Translator: Darling Editor: Darling
Walk someone else’s path, so they have no path to walk . Ye Zan couldn’t care less about how the students of the other Four Sects cursed him . After all, all the treasure was going into his own pocket . He also didn’t have to worry about bringing trouble to Yu Qing . Everything was put into his dimension . He would just leave with empty hands . No one would ever think of him .
But, Ye Zan still thought that they were going too slow . Not only did he ride his “Goldie Bullet Train” everywhere, but he also ordered all his mechanical spiders to go and collect spiritual grasses . Pulling the grasses up by the roots was no difficult task for these technologically controlled spiders .
The task of gathering spiritual grass was left to the mechanical spiders . Ye Zan was in charge of hunting monsters . With Goldie following him, he even saved fighting time . Just the sight of the golden python was enough to scare the creatures into submission . They then obediently followed as he inserted disks into their brains and placed them in his dimension .
Within a day, Ye Zan’s dimension had already held ten some types of spiritual grass, with the total number amounting to over a hundred, and over a hundred heads of spiritual beasts .
If he kept up this speed, it wouldn’t be long before everything valuable in this Realm was swept up into his dimension . This here was the difference between humans and technology! Ye Zan didn’t achieve this on his own . Even just a single mechanical spider, with its software and technology, was the product of the work of countless people .
However, when Ye Zan was happily sweeping through the realm, he received a message that made him stop .
A drone had lost connection!
The drones did not stay in one place . After they had scanned and drawn a map of the area, they had been moved into observation mode; set to scan the ground beneath them . As the scenery was constantly changing, there needed to be constant observation; obviously, the drones would also have to move . But, who would have that a drone would lose connection after moving?
This shocked Ye Zan . The drones had camouflage abilities and had the cover of the sky . There shouldn’t be anything in this Realm that could harm them . Ye Zan hurriedly investigated, seeing the last message from the drone before it fell, and saw that there was no report of an attack .
Then why? Ye Zan scrunched up his brows, reordering his other fifteen drones and trying to find the location of the missing drone . From what was written on his map, there was nothing special about the area, but Ye Zan decided to check what was on the Yu Qing map .
Originally, Ye Zan had thrown the map to the side after setting up his drones . There was nothing special about it . Sure, it had markings, but did Ye Zan need the? He had his drones, there was nothing secret about this Realm anymore . What types of plants, beasts, etc . were in this Realm, he knew it all . He could even investigate underground . Why did he need this map?
But now, as Ye Zan took out the Yu Qing map and compared it with what was written on his own map, there was a problem; especially in the area, the drone had lost connection . The area was mapped on his version but seemed to not be on the Yu Qing map .
It wasn’t that there was a blank on the map . It seemed like the area just didn’t exist in the Yu Qing version . In other words, that area had always existed, it was just that, the people drawing the Yu Qing map had never discovered it, so it didn’t exist in their map . They had just drawn what they thought was the whole picture .
This wasn’t anything extraordinary . There was a skill in this world called Spiritual Formation . Within this skill, there was a special technique: Bewitchment used to target and confuse human senses . A high-level Bewitchment could blind the senses, and even work to “make people do what they think is real, when in fact, the real is false” . Lower level Bewitchment techniques could trick the senses, confusing directions, and letting people walk on the wrong paths, like the infamous “Ghost Knocking” .
It was clear that, in this area, or at least around this area, there was the presence of this Bewitchment Charm . Under the influence of this Charm, the people drawing this map had unknowingly disregarded this area . However, the charm in this area was definitely not the lower-level kind . How else would even a drone lose the ability to communicate? Should he go in to investigate?
Ye Zan was a little hesitant . After all, technology was not all-powerful . No one knew what dangers there would be after entering the area .
At this time, the disk in Goldie’s brain sent a message to Ye Zan . After arriving here, Goldie had remembered snippets of her past, one of which was her turning around to look back at this area . From this, Ye Zan could deduce that Goldie had very likely come out of this area . Of course, this was just a guess . Because, in Goldie’s memories, there was no information on what was in the area .
Ye Zan hesitated for a moment, before clenching his teeth . The so-called “finding treasure in danger”, could probably be speaking about this area . Maybe there were greater treasures, or, better, a secret to gaining control of this Closed Realm .
Thinking about being able to control the Realm, Ye Zan wanted to drool . Although he had a dimension, it was still tiny compared to this Realm . This Realm stretched for thousands of miles . Moreover, and more importantly, this Realm was also filled with spiritual energy, unexhausted even after all these years . This meant that it had a way of regaining this energy . The dimension he had was unable to produce spiritual energy . It had to be replenished every time Ye Zan opened its doors . If he could control this Realm, would he ever have to worry about having a place to grow medicine and farm beasts?
Of course, Ye Zan didn’t recklessly barge in . He had to do some preparation . If you had preparation, that was called taking a risk . If you didn’t do preparation, that was called looking for death . The saying: “Doing all you can as a human, then listening to the heavens for your fate”; you had to “do” what you could in your powers before you could listen to the heavens for your fate .
A mechanical spider rushed in, but immediately lost connection with Ye Zan . However, Ye Zan had predicted this and preset the spider’s settings so he didn’t have to control it . As planned, after a short time, the spider came back, bringing with it a video of what was in the area .
But, based on what was in the video, Ye Zan couldn’t see anything special; just that the mist was a bit heavy . He could confirm one point: the mysterious area didn’t cripple the technology’s settings; it just blocked off all signals .
Ye Zan decided to go in by himself . He put the python Goldie into his dimension and brought out a suit of armor .
This armor was designed for scouting . There were all kinds of high-tech designs, like a plasma gun, two missile launchers, and all sorts of shields . Even if it was just a scouting design, solely based on its uses, Ye Zan could probably take on Goldie by himself wearing it .
After preparation, Ye Zan left a message for the Yu Qing students to prevent them from making assumptions when they lost connection with him . Only then did he walk into the mysterious area .