Chapter 502: Chapter 225: Sword Opening Celestial Gate, Underworld Reappears (Part 6)

With his current proficiency in the Path of Great Derivation, coupled with his control over the White Jade Turtle Shell, there was only one possibility for such a situation to occur.

The hexagram involved something of a higher level!

"What can I do to help?"

Seeing Shen Yuan looking worried and uneasy, Shen Wenxing quickly spoke up.

After pondering for a long time, Shen Yuan slowly said, "How long has the third brother been in closed cultivation?"

Shen Wenxing carefully calculated and replied, "Three years and over a month."

"Three years..." Shen Yuan muttered after pondering, "Back in the day, Elder Jiang Xiuqi took about four years to break through to the Golden Core."

"Wen’an’s talent is even better, so it should be about the same, right?"

"Are you worried that the third brother will have issues breaking through?" Shen Wenxing asked with a frown.

As an elder brother, he had never worried about Shen Wen’an having any problems breaking through to the Golden Core. 𝘧𝓇ℯ𝑒𝓌𝑒𝑏𝓃𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭.𝒸ℴ𝓂

Because since childhood, Shen Wen’an had always shown such talent in cultivation that there was never any need for concern.

Shen Yuan did not speak.

Regarding Shen Wen’an’s breakthrough, it itself involved the Golden Core Dao, and he could not deduce any information.

This time, he was merely analyzing the most likely sources of the crisis.

"What is Chongming busy with?"

After some thought, Shen Yuan suddenly asked.

"He went to Yunzhong County City to find Elder Jiang... and..."

Before he could finish speaking, Shen Wenxing’s expression suddenly changed.

He vaguely felt that the "crisis" his father mentioned was likely related to what Shen Chongming was doing!

Some time ago, in Zhen Nan City, when the father and son discussed asking Jiang Xiuqi to help set up an array, he worried that this move might cause trouble.

Now it coincidentally appeared that his father had received a warning.

Could it be that Jiang Xiuqi’s intervention this time would really provoke those senior Golden Core demons from the Southern Border to act?

"Why did he seek out Elder Jiang?" Shen Yuan asked suspiciously.

Shen Wenxing immediately recounted the situation.

However, Shen Yuan was not too moved after hearing it.

"Dad, could the source of the crisis be..."

"I will immediately send someone to Yunzhong County City!"

"No need." Shen Yuan waved his hand and said in a deep voice, "The Chess Player of this grand game has deeper plans."

"This move will not provoke those Golden Core cultivators from the Southern Border to act."

After a moment of thought, he continued, "For the next few days, let’s not make any other moves; I want to observe further."

"Zhongyi should also delay going to Flame Lake City until after this period."

Leaving the small courtyard, Shen Yuan returned to the second floor of the Black Water Pavilion.

On the three-foot-long chessboard, black and white chess pieces emitted a faint glow.

After glancing at the chess pieces, Shen Yuan’s eyes deepened, and he muttered in a deep voice, "Yin and Yang converge..."

"What exactly are you all plotting..."

...

At the foot of the mountain was Shen Wen’an’s small courtyard.

In the courtyard, Wei Qiuling was instructing her son Shen Chongzhen in practicing sword skill.

The little one, now seven years old, already displayed the demeanor of a sword skill master in his every movement.

The mother and son were just about to sheathe their swords and rest when they suddenly felt a peculiar wave.

This wave felt like an immensely rare divine weapon slowly being unsheathed.

Wei Qiuling’s gaze immediately turned towards Shen Wen’an’s closed cultivation room.

"Oh no!"

Beside her, Shen Chongzhen’s expression suddenly changed, and he hurriedly ran into the house to retrieve an unopened letter.

"Before going into closed cultivation, Ah Die gave me this letter, saying I should give it to Mom when I felt the aura of a sword being unsheathed."

Upon hearing this, Wei Qiuling was full of doubt.

She couldn’t understand why Shen Wen’an wouldn’t communicate directly with her and had to leave a letter for Chongzhen to deliver.

After taking the letter and glancing at it, her expression immediately changed slightly!

"Chongzhen, let’s go!"

Grabbing Shen Chongzhen, Wei Qiuling hurriedly flew towards the Black Water Pavilion.

Just as the mother and son left, a sky-piercing sword aura shot up from Shen Wen’an’s closed cultivation room, reaching straight into the sky!

In an instant, that sword aura seemed to break through the confines of the void, opening a golden door!

Such a terrifying phenomenon was clearly visible to the cultivators and common people of Yunshui City and also by the forces from hundreds of miles around!

"Is someone breaking through to the Golden Core!?"

"It looks like a sword cultivator; could it be that person from the Shen Family in Yunshui City?"

"Such a terrifying phenomenon resembles the Sword Opening Celestial Gate recorded in ancient texts!"

"Breaking through to the Golden Core... those guys should be ready to make a move, right?"

For a time, the focus of the six major forces of the Southern Border was all directed towards Yunshui City.

Meanwhile, in Yunzhong County City, Jiang Xiuqi, upon sensing this commotion, immediately set up several array plates around himself, concealing all his aura!

Above Yunshui City, as the terrifying sword aura pierced the skies, two figures suddenly appeared outside the Ren Water Concealing Spirit Array.

Both figures were clad in fitted profound black robes, and one of them was surprisingly Fu Yang, who had once helped the Shen Family set up the City Defense Array!

However, at this moment, Fu Yang seemed like a completely different person, his gaze towards Yunshui City full of unfamiliarity.