Chapter 705 Those Worthy of Song...

Su Zhou’s investigation confirmed it: after gathering a massive amount of Desire Power from the Divine Wood World, the Blade of Annihilation had evolved, giving birth to a sliver of its own Spiritual Energy.

Nourished by Desire Power and Su Zhou’s Dragon Blood, this wisp of Spiritual Energy had already grown to an extraordinary extent. Had it not been residing in a Divine Soldier like the Blade of Annihilation, but in an ordinary sword, its blade energy would have likely shot toward Yinghuo, its bloody light erupting for miles around.

Why did this sound like a bad omen? You’d have to ask Su Zhou himself, who had used this blade to go on countless killing sprees.

“Sigh, what’s going on? How did I end up with another treasured blade to look after?”

He rubbed his head in frustration. Su Zhou was struck by a sense of crisis, feeling as though he’d instantly gone from a Knight who could travel a thousand miles without a trace and slay a man in ten paces to a full-time dad. “This won’t do,” he muttered. “I have to raise these two right—a quality education starts from a young age!”

After a long drive, the black luxury sedan slowly pulled to a stop in front of an unremarkable building in a Celestial Capital Suburb.

Su Zhou had arrived at the destination the Artifice Sage had given him.

After pacifying his “tool tree” and “tool blade,” Su Zhou temporarily set aside his doubts and worries, turning his attention to the business at hand.

Although the building seemed unremarkable, it was monitored by several security personnel disguised as ordinary residents. However, his arrival had clearly been announced in advance, as they opened the door to welcome him and guide him inside.

Using the powerful penetrating ability of his Spiritual Vision, Su Zhou quickly discovered that the building’s basement extended two hundred meters straight down—and at the bottom lay a deeply hidden train track!

“This well-guarded?”

Su Zhou couldn’t help but marvel at the impenetrable defenses along the way, a corridor under constant surveillance by both cameras and Magic scans. The guard beside him simply smiled without a word and led him aboard a small subway train.

With a deep rumble, the train started moving. Su Zhou sat on a spacious seat, enjoying the private ride as the train sped toward an unknown destination.

The high-speed shuttle traveled for more than ten kilometers, its track twisting and turning past numerous secret exits. Su Zhou had vaguely known that Celestial Capital possessed a massive underground facility, built to survive a global nuclear war, but he’d never imagined it would be this vast.

Time flew by, and soon, Su Zhou arrived at his destination.

The end of Line 26.

Dao Yi Central Celestial Secret Calculation Hub

It was a colossal domed hall, as large as an Olympic stadium. In its center lay a gigantic Innate Eight Trigrams Array Disc the size of a football field. A waterfall of data flickered into and out of existence above it. Amidst the rotation of the black and white Yin and Yang fish, countless electronic components, refined with Spiritual Energy, pulsed with signals of ‘0’s and ‘1’s.

As he stepped out, the train behind him slowly pulled away. Su Zhou gazed around in awe. “Incredible…” he murmured. “Is this the legendary Prophecy hub? The divination computer that can predict crimes before they happen?”

“To be precise, it’s Divination.”

The Artifice Sage’s voice rang out from all directions as phantoms of 0s and 1s, formed from converging Spiritual Light, coalesced out of the datafall into a human figure and stepped forward.

Soon, the Artifice Sage’s humanoid projection appeared before Su Zhou. He smiled and extended a hand. “Welcome to my office. It’s also my home… and my body.”

“This place is awesome. I’m jealous.”

Su Zhou was just speaking his mind; he was never one to mince words. As he glanced around again, he was surprised to see other faint, hazy humanoid figures moving among the datafalls.

“That’s one of the residents of the Electronic Netherworld.” Noticing Su Zhou’s gaze, the Artifice Sage smiled and stroked his beard. “She was complaining about being bored recently, so I had her learn to code.”

“She seems to be enjoying it.”

‘You still have to learn to code in the Netherworld?!’

Su Zhou stared at the gently smiling Artifice Sage, a look of shock on his face. As it happened, though, the matter he wanted to discuss was also related to the Electronic Netherworld. So, he skipped the small talk and got straight to the point. “Artifice Sage, sorry to bother you, but I’ve come because I saved the Souls of quite a few people during the battle on the Moon.”

“Their Souls are, for all intents and purposes, still ‘alive.’ Their physical bodies were destroyed, yes, but I’ve been nurturing them with a special technique in my Soul Space. Essentially, they’re no different from the souls of the living… I just can’t bring myself to abandon them as wandering ghosts. So, while I was on the Moon, I was wracking my brain and eventually, I thought of you and the Life Saint…”

“Oh? So now that you need a favor, you’re being all formal with me?”

The Artifice Sage’s expression had grown more and more serious as Su Zhou explained, but at this, he chuckled lightly and shook his head. “I think I understand what you’re getting at. You came to me because you think the Electronic Netherworld can house these Souls, correct?”

“And you’re also seeking out that Cang Lunzhe fellow because of his projects with Artificial People, figuring he can create artificial bodies and give these still-living Souls a chance to live again?”

“Exactly!”

Saved the trouble of further explanation, Su Zhou beamed. “You’ve hit the nail on the head!”