"Are we... on the east side of the 【Administrative Palace】?"

Zhong Yi closed the map and looked around.

Dam Zero, or rather the architectural style of the entire operation xianyuan continent, exuded a sense of strangeness.

Whether it was the 【Spiritual Qi Station】 on the left or the 【Administrative Palace】 ahead, the buildings weren't very tall, about two stories high.

But such square-shaped buildings seemed both reasonable and eerie no matter how one looked at them.

Reasonable because Zhong Yi thought about it and they were indeed very practical.

Eerie because he had never seen buildings in this style before...

While he was dazing, a dark shadow beside him "swished" out, running straight towards the 【Administrative Palace】.

"Old Zhong, what are you dazing for! If you run any slower, you won't even get leftovers!!"

Zhou Yue reacted immediately, grabbing Zhong Yi and quickly following.

The Administrative Palace was tightly surrounded by walls, and a gap on the east side was blocked by an abandoned carriage.

Fortunately, the carriage was huge and hollow, allowing two people to pass through side by side.

"It's really strange... My sister is always a road-blind whenever she goes out for experience, so how is she so clever in Junior Brother Lu's Illusion Realm?"

Zhou Yue smacked his lips in wonder.

"Maybe... there's a treasure land ahead? Have you forgotten that year..."

Zhong Yi smiled and talked about the past.

That was when he and Zhou Yue were still in the Golden Core Stage, the three of them went to the Chaos Secret Realm together, and everyone's five senses were affected by the Secret Realm; even Nascent Soul Stage Cultivators would encounter "ghost walls."

Yet Zhou Qiaoling was able to precisely find the treasure land amidst the Chaos, earning great merit for the Lingxiao Sect.

"La la la~ Eh, why is there a Spirit Storage Box here? Ho ho ho, one piece of purple Starfall Iron, thirty thousand Spirit Stones in the bag~~"

In the short time they were chatting, Zhou Qiaoling had already scavenged the single-story houses outside the Administrative Palace clean.

By the time Zhou Yue arrived, even the most ordinary item boxes had been turned upside down.

"Dammit... move faster, you dead legs!!"

Zhou Yue's teeth itched with frustration; if his ultimate move's cooldown were over now, he would definitely stimulate his Spiritual Vein to race ahead of Zhou Qiaoling.

Zhou Qiaoling slipped through a window into the Administrative Palace in a flash; just as Zhou Yue and Zhong Yi were about to follow, they heard several heavy footsteps.

Turning around, they saw an Asala Gun Cultivator wearing thick crimson armor and holding a heavy machine gun slowly walking towards them.

"Old Zhong... look at what he's holding, doesn't it look like the Gatling Shooter from Spirit Plants vs. Zombies?"

Zhou Yue started making random associations because the weapon in the heavy armored soldier's hand looked exactly like the mouth of a Gatling Shooter.

"It really is! Could it be that Junior Brother Lu had already started planning the 'gun' setting back then? This is simply too incredible!"

Zhong Yi agreed.

"Say..."

Zhou Yue had a wicked smile on his face.

"Do you think the 'Gatling' in his hand is very expensive?"

Zhong Yi's eyes lit up: "It's very possible!"

Zhou Qiaoling, who had already entered the building, interjected at this moment: "What's expensive? Let me see?"

"Then let's fight!"

Ignoring Zhou Qiaoling, Zhou Yue pulled out his 【Mingju 15】 and was just about to fire when the Gatling in the Asala Machine Gun Cultivator's hand suddenly began to spin in zero frames.

"Da da da!"

Dense spirit bullets swept towards the two of them like a rainstorm.

"Holy crap! Holy crap!!"

Zhou Yue screamed as he was hit, desperately dodging while his health bar dropped rapidly.

"Damn, I... eh?"

Zhong Yi was also panicking in the hail of bullets, nervously waving his hands all over his body in an attempt to protect his vital parts.

Then the next second he found...

He seemed completely unharmed?

Then why the hell hide...

He looked at Zhou Yue, who was screaming from being shot nearby, feeling extremely bewildered.

Even though the two of them were standing very close, why did the Gatling bullets graze his body and fly past, but seemed to have eyes when they saw Zhou Yue?

"Old Zhou, you really have terrible luck..."

...

After dealing with the machine gunner, Zhou Yue impatiently opened the corpse box and was instantly dumbfounded.

There was only a helmet.

No armor, and certainly no weapon.

There were only a few white and green Materials in the backpack.

"What's going on? Did Zhou Qiaoling jump out of the window just now to loot the box first!!"

Zhou Yue looked at the nearby window in disbelief.

Even the most ordinary Asala Loose Cultivators had their helmets, armor, and weapons in their boxes.

How could this fierce-looking machine gunner's box be empty?

"Hahaha, brother, is your luck so bad it's affecting the drop rate? Hahahaha!!"

Zhou Qiaoling's smug laughter came through the transmission Jade Slip.

Zhong Yi and Zhou Yue glanced at each other with complex expressions, seemingly accepting this explanation.

Because Zhou Yue's luck in the Illusion Realm...

Had always been a bit freakishly weird.

"I'll do it next time."

Zhong Yi patted Zhou Yue's shoulder in consolation.

"Pah! It's definitely not my luck..."

Zhou Yue remained stubborn.

By the time the two of them entered the Administrative Palace, the two rooms on the first floor had already been scavenged clean by Zhou Qiaoling.

"Dammit, her hands are really fast!!"

Zhou Yue looked at his empty backpack and thought about how he hadn't taken the white items from the machine gunner's box earlier; he even felt a bit of regret for acting too cool.

Zhong Yi didn't care about these things; instead, he began to observe the surroundings.

The Materials inside the building were from the Celestial Cultivation World, but the layout was designed by Lu Ze based on game principles, making it even more refreshing than °• N 𝑜 v 𝑒 l i g h t •° it looked from the outside.

At this time, Zhou Qiaoling was searching happily in the 【Deacon Hall】 on the second floor.

The inner room of the 【Deacon Hall】 had an 【immortal masters secret casket】 and a massive 【Sealing Essence Shrine】.

It was clearly the richest spot on the east side of the Administrative Palace.

Unlocking the 【Sealing Essence Shrine】 was slightly more troublesome, requiring Divine Sense to complete a simple test.

"Six... eight... Heavenly... Stems... one... done!"

As the password was cracked, Zhou Qiaoling's Divine Sense entered the interior of the 【Sealing Essence Shrine】.

A single square and a vertical double square black mist appeared in her field of vision.

"It's spinning for so long... I'm going to get a drop!!"

Zhou Qiaoling was incredibly excited.

Throughout her search, she had long discovered that as long as the square of an unknown item spun longer, the Rank of the final item would be higher.

This wasn't hard to understand.

Advanced treasures required more Divine Sense to investigate.

With a "ding"!

A single-square golden wine cup appeared before her eyes, while the second double-square item spun for even longer.

"Even longer than gold!?"

Zhou Qiaoling held her breath, her heart beating faster and faster.

"Clang!"

A heavy metallic striking sound echoed in her ears.

She had never heard this sound before, yet she found it particularly pleasant.

A thick gold bar appeared in her Divine Sense.

The background was crimson.

"Wow!!!"

"I got a red drop!!!"