pjbooks Chapter 172, Anchor 2 Opens Automatically, Black Line Chases the Boat
Chapter 172, Anchor 2 Opens Automatically, Black Line Chases the Boat
Half an hour later.
The Starship ascends into the sky.
It wasn't as large as the main ship of the Zhenxing Army, nor did it have the dense star array lines on the outer layer of the star patrol ship.
The entire boat was only a hundred feet long.
It is entirely silver-gray.
The ship is narrow, and its bow resembles a long spear pointing towards the sky.
When the core array was activated, no air waves were stirred up around the Starbreaker.
But in front of them, a silver passage silently opened up in the sky.
next moment.
The entire Starbreaker Ship disappeared into the sky above Dragon Abyss City.
Several breaths later, the clouds surrounding Longyuan suddenly burst open to both sides.
boom--!
A belated sonic boom swept across the sky.
The Starbreaker Ship has already appeared hundreds of miles away.
Qin Guanlan stood in the center of the main control cabin.
A star map, stretching from Longyuan to Zhongzhou, floats before them.
The silver route connects the two places.
"A normal star cruiser takes a day and a half."
"The Star-Breaking Ship will travel at full speed along the main star core and will reach Zhongzhou in nine hours."
"But we can't stop halfway."
"It also cannot keep the defensive array active for long periods of time."
Zhou Xuanheng stood to one side.
"The contamination behind the gate may have already seeped into the Zhongzhou Stargate system."
"Do not connect to any transit ports along the route."
Qin Guanlan nodded.
"Since leaving Dragon Abyss, the Starbreaker Ship has severed all external navigation permissions."
"Only one-time communication arrays will be retained."
"If the communication array is also contaminated, it will be destroyed immediately."
This Starbreaker is a crucial asset of the Qin family's main lineage.
Extremely fast.
However, to avoid being reverse-marked by the General Stargate Network, they essentially gave up all midway support.
The next nine hours.
We can only rely on the Starbreaker itself.
Qin Zhu stood at the bow of the ship, in front of the battle formation.
The aura of a late-stage Marquis-level official covered the entire ship, constantly sensing the fluctuations in the surrounding space.
Marquis Zhenxing did not accompany him.
Longyuan City has just experienced a major battle between the main sects.
The outer defense line was almost completely destroyed.
The main star gate also needs a sufficiently strong Marquis to oversee it.
He could only stay in Longyuan.
The group heading to Zhongzhou consisted only of Lin Yuan, Lin Xiaoya, Zhou Xuanheng, Qin Guanlan, Qin Zhu, and twelve Qin Clan Star Armor Guards responsible for piloting the Star-Breaking Ship.
There weren't many people.
But apart from Lin Xiaoya, there was no one who was weak.
……
Deepest part of the Starbreaker Ship.
A quiet room entirely made of star iron.
Lin Yuan sat cross-legged.
Lin Xiaoya leaned against a soft couch not far away, covered with a thin blanket.
She was not asleep.
He simply closed his eyes to recover the energy consumed by the Locking Seal, as Lin Yuan had requested.
The center of the quiet room.
There was a black metal box that was two zhang long.
The Qin clan emblem is not found on the outside of the box.
It is engraved with only seven layers of sealing star patterns.
Qin Guanlan stood in front of the box and pressed the token in his hand into the first layer of the seal.
"This item was originally intended by the Qin family to be exchanged at the Dragon Abyss Main Star Gate."
"I didn't have time to use it last night."
Lin Yuan glanced at him.
"What?"
Qin Guanlan didn't keep anyone in suspense.
The seven layers of restrictions are opened in sequence.
Click.
The black box lid splits open to the sides.
A massive spine, entirely black and covered with silver spots, appeared inside the box.
The spine is only a little over ten feet long.
But the moment the lid was opened, the entire quiet room seemed to suddenly become several times heavier.
The star patterns on the wall lit up one after another.
Lin Xiaoya's white lock mark on her forehead also flickered instinctively.
Those are not human bones.
It is not an ordinary beast.
The center of the spine.
A very faint crack in the door was slowly opening and closing.
With each opening and closing, a tidal wave of whispers emanates from within the bones.
"The spine of the Beast King of Menyuan."
Qin Guanlan said:
"Thirty years ago, the main branch of the Qin family killed a beast that was close to the level of a king outside the Eastern Wilderness Gate."
