Who Was So Devious?

Within this isolated space, the Sea Emperor has no way of detecting the outside situation, just as he was unable to detect the inside of the secret realm when he was outside the secret realm.

Miko recounted how she had set up numerous Spirit Gathering Array, and Liliath covered their mouths and chuckled as they listened.

"I bet that kid's still out there playing around with the Spirit Gathering Array." Even with his usual cool expression, Scarlet couldn't help but let a slight smile play on his lips. But his gaze quickly fell on the robots busy digging. "By the way, what are you doing with all these milky-white stones you dug up?"

"This is Honey Milk refined by the Melting Beast..." Gu Ding also gave a detailed account of the Honey Milk.

Not long after Gu Ding finished speaking about the Honey Milk, the multi-functional robot had already finished excavating the Honey Milk from the stomach sac, emptying it completely, leaving not a single drop.

After storing the remaining Honey Milk in his Storage Space, Gu Ding asked the Sea Emperor, "Are there any other treasures inside this Melting Beast's body?"

"And the Brain Crystal. Actually, although its body is petrified, it still contains a lot of blood and qi energy, much more than the Golden Skeleton you collected before. It's just that you can't absorb it now." The Sea Emperor felt it was a bit of a pity that the petrified corpse of the Melting Beast was left.

"Then let's dig it out. Anyway, we have a multi-functional robot; it should only take a few hours at most." Gu Ding wanted to dig out the beast corpse and take it away.

"You're oversimplifying things. The sand in this world is on a completely different level of solidity compared to the sand in the Universe Sea. Peak-rank God Combat Strength capable of destroying a planet could only carve a trench a hundred kilometers long with a full-force attack here. Robots simply can't dig through the sand here. If you were to dig it yourselves, it might take you a month to finish. You'd be better off exploring other locations; the rewards there would definitely be better than a beast's corpse."

The Sea Emperor's explanation completely convinced Gu Ding to abandon his idea of excavating the beast's carcass.

"Alright, let's head straight for the brain. After we've extracted Brain Crystal, we'll leave." Gu Ding said, putting away the robot. Guided by the Sea Emperor, the group headed towards the brain.

More than two hours later, Gu Ding and his group finally arrived at the brain of the Melting Beast. This area was significantly smaller, only about a hundred square meters.

Looking at the grape-sized, translucent, misty crystals on the ground, Gu Ding asked, "Sea Emperor, are these misty crystals Brain Crystal?"

"That's right, collect them quickly, don't use the robots anymore. Collect them by hand, these things are very easy to break upon impact." The Sea Emperor's voice echoed in everyone's ears.

Gu Ding, who was about to take out the robot to shovel them all away, paused for a moment and obediently chose to pick them by hand.

Actually, there weren't many Brain Crystal here, only a little over 80,000. Gu Ding and his team collected them by the handful, and they were quite fast, finishing the collection in just three or four hours.

Exploring this secret realm was much easier and faster than expected.

Of course, this was also thanks to Robert. Without the robot he built, it would have taken Gu Ding and his team more than two months to dig for Honey Milk. But now, Gu Ding completed all the exploration and excavation in less than fifteen hours.

"If we had known it would be this fast, we wouldn't have provoked Ye Mei." Miko felt that setting up the Spirit Gathering Array before was completely unnecessary.

The thought of Ye Mei still playing around with the Spirit Gathering Array somewhere made Gu Ding and the others chuckle.

"Where's our next destination?" Gu Ding grinned and asked the Sea Emperor as they left the secret realm.

"My original plan was to take us to a Miniature World ruin left behind by a fallen true god, but that ruin has already been discovered. It would take us at least three days to get there now. If we abandon that ruin and head straight for the next undiscovered secret realm, it would only take five days. I'd like to know what your opinions are." The Sea Emperor presented the two options.

"Who discovered that Miniature World remnant?" Gu Ding asked after a moment of silence.

"It's a group of eleven people from the Dark Race."

"What are your opinions?" Gu Ding turned to look at Liliath and the others.

"Kill them all! Loot them all!" The Scarlet longsword crossed its arms, offering a very concise answer.

"I agree with Scarlet's opinion." Liliath glanced at Scarlet, thinking to herself, "This pretty boy's temperament is quite to my liking."

"I was just thinking of finding someone to chop me up..." Elsa said this with murderous intent; she had indeed been holding back for the past few days.

"I'm a doctor who likes to fight, you should have known that from the first day you met me." Dokter also seemed a little eager to try.

"The Dark Race are all bad people." Although Miko didn't call for fighting, he knew his Combat Strength was useless, but he still made his stance clear.

"Alright, target—the eleven-member Dark Race team! Let's go!" After consulting everyone, Gu Ding finally decided on the next exploration point.

"Who the hell is so despicable as to set up so many Spirit Gathering Array!"

The expression on Ye Mei's handsome face was extremely distorted. He had spent three days stepping on more than thirty Spirit Gathering Array, guided by the detector's pointer, and he was feeling quite unwell.

After collapsing the Spirit Gathering Array, Ye Mei discovered that the detector's needle had completely stopped moving. He shook it several times, but the needle remained unchanged. "Damn it, what kind of rubbish is this? I've searched over thirty Spirit Gathering Array, and now it's gone on strike?!"

He crushed the detector in his Ye Mei, but still wasn't satisfied. He forcefully threw the broken pieces to the ground and then stomped on them repeatedly. After a few stomps, the detector, slightly larger than a palm, completely disintegrated into pieces. After a while, he finally looked up, glanced around, and then scratched his head, asking, "Which way should I go now?"

A moment later, Ye Mei suddenly slapped his forehead and looked at the long sword at his waist. He took it off, scabbard and all, and with a slight flick of his wrist, tossed it into the air. The scabbard spun rapidly in the air before slowly falling to the ground. He glanced at the direction the scabbard had pointed, then bent down to pick it up and hung it back on his waist. Then he leaped into the air and sped off in the direction the scabbard had indicated.

Ye Mei didn't know was that the direction he chose, by sheer accident, was the same direction that Gu Ding and the others were currently entering—the remnants of the Miniature World.

Gu Ding and the others had just entered the Miniature World. The Sea Emperor's perception abilities were also isolated by the True God's Miniature World, preventing him from sensing the outside world and unaware that Ye Mei was heading in this direction. (To be continued...)