The Heaven Ascension Treasure Vault

The Azure Ape King continued performing a series of dizzying handsigns as he bombarded the ceiling above them with the concentrated green lightning that he summoned.

Liu An watched the electrifying lights in the air, his expression unchanged. No one could fathom what was going on in his mind.

Shi Mu, meanwhile, had secretly activated his magical eyes. As golden light shone out from his pupils he realized that when the green lightning rushed into the disc, the number of seemingly nonsensical runes were steadily being reduced!

It was as if every single strike of green lightning was directly proportionate to the deduction of a single runic character. And as the number of runes decreased, the green disc of light slowly started to rock.

In the blink of an eye, the last rune guarding the disc disappeared completely, and the disc returned to its smooth unmarred look—the only exception being that its surface was now embroiled in some kind of violent turbulence.

"Begin!"