I can find treasures in my dreams.

Yang Fan was too lazy to care about the various conflicts within the Meijia Royal Family. He held the Soul-Stealing Cicada and checked the spoils of the "Flooding the Seven Armies" earlier.

[True Source Value: 1058]

Previously, it was 952 True Source Points, which is equivalent to an increase of 106 True Source Points.

Having expended over 80% of his mental energy to kill tens of thousands of poisonous ants using the Sea King Pearl, he only gained this little bit of True Source Value.

Previously, he used the derivative secret technique "Lotus of Rebirth" of the superior supernatural ability "Lotus of Life" to kill knight-level quicksand ants and spiky sandworms in succession. However, he only consumed 20% of his spiritual power but gained 663 points of true source value.

In comparison, obtaining True Essence from low-level monsters is far too inefficient.

Yang Fan shook his head slightly, muttering to himself, "Looks like I'll have to kill more knights."

He grasped the jade cicada and quietly added 20 points to his mental strength, which quickly rose to 2714 points.

The "mana replenishment" effect that comes with True Essence is starting to take effect.

The spiritual energy that was on the verge of drying up was like a pond that had run dry being irrigated by rain, and began to rise rapidly.

Miss Jia Na stood to the side, keenly noticing the changes in Yang Fan, her beautiful eyes revealing a look of astonishment.

Knights possess exceptional insight into their spiritual wellsprings, making it as clear to them as a louse on a bald man's head whether his spiritual energy is abundant.

The mermaid asked in surprise, "What kind of secret technique is this?"

Yang Fan smiled slightly and explained, "First, store your mental energy somewhere. When your mental energy is over-consumed, you can use it again."

This statement is somewhat vague, but it is not a lie. In a sense, the Soul-Stealing Cicada can indeed be seen as a container for storing spiritual energy.

Miss Jia Na said "Oh," with a hint of envy in her expression: "This kind of 'spirit cultivation' technique is extremely valuable on the battlefield."

Upon hearing the term "spiritual nourishment," Yang Fan immediately understood that this method of rapidly restoring spiritual power should not be particularly rare in various civilized worlds.

He casually asked, "How many powerful individuals in the Meijia Civilization possess the Spirit Gathering Secret Technique?"

Miss Jia Na did not hide anything: "The Meijia Civilization has eight Venerable Ones, seven of whom have mastered the Spirit Gathering Secret Technique. In addition, there are two other powerful figures in the royal family who have mastered the Spirit Gathering Secret Technique, making a total of nine people."

She also gave a brief "science lesson": "It sounds like a lot, but you should know that the Meijia civilization has more than 4800 billion people, but only nine people have mastered the Spirit Gathering Secret Technique. So what you have mastered is a very special secret technique."

Yang Fan immediately understood.

He thought for a moment and changed the subject: "Come with me to kill a few primordial evil beings."

The "Primordial Evil Race" mentioned in this sentence is naturally the Demon Eye Race, who migrated to the vicinity of the gate to the Azure Civilization World.

As the saying goes, "One cannot allow others to snore beside one's bed," the Demon Eye Clan has always been a security threat to the Gate of the World. Now that his combat power has made a leap forward, he should take the opportunity to eliminate this threat.

The mermaid was already very interested in Yang Fan's combat strength, and upon hearing this, she smiled and said, "Okay!"

Yang Fan reached out a hand to her, and the mermaid immediately grasped it.

He immediately activated the shuttle, and everything around him instantly became blurred.

Miss Jia Na gazed at his profile and couldn't help but exclaim, "You have mastered far more secret techniques than I imagined. None of the eight Venerables of the Meijia Civilization at your age are as powerful as you."

Yang Fan simply smiled and said nothing.

*
ten minutes later.

Yang Fan, accompanied by the mermaid, appeared at the foot of a giant sand dune.

His eyes flashed as he saw pale silver high-level magic lines descending from the sky into a patch of sand ahead.

He smiled and said, "This should be it."

Miss Jia Na blinked her beautiful eyes, and the pendant hanging on her fair chest lit up slightly.

She asked, somewhat puzzled, "There doesn't seem to be anything here."

Yang Fan shook his head and said, "No, it's here!"

He explained in detail: "It's just that you're not familiar with the environment of the Black Sand Sea and lack understanding of the methods of the evil race. They are naturally adept at using the power of sand in the sand sea, and every stronghold of the evil race is disguised by the power of sand."

When speaking.

Yang Fan reached out and fiddled with the magic thread.

Miss Jia Na felt a blur before her eyes and immediately "saw" a scene.

