All Heavenly destiny reduced to ashes
Chapter 430 - 73 Entering the Field of Vision (3/3)

Chapter 430: Chapter 73 Entering the Field of Vision (3/3)

"So it is."

Soon, Principal He had received intelligence from his secretary, "Your warehouse is located in Chonggang Town, which is set to become a forefront bastion for the exploration of ancient immortal ruins."

"Your foresight isn’t bad either, property prices are sure to rise, so congratulations on the huge profit in advance."

"But the ruins..."

Principal He glanced at Nian Quan next to him and after contemplating for a moment, he carefully said, "These underground ancient immortal ruins, since they have already been disclosed to the public, will definitely be opened up for exploration by everyone in the future."

"However, my advice is that you should not enter lightly."

Principal He’s warning was very direct, he obviously knew some inside information, "Now that it’s been made public, although it does not fulfill the wishes of certain powerful individuals, it’s also not a benefit intended for ordinary loose cultivators and wilderness folk."

"There must be numerous checkpoints inside that not even the assault teams of major groups have conquered, and that’s why it’s been opened to loose cultivators to try... In any case, don’t rush, if you really want to explore, then you can wait a little longer until the situation is more clear."

An Jing could tell that Principal He most likely had some connections and knew the true nature of the ancient immortal ruins. Unlike other cultivators who were extremely enthusiastic and excited about it, he held a cautious attitude.

"I am indeed interested in this."

Since that was the case, An Jing simply took the opportunity to ask, "It’s said to be ancient immortal ruins, but what exactly are the ruins? A living area of a Dao Courtyard? Or an ancient library?"

"Why has it existed under Xuanye City for so long yet only recently been discovered?"

"It is currently unknown."

Principal He shook his head, "But according to my guess, it should be a Cave Heaven that moved along a spirit vein. Xuanye City is the nexus of this region’s spirit veins, occupying the original manifesting location of this Cave Heaven."

"This Cave Heaven was suppressed beneath by a Great Formation... and was forced to manifest underground, becoming an underground relic."

"In fact, if not for Xuanye City’s Protective Great Formation, it would have appeared on the surface."

"As for what the relic is exactly... in fact, those who are familiar with it can tell at a glance."

At this, Principal He turned his head to look in the direction of Chonggang Town, his tone filled with emotion, "It is a dockyard."

"A large-scale Cave Heaven dockyard from the era of the Dao Courtyards, used for constructing Great Void Heavenly Ships."

"A dockyard?"

An Jing was momentarily stunned. He thought back to when he had left the initial cavern and seen that Immortal Path Great Void Heavenly Ship — now it seemed that the ship was there to transport the Heavenly Profound True Talisman and explore the ancient immortal ruins.

"Drones and Evil-Repelling Clothes are already prepared."

Principal He’s eyes sparked with a slight motion, and he nodded with a smile, "They will be delivered to the door later— don’t worry, consider it a thank you gift. You youngsters chat first; I won’t continue to hinder your bonding."

Turning back, Principal He looked at Nian Quan and sighed, "Although I want to advise you not to be so foolhardy... right now, you must think that you’re alone and therefore fearless, eager to fight and gamble at this moment, and I can’t dampen your spirit."

"But Nian Quan, you should still think carefully about it. How big a risk did you take to win this time? If you hadn’t dodged Yan Chengju’s Melting Fire in time and the referee couldn’t block it in time, wouldn’t you have died on the stage?"

"Being alive. Only by being alive do you have a future."

On the sickbed, Nian Quan neither argued nor remained silent but obediently nodded and agreed, "I understand, Principal."

"What do you understand...sigh."

Principal He sighed as he walked out of the room, clearly noticing that Nian Quan’s obedience was only superficial—indeed it was, as Nian Quan stuck his tongue out at his retreating figure, not really taking the principal’s nagging to heart.

—This is rebellion.

Observing this, An Jing stroked his chin and, with a hollow gaze, said to Nian Quan, "Actually, what he said wasn’t wrong; you really did take a big risk this time—Nian Quan, you seem to have a self-destructive tendency."

"Ah, is that so..."

Being told this by both Principal He and An Jing made Nian Quan feel somewhat embarrassed, "It’s okay, I really do want to live, but I don’t think I’m going to die. At worst, I could just trigger the Wounding Sword Qi ahead of time, break through the Melting Fire, and then surrender."

