After making up his mind.
Zong Shen raised his head and once again surveyed the vast cylindrical space, illuminated by the blood-red glow of the Soul-Forging Furnace.
The multicolored energy barriers embedded across the surrounding rock walls like stars were still flickering.
Red, blue, green, purple...
They seemed like countless silent eyes, waiting for him to uncover the secrets they had guarded for ages.
Now that he had passed the trial, how could he leave all the treasure chests in the Annihilation Arsenal unopened?
Especially the second level of this treasury. It had once served as the Slavia Empire's testing ground and storage site for its ultimate weapons against the Eternal Frost Nightmare.
The uniqueness and strategic value of the items within were far beyond those of ordinary ruins.
It could be said that they gathered the essence of an entire world.
Their ranks might not all have reached the terrifying god-tier.
But they were certainly extraordinary objects with peculiar functions and ingenious designs, perhaps even containing cutting-edge technologies and fragments of laws from the lost empire.
These were precisely the resources urgently needed by his rapidly developing territory, as well as the Chaos God Path he was still exploring.
Grayish-white chaos divine power silently spread out from beneath his feet once more.
Like the most sensitive of feelers.
It carefully swept across the energy barriers at the entrances of dozens of units ahead.
This time, Zong Shen no longer merely assessed the barriers' strength and danger. Instead, he probed deeper, sensing the energy properties and rhythmic laws faintly seeping out from within.
He even tried to capture the qualities emitted by the sealed objects.
He simply had the Strategy Module search through them for him.
After entering this place, his little strategy assistant had gained relevant information.
What he