Fortunately, Zhu Erniang’s monster immortal body firmly protected He Lingchuan. Fortunately, too, he was wearing the lightning-warding plaque. Otherwise, he would long since have been ground to dust and scattered to the winds.

Only today did He Lingchuan gain the smallest glimpse of how immortals of the Ancient Era had fought heaven and earth with their own strength.

Against the might of thunder and lightning, the spider immortal’s enormous body forced its way into the defensive array.

Then, it broke through by sheer force!

When Zhu Erniang jumped into the array eye, He Lingchuan let out a long breath as well.

If she had failed to pass this trial, he would have been buried with her.

This array eye also had a fully transparent glass surface, and at its center lay a sacred object as well.

In the old array eye, the sacred object had been the star map on Zhu Erniang’s abdomen. But here, it was actually a turtle shell!

This turtle shell was even larger than the old turtle shell He Lingchuan had seen at the bottom of Immortal Spirit Lake, measuring around nine meters in diameter. It did not appear to have come from a leatherback turtle. Its surface was faintly brown, unusually smooth, and astonishingly enough, it also bore a star map!

“Ah!” He Lingchuan praised, “The Heavenly Palace really did prepare a substitute. Their divine techniques are vast indeed!”

These star maps were naturally formed. Just because...