Chapter 909: There’s actually a second stage?

This… what is the situation?!

The old gardener, whose hands had turned into black claws the second before and who was ready to tear Zhou Huai to pieces, suddenly froze.

The Alien Parasite lurking inside his body instantly took over his neural center.

"Snap!" The old gardener's legs uncontrollably came together, and his heels slammed hard against each other.

His hands, which had transformed into claws, also instantly returned to normal, pressing tightly against the seams of his pants.

Not just him, but the dozens of Ancient Remnant Clan members disguised as gardeners around him were the same.

"Snap! Snap! Snap!" A series of neat footsteps rang out in the backyard.

Everyone uncontrollably straightened their backs, quickly gathered, and lined up in front of Zhou Huai.

"My body!"

"Why is my body moving on its own?!"

The Ancient Remnant Clan members panicked completely.

They desperately tried to move their steps or raise their arms, but their bodies simply wouldn't obey.

The old gardener used all his strength, trying to break free from this restraint.

It was useless; he couldn't even move a single pinky finger.

Zhou Huai looked at this group of people standing straight and nodded with satisfaction.

He couldn't be bothered to talk nonsense and got straight to the point.

"Let's talk."

Zhou Huai pulled over a rattan chair nearby and sat down.

"Where is the base entrance of your Dawnbreaker Guild?"

The old gardener's body couldn't move, but his mouth could still make sounds.

He stared fiercely at Zhou Huai.

"You despicable Professional!"

"You are not Archbishop Andrew at all!"

"That trash Andrew could absolutely not have such bizarre methods!"

The old gardener roared, "Who on earth are you? What on earth are you trying to do by sneaking into our Dawnbreaker Guild?!"

Zhou Huai looked at him and shook his head.

"This is a wrong answer."

As soon as his voice fell, Zhou Huai's mind moved.

The old gardener discovered in terror that his hands were uncontrollably rising, slowly reaching toward his neck.

"No! What are you going to do!"

"Stop! Stop for me!"

The old gardener screamed, desperately trying to put his hands down.

But his hands tightly choked his own neck.

Immediately after, his hands exerted fierce force and violently twisted to the right.

"Crack!" A bone-breaking sound rang out in the backyard.

The old gardener's head was directly twisted one hundred and eighty degrees, with his face facing his back.

Until he swallowed his last breath, he couldn't figure out why he had snapped his own neck with his own hands.

"Thud." The old gardener's corpse crashed to the ground.

The entire scene was dead silent.

The remaining dozens of Ancient Remnant Clan members looked at the corpse on the ground, terrified.

"Gulch…" Someone swallowed a mouthful of saliva, the sound exceptionally clear in the quiet environment.

This kind of method was unheard of, without even any room for resistance.

Even though they were Ancient Remnant Clan members who had died once and been resurrected, facing this method that completely deprived them of bodily control, they still felt a shudder.

"Next."

Zhou Huai didn't look at the corpse on the ground, his gaze sweeping over a tall and thin Ancient Remnant Clan member in the team.

"You answer." Zhou Huai's tone was flat.

How could the tall and thin guy dare to hide anything now; the old gardener's corpse was still lying on the ground.

"I'll talk! I'll tell you everything!"

The tall and thin guy spoke at a flying speed, afraid of being a second slow.

"The base entrance is in the central garden!"

"Underneath that huge statue of the old Holy Lord!"

"As long as you activate the mechanism under the statue, you can enter the underground base!"

After listening, Zhou Huai snapped his fingers.

"Sensible."

Hearing these two words, the tall and thin guy breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, thinking his life was saved.

But the next second.

"Crack! Crack! Crack!"

A series of dense bone-breaking sounds rang out.

The tall and thin guy was shocked to find that his hands uncontrollably rose and choked his neck.

The other Ancient Remnant Clan members around him made the same movement.

"You… you don't keep your word…"

The tall and thin guy squeezed out the last few words from his throat.

"Crack!"

Dozens of people moved in unison, exerting force at the same time to snap their own necks.

