The Golden Sigil

After walking up the large stone steps that numbered thirty-three or at least it was only Ye Fan who was the only one that was counting the steps, they had all reached a large gate that stood in front of them.

On this gate were a large golden sigil that sealed this gate tightly.

Most of the cultivators were able to recognize what this golden sigil means.

The Charming Saintess Luo Yingying said softly to the cultivators, "In order to enter into the immortal tomb, we need to neutralize this sigil first."

Then she looked at the other 5 saints, "For this, I need your help. Unfortunately, we have only 6 saints here and this sigil will require a formidable profound strength to do so. Simply trying to neutralize this golden sigil will create a backlash on the low level cultivator that is attempting to do so."

Saintess Shen Yunfeng who was the only female saintess other than the Charming Saintess Luo Yingying nodded, "Also unfortunately is the fact that we have picked the least popular of the 5 palaces to enter. Unless the cultivators that come behind us are powerful enough and have a couple of saints, they are not going to even enter into the palace ground here."

The Charming Saintess Luo Yingying smiled, "I don't disagree with that."

With that, she had turned to look at Ye Fan, "We will need your help to neutralize this golden sigil for our group. Among all the other cultivators here, you are the only strong enough cultivator to be able to assist the six of us here."

When she had said this, many of the cultivators were hanging their heads in shame; they were all 5th and 6th realm cultivators here while Ye Fan was only a half-step 5th realm cultivator. And just a moment ago, the Charming Saintess Luo Yingying had called them all low level cultivators that could not help with the saint cultivators to open the gate in front of them.

Now that she had asked Ye Fan for help, it was a slap on their faces that they were all inferior to Ye Fan.

They had all felt Ye Fan's profound strength as they worked together to break down the inner profound barrier and Ye Fan's profound strength was undisputable to the group.

Saintess Shen Yunfeng nodded, "That's right. This Ye Fan will be able to help us without getting a backlash. All we need next is plenty of luck."

Another saint by the name of Saint Teng Jianren said, "That's right. Hopefully we don't exhaust ourselves before we neutralize this golden sigil. For this we need plenty of luck."

This Saint Teng Jianren was a middle saint and he was also the second most powerful among the six saint cultivators in the group.

The Charming Saintess Luo Yingying looked at Ye Fan as she smiled charmingly, "So, Ye Fan. Are you ready to help us?"

Ye Fan nodded as he answered, "I will be glad to be of any help." 

And with that, the six saint cultivators and Ye Fan were all standing together as they mustered their profound strength to touch the golden sigil.

The Charming Saintess Luo Yingying said solemnly as everyone mustered their profound strength together which caused the golden sigil to glow brightly, "Follow my lead."

By that, she meant that everyone should follow the lead of her profound strength as she probed with her divine sense to neutralize the golden sigil that was sealing the gate.

She soon said, "There are 12 gates in this golden sigil. Each of the gate has 64 inner gates. One gate is the life gate and the other one is the death gate. If we enter the death gate then our souls will be sucked into this golden sigil and we will all die here. Only if we manage to find the life gate then we can enter into the next gate. Altogether this golden sigil consists of 12 gates. So we need plenty of luck."

When she had said that, all the other saint cultivators were looking quite ashamed of their cultivation attainment; they could barely see through even 3 of the gates of this golden sigil and yet this Charming Saintess Luo Yingying was able to figure out the entire golden sigil all by herself.

Saintess Shen Yunfeng chuckled softly, "Surely, we won't be so unlucky to find the death gate. It is only 1 out of 64."

Ye Fan who was standing next to her said, "If we can't find the life gate and enter the wrong gate each time, the chances of us finding the death gate actually increases each time. To put it short, we have 63 chances to find the death gate each time and we have to repeat it 12 more times for a total of 756 times. So it is either we give up due to a lack of profound strength to maintain our profound force on this golden sigil or we have found the death gate and we are all killed by it."

Saint Teng Jianren solemnly said, "This Ye Fan is right. It is going to be a difficult task. One wrong misstep, it will be the end of us since we are so few in numbers here. We won't be able to take the backlash well." 

The other 3 male saint cultivators were also sighing softly.

Saintess Shen Yunfeng: …

She awkward said, "I didn't think of that. You men are so good in your counting."

Fairy Xuan Xueqi had suddenly said from behind them, "The first gate, move your profound force into the 33rd gate. The second gate will be the 11th gate."

The Charming Saintess Luo Yingying turned around to take a look at Fairy Xuan Xueqi as she asked curiously, "How do you know?"

Without touching the golden sigil and channeling any profound strength into it, it is quite impossible for any cultivator to read the profound arrays that are within this golden sigil as every sealing sigil is unique. Some sigils may even reset every now and then too.

Fairy Xuan Xueqi said casually, "I happen to know how to read this golden sigil. Why don't you try first?"

The Charming Saintess Luo Yingying looked at the other saint cultivators and Ye Fan, "What do you all think?"

Saintess Shen Yunfeng said, "This is only the first attempt. We got nothing to lose by trying."

Ye Fan said firmly, "I trust my Xueqi. If she says so, then it must be it."

The other 4 saint cultivators slowly nodded to the Charming Saintess Luo Yingying; they got nothing to lose by trusting her for the first attempt. Unless they were so unlucky as to find the death gate on the very first attempt.

The Charming Saintess Luo Yingying nodded as she moved everyone's profound force into the 33rd gate.

To her astonishment, there was no pressure or resistance as she moved their profound force into the second main gate.

"It works?!"

Then she hastily moved their profound force to the 11th gate and once again, it moved into the third main gate.

She was greatly astonished as she thought: This Ye Xueqi's cultivation is so high? She can read this golden sigil with just her divine sense?

Fairy Xuan Xueqi then said, "Go to the 3rd gate now."

The Charming Saintess Luo Yingying did as she was instructed and she was astonished that they were now in the 4th main gate.

All the others were astonished too.

This really saved them plenty of profound strength because maintaining their profound force on this golden sigil was not easy at all.

Fairy Xian Xueqi gave her instructions for the rest of the main gates and soon the golden sigil faded away and the formidable large gate of the immortal palace was opened.

The Charming Saintess Luo Yingying took a look of great disbelief at Fairy Xuan Xueqi who was standing composed behind. 

Who exactly is she? And what is her background?

She was beginning to think that her mission to seduce Ye Fan was not going to easy because both this Ye Xueqi and Ye Fan were too mysterious to her. 

On the other hand, Saintess Shen Yunfeng chuckled with great delight. "The immortal palace is opened for us. What luck! We can finally enter it now."

All the other cultivators were all looking excitingly at the formidable gate that was slowly opening up.

Only Ye Fan and Fairy Xuan Xueqi were looking as casual as before.

As for the Charming Saintess Luo Yingying, even though she was appearing to be smiling charmingly, she was full of conflicts in her mind.