Chapter 179 - Planting Potatoes? (1/2)

Wang Siyu was rather wary, and could not help asking, “Jiang He, housing outside the city are not worth a single penny now. Why would you buy them?”

“They are useful.”

Jiang He answered mysteriously.

After saying goodbye and getting ready to leave, he remembered something just as he opened his car door and reminded her, “By the way, tell the villagers they shouldn’t return to the village unless there is something important.”

“Also, tell them to follow the main road even if they do, and don’t run off.”

Climbing back inside his car, Jiang He issued a voice command to return home.

After some thought on his way back, he took out his phone and dialed Duan Tianhe’s number.

His general idea was to get the area around his house listed as a forbidden zone. Therefore, he was sending out a notice to the martial artists and Awakened leaving the cities to train and hunt Ferals so that they would not wander blindly into Jinyintan Village.

Causing friendly fire in the most unlikely of mishaps would not do.

Though confused, Duan Tianhe did not press Jiang He for information and simply agreed to it. His tone then shifted as he added, “I’ve just received word from higher-ups that the Secret Realm of the five sacred grounds will be opened on the seventh of October.”

“The Tantras’ Secret Realm is available to six people, and aside from you, the other five were selected from various military zones across Xibei and the Martial Arts Department (MAD). Minister Wang intends to have all of you gather at Lingzhou City ahead of time, and elites would escort you to the Western Frontier.”

“Oh?”

Jiang He was rather taken aback, and he asked in surprise, “Anyone who could enter the Secret Realm would not be weak, would they? And yet they would still need an escort?”

“Precautions are necessary.”

Ever cautious in dealing with people and matters, Duan Tianhe replied, “Our intelligence suggests that the Sky Demon Cult had mobilized a large group of elites and are up to something big.”

“You mean…”

Jiang He’s eyes brightened as he exclaimed in delight, “The Sky Demon Cult’s elites would intercept us?”

“That’s not necessarily the case, but safety first.”

Duan Tianhe chuckled. “Every single one of you martial artists who have gained the right to enter the Secret Realm for cultivation are prodigies. Losing even one of you is a loss to the martial world of Hua Nation.”

“How am I a prodigy?”

Jiang He remembered how he had cultivated for over a dozen minutes without any luck then. He had to rely on farming or resource hoarding to improve his cultivation, and never even felt it even when he improved in martial arts and cultivation or grasped the Boundary of Wills. Having felt no sense of accomplishment at all, he could not help saying, “I’m just a plain martial arts newbie. How could I be linked to prodigies?”

“…”

Duan Tianhe was silent for half a minute before saying, “You’re being humble, Mister Jiang.”

His tone seemed to be troubled.

Shaking his head, Jiang He said dejectedly, “You don’t have to console me, Chief Duan. I know how my disposition is like.”

Jiang He himself knew very well…

Compared to other prodigies, his innate talent really was nothing. At most, he was diligent and persevered through hardships, heading to the farm once he had the time to gain his present improvement.

And yet, Jiang He did not know…

Even the most demonic of martial artists cultivating in high-level techniques would never gain results in just ten minutes or so.

What the hell!

Duan Tianhe gritted his teeth, finding that he could not continue the conversation.

‘What is with that dejected tone?’

Unwilling to continue tangling with Jiang He on that topic, he said, “By the way, be careful over the next few days. The Sky Demon Cultists hate you to the bone, and the large group of elites they mobilized might be gunning for you.”

“Don’t worry!”

Jiang He’s mood instantly improved as he laughed. “I’m just afraid they won’t come.”

With that, he hung up.

At the same time, his car was slowly moving in Jinyintan village.

Unbeknownst to him, someone with a stunning figure had stepped out of the elm tree near the entrance of the village.

It was a bizarre sight.

The elm tree’s leaves were in full bloom and its trunk had not been hollowed out. Even so, that fantastic figure had seemed to fused as once with the tree.

She was wearing a black veil, and her body figure was smoking hot. Her white bra could be vaguely seen underneath her clothes, and with the black veil on her face promoted an ‘Indian-style’ aesthetic, though her face was obscured and only her eyes were visible.

Even so, her eyes were milky and there were creases on the corner of her eyes, which was a complete mismatch against her fantastic figure.

She watched as Jiang He’s sports car sped off into the distance, before her feet moved and she darted along the road.

After the villagers near the cities had been evacuated, the connecting roads were now very quiet. Once packed with vehicles, there would be a handful of cars passing at best.

Even though surveillance cameras and traffic lights still stood, they had long since broken down, and were no more than decorations with neither electricity nor connection.

In the first place, the Ferals wandering everywhere possessed a strong tendency for destruction, not to mention that the Sky Demon Cultists would not allow anything to stay untouched.

Meanwhile, the lady had made a turn at a crossroads a kilometer away outside Jinyintan Village, sneaking inside an abandoned factory building near the village entrance.

The factory was made to build coated steel buildings and coated steel plates, with many alloy bars and coated steel plates kept outside at the courtyard.

There were a few people out at the courtyard too.