The Missing "Mass"

Bai Qiuran lifted the Barrier, the first thing that caught his eye was his disciple, who was sitting on a Crystal bench, maintaining a thoughtful posture and staring intently at him.

"Um?"

He was startled and asked, "What are you looking at?"

Tang Ruowei was startled when she saw Bai Qiuran appear, but she didn't panic afterward. Instead, she calmly rolled her eyes.

"What's wrong? Can't I look at you? You're not some virgin, so precious."

Bai Qiuran.

"You haven't been watching me all this time, have you?"

"Yeah, what's wrong?"

Tang Ruowei replied confidently, "There's nothing much to see around here, except for you."

"You've been acting a bit too much like a pervert lately..."

Bai Qiuran suddenly felt a chill run down her spine.

Tang Ruowei neither confirmed nor denied this, and at the same time steered the conversation back to the main topic.

"Master, have you finished your analysis?"

"It's over."

Bai Qiuran nodded.

"So what exactly is that filament of Light Filaments?"

Tang Ruowei asked curiously.

"It's hard to describe; it's a Body Integration of replaced concepts and energies... I suspect it's a technology unique to a certain civilization."

Bai Qiuran raised her hand and said, "You just wait and see."

He closed his Nether God, and then those converging Light Filaments began to appear in his hands. These Light Filaments formed a ball of light above his palm, and then Bai Qiuran held this ball of light in his hand and slapped it towards the Crystal bench under Tang Ruowei's buttocks.

The Light Filaments adhered to the Crystal bench, forming a halo that slowly spread outwards along its surface. Where the halo passed, the Crystal bench gradually transformed into a special type of wood that Tang Ruowei had never seen before.

"This is?"

The girl touched the bench curiously and asked in surprise.

"This is the [mass] it stole, or rather, this is what it should have been."

Bai Qiuran said in a deep voice, "Perhaps I know how those Shepherds came to be?"

"How come?"

Tang Ruowei followed his words and asked a question, but Bai Qiuran did not answer. He walked to the side, to the largest building in this Crystal City, and Tang Ruowei could only follow in his footsteps.

Bai Qiuran strode to the side of the building, raised his hand and slapped it. Light Filaments surged out, and the building instantly transformed from its Crystal material back into a large, six-story Bluestone Building with a vast area.

After doing all this, Bai Qiu arrived at the building entrance, pushed open the old-fashioned wooden door, and walked inside.

Tang Ruowei followed him into the building. Perhaps due to its long history, the building's materials, though not appearing old, exuded a faint sense of antiquity.

Following the rustic wooden stairs with its wooden handrail, the two arrived at the rooftop and entered the largest office. Inside, there were two large shelves covered with records written incomprehensibly.

Bai Qiuran didn't care and simply waved his hand, taking everything into his pocket. Then, he took Tang Ruowei from the rooftop to the ground floor, not even leaving behind a single piece of paper.

After collecting everything, Bai Qiuran took the girl away from the City and continued to the next City. Following the same method, he collected everything along the way. After collecting all the City in this world, he took Tang Ruowei towards the Holy Pillar until he restored all the written records of the world next to the Holy Pillar from their Crystal state and put them into his possession.

After doing all this, the two returned to the body of the Giant God Automaton "Founder" and looked in the direction of Salon.

The Three-Headed Dragon Person remained seated in a meditative posture beneath the Holy Pillar, completely unaware of Bai Qiuran's subtle actions.

"Master."

Tang Ruowei looked at it and suggested to Bai Qiuran, "Your physique is similar to the Shepherds's. Why don't you try meditation like the Shepherds and see if you can awaken any special Superpower?"

"Stop talking nonsense. I've been sitting here for ages analyzing the true nature of this Light Filaments."

Bai Qiuran and said, "I've finished analyzing the Light Filaments, but I didn't sense any Superpower. Either my physique isn't completely consistent with the Shepherds's, so I can't awaken it, or... the Shepherds who was the predecessor of Heaven's Envy actually awakened Superpower, and when the Heavenly Dao created us, it had already incorporated the concept of Superpower into Heaven's Envy's physical characteristics."

"That makes sense."

Tang Ruowei thought for a moment, then asked, "So what do we do now?"

"Of course, we need to find a way back to the Immortal Realm and tell Zhentian and the others this bad news."

Bai Qiuran looked at the Three-Headed Dragon Person sitting cross-legged beneath the Holy Pillar with ill intent.

"Before that, eliminating even a small portion of the Shepherds's forces would be a small contribution..."

"Master, you're so mean! People were so good to you before, and you traitor..."

"Shut up! How about I give you a chance to fight it one-on-one?"

Bai Qiuran angrily.

Tang Ruowei immediately shut her mouth and stopped saying anything.

Bai Qiuran returned to the Giant God Automaton's Spiritual Platform. The Giant God Automaton's eyes lit up, and it stood up from the ground, step by step, and came to the back of the Three-Headed Dragon Person Salon.

This Shepherds seems to be entering a wondrous state of awakening, with countless tiny Light Filaments converging on its body. After some time, when this Three-Headed Dragon Person awakens from his meditative state, he will likely awaken a random Superpower.

The Shepherds' Superpower are anything but weak; these Shepherds who have awakened their Superpower are a very troublesome and terrifying bunch.

It was far too dangerous to let it continue. Bai Qiuran made up her mind and manipulated the Giant God Automaton to raise her palm.

Within the Artificial Purple Mansion, the World Furnace, with the Emperor-level Machine Puppet's Dao Embryo at its core, ignited with sparks of energy. Countless Runes lit up Center of the Circle after another, centered on the chest of the Giant God Automaton, and spread out in a spiral shape to the entire body of the Giant God Automaton.

The arm that the Giant God Automaton raised also emitted bright flames at its joints, and the edge of its hand blade showed a constantly vibrating, sharp structure.

Originally, the Giant God Automaton was extremely short compared to the Shepherds. If Salon stood up, the Giant God Automaton could only cut up to its knees. However, now that the Three-Headed Dragon Person was sitting cross-legged in meditation, it gave Bai Qiuran the perfect opportunity.

The island trembled slightly. The Giant God Automaton leaped high into the air, its knees buckling, and then delivered a ruthless chop to the neck where Salon's three heads were joined together.

Blood splattered, the gushing blood staining half of the Giant God Automaton's body, Three-Headed Dragon Person's screams echoed through the Void.