Global Dungeon: I Can See the Status Bar

Logically speaking, this situation should not occur.

Even the chickens and wheat, lettuce he kept in the Heaven’s Cave exhibited slight Spiritualization characteristics after a long time, possessing faint Extraordinary Creature traits.

But what’s with these people here?

Aura immunity?

Even as a cultivator with some achievements, I can’t even enhance them with external power?

Strange!

Looking at the furrowed brows of Lu Wenwu, Gu Taixing and a few friends exchanged glances, seeing a deep sense of disappointment and helplessness in each other’s eyes.

Even a Pathfinder as Powerful as an Immortal God couldn’t help them embark on the Path of the Extraordinary. It seems they are destined to brush past fairy fate without such fortune.

Not mentioning the sad topic of being unable to Cultivate, under Lu Wenwu’s lead, the few walked forward silently, while chattering about their experiences in recent days.

After listening, Lu Wenwu chuckled: "You guys, I like the reckless spirit, but don’t be rash next time. Without power like mine, you’d die quickly. This time, it was merely an incomplete Concealing Array without any Attack Power that nearly trapped you to death. If the one who set the array was on guard even a little, you’d have been bones in the grave by now!"

"What, we just stumbled into an incomplete Concealing Array?"

The few were taken aback.

As students specializing in mythological archaeology, among unofficial ordinary people, they naturally knew what this meant.

Many ancient ruins will encounter operating arrays during excavation, requiring the assistance of cultivators to break them.

Thinking about their close brush with death, the few secretly vowed in their hearts.

Next time in the "On-Site Operation Safety and Protective Measures" class, they absolutely must be fully attentive, and must memorize the textbook backwards!

Lu Wenwu explained with a smile: "Yes, it’s not something profound. After so much time, the array used to conceal the Dao Fire True Monarch Temple has collapsed to just a fragment of its power, only capable of slight spiritual interference. Did you notice there were no small animals here during your wandering these past days?"

Yan Chao nodded, still shaken: "Indeed, Senior, we thought about catching some wild animals, yet there weren’t any, not even insects."

"Exactly."

In the forest, Lu Wenwu casually blasted open a straight path, dispelling the subtle unease that had been lingering among the group.

It felt as if something had been unlocked.

"Wild animals have too low Spiritual Wisdom, even just a trace of the array’s aura is enough to remind them of the Fear inscribed in their bones from human cultivators, causing them to avoid the area out of fear."

"But you are different, you are true humans, with stronger resistance to fear and unease, combined with luck you happened to hit a gap in the array, allowing you to come in. Of course, that’s also why it harmed you."

"Now, I’ve completely broken that incomplete Concealing Array, so in the future if anyone stumbles in here, they won’t be as embarrassed as you were."

"Senior is amazing!"

Although it felt regretful to have such a historically rich array damaged, the group still said so.

Yan Chao, the one most interested in cultivation, couldn’t help but ask: "Senior, how did you break this array? Do you have to be proficient in the Five Elements and Eight Trigrams, and Qimen Dunjia like in the novels, to find the corresponding Array Hub then...?"

"It’s not that troublesome. For such a trash array, just punch it." Lu Wenwu shrugged, casually replied.

Punch... punch it!?

The group was stunned.

Gu Taixing recalled what Lu Wenwu had said before.

Nothing can’t be solved with a punch...

This Pathfinder senior, akin to an Immortal God, is indeed terrifying!

While the group was following Lu Wenwu step by step, Gu Taixing’s phone suddenly began to chime incessantly.

Messages so many it was shocking!

Lu Wenwu timely stopped, turned to look at the group.

The other four had long run out of phone battery.

Only Gu Taixing, a camping and hiking enthusiast, had a special solar-powered phone that held out until now with the Sun’s power.

"Signal! We have signal!"

"Senior is amazing! We can finally reconnect with the outside world!"

"Wah wah wah..."

"Great, we’ve been missing for so many days, our family and school must be worried sick!"

"Brother Gu, quickly inform them that you’re safe!"

The group was ecstatic, even to the point where the excitement overwhelmed their attention towards Lu Wenwu.

On Gu Taixing’s phone, university mentors, advisors, family elders, and close friends had all sent inquiries, with words of extreme urgency.

Not only these, but also many missed calls.

Some from people they knew, others unknown.

There were also unknown but labeled numbers...

Among them, the most notable was the emergency number composed of three digits.

When Gu Taixing called back and connected, Lu Wenwu could hear cheers erupting from the phone even from far away.

After the few went missing, their parents, police, and even the school were all nearly frantic with worry.

Especially their advisor.

Upon hearing students went missing after going hiking during a short vacation, the advisor was utterly devastated.

Despite endless warnings, how could it still happen!?

Gu Taixing succinctly described their ordeal and current state.

Upon hearing that they met a super senior suspected to be a Pathfinder, the police immediately treated it with great importance.

"Hello senior, we are police from the Yanjing branch of the Great Xia Country’s police force... What is police? Uh... you can understand it as the government officers of your era."

"Yes yes, thank you, senior, for understanding and taking care of us descendants. We will dispatch a helicopter to arrive near you and the children in one hour..."

"Uh... a helicopter is a kind of flying iron bird, akin to a puppet beast without Spiritual Power... Yes exactly, an hour is half a period."

"What? You’re coming along too? Alright, alright, we’ll arrange it, serving you is our greatest honor, we must prepare to welcome you, please do not be offended by our inadequate hospitality."

After finishing the call with the police, Lu Wenwu handed the phone back to Gu Taixing.

"You all heard it? They’ll be here in more than half... an hour. You’re already here, endured seven days of hunger, not easy. Before they arrive, follow me to explore the Dao Fire True Monarch Temple."

"We’ll bother senior, we’ll follow senior’s lead." Gu Taixing, as the temporary leader, responded.

Lu Wenwu nodded in satisfaction: "Then let’s go."

They walked for about ten minutes before reaching their destination—the Dao Fire True Monarch Temple.

If viewed from the perspective of a Blue Star person, Lu Wenwu would say this isn’t what he imagined from one or two millennia ago.

The surrounding side halls had long collapsed, filled with lush Cyan Grass growing through brick cracks, even the outermost gate was half-ruined, leaving only the main hall covered in extensive green vegetation.

It looked like an abandoned place from centuries ago!

However, from two thousand years ago in this World, this was indeed the standard.

Even from ten thousand years ago.

According to Gu Taixing and others, by the end of the Mythical Era, humans already possessed technology equivalent to the mid-Middle Ages, roughly the Northern Song period in Divine Continent history.

This perplexed Lu Wenwu somewhat.

People in this World, from the Mythical Era, had mid-Middle Ages technology levels, granted by the gods.

This continued for nearly one hundred twenty thousand years.

From the end of the Mythical Era to the eighteenth thousand and five hundredth year of the human era, humanity’s technological level didn’t change even slightly.

Subsequently, it was as if they suddenly unlocked something and pressed the shortcut key on the technology tree, advancing at double speed.

They leaped from the mid-Middle Ages to the modern society in less than two hundred years.

Absolutely a technological explosion.

Yet, for over 300 years until now, humanity’s technological level has once again fallen into near stagnation.

Not to say there’s been no development, but the rate of progress is like a snail’s pace, with no substantial changes or advancements.

As if some force had locked the technology tree, no matter how scientists tirelessly repeated various experiments and explorations, human technology remained stagnant.

This peculiar technological time curve puzzled Lu Wenwu greatly.

This is even more unbelievable than the Tang Family Continent!