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Chapter 678 - 54 Jianmu Divine Boat

Chapter 678: Chapter 54 Jianmu Divine Boat

This scene was undoubtedly a critical situation for the group—the Kun Demon disintegrated and truly invaded the Ancient Immortal Ruins!

But for An Jing, he breathed a sigh of relief: "Crisis averted."

The entry of the Kun Demon would surely affect the ecosystem of the Ancient Immortal Ruins, triggering various other issues, but those were no longer concerns for An Jing.

However, soon after, the door to Cave Heaven welcomed its second visitor.

A golden sunburst suddenly appeared. The Golden Crow arrived at this land in the Celestial Domain.

The radiant Sun Golden Flame rose and blazed; it had clearly been exhausting all its might in a fierce battle, even losing one of its wings, now left with just a single feather.

But even so, it showed no pain or discouragement. Upon arriving at the Ancient Immortal Ruins, it was immensely exhilarated, even shedding tears as it cried out: [Finally, finally]

[Home, I have finally returned!]

Without any hesitation, though with only a feather, the Golden Crow still stretched its wings; it transformed into a golden light and dashed straight toward a towering peak at the far end of the Ancient Immortal Ruins.

An Jing’s gaze followed the trajectory of the Golden Crow towards those distant mountains that seemed somewhat blurry due to their great distance.

He observed carefully.

Then, he slightly widened his eyes.

That was a mountain.

Is it a mountain?

No, no.

It was...

A tree.

A colossal tree whose trunk pierced through the clouds, reaching into the Heavenly Dome, even piercing through the dome, its top disappearing into the highest reaches invisible to the naked eye, a mighty Divine Wood outside this world!

High mountains? Sea of clouds? If viewed from the perspective of that tree, they are but pebbles beneath its feet and dust clouds stirred up.

Previously, An Jing’s focus had been on the sea of clouds and the steel floating islands, having failed to notice this tree... no, who could have? Because it was only now that An Jing realized that the direction he had been looking at, all the shadows, all the darkness, the entire backdrop of the sky, were actually that monumental tree which seemed like the axis of the world.

The churning sea of clouds could only wander and surge around its protruding roots, and it was faintly visible that many steel islands were indeed floating around this colossal tree, like a massive harbor accepting all ships coming and going.

"Jianmu..."

Subdue Evil murmured: "This is a Jianmu entering its maturity phase... Indeed, the entire Ancient Immortal Ruins is not just a dockyard of the Tianyuan Realm, if there is a Jianmu, it must definitely be a public dockyard for the surrounding all-heavens Cave Heaven worlds."

"This is but ’entering the maturity phase’?"

An Jing murmured, while Subdue Evil calmly said: "As long as it’s within this world, Jianmu has no true maturity phase; a truly mature Jianmu would have already internalized a realm, rooted itself in the Great Void, capable of traversing the Taiyu Void, carrying an entire world through the vastness of the Great Void as a super-mothership."

"Back in the day, Embracing the Void Great Immortal compared the heavens and earth to a boat, and the starry sky to a sail; probably referring to such a ’Jianmu Vessel’... I have also been fortunate to see it, the massive Jianmu Divine Ship breaking through the Heavenly Demon’s blockade, rescuing those Cave Heaven and Small World inhabitants on the brink of extinction."

"The Ancient Immortal Ruins, this dockyard Cave Heaven, perhaps is not merely manufacturing the Void Sky Sword, the entire world is a dockyard for making ’Jianmu Divine Vessels’!"

An Jing raised his head, looking towards the towering tree as if it was the Heavenly Pillar.

Jianmu...

The homeland mentioned by the Golden Crow, the place it rushed to upon arrival here... Why would it call that its homeland if it’s not the Fusang Tree?

And also, the trio from Gan Yuan Sea...

Thinking this, An Jing also felt some movement; he turned his head and found that the trio from Gan Yuan Sea were waking up from their unconsciousness.

"Did we succeed?"

Daze joyfully said, Luo Chuan also cheered: "We’re back, we’ve finally returned!"

Sou Ye also sighed deeply: "We’ve finally completed the mission—thank you so much, An Xuan, you really gave us a helping hand!"

