"Alright, enough talk, confirm the location of the interaction zone we just detected. We’ll go once it’s dark. Our food is running low," Laf said, his smile fading.
The Moon God didn’t speak again, just quietly waited.
Outside, the cold wind howled, and the daylight slowly began to dim as time passed.
The clouds once again gathered densely, blocking out the originally bright light.
This light was quite strange.
It would occasionally appear in beams like pillars, descending from the sky, crashing to the ground.
These were the truly deadly rays.
But if observed cautiously from the side, one wouldn’t be too affected.
The clouds blocked the daylight.
In the ruins of the town, the lava flowing through the surface cracks glowed red once again.
These faint red lights became the only illumination in this land at night.
"It’s about time. Let’s go."
Laf was the first to tidy up his silver-black long coat and stepped out of the attic.
His boots made a crisp, sharp sound on the gravelly ground. Attention-grabbing and shrill.
"Let’s go, let’s go~~ There’s going to be something tasty again~~" Zhaoyu Pavilion giggled as she happily followed out.
Rongxin pulled out a cigarette, bit it in his mouth, and a flick of his fingers produced a spark, lighting the cigarette.
Even though it was just a rough hand-rolled cigarette, he smoked as if savoring supreme delicacy.
He took a blissful puff and looked at the Moon God, who was the last one.
"Old Moon, let’s go."
The Moon God silently stood up and walked past him.
At first, he might not have understood what the other meant, but after spending some time together, he realized that Rongxin was arranged by Laf to keep an eye on him.
Watch him, not allowing him to run off, and seemingly trying to extract information from him constantly.
They had been wandering this area for a long time.
Seemingly searching for something.
The Moon God already had a guess in his heart.
He suspected that although Laf hadn’t said it, he was most likely looking for his own originating interaction zone.
The four of them left the rest area, moving at a moderate pace as if they were strolling leisurely.
Walking at the front, Laf occasionally waved his hand to throw stones, drawing away the nearby wandering Evil Spirit Vehicles.
Avoiding unnecessary consumption was a principle they always acted upon.
Because, even the Heart-Burning Furnace required energy consumption.
This time, it seemed their luck was good; they hadn’t walked far.
Suddenly Zhaoyu Pavilion paused, her gaze fixed on a distant mound-like building ruin on the right.
It was a stone tavern’s ruins left after a collapse.
But at this moment, within Zhaoyu Pavilion’s ample bosom, a faint red light began to glow.
"Looks like there’s something..." She strode over.
Grabbed a corner stone of the ruins and violently lifted it upwards.
Bang!
A major force sent the stones flying, revealing a hidden metal hatch beneath.
"An entrance to an interaction zone!? Luck’s on our side," Zhaoyu Pavilion exclaimed, eyes widening.
"Do any of you want to go in?" She turned and asked the three.
"It’s your call, given the entrance it seems like a small place," Rongxin replied without much interest.
"I’ll go with you," the Moon God suggested first.
This was the first time since joining the group that he encountered them finding an interaction zone.
He wanted to see how the Heartless Travel Group handled such zones.
"Alright, then we’ll go together and make it quick," Zhaoyu Pavilion licked her lips.
She placed her hand on the surface of the hatch.
Bang!!
The hatch was crushed and exploded by great force, revealing a dark, deep hole below.
As soon as the hole appeared, a massive suction rapidly expanded outward.
Zhaoyu Pavilion, already experienced, immediately stepped back to avoid the pull.
"We’ll use the external environment to destroy this interaction zone’s internal loop screen first. Then, when chaos ensues inside, we can go in and harvest," Zhaoyu Pavilion explained to the Moon God.
"If we force our way in, what if we encounter huge trouble inside?" the Moon God asked seriously.
"Huge trouble? Can anything be stronger than us?" Zhaoyu Pavilion laughed. "Like you, without a furnace, you can’t even beat me, let alone Rongxin and our leader, Laf."
She seemed never to have faced such an exceptional situation.
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At night.
Bai Lin cautiously traversed the barren black soil.
A long serpent tail grew from under her skirt, its tip burning with flames, hanging in front of her for illumination.
’Boss, are you still there?’ She would ask every now and then.
’I’m still here, but as the distance increases, I’m gradually unable to project my main consciousness over,’ Zhang Rongfang sensed the difference outside the screen, completely unlike inside the interaction zone.
Communication between various parts of his consciousness was consuming too much.
Perhaps this was the normal reaction.
While within the interaction zone, the absence of any loss of connection despite distance was rather abnormal.
’Should I stop going forward?’ Bai Lin halted, feeling a bit panicked inside.
’Keep going, unless you encounter insurmountable danger. Otherwise, gather more intelligence and report back to me,’ Zhang Rongfang commanded.
’But I...’ Bai Lin glanced around, the darkness encasing her, making her feel as if she was the only living thing left in the world.
Besides the sound of the wind, there was no other sound.
’Stop the nonsense, keep moving,’ Zhang Rongfang urged.
Bai Lin dared not delay, so she continued moving forward, her figure gradually disappearing at the end of the dark plains.
The connection with Zhang Rongfang slowly broke off as the immensity increased the distance.
"No way to establish contact anymore?"
Suspended within the screen, Zhang Rongfang retracted his consciousness, furrowing his brows.
Though from Bai Lin’s perspective, he had glimpsed the scene beyond the exterior sky.
But this is far from enough.
The comprehensive Bloodline aims to counter the descent of the heaven curtain.
And if the heavenly light continues to strengthen, such resistance is endless.
Therefore, he must figure out what the situation is outside the heaven curtain and whether there are other solutions.
