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“How about it? My infiltration plan, isn’t it bad?” Sun Lingtong transmitted his voice to Yang Chanyu.

Yang Chanyu chuckled, “I overestimated the inspection skills of this group of cloud merchants. I didn’t expect them to be so careless in their checks.”

Since Sun Lingtong intended to steal, he had naturally discussed it with Ning Zhuo beforehand.

Working together, they devised a plan to sneak in through the automaton Blazing Apes.

The automaton Blazing Apes themselves had storage arrays, but they could only store objects, not living beings.

Sun Lingtong and Yang Chanyu modified the automaton Blazing Apes, improving the array of one of the apes so that they could temporarily enter it.

On the surface of the array, Sun Lingtong and Yang Chanyu also collaborated on some appropriate camouflage.

Thus, Sun Lingtong and Yang Chanyu, using the automaton Blazing Apes, quietly arrived inside the spirit beast Cloud Whale.

At this moment, both of them concealed their figures.

Only when they moved would there be a slight ripple in the air.

“Where is the door here?” Yang Chanyu looked around, marveling at the vastness of the warehouse while also feeling puzzled.

Sun Lingtong knew more than he did. “Come with me! The people of the Flying Cloud Nation usually set up a control array on the right side of the entrance.”

Sun Lingtong led Yang Chanyu to the critical location where the cloud merchant cultivators had just been operating.

Sun Lingtong infused spiritual energy into his hand and stroked the cloud-like wall.

After touching it for a while, his expression shifted, revealing joy. “It’s here.”

He then continued to infuse spiritual energy into the cloud wall beneath his hand, and immediately, yellow array patterns appeared.

However, they lacked the identity token, causing the yellow light to appear for only a short while before completely disappearing.

This was enough!

Sun Lingtong and Yang Chanyu felt a surge of excitement, as they had found the key to breaking through.

“Isn’t it simple to forge an identity token? Watch me!” Yang Chanyu volunteered, and after some tinkering, she created a fake token.

She placed this fake token in the groove, and the yellow array patterns reappeared.

The previous scene replayed.

The doors of the compartments on the shelves dissolved like mist, revealing the automaton Blazing Apes stored in each compartment.

Sun Lingtong casually waved his hand and collected some of them.

His storage bracelet on his wrist, though only of the artifact level, had excellent storage effects.

The reason for stealing the Blazing Apes was to prevent any flaws from being exposed. After all, he still had many things to steal next.

Once the cloud merchants discovered that only the Blazing Apes were not stolen, they would inevitably focus their attention and suspicion on Ning Zhuo.

After Sun Lingtong collected the Blazing Apes, the yellow array patterns on the wall had converged in two places, each outlining the shape of a door on the wall.

A large door and a small door.

Sun Lingtong and Yang Chanyu communicated about this via voice transmission.

Both of them unanimously chose the small door.

Clearly, the large door led to the main thoroughfare, where there would undoubtedly be more cloud merchants and more protective measures.

The forged identity token, after all, was not the genuine one and could not directly open the small door.

Yang Chanyu and Sun Lingtong both stood in front of the small door and began to ponder and study it.

Yang Chanyu showed a hint of difficulty.

The style of the Flying Cloud Nation’s arrays was very unfamiliar and uncomfortable for her.

After ten breaths, Yang Chanyu had only understood a little.

This was too slow!

Such efficiency was unacceptable.

Just as she was feeling anxious, Sun Lingtong suddenly said, “I understand.”

Then, he took out various small artifact tools for stealing from his storage bag and started working on the door.

His skilled techniques and comprehensive tools left Yang Chanyu, the Golden Core true disciple of the Empty Gate, dazzled.

After only five or six breaths, Sun Lingtong quickly stepped back, abruptly putting away all his tools.

In front of him, the small door rapidly dissolved like mist, revealing a doorway.

“You’re quite capable,” Yang Chanyu looked at Sun Lingtong with newfound respect.

Sun Lingtong grinned and said nothing.

Unlike Yang Chanyu, he was quite familiar with the array layout philosophy and style of the Flying Cloud Nation.

This was because in his early years, Ning Zhuo had shared the automaton classics left by his mother with Sun Lingtong.

Automaton classics were a branch of miscellaneous studies. Besides automaton techniques, all other aspects of cultivation arts could be reflected in automatons.

Conversely, automaton classics involved a wide range of cultivation arts.

Sun Lingtong had studied the automaton classics left by Ning Zhuo’s mother quite deeply. This led to his general knowledge of the cultivation arts of the Flying Cloud Nation.

He was quite knowledgeable about the various array layout techniques and styles of the Flying Cloud Nation.

“Alright, let’s go quickly. The longer we delay, the greater the possibility of us being discovered,” Sun Lingtong quickly checked, confirmed that there were no traps behind the door, and immediately took the lead, sprinting ahead.

“Wait for me, be careful of the guards,” Yang Chanyu hurriedly followed.

The two arrived at another warehouse.

This warehouse was as spacious as the one they had just been in.

