“The power of the moonlight that this woman cultivated is exactly the nemesis of the Inspector.” Bai Wei struck while the iron was hot, “If we rescue her, our pavilion will have a better chance of dealing with the Inspector.”

The three elders exchanged glances and finally nodded. Master Yuheng tapped the ground with her dragon-headed cane: “To activate the Heaven-Hidden Formation, we need 7749 Yuanying disciples to form the formation. Bai Wei, are you sure you want to use the foundation of the pavilion?”

Bai Wei was about to answer when Qin Shuang suddenly spoke up, “No need to bother you seniors.” He raised the bronze dagger, “If I’m right, this thing can lead directly to the Broken Spirit Realm.”

“The Order of the Heavens does have this power,” the black-robed elder said solemnly, “but it requires a lifespan as a guide. Each use will reduce one hundred years of lifespan.”

Qin Shuang smiled and said, “A hundred years of life is worth it in exchange for the safety of my best friend.”

Bai Wei looked at him deeply, and suddenly took out a pill from his sleeve: “This is the ‘Nine-transformation Resurrection Pill’, which can add a hundred years to your life span. I have only one condition – take Qingxuan with you.”

“Master!” Qingxuan exclaimed.

“You possess the ‘Heavenly Secret Body’, which allows you to sense spatial nodes in the Broken Spirit World.” Bai Wei said earnestly, “Besides, it’s time for you to see the real Heavenly Secret Mirror.”

Qin Shuang took the pill and swallowed it without hesitation. As the medicinal power dissolved, he suddenly felt his blood boiling, and the chain mark on his left arm was suppressed a little.

“When do we leave?”

“Now.” Bai Wei turned to the three elders, “Please help me conceal the secret!”

The three elders stood in their respective positions, pinching their fingers and chanting spells. Bai Wei took out a formation plate, bit his tongue and spurted out a mouthful of blood. The formation plate shone brightly, turning into a light shield that enveloped everyone.

“Qingxuan, hold on to Qin Xiaoyou!”

The girl blushed and grabbed the corner of Qin Shuang’s clothes. Qin Shuang took a deep breath and slashed the bronze dagger into the void.

“Tsk!”

The space was cut open like a piece of cloth, revealing the bizarre and broken spiritual world behind it. The violent space turbulence swept out, but was blocked by the light of the array disk.

“Remember, you only have twelve hours.” Bai Wei’s voice came from a distance, “Once the time is up, you must return the same way, otherwise you will be trapped forever!”

Qin Shuang looked back at Qing Xuan: “Are you scared?”

The girl tightly grasped the jade pendant on her waist: “As a disciple of Tianji Pavilion, I have never known how to write the word ‘fear’!”

The two jumped into the crack. At the last moment, Qin Shuang seemed to hear Bai Wei’s voice transmission: “The Bronze Immortal Palace in the Little Spiritual World”

In the Broken Spirit Realm, time and space were in a strangely distorted state. Qin Shuang and Qing Xuan were floating in the void, surrounded by countless floating land fragments, some hanging upside down, some standing sideways, completely contrary to common sense.

“It’s so uncomfortable here.” Qingxuan’s face was pale, and the jade pendant in her hand emitted a faint green light. “The circulation of spiritual power has been delayed by more than 30%.”

The mark on Qin Shuang’s left arm suddenly felt burning. He looked in the direction of his sensation and saw that on a piece of land in the distance, the moonlight was colliding violently with the bronze light!
“found it!”

Just as the two were about to fly over there, a black shadow suddenly passed by. It was a space beast with a body length of ten feet, shaped like a crocodile but with six wings, and a mouth full of sharp teeth flashing with cold light.

“Be careful!” Qin Shuang pulled Qingxuan away. The space beast missed and roared angrily. With a sweep of its tail, it smashed a small piece of land into pieces!
Qingxuan hurriedly made hand gestures, and the green light from the jade pendant turned into a thread, wrapping around the space beast. Unexpectedly, the beast opened its mouth wide and swallowed the green light directly!
“It can devour spiritual power!” Qingxuan exclaimed.

