"Cough..."

"Hey!"

With quick reflexes, Vishdair caught him by the waist, a bit exasperated: "What's the situation?"

She looked at the back of Lin Guang's neck, seemingly implying something: "If you're not feeling well, let's just retreat now; reinforcements will be here soon anyway."

Although Vishdair had been standing farther away just now, she was a Magical Beast, naturally possessing much stronger physical attributes and hearing than humans. She clearly heard the sound leaking from the earpiece earlier, knowing that support would arrive shortly.

After several deep breaths, Lin Guang steadied himself in her embrace, his right hand on his forehead, eyes tightly shut: "It's not just discomfort."

"I can feel something tugging at my Talent."

"Yet it also feels like something is interfering with my Spiritual Power, making it hard to determine the direction..."

Lin Guang suddenly fell silent, as if trying to discern a direction, then rubbed his right temple, giving a definite conclusion: "But it's definitely on the fourth underground floor."

Lisa, with a hint of worry in her eyes, softly asked: "Should we go find it?"

At this moment, even though the Heart of Terra had stopped rumbling, Lin Guang could still perceive a faint, tenuous connection linking him with another unknown entity.

Yet there was another kind of ripple, as if forcing him to ignore this anomaly.

The intertwining of the two was what made him feel dizzy.

There must be a secret in this base... a secret related to Lin Guang's Talent!

But is it worth Lin Guang taking an unknown risk to explore, driven by that inexplicable stir in his heart?

After only a few seconds of consideration, Lin Guang made up his mind.

Go!

Anyway, if the enemies coming are True Men, leaving ten or fifteen minutes early, whether the mask is broken or not, regardless of whether any surveillance remains, makes no difference.

True Men can control their environment, and remembering Ether traits to deduce his identity is a piece of cake. As long as he remains within the city, they won't lose track and will surely catch up to him.

Today's commotion is quite big. Who knows if they'll act recklessly in the city out of desperation.

Thus, saving Kong's Spiritual Artifact isn't an option.

With the remaining time, it's better to investigate the source of this impulse.

Since the time he felt it in Dr. Kaiwen's training room, whenever Lin Guang fully activated his Talent, he occasionally sensed this vague connection. It would be hard not to pay attention to it.

The Talent is a reflection of a Spirit Master's soul and mind, the essence of a Spirit Master.

Although Lin Guang doesn't know why someone like him, who used to engage in everything in his past life, would have the Heart of Terra engraved as a Talent in his soul, looking at the situation over time, this statement is clearly not without basis but has factual grounds.

"If we can't find it in ten minutes, we'll teleport away."

The next moment, Lin Guang opened his eyes again, dark golden flames burning fiercely within them.

The Talent activated.

In an instant, the mental tugging sensation intensified once more, like a rope amidst chaotic darkness, piercing through intense interference, pointing towards a certain place.

Even knowing that powerful reinforcements were on their way, neither Vishdair nor Lisa voiced any objections and just burst towards the direction indicated by Lin Guang.

Along the way, amidst the blaring alarms, Chimeric Spirit Beasts surged out endlessly.

And not just from all along the fourth-floor labs; it seemed like all the experimental creatures in the base were released by someone unknown, resulting in utter chaos.

But fortunately, they were frenzied but did not primarily target Lin Guang's trio, thus not significantly hindering their speed.

A few minutes later, rounding a corner, Vishdair frowned: "Why are we here?"

In front of the three was a thick wall, evidently a dead end.

The noise of battling Chimeric Spirit Beasts drew nearer behind them, and the bright Ether lights and Skills' roars seemed about to reach here.

The silver-haired girl frowned slightly, suddenly realizing something—having traversed all the way here, she had essentially formed a model of the fourth underground level in her mind.

Her excellent spatial awareness and Talent for detecting structural weaknesses allowed her to perceive something amiss: "Wait, there's a hidden layer here!"

"Right... here!"

Lin Guang took a deep breath, his dizziness and tugging sensation reaching a peak.

Without a doubt, whether the two signal sources came from the same origin or not, they are right here!

Unhesitatingly, Vishdair took out a blood-red crystal and punched it into the wall: "Let's blow open this wall!"

Lisa took a deep breath, a shadow of a Nine-tailed Fox appearing behind her, her strong Spirit pushing outwards, firmly protecting the three.

BOOM!!!

After the violent explosion, a silvery metallic insulation layer of unusual thickness appeared in the middle of the thick wall.

"There really is something here!"

Vishdair's eyes lit up, repeating her method.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

Amidst a series of bangs, the absurdly thick wall was finally breached, revealing its true form.

