Chapter 136: The Wonderful Uses of Red Dust Qi

After a moment of silence, Gao Jie Ming stiffly changed the subject:

"By the way, where is David?"

Gao Jie Ming's gaze swept over everyone, finally resting on Kaelen and Anya; he remembered hearing information about "Kayden" earlier.

"That village warrior... is it him?"

Seraphina frowned slightly and shook her head gently: "To be honest, I am not entirely sure either, but what can be confirmed is that fellow David is absolutely not dead."

"Oh?"

Hearing her say this, the other three quietly moved closer, pricking up their ears to listen carefully.

Seraphina smoothed her hair: "That fellow David chose Alchemy as his main specialization and Puppetry as his secondary; furthermore, his mentor is the foremost flesh-forging alchemist in all of Plane Nuolun's workshops. Even I do not know how many reserve bodies that fellow possesses."

"Then it seems that Kayden is indeed not David, though judging by his behavior, he should also be a wizard."

Gao Jie Ming felt a slight regret in his heart; it seemed David's situation remained a mystery.

However, the most important thing now was to activate the formation as soon as possible.

Soon, they turned into the depths of a long-abandoned sewer network.

Gao Jie Ming took the lead, the Eye of Investigation beneath his cloak operating at full power, guarding against possible enemies.

"It is just ahead," Rex's voice rang out from behind, carrying a trace of rare excitement.

He reined in his scholarly gentility; at this moment, calculation gleamed in his eyes as his fingertips traced faint rune trajectories in the air, providing final guidance for the path ahead.

Judging by the location of the formation, they had now penetrated deep underground beneath the Royal Capital's cathedral district.

This was the innermost core where the entire royal city's faith power converged; countless underground conduits and ancient ley lines intertwined here, forming a natural energy convergence point that could truly be called a faith hub.

The three large-scale formations that Gao Jie Ming had previously corrected and optimized were centered precisely here, radiating outward across the entire royal capital.

The further forward they went, the more obvious the energy fluctuations became; upon approaching the core of the formation, even the damp air began to contain faith power that wizards could clearly perceive.

"Truly an exaggerated concentration; this place should be the region with the thickest faith power in the entire plane, aside from divine realms," Kaelen said, adjusting the lenses before his eyes as he read the information displayed upon them.

Soon, they reached the end of the sewer network.

According to calculations, twenty meters further ahead lay their ultimate target—the core pointed to by all three formations.

"No choice but to dig," Gao Jie Ming spread his hands, stepped forward voluntarily, and began excavating using alchemy.

"Forget it; we will dig forward while you arrange the final nodes of the formation," Kaelen said, patting Gao Jie Ming on the shoulder and pulling him to the rear.

Gao Jie Ming did not insist too stubbornly; he silently nodded and, under Seraphina's protection, began arranging the runes.

Quickly, the group proceeded by arranging runes and digging simultaneously until they reached the core area.

"The formation is in position, and the energy guidance fully matches expectations," Rex stepped forward, lightly touching the rune hub at the center of the altar; a flash of admiration passed through his eyes. "Gao Jie Ming, your optimization of the runes is truly astonishing; it has greatly enhanced both energy compatibility and conduction efficiency."

Gao Jie Ming chuckled lightly and said nothing more.

"Let us begin," Seraphina said softly, yet her voice carried a hidden excitement.

She looked at Gao Jie Ming, wizardly fanaticism gleaming in her eyes: "Thanks to you, we can also go mad for once."

Without any superfluous words, the five wizards each moved to one of the five positions surrounding the core rune formation.

"Activate!" With Gao Jie Ming's low shout, the light from his fingertips plunged into the altar; the runes of the three core formations instantly erupted with dazzling brilliance, flowing across the ground and walls like living creatures!

The entire underground space was illuminated by the light, emitting a low hum, while the endless stream of faith power changed its flow direction, converging toward the core formation.

In the next instant, the five wizards simultaneously extended their hands, injecting their prepared pollution mediums into the center of the formation!

Gao Jie Ming took a deep breath, sank his consciousness into his internal space, and upon seeing the roomful of Red Dust Qi, could not help but reveal a smile.

This was the pollution medium he had prepared to afflict those deities, and also the source of Gao Jie Ming's confidence that he could influence the gods.

Although Red Dust Qi is simple to obtain, it is by no means a low-grade item.

If one's will is not firm enough, or if suddenly subjected to a sufficient quantity, even an Immortal would become lost within it.

Of course, the amount of Red Dust Qi he had collected in such a short time certainly could not achieve that level.

However, due to the inherent uniqueness of Red Dust Qi, one could say that this substance possesses a natural special effectiveness against existence such as faith deities.

Taking a deep breath, Gao Jie Ming carefully employed a technique to mobilize the vast and impure Red Dust Qi within his internal space.

That was a complex mixture of fear, anger, greed, and piety generated by millions of common people under the frenzy of war.

