Chapter 709: A Piece from A Shattered Realm (1/2)

Mao Mingyuan smiled bitterly. “Will you stop playing with me, Miss Qiao? How could you lay eyes on things from my collection?”

With these words, he slowly approached the wrecked ancient starship and threw his own ring of holding to Qiao Yunxi.

“My lifetime collection is in that ring,” Mao Mingyuan said. “You’re welcome to take whatever you like.”

Knowing that killing Qiao Yunxi wasn’t an option, he could only let her take whatever she liked, hoping that would suffice.

Qiao Yunxi made a grabbing motion in the air with her jade-white left hand, and the ring of holding flew into her palm.

Then, a wisp of her soul awareness swam inside the ring of holding before her for a few seconds before her face grew increasingly cold. “Don’t try to fool me with this crap!” she blurted.

She threw the ring of holding back to Mao Mingyuan.

Looking rather embarrassed, Mao Mingyuan bowed slightly and said, “We can never match your sect’s strength and resources. And I’m not the sectmaster. It’s only natural that you can’t find anything you like in my collection. Is there anything else I can do?”

All of the other Golden Stone Sect disciples looked rather frustrated as they fixed Qiao Yunxi with begging gazes from afar.

Qiao Yunxi pondered in silence, and figured that she had better not waste too much time on these people. As an idea entered her mind, she said, “So you were saying that you’ve searched this region for quite some time now, right?”

“We?” Mao Mingyuan said. “Yeah, my group has been searching this region for more than six months now.”

“So did you come by yourselves, or with people from the Trisword Sect?” Qiao Yunxi asked.

“We came by ourselves, but we ran into people from the Trisword Sect after searching for a while.” Mao Mingyuan didn’t try to hide the truth. “Not just them, we also met people from the Beast-controlling Sect and the Chu Clan. They all seemed to have discovered a huge meteor that was wreathed in rich spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth.

“According to our master sect, the Trisword Sect, that meteor seemed to be a piece from a major realm that shattered.

“They gave us the location and urged us to go there as soon as possible. However, this ancient starship is what we came for, so we asked them to allow us a bit more time.

“But they were afraid that the Beast-controlling Sect and the Chu Clan would fight them over that meteor.”

Qiao Yunxi was taken aback. “A piece from a shattered realm?”

Mao Mingyuan nodded slightly. “Yeah. According to them, the countless meteors we’re seeing now are all pieces from shattered realms. Most of the pieces have long since become completely worthless.

“However, a small portion of them are still wreathed in the spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth, so there might be valuable resources to be unearthed in them.

“The huge meteor the Trisword Sect discovered happened to be such a meteor, but the Beast-controlling Sect and the Chu Clan also discovered it, and now they’re summoning reinforcements.”

Seeming intrigued, Qiao Yunxi asked, “Where exactly is that meteor?”

Mao Mingyuan came up to her and took out a roughly-made star map on a piece of leather. Pointing at it, he said, “This is the area, but we’ve never been there ourselves.”

As Qiao Yunxi examined the map with rapt attention, Nie Tian also looked down at it. With a single glance at it, his eyes grew wide.

The location Mao Mingyuan was pointing at was none other than where they were heading.

After looking for a while, Qiao Yunxi snapped the map from Mao Mingyuan’s hands and said, “Alright, this map is mine now.

“You’re quite foxy, huh? Keeping the only valuable thing in your inner pocket. Why didn’t you put it in your ring of holding?”

Smiling embarrassedly, Mao Mingyuan said, “It’s not that valuable...”

Qiao Yunxi gave a cold snort. “It’s much more valuable than the crap in your ring of holding.”

With these words, she shot a last glance at the ancient starship behind her and flew away on her Flame Bird with Nie Tian.

After they had gone far enough, Nie Tian said with a plain tone, “The place that man pointed out for you is the place where I’m taking you.”

Qiao Yunxi’s expression flickered as she asked, “What?! Are you sure?!”

Nie Tian nodded. “Yeah.”

Qiao Yunxi seemed rather surprised as she said, “You’re a strangely resourceful man. If you know that place is special, do you know what makes it special?”

Nie Tian shook his head.

Qiao Yunxi seemed to be bothered by something as she said, “The Trisword Sect, the Beast-controlling Sect, and the Chu Clan all attached such importance to that place; there must be secrets to be uncovered there. We’ve remained peaceful with those three forces over the past three years, but if we go...”

Nie Tian also pondered the matter.

He had had a long talk with Yue Yanxi from the Divine Flame Sect. From him, he had learned about the five major sects and three major clans in the Domain of Heaven’s Boundaries.

The five major sects were the Pure Heaven Sect, the Beast-controlling Sect, the Divine Flame Sect, the Trisword Sect, and the Bliss Mountain Sect.