Chapter 460 - 409: All Resources Plundered, The Inaccessible Mysterious Room, Zuo Xuan is Stunned

Since he couldn’t figure out what Zuo Xuan had done with the resources from the Eight-direction Reversing Ship, Jiang Qiu didn’t dwell on it. He simply took all the removable resources from the core area.

He left only a few of the Treasures of Heaven and Earth behind—those protected by special methods with security levels so high that not even Shangguan Yue could bypass them. Everything else, he took.

After all, he controlled the Dragon Spirit Secret Realm, a space of boundless size. It was far vaster than the Eight-direction Reversing Ship, so there was no need to worry about running out of room.

Just as he finished looting the resources, Shangguan Yue finally located the source of the peculiar, unique, yet faintly familiar aura. Her eyes flickered with an unreadable emotion, as if in anticipation. "This room is connected to the large resource depot we just plundered. Something inside seems to be constantly absorbing Spirit Charm. It’s... brewing!"

Hearing her voice, Jiang Qiu and Snow looked up to see a massive steel door standing before them like an insurmountable iron wall. Countless floating camera drones patrolled the area, ready to transmit real-time footage to the central hub and automatically identify any intruders.

Furthermore, the aura within was completely sealed. Jiang Qiu couldn’t sense what was inside at all, but after hearing what Shangguan Yue said, he grew curious.

The area where they stood was the corridor leading out from the resource depot they had just plundered. The depot was arguably one of the most critical and important areas of the Eight-direction Reversing Ship. It had held a massive amount of Primordial Basic Coins, which were worth far more than Treasures of Heaven and Earth!

Jiang Qiu estimated that the amount of Primordial Basic Coins in the depot had to be in the trillions. Of course, this was just a small fraction of the ship’s total capacity and not considered a huge amount, but it already far surpassed the entire reserves of the Soul Race!

This very place was connected to whatever lay behind the large door before them. A dense Spirit Charm seemed to be accumulating within, suggesting that something extremely important was hidden behind the steel gate.

’Could it be some kind of Divine Artifact inheritance?’

Jiang Qiu ventured a guess. He grabbed Shangguan Yue and Snow’s hands, preparing to travel through. But when he tried, his body remained motionless. An invisible ripple of space-time washed out like a wave and dissipated into nothing, a clear sign that the space here was immovable and could not be traversed.

He frowned. "The space-time here is incredibly stable, and the Laws are operating seamlessly. Is it impossible to bypass them?"

"Yes," Shangguan Yue nodded, her expression growing grave as a sense of unease washed over her. "Why can’t my Path of Returning to Simplicity harmonize with the Laws here?"

She could no longer perceive the local Laws. This meant she couldn’t communicate with the Laws designed to detect intruders, nor could she become aware of any special Restrictions. It was as if a black vortex had bound all the Laws within the room, shielding them from any outside probing.

At the source of the vortex seemed to be a mass of blackness, impossible to see through or investigate. She felt a faint trace of familiarity, yet she felt that couldn’t be right.

’This is too strange. What on earth is in this room?’

"Is there really no way in?"

Jiang Qiu’s gaze darkened. He was completely stumped by the door. Clearly, something extremely important lay within. After all, the security level was incredibly high—it was located even deeper than the resource depot, practically at the very core of the Eight-direction Reversing Ship.

’He even suspected this might be the operational center of the Eight-direction Reversing Ship. If he could destroy it, Zuo Xuan wouldn’t be able to return to the Nine Venerable Great Realm, even if he spent decades on repairs.’

’No, scratch that. He might not be able to repair it at all. If a super-hub like this were destroyed, the Eight-direction Reversing Ship’s built-in Artisans probably couldn’t handle it.’

’If he could pull this off, Jiang Qiu could strand Zuo Xuan here. He’d be stuck until at least after the Dusk Holy Ruins opened and closed.’

’That would give me more time to get stronger, kill him, and rescue Liu Zili.’

With this goal in mind, Jiang Qiu, Snow, and Shangguan Yue tried again. Unfortunately, it was useless. Their use of the Space-Time Law felt like being submerged in the ocean; they couldn’t get a lock on the coordinates inside at all.

According to Shangguan Yue, "There seems to be an incredibly powerful being inside, one that can distort the Space-Time Law itself. It’s causing all the spatial coordinates within this area to be lost. What’s more, its power is still brewing, and it might be about to break through, unleashing an immense force. Until then, no one can get near it, which means we can’t enter the room..."

In other words, there was a being inside this room so powerful that even Shangguan Yue couldn’t estimate its Realm, and it was on the verge of a breakthrough.

Until this being made its breakthrough, no one could force their way in. The Laws were distorted by its sheer presence, and the spatial coordinates were lost.

This was precisely why Shangguan Yue couldn’t communicate with the Laws that were supposed to be present; they were all orbiting the being inside. It was also why she couldn’t help Jiang Qiu and Snow use the Space-Time Law to travel in. The internal spatial coordinates were gone, creating a state similar to a void—which, by definition, has no coordinates and cannot be located.

Given the circumstances, Jiang Qiu truly had no way to get in. But before he could dwell on it, a subtle space-time fluctuation suddenly emanated from somewhere not too far away.

VMMMM—

The sound of the space-time fluctuation was crisp and faint, like the ripple from a pebble dropped into a pond. However, the aura it carried was enough to send a shiver down one’s spine, as if an Evil God from the Harmonization Realm had just descended!

The crucial part was that the fluctuation originated from a location not too far from Jiang Qiu, Snow, and Shangguan Yue. At the very least, it was within the same core area they were in!

And that Harmonization Realm aura...

Jiang Qiu’s thoughts immediately jumped to Zuo Xuan, and his pupils contracted. "How did he get back so fast?"

’He had expected the war wouldn’t take too long. After all, the army mobilized by the Thunder Clan was incredibly formidable; they had essentially gathered the most powerful people in the entire Thunder Great Realm. The White Tiger Army was fighting against an entire Great Realm—how could they possibly hold out for long?’

’But still, with the advantage of the Thunder Restricted Area, the White Tiger Army shouldn’t have been defeated this quickly, right? And wouldn’t the experts of the Thunder Clan have delayed Zuo Xuan with something like a celebratory banquet to buy some time?’

Jiang Qiu was surprised, but not particularly panicked. With Shangguan Yue and Snow by his side, he immediately initiated Space-Time Travel, vanishing from the Eight-direction Reversing Ship without a sound.

However, his departure created a space-time fluctuation. It was incredibly subtle—a stir so faint not even an ant would have noticed it. But the newly returned and emotionally volatile Zuo Xuan caught it instantly. He froze for a second. "Why is there a Space-Time Travel fluctuation in the core area?"

’Logically, the core areas of the Eight-direction Reversing Ship should all prohibit Space-Time Travel. It’s blocked by both system rules and fundamental Laws. Besides myself, not even other Harmonization Realm experts can travel freely in here.’

’But now there’s a fluctuation. It seems something just left the Eight-direction Reversing Ship. Something’s wrong. Didn’t the detection Laws raise an alarm and lock down the space-time?’

Filled with suspicion, Zuo Xuan extended his senses with a single thought, scanning the entire core area. The result: the resource depot and all the other treasure storages were completely empty...