288 Mechanical Ghost

"This is..."
In the first underground palace, the crowd stood in a pit, their eyes widened in shock.
Only to see dozens of black stone pillars placed in the tunnel, each emitting a strange black light.
Like fossils in slumber, but everyone knows that these stone pillars are like eternal, immortal beings.
As long as there is flesh and blood touching them, they can be easily awakened.
The crowd stood cautiously on the side, watching the sleeping stone pillars with changing expressions.
They had once considered various ways to destroy these stone pillars.
But what made them despair was that these stone pillars were as solid as sacred relics, unaffected by the five elements, and almost impossible to be completely destroyed by any means.
This is really scary. It's hard to imagine what terrible things would happen if they were stranded on the mainland. It would definitely be a catastrophic disaster.
A monk angrily picked up a statue and threw it into the pit.
He was on the verge of madness because of these stone pillar spirit beasts.
These monsters, they had already experienced the horrors. No one wanted to be possessed by these monsters, losing their personality and thoughts, as if being controlled by parasites, determining your life and death forever.
Everyone vented their emotions, and Li Ji didn't stop them. These statues are all safe.
Soon, everyone arrived at the second level, and suddenly, a layer of light curtain appeared.
When they passed through the light curtain, their expressions changed greatly as a strong and dense spiritual energy fluctuation hit their faces.
In their line of sight, everyone could even see the spiritual energy floating in the air.
Everyone was pleasantly surprised. They were all cultivators at the Holy Spirit Realm or above, but they rarely encountered places filled with such abundant spiritual energy outside. Immediately, without any hesitation, they began to absorb and restore their energy.
Everyone followed the spiritual energy and descended to find a flowing river of spirit stones deep underground.
Countless spirit stones lined the ground, and with a random lift of the floor, billions of spirit stones were hidden beneath, and even high-grade spiritual essences were laid out.
“谁都不许动这些灵石，这些灵石都是用来维持法阵的，都放下。”
李继大喝道。
听到此话，众人一惊，连忙都把灵石丢了下去。
There is nothing more important than life at this moment.
With continuous exploration, there are more and more spiritual stones, to the extent that it makes people suspect that the entire underground of the sky city is paved with spiritual stones.
Here, the spiritual stones, whether in terms of quality or quantity, have reached a terrifying level.
With just a casual glance, there are billions or even trillions of spiritual stones stored here.
It's possible that a cultivator could shorten their cultivation time by hundreds or even thousands of times, from Qi refinement stage to Supreme realm, by practicing here.
"Is that a holy artifact?"
The crowd arrived at the center of the second floor of the underground palace and discovered an altar surrounded by strange reliefs, with various spiritual beasts and monsters encircling it.
On that altar, an item resembling a gyroscope emitted various bizarre lights, and continued to spin.
In Li Ji's shocked gaze, the gyroscope emitted a wonderful radiance. With his spiritual perception, he could see delicate magic formations and spiritual threads forming a network spread underground.
And Li Ji's expression also changed. In addition to seeing the spiritual thread, Li Ji also saw the terrifying silver energy flowing on the gyro.
This kind of energy exceeded Li Ji's knowledge. Countless invisible elements appeared insignificant in front of the silver energy and even automatically stayed away from that silver energy.
In terms of energy, there is a higher level than spiritual energy, and that is immortal energy.
In other words, this gyroscope is a true immortal artifact, and that silver energy is immortal energy.
Even without using visual perception, everyone around can sense the strong energy fluctuations emitted by the gyroscope.
Those who possess sacred artifacts can also feel that the energy fluctuations of this gyroscope surpass those of sacred artifacts, indicating that it is likely to be a presence one level higher than a sacred artifact.
"No, this should be an immortal tool."
An old man murmured in shock, breaking the calm atmosphere for a moment.
Some people began to show a greedy expression, thinking that if they could get their hands on this immortal tool, they would definitely be invincible at the same level.
At once, the eyes of everyone heated up.
Fairy tools, they are an existence rarely seen in the whole world.
And the rumored fairy tools outside seem to be somewhat inferior compared to this one.
This is definitely a real fairy tool.
"This holy artifact is the core component that maintains the entire underground palace formation. No one can touch it, don't even think about it."
Li Ji's indifferent words instantly calmed people down.
Yes, even if they want to be greedy, they can't cut in line.
Since they can't get it, naturally they don't want others to get it either.
After Li Ji spoke, everyone could only agree with him.
"Yes, yes, nobody should even think about touching this sacred artifact. Let's find the exit as soon as possible and discuss further."
"Right, all I want now is to leave this haunted place quickly. I never want to come in again in my whole life."
For a moment, everyone relaxed and Li Ji led them to leave the second level and head towards the third level of the underground palace.
When they reached the third level, the group felt a wave of coldness coming over them.
Li Ji's expression changed and his gaze looked into the distance.
Only to see a series of metallic temples, filled with a mysterious sense of technology.
Li Ji was stunned. The environment here was the same as the Earth's technological world before he crossed over.
The ground is smooth and metallic, with a scent of metal everywhere.
Around the palace, rooms resembling spaceship cabins are revealed.
In each chamber door, mech-armors resembling spiritual beasts stand tall.
And in the layout of the palace, various metal lines are neatly arranged along the walls, and even the light is electric rather than spirit stones or magic lights.
"Wow, what are these, such strange rooms."
The crowd looked surprised at this strange dress.
"Don't move."
Li Ji exclaimed in surprise, but it was too late.
Only to see a monk leading the way in, suddenly, a light lit up.
At the same time, a violet laser shot out.
"Ah, plop."
Unfortunately, the cultivator had no chance to react and was sliced in half by the laser.
Seeing this scene, everyone was shocked and terrified, as a Holy Spirit Realm cultivator was instantly dismembered by a laser.
Li Jizhen was shocked to see the laser beam, which was not just an ordinary laser but also carried a terrifying power of the heavenly path.
Not to mention the Holy Spirit Realm, even the Supreme Realm could be instantly disintegrated.
【Intruder detected, scanning...】
【Scan complete, activate emergency plan, initiate cleaning operation.】
【Eradicate all intruders, eliminate, eliminate!】
What's going on?
Ding!
Suddenly, the surroundings became dark, and in the next moment, countless red lights twinkled. In the massive underground palace, fifty storage doors opened simultaneously.
In the astonished gazes of the crowd, one mechanical spirit beast after another emerged.
"These monsters have come out."
Everyone looked at the fifty strange spiritual beast monsters in shock and discovered that they were all dead objects.
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