All Heavenly destiny reduced to ashes
Chapter 411 - 54 Event Context (1/3)

Chapter 411: Chapter 54 Event Context (1/3)

The collapse of the Great Yuan Rainbow Tower, along with the disturbance of the Earth Vein, had transformed the once orderly circular city into a fragmented cookie, its uneven cracks constantly spreading, as though a mountain were rising in the east.

An Jing’s warehouse was located on the rising eastern side, and although the overall structure of the buildings in the east district hadn’t suffered damage, certainly no one dared to stay inside their homes anymore.

And beneath those cracks, a colossal hidden relic flickered in and out of existence.

Afterward, everyone was blown away by the surge of rising Spirit Qi, including An Jing who was riding on Tengshuang White and Huo Qing.

"What was that just now?!"

It wasn’t just An Jing, Huo Qing had also caught a glimpse of the ethereal shadow of the Ancient Immortal City within the rift, believing that many residents of Chonggang Town had seen these as well.

"Relics, obviously!"

As Tengshuang White tumbled back and forth in mid-air, buffeted by the immense flow of Spiritual Power, An Jing forcefully stabilized it using his Spiritual Power and then used the momentum to accelerate away from Chonggang Town, flying towards Xuanye City.

During the flight, he took a moment amidst the chaos to answer, "Now it seems that Chonggang Town’s reputation as a mining town is half-true, half-false. Perhaps there is indeed an Earth Vein suitable for the growth of Crystal Seeds, but from whence does this Vein originate?"

And yet... there were things An Jing had not said. He turned his head to look back at Mengshan True Person who seemed to be still ’confronted’ and ’struggling’ against the Three-legged Golden Crow.

As a True Person of the Purple Mansion, especially the True Person of Chonggang Town’s Purple Mansion, he couldn’t possibly be ignorant of this.

Moreover, the collapse of the Great Yuan Rainbow Tower was also suspicious, for even if the overloading of the Purple Mansion Great Formation caused the control center to malfunction, it was unlikely to cause such a disturbance in the Earth Vein.

This anomaly was something that Mengshan True Person, a master of Formation Arts, would definitely notice. While others might think he was entangled by the Three-legged Golden Crow, An Jing had used the Divine Repository Divine Skill token and seen his own master, Mingguang Dust, take action!

Mengshan True Person was definitely not like this, being forced into an equal fight with a Three-legged Golden Crow; he clearly had the ability to use the Purple Mansion Great Formation of Chonggang Town to obliterate this Purple Mansion True Spirit!

With this in mind, An Jing asked in a deep voice, "Which group’s True Person is he?"

"... Shouyang Mountain!" Huo Qing thought for a moment, then quickly responded, "He is directly affiliated with Shouyang Mountain Group, Jin Ge Industries’s True Person!"

"Shouyang Mountain Group, Jin Ge Industries!"

An Jing muttered in his heart; he was very familiar with Jin Ge Industries—it was where he often bought self-destructing drones.

He hadn’t forgotten that behind the Heavenly Profound True Talisman incident, Shouyang Mountain was a shadowy manipulator on the backend.

Xuanye City was a Spiritual Vein metropolis primarily under Luofu’s control. Although Shouyang Mountain Group also wielded its own influence there, it was no match for Luofu’s control.

It would be outrageous for An Jing to believe that Luofu was unaware of the Ancient Immortal Ruins beneath Chonggang Town—it’s likely that the entire Chonggang Town was merely a front set up by Luofu to conceal the ruins.

The structure of the Great Yuan Rainbow Tower could be said to be the central area of the Purple Mansion Great Formation, or alternatively, a probe into the Earth Vein for downward exploration!

If this Ancient Immortal Ruin were related to the Heavenly Profound True Talisman, then the assault on Chonggang Town had been premeditated, part of Shouyang Mountain’s plan to force a public disclosure by Luofu...

"These big groups... always acting recklessly, with no regard for human life!"

An Jing frowned slightly, grateful that Chonggang Town had few residents and that the majority were capable hands unafraid of beast swarms; otherwise, who knows how many would have perished.

He logged the incident in his mental ’ledger of accounts to be settled’ and continued driving, taking Huo Qing and leaving the town split in two at optimum speed.

