Chapter 1384 - 660: Exquisite Craftsmanship

Chapter 1384: Chapter 660: Exquisite Craftsmanship

"Stop mechanism! Illuminate! Activate eye!"

Assistant Helmsman Cheng Xuan Zi Xiangxu issued a series of commands, then activated the central mechanism, turning the gears. The airship gradually hovered mid-air, the hatch at the bottom opened, and a string of iron chains dropped down. The chains were connected with a row of five demon beast heads sealed in amber-like wax blocks, resembling a string of candied hawthorns from a distance.

These giant demon beast heads were not merely preserved in wax; their skulls were hollowed out, fitted with a complex set of mechanisms, transforming into a half-mechanical, half-skeleton appearance. Their eyeballs were replaced with precise lens glass. Now, driven by Qi Power, the eyes of each beast lit up with dazzling lights, further amplified and diffused by the amber, eventually turning into large lanterns.

A row of five, purple, white, gold, green, and red—the five-colored divine lights shone brightly, flickering like disco balls in the stone forest. Then, as the chains transmitted the motion, the beast heads nodded, their eyes lowered, projecting the brilliant light downward, illuminating the ruins as bright as daylight. For a moment, the five-colored lights flowed, overlapping like different colored slides stacked together.

Thus, under this intense light, the Spiritual Qi accumulated on the ground was also stirred up, surging as a faint mist. Like flying insects attracted by the light, layer by layer, sheet by sheet, they gradually projected a large area covering the entire ruins—a diagram of the sect’s former Mountain Protection Array.

"Exploration!"

Then at the ship’s edge, Ruins Explorer. Bu Geng Zi Lexi raised his gray-white ceramic left arm, his elbow blooming like lotus petals, shooting out a series of three-inch silver needles from the joints. These needles were rhythmically driven, densely scattered on the nodes where the ground array diagram intertwined.

Meanwhile, he activated the silver wide-area echo prosthetic eye, scanning the feedback from the resonating silver needles to construct the holographic layout of the underground ruins. He donned a large ancient bronze mechanical gauntlet on his right hand, the cricket cage-like Heavenly Breath Crystal within it emitting a low humming, gathering the surrounding Daoist energy like a whirlwind, charging the mechanical gauntlet with power, condensing Divinity Transformation Level Dao Power.

"Excavation!"

Then Zi Lexi extended his right hand in a grasping motion, sending out a gigantic Dao Power hand from the gauntlet, effortlessly excavating the ground layer like the incarnation of the Method of Heaven and Earth, unearthing the treasures buried in mud and soil.

Zi Lexi was delighted,

"Wow! We’ve actually found another sword stele! Helmsman, the Fate Master you found is amazing! Every prediction is accurate! Archaeology is going smoothly! Prehistoric relics are popping up endlessly~!"

Zi Xiangxu was also thrilled,

"Of course! It’s an expert number I spent a fortune to buy from the Void Star Temple connections! We’re lucky! Maybe we can piece together a complete Sword Scripture! We’re going to strike rich!"

Zi Lexi pulled the stone tablet onboard, curious about these broken stones,

"But there are already many versions of the Nine Heavens Sword Scripture online, all completely decoded, just download them directly. Do people really pay big money for this junk?"

Zi Xiangxu cackled,

"Cackle! You don’t understand, the online downloads don’t have the flavor of Cultivation! Organic monkeys crave this! They boast about their ancestors being awesome all day, the older, the more broken, the older, the more trash, they fight to grab it!"

Zi Lexi laughed,

"Haha, then I’ll scoop more of the ancient mud, let the monkeys enjoy the taste of Cultivation!"

"Hahaha!"

The Mechanical Men flattened the sect’s remnants, suddenly a flash from the silver needles caught Zi Lexi’s attention, turning to see a skeleton sitting upright in the ruins.

"Oh? Helmsman! Looks like we’ve spawned a skeleton monster!"

"Spawned monster? That’s odd, there’s no calamity rising around..."

Zi Xiangxu checked the projection feedback and indeed, a monster had spawned. A skeleton clad in a silk Daoist robe, now surrounded by gathering Daoist energy, floating as if riding clouds and mist, ethereal like an Immortal emerging from the mortal world.

"Hiss! Could this be the legendary immortal corpse?"

"Wow! That’s even more valuable! We’ve struck gold!"

Zi Lexi was ecstatic, immediately activating the gauntlet, conjuring a True Qi hand, reaching for the skeleton on the ground! But then there was a "boom!" as the True Qi arms suddenly dispersed, unleashing a massive shock wave, raising billowing dust, engulfing the ruins in thick fog!

"What happened?"

"Unclear, seems like magnetic field disruption, or maybe computational error, causing Qi Body collapse."

"Sigh, this junk needs replacing. Output full power, don’t let the immortal corpse escape!"

"Aye, Helmsman!"

Zi Lexi turned knobs with a clatter, adjusting the output, re-consolidating the Qi Claw. This time the gauntlet roared into life, spewing dense blue smoke, the smoke gathering, condensing into a thick jade-like shadow in the air, forming a giant mechanical fist with visible structures! It spread its fingers wide, slammed down towards the ground!

"Boom!"

"Bang!"

"Wow!"

Yet this time it was even more thoroughly shattered! The entire Qi Hand exploded apart, the shockwave from the blast tipped the airship! Assistant Helmsman had to pin an arm in the cockpit to stabilize. The Mechanical Explorers were shot back to the stern, nearly thrown overboard! The monster head lanterns shook and swayed! The colorful beams made the stone forest rock like a disco, swaying and swaying non-stop!