Qin Shuang’s eyes flashed with cold light, and the flying knife “exploded stars” was launched. This time, the knife light contained the power of the bronze dagger, and the space left a crack that lasted for a long time wherever it passed.

“puff!”

The flying knife pierced through the space beast’s head. The monster let out a shrill scream, and its body shattered into pieces like porcelain, and finally turned into a ball of black mist and dissipated.

Qing Xuan took a breath and said, “What kind of magical power is this? Can it completely kill the space beast?”

“It’s not a magical power.” Qin Shuang took back the flying knife and found a trace of bronze light wrapped around the blade. “It’s the power of the Order of the Heavens that has a restraining effect on them.”

The two continued to move forward, encountering several space beast attacks on the way, all of which were solved by Qin Shuang using the same method. As they went deeper, the reaction of the jade pendant in Qingxuan’s hand became stronger and stronger.

“There is a strong space fluctuation ahead.” She pointed to a piece of upside-down land in the distance, “It seems like there is a building?”

Qin Shuang looked intently and saw a corner of a building vaguely exposed at the edge of the land – it was made of bronze, and the surface was engraved with ancient runes.

“Bronze Immortal Palace!”

At this moment, the mark on his left arm suddenly burned violently! Qin Shuang knelt on one knee in pain, and a vision appeared in front of him: Nangong Wan’s mouth was bleeding, and the Moon Wheel magic weapon had cracks; behind her, the Extreme Yin Patriarch and the Broken Soul Master were unconscious.
“Wan’er is in danger!”

Qin Shuang ignored Qing Xuan’s obstruction and used all his strength to activate his immortal body, turning into a beam of golden light and rushing towards the land. When he passed through the twisted space barrier, the scene before him almost froze his blood –

A complete bronze fairy palace floated in the center of the void. In the square in front of the palace, Nangong Wan was tied up with seven chains and suspended in the air. In front of her stood a figure covered in bronze armor, holding a blood-red long sword in his hand, with the tip of the sword against Nangong Wan’s heart!
“Stop!” Qin Shuang shouted, and the flying knife shot out like a meteor.

The bronze figure slowly raised his head, and a cold voice came from under the armor: “Finally here, the Lord of the Heavens”

The sound of the flying knife tearing through the void suddenly stopped.

The bronze armor raised his left hand, and Qin Shuang’s flying knife hovered three inches in front of Nangong Wan’s eyebrows. The blade trembled violently but could not move forward. A metallic laughter came from under the inspector’s visor: “The successor of the Zhutian Order, is this all you can do?”

Qin Shuang’s pupils shrank suddenly. The golden light of the immortal body flowed on his body, but the chain mark on his left arm suddenly attacked, and the bronze lines spread to his neck like a living thing. He groaned, slammed one knee heavily on the bronze ground, and the cracks spread like a spider web.

“Qin Shuang!” Nangong Wan struggled to break free from the chains, and the moon fragments fell from her fingers. “Don’t worry about me! He wants to use our blood as a sacrifice—”

The inspector slapped Nangong Wan with his backhand, and blood flowed from the corner of her mouth. Qin Shuang saw that the fragments of the moon disk were engraved with the intricate “Heaven” inscriptions – she had been secretly copying the runes of the Xutian Ding!

“What a touching reunion.” The inspector’s blood-red long knife gently slashed across Nangong Wan’s neck, and a strand of black hair fell. “It’s a pity that you are destined to become sacrifices. Just like those thousands of years ago…”

“shut up!”

