I can find treasures in my dreams.

The scene displayed on the ghost-headed bronze mirror sent chills down the spine of the Moon Spirit Warrior.

The battlefield where the Azure Warrior Legion hunted the Stone Lord has been completely transformed.

The once flat Gobi Desert was forcibly slashed away by hundreds of meters, creating a giant crater out of thin air.

From above, the giant crater looks like a hideous wound torn open in the earth, with exposed rock layers at the edges, which are charred ochre in color. Inside, there are crisscrossing ravines and many dark red burn marks.

The entire crater covers an area of ​​over a thousand square kilometers, comparable to a medium-sized city, and stands out starkly in the vast Gobi Desert.

Even more terrifying is that a horde of monsters is surging across the Gobi Desert surrounding the giant pit!
The densely packed, stubborn rocks, like a moving stone mountain, frantically converged towards the giant pit.

A rough estimate suggests the number is no less than 300,000.

Their thick stone feet pounded the ground with a dull, resounding thud, causing the earth to tremble slightly, and scattering stones everywhere as their stone armor rubbed together.

Hundreds of massive Stone Lords were scattered among the insect swarm, their black spikes standing like swords, their six yellow compound eyes flashing with a violent light, and their roars resounding like thunder, carrying a terrifying pressure.

Countless small stone monsters—stone wolves, stone eagles, stone spiders—formed a super flood, with various sounds intertwining to create a terrifyingly noisy wave.

Even just by looking through the bronze mirror, one can feel the overwhelming sense of oppression.

Livin instantly understood that the Eye of the Secret Realm must have sensed that someone had exploited a loophole in the laws, and in its rage, it unleashed terrifying power to erase hundreds of meters of rock layers, attempting to completely destroy the "trace of the loophole."

That wasn't all. It then mobilized a massive number of monsters from the depths of the secret realm to surround the area, intending to eliminate any possible "suspicious presences."

The Moon Spirit Warrior couldn't believe how terrible the fate would have been if she and her group hadn't evacuated in time, facing the vast swarm of insects.

Even if more than three hundred Azure Warriors gathered together, they would probably be instantly overwhelmed by the monsters, leaving not even a trace behind!
Yang Donglin, holding an old oil lamp in his right hand, revealed another piece of information: "The consciousness of the secret realm is preparing to conduct a carpet search. Taking the battlefield from earlier as the core, all players within a 20,000-kilometer radius will most likely be eliminated."

The voice just fell.

The image on the bronze mirror has changed.

A small swarm of insects rushed into the giant pit, harnessing the power of the earth to burrow into the rock layers at the bottom, clearly carrying out a search mission.

More swarms of insects surged toward distant lands, their trampling creating a continuous, deafening roar on the Gobi Desert—a truly terrifying sight.

This scene perfectly confirms the owner's claim of "cleaning up the players".

From another perspective, this precisely proves that the consciousness of the secret realm sensed that someone had exploited a loophole in the laws, but could not find any suspicious traces, so it resorted to the clumsy method of a "carpet search".

this moment.

Liwen admired the Azure Civilization to the extreme.

These Azure people have the ability to exploit loopholes in the laws and also the ability to make the consciousness of the secret realm impotent and furious. No wonder they can mass-produce more than 300 knight powerhouses in two hours.

Zhou Furui swallowed hard and couldn't help but ask, "Lieutenant Colonel Yang, how far are we from the battlefield?"

Yang Donglin's tone was somewhat nonchalant: "Don't worry, this place is a full 120,000 kilometers away from there. The scope of this cleanup of the secret realm consciousness will definitely not include this place."

Livin nodded slightly in agreement.

Although the overwhelming horde of monsters within the bronze mirror was terrifying, clearing a vast area with a radius of 120,000 kilometers would be a difficult task with so many monsters.

Yang Donglin changed the subject and said in a deep voice, "Let's go! Now we should go find Emerald City. The hundreds of thousands of Cangfei people who are lost in the secret realm are not far from here."

After these words were spoken, ripples spread across the surface of the bronze mirror with the ghost head, and the image in the mirror quickly faded, restoring its ancient and eerie bronze color.

Zhou Furui looked around at the tall, menacing stone sculptures and sighed softly, "Sigh, these Cangfei people have lived in this place for so long, I guess there are probably very few left."

Livin's view was more direct and pessimistic: "I think it's very likely that they're all dead."

Yang Donglin didn't reply, but continued to carry the old oil lamp burning with a pale flame, activated his armor, and sprinted forward.

The oil lamp continued to burn, obscuring the observations of the Secret Realm Consciousness, though it was in a "low power" state.

Liwen and Zhou Furui dared not delay and quickly followed behind.

This time.

