“Mine is a diagram, what good stuff do you have?”
Wan Lei also looked over curiously.
Fang Xiaoyu used spiritual energy to levitate the wooden chest and opened it, revealing twenty neatly arranged… spikes.
“What is this ghastly thing?”
Wan Lei picked up one of these metal objects. It was about a foot long, round at the bottom, and tapered to a point.
“Could it be for stabbing enemies to death?”
“Wo cao wo cao wo cao wo cao!”
Suddenly, a series of exclamations came from behind them.
Gouzi jumped onto Wan Lei’s head, frantically scratching his hair.
“Hey, get down.”
Wan Lei pulled Gouzi off.
“Do you recognize this thing?”
“How could I not? I’ve played with them before. This is a vacuum detonation bomb. They killed thousands of immortal realm demon beasts with their Nascent Soul stage cultivation, all thanks to this. It’s one of the top technological creations of the immortal realm. You install this onto Xiaoyuzi’s pulse-firing laser’s pulse-firing device, pull the trigger, and it fires. Damn, is Immortal Gou acting so generous this time? Kid, we’ll be walking sideways in the Thunder Wind Realm from now on. Even if a tribulation-transcending old monster shows up, we’ll blast him into oblivion with one shot.”
Gouzi, unable to hide his excitement, flailed his limbs.
“Is this thing really that divine? I don’t believe it.”
Wan Lei scratched his scalp.
“It shouldn’t be, it defies logic. Immortal, can you give us a manual?”
“This is a vacuum detonation bomb, (miniature version), (demon-breaking variant). It only has one-thousandth the power of a normal vacuum detonation bomb and is ineffective against immortal realm enemies or cultivators of the prime plane. It only targets demons. Its effect on demon lords is not strong, it can cause some damage to demon marshals, and it’s an instant kill for demon generals and below. The damage range is two li.”
“…”
“Damn it!”
“This is a scam!”
Lei and Yu were filled with grief and indignation.
If this thing couldn’t kill enemies, what were they supposed to do with it? No one would even want it as scrap metal. Even if it could kill demons, they had to be present. Where were the demons? They should call a few over. Right now, their main enemies were the dangers within the various secret realms and the covetous cultivators of the Thunder Wind Realm. As for demons, they were too far away for them to manage at the moment. The current mood of the two was like learning dragon-slaying skills only to find that there were no dragons in the world.
“Forget it, put it away. Although we can’t use it for now, and it won’t help our improvement, we might be able to use it someday.”
“Forget it. By the time we can use it, our single palm strike might be more powerful than it. What a useless item.”
Fang Xiaoyu huffily put the chest into his storage bag, then picked up Gouzi and gave him two taps on the head.
“What are you so excited about for something useless?”
Just then, Wan Lei’s expression changed, his gaze becoming somewhat profound.
“Gouzi, can this detonation bomb only be used when installed on a laser gun?”
“Yes, unless you plan to throw it by hand?”
“But we didn’t use a laser gun in the Water Immortal Secret Realm, yet the system still rewarded us with detonation bombs, and didn’t reward us with a laser gun. That means…”
“It means it knows we have a laser gun.”
Fang Xiaoyu interjected, stroking his chin as he mused.
“But how would it know? Ruling out all impossibilities, the truth is singular: that system isn’t a system at all. It’s a living being, perhaps the immortal himself. He’s been monitoring us all along, and he knows we obtained the laser gun from outside.”
“Hiss…”
Wan Lei gasped.
“Then, what is the purpose of the immortal constantly monitoring us? Why have they been watching us? It’s been happening for six or seven years. Is there some grand conspiracy behind this…”
“Deserve?”
A voice came from the sky again.
“Huh?”
“You deserve it? What qualifications do you have for immortals to personally monitor you? What is there about you that is worth being monitored? Do immortals have nothing better to do than watch two little kids play? Are immortals that idle? Let alone whether you are worthy, does your entire Thunder Wind Realm, your entire universe, deserve a second glance from an immortal? It’s good for young people to be confident, but don’t be overly narcissistic or overvalue yourselves. Always remind yourself that you are nothing.”
The words of the Gou Immortal made the two of them almost spit blood. Wan Lei pointed at the sky and began to curse, unleashing a torrent of vulgarities. The surrounding people of Qian Country and the grassland people exchanged confused glances, not knowing who had offended this deity again.
“Then how did you know we had a laser gun?”
Fang Xiaoyu frowned, his lips slightly pouted, looking up at the sky with disbelief.
“The systems of the six great secret realms are interconnected. You used the laser gun in the Wood Immortal Secret Realm.”
“I see. My apologies, I misunderstood.”
Wan Lei nodded.
In the sky, Han Xiaofeng wiped away nonexistent sweat and sighed.
“That was close, they almost found out. These two are really something, to think of so much. Do they really think we have nothing better to do than personally come to watch them play?”
“Don’t we?”
“Uh… well, since I’m idle anyway, I was planning to go to the negative plane to see if there’s anything fun among the demons.”
“Prime plane loses an Immortal Venerable.”
“…”
Han Xiaofeng no longer paid attention to the mischievous Han Xiaoyu. With a wave of his hand, he swept up Wan Lei and Fang Xiaoyu and moved rapidly. When Wan Lei and Fang Xiaoyu recovered, they had already arrived on the great grassland. To the north, the purple sea churned, stirring up waves. To the south, many small tribes were still moving south with difficulty, step by step. Just as the two thought it was a new mission, a fan-shaped token floated before their eyes. Wan Lei reached out and took the token. The words “Destruction” were written on it.
“The mission is over just like that? That’s good, I thought something else unexpected would happen.”
Wan Lei smiled and put the token into his storage bag. This was their third token, half of the six required.
“Water Engulfs All Beings. Water is the root of all destruction. This is my path of destruction. The path of destruction is profound, the ultimate path of stillness and void in the world. I don’t expect you two to comprehend it fully, so I’m giving you the token directly. You will meditate here in the coming days. The more you comprehend, the more your combat power will increase. You can choose to leave at any time. Also, do not help the people below. The Great Wall is still sealed. Six months later, the Fire Immortal Secret Realm will open.”
Wan Lei and Fang Xiaoyu looked at each other, their minds filled with questions about what “Water Engulfs All Beings” and the “path of destruction” meant. They had completely forgotten to consider why the immortal had given them twenty “utterly useless” vacuum detonation bombs targeted at demons.