Many descendants

Qing led Su Yan to a natural chasm and transformed into a chaotic light lamp.

"Disciple, take the lamp and jump down."

"Ah."

Su Yan transformed into human form, grabbed an oil lamp, and jumped off the chasm.

"Why not just teleport here? Why does Master have to go through all that trouble?"

"What if one day you can no longer use your divine power? Will you have to rely on your own legs?"

“…That’s true.”

"Therefore, we cannot always rely on divine power and ignore our own abilities."

"Disciple understands. However, even if I lose my divine power, I still have the system's abilities."

"System power is also an external force. What if you no longer have the child-rearing system?"

“Then I might be dead.” Su Yan replied, “The reason I’m still alive is because I was initially bound to the childbirth system. If it weren’t for this external force, we wouldn’t have this master-disciple relationship.”

"As your teacher, I also owe the system a great debt of karma."

"Just put it on the apprentice's name."

Su Yan landed at the bottom of the chasm, her feet firmly on the ground.

It was pitch black here, and the Chaos Light could only illuminate an area of ​​three meters in radius. The system map was also roughly within the range of the Chaos Light.

"Let's not talk about that for now, where are we?"

"The Ruins Domain. It was originally the Ghost Prison Gate of the Void Realm. It connects to the Nine Nether Hell. Wen Jin was imprisoned in the Nine Nether Hell before, and I planned to go through here to rescue him. By the time I reached the eighty-first level, Wen Jin had already left. I think you must have summoned him using the Partner Mark."

“Yes.” Su Yan sighed, recalling Wen Jin’s miserable state. “He suffered terribly in hell. He even had to take care of his beloved child. It seems he was harboring a lot of resentment.”

The chaotic light flickered, "There is a ruin."

Immediately, a wisp of chaotic light drifted away from the oil lamp, illuminating Su Yan's left side, where a pitch-black humanoid figure stood upright. Where the eyes were, there were two black holes, as if vortexes could suck in souls.

Su Yan quickly calmed herself down.

The chaotic light passed through the ruins... and the ruins turned into a wisp of gray mist and dissipated.

"Master, what are these humanoid ruins? They exist in the God Realm as well. Qing Linghuan said that some of them are comparable to the strength of a God-King."

"These humanoid ruins are originally the souls of people who entered the ghost realm after death. However, those here have just merged and do not yet have consciousness. Once they gain consciousness, they will leave the gates of the ghost realm and travel to other realms, becoming high-level ruins and causing chaos in those realms."

"Master means that if someone created the ruins, it's here!" Considering this place connects to the Nine Nether Hells, "Could it be a demon god?"

"You mean manufacturing ruins?"

"Ah."

"After the six realms were divided, some fragments of rules inevitably crumbled into nothingness."

"It's not this Ruins, but the manipulator that gives the Ruins consciousness and can even merge with human souls, divine beast bodies, divine essences, and so on."

"...We haven't found that yet," Qing replied after a moment's hesitation.

"Hmm." Su Yan held the Chaos Light Oil Lamp and continued walking forward. She watched as Qing easily cleared away the Ruins with the Chaos Light.

Finally, they arrived at a door.

Su Yan stared at the door in surprise. "This is... a portal on the Nine Demon Armor?"

Because she had used this treasure for a long time, she recognized it at a glance, and it also had positioning star charts for various realms on it.

"Could the manipulator be the Demon Lord?" Su Yan continued, "But didn't the Demon Lord go to the Original Realm?"

“He went to the Original Realm, but the Nine Demon Armor didn’t.” Qing gestured for Su Yan to put away the teleportation portal.

"How can we take this? Is it ownerless now?"

A wisp of chaotic light drifted from the wick of the oil lamp and landed on the teleportation portal.

A drop of purplish-gold blood was forced out by the chaotic light. As it tried to escape, it was transformed into a wisp of demonic energy and dissipated by the chaotic light.

After the portal became unclaimed, it turned into a black box.

"It's the Demon Lord's blood; he must have placed the portal here."

"Why put it here? Are those ruins the way to the other realms?"

"The Ruins don't need it. But the Demon Lord must have his reasons for doing this."

"Should we wait here for a while? Master just forced out the Demon Lord's blood, which will surely alert those who use this sect."

“Okay,” Qing replied.

Su Yan dripped a drop of her own blood essence onto the black box.

Then I put it into the system space and asked Xiaomei to check the portal to see if there was anything else fishy going on.

Soon, Xiaomei said to Su Yan, "This portal has an extra space compared to before."

【space?】

[Yes, host, the space is full of ruins! Perfect for Xiaomei to study.]

Uh! Is there any danger?

In Xiaomei's world, the main system has arrived.

[Come on, Yan Ze tells you to update, so you update; he tells you to do whatever he wants, so you do whatever he wants.]

【…】

Only when safety is guaranteed can those ruins be studied.

[Thank you, host. Xiaomei will ensure your safety.] Xiaomei's voice sounded excited; it seemed that the data from these ruins was exactly what she wanted.

"Master, there's another space inside that portal, and it's all ruins."

“…Oh?” Qing was somewhat surprised. “The Nine Demon Armor does indeed have a space, comparable in size to a domain. However, I remember that this space is on the wrist guard. It seems that the Demon Lord has integrated the wrist guard into the teleportation portal.”

Su Yan transformed into a white mouse and hid behind a boulder.

The Chaos Light Oil Lamp also dimmed its light, becoming an ordinary oil lamp.

Su Yan leaned against the oil lamp and gradually began to doze off. Before long, she drifted off to sleep.

A very soft sigh came from inside the oil lamp.

A gray figure approached from afar.

Finally, they stopped in front of the oil lamp.

The oil lamp lit up, and a barrier enveloped Su Yan.

As he transformed into human form, he said to the gray figure, "Let's go."

"Where's the portal?" the gray figure asked.

Qing said, "I gave it to my apprentice."

"You! Don't you know what's inside?"

"Give up, you won't succeed."

"Why?!"

"I have some...unfortunate news for you."

"what news?"

"Whenever my apprentice gets involved, the matter will most likely spiral out of control. In the end, it will all come to a conclusion according to my apprentice's will. This applies now... and especially in the future!"

……

When Su Yan woke up, she found herself alone, enveloped by a barrier. Her oil lamp master was nowhere to be seen.

"Xiaomei, where's my master?"

[I didn't notice. Xiaomei was too busy studying the ruins.]

[…Let's trace back the timeline.]

【Good host. 】

However, tracing back in time, there is only a hazy gray shadow, and the scene of Qing leaving with the shadow after he became a stunningly handsome young man.

Then there is darkness.

[Does Master recognize that gray shadow?]

[That should be it. By the way, host, didn't the main system tell us to investigate how the system data was merged with the Ruins?]

[Hmm, 1000 cosmic points, I absolutely have to get them!]

Xiaomei already knows.