After dealing with these matters, Dong Tianyu left the room since his Divine Sense wasn’t suppressed. He expanded his Divine Sense to its fullest extent, searching for any hidden evaders.

Dong Tianyu would open every room and, upon entering, gather all items inside into the Storage Space.

Although this scavenging behavior similar to Zhou Baipi’s had not yet led him to other hiders, it had allowed Dong Tianyu to collect quite a few things.

Dong Tianyu originally planned to scour the floor he was on before moving to the lower levels.

However, as Dong Tianyu left the residential area and walked towards the corridor leading to the banquet hall, he saw two rows of metal armor statues standing along the corridor.

He was quite fond of these large figurines, so Dong Tianyu had no intention of leaving them behind, planning instead to take them all into the Storage Space.

But when Dong Tianyu attempted to store them, he was surprised to find that these metal armors couldn’t be taken into the Storage Space.

Upon receiving this feedback, Dong Tianyu immediately guessed the reason: it seemed these armors belonged to someone.

What Dong Tianyu now feared was wandering aimlessly with nothing to gain. Having confirmed there was an issue with the armors, far from being scared, he became even more excited.

Perhaps the person hidden in the shadows knew that Dong Tianyu had discovered something amiss with the armors, so they immediately shut the doors at both ends of the corridor and then controlled the armors to attack Dong Tianyu.

Because he had not reached the end of the corridor, Dong Tianyu hadn’t initially paid attention to how many armor figurines were placed on either side.

Only when these armors started moving toward him did Dong Tianyu count them with his Divine Sense, but there were only sixteen.

Beyond counting the armors, Dong Tianyu also prepared to use his Divine Sense to locate the person in hiding who was controlling the armors—it went without saying that this person must also be a hider.

Faced with the assault of the armors, Dong Tianyu wasn’t overly concerned; Flying Sword Cold Gleam slashed through the air, instantly separating all the helmets and breastplates of the armors.

Inspecting the severed sections, Dong Tianyu confirmed his suspicions: the interiors were indeed hollow, and from this observation, he could assert that these armors attacking him were neither puppets nor robots of any sort.

The fact that these hollow puppets could move probably owed itself to the handiwork of the one hiding in the shadows.

Just when Dong Tianyu thought that the armors, having been beheaded by the flying swords, could no longer move, he didn’t expect that even without their helmets, their movement wasn’t affected in the slightest.

At this moment, the armor closest to Dong Tianyu had already raised its giant sword, swinging it toward Dong Tianyu’s position.

The armors’ sword-swinging actions were quite stiff, and the speed of their chopping was not very fast.

Not to mention Dong Tianyu, who was at the Golden Core Stage, even a Martial Artist at the Body Tempering Realm, if slightly agile, could easily dodge this attack.

Dong Tianyu didn’t just step backward only to posture, nor did he side-step to let the sword edge come within less than a centimeter of his body.

At this moment, Dong Tianyu retreated several steps like a novice, always maintaining a safe distance between himself and the armors.

From the dull thud produced when the giant sword hit the ground, it was clear that despite the stiffness in their movements, the armors’ strike force hadn’t diminished much.

Just as the foremost armor was preparing to lift its giant sword for a second attack, the flying swords that had initially been harvesting helmets attacked again from behind the armors. 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝙚𝔀𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝒐𝒎

But this time, under Dong Tianyu’s control, the flying swords shuttled back and forth through the group of armors, and in less than ten seconds, what was once a majestic row of armors was reduced to a pile of scrap metal.

To prevent the possibility of the puppets reanimating continuously for battle as seen in films, once the puppets were struck by the flying swords, Dong Tianyu immediately gathered the scattered fragments of armor that fell to the ground into the Storage Space.

As the pieces of armor on the ground grew fewer, the entire corridor soon became clean and uncluttered.

When the last piece of armor fragment was gathered into the Cave, Dong Tianyu did not store the flying swords into the Storage Space, but let them hover behind him.

Although all the armor fragments were now in Dong Tianyu’s Storage Space, and the corridor looked impeccably tidy, the doors on both sides of the corridor remained closed. According to the logic in films, the hider must still be within this corridor.

With this in mind, Dong Tianyu once again implemented the plan of gathering everything in the corridor into the Storage Space.

At this moment, Dong Tianyu wished he could even shovel up the floor tiles and send them into the Cave for decomposition.

Dong Tianyu wasn’t foolish—valuable items were stored in the Storage Space, while worthless trash was directly thrown into the Cave to be decomposed into nutrients.

Perhaps it was due to Dong Tianyu’s action of making things disappear whenever he touched them, but when he had scraped off a layer of the floor, he turned his attention to the paintings hanging on the walls on either side of the corridor.