Insightful Wisdom Eye

When they finally broke through the red mist, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

How far are we from the place where Yuan Shouzhen and the others last lost contact?

Luo Jun, piloting the Armored Vehicle, asked.

"According to the map, it's still over a hundred kilometers." Rolf looked at the map provided by the Holy See and compared it with the Positioning Device on the Armored Vehicle: "Just keep driving in this direction."

"What's over there?" Ma Lei asked Ophelia across from her. The map could only indicate directions; the central area of Hairub Desert was a completely different concept from the outer areas. Only this guide, who had been here before, knew what they would encounter.

"There's nothing there," Ophelia said calmly. "At least, I haven't encountered anything unusual when I've passed through there before."

"But the central area of Hairub Desert cannot be judged by common sense," Ophelia said. "Instead of speculating about the dangers at our destination, we should pray that we don't encounter any unexpected events on the way."

"Hey, you're the only guide, don't be so jinxed." Jin Fei waved his hand, looked at Ophelia, and secretly put on his Imitation Glasses.

This woman never looked up at anyone when she spoke, and her tone was unusually flat, almost like an electronic voice. She also never made any big movements... Jin Fei felt that this person was less like a human and more like a robot in energy-saving mode.

He was somewhat curious whether this guy was practicing some kind of special Cultivation Method. Ever since he got this thing, one of his biggest hobbies was imitating other people's Inner Breath circulation patterns in his spare time. Although this somewhat disrupted his own cultivation rhythm and even posed a risk of Qi Deviation, Jin Fei was confident in his high level of skill. So far, apart from the 108 rebelling generals within Ye's body, he hadn't encountered any situations that he couldn't handle.

However, thanks to the Severity Coefficient, my experience with these dice rolls has been quite good. Combined with the experience I gained while regulating my Inner Breath last night, I'm not far from the next level.

"Stop worrying about those trivial matters," Night said in a deep voice. "I just want to complete my mission as soon as possible!"

"I love conquering older women the most!"

Um?

After activating the Imitation Glasses ' special effect, Jin Fei felt the flow of vital energy within his body slow down considerably, maintaining only a minimal level of circulation...

As for where they went during those half hour, nobody knows.

"If you think it's too easy, you can go back and challenge that sleeping monster." Ma Lei snorted. Although she was also a warmonger, she believed that there was always a reason for fighting, and she despised those who were always looking for trouble.

"If you're not convinced, we can have a match!" O'Toss looked at Ma Lei: "I sensed it the moment I saw you, we're the same kind, aren't we?"

After more than an hour, the Armored Vehicle arrived at the location marked on the map. Everyone got out of the vehicle and looked around. All around was still endless yellow sand, nothing special.

"You two, don't forget why we came here." Rolf and Zhuge Chi stepped in to stop the two. Ophelia, standing to the side, looked around and said, "O'Toss is right. This journey has been too smooth. I've been here so many times, and I've never encountered anything like this before. Over a hundred kilometers, and we haven't run into any unexpected situations."

According to intelligence provided by the Holy See, the team led by Old Yuan disappeared in this area. Shortly before their disappearance, they had contacted the Parami Branch. Half an hour later, they tried to contact them again, but then lost contact. Even the Positioning Device lost signal, as if the entire team had vanished into thin air.

"This journey has been smooth sailing!" O'Toss stretched. "So smooth it's almost boring."

Luo Jun thought to himself, "How could it not go smoothly? I've been steerling the ship with utmost care, and I've even used the dice several times to avoid potential dangers! Good heavens, every time I succeeded, the Severity Coefficient was never lower than eight. This damn place is no place for humans to come here."

They encountered no further danger on the rest of the journey. At one point, Rolf suggested having someone replace the driver, but Luo Jun refused. This strongman from the Xiluo secretly admired Luo Jun's magnanimity.

Ottos took out a small bottle from his Hundred Treasure Box, which contained shimmering powder.

Jin Fei imitated it for a long time, but didn't see any special effect, so he took off his glasses and put them away.

Luo Jun had used the Dust of Replication before; it could recreate scenes from a certain time period within a limited area. However, he collected it randomly, and only a small amount remained, enough for one use only. This time, specifically for finding people and investigating cases, the Holy See had prepared several extra bottles for them.

It really is an energy-saving mode, huh?

Over this period of time, Luo Jun deeply realized that enhancements such as Double Insurance and Luck Level, which increase the success rate of dice rolls, not only made things smoother but also indirectly increased the leveling speed. Events that were originally quite difficult had a much higher success rate, thus increasing the efficiency of experience gain.

Therefore, the key to their investigation is to figure out what happened here before.

"Sorry, I'm not interested in a brat like you!"

The group began preparing for the investigation.

