Chapter 706: 693 A conspiracy? _1
As Chu Qin's eyes emitted two golden beams, they formed half-circles in an instant and then perfectly sealed together, enclosing the entire warship within their protective embrace.
Under the energy shield of Chu Qin's True Dragon Eye, the energy fluctuations dissipated, and Xiaowu and others no longer felt suffocated at that moment.
"Next, everyone be careful!" Seeing that Xiaowu and the others were safe, Chu Qin advised the group while simultaneously activating his True Dragon Eye to scout ahead for any movements.
"Lord Chu Qin, look!" At that moment, Shi Yao pointed ahead.
Before Chu Qin and his companions, a white, cloud-like substance emerged into view.
Amid those white clouds, they could clearly see a large amount of spacecraft wreckage, a sight incredibly grim.
"It's the White Nebula! The Pixiu Secret Realm should be within the nebula!" Shi Xun Dao said, somewhat excitedly.
"However, Grandpa, these warships seem to have been shattered by the energy. Can our warship make it inside?" Shi Yao asked with uncertainty.
Shi Xun Dao looked troubled and turned to Chu Qin for guidance.
"These warships weren't fragmented by energy." Chu Qin drew a piece of the wreckage into his palm and, observing the exceedingly neat incision, said, "Rather, they were sliced apart by someone!"
"Sliced apart by someone!" The others were startled upon hearing this and conjured pieces of wreckage to themselves. Seeing the uniform incisions, they immediately agreed with Chu Qin's assessment.
"Could it be, a clash with adversaries?" Bi Bidong frowned slightly.
"That's unlikely," said Shi Xun Dao. "The Dragon Emperor avoided notifying starfields and families with known hostilities to prevent such encounters."
"Then, what could be the reason?" Shi Xun Xian said in surprise. "With so many warship wrecks, at least a thousand warships destroyed here, if not by adversaries, could it be over fighting for treasure?"
"That's even less likely!" Shi Xun Dao shook his head, "If there were treasures, they would be within the secret realm, not fought over outside! And if the treasures had been discovered, that would be a baseless assumption."
"Could it be that someone set an ambush deliberately?" the Life God King boldly speculated.
Shi Xun Dao and others turned pale at this suggestion, unsure of what to do, all looking to Chu Qin for a decision.
"Regardless!" Chu Qin paused and then spoke, "It seems the danger this time is slightly more severe than I anticipated. But one thing is for sure, these energies won't be able to tear apart our warship. Let's enter!"
"Yes!" Shi Xun Dao nodded in agreement.
The warship restarted, penetrating the mysterious white nebula and entering the energy vortex within.
Exiting the energy vortex, the warship arrived in another space.
It was a completely desolate place shrouded in layers of fog, with extremely low visibility. So much so, that even if someone was mere ten meters away from you, you couldn't see who it was.
Just then, the warship seemed to suddenly lose gravity and crashed towards the ground, fortunately, those aboard were strong entities who immediately leapt up, landing on the surface.
"What's happening!" Shi Xun Dao demanded sharply.
"Domain Lord, the warship suddenly became unresponsive!" cried the voice of the warship's helmsman.
"Don't blame him!" said Chu Qin, "It's not just the warship that's unresponsive. My soul-guiding divine artifact has also failed, and Elder Shitian Di's perception has been cut off as well!"
"What, even Elder Shitian Di's perception is gone…" Shi Yao exclaimed in shock.
"Perhaps, Elder Shitian Di has fallen asleep once more. No worries, we can't rely on him for everything," said Chu Qin.
The group nodded in agreement.
"Lord Chu Qin, although that may be the case, what should we do now!" a Demi-Emperor exclaimed in surprise, "Our weapons are still inside!"
"It must be a restriction of this place! It can shield all Soul Guidance Equipment," Chu Qin explained, "Do you all store your weapons in Soul-Guiding Divine Artifacts?"
"Mine is inside my body. However, have you noticed the severe constraint on Divine Sense here? I can only sense things within a five-hundred-meter radius!" Shi Xun Xian said, slightly startled.
"It seems I can only sense up to two hundred meters. No wonder even the Supreme God does not dare to enter here lightly, he probably can only sense up to a ten-thousand-meter range!" Xiaowu said, frowning.
"This must be some kind of mystical fog Formation set by the Pixiu, the weakest Formation," Shi Xun Dao noted, "However, the Dragon Emperor only mentioned that Divine Sense would be restricted, not to such a great degree, and he didn't say it would shield Soul-Guiding Divine Artifacts!"
"Even the weakest Formation is able to restrict us so much!" Gu Yuena's pupils constricted slightly, "Not only are we without weapons, but this is like being blind. How are we supposed to search!"
"Ah, I understand now!" Shi Xun Dao exclaimed as if he had an epiphany, "The Dragon Emperor is a Supreme God, the difference between his description and reality is huge. We have suffered a disadvantage for not being Supreme Gods. Now, without being able to use Soul-Guiding Divine Artifacts and having lost contact with Elder Shitian Di, what should we do?"
"Perhaps, the Dragon Emperor never intended to describe the entire process," Chu Qin said with a faint smile. Shitian Di had said that emperors in the universe, the Supreme Gods, were mostly old foxes.
Considering the damaged Warship outside, this could well be a conspiracy.
However, Chu Qin was not going to leave.
This was a mission entrusted to him by the System.
"Wait, Chu Qin, what about you!" Snow Emperor turned to ask Chu Qin at this moment.
"Within a three-hundred-mile radius, I'd say," Chu Qin replied calmly.
Once again, his True Dragon Eye had proven to be significantly effective.
"Three hundred miles!" Everyone exclaimed in unison, astonished.
"It seems we greatly underestimated the power of a Supreme God!" Bi Bidong sighed softly.
"Then, Lord Chu Qin, we're all relying on you now!" Shi Xun Xian declared, overjoyed.
"Yes, the pressing matter is to first make our way out of this mystical fog Formation and head towards the Thunder Emperor Formation!" Chu Qin said with a focused gaze.
"But we have absolutely no sense of direction here! Ahhh, this is so frustrating!" Wang Qiu'er shouted.
"Qiu'er, don't panic!" Chu Qin gestured for her to calm down.
Even so, Chu Qin felt somewhat uneasy.
He had initially thought that finding the location of the Thunder Emperor Formation would be easy. Now, it turned out he couldn't even distinguish the direction!
Luckily, his True Dragon Eye was still usable.
Chu Qin stood still, his True Dragon Eye scanning in all directions. Within a three-hundred-mile radius, the scenes that Chu Qin's Divine Sense could reach were identical, making it impossible to differentiate between east, south, west, and north.
But then, an idea struck Chu Qin. Using The Twelve Character Supreme Secret Technique, he converted his True Dragon Eye into the Thunder attribute.
With that, Chu Qin managed to detect a faint trace of a homogenous aura—the aura of thunder and lightning!
Ordinarily separated by countless miles, Chu Qin and his team would have been utterly incapable of detecting it, but the thunder and lightning contained within the Thunder Emperor Formation were terrifyingly dense and intense!