Li Wuyang and Xuan Nü streaked through the night like bolts of lightning, crossing chamber after chamber in an instant before arriving near the C-section energy distribution node in the northeastern region of the immortal vessel. Thick energy conduits and humming conversion arrays filled the area. It was a vital hub that sustained power for part of the immortal vessel, normally staffed only by a few maintenance puppets and rotating array masters. At this late hour, it was utterly deserted.
According to the final direction indicated by the Nirvana Tracing Array, the source of that invisible energy stream was hidden somewhere in an extremely concealed corner of this area!
"The aura vanished. The other side is very wary and cut off the connection." Li Wuyang hovered in midair as the Chaos Nirvana Domain spread to its limits, scanning every inch of space like the most precise radar. Yet that energy stream seemed to have evaporated without a trace.
Xuan Nü's gaze was sharp as lightning as her divine sense of annihilation spread like spilled mercury, probing the surroundings with care. Suddenly, her eyes locked onto what appeared to be an ordinary energy conduit joint. Inside a tiny maintenance valve attached to it was a speck of dust nearly fused with the metal itself!
Had Xuan Nü's divine sense not reached the level of perceiving the slightest detail, no one would have noticed anything unusual about that speck. It was not a physical object, but a highly compressed mass of exceedingly pure shadow energy. Its internal structure was astonishingly complex, like a miniature array core, and it emitted an extremely faint spatial fluctuation!
"It's a Shadow Puppet Beacon!" Xuan Nü recognized it at once. "An exceptionally sophisticated spy construct. It can attach itself to any object, absorb ambient energy to sustain