Chapter 189 - 158: Action

Chapter 189: Chapter 158: Action

The restrictive seals ahead of Zhang Ji unlocked one after another the moment he approached. The gates offered almost no resistance, letting him right in.

Meanwhile.

Inside one of Wuchen’s examination rooms, a group of cultivators was using a Spiritual Energy Scanner on a giant, light-blue egg. The egg was over two meters tall and densely covered in Spirit Patterns.

Standing not far away was a middle-aged man in green robes. He was the Jade Dragon True Monarch, Yun Jinhua.

This was a Flood Dragon egg he had finally managed to produce through generations of purification and bloodline regression.

It already bore some resemblance to a True Dragon.

Its immense life force was likely on par with the Nascent Soul stage.

Once it hatched, it would immediately possess a Tier Four cultivation base.

Such was the power of a True Dragon’s bloodline.

He was currently feeding it his True Blood periodically to strengthen its very essence.

Once this egg hatched and the creature within grew to adulthood, it would naturally reach Tier Five strength.

At that point, he would be among the most powerful experts in all the Thirty-Three Heavens.

The Celestial Dao Alliance would gain another Venerable One!

"You’re not supposed to be here!"

Suddenly, a commotion erupted outside.

Yun Jinhua frowned in confusion. The next moment, a figure broke through several layers of restrictive seals and charged in, heading straight for his Flood Dragon egg.

"Don’t even think about it!"

Yun Jinhua reacted instantly and moved to retrieve the egg.

However, the intruder flickered, teleporting right next to the egg. With a single touch, the Flood Dragon egg vanished.

Ignoring the fact that they were indoors, Yun Jinhua immediately attacked Zhang Ji with his full power.

A green spiritual light flared as a wooden staff smashed down toward Zhang Ji.

Facing the staff, Zhang Ji met it with a palm strike.

"BOOM!"

Amid the roar of the explosion, Zhang Ji used the force of the impact to retreat, simultaneously striking out to shatter the wall and fly outside.

None of the protective arrays could stop Zhang Ji.

They all opened for him automatically.

"Thief, don’t you dare run!"

Yun Jinhua roared as he gave chase.

Beneath him was a hundred-zhang-long, green-scaled Flood Dragon.

"ROAR!"

The Flood Dragon roared, spewing a torrent of violent Wood Attribute Spiritual Power particles from its mouth.

Zhang Ji spun around and thrust his palms forward, unleashing a Divine Dragon Wave of his own.

"BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!"

The two streams of energy collided, but Zhang Ji’s proved superior.

His Divine Dragon Wave instantly overwhelmed both Yun Jinhua and the hundred-zhang-long Flood Dragon.

Yun Jinhua combined his Spiritual Power with that of the Jade Dragon beneath him, weaving a Shield of vines that appeared before them to block and dissipate Zhang Ji’s Divine Dragon Wave.

By the time the Divine Dragon Wave dissipated, Zhang Ji was already gone.

Using a rapid succession of void-piercing techniques, Zhang Ji flickered through space several times, arriving near the suspended sky-staircase.

At the same time, a law enforcement shuttle arrived from above.

It was the shuttle from the Celestial Sword Inspection Bureau, summoned by Yin Jiushu and Li Yi.

Just as the shuttle arrived at the Ten Thousand Birds Heaven, Zhang Ji simultaneously entered their exclusive transport channel.

"WHOOSH!"

Zhang Ji slipped inside. Taiyi-Zero masked his information, allowing him to use the channel to ascend to the heavens above.

The Beast Taming Technology of the Ten Thousand Birds Heaven had been stolen, and the Celestial Sword Inspection Bureau had arrived just in time to deal with the aftermath.

For a time, the Ten Thousand Birds Heaven was thrown into another uproar.

...

「The Twenty-Fourth Heaven, Lingcui Heaven.」

Blue Immortal Pharmaceutical.

"I won’t run into anyone this time, will I?"

Zhang Ji walked through the Wuchen workshop, conversing with Taiyi-Zero.

"You won’t encounter anyone, but without authorization, the moment the contents of the array-protected safe are taken, it will be discovered immediately," Taiyi-Zero replied.

"Can’t you forge an authorization certificate?" Zhang Ji asked.

"Blue Immortal Pharmaceutical isn’t connected to the network. It’s a private, standalone security system. The authorization certificate has to be issued by Nangong Zhi Xian herself," Taiyi-Zero said.

