Divine Beast Creator

"You need not attack, nor should you, the barrier is a two-way shield."

Tamur saw Qi Chen and his group preparing for battle and couldn’t help but remind them. Tamur itself was also within the sheltering range of the Mythical Era Projection, so it did not directly feel the changes in the surrounding environment. However, this didn’t mean it couldn’t indirectly sense the surroundings through the Mythical Era Projection.

Compared to the surface, the Spirit Contamination Level here was significantly higher, and even Veronia wasn’t entirely unaffected.

Even if the effects weren’t permanent, staying here for a prolonged time might lead Veronia to undergo some negative changes, given her status as a Divine Beast. For Qi Chen and the others, it’s really uncertain.

This also puzzled Tamur. Despite being a relatively deep layer, this place wasn’t an unexplored area. According to Qi Realm Dou Yanlan, they would have people come here to collect resources at fixed intervals.

However, given the environment, how did they avoid contamination? Was it due to their equipment? But Tamur couldn’t see anything distinct about that equipment that completely exempted them from the contamination effects of the Qi Realm.

"We can’t attack?"

Qi Chen asked Tamur in surprise, and Tamur gently swayed and said,

"That’s right, your attacks will be blocked by the barrier, or worse, break the barrier."

If subjected to attacks from both inside and outside, even the Mythical Era Projection wouldn’t be invincible. Tamur didn’t want anything to go wrong with Qi Chen and his group on its watch, especially since protecting them was its task.

"Don’t worry; these things aren’t really an issue."

Feng Yuan naturally noticed Qi Chen’s conversation and smiled comfortingly. Feng Yuan directly borrowed Xiao Ji’s power to summon a black longbow, and a black arrow instantly pierced through the animated forest, or rather, each twisted tree demon converted from the trees.

"These things still primarily have a soul nature. If you don’t use attacks specifically aimed at the soul, the end effect won’t be very good."

Feng Yuan reminded Veronia as he began to clear out those twisted tree demons. Although these things appeared to be living creatures, they lacked the most important souls. To Feng Yuan, they were merely dead objects like robots.

The twisted tree demons weren’t immortal, so under the joint efforts of Feng Yuan and Veronia, the forest quickly became barren. Putting down the black longbow, Feng Yuan scanned the area vigilantly while feeling the foul night breeze and said,

"It seems those things only activate when we approach. So, how about a break?"

Veronia scoffed lightly, waved her small hand, and a torrent of Crystal Luminance Stone smashed into the distant forest, saying irately,

"No need, I’m not that delicate... eh?"

Seeing the fallen trees, Veronia was slightly surprised. She summoned another torrent of Crystal Luminance Stone and hurled it at the distant forest, and just like before, the torrent successfully knocked all the trees down.

"Strange, even if attacked, it doesn’t trigger anything. Could it be only the trees here are problematic?"

Noticing that the trees in the distance were only knocked down and hadn’t transformed into twisted tree demons, Veronia was puzzled. Feng Yuan thought for a moment and said,

"Let’s go have a look, but don’t rush. If I’m not mistaken, those things only change when we get close."

"Eh?"

Giving Feng Yuan a surprised look, Veronia still wanted to try. As she approached, the fallen trees on the ground began to struggle to stand up.

"It really is so."

Waving her hand to destroy these revived twisted tree demons, Veronia scrutinized Feng Yuan and said,

"You seem to know something."

"Just a guess, not really knowing, hm?"

Sweeping his gaze around, Feng Yuan spoke blandly. Noticing something, his gaze sharpened. Before Veronia could say anything, Feng Yuan slowly walked over. On his way, the twisted tree demons caused him considerable trouble. After all, these things had to be completely destroyed to prevent revival, or else, even if the trees were knocked down in advance, they’d still come back to life when approached.

"A broken stele? But I can see what’s written on it."

Finally reaching in front of the suspicious object, Feng Yuan squinted his eyes and said. The broken stele in front of him looked very similar to a previous one, except that this one wasn’t as severely damaged.

The upper part of the broken stele was missing, allowing some of the text to be visible.

"Tomb of, Yuan? Hm?"

