The Chip lies in the palm of Gu Changqing, smaller than a fingernail, and shiny black. The Runes on the surface is faintly visible in the light.
Nezha came over and took a look, but didn't see the trick.
"Master, what is this thing?"
"Projection source."
Gu Changqing turned Chip over, and Runes was also engraved on the back. The arrangement was completely different from the front, like two independent coding systems stacked together, "The fake me just now was projected from here."
"Can such a small thing project such a large holographic image?"
Gu Changqing didn't answer him. He put Chip into his sleeves and turned to look at the eight white-robed men tied up in a string with magic ropes.
Eight people were kneeling on the edge of the square, and no one dared to raise their head from beginning to end.
Gu Changqing walked over and stopped in front of the middle-aged man at the front.
"What's your name?"
The middle-aged man buried his head lower, and the voice that came out of his throat was dry and hoarse.
"The villain, the villain's name is Zhao Siliang."
"Zhao Siliang."
Gu Changqing read the name again, "Origin Temple's person?"
"No, no, no, I'm not a core member, I'm just an errand boy. They call us field messengers. They give us a salary of three hundred Vow Power Points every month and let us set up stands at various Star Domains to sell Cultivation Techniques."
Nezha snorted from the side.
"It's still divided into core and non-core, and the scammers still engage in hierarchical management."
Zhao Siliang's body trembled, and the words fell out faster.
"Sir, you must be aware that the villain is really a low-level person. We don't know anything about the things above. Even the projection Chip is made from hair. We are told how to use it and that's it. We don't know the principles behind it at all."
Gu Changqing squatted down and looked at his level.
"Chip Who gave it to you?"
"A woman, her name was not given, her face was covered, only her eyes were exposed, her voice was very young."
"When was it given?"
"Twenty-three days ago, on Cangwu Star, she called our field staff together. Each of us was given a Chip, a set of white robes, thirty Bamboo Slips Cultivation Technique fragments, and then assigned the Star Domain to each of us."
"How many people are there on Cangwu Star?"
Zhao Siliang hesitated for a moment.
Gu Changqing didn't rush him, just squatted and waited.
More and more people gathered in the square to watch. There were buzzing discussions on the three floors inside and outside, but no one dared to come forward.
Zhao Siliang swallowed.
"When I went there, I saw about three to four hundred people on Cangwu Star, but the woman said that Cangwu Star is just a transit station and the headquarters is not there."
"Where is the headquarters?"
"I don't know, I really don't know. She didn't tell her, and we didn't dare to ask."
Gu Changqing stood up and dusted his hands.
"Master, is he telling the truth?" Nezha came over and asked in a low voice.
"70% true, Thirty Percent he himself is not sure."
Gu Changqing glanced at the eight white-robed men, then turned to Nezha and said.
"Send these eight people back to Yin Jiao and let him examine them one by one slowly."
"What about you?"
"I'm going to Cangwu Star."
Nezha was stunned for a moment.
"Didn't you ask Senior Brother Yang to dismantle Formation?"
"Formation belongs to Formation. What I want to see is not Formation."
Gu Changqing took two steps outside the square, stopped again, and turned his head to look at the people who were still kneeling in front of the rubble and crying.
Divine Statue was shattered on the ground, the golden fragments mixed with soil and being stepped on.
"System, how many Vow Power people in Iron Anchor City have been defrauded in total?"
"Ding, a total of 14,000 Iron Anchor City believers participated in the Cultivation Technique exchange, and the total intercepted Vow Power value was 4.2 million points."
"Four million and two million." Nezha heard this number from behind and hissed, "A small town has earned more than four million. How much does the sum of sixteen Star Domain add up to?"
"Ding, the total number of intercepted Vow Power from sixteen Star Domain is 370 million points."
Nezha's expression changed.
Three hundred and seventy million Vow Power points, which is the output of Faith in less than half a year from the Firmament Realm to Star Domain.
Gu Changqing didn't look back, the voice came from the front.
"You know why I said these people are professional in their methods."
"They are not cheating me out of small money, they are trying to dig up my roots."
Nezha gripped the rope tightly, and while dragging the eight men in white robes back, he kicked over the black wish-absorbing stone tablet in the square.
The stone tablet fell to the ground and broke into three petals. The Formation core embedded inside was exposed. It was a dark green bead the size of a thumb, with the unknown Runes exactly the same as Chip engraved on the surface.
Nezha glanced down at the bead, picked it up and put it in his arms without saying anything.
Before Zhao Siliang was dragged away, he looked back at Gu Changqing who was still standing in the middle of the square.
This person is completely different from the one in the projection.
In the projection, Gu Changqing is holding a posture, speaking with echoes, and every word seems to fall from the sky.
Really, he was dressed in ordinary clothes, and he didn't have any special aura when he stood there. It just made people afraid to take a second look.
Zhao Siliang When he looked back, the sweat on his back had already soaked his underwear.
Gu Changqing stood in the square, looking at the back of Nezha dragging the string of white-robed people away, rubbing the black Chip with his fingers in his sleeves.
System sounds came out.
"Ding, Chip material analysis is completed."
"The material is an unknown metal alloy. There is no match in the database, but its molecular structure is 97% similar to the material of the Great Thousand Origin Realm Star Map carrier."
Gu Changqing held Chip on his fingertips and looked at the remaining starlight.
"Ninety-seven percent."
Origin Temple, Great Thousand Origin Realm, Olden Deity Star Map in the fragments of residual consciousness.
The line is becoming clearer.
Some people don't want him to go to the Great Thousand Origin Realm, or in other words, someone knows that way before he does, and is now muddying the waters at his doorstep.
"System, has Yang Jian gone to Cangwu Star?"
"Ding, Yang Jian arrived at Cangwu Star half a quarter of an hour ago, and the Interception Formation terminal is being dismantled."
"Tell him to keep the Formation core intact after disassembly. I want to see it."
"Ding, it's been conveyed."
Gu Changqing took back Chip, moved and disappeared over Iron Anchor City.
It took a while for the people in the square to realize that the man standing among them had already left.
Divine Statue was shattered on the ground and no one had cleaned it up. The golden fragments glowed dimly in the moonlight.
An old lady knelt in front of the fragments and muttered something.
A young man next to her grabbed her arm.
"Miscellaneous, stop worshiping. The one just now is the real master of the Firmament."
The old lady raised her head and looked with her cloudy eyes in the direction where Gu Changqing disappeared.
"I know." She said, "There's no need to bow to the real one."