741: Chapter 490 741: Chapter 490 The doors of the palace couldn’t be opened, so the Great Power Holders came up with another idea.
If the main gate couldn’t be opened, could the walls really be that solid?
Just as they had done before, they transferred their power to the person in front, with Elder Xuanyuan this time passing his power to Patriarch Dugu.
Patriarch Dugu became the one at the forefront, receiving the full force of a dozen Great Power Holders.
He felt a kind of uncomfortable swelling, but he didn’t immediately release all the power.
Instead, he called forth his Worm Insects.
He transferred some of his power to the Worm Insects to share the burden.
He didn’t dare give all of it to the Worm Insects, fearing that his pets might explode from the overload.
Patriarch Dugu and his pet made their move, but when he struck the wall, it remained unmoved.
His Worm Insects also tried to enter through the wall or attempted to fly over it.
Regrettably, some potent Formation or confining power was at work—upon touching the wall, the insects emitted a light that erased their power upon contact.
There had been no such luminescence when they struck the palace gate before.
No golden light came forth when Patriarch Dugu hit the wall.
Elder Tang, upon observing this golden light, was intrigued and wanted to use his ability to absorb it.
He had the dozen Great Power Holders transfer their power to him, and then he too struck the wall.
Transferring power to one another repeatedly, the Great Power Holders also began to feel a bit worn out.
They could only take out Spirit Pills from their Storage Bags to replenish their Spiritual Energy, pills that had been prepared who knows how many years ago.
How many years had it been since they had consumed such pills?
These Great Power Holders had previously fought against Worm Insects or other creatures, and clashed with the Dragon King’s team, and they had never felt such exhaustion that they needed to consume pills to restore their strength.
It could only be said that consecutively passing their entire strength to another was very draining, and for some reason, it felt like the force they exerted was being absorbed by either the palace gate or the palace walls.
Elder Tang swallowed a Spirit Pill himself, then after receiving power from his companions, he released force with his left hand while his right hand absorbed the golden energy from the wall.
His right hand did indeed absorb the golden energy, as his power came from the Metal Spirit Root.
The power transmitted to his left hand by the dozen Great Power Holders felt as if it were striking cotton upon hitting the wall.
It was as though the sturdy wall was absorbing his power—and this was the combined strength of over a dozen Great Power Holders.
Under normal circumstances, if an ordinary Magical Treasure were struck with such formidable power, it would have long since shattered.
Only an Immortal Treasure could possibly withstand the combined force of so many and remain unharmed.
Patriarch Jiang, having lost some strength, absorbed some of the golden energy to replenish the energy that had left his body.
Feeling a strange sensation in his left hand, he quickly withdrew his hand.
The wall still hadn’t budged, and by this time, after the dozen Great Power Holders had consumed the Spirit Pills and lost energy, they were feeling even more fatigued.
Except for Elder Tang, who was still standing, the other ancestors didn’t care if the entrance to the Dragon Palace got dirty—they just sat down right there and took out more pills to eat.
Jiang Tang sensed the intentions of the Great Power Holders outside.
He didn’t know whether the gates of the Dragon Palace would have a stronger Buddha Seal capable of withstanding the full power of these dozen Great Power Holders, preventing them from breaking through.
He also didn’t want to absorb the force exerted by the elders, but truthfully, he had no choice.
In order to gain access to the Mending Heaven Spell, he couldn’t allow those Great Power Holders to enter.
He could only circulate his Star-absorbing Spell, gathering the power thrown out by the Great Power Holders into his own inner space and storing it within a ring of light.
He dared not absorb it through his body because doing so might precipitate his entry into the Divinity Transformation Stage, necessitating preparation for Ascension.
Now was not the time.
He could only continue to store up strength.
Jiang Tang continued to do all these things silently, accompanied by fine wine and beautiful women, and no one noticed a thing.
Jiang Tang used a Buddha Seal to seal the palace doors, and then the entire palace was protected by the Buddha Seal, so the dragons and people inside had no idea what was happening outside.
Such a formidable seal completely blocked any Divine Sense from getting through.
Jiang Tang, who could employ the Buddha Sealing Spell, had a Divine Sense that could penetrate the Buddha Seal to observe the exhausted Great Power Holders.
