Heavenly Dao Engine
Chapter 680 - 680 0436 No Challenge

Chapter 680: Chapter 0436 No Challenge Chapter 680: Chapter 0436 No Challenge Chapter 0436: No Challenge

Qi Tian circled County Master Mansion, simultaneously conducting a Spirit Qi scan with the Heavenly Dao Engine. He discovered that the Defensive Barrier protecting the mansion was entirely closed, leaving no entry or exit points. It was quite similar to the Floating Imprisonment Ox Array which had trapped him in the city of Chi Huo in Chi Di King City. Unless someone had a device to control the barrier, it would completely isolate the inside from the outside, making it impossible to connect using any method.

Moreover, Qi Tian was most concerned whether there existed a Teleportation Array within the County Master Mansion. He had used the Teleportation Array Disk more than once to shake off strong enemies, knowing that if there was such an array in the mansion, the inhabitants could easily escape through it if anything seemed off. In such a scenario, he might not be able to retrieve anything from the mansion.

There were quite a significant number of people inside the County Master Mansion. After scanning with the Energy Sensing function of the Heavenly Dao Engine, Qi Tian found that there were more than three hundred of them, but the majority were ordinary people. There were only a few cultivators, all of whom were at the Foundation Establishment Stage. While they didn’t pose any threat to Qi Tian, having so many Foundation Establishment cultivators in one County Master Mansion seemed excessively formidable. This further confirmed that something was off about the County Master Mansion of Baoding Prefecture.

Qi Tian tried to find out whether there existed a Teleportation Array inside the mansion, but regretfully, he couldn’t find any. He didn’t know whether there genuinely wasn’t any or if it existed, but he just couldn’t find it. After all, the Energy Sensing functionality of the Heavenly Dao Engine wasn’t omnipotent; if the Teleportation Array wasn’t activated, it could possibly remain unfound.

Qi Tian regrouped with Gao Jinmei and Jin Jin, he said, “Later, I will create a hole in the Defensive Barrier of the County Master Mansion. When that happens, we will enter together. Your task is to control all the eight cultivators inside the mansion as quickly as possible. If you can avoid killing them, don’t. We might be able to extract some information from them afterward.”

Gao Jinmei and Jin Jin nodded. Qi Tian led the two around to the back of the mansion, where he had previously discovered the ideal spot to break the barrier. It was a blind spot from the guards’ perspective, and they could act freely here as long as they didn’t cause too much commotion.

Qi Tian took out a honey pot, and smeared a small ring on the Defensive Barrier. Afterward, he released a few Locust Thief Bees and let them devour the honey smeared on the barrier, thereby draining the Spirit Force from the Defensive Barrier.

Qi Tian was quite adept at doing this and faced no difficulties. Soon, the bees cut off the Spirit Force on the barrier causing a hole to appear. The hole wasn’t considerable, but it was large enough for Qi Tian and the others to get in.

As per Qi Tian’s command, Gao Jinmei and Jin Jin quickly entered the mansion, speedily taking action. Qi Tian had already provided them with the approximate locations of the eight cultivators in the mansion. With this information in hand, it was a breeze for these two Gold Core powerhouses to apprehend the Foundation Establishment cultivators.

Indeed, things unfolded as Qi Tian had anticipated. Gao Jinmei and Jin Jin effortlessly captured the eight Foundation Establishment cultivators without resorting to aggressive tactics. They didn’t even encounter any substantial resistance and easily succeeded.

While Gao Jinmei and Jin Jin were dealing with the eight cultivators, Qi Tian wasn’t idle either. He flew to the top of the County Master Mansion, took out a medicine bottle from his Storage Bag, and sprinkled all the powder inside. It was a very effective Bewilderment Pill for ordinary people and was more expensive than gold, though its effectiveness on cultivators was considerably weaker. However, it was suitable for the current situation.

Qi Tian didn’t want to slaughter ordinary people unnecessarily, yet he also didn’t want these individuals to interfere with his plans. The best strategy he came up with was to knock them all out using the Bewilderment Pill.

By the time Qi Tian landed, Gao Jinmei and Jin Jin had already dragged all eight of the Foundation Establishment cultivators to him. Glancing at the eight laying on the ground, he didn’t see anything unique about them.

Qi Tian initially thought he could detect some irregularities from the eight individuals. For example, each cultivator’s Spirit Force fluctuation could vary due to individual factors and their cultivation methods. These differences were usually minor as they all thrived under the same sky, utilized the same cultivation resources, and even their cultivation techniques had intricate connections with each other, causing similar Spirit Force fluctuations. It wasn’t unnatural.

However, Fan Tie reportedly hailed from a place called Three Gods City located at an impossibly distant location from Great Zhao Nation or even Wanjie City. Their lifestyle, cultivation practices and other aspects were significantly different from those in the Great Zhao Nation. Therefore, their Spirit Force fluctuations could also be greatly different from cultivators in the Great Zhao Nation.