Veronia looked at the remaining words and realized something, then looked at Feng Yuan. She didn’t suspect him, as that guy wasn’t easy to deceive. However, this made her think of curses.

"It should be a cursed item, no wonder it has special energy lingering on it, but it doesn’t seem to be directly targeting me."

Scratching his chin, Feng Yuan was somewhat puzzled. The fact that this thing was cursed wasn’t surprising. Given the environment, any sinister energy could appear. However, a curse couldn’t be effective without reason. Even if it’s a distant curse, there must be a channel for energy transmission.

However, Feng Yuan didn’t feel that kind of special curse energy taking effect on him. Veronia glanced at Feng Yuan and said,

"I wonder if there would be a stele with my name."

"Hard to say, perhaps everyone has one."

Remembering his previous speculations, Feng Yuan felt it wasn’t impossible. Or rather, this was another piece of evidence. Thinking for a moment, he said,

"In that case, let’s not rush to go deeper. Let’s see if there are any other broken steles first, as for this one..."

With a wave of his hand, Xiao Ji’s power condensed into a black long spear and struck down fiercely at the broken stele. However, just before it made contact, an unexpected occurrence happened. A world barrier suddenly appeared out of thin air, stopping the black spear’s descent.

If it had been Feng Yuan’s own power, the world barrier might have been unable to stop it. But this was Xiao Ji’s power, even though Feng Yuan used entirely borrowed power this time, he still couldn’t break through the world barrier’s protection.

"How did this thing appear?"

Seeing the world barrier appear, Veronia was a bit surprised, or rather, it wasn’t just her, even Tamur felt strange. After all, this wasn’t like Veronia’s previous attempt to create a large-scale Spatial Collapse, it was just an attempt to destroy a broken stele, yet it triggered the world barrier protection. This could only indicate that the stele was no simple thing.

"An unbreakable cursed carrier? This place is indeed interesting."

Veronia didn’t think much of it, she just assumed this thing was like a constant rule of existence, meant to make any who ventured into the Qi Realm unable to avoid a cursed fate.

"The world barrier..."

Glancing at the restored broken stone stele, Feng Yuan didn’t say much, all of these were just his guesses. Without enough evidence to prove them beforehand, speaking out would just interfere with others’ judgments.

"An unavoidable curse..."

Dou Yanlan furrowed her brow slightly. She felt this couldn’t be that simple, unfortunately, her understanding of things beyond common sense was too limited. In the lack of sufficient information, she couldn’t make any effective deductions.

"He might know something."

War Qi Chen glanced at Feng Yuan. Although the change in Feng Yuan’s expression wasn’t obvious, he still noticed it. Unlike Veronia and the others’ surprise, Feng Yuan seemed to have anticipated something, though he wasn’t entirely clear on the specifics either.

"If Feng Yuan wants to talk, he’ll explain himself."

Dou Yanlan glanced at War Qi Chen and calmly said, the latter smiled without refuting. He simply reminded with a sentence and didn’t have the intention to thoroughly investigate. Not just because he didn’t want to mess with Feng Yuan, but because he didn’t want the trouble either.

Even in the East Continent Great Xia, he had already accustomed to division of labor and cooperation. Since someone was willing to serve as an intelligence analyst, why would he go out of his way to find trouble? After all, he really didn’t have much understanding of this world.

Or rather, regarding those peculiar things, his knowledge wasn’t necessarily much more than Qi Chen and the others.

"The surface space has recovered, I didn’t expect the Recovery Power of the surface space to be so strong."

Although they couldn’t delve into the Qi Realm to set up detectors inside, the detectors set up at the boundary still provided Qi Realm Tianhua with a lot of useful data, which was then analyzed to gain many insights.

Veronia’s large-scale Spatial Collapse was naturally detected too, as it was the first detection of surface space data by the detectors. However, now, the detected data had restored to the surface space’s values, which made Qi Realm Dou Yanlan understand that the collapsed space was likely already recovered.

"Such a strong Recovery Power, it seems our previous entry methods might have had issues, perhaps..."

Thinking of Peculiar Realm Qi Chen’s matter, Qi Realm Dou Yanlan squinted her eyes, maybe, that could be a breakthrough point.

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