Qingxuan’s cry suddenly came from high in the sky. The girl formed seals with her hands, and the Tianji jade pendant exploded into stars all over the sky. Those stars condensed into the Big Dipper formation in the air, and temporarily stopped the movement of the inspector. Qin Shuang seized this lightning opportunity, and the Xutian Ding in his body vibrated violently!
“boom–“

The dagger made of bronze fragments suddenly melted and turned into liquid metal that wrapped around Qin Shuang’s right arm. He felt an ancient will awaken in his blood, and the golden light of his immortal body began to be mixed with bronze color. At the moment when the chain on his left arm broke inch by inch, the inspector’s visor shifted in astonishment for the first time. “You can actually awaken the war…”

Qin Shuang’s fist had already hit the inspector’s visor. This blow was wrapped in the dual power of the Void Heaven Cauldron and the Order of the Heavens. The ground of the bronze fairy palace collapsed, and countless inscriptions floated up from the cracks. The inspector flew backwards and hit the pillar of the palace. The whole fairy palace groaned under the heavy burden.

“Wan’er!” Qin Shuang caught the falling Nangong Wan and found that she was holding a fragment of the Moon Wheel tightly in her palm, with an incomplete formation diagram drawn in blood on it. “What is this?”

Nangong Wan pointed weakly at the dome of the Immortal Palace: “Seven Star Locks.” Before she finished speaking, she fainted. Qin Shuang looked up and found that the dome was inlaid with seven stars, and the arrangement was exactly the same as the pattern of the Tianji Mirror shown by Bai Wei.

The inspector’s wild laughter shook the gravel to the ground. “Do you think you’ve won by breaking free of the brand?” He raised the blood-red sword, and the blade suddenly took on a mirror-like luster. “Look at what this is!”

Wherever the mirror light passed, the bodies of Ji Yin Patriarch and Shattered Soul Immortal began to crystallize. Nangong Wan in Qin Shuang’s arms also groaned in pain, and frost condensed on her eyelashes. What was even more terrifying was that Qing Xuan’s “Heavenly Spirit Body” was actually pulled by the mirror light, and the whole person floated uncontrollably towards the Inspector!
“The Heavenly Secret Mirror is in your hands indeed.” The inspector greedily reached out to Qing Xuan, “With the spirit body as the guide and the Immortal Palace as the furnace, we will recast it today—”

The sword suddenly appeared.

Qin Shuang suddenly appeared between the inspector and Qing Xuan. His right arm had completely turned into bronze, and what extended from his fingertips was no longer a flying knife, but a bronze dagger engraved with star maps. The moment the sword tip collided with the mirror, the time of the entire Immortal Palace seemed to stand still.

“Ding–“

A crack appeared on the blood-red sword with a crisp shattering sound. The inspector retreated more than ten feet, with black liquid dripping from his mask: “Impossible! How could the Order of the Heavens…”

Qin Shuang pointed his sword into the distance, and more ancient characters appeared on his bronze right arm. These characters resonated with the inscriptions of the Immortal Palace, forming a chain of light that entangled the inspector. He felt strange memories flooding into his mind – in the broken picture, bronze giants fought in the starry sky, and the words “all heavens” were engraved on their breastplates!
“I see.” Qin Shuang’s sword tip lit up with brilliant starlight, “You are just puppets who defected.”

The inspector suddenly let out a scream that was not a human voice. The blood-red long sword completely shattered, revealing the palm-sized fragments of bronze mirror inside. In the light shining from the mirror, six other bronze figures emerged, and they all had bronze fragments of different shapes inlaid on their chests!

Qingxuan suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood, and her spirit body was automatically activated. She pointed at a figure in the mirror with trembling hands: “That’s the first generation mirror keeper of our Tianji Pavilion!”

Before Qin Shuang could take a closer look, the entire palace suddenly shook violently. Seven bronze pillars rose from the ground, and seven different phantoms of the most precious treasures appeared on the top of the pillars – Xutian Ding, Tianji Mirror, and Donghuang Bell. Under each treasure, countless figures knelt, and above the clouds, the outline of the Nine Heavens Palace could be vaguely seen.