"Most of the intact corpses have been used to forge gate-suppressing artifacts."
"Only this section of the spine remains."
"It cannot be refined."
"It cannot be completely purified either."
"The Qin family has kept it sealed away."
Lin Yuan raised his hand.
Five fingers pressed on the spine of the Beast King of the Gate Abyss.
The Ultimate Star Soul unfolded instantly.
Inside the skeleton, the dense trails of contamination from behind the doors were all clearly visible.
It is not as complete as the original form of the Bronze Gatekeeper.
However, it was much heavier than the debris behind a regular door.
A system notification appears.
[Remains of a higher-order creature detected behind a portal]
[Target Level Before Death: Half a Step Towards Kingship]
[Severe loss of original source]
[Can be consumed and refined]
Lin Yuan asked:
"Give me?"
Qin Guanlan remained calm.
"Borrowing the Broken Star Boat can only repay a portion of what the Qin family owes Longyuan."
"This piece of bone represents the second contribution the Qin family's main branch made to the affairs of Zhongzhou."
He knew what Lin Yuan wanted.
He also knew that ordinary resources were almost meaningless to Lin Yuan at the moment.
Instead of offering a bunch of elixirs, star stones, and cultivation techniques, it would be better to simply give away a sufficiently heavy relic from behind the gate.
Lin Yuan didn't stand on ceremony.
"go out."
Qin Guanlan glanced at Lin Xiaoya, who was still resting with her eyes closed on the soft couch.
"Should we take her away?"
"Need not."
Qin Guanlan nodded.
He turned and left the quiet room.
The metal door closed again.
The seven layers of protective array lit up one by one.
Lin Yuan gripped the spine of the Beast King of the Gate Abyss with his five fingers.
The Dark Gold Starfield unfolded from within his body.
It did not cover the entire Starbreaker.
It only enveloped the quiet room.
As the dark golden starlight fell, the door in the center of the spine, which had been opening and closing continuously, suddenly froze.
The whispers behind the door seemed to be cut off by an invisible hand.
Within the Extreme Star Domain.
All residual permissions belonging to the creature behind the door are rendered ineffective.
The Ultimate Star Furnace slowly rotated.
swallow!
The silver spots on the black spine quickly faded.
One by one, the lingering remnants of the gate beasts burst forth from within their bones.
They transformed into dozens of twisted heads.
Some look like wolves.
Some look like snakes.
Some only have a dark crack in the door covered with sharp teeth.
These lingering resentments had barely appeared when they simultaneously lunged at Lin Yuan.
The Extreme Star Soul trembled slightly.
All the heads were suspended in mid-air.
Pollution stripping.
Willpower crushed.
The remaining energy was completely drawn into the Extreme Star Furnace.
[Spine of the Beast King of the Devouring Refinement Gate]
[Physical compression of Qi and blood is underway]
[Current number of Qi and Blood Physical Compression Counts: 1003000]
The spine begins to shrink.
[Current number of Qi and Blood Physical Compression Counts: 1007000]
Large cracks appeared on the surface of the bone.
[Current number of Qi and Blood Physical Compression Counts: 1011000]
finally.
The entire spine transformed into a fist-sized mass of pitch-black residual energy in Lin Yuan's palm.
The Extreme Star Furnace collapsed again.
The last vestige of energy vanished.
[Current number of Qi and Blood Physical Compression Counts: 1013000]
Lin Yuan opened his eyes.
A section of the spine of a gate beast that is close to the level of a king.
It was only pushed 13,000 times.
After a million cycles, the energy required for each physical compression becomes heavier than before.
I want to reach 1.1 million.
There are still 87,000 attempts to go.
Those high-ranking relics from behind the gates in the General Administration's sealed warehouse must not be lost.
The authority of the sect leader within the Zero Ancient Gate cannot be relinquished.
Just as Lin Yuan was about to put away the Extreme Dao Star Domain.
Lin Xiaoya, who was on the soft couch, suddenly opened her eyes.
The white lock pattern on her forehead lit up on its own.
It wasn't something she sensed on her own initiative.
Instead, another door in the distance shook.
thump.
It's clearer than the first time.
Lin Xiaoya suddenly sat up.
"elder brother."
Lin Yuan looked at her.
"The second person's light is on."
……
Zhongzhou Xingmen General Hospital.
