All Heavenly destiny reduced to ashes
Chapter 644 - 19 The Task with Hidden Agendas

Chapter 644: Chapter 19 The Task with Hidden Agendas

At first, the directors really thought that First Middle School was coming to poach talents, their hearts suddenly tightened.

Although they seemed to be finding faults with An Xuanming previously, not all directors are fools, most of them have normal intelligence. They were very well aware that An Xuan’s foundational qualities were absolutely top-notch. Criticizing was just limited to behind-the-scenes comments. If they were to meet him face to face, each of them would appear kind and benevolent like the good elders from Third Middle School.

"If it were in reality, I would acknowledge you as a genius, but since it’s online, you still need more practice.jpg"

All in all, such talent definitely cannot be taken away by other schools!

But if First Middle School really wants to pay a high price to poach him, what can they do about it?

Thinking of this, the previously somewhat puzzled directors suddenly became clear-eyed: No, we can’t afford to conflict with Mr. He and lose the school’s interests, indeed we should provide An Xuan with better treatment!

However, after making up their minds, they realized from the cheerful conversation among the trio including An Jing: "An Xuan’s background... might be extraordinary, the Yan Family, this uncertain fence-sitter, must know something from behind the scenes."

"Little Yan I know; he’s quite the tyrant at First Middle School, and quite mouthy too."

A director somewhat familiar with the Yan Family clicked his tongue, "To bow sincerely like this now, it’s definitely not just because he couldn’t win... Does An Xuan’s background need investigating?"

That’s what they say, but everyone’s gaze turned to Principal He.

"No need."

At this time, Principal He was also quite surprised - he only wanted to invite An Xuan because he recognized the presence of Sword Intent in him and he got along well with another talented student, Nian Quan - he never thought An Xuan had any significant background.

Although he could be from a Wilderness sect, the Wilderness forces can’t possibly be more influential than those from the cities.

But now, it seems he was mistaken.

But this made other directors have some unnecessary worries: "Sigh, if it’s truly a Wilderness genius, then his combat capabilities must be excellent, but if it’s a major Wilderness force... Martial and scholarly tests are not the same, there are no tricks to play, it’s about achieving actual combative merits - with An Xuan’s significant background and excellent Formation Devices, could there be a gap in his actual combat abilities?"

Human energy is limited, a young genius, due to family inheritance understands Sword Intent, specializes in Formation Devices, this is like the configuration of a Daoist Disciple from an ancient Dao Court Era, from this point of view, An Xuan is undoubtedly the successor of a major force, the only issue is, theoretically perfect configurations, may flop in real combat.

Principal He felt these directors really had too much time on their hands, always worrying back and forth, just like gamblers in the stock market who obsess over fluctuating trends, just love to suffer from their loans.

Moreover, although he hasn’t seen An Xuan’s capabilities, he’s definitely not the kind of inheritor who only inherited the elders’ Sword Intent.

As long as he doesn’t get extremely unlucky and encounter an awful task, there should be no problem.

If An Jing knew what Principal He was thinking, he would surely laugh.

—An awful task? Ha, I have never encountered a task that wasn’t awful!

Indeed, it was actually so.

"A group of Wilderness Tribulation Cultivators attacked Third Middle School’s Spirit Vein detection team, seizing the spirit vein detection information of a location in the north Wilderness and the corresponding devices."

An Jing looked at the task on the Water Mirror and slowly repeated, "These Tribulation Cultivators have now escaped into a camp in the northern mountain region, investigate their specific situation."

"An investigation task."

This task is difficult. An Jing was very clear about the value of being a Tribulation Cultivator in the Wilderness; even if their cultivation levels are not high, their actual combat abilities must be extremely strong.

And if it’s said that the cultivation levels are high, it’s even more terrifying because those cultivators who have become Tribulation Cultivators in the Wilderness, either did something significant or have been eroded by Demonic Qi, unable to return to the safe zones anymore.

