564: Chapter 564 The Prisoner of the Lonely World

By the time Zhou Yan stepped into the Truth Cult base again, he already felt a headache coming on.

He didn't even know what the current situation was anymore; the more he understood, the messier it became.

Florian's recent memories had basically all been transmitted over.

He had indeed come here with a specific purpose, which was exactly what King Dong had mentioned—he was one of the targets to be wary of.

His purpose for coming here was also very simple: to represent the School of Biology in resurrecting an incomprehensible, powerful existence.

In his memories, he only knew that the other party came from outside the Xuantian Spirit Realm, from a space called the Isolated Realm.

That existence was suspected to be trapped, but its research value was immense. Whether it was the knowledge value it could bring or its own inherent value, it was the most classified of secrets for the entire School of Biology.

Unfortunately, the other party did not seem willing to communicate; it would only take the initiative to contact them when it wanted to, while they were unable to initiate contact in return.

Consequently, during that period, a rift developed between the School of Biology and the original founders of the School of Life, leading to the birth of the School of Life. The School of Biology thus fell out of the top-tier schools, struggling to compete with other major schools, and gradually declined.

But this time, it seemed that the activation of "Sui" had brought about some special influence. When "Sui" was first activated over a decade ago, they had made contact once again.

The School of Biology fell into an unprecedented frenzy. No one knew what they had obtained, including Florian.

All that was known was that the School of Biology had returned to its Peak. Although it couldn't immediately return to the top tier, it could once again compete on the same stage as major schools like the School of Physics.

The price for this was that, this time, Florian needed to place an object into the core of "Sui" when it activated.

Zhou Yan looked at the cube in his hand and pursed his lips.

The very moment Lord Canglan transmitted it via the inventory, he received a serendipitous quest.

Named "Prisoner of the Isolated Realm".

The quest objective was to place it into the core of "Sui" and complete the activation of "Sui".

There was no quest reward.

It might sound strange why a serendipitous quest would have no reward, but as a veteran player of Seeking the Dao, Zhou Yan understood it all too well.

This was something that only appeared in the Late Stage of the Seeking the Dao online game development: limited Boss summoning quests.

By the Late Stage of the game, many dungeons had already been developed. Before a major version update, the developers wanted to maintain retention rates, so they developed these random items triggered by probability.

They would periodically launch event quests. During these events, whether exploring the open world, going on adventures, grinding monsters for levels, or even doing casual quests, there was a probability of receiving these unique serendipitous quests.

Players could obtain limited items by completing the quests and then release a limited world Boss at any location other than main cities and important neutral areas.

After killing it, not only were there special rewards, but also exclusive titles. He had done two of them back in the day.

The first time, he hadn't paid attention. He had been fishing in a pond near the newbie area, accidentally fished out this item, and obtained the quest.

But when he saw there was no reward, and after the new event came out, he didn't pay any special attention to it, just planning to wait for strategy bloggers to finish their videos and watch them directly later.

As a result, he didn't recognize this item, thought it was just useless trash, and released it casually.

Not only was he instantly killed, but he also caused a miserable time for the ordinary players in that area.

It wasn't until that night that the guild leaders of various major guilds temporarily organized manpower, stayed up all night to log on, and cleared the Boss, which prevented the unlucky players near the newbie area from being unable to even leave the village.

However, Zhou Yan missed out on the loot distribution because of this and could only take a participation prize.

So the second time, he learned his lesson. After contacting guild members, he sold the item's summoning rights. Not only did he exchange it for a good amount of money, but it was also credited to their guild's name, allowing him to reap a wave of rewards.

Although these memories were pleasant and helped calm his mood, they also made his hand clench a little tighter.

Leaving aside why a quest that should only appear in the Late Stage of the game would appear here.

Anyway, this panel having bugs wasn't the first or second time. Being able to identify the quest could be considered a help, ensuring he wouldn't treat this item with excessive negligence.

But this also let him know that the thing in his hand was an existence that could match a Late Stage world Boss in the game.

Those few world Bosses released in Kaifeng back then, although relatively weak, were beaten to a pulp by Kun Gou as if they were punching bags.

