Chapter 530 - 369: Acquired Artificial Artifact Spirit Method (2)

[Large Secret Realms are rarely discovered within the entire Cultivation Realm.]

[What you care about is not the newly discovered conquered Large Secret Realm, but the resources within it.]

[The vision of the world is limited. In the Celestial Rainbow Cultivation Realm, there may be High-Tier Cultivators familiar with Core Formation Spiritual Objects, but they are completely unaware of Nascent Soul Spiritual Objects.]

[In this Secret Realm World you named Celestial Essence, you found a Nascent Soul Spiritual Object. According to your calculations, this Nascent Soul Spiritual Object can enhance the breakthrough success rate of a Golden Core Perfection Master to Nascent Soul by half a percent.]

[In the year 5205 of the New Source Era, you dispatched Lin Wui and Qiu Yi to deliver this object to the Guangyun Celestial Sect.]

[In the same year, an army from the large-scale Cultivation Realm of Qiuxu invaded.]

[An expedition team with nine Golden Core Masters led by a Late-stage Golden Core Master arrived at the Celestial Rainbow Cultivation Realm.]

Nine Golden Core Masters dashed across the earth like phantoms.

"It would be better to attack openly."

"Hmph, most of the Business Alliance’s power is now preparing to deal with the Guangyun Celestial Sect."

"It’s already quite good that they sent us."

"It’s just a small medium-sized Cultivation Realm."

"We’d just retreated from a confrontation with the Guangyun Celestial Sect, and now we’ve been sent here. Hmph, if we’re useful, use us to death, is it?"

"Our task for the nine of us is to directly attack and assassinate the Golden Core Masters and geniuses of this Cultivation Realm, cutting off its potential. Hmph, once the mission succeeds, others will naturally come to clean up this Cultivation Realm..."

"I want to have a good rest here after this mission."

"I don’t even know what the Business Alliance is waiting for, still not opposing the Guangyun Celestial Sect."

On the ground, nine figures moved as elusive as shadows.

Their trajectories resembled zig-zags, ignoring all the mountains and waters, forests and trees they encountered, as if there were no obstacles.

Yet, they moved without a sound.

This was the Five Elements Escape Technique at Great Success, allowing them to temporarily merge with the objects of the Five Elements when performing the Escape Technique.

Cultivators can do more than just fly in the sky.

The Five Elements Escape Technique consists of five different escape techniques. To cultivate all five to Great Success and freely transform between them means that these individuals are experienced True Masters, having received systematic cultivation inheritance.

The nine remained connected through their Divine Sense, constantly exchanging information with each other.

"Well then, although this medium-sized Cultivation Realm is barren, it can still produce Golden Core Masters, so its resources shouldn’t be too scarce."

"Let’s take this opportunity to plunder."

"This mission is only about sabotage, with no other requirements, which counts as the Business Alliance’s punishment for this Cultivation Realm."

"Don’t underestimate them. That scoundrel Cold Moon fell in this Cultivation Realm."

"Cold Moon? Makes me laugh to death, thinking that mastering the Swallowing Pill Skill made him invincible in the world."

"In the end, he was stabbed to death by that lunatic Yunmiao."

"Earlier, Brother Chen had faced Cold Moon. He told me her strength was unfathomable."

"So what? It only means that madwoman Yunmiao is formidable. As for this Cultivation Realm..."

One of them sneered dismissively.

"The Spiritual Qi is becoming abundant, we’ve entered the Qu Hong Cultivation Realm. Split into pairs and act separately; the number of True Masters here is still..."

Before the leading Late-stage Golden Core Master could finish his words,

he retreated in terror.

A dazzling blue beam shot through the night sky, tearing across the sky, and slammed into the earth.

In an instant, the mountain peaks were overturned, a shockwave uprooted towering trees.

"Daoist Chen, Daoist Zhang!!!"

The Late-stage Golden Core Master’s eyes widened in disbelief.

The other Masters were momentarily stunned too.

Suddenly, the surrounding sky flickered.

Like a curtain being lifted.

The Masters were horrified to find that the surroundings were not the original world.

In the distance, the layered mountains shimmered slightly, transforming into a grand array made of countless Spiritual Crystals.

The array bore densely packed Array Patterns operating swiftly.

To their shock... they had unwittingly entered a grand array!!

