Abundant Martial Arts Virtue

"Stop chasing."

"I told you to stop chasing me!"

The burly man panted as he ran, yelling backward at those behind him.

Yet those people still clung tightly to his trail, showing no signs of giving up.

Thinking of Wu Xiaode's instructions, the burly man gritted his teeth and threw his clothes, trousers, and shoes onto the railway track.

"Look!!!"

"I didn't get any treasure, damn it!"

He roared at them.

The crowd slowly came to a stop.

Each one scrutinized him carefully.

"Seems like... he really doesn't have anything."

"Then why did you run?"

"No, I definitely saw him pick something up."

"But there's nothing on him."

"Check the clothes."

A few people swiftly checked the clothes.

They found nothing.

Suddenly, a man in the crowd shouted:

"I know! He's distracting us on purpose, his accomplice must be digging up something!"

Immediately someone else joined in:

"Quick! Back to the site!"

"Damn it, we've been tricked."

"Hurry back and see, maybe that person dug up some treasure!"

"Move!"

The crowd turned and ran back the way they came.

They disappeared into the darkness swiftly.

The burly man waited a moment, picked up his clothes and slowly put them back on, one by one.

As he dressed, he sneered:

"To think you rabble could play games with that guy?"

"Ha ha ha, go find your own doom!"

A cold wind blew past, bringing a refreshing chill to his body.

The burly man felt a sense of relief, the frustration of being chased by a group rapidly fading.

Elsewhere.

Emperor Bai had disappeared.

Remnants of spatial rifts lingered in the Void.

——It seems he and his subordinates have been transported to the surface.

Wu Xiaode stood still, resting a shovel on his shoulder, about to head deeper into the mining area.

A line of glowing text quietly emerged:

"There's no need to dig anymore, each mining area only has one Mysterious artifact."

"You have already obtained the Mysterious artifact of the current mining area."

"You are the Lord of Holy and Demon, one of the members of the Council."

"As a Mysterious life summoned in an emergency, your excellence lies not just in power, but in all aspects."

"You have been chosen."

"You are eligible to participate in the ongoing Council meeting."

All the text disappeared in an instant.

Wu Xiaode felt as if he was being moved by an invisible force at breakneck speed, instantly leaving his original location and arriving on a terrace.

On this terrace, he was alone.

But around him were other terraces, some with people on them, some without.

All the terraces formed a circular structure, resembling an ancient amphitheater.

Below the terraces.

Countless black pipes stretched out from the Void, entwined messily together, leading straight to a massive glass vessel in the center.

The glass vessel was filled with churning dark gray liquid.

Wu Xiaode glanced at it a few times, and for some reason, his heart skipped a beat with alarm.

Damn it.

What's in there?

Completely out of sight.

In any case, it was very unsettling.

Yet his face betrayed nothing as he turned his gaze toward the other terraces.

He saw the others on the terraces were all staring at him.

"Fantastic," said a man with gray pupils, dressed in a gray suit. "Another master recognized by 'Jiuyao' has arrived."

"Greetings," Wu Xiaode nodded to him.

"And to you—if I might, how about you lend me a hand to snack on? If you agree, I won't kill you," the man said with a smile.

Wu Xiaode too revealed a smile.

Such provocation was quite normal.

Whenever an organization encountered a new face, there was inevitably someone who wanted to test the mettle of the newcomer.

——Perhaps it's best to just use "He's Always Been Here".

Right now, he needed to keep a low profile, no need to stir up too much trouble.

His hand had just reached for "He's Always Been Here," about to pop it into his mouth, when his eyes suddenly caught something.

In that instant.

He saw a colossal face quietly emerge inside the central glass vessel, pressing against the inner wall of the vessel, glancing out at the people, then immediately sinking back into the gray water and disappearing.

Wu Xiaode felt his heart pound against his chest as his blood nearly froze.

The next second.

A grand voice boomed from all around:

"All members of the Council, cease your pointless chatter immediately."

"Jiuyao Sequence will now provide an overall update."

"Within the Void Storage Realm, the Eternal Eye continues to generate Mysterious life, but upon birth, all Mysterious life forms immediately manifest in Pangu World."

An image of light and shadow appeared in midair.

Above a vast, dreary sea of gray, a colossal vertical pupil loomed, oozing blood into the air, creating bloodfalls like cascades.

Within these falls of blood, flesh congealed into form, morphing into diverse and bizarre Mysterious creatures, plummeting toward the murky sea below.

"The frontline forces have all been deployed to Pangu, hence you must quickly build a connection between the two worlds."

"You must usher in the descent of Void Storage World as soon as possible!"

Suddenly, someone from a terrace asked:

"Why the urgency? Is there a problem with Void Storage World?"

In midair, the image of the giant eye and bloodfalls disappeared.

In its place, three immensely bizarre behemoths appeared.

Wu Xiaode immediately recognized one of the behemoths.

——The one clad in black Scale Armor, its colossal skeletal frame crawling with insects.