THE MARTIAL KING, VOLUME 5 - Season 14 Episode 25

The Spiritual Force Sacred Place was a tenth grade sacred place and one of the three hegemons of a supreme world. And the core of the sacred place was within this Holy City.

An elder was someone who enjoyed the elevated status of being a grand official. How could they dare provoke the elders?
Zen had experienced things like this before, so he had gotten used to it. But he still smiled and said, “Thank you for your concern but I will be fine.”

“I hope so,” Master Shen said, nodding. The three of them continued on their way.

A few hours later, a large building, roughly the size of Oracle City, loomed before Zen.

Zen was even more stunned to see that this building was neither built on the ground nor did it float in the air like the Cloud Hall. Instead, it emerged from the back of a giant tortoise!

“This gigantic tortoise…” The giant tortoise beneath the building was obviously alive, but was prostrated on the ground, motionless. The aura that it was emitting, however, evoked a feeling within Zen that could only be termed ‘ethereal’.

“This isn’t a tortoise. It’s actually a huge snake but with a shell,” Master Shen said.

“A huge snake with a shell? And it allows humans to build the building on its back?” Zen asked as he watched on, his eyes wide open.

Master Shen chuckled and replied, “Of course, it is the contractual beast of the leader of our sacred place, and it also guards the entire Holy City to ensure its safety!”

“It doesn’t move under the weight of such a big building?” Zen asked again. He was very, very curious.

“It hasn’t moved for three thousand years. I remember that three thousand years ago, it was in a different spot over there, and then later it has moved its position once…” Master Shen said.

There were so many interesting things in the Upper World, and it became difficult to count after a while. Just one Spiritual Force Sacred Place had made Zen feel the novelty radiating off of it. So one could only imagine how many miracles existed in the other supreme worlds.

Zen observed it for a few more minutes before following Master Shen and Master He towards the giant building.

As they approached the strange snake, a group of armored warriors emerged from the building.

These warriors were dressed in brown armor of dragon scales and all of them were at the Spirit Supreme Realm. They blocked the path of Zen and the two masters.

“Who are you? Why have you come to the Spiritual Force Hall?” the warrior in the lead asked coldly.

Master Shen merely smiled and showed him the token he was holding.

The warrior looked around, surprised, before saying, “Master Shen! May I know what the purpose of your visit is?”

“We are here at the request of the Saint Lord. Please help us pass on the message,” Master Shen said.

The Saint Lord? So it was the leader of the sacred place who had summoned him?

The controller of the Spiritual Force Sacred Place? Zen looked even more puzzled.

He didn’t even know who the Saint Lord of the Spiritual Force Sacred Place was, and why the Saint Lord had summoned him.

He couldn’t come up with any reasonable answer as he stood there in deep contemplation. But the answer would be revealed soon.

After the armored warriors had reported to the Saint Lord about their arrival, the two hall leaders and Zen went into the grand Spiritual Force Hall. There were six enchanted barriers guarding the hall. Zen took a quick look around and found that all these enchanted barriers were set up with at least seven or eight layers of divine textures. This place was really heavily guarded.

Once they had passed through these enchanted barriers, they entered the center of the Spiritual Force Hall. In the middle of the hall was a big room, a middle-aged man with a purple-gold crown sitting alone at a table in there.

There were all sorts of amazing-smelling but strange fruits on the table. The middle-aged man was eating them one by one.

Master Shen and Master He stepped forward and saluted the man and said in unison, “Greetings, Master!”

The middle-aged man nodded and waved his hand nonchalantly. His gaze landed on Zen.

As his gaze locked onto him, Zen felt exposed, as if he had been seen through completely. Was this middle-aged man the Saint Lord of the Spiritual Force Sacred Place?

If he was, then his cultivation level would be on par with that of a world lord!

Zen wondered about this person’s level of cultivation but at the same time, he found it off-putting that the middle-aged man was looking at him like that. It made him uncomfortable. He hated the feeling of being seen through with a single glance.

