Outside the Wilderness.
Jiang Ning stood at the bottom of the pit, bent at the waist, his palm resting on the silver armor of the Silver-Armored Heavenly Soldier.
His five fingers exerted a little force, the tendons in them drawing taut as they pressed down on the Heavenly Soldier's silver armor.
The silver armor felt ice-cold to the touch. As strength flowed into his five fingers, it still gave him the sensation of something indestructible.
His fingers traced, one by one, across the fist prints and scratches on the surface of the silver armor.
Those fist prints and scratches varied in depth, but not a single one had truly broken through the silver armor.
Afterward, he closed his eyes slightly, and a wisp of Divine Sense seeped through his palm into the Heavenly Soldier's body, probing carefully.
In a single instant, everything was clear in his chest.
He opened his eyes, and a flicker of understanding flashed through them.
"A special stone. The energy within it is exhausted, causing the Formation Patterns to fall silent," he murmured. "The energy stone inside the Heavenly Soldier should be the Immortal Essence Stone recorded in ancient texts. Now it seems that these Heavenly Soldiers from the Ancient Era's Heavenly Court, these war puppets, still could not withstand the grinding away of years and the changes of heaven and earth. If this were the Ancient Era, relying on that energy stone in its body, it would have been enough to campaign for a very long time. How could I have dragged it to depletion in such a short span!"
He shook his head and withdrew his gaze.
He knew that no matter what, he had still won.
Having lost its energy core, the current Heavenly Soldier was no different from scrap iron.
He immediately