336: Chapter 336 Transfer

"How can it be like this!"

Looking at the images directly transmitted to his mind by the Statue of Liberty, Zhang Huaiyuan's pupils constricted sharply, and turbulent waves churned in his heart.

Given his experience, his brain crashed for a moment.

—This matter was too terrifying.

He had not expected that his previous joking conjecture had actually become reality.

This meant that from the moment he entered the Land of Ascension, it was as if he had entered "The Truman Show".

Everything he had seen and heard was designed by someone else.

It also meant… this unknown enemy had quietly seized control of a large portion of the "Ascension Battlefield" right under the noses of the three major powers!

No, compared to this, there was another matter more worthy of consideration right now.

Zhang Huaiyuan forcibly suppressed his inner emotions, his hands still adjusting the device absorbing spiritual energy, while his mind instantly realized a terrifying possibility.

Since he had been under the enemy's observation from the moment he entered…

Did that mean that ever since his first world traversal, the route guiding him out had deviated from the direction the Association had given him?

Then where would it ultimately lead?

Zhang Huaiyuan looked up at the dome.

Perhaps there was no seventeenth transit world at all; after ascending, it would lead directly outside the Ascension Battlefield.

Into the lair of the monster that even the three major powers feared!

At that time, no matter how many methods he had, he would undoubtedly die.

"What a fine scheme."

Zhang Huaiyuan sighed in his heart.

If the detection device he had left behind in advance hadn't taken effect, he would likely have already fallen into their trap.

After all, there had been no anomalies throughout the entire process, and even the method of departure was something he had observed himself.

"I must find a way to relocate."

Zhang Huaiyuan's brain spun rapidly.

Fortunately, the Statue of Liberty seemed to fully grasp his intentions; she quietly lowered the conversion efficiency of the spiritual energy gathering device, giving him more time to think of countermeasures.

First, this unknown enemy could not possibly have complete control over the entire Ascension Battlefield, otherwise the Association could not have remained completely unaware.

He believed in the strength of the three major powers.

Otherwise, this unknown enemy would not need to go to such great lengths, using so many worlds to lure him here.

Furthermore, judging from the feedback from the detector, they had already made their move without any concealment; at this moment, the Association must have already discovered it, so the longer he could drag it out, the better.

Moreover, before he came, Third Senior Brother had said that the Association would absolutely guarantee his safety, which meant they had left behind absolutely reliable trump cards on him.

Thinking of this, Zhang Huaiyuan breathed a slight sigh of relief; at least it wasn't a completely hopeless situation.

However, he could not stay here for long.

The enemy hiding in the shadows had already played their hand openly; if he delayed going to the next world, the opponent would soon react.

"It seems I have no choice but to take a gamble."

A trace of helplessness flashed in Zhang Huaiyuan's eyes. As a Scholar, he had never liked doing things without certainty, but right now, he had to take a gamble.

"Statue of Liberty, based on what I saw during my previous traversals of several worlds, when the spiritual energy device reaches its peak and I leave this world, the passage to other worlds will also open simultaneously."

Zhang Huaiyuan quietly input lines of text into the integrated device:

"I will convert this surge of spiritual energy into the power source to activate the warp device. I need to activate the device immediately and warp in a direction different from the original plan."

"But I'm not sure if they have laid any traps. I need you to buy me five seconds of time if possible."

"I understand, sir. Please go ahead and do what you need to do."

"Mm, I'm counting on you."

Hearing her unhesitating response, Zhang Huaiyuan felt a little more at ease.

The Statue of Liberty never boasted; it seemed she must have made ample preparations before setting out.

"Then there is no time to lose."

After mentally rehearsing the process several times without error, Zhang Huaiyuan manually accelerated the conversion rate of the spiritual energy gathering device, which soon reached the critical point.

A massive repulsive force, accompanied by thunderclouds stretching for nearly ten thousand miles, shrouded this spiritual eye.

"It is time."

Zhang Huaiyuan snapped his fingers lightly, and flowing nano-alloys instantly covered his entire body. The reaction force activated, and like an arrow leaving the bow, he shot straight toward the gathering tribulation clouds!

Since he had already been exposed, there was no need to hide his methods.

"Activate electrical energy conversion module."

The moment the command was issued, dense, tiny particles emerged from the outer layer of the battle armor. The thunderclouds filling the sky seemed to be drawn in; before they could transform into a heavenly tribulation and descend, they were all absorbed into the battle armor as reserve energy.

A world with an upper limit of only around the third rank posed no threat to him at all.

Just as the tribulation clouds dissipated, that repulsive force reached its maximum, pushing Zhang Huaiyuan to break through the world's barrier and enter a place of unknown chaos.

Faintly visible ahead was a layer of pale blue halo—that was the boundary of the Ascension Battlefield.

And outside the blue halo, a void of ruin was vaguely visible, with countless pitch-black silhouettes looming in and out of sight, as if a great terror was lurking there.

"Now!"

Zhang Huaiyuan didn't have time to think too much; he immediately transferred all the stored spiritual energy and the newly absorbed heavenly tribulation energy into the warp system and activated it in a direction away from that void.

Violent spatial fluctuations surged.

"Random warp activated, anchoring coordinates… Countdown 5… 4…"

"Die!"

At the same time, those things lurking in the shadows seemed to have realized something was wrong, and endless shadows spread along the void, rushing to the edge of the blue halo in the blink of an eye.

"Get lost."

The light on the integrated device flickered slightly, and a stunningly beautiful figure quietly appeared not far in front of Zhang Huaiyuan.

Her eyes turned cold, and she pointed her slender hand forward. Countless precision components flew out from the storage device, assembling in mid-air into a massive megastructure, deploying an invisible force field covering millions of miles toward where the shadows were.

Those shadows that had originally almost reached the blue halo seemed to be reset in an instant, retreating to the outermost edge of the force field in the blink of an eye.

"Eternity…?"

A soft sound of surprise rang out from the depths of the shadows, followed by a giant claw that blotted out the sky, tearing through space and slamming fiercely onto the force field constructed by the megastructure.

A faint sound of cracking quietly rang out.

However, it was too late.

The warp device finished activation, a flash of light appeared, and Zhang Huaiyuan and the Statue of Liberty vanished instantly.