Celestial Being's Codex
Chapter 1402

Silence Breaks, the Cold Night Brightens

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On the Old Imperial Household's side, a disc embedded in the ceiling of an airship suddenly began to emit faint glimmers of light.

Yuan Congye and the others all glanced upward, their expressions showing no surprise.

The item above was one of the Lost Treasures they had brought along this time. One of its functions was to shield them from the scrutiny of other Lost Treasures.

Now that it had lit up, it meant it had begun to take effect.

At that moment, they could all sense that something seemed to be being stripped away from them.

Every Profound Cave Observation possessed an extremely high level of existence, so they were highly sensitive to any changes in themselves. In a situation like this, some information about them had likely already been collected by the opposing Lost Treasure.

But it was nothing serious. They could all judge that this was, at most, surface-level information.

Though Lost Treasures could indeed be unreasonable in certain respects, that depended on the level of the target. If both sides were on roughly equal footing, certain rules still had to be followed.

For instance, although some Lost Treasures could restrict and injure Fighters, they could not kill them in one stroke.

Likewise, most investigative Lost Treasures could not obtain everything in an instant. They worked through a gradual process.

What Lost Treasures usually investigated first was information widely known about a person. Such things were easily gathered. But once it involved deeper matters or memories unique to the individual, it was not so easy.

Now that their own Lost Treasure had taken effect, they could feel that although the rate at which their surface information was slipping away had not slowed, it had clearly been distorted into something even they themselves did not understand.

Thus, everyone

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