Chapter 322 - 321: Interrupt, Escape

Having achieved a certain level of understanding, Li Jing found, quite unexpectedly, that he too could enter the Little Universe.

This functionality was seemingly bugged.

But strictly speaking, it wasn’t too surprising.

For the Descendants of an Ancient God, a survival space opened by a Spirit Seed was meant for refuge. Wouldn’t it be useless if even the one who opened it couldn’t enter?

Though there were restrictions on entering and exiting the Little Universe, its role in emergency evasion was quite tangible.

As for its use in storage, it was essentially the same as a storage space.

The only difference was that now he needed to touch things to store them, unlike before, when just a thought would suffice.

While engaging with the Little Universe to see if it had any other unique characteristics, Linglong’s childlike voice echoed in his ears.

"Master, this big guy’s blood has been drained."

Li Jing turned his head in response.

Before him, stood a line of buckets filled with black blood next to Linglong.

Counting them, there were twenty-four buckets.

Approximately a hundred liters per bucket, that was about two and a half tons of blood.

This quantity was more than he had anticipated.

The New God individual was over twenty meters tall, so it was certain that he would have a significant volume of blood.

However, since the New God died as a result of him bursting his head, a large amount of blood was wasted from the neck.

He didn’t bother collecting the fresh blood that was spilled all over the ground.

After touching the blood-drained and bone-deprived corpse of the New God, Li Jing stored it into the Little Universe.

Next, he looked at Linglong and Qingfeng.

"Let’s divide the skeleton. We should get going."

Upon hearing this, Spirit Weapon Qingfeng nodded, swung his sword, and chopped the gigantic skeleton of the New God in half.

As soon as the skeleton was split, Linglong, who was always "greedy," eagerly took a half, turning into a golden light and returning to Li Jing’s body.

Qingfeng then coiled up the remaining half of the skeleton and went back in.

Having collected the two spirit weapons, Li Jing did not linger in the subspace, and began to draw out the Boundaries Stone to dissipate the accumulated energy within it.

...

As subspace disintegrated, Li Jing returned to reality.

As soon as he returned, he found the entire subway track space to be deadly quiet.

Nearby, there were over a hundred corpses practically reduced to skin and bones aimlessly strewn across the ground, all silent.

Seeing this, Li Jing let out a soft sigh.

He had realized that when New God was in subspace just now, sucking away the cultivation level of the upper ranks of the Sanctuary, even Bei Yi and Evlyn, who had just "joined" not long ago, were also affected.

The draining power of the New God ignored spatial boundaries.

Anyone who believed in the New God and had its power within their body would be indiscriminately drained.

One fact was clear.

When the New God began to drain the cultivation level of Bei Yi and the other five, its own cultivation level was making strides towards the boundary of the Ninth Realm.

The cultivation levels of Bei Yi and the others were only at the Seventh Realm.

Just their cultivation being drained alone wouldn’t enable the New God at the mid-Eighth Realm to step into the late stage and rush to the Ninth Realm.

Even for an Evil Cultivator, such an absurd level of progress was impossible.

It was obvious.

The entire sanctuary had been drained.

As the saying goes, every man has his sore spot.

Faced with the sad state of the Sanctuary, Li Jing inevitably felt a sense of desolation.

The so-called New God’s faith was nothing more than a scam.

Those who believed in the New God and gained its power weren’t so much believers as they were livestock being bred for food consumption.

The stronger their faith, the more they gained, and the faster they died.

The New God’s scheme was quite sinister.

At the same time, it was somewhat inefficient.

Given that the New God’s draining power ignored space, those afflicted by it certainly weren’t just members of the Sanctuary at this location, but also those in other locations.

How many people were there in the Sanctuary that was entrenched in Inova?

Tens or hundreds of thousands – they might not have this many people.

But they definitely had several thousands.

If an Evil Cultivator could drain several thousand middle and high-ranking cultivators indiscriminately, their cultivation level would probably increase faster than a rocket.

In comparison, the New God’s extraction efficiency was somewhat low.

However, it was also understandable.

The power of faith was always a mystery.

You couldn’t even comprehend why they could gain power through prayer, unlike ordinary people who needed to cultivate.

Compared to these faith practitioners, Evil Cultivators are genuinely Orthodox Immortality Path branches, and very solid ones at that.