Following the previous steps, Yang Chanyu again designed a fake identity token.

They placed the token in the array groove.

Through the array, they made the cabinet doors of the shelves dissolve, revealing the materials hidden in the compartments.

Each compartment contained a cloud of mist, within which a faint orchid was visible.

Yang Chanyu frowned slightly. “This is…”

She was searching her memory.

She felt a faint familiarity with this peculiar flower. She seemed to have seen it before in the sect classics she had encountered.

Sun Lingtong blurted out, “This is Misty Embroidered Orchid.”

“This is an orchid that only grows in a dense misty environment. The color of the flowers is the same as you see, all white.”

“Therefore, it is easily overlooked by herbal gatherers.”

“This type of orchid is often used to make disguise talismans or aura-concealing pills.”

Yang Chanyu immediately nodded. “Yes, that’s it.”

She again looked at him with renewed admiration and praised him, “I didn’t expect you to be so knowledgeable.”

Sun Lingtong waved his hand, chuckled, and continued to move forward.

Along the way, the two collected many Misty Embroidered Orchids.

Even if they didn’t need these things themselves, they could still sell them. As a specialty of the Flying Cloud Nation, there was no shortage of buyers in the Southern Bean Nation.

The two opened the small door and arrived at another warehouse, which was still a huge warehouse.

This time, after opening the doors of the compartments, they found that the compartments contained dormant beetles.

These beetles were all sleeping, some as small as a millstone, others as large as a carriage.

Their exoskeletons were extremely hard and flashed with faint electric light on the surface.

“These are Heavy Thunder Beetles,” Yang Chanyu immediately recognized them this time.

“These are a specialty of the Thunderous Nation.”

“These beetles are very heavy and move quite slowly.”

“Their exoskeletons are extremely hard and can be used to make many lightning-attribute artifacts, especially for making defensive artifacts.”

The Thunderous Nation was located between the Southern Bean Nation and the Flying Cloud Nation. It was likely that this group of cloud merchants passed through the Thunderous Nation, did business there, and acquired a large number of local specialties.

The two collected quite a few Thunder Cloud Beetles and continued forward.

This time, the warehouse they arrived at after passing through the small door was nearly half the size of the previous ones.

They activated the array, making the shelves appear, and then opened the cabinet doors of each compartment on the shelves.

The spaces in these compartments were very small, containing only a long bottle with a narrow neck, filled with a lot of dew.

Yang Chanyu took a long bottle, poured out some dew, checked it, and smiled. She recognized what the raw material of this dew was.

She looked at Sun Lingtong. “Have you recognized it?”

Sun Lingtong waved his hand. “Isn’t it just heavenly dew?”

“Alright, our time is limited. Let’s not have such unnecessary conversation.”

Heavenly dew was no longer a specialty of one country or region; it was widely found in the firmament.

Heavenly dew condensed between the clouds at dawn, clear and transparent, and existed for a very short time.

It was either blown away by the wind or evaporated by the sunlight.

Cultivators who wanted to collect this heavenly dew could only do so by camping out in advance and setting up arrangements high in the sky, in order to collect it before the heavenly dew dissipated.

It was relatively difficult for ordinary cultivators to collect heavenly dew, as the clouds where heavenly dew condensed were often located at high altitudes.

However, this was easy for the cloud merchants of the Flying Cloud Nation. Their spirit beasts flew at high altitudes, and collecting heavenly dew became a regular activity for traveling merchants every morning.

Sun Lingtong and Yang Chanyu collected some heavenly dew and continued their journey.

This time, when they opened the small door, an automaton puppet appeared before them.

Yang Chanyu was startled and was about to strike, but Sun Lingtong promptly stopped her with a shout, “Wait!”

The automaton puppet showed no signs of attack.

After stopping Yang Chanyu, Sun Lingtong carefully examined the automaton puppet before him.

The automaton puppet also looked at them and chuckled lightly, “Who are you two? Are you thieves?”

Yang Chanyu was startled again, and murderous intent quickly spread.

Sun Lingtong was also surprised, but he had encountered automaton puppets that could speak before. Yuan Dasheng, who was with Ning Zhuo, was one such example.

Sun Lingtong’s eyes darted around, and he said to the puppet, “Of course, we’re not thieves! We’re on your side. Look, our token is still by the wall.”

Sun Lingtong gave a thumbs-up gesture behind him, indicating the fake identity token stuck in the groove on the wall.

Without waiting for the automaton puppet to examine it carefully, Sun Lingtong immediately changed the subject. “Can you let us pass? We need to do an inspection. This is our job, to check the quality of the goods and see if there’s any damage.”

“We are the inspectors assigned by Master Song Fu Li.”

“By the way, what’s your name? What level of sentience have you reached? Can you do arithmetic? What’s eight times eight?”

The automaton puppet blinked its large eyes and looked at the two, examining them from head to toe before speaking in a soft voice, “My name is Ru Die Niang. Since I can talk to you, I have naturally reached the stage of sentience. Eight times eight, hmm… is it sixty-six?”