Chapter 371: Drone

Hundreds of meters underground in the soil, a yellow light sped through, passing through shattered rocks and solid boulders as if they were nothing at all, unable to hinder it in the slightest.

After traveling forward for an unknown length of time, the yellow light began to rise.

With a soft "whoosh," the yellow light suddenly burst from a thicket of shrubs, its glow fading to reveal a figure holding a bone banner—it was Wang Yu.

He held the banner in one hand and cautiously scanned his surroundings; all around him were scattered rocks and wild grasses—this was clearly a desolate wasteland.

But in a certain direction, just a few miles away on a high ridge, stood a massive castle built of white stone.

Though the castle appeared enormous, its walls were crumbling, overgrown with wild grasses, clearly long abandoned.

Yet Wang Yu, who had just escaped from within, knew well—this was no abandoned castle, but a heavily fortified modern base.

Judging by the castle's design, he was certainly no longer in Huaguo, but he still had no idea how he had ended up here.

Had his physical body been kidnapped by a foreign organization while his consciousness was away?

As Wang Yu considered this, he felt a wave of helplessness.

The security at the Huaguo base had clearly been inadequate—he had been ambushed repeatedly, and now he'd even been smuggled overseas.

Had the enemy deployed an A-rank ability user like Helena? If so, it might at least explain things.

As Wang Yu swiftly pondered, he touched the bone banner in his hand and muttered silently, "Lucky."

This time, had it not been for this bone banner he had accidentally brought back to Blue Star, his mortal body—devoid of any Qi—would have been utterly helpless.

Thinking of this, he turned his gaze inward, inspecting his spiritual consciousness sea.

There, quietly lying within it, was a silver talisman.

It was the mysterious talisman that could transform into a small vial and store items!

This bone banner, taken from the Four Symbols Sect, had been drawn from this storage talisman; along with it were thirteen glistening white bone skeletons, resting quietly among the vast pile of luminous bones within the talisman.

Though Wang Yu knew the talisman was extraordinarily mysterious—even capable of breaking the "rules" of the Taiyuan System login interface—he had never imagined it could travel back to Blue Star alongside his consciousness, bringing everything stored within with it.

More than a month ago, before leaving the Four Symbols Sect on his mission, he had placed both the bone banner and the Bone Demon into the storage talisman, since both had been nearly fully cultivated and were just a step away from merging into a second-rank Bone Yin Demon Banner.

He feared that if something happened to these artifacts and puppets—crafted with immense effort and vast amounts of spirit stones—while he was away from his cave dwelling.

As for why he had used the mysterious talisman instead of an ordinary storage pouch, it was entirely due to his cautious nature.

After all, both the bone banner and the Bone Demon were standard demonic artifacts; keeping them openly in a storage pouch felt improper, so he had simply tossed them into the mysterious talisman, waiting for the right moment to merge them into the Bone Yin Demon Banner.

But he never imagined that this casual act would bring him such a tremendous surprise!

This was the first time he had brought anything back from the cultivation world—and if this was possible, then perhaps he could also store items from Blue Star inside the talisman and take them to the cultivation world.

With his current terrifying spiritual power, as long as he didn't need to release the talisman outside his body, he could even retrieve or store items remotely.

The moment Wang Yu thought of this, his heart began to pound.

If he could acquire Blue Star's most powerful nuclear weapons—even just one or two small warheads—could he return and ambush and kill the Golden Core elders, or even the Nascent Soul true cultivators?

Wang Yu fell silent, then let out a wry chuckle.

He didn't even know if he could return again—why waste energy speculating? Right now, escaping pursuit from the castle and finding a way back to Huaguo was the most urgent matter.

His only resources now were the bone banner in his hand and the thirteen Bone Demons stored within the talisman.

By normal logic, without any Qi, he couldn't even cast a single low-level spell, let alone activate a magical artifact.

But the bone banner was unlike ordinary artifacts—due to years of cultivation, it had been saturated with far more yin energy than anyone could imagine.

Yin energy was a variant form of heavenly power; though far less pure than ordinary spiritual energy and mixed with impurities, if one merely sought to activate low-rank spells or trigger the banner's most basic abilities, his spiritual power—far exceeding that of a Foundation Establishment cultivator—could still manage it.

This was precisely why, the moment he realized the talisman had traveled with him to Blue Star, he had dared to turn on his captors and flee immediately.

He judged that although Blue Star's technology was advanced, it would likely be utterly baffled upon encountering cultivation techniques.

Indeed, he had simply used a basic Earth-Digging Technique to slip out of the castle unnoticed.

Now the only problem was that both the bone banner and the Bone Demons within the talisman were first-rank artifacts, containing only limited yin energy—enough for only a few spells.

Once this yin energy was spent, it likely couldn't be replenished on Blue Star, so he must avoid using the banner or its spells unless absolutely necessary, conserving yin energy for critical moments.

He now regretted not having prepared more talismans and stored them in the mysterious storage talisman.

After all, the talisman consumed negligible amounts of spiritual power.

Wang Yu stood among the shrubs, gazing at the distant castle, lost in thought, preparing to slip away quietly.

At that moment, a shrill alarm rang out from the distant castle.

From the tallest building, countless tiny black dots shot into the air, swarming in all directions—over a hundred of them.

Seeing this, Wang Yu immediately poured his vast spiritual power into his eyes, focusing intently—and then blurted out in shock and fury.

"Drone"

The next instant, without hesitation, he shook the bone banner in his hand; tendrils of black mist curled out, wrapping around his arms.

With his other hand, he swiftly formed hand seals and murmured incantations solemnly.

With a soft "puff," a layer of yellow light shimmered over his body, and he sank soundlessly back into the earth, diving a hundred meters deep before speeding away farther still.

On the surface, seven or eight small drones, the size of palms and entirely silver-white, whizzed past overhead.