Heavenly Dao Engine
Chapter 694 - 694 0443 No Principles

Chapter 694: Chapter 0443: No Principles Chapter 694: Chapter 0443: No Principles Chapter 0443: No Principles

The female cultivator didn’t realize that Qi Tian was least afraid of these pure energy attacks; the Heavenly Dao Engine easily devours such attacks as fuel. If such an attack ever exceeded the limit that the Heavenly Dao Engine could absorb at once, the excessive energy attack might fail to be absorbed and might strike, but the attack released by the flowery umbrella evidently couldn’t reach this limit. In the end, it merely became fuel for the Heavenly Dao Engine and couldn’t harm Qi Tian at all.

The female cultivator looked somewhat dumbfounded, but Qi Tian was unaffected. His large hand reached out unhindered, heading straight for the flowery umbrella. Awakening suddenly, the female cultivator cried out, “Stop, stop now!”

How could Qi Tian possibly heed the reprimand of the female cultivator? His hand kept moving forward until it firmly gripped the flowery umbrella right before the eyes of an exasperated female cultivator.

Endlessly releasing lightning that heart palpitated Gao Jinmei and Jin Jin, the flowery umbrella did not move Qi Tian at all.

“Give me back my umbrella.” This umbrella was an extremely valuable magical tool, worth a fortune. She did not want Qi Tian to claim it for free. Discarding Gao Jinmei, who was already showing signs of defeat and on the verge of collapsing, she charged towards Qi Tian. She must retrieve the flowery umbrella before Qi Tian put it into the Storage Bag.

“Jin Jin, charge with me, we must stop her.” Seeing that the flowery umbrella was definitely an extraordinary treasure, Gao Jinmei, of course, hoped that Qi Tian would confiscate or destroy it. This way, the female cultivator would no longer pose any threat with the flowery umbrella. She did not want to experience the fear induced by the female cultivator again.

Jin Jin was somewhat fearful of the female cultivator. If he could have chosen, he would have certainly fled. But at this point, running away was out of the question. Gritting his teeth, he charged towards the female cultivator. The two attacked and fended off the cultivator—one from the left, the other from the right—to buy time for Qi Tian.

With the flowery umbrella in his hand, the first thing Qi Tian thought of was to store it away, but he was shocked to find a strong force in the umbrella preventing him from putting it into his Storage Bag. Moreover, the speed and intensity of the lightning released by the umbrella were increasing, as if it intended to self-destruct and take Qi Tian down with it.

Qi Tian let out a soft sound of surprise. The flowery umbrella’s behavior was quite unusual, and regular magical tools couldn’t do this. Could it be that the umbrella had somehow developed spiritual intelligence and could form a spirit in future?

Qi Tian became more and more interested in this flowery umbrella and planned to collect it for future research. However, to achieve this goal, he first needed to store the umbrella. He couldn’t hold it all the time, and he obviously couldn’t let it loose. Among those present, the female cultivator was the owner of the umbrella and definitely couldn’t take it away. Gao Jinmei and Jin Jin had no chance of subduing the umbrella. That meant it was up to Qi Tian himself to figure out how to take it.

The first thing Qi Tian thought of was to neutralize the umbrella’s attack. Although he was not afraid, frequent attacks were sure to negatively affect the umbrella itself, and without stopping the attack, he would not be able to quietly study how to subdue the umbrella.

An attack cannot be generated out of thin air; there must be a power source. In other words, if he could find this source, he ought to be able to stop the umbrella’s attack.

Qi Tian directly used the perceptibility function of the Heavenly Dao Engine to scan the Spirit Qi on the flowery umbrella. He quickly discovered how the lightning released from the umbrella was generated, and then he traced back to find the real source of the lightning.

After finding the source, Qi Tian had to admire the ingenious design and manufacture of this flowery umbrella by its original creator. The source of the lightning was not in the handle or tip of the umbrella, but in an unremarkable small flower on the surface of the umbrella, which concealed a tiny Storage Array.

The space inside the Storage Array wasn’t very large, but it could house multiple whole spirit stones. Afterwards, there were other arrays connected with the Storage Array that could draw the Spirit Qi from the spirit stones inside the Storage Array and transform it through a series of arrays to form either a protective light curtain or attacking lightning.

Furthermore, to make it less noticeable, there was another trap on the umbrella. At the handle of the umbrella, there was another Storage Array connected with an array, but when one follows the trail, they would find that these arrays were disconnected from the arrays controlling the lightning, making it extremely subtle. It was only because Qi Tian had the Heavenly Dao Engine that he could sense there was no pathway connecting the two arrays.

Qi Tian slightly smiled. While holding the umbrella in one hand, he flicked his other hand lightly at the umbrella. This seemingly light action perfectly shook the spirit stones concealed in the Storage Array on the umbrella surface, causing them to fly out. He extended a hand and took all of these spirit stones.

With the spirit stones gone, the lightning lost its power source and disappeared from the surface of the umbrella. Not a single trace remained to attack Qi Tian.