However, what made Lu Ren’s heart sink was the opponent’s incredibly resilient skin, to an inconceivable degree. Even with Lu Ren’s overwhelming power, capable of shaking heaven and earth and lifting massive mountains,
when he pressed the awl against the Queen Mother of the West’s forehead, it felt like he encountered the most resilient substance in the world. Even after pressing a slight indentation on the Queen Mother’s forehead, he couldn’t make any further progress.
Staring into the Queen Mother of the West’s eyes, radiating infinite divine power directly at him, Lu Ren’s expression remained unchanged, yet inside, he was overwhelmed with shock waves. With the system’s strong support, he completely shielded the opponent’s Primordial Spirit attack technique, but still felt incredibly unnerved.
Fortunately, fortunately now the Queen Mother of the West seemed completely unaware, her body’s passive defense mechanism merely opening her eyes to unleash Primordial Spirit attack technique.
Lu Ren forcefully suppressed his inner unease, turned to inquire Zhang Tongxuan, only to find Zhang Tongxuan had already retreated several steps.
His face was pale, clutching his chest, gasping heavily, forehead covered in cold sweat, eyes tightly shut, entirely unresponsive to the outside world. Latest content publıshed on novel•fire.net
Meanwhile, Chen Yuehua had already collapsed straight onto the ground.
Feeling helpless, Lu Ren shook his trembling legs, moved his body slightly, then picked up several other awls, and poked around the Queen Mother’s body, exerting all his strength, enough to crack the ground, causing lines of fissures to spread in all directions, nearly filling the entire pit.
Despite his current realm and power, just observing the Queen Mother of the West induced a sense of creepiness in his heart.
Moreover, it made him feel the opponent’s sacredness was inviolable.
Lu Ren found himself in a dilemma for a moment, pondering whether he should draw the Queen Mother into his Inner Realm.
Instantly, Lu Ren’s mind sank into the Inner Realm, directly asking Chang Xin.
"Do you know what level the Queen Mother of the West is?"
Chang Xin’s face was extremely grim, with an unprecedented heaviness.
"The Three Realms of Heaven, Earth, and Human; this Queen Mother is at least a Great God Level figure who has condensed the Earth Immortal Path Fruit. Unexpectedly, during the so-called Mythical Era, she has progressed the cultivation system into a whole new territory, truly developing the Earth Immortal Realm."
Ao Li, by the side, heard the words and opened his eyes slightly, glanced at Chang Xin, and then snorted without any further reaction.
In just two or three seconds, Lu Ren’s hazy expression quickly cleared, his demeanor considerably serious. According to Chang Xin’s words, without engaging at the same level, he couldn’t even break the Queen Mother’s inherent Earth Immortal Rank defense light.
Besides, the Queen Mother possesses exotic treasures like the Jade Ship; Lu Ren could get so close to the Queen Mother only because the system automatically shielded the opponent’s Primordial Spirit attack technique.
But due to timely isolation of the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Mechanism, even with the presence of the Jade Ship and rotating Spiritual Liquid below, truth be told, after so many years, regardless of the spiritual peculiarity of this pool of Spiritual Liquid, time has caused it to fade away.
Upon close inspection now, it’s merely a pool of gel-like jelly that has completely lost its Spiritual Essence.
Only this Jade Ship remains timeless, showing no signs of dimness due to time erosion, instead emanating a unique jade glow.
Watching the Queen Mother persistently staring at him, brain bombarded by system shielding sounds, Lu Ren simply reached out and covered the Queen Mother’s eyelids.
The opponent’s inherent Primordial Spirit attack vanished instantly.
Could it really work?!
Beside him, Zhang Tongxuan’s tightly furrowed brows relaxed at this moment. After a while, he tiredly opened his eyes, his face pale, speaking with lingering fear: "Just now I felt my mind being drawn into an unknown place, filled with strange occurrences, evil god whispers, nauseating, filthy, chaotic, filled with every form of negative energy known and unknown, utterly unfit for human beings."
Zhang Tongxuan kept staring at the Queen Mother, his expression grave: "This is a big problem; the Queen Mother likely experienced major issues during her slumber, her spirit extremely distorted, or possibly drawn into some chaotic place during her sleep, suffering twisted contamination."
He gazed at the Queen Mother’s serene and dignified countenance.
Lu Ren lightly shook his head and said, "The Queen Mother has become an Earth Immortal, strictly speaking, she has transcended this dimensional level, becoming a new life form. The Soul-Nailing Awl cannot penetrate her body, unable even to break the Earth Immortal protective Clear Light she condensed."
Facing Zhang Tongxuan’s despairing expression, Lu Ren added, "Though there is a silver lining amidst the bad news, there is a high chance the Queen Mother’s spirit experienced aberration over the long ages. Yet she remains in a state of slumber; her inherent defense response was merely activated."
After saying this, Lu Ren gravely stated, "We need to completely isolate the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Mechanism, relocate the Queen Mother to a sufficiently secure place for storage."
Chen Yuehua, awakening on the ground, spoke in a bitter voice: "I know a place, six hundred meters underground, very quiet there."
Lu Ren responded: "Actually, it doesn’t need to be so complicated. Given the Queen Mother’s power, I believe no matter where she is stored, it’ll be the same. Once she wakes completely, the destruction she would wreak will be unimaginable; we need sufficient terrain to draw a great array isolating the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Mechanism."
Pausing, he added, "At least three layers, top to bottom, inside and out, need to be entirely isolated from the external spiritual mechanism to prevent the Queen Mother from absorbing even a wisp and waking up."
Upon swift determination, Zhang Tongxuan and several others convened and decided not to change the location. This place is remote enough, so they decided to establish a permanent fortress-style base here. With three hundred Taoists adept in arrays, using the terrain, just minor renovation would quickly build a semi-dome base.
Restored to normal form through the Ten Earth Knot technique, Lu Ren wore a highly elastic fish-scale tight suit, lightly leaping, somewhat surprised: "I didn’t expect this suit to have developed to such an extent."
Watching the orderly and fervent construction site from afar, Chen Yuehua nervously observed the Queen Mother lying on the Jade Ship, fearing Lu Ren’s leap might awaken her.
He spoke cautiously, in a hushed tone, fearful of disturbing the Queen Mother: "After all, it’s been nearly twenty years since this combat suit was introduced. With unrelenting research efforts, and some people encountering space intervals, acquiring some technological achievements from other heavenly cosmoses, it truly broke material limits to achieve today’s standard combat suit."
Lu Ren felt a slight stir in his heart, "Spatial intervals have been erupting quite frequently lately?"