The Shadowship returned safely to the Sky Patrol Immortal Boat. After lingering briefly before the immortal boat's formidable combined defense system, that terrifying consciousness ultimately did not force an attack. It receded like the tide and vanished into the depths of the void, yet the suffocating pressure it had left behind lingered for a long time.
Inside a secret chamber of the Cardinal Hall, the atmosphere was so grave it seemed about to freeze solid. Two "Cleaner" units, completely sealed by Chaos Nirvana power, had been placed upon specialized analysis platforms. They resembled warped metallic droplets, their surfaces smooth and cold, without seams or runes, as though they had been born as a single whole.
Xuan Nü, Li Wuyang, the Inspector, Ling Xiao Sword Master, Wonderful Sound Bodhisattva, and several of the immortal boat's foremost artifact refining, formation, and Divine Soul Scholar Grandmasters had gathered here, attempting to unravel these strange creations from beyond the heavens.
"Its structure is perfectly integrated. It was not forged; it is more like it... 'grew,'" said a white-haired Artifact Refining Grandmaster after carefully scanning it with his divine sense, his face filled with disbelief. "Its material cannot be analyzed. It contains an unknown law-like property, possesses extraordinary strength, and shows signs of self-repair."
"The energy core cannot be located. It seems to be spread throughout its entire body, yet it also seems not to exist at all. Its method of propulsion appears to directly manipulate foundational laws rather than use spiritual energy or any known form of power." The Formation Grandmaster frowned deeply.
Wonderful Sound Bodhisattva attempted to convert it with supreme Buddhist Dharma. Buddhist light enveloped the Cleaner, only to vanish like a clay ox sinking into the sea, producing no reaction whatsoever. "This object possesses neither intelligence nor soul. There is only