"This junior believes I can survive," Chu Feng said.
"How so?" asked the Scholar of Chaos.
"Although Senior used this junior to enter this place, you have aided me greatly along the way."
"Yet Senior could have withheld that help entirely. You could have threatened this junior from the very beginning and forced me to follow your commands."
"With Senior's abilities, doing so would have posed no difficulty at all. But you didn't — which shows that Senior is not someone who will stop at nothing to achieve his goals," Chu Feng said.
Hearing these words, the Scholar of Chaos chuckled.
"Chu Feng, you've misjudged me."
"I am no good person."
"You want to live. Fine."
"But you must do something for me first," the Scholar of Chaos said.
"Senior, you want me to enter that palace?" Chu Feng asked.
The other party had come here for the secrets within that palace, so naturally whatever he needed Chu Feng's help with had to be related to it.
"Not just you. All of you," the Scholar of Chaos said. With a sweep of his wide sleeve, three beams of light shot forward, each striking the forehead of Chu Feng, Jie Tian, and Little Fishy respectively.
That was a formation!!!
Uwaah—
The moment the formation entered his forehead, Jie Tian clutched his head and wailed in agony.
Right after, Little Fishy also grabbed her head, her face twisted in pain.
Only Chu Feng was unharmed, though he had no idea why the other two were suffering so much while he remained completely fine.
"This is a binding placed upon all three of you. You must not harbor killing intent toward one another."
"The reason you two are suffering headaches right now is because you hold killing intent toward each other."
"Suppress that killing intent, and you will no longer endure the formation's pain," the Scholar of Chaos said to Jie Tian and Little Fishy.
After he spoke, both Little Fishy and Jie Tian gradually recovered.
And their recovery came precisely by following the Scholar of Chaos's instructions — forcibly suppressing the killing intent in their hearts.
This was proof enough that the Scholar of Chaos's binding formation was truly terrifying — it could perceive the killing intent lurking within their minds.
"The three of you are now in the same boat. If you wish to die, feel free to turn on each other."
"But if you'd rather live, it won't be as simple as merely avoiding conflict."
"The three of you will open that door, enter it, and complete every trial inside."
"Remember — if you fail to complete the trials, if you do not obtain what I want, then all three of you will die."
Once the Scholar of Chaos finished speaking, Chu Feng felt the scenery around them shift and blur.
When everything came to a stop, Chu Feng and the others had already returned with the Scholar of Chaos to the front of that palace.
The Scholar of Chaos pointed at the palace, and a formation materialized before them.
The formation had three formation eyes.
Two for barrier power, and one for martial power.
"He actually created a formation that fuses martial power with barrier power?" Chu Feng marveled at the Scholar of Chaos's skill. As a Spirit World Master, he knew exactly how difficult such a formation was to construct.
The Scholar of Chaos's mastery of barrier arts had truly reached the pinnacle — he could deploy them as effortlessly as flipping a hand.
"Begin," the Scholar of Chaos said.
Seeing this, Chu Feng stepped directly into the formation eye without hesitation.
Little Fishy was no fool either. She didn't put up any resistance on account of her special status.
In fact, after the Scholar of Chaos had revealed himself, she hadn't even uttered a word.
She understood perfectly well that flaunting her identity in front of this kind of being was useless. If he killed her here, her family would never know.
So Little Fishy obediently stepped into the formation eye as well.
As for Jie Tian, he wasn't stupid either — he also stepped meekly into the formation eye.
The formation was extraordinarily powerful. With all three of them channeling their energy into it, that palace door — which had been nearly impossible to open — began to swing wide amid deep, rumbling booms.
With the formation activated, Chu Feng and the other two started walking toward the palace entrance.
But the moment they drew close to the door, Chu Feng understood why the Scholar of Chaos hadn't entered on his own.
First, there was a barrier screen within the doorway. Though invisible, it seemed powerful enough to bar even the Scholar of Chaos.
But more importantly, Chu Feng could feel that the palace harbored power so deep and unfathomable it defied comprehension.
It wasn't mere barrier energy, nor was it simple martial power — but whatever it was, it was overwhelmingly strong.
It was far more powerful than the source of the formation's energy buried deep beneath the earth of this Star Sea world — that grand city formation.
They were, without question, not even on the same level.