Chapter 279: Chapter 145: Zhong Ming: I Am the Demon Lord! Immortal and Indestructible

"More people are coming?"

The scene before them left everyone stunned.

You see, the entrance to the Star Secret Vault wasn’t always open.

It would only appear for a short while at a specific time. Once that period passed, it would close, turning the Star Secret Vault into a sealed space.

According to past precedent, this period would last for three days. Only after three days would the Star Gate open again, allowing everyone to leave.

More importantly, the entrance to the Star Secret Vault involved the Power of Space. Forcing a teleportation while it was unstable could very well lead to being torn apart by the violent spatial energies, resulting in complete annihilation of both body and soul.

So, no one could figure out who was so audacious as to dare teleport at a time like this.

"Do they have a death wish?"

Just as everyone was reeling in shock, the light from the teleportation gradually faded, revealing the figures within.

However, when they got a clear look at the newcomers, everyone inside the Star Secret Vault—from Zhong Ming to the True Inheritance prodigies of the six Major Sects—felt their pupils contract, their faces filled with disbelief.

To their horror, they discovered that the arrivals were not Cultivators from some ordinary sect, but the children of Prince Qinghe.

Ji Chengping, Ji Qinghui, Ji Qingkang, Ji Qingyue, Ji Qinglian... All of them appeared in the Star Secret Vault looking dazed, surprised, and even furious.

"???"

"Wh-what’s going on?"

"How did they get here?"

"Are they here to compete for the Star Secret Vault’s treasures? But that’s unnecessary. If there was something in here they needed, why would they have opened it to outsiders in the first place?!"

Some were filled with doubt at the appearance of Prince Qinghe’s children, completely baffled as to why they were here.

But there were also sharp-minded individuals whose gazes suddenly darkened as they sensed that something was terribly wrong.

"No, judging by their expressions, they definitely didn’t come here willingly... Something has happened outside!"

SWOOSH!

The very instant he sensed the anomaly, Zhong Ming went on high alert. At the same time, a hurried shout erupted from his lips, his voice echoing in all directions:

"Be careful! The enemy teleported the Prince’s children in here. It can’t be just to let them take a stroll."

"There is an enemy... among us!"

As he shouted, a crisp sound, like a drop of water from a clear spring, suddenly echoed in the depths of Zhong Ming’s heart.

DING-DONG!

This gentle sound was like a stone tossed into water, sending ripples across his Heart Lake. These ripples then spread outward, reflecting everything in the surroundings within his Heart Lake.

[Bright Mirror Stilled Water - Ripples] [Heart as a Mirror]

At the same time, a fiery light blazed to life in Zhong Ming’s left eye. He whipped his head around, his gaze like a torch, scanning his surroundings.

[Candlelight Heart Eye] [As Clear as Daylight]

He activated all four abilities at once, but it still took him a moment to notice something was amiss nearby—a high-level power, one that felt incredibly familiar yet far superior to anything he had encountered before, was stealthily concealing the abnormalities of several Cultivators.

Furthermore, the power wasn’t merely obstructing his investigation. It was exceptionally mystical, having nullified the very presence and abnormalities of several individuals through Vaporization. This made those with anomalies seem like ghosts or shadows, almost as if they existed in a different dimension from Zhong Ming and the others.

It was this power of superior Personhood, combined with an incomparably mystical concealment technique, that had prevented even Zhong Ming—whose Divine Soul had already achieved Breaking the Norms and who possessed numerous special traits—from detecting the anomaly beforehand.

’This power... It shares the same origin as the aura from Mingya, but it’s much more advanced. The people from his faction are definitely involved in this incident!’

As these thoughts flashed through his mind, Zhong Ming’s gaze had already swept across the area.

Relying on the full power of his four abilities, he finally broke through that layer of concealment by Vaporization. Immediately, he discovered a fatal anomaly lurking extremely close to him—within arm’s reach.

SWOOSH! With a slight turn of his head, Zhong Ming saw a dark figure exuding a bizarre aura, holding a dagger wreathed in a thick, forbidden presence, thrusting viciously toward his back.

His previous lack of vigilance had allowed the attacker to get so close.

But in the instant Zhong Ming turned his head, that short distance became as vast as the horizon!

BZZZT!

The dark figure was focused solely on assassinating Zhong Ming, so its Gaze was naturally fixed on Zhong Ming’s form.

And this allowed Zhong Ming, as he turned, to meet its eyes.

In that single moment of eye contact, the dark figure exuding a strange aura felt as if it were seeing a magnificent, blazing Great Sun.

Endless golden light and scorching flames erupted from that Great Sun, instantly flooding its entire field of vision.

BOOM!

The moment it stared directly at the Great Sun and was enveloped by the endless golden light, the Cultist attempting to assassinate Zhong Ming felt its Soul Spirit melt like ice and snow meeting the sun, instantly incinerated by the searing light of the Sun.

"No—!"

The fear of death made it let out a bloodcurdling shriek as it desperately activated all sorts of defensive measures.

Alas, it was all in vain.

The Breaking Evil Golden Light possessed an unparalleled suppressive power against evil. Like the sharpest Light Divine Sword in the world, it easily pierced and shattered all of the Cultist’s defenses.

The Purifying Flame that followed immediately after incinerated its Soul Spirit completely, turning it to a wisp of ash.

With just a single glance, the Cultist was utterly destroyed, body and soul.

"This weapon is actually quite threatening." Shaking his head, Zhong Ming said with a hint of speechlessness, "But you people really don’t take me seriously at all, sending someone so weak to assassinate me."