen.
Otherwise, they wouldn't have been able to stand here and talk in safety.
"The primordial chaos beast is probably in a deep slumber and isn't active," said Lady Providence. "Furthermore, these kinds of higher dimensional creatures rarely enter lower dimensions. As long as we don't provoke it, we shouldn't be in any danger. However …. the primordial chaos beast's appearance here is extremely strange. Such an existence already transcends the mundane world, yet …. It seems to be guarding this heavenly palace."
"What's wrong with that?
Lady Providence, didn't you say that the master of this heavenly palace might be a Great Emperor? "
Lady Providence shook her head. "A Great Emperor …. Although experts of that level are incomparably powerful, primordial chaos beasts aren't necessarily any weaker than Great Emperors. To be able to make a primordial chaos beast guard the door, the master of this heavenly palace might be even more terrifying than a Great Emperor."
"This …."
Even more terrifying than a Great Emperor?
Didn't that mean they were comparable to immortals?
For a moment, Su Chen was at a loss. This was truly inconceivable. How could such a shocking existence appear in a small cultivation realm that couldn't even compare to the Xuanyuan Continent?
And they'd even run into it. If this was a coincidence, Su Chen would be the first to refuse to believe it.
Or perhaps ….
All of this had been premeditated.
Perhaps there was a pair of giant hands in the unseen world, constantly exerting their miraculous power to guide Su Chen and Lady Providence here?
But what was their goal?