"Suspicious target detected. Energy level unknown..." "Warning: unknown target. Threat level: two and a half stars!" "Response: eliminate!"
Deep in the desert of Zone Sixty-Six, inside a temporary base.
Sealed inside a metal box, a crystal the size of a human head shimmered. Orders derived from extensive calculations and projections were confirmed, and as the communication artifacts scattered throughout the desert activated, a wave resembling the divine sense of a powerful cultivator swept out in every direction.
In an instant, Si Ming Yiyi's figure was revealed.
After suffering a minor setback ten years earlier, Li Chen had purchased a Truth-Piercing Eye and painstakingly analyzed it, uncovering the basic principles behind its operation.
By now, he knew how to make rudimentary use of the extraordinary power contained within the Truth-Piercing Eye in ordinary mechanism devices.
Although the cost had prevented him from equipping every device with it, mixing five or six, or even a dozen, into a hundred-odd detection mechanism devices was no problem at all.
This was a key defensive area, and security was particularly tight. Tower-like spirit awareness arrays stood everywhere.
Waves like flowing water scanned the area, detection spirit waves washing in every direction like layers of divine sense sweeping across the earth.
Si Ming Yiyi felt that things were going badly. Those currents of transmitted awareness flowed like water, immersing his entire body and leaving him nowhere to hide.
He had no choice but to abandon his escape, leap out of the void, and engage the enemy.
With a flick of his sleeve, a palm-wide wrist blade appeared in his hand.
Slash!
A Flame Fang missile plunged toward him, trailing a long tail of flame, but Si Ming Yiyi's eyes and hands were swift. His gang essence formed a blade, which he hurled out first,