The Shock of Technology

It was only after hearing Xu Mu’s voice transmission that Ying Weiyang finally raised her head.

Sure enough, there was a red circle in the distance, its interior pitch-black. She had no idea what might be inside.

But Xu Mu had called out to her, so he clearly wasn’t trying to trick her. Without another thought, she dashed into it.

When she arrived inside, she saw Xu Mu’s figure.

“Xu Mu! You scared me to death!”

Ying Weiyang leaped straight onto Xu Mu, wrapping both arms around his neck and hanging from him like a koala.

Xianling Nan frowned slightly. “What are you thinking? This place is so dangerous, and you brought a woman along to get herself killed?”

After all, Ying Weiyang looked no older than a middle school student, with an unmistakably youthful air about her.

“I couldn’t help it. She insisted on coming.”

Xu Mu turned around and saw that the red circle behind them had already vanished.

They were now inside a massive cavern, more than a hundred meters above the ground, near the top of the cave.

Ahead lay a stone path about two meters wide. On either side of it were bottomless abysses.

The stone path stretched a long way ahead. When they first entered, Xu Mu’s senses had detected several black-robed figures in front of them, but they had vanished from his range of perception in the blink of an eye.

That meant they were already more than two thousand meters ahead.

“Brother Mu, is this a real world?” Chen Xuan asked from the side.

Xu Mu pressed a hand against the ground, then shook his head. “Although I can’t investigate the exact situation, this is most likely still part of an array formation. Everyone, be careful.”

Chen Xuan tightened his grip on the woodcutter’s knife and said with a smile, “I’ll lead the way.”

With that, he stepped onto the path. But almost immediately, he pulled his foot back.

“What’s wrong?” Xu Mu asked as he came over.

“Brother Mu, it’s a Spirit-Dispersing Array.”

Chen Xuan offered the warning, then stepped onto the path again.

Xu Mu drew his sword and turned to the two women beside him. “Stay close to me.”

Ying Weiyang and Xianling Nan nodded at the same time.

As soon as they stepped onto the path, they found that they truly could no longer use qi.

Holding the woodcutter’s knife, Chen Xuan proceeded cautiously, afraid that something might suddenly happen around them.

Suddenly, one of his feet stepped into empty air. But because he had kept his center of gravity on his back leg, he easily pulled it back.

“This path really isn’t as simple as it looks.”

Chen Xuan took a spirit stone from his body and tossed it ahead.

There was clearly nothing wrong with the path in front of them, yet the spirit stone suddenly vanished.

Clearly, there was empty space there, disguised by the array as a normal section of road.

“Xu Mu, why don’t we turn back? This place is too dangerous.” Ying Weiyang tugged at Xu Mu’s sleeve. “All the traps have been disguised. No one can tell which sections are safe.”

“She’s right. There are too few of us. Even if we used our lives to pave the way, we wouldn’t get very far,” Xianling Nan added.

She truly wasn’t afraid to die if it meant obtaining a treasure, but she had no interest in making pointless sacrifices.

“Brother Mu, I think this is simple. All we need is a rope. Tie it around me and that’ll be enough,” Chen Xuan said with a grin. “With your strength, pulling my weight would be effortless. If I accidentally fall, you can just haul me back up.”

“No. What if there’s a killing array from another space beneath the trap?”

Xu Mu stroked his chin in thought. Then a smile spread across his face.

“I have an idea. Let’s go back.”

He led the group back to their previous position.

“Brother Mu, what’s your plan?” Chen Xuan asked in confusion.

“The person who carved out this array calculated every possibility, but they never imagined that technology would exist in the future.”

As he spoke, Xu Mu took his helicopter out of his storage space.

“Let’s show these old-timers what the future has to offer.”

“Holy crap! How did I not think of that? You have a helicopter!” Chen Xuan exclaimed, breaking into laughter.

Xianling Nan stared in astonishment. Such a huge object had actually been stored inside Xu Mu’s spatial ring.

Just how large was the space inside his ring?

Ying Weiyang, meanwhile, gazed at the strange machine with pure curiosity. “What is this thing?”

“Enough questions. Get in.”

Xu Mu opened the helicopter door and let the other three climb aboard.

He took the pilot’s seat, started the helicopter, and lifted off.

The ninth-level Spirit-Dispersing Array was indeed powerful, but the helicopter didn’t rely on spiritual energy. It ran on aviation fuel.

Xu Mu piloted the helicopter over the path toward the opposite side.

Through the window, Ying Weiyang looked outside and realized that they were actually flying above the Spirit-Dispersing Array.

What kind of technique was this?

The helicopter swept rapidly along the path, and Xu Mu’s senses finally picked up the black-robed figures ahead.

There were four of them. They were using an extremely primitive method—spraying the ground.

The spray was a striking white.

The person in front sprayed the white substance onto the path. If there was solid ground beneath it, the white color would appear. If there was nothing there, no white would show.

Moreover, the white markings lasted for only about ten seconds before disappearing completely.

This also prevented those behind them from using the markings as a guide. If they had been using something like paint, Xu Mu wouldn’t have needed a helicopter at all. He could simply have followed the trail they left behind.

At the same time, the four black-robed figures also stopped and turned around one after another, evidently having heard the sound of the helicopter.

One of them tilted his head back, and the hood of his black robe fell away.

Through his senses, Xu Mu realized that it was Zi Wangyou.

He immediately raised the helicopter higher, only to discover that it was Wang Hun and the others.

Wang Hun also looked up and soon saw a helicopter flying toward them from the distance.

“How could there be a helicopter here? How did they get it in?”

Zi Wangyou raised her head and said, “Who cares who they are? Shoot it down!”

Wang Hun held his longsword and leaped into the air as the helicopter drew near.

Although he could not use qi, his body, cultivated to his level, was more than strong enough to jump as high as the helicopter.

If the rotors struck him, they would be the ones to break.

Xu Mu had known from the start that they would attack. After walking so painstakingly for such a long time, anyone would resent being overtaken by someone flying a helicopter from behind.

Xu Mu immediately adjusted course, steering the helicopter toward the black abyss beyond the road.

Wang Hun, suspended high in the air, could not change direction. He could only watch helplessly as the helicopter flew past them.

The others did not dare leap off the road to attack either. Even if they managed to destroy the helicopter, they would fall into the abyss as well, since they could not use qi.

At their level, they valued their lives immensely.

“Damn it!”

Wang Hun cursed under his breath before picking up the spray again. “Let’s speed up.”

After flying for another minute, Xu Mu saw an armored soldier standing in the middle of the road, blocking their way.

He simply flew around it via the abyss beside the road. The armored soldier did not move an inch throughout the entire process.

Clearly, Xu Mu’s actions had gone beyond what the formation had been designed to handle.

At last, Xu Mu and the others reached the opposite side of the road, where he slowly brought the helicopter down.

Everyone climbed out of the helicopter, and Xu Mu stored it in his storage space once again.

“Brother Mu, that was incredible.”

Chen Xuan gazed at the road behind them. “If we’d had to walk the whole way, who knows how long it would have taken.”

Ying Weiyang was as curious as a child. “Xu Mu, what kind of demon beast was that just now? And how could you fit it into a spatial ring?”