Both involved forcefully taking from others, but the New God’s approach was more like large-scale "pig breeding", while the Evil Way was more targeted.

Looking towards the direction from which Bei Yi and Evlyn had originally come, Li Jing’s Heavenly Eye caught sight of over a hundred black energy bodies deep into the subway track.

Seeing these energy bodies, Li Jing’s lips curved upwards.

His experience packs were still there.

Even though Bei Yi and Evlyn had been drained, their conditions were much better than those of the top four in the Sanctuary, and the Artificial Humans they controlled were still alive.

However, they were now likely immobile.

The New God’s absorption did not threaten their lives, but it did drastically weaken them.

In this round, the Artificial Humans were the ones who fell victim to the Sanctuary’s schemes.

Without a second thought, Li Jing turned into a streak of light and shot away.

Soon, he spotted over a hundred artificial humans sprawled in the station hall of the next subway stop.

This platform only had artificial humans, no members from the Sanctuary had been spotted.

It was obvious.

The Sanctuary had kindly handed over this entire platform to the artificial humans led by Bei Yi and Evlyn.

Quietly studying the artificial humans, who were lying all over the station hall and obviously lacking self-awareness, looking utterly bewildered, Li Jing conjured up Flying Sword Blue Edge.

"Clank!"

A cheerful sword ring, Flying Sword Blue Edge turned into a ray of blue light and shot out.

In just two or three breaths, the station hall had fallen completely silent.

Having eliminated all the artificial humans who were barely hanging onto life, Li Jing activated Silent Shadow, turned into a streak of light and left the station.

As he left the subway platform, Li Jing took a quick look at the situation outside.

Outside the platform, there were many members from the Sanctuary.

At this moment, they had all "peacefully" passed away.

Besides that, he saw quite a few suspect individuals hanging around the subway station.

Keeping that in mind, Li Jing directly flew to Serlina’s location.

Serlina was very obedient.

Over half an hour had passed, and she was still patiently waiting in the same place.

His Silent Shadow had no effect on her.

The moment Li Jing approached, she sensed him and looked up.

Seeing the streak of light approach and land, Li Jing revealed himself and Serlina took a step forward.

"How’s the situation?"

"All done."

Li Jing smiled.

This "all done" left Serlina stunned.

She had no doubt about Li Jing’s abilities.

But it was unexpected that he managed to settle everything so easily.

Wasn’t Li Jing just supposed to investigate the situation?

While she was still confused, Li Jing pulled her along.

"We shouldn’t waste any more time, we need to leave. All the personnel from the Sanctuary are dead, there won’t be too many survivors. The structure of the whole Sanctuary has completely disintegrated, and the Inova region is about to descend into chaos."

???

Serlina.

What did Li Jing mean by all of this?

The Sanctuary has been wiped out?

By whom?

Li Jing?

That’s impossible.

For one, he wasn’t the type to kill needlessly, and secondly, no matter how capable he was, he couldn’t have managed to silently eradicate the Sanctuary in such a short amount of time.

More importantly.

Li Jing just "infiltrated" one nearby base...

So here’s the problem.

Up until now, not only the surrounding base but the entire Inova region has been calm and peaceful, how did the strongest group Sanctuary get wiped out mysteriously?

With a puzzled look on her face, Serlina suddenly changed her expression, hooked her hand around Li Jing’s neck and leaped up.

???

Li Jing.

Instinctively, he reached out to catch Serlina’s curled up legs, cradling her in his arms.

Before he could react, Serlina quickly whispered.

"Let’s go, someone is coming. There are a lot of them, and there are a few I can’t perceive their cultivation level but they’re most likely in the Seventh Realm."

Li Jing heard this, frowned and decisively carried her in his arms and flew up turning into a streak of light.

Just as he was about to head in the direction of White Hawk, a few powerful auras locked onto him.

Feeling the sudden lock-on, Li Jing sneered and generously sent a whisper of the Spirit God to each of these auras locking onto him.

The feeling of being locked on immediately disappeared.

Immediately Li Jing, holding Serlina, rose into the sky and darted into a cloud in the starry night sky.

"Rumble!"

The sound of rolling thunder echoed.

The sky turned into a boundless thundercloud, enveloping the whole of Inova while hiding Li Jing and Serlina’s figures.

At the same time, Li Jing heard a prompt in his ear.

