Transmigrating Into a Fantasy World: Signing in During Pregnancy, Reaching the Summit with My Childhood Sweetheart

They tried to use the star Core’s sensation to pinpoint a more precise location, but found the rule-based force inside the city created extreme interference. The sensation became blurry and indistinct, only confirming a general direction toward the city’s central area.

There, the energy fluctuations were strongest and the rules most severe—the very Core of the city.

The two exchanged a glance, seeing gravity in each other’s eyes.

Finding and obtaining the star key within this cold, orderly steel giant city would be extremely difficult. A forceful assault would be suicidal. They could only rely on wits, and had to quickly understand the local rules and weaknesses.

They found a seemingly rather quiet teahouse to sit in, attempting to gather information from the conversations around them.

The people in the teahouse spoke in hushed tones, their conversations mostly about work, transactions, and cultivation progress—dry and dull.

After listening for a while, they only caught a few scattered keywords: ”Central Hub Tower,” ”great edict,” ”Energy Cycle,” ”contribution points,” ”Purification Day”... It seemed the ruling Core of Tian Yuan City was the so-called ”Central Hub Tower” and ”great edict.” The city operated on a strict ”contribution points” system, and ”Purification Day” was something that made people pale at the mention.

Just as Nangong Xuan was pondering how to inquire further, a faint buzzing sound suddenly rang out on the street.

All pedestrians, including the silver-armored patrols, immediately stopped their actions, turned to face the city center, bowed their heads slightly, their expressions becoming incredibly pious (or perhaps numb).

The silver patterns on the walls lining the street brightened. A cold, grand, utterly emotionless voice echoed throughout the city via some Formation:

”Announcement: The new round of ’Energy Cycle’ detection is about to begin. All units maintain silence and cooperate with edict scanning. Those with contribution points below the standard line, prepare to undergo ’purification.’”

As the voice faded, the pale golden light shield enveloping the city rippled slightly, showering down a denser, mercury-like Light of Edict that swept over every corner of the city.

Nangong Xuan and Su Muxue felt a powerful probing force attempting to invade their Seas of Consciousness, spying on their Divine Soul thoughts! Shocked, they immediately circulated their Cultivation Techniques with all their might to resist!

Nirvana Dao Rhyme reduced everything to ”nothingness.” Taiyin Star Power froze the Sea of Consciousness. The twin glazed lamp’s Chaos Qi confounded fate!

The Light of Edict lingered over them for several breaths, seemingly encountering great resistance, ultimately failing to break through before slowly moving away.

Cold sweat broke out on their backs. Tian Yuan City’s surveillance was truly terrifying! Had they failed to resist just now, they would have likely been exposed immediately!

However, after this sudden scan, Nangong Xuan keenly sensed that the chaos star core in his embrace, which had been dormant, gave an extremely faint throb when the Light of Edict was at its strongest.

It wasn’t pointing toward the city center, but toward a certain direction along the city wall! Though fleeting, he was certain!

It seemed something there, stimulated by the intense order-based rules, had produced an extremely secret resonance with the star Core!

Could it be that the star key wasn’t in the Core area? Or... was there something else?

Nangong Xuan looked at Su Muxue, a sharp glint flashing in his eyes.

”Mu Xue, we may have been looking in the wrong direction. The real clue might be over there.”

He subtly pointed toward a certain direction along the city wall.