Heavenly Dao Engine
Chapter 1264 - 1264 727 Not Talking Any Sense_2

Chapter 1264: Chapter 727: Not Talking Any Sense_2 Chapter 1264: Chapter 727: Not Talking Any Sense_2 After discarding those two plans, Qi Tian considered sending Ghost Face, or using the Nascent Soul Stage magical artifacts and talismans he had just acquired, but after careful consideration, he vetoed all of these plans without exception.

They all had various problems, but generally there was one issue that was inescapable: how could they avoid detection by those three Gold Core Realm cultivators? That was the most difficult part.

After much thought, Qi Tian finally turned his attention to the Ghost Face Illusion Demon Spider, contemplating whether it had changed its mind and was willing to come under his command.

Qi Tian submerged his consciousness into the storage chamber of the Heavenly Dao Engine to try and communicate with the Ghost Face Illusion Demon Spider, but it remained unyielding, indifferent to Qi Tian’s threats and inducements and refused to submit to him.

Since the Ghost Face Illusion Demon Spider was unwilling to help, Qi Tian had no choice but to think of another method. His consciousness patrolled the storage chamber of the Heavenly Dao Engine and finally settled on a living entity.

That entity was none other than the black heart that triggered Qi Tian’s phenomenal progress in mental strength. Though it was nothing more than a heart, it was beating incessantly, continuously emanating powerful psychic forces. When Qi Tian first encountered it, he was nearly crushed by the mental pressure it emitted.

Unlike the obstinate Ghost Face Illusion Demon Spider, the black heart was already submissive to Qi Tian.

Without delay, Qi Tian conveyed his command and request to the black heart. He had it move against the three Gold Core Realm cultivators to unleash its mental pressure, to see if it could suppress them. Even if it could not fully suppress them, it might still impair their mobility, preventing them from relaying any messages to Manager Chen.

To ensure the operation was foolproof, Qi Tian did not act immediately. He waited for the right moment.

Qi Tian continually deployed the Heavenly Dao Engine’s Spirit Qi sensing function for real-time surveillance of the entire region, focusing especially on those three Gold Core experts.

Through his surveillance of these three Gold Core experts, Qi Tian noticed how exceedingly cautious they were. They were not simply standing guard; they maintained a high level of vigilance towards all movements around them, constantly scanning the vicinity with their eyes and releasing their Divine Sense to monitor their surroundings in real-time.

If Qi Tian were to send the black heart at this time, similarly, the three of them might detect it in advance, compromising the covert nature of the operation.

Qi Tian needed to wait for an opportunity when the Divine Sense of the three Gold Core experts would retract. Only then could the black heart approach them silently and unnoticed. Only when it was close enough could the black heart potentially crush them by releasing its mental pressure.

This was a task requiring great patience. Even though Qi Tian knew it would waste a lot of time, he simply had to wait patiently. To achieve success in this matter swiftly was unrealistic.

Time passed by, second by second, as he waited. Despite being somewhat anxious, Qi Tian had no better solution and could only continue to wait. The reason prompting such patience was simple: the act of a cultivator releasing their mental strength through Divine Sense for surveillance, while seemingly straightforward, actually heavily drained the user’s mental energy.

Whatever is consumed in excess is bound to be unsustainable, and a way must be found to recover. Qi Tian was waiting for just such an opportunity. These three Gold Core Realm warriors needed to continuously release their Divine Sense; it wasn’t possible to keep it deployed indefinitely, and it was certain to be withdrawn at some point. That moment of retraction would be Qi Tian’s chance.

However, this window of opportunity was incredibly hard to come by. The three Gold Core Stage practitioners themselves were already powerful, and although their mental strength could not be considered the best of the best, it was quite formidable. Waiting for them to completely deplete their mental strength was no easy task for Qi Tian.

But as if God himself were on Qi Tian’s side, he arrived at an opportune time. Before his arrival, the three Gold Core Realm warriors had been constantly releasing their Divine Sense for a considerable amount of time to keep vigilant. Such actions were manageable for an hour or even a day and wouldn’t pose too much of a problem. However, from the moment they were stationed here several days had already passed. They had engaged in this practice continuously from the first day and were now seriously depleted, barely able to hold on.

Through the sensing ability of the Heavenly Dao Engine, Qi Tian could clearly feel the Divine Sense released by the three Gold Core Realm warriors was like that of an overdrawn state, unable to maintain stability any longer. Thus, the Divine Sense of one of the Gold Core Realm warriors began to retract gradually, shortening the defensive line. Seeing their companion acting in this manner, the other two Gold Core Realm warriors followed suit, starting to do the same.

Qi Tian had been waiting for exactly this kind of opportunity. He immediately instructed the black heart to avoid the gaze of the three Gold Core Realm warriors and rushed towards their location as swiftly as possible.

Indeed, the black heart’s burst of speed was not very fast. It carefully skirted around the range of the three Gold Core Realm warriors’ Divine Sense coverage.

The psychic pressure unleashed by the black heart had a certain attack range, after all, there was no need to approach too close to those three Gold Core Realm warriors. By the time they retracted their Divine Sense by half, the attack range of the black heart had already enveloped them.

Qi Tian did not continue to wait, he immediately commanded the black heart to launch a direct attack on the three Gold Core Realm warriors.

The black heart promptly executed Qi Tian’s order, and instantly a powerful and overwhelming psychic pressure, like a tidal wave, crashed towards the three Gold Core Realm warriors.

With the Nascent Soul Stage strength possessed by the black heart, the speed of its psychic oppression was extremely fast. In the blink of an eye, it had covered the three Gold Core Realm warriors. Before the psychic pressure had fully engulfed them, they sensed that something was amiss, but they had no time to react further before the psychic pressure struck, bearing down upon them.

The potent psychic pressure caused their minds to become dazed in an instant, preventing them from maintaining clarity of thought or reacting in time, and even their deployed Divine Sense was severely affected, cut off outright.

The black heart seized this advantageous moment, quickly surging forward, arriving near the three Gold Core Realm warriors, then deployed a second psychic pressure attack.

This wave of psychic pressure was even more powerful and brutal, showing no mercy as it directly targeted the Sea of Consciousness of the three Gold Core Realm warriors, shattering it completely. With their Sea of Consciousness destroyed, the three Gold Core Realm warriors were effectively disabled; although they were not dead, they had become like living corpses.

Qi Tian let out a sigh of relief and hurriedly made his way over. He had thoroughly scouted the area, and without those three Gold Core Realm warriors in command, despite the still meticulous defensive setup including even Nascent Soul Stage tactics, it could no longer pose any threat to Qi Tian.

Qi Tian refrained from dismantling any parts of the setup, as he didn’t know whether the arrangements were linked with Manager Chen’s setup. It was safest to leave everything intact. He directly threaded through the formations, traps, and mechanisms without triggering them; then, he continued to advance towards the location where Manager Chen was situated.