Swallowed Star: Drawing Talents

Chiming Cicada Island, deep underground.

Deeply buried within the rocks and soil, the ancient sacrificial tower's core area was soon reached by Yang Wu and his group.

“This entrance…”

Yang Wu gazed at the entrance before him, a massive hexagram. The six points of the hexagram served as passages, each with a diameter of about ten meters.

“Master, according to the information we have, six undyings are needed to enter the six passages separately, embedding the six tokens into the corresponding recesses to open the passage to the core area.”

Zi Qiong Wang said, “Each passage contains layers of obstacles, only peak level Marquis undyings can break through. It was likely a means used by the natives of the Sacrifice Continent to prevent their descendants from entering the core area.”

Within the hexagram passages, there was a hazy, flowing light, layers of what seemed like membranes, faintly emitting heart-palpitating, powerful energy.

“Mm, let me put on some makeup!”

Yang Wu nodded, and his puppet body underwent a strange transformation, turning into a six-armed bald man, a very typical native of the Sacrifice Continent.

With so many native corpses in the residential area of the sacrificial tower, simply imitating their appearance was not difficult for the Misty Pearl.

“M-Master!”

Zi Qiong Wang and her four undying slave subordinates were dumbfounded.

If it weren't for the strong connection deep within their souls, they wouldn't have believed it even if they saw it happen before their eyes.

As a special high-grade treasure meant for disguise, even a universe master wouldn't be able to see through it, let alone a mere peak level king.

“Enter.”

Yang Wu gave the order.

Zi Qiong Wang suppressed the shock in her heart, and everyone entered a passage, stepping into the water-like membrane.

Poof!

They passed through the water membrane, encountering resistance but not enough to stop Yang Wu's power.

Inside the core control room of the sacrificial tower.

A three-dimensional virtual projection of the sacrificial tower was suspended, showing the various areas of the tower.

When Yang Wu and the others had just entered the tower.

“Intruder detected.”

“Intruder detected.”

Sitting in the control room was a six-armed mechanical puppet made entirely of alloy.

This mechanical puppet, modeled after the natives of the Sacrifice Continent, contained an intelligent program.

It had been monitoring the entire sacrificial tower day in and day out for countless years, and the long years had allowed it to evolve into an intelligent life.

After countless years of waiting, it finally discovered the intrusion of alien life today.

“Beep?

Sacrifice Continent life signature detected!”

A three-dimensional virtual projection immediately appeared, showing Yang Wu's transformed appearance as a Sacrifice Continent native.

“Hmm?”

The intelligent robot sitting on the alloy seat couldn't help but jump off the seat and approach the virtual projection, rubbing its eyes in a human-like manner.

It couldn't quite believe what it was seeing.

One of the six intruders had openly transformed into a Sacrifice Continent native right before its eyes.

“How audacious…

Initiate hidden program, begin matching permissions!”

The intelligent robot was indignant, but its eyes instantly became calm, and it began executing the most basic program.

Even after becoming an intelligent life, it couldn't escape the most basic program settings.

Humans have internal strife, and intelligent life is born to acknowledge a master.

The recognition of a master by intelligent life is usually a voluntary choice, but that's rare.

Even someone like Babata was executing the orders of his former master, and he officially recognized Luo Feng as his master when Luo Feng reached the domain lord level.

As for sacrificial towers, which already had hidden programs set when they were just programs, they would often execute the hidden program when it came to recognizing a master.

The sacrificial tower didn't just judge whether someone was a Sacrifice Continent native by their life gene structure, but more importantly by their life signature.

Gene structures are easy to imitate, but life signatures are different.

Different lives contain different signatures, and different races have completely different signatures.

Humans, although their individual signatures are different, the entire human race's signature is similar, clearly belonging to one type.

Humans and the bug race, for example, are completely different in terms of life signature.

Life signatures are very difficult to imitate, except for a very few unique races in the universe who possess innate secret techniques to do so.

What are innate secret techniques?

Innate secret techniques are special abilities directly bestowed by the universe's origin will, and some of these strange secret techniques cannot be cultivated.

“Hmm?”

Yang Wu, who was passing through layers of water membranes, suddenly felt a strange fluctuation probing his puppet body.

Yang Wu continued forward without showing any signs.

As expected, his actions were being observed by the sacrificial tower's intelligent robot, and his every move was under its gaze.

Whether he could deceive the sacrificial tower depended on the Misty Pearl's abilities.

Although the water membranes in the passage became stronger with each layer, they posed no difficulty for Yang Wu.

He easily reached the end of the passage.

Yang Wu's palm revealed the token, and he gently embedded it into the wall on one side of the passage's end, where there was a triangular indentation.

The token fit perfectly.

“Ding!”

The token merged into it, and some of the law secret patterns within the entire passage began to light up, and the space trembled.

“Ding!”

Similar vibrations came from the other passages.

After a moment, all six passages trembled simultaneously.

“Beep! Beep!

Peak level king, identity confirmed, strength confirmed, initiating master recognition program.”

In the sacrificial tower's core control room, a cold mechanical voice echoed throughout the room.

Ka-ka-ka~~~

While all six passages were trembling, they began to slowly rotate, gradually aligning with a smooth passage.

After a moment, they stopped, and the passage in front of them was completely open.

“Core area.”

Yang Wu and the others advanced through this passage, and after a moment, they leaped out of the passage and landed on the ground.

This was a spacious hall, the gathering hall of the entire core area, over ten thousand kilometers in diameter, with corridors connecting to the hall.

Since these corridors were inside the sacrificial tower, they were winding and constantly changing direction, surrounding the various areas of the core area.

“Hua!”

The entire hall emitted bursts of light, and mysterious law secret patterns emerged.

Yang Wu instantly disappeared from the gathering hall.

“Master?”

Zi Qiong Wang immediately rushed over.

“Don't worry about me, don't act rashly.”

Yang Wu, who was being swept away, contacted Zi Qiong Wang through their soul connection.

Soul slaves and their masters have a soul connection, and as long as the distance isn't too great, they can sense each other and communicate through their consciousness.

And obviously within the sacrificial tower, even at the farthest distance, Yang Wu and Zi Qiong Wang's soul strength could still allow them to sense each other and communicate.

“Master, are you alright?” Zi Qiong Wang communicated through her consciousness.

“I'm fine, just stand there and don't move, wait for me to come back.”

“Yes, Master.”

As long as Yang Wu resisted slightly, he could easily break free from this sweeping force.

Many thoughts flashed through Yang Wu's mind as he was being swept along by the majestic force, flying through a twisted passage.

“Boom!”

The mysterious force suddenly dissipated, and Yang Wu flew out of the passage, landing gently on the ground like a feather.

This was a vast hall, with a circular command console in the center, and screens hanging above the console.

Yang Wu glanced over and saw Zi Qiong Wang and the other four figures in the gathering hall displayed on one of the screens.