However, the range of the Dust of Replication is limited, only a few dozen meters at most. In this vast desert, given the mobility of Old Yuan's Exploration Team, the area they could cover in half an hour was enormous. Without determining the exact location where they disappeared, no amount of Dust of Replication would be enough.

At this point, it was Mu Ning's turn to step in.

She slowly walked up a sand dune, raised her hand and removed her blindfold, revealing a pair of disproportionately large eyes.

If an ordinary person had such eyes on their face, they would definitely look strange and bizarre, like an alien. But for some reason, these eyes appeared on Mu Ning's face and were very harmonious with her face shape and other features. There was no sense of incongruity, as if her eyes were meant to be like that.

Mu Ning opened her eyes, revealing a pair of silver pupils.

Vital Energy Cultivation is highly dependent on talent, not just Root Bone and spirituality. Some people are born with extraordinary abilities, which may be enhanced during the cultivation process, eventually forming unique abilities.

For example, Mu Ning, this girl's eyes were born different from ordinary people, possessing extraordinary vision, and as she grew older, she could see more and more. Soon, her talent was discovered by the Yuan Cultivation Society, and she was given special training from a young age. In the end, she broke through the Heart Refining Realm at a young age and naturally became Insight Faction, possessing abilities far exceeding those of ordinary Insight Faction.

However, as she cultivated, her eyesight grew stronger, but this also gradually became a burden. Because her innate Root Bone was rather mediocre and her spirituality was not particularly strong, her upper limit of energy was not high. On the other hand, her extraordinary abilities consumed a great deal of vital energy, and if she did not restrain them, it would be difficult for her to bear such a huge consumption with her own energy capacity.

To address this, the association created an eye mask for him. He wears it to cover his eyes to reduce energy expenditure, and only after removing it can he unleash his true power.

Insightful Wisdom Eye!

An invisible wave spread out, instantly enveloping the space within a ten-kilometer radius.

When she was wearing the blindfold, Mu Ning only had enhanced perception and a wider warning range than ordinary Cultivators. To obtain detailed information about a specific location, she needed to concentrate.

However, after gaining the Insightful Wisdom Eye, as long as it is within her range of perception, everything, no matter how small, is seen by her!

Old Yuan's team had only been missing for a few days. Such experts could not simply disappear without leaving any trace.

Mu Ning's silver pupils trembled slightly as she sifted through any possible anomalies. But as Ophelia had said, anything could happen in the heart of the Hairub Desert; there were just too many things that seemed unusual.

For example, there are Humanoid Sand Pile; bottomless Black Hole; small tornadoes that only circle in one place; and a lonely, abruptly growing dead tree in the middle of the desert...

If we were to investigate all these seemingly unusual locations, even the Dust of Replication might not be enough.

But Mu Ning's abilities go far beyond that!

Beyond observing the outward anomalies, her investigative abilities allow her to delve deeper into the underlying principles behind these anomalies.

That Humanoid Sand Pile was merely a condensation of some Mysterious Power, possessing no real power; beneath the Black Hole was a Desert Scorpion with offspring; the tornado was due to elemental disorder and posed no threat to powerful Cultivators; that lone, withered tree was actually bait, beneath which lay a massive, Toad Monster, ready to devour its attracted prey, but even it was not strong enough to swallow Old Yuan's team.

In short, after eliminating one possibility after another, Mu Ning kept narrowing down the possibilities, and finally, she identified an anomaly that could not be explained no matter what.

"Huff..." The silver-eyed girl, her forehead damp with sweat, closed her eyes, put her blindfold back on, leaped down from the sand dune, and pointed southeast. "There's a sand pit about two kilometers over there."

"Sand pits?" Everyone was taken aback. Jin Fei said, "This is a desert. Aren't sand pits everywhere?"

"That one is a little different." Mu Ning shook her head. "You'll see when you go and take a look."

Following Mu Ning's directions, the group soon arrived at the sandpit she had mentioned...

Initially, people had many guesses about the so-called "different sandpit," such as it being particularly large, having a strange shape, or even possibly harboring some kind of monster.

But when they found it, everyone was greatly disappointed. It was just an ordinary sandpit, nothing special. If there was anything special about it, it was probably that it was relatively deep and had a fairly regular shape, resembling a transparent hemisphere pressed into the sand.

But even this insignificant feature has been somewhat deformed and less noticeable due to several days of wind and sand.

"What's so special about this?" O'Toss kicked a sand, glaring at Mu Ning. "You're not playing us, are you?"

"No...it's definitely different!" Luo Jun spoke up. He grabbed a handful of sand, examined it carefully, picked out a few grains, then grabbed another handful and picked out a few more grains. He repeated this several times until he had a small pinch of sand in his hand.

Look at this.

Everyone crowded around, each picking a few grains to examine closely, still completely baffled. Finally, it was Zhuge Chi, the most accomplished in the field, who widened his eyes and exclaimed, "These grains of sand are all half-filled!"

(End of this chapter)