This aura, like an invisible torrent, was guided by him and surged violently toward the core of the formation.

The originally formless and substance-less Red Dust Qi, upon contacting the faith power gathered at the formation's core, immediately merged like black ink into the holy light emitted by the formation, causing its radiance to become turbid and twisted.

Seraphina elegantly waved her hand, scattering a shower of "Dust of Falsehood" invisible to the naked eye from her fingertips.

This was an extremely refined level-six wizardly creation; once injected into the formation, it silently integrated into every energy fluctuation of the faith power, invisibly amplifying the selfish desires, fears, and distortions within the faith.

Kaelen suddenly slapped the ground, and a wild, primal aura surged forth from within him.

That was the deepest savagery and chaos of the orcs, which he had collected through the "Chaotic Blood Pact."

This power, like a raging flood, was roughly flushed into the faith network through the formation, making the originally orderly faith meridians become manic and uneasy, causing the energy flow to lose balance.

Anya gently placed her hands upon the formation nodes, strange green light flickering in her eyes.

The surging life affinity within her was reversely stimulated, transforming into countless "Seeds of Decay."

Driven by her power, these Seeds of Decay rapidly spread, parasitizing the life foundations connected by faith like the most insidious vines, slowly but stubbornly absorbing their vitality and causing them to begin withering from within.

Rex activated a miniature alchemical device in his hand; the device emitted a cold mechanical whirring sound as countless tiny rune light points gushed forth from it.

These light points were precisely injected into the formation; they were "Logical Paradox Runes" meticulously crafted by Rex, capable of embedding contradictory instructions and algorithms directly into the faith network, causing internal conflicts within the originally self-consistent faith system and making its power begin to consume and disintegrate itself.

Under the linkage of the three formations, these five different methods of pollution merged like five torrents flowing into the sea, instantly becoming one with the royal capital's vast faith network.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The entire underground space began to tremble violently! The light upon the altar was no longer purely holy but multicolored, carrying a trace of sickly gray decay.

They twisted and churned, as if enduring immense pain.

Immediately afterward, the mutation spread from underground to the surface!

Fine cracks began to appear on the ground of the cathedral district, and an energy fluctuation carrying turbid light, like an invisible shockwave, suddenly erupted from beneath the earth!

In an instant, the entire area where the church stood erupted with a massive burst of light!

That light was no longer holy; instead, it carried a trace of strangeness and chaos, as if a huge canvas had been splashed with various paints, becoming filthy yet dazzling.

This radiance shot straight into the sky, illuminating the night so brightly that it briefly outshone the magical streetlamps of the royal capital.

Within the royal capital, vigilant guards and divine officials immediately noticed this sudden anomaly.

Piercing alarm sirens tore through the night sky as countless figures began converging on the church district.

"It's done!" Lei Si's voice trembled slightly, but mostly brimmed with excitement.

"The Divine Power Faith Network is a wonderful thing; its efficiency in energy transmission is extremely high. Fortunately, we have this; otherwise, hoping to pollute an entire plane relying solely on the faith hubs of the human kingdom would have been sheer delusion," Kaelen couldn't help but remark.

Among the five of them, he was the only one besides Gao Jie Ming who had studied the Divine Power Faith Network.

Although his research time had not been long, he still roughly understood the characteristics of the Divine Power Faith Network.

Gao Jie Ming said nothing; while the others were exclaiming, he had already silently dashed out.

Having caused such a massive disturbance, the five of them would surely alarm all the high-ranking officials and powerhouses in the royal city.

This was the church district of the royal city; once the opposing side forcibly descended an existence at the Angel level, they would have no chance of escape left.

Without the slightest hesitation, the five of them moved like bolts of black lightning, swiftly following their pre-planned evacuation route to flee toward the outer layers of the sewers.

Their figures soon vanished into the darkness, while the mottled light shooting skyward above the church district continued to flicker in the night sky, like a huge, twisted signal lamp proclaiming that the "pollution" of the land of faith was complete.

However, the effects produced by the pollution were not yet obvious; for a period of time, the deities would remain unaware of the truth that the foundation of their faith had been shaken.

Their power would, in the short term, still maintain its superficial strength.

Gao Jie Ming knew clearly that only when the wizards tore through the plane barrier again and engaged in fierce collective combat with the deities of the Elosia Plane, would the deities, under massive consumption, subconsciously draw upon faith power to replenish themselves.

At that time, those polluted, mottled faith powers would explode with effect like poison in an instant!

The deities' judgment would be severely disrupted, and they might even suffer a backlash of power.

Coincidentally, by that time, the plane barrier would already be torn open, allowing the high-level wizards from the Plane Nuolun Workshop outside to detect this "opportunity" immediately and take follow-up action at once.

Therefore, Gao Jie Ming and the others retreated quite decisively; from now on, they only needed to wait quietly.

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