After leaving the exit of Hell Road, Han Yuchen did not hurry onward. Instead, he and Leng Yuebai temporarily settled in a hidden valley a hundred li from the exit.
The valley was quiet, with only a few unidentified soul beasts watching from afar.
Leng Yuebai stood guard around the perimeter, her long blade embedded in a rock, her entire body as still as a statue. Meanwhile, Han Yuchen sat cross-legged beside a stream, several pale blue holographic windows floating before him.
"Analyze the spoils."
[Command confirmed. Analyzing target: Asura Sword Sheath (damaged).]
An ancient dark-red sword sheath covered in cracks floated in the air. To ordinary soul masters, it might have been a divine artifact brimming with murderous intent, but under Han Yuchen's [True Sight Eye], it was broken down into countless complex data chains.
[Analysis result: High-Dimensional Energy transmission device (damaged). Contains a high concentration of "Asura God Sense," classified as residual rule-based energy. Cannot be directly repaired, but the God Sense can be extracted as upgrade material for the "Star Radiance Scalpel."]
"So it really is a divine creation." Han Yuchen tapped a finger and stored the sword sheath in the system space. "But compared to that, I care more about this."
He took out a sealed transparent container, within which floated a black crystal no larger than a fingernail.
It had been extracted from the mechanical snake earlier.
[Analysis result: Artificial Godhead Defective Product (Version 3.0). Component analysis: Soul Beast Crystal Core from this plane as a base, fused with traces of an Outer God and biochemical virus.] [Deduction: The hostile faction "Holy Spirit Cult" (Shadow Contract) is attempting to mass-produce "deities" through biological modification and energy aggregation.]
Han Yuchen's gaze chilled as he looked at the red