I Am Loaded with Passive Skills

Chapter 3216: Chapter 1633: The origins of the Ten Ancestors are inscribed on a stele, a shout brings about the retreat of the reincarnated.

“Dragon?”

Most people recognize the ancient character for dragon.

It lies silently in the midst of the starry sky, unmoved by anything, as lights and shadows create illusions of its presence and absence.

“Be careful.”

Even Hallmaster Dao, with his extraordinary experiences, furrowed his brows without voicing his doubts.

He believed that something unknown even to himself would certainly be unrecognizable to Xu Xiaoshou and Bazhun’an.

Exchanging glances, they tacitly decided not to leave the Divine Relics.

Hallmaster Dao remotely directed a Heavenly Mechanism Puppet to approach.

It must be said, at times like these, expendables are quite useful.

Thirty thousand miles under the starry sky; under the puppet’s extreme speed, it would arrive in a matter of seconds.

“Too slow!”

Xu Xiaoshou watched closely and calculated that the closer the puppet got to the ancient “Dragon” character, the slower it moved.

Once it stepped within a hundred miles of the “Dragon” character…

…

The Heavenly Mechanism Puppet shattered without any warning or reaction, crumbled into nothingness.

It was dead on the spot!

Hallmaster Dao’s pupils dilated.

He knew best what level of durability his own puppet had.

Even without deploying various defensive measures, the base was equivalent to a one-grade Shield Martial, barely reaching Demi-Saint level defense.

“No warning…”

“No reaction…”

“Death without any delay…”

These were the crucial points; nothing but a staggeringly egregious gap could explain the puppet’s death.

“Try again?” Xu Xiaoshou glanced at Elder Dao the Flamboyant, not the least bit concerned about the puppet’s demise.

Hallmaster Dao did not refuse; with a wave of his hand, he summoned a hundred more puppets, and after a pause…

He dispatched nine to approach the “Dragon” character from different directions.

“Stingy!”

Xu Xiaoshou made a sharp comment in a muffled voice: “You are much more stingy than I imagined!”

Hallmaster Dao, without turning his head: “Not only am I stingy, but I am also petty and narrow-minded.”

“You are indeed narrow-minded, remembering a single comment for so long,” Xu Xiaoshou retorted, prepared for this.

Hallmaster Dao did not bother to argue, focusing warily on the puppets’ actions.

“Smack smack smack…”

Without any surprise, the spherical array of Heavenly Mechanism Puppets, upon nearing the hundred-mile radius of the “Dragon” character, all perished.

“As expected!”

Xu Xiaoshou flipped his hand, revealing a spherical space in his palm, engraved with countless intricate Path Principles, resembling divine path patterns.

At the same time, Hallmaster Dao also revealed his palm, lifting a sphere that emitted numerous fleeting sword lights, similar to the Close-bounds Force Field.

Both exclaimed simultaneously:

“It should look like this…”

After an astonished exchange of looks, they spoke again:

“Great minds think alike.”

After a pause, their voices overlapped with a peculiar tone.

Hallmaster Dao: “Worthy of you.”

Xu Xiaoshou: “Worthy of me.”

In the ancient book world, Bazhun’an was stupefied by their three sentences.

He truly hadn’t expected that just a small experience at the Ran Ming ruins could foster such understanding between Xu and Dao.

If not for Sword Me conveying intent, residing on Xu Xiaoshou’s Sword Observation Manual.

He would have believed it was just a Heavenly Mechanism Puppet performing a play set up by Elder Dao the Flamboyant for himself.

This generated a slight sense of crisis in him…

Bazhun’an suppressed the feeling of crisis.

“Utterly ridiculous.”

…

“If Cursed Yin isn’t dead, then this must be his contingency,” Hallmaster Dao stated bluntly.

Contingency… Xu Xiaoshou fell into thought.

Elder Dao the Flamboyant, seeing his silence, continued to stimulate his thoughts: “Be it soul or intent, it’s definitely lodged within this character, why not go check it out?”

Talk is just talk, and seeing is seeing.

Xu Xiaoshou peeped using the Heavenly Realm Core.

Hallmaster Dao investigated using a Heavenly Mechanism Puppet.

Both of their actual bodies remained within the Divine Relics, not venturing out.

For Cursed Yin, who failed, and them, who seemed to be the victors, surprisingly neither felt like they had won.

“Why is it me?”

Xu Xiaoshou pondered, stroking his chin. In truth, he had no desire to go, the only noteworthy consideration being:

If he continues to engage Elder Dao the Flamboyant, no one would scrutinize the “Dragon” character.

If Cursed Yin was just short this bit of time to successfully revive, then that would be truly regrettable.

No!

If I can think of this, Hallmaster Dao can too!

His current urgency should outweigh mine!

“Shall we go together?” Hallmaster Dao skipped over a series of bargaining, aware that time waits for no one.

“Sure.”

Xu Xiaoshou didn’t dare delay, grabbed Elder Dao the Flamboyant’s hand, and looked towards the starry sky: “Whoever runs first is a coward.”

“Agreed!”

Above the ancient book, Bazhun’an stumbled, his expression growing incredibly complex.

…

This was Xu Xiaoshou’s first venture into the starry sky.

The experience of probing with intent and involving his true body felt starkly different.

Carrying the Shattered Shield under the guidance of the Spirit Rhinoceros Technique, once he found his way through the spacetime turbulence and the environment changed.

The raging spacetime storms ceased.

The world devoid of light and sun ceased.

Stepping out from the cracks of a black hole, the Raging Giant shrank into humanoid form, stepping on the utterly gravity-less void.

“Exhale…”

“Inhale…”

Xu Xiaoshou felt somewhat unaccustomed, his form flipping halfway.

He protected himself with spiritual source and simulated a normal gravity environment on his body surface to walk freely.

Silence!

Absolute silence!

Not only did the sounds of breathing and heartbeats become obtrusive.

Without needing introspection, just by concentrating, Xu Xiaoshou could hear the rushing sound of his blood and qi.

“An astounding sensation…”

Looking around, the starry sky was vast and boundless.

Amidst an atmosphere of ancient and desolate energy, countless Heavenly Mechanism Puppets were scattered in the distance, forming an inactivated great array.

At the center of the array, the heavy character quietly slumbered.