"Don't worry," Su Han said. "This giant wolf won't attack us again. If it continues to attack, it will die. Or rather, any movement it makes will lead to its death."
Yu Tong Tian Xian looked at the giant wolf. It was already heavily injured. However, even in its current state, it could still launch one more attack.
Since Su Han had said that, he must be confident.
Yu Tong Tian Xian looked again more carefully and saw a sharp spiritual energy blade around the giant wolf's body. If the wolf dared to move, this blade would slice it into several pieces.
At this, Yu Tong Tian Xian understood why Su Han Tian Xian was so confident.
Su Han had already sat down and begun to comprehend the stone tablet. The tablet emitted a profound aura that aided Su Han in his enlightenment. Yu Tong Tian Xian, standing nearby, also looked at the tablet and entered a state of enlightenment, closing her eyes to meditate.
The actual challenge of this stage was to deal with the giant wolf. Once that was accomplished, one could begin to comprehend the stone tablet.
The profound aura emanating from the stone tablet could help one enter a state of enlightenment. During this state, one's cultivation would also increase. However, the increase in cultivation required a significant amount of spiritual energy, so the surrounding spiritual energy was rapidly flowing into Su Han and Yu Tong Tian Xian's bodies.
As Su Han comprehended the Dao, his cultivation technique was also rapidly circulating. Su Han's technique, the "Profound Void Grand Unity Scripture" (Xuan Xu Da Luo Jue), could cultivate him to the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm. The level of this technique was higher than Yu Tong Tian Xian's. Therefore, the spiritual energy was primarily drawn to Su Han. Only a small amount of the remaining spiritual energy flowed into Yu Tong Tian Xian's body.
Thus, three days and three nights passed. Su Han opened his eyes, a look of joy on his face. Comprehending the profound aura on the stone tablet for enlightenment was truly wonderful. During his enlightenment, Su Han had sensed a trace of the Golden Immortal realm, and his strength had significantly increased.
After Su Han awoke, Yu Tong Tian Xian, who had been in a state of enlightenment beside him, also stirred. Her cultivation had also seen a considerable improvement.
"Su Han Tian Xian," Yu Tong Tian Xian said, "thanks to you, my strength has greatly increased through this comprehension."
"Good," Su Han replied. "This is also your fortuitous encounter. This stage has already presented a Golden Immortal level demonic beast. Continuing further might be even more dangerous. Yu Tong Tian Xian, do you still wish to proceed?"
Yu Tong Tian Xian nodded. "Yes, I want to see what the next stage holds. Perhaps the next stage will be simpler."
Since Yu Tong Tian Xian wished to continue, Su Han did not obstruct her.
In the grand hall, the giant wolf lay on the ground, slowly recovering.
Su Han walked out of the hall and into the cave. With a wave of his hand, the spiritual energy blades surrounding the giant wolf were retracted.
"Su Han Tian Xian," Yu Tong Tian Xian asked, "were those spiritual energy blades all your spiritual energy?"
Su Han nodded. "That's right, all my spiritual energy. By highly compressing spiritual energy, such blades can be formed. These blades would obviously be ineffective against the giant wolf in its normal state, but they were useful against the heavily injured wolf."
The two spoke as they moved quickly. Within seconds, they had arrived at the next stage.
This next stage turned out to be a vast corridor, stretching for two kilometers. It was evident that this was the center of the hollow mountain range they were in.
The width of this two-kilometer corridor was even greater than the previous mechanism halls they had passed through.
Su Han glanced around and chose to head towards the center of the corridor, as a palace-like structure was visible there.
After walking a certain distance, Su Han also saw nine other cave entrances. It was clear that those ten passages eventually all converged here.
However, at this moment, apart from Su Han and Yu Tong Tian Xian, no one else had arrived. Without Su Han, Yu Tong Tian Xian would not have reached this point either.
"Yu Tong Tian Xian," Su Han said, "they haven't come. Could they have already died?"
"If they have died, it's because their strength was insufficient or they were too rash," Yu Tong Tian Xian replied. "I had already warned them beforehand, telling them to retreat if they encountered danger."
Yu Tong Tian Xian walked to one of the odd-numbered cave entrances, took out a communication token, and infused it with spiritual energy. The token only managed to connect to Su Han's token.
"I can't contact them. It seems this place is shielding communication tokens."
Su Han felt indifferent towards Yu Tong Tian Xian's subordinates, but seeing her worry, he said, "Perhaps they left this place after encountering danger."
The two arrived at the palace structure. They saw that the palace was a model, only fifty centimeters in height. While its length and width were over thirty meters, it could only be considered a model.
"This palace is a magical treasure," Yu Tong Tian Xian remarked. "This type of magical treasure is extremely rare."
The top of the palace magical treasure was sealed, so its interior could not be seen from above.
As Su Han and Yu Tong Tian Xian approached to observe it more closely, the palace magical treasure suddenly emitted a surge of spiritual energy, directly drawing them inside.
The two entered the hall behind the main gate of the palace magical treasure. They were shrunk upon being drawn into the palace magical treasure, so the surrounding palace appeared vast to them.
The main gate of the palace magical treasure behind them remained open.
"Yu Tong Tian Xian," Su Han said, "the gate behind us is open. If we want to leave, we still can."
"Since we've already entered this palace magical treasure, let's see what's inside," Yu Tong Tian Xian replied.
The two looked into the palace magical treasure. Inside, the suppression on spiritual sense had decreased. Su Han's spiritual sense could now perceive a hundred meters into the palace. Of course, this hundred-meter radius was based on their shrunken state.
Considering the current size of the palace and using Su Han's shrunken height as a reference, the palace magical treasure had a length and width of two kilometers, covering an area of four square kilometers.
Su Han sensed that several rooms nearby contained formations.
Upon entering one of the rooms, Su Han saw a formation. It turned out that this formation was protecting a magical treasure. Once the formation was broken, the protected magical treasure could be obtained.
Su Han then moved to another room. In this room, the formation protected a spiritual herb.