Just as Ling Xiao touched the "Yellow Springs Record," the air inside the cave suddenly froze. The jade-like skeleton on the stone bed cracked with a crisp snap, and a blinding golden light burst forth from the fracture.
"Watch out!" Lu Chenzhou retreated three steps in a flash. "The defensive barrier has been triggered!"
But it was too late. The floor of the entire cave suddenly caved in, revealing a massive octagonal array disk. The runes on the disk slithered like living creatures, transforming in the blink of an eye into eight pillars of light reaching toward the heavens. Even more terrifyingly, seven layers of illusory pagoda shadows slowly materialized around these light pillars—unmistakably the phantom of a seven-tiered pagoda!
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