"You indeed wouldn’t have died this time because Yan Chengju is only a Qi Refinement cultivator, easy to predict and deal with. In the future, when you encounter other powerful enemies in the Wilderness, you must be cautious and always be on guard against the opponent’s trump cards."

An Jing sprawled casually on the side of the bed, plucking a banana from the fruit basket by his side—yes, bananas exist in the Tianyuan Realm—peeled it and shoved it into Nian Quan’s mouth, silencing his attempt to speak, "Next, let’s review your fighting method, Nian Quan, tell me, was there a problem with how you started fighting...?"

Nian Quan’s eyes widened in an instant; after swallowing the food in his mouth, he said hurriedly, "No, wasn’t I doing pretty well at the beginning?"

The peaceful caretakers’ room instantly turned into a raucous place for replaying fighting methods and stubborn claims of ’I fought just fine!’

Even An Jing found it difficult to persuade a victor who had already won, but fortunately, Huo Qing was there to lend support, and since Nian Quan held a fair amount of respect for An Jing’s own formidable abilities, he eventually grudgingly admitted that there were some redundant actions in his fight.

An Jing also praised Nian Quan for developing a new fighting technique, breaking through old technical barriers, paving a new path in the use of Wounding Sword Qi, breaching mental constraints, accumulating potent energy through the Five Elements Pathogenic Qi, and finding his own niche domain with the unique grip of Heavenly River Sword Intent, achieving a major breakthrough in his personal domain’s critical path.

During the discussion, the topic of conversation among the three naturally shifted from reviewing fighting methods to discussing the Ancient Immortal Ruins and sharing information about the situation around Xuanye City. This topic could keep three teens whose combined ages barely surpassed forty talking for an entire evening, but sadly, the resident doctor ousted them from the ward due to their noise disturbing other patients (like Yan Chengju).

But that didn’t matter, as Nian Quan had already moved into the large flat in the Inner City District that Principal He had prepared for him; he only needed rest and didn’t need to stay in the hospital.

At the door, two large, black, professional-sealed boxes were stacked on top of each other, containing the ’high-grade anti-interference drones’ and ’military-grade evil-repelling clothes’ that An Jing had previously requested.

With the Evil-Repelling Clothes, along with An Jing’s ’Ghost Scale Inner Armor’ and his own Heavenly Mandate Resistance, An Jing could be considered well-protected against Demonic Qi and Evil Qi. Even if there really was some malevolent qi in the Primordial Spirit Cave, he would not be afraid.

While An Jing and the others were happily leaving, the atmosphere in the ward of First Middle School was oppressively bleak.

Yan Chengju was not originally so angry; losing to Nian Quan felt like a punch to the head, but he was not the type to overreact to a single defeat. The Yan Family’s household ethos was decent, and at most, his relatives would tease him a bit for it, while the elders, who had done worse in their own time, wouldn’t stir up any family strife.

But as he listened to An Jing and Nian Quan laugh and talk, debriefing and bursting with jargon that hurt his head just to hear, Yan Chengju’s headache became unbearable. He reported them to the special city’s medical staff, asking them to remove the three oddballs who were chatting late into the night about ’Yin Zhonggang Town’s marketplace fluctuations due to Fire Crow attacks, the declining sale prices of Fire Attribute Spiritual Materials failing to meet market expectations, the overall decrease in attribute value entering the foggy consumer market, and the potential to bottom-feed for related Magic Artifacts’—headaches the lot of them.

"Who exactly is Nian Quan’s friend...?"

Yan Chengju was no fool; after his loss, he had gathered information about Nian Quan’s recent actions through various means and had noticed the presence of An Jing and Huo Qing.

Huo Qing was one thing, but An Xuan was genuinely mysterious, and it was only after these two interacted with Nian Quan that Nian Quan suddenly learned two rather extraordinary Sword Dao techniques—if it were the original Nian Quan, there would have been no chance of defeating him.

Yan Chengju had once considered himself the number one of Xuanye City’s generation, destined to lead Xuanye City in the Four Cities of Tianyuan competition. Now, it seemed, not only did Nian Quan qualify to compete with him, but there were others as well?

He absolutely had to uncover the background of this An Xuan—he thought, "Whatever Third Middle School can offer, we at First Middle School can offer too, and we can offer more!"