The Only Player in ‘Child of Stardust’
Chapter 336 - 228: Biohazard

Chapter 336: Chapter 228: Biohazard

Boom!

The Eastern Town Rod crashed against the palace door, sending up a divine radiance that immediately exploded into countless sparks. The remnants of the ancient prohibition shattered on impact.

Zhou Yuan pressed forward with his rod, and the heavy golden iron door creaked open with an ear-piercing sound. In an instant, a surge of spiritual power rushed outward like a tidal wave.

Swoosh!

A green shadow shot out from the treasury, a fierce cold glint aimed straight at Zhou Yuan’s throat.

Clang!

The Eastern Town Rod blocked, sparks flying.

Zhou Yuan saw his attacker clearly—a guard puppet dressed in green armor, wielding a green spear.

[Treasury Guard·Qingsha Guard. It was once the most formidable puppet in the Dancheng Treasury, colloquially known as the chief security officer, but now it has degraded to the 6th tier. Its entire body is forged from a rare type of refined green sand, making it erratic and unpredictable. Watch out for its penetration abilities.]

Seeing its initial strike fail, the Qingsha Guard’s spear suddenly transformed into a giant axe, and it swung down at Zhou Yuan in a grand, powerful movement reminiscent of the force to split a mountain.

Clang!

Metal clashed with metal, the shrill sound nearly tearing eardrums.

Zhou Yuan blocked the axe strike, the ground beneath his feet caving in with a thunderous crash. The green axe, still burning with searing heat, radiated pure destructive power, exerted with terrifying strength that even Zhou Yuan found hard to manage.

One had to admit, it once rightfully held the title of chief security officer.

Swoosh!

The Qingsha Guard’s axe morphed again into a small green dagger, shooting out like a snake, aimed straight at Zhou Yuan’s heart.

In response, the Eastern Town Rod shrank into a short staff, clashing sharply at close quarters.

Zhou Yuan’s thoughts whirred, and the shadow beneath his feet opened into the gate of the return to ruins, swallowing half of the Qingsha Guard’s body.

The Qingsha Guard sensed the danger just in time, and its immense spiritual power burst forth, resisting the pull of the return to ruins as it soared upward. The half of its body that had been swallowed quickly regrew.

"So, its core must be destroyed for its body to perish..."

Zhou Yuan pondered. The Qingsha Guard had exceptional abilities, being the former chief security officer of the Dancheng Treasury. Though its rank had fallen and its power had greatly diminished, if he could find a way to repair it, it could become a powerful ally.

Killing it outright seemed like a waste; capturing it might be a better option.

He extended the Eastern Town Rod, activated resonance, and struck the Qingsha Guard, sending it flying. Fierce winds swept outward.

Like a meteor crashing to earth, the distant ruins were smashed to dust, debris flying everywhere.

Zhou Yuan appeared instantly in the shadows, preparing to throw a Palu Ball, but the Eyes of Identification showed the capture probability was only 2%.

He put away the normal Palu Ball and switched to the Advanced Palu Ball he had purchased earlier, but the capture probability was still just 17%.

There was no choice; the Qingsha Guard’s rank was too high. Zhou Yuan quickly spent 30,000 Star Coins to buy a premium Palu Ball.

By this time, the Qingsha Guard’s body had collapsed under the resonance effect of the Eastern Town Rod, turning into a pile of green sand that exposed a fist-sized core covered in strange runes. The green sand was quickly reassembling around the core to reconstruct the body.

Zhou Yuan threw the premium Palu Ball at the Qingsha Guard’s core.

This time, the capture success rate was 62%. When the Palu Ball stopped shaking, brilliant fireworks erupted.

Capture successful.

"Looks like I’ll need to buy more advanced Palu Balls in the future..."

Normal Palu Balls were priced at 5,000 Star Coins, while Advanced Palu Balls cost 10,000 Star Coins. Premium Palu Balls were priced at 30,000 Star Coins, followed by special-grade, master-grade, and legendary-grade... where the legendary-grade Palu Ball sold for 5 million Star Coins each, with a chance to capture 9th tier beings.

But even then, the probability was extremely low, and the conditions highly demanding; the target must be in a grievously injured state, with a capture likelihood of no more than 3%.

Stowing away the Palu Ball, Zhou Yuan used Teleportation to return to the treasury entrance.

By then, everyone’s attention had been captured by the scene inside the treasury. Within, countless luminous beams shone like foggy rainbow mist, radiating such resplendent light that it was blinding. Everywhere one looked, great jade shelves were filled with unusual and extraordinary items.

"What the hell, such a big piece of Star Stone, and it still has spirituality!"

"Is this a Jiao Dragon Pearl? What a creepy aura, it feels like I’m being watched by an evil dragon."

"My god, seven-colored ancient vine! It’s got two more colors than five-colored ancient vines!"

"A basin-sized Mysterious Jade Snow Lotus?! Old Bai, pinch me quick, I think I’m dreaming!"

Everyone walked into the treasury, and in an instant, they were dazzled, overwhelmed by the sight of rare and precious treasures seldom seen in the outside world. It felt like they were in a dream, as if they were experiencing a waking fantasy!

"This is only the first level of the treasury, meant for storing various materials. The second level houses weapons and cultivation techniques, while the third level contains elixirs and pill furnaces." Ye Wushuang walked ahead, scanning the jade shelves for materials to pick out.

Zhou Yuan and the others went crazy collecting, not even sparing the jade shelves, taking everything.

With the passage of time, the prohibitions on these treasures had long worn down their spirituality, allowing them to be taken without harm, though many items had withered, decayed, or lost their spirituality and turned into mundane objects.

Before long, they had completely cleared out the first level, leaving the entire palace empty.

The ground, however, was littered with the corpses of guard puppets. These puppets had not survived the passing millennia, rusting into heaps of scrap iron that crumbled to dust at a touch.

The group proceeded to the second level and was once again shocked.

There lay an array of divine weapons, each glowing with a distinct brilliance, emitting terrifying auras, and exuding extraordinary energy, filled with otherworldly visions.