168: A person who loves to laugh

"Hahahahaha!"

"Director, please stop laughing, I'm scared."

Secretary Liu was drenched in sweat, watching the Base Director, who was lying on the ground, his head covered in blood, yet laughing once more.

"What are you panicking about? They're just a bunch of idiots, just a bunch of greenhorns in the end."

"If they had killed me directly then, perhaps they could have escaped easily."

"But I've already sent a message to the Imperial Dynasty's offerings."

"With the escape speed of a Nascent Soul Stage Cultivator, they'll arrive at the base in no time and capture all of them."

"A Nascent Soul Stage Cultivator is coming, what are you still panicking about?"

Although the Base Director looked disheveled, his eyes were full of confidence.

Secretary Liu waited for a moment, looked around, and only after confirming there was no movement did he breathe a sigh of relief.

"Quick, hurry and bring up the surveillance of their current location. I want to see their painful expressions with my own eyes!"

Although Secretary Liu still hoped that Director Wu would rest quickly and recover in a treatment pod, the other party insisted, so he had no choice but to comply.

Anyway, Core Formation Cultivators don't die that easily.

As soon as the screen connected, he saw the invited offering suspended in mid-air, holding a long spear, his Aura formidable.

The mech had already scattered into a pile of parts, lying on the ground, and the three of them looked like flickering candles in the wind.

"Brother Xiao, is that thing of yours really reliable?"

Wang Yao looked at the opponent whose cultivation he couldn't even see through, already preparing to charge forward and fight to the death.

But Xiao Sheng seemed much more relaxed.

"I didn't intend to use this move, but you dared to destroy my Magic Treasure, and now you're still so arrogant. Then let me show you my methods!"

The spear-wielding youth's gaze was indifferent, as if everything they did was futile.

"A speck of light, yet it shines?"

Xiao Sheng completely ignored the other party's mockery, and without another word, he took the wooden sword from his back and drew it.

"You all step back, be careful not to get caught in the crossfire!"

As soon as the sword was unsheathed, a heavy Aura permeated the air.

Feeling this Aura, Wang Yao felt his limbs become disobedient, and his heart pounded violently.

"What are you staring at? Hurry and retreat!"

Seeing Wang Yao staring blankly at Xiao Sheng's back, Yuan Chenling, in exasperation, swallowed him into his Divine Ability and turned to run.

However, the direction Yuan Chenling ran was actually—

"Quick!"

"Quick, help me run!"

The Base Director saw from the monitor that the other party was rushing towards him at high speed.

If not for fear overpowering anger, he would have cursed out loud.

Because he was from the Eastern Domain, he had an artificial Golden Core installed in his body.

Although his combat power in all aspects reached the normal Core Formation Cultivator level, and even stronger with the help of technological creations,

In terms of recovery and some other aspects, he was far inferior to a Core Formation Cultivator who had truly undergone a life leap.

Now his armor was damaged, his Physical Body severely injured, and as a researcher, he disdained installing combat prosthetics in the first place.

So he truly had no combat power at this moment.

Although he didn't know what method Zhou Yan used to take the other party away, there was no doubt that the other party would most likely release that kid again.

If they ran into Zhou Yan, they would have to face a Core Formation Cultivator and a Foundation Establishment Prodigy.

Then it would all be over!

Here, Secretary Liu was carrying the Base Director, running frantically, while Yuan Chenling, with Wang Yao in his mouth, chased relentlessly from behind.

Yuan Chenling didn't know the way, but his nose was keen and he could smell where the person who knew the way was.

And on Xiao Sheng's side, he had completely drawn the wooden sword.

This wooden sword seemed ordinary, yet it shook everyone's hearts.

"Immortal Artifact?"

"Which Daoist Temple's junior are you, to be able to bring out such an important item? Your elders are truly bold."

Aside from a slight surprise at the moment Xiao Sheng drew his sword, there was no further ripple of emotion from the opponent.

"Since you know it's an Immortal Artifact, why aren't you surrendering obediently?"

Xiao Sheng held the wooden sword, his hand trembling slightly.

Of course, he wasn't afraid of the Nascent Soul Cultivator in front of him.

