I'm in Yellow Maple Valley, and I have one equipment slot!

This giant ape puppet is about ten feet tall, with a dark gold color all over. Its joints have a complex gear and linkage structure. Although the surface is covered with dust and fine cracks, and one of its arms is broken off at the elbow, the overall outline is still intact.

Most importantly, in Zhou Yuan's perception, which far surpassed that of others of the same level, a faint, extremely subtle, almost ethereal, yet strangely spiritual fluctuation emanated from within this seemingly lifeless giant ape puppet!

If his divine sense hadn't been strong enough and he hadn't been prepared, he would have been almost unable to detect it.

This is it!

The original text describes how the core of the divine soul that the Great Evolution God Lord resided in was hidden inside a giant ape puppet!

Zhou Yuan understood, but his face remained expressionless as he slowly walked towards the giant ape puppet.

At the same time, he had raised his vigilance to the highest level, his divine sense power was secretly gathering in his sea of ​​consciousness, and the protective spiritual light around his body was quietly flowing, ready to deal with any sudden attack.

Because he knew very well that this ancient monster who had lived for ten thousand years was no pushover.

In the original story, when Han Li arrived here, he was ambushed by the other party's divine sense technique.

Besides puppetry, the Great Evolution Divine Lord's greatest skill is divine sense attack!

His self-created "Seven Emotions Technique" is similar to Zhou Yuan's "Twelve Divine Thrusting Techniques". It is an intangible and intangible secret technique that directly attacks the soul. It can ignore most physical and spiritual defenses and directly affect the opponent's nascent soul.

The Seven Emotions Technique can evoke, manipulate, or even ignite the seven emotions of joy, anger, worry, thought, grief, fear, and shock in an opponent.

Once caught in this trap, at best one's mind will be disturbed and one's magical power will be disordered; at worst one's Dao heart will collapse, one will fall into madness, and one may even self-destruct one's nascent soul, which is extremely dangerous.

When Zhou Yuan was still about ten feet away from the giant ape puppet—

A sudden change has occurred!

The dark golden giant ape puppet, which had been lifeless and motionless, suddenly had two barely perceptible red lights appear in its empty eye sockets!

Immediately afterwards, its intact arm suddenly rose up, its huge metal hand opened, aimed at Zhou Yuan, and its mouth opened wide!

"call out!"

A crystalline light, as thin as a hair yet dazzlingly bright, displaying seven colors—red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, and purple—spurted out of the giant ape's mouth as if teleporting, its speed exceeding the limits of visual perception, and shot directly into Zhou Yuan's brow and sea of ​​consciousness!

Wherever the crystalline light passed, the air rippled with iridescent colors, and a strange, chaotic, alluring, and penetrating wave spread out.

The Seven Emotions Formula!

They've arrived!

Zhou Yuan, who was well prepared, unleashed the immense divine power that had been gathering in his sea of ​​consciousness the moment the giant ape's eyes flashed red!

"The Twelve Stabs of the Divine Court!"

Twelve invisible and intangible yet extremely sharp and refined divine sense spikes, like twelve swords forged from the purest divine thoughts, shot out silently from between Zhou Yuan's eyebrows to meet the incoming seven-colored crystalline light!

There was no earth-shattering roar, only a silent collision and annihilation that seemed to originate from the soul, a feeling that sent shivers down one's spine.

"Hiss hiss hiss..."

The seven-colored crystalline light and the twelve divine consciousness spikes met, entangled, and annihilated each other in the void! The seven-colored light attempted to penetrate and arouse the seven emotions and six desires deep within Zhou Yuan's soul, while the divine consciousness spikes, like the most loyal guardians, used the purest and most refined divine power to cut, shatter, and purify those chaotic emotional forces and invading divine consciousness threads one by one!

The two remained locked in a stalemate for about a breath before their light dimmed simultaneously, and they vanished without a trace, as if they had never existed.

"what?"

A low gasp filled with astonishment and disbelief came faintly from inside the giant ape puppet. It seemed that even the attacker himself did not expect that his "Seven Emotions Technique," which he had been preparing for a long time and which had always worked, would be directly broken and neutralized by the opponent in this way!

Zhou Yuan's actions did not stop. Breaking the sneak attack was only the first step.

He knew that the giant ape puppet was just an outer shell, and that the true ape god was actually located in the core hidden deeper within its body.

He brought his right index and middle fingers together and slashed them through the air at the giant ape puppet!

"laugh--!"

A condensed, almost tangible sword aura, about a foot long and radiating a pale golden light, appeared out of thin air—it was the "Azure Origin Sword Aura"! The sword aura flashed and struck with unparalleled precision a tiny gap at the junction of the giant ape puppet's chest and abdomen!

