428: This is good stuff!

The storage room was deep within the world-suppressing nails, and even with Chen Heng leading Bai Jun and the others, it took a full half-hour to reach the door.

The interior decorations of these world-suppressing nails were basically all the same; cold metal walls reflected a warm, milky-white light.

The door to the storage room in front of them was pushed open by Chen Heng, but there were no supplies as imagined.

There were only stacks and stacks of sealed folders.

Suddenly, that familiar big face appeared on the wall beside them; it was Chen Heng’s Fellow Countryman.

"I knew it, we're all the same type."

"Here's what I left for you, I hope it can help you."

"Love you, mwah~"

...Chen Heng didn't know how to describe his Fellow Countryman anymore; this guy might have lived too long and his mental state was abnormal.

"Big Brother Chen, he... what did he just say? Why does his expression look so disgusting?"

Bai Jun pouted with a hint of disgust; a grown man blowing a kiss indeed looked disgusting.

"It's nothing, he just said these things will be useful to us."

Chen Heng shook his head; he didn't want to explain what 'mwah' meant.

Casually tearing open a sealed folder, Chen Heng glanced at the document inside.

"[Regarding the Smelting Process and Equipment Construction Methods and Technology for Anti-Root Corrosion Alloy (Appendix 17)]"

"Appendix Seventeen?" Chen Heng raised an eyebrow. Could it be that all these folders were about the smelting of this type of Materials?

He stuffed the document in his hand into Bai Jun's hand, then Chen Heng randomly pulled out another folder.

After tearing it open, sure enough, it was Appendix Three.

He tore open another one; this time, it wasn't about the smelting technology of anti-root alloy, but about the application of anti-root corrosion alloy.

And the spiritual energy gun Chen Heng obtained from the Danqing Valley world-suppressing nail was one such application.

In this document, that type of spiritual energy gun was merely the weakest self-defense weapon; more powerful ones were all recorded here.

Not only that, but the casting methods for the world-suppressing nails were also included.

"I wonder if it will be useful..."

Chen Heng rubbed his chin. According to the descriptions, in the ancient era, Human Race who couldn't Cultivate could even fight Heavenly Gods to a draw with these weapons.

If they could truly replicate them, then there would be an extra layer of protection when fighting the root cause.

At least there would be no need to worry about problems in the rear.

"Pack them up, these are all good things."

Chen Heng put the documents back into the folders and began stuffing all the documents from the entire storage room into a dragon skin pouch.

He didn't care if the order was messed up; after all, he wasn't the one to research them. Handing them over to the lunatics at the Imperial Research Institute was the best option.

Bai Jun and the others scratched their heads. Although they couldn't understand what was written, they were obedient enough.

Together, they put all the folders from the entire storage room into the dragon skin pouch.

Even the immensely capacious dragon skin pouch just managed to hold all these documents.

"Big Brother Chen, what's the use of these paper scraps?" Luo Shuo put the last document into the dragon skin pouch and turned to look at Chen Heng.

"They are extremely useful," Chen Heng said, tying the dragon skin pouch to his waist and patting it twice.

"This contains the smelting methods for the Materials used to cast world-suppressing nails."

"Do you think that's important?"

"What!?" Everyone was startled upon hearing this. They hadn't expected such good things to be left here.

It was known that Snake Green, who had been bored earlier, had tested the toughness of this Material, and even her Dragon Qi at the Demon Emperor Realm couldn't move it an inch.

Or rather, her Dragon Qi was completely absorbed by this Material.

"Then can we cast world-suppressing nails ourselves and continue to suppress the root cause?"

Bai Jun's eyes lit up. If so, would Big Brother Chen no longer have to risk his life?

"Yes, you can," Chen Heng nodded and turned to look at them.

"But do you plan to hide behind this thing for a lifetime?"

"This thing merely provides us with a fallback; it's unrealistic to rely on world-suppressing nails to survive."

The information his Fellow Countryman left him earlier also indicated that world-suppressing nails were definitely not a long-term solution.

He now only had two choices: escape or eliminate the root cause.

Chen Heng planned to do both: he would be responsible for killing the root cause, and the others would be responsible for preparing to escape.

"Let's go, come with me to the Testing Ground."

Chen Heng waved to them, his mood unchanged.

He had long been prepared to go all out against the root cause, especially after hearing that his Fellow Countryman had also gone all out against it.

His Fellow Countryman might be far superior to him in terms of researching things, but when it came to individual combat power, Chen Heng was still very confident.

Chen Heng's current Qi and blood, to put it plainly, were almost infinite; his consumption was less than his recovery.

As long as he wanted to, he could become infinitely stronger, until he was so strong that even the root cause couldn't bear it.

"Okay." Upon hearing "Testing Ground," Bai Jun and Luo Shuo immediately recalled their previous encounter in the Danqing Valley world-suppressing nail.

The two couldn't help but shiver, but they still followed... Halfway, a sticky, slimy sound of movement echoed, and everyone turned to look at the source of the sound.

"What's wrong, Slime?" Bai Jun patted the Slime that emerged from his body.

"Goo-jee goo-jee!"

Slime seemed extremely eager for something, pulling Bai Jun and wanting to go in the opposite direction.

"Wait a moment, first accompany Big Brother Chen to the Testing Ground."

Bai Jun appeased Slime with a couple of words, and Slime quieted down.

"That direction..." Chen Heng recalled.

If viewed along the normal route, the direction Slime pointed to was precisely the location of the Testing Ground.

Perhaps there was something in the Testing Ground attracting it?

Without thinking much, Chen Heng quickened his pace again and soon stood before that familiar white door.

This time, Chen Heng didn't tear open the door directly but pressed the normal open switch.

The familiar white space, and the small platform in the center.

"You guys, go hide over there." Chen Heng pointed to a distant corner; who knew what new tricks his Fellow Countryman might pull out?

Bai Jun and Luo Shuo, familiar with the routine, led the other two to hide in the corner.

Seeing their puzzled looks, Bai Jun cleared his throat and explained.

After hearing Bai Jun's explanation, Hui Che and Snake Green immediately became well-behaved.

Everyone nervously watched Chen Heng in the distance, guessing what kind of Vicious Beast would appear in a moment.

But after a long while, Chen Heng had already picked up the item on the platform, and nothing appeared.

"That shouldn't be right?" Bai Jun scratched his head. Normally, shouldn't the ground be covered in blood by now?

"It's fine, nothing happened." Chen Heng shouted to them, then walked over with the item from the platform.

"This time's trial was an illusion; that thing was completely ineffective against me. I stomped it to death."

Chen Heng rubbed the sole of his shoe, and sure enough, a bloodstain appeared.