Free Web NovelChapter 284: Chapter 32: I Am Very Reliable
After all, the Immortal Gods were living beings too. No one could expect another being, when faced with mortal danger, to simply sit and await their doom for the sake of responsibilities that, at that moment, had nothing to do with them.
"It truly is a fascinating sight." Su Zhou nodded in agreement. "But time is merciless. Looking at this scene now, I can hardly imagine how glorious Kunlun must have been in its heyday. The Severed Communication of the past truly wiped out nearly the entire Immortal God Civilization. Still, without the Severed Communication, our modern civilization would never have been born."
"So we should simply reflect on it, not truly yearn for their return."
"Forgetting them makes you a traitor, but longing for them makes you a fool." The Artisan Saint’s voice chimed in, his tone light. "They are the origin of our civilization, after all. But to use an analogy, we can’t go back to being monkeys, can we? It’s the same principle. Alright, let’s begin the preliminary work."
"Understood."
The first wave of exploration teams consisted of four squads, totaling thirty-two people. They were: a team from the Western Capital Qinxing Academy led by Su Zhou, a team from the major Dao Mimic Clans led by Bai Canglang, and teams from the Modu Zhizhi Academy and the Celestial Capital’s Daoist Discipline Academy. All four teams were elites, and each member possessed a Dao Mimic Bloodline to some degree. There was even a chance that the Divine Speed Maiden from Modu, a young woman named Fu Yunsong, carried the lineage of Yingzhao. Since Yingzhao was one of the Kunlun Divine Beasts, this expedition held great promise for significant discoveries.
The so-called preliminary work, of course, involved sending in drones to explore. A total of twenty-four drones were deployed in six batches, flying into the Kunlun Secret Realm. They were tasked with surveying the terrain, environment, air composition, humidity, Spiritual Power concentration, and any signs of Evil Qi or unstable spiritual characteristics in every direction.
After more than an hour, all the drones returned safely. The data indicated that everything inside the Secret Realm was normal. There were no issues whatsoever; in fact, the environment was highly suitable for human habitation, perhaps even more so than the real world. ƒreewebɳovel.com
But that wasn’t the end of it. A second wave of armed drones was deployed into the Secret Realm. These drones began launching a barrage of low-yield micro-bombs, blanketing a wide area with explosions. The blasts weren’t powerful enough to cause any real destruction, but they were sufficient to trigger any hidden landmines or traps. Furthermore, these modified bombs were inscribed with Spiritual Runes, which would also activate any dangerous Arrays they encountered.
After these tests were repeated several times and all procedures were confirmed, the first human exploration team finally prepared to enter. To be honest, with Zhengguo’s current level of artificial intelligence, the government would never have considered sending such precious, talented Cultivators into a potentially dangerous location. The only reason they did was that robots couldn’t trigger the specific inheritances that required unique bloodlines and Spiritual Power.
The loss of even one of these geniuses would be heart-wrenching. The saying "a dead genius is no longer a genius" is just plain stupid. Is money you waste on a bad bet not real money? Does it not hurt to lose it?
On the surface, this whole series of actions might have seemed like fighting against thin air, but it was a clear sign of how much they valued human life.
However, just as Su Zhou, who was leading the way, was about to be the first to step into the Secret Realm, his Spiritual Sense, far sharper than any ordinary person’s, suddenly detected that something was wrong.
’This feeling... it’s just like when the Zhengguo Government transmitted the Thunder Marsh Technique to me! It’s also a bit like that feeling of being teleported when I touched the Celestial God’s Engraved Light Ball!’
’Am I about to be teleported? But the passage between the two realms is already open, so what does Teleportation have to do with anything? Something’s wrong!’
And just as Su Zhou was about to halt and warn the others, the grave voices of the Artisan Saint and the Math Saint rang out. "Something’s wrong!" "The situation has changed!"
"The Spiritual Power readings are changing too quickly—it’s a trick!" That was the Artisan Saint. The young Holy Seat’s tone was grim. "What the eyes see, the ears hear, the nose smells, the mouth tastes, and the body touches—these five senses define reality for a normal human. But for a Transcendent, the only true reality is the fluctuation of Spiritual Power!"
"That’s right. I’ve operated the Cosmic Light Shifting Array to teleport items before, and its Spiritual Power signature is very similar to what’s happening inside the Kunlun Secret Realm now!" The Math Saint corroborated Su Zhou’s Perception. "There’s a Teleportation Formation inside the Kunlun Secret Realm, one the Immortals used for transport. While it’s not particularly dangerous, it’s active. Any team that enters will likely be teleported to different locations—and definitely not to the mountain gate right in front of us!"
"It wasn’t active when the drones went through, but it started up the moment the team prepared to enter. That’s why the change was so abrupt, and why we noticed something was off."
「Meanwhile, inside Kunlun Palace in the Central Mountain Range.」
"Are these Immortal Divine Remnants coming in or not?! They’ve been probing for ages. This is ridiculously cautious, don’t you think?"
Garuda had been waiting impatiently for an hour, watching a swarm of what it considered puppet drones bump around the Kunlun Secret Realm. It had just about given up hope when the dawdling exploration team finally decided to enter, only for them to stop at the very last second. Honestly, at this point, Garuda was more than just suspicious; it was completely dumbfounded. ’Don’t tell me they detected the Teleportation Array? But how? That should be impossible...’ freewebnσvel.cøm
Just then, a faint voice reached its ears, seeming to echo from beyond a vast, black abyss. "They are, after all, the descendants of the Immortal Gods left behind in the Ancient Immortal Realm. It’s only natural they’d know a thing or two. Don’t worry. Even if they’ve found out, they’ll still come in."