Yang Donglin did not use the Sky-Breaking Shuttle for spatial jump.

Firstly, this extraordinary treasure had consumed too much energy and needed time to recover;
Secondly, the consciousness of the secret realm is currently in a state of rage and high alert, and rashly launching a spatial jump may expose its whereabouts.

Therefore, the three of them chose the safest but most time-consuming method – walking.

Half an hour passed quietly.

A thin gray line suddenly appeared in the sky, lying right in the center, as if the sky had been sliced ​​open.

The gray line spread at a visible speed, and within a minute, the entire sky turned into a gloomy, leaden gray.

Livin looked up at the sky and whispered, "A sandstorm is coming!"

Based on the experience everyone gained in the secret realm over the past few days, this is a typical sign that a super sandstorm is about to arrive.

Once the sky turns gray, a sandstorm that blots out the sun will descend from the sky in as little as ten minutes or as long as half an hour.

A few days ago, when they encountered a sandstorm, Yang Donglin would throw out the "Secret Garden" card, and the three of them could comfortably get through the crisis in that secluded space filled with birdsong and fragrant flowers.

This time, Yang Donglin frowned and said in a deep voice, "To be on the safe side, we cannot use the Secret Garden now."

"Because the space where the Secret Garden is located is quite special, the oil lamp is difficult to completely conceal, and the probability of it being detected by the consciousness of the secret realm is very high."

He paused for a moment, then concluded, "We have to find a natural place ourselves to escape the sandstorm."

"Boom——!"

A deafening clap of thunder suddenly resounded in the sky.

This sound immediately triggered a chain reaction, causing the Gobi Desert ground beneath their feet and the surrounding heavy stone sculptures to tremble slightly.

Yang Donglin's expression instantly turned serious, and he slowly said, "It seems the rules of the game have changed again. This sandstorm will probably be accompanied by other dangers."

Liwen and Zhou Furui both keenly sensed that something was wrong.

It wasn't just the eerie thunder that was frightening; what was even more chilling was the change in the surrounding environment.

The stone carvings around, whose surfaces were covered with mottled rust marks, accounted for about one-third of all the stone carvings. At this moment, the rust color was expanding and deepening at a speed visible to the naked eye, as if it were alive, crawling and spreading on the stone surface.

Livin's Heavenly Moon Spirit Power was frantically issuing warnings. A chilling coldness shot up her spine to the top of her head, and a clear shiver ran through the depths of her soul—a deadly danger was rapidly approaching!

She instantly realized that she couldn't survive the sandstorm on her own.

"I'll go scout!" Zhou Furui said quickly.

Four micro-drones silently emerged from the armor, like four black phantoms, and flew rapidly in different directions, attempting to find a natural shelter before the sandstorm arrived.

at this time.

Yang Donglin suddenly felt something and stopped in his tracks.

A glimmer of light, imperceptible to ordinary people, flashed deep within his eyes, and his vision subtly shifted to a magical, soul-seeing ability.

The world went dark in an instant, the stone sculpture turned into a twisted ink blob, and the two teammates became two wisps of floating white flames.

The gilded soul card book hangs in front of him, with a gray-white chain that seems to extend from the ancient void.

Suddenly, a pale white head protruded from the cover of the card album, its eye sockets burning with eerie flames, and it bit into the chain.

"Keng!"

It also made a metallic sound.

The chains looked extremely strange, with each link formed by two bone hands that appeared to be made of ice, clasped together.

Between the gaps in the bone hands, a faint, cold, pale flame burned, emanating an aura of deathly stillness and majesty.

This is the true source of the power of the Soul Cardbook.

The activation of each card is essentially borrowing the power from the old man contained within this mysterious chain.

Every time Yang Donglin witnessed the chains, he had a strong feeling: "This thing is extremely terrifying. If it weren't for the strong restraints imposed by my father, it would instantly destroy my soul."

next moment.

An indescribable, strange light descended rapidly from the depths of the void like a shooting star, precisely penetrating the skull on the card album cover.

"Om~"

The Soul Card Album trembled slightly, and the gilded patterns on its surface lit up instantly before quickly dimming.

Yang Donglin clearly "saw" that a brand new card had appeared out of nowhere among the hundreds of pages inside the card album.

He couldn't read the card's specific information yet, but he could sense that the power contained within the new card was extraordinary, seemingly on par with that of an old oil lamp.

He couldn't help but mutter to himself, "Another ancient god's remains! Where on earth did Dad get so many god remains?"

Yang Donglin also realized something else—his father's understanding of the laws of this secret realm had deepened even further.

