Wu Shattered Star River

Three months' time was equivalent to twenty-five years inside the Heavenly Beast Cauldron.

Deducing a formation diagram seemed easy to Jiang Han, but no matter how much he deduced, he found that the diagram was always missing something.

It felt like a jigsaw puzzle with one or two pieces missing; no matter how he tried, he couldn't complete the puzzle.

Jiang Han was puzzled. He closed his eyes and slept for half a day, then continued to sense the surrounding situation.

The nearby mountains and landforms automatically appeared in his mind, along with the one hundred and eight stone pillars, and the strong individuals of various races tied to seventy or eighty of the pillars.

"Nothing is missing!"

After carefully sensing it three or four times, Jiang Han didn't find anything. The diagram he had drawn was complete; his soul was very strong now, and he couldn't have sensed it wrong.

"Continue deducing!"

Jiang Han could only continue to deduce, but after another two months, he gave up.

Indeed, something was missing. The formation diagram was missing a corner; the diagram was incomplete.

An incomplete diagram could never be successfully deduced, no matter how hard he tried.

"What exactly is the problem?"

Jiang Han opened his eyes in surprise, looking around, but he didn't know where he had sensed it wrong.

He closed his eyes again and began to sleep, but after only half a day, he was awakened by the howling of a demon nearby. He opened his eyes speechlessly, then released his soul power to continue exploring.

After exploring twice without any results, he thought about using the Spirit Seeking Art to investigate.

This Spirit Seeking Art was a divine power he had used before, and it didn't require consuming immortal power to activate.

Unfortunately, the range of the Spirit Seeking Art was limited, and it didn't reveal any results.

He pondered for a moment, then turned his gaze to the old man of the human race not far away and began chatting with him, asking if there were any illusions here? Whether the situation he had sensed was an illusion?

Although the old man didn't know what Jiang Han was trying to achieve by asking this, being able to chat with someone in this ghostly place could relieve his inner depression.

Jiang Han compared his findings with the old man's and found that there was nothing wrong with his own exploration.

The old man curiously asked, "What are you exploring this for?"

"Elder Yu!"

The old man was called Yu Changqing. Jiang Han transmitted his voice, "I want to study these stone pillars to see if there is a way to break them."

"Don't even think about it!"

Yu Changqing transmitted his voice, "Many strong individuals have studied this thing, but it's unsolvable. Moreover, this stone pillar is a treasure, and there is a spirit within it."

"Unless you can tame the artifact spirit, there is no possibility of breaking it. Every once in a while, the Bloodshade race will send strong individuals to try to refine this stone pillar. So many years have passed, but no Bloodshade race strong individual has been able to do it. Don't waste your time."

Yu Changqing's words didn't discourage Jiang Han. He asked, "How do the strong individuals of the Bloodshade race refine it? There are one hundred and eight stone pillars here; which one do they refine?"

"It's not fixed!"

Yu Changqing explained, "They refine it randomly. Whichever one doesn't have a prisoner tied to it, they will refine that one, and sometimes they change it up."

"I remember that several Bloodshade race Heavenly Kings used to refine it down here for hundreds or thousands of years, but they eventually left without success!"

Jiang Han fell into deep thought. After a moment, he asked, "In other words, no one knows which of these one hundred and eight stone pillars is the main pillar? No one knows where the artifact spirit of the stone pillar is hidden?"

"Yes!"

Yu Changqing replied, "Everyone knows that there is an artifact spirit in this stone pillar, but no one knows where the artifact spirit is hidden. Even if they knew, they probably couldn't break the stone pillar, so naturally, they couldn't harm the artifact spirit."

"By the way… I once heard two Bloodshade race Heavenly Kings talking. They were also trying to find the artifact spirit, but they tried many methods and spent several years without finding it."

Jiang Han's heart stirred. A very bold idea suddenly appeared in his mind.

So many strong individuals can't find the artifact spirit of the stone pillar. Is there a possibility—that the artifact spirit is not within these one hundred and eight stone pillars?

"Could it be?"

