Chapter 510

Chapter 510: With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility
Ancestor Sui Bian’s eyes widened. He blurted out, “How is this possible? Did they guess we’d leave a backup plan, so they were already prepared for it?”

He had just been mocking the people on the other side as a bunch of idiots. He had not expected to be slapped in the face so fast.

Old Daoist Hei’s face also sank as he said, “Those people really cling like restless ghosts.”

Senior Ling Long asked, “Xiu Yu, can you break this spatial seal?”

Senior Xiu Yu closed her eyes and sensed for a moment, then shook her head: “The process that seals space is extremely complex. It’s hard to break it in a short time. And the other side seems to be guiding us to a specific place on purpose. If we forcefully tear open the space, we might be swept into spatial turbulence.”

Everyone’s hearts tightened.

The other side really had prepared in advance. It seemed they had thought about this far too simply.

“Then what should we do now? Do we just let them move us around like pieces on a board?”

“They want to lead us somewhere, then we’ll go along with it and see what they’re trying to do,” Senior Ling Long said. Her eyes were as sharp as blades.

When the others heard this, their spirits lifted. The panic from just now faded a lot, and everyone became fully alert.

The starship continued forward in the spatial passage. It was pitch black on all sides, with not a trace of light.

No one knew how long they had been flying when a faint glow appeared ahead.

As the starship moved forward, that glow slowly grew bigger, until they could see nothing but a field of white.

“Is that… the exit?” Ancestor Sui Bian narrowed his eyes. His voice held some doubt.

Senior Xiu Yu shook her head. “No, that’s not an exit. It’s a spatial node, the place they want us to go.”

Senior Ling Long let out a cold laugh: “Then let’s go. We’ll see what kind of surprise they’ve prepared for us.”

The starship slowly sailed into the light. Everyone’s divine sense felt as if it had been stripped away, and they could not sense their surroundings at all.

They only felt their bodies grow light. Then the white light vanished and was replaced by a peach blossom forest.

In the peach blossom forest, petals drifted down, beautiful beyond words.

But no one was in the mood to enjoy the view. Their hearts were full of caution and doubt.

“Weren’t we supposed to be walking into an ambush? How did it turn into a flower-viewing party?”

“When something strange happens, there’s always a reason. This peach blossom forest looks pretty, but there might be a hidden killing move behind it.”

“Be careful. Don’t be fooled by what you see on the surface.”

They waited for a while, but did not find anything unusual.

Senior Ling Long decided to go out and scout herself.

At a single thought, her body vanished from inside the starship. A few breaths later, she returned to them.

“How is it?” Ancestor Sui Bian asked at once.

“There is indeed a problem here,” Senior Ling Long said in a low voice. “This is a lone island. Other than peach trees, there are no weeds, no insect beasts, not even a breath of wind.”

“So that means there’s no one else on this island but us?”

“Yes.”

Everyone grew even more uneasy.

Whoever was hiding in the dark would not have lured them here for no reason. There had to be a scheme behind it.

For the moment, no one dared to act rashly.

Senior Xiu Yu thought for a moment. “Elder sister, why don’t we first try to see if we can leave this place, then decide what to do next?”

Senior Ling Long agreed at once. She controlled the starship and tried to fly up from above the peach blossom island.

But when the starship rose to a certain height, it seemed to hit an invisible barrier and could no longer go any higher.

They had no choice but to return to the island.

Ancestor Sui Bian cursed angrily, “What on earth do these people want? They dump us here and then ignore us. Are they planning to trap us to death?”

Yu Zhao stood at the edge of the starship. Her gaze fell on the peach blossoms blooming outside, and a thought stirred in her heart.

She was skilled in incense crafting, so she was more sensitive to flowers and plants.

Could there be something wrong with these peach blossoms?

Yu Zhao quickly turned to Senior Ling Long. “Senior Ling Long, when you went out, did you feel anything strange about the peach blossoms?”

Senior Ling Long shook her head. “I checked. There’s no poison on the peach blossoms.”

Yu Zhao frowned. [Did I guess wrong?]

As she lowered her head in thought, she suddenly remembered something from when she had followed Tu Xiao to learn formation array arts. Back then, she had seen a rare kind of formation.

It gathered the spirit power of heaven and earth and formed naturally.

It looked ordinary, but it was extremely hard to break.

This peach blossom island seemed to meet all the requirements for a natural spell formation.

Yu Zhao quickly shared her idea and said she wanted to go out and take a look.

The others were a bit hesitant.

With Yu Zhao’s current strength, any random cultivator could knock her down with ease.

Senior Xiu Yu planned to go with her, but Senior Ling Long was not at ease.

In the end, they decided that Senior Ling Long, Ancestor Sui Bian, and Yu Zhao would go down together to investigate.

Old Daoist Hei was not very happy about this at first.

But when he heard Senior Ling Long say that, other than her, he was the strongest one, he calmed down right away.

[That’s right. The greater the power, the greater the responsibility. If I don’t stay here, who will?]

So he promised Ling Long that he would definitely protect Xiu Yu and Hong Wei, and he watched Yu Zhao and the other two leave with great satisfaction.

Curled up in a ball, Hong Wei secretly shook her head.

[So many years have passed. Old Daoist Hei is still this easy to trick. He hasn’t grown at all.]

As soon as Yu Zhao left the starship, a faint floral scent drifted over her face.

She did not know what kind of peach blossoms these were. Their fragrance was gentle, not overpowering, and it seeped into the heart.

But Yu Zhao had no time to savor it. She walked slowly through the peach blossom forest, carefully observing the arrangement of every peach tree, trying to find the pattern of a formation array arts setup.

After she had walked for a while, Yu Zhao suddenly stopped. Her gaze fell on a particularly tall peach tree.

The patterns on its trunk seemed a little different from the others.

But when she stared at it, the tree became completely ordinary again, as if that hint of strangeness had only been her imagination.

Yu Zhao refused to believe she had seen wrong. She was sure there was something off about this peach tree.

She walked up to it and examined it carefully, her gaze sweeping inch by inch over every line on the trunk.

In the eyes of Senior Ling Long and Ancestor Sui Bian, Yu Zhao was standing still in front of the peach tree with her small head tilted back, staring at it in a daze.

They walked over. Seeing how serious she looked, they did not disturb her.

Ancestor Sui Bian glanced around. He did not see anything special about this tree. Without thinking, he put his hand on the trunk and muttered, “This is just an ordinary tree. There’s nothing strange about it…”

But before he finished speaking, a change exploded before their eyes.

The peach tree suddenly shone with a blinding light. The lines on the trunk seemed to come alive and began to wriggle quickly.

At the same time, the peach trees all around them started to spin. Petals flew through the air, and all the flower buds on the branches bloomed at once. A powerful, thick fragrance spread out in an instant.

“Oh no…”

Ancestor Sui Bian only managed to get two words out before he dropped to the ground face first.