Chapter 425 291: Below Celestial Beings, I Am Shadow

Lin Xue pointed to a node on the blueprint, her brow furrowed.

"But if we don't route it this way, the energy conduction efficiency will drop by three percent," Wei Chen argued forcefully.

Han Feng couldn't help but shake his head as he listened. 'These guys are so rigid. Why not just add a micro-buffer array? That would solve it.'

He cleared his throat, preparing to offer his grand insights.

However, no one paid him any mind.

Lin Xue and the others were still in a heated discussion, completely oblivious to his presence.

Han Feng froze for a moment, then it hit him.

It was the effect of Phantom Stealth!

He was clearly standing right here, yet no one could see him. Even his voice couldn't travel out.

'This is interesting.'

He walked a circle around the group, even waving his hand in front of Wei Chen's bald head. The man remained completely unaware.

'This stealth effect is way better than Optical Camouflage,' Han Feng praised internally.

Testing it in the workshop wasn't satisfying enough. He decided to try it outside.

With a flicker, Han Feng silently left the No. 3 Research Institute and flew toward the center of Fortress City.

He didn't pilot a fighter jet. Instead, he directly activated his Wind Manipulation Technique, transforming into an invisible gust of wind that sped through the shadows of buildings.

He passed through several anti-air defense zones and energy scanning nodes along the way. The alarm systems didn't react at all, and the patrol drones hovering in the air paid him no mind.

'Undetectable by Divine Sense and technology below Tier Five. The system wasn't lying.'

Han Feng grew bolder, and a thought suddenly surfaced.

'If technological detection is useless, what about a Tier Four Peak Martial Arts Grandmaster?'

'For example, could a guy like Li Tiecheng, with that overwhelming Evil Qi of his, discover me?'

Once the idea appeared, he couldn't suppress it.

'Let's do it!'

He changed direction and flew toward the East Sea Garrison Army Headquarters.

...

The East Sea Garrison Army Headquarters was a formidable fortress built entirely of black alloy.

Han Feng passed through layers of sentry posts and defense arrays like a ghost, not even triggering a single alarm. He found Li Tiecheng's office with ease.

The light in the office was still on.

Through the special one-way, anti-peeping glass, Han Feng saw Li Tiecheng buried in a pile of documents, frowning from time to time. He could feel the man's iron-blooded Evil Qi even through the wall.

Han Feng landed silently on the windowsill outside the office, sticking to the wall like a gecko.

He didn't dare make too much noise, just lightly tapped the glass with his fingernail.

TAP.

An extremely faint sound.

Inside the office, Li Tiecheng abruptly raised his head, his gaze so sharp it seemed it could pierce the wall.

"Who's out there?!" he demanded in a deep voice.

Hurried footsteps immediately sounded from outside the office.

"General!" Two fully armed personal guards rushed in.

"Is there anything unusual outside?" Li Tiecheng asked grimly.

"Reporting to the General, all is normal!"

"No one?" Li Tiecheng's frown deepened.

"No, sir. We've been guarding the door the whole time."

Still uneasy, Li Tiecheng got up, strode to the window, and threw it open.

The world outside the window was empty, with only a gentle breeze passing by.

Han Feng's heart leaped into his throat.

For a split second, he thought he had been discovered.

He suppressed his aura to the absolute limit, even temporarily stopping his heartbeat. He became like a statue, merging into one with the wall behind him.

Li Tiecheng stuck his head out and looked left and right. Below, guards were on patrol. Everything was in order.

"How strange..."

He scratched his head, muttering to himself, "Could it be that the pressure's been too much lately? Am I hearing things?"

He slammed the window shut with a BANG and turned back to his desk.

Han Feng remained completely still.

Through his Spiritual Vision, he clearly saw a glint flash in Li Tiecheng's eyes the moment he returned to his seat.

The next moment, a vast and majestic wave of Spiritual Power erupted from the office, silently sweeping through every corner of the building!

The Divine Sense of a Tier Four Peak Grandmaster of the Divine Containment Realm!

Han Feng felt as if his soul was being crushed by a mountain.

But the Trait of Phantom Stealth was the real key.

The terrifying Divine Sense flowed over him like quicksilver, without the slightest pause, as if he were just an ordinary piece of the wall.

In the office, Li Tiecheng's eyes were closed, his brow furrowed.

Within his Divine Sense's perception, everything outside the office was crystal clear.

The patterns on every floor tile in the hallway, the breathing and heartbeats of the distant guards, even the dust motes floating in the air—nothing could escape his notice.

But there was nothing out of the ordinary.

"Strange..."

He retracted his Divine Sense and opened his eyes, a look of confusion on his face.

'Am I really just too damn tired lately?'

He muttered to himself, shook his head, and finally gave up on investigating. He sat back down at his desk and went back to his paperwork.

Outside the window, Han Feng used his Spiritual Vision to observe Li Tiecheng completely lower his guard before he slowly, bit by bit, drifted backward.

Throughout the entire process, he didn't even dare to breathe.

Not until he had floated several hundred meters away and confirmed he was completely out of Li Tiecheng's perception range...

...did he suddenly accelerate, transforming into a shadow of the night and fleeing toward East Sea Martial Arts University without looking back.

That was too intense!

Playing with fire right under the nose of a Tier Four Peak Grandmaster... if he'd been caught red-handed, he definitely wouldn't have escaped a brutal beating.

But as intense as it was, the effect was truly top-notch.

'Even Li Tiecheng couldn't find me. This Armor is really something!'

Han Feng now had absolute confidence in the performance of Escapee Two.