"Snap!"

A crisp cracking sound rang out. The seemingly sturdy dark golden puppet shell was as fragile as paper before the azure sword light containing the Geng metal energy. It was easily cleaved in two, crashing to the sides and revealing the complex and precise gear transmission structure inside, which had stopped functioning.

At the center of these structures, a small humanoid puppet, only a foot tall, covered in layers of protection, with a dark gold color and extremely exquisite workmanship, was exposed to the air!

The little puppet had clear features, and you could even tell that it looked like an old man. There was still a trace of shock on its face.

This is the true abode of the Great Evolution God Lord's soul!

The giant ape puppet was more like an outer protective shell and an attack platform.

Without hesitation, Zhou Yuan raised his left hand, spread his five fingers, and grabbed at the golden puppet in mid-air!

"Buzz!"

An invisible, flexible yet incredibly strong magical binding force instantly formed, creating a transparent force field cage that firmly imprisoned the small puppet within, suspending it in mid-air.

"I never expected... that you could so easily break through my 'Seven Emotions Technique'..."

The golden puppet's mouth did not open or close, but an old, hoarse voice, filled with deep surprise and complex emotions, rang out directly in the air around it.

"The feeling you give me... isn't that you're responding hastily, but rather that you've been preparing for this all along..."

"Hehe, I, Zhou, am always cautious."

"Moreover, this is the place where the once mighty Great Yan Divine Lord passed away. Legend has it that it is full of traps and dangers. Since I have come here to search for treasure, how can I not be careful and make more preparations?"

Zhou Yuan remained expressionless and responded calmly.

He naturally wouldn't reveal his identity as a time traveler, as he already knew everything.

"Hmph, cunning brat."

The Great Evolution Divine Lord's voice carried a hint of displeasure at being seen through, but more so a probing tone, "The method you used to break my Seven Emotions Technique just now... was some kind of extremely powerful divine sense attack technique, wasn't it? Moreover, the strength of your divine sense far surpasses that of ordinary mid-Nascent Soul cultivators, and even... is comparable to that of ordinary late-Nascent Soul cultivators. This is definitely not something that can be achieved through arduous cultivation, unless..."

"Unless what?"

Zhou Yuan asked leisurely.

"Unless you've cultivated some top-tier technique specifically designed to temper and strengthen your divine sense!"

The voice of the Great Evolution Divine Lord suddenly rose, carrying a hint of certainty and pride:

"And in the human realm, what technique can surpass my self-created 'Great Evolution Technique' when it comes to tempering one's divine consciousness?!"

"The Great Evolution God Lord truly has discerning eyes."

Zhou Yuan smiled slightly and readily admitted, "That's right, I am able to have the divine consciousness I have today thanks to the Great Evolution Technique created by the Divine Lord."

"So what if it is? So what if it isn't?"

The shock on the golden puppet's face had completely faded, replaced by a detached indifference and sarcasm that suggested a profound understanding of the world.

"You went to great lengths to find this place, break my restrictions, block my secret techniques, and capture my soul, all for the sake of obtaining the subsequent techniques of the Great Evolution Technique, right? Unfortunately, I will not give them to you."

"Oh? Aren't you afraid that I, Zhou, will use force? For example... soul search?" Zhou Yuan's tone turned cold.

"Soul search? Hahaha!"

The Great Evolution Divine Lord seemed to have heard the biggest joke in the world, letting out a desolate laugh. "Boy, I've lived for tens of thousands of years. When I was playing with divine sense, your ancestors weren't even born yet! The secret techniques of divine sense that I'm proficient in far exceed your imagination. You want to search my soul?"

"If you forcibly search my soul, I'll simply self-destruct this remnant soul, letting this life that has lingered for ten thousand years vanish completely..."

Upon hearing this, Zhou Yuan frowned slightly.

He knew that what the Great Evolutionary Lord said was true.

The opponent was a master of divine consciousness from ten thousand years ago, whose technique of soul possession was unpredictable and mysterious.

The success rate of forced soul searching is extremely low, and the risk is extremely high; it is very likely to result in a complete failure.

He remained silent for a moment, then suddenly chuckled and shook his head: "Great Evolution Divine Lord, if you truly have a death wish and only seek an end to everything, why waste ten thousand years of effort creating this 'Divine Transfer Technique,' trapping yourself in this dark and sunless puppet, eking out a living until now?"

The golden puppet trembled slightly but did not immediately refute.

Zhou Yuan continued, "The reason you're still 'alive,' even in this state of being neither alive nor dead, must be because you're unwilling to accept it!"

"You still have unfulfilled wishes, and unresolved attachments. Am I right?"

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