Celestial Secret Valley was established by the Scholar of Secrets several hundred years ago... 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆𝙬𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝒎

As the years passed for hundreds of years, the surrounding terrain remained unchanged, yet the buildings within the valley were all perfectly intact.

Chu Qing discovered that this was because all of the buildings in the valley were constructed from stone.

They can withstand the erosion of wind and rain and the wear of time.

It is also for this reason that the Scholar of Secrets had arranged an Absolute Array that remained effective even after hundreds of years.

The dilemma for Chu Qing was that he originally intended to set fire to Celestial Secret Tower, thus resolving the threat of Yellow Springs Powder.

But now, if the Celestial Secret Tower was also made entirely of stone, how could he start a fire?

Moreover, traces of mechanisms could be seen everywhere between the pavilions and buildings.

These mechanisms were not particularly deadly, just as Sang Qing had said.

They don’t aim to kill, at most just to injure.

However, if he wanted to dismantle them, Chu Qing was powerless as he didn’t know Mechanical Art.

And because Sang Qing had yet to return, it raised the suspicion of Prince Mu, and now the defensive formations within the valley had already changed and were not as Sang Qing had described.

Fortunately, Chu Qing had mastered the Lightweight Technique and knew the way to enter and exit, allowing him to evade detection despite others scouring the area.

He stumbled and struggled to avoid mechanisms, secretly bypassing the disciples of the Celestial Evil Cult, finally arriving before Celestial Secret Tower.

"This building appeared large when viewed from afar, but its proximity is even more breathtaking.

"The Scholar of Secrets single-handedly built such an edifice, surviving hundreds of years of storm and rain, truly remarkable!"

Chu Qing did not recklessly proceed, as this was now the most perilous location within the entire Celestial Secret Valley.

He bypassed the main entrance, swiftly moving to the side wall of Celestial Secret Tower, and following the wall, he found the mountain wall.

The surrounding mountain walls of Celestial Secret Valley are quite peculiar, widening at the bottom and tapering at the top to form a massive arc.

The top of Celestial Secret Tower was nearly level with the mountain wall’s summit.

This demonstrated how tall the tower was.

Chu Qing craned his neck to gaze upward, suddenly exerting force underfoot, his body ascending like a bat, arms spread, rising swiftly like a wisp of blue smoke.

With this single leap, he soared over ten yards, his feet momentarily touching nothing, then with the Golden Swan Skill, he borrowed power from the void and ascended another ten yards.

In one breath, he flew upwards more than twenty yards, a feat he would have found impossible before obtaining the Floating Blue Smoke Skill.

While saying twenty yards might not sound significant, one must know that a yard is 3.3 meters, ten yards is thirty-three meters, and with a leap borrowing power in mid-air, he ascended at least sixty-six meters high.

Calculating with a floor height of three meters, this jump could directly reach the height of a twenty-two-story building, an astounding achievement in modern society!

However, there was still a bit of distance to the top of Celestial Secret Tower.

He lightly pressed against the wall to gain leverage, his form suddenly soaring higher, finally landing steadily atop Celestial Secret Tower.

Standing here high above, he could overlook the entirety of Celestial Secret Valley.

The buildings below seemed quite small, but their arrangement, along with the movements of the disciples of the Celestial Evil Cult within them, were all captured by his gaze.

Looking further, he could not see beyond the gates of Celestial Secret Valley due to the terrain’s limitations.

"I wonder how Wen Fusheng is faring; time is of the essence, I must quickly enter Celestial Secret Tower."

But the rooftop beneath his feet, made of stone, surprisingly had no gaps.

While he could shatter it, doing so would inevitably alert the disciples of the Celestial Evil Cult within.

Chu Qing searched for a while and arrived at the side of Celestial Secret Tower directly facing the gates of Celestial Secret Valley.

From below the building earlier, he had noted a window at this spot; his figure swayed as he descended from the rooftop, reaching for the top to suspend himself in the air, indeed finding the window tightly shut.

His foot lightly pressed upon the window, applying subtle force.

The entire window was kicked straight off.

Chu Qing’s heart tightened, then relaxed, and with another roll of his body, like blue smoke, he swiftly slid inside the window.

Upon looking down, he found the upper levels of Celestial Secret Tower to be completely empty, with metal bars crossing in a crisscross pattern to support the rooftop.

The window was about to fall on one of the crossbars; Chu Qing hurriedly reached out, turning Mingyu Scripture.

The window suddenly slowed, immediately flying towards Chu Qing’s palm, and he caught it with a single grab.

Upon closer inspection, he grinned.

This seemed to be a window, but it was actually just decorative.

There were no gaps, nor any mechanisms inside, merely added by the Scholar of Secrets to adorn Celestial Secret Tower.

"No wonder when I kicked it, it didn’t open; the entire window fell off instead."

With one hand gripping the crossbar, invoking borrowed force to leap back up to the window, he firmly stood on two separate crossbars, securing his position as he reinstalled the window to avoid leaving any flaw.

After completing this task, only then did he leap down.

This spot is five to six yards from the lower level.

His toes gently touched down on a thick layer of dust, yet it didn’t stir with his arrival.

His body moved like floating down, not disturbing even a speck of dust.

There were footprints on these thick layers of dust but not many.

Chu Qing contemplated:

"The members of the Celestial Evil Cult should have inspected this place, but lost interest upon seeing the scene."

"They probably couldn’t have imagined that someone managed to sneak in from the rooftop..."

With that thought, his gaze shifted and he found the entrance leading to the lower floor.

It was a stone staircase... he descended it, at its end there was no door.

More accurately, there should have been a wooden door here.

However, the door had long since decayed, leaving only residual traces.

Crossing through, unveiled before Chu Qing was quite a spacious floor.