To be more precise—they had previously exploited a loophole in the laws of the secret realm to carry out large-scale "smuggling" and hunting. This was an unprecedentedly successful experiment, and Dad gained a great deal of knowledge from the process, deepening his understanding of the laws of the secret realm.

The deeper one's understanding of the laws, the greater the power one can mobilize, and the higher one's "authority" in this world.

In the past few days, every time I contacted my father, I had to first enter the "Secret Garden" sanctuary and then activate the Soul Card Book as a positioning anchor.

Now, his father can unilaterally and remotely "send" a new card to him without his knowledge!

This means that his father's strength has reached a new level.

now.

Yang Donglin gathered a wisp of spiritual power and wrapped it around the suspended gilded soul card album like a gossamer thread.

The moment his mental energy touched the card album cover, it instantly surged into it, and the information of the new cards flooded into his mind like a tidal wave.

At the same time, his father Yang Fan's voice rang in his mind, clearly conveying the new command, and a look of surprise flashed in Yang Donglin's eyes.

"Keng——!"

The metallic sound rang out again.

The icy bone chain wrapped around the card book suddenly loosened, and the pale flames on the rings dimmed instantly, disappearing into the depths of the void like a receding tide.

The grotesque skull protruding from the album cover slowly retracted, eventually merging with the cover, and the gilded patterns returned to their former rustic and somber state.

With a thought, Yang Donglin's soul vision quietly faded away, and he switched back to his real-world vision.

When he looked up, he met Livin's gaze.

The Moon Spirit Warrior's senses were extremely sharp. Just now, the instant his mental energy fluctuated and the card book changed, she sensed a subtle change occurring within his body.

"The plans have changed." Yang Donglin's tone was calm but carried a hint of barely perceptible excitement. "We have new work to do."

Liwen and Zhou Furui were both taken aback.

The sky was as dark as dusk, and the wind howled past, whipping up sand and gravel. The aura of a super sandstorm was already close at hand.

Once the sandstorm officially arrives, the sand and gravel sweep across at high speed, comparable to a bone scraper, enough to destroy everything exposed. How could anyone possibly work under such circumstances?

Yang Donglin spoke very quickly: "I just received reliable intelligence that the Secret Realm Consciousness has greatly increased the game's difficulty due to previous loopholes. Monsters that should have appeared in the next stage will arrive with this sandstorm."

"This kind of monster is called 'Soul-Eating Demon Mask Beast'. They parasitize a few stone sculptures in the Gobi Desert, and are resurrected along with the stone sculptures. They then roam the sandstorms and hunt down any players they encounter."

"The Soul-Devouring Demon Beasts are very special ethereal beings. Their most terrifying ability is to devour soul power from a distance. Warriors below the rank of Knight can hardly detect their existence."

"Unless you possess special abilities related to the soul or perception, once this thing targets you, your soul will be silently devoured, and you will eventually become a walking corpse controlled by the Soul-Eating Demon Beast."

Upon hearing this, Liwen and Zhou Furui felt a chill run down their spines and to the top of their heads.

Those below the rank of knight are unable to resist having their souls devoured; is the secret realm clearly determined to exterminate them all?
First, hundreds of thousands of monsters surrounded the battlefield, and then this bizarre soul-devouring monster was released ahead of time, leaving no way out for anyone!
Yang Donglin changed the subject: "However, this is not a bad thing for us, but rather a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, because the Soul-Devouring Demon Mask Beast is an extremely rare resource!"

The word "resources" was deliberately emphasized.

A glimmer of hope flashed in Zhou Furui's eyes as he asked thoughtfully, "Lieutenant Colonel Yang, do you have a way to kill this kind of ethereal monster?"

“Not kill, capture,” Yang Donglin corrected with a smile, his tone certain. “We can use a special soul ring to seal the Soul-Devouring Demon Beast inside, and then hand it over to the Azure Blue's ability users to control it.”

Livin's silver-gray eyes widened instantly.

She was jealous again!
Imagine if the Azure Civilization could capture a large number of Soul-Devouring Demon Beasts and build a powerful Soul Ring Legion.

When the legion was mobilized, hundreds or even thousands of Soul-Devouring Demon Beasts were released simultaneously, and an invisible soul impact swept across the battlefield.

Even a knight-level powerhouse can be entangled by the Soul Devouring and Power Devouring if they are not careful. At best, their soul will be damaged and their combat power will drop drastically. At worst, their consciousness will dissipate and they will perish on the spot!
This bizarre combat power, which uses the soul as a weapon, is simply a deadly weapon on the battlefield!

The Moon Spirit Warrior truly believes that the Azure People are incredibly powerful!
Other civilizations are helpless against the secret realms, but the Azure Civilization has repeatedly gained enviable benefits from them, rapidly enhancing its strength. (End of Chapter)