Ant Lord in the Star Realm

Upright Lotus asked: "Habitat Realm?"

Dragon Cypress uncertainly replied: "I’ve never seen the Habitat Realm, it’s hard to judge."

Upright Lotus: "It’s simple. The Habitat Realm starts to understand the Universe Law, and inevitably has ’Star Trace’ on the soul. To put it simply, it’s like the ’Trace’ at our Star Realm Level being reflected on the soul. The Trace can be hidden, but the ’Star Trace’ on the soul cannot."

Upright Lotus asked: "Can the Soul-Setting Ability detect the soul’s ’Primordial Energy Color’? If it can, then it should be able to distinguish the ’Star Trace’."

Dragon Cypress: "... Yes!"

Dragon Cypress said: "However, as I just sensed, all the bizarre Primordial Energy Bodies have ’Star Traces’!"

Five strands of horrified, confused, and questioning spiritual power thoughts were cast over.

——How is that possible?

Dragon Cypress thought about it and realized something was wrong as well.

The five old Spiders are all at the Star Realm.

Just mentioned, the sensed Primordial Crystal-shaped soul is only stronger than them.

That, at most, means one is the Habitat Realm.

How can they all have Law Divine Patterns?

However,

The surface of such Primordial Crystal-shaped, highly concentrated soul body indeed has many densely distributed white, slightly brown, and crimson patterns.

Upright Lotus: "Can you use your ability to create an illusion to display the patterns? Let me take a look."

Dragon Cypress didn’t say much; a hint of Azure floated out from his forehead, expanded, transformed, and became a white Primordial Crystal, covered with a layer of blurred beige patterns.

The surface of the Zhen Beast’s illusionary Source Stone shifted its color, and the patterns disappeared.

Dragon Cypress said sullenly: "No way! Too complex. I only had a momentary glance, blurry and incomplete."

Upright Lotus confidently said: "Very complex? Then it’s not ’Star Trace.’ ’Star Trace’ is similar to ’Star Marks,’ where a certain ability is understood to a certain depth, and the essence is grasped, leaving an imprint on the soul that is highly similar to Star Marks; usually, it’s a simple single line."

"Is that so?"

"Then that’s good. Confirm it isn’t, and I can stop worrying."

Dragon Cypress mused, speaking slowly and forcefully, analyzing: "I speculate it should be Technology Civilization mimicking Primordial Crystal shapes, creating some kind of artifacts with Primordial Energy Patterns. These artifacts can allow Remnant Souls of Primordial Energy Bodies to attach, consolidate the Remnant Souls, and even potentially repair them, strengthening the Primordial Energy Body..."

"A high-level Technology Civilization artifact, combined with the residual power from the Overlord Realm ’Solitary Wolf’ remnants, under joint action, spawned this monster beyond our comprehension."

——Mostly correct.

All five old Spiders agreed with Dragon Cypress’s analysis.

Chickpea asked: "What to do next? Charge in or deliberate more?"

Purple Cicada raised a claw, saying: "If it’s not a Star Trace, then what is it? If these are Technology Civilization artifacts, what type of artifact are they? What are they used for? Will they unleash power threatening our lives? I feel we must at least understand these issues before considering action."

——Absolutely!

The four old Spiders all agreed.

Upright Lotus said: "Record the Primordial Energy Patterns of those Source Stone-shaped Technology Civilization artifacts and give it to Cerbera; it might reverse-engineer some useful information."

——Right on!

All spiders agreed again, and their gaze turned to Dragon Cypress.

Dragon Cypress: "..."

The implication from the four old Spiders was clear.

Concentrate consciousness, scan and observe the soul of one of the ’Primordial Crystal-Like Entities’...

But this carries certain risks.

Any form of scouting ability, regardless of how stealthy, as long as consciousness focuses on the target, and the target’s Life Level reaches a certain height, they will have some Perception.

Doing so may likely alarm the Soul Body within the ruins.

The consequences are unforeseeable.

Dragon Cypress asked: "Should I pick the weakest one for a detailed sensing scan?"

"Good!"

Upright Lotus without much hesitation said: "Prepare! Three, two, one."

When the countdown finished, the five old Spiders simultaneously withdrew the soul system ability barrier.

Range-based spiritual attack ability activated, clearing the surrounding Primordial Energy Bodies.

Dragon Cypress simultaneously activated Super Brain and Soul-Setting Ability, swept through, locking onto the weakest Primordial Crystal-shaped soul body, carefully ’examined,’ and his Super Brain Ability recorded rapidly.

It only took a mere second,

Dragon Cypress was about to withdraw his ability when he suddenly felt something was amiss.

Without any warning, the Primordial Crystal-shaped soul body he had locked onto with his consciousness vanished from the Soul-Setting Ability’s sensing.

Dragon Cypress instinctually pushed Super Brain and Soul-Setting Ability to the limit to search.

The other party appeared abruptly forty-five kilometers away, and in the next moment, instantly shifted fifty more kilometers toward Dragon Cypress’s position.

Flashing, it was reverse tracking, getting closer to Dragon Cypress.

"Not good!"

"Watch out!"

Dragon Cypress called out urgently, and Zhen Beast rapidly expanded, transforming into a thirty to forty-meter Ice Centipede, curling up into a ball.

Dragon Cypress’s figure blended within.

The five old Spiders have been wary all along, simultaneously sensing the deadly threat, their fur stood on end.

Within the perception of spiritual power, forty to fifty kilometers away, a ghostly white figure appeared out of thin air and vanished instantly.

The next moment, it directly teleported close to the curled-up Ice Centipede.

——Spatial Ability!

——Spatial Shuttle!

All insects were shocked, caught off guard.

A four-legged creature, somewhat resembling a human, with two rear legs standing upright, the whole torso was vertical, two flexible front legs, one of which lifted as if aiming...

Its smooth body, white as if made from ice and snow, exuding a chilling Primordial Energy Breath.

Its head resembling a Solitary Wolf, with a silver horn on top.

Sky blue eyes flickering ghostly lights, glaring fixedly at the front, at the position where Dragon Cypress was hiding within the Centipede body.

Whoosh—

Swoosh—

Whoosh—

Upright Lotus, Kansui, and Giant Taro, the three old Spiders, simultaneously focused on the target, launching fierce, sharp, vast spiritual power attacks.

However, the ghostly white figure was completely unaffected, its raised front leg aimed at the lurking Dragon Cypress, seeming to brew a snowstorm within its palm.

After brewing and charging,

In the next moment, swiftly rotating snowflakes gushed forth.

Crack~ crack~ crack~

Each ice-cold snowflake carried irresistible power.

The surface of the Ice Centipede quickly cracked, powerless, shattered into ice shards.

The force of the wind and snow unabated, directly rushing at Dragon Cypress hidden within the Ice Centipede.