Chapter 1672: Chapter 1672: Spatial Body Torrent
“You really know how to flatter yourself.” Xu Huo said after listening.
However, this is just a fragment intercepted by Time Force and not a real person, so after a few believers finished cleaning the palace, they left. It seemed like they were going out to follow the believer who was previously in charge of patrolling.
“Should we follow them and take a look?” Wei Xiaoyi asked, somewhat curious.
“They are heading deeper into the city, let’s wait and see.” Xu Huo didn’t want to take the risk of going in for now.
So they continued to walk forward.
After passing through three streets in a row, they roughly understood the layout of the nearby buildings. The areas around the streets were places where believers worshipped the divine god. The place was spacious, but there were actually not many cultists who worshiped here. This should be an area far from the city center, so only those of lower status within the cult would be sent here to clean or occasionally take a break.
From the images in the temporal fragments, the city was actually a religious city that had been under construction for over ten years and was still unfinished. One-third of the city’s layout consisted of palaces like this district, known as the “Nine Great Divine Paths.” However, from the snippets of conversation between believers and small vendors conducting business, it could be determined that the actual number of people in this religion was not large. Therefore, many palaces remained vacant, and even the decorations inside these unused palaces were somewhat perfunctory.
The number of cultists wasn’t large, and most people were brought from elsewhere, somewhat akin to wealthy homeowners relocating and rebuilding residences. At the point in time captured in the temporal fragment, the sect had not yet officially started promoting its doctrines or recruiting followers extensively, so more people doing business here were just there for the excitement or indifferent to the sect. The miraculous power of the Divine Eye was only a legend among the believers.
Beyond the “Nine Great Divine Paths” lay the places where ordinary people lived. However, before Xu Huo and Wei Xiaoyi could reach there, new issues arose in this space. Some intermittent visual fragments were suddenly burst apart by the spatial bodies rushing in, and at the moment the images dissipated, a massive spatial body, half the size of a palace and equipped with sharp spatial blades, charged directly at the two!
“Mr. Xu…” Wei Xiaoyi vaguely felt the danger approaching but didn’t know where to escape. Before she could finish speaking, Xu Huo grabbed her shoulder and pulled her into a palace on the right front side.
They went in just in time before the street behind them was smashed into a massive pit by the sudden impact of the spatial body. Soon after, the buildings on both sides began to collapse as if an invisible giant forcefully pressed them down, and the range of destruction kept expanding.
The spatial bodies didn’t start moving from Xu Huo’s side but spread from afar, and all the floating spatial bodies around, large and small, started activating without exception.
Perhaps the scene didn’t seem too dangerous with the collapse of old buildings, but while forcing their way through a particularly narrow passage, Xu Huo’s “Unassailable Territory” barrier was directly blown apart, leaving three deep, bone-exposing scars on his left arm — under such massive collisions of spatial power, the effects of props seemed to be weakened to the extreme.
Uncertain whether life-saving special items would still work in such conditions, Xu Huo didn’t attempt to use them but instead took Wei Xiaoyi into the air, stepping on some footholdable spatial bodies to walk. This, however, was equally dangerous because it felt like they were in a zero-gravity environment — but this zero gravity applied to the spatial bodies, which moved around with ease, yet any landing or collision brought about a huge catastrophe, making humans within feel like ants caught in a sandstorm.
Following being led along, Wei Xiaoyi couldn’t help but ask, “Mr. Xu, what is the space like now?”
Xu Huo knew that their goal was secondary evolution, but there wasn’t time to look after her now, so he said, “Ask Nie Xuan if there’s a problem on their side.”
Wei Xiaoyi quickly opened her personal panel but found no messages. Although it was difficult, she left a message, “They’ll surely reply once the team leader and others are safe.”
After a pause, she began to worry again, “Could it be that they’re facing an emergency?”
There could be all sorts of possibilities. However, as the frequency of collisions among the moving spatial bodies increased, Xu Huo was already feeling some strain. He instructed Wei Xiaoyi to prepare the tickets to leave.
While desperately avoiding a giant spatial body, another spatial body, one square zhang in size, suddenly rushed out from a blind spot at high speed ahead. With no retreat available, Xu Huo had to first push Wei Xiaoyi aside and activate a defense prop to brace for the hit!
Whether it was “Blossom” or “Unassailable Territory,” both were punctured by the spatial body’s ray-like spikes upon the first contact, especially “Blossom.” Its ten layers of barriers were as fragile as paper and were directly sliced apart; they were not as effective as Xu Huo’s Black Blade, which at least solidly blocked the spatial body.
Faced from all sides by larger incoming spatial bodies, Xu Huo barely managed to buffer the impact with the Black Blade, only to immediately face the next crisis. Large-scale spatial artifacts might not be as useful as regular props in such situations. The spatial body, studded with spikes, could be engaged if a gap was found from a distance; at least it wouldn’t be as damaging as getting hit directly, having no choice but to endure the collision.
The number of these spatial bodies wasn’t small, yet they required intense concentration to discern the status of spatial rays. The invisible things appeared to be bundled lines in perception. Whether there were protrusions around the spatial bodies, in what shape, or whether objects formed by spatial rays could pierce Rank-A Space Defense Props all needed to be instantly assessed.
This was a test of the strength of evolution and required extremely fast reflexes since it was almost substituting spatial awareness for vision.
Pushed away, Wei Xiaoyi had long disappeared. Xu Huo avoided the faster-moving fragment and looked around again from a higher vantage point despite the limited visibility due to gray fog. The sound of collapsing buildings around hadn’t ceased, making it evident that this massive spatial body collision wouldn’t subside anytime soon.
Unable to determine the source of this disaster, he could only continue in the original direction. After painfully navigating through another street, he again encountered time fragments showing images frozen in time force.
Unknown how much time had passed, the newly appearing images showed many ordinary people had become believers. Reverently kneeling on either side of the streets, they gazed up respectfully at a middle-aged man walking ahead of the believers, his face obscured by black gauze.
“Divine Envoy!” The people shouted at him, “Divine Envoy! Bless us!”