Otherworldly Affairs Office-Chapter 648: Who is Stronger, Who is Weaker (Seeking Subscriptions)

As talismans fell one after another, everyone present could feel the majestic spiritual energy passing through the space of the Mountain and River Map. Under Bai Xuelin's guidance, it drilled into the dragon's body. After absorbing a large amount of spiritual energy, not only did this metallic dragon not grow bigger, it kept shrinking. Amidst the sound of metal joints snapping, this giant dragon, originally over a hundred meters long, turned into numerous small snakes over two meters long.

After the transformation, one small dragon circled the area, then coiled its body and raised its snakehead, staring at Pei Yan who was trapped in mid-air. It slowly opened its snake mouth, the spiritual energy it absorbed being continuously refined and compressed under the suppression of the talisman. A blue light flickered and shined within its mouth.

Do not be fooled by the dragon's smaller size; the pressure it exerted on Pei Yan was far greater than before. Sensing the power gathering below, Pei Yan quickly floated backward, as a large amount of iron currents gushed from within his body, forming defensive walls before him.

"It's useless! Prepare to die! You brought this upon yourself!" Bai Xuelin sneered coldly, pinching his fingers and pointing towards Pei Yan in the void. The small dragon in the mountain suddenly shot out a thin line from its mouth, this light yellow beam as thin as a little finger, pierced through the sky, easily penetrating the defenses set by Pei Yan, leaving a small hole before piercing through Pei Yan's heart region.

"Pei Yan!" The people in the Investigation Bureau turned red-eyed and cried out upon seeing this scene. Gu Shenghui, Elder Lin and others flew forward to check on the situation, but were blocked by Shi Yuansi and mocked: "What? Are you going to concede? Or do you want to disgrace yourself by interfering in this duel? Don't forget that this scene was the result of that kid's own doing. If you don't play by the rules, don't blame me for not recognizing anyone. Do you really think our Daoist Plane is a clump of soft clay?!"

"Get out of my way! Or I'll cut you into pieces right now!" One of his finest subordinates might perish, causing Gu Shenghui, who had always trusted Pei Yan's abilities, to lose his reason. Two black fogs floated onto his palms as his murderous intent was revealed, just as he was about to forcefully intervene, Elder Lin shouted, "Xiaogu, wait, look at Pei Yan!"

Upon hearing this, Gu Shenghui, including Shi Yuansi and others, all turned their heads toward the air, seeing the black mist emanating from the pierced chest of Pei Yan behind the floating defensive walls, just as they looked up at the wound, it transformed from a state of nothingness back to a mechanical form.

"Hmph! You have finally refined it!" Watching this scene, Xila snorted disdainfully, only she knew what had truly happened just at the moment when that beam pierced through the defensive walls. Pei Yan had activated the Demon Race Essence Blood she had given him, instantly transforming into a Demon Race physique, and then used the mist technique to dodge this fatal blow.

Now surviving the calamity, Pei Yan touched his chest that had healed as good as new, breaking out in a cold sweat, feeling first a lingering fear then anger, followed by a hint of excitement. The fear and anger were due to if he had been a second too late, his life might have been at stake; the excitement due to that attack had opened a new door for him.

Does he have many attack methods? Of course, he does! Are they strong? Very strong indeed! Whether electromagnetic cannons, plasma cannons, or compressed gas slashes, one could say they're powerful killing moves unattainable by peers of equal rank! Each strike could trigger an earthquake-like effect.

But as the enemies he encountered grew stronger, Pei Yan became increasingly unsatisfied with the destructive effects of these three types of killing moves. Facing eighth or ninth-level top experts from various planes, such attacks might unexpectedly inflict grave injuries on them, yet could not achieve a one-hit kill effect. The reason being that though the energy emitted was vast, it was too dispersed, unable to focus and penetrate an enemy's defense measures at one point.

However, the small dragon controlled by Bai Xuelin just now managed to do this, gathering originally scattered spiritual energy into a single point, linking it into one line, effortlessly piercing through all of Pei Yan's defenses, nearly claiming his life!

Coming to the Daoist Plane this time wasn't in vain; there are too many things of interest here to explore, and the first step toward achieving this goal is to defeat the enemy before him and win the Dao Heart Stone he longs for. 𝒻𝑟ℯℯ𝑤𝑒𝑏𝑛𝘰𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝒸𝑜𝘮

Thinking of this, Pei Yan glanced at the talisman array trapping him. After his repeated bombardments and the dragon's attack from outside to inside, the talismans forming the array had become lifeless and dim. Taking this opportunity, Pei Yan flicked multiple gas slashes in turn, after several attacks, the talisman array finally couldn't withstand them. Following the collapse of the first talisman, it was like toppled dominoes, causing a chain reaction as the once globe-shaped array instantly disintegrated and vanished without a trace.

From attack to counter-attack didn't take more than a minute, and Pei Yan was already free from his predicament!

"Senior brother, be careful!" Shi Yuansi, upon seeing this scene, disregarded his status to loudly warn.

But as soon as his voice fell, Pei Yan had already leaped out and in the blink of an eye attacked to Bai Xuelin's front. Although surprised that Pei Yan survived his attack, Bai Xuelin, seasoned in countless battles, wouldn't let Pei Yan succeed so easily, retreating while swiftly brushing his hand over the hundred-treasure pouch at his waist. With a flick of his wrist, over thirty humanoid puppets appeared before him, blocking Pei Yan's path.

Seeing these humanoid puppets, Pei Yan halted his movement, stopped his pursuit, and then laughed heartily.

"Junior! What are you laughing at!" Hiding within the puppet defensive circle, Bai Xuelin shouted angrily upon seeing Pei Yan's mad actions.

Pei Yan indeed had cause to laugh, for he was too familiar with these puppets before him. Although some superficial changes had been made to their appearance, he instantly recognized this type of puppet. During the first joint war he truly participated in after joining the Investigation Bureau, one of the allies invited by God Desire at the Secret Prison's defensive station had released the same type of puppet!

That year, it required joining forces with two experts from the Secret Prison to suppress them. Even so, if it hadn't been for Ye Jiumu redirecting the puppets' attack, it almost cost him his life. This move of theirs severely injured Little Vlad, and caused his squad to feud with this leading Vampire Clan from the Magic Realm, indirectly leading to Shangxing's death and Ye Jiumu's serious injury later.

How could he not laugh upon seeing such puppets again! No matter whether the Celestial Secret Pavilion had also defected to Blood Descent, capturing this old thing and extracting information from him would surely uncover clues related to God Desire!

Thinking this, Pei Yan put away the smile on his face, shook his head in amazement: "Well! This Daoist Realm truly is my blessed land. It's only the first day here, and I have already gained so much of what I desire! Elder Bai, I really must thank you well!"

As he said this, Pei Yan looked up at the astonished Bai Xuelin with a grin: "Your disciple boasted your Celestial Secret Pavilion's mechanical technique as the best across various planes when she came. Today, I shall see whether your mechanical puppets are mighty, or if my mechanical avatar is stronger!"