Chapter 355: The Final Briefing! The Space Gate Opens!

In the jungle,

everyone, Xia Lan included, stared blankly at that tall, youthful figure.

No one had expected that the one who killed this peak fifth-rank ability user of Sakura Country really was Xu Jingming.

"Jingming, did Teacher and the others win?"

Having no time to wonder why Xu Jingming's current strength was so great, senior brother Liu Ming asked first.

"After receiving the inheritance, the civilization relic's artificial intelligence gave me two seventh-rank Liquid Gold Guards.

The moment the people of Tianyu Dojo saw these two machines, they all ran." Xu Jingming replied with a smile.

"Seventh-rank mechs?"

The crowd looked at the two mechs not far away, only now noticing the faint, powerful pressure radiating from them.

"So that's how it is. If we'd known it would be like this, we shouldn't have run." Liu Ming also breathed a sigh of relief, relaxing as he spoke.

"Good thing we set out early anyway."

Xu Jingming checked the time on his smart armguard. "There are seven hours left before the Space Gate opens. You all head over first and wait.

Teacher Xiao and Teacher Qin and the others should be heading that way too."

"You're not coming with us?" Liu Ming asked in surprise.

"I still have some other matters. You all go ahead." Xu Jingming shook his head.

The people of Tianyu Dojo had been killed off almost entirely; it was time to release Sakuragi Rin.

However, before letting her go, there were still some things that needed to be explained to her alone.

"Alright, then we'll wait for you at the exit." With two Liquid Gold Guards around, there was no need to worry about Xu Jingming's life at all.

So Liu Ming and the others nodded and continued racing toward the exit.

Only this time, there was no need to go all out......

After watching them leave, Xu Jingming shut off the smart armguard on his left hand and looked at the two behemoths beside him:

"Eva, you go over there too."

"Aren't we playing the deathmatch anymore?" Eva's muffled voice rang out, her tone carrying a hint of disappointment.

"The deathmatch is over."

Xu Jingming shook his head. "But I still have a mission for you.

After the Space Gate opens later, I'll take the people and leave first.

As for the remaining others, you must watch them and not let them leave.

Only after we've been gone for twenty-three hours can you let them go.

Also, from now on, if you see any ability users from Sakura Country, just pretend you didn't see them. No need to kill them."

The Space Gate of Civilization Relic No. 9 would remain open for twenty-four hours.

With this arrangement, even if other ability users left and leaked their identity information,

he would have long since boarded a warship and returned to Great Xia.

Even if an eighth-rank Grandmaster of Sakura Country reacted, there would be no way to pursue and kill him.

"Eva understands!"

Hearing that there was something to do again, the disappointment vanished completely from Eva's voice, and she cheerfully piloted the two Liquid Gold Guards as they swiftly departed.

She had been guarding Civilization Relic No. 9 for several thousand years, and usually could only operate according to fixed procedures.

Therefore, she had only assigned basic intelligences to keep the base running normally, without interfering in the activities of the ability users.

But now, a Sequence Inheritor had appeared.

According to the preset procedures, she needed to prioritize ensuring the Sequence Inheritor's safety.

That was why she could do something so 'out of line' as killing trial ability users.

For an opportunity to move about freely like this, she naturally cherished it greatly......

"Sakuragi Rin, come out."

After the two Liquid Gold Guards left, Xu Jingming summoned Sakuragi Rin out of the Shikigami Space.

"Master."

Sakuragi Rin had just stepped out of the Shikigami Space when she bowed slightly, lowered her head, and called out to Xu Jingming with extreme reverence.

"Your request to spare eight lives—I have already fulfilled it."

Xu Jingming stepped in front of Sakuragi Rin, extended his right hand, and pinched her Bai Xi chin.

He tilted her head up slightly, forcing her to look into his eyes:

"I'm about to leave the relic space. I'll let you go now.

Remember the mission I left you: take control of Tianyu Dojo as soon as possible, and even the entire Sakura Country."

After speaking, in Xu Jingming's consciousness sea,

his spiritual force howled, as if condensing into a great hand that gripped the reverse contract rune, then crushed it viciously!

"Ah!"

Cracks appeared on the contract rune, and Sakuragi Rin before him also let out a pained cry.

Her already weak aura immediately wilted further.

Yet even so, she still forced herself not to collapse, merely trembling slightly in her delicate frame, and replied reverently: "Yes, Mas... ter."

"Very good. Your willpower isn't bad."

Having tested the contract's effect, Xu Jingming nodded slightly, and the Thunder Dragon Wings on his back slowly unfurled:

"In that case, the S-rank of Sakura Country—I'm leaving first.

I hope that next time we meet, you won't disappoint me. Otherwise, you should know the consequences......"

Xu Jingming withdrew his gaze, the wings on his back flared, and his whole person shot up into the sky, swiftly vanishing at the horizon.

"Farewell, Master!" Sakuragi Rin bent her slender waist.

The taut posture was held for a full one or two minutes before gradually relaxing, slowly straightening her body:

"Finally gone. This guy really does have an awful personality..."

Sakuragi Rin could feel that her final injuries, even with treatment from a recovery-type ability user,

would be impossible to heal without ten-plus days.

"The Great Xia's SS-rank, Xu Jingming."

Thinking of everything she had experienced during this period, a rather complicated expression appeared on Sakuragi Rin's Bai Xi, delicate oval face.

Who could have imagined that it was merely a trip to a civilization relic,

yet she had actually used the 'Reverse Contract' she had never thought she would use — something that could only be called a humiliation!

She had even had to, like a servant, address the other party as 'Master'...

Thinking of this, Sakuragi Rin's little face couldn't help flushing slightly, and a faint strange emotion rose in her heart.

"But fortunately, in the end I still survived.

And luckily he didn't take my spatial ring, otherwise I'd probably have not even a shred of combat power left.

Next, I'll find a place to treat my injuries first, then go look for the others."

Taking a deep breath, Sakuragi Rin's slender figure, wrapped in a tight battle suit, swiftly vanished into the jungle.

This time, a full 101 people had entered the Tianyu Dojo; including herself, only 9 had ultimately survived.

Logically speaking, she should have felt a great deal of sorrow, but she did not feel this way.

Because ever since her parents' double death, her goal had always been only one.

That was to advance to the upper echelons of the Tianyu Dojo, and kill the Grand Overseer!

For this, she could even give up her own life and freedom.

As for the lives of these other people, she cared even less.

Xu Jingming quickly flew to the exit of the relic space.

Shortly after, without waiting long, Teacher Xiao Nan, as well as the instructors from Lei Ting Wu Guan and Violent Bear Wu Guan, also arrived.

"Everyone, for reasons known to all, after the spatial gate opens in a moment,

you will need to stay here for another twenty-plus hours before you can leave. No objections, I trust?"

At the relic space's original entry point, Xu Jingming's Gao Da frame stood there.

A pair of eyes swept over the surrounding group of ability users from other countries, and he said loudly.

These ability users glanced at the group of people behind Xu Jingming, including Qin Zheng.

Then they looked at the two Flowing Gold Guards standing beside Xu Jingming, emanating a powerful sense of oppression.

They nodded their heads like pounding garlic, hurriedly replying in various national languages:

"No problem."

"Understood."

"..."

They weren't fools — with two seventh-rank Grandmaster-tier machines here, opposing at this moment would be nothing but seeking death.

"Good then." Xu Jingming nodded in satisfaction, then sat cross-legged on the ground, quietly waiting.

Soon, several hours passed, and a buzz sounded.

A massive spatial gate abruptly condensed into being in mid-air.