He saw that these utterly tired Great Power Holders, although having the appearance of middle-aged men, wore expressions of exhaustion like those of old men.
They were all over a thousand years old, an age when they should have been enjoying their fortunes, yet they were out competing for resources.
Jiang Tang, considering that they were the venerable ancestors of some beauties, his friends, or ancestors from his previous sect, did not want to make things too difficult for them.
Just now, he had only absorbed the power they had exerted, without directly siphoning the only power they had left.
To do so would break these ancestors’ ranks and might lead them to suicidal thoughts.
Cultivation is not easy; he understood this well and would not commit such atrocious acts against nature and morality.
After those dozen or so ancestors had recovered from taking Pills, they began to think and those who knew about Formations started working on breaking them.
Of all the people present, only Ancestor Yuan from the Buddhist Sect devised a plan: previously, when they wanted to open the gates of the palace of the Southern Sea Dragon King, they questioned the East Sea Dragon King as well.
They had mentioned that it was a Buddhist Seal, and he too had attempted to use his family’s Seal-breaking Spell.
He had not succeeded and had begun to feel it was an Immortal’s sealing method.
There were the golden mountain and the golden dragon, who employed the Immortal Buddhist Seal, a spell he had heard of in the legends of his ancestors.
Once one became an Immortal, they would inherit this Buddha Sealing Spell.
It was just unfortunate that they were in the Mortal World and had not yet ascended to become Immortals, nor had they obtained an Immortal’s treasure.
He was very eager to meet the person who knew how to resolve the Buddha Sealing Spell.
Unfortunately, he did not fully know the person’s appearance and abilities, nor did he know whether the person was a reincarnation of the Buddha Ancestor.
Nor was he certain if the person was a Cultivator from the Central Plains.
The person seemed to be avoiding them; it might be someone they did not recognize, who sometimes teased them but never truly harmed them.
This game of hide-and-seek suggested the person might recognize them, even though they did not recognize the person.
It could also be someone they could not imagine, someone known to their clan members.
On second thought, it seemed impossible; they were all over a thousand years old to have reached this lofty stage of the Mahayana Realm.
Typically, the young members of a clan would not ascend beyond the Ocean Wheel.
Those who were able to rise to the Spirit Mansion were already several hundred years old.
Recently, the Cultivation World had seen a Supreme Elixir that allowed some of the elites among elites to ascend to the Ocean Wheel in their twenties.
Some of the descendants of these ancestors possessed such abilities.
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They did not believe there could be someone stronger yet younger than them.
If such a person existed, with capabilities surpassing those of the dozen Mahayana and the abilities of an Immortal,
that person was definitely likely to be older than them.
Patriarch of the Buddhist Sect Yuan Clan had suddenly thought of many things, speculated a lot, and shared his speculations with the other ancestors.
Upon his mention, Tang Ancestor felt that the golden light he had absorbed just now resembled the Buddha Light from the Buddhist Sect.
“Ah, I remember now, I just noticed a kind of golden light that somewhat resembles the Buddha Light emitted last time by the Golden Dragon on the golden mountain,”
As Tang Ancestor mentioned this, Patriarch Dugu also realized it and expressed his views.
The Patriarch of the Buddhist Sect Yuan Clan was even more certain that this phenomenon belonged to the brilliance of the Buddha Ancestor’s Seal.
Now, everyone understood that it was again a Buddhist Seal that had sealed the gates and palace.
Could the seven-colored radiance also be emitted by such a Buddhist Seal?
They were brainstorming methods to open the palace gates, seeking the secrets they had long desired to uncover.
After much thought, they still could not find a solution.
The Patriarch of the Buddhist Sect Yuan Clan had no choice but to ask his companions to transfer their powers to him.
Then, using the Buddha Sealing Spell, he decided to try his hand at unsealing the Immortal’s Spell.
With no other options left, the dozen Great Power Holders who had just rested were prepared to circulate their powers once more.
After agreeing to this method, the power from everyone’s palms transferred to the back of the next person, eventually reaching the Patriarch of the Buddhist Sect Yuan Clan.