Outside Han Yuechuan's meditation area.
The three-layered sealing array has been increased to nine layers.
The academy's director personally oversees the operation.
Everyone who had direct contact with Han Yuechuan was sent to the quarantine area.
In the meditation room.
Han Yuechuan remained seated cross-legged.
The gap between his eyebrows, now pitch black, had widened from one inch to three inches.
The star mark on his chest, which belonged to the vice president of the Star Gate General Hospital, had been almost completely drained.
Behind the door gap.
An ancient stone door buried underground can be vaguely seen.
The academy master stood outside the nine-layered sealing array.
The silver ruler in his hand vibrated incessantly.
"The black talisman is still drawing on the main hospital's access."
A formation master was pale.
"Dean, at the current rate, in another three hours, all three star gate nodes controlled by Vice Dean Han will be taken away."
"At that time, it is possible that, following those nodes, three gaps in the door could be opened simultaneously in Zhongzhou."
The academy master said in a deep voice:
"How long until the headquarters' support arrives?"
"As fast as 15 minutes."
The formation master had just finished speaking.
hurried footsteps could be heard from the other end of the corridor.
A middle-aged man dressed in the black and silver uniform of a town gatekeeper walked over with six town gatekeepers.
He was tall.
There is an old scar on the left cheek that runs through the brow bone.
On the seal of the town gate on his chest are three silver door knockers.
Currently serving as the Deputy Director of the Zhongzhou Town Gate Division.
Huo Yunzhang.
The academy director frowned slightly when he saw him.
"The people from the headquarters haven't arrived yet."
"Why did you arrive first?"
Huo Yunzhang stopped outside the blockade formation.
"The Gatekeeper is responsible for all anomalies at the ancient gates."
"An unknown sect authority has appeared within Han Yuechuan's body, so the Sect Master will naturally have to come."
The abbot said:
"No one is allowed to approach the meditation room."
"Including you."
Huo Yunzhang looked at Han Yuechuan behind the nine-layered sealing formation.
"If we keep waiting, his privileges will be completely stripped away."
"I brought the highest-level Gate-Severing Seal of the Town Gate Division."
He raised his right hand.
A square ancient seal, black and silver in color, floated in the palm of the hand.
The moment the ancient seal appeared.
For the first time, the dark crack between Han Yuechuan's eyebrows stopped widening.
The surrounding array masters' eyes lit up.
"it works!"
The abbot, however, did not allow them to leave immediately.
Why is the broken door mark not recorded in the current list of door-guarding devices?
Huo Yunzhang remained calm.
"These are old artifacts left behind by the first generation of gatekeepers."
"Only applies to Ancient Gate access."
"When the current list was established, Gate Zero had already been permanently sealed off."
"Naturally, there is no record of it."
The academy master's eyes darkened slightly.
"Who authorized you to use this?"
Huo Yunzhang looked at him.
"The person is almost turning into a door."
"You still need to wait for authorization?"
The two looked at each other.
The atmosphere in the corridor quickly froze.
Just then.
Han Yuechuan's body suddenly trembled.
The door, dark between the eyebrows, suddenly opened wide.
Dozens of black door patterns rushed towards the nine-layered sealing array.
boom!
The first layer of the formation extinguished instantly.
Next comes the second layer.
The third layer.
The array master said urgently:
"The gatekeepers have started a riot!"
"The blockade formation can't hold!"
The academy master's expression changed.
Huo Yunzhang has already taken a step forward.
"If we don't cut it off, he'll drag the entire main hospital into the door."
The academy director gritted his teeth.
"Open a passage."
Between the nine layers of sealing array, a silvery-white crack appeared, wide enough for only one person to pass through.
Huo Yunzhang, holding the broken door seal, walked in alone.
He crossed the first level.
The second layer.
We continued until we reached the door of the meditation room.
Black patterns continued to emanate from the gap between Han Yuechuan's eyebrows.
But when those door patterns touched the broken door mark, they actually receded to both sides.
Everyone outside was watching this scene intently.
Huo Yunzhang entered the meditation room.
Standing in front of Han Yuechuan.
He did not immediately activate the Broken Gate Seal.
Instead, he looked down at Han Yuechuan.
After a while.
Han Yuechuan slowly opened his tightly closed eyes.
There are no pupils in its eyes.
There are only two small black doors.
Huo Yunzhang met his gaze.