"I've recognized it as an Immortal Artifact, so how could I not understand its usage?"

"You, a mere Foundation Establishment Cultivator, how can you activate an Immortal Artifact? Do you really think holding an Immortal Artifact is the same as holding a heavenly balance?"

"As long as I'm not struck by you, your Immortal Artifact is nothing more than a rotten piece of wood."

After speaking, he released his pressure on Xiao Sheng, pinning him to the ground, unable to stand up.

"See, you don't even have the right to stand straight in front of me."

"If I didn't want to kill you, you would have died countless times already."

"Whether it was letting that lion go, or waiting for you to draw your sword, it was merely on a whim."

"Just as I can now, on a whim, resolve all of you."

"Heh."

"Who told you that I can't activate an Immortal Artifact?"

Although Xiao Sheng was suppressed to the ground, the corner of his mouth couldn't help but curl upwards.

"Old Ancestor, you big..."

"Rumble!!!"

A towering bolt of lightning resounded outside the entire Kaifeng.

"Over there!"

Zhou Yan shouted to Li Wenbo behind him.

Zhou Yan and Li Wenbo were currently outside, searching for traces of Yuan Chenling and the others.

They had almost dug three feet deep, yet hadn't seen a single person.

Even Li Wenbo felt that perhaps Zhou Yan was being too sensitive.

Just as he was about to persuade Zhou Yan to go back first while he arranged for people to search, a bolt of extremely suppressed lightning suddenly struck down from the sky, piercing the ground not far away.

Zhou Yan could feel that the lightning contained a powerful force, similar to the feeling during Undergoing Tribulation, yet distinctly different.

The lightning was exceptionally dazzling, making it difficult to look at directly; even Li Wenbo, a Soul Transformation Cultivator, couldn't help but squint his eyes.

Zhou Yan painstakingly caught the moment the lightning struck the ground through the gaps in his fingers.

"Ding, player has directly witnessed Heavenly Punishment for the first time, Law of Thunder comprehension +0.1%"

Zhou Yan felt as if his eyes were frozen in that instant, with only the lightning remaining in his vision.

Li Wenbo saw that he was being eroded by directly looking at the Law power and was about to help,

But then he saw Zhou Yan pluck out his eyes, tuck them into his embrace, and in a blink of an eye, a new pair grew.

What's going on? Are all Prodigies like this now?

Instead of trying to repair a damaged Dao Body, he directly regenerates it? Is a Core Formation Stage Cultivator's vitality really that worthless?

Before Li Wenbo could recover from his shock, countless Formations had already spread from the edge of the large pit just struck by lightning, rapidly repairing and closing it.

Zhou Yan was about to rush in to prevent the pit from completely sealing, but Li Wenbo pulled him back.

"I understand now why we couldn't find them anywhere."

"Below, a large number of Formations were likely used, combined with Eastern Domain's technological creations, to construct a special space that is between an independent space and this world."

"This way, it won't be detected due to spatial fluctuations, nor can it be directly dug into."

"Since we've figured out the principle and locked onto their Aura, things are much simpler."

"If we rush down to save them and then break out, it would take too much time."

"Just today, allow me, your elder brother, to show you what Soul Transformation is."

After speaking, Li Wenbo gently pulled Zhou Yan back and took a few steps forward himself.

Six small golden cubes appeared in his hand.

Zhou Yan now possessed Nascent Soul Divine Sense, coupled with his somewhat mutated eyes, so he could roughly discern them without relying on his panel.

Six finished small cubes of Nascent Soul level?

They were indeed Nascent Soul level, but they were just cubes, meaningless in themselves.

Moreover, because they were finished products, their properties were difficult to change.

These small cubes, without special properties and difficult to change, could almost be called "Nascent Soul level bricks."

Could there be some mystery in this thing that he hadn't seen?

Zhou Yan sensed it for a while and then appraised it with his panel.

[Special Material Cube (Tier 4)]

[Quality: Inferior]

"No need to look further, these six cubes are indeed useless items." As Li Wenbo's voice fell, the six cubes began to revolve in his palm, then burst into golden light.

"This is my Law Divine Ability—'Primal Artifact Exchange'."