Speaking of this, he added, “Do not forget, this is a ruthless man. He was very strict when he was in charge of those strongmen back in the day.”
A flash of shock and fear crossed Old Master Wu’s eyes. He abruptly reached out his hand and said, “Give me the golden halberd!”
The old man probably guessed his intention. The ice layer was too thick, and he wanted to use the golden halberd to break the ice. He immediately sneered, “You are the one who froze the sea. This is what you call spinning a cocoon around yourself. If you want to escape now, do you not think it is a bit too late?”
Old Master Wu said, “What joke are you looking at? Are you out of your mind? If you do not escape, are you just going to stick your neck out to be slaughtered? You would not let me come in, and now I want to leave, are you going to stop me too? If you do not want to live, do you not want your children and grandchildren to live either?”
Hearing this, the old man fell silent.
Just then, Wu Hei flew over with his son. As soon as he reached the two of them, he immediately said anxiously, “Father, the guardian of the Golden Ruins has awakened. It is a golden giant…”
The old man interrupted, “I know, I have already seen it.”
Old Master Wu interjected, “Eldest nephew, what exactly happened?”
Wu Hei looked at his father. Seeing that he also had the intention of asking, he quickly recounted the course of events. The main content was naturally the huge change caused by Nan Zhu picking the golden fruit.
Old Master Wu’s mouth twitched again as he listened. He could not help but curse, “Where did this dead fat man come from? I did not even dare to touch things like that at will, so why did he reach out his hand blindly? Do not let me run into him, otherwise I will definitely chop him into a human stick.”
He turned his head and stared at the old man again, “What are you hesitating for? If a man does not act for himself, he will be destroyed by heaven and earth. If you do not have a trace of selfishness, why did you let your children and grandchildren run in here? Now is the time for you and me, brothers, to join forces to escape. Protecting your children and grandchildren to escape as soon as possible is the best strategy. You can keep the golden halberd, I will not snatch it from you. If you have any objections, we can talk about it after we leave the Golden Ruins.”
The Heavenly Spring was not found, and a deadly thing appeared. He was afraid. He was truly afraid.
He looked at his son, and his grandson who kept looking up at the sky to find the giant. The old man sighed lightly, “Let us go!”
The group left quickly…
In the frozen grand canyon, the golden giant flashed and landed on the ice. He looked around, waved his hand, and slashed down with his sword.
With a loud boom, shattered ice splashed everywhere, and a huge crack appeared on the ice surface.
Having measured the thickness of the ice seal, he flew up again and landed directly on the pavilion at the top of the highest nearby mountain. He bent over and crawled into the main gate of the pavilion.
As soon as he entered the main gate, it was the huge interior of the palace. The internal space was large and empty enough for him to stand up straight and walk in large strides.
Walking to the main entrance of the palace, he bent over and crawled out again, standing inside the gate tower. With a pair of golden amber eyes that could see in the dark, he saw the ice layer outside that had sealed the entire immortal palace.
At this moment, he roughly understood that they were at the bottom of the deep sea. If it were not for such a massive weight pressing down, the operating power of the immortal palace would definitely have made it fly up.
It was a super heavy weight that even the power of the immortal palace formation could hardly push open. It would be difficult for him to completely break through from the inside in a short time.
Knowing that the one who tied the bell must untie it, he immediately turned around and left. He bent over and crawled back into the palace, passed through the hall, and bent over again to crawl out of the pavilion.
He stood outside the pavilion, looked around, and suddenly shouted loudly, “Who dares to freeze the immortal palace without permission? Come out and see me quickly!”
The huge voice rolled and echoed between heaven and earth, but there was no response for a long time.
A moment later, he shouted loudly again, “Wu Nian, Wu Sui, did you two brothers enter the immortal palace? Come out and see me quickly!”
After the huge voice rolled away, there was still no response.
His huge figure suddenly soared into the air. He began to patrol the sky and search for the target he wanted to find.
Just after he disappeared into the distance for a while, Old Master Wu and the old man’s family of three appeared. They rushed to the outside of the pavilion in a hurry and quickly broke in.
The four of them found a nearby pavilion passage inside. After passing through it, they directly charged outwards. Old Master Wu, who was at the front, saw the sealed ice layer outside and immediately swung his halberd to slash it. He wanted to first create a gap in the ice layer for them to exit the seal.
Who would have thought that with one strike of the halberd, not only did he fail to chop the ice, but he could not even break through the rippling virtual waves. Instead, a huge rebound force shook him, and being unprepared, he stumbled backwards.
What was even more terrifying was that flashes of lightning rose on the virtual waves, immediately followed by several thunderbolts striking towards the person who made the move.
Everyone was shocked. Fortunately, Old Master Wu seemed to have experience in dealing with this. He followed the momentum and met it with the halberd in his hand. Several thunderbolts were successively drawn to the halberd and then disappeared into its body.
After the backlash force disappeared, Old Master Wu walked close to the ice layer and tried to push it with his hand. He found that his hand could not touch the ice layer at all. The resistance of the virtual waves stopped him and prevented him from going out. He immediately asked in surprise and doubt, “What is going on here?”
The old man and his family of three did not know either and could not answer.
Since it did not work here, they did not delay. They immediately changed locations to try again. The four of them quickly came out, passed through the main hall, and ran to the gate tower.