“It has finally begun.” The inspector laughed wildly, “When the twelve treasures return to their positions and the battlefield of the heavens reappears, that lord will…”

Qin Shuang’s bronze sword pierced his chest. But the inspector’s body suddenly turned into quicksand, and only a hoarse voice echoed in the hall: “Remember, when the bronze star map is complete, it will be the day for you, the descendants of rebellion, to perish.”

As the inspector disappeared, the Immortal Palace began to collapse. Qin Shuang picked up Nangong Wan and dragged Qingxuan towards the exit. When passing by the Jiyin Patriarch, his bronze right arm suddenly extended automatically and swallowed up the crystallized parts.

“You your hand!” Qing Xuan looked at Qin Shuang in horror as he was assimilating the right arm of the Shattered Soul Immortal.

Qin Shuang himself was also shocked. The feedback from his right arm showed that this kind of swallowing could actually repair their injuries!

But at this moment, he didn’t have time to think about it, he carried the two people and jumped into the space crack. When he looked back for the last time, he saw a pair of huge bronze eyes slowly opening in the depths of the collapsed fairy palace!

Qin Shuang held the unconscious Nangong Wan and rushed out of the space crack with Qingxuan. The three of them fell heavily on the grass on the back mountain of Tianji Pavilion, gasping for breath.

“We. We escaped?” Qingxuan’s face was pale, and her little hands were still tightly grasping the corner of Qin Shuang’s clothes.

Qin Shuang looked down at his right arm. The bronze arm was slowly returning to normal. But strangely, he felt a strange force in his right arm.

“Your hand,” Qingxuan pointed timidly, “it just moved by itself!”

At this time, the unconscious Nangong Wan suddenly coughed and spit out a mouthful of blood. Qin Shuang quickly supported her: “Wan’er, how do you feel?”

Nangong Wan opened her eyes weakly: “I’m fine, Jiyin and Suihun.”

“They should have escaped too.” Qin Shuang comforted, but he actually had no idea.

Suddenly, Qingxuan screamed: “Ah! Your hands are glowing again!”

Sure enough, Qin Shuang’s right arm began to emit bronze light again, and this time it automatically pointed in the direction of Tianji Pavilion.

“Is it guiding us?” Nangong Wan asked in surprise.

Qin Shuang nodded: “It seems we have to go find Senior Bai Wei.”

The three of them supported each other and walked towards Tianji Pavilion. On the way, Qin Shuang noticed that Qingxuan kept stealing glances at his arm, and he hesitated to speak.

“Just say whatever you want to say.” Qin Shuang said gently.

“That.” Qingxuan bit her lip, “I seem to have seen records of this kind of bronze arm in some ancient book.”

Before she could finish, there was a commotion ahead. Master Bai Wei and several elders came rushing over, their faces full of worry.

“You actually came back alive!” Bai Wei said excitedly, “Where’s the inspector?”

“He escaped.” Qin Shuang briefly explained what happened, but omitted the matter of the bronze arm.

Bai Wei stroked his beard, thinking: “It seems that things are more complicated than I thought”

After returning to Tianji Pavilion, Qin Shuang was arranged to rest in a quiet room. In the dead of night, his right arm began to glow again, and this time he actually projected a star map on the wall!
“Is this a map?” Qin Shuang carefully identified the flickering spots on the star map.

At this moment, the door was gently pushed open. Qingxuan came in with a bowl of medicine soup. After seeing the star map on the wall, the bowl of medicine fell to the ground with a “pop”.

“This is the lost ‘Map of the Stars in the Heavens’ of the Tianji Pavilion!” she exclaimed, “How could you…”

Qin Shuang smiled bitterly and raised his right arm: “It appeared by itself.”

Qingxuan suddenly remembered something and took out a worn-out ancient book from her bosom: “Look! The bronze arm recorded in it is exactly the same as yours!”

Qin Shuang took the ancient book and saw a picture of a giant wearing bronze armor on it. His right arm was exactly the same as his current state!
“It says here that this is the symbol of the ‘Warrior of the Heavens’.” Qingxuan whispered, “Could you be…” (End of this chapter)