"But..."

An Jing fell silent for a while, then said somewhat reluctantly, "You are all about to die..."

In An Jing’s view, the wooden structures of the Ganyuan Sea trio had completely dried out, as if they had been exposed to the sun for over a decade, their vitality completely severed, having withstood most of the backlash from the earlier attack by the Kun Demon on the Primordial Spirit Sword Lotus.

"Die?"

Upon hearing this, the Ganyuan Sea trio was momentarily stunned, then burst into laughter, "Friend An Xuan, you are mistaken. We are neither humans nor mere Demon Spirits. The death and replacement of our bodies are as common to us as meals."

As they spoke, their bodies slowly crumbled and shattered, and three bright green luminous spheres emerged and floated around An Jing, "What does it matter if the body shell dies? Just like your Feather Transformation Cultivators, when we lose a body, we simply find another."

"Of course, we too need a body... a true body. Without a true body, our souls cannot unlock many functions, we cannot truly start living, let alone become ’humans’."

"And our true body is right there."

Following the words and guiding light of the luminous spheres, An Jing once again raised his head and looked towards the distant illusion of Jianmu.

"Our body is there, inside the ’Central Dao Court Northern Celestial Great Void Shipyard’, within the still-under-construction Divine Wood Heavenly Ship."

"Wait a second."

At that moment, listening to the words of the Ganyuan Sea trio, although they did not specify, An Jing thought of a possibility.

His mind flashed through the Great Void Heavenly Ship, shipyard, Feather Transformation Cultivators, and the many ’artificial intelligences’ of past lives, recalling the ’Divine Wood Heavenly Ship’ mentioned by Subdue Evil...

In this world, Divine Wood can also be a Great Void Heavenly Ship, and it might even be said, to be the mainstream of Great Void Heavenly Ships...

He turned his head, looking shocked at the three luminous points, "Could it be that, you are..."

"See you next time."

The three luminous points laughed and without answering or confirming, drifted away from An Jing, flying towards the distant illusion of Jianmu along with the Golden Crow, "When we meet again, we will greet you in our true forms—then, our decaying ’bodies’ in the Tianyuan Realm can be entrusted to you."

"See you next time, peculiar visitor from another world. We really are sorry for knocking you down this time, let’s properly, truly meet again next time."

They left.

Whether it was the Kun Demon, the Golden Crow, or the Ganyuan Sea group of extraordinary beings, all have achieved their purposes.

Even, neither the Shouyang Mountain Group nor the Luofu Group lost completely—the former, after all, opened a Cave Heaven gateway in the yet unexplored free area, which Luofu couldn’t monopolize.

Though Luofu couldn’t monopolize it, in the end, a director from Third Middle School took action, stabilizing and subduing the situation, seizing initiative of the nearly lost North Lake Swamp District.

Even Third Middle School didn’t lose: they rescued An Jing with the utmost speed, defeated the Kun Demon, expelled the Demon King, helping Luofu Group win this critical battle.

So, who lost then?

I don’t know. Anyway, An Jing didn’t lose either.

"An Xuan!"

The one who appeared again through the Cave Heaven gateway, it was none other than the Grandmaster of Third Middle School, Director Chen Qingyi of Luofu Chen Family.

He descended from the sky, and the moment he crossed the Cave Heaven gateway, he hurried to check on An Jing’s condition.

This seemingly young but life-nearing elder relieved when seeing An Jing, although heavily bloodied, in not too bad a shape, just somewhat weak: "It’s really good that you are still alive... You are the hero of this victorious North Lake Swamp expansion war."

"Quick, this is the ’Seven-Returning Great Pill’ from Xuandu Mountain, take it quickly; it will aid you in Foundation Establishment and even achieving the Purple Mansion!"

An Jing: "?"

The appearance of Director Chen was not surprising, as he had previously helped An Jing greatly by piercing the Kun Demon from afar, and then, as the Kun Demon clashed with the Golden Crow, he was naturally the one who had preserved his strength best, managing to subdue the local Demon King and arrive first.

But what he said next... was a bit puzzly.

Me? Expansion war? Hero?

An Jing was momentarily confused.

—Did I miss something?