Chapter 1851: Probing the Giant Cauldron! (2/2)
As for the bronze cauldron itself… there didn't seem to be anything strange about it, no emanations of powerful energy. But a moment later…
Buzz!
Wang Chong entered the world of energy, and the world before his eyes transformed into one made entirely of energy. Those hundreds of thousands of Arab cavalry disappeared, as did the rolling landscape of the northwest.
In Wang Chong's eyes, the Arab cavalry became countless balls of energy linked together into a blazing sea.
And in this blazing sea, the Arab Governors and Deputy Governors were like dazzling bright moons, with Khatabah and the High Priest standing out most of all.
Khatabah's energy was a restless ocean that seemed engulfed in a haze. He was clearly suppressing his energy. The High Priest's energy was completely different. In the world of energy, he was a lingering black fog that made it impossible for Wang Chong to determine just how strong he was. But Wang Chong knew that the High Priest was not a pure martial artist. His greatest strength was his Psychic Energy, so for him to take this form was not strange.
Wang Chong quickly turned his attention to the bronze cauldron.
”Hmph! They used sealing energy?”
Wang Chong snorted. In his eyes, the massive bronze cauldron was dark and gloomy, completely unlike the Governors and Deputy Governors, making it impossible to see its true power. But upon giving it a closer look, he could still identify web-like slivers of power running across it.
Wang Chong was no stranger to this power. It was the sealing power of a ritual artifact.
Bzzz! Wang Chong's eyes gleamed as he shifted into using his 'True World' ability, which was much stronger than seeing through the world of energy.
As he used this ability, the world again transformed.
Bang!
The bronze cauldron instantly became a blazing red pillar of energy that soared out from the center of the cauldron and all the way to the heavens. And Wang Chong saw something else in the domain of the True World that he had not seen before.
The center of the bronze cauldron contained a frighteningly destructive power, and around the cauldron, the laws of the world showed signs of damage. The energy of the laws were not considered a part of the energy domain, so he had not been able to see this in the world of energy. Without the True World ability, Wang Chong would have never noticed this abnormality.
Just what is this thing?
Wang Chong's pupils constricted, and he grew somewhat wary as his mind began to spin.
Wang Chong had impressive strength and even greater experience, but not even he had ever seen something as bizarre as this.
Wang Chong had initially taken that massive cauldron to be some sort of ritual artifact or similar treasure, but it now appeared that he was completely off the mark. The ripples of energy were not coming from the cauldron, but from something inside it.
Rather than saying that the bronze cauldron was some terrifying ritual tool Arabia had prepared to use against the Great Tang, it would be better to say that it was being used against the thing inside the cauldron.
The bronze cauldron was a giant cage that shackled the thing within.
Strangest of all was that if this thing was what Arabia was preparing to use against the Great Tang, it should have been used as quickly as possible, quickly released rather than remaining within that giant cauldron.
In short, it was all indescribably strange and disconcerting.
Let me see what kind of trick they're playing!
With this thought, Wang Chong stomped forward. The earth trembled as a vast torrent of Psychic Energy surged out of Wang Chong's mind and poured into the earth. Once it was deep enough, it turned and shot off like a lightning bolt toward the distant bronze cauldron.
The Arab base was so tightly guarded that one couldn't even squeeze a needle inside, but there was no way to defend against Psychic Energy.
Wang Chong's Psychic Energy was several times greater than those of the same cultivation level. He towered over his peers and had few competitors in this world.
More importantly, at Wang Chong's level, a Psychic Energy probe would not be noticed by anyone in the Arab base.
Buzz!
The City of Steel was several hundred li from the Arab base. Wang Chong was probably the only person capable of sending out a Psychic Energy probe over such a long distance.
Boom! Several hundred li went by in the blink of an eye. In the darkness, nobody noticed this immense mental will hurtling through the ground toward the giant cauldron in the Arab base.
Five thousand feet, three thousand feet, two thousand feet, one thousand feet…
As it got closer and closer, that existence in the cauldron seemed to sense something, and the energy in the surrounding area subtly shifted.
A moment later, just when Wang Chong's Psychic Energy was about to reach the cauldron, boom! A massive torrent of energy shot forward, slamming into Wang Chong's torrent of Psychic Energy like a steel pillar.