Old Master Wu tested it again. Finding that the powerful blocking force of the virtual waves still existed, he struck again with his halberd. This immediately triggered flashing lightning and attracted several continuous thunderbolt strikes, but they were all absorbed and neutralised by the halberd in his hand.
The old man was also surprised and doubtful. He then tried it himself and found it was the same. He was also attacked by thunderbolts, and it was only with the help of the golden halberd in his hand that he neutralised them.
Little Hei, who was covering his ears with both hands, was looking with eyes full of excitement. Children do not understand the sorrows of adults, they only know that the continuous flashing of thunderbolts looks very beautiful.
In the face of reality, the biological brothers who had just been fighting to the death looked at each other.
Old Master Wu’s face was very ugly. He muttered to himself, “How can we not get out?”
Wu Hei also asked worriedly, “Father, what is going on?”
The old man was silent for a moment, staring at the ice layer outside and said, “There is no sign of seeping inwards. Under the vibration of the noise just now, not even a single ice shard was seen entering. This shows that the external prohibition of the immortal palace is still effective, and there is also an added internal blocking prohibition. The comprehensive seal of the immortal palace should have been opened.” He turned his head to look at his wrinkled elder brother, “Elder brother, we cannot get out.”
Old Master Wu said with a gloomy face, “It was either done by that strongman, or it was a good deed caused by that dead fat man with many hands, triggering the seal of the immortal palace.” Speaking of this, he could not help but curse again, “If that dead fat man falls into my hands, even if I die, I will make him die before me!” There was obviously a hint of gnashing his teeth in hatred.
For him, he truly hated the fat man Nan to death. Not only did he make it impossible for him to continue searching for the Heavenly Spring, but he also ruined his path to immortality. Now, he might even be killed in the immortal palace. He could not even find a place to reason about this grievance.
Actually, he misunderstood Nan Zhu. Of course, his guess was not wrong either. It was indeed that golden giant who activated the comprehensive seal of the immortal palace.
After the golden giant awakened and found people trespassing, he slashed and killed them with his sword. The first thing he did was to activate the comprehensive seal to prevent the trespassers from escaping, with the intention of closing the door to trap the intruders.
The old man pondered and said, “The strongman should know the way to lift the seal.”
Old Master Wu’s eyeballs rolled. A trace of cunning meaning flashed in his slightly reddened gaze, “Can you expect him to tell us the method, or can you expect him to help us open it? Forget it, I will not expect that strongman to show mercy. In short, we will absolutely not tie our hands and wait to be captured. We will hide for as long as we can. Anyway, the area inside is large enough, so we do not have to worry about not finding a place to hide. The thunderbolts were loud just now, I am afraid it will startle him here. I will hide first.” Having said this, he immediately flashed away and left.
He did not leave through the back door. Instead, he crawled from inside the palace into the inside of the mountain top pavilion, slipped out from the back window of the pavilion, carefully observed the surroundings, and sneaked away using the terrain for cover.
He did not go too far from the pavilion. He mysteriously made a large detour, circling to a mountain hollow facing the front door of the pavilion. He quietly felt his way to the outside of a mountain crevice, reached out and knocked on the bulging mountain bump, “Come out, do I still need to invite you to come out?”
A gold lump blocked the mouth of the crevice. Behind it, a pair of eyes were staring at the movement on the mountain top pavilion. Suddenly hearing a human voice, the eyes behind the iron mask were full of shock. He immediately reached out and pushed away the gold lump outside the crevice, and obediently crawled out. It was none other than the iron masked man.
He did not come back in a straight line, but returned in a circle. However, his return speed was actually still ahead of Wu Hei, because he now also had a pair of wings that could be unfolded when needed. In fact, hiding here, he had already seen some people going in and out.
Facing Old Master Wu, he quickly bowed and said, “Old sir, how did you know I was here?”
Old Master Wu said, “I told you, no matter where you are, I can sense it. What are you doing hiding here?”
The iron masked man sighed bitterly in his heart and still had to say carefully, “I followed those people and ran into the belly of a stone mountain. Those people provoked a terrifying golden giant. I was truly scared, so I hurried back and found this place to hide.”
Old Master Wu said, “Wu Dao and Wu Heyun went with you. How did they die?”
The iron masked man’s eyes were solemn, “When chasing Wu Hei and the others, we encountered their counterattack and were killed by them.”
This lie could be described as said with bold assurance, without a trace of guilt, because he had already dealt with Wu Hei and the others, and believed that they would not betray him.
In other words, no matter which side gained the upper hand now, he did not need to worry too much. In front of this old man, he was one of his own. If he ran into the old guy with the golden halberd, he did not need to worry either, as Wu Hei and the others would naturally testify that he was one of their own.
What he was most worried about now was being bound by Old Master Wu’s evil magic and having his life linked to Old Master Wu. Once this old guy died, he would also have to die of sudden death. What kind of situation was this? Especially now that the terrifyingly powerful golden giant had appeared.
Old Master Wu frowned slightly. He did not care much about the deaths of Wu Dao and Wu Heyun now, as escaping with his life was the priority. He pursed his lips in the direction of the mountain top pavilion, “There is something I need you to do now. Sneak into that pavilion and be sure to hide carefully. Once you find that golden giant and my younger brother leaving the immortal palace together, immediately send a signal to let me know.”