Chapter 163 (1/2)
Chapter 163: Well, Then, Did Your Fiance Run Away On Your Wedding?
Qiao Zijiang nodded. “If that’s the case, brother will break through soon, and he’ll be able to take up the slack immediately. He’s made a lot of progress cultivating morality recently, and he seems to have had an epiphany.”
Qiao Anping said, “That’s great then, Zishan’s morality is much more suitable to front those bloodthirsty demons. The only thing is to remember not to let him break through in this dimension.”.
Qiao Zijiang understood naturally. Since the Truth Department had been rooted here for over ten years, they knew from the beginning that while it was easy to break through and to advance over here, he would be easily corrupted…
She nodded in response, then brought up something else. “After that, there was a gigantic eagle that appeared, and it brought a lot of great demons over to aid us. It was probably the Venerable Dragon God who called it over. I’m afraid that they’ve made some kind of agreement with each other..”
As Qiao Anping was in a coma when that happened, he was absolutely clueless about the appearance of a gigantic eagle. After hearing about it from his niece, he frowned.
He said, “Elder Hai and the others should know what to do. Is there anything else?”
Once again, Qiao Zijiang mentioned the Soul Curse casted by that venomous snake, and how it would attack the walled city in the ravine every year from now.
Qiao Anping looked happy instead. “That’ll be perfect, I was just worrying about having a place to cultivate. There are too many rules and considerations in the outside world, killing is not enjoyable here at all. It’s either that I severely injure them and spare their lives, or I just let them go altogether.
“There’re not as many issues there, although those bloodthirsty demons won’t attack the local great tribes and only find trouble with outsiders like us, those local great tribes are on good terms with us now and they don’t bother about their lives. Besides, they have no sapience, which is perfect for me to just slaughter them freely.”
Qiao Zijiang, felt slightly helpless. “Uncle, why don’t you think of it this way. If this happens, an enormous amount of resources and manpower must be invested every year to protect the walled city.
“Those powerful Defense Formations will require enormous upkeep each time they’re set up. We can stop using them at other times, but we can’t tear them down after building it, and then build them again just to fight the attack of demons and beasts at the end of each year.”
Qiao Anping scratched his head. “I really haven’t thought about this. Elder Xu had mentioned before that this land would be opened to the association, and when that happens we can invite those masters over to help us out. Then, we won’t have to consume too many resources on just the Defense Formation to defend them.”
Qiao Zijiang thought for a while then said again, “If we want to solve this problem at its roots, we better go for the source that’s producing these bloodthirsty demons.”
Qiao Anping shook his head instead. “Well, you can forget about doing that. I’ve actually done a detailed investigation on that issue. There are two ways they come about. You know the first one already; some genius demons that failed to overcome their Inner Demons were corrupted into becoming bloodthirsty demons.
“As for the second way, the demons will never give it up, considering the friendly relationship between both parties. Elder Xu asked me not to tell you to keep it tacit. Basically, there are no ways to destroy these two sources, besides, they’re the best targets for training soldiers. While resources can be produced, training targets at this grade can’t be found in the outside world.”
When the words reached Qiao Zijiang’s ears, she made a guess. “Not only we can produce medicinal materials here, cultivate speedily, and tap on the huge amount of bloodthirsty beasts, I heard that there’s also an extremely mysterious Heritage Valley here. No matter how I look at it, why does it seem like it’s a place like that…”
She elected to not vocalize her guess. If it were true, it would be terrifying beyond imagination.
She did not want her heavily injured uncle to be worried, so she only thought silently about needing to pay close attention to her cultivation. She needed to break through to her uncle’s level, and only then would she be able to hunt for the truth.
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At an open space within the walled city in the ravine. A light wind was kissing the miniscule bushes littered around the area. The Sky Eagle that Qiao Zijiang mentioned was speaking with Vigilante A.
“After this war, I wonder when will Brother Dragon return to the outside world?”
Sir System was training in isolation at that moment, and had dumped his body over to Fang Ning to manage.
At once, Fang Ning understood the other party’s intentions. He nodded and said, “I’ll return once the people from Truth Department clean up the headquarters and clear up a Space Passage. When that time comes, may I ask of you to return with me, friend. There are many good places to settle down outside.”
Upon hearing that, the Sky Eagle was elated. “Brother Dragon, thank you for being so considerate, how about you take this opportunity to explain some rules to me, lest I bring upon trouble to you, Brother Dragon.”
Fang Ning agreed as well. Sky Eagle was both a Pond-level powerhouse and a bird, something might really go wrong if it was not addressed in advance.
He explained everything in detail, yet the Sky Eagle only had a headache after listening. It could not fly at low altitudes above the humans’ towns, it should not scare the children, it could not capture poultry and livestock reared by humans, it could not hurt the flowers and trees…
Sky Eagle shook its head and said, “By the looks of it, it seems like I can only live in the mountains in the outskirts, I’m afraid that it’ll be a little troublesome for you to contact me, Brother Dragon.”
Fang Ning said, “This is alright, humans have convenient ways to communicate, I’ll give you a satellite phone later on…”
Sky Eagle said, “Since that’s the case, I won’t have to be bothered then.”
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Three days later, Fang Ning brought the Sky Eagle through the Space Passage in the headquarters of Truth Department, and left the Land of Heritage.
Due to the strict surveillance on top of the complicated process procedures, their exit it took up an entire day’s time. If Sir System were to be in the pilot seat, it would have been impatient from the start and used Thousand-mile Assistance to return home at once.
The Sky Eagle was rather patient as a Pond-level powerhouse. After all, it was a divine eagle that could carve a stone for ten years and turn it into a roasted chicken statue…
At the entrance base of the Land of Heritage away from China, a human and an eagle rejected the escort of the people from Truth Department, they arrived at the wilderness not far away.
“There’s so little vitality here, no wonder other demons won’t come over here, it’s too hard to adapt. It’s fortunate that I’ll be cultivating the path of righteousness in the future, so I don’t have high expectations here. This place is very huge indeed”, After saying that, the Sky Eagle soared into the sky with a powerful thrust, and only a tiny black dot was left after a short while. Followed by that, a voice was heard from afar, “Brother Dragon, I’ll meet you again.”
Fang Ning was stunned as he watched. “I haven’t passed you the satellite phone yet, where did your patience go? You’re being too short-tempered…”
Sure enough, it was an eagle who loved flying around freely, it seemed like the troublesome inspection process from before must have made it feel very oppressed…
Fang Ning sighed. He was not worried about not being able to contact it. After all, he could do it through that masterpiece as its spiritual sense was branded on it.
After calling Sir System and instructing the body of Vigilante A to return home, Fang Ning entered the System Lounge to take a rest…