"Experience +798424."

"Level Up, 106. Spiritual Power Strength +212, Skill Points +2."

...

A moment later.

The border of White Hawk.

Li Jing, holding Serlina, flew over the border, hovered in the air, took a look back, and then gave instructions.

"Put the Sky Shield Bureau’s temporary identification into your storage space, so you won’t get traced by the signals within White Hawk. Get in touch with Jester, and ask him to send someone to Kregar City to meet us."

"Okay."

Upon hearing this, Serlina took the Sky Shield Bureau’s ID, put it into her storage space, then took out a communicator and put it on.

Serlina was no fool.

The people she and Li Jing encountered earlier were clearly after them.

The other party clearly knew her very well, cleverly staying outside the range of her spiritual world, leaving her oblivious.

At the same time, this group of people clearly had the ability to see through Li Jing’s Silent Shadow.

Otherwise, they wouldn’t have waited until Li Jing met with her to make their move.

With such a clear target, the other party must have been watching them from the shadows for a long time, possibly even monitoring them the entire time.

What was the origin of this group of people?

No need to think!

It could only be the Guardian God who stood against Jester!

They were trying to intercept them!

With such a powerful team gathered together to intercept them, she and Li Jing were probably not the only ones being targeted.

The other party had probably been monitoring most of Jester’s men from the start, not intending to go directly for the Sanctuary, but rather trying to seize what they wanted once the right target was identified.

Looking back.

She and Li Jing had been keeping a low profile all along, and the only possibility for them getting targeted was a traitor from Jester’s side.

The signal of the chip in her temporary Sky Shield Bureau ID had been locked onto.

However, now was not the time to complain; it was more important to escape first.

The other party evidently knew that she and Li Jing had obtained something. Even if they were to enter White Hawk’s territory under such circumstances, they still couldn’t ensure their safety.

After all, Bei Yi and Evlyn were in their hands, which was equivalent to putting the opposing Guardian God in a desperate situation. The only way to turn the tides was to intercept them.

When the Guardian God’s position was threatened, what wouldn’t the other party do?

Once the communication was established, Evlyn mentioned just one place.

"Kregar."

Despite Jester’s shortcomings, he had considered such circumstances.

He had plans in place for emergency contact.

After cutting off the communication, Evlyn looked up.

"Are we going to Wesbayl?"

Hearing this, Li Jing slightly smiled.

Traveling with a smart person saves a lot of explanation.

It was clear that there was a traitor among Jester’s ranks. If they were to foolishly head to Kregar according to plan, it would be stupid. At this point, a diversion was the right choice to avoid direct confrontation.

Li Jing gave the Adventurer Certificate to Evlyn and transformed into a lightning bolt again.

This diversion had to be executed.

At the same time, they needed to ensure that Jester could locate them at the earliest.

The identity of the archer was perfect for this.

Bei Yi and Evlyn were dead, and only Jester knew about Li Jing’s identity as the "archer".

If Jester had any brains at all.

After losing the signal from Serlina, he would definitely try to find the two of them through the Kregar Adventure Guild.

The word "Kregar" was somewhat suggestive.

The clever Jester would understand it soon enough.

...

The journey was smooth.

More than half an hour later, they safely arrived near Wesbayl city.

Li Jing, leading Serlina, was somewhat slower than when she led him.

One reason was that he couldn’t use the speed of the Seventh Realm on the way back, the other was that while he could Sky Control with the Adventurer Certificate, he wasn’t allowed to enter the city, forcing them to take a detour.

Having successfully arrived, Li Jing didn’t head into Wesbayl city but instead landed on a desolate piece of land near the city outskirts.

Standing on the ground, he put down Serlina.

Serlina was smart.

She knew it wasn’t time to let their guard down, and it was safer not to rush into Wesbayl city.

She looked around and said in a low, displeased voice.

"Jester is such a bastard! When we see him later, you have to make him pay up! Milk him dry!"

Hearing this, Li Jing smiled and said.

"I don’t plan on seeing him again."

?

Serlina was taken aback, she asked doubtfully.

"Don’t you want the reward?"

"Of course, I do! The job is done, and there’s no reason not to take the reward!"

Li Jing said it as if it were obvious, then he took her slender hand.

???

Serlina.

"What are you..."

Before she finished asking "What are you doing," a bloody head was handed to her.

