Chapter 127: Si Nan’s Journal (2/2)

“Teacher Xu, please cooperate with us,” an elementalist said solemnly. “To prevent the spread of the poison, all of you will have to be quarantined for a period of time. Everyone, please try to understand. This is for the sake of everyone’s safety and for all of you.”

Teacher Xu’s face turned ugly. He didn’t expect to be quarantined just after escaping from that hellhole.

But the dead-serious look on the elementalist’s face told him that it was an order from the goddamn higher-ups.

He was clear about the Induction Ground and the higher-ups’ ways of handling such situations.

So he had no choice but to console the students. He knew that if he let the students carry on stirring up trouble, things that he did not want to see might happen.

“You want to put a lockdown on information?”

Duanmu Huanghun suddenly asked. That elementalist’s facial expression slightly changed as he glanced at Duanmu Huanghun. However, he did not disagree, and instead replied plainly, “It’s for everyone’s sake. This is such an enormous catastrophe. Who will be responsible if it creates unnecessary mass hysteria?”

“Why don’t you disperse everyone?” Duanmu Huanghun replied, meeting the elementalist’s gaze head-on. Without any fear, he asked coldly, “Have you not thought about what will happen if you lose control of the situation? How many people will be implicated?”

“We will not lose control of the situation.” The elementalist was aware of Duanmu Huanghun’s identity and was careful with his tone. “We have already found a way to deal with this poison.”

“You figured out a way to deal with the poison?” Ai Hui suddenly opened his mouth and asked.

Initially, the elementalist had not wanted to divulge anything. However, after seeing the agitation of the surrounding students and that Duanmu Huanghun was staring coldly at him, he decided to reveal a bit of information. “Yes, we found records of a similar poison in the journal of a deceased wood elementalist. The Induction Ground gathered the most powerful wood elementalists in the city and discovered a way to counter this type of poison. This whole situation was an accident.”

“Accident?” Duanmu Huanghun felt that he had heard a huge joke. It was obviously an enormous disaster, where so many people had died, but this fellow was saying that it was just an accident?

“Yes. There is a clear record of the formula of this type of poison in the wood elementalist’s journal. Right now, we are performing tests, but from the looks of it, things are proceeding very smoothly.”

The elementalist was brimming with confidence as he replied to Duanmu Huanghun.

……

Ai Hui and the rest were brought to a manor that was roughly forty kilometers from Central Pine City. When they just reached, they were immediately questioned by a few elementalists. It was evident that the security was extremely tight.

“I hope everyone can stay here at ease. If everything goes smoothly, all of you will be back in Central Pine City very soon. Please surrender all the various types of leaves you have with you. There will be severe consequences for anyone who tries to communicate with outside world without permission. If everyone can cooperate with us, the Induction Ground will compensate for the losses you suffered during this period of time.”

The elementalist then hurriedly took off.

“Let’s find a place and sleep,” Ai Hui told Fatty.

In order to be aware of what was happening outside the mound, Ai Hui hadn’t closed his eyes and had stayed in the sword embryo’s state for six days straight. When he finally loosened his grip on the sword hilt, weakness and fatigue flooded him like a tsunami.

He casually found an empty room that had a bed and fell asleep the moment he laid on it.

Meanwhile, Fatty stood guard at the door. He had slept day and night when under the mound, and he now felt as if he could go for days without sleep.

……

In a heavily-guarded basement in the Induction Ground.

The powerful wood elementalists of the Induction Ground had all gathered here. At this moment, they were studying an ancient journal, whose rotten pages revealed its unknown age.

This was a four-hundred-year-old journal that was left behind by a wood-attributed teacher named Si Nan.

In this journal, he had recorded his lifetime’s research and knowledge in detail.

In the course of his research, he had discovered a special phenomenon: except for blood-refined artifacts, all artifacts from the Cultivation Era had now become scraps.

He had collected a few pieces of blood-refined artifacts, and after carrying out experiments on them, he had discovered that they had the ability to self-repair. No one in current times knew how to use these artifacts, but they had not degenerated like the others.

They were well preserved.

This unique phenomenon had aroused Si Nan’s interest. He had proceeded to study many blood-refining manuals of the Cultivation Era and had discovered that blood-refining was entirely different from those mainstream training methods of the Cultivation Era.

Blood-refining was an ancient training method. Reportedly, it originated from the blood sacrifices that humans had made to the Heaven and Earth when they were just created.

Si Nan had combined the knowledge he had obtained from his research on blood-refining with that of wood elementalist’s plant breeding.

He hoped to breed plants that possessed the powers of blood-refining, and he put in a great deal of effort to breed a lot of plants. However, he did not succeed, even until his death.

After he had passed away, his student had discovered a significant amount of premature plants while tidying up his life’s works.

His student could not bear to destroy his teacher’s life’s work, but he was too busy to take care of them, so he transplanted these plants to the Garden of Life.

And that student had recorded this incident in his diary.

After this disaster had broken out in the Garden of Life, someone had remembered Si Nan’s journal during the initial investigation. Most of the teachers would donate their life’s research and findings to the Induction Ground after they died, and other teachers had the right to read and study them.

There was more than one person who had read Si Nan’s journal. Many wood elementalists that were gathered here today had also thought of this journal after hearing about the blood poison.

This was what encouraged the Induction Ground the most—they had found the key to the problem.