The Prodigies War

Lin Xun pondered for a moment, shook his head, and said, “The regrets, remorse, hatred, and helplessness I have experienced may be numerous, but they are all precious to me.”

After some thought, he added, “As for my dao, having been honed through countless times of being hung on the balance of life and death, I don't think there's anything that needs fixing.”

He was not boasting. If his path had gone wrong at any point in the past, how could he have achieved his current heights?

Xia Zhi softly said, “Then, you are like me, not interested in this going back to the past stuff?”

“Well, I'm not entirely disinterested. I'm curious about the origin power of this Past Retracing Zone. Don't you think it's quite a miraculous power to be able to allow cultivators to travel back and remedy their past flaws?” Lin Xun smilingly asked.

“Mhm...” Xia Zhi said, “I guess I do want to take a look as well.”

While they were talking, there was a sound of air ripping in the distance. They looked over and saw several figures zooming fast under the sky.

“Excuse me...” said Lin Xun.

A cold voice cut him off, “Out of the way!”

It came from the expert at the very front of that group. He was dressed in black and had hair that was the color of blood. With thumb-sized, golden lights of law power circling him, his might was astonishing. His group teleported through the void in a hurry as if fleeing for their lives, their faces all making a grave expression.

“Looks like they are being chased after...” Lin Xun pondered.

Suddenly, a voice as clear as ice rang out from the horizon, “Young Friend Lin Xun, help me stop them!”

Lin Xun squinted. He quickly waved his sleeve and chanted, “Doh!”

Boom!

A heavenly rift made of great dao law power appeared out of nowhere, stretching across space as it blocked the black-clad man and his party.

“You have a death wish!” The black-clad man's face sank. He angrily slashed a sword at the heavenly rift. The scarlet sword qi deployed seemed to come from a world of chaos, emitting a mighty destructive power of boundless terror.

Kabang!

When it landed on the rift, however, it crumbled inch by inch. While the rift, as if impregnable, was not shaken in the slightest.

“What...”

The expressions of the black-clad, scarlet-haired man and his companions changed.

As they were about to attack again, Lin Xun flickered through the distance with a smile. “I’ll have to ask you all to stop.”

Accompanying his arrival was a storm of an invisible pressure rapidly sweeping through the entire field. The black-clad man and company stopped breathing for a second as they felt a deadly threat hitting them in the face.

Their expressions changed again, and none of them dared to carelessly make a move.

“Who are you, why are you meddling in our affairs?” The black-clad man's face turned livid.

The aura emanating from Lin Xun was so terrifying that he felt as though he was faced with a sovereign who stood proudly above the nine heavens. His dao heart palpitated in a way that words could not describe. As a result, he refrained from acting out despite the anxiety and anger that urged him to do otherwise.

The other five people around him were the same. Each was filled with killing intent but they also revealed a trace of nervousness.

“I have no grudge against you, but the one who's after you is an old friend of mine, that's why I had to stop you,” Lin Xun smilingly explained.

“Thanks a lot, my young friend.”

A fiery red silhouette teleported in right at this moment. She had the appearance of a young woman who was radiantly beautiful. It was none other than Su Wanjun!

The black-clad man's and company's hearts lurched down.

“Senior, what's the situation?” asked Lin Xun.

“I’ll explain everything after I kill these despicable bastards.” Su Wanjun's eyes were murderous, and she already attacked as she spoke.

Clang!

A light green sword emerged in the air, its sharpness overwhelmed the heavens.

“Nothing to lose now, get her!”

How could the black-clad man and his party possibly wait for their death? They went all out. However, they stiffened the next second. A petrifying pressure was falling upon them like a massive mountain, rendering them unable to move.

No!

They were scared witless, but it was already too late to do anything. Su Wanjun's sword was so swift and sharp that in the same instant, a series of poofs echoed as the black-clad man's group of six got sliced to bits. Their blood flew like a waterfall.

Just before their death, they looked in Lin Xun's direction, obviously having realized that he was the culprit behind the imprisonment of their strength. Unfortunately, they had realized it a little too late.

Meanwhile, a stunned Su Wanjun stared at the gory scene for a good moment. How could she not know that Lin Xun was the key reason why it was so easy to kill these opponents? She put away her sword, assessed Lin Xun, and remarked, “The speed of your improvements in the dao astonishes me.”

Just by virtue of his might, he had been able to restrained six powerful Greater Boundless Eternals at once, which even she was incapable of! Lin Xun must have undergone some earth-shattering metamorphosis after entering the All-Wonder Dominion, there was no doubt about it! This caused Su Wanjun to look at him in a strange way.

Lin Xun laughed. “You flatter me, Senior. Now that your enemies have been dealt with, can you tell me the story behind this?”

Su Wanjun scanned the surroundings and said, “Let's talk on the way?”

