Without any warning, a crisp sound like porcelain cracking after being fired in a kiln echoed through the entire underground space. One Spirit Essence Circuit after another, hidden within the vaulted ceiling and the air, emerged amid the tremors, shattered, and turned into scattered light.
It was as though stars had appeared in an instant, only to fall towards the earth.
Reflected in the Rainbow Light, it was unbelievably beautiful.
But even as an apprentice who had only just begun studying Alchemy, Ji Jue could tell what this meant... the inner defensive sequence had completely collapsed in that instant!
Then came the roar of collapse.
A loud explosion.
In the distance, the walls along another passage collapsed with a crash.
Amid the billowing dust, loud explosions rang out one after another.
A group of filthy figures crawled out of the ruins. The man at the front held a broken blade—a masterwork Alchemy weapon painstakingly forged by the Master for this expedition, the very weapon that had just dismantled the inner defensive sequence. With no defense sequence left to maintain it, it had shattered in a single strike!
"I found it! I found it!!!"
Lou Feng shouted excitedly. Who knew what he had gone through on the way here? He was covered in mud, with an extra scar on his face. The Workshop Core's defense programs had already cost them many men, and everyone was wounded.
Now that they had personally laid eyes on this Spirit Essence Sea blazing with Rainbow Light, they could no longer restrain their wild joy. They danced in ecstasy and burst into laughter.
Until...
Across the deep Spirit Essence Sea, they finally spotted the group on the distant path.
Two people, a vehicle, and a beast. Riding along in the wind, without even a speck of