Even hybrid monsters have their day

At least she couldn't think of one.

Yin Qianze, her legs trembling, quickly walked towards the main hall. Geng Miaowan instructed Xu Ruwen and Huangfu Aoran in her mind to hold Haotian back. Luan Hao hadn't spoken a word since seeing Haotian's true face, and she didn't have time to worry about him now. She helped Yin Qianze walk towards the main hall, taking care of a few demon soldiers along the way.

"When our founding ancestor chose this place as the site of our sect, he set up a special formation here." Yin Qianze said as he walked. Over a thousand years of peace had made him almost forget that there was such a protective formation that could save the Green Mountain Sect from danger.

"Formation? What kind of formation?" This was the first time Geng Miaowan had ever heard of a formation in the Green Mountain Sect. Perhaps every sect has its own treasure, which is not used normally just because it is not the right time yet.

Geng Miaowan pulled Yin Qianze aside, freeing her right hand to deflect a demon soldier who was trying to attack them. A flash of white light appeared in Yin Qianze's palm, and a spell shot into the demon soldier's body. The demon soldier swayed and vanished. Yin Qianze, being injured, coughed a few times, clutching her chest after using her spiritual power. "I'll tell you about this later when I have time."

She nodded, knowing the situation was urgent, and didn't ask any more questions.

From afar, amidst the chaotic battlefield, two inconspicuous dark figures steadily approached the main hall. Several demon soldiers who noticed them rushed forward to kill them, but were all eliminated by the two.

After a while, Geng Miaowan helped Yin Qianze finally arrive at the entrance of the main hall. The disciples responsible for guarding the main hall did not stop them when they saw it was them.

Standing at the entrance of the main hall, Yin Qianze turned back to look at the hellish battle scene, tears welling in his eyes. He glared hatefully at Haotian's location before turning and entering the hall.

As soon as Yin Qianze entered the main hall, he headed straight for the side hall behind it. Standing at the entrance to the passage connecting the main hall and the side hall, he told her, "Follow my steps from now on."

Although she didn't understand his intentions, Geng Miaowan did as he said. Yin Qianze's steps were strange, as if he were walking through a formation, but fortunately the passage wasn't long. They passed through it in no time.

The side hall was similar to the main hall, but much smaller, only about a quarter the size. To the right of the side hall was a bookshelf taller than a person, filled with many ancient books.

As soon as Yin Qianze entered the side hall, she walked straight towards the bookshelf.

Geng Miaowan instinctively felt that he was taking her to a secret place. Based on her experience watching television, protective formations like these should be located in the forbidden areas of a sect. However, the forbidden area of ​​the Green Mountain Sect was created by her more than thirty years ago, so it shouldn't be subject to any protective formations.

Now that Yin Qianze has brought her to the side hall, she feels that there must be a secret room in this side hall, and the mechanism to open the secret room is on the bookshelf.

But when Yin Qianze came to the bookshelf, she walked past it without even glancing at it, which puzzled her. So she simply put aside her thoughts and focused on following Yin Qianze.

Behind the bookshelf was a passageway identical to the one that had connected the main hall and the side hall. And at the other end of the passageway was the main hall.

Yin Qianze rummaged around behind the bookshelf for a moment, then told her to keep up with him. When Geng Miaowan stepped back into the main hall, she sensed that something had changed.

This wasn't the first time Geng Miaowan had entered the side hall, nor was it the first time she had returned to the main hall from the side hall. But when she stepped into the main hall again this time, she found that the main hall was still the same main hall, with the exact same decorations and furnishings, yet something felt different.

“Here…” she asked hesitantly, looking around at the situation in the hall.

Yin Qianze glanced at her with her cloudy eyes. "This is a forbidden area of ​​our Green Mountain Sect. It has always been a forbidden area known only to the sect leader and the next sect leader."

Geng Miaowan nodded. She thought the ancestors of the Green Mountain Sect were really thick-skinned, setting up the forbidden area in such a conspicuous place as the main hall. Then she wondered, since it was a forbidden area known only to the sect leader and past sect leaders, how did he know about it?

Perhaps sensing her surprise, Yin Qianze silently tugged at the corner of her mouth, her face showing an unnatural expression, and said, "I only found out by secretly following Miao Renfeng."

After speaking, Yin Qianze had her help him to the center of the main hall and then asked her to step aside. He made hand gestures and began chanting incantations.

As Geng Miaowan watched his movements, she wondered what the situation was like outside, and whether Huangfu Aoran and Xu Ruwen were injured. Thinking this, she tried to communicate with them in her mind, but found that the sound in her mind was as if it were imprisoned by something, and she couldn't send it out at all. Even when she spoke to Luan Hao, he seemed not to hear her at all.

How is this going?

She looked towards the palace entrance with a puzzled expression, only to see a vast expanse of gray outside. There were no flickering spells, no corpses strewn across the ground, and no sounds of fierce fighting. There was only silence, so quiet that only the murmuring incantations of Yin Qianze could be heard.

Geng Miaowan was extremely surprised; she had never encountered such a situation before. She suddenly thought of the strange techniques Yin Qianze had used when she came over, and the discomfort she felt when she first entered this place—a feeling somewhat similar to how she felt every time she first entered a mission space.

Could it be that, without her noticing, Yin Qianze had led her through a space, and this place was actually another space?

In the past, she would never have made such a bold guess, but since becoming a guardian, she knew it was entirely possible. Thinking of this, she couldn't help but admire the person who created this forbidden space.

As Yin Qianze's incantation echoed in the empty hall, the ground in the middle of the hall, right in front of Yin Qianze's body, slowly shrank to both sides, and a long staircase extended underground.

Unlike the tranquility around Geng Miaowan, outside the main hall, disciples of the Green Mountain Sect and demon soldiers were still fighting fiercely in the training grounds, with a heavy stench of blood permeating the air.

The Green Mountain Sect disciples and demon soldiers, blinded by bloodlust, failed to notice a dark figure swiftly rushing up the mountain and taking up position above the training ground. He held a greyish-white whisk in one hand and a round object that, from a distance, resembled a bowl, but was far more intricately crafted. (To be continued.)