’I hope White Scale won’t disappoint me...’ Zhang Rongfang’s gaze was fixed on the heaven curtain.
He suddenly turned around and flew towards the headquarters of the Human Immortal Temple.
Now, besides waiting, there is no other way. Instead of waiting bitterly here, it is better to return and continue cultivating.
Additionally, the previously accumulated attribute points should also be further enhanced.
He must be prepared, as a last resort, to forcibly damage the heaven curtain and violently burst out of the interaction zone.
His wings vibrated, and the blood light in his eyes flickered from time to time.
Before long, a blood shadow shot straight back from above the Wish Girl Gorge, flying back to his cave abode.
Zhang Rongfang landed, withdrew his wings into himself, and then strode forward.
His body began to change rapidly, and in just a few seconds, he transformed into the appearance of his disciple, Chang Yuqing.
Ever since finding out that Chang Yuqing cultivated the Five Heart Qi Collection Skill faster than himself, Zhang Rongfang would transform into Chang Yuqing’s body while cultivating to practice the Cultivation Technique.
Sitting cross-legged, Zhang Rongfang closed his eyes and began to enter a meditative state.
At the same time, the four hundred attribute points he had accumulated naturally went entirely into his life attribute.
Life directly broke through to three thousand points, and at the same time, the blood-colored aura around Zhang Rongfang became even denser.
More importantly, a brand new trait talent began to slowly emerge.
A total of four abilities.
’Super Flight’, ’Radiation Resistance’, ’Vacuum Survival’, ’Flame Resistance’.
These four abilities were clearly not as significant as before.
Perhaps it was because Zhang Rongfang’s own strength had reached a massive bottleneck, and individual trait talents no longer had much impact on him.
The newly acquired talent abilities overlapped significantly with the ultimate creature’s talents.
’It seems that staying here will gradually limit my growth.’
Having lost the need for power, Zhang Rongfang guessed that this was the reason for the overlap in his current trait talents.
What he craved, his talent would evolve into.
Now that he was already the strongest in the world, there was no one in this interaction zone who could rival him.
His only hope now was to break through the heaven curtain and explore the situation outside.
So the newly acquired talents mainly focused on survival abilities.
After determining the four talents, there was no activation of a new bloodline combination this time, which left Zhang Rongfang slightly disappointed.
But he still suppressed his temperament, focused his consciousness on Five Qi Towards Origin, and continued his cultivation.
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Inside the unknown interaction zone.
The dim heaven curtain was forcibly torn open with a spiral hole.
The Moon God and Zhaoyu Pavilion floated on the outer layer, clearly seeing the rapidly charring and blackening land inside the hole.
After the protective heaven curtain was destroyed, the entire interaction zone faced catastrophic disaster.
"Let’s go." Zhaoyu Pavilion flashed with flames all over her body, transforming into a furnace shape.
She spread her wings, opened her right hand, and countless red lights gathered from her palm, forming a blinding light sphere like the sun.
"Go."
She gently flicked it.
Instantly, that red light sphere shot out, flying into the hole in the heaven curtain.
In the blink of an eye, the red light sphere penetrated the heaven curtain and stopped abruptly.
From it grew rapidly countless dense red threads.
These threads shot out like raindrops, falling from the sky, heading towards the ground below.
When the threads fell halfway, they continued to split, multiplying several times over.
The split red threads further subdivided.
So repeatedly, layer by layer, increasing each time.
Just within a few minutes.
The originally normal interaction zone inside the heaven curtain was dyed a light red by the red threads.
"What is this?" The Moon God watched the exaggerated rate of division, feeling a tinge of unease in his heart.
"It’s a collection line. It can rapidly collect the brains of all living beings within the interaction zone while refining the Spiritual Line into material reserves for us to recycle," Zhaoyu Pavilion answered.
Swoosh!
Suddenly, within the interaction zone, a blue light shot up to the sky, revealing a sturdy man enveloped in blue flames.
Furiously wielding a trident, his whole body glowed brightly, and he swung the trident with all his might at the damaged hole in the heaven curtain.
"Kill!!"
The spear in his hand shot forth, transforming into a serpent-tailed lion blue phantom, roaring towards Zhaoyu Pavilion and the Moon God.
However, the lion phantom had just charged out of the heaven curtain hole and disintegrated, transforming back into an ordinary trident.
The divine power and Spiritual Line condensed on the spear were instantly and automatically dissolved.
"Fool." Zhaoyu Pavilion laughed out loud.
She gently tapped the spear point.
The trident shattered piece by piece, dissolving into countless metal fragments that scattered and disappeared.
"Still living in delusion and the greenhouse garbage."
She casually tossed out two more balls of red flame.
The flames entered the heaven curtain, instantly transforming into two giant firebirds.
The firebirds swooped towards the man, instantly engulfing him, burning him to white ash.
Subsequently, the two firebirds exploded, transforming into countless meteor fire showers, scattering and falling to the ground.
At least half of the interaction zone was blanketed by the falling fire showers.
The Moon God just hovered in the air, witnessing the ordinary people on the interaction zone’s land ignited by heavenly fire, bodies engulfed in flames, falling and screaming in agony.
Countless cities fell into blazes.
Forests burned, flames soared to the sky.
Rivers were boiled, deserts melted into crystals, even oceans began to float countless never-extinguishing fireballs.
Zhaoyu Pavilion laughed continuously, tossing out clusters of firelight, allowing them to explode, transforming into fire showers that scattered and fell.
Her originally cute features became extraordinarily sinister and vicious at that moment.