’Might as well just flip the table...’

But before that, he carefully sized up the five brides.

The brides were all humanoid, but one of them was covered in thick fur and had a tail.

Another was sopping wet, as if just pulled from the water, while another dripped blood constantly, and so on.

The next moment, Zou Feng strode forward, bypassing the brides.

He went straight to the "bridal chamber" behind them and immediately pushed the door open.

The five Deceitful Brides all turned, still clamoring over one another, "Marry me... Marry me..."

Zou Feng waved a hand grandly. "No need for all this trouble. Come on in. I’ll take all of you!"

Hearing this, the five Deceitful Brides froze for a moment, then swarmed into the bridal chamber like madwomen, lunging at Zou Feng.

After they had all entered, the door shut automatically behind them.

Zou Feng, long prepared to fight one against five, immediately thrust out both hands. A multitude of palm shadows instantly filled the entire bridal chamber.

The five Deceitful Brides pounced at Zou Feng like rabid dogs, but they were blocked by his Palm Force and couldn’t get near him.

The bridal chamber was instantly filled with the unceasing sound of slaps.

Zou Feng had originally thought he could take care of these Deceitful Brides in a few moves, but that was not the case.

Although the five Deceitful Brides shrieked strangely as they were struck by Zou Feng’s Great Universal Hand, they still couldn’t get close to him.

But after a flurry of attacks, they had somehow sustained no substantial damage.

It was as if Zou Feng’s palm strikes, which combined both power and poison, were only scraping them.

’This can’t go on.’

’I’m afraid that even if I use my True Man State, I’ll exhaust myself and run out of True Qi before I can completely destroy these five Deceitful Brides.’

’Then again, it makes sense. There must be a reason for all these flashy tricks from the Glazed Immortal Palace; they wouldn’t be so easy to solve.’

However, Zou Feng gradually noticed that although the five Deceitful Brides were constantly lunging at him like rabid dogs, their movements didn’t seem to be aimed at attacking him directly.

It was more like they truly intended to proceed with the "consummation" part after tackling him.

’So this so-called Marriage Hall... the only way to solve its puzzle is through dual cultivation, is that it?’

’It makes sense. If you’re going to change your fate through marriage, how could it count without getting married and consummating it?’

Although Zou Feng couldn’t be sure if dual cultivation would solve the problem, he had no other options for the time being and could only give it a try.

The problem was, the features of these five Deceitful Brides were simply too bizarre. No matter how "charitable" he was, he couldn’t accept them.

Fortunately, Zou Feng’s mind worked quickly under pressure, and he soon had an idea.

The next moment, he drove his True Qi with the Dragon and Tiger Kan and Li Skill, then switched his Great Universal Hand to its Chaos Finger form.

And so, the palm shadows that had filled the bridal chamber instantly transformed into an overwhelming torrent of finger shadows.

This time, the effect was immediate.

The strange shrieks and roars of the five Deceitful Brides gradually turned into soft whimpers.

Even Zou Feng himself hadn’t expected that using the Dragon and Tiger Kan and Li Skill in this way could produce such a miraculous effect...

Enveloped by the overwhelming finger shadows, the five Deceitful Brides seemed to find release, and their bizarre features quickly vanished.

A moment later, even their bodies dissipated into nothingness, vanishing like smoke.

Seeing the Deceitful Brides finally vanquished, Zou Feng heaved a long sigh of relief.

’Good thing I didn’t have to get personally involved...’

Not long after the Deceitful Brides disappeared, everything around Zou Feng began to blur. The furnishings in the bridal chamber twisted and distorted.

In the blink of an eye, Zou Feng’s eyes snapped open, as if his soul had returned to his body.

Looking around, there was no bridal chamber, no ancient manor.

He was in a dim, open space deep within the Marriage Hall.

Everything that had just happened had clearly been an Illusion Realm he was pulled into.

He looked up and saw, not far from him, the others who had also chosen to enter the Marriage Hall.

Wang Guquan, Leng Jing, and the others were all there, not one was missing.

However, they clearly hadn’t escaped the Illusion Realm yet. All of them had their eyes closed and their brows tightly furrowed, as if suffering some unbearable torture.

Furthermore, their movements were extremely indecent.