But those were only early-game world Bosses; at critical moments, they could withstand a few attacks from Cultivators of that level, allowing him to escape danger.

Then what level would this limited world Boss, which could only be encountered in the Late Stage, be?

Void Refining? Undergoing Tribulation? Or... even higher?

Logically speaking, such a disastrous item should be thrown deep into the bottom of his inventory and sealed away.

But...

"Sigh, I really hope the saying 'use magic to defeat magic' can also work here."

Zhou Yan decided to follow the quest requirements.

Although he knew clearly that this was different from the star soul, and that it was completely planting a landmine—a landmine that even others couldn't handle—the pressure Feng Xu gave him was too great.

Between the thing that could be summoned and the Ancestral Dragon proxy fighter that he didn't know if it would still work, when facing an existence like Feng Xu, Zhou Yan could only bet on the former.

"Impossible!"

"My dad is from the Lianxing Pavilion, how could he possibly do such a thing."

"For something like destroying Dream City, how much profit would it take to make a Lianxing Pavilion executive take action voluntarily?"

"In this situation, if you said my dad secretly funded it from behind the scenes, I would believe it, but someone standing out in the open—could that be a person from the Lianxing Pavilion?"

On the small island, Li Hua was grabbing Winter's collar and shaking him frantically. Winter was even afraid of accidentally killing Li Hua, so he kept his hands raised and didn't put them down.

However, he was also extremely shocked upon hearing this.

"Isn't Li Heng from the Truth Cult? I remember seeing him in the Truth Cult quite often, right?"

"Of course not! My dad never joined the Truth Cult at all; he just holds an honorary title because he invested a lot."

Now it was Winter's turn to be bewildered.

If it were normal times, mistaking someone's identity wouldn't be a big deal.

The Truth Cult was too messy; it had all sorts of things in it. He wouldn't even be surprised if a high-ranking member of a righteous Sect mixed in.

But in the current situation, for someone from the Lianxing Pavilion to stand on the front stage, force everyone to make a choice, and pull off an unprecedented stunt—

That was indeed not the style of the Lianxing Pavilion.

Even if they could gain a Mahayana Cultivator from this battle, they might not necessarily do it; that would be too disruptive to the market.

However, Winter didn't say anything. At this time, saying more meant more mistakes; keeping his mouth shut and playing dead was better than anything else.

Seeing the other party remained silent for a long time, Li Hua became even angrier, but before he could finish speaking, Xieli spoke up.

"According to what you mean, is the current Li Heng fake?"

Li Hua let go and said through gritted teeth.

"It must be fake. This kind of situation is definitely not something he could pull off; this is digging up the roots of my Li family!"

Xieli didn't say much, just tilted her head and thought for a moment, then somewhat embarrassedly approached Xie Bian and tugged on his sleeve.

"An'an, let's go quickly. I know there are only two people guarding the barrier gap. We can fight our way out, find a quiet place, and just wait for the outcome."

Bai Ling frowned, blocked Xieli, and questioned.

"What do you mean?"

"It's fine if you want to leave yourself, but you're also taking our person with you?"

Seeing the three Soul Transformation Cultivators arguing and no one watching him, Winter's eyes flickered, and he turned into a pile of bubbles and disappeared from the spot.

"He ran away!"

Lv Yang was the first to notice, but it was already too late. He was just a Mortal and couldn't stop anything.

Bai Ling and Xie Bian were about to chase, but they couldn't ignore this strangely behaving Xieli.

Li Hua himself didn't dare to pursue, so he could only glare at her viciously.

But Xieli had no extra expression.

"It's meaningless for him to run. According to what you said, if Li Heng is fake, then the conflict within the School of Physics is also fake."

"If that's the case, things will be very troublesome next. At our cultivation level, we can't help anymore, and if we don't want to die, it's best to leave quickly."

As soon as she finished speaking, a ladder descended from the sky, connecting to the island. And at the very moment it connected, that floating island in the sky exploded violently.

"It's too late."

A pulling force struck everyone on the island. Xieli could only grab Xie Bian's wrist at the last moment, keeping the two of them closer together.

While the others flew off in different directions, uncontrollably flying towards the floating island.