Jiang Han's eyes narrowed. This thought became more and more intense. He looked around and murmured softly, "Could there be another stone pillar? Is this stone pillar hidden?"

"Is this hidden stone pillar the main pillar, and the artifact spirit is hidden within this stone pillar? Does the formation set up by this artifact spirit have the ability to hide itself, hiding the main pillar?"

This thought surged in Jiang Han's mind like a torrential river.

The more he thought about it, the more likely it seemed!

The formation diagram he wanted to deduce was missing a corner, and so many strong individuals couldn't find the artifact spirit. The reliance of the Haotian Stone was the formation.

Since a formation was set up, it was very likely that the Haotian Stone artifact spirit had set up a formation to hide itself.

If the main pillar was hidden, and the enemy couldn't attack the artifact spirit, then it would be almost impossible to destroy the Haotian Stone.

If he deduced it this way, it seemed to form a closed loop logically.

The more Jiang Han thought about it, the more excited he became. He didn't chat with Yu Changqing anymore and instead began to cultivate in seclusion again. He spread out his soul power to the extreme and began to search for that hidden stone pillar.

In his heart, he actually knew that he definitely wouldn't be able to find it, but he still wanted to try, just in case he could discover some clues?

He searched for two whole days, becoming exhausted, and finally gave up helplessly.

He couldn't find that hidden stone pillar.

He pondered for a moment and decisively closed his eyes to sleep. This time, it was more miserable. After sleeping for a day, a demon wind blew, and he was burned awake by the raging fire.

After the demon wind and raging fire passed, Jiang Han healed his physical body and then began to deduce the formation diagram.

He wanted to use the formation diagram to deduce the location of that hidden stone pillar. If he could deduce the location of this stone pillar, then he could draw a complete diagram and then deduce a complete formation diagram.

This time it was very smooth!

Jiang Han deduced for two months and calculated more than twenty possible points.

If his deduction was correct, then this hidden stone pillar was very likely within these twenty-odd points.

Of course, these possibilities were just Jiang Han's wishful thinking. Maybe everything didn't exist, and that hidden stone pillar simply didn't exist.

After deducing these twenty-odd points, Jiang Han had a headache because he didn't know how to confirm that his deduction was correct. He couldn't move now, and he couldn't even release a blade of light.

"That's right!"

Jiang Han suddenly remembered that he still had some Divine Sound Gold Mantises in his Heavenly Beast Cauldron, and two Gold Mantis Kings. He could let the Gold Mantis Kings investigate.

He glanced around and the Heavenly Beast Cauldron appeared between his eyebrows, and then a Gold Mantis King was released from it.

He controlled the Gold Mantis King to rush towards those twenty-odd points.

"Huh?"

Many strong individuals were alarmed. They didn't know what Jiang Han was up to? What was the point of releasing a strange beast?

This place was full of flames. This strange beast only had the battle power of a King-level. How long could it last?

The Gold Mantis King ran all the way, screaming as it was burned by the flames. Fortunately, the Gold Mantis King's defense was not bad, and it was not immediately burned to death.

"Nothing?"

Jiang Han controlled the Gold Mantis King to pass through the twenty-odd points, but it didn't bump into the hidden stone pillar, and there were no spatial fluctuations. These one hundred and eight stone pillars didn't change in any way, and Jiang Han's eyes revealed surprise.

Could it be that he had calculated incorrectly?

"Underground!"

Jiang Han pondered for a moment and ordered the Gold Mantis King to start digging underground, digging down one by one at the twenty-odd points he had calculated to see if there was a hidden stone pillar underground.

One, five, eight, seventeen!

When the Gold Mantis King was digging at the seventeenth point, the Gold Mantis King dug down for dozens of miles and suddenly dug into an extremely hard stone.

The Gold Mantis King's extremely sharp blade arm slashed at it, but the stone didn't move at all.

At the same time, the one hundred and eight stone pillars lit up slightly.

Jiang Han's heart trembled, and a look of ecstasy appeared on his face.

His calculation was completely correct. There was indeed a hidden stone pillar. He had found the main pillar hidden by the Haotian Stone.