169: Divine power

Secretary Liu was, after all, a Mortal. Even though he had been enhanced by genetic agents and his Physical Body far surpassed that of a normal Mortal, comparable to the fourth level of Body Tempering, he still could not outrun Yuan Chenling, a Foundation Establishment Cultivator.

Just as the Base Director was feeling disheartened and preparing to initiate the self-destruct sequence, Yuan Chenling spat out Wang Yao.

Borrowing the momentum, Wang Yao quickly threw a punch, knocking the opponent unconscious again. Seeing his boss pass out, Secretary Liu had no choice but to raise his hands in surrender.

Just as Yuan Chenling was about to question them, the ground beneath everyone shook, and they nearly lost their footing.

Everyone looked in the same direction simultaneously.

Although the tremors were intense and it was difficult to pinpoint the exact source, everyone's intuition told them that the vibrations were coming from that direction.

"This Xiao Sheng is quite something, isn't he?"

"The Divine Might is astounding, and it even carries a hint of conceptual meaning... Could he have brought out the 'heavenly balance' of some Celestial Venerable?"

Yuan Chenling clicked his tongue in wonder.

This experience, where just a sliver of revealed power made him feel something in his heart, was only something he had felt from his own Old Ancestor.

"It shouldn't be. If it were the 'heavenly balance', without a Mahayana stage Cultivator controlling it, we would have already been reduced to ashes."

"Then what is this?"

Before Yuan Chenling could finish asking, a massive force suddenly pulled everyone toward the ceiling.

The next moment, the place seemed to fall into a zero-gravity state, and everyone began to float, their eyes losing focus.

Meanwhile, at the location where Xiao Sheng was.

Xiao Sheng was struggling to get up from the ruins.

Although he was charred all over and his hair was disheveled, compared to the Nascent Soul Cultivator opposite him who had been struck until he could not move, his condition was much better.

"You... you mere... Foundation Establishment... how is it possible... to wield an Immortal Artifact..."

The situation was instantly reversed. The young man was now lying on the ground, while Xiao Sheng stood atop the ruins, bathed in the sunlight streaming through the hole.

He bared his white teeth, about to speak, but was choked by the black smoke puffing out of his mouth, coughing repeatedly for a good while before he recovered.

"How's the taste of our Kurong Temple's Lightning Dao?"

The Nascent Soul Cultivator was clearly unable to respond.

Xiao Sheng walked shakily down the ruins, picked up the opponent's long spear and the scattered mecha parts, and kept stuffing them into his Storage Pouch.

He had just wanted to say something, but he also felt the pull of a strange force.

Immediately after, Xiao Sheng and the Nascent Soul Cultivator also floated into mid-air, their eyes losing focus.

The same situation occurred throughout the base; all staff members who had not yet successfully escaped were not spared.

In the base's main control room, the Deputy Base Director stared at the alarms on the big screen, eyes dull and lifeless, collapsing to the floor.

"Warning, warning, Law in...vasion, hiss— warning, Law... hiss—"

"What on earth happened? How did it become like this within a single day..."

"Sigh, forget it. Anyway, that laboratory has already been teleported away. As long as that egg is still there..."

Before the words fell, the screen suddenly went black.

The main control room lost its final barrier, the Power of Law spread in rapidly, and the Deputy Base Director also floated up.

Outside the Kaifeng.

Zhou Yan stared in shock at the object in Li Wenbo's hand that looked like a model toy; it appeared like a metal-crafted ant nest.

Li Wenbo, with a hint of showing off, brought the hand holding the "ant nest" closer to Zhou Yan.

"This is the base beneath our feet."

"It's too much trouble to go down ourselves; this is more efficient."

Zhou Yan could not help but swallow his saliva.

He had seen a Nascent Soul Cultivator strike, and the Divine Might was suffocatingly powerful.

A casual strike was impossible to dodge or block; low-level Cultivators could only wait for death.

He himself had experienced the power of the Soul Transformation level; that power, which seemed to control the heavens and earth, was shocking.

But those were only sensory feedback.

And what his Senior Brother was displaying at this moment was the concrete manifestation of Soul Transformation power.

The metal ant nest-like object before him could not even be fully analyzed by his panel for a moment.