Then.
He even revealed a slight smile.
"The first anchor."
"Thanks for your hard work."
The dark patterns on Han Yuechuan's chest twitched slightly.
The courtyard owner outside couldn't hear those words.
The nine-layered sealing array blocked out the sound.
But he saw that Huo Yunzhang did not make a move immediately.
A sudden sense of unease rose in my heart.
"Huo Yunzhang!"
"Activate the Gate-Severing Seal!"
Huo Yunzhang ignored him.
He raised his left hand.
He pressed his palm against the crack between Han Yuechuan's eyebrows.
It's not a seal.
Instead, they actively reach out.
All the black gate patterns inside Han Yuechuan's body boiled simultaneously.
It surged wildly along Huo Yunzhang's arm.
The array master outside changed his expression drastically.
"He's absorbing power!"
The academy director finally understood.
"Close the channel!"
"He didn't come to rescue anyone!"
But Huo Yunzhang had already raised his right hand.
The so-called Broken Gate Seal slowly turned in his palm.
The back of the black silver ancient seal.
There is no gatekeeper symbol.
There is only one pitch-black ring.
It is exactly the same as the ring on the No. 0 Ancient Gate.
"It's too late."
Huo Yunzhang tightened his grip.
The ancient seal crumbled.
A beam of dark light pierced through the nine-layered sealing array in an instant.
It is not an outward attack.
Instead, it connects the meditation room to a space hidden in a mezzanine.
Three thousand meters underground.
In front of the No. 0 ancient gate.
The second of the twelve figures suddenly lit up.
Huo Yunzhang.
The second live anchor.
become!
……
On the Starbreaker.
Lin Xiaoya's face paled instantly.
She saw the second figure in the white dream turn completely black.
But unlike the first live anchor.
Han Yuechuan felt as if he had been swallowed by the door.
The second person, however, walked in by himself.
"He owns it."
Lin Xiaoya's voice was very soft.
The second person did not resist.
"He was originally the sect leader's man."
The door to the quiet room suddenly opened.
Zhou Xuanheng strode in.
The Star-Tracking Token in his hand was flashing wildly.
"Urgent report from Central China."
"Huo Yunzhang, the deputy director of the Zhenmen Division, has betrayed us."
"The second anchor has been formed."
He raised his hand to unfold the image.
Lin Xiaoya suddenly looked at the Star Patrol Token.
The lock lines on his forehead flickered violently.
"Don't open it!"
Zhou Xuanheng paused.
The silver-white light screen on the Star Patrol Token was already half lit up.
on the screen.
Huo Yunzhang stood in front of Han Yuechuan.
The dark crack between their brows opened simultaneously.
next moment.
Huo Yunzhang suddenly turned his head in the video.
Separated by the vast distance between Zhongzhou and Longyuan.
He looked directly at Zhou Xuanheng.
He smiled.
"I've found you."
A thin, almost imperceptible black line emerged from the Star Survey Command light screen.
It pierced straight at Zhou Xuanheng's brow.
That's not an image.
It was the gate marker that was tracked down using the emergency communication permissions granted to the headquarters!
Zhou Xuanheng's expression changed drastically.
Xinglu Houyu instinctively unfolded.
However, after the black line entered the Hou Domain, it was not suppressed, but instead continued to split along the silver-black star law.
One root turns into ten.
Ten roots can be transformed into a hundred roots.
The stronger the Star Law authority.
The faster it spreads.
The sect leader's men deliberately exposed the second anchor.
They also deliberately allowed the headquarters to transmit the images to all senior officials.
Anyone who uses high-level privileges to view the second anchor may be marked with a black line in reverse!
"Disconnect!"
Zhou Xuanheng uttered a low shout.
The Star-Traveling Order shattered on the spot.
But the black line has already left the token.
It was only an inch away from his brow.
Zhou Xuanheng was preparing to forcibly sever a portion of his Star Law authority.
But one hand grabbed the black line first.
Lin Yuan.
Bring your five fingers together.
The dark gold star field instantly covered the quiet room.
The moment the black line entered the Extreme Star Domain, all the split gate patterns simultaneously stopped.
It tried to open it.
However, they discovered that there were no Heaven and Earth permissions available to borrow.
I want to be exiled.
However, they could not find the real coordinates outside the Extreme Star Domain.
