Chapter 364: Master Carapace, Sneaking into the Ancient Temple!

After expending great effort, Taku finally dismembered the tail of the master-level golden giant scorpion into five pieces.

Afterward, Taku immediately launched the ritual for the Master·Blood Source Scale Armor.

However, previously the rituals only sacrificed small amounts of resources, extracting scale-armor traits from the heroic spirit qualities of the absorbed materials.

But this time Taku sacrificed a master-level carapace, gaining feedback of master-level carapace defense.

As expected!

Taku sacrificed something good.

And this time the ritual's feedback power made Taku's blood boil hot all over, a true boiling in the physical sense.

"Gurgle gurgle gurgle..."

The master-level carapace's supernatural defense power first fell upon Taku's supernatural state, then using his flesh and blood as a bridge, it gushed in, directly boiling his flesh, and then merged into his own Master·Blood Source Scale Armor.

His flesh, together with his blood, boiled, steaming.

However, deep within the outline of his boiled body was Taku's Lord·Ancient·Blaze State, emanating a fierce aura.

This supernatural body had long become irrelevant to Taku's current state—whether he had it or not didn't matter.

But having it caused no hindrance, and it could still preserve his own flesh.

Even at times, it could still serve some purpose.

Such as……right now!

When the sacrificial power descended.

Taku also took out a piece of the master-level golden giant scorpion's carapace, melting and absorbing it with his own flame.

Sacrifice is the blueprint for constructing master-level carapace.

And his direct absorption, meanwhile, cooperated with the ritual to build his own master-level carapace's supernatural defense.

This method works well, but long-term use easily generates heroic spirit faith.

But for Taku, the faith of great bulwarks can be easily cut off.

This ordinary master heroic spirit's faith merely contributes a few thoughts of faith.

This also counts as a small payment.

After a wave of sacrifice, Taku's flesh was basically about to be dried out by the sacrificial power.

Fortunately, Taku continually transmuted his supernatural state to condense flesh and blood matter.

This maintained the last shred of dignity of his flesh.

As the sacrifice completed.

A supernatural defense with certain master-level carapace traits appeared on Taku's body surface.

Although not much, the master-level defense easily surpassed the defense of Taku's previous dragon scale armor.

In the following days.

Taku waited for the steam ecosystem's circulation to permeate.

He intermittently performed sacrifices to absorb master-level carapace, enhancing his defensive and survival abilities.

During this period, Bei Lai·Lan Ya also did not contact Taku.

In this silent waiting and cultivation.

On the sixth day.

A cave entrance in the Underground Palace was breached by a squad of Mo Lei·Shen Ting's supernatural soldiers.

All were of seventh rank; the leading captain seemed slightly higher, around level 78.

These supernatural soldiers wore black seventh-rank full armor of supernatural kind; this ecologically active full armor clearly matched the supernatural state and supernatural defense of the supernatural beings themselves in all aspects.

This state gave them extremely strong defensive capability.

And this is precisely the most important point when supernatural beings engage in large-scale war.

For supernatural beings, as long as they don't die, they can recover after returning.

Only by being alive do they qualify to participate in the next battle.

But if they die, they have nothing.

Upon seeing the situation inside the Underground Palace, this squad of Mo Lei·Shen Ting soldiers instantly rejoiced.

Without a doubt, they had found a great treasure!

"Fortunately I came in early; otherwise, all these abundant resources here would have been cheap for Mo Lei·Shen Ting."

Observing the incoming Mo Lei·Shen Ting soldiers, Taku fell into thought.

A group of six, four stayed on guard, two returned to spread the news.

Taku did not make a move against this squad of supernatural beings.

Once he acted, there would be movement, yet no trace could be found.

The expert overseeing this place would certainly examine every inch of land in detail.

The practice of integrating the Mystic·Bracelet within the bulwark, they would surely guess as well.

By then, they might well dig three feet deep.

On the contrary, if he did not act, even if they found traces Taku left here, they would at most suspect he had already left.

As expected.

Half an hour later, mid- and high-level supernatural beings clad in black divine court armor surged into the depths of the Underground Palace like a tide, numbering over a thousand.

They first dispatched heavy troops to occupy the eight passages, guarding the key points.

Then they sent large numbers of supernatural beings to conduct strict inspections of the areas behind the eight passages.

Likewise, the pool area was not overlooked.

The top area where Taku hid likewise did not escape the fate of being inspected.

But those extraordinary soldiers, when they inspected, just tapped left and right, mainly just slacking off.

Don't even hope they'll make any major discovery.

Soon, the situation beneath the pool attracted the attention of the black-wizard officers stationed in the underground palace.

Another half hour passed.

More than ten spellcasters, to be precise, dark wizards, entered.

Dark wizards are the signature sequence of Mo Lei·Shen Ting.

At the same time, these dark wizards are also of the steam sequence.

The steam surge not only blazes forth in the territories of the Three-Eyed God and the Seven Gods.

In Mo Lei·Shen Ting, the steam surge is equally tumultuous.

Even the evil god's side has started to favor the steam sequence.

The dark wizards who entered headed straight for the underground pool area.

When the dark wizards repeatedly inspected the pool.

Ta Ke personally saw them dig up many more Chaos Ancient God Stones.

This sight also made Ta Ke secretly lament.

Although Ta Ke had already inspected with his sight, the environment here naturally has a strong blocking effect, inevitably missing much.

"About five or six thousand pieces, when converted to blood crystals, that's a loss of a hundred million… no, two hundred million!"

Gazing at the dark wizards' haul below, Ta Ke couldn't help but secretly regret.

"In the future, when encountering such special areas, we must let the Shadow Magic Spider Lord manipulate its little magic pearls to deeply explore and dig."

But, what is lost in the east may be gained in the west.

It's also precisely because the underground pool contains a large amount of high-value Chaos Ancient God Stones.

This thus caused those dark wizards to focus their efforts on the area beneath the pool.

Even the many guards stationed on the floating long bridge had their eyes fixed on the pool below.

Even the few strong individuals who had clearly formed master seeds later came and jumped straight into the pool below.

Basically no one paid attention to above; not even anyone gave it a glance.

This also made Ta Ke feel especially comfortable staying in this upper area.

Before he knew it.

Seven or eight days passed again.

Before the rampart had not yet spontaneously dissolved and opened.

The steam ecology perfectly bored through the rampart of the underground palace floating island hall.

Of course, this boring is Ta Ke's 【Steam·World】 ecology power.

Ta Ke can borrow the resonance power of 【Steam·World】 to directly jump into it.

Meanwhile, the many extraordinary beings stationed here, as well as the occasional dark wizards who came to dig, completely failed to notice this.

After all, in their view, the steam ecology is obviously part of this place, even though they don't know why it is so.

But they would never suspect that the steam ecology has anything strange.

They would probably still sigh in amazement at the wonder of the steam sequence.

Even such a deep place can be permeated by it.

Inside the magic hut, Ta Ke waited until the steam gray mist began to seep into the floating island hall within the rampart.

In silence, Ta Ke began to communicate with the steam ecology inside the floating island hall, the previously thick and impassable rampart.

During Ta Ke's communication at this time, it gradually granted passage.

Ta Ke immediately activated the spacetime wormhole.

From within the steam magic hut, he directly leapt to the depths of the underground palace floating island hall.

Thanks to the steam gray mist having already permeated the interior of the floating island hall.

The steam source energy completely concealed Ta Ke's trail.

Without anyone detecting Ta Ke's trail.

Ta Ke silently entered the treasure land guarded by this rampart.

Feeling the rich, heavy starlight emanating from within the hall.

Ta Ke carefully felt his way forward following the treasure's light!