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Everyone couldn't help but take an extra look at Xiang Beifei, feeling an involuntary sense of awe in their hearts.

Throughout the entire process, they had only seen Xiang Beifei hold a magical gun, eliminating all the Ghost Mustaches of Remnant Visage; such a method was extremely terrifying.

Cheng Xin'an took quite a while before reacting and asked, "Resolved?"

Xiang Beifei put away his gun and nodded, "Yes, the water in this stream is a bit strange, it's their nemesis."

Ma Ziqian turned his head to look at the stream and hurriedly said, "Then I'll also get some to keep in reserve!"

This was something valuable, capable of resolving the Ghost Mustaches of Remnant Visage, and it might even solve the problem with those tree people outside, so he had to take some.

He quickly took out a small jade bottle containing Qi-Controlling Pills from his system interface, not caring about the small Qi-Controlling Pills anymore, as the bottle was clearly the more important item.

However, as soon as the little jade bottle touched the stream water, it suddenly melted like wax, dissolving directly!

There weren't even any jade residues left—it just disappeared like that.

"This…" Ma Ziqian was taken aback.

"The stream water here can devour Spiritual Power, it's not only the Ghost Mustaches of Remnant Visage's nemesis but can also suppress us," Xiang Beifei said.

The little jade bottle was produced by the system, so any system item is essentially transformed from Spiritual Power and can't hold this stream water.

This left everyone worried because none of them had brought a real container!

It was strange to say, but everybody had prepared sufficiently before entering the wilderness outside the domain, and they had brought a lot of black tech gadgets. The problem was that it seemed like no one had brought a real plastic bottle or water bladder!

In the era when systems proliferated, martial artists seldom used real tools, as most of them would exchange for small items in the system's marketplace. Even those black tech gadgets were actually tinkered with by students from the black tech departments, some of their parts were blessed with system capabilities.

"Then how did you manage to do it? How can you carry water?" Long Guocheng was looking at the breath soil gun in Xiang Beifei's hand.

"Specially made black tech. The real soil and Spiritual Power overlap. As long as you control Spiritual Power precisely, keeping it separate on the side of the soil that's in contact with the stream water, without letting Spiritual Power directly touch the water, it's completely fine." Xiang Beifei said offhandedly.

Everyone suddenly understood; there were many black tech inventions, and even an SSR would not be fully aware of all the black tech, many unheard-of black tech gadgets were commonplace and didn't think too much about it.

"Exactly, my dagger won't be dissolved."

Ma Ziqian was stirring in the stream with his accustomed dagger. His dagger wasn't a system item but genuinely rare metal, capable of dealing with those tree people outside and not afraid of these waters.

"All of you go find a few trees and carve out a wooden jar, use the trees here to carry water. I think those tree people outside are also wary of this water; they probably don't dare to come here, and the reason is largely related to the water here," Xiang Beifei said.

"Okay."

Upon hearing this, everyone promptly went looking for trees without hesitation.

But this was troublesome, as they discovered that they didn't even have a single dagger. Though the trees here wouldn't actively devour their Spiritual Power, they were ineffective against the trees when their Spiritual Power was used to attack.

Among these people, only Ma Ziqian possessed a real dagger, so it became his job to make containers out of wood.

Xiang Beifei stood by the stream, contemplating the water.

The stream seemed very clean and without any impurities, just a very ordinary mountain spring, but for some reason, it could devour Spiritual Power.

"You just fell into the water and seemed to be fine?" Xiang Beifei asked Xiaohei, who was polishing his gun with a puzzled expression.

"Woof!"

Xiaohei lifted his head pridefully, propping the gun on his shoulder to show off his thick skin!

Xiang Beifei reached out to touch the stream water and found that as soon as his fingertip touched the water, he clearly felt the Spiritual Powerpressing in the meridians of that part of his skin suppressed, pulled away toward the water.

He moved his finger away, and only then could Spiritual Power begin to convene again.

He then looked at the trees here; these trees were also a bit odd, different from those things at the foothill.

Before those trees below turned into tree people, they didn't devour Spiritual Power. Along the way, a lot of trees had been destroyed using Spiritual Power; even Xiang Beifei had set some tree leaves on fire, at which point the trees didn't absorb Spiritual Power.

But once the trees completely changed into tree people, they began to disregard Spiritual Power.

And the trees atop the mountain naturally disregarded Spiritual Power.

Was it because they grew on the mountain, absorbing water from the stream all year round?

Xiang Beifei looked up at the mountaintop. The stream here flowed from the bottom to the top of the mountain, so there had to be something special up there. After gathering the water, they must go take a look; perhaps they would find a way to leave this withered forest.