“Where to?”

“Nanke City, the capital of Huai'an Kingdom.”

“Haha, that would be excellent. Xia Zhi and I were planning to head there, but we didn't know which way to go since we're new to this zone. It's no longer a problem now thanks to you.” Lin Xun was delighted.

“Then let's go.” Su Wanjun immediately took Lin Xun and Xia Zhi and disappeared from the area.

On the way, Lin Xun learned about what happened from Su Wanjun.

Not long ago, she had successfully studied the Pillow of Golden Millet in the Heavenly Cycle Dao Laws in Nanke City. She had consequently entered the past in her dream, sending both her soul and dao back in time. Meanwhile, her body had remained in Nanke City in the protection of the restriction that she had set up in advance.

However, not long afterward, she, while trekking in the river of time, had sensed danger and returned to the present to find herself in a fatal situation! The threat had come from that black-clad man and his party.

They had breached her restriction and had been in the middle of an attempt to take away her dao body. Fortunately, her soul and cultivation base had returned at the critical juncture and narrowly escaped the catastrophe, or else the consequences would have been beyond serious.

Due to that, a furious Su Wanjun had chased after the other party all the way from Nanke City.

“There was bad blood between you before?” Lin Xun couldn't help but ask.

“No, none of that.” Su Wanjun shook her head. “Their purpose was to coerce me into joining the Zhen Department under Alpha Origin.”

“They were Heavenly Mandate Apostles of the Zhen Department?” Lin Xun was taken aback.

“Yes.” Su Wanjun said, “They are the most powerful force in the Past Retracing Zone who act under the orders of the Heavenly Mandate Dao Lord of the Zhen Department, Lei Xuanting. Their leader in this zone is Heavenly Lord Xuelian, an old fogey from the Demonic Epoch.”

She then seemed to remember something and added, “Speaking of which, Heavenly Lord Xuelian is related to Ying Tiansheng. They both hail from the number one dao lineage of Demonic Epoch, and in terms of seniority, Ying Tiansheng would have to call him his martial granduncle.”

Lin Xun was stunned. “You mean this Heavenly Lord Xuelian most likely knows that I killed Ying Tiansheng and a bunch of other experts from the Demonic Epoch?”

“Naturally.” Su Wanjun said, “But as far as I'm concerned, Xuelian is no match for you now.”

Lin Xun smiled. “If those Heavenly Mandate Apostles of the Zhen Department know that I'll be at Nanke City, they're definitely going to make trouble.”

“What are you going to do about it?” asked Su Wanjun.

“Depends on what they'll do.” Lin Xun chuckled.

Mid-conversation, the outline of a huge city appeared in the far horizon. According to Su Wanjun, they had already reached the borderland of Huai'an Kingdom. From here, it would only take half a day to reach its capital, Nanke City.

The three wasted no time as they kept teleporting toward their destination. Along the way, Lin Xun saw that Huai'an had many cities and towns. Each planted scholar trees throughout without fail, and the citizens were all pure mortals.

The situation here was the same as in the Mortal Transformation Zone, cultivators and mortals did not interfere with each other and could not influence each other.

Upon finally seeing Nanke City from afar, Lin Xun was amazed. It was a strange city, built on a colossal scholar tree that rose up to the sky. Each leaf was ten thousand feet in diameter, and on the leaf veins were packed buildings lining up.

Along the trunk and branches were roads that connected and intersected in a seemingly messy way but were in fact in harmony. From a distance, it looked like a tree city!

“Imperial City Nanke is really something else,” Lin Xun sighed.

His gaze swept the huge scholar tree from the bottom up and sighted the rolling waves of the red dust. Countless beings inhabited different areas, staging a grand play of worldly affairs, mundane or emotional. It was in stark contrast to the top area of the tree crown, which was full of various terrifying auras belonging to the mighty!

“That on the crown is the most important area of Nanke City, and it is also the place where it is easiest for us cultivators to perceive the Pillow of Golden Millet in the Heavenly Cycle Dao Laws,” Su Wanjun quietly introduced.

Having been in the Past Retracing Zone for over a decade, she was naturally familiar with the situation here. While talking, she flew toward the tree with Lin Xun and Xia Zhi. After entering Nanke City, they continued to fly up through the heavy layers of leaves that was comparable to a small sky dome, and finally arrived at the crown.

The leaves here were clustered together. Being ten thousand feet in diameter each, they hosted many streets and buildings that, in a whole, resembled a colorfully grotesque spiderweb.

On one of the streets, Su Wanjun floated down with Lin Xun and Xia Zhi. It was at this moment that Lin Xun keenly felt quite a few gazes directed over from the neighborhood. However, it wasn't him and Xia Zhi that they were looking at, it was Su Wanjun.

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