About fifty meters below the sand layer, a large area of ​​sand and gravel suddenly became illusory, and then a cave came into view.

Dozens of stone pillars stand around the cave as a supporting structure, and the ground is also paved with a layer of stone slabs.

A pale white skull, over two meters tall, hangs from the top; it is unknown what kind of creature it is from the Black Sand Sea.

Within the four eye sockets of the skull burned a grayish-white flame, the grayish-white light casting a very eerie atmosphere in the cave.

Dozens of armored demons, with banana-shaped heads, hunched bodies, and tails, were guarding the cave with weapons.

It was the Demon Eye Clan.

Miss Jia Na exclaimed in surprise, "Is this the concealing effect of the sand's power? That's quite something!"

One of the most precious treasures she carries with her is called "Mika's Divine Eye." She just scanned the nearby sand layers but failed to find the entrance to the stronghold.

The mermaid stole a glance at Yang Fan, and a thought suddenly flashed through her mind: "This savior is just like those powerful Venerables in the clan, he always seems to know everything."

This near-omnipotent performance instilled in her a sense of awe.

Yang Fan squinted at it for a few moments and muttered to himself, "There are several kinds of first-level exotic materials at just the entrance to the stronghold. Robbery is indeed much more lucrative than hard mining."

Miss Jia Na glanced at Yang Fan again, her gaze somewhat strange.

A mere pile of scrap metal, something that any knight from the Mika Civilization wouldn't even look at, actually piqued his interest?

The mermaid took a deep breath and asked eagerly, "Do you need my help?"

She desperately wanted to demonstrate her value to Yang Fan, and the more she learned about him, the stronger this desire became.

Yang Fan shook his head and said, "No need, it's already taken care of!"

While he was speaking, he had already sent the Myriad Manifestations Mark to him remotely via the silver magic thread.

After being promoted to intermediate knight, he found that he had an increasingly intuitive and effortless control over his superior abilities.

Miss Jia Na paused for a moment, then immediately used Mika's Divine Eye to observe, only to discover that the evil beings in the cave were acting rather strangely.

Through the Mind Source Sea, one can vaguely sense that their bodies are stiff and their souls seem to have been infiltrated by some unknown force.

The mermaid exclaimed instinctively, "Is this a puppet technique?"

Yang Fan hummed in agreement: "Let's go."

He held the mermaid's soft right hand, took a step with his right foot, and instantly teleported to the entrance cave of the evil clan's stronghold.

There is a limitation to the space jump of the Shuttle Ship: you must see the destination first, otherwise you cannot jump.

Previously, he could only rely on the vision of the spirit crow, but the spirit crow itself was also a limitation, as there were many places that the spirit crow could not enter.

Now, with the advanced magic thread of the "Myriad Manifestations of the Heavenly Demon Eye," the situation at the destination can be easily observed, and the limitations of the Shuttle Ship have been lifted.

A superior supernatural ability paired with a supreme treasure—this is an absolutely divine skill-level super-powerful combination.

"Boom! Boom!"

Dozens of Demon Eye Clan members knelt down in unison, respectfully welcoming the arrival of their new master.

For the next period of time, Yang Fan's exploration of the evil race's stronghold turned into a very leisurely stroll.

Before the person arrives, the magic threads have already begun.

Wherever he went, many evil beings knelt down to greet him.

The superior supernatural ability once again demonstrated its overwhelming dominance.

Even the Demon-Eyed Clan members at the quasi-knight level were utterly powerless against the invasion of their souls by the Myriad Manifestations Mark. Not long after...

Inside a warehouse specifically used by the evil race to store food.

Yang Fan personally witnessed twelve Iron Fist Clan warriors whose skin had been peeled off, their bodies preserved in a type of salty sand with a high salt content.

Even though they had been dead for several days, their contorted facial muscles still revealed the horrific pain they had endured before their deaths.

He paused for a few seconds, then sighed silently.

In the other timeline of the dream, he did not exist.

In the torrent of history, many of the Great Xia people who entered the Black Sand Sea ultimately suffered this tragic fate of being toyed with by destiny.

Miss Jia Na remained calm, her beautiful eyes showing not a trace of sympathy: "In the primordial world, weakness is the original sin."

ten minutes later.

Inside a rather spacious underground hall.

The mermaid stared wide-eyed at the Demon Eye Clan members kneeling all over the ground.

There are over a thousand members of the evil race, of whom as many as 20% are warriors.

She knew perfectly well that this was an extraordinary puppet technique.

The mermaid repeatedly overestimated Yang Fan, only to find herself repeatedly underestimating him.