The interior was pitch black, with faint white and pink glows seen faintly.

Vishdair charged in first, while Lisa supported the somewhat shaky Lin Guang into the crevice.

After adjusting to the light, the dizzy Lin Guang barely raised his eyes and glanced around.

The white light came from the computer screen still flickering in the dimness.

Some Spirit Beast specimens floating in fluorescent solution kept sinking and rising, extremely horrifying, but Lin Guang no longer had the mind to care about them. His gaze and focus were entirely concentrated in the center of the room.

On the black floor, a base one meter high and three meters long and wide was placed very abruptly.

On the base, a giant pink crystal orb floated in mid-air, rising and falling, releasing invisible waves.

Lin Guang realized something, took a deep breath: "Lisa, throw that thing out."

"Ah, that orb?"

Lisa quickly raised her magic staff, and her strong spiritual thought turned into a pair of large pink hands, grabbing the orb.

An invisible field adhered to it and the base, but it wasn't strong. The large hands grabbed it and threw it through the large open hole behind.

"Huff... Huff..."

Lin Guang finally could stand steadily, and he returned to normal.

"What is this?"

"It's a Spirit Rune Array base for blocking spiritual power."

Lin Guang looked at this base, clearly recognizing it, and exhaled a stale breath: "This thing can invisibly block a Spirit Master's perception and spiritual power, making people subconsciously ignore this place."

—Such an arrangement was present at the entrance of the black market he often visited.

"Its power is great, and its effect is strong. Normally, even a Five-Star Spirit Master without preconceived notions might be affected by it, ignoring this place."

"But my talent has always been drawing me here, and the mutual interference of the two effects affected my balance and sanity."

Lisa was somewhat puzzled: "What is it blocking?"

Lin Guang reached out and pressed his head.

Now, he could finally clearly feel that the existence calling him was right ahead.

And in the dimness ahead, Vishdair suddenly spoke:

"Is this what you're talking about?"

In the center of a room about several hundred square meters, stood a vertical container around three meters high, like a coffin.

Numerous items resembling wires or pipes extended from every corner of the room to its top and bottom, connecting to it, while a device resembling an indicator nearby had an orange light lit.

Lin Guang stepped forward: "This should be it."

"What could be inside?"

At this moment, with the interference dispelled, the Heart of Terra in the Sea of Spirit pulsated even more intensely, causing his heart rate to accelerate as well.

And this sensation was not unfamiliar to Lin Guang.

A few months ago, at the underground black market, he had felt it once.

"..."

Lin Guang instinctively placed his right hand on the surface of the coffin-like container.

His eyes, already an ever-burning dark golden glow, grew even more intense, as if the [Sacred Word Secret: All] had been activated.

Lisa tightened her grip on the magic staff, frowning slightly: "Spiritual power can't penetrate it..."

But seeing Lin Guang like this, and observing the container's shape and size, the silver-haired girl slightly opened her mouth, a vague sense of unease surging in her heart, causing the two red "antennas" on her head to stand up as she couldn't help but say:

"Hey, could it be inside...?"

Beep beep beep——

Just as Lin Guang reached out to touch the container, the computer behind suddenly emitted a sharp buzz, and the orange light on the indicator turned into a constantly flashing red light.

Meanwhile, the three-meter-high container began to sway slightly.

Hiss——

Sounds of sealing leaks echoed.

However, at that moment, from the crudely blasted opening in the room, the sounds of roaring and bellowing could already be clearly heard.

Vishdair glanced at Lin Guang, who had fallen into deep Talent resonance, and Lisa, took a deep breath, and quickly suppressed the displeasure on his face. He grabbed the Hand Cannon with his right hand and turned to move towards the opening.

And after Lisa cast a worried glance at Lin Guang, she also went with him to intercept the chaotic Chimeric Spirit Beasts about to invade this room.

After they left, before Lin Guang could react, a high-pressure rupture tore the pipes at the back of the massive coffin container, and orange liquid gushed out from the torn opening.

Bang bang!

The Heart of Terra pulsated once even without amplification!

The dark golden spiritual power seemed to materialize, dissipating from Lin Guang's surroundings, almost uncontrollably seeping into the coffin-shaped container through the crevices.

And as if triggering some mechanism, the container finally unlocked, the metallic lid slowly drawing to the sides, revealing to Lin Guang the truth within.

It wasn't a deformed monster, nor an Otherworld creature beyond ordinary human aesthetics.

It was a girl, appearing to be sixteen or seventeen years old, seemingly in a deep slumber.

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