It took half an hour for everyone to finally fill the containers with stream water; Ma Ziqian had whittled several wooden vessels, but since they couldn't change the shape of the trees, they couldn't freely turn them into wooden spears.

Xiang Beifei's breath soil could transform into a variety of clever shapes, and he used it to carve numerous thin wooden tubes with its sharp edges to facilitate carrying, arming each person with one.

"If worse comes to worst, just splash the water onto yourself. After all, you can't injure me, and I can't injure you. If it comes down to hand-to-hand combat, we might actually have the upper hand," Ma Ziqian gestured with a dagger.

Everyone's eyelids twitched, recognizing a ruthless character.

If they poured the stream water over themselves, they'd surely become ordinary people unable to use spiritual power, but the tentacle monsters wouldn't be able to directly touch a drenched person either.

"Won't they just hit you with tree branches?" Long Guocheng glanced at Ma Ziqian.

Ghost Mustache of Remnant Visage could indeed fight by coiling up tree branches, and one hit with a stick could be fatal.

"Oh right, then pretend I never said that!" Ma Ziqian shrugged his shoulders.

"What about the bodies of these people?" Xi Keyao looked at the parasitized corpses with great compassion. These people were in a pitiable state, some of them disfigured beyond recognition.

"Take them back."

Xiang Beifei signaled to Xiaohei, who spat out countless bubbles and captured all the corpses within them.

After all, these corpses were once persons; when killing the Ghost Whiskers just now, he couldn't concern himself with the victims' appearances, but now that the Ghost Whiskers were slain, they would take the bodies back if possible. Discover stories at My Virtual Library Empire

Xiaohei's bubbles could only contain lifeless objects, not living beings, otherwise, they wouldn't have had such trouble earlier. It then stored numerous water bubbles, filled with ammunition, before making its way up the stream towards the mountaintop.

The journey became much safer after that. Although it was still dark, having Long Guocheng with them didn't cause any issues. After walking for over half an hour, they finally caught a glimpse of the mountaintop.

The mountain was estimated to be several thousand meters high, and the summit was bald, with few trees. The top resembled a volcanic crater, with streams from below climbing up and converging into the crater from all directions.

If one didn't look closely, they might even think that the crater was overflowing with water, creating a waterfall erupting from a spring.

Everyone was curious about what lay within the crater and why the stream was flowing upwards to the mountain. What could possibly be irrigated inside?

"Let's try flying up," Li Zimu suggested.

However, just as they stepped onto the wind and prepared to fly upwards, they encountered a powerful force of resistance pressing down on them, preventing them from ascending!

Buzz!

At that moment, the crater seemed to sense their approach and violently erupted with intense fluctuations. This wave was incredibly pure yet fearsomely powerful, and it swept over them with overwhelming force.

Everyone gasped as the momentum felt as if it could shatter the heavens and the earth, stunning them all. An overpowering majesty weighed down upon them, instilling a feeling of powerlessness within each person, rendering them immobile.

They all felt trivial in that instant, like leaves on the vast ocean, with massive waves rolling menacingly, threatening to pulverize them into nothingness at any given thought!

Boom!

The fluctuations from above grew stronger. Something seemed to be roaring within, the resulting vibrations tearing apart the clouds in the sky, revealing the light above to an area of a hundred miles around. The mountain itself began to quiver, and even distant peaks followed suit, seemingly linked to each other, forming a vast network that enshrouded the entire withering forest.

Buzz!

Another powerful wave spread out, unleashing violent winds. The howling gales engulfed Xiang Beifei and the others who could not withstand the hurricane force and were swept from the summit.

"Be careful!"

Xiang Beifei attempted to stabilize himself mid-air with his sword in order to catch the others, but the terrifying winds were too strong; his companions couldn't resist and were blown away, plummeting down the mountainside.

He too was lifted by the wind, with myriad things flashing before his eyes. However, at that moment, he sensed something—Xiaohei's Spirit Gathering Book. It appeared out of nowhere, blocking the winds around him.

The violent winds continued to rage, but an aura scattered from the Spirit Gathering Book, stably protecting Xiang Beifei and preventing him from drifting any further.

He hovered in mid-air, astonished at the Spirit Gathering Book.

The Spirit Gathering Book had twenty-eight constellations, each typically requiring a generous amount of spiritual power crystals to illuminate. These crystals could be system items or desolate beast Beast Pills.

Typically, he would seek out the book actively when his cultivation reached a certain level, but he hadn't expected the book to come out on its own today. Not only that, but the Spirit Gathering Book was flipping pages rapidly and then stopped at one.

On the page, a constellation was twinkling with light!

It was the Dou Constellation!

The Dou Constellation represented the Big Dipper. Under normal circumstances, it should have required him to reach the initial phase of God Refining to illuminate it!