The middle-aged man felt Zen’s emotions and nodded, uttering, “Okay.” After a brief pause, he said calmly, “He’s a good seedling, but his level isn’t enough… I wonder why that is!”

His words were a bit baffling. Zen didn’t understand him, but even Master Shen and Master He had no idea what he was talking about.

“It’s so strange… So strange…” The middle-aged man was finding it difficult to figure it out, but he continued to size up Zen. “There must be a lot of warriors of this level in our Spiritual Force Sacred Place. Why would it turn out like this?”

His mumbling puzzled Zen even more and he couldn’t hold it in any longer. Ignoring all rules of etiquette, he asked rather directly, “May I know why you have summoned me?”

Master Shen and Master He tensed up at the way Zen was speaking so insolently to the Saint Lord. They knew that the Saint Lord had always been extremely serious.

But the middle-aged man only smiled and said, “Nothing important. I just thought it inappropriate to leave you in the mineral vein to do the mining.”

Zen looked at him suspiciously before asking, “If that’s the case, can I leave the Spiritual Force Sacred Place?”

The middle-aged man smiled, amused. “Of course not. You can’t leave the Spiritual Force Sacred Place. You can’t even leave the Holy City,” he said.

“What do you mean?” Zen frowned and asked, “Are you trying to imprison me?” Master Shen thought Zen was talking nonsense. As someone who had ascended to the Upper World, what made him worthy of being imprisoned by the Saint Lord of the Spiritual Force Sacred Place? What a joke! So Master Shen said, “Zen, since our Saint Lord is making you stay in the Holy City, he will not treat you unfairly. You don’t need to ask anything else.”

The middle-aged man waved his hand and said, “It doesn’t matter. It’s not that I want to keep you in the Holy City, but someone wants to come here. But it will still take a few days. You can just wait here for a while.”

“Someone? Who is that?” Zen asked as he stared at the middle-aged man. This mystery was getting more complicated by the minute and his curiosity was shooting through the roof.

“You will know when the time comes,” the middle-aged man said, unwilling to divulge anything else. But he thought for a moment before he said, “Jevan Shen, take him to get a token he can use as a pass to enter and exit the Myriad Spiritual Force House. While you wait for the person to come, you are free to use any of the practice places of our Spiritual Force Sacred Place.”

“Okay, Master!” Master Shen hurriedly nodded.

“Alright, if you need anything, you can come find me,” the middle-aged man said as he looked at Zen, his face a mask.

Master Shen and Master He led Zen away.

Although Zen hadn’t conversed much with this middle-aged man, it had made Master Shen and Master He even more apprehensive.

Their Saint Lord was at the level of a world lord and was one of the top masters in the entire Spirit Reading World. Even though he hadn’t gotten the title of a world lord, his strength wasn’t inferior to one.

But today, the Saint Lord had been so amiable, asking Master Shen to get Zen a token and even telling Zen to come to him directly if he needed any help.

Just who was backing Zen?!

Master Shen and Master He had guessed that Zen might be related to an elder, but now, it looked like the ‘important figure’ behind him was even more powerful than the Saint Lord. The Saint Lord wouldn’t have treated Zen so well otherwise.

Everyone knew that the Myriad Spiritual Force House was the core of the Spiritual Force Sacred Place.

Only the most outstanding disciples of the Spiritual Force Sacred Place were qualified to practice in the Myriad Spiritual Force House.

Master Shen and Master He were both from the Myriad Spiritual Force House. Even if they weren’t the most outstanding warriors, they were still qualified to be leaders of some halls.

This kind of place would only allow the most talented core disciples to enter. But Zen could not be considered a member of the Spiritual Force Sacred Place.

Normally, an outsider wouldn’t be allowed to enter the Myriad Spiritual Force House. However, the Saint Lord himself had invited him to practice there, nobody would have any issues with this.

Zen, who was at the Life and Death Realm, was becoming more and more mysterious in the eyes of the two hall leaders.