Destiny is ashes

Chapter 121 Harvest and Choice
The true symbol shines.

An Jing didn't even look at it. He packed up all his equipment as quickly as possible and began to search through the bodies of Fengdu Wei.

The Fengdu Wei is dead, but he left behind a lot of legacy. Although the red flame thunder of the self-destructive drone melted its outer armor briefly, the inner skeleton is still strong.

An Jing pulled the opponent's body out of the armor - to be honest, it was like using a toothpick to hook out the flesh of a screw.

He discovered that the wearer of Fengdu Armor had black limbs, chest and abdomen, and had a large number of spore tentacles that looked like sprouts of the 'Eternal Green Wood'. These tentacle spores were connected to the armor, which should be the method to control the Fengdu Armor.

The wearer of Fengduwei is more like a part of the armor than a monk in armor.

Time was running out, so An Jing did not carefully disassemble the Fengdu Armor. He just followed the sword spirit's instructions and took out the two cores inside the armor.

One is a green wooden core, which is the 'Evergreen Wood Heart', a second-order foundation-building material. Although it is not big, it contains extremely pure 'life energy', just like the healing talisman of the female cultivator from Xiaozheshan. It has miraculous effects whether it is to save lives or to heal injuries.

The reason why Fengduwei has such strong regeneration and sustained combat capabilities is closely related to this evergreen wooden heart.

The other is the energy reserve of Fengdu Armor - a piece of spiritual jade and the hourglass-shaped device that loads it.

This spiritual jade is different from the green spiritual jade that An Jing had owned. The light patterns and core inside it are a gorgeous azure blue. According to the sword spirit, this is a second-level spiritual stone that contains the breath of heaven and earth. Its price is dozens or even hundreds of times that of a first-level spiritual stone.

But according to the sword spirit, the aura in this spirit stone is not pure, it should be a 'reused spirit stone' that is recharged after use - but even so, the spiritual energy is not fake.

The hourglass-shaped device should be a special spiritual furnace used to extract the energy of spirit stones. Originally, An Jing could not dismantle it, but perhaps because of the previous attack by the Gua Mian ghost cultivator, its connection points had been frozen very brittle and the device itself had stopped functioning, so it could be removed by An Jing.

"Now that we have a new advanced spiritual energy furnace, the sword box can launch more flying swords!" An Jing was delighted. He was originally worried about using up the energy in the spiritual energy furnace in order to kill the Fengdu Wei. What should he do when he encountered the evil demon after returning to Huaixu? Now the problem was completely solved and even strengthened!
It can only be said that this ghost cultivator helped a lot. If Fengdu Wei could use the spiritual energy in this spirit stone, An Jing and Boyan would not be able to kill him even if they tried their best.

From a side view, it took two special ninth-level Qi Refining masters, plus An Jing's various weapons to attack, to defeat the Fengdu Guard when he was careless. The killing weapon of the Jiantian Bureau is truly extremely powerful.

"But be careful." The sword spirit said, "If this kind of key device is stolen, there will always be spiritual guidance. Although it doesn't look abnormal now, if it is activated, it will definitely attract attention."

"I won't activate it in Xuanye City, or even in Tianyuan Realm." An Jing nodded slightly. He had thought about this possibility a long time ago, but he was about to return to Huaixu after all. As long as he could hold back and go back to Huaixu and cross Xuhai Tianyu, it didn't matter if he had any backup plan.

In addition, there are many scattered and valuable small things, but An Jing's backpack is so small that for the sake of convenience, he can only take the most important things.

The sword spirit felt very sorry about this. As long as An Jing was given enough time and resources, he was confident that he could quickly improve An Jing's strength, at least in terms of cultivating immortals.

If I had a Taixu Ring now, I could take all the harvest away with me.

But if you can’t take it with you, you can’t take it with you. Sometimes you just have to let go of your greed and just go.

“It’s been a big gain.”

Finally, An Jing took Zhen Fu and Boyan's body and walked towards the ventilation duct as quickly as possible.

There were also many corpses in the pipe. The ghost cultivator from an unknown origin killed all the later comers except the first group of people who escaped. An Jing placed Boyan's remains, which had begun to turn into dust, into the many broken corpses, and then crushed them and mixed them together.

The watch of the female cultivator from Xiaozhe Mountain was used to sweep open the secret door on the side of the ventilation duct. This secret door was originally very inconspicuous. If it weren't for the bloody handprint on it, it would have been extremely difficult to find. The cloud pattern was swept, and the secret door opened. The deep passage was filled with shadows, as if it led to the depths of hell.

A faint stench of decay and a slight sound of water came, and An Jing knew that the underground water system of Xuan Ye City was ahead.

It twists and turns, where will it lead to?

Time was running out and An Jing had no time to think. Before the other Fengdu guards caught up with him, he had to leave the sewer as soon as possible, avoid the Xuanye City patrol, find a place with food and medicine, heal his injuries, and restore his spiritual energy to prepare for the final battle with the demon.

He took a deep breath, said nothing, and stepped peacefully into the darkness.

He turned into a phantom and disappeared into the waterway.

The sewers of Xuanye City are extremely wide, crisscrossing and winding deep, like a huge maze beneath the ground.

Due to the good design, even though it is dark and damp, there is not too much foul smell and methane accumulated inside.

The sound of flowing water drowned out An Jing's weak footsteps as he kept shuttling back and forth in this tall, wide, and interconnected maze of sewers.

And what guided his way was the watch of the female cultivator from Xiaozheshan.

An Jing, who had been granted authority, was walking quickly according to the records on the holographic map.

Soon, he arrived at a place deep in the sewer, where few people went.

"We are almost there... Even if there are pursuers, they won't be able to catch up for a while."

In the pitch-black darkness, An Jing turned off the holographic projection of his watch, switched it to lighting mode, squinted his eyes, and looked around at the crossroads in front of him.

It's time to make a decision.

"According to the map, just turn right and walk for another half an hour, and you will gradually ascend and emerge from a sewer near an uninhabited area."

An Jing said to the sword spirit in his heart: "But I think the result will not be good if we follow this path - Ms. Xiao Zheshan Nian is obviously a hidden person in the black market, or at least an informant, but she is already dead, and it is very likely related to her. It should even be that the 'True Talisman' that she went to connect with was also chased by the Tiansi."

"I suspect that if we follow this route, we will be arrested as soon as we go up."

"Indeed." The sword spirit also agreed with An Jing's judgment: "But the question is, if we don't take this road, how can we get up?"

"Let's find a nearby sewer exit." An Jing made a decisive decision: "The most important thing now is to leave this way. There are many uninhabited areas on the edge of Xuanye City. No one will notice us at night."

"What we need to do is not to be perfect, but to leave this dangerous area and avoid being targeted the next time we return to Tianyuan Realm."

"And I also need to find a secluded place to recover my spiritual energy as soon as possible."

(End of this chapter)