In an instant, gravity increased exponentially, temporarily binding them in place.

In high air, Qiu Yi controlled the fierce wind.

He gently stroked the Communication Spiritual Artifact at his waist.

"The plan ’invite the tiger into the trap’, success."

With a wave of Qiu Yi’s hand, enormous cannons, war machines by nature, sped through the array tracks.

Nine war cannons, named Celestial Rainbow One by the Artifact Refining Array Talisman Puppet Earth Master Association, began gathering blue light at their muzzles.

"Boom——————"

In an instant, day and night reversed, radiant light illuminated the world brightly.

Nine top-grade Spirit Stones shattered simultaneously, a massive influx of Earth Vein Qi surged into the barrel of Celestial Rainbow One, the barrel filled with blue glowing Spiritual Power tracks.

"Damn it!!"

"It’s a Tier Six Bewitching Array! No, close to a Tier Seven Bewitching Array!"

"Plus, there’s a Tier Six Trapping Array."

Nine beams of light swept chaotically within this small array.

The Golden Core Masters scurried like fleeing mice, yet there were still those caught and knocked to the ground by the blue light.

But these blue beams intentionally didn’t choose to kill these Golden Core Masters.

"Damn it, didn’t the Business Alliance say Zhong Heng was merely a recently advanced Tier Five Array Master."

"How did he grasp so many Tier Six Arrays so quickly!! This is impossible!"

"Someone!! We wish to negotiate."

"Zhong Heng, I know you’re here, you didn’t kill us, you’re wary of the Business Alliance."

"I can assure you, the Business Alliance will withdraw its sanctions against you!"

"Killing us will only make the Business Alliance send stronger forces!"

The beams from the blue war cannons gradually ceased.

"The Alliance Leader’s order is to capture alive."

A cold voice rang out.

Several figures rose into the air, their aura formidable.

The leading Golden Core Master from the Business Alliance showed disbelief. These Golden Core Masters from Qu Hong Cultivation Realm were exceptionally solid in foundation, comparable to their Business Alliance’s elites.

"How can this be..."

He had no time to finish his words before being knocked unconscious.

When he reopened his eyes,

he found his consciousness a bit fuzzy.

An eerie voice whispered in his ears: "Extracting souls requires the subject to remain conscious."

"No wonder the Soul Extraction Technique can only be found in the Wind and Rain Tower..."

Wh—what?!

Wind and Rain Tower!? Wait, we’re on the same side.

He screamed in his mind, but there was no response.

Accompanied by intense pain.

His consciousness fell into eternal darkness.

When he awakened again,

his mind was devoid of memories, filled only with countless data.

He... gazed unemotionally at this world from within the Scripture Tower of Divine Strategy Valley...

[In the year 5205 of the New Source Era, the Tier Six Bewitching Soul Confusion Array you set up successfully lured the external Masters into the Tier Six Heavenless Trapping Array.]

[The Celestial Rainbow One jointly invented by various associations tested its prowess for the first time.]

[But the results didn’t please you. Celestial Rainbow One, with its massive cost, can unleash a beam equivalent to the all-out strike of a Late-stage Golden Core Master, but requires a powerful Divine Sense for control and consumes top-grade Spirit Stones as strategic resources.]

[You halted the Celestial Rainbow One, realizing why no major changes have occurred in the Cultivation Realm for twenty thousand years.]

[Because it’s not worth it, the resources needed for Celestial Rainbow One could allow a Golden Core Master substantial advancement.]

[Cultivation is everything in this world, and creating special Magical Artifacts with costly resources and efforts is inferior to a casual strike from a high-tier cultivator. Oppression from higher-ups prevents the Path of Cultivation from progressing towards a developed Magical Artifact system.]

[Especially now, even with resource depletion, it’s still sustainable for Nascent Soul Divinity Transformation Cultivators.]

[Cultivators focus their efforts on individual evolution, naturally not spending considerable time researching these things.]

[Instead, it’s the Scripture Tower; perhaps this is the weapon that can change the Cultivation Realm.]

[You extracted the souls of nine Golden Core Masters, your first attempt at Soul Extraction was poor, shattering two souls.]

[The remaining ones were refined by you using the Acquired Artifact Spirit Technique.]

[The Scripture Tower... now possesses its own Artifact Spirit.]