“What news?” Azure Dragon asked eagerly.
“You… you promised to let us go before I speak…” the woman added with a trembling voice.
“You… you would definitely be interested in this news, it’s… it’s about the inheritance of the strong…”
“Are you saying you know where there’s an inheritance of the strong?” Azure Dragon’s eyes lit up.
“Yes…” the woman nodded.
“And, I know people from Crimson Flame Empire and Ice Cloud Empire have already gone. If you delay…”
“Speak!” Billy interrupted her: “Speak up, and I’ll spare your life!”
“Th… thank you!” the woman nodded quickly.
After a slight pause, she continued speaking.
“I overheard people from Crimson Flame Empire talking about it before. Under the ruins of the imperial palace, there is a palace buried underground, and it is said to contain the inheritance of the strong.”
“The people from Crimson Flame Empire’s main goal this time entering Forbidden Phantom Valley is that underground palace.”
Upon hearing her words, Nelson Morris, standing beside Billy, showed a hint of surprise in his eyes.
“You better not be lying to us!” Azure Dragon raised his eyebrows and looked at Billy: “Boss, should we go check it out?”
“Let’s go!” Billy nodded and led the group towards the direction of the imperial palace.
Just before leaving, Stout didn’t forget the sack belonging to the other party. He handed his own sack to Judge and picked up the sack nearby before following along.
The group hurried along, and after about twenty minutes, they appeared at the location of the imperial palace.
Compared to other parts of the city, the imperial palace was the most devastated, basically reduced to ruins.
Most of the palaces had collapsed, with rubble everywhere, and the few that hadn’t collapsed were also on the verge of crumbling.
“The imperial palace is so big, where do we start looking for the underground palace?” Black Tortoise scanned the surroundings.
“Boss, can you sense any martial artist’s aura?” Vermilion Bird asked Billy.
“I can’t sense anything!” Billy shook his head.
He had already released his spiritual power to probe the entire ruins, and the result surprised him. There was no trace of any aura fluctuation.
Normally, after entering this city, his spiritual power would be much stronger compared to the previous environments.
Within a radius of twenty to thirty kilometers, no one could escape his meticulous scanning.
But here, apart from their group, he didn’t sense anyone’s aura.
Moreover, there were no traces of anyone walking on the ground, not even a footprint.
“Mr Billy, the main hall should be in that direction, let’s go there!” Nelson Morris pointed to the front right.
“Okay!” Billy nodded and led the others over.
Soon, they arrived at a collapsed hall, which was the remnants of the main hall of the imperial palace.
“Search around!” Billy waved his hand and instructed.
“Okay!” the group responded and scattered.
“Honey, come and look here!” Soon, Harleen exclaimed.
“Honey, what’s wrong?” Billy hurried over.
“Look at the floor over there, there are traces of movement.” Harleen pointed to a spot about ten meters away.
“Hmm?” Billy looked over.
He saw that there was not much debris on the floor over there, relatively clean compared to the surroundings.
“Billy, there must be an array!” At this time, Ivy and Casey also approached.
“Okay!” Billy nodded: “Give me a few minutes!”
He had also sensed the fluctuation of the array. After saying that, he closed his eyes and released his spiritual power to sense the array.
When he probed the entire ruins of the imperial palace before, he only focused on whether there was any fluctuation of martial aura, not paying much attention to the array, so he didn’t sense that there was an array set up here.
“Ivy, the core of the array is over there. I’ll disrupt the array, and you’ll be responsible for activating the core!”
In less than five minutes, Billy opened his eyes and pointed to a stone pillar not far away.
This array could only be considered as an intermediate level array. With Billy’s current expertise, it was easy for him to find the core of the array.
“Ivy replied with “okay” and walked towards the stone pillar.
Next was quite simple, after the array was activated, the ground slowly moved aside.
Then, a passage with a length and width of about ten meters appeared, and when everyone looked inside, there was a stone staircase.
At the same time, a strong pressure emanated from inside the passage.
“Stay alert and follow me!” Billy said, leading the group towards the stone staircase.
To everyone’s surprise, the staircase was really long, winding this way and that. They didn’t know how long they had been walking. Just as everyone was about to lose patience, they finally arrived at a large underground space.
The space was indeed large, covering an area of at least tens of thousands of square meters.
And what surprised everyone was that hundreds of meters away, there was another staircase leading upwards, estimating to have nearly a thousand steps.
At intervals along the staircase, there were spacious platforms for resting.
On each platform, there were corridors on both sides, leading to a semi-suspended building at the other end, with a wooden structure and palace-like appearance.
At the top of the staircase was a magnificent palace, emitting a cold aura.
At this moment, there were scattered people on the staircase.
The remaining members of Crimson Flame Empire and Ice Cloud Empire, as well as Christopher Morris’s group, were all present.
In addition, there were also several corpses on the staircase, obviously casualties from conflicts between the three groups.
Billy’s group also noticed that the first wave of people walking on the staircase all looked pale and strained.
“I didn’t expect there to be such a place beneath the palace!” Azure Fang looked above the staircase and continued.
“Boss, if there’s really an inheritance, it should be in that palace above!”
“Most likely!” White Tiger nodded. “Boss, let’s go. Don’t let them get there first!”
“No need to rush!” Casey replied for Billy. “I guess it shouldn’t be that simple above the staircase!”
“What do you mean?” White Tiger and the others were slightly puzzled.
“If it’s just an ordinary staircase, they should have entered the palace above long ago,” Ivy said thoughtfully.
“Most likely, there’s also an array set up above the staircase. It won’t be so easy to reach the top!”
“Really?” Judge and Soul Chaser were taken aback.
At the same time, Nelson Morris, standing aside, muttered excitedly.
“I didn’t expect the legendary Forbidden Sanctum to really exist!”