Rise to God with Life Skill Professions

Chapter 897: Chapter 716: Encountering the Mechanical Emperor

The sky had been filled with a carpet of insects just now, yet in this instant they vanished without a trace.

Qin An’s brows knitted slightly as he looked at the empty sky before him, his fingertip tapping the saber sheath as a thought rose in his heart.

He had just now extended his senses for a while and discovered that once those insects burrowed into the rift, their auras immediately disappeared, and the rift itself fully closed the instant they entered, as if it had never existed.

Qin An glanced inside, but to his surprise, even with his cultivation at the Celestial Human Realm, he still could not see what was within.

It was as if there was an invisible barrier inside, separating the two spaces.

On one side was empty space; on the other side was endless fog that even the Celestial Human Realm could not see through.

"Now this is interesting."

Qin An rubbed his chin, thinking to himself.

No wonder Emperor Xuanwu had told him that despite probing from many directions, they had obtained no clues at all.

Given the situation, if they could find clues from inside, that would be the strange thing.

"Then how exactly am I supposed to get in?"

Qin An fell into contemplation. He certainly wanted to go in and take a look; after all, the only lead at present was right here. If he did not go in, how could he possibly obtain the information he needed to resolve this insect calamity?

Qin An stood where he was. After pondering for a moment, he then shook his head.

"I can only wait for those rifts to appear again, then make another attempt and see if I can probe the situation inside them."

The rift just now had appeared far too quickly, so fast that even Qin An had not been able to react in time.

Therefore, Qin An planned to wait until the rift appeared again, then, at the fastest possible speed, explore that rift and see what exactly lay within.

Of course, if possible, he even wanted to launch an attack to test just how solid that invisible barrier truly was.

Thinking of this, Qin An stopped overthinking it, found an open patch of ground, and stood there, waiting patiently.

According to the information Emperor Xuanwu had given him, after these insects flew into the rifts, it would not be long before they emerged once more from within them.

In that case, all he needed to do next was wait for these insects to appear and then explore the rift.

As time passed, the sky gradually darkened. The sun sank beyond the mountain peaks, and in the distance a blaze of cloud ignited like fire, looking extremely beautiful.

When that fiery glow slowly faded and the moonlight became the only illumination over this clearing, the place took on a somewhat desolate chill.

The sky was silent, with no birds sweeping past; this lonely bleakness grew even sharper.

Just as Qin An was waiting calmly, there was finally movement in the sky.

He saw a fine crack appear high above, like a spiderweb, spreading across the sky without ceasing.

The moment the rift appeared, those web-like fissures also continued to expand.

Qin An stood in place, focusing his mind. He gathered his entire aura to its peak, ready to be unleashed. He would strike the instant the rift opened, attempting to blast apart the invisible barrier.

The rift grew larger; he could see it becoming bigger and bigger as time passed.

And as the rift expanded, waves of terrifying aura transmitted out from within, followed closely by one mechanical insect after another flying out.

Qin An immediately sensed something abnormal: these mechanical insects’ auras were actually far stronger than before.

He felt that something was wrong, and the unease in his heart grew stronger.

When the insects had flown over previously, the aura on them had been very weak, like ordinary bugs that could be slapped to death with one hand.

But when the rift opened again and the mechanical insects flew out, their aura had already become extremely powerful, far beyond what common folk could deal with.

"What on earth is causing this?"

Qin An’s fingertip tapped the hilt of his long saber. He frowned and pondered for a moment, then flipped his hand and drew the saber, slashing straight toward the rift.

He swiftly gathered the power of Three Blades Unite, and without hesitation activated the Secret Technique.

Razor-sharp saber qi surged toward the rift like mountains collapsing and seas overturning.

"Whatever you are, I don’t have time to think right now, so I’ll just cut you open first!"

The rift had appeared fast and would disappear just as fast. There was no time at all to think about the reason behind the insects’ change, so Qin An simply decided to shatter the rift first.

Once the rift was broken, he would naturally discover something.

The saber qi was like a giant tearing open heaven and earth, smashing viciously into that invisible barrier.

"Boom!"

A thunderous roar sounded. Under the power of Three Blades Unite, the invisible barrier actually began to tremble violently, as if it might shatter at any moment.

In just a few breaths, the invisible barrier grew weaker, yet it did not vanish.

"So the attack is effective."

Qin An swung his blade again, his Saber Momentum steady as a mountain, his gaze as firm as a boundless sea.

The long saber cleaved through the night sky, bursting forth with waves of saber qi terrifying to the extreme.

Although he did not again draw on the might of Three Blades Unite, when Qin An gathered these invisible blades of qi together, their power was in no way inferior to his previous strike.

Urged by such a Secret Technique, the saber qi from the long blade met the rift. Violent tremors came from the rift, and the dense, web-like cracks actually widened by a few degrees.

"Not enough! I need to stoke the fire even more!"

Qin An’s eyes were as sharp as flame, his True Essence surging like the four seas, swiftly pouring along his meridians into the long saber.

What he meant to do was cleave apart this barrier of time and space and see what exactly lay within the rift.

The long saber was raised once more. On the blade, terrifying power gathered again, transforming into a vast amount of energy that condensed in the sky into a gigantic saber edge.

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