"Thud! Thud! Thud!"

Dozens of corpses fell to the ground in unison.

Zhou Huai stood up and clapped his hands.

There was no credibility to speak of with this group of Dawnbreaker Guild monsters.

These Ancient Remnant Clan members were people who should have died long ago, forcibly remaining in the current world through Mr. Duan's methods, and keeping them around was a disaster.

After obtaining the exact coordinates, Zhou Huai didn't stay long in the backyard and directly activated the Law of Space.

"Hum!" Space distorted for a while, and his figure disappeared from where he was.

After a few spatial jumps, Zhou Huai landed in the central garden of the Holy Palace.

This place was completely different from the backyard; there were no lush flowers and plants.

The entire central garden was paved with pure white marble, empty and solemn.

Right in the center of the garden stood a huge statue dozens of meters tall, sculpted precisely as the previous generation Holy Lord, Francis.

The statue held a scepter, overlooking the holy city.

Zhou Huai stood under the statue looking up, his eyebrows slightly raising.

Under the Void Omniscience vision, Formation patterns were densely packed around the statue.

A rough count showed that dozens of illusion Formations were intertwined and nested, perfectly hiding the entrance of the underground base.

These illusion Formations were brilliantly laid out, and their energy fluctuations perfectly fused with the statue's own Light Law.

No wonder the high-level officials of the Holy See and the people of the Holy Knights Order patrolled here every day without noticing any anomalies.

Of course, Zhou Huai was clear that besides the Formations being brilliant, a more important reason was that Holy Lord Francis likely reached some kind of agreement with Mr. Duan during his lifetime.

The Holy Lord deliberately turned a blind eye to the Dawnbreaker Guild base under the statue, and even secretly provided protection.

"What an interesting collusion."

Zhou Huai sneered.

These illusion Formations might be an insurmountable chasm for the Formation Masters of the current world, triggering a chain of killing Formations once touched wrongly.

But they were nothing in front of Zhou Huai; he had an SS-rank Formation Master Clone inside his body—Zhuge Kongming.

With a thought, Zhou Huai directly invoked Zhuge Kongming's Formation Law, and his hand brushed across his space ring.

"Swish!" Dozens of exquisite carving knives appeared, suspended in mid-air, exuding a cyan glow.

"Go."

Zhou Huai pointed with a sword finger.

Dozens of carving knives turned into cyan streams of light, plunging into the Void Realm around the statue.

"Hum! Hum! Hum!" The carving knives precisely pierced into the eye of every illusion Formation.

The cyan Formation Laws spread along the carving knives, peeling and cutting off the complexly intertwined Formation patterns one by one.

The originally perfect illusion Formation began to tremble violently.

In less than half a minute, with a "Crack!", the outermost illusion Formation shattered.

Immediately after, dozens of high-tier illusion Formations collapsed one after another, turning into light spots and dissipating.

As the illusion Formations were unlocked, the scene before his eyes changed drastically.

The empty central garden and the huge Holy Lord statue had both disappeared.

Replaced by it was a huge, bottomless underground passageway.

The entrance of the passageway exuded a dim glow, gushing out a chilly aura.

Zhou Huai put away the carving knives and stepped into the passageway.

The inside of the passageway was spacious, with Demonic Energy stones embedded in the walls for lighting.

He followed the passageway all the way down, thinking he would soon see the underground base of the Dawnbreaker Guild, but when he walked to the depths, he found that ahead was a thick black stone wall.

A dead end.

Zhou Huai stopped his steps and his gaze swept across the surroundings.

Right in the center of the black stone wall was carved a complex teleportation Formation.

The Formation patterns were dim and in an unactivated state.

Zhou Huai stepped forward to check; this teleportation Formation had no Formation eye and no energy slot, and it seemed that only by inputting a specific password could it be activated to teleport inside the real base.

Zhou Huai stood in front of the teleportation Formation and touched his chin.

Miscalculated; there's actually a second stage.

If he had known earlier, he wouldn't have killed those few people first and kept them to lead the way.