Once they become Demon Men, their dangerousness drastically increases. The biggest hidden danger in this task lies here - if among these Tribulation Cultivators there is a demon cultivator, then it’s definitely not something students can handle.

Thankfully, this task was merely a reconnaissance mission; finding the enemy’s base and figuring out the situation there counts as a success. Even if nothing unexpected happens, preparing in advance and simply taking a glance from a distance with a drone suffices to complete the mission.

But here comes the problem.

"Ha, if it were me, something unexpected would definitely happen."

An Jing vacantly stared, studying the detailed intelligence of the mission: "First of all, this mission is not that simple. For whatever reason, it will inevitably lead to a situation where a mere reconnaissance mission will turn into direct combat."

"Furthermore, there must be demonic cultivators among these Tribulation Cultivators. Otherwise, they wouldn’t have managed to obstruct the academy’s monitoring team’s work, which is definitely going beyond their bounds, with combat power far surpassing the capacity of the students."

"Lastly, the outcome of this mission will surely have unexpected events. After I deal with the Tribulation Cultivators, there will definitely be a bigger crisis—like why these Tribulation Cultivators wanted to steal the Spirit Vein surveillance intelligence? There must be hidden reasons behind this."

This is how experienced An Jing was, capable of foreseeing many possibilities.

However, for this problem, Yan Chengju actually knew the answer.

After An Jing had inquired, he wasn’t surprised at all: "People from the Wilderness also need to cultivate, but they don’t know where the better Spirit Veins are located. They can only rely on luck and instinct to search, only cities have the most professional detection equipment."

"Of course, to rob the team from Third Middle School for such a trivial matter is truly not knowing how to spell the word ’death’."

An Jing slightly nodded: "That means this time Third Middle School detected something that others didn’t want to be detected, or information they desperately need. I believe it’s the former."

"Is it?" Nian Quan pondered: "But that doesn’t make sense—if they didn’t want it detected, why attack the team and not silence them? Wouldn’t fully arming and re-exploring the original site next time expose everything?"

"Moreover, they also stole equipment, I feel the latter is more likely."

"If it’s information they desperately needed, they have many ways to obtain it. Robbing the team is the most foolish method," An Jing analyzed. "But if it is to prevent some intelligence from leaking out in a short period of time, then this method makes sense."

"To prove this point, we only need to know whether other teams have encountered the same issue recently."

"I’ll go and ask." Seeing a role for himself, Yan Chengju became spirited: "This information is easy to inquire about, and we’ll have an answer soon."

"Then I’m in your hands."

An Jing smiled and nodded.

Since it was their own exploration team that was attacked, Third Middle School took this task very seriously. Apart from the exam, students who successfully complete this mission can also earn academic credits.

An Jing, of course, has no use for them, but for other students, this could entirely be considered an unexpected gain.

"Using exams and academic credits to get students enthusiastically working for free is really the same everywhere."

An Jing looked at the intelligence provided in the assessment content: "The northern mountain area, near lakes and water. This area has many fortresses and paths left from the period of the opening wars, so it’s comparatively safer in the wilderness. The detection team just didn’t expect to be ambushed here."

"After the ambush, no one in the detection team actually died; just one person was severely injured. Mainly, the convoy was disrupted, Tribulation Cultivators grabbed the items and fled, with assessed strength not exceeding the fourth level of Qi Refinement."

—No wonder this was selected as a test task, from the looks of it, it seems Third Middle School suffered an underhanded loss.

The procedure is also very simple. After the reconnaissance, it should be that Third Middle School dispatches an official martial troop to eradicate them—provoking the college’s people would definitely lead to severe punishment, otherwise, anyone could rob the academy’s research and detection teams.

If it were not for An Jing, who had experienced many battles and seen much, it might truly have been a disaster.

Also, he had discovered a key point.

"The northern mountain area by the marsh lands, a developed zone."

An Jing recalled for a moment, raising his eyebrows: "Isn’t this North Pass Marsh? The land developed by Master Qingye more than forty years ago?"