Yang Fan gazed at the countless silver high-level magic lines crisscrossing the sky and said calmly, "This is an important stronghold of the Demon Eye Clan, and the clan has two knights stationed here."

"One of them is a mid-level knight, and the other is a low-level knight. These two knights have not detected any anomalies at the stronghold, so they will be back soon."

in his field of vision.

Two large tufts of silver magic lines pierced through the ceiling of the hall and stretched into the distance.

Each magic thread is connected to a member of the evil race at one end and to a Demon-Eyed Knight at the other.

With the help of hundreds of high-level magic threads, he learned a great deal about the Magic Eye Knights, even though he had never seen them.

Miss Jia Na tentatively asked, "How about you deal with the mid-level knights and I'll deal with the low-level knights?"

Yang Fan laughed and said, "If you can end the battle in one second, then the position of novice knight is yours."

The longer the battle drags on, the more the knight will be drained, and the less true essence he can extract. He certainly cannot allow this to happen.

Miss Jia Na was speechless.

When she heard "Come with me to kill the evil race," she thought Yang Fan needed her help.

Now the mermaid suddenly realized that the so-called "accompanying" was really just "keeping company".

You really don't need to do anything, just stand to the side.

Soon.

Miss Jia Na witnessed Yang Fan's methods once again.

In another cave, he fiddled with a supernatural device that appeared to be a "short-distance jump".

The mermaid couldn't help but ask, "What are you doing?"

Yang Fan smiled and replied, "The Demon Eye Knight's Mind Source Sea can communicate with this jump device remotely, thereby probing the situation inside the stronghold."

"I added a layer of illusion to the warp device so that the Demon Eye Knight wouldn't notice anything amiss."

"I also made a small mistake with the warp device. When the Demon Eye Knight warps, his mental power will be subjected to a certain amount of spatial pressure."

The mermaid listened with genuine admiration.

The spatial pressure will inevitably damage mental strength, and the Demon Eye Knight's condition will naturally be worse when facing the enemy.

She could even imagine how desperate the Demon Eye Knights would feel, thinking they would be safe once they returned to their base, only to find their home had been raided and they had been ambushed by the enemy the moment they teleported over.

five minutes later.

Miss Jia Na witnessed a horrific scene.

More than half of the Demon Eye Evil Clan suddenly had a pale flame erupt from their bodies, and their bodies rapidly shrank until they turned into pieces of pitch-black charcoal.

The entire hall suddenly transformed into a terrifying scene of evil rituals, and even the well-traveled mermaid felt a chill run down her spine.

at the same time.

Miss Jia Na also sensed that Yang Fan's mental fluctuations were surging wildly, rapidly climbing to a high point in a way she couldn't understand.

He opened his hands, and a phantom black hammer appeared in each palm.

Visible silver lines, as if hanging down from the void, connected to the two small hammers.

The mermaid's eyes narrowed, and she murmured softly, "The God-Shaking Hammer!"

This is a skill that a knight can master after advancing to the intermediate level.

Simply put, it involves using the Source Sea Spirit Vortex to compress mental energy at an extremely high intensity.

In this situation, the ethereal spirit will take on a tangible form for the first time.

What truly surprised Miss Jia Na was not the secret technique itself, but the speed at which she mastered the God-Shaking Hammer.

He had just advanced to the intermediate level and then immediately mastered the God-Shaking Hammer.

In contrast, most knights, after advancing to the intermediate level, take anywhere from a few months to one to two years to gradually figure out how to use the God-Shaking Hammer.

Is this the gift of Mika the Savior?

Besides.

These silver lines were something that Miss Jia Na couldn't understand.

Yang Fan glanced at his mental state and was quite satisfied.

[Spirit Value: 2714 + 1142]

The first "2714" is his own data, and the second "1142" is the spiritual power "borrowed" from the soul of the superior supernatural being, the Burning Evil Clan.

This is the most powerful aspect of the Myriad Manifestations Illusionary Heavenly Demon Eye—it can temporarily break through limits.

With the help of his temporarily increased mental strength, he easily condensed the God-Shaking Hammer.

One second later.

"Click! Click!"

Two strange cracking sounds were heard.

In a corner of the hall, space suddenly began to distort.

Two blurry figures appeared out of thin air from the distorted position.

The Demon-Eyed Knight is back.

"Ah~"

The two knights cried out in pain, clearly having fallen into a trap and suffering some mental trauma.

A fierce glint flashed in Yang Fan's eyes, and he decisively hurled the two God-Shocking Hammers.

"Boom!"

A thunderous roar resounded simultaneously within the souls of everyone present. (End of Chapter)