The dark golden starry sky in Lin Yuan's eyes slowly rotated.
All the gate structures inside the black line were peeled away layer by layer.
Huo Yunzhang.
Han Yuechuan.
Ancient Gate Zero.
And the deepest part, the human anchor seed that the sect leader sent down.
The trajectory was extremely faint.
But it truly exists.
Lin Yuan tightened his grip.
The Ultimate Star Furnace, Volume One.
The black door line was pressed into a tiny door symbol.
Swallowed.
[The Human-Based Living Anchor Tracking Gate Marker]
[Current number of Qi and Blood Physical Compression Counts: 1014000]
Only increase by one thousand times.
Not much energy.
But what Lin Yuan wanted wasn't energy in the first place.
It is the road.
In Dark Gold Star Soul.
The blurry branch leading to the depths of Zhongzhou became clearer once again.
Lin Yuan looked at Zhou Xuanheng.
"Starting now."
"Do not accept any urgent reports from the headquarters that include images."
Zhou Xuanheng's face was extremely ugly.
He never imagined that he would almost become the next anchor the sect leader would use through the headquarters' communication markers.
"They deliberately exposed Huo Yunzhang."
"right."
"Is everyone who inspects the site being screened?"
"Those with insufficient permissions will be contaminated."
Lin Yuandao:
"Those with sufficient permissions will be selected."
Zhou Xuanheng's eyes turned completely cold.
The General Headquarters' emergency communication system.
It was originally intended to protect the Star Gate City.
Now, however, it has been turned into a net by the enemy to filter out live anchors.
Only senior management needs to review it.
The access icon will then be located based on the user's permissions.
"I immediately notified headquarters to shut down all related video transmissions."
"It's too late."
Lin Yuan looked at the wall of the quiet room.
It was as if one could see through the Starbreaker and into the distant Central Plains.
"Those who should be seen."
"I've already seen it."
……
The old capital of Zhongzhou.
Abandoned town gate archives.
The small, dark boat landed silently in the overgrown courtyard.
Gu Changye stepped off the black boat.
The courtyard gate had long since rotted away.
The plaque on the door was broken in two.
The entire archive was covered in dust and cobwebs, as if no one had been there for decades.
But when Gu Changye pushed open the main building door...
In the center of the hall.
But there was a clean, black long table.
Twelve files were neatly arranged on the table.
The first one has already been opened.
The cover reads:
Han Yuechuan.
The second one has also lit up with black door patterns.
The name on the cover is—
Huo Yunzhang.
Gu Changye walked to the table.
Neither file was touched.
I just looked at the third one.
The third file was originally blank.
A few breaths later.
A drop of black ink seeped from the center of the cover.
The ink slowly stretched out.
It forms three characters.
Zhou Xuanheng.
Gu Changye's eyes flickered slightly.
Then.
Suddenly, a dark golden flame ignited around Zhou Xuanheng's name.
The three characters were burned through.
Four smaller words appeared on the cover.
Marking failed.
The entire archive trembled slightly.
The people hiding here probably never expected that the gate marker, which spanned tens of thousands of miles, would be swallowed up directly.
Gu Changye looked at the remaining dark gold trace.
Laughed.
"Lin Yuan has boarded the ship."
In the darkness, no one responded.
But the third file on the table began to close on its own.
The fourth, fifth, and sixth files were simultaneously pushed back.
It's like the other party suddenly changed their plans.
I don't want Gu Changye to see the remaining targets.
Gu Changye raised his hand and pressed down on the long table.
"They showed me two."
"So you're thinking of taking it all back after the third failure?"
At the bottom of the desktop.
Countless dark door patterns suddenly lit up.
Twelve door chains burst forth from the ground.
Eleven of the locks were aimed at Gu Changye's limbs and neck.
The last one then wrapped itself around the black notebook in his arms.
Pei Xuanmen's voice echoed from all directions of the archives.
"Gu Changye".
"You arrived faster than I expected."
"Since the third anchor failed..."
"The twelfth anchor."
"It can be done earlier."
Gu Changye looked down at the door chain wrapping around him.
There was no panic on his face.
Instead, she let out a soft sigh.
"Only one failed."
"You're in such a hurry to hurt me."
He looked up.
The smile gradually widened.
"Pei Xuan Sect".
"It seems you've been preparing for this for thirty-six years."
"You're still not brave enough."