"Gate Master, Elder Zhu is here."
Just as the Daoist was gazing at the object, lost in thought, a woman dressed like a maid approached from outside and spoke with her eyes lowered deferentially.
The Daoist set the Flying Disc wreckage on the table, drew back his sleeves, and said, "Come in."
An old man in green robes immediately entered, chuckling. "Boss."
The middle-aged man asked, "Well? Have you uncovered the secrets of this Mechanism Device?"
This middle-aged man was none other than the master of the Heavenly Dragon Gate, the Centipede Daoist whom Li Chen and Qi Maigu had discussed.
Some time earlier, the Centipede Daoist had suddenly received a report from his subordinates that the wreckage of a strange mechanical creation had been discovered in the Eastern Town. After having it delivered, he found that it was indeed beyond what ordinary Shaman Tribe Remnants could manufacture.
Linking it to the sunspot anomaly that had occurred even earlier, he vaguely sensed something and was sending people everywhere to gather information, hoping to uncover the whereabouts of Li Chen and the others.
Yet before he could obtain any results, the Flying Disc Swarm flew over the Shaman Folk Kingdom again, conducting reconnaissance on an even greater scale.
In recent days, members of the Heavenly Dragon Gate had repeatedly spotted these devices within their territory. Apart from one chance encounter during a patrol by a Three-Excellence Heavenly Treasure Centipede that had evolved the ability to fly, however, they had gained almost nothing.
His subordinates reported that these Mechanism Devices flew extremely fast and knew how to avoid people, often coming without a shadow and leaving without a trace.
Although the Centipede Daoist was a Puppet Master of Master Artisan rank and had reached Foundation Establishment, his attainments in mechanical engineering were