[Earth Era, July 9, 2012] [Western Calendar, Monday] [Xia Calendar, Renchen Year, fifth month, twenty-first day. Auspicious for travel, marriage, betrothal gifts, sacrifices, and prayers. Inauspicious for burial]
When Qin Siyang left the Safe Zone, everything there was as usual, as though nothing had happened.
Maintaining that appearance of calm was the very first step of the entire plan.
The large god that had killed so many domain sequence ability users was clearly extremely cunning and might well have been watching every movement outside the Safe Zone.
They could not tip it off.
Chu Baxing, Zhao Sifang, Yu Yongyou, Hu Chan, Old Johnny, Olof, and the soldiers accompanying him had already entered the Spatial Artifact, waiting for Qin Siyang to summon them at any moment.
Qin Siyang's expression was normal, but inwardly, he was exceptionally cautious.
If they lost this battle, Qin Siyang would not be the only one to die, nor would the deaths stop at these hundreds of thousands of people.
Every step he took was intimately tied to the future of the hundreds of millions in the Safe Zone.
Following the information Gu Yunzheng had provided, Qin Siyang searched for large gods whose trial requirements were already known.
He did his best to make it look like an ordinary expedition outside the city, an effort to improve his abilities.
Whenever he encountered a medium god, he disposed of it along the way.
Whenever he encountered a known large god trial, he entered it and followed the established procedure.
In a single day, Qin Siyang passed five large god trials.
These trials were all extremely dangerous, but Qin Siyang was taking an open-book exam. Knowing the answers in advance, he avoided every difficulty and passed without even using his skills.
Yet there was no sign of