Wang Guquan, for example, was drenched in sweat and doing endless push-ups, having already smashed a sizeable crater into the stone slab beneath him.

Leng Jing, on the other hand, was lying limp on his back, constantly yelling something that sounded like begging for mercy. 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝙚𝔀𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝒐𝒎

In short, of all the Martial Artists who entered the Marriage Hall, only Zou Feng had escaped first; the rest were not having a good time.

Just as Zou Feng was pondering how he might help them, Wang Guquan suddenly let out a triumphant laugh.

"Did you really think my eighty years of practice in the Yang Cauldron Child Skill was for show? If I couldn’t even handle you lot, I might as well just go find a block of tofu and bash my brains out... Huh!?"

"Where are my wives?"

"It was all... an illusion!?"

Wang Guquan had obviously "cleared the level," but he hadn’t fully processed it yet.

But once he understood what had just happened, a look of regret appeared on his face, with little of the joy one would expect from successfully escaping an Illusion Realm.

Following Zou Feng and Wang Guquan’s escape from the Illusion Realm, it wasn’t long before someone else met the conditions and woke up.

In the end, however, there were some who never woke up.

Their bodies shriveled before one’s very eyes.

Their flesh, blood, and life essence seemed to have been drained and digested by the Marriage Hall itself.

’It seems these Fate Halls really are like monsters.’

’Once you enter one, it’s like stepping into its stomach.’

’If you can’t see through the Illusion Realm, you’ll be completely devoured and digested.’

Now Zou Feng finally had a rough idea of what the Glazed Immortal Palace meant by "Those without fortune are forbidden entry."

’To put it bluntly, if you haven’t been assimilated by the "Immortal Venerable" and lack that fortune, you’re considered an unqualified Gu.’

’In that case, entering the Glazed Immortal Palace means you’re just "nutrients" to be absorbed by the entire Immortal Palace.’

Zou Feng considered using his "Friendship Face-Breaking Fist" to snap the others out of the Illusion Realm.

But this was a completely different matter from being possessed by the Immortal Venerable, and Zou Feng quickly discovered his methods had no effect.

In the end, of the ten Martial Artists who had entered the Marriage Hall, only four woke up.

Besides Wang Guquan, they were all acquaintances of Zou Feng: Leng Jing and Lu Wei.

The Rakshasa Sect’s wicked Body Refining Technique was already infamous for its brutality.

So although Leng Jing had looked like he was in great pain and struggling, he had ultimately pulled through without any real danger.

As for Lu Wei...

She was the only female Martial Artist who entered the Marriage Hall to wake up.

The men in the Marriage Hall’s Illusion Realm all experienced a wedding night, but as for what the women went through, Zou Feng didn’t feel it was appropriate to ask, nor could he be bothered to.

Soon, the four who had woken up finished regulating their breathing.

Wang Guquan, habitually taking the lead, said, "Let’s go. The way out might be just ahead!"

Since they had seen through the Illusion Realm and could move freely again, they couldn’t just turn back. Naturally, they had to continue exploring the interior of these Fate Halls.

Wang Guquan even believed that as long as they passed through these Fate Halls, they would find an exit.

This was also why top-tier experts like Su Qingyu and the Sword Saint had not been seen and had yet to appear.

Perhaps they had already passed through the Fate Halls and escaped the Glazed Immortal Palace.

Of course, Zou Feng couldn’t agree with Wang Guquan’s optimistic speculation.

After all, besides people like Su Qingyu and Jing Huaisong, there was another group of Martial Artists who hadn’t been in their previous party.

’It can’t be that all of them have already escaped, right?’

Especially since, as they continued forward, some humanoid skeletons, dead for who knows how many years, began to appear around them.

These skeletons must have been the unlucky souls from the last batch forcibly pulled into the Glazed Immortal Palace.

’So, if the Glazed Immortal Palace pulls people in periodically to perform a Cultivation Gu-like operation...’

’...then a "King of Human Gu" must have already been born from the previous batches of Martial Artists.’

’Are these "Kings of Human Gu" still alive today, or have they transformed into some other kind of existence?’

As Zou Feng pondered these various matters, a light suddenly appeared in the distance. This meant they had finally reached the end of the Marriage Hall and arrived at the exit on the other side.