Jared didn’t know how much time had passed before he suddenly felt his body relax. The pressure of the pool and the aura of the sword marionette around him had vanished!
When he opened his eyes, Jared realized he was no longer in the water but in a strange, otherworldly dimension.
Looking up, Jared could clearly see the silt and flowing lake water above him.
Yet, something seemed to block the silt and lake water from falling, making it look as though they were suspended in mid-air.
What is this place? Could there be another dimension at the bottom of the sword-cleansing lake?
Jared glanced around, but all he could see was a misty whiteness. Here, he couldn’t distinguish dimension from time.
Even when he extended his spiritual sense, Jared still couldn’t figure out any direction.
Left with no choice, Jared cautiously moved forward. Before long, a faint crimson light appeared not far ahead of him. When Jared saw it, he quickly headed toward the light.
Reaching the glowing spot, Jared froze in shock.
Is this a charm?
Jared was surprised because the glowing object in front of him turned out to be a charm imprint. It didn’t look like an array rune but more like it was made of characters.
After staring at it for a long time without understanding, Jared continued onward.
Soon, he encountered another charm imprint ahead. However, the characters inscribed on this one were different from the first.
Jared found a total of seven such charm imprints, but he couldn’t comprehend any of their meanings.
“What the h*ll is this place? And what are these charm imprints?” Jared cursed aloud.
“Kid, haven’t you noticed that these seven imprints form a circle?”
At this moment, the voice of the Vermilion Demon Lord spoke.
“A circle?” Jared was taken aback. “I don’t recall walking in circles. I’ve been heading straight the whole time.”
Jared hadn’t felt as though he was walking in circles. he’d been moving forward the entire time when he discovered these charm imprints.
How could they form a circle?
“You’ve already lost your sense of direction here. How can you be sure you were walking straight?”
Vermilion Demon Lord chuckled.
Hearing this, Jared instantly understood. He had lost his sense of direction in this space. Even if he had been walking in a circle, he wouldn’t have noticed it.
“Nethersky Eye…”
Jared activated his Nethersky Eye. In this space where everything looked the same, it was far too easy to lose his way. He hoped the Nethersky Eye would help him see through it all.
When the Nethersky Eye was activated, the scene before Jared’s eyes began to shift. He found himself in a secret room,
The secret room wasn’t very large, spanning only a few hundred meters at most.
Yet Jared had been wandering here for quite some time, clearly moving in circles the entire time.
With the Nethersky Eye, Jared now saw that the seven charm imprints indeed formed a circle.
“Eight trigrams…”
Jared examined the charm imprints closely and realized they were not randomly placed.
Instead, they were positioned with exact precision according to the principles of the Five Elements and Eight Trigrams, perfectly arranged within this secret room.
“An Array of Five Elements and Eight Trigrams?
But to form such an array, there should be eight imprints. Why are there only seven?”
Jared was puzzled, frowning as he studied the scene carefully.
Even with the Nethersky Eye active, there was an area at the center of the secret room that he couldn’t see through.
He moved toward the center, and soon, a ripple of light appeared before him.
Reaching out to touch it, Jared found the ripple spread like water waves.
Could there be an array within an array?
Jared frowned. The ripple just now was clearly formed by an arcane array. It was unlikely such a phenomenon would naturally occur in this secret room.