"For a pharmaceutical company? Is all this really necessary?" Zhang Ji grumbled.

As he spoke, he arrived outside Nangong Zhi Xian’s office.

Though it was called an office, it was actually one of her immortal residences.

No alarms were triggered. The Divine Sense-based identity scanner on the door was cracked directly by Taiyi-Zero. Zhang Ji pushed the door open and entered a vast room.

He headed straight for the array-protected safe in the bedroom.

The object was placed beside the bed. It was a square box forged from metal.

It was connected to the entire room’s array system.

Without the correct command, it would only activate the defense systems.

And any attempt at a brute-force entry would trigger an alarm.

A Divine Thought from Taiyi-Zero emanated from Zhang Ji’s Consciousness Communicator and settled upon the array-protected safe.

A protective barrier covered in Spirit Patterns materialized. The array’s patterns on its surface began to shift and rotate rapidly as Taiyi-Zero started to break it.

"Can you handle it?" Zhang Ji asked.

"You dare to question me?" Taiyi-Zero retorted.

"BUZZ!"

With a low hum, the protective barrier dissolved. The safe opened automatically, revealing a jade bottle within.

Inside was the Shennong’s Dew.

It was both critically important and, in a way, not important at all.

At least, for Nangong Zhi Xian, as long as her younger sister was around, this stuff could be endlessly replicated.

That was why she didn’t carry it with her, instead leaving it in her office.

Whenever a related experiment was needed, researchers would come here to take a single drop, dilute it with water, and then use it to rapidly grow low-level Spirit Plants for the mass production and testing of certain Spirit Medicines.

Zhang Ji reached out and took the jade bottle.

There was no reaction.

"KLAK KLAK KLAK! VMMMMMM!"

Just as he was thinking Taiyi-Zero had miscalculated, the bedroom door and the main office door instantly slammed shut and sealed themselves.

Simultaneously, all the Protective Arrays in the room were remotely reactivated.

However, they were active for only an instant before Taiyi-Zero broke through them again.

"Go, now!" Taiyi-Zero said. "A heavy hitter is on their way!"

"Who?" Zhang Ji asked as he ran.

"Nangong Zhiqing! She’s set up a Teleportation Array between Lingcui Heaven and the Supreme Heaven..." Taiyi-Zero said.

"What? Does she have that much time on her hands? Coming all the way to Lingcui Heaven personally just to help her sister catch a thief?" Zhang Ji raised an eyebrow.

Zhang Ji knew Nangong Zhiqing and Nangong Zhi Xian were close enough to have a major Teleportation Array between their two heavens, but he had only stolen some of the Dew. Logically, shouldn’t this be something Nangong Zhi Xian could handle on her own?

’Why is Nangong Zhiqing getting involved personally? Isn’t this an overreaction?’

However, Zhang Ji wasn’t too worried. Experience had taught him to always plan for the worst-case scenario, and this situation was within his calculations. Even if Nangong Zhiqing herself appeared, he was confident he could escape.

He immediately picked up his pace, his figure flickering as he passed through one obstacle after another on his way out.

Just as he flew outside, an immense Divine Sense washed over the entire Blue Immortal Pharmaceutical complex, pressing down on him.

The power of this Divine Sense was far beyond what Zhang Ji had imagined.

Although Nangong Zhiqing was considered the weakest of the Celestial Dao Alliance’s four elders, "weak" was a relative term.

At the very least, Zhang Ji could feel that his current spiritual strength was nowhere near Nangong Zhiqing’s level.

Taiyi-Zero had already disconnected. Clearly, it didn’t dare to make any obvious moves right under the nose of a Divinity Transformation Stage expert.

"SWOOSH!"

A streak of emerald-green spiritual light shot toward Zhang Ji. He could see it was a wooden hairpin.

The hairpin flew so fast that Zhang Ji, at his current speed, couldn’t fully evade it.

Raising a hand, Zhang Ji shot out a beam of force from his Breaking Army Finger. The two attacks collided in mid-air, but the finger-strike was instantly shattered, and the hairpin continued straight for him.

"CRACKLE!"

Without another moment’s hesitation, Zhang Ji instantly entered his Half-Elementalization state. His entire body transformed into lightning, and with a flicker, he pushed his speed to the absolute limit, evading the attack.

By now, Nangong Zhiqing had arrived near Zhang Ji. Her Divine Thought scanned him as her voice boomed out in a powerful deterrent.

"What lowly thief dares to steal from Blue Immortal Pharmaceutical?"