CHAPTER 818: CHAPTER 370: THE SUPPRESSED SPIRIT CULTIVATOR (2)

The woman seemed to have anticipated this as Gao Huating lunged forward. The woman’s body turned ethereal, and Gao Huating fell empty onto the seat. Before she could make any move, the woman’s phantom had already merged with Gao Huating’s body.

Gao Huating’s vision blurred, and she found herself in a pink room.

"Calm down in the illusion within your heart."

The woman said calmly:

"I will temporarily borrow our body to help you complete all the steps. When I call you out, it will be just before you merge with him.

"Don’t be too emotional, child.

"The path I’ve chosen for you can save the human world on the surface and help him attempt the Immortal Ascension Tribulation again. Why not give it a try? Consider it a chance for yourself."

Gao Huating sat powerlessly at the edge of the bed.

She didn’t know why, but she couldn’t stop her tears from falling, and a feeling of helplessness spread through her body.

Ultimately, she was still unable to do anything.

...

"Wang! Come over here quickly!"

Zheng Shiduo called out, and Wang Jixuan twirled in mid-air, crossing the street paved like gold, landing at the second-floor window where Zheng Shiduo was.

Zheng Shiduo presented a small booklet for Wang Jixuan to examine.

Wang Jixuan gazed intently.

Wuliang that Heavenly Venerable.

A spring palace painting?

However, it wasn’t a drawn one; it was a photographic collection, with faint spiritual energy surrounding it, seemingly a corrosion-resistant prohibition.

From the content in the images:

The superficially glamorous residents of the ancient civilization had wild hearts, and true to being an ancient civilization, many poses were full of aesthetic appeal, the key being Wang Jixuan had never seen them before.

The Daoist frowned: "Why are you making a fuss about this!"

Zheng Shiduo tutted, flipped a few pages, and found a photo of the couple at the rooftop during that moment.

"Wang, you need to use your mind to pixelate them, look over here..."

In the corner of the photo, a huge object similar to a flying device hovered under the blue sky with beams of multicolored light.

Zheng Shiduo pointed to the outside sky.

"The sky we’re seeing now looks real but is in fact quite low. It might be simulated with some technological means.

"But look at this photo, Wang, it was taken on the rooftop of this building. I’ve compared the details, they’re a perfect match, and this giant flying device in the air is at least a few thousand meters high, with beams directly shooting into outer space.

"There are other places with similar evidence."

Zheng Shiduo flipped through a few more times quickly.

Wang Jixuan appeared to understand: "Are you suggesting that this city should have been on the surface originally?"

"It should have been floating above the surface."

Zheng Shiduo muttered:

"Later something happened, and the city subsided."

"Not subsided," Wang Jixuan said, "this is a massive subspace, enveloping the entire city. That giant spiritual energy group is either maintaining this subspace or attracted by it."

"Alright," Zheng Shiduo muttered, "it’s pretty weird anyway."

Wang Jixuan thought of Gao Huating’s initial dream.

It was the scene when she first began to awaken, with the entire city being bombarded by flame meteors descending from the sky, flame giants standing up from the meteorites.

That city matched with this city almost perfectly.

"Keep searching," Wang Jixuan tossed the album to Zheng Shiduo, who unabashedly put it back in his storage ring.

Archaeology;

This was legitimate archaeological work.

The Daoist jokingly scolded: "Don’t just look for these things, see if there are any treasures for artifact refining, and try your best to take them. I can’t use spiritual sense here and can only search clumsily."

"No problem! I’m just worried we haven’t brought enough storage magical artifacts."

"Sir! There’s a stele here!"

Wu Man’s shout came from a distance.

Wang Jixuan flickered out of the window, disappearing after a few bounds.

Zheng Shiduo blinked, turned to survey the room, and stealthily headed to the bathroom here.

The stele found by Wu Man was engraved with many characters.

These characters are quite similar to the Tadpole script used in the Promotion Ceremony for Spiritual Ability Users; each character not only represents a certain symbol but also has some special function.

Wang Jixuan studied for a moment and decisively called for Amina.

Amina said helplessly, "Can’t we just go directly to the palace to find that woman?"

"No hurry," Wang Jixuan said with a smile, "Let’s play with her first. Since we’ve entered a treasure mountain, we can’t leave empty-handed. What does this stele say?"

"Heroic Epic."

Amina finally had a chance to display her erudition.

She spoke softly:

"The gist is, the great King Kuimidania led a fleet and fought a life-and-death battle against powerful invaders in this Star Domain.

"In the decisive battle, the king made wise decisions, maneuvered to destroy the enemy, cleverly captured the leader, and ultimately succeeded in wiping out the enemy fleet, forging a non-aggression pact, and obtaining war reparations."

"A fleet?" Wang Jixuan asked with interest, "Can the time of this stele be determined?"

"Let me see..."

Amina turned to the back of the stele, her expression gradually growing serious.

"They calculated by epochs; this is the fourth epoch. As for what their epochs mean, I’m not sure; it might be that one king’s reign cycle counts as an epoch."

Wang Jixuan nodded and asked again, "Can you discern their fighting methods?"

"It can’t be seen on this stele, but in such a large city, there should be libraries."

"Let’s look for one," Wang Jixuan said smilingly, "I’m very interested in their history."

"Alright," Amina said, "My Spirit Slave can’t appear here; otherwise, it would save us a lot of trouble."

"Why can’t it appear?"

"It would be attacked," Amina explained, "I tried the first time I arrived here; as soon as you take out your stone plate, you receive a warning, and then a swarm of special drones will fly over... just like over there."

Amina and Wang Jixuan looked up.

About sixty or seventy gold-colored flying devices shaped like ’dumbbells’ descended from the sky, encircling that area.

An odd synthetic voice resounded.

Wang Jixuan didn’t bring the core circuit;

Amina thoughtfully pressed Wang Jixuan’s arm, and Wang Jixuan immediately understood the semantics of those synthetic voices.

"Intruder, please cease your destructive behavior."

"Intruder, please cease your destructive behavior, or we will justifiably and legitimately attack you."

"We do not wish to kill the lifeforms that can reach this great place."

Amina flew into mid-air with Wang Jixuan, easily seeing the situation over there.

Nierdamon raised his hand and grabbed the finger of a roadside sculpture.

This burly man seemed intent on attracting these drones over.

Amina transmitted a reminder: "Don’t easily destroy roadside objects; the items inside residences can be moved at will."

"No problem, let me try."

Nierdamon chuckled and gently shook his hand, causing the sculpture’s finger to fall off immediately.

A buzz suddenly sounded around.

Those dumbbell-shaped drones simultaneously emitted fine red light.

Lasers? No, it doesn’t seem like lasers.

Nierdamon was very confident in his body’s strength, so he didn’t take any defensive measures, just bracing himself for these red lights.

The attacks launched by these drones were not deadly, merely punitive and warning in nature.

But the next second, Nierdamon’s smile froze in place.

The red light touched his body, causing a light screen to open behind him, the ring on the light screen immediately extinguished, turning the entire light screen pale gray.

Nierdamon had no wounds on his body, but he staggered and instinctively knelt down.

The red light tugged, and Nierdamon, a super fighter who could single-handedly take down the Pillar Blade Beast Group, was pulled through the air by a group of seemingly low-energy drones and sent to the nearby ’Security Bureau.’

Wang Jixuan and Amina exchanged a glance.

Amina shrugged, "I did give a warning."

"What kind of method is this?"

"Not clear," Amina sighed lightly, "But I feel a suppression from civilization."

Master Wang’s Dao Heart jolted violently.