This Bizarre entity's strength was clearly a bit lacking, perhaps from being confined for too long.

Moments after Chu Feng stood in front of another chest, the system prompt sounded in his mind.

PFFT.

Looking at the ring that had appeared in his palm, Chu Feng's expression faltered.

He truly hadn't expected the Yulei Sect to possess a second Constellation Ring.

It seemed these golden chests were the containers the dilapidated religion used to seal away Bizarre.

Glancing at the remaining two golden chests, he couldn't help but blink.

Is this... a buffet?

A smile began to form on Chu Feng's face. He methodically dealt with the remaining two golden chests and soon obtained two more antique-looking Constellation Rings.

Sagittarius, Libra, Virgo. He looked at the three similar rings in his hand and did some mental calculations.

Out of the twelve Constellation Rings, he now had seven. The locations of the remaining five were still unknown.

If I can collect all of them, I wonder what special change might occur?

Pushing aside these random speculations, Chu Feng focused on the system prompts.

There were nine system prompts in total, and Chu Feng opened them one by one.

"Ding! Congratulations, Host, for slaying a..."

As system entries flooded his vision like a screen refresh, the Points on the system panel surged by more than a thousand. More importantly, his Divine Origin Substance increased by eighteen.

He hadn't expected that this single trip would directly complete the first-stage goal of enhancing his Spirit Root.

With a thought, the system store interface appeared in Chu Feng's mind. In the blink of an eye, he had flipped to a very familiar page.

"Spiritual Object: Heart of Chong Ah

Price: 20 points of Divine Origin Substance

Would you like to purchase?"

"Please note, you still have one fifty-percent-off coupon unused!

Would you like to use the fifty-percent-off coupon?"

Ignoring the second system prompt, Chu Feng mentally tapped the purchase option.

The twenty points of Divine Origin Substance quietly vanished. Instantly, an oval, bright yellowish-amber gem, encased in transparent crystal, appeared in his hand.

Looking at the Heart of Chong Ah in his hand, which, apart from its odd shape, seemed quite ordinary, Chu Feng was momentarily taken aback.

I hadn't expected the system to even offer a sealing service!

Heavenly and earthly Spiritual Objects constantly lose their spiritual essence once removed from their place of growth.

Without a special preservation method, ordinary Spiritual Objects would likely revert to mundane items within a few hours, losing their original miraculous properties.

Muttering knowledge from another world, Chu Feng casually stored the three golden chests in his Storage Space.

Now that I have the Spiritual Object for the initial upgrade of my Spirit Root, I should find a place to begin my first Closed-door Cultivation in the real world!

「...」

"Lin Qiu, have you encountered those Exorcists Chu Feng has been secretly training?"

"I've only met a few. Their strength was so terrifying it made me shudder. I have no idea how Chu Feng trained those guys! But since they're his private forces, I didn't think it was appropriate to delve too deeply."

Lin Qiu looked at the now-clean first floor and nodded in satisfaction. She then turned her head and saw Taran looking puzzled.

"What's wrong? Did they do something?"

Taran shook his head, but the confusion in his eyes remained.

"Today, a few Exorcists returned. They asked me where someone named James was, but I've never heard of anyone by that name in the office!"

"'Oh? Maybe they got the name wrong. After all, they aren't too familiar with the people in the office,' Lin Qiu mused, offering the most likely explanation."

"'Of course not. If that were the case, I wouldn't be so fixated on it. The key is how these Exorcists changed.'"

Taran recalled the strange events of the day and recounted them to Lin Qiu.

"'When they first met me, their first question was about this James person. But just a few seconds later, they seemed like completely different people!'"

"'While I was still wondering who James was, they suddenly acted as if they were seeing me for the first time, greeted me, and then... just walked off!'"

Taran's words stunned Lin Qiu. Subconsciously, she took out her phone to check the date.

Lin Qiu's sudden action made Taran, still frowning, roll his eyes.

"'Please! I already checked. Today is not April Fools' Day!'"

"'Uh...' Lin Qiu, slightly embarrassed, put her phone away. 'Didn't you ask them about it?'"

"'I did ask! And the result was even stranger!' Taran tilted his head back, his gaze fixed on the ceiling as if seeing something beyond it, his voice tinged with an eerie quality.

"'They actually asked *me* who James was!'"

Hearing this, Lin Qiu's curious expression vanished. Her brow furrowed, and a wary look entered her eyes.

"Was there any change with the Warning Crystal?"

Taran took a necklace with a crystal pendant from his pocket. He slowly shook his head. "No, not even a trace of energy fluctuation."

"'This...'"

Looking at the perfectly normal Warning Crystal, Lin Qiu couldn't figure out what had happened either.

"'Forget it. Maybe it's just a belated April Fools' gift,' Taran shrugged, abandoning the pointless speculation."

"'Let's focus on the empty office on the eighth floor instead. I want to turn it into a wine cellar. As for the bottles in Chu Feng's office, he can keep them!'"

"'That's a good idea!' Lin Qiu's eyes lit up. Although she wasn't a heavy drinker, enjoying a little red wine occasionally sounded like a nice option."

In an underground base on the outskirts of New York, a burly white man stared at his phone in confusion, lost in thought.

"Hey! Bob, what are you thinking about? I've called you several times!"

"'Dio, damn it! Can't you ever show up without startling me? I swear, my fist is itching for a 'close encounter' with your face!'"

The slap on his arm snapped the burly man back to reality. Seeing who it was, he immediately brandished his fist at him.

"'Easy there, buddy, don't be so jumpy. I just came to see what you were doing. You've been staring into space for quite a while!'"

Facing the burly man's fist, Dio quickly raised his hands, deftly changing the subject.

He definitely did not want to taste those iron fists.

Hearing Dio, Bob immediately recalled the strange sensation from moments before.

"'It's just... I feel weird. I keep feeling like... I took out my phone to call someone, but for the life of me, I can't remember who!'"

The inexplicable feeling made Bob extremely frustrated; he even slammed a large fist against his own head.

"'Damn it, who was it?'"

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