Because the Fire Crow Flock had already been dispersed,

Apart from them, many others were fleeing as well, with hundreds of different light fleeing skills and magic artifacts rising to the sky.

Nothing happened on their escape route, and An Jing and Huo Qing quickly arrived at Danlin Town, a place both of them were quite familiar with—although Huo Qing was somewhat reluctant to return to his hometown, in such a critical moment, he instinctively led An Jing back there.

At that moment, many cultivators and solitary practitioners in Danlin Town were also using all sorts of arts of magic and divine skills to look towards the battle in the direction of Chonggang Town. After An Jing and Huo Qing arrived, neighbors familiar with Huo Qing immediately came forward, curiously asking what had happened in Chonggang Town.

Upon hearing the news that "the True Spirit of the Purple Mansion and the three-legged Golden Crow had a great battle with Mengshan True Person, both sides exhibiting surging power with each movement that shattered the heavens and split the earth," many spectators who couldn’t see the distant scene exclaimed in disbelief and then kept asking for details.

Huo Qing was surrounded by people asking questions and suddenly became a big star, while An Jing slipped away silently from the bloodthirsty crowd of Tianyuan Realm, activated the vision-enhancing skill that paired with the True Spirit Eye, and continued to observe the battle conditions.

With An Jing’s current strength, he certainly couldn’t see the details, at most he could only see a few points of light flickering and colliding, then clouds continuously rising and dissipating in the far-off horizon; but overall, he could tell that Mengshan True Person was gaining the upper hand, "gradually" suppressing the three-legged Golden Crow.

However, in the end, he "made a slight misstep" and "carelessly" failed to seal the Golden Crow, allowing the wounded True Spirit to escape.

After that, Mengshan True Person activated his divine skills, and the vast Six Harmonies and Unifying Great Formation enveloped the entire Chonggang Town, fixing the continuously fracturing earth fissures in place.

Moreover, he even utilized his authority as a Guardian True Person to mobilize the power of the Floating Dust Plains’ earth veins to repair them.

In that instant, every town among the seventeen towns of the Floating Dust Plains lit up with various colors of light; in the Great Void Netherworld, the invisible network of spiritual power and earth veins flashed briefly, faintly outlining the embryonic form of a massive defensive great formation.

"Truly impressive..."

Huo Qing managed to break free from the crowd halfway through and came to An Jing’s side to look at the distant battle conditions together.

At that moment, he looked around the spirit veins of Danlin Town with astonishment and admiration, exclaiming, "Although I know the seventeen towns of the Floating Dust Plains are all part of the Xuanye City’s protective matrix, I could never imagine it was so majestic and vast before seeing it with my own eyes."

"And the Floating Dust Plains are just one of the several safe zones surrounding Xuanye City... It’s hard to imagine its full extent."

An Jing nodded slightly, "That’s the value of a ’Central Spiritual Vein City’... With several Golden Core True Persons guarding it, how could it not be majestic?"

The standing force of Xuanye City, if transferred to Embracing the Void, would count as a Middle Gate, and there are four such cities in the Tianyuan Realm.

The power of the entire Tianyuan Realm, although definitely not comparable to Embracing the Void, each consortium is not inferior to an Upper Gate with the support and heritage of Lingxiao.

If you add them up, it’s probably comparable to the Heavenly Ancestor, a quite powerful Heavenly Ancestor at that.

Moreover, An Jing was certain in his heart that Xuanye City being established here was no coincidence.

The location of the Great Spirit Vein was definitely also a core civilization hub of the Tianyuan Realm during the Dao Sect era; it was only natural for there to be ruins here, but this information was concealed by the higher-ups, something one would only learn after reaching the Purple Mansion.

But now, there were some who wanted to make the news of the Ancient Immortal Ruins public.

"The place where I first crossed over to this world..."

At that moment, An Jing thought of something else, lost in thought, and recalled the cave in the mountains on the outskirts of the Floating Dust Plains wilderness: "That corridor leading to the depths of the ground, a decade ago there was an exploration team from Luofu that went to investigate, but they all died along the way."

"Their equipment became my first pot of gold, but what was their goal? They explored deeper into the cave, what were they trying to find?"

The truth was crystal clear.

"That cave, leading deep underground... Perhaps, that was a ’small path’ leading to the Ancient Immortal Ruins?"