Chapter 859: Ice Plain Crack! Deep Blue Club!

When Xu Jingming and Ling Shuang set out to return to Modu.

Antarctica, the southernmost frigid land.

This region belongs to the Eternal Night Zone, perpetually deprived of sunlight, with temperatures consistently below minus one hundred degrees Celsius.

This frozen wasteland is rarely ventured into even by ferocious beasts.

Crack—

Above this dimly lit ice plain, space suddenly shattered like broken glass!!

The surrounding ice mountains had solidified over hundreds of years, harder than Class-A alloy!

Now, as the spatial rift expanded, it ruthlessly tore these ice mountains apart!

Boom—boom—boom~~~

Ice mountains collapsed, vast quantities of solid ice plummeted to the ground like meteorites, carving massive craters across the entire ice plain.

The entire ice plain seemed to be facing the end of the world.

Only after a long while did the commotion gradually subside.

At the very center of the shattered space, a hazy world appeared to be floating.

It strained to draw closer to this side of the ice plain, causing the spatial rift to keep expanding.

Yet this scene went unnoticed by any being on Blue Star...

Swish—

Under a clear sky, a black Yao-class fighter jet soared through the clouds at seven times the speed of sound.

"Teacher Ling, is there truly no way to eliminate the side effects on Teacher Su?"

Inside the cockpit, Xu Jingming asked.

Su Qingli had consumed an SSR-grade heavenly treasure and rapidly ascended to the Ninth Stage, but suffered the side effect of being permanently blocked from further advancement.

This was the information Ling Shuang had previously told him.

After just now's guidance, he had discovered Su Qingli's astonishing talent.

If she were to be permanently halted by these side effects, it would be an unbearable waste.

"You've seen the Great Xia resource database—there's nothing there capable of eliminating this side effect."

Ling Shuang shook her head. "Other nations may have such resources, but at this level, they'd never give them to outsiders."

"True."

Xu Jingming nodded, then turned toward the front of the cockpit and asked:

"Eva, is there any way to eliminate the side effects of the SSR-grade heavenly treasure 'Po Yuan Tian Ru'?"

Po Yuan Tian Ru was the exact name of the SSR-grade heavenly treasure Su Qingli had used.

"Heavenly treasures formed by the resurgence of Yuan energy come in countless varieties, especially SSR-grade ones—they typically appear only once or twice.

In our Second Civilization era, no heavenly treasure like Po Yuan Tian Ru ever emerged, so I know very little about its side effects."

A holographic projection of Eva, the twin-tailed little girl, appeared midair, helplessly shrugging.

After a moment's thought, her eyes flickered.

"But in our Second Civilization era, the supreme expert 'Volcano' possessed a strange fruit tree named Chi Yun.

This strange tree bore one Chi Yun fruit per year—a SSS+ grade heavenly treasure.

It was specifically used to eliminate side effects caused by heavenly treasures and pills—perhaps it could work on Po Yuan Tian Ru.

Even in our Second Civilization era, one such fruit was nearly impossible to obtain.

Unfortunately, after Mother fell into slumber, I lost track of the Chi Yun tree's whereabouts; otherwise, we might have tried to find it."

"An ancient civilization's strange fruit tree? It's probably long vanished in the tide of time."

Hearing this, Xu Jingming immediately lost interest.

It would be better to search other nations' resource databases than to hunt for this tree.

Modu, supply base outside the Yuan Shui Wasteland.

Though it was only just past six in the morning, the square before the supply base was already bustling.

Various adepts clad in battle suits, wielding weapons, moved back and forth.

Among them were roughly two hundred young people.

On the right chest of each of these youths' battle suits was a badge depicting a dagger, sword, and thorned rose.

This drew frequent envious glances from others.

It was currently summer vacation, and the Modu Adept University's club joint competition was being held in the Yuan Shui Wasteland.

Any adept who could attend a top-tier university—or even compete—was unquestionably a prodigy, with an unparalleled future.

"Sister Yun, will Ming-ge really arrive soon?"

"How dare you call him Ming-ge? That's Lei Di himself!"

"Exactly! Our MUD's brightest star! Calling him Ming-ge is an insult!"

"I never thought I'd get to see Lei Di in person—I'm so thrilled, I hope I can get his autograph later!"

"Heh, Lei Di is our Deep Blue Club's president. Even if we want autographs, we get priority."

"..."

These two hundred young people all wore expressions of excitement and agitation.

Because the legendary Lei Di, Blue Star's top prodigy Xu Jingming, had just said in a video call that he was coming here.

"Isn't Jingming at the Thunder Temple headquarters? Even with a fighter jet, it'd take over an hour to get here.

Why not just wait for him at the villa?"

Jiang Chu asked, puzzled.

After her adept transformation reached S-rank, the cold aura she subtly emitted had grown even more pronounced.

Paired with her silver-white hair, she was famously known as the Ice Queen.

"I don't know either—he said he'd arrive in no more than ten minutes," Song Qiuyun replied, equally puzzled.

Clad in a form-fitting battle suit, her slender figure was fully revealed, complementing her delicate beauty with undeniable allure.

Jiang Chu and Song Qiuyun—two stunning beauties of Modu Adept University, with utterly different temperaments.

Yet not a single person dared harbor improper thoughts.

Because they all knew: both belonged to the man who was about to arrive.

PS: Tomorrow I'm going to the hospital for a colonoscopy. Tonight I drank laxatives—I nearly threw up. Can't take it anymore. Only one chapter tonight.

I have to keep drinking at 4 a. . tomorrow. If the doctors find anything wrong, I might need to be hospitalized. I just hope everything's fine.

Sorry for the inconsistent updates lately.