Because this was not simply storing the base into a Secret Realm or Small World, but directly transporting it out in its entirety.

What he scanned through the panel was not the panel of this object, but a huge pile of debris and electronic equipment, as well as various documents and the panels of people.

And most shockingly, the scan results showed that these people were not displaying NPC panels, but... item panels.

"Senior Brother, how did you do that?"

Looking at Zhou Yan's shocked expression, Li Wenbo's mouth curled up, smiling with a hint of smugness.

"This is the effect of my Law Divine Ability, 'Essence Artifact Mutual Exchange'."

"The method just now was to use the Dao of Artifacts Law to define the entire base and everything inside it as an 'artifact', then perform a swap with an equivalent 'artifact', thereby briefly gaining control over it."

"That is those small cubes you saw earlier."

"Although they are useless, they are genuine Nascent Soul creations."

"And I used these six Nascent Soul creations to briefly gain control over this base and all the living beings within it."

"In other words, they have all become my Magic Treasure now."

Before Zhou Yan's increasingly widening mouth, Li Wenbo fished out that wooden sword from the pit, sighing with a hint of helplessness.

"Except for this sword and that room which has completed space jumping and detached from the whole, everything in the base is here now."

"I really did not expect the defense of this base to be so tight, actually capable of briefly resisting the Power of Law."

"And I do not know what on earth is stored in that detached room that could make the people in this base value it so much."

After speaking, Li Wenbo raised his hand and grasped into the air, extracting Yuan Chenling and the others from within, and tapped lightly on each person's head to restore their consciousness.

"Boss! I knew you would come to save me!"

Yuan Chenling leaped into Zhou Yan's arms.

Zhou Yan also shed tears instantly, hugging Yuan Chenling tightly.

The two looked at each other, speechless, their eyes filled with tears.

One thought.

"Although I did not suffer much, if I act miserable, Boss will definitely feel bad for me, and then I can ask for more benefits... I am already this miserable, it would not be excessive to have a good meal, hehehe."

The other thought.

"Anyway, I did not expend much effort. If I act tired, I can make Little Cat forget that it was me who set him up... I have worked so hard, it would not be excessive for him to forgive me, hehehe."

"Many thanks to you two Senior Brothers for the rescue. It was my recklessness; I have caused you both trouble."

Seeing Wang Yao apologize, Xiao Sheng also cupped his hands.

"Many thanks to Senior for the help, and thanks to Old Zhou, but I can be considered to have rendered meritorious service, right?"

Afterward, he pointed to his charred body.

"I am already like this. Even if I cannot trade it for a good meal, you should know... it cannot be all my fault, right?"

Xiao Sheng's words made everyone laugh.

It is just a pity that the one who loves to laugh the most is currently still in the "big toy" acting as a figurine.

"Alright, returning this to you." After laughing, Li Wenbo handed the wooden sword back to Xiao Sheng.

"By the way, what is the origin of this sword of yours? I even used a Nascent Soul creation, and I still could not swap it."

"Even for a Soul Transformation-level item, if I use a Nascent Soul creation to move it, there should at least be some reaction. But this thing is like it does not exist; it cannot be moved at all."

Li Wenbo was full of curiosity about this wooden sword.

Zhou Yan recognized it at a glance; this was exactly the wooden sword the other party had enshrined when setting up the altar back then.

"Yeah, Old Xiao, what on earth is this? I have seen you use it before; is this the trump card you mentioned?"

"Well, this..." Xiao Sheng again showed an embarrassed expression, scratched his hair full of black ash, and finally sighed helplessly.

"Sigh, things have reached this point, so I will confess to you. But let us agree on this first: do not look at me with strange eyes after hearing it."

When he said this, everyone became even more curious.

"This thing is an Immortal Artifact enshrined by our Kurong Temple."

"Back when the Dao Sect split, it could be considered one of the Immortal Artifacts we received."

Zhou Yan: "Immortal Artifact?"

Wang Yao: "Split?"

Li Wenbo: "Considered?"

Yuan Chenling: "Thing?"

"Xiao Yuan, if you have nothing to say, you do not have to speak. What kind of 'thing' are you?" Zhou Yan looked speechlessly at Yuan Chenling in his arms.

Yuan Chenling was completely confused.

"Am... am I being scolded?"