I Contracted All Ancient Divine Artifacts

Chapter 237: Chapter 136: The Mechanical Sect’s Methods

Gongyang Jin halted the entire Anti-Xia Alliance team.

The team heading to the mine this time included six Tier Seven Spirit Contract Masters, including Drunkard Sun Yun, along with their Contracted Spirits.

Compared to the Anti-Xia Alliance team, the Sun Never Sets Knight Order seemed rather shabby.

Right after she said this sentence, everyone else in the team looked at each other, puzzled.

”Lord Gongyang Jin, are you sure the ’Historical’ imprinting place is here?”

”But it’s completely empty here, there’s nothing at all?”

Someone asked, voicing the thoughts of everyone present.

”You cannot see it.”

”This is a special technique of the Mechanical Sect, created with Particles of Virtual-Real, and such ethereal things can’t be detected with the naked eye.”

Gongyang Jin explained this; although the Anti-Xia Alliance members were still puzzled, her authority here prevented them from retorting.

”Bring up all the prepared items. Soon, you’ll understand whether it’s true or false.”

As Gongyang Jin’s voice just fell, someone from the end of the team carried over a huge box filled with densely packed Energy Bricks!

”Throw them forward and then shatter them.”

Under Gongyang Jin’s command, after they executed her instructions, the immense spiritual power contained in the Energy Bricks was completely released at this moment.

They turned into a deep blue dense ocean, seemingly about to engulf the place, but the next second, these spiritual energies disappeared.

Familiar figures of those long gone began to materialize, transforming from virtual to real in the stunned gazes of the Anti-Xia Alliance members!

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”What does the Mechanical Sect intend to do with such means?”

In the mine, Zhan Ning voiced his doubts.

Virtual-Real Technology, this extraordinarily mysterious technique, can revive people who were supposed to be dead in this unique way, granting them a second life.

What is the Mechanical Sect scheming under the mine with such technology?

Death, resurrection, second life.

Hearing these words, Han Zhan suddenly had a flash of insight, recalling why it all felt so inexplicably familiar.

It’s the Fu Xi Zither, the Ancient Resentful Sunset Array!

The Ancient Resentful Sunset Array can transform killed beings into battle spirits, absorbing them into the array, and then commanding them to fight as its battle spirits.

While Virtual-Real Technology and the Ancient Resentful Sunset Array differ slightly in focus, they also share some common ground.

Of course, these were just Han Zhan’s conjectures, and even if he knew, he wouldn’t choose to voice them at this time.

The only one who could answer Zhan Ning’s question was that seemingly knowledgeable Fallen Knight at the forefront.

”To understand what the Mechanical Sect wants to do, you must first comprehend the significance of the Slaughter Battlefield’s existence.” The Fallen Knight indeed spoke.

”In known historical records, the Slaughter Battlefield appeared alongside the City of Extreme Evil, and initially, the City of Extreme Evil wasn’t regarded as a place to imprison and exile criminals by several major powers.”

”It was only after they learned of the City of Extreme Evil’s rule of only entry and no exit, along with the existence of the Slaughter Battlefield, that a series of subsequent actions followed.”

The Fallen Knight, being the ancestor of the current Imperial Knight Louis XVII, knew many secrets unknown to ordinary people, almost like a living antique.

Under his narration, Han Zhan’s understanding of the City of Extreme Evil and the Slaughter Battlefield further deepened.

Initially, during the exploration period, the City of Extreme Evil was first discovered by the Five Great Forces as Ancient Ruins.

At that time, the Five Great Forces were still weak, perhaps more accurately called the Human Alliance.

After discovering the City of Extreme Evil’s existence, they dispatched relevant personnel to explore it, much like other Ancient Ruins.

But upon entering, they were shocked to discover the city had fundamentally different rules—only entry, no exit.

The first batch of entrants went missing, but they stubbornly sent several more batches of personnel in afterward.

Finally, five years later, the first person emerged alive from the City of Extreme Evil, whose successful emergence excited everyone.

From his account, the Five Great Forces discerned the general situation within the City of Extreme Evil and the sole method to survive and exit the city.

That method was the Slaughter Battlefield.

Later, due to the City’s immense exploration difficulty and its enigmatic rules, the Five Great Forces gradually lost interest, and the City of Extreme Evil ultimately evolved into a special prison cage, a place for political exile.

Every five years, those emerging alive from the Slaughter Battlefield became sources of continued insight and exploration into the City of Extreme Evil.

”The Slaughter Battlefield is not located in the City of Extreme Evil.”

This was the second piece of information given by the Fallen Knight.

For Zhan Ning and Yu Lian, who had participated in the Slaughter Battlefield, this information was neither surprising nor shocking.

But for Han Zhan, entering the City of Extreme Evil for the first time, his face couldn’t hide the surprise upon hearing this news from the Fallen Knight.

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”Where is the Slaughter Battlefield?”

”And what does it have to do with what’s beneath the mine?”

Within the Anti-Xia Alliance, in the decades of Gongyang Jin’s absence, many newcomers had successfully broken through to Tier Seven, becoming core members.

Having never participated in the Slaughter Battlefield, their ignorance was quite normal.

”The entrance to the Slaughter Battlefield is in the City of Extreme Evil.”

”However, once inside, the entrance disappears. Until the last person standing emerges from the Slaughter Battlefield, the City of Extreme Evil will open a return path for them to leave.”

Gongyang Jin said.

”But aren’t there quite a few people who’ve managed to exit the Slaughter Battlefield alive?” A newcomer noticed the peculiarity in Gongyang Jin’s words and inquired further.

The elders fell silent, marveling at the audacity of youth.

Formerly, anyone daring to speak to Gongyang Jin in such a tone would have long since lost their head.

It seems that over these decades of absence, Gongyang Jin’s temperament had improved quite a bit?

Swish!

A sword light flashed across the night, and Gongyang Jin held her great sword single-handedly, its blade resting on the questioner’s neck, forcing them to kneel before her.

Alright, let’s pretend we never said anything.

”Watch your tone, newcomer.” Gongyang Jin’s voice was unreadable as she continued, ”Survivors leave the Slaughter Battlefield immediately, while the failures reappear throughout the City of Extreme Evil after several years.”

”The only thing they have in common is they completely forget what happened during those lost years after the Slaughter Battlefield.”

”These failures lost their memory of those years.”

”Therefore, if the Mechanical Sect’s research on Virtual-Real Technology can truly resurrect the dead, it might be possible to glean more information about the Slaughter Battlefield from the deceased.”