!!!

Serlina.

Although she was severely nearsighted and couldn’t see what the head in her hand looked like.

In her spiritual world, however,

She could tell what the head was through its outline.

Li Jing, gave her a head!

And it was still dripping with blood!

This "gift" with heavy taste made Serlina feel sick, and she wanted to throw it away immediately.While Serlina tends to be casual in nature,

she still rejects what women should reject.

As she was about to let go, Li Jing whispered.

"This head is of Bei Yi, her main program is in the Demon Array chip inside the skull."

!!!

Serlina hurriedly steadied the head that was about to slip out of her hands.

This isn’t a head!

It’s money!

Loads of money!

More than she could ever earn in her lifetime!

Looking at Serlina’s revealed love for wealth, Li Jing chuckled while pulling out Evlyn’s head.

"Take both of these, keep them. When you see Jester, negotiate a good price with him. Transfer the Spirit Crystal proceeds to me after."

Serlina frowned upon hearing this.

"You want me to negotiate a price for you?"

"I trust you."

Li Jing responded earnestly.

"..."

Serlina became silent, then reluctantly asked.

"So, you’re going to leave me and run?"

"I didn’t want to be involved in the power struggle between the Guardians, nor did I want to be exploited by people like Jester."

Li Jing shrugged.

Serlina remained silent, then nodded.

"Okay, I’ll help you negotiate the price."

Getting this response, Li Jing smiled.

"Once this is settled, regardless of the amount, you’ll get 10% of the Spirit Crystals."

"Really?"

Serlina raised an eyebrow.

"Do I look like I’m joking with you?"

Li Jing tilted his head.

"Deal! I’ll definitely get a good price out from him!"

Serlina laughed joyfully.

Seeing this, Li Jing shook his head and said.

"Take it easy, do not push too hard. It’s not just that these things are hot potatoes, but also remember that Jester is a guardian of the White Hawk. Your teacher-student relationship is just so-so, don’t make him bear a grudge against you. No matter what, your reward won’t be less, even if you get a little less it doesn’t matter. But of course, you shouldn’t get too less either, just use your judgment."

Listening to Li Jing’s advice, Serlina pouted and begrudgingly nodded.

Makes sense.

Truly, she understood this without Li Jing having to explain it.

Just that she couldn’t help her explosive temper.

Can’t a Guardian be more reliable?

If not for Li Jing standing beside her, who knows what would happen to her.

Dying in Inova is just such a waste.

Taking a deep breath, Serlina looked up.

"After this matter is over, I want to tour Longyu."

"No problem, I’ll be your host then."

Li Jing responded.

With Serlina’s comment, it was clear that her goal wasn’t something else but to avoid the limelight.

It’s entirely understandable.

After all, he himself also tried to avoid being involved as much as possible, assuming he could get the reward.

Once the items reach Jester, Serlina would definitely be safe.

After all, she’s a well-known figure in the White Hawk and she carries the backing of the White Hawk Battle Academy.

Even for a guardian, they wouldn’t dare to recklessly mess with her.

The fact that her and Jester are connected cannot be denied.

Jester will surely make use of everything he has amidst power struggles causing him to force Serlina to get onboard.

One wanting to avoid troubles is totally understandable.

...

After their discussion, Li Jing left his adventurer certificate with Serlina, abandoned the Archer’s appearance and changed into the appearance on his passport to enter Wesbayl city on foot.

More than an hour later, he successfully boarded a plane leaving White Hawk.

Since he was avoiding danger, Li Jing did not choose a direct flight to Longyu, but the main focus was to leave the country first.

Several hours later, he landed in a small country in the Daohe Alliance, then transferred to a direct flight to the capital of Longyu Country.

Before the transfer flight took off, Serlina sent him a message stating that she had smoothly joined up with Jester. She gave a report of her safety and stated she would be arriving at Longyu within a week.

An hour later, Li Jing landed in Longyu’s capital city.

The time was still around four in the morning.

Considering that Liu Sisi might be sleeping, Li Jing didn’t send her a message to disturb her, instead he pulled out the contact list of Jiu Li.

"Brother Jiu, are you asleep?"

After a short while, Jiu Li replied.

"No, I’m busting my liver with work, being chased by a wretched ghost."

He attached a crying tiger emoticon, conveying an exhausting exhaustion.