Chu Tian was the last one to enter the Spirit Eye. As he was about to enter with his door key in hand, Caesar suddenly stopped him.
"Kid, you'll stay inside for five hours. Whatever happens in there during those five hours, the outside world won't see it, so don't mess around," Caesar warned Chu Tian, knowing that he had made enemies.
Chu Tian grinned but didn't understand the implications. After all, the location they were being transported to inside the Spirit Eye was specific. Unless someone had a special talent to bypass the maze restrictions within the Spirit Eye, it would be challenging for anyone to encounter each other.
After entering the Spirit Eye's door, Caesar took out a chair from his spatial ring and sat in front of the door. Not far away, Clea, dressed as a guide, approached Caesar and asked, "Do you think this kid will cause trouble inside? Remember, the Lone Wolf Mercenary Group is a pawn inserted by the Federation in secret. We shouldn't act recklessly. As for the young master of the Clinton family, he's arrogant and difficult to deal with. The Clinton family is an old and influential family in the Federation, not to be underestimated."
"Why worry? We can always start a battle if necessary," Caesar replied dismissively.
Clea could only shrug and left with the words, "You're thinking too simplistically."
Meanwhile, inside the Spirit Eye, Chu Tian found himself in a cave of about ten square meters. In the center of the cave was a pool of water, surrounded by seven large tunnels leading to different places. His current location should be the center of the Spirit Eye.
Examining the pool, the water inside was milky white, resembling a large pool of milk. This milk-like spring water came from a fist-sized spring in the center of the pool. Inside that spring, something seemed to be present—a thumb-sized multicolored stone.
The milky-white water from the pool flowed out into various directions through the seven tunnels.
Out of curiosity, Chu Tian took off his clothes and jumped into the pool, moving towards the spring. However, when he was about one meter away from the spring, an invisible barrier blocked his path. It was clear that there was a restriction protecting the spring.
Disappointed by his curiosity, Chu Tian sat cross-legged in the pool and began absorbing the rich spiritual energy emanating from the Spirit Eye. Just as he started absorbing, the system suddenly displayed a prompt.
[Ding - Strong spiritual energy detected. The system requests temporary control of the host's body for a system upgrade. Do you accept?]
Chu Tian was taken aback by this unexpected system request. After a few seconds of hesitation, he agreed to let the system take control.
Immediately, Chu Tian's vision and hearing went black, and his body became immobile. It was as if he had entered his subconscious. In this dark subconscious state, Chu Tian felt his body greedily absorbing the spiritual energy from the Spirit Eye, but the energy disappeared as if it fell into an enormous abyss within him.
After an unknown amount of time, Chu Tian gradually regained his sight and hearing. He regained control of his body.
[The system is about to undergo an upgrade. This upgrade will last for five days. The system will retain its basic functions and introduce new features after the upgrade. Please look forward to it.]
With these words, the system went offline. Chu Tian checked his communicator and was surprised to find that he had wasted nearly two hours.
However, at that moment, Chu Tian was astonished to discover that his body couldn't absorb the spiritual energy within the Spirit Eye. It was as if something was blocking it.
Upon further inspection, he realized that the pool's water had turned transparent, and the multicolored stone in the Spirit Eye had dimmed significantly.
Seeing this, Chu Tian could only marvel at how crazy the system was to absorb all the spiritual energy from the pool.
Since he couldn't absorb the spiritual energy, Chu Tian climbed out of the pool, put on his clothes, and activated his spiritual power perception. There didn't seem to be any restrictions against using his spiritual power talent here.
Soon, he noticed one of the tunnels leading to Lanfeng's location. Lanfeng was currently sitting in a pool filled with milky-white liquid.
Ignoring Lanfeng, Chu Tian looked around the area. However, it was a maze-like space with many passages, and after some exploration, Chu Tian eventually gave up.
He found a relatively flat spot and sat down, taking out ten level-two spiritual energy crystals to absorb. As he absorbed the second crystal, he suddenly felt someone approaching. Opening his eyes, he extended his spiritual power perception and saw Max walking toward him.
It seemed like Max knew his way around, easily navigating the maze-like space to reach Chu Tian's cave.
Seeing Chu Tian sitting not far away, Max smirked and said, "Chu Tian, didn't expect to meet again, did you?"
"What do you want, Max?" Chu Tian didn't open his eyes but continued absorbing the spiritual energy crystals in his hand.
Max apparently hadn't noticed the pool's water, as the area was dimly lit, making it difficult for a normal person to see anything.
With a sneer, Max said, "I've already absorbed all the spiritual energy on my side. I want to make a deal with you. If you agree, I'll let go of the humiliation you caused me during the match."
"What kind of deal?" Chu Tian finally opened his eyes and returned all the remaining spiritual energy crystals to the system's space.
"Give me your spiritual spring, and I'll compensate you with five hundred level-four spiritual energy crystals," Max said as he took out an ordinary spatial bag from his ring.
Chu Tian stood up, reached out to take the spatial bag from Max's hand, and said with a smile, "Consider it yours. Enjoy."
Max didn't expect Chu Tian to agree so readily. It was only when he turned to look at the pool that he realized he had been fooled. Chu Tian had already absorbed all the spiritual energy from the pool.
"You tricked me! Give my spiritual energy crystals back!" Max said as he stepped forward to try to snatch the spatial bag from Chu Tian's hand.
However, Chu Tian quickly dodged to the side and sneered, "What's wrong? Can't the young master of the Clinton family keep his word?"
"It was you who tricked me!" Max said as he reached into his pocket and pulled out a quaint-looking pistol. Below the pistol, there was an equally short golden straight blade.
Max raised the pistol and aimed it at Chu Tian's head.
"Give my spiritual energy crystals back, or I'll blow your head off with one shot," Max threatened, his finger resting on the trigger of the ancient pistol.
Chu Tian and Max were about five meters apart, but they could both sense the terrifying aura emanating from the pistol. It was undoubtedly an S-class weapon.
However, Chu Tian couldn't have anticipated that such an S-class weapon would appear so easily in the hands of a B+ talent martial artist.