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After the first Heavenly Serpent Blood Coagulation Pill was refined to the ninth grade, and the process was confirmed, Amon didn't delay. He pressed on and refined three more.
These three pills also developed sentience and transformed into Amon's appearance, attempting Deception to escape.
However, they didn't inherit the wisdom of the clone like Jiu Bao; their Deception was quite clumsy.
Amon didn't even bother to waste words with them. He Sealed them and threw them to Cai Lin.
Immediately after, he hurried towards Central Plains, guided by Zhou Mingrui, the beacon, and arrived at Ancient Sacred City.
Zhou Mingrui looked at Amon's true body, which had suddenly appeared beside him, and a smile appeared on his face: "How do you feel? Do you feel a sense of pressure?"
"Indeed, it seems the protective shield of Ancient Sacred City, left by a Dou Emperor, is not a rumor," Amon said, his eyes deep as he stared at the massive light shield enveloping the entire city.
He withdrew his gaze and fixed it on Zhou Mingrui: "Have you determined the location of the Ancient Realm?"
"Not yet. Gu Yuan is wary of me and hasn't allowed me to go to the Ancient Realm... Can't you pass directly through this wormhole?" Zhou Mingrui gazed at the massive silver vortex in the center of Ancient Sacred City.
Amon shook his head: "There are people from the ancient clan guarding the spatial wormhole. In such a special environment within the wormhole, if I try to shuttle through, it will cause a certain degree of disturbance... The gatekeeper is a Dou Saint."
Zhou Mingrui smiled and said, "There's probably something similar to the protective shield above Ancient Sacred City inside the Ancient Realm. Even if we knew the location, forcibly entering would most likely lead to discovery..."
"However, sneaking into the Ancient Realm isn't difficult. Although the management of this spatial wormhole is very strict and generally not open to outsiders, the Black Annihilation Army rotates periodically."
"Heh heh, it's quite funny, but the ancient clan's most elite defensive force will become their biggest weakness."
Amon nodded and said, "Do you have detailed information on someone in the Black Annihilation Army? Including their habits and social relationships."
"I need my true body to go in, but my true body has lost its Parasite ability, so I can only rely on more primitive disguise."
"Your true body must go in?" Zhou Mingrui's eyes narrowed slightly. After a moment of thought, he said with a mix of doubt and certainty, "Are you eyeing the Tian Tomb?"
"Among the ancient clan, only the Tian Tomb and Xun Er are worth my attention. However, I'm not ready to clash with Gu Yuan yet; I'm just borrowing it for a bit," Amon said, his smile unchanged.
Zhou Mingrui transmitted a piece of information to his true body through a mental link.
Amon closed his eyes, digesting the incoming message, and from it, he selected a target: an ordinary member with uncomplicated social relationships and a generally solitary nature.
...
The sun set in the west, and a bright moon rose. The moon's cool light made the night less dark.
A young man in black armor sat on a step of the city wall, holding a bracelet in his hand.
He caressed the smooth, lustrous bracelet, a happy smile on his face.
The young man was Gu Yin, born into an ordinary family in the Ancient Realm. Among the vast number of ancient clan descendants, not everyone possessed bloodline power.
Over the long years, the ancient clan's bloodline power had gradually faded, and many clan members were no different from ordinary people in the outside World.
Gu Yin was lucky; he awakened a trace of bloodline, though not strong, it already surpassed many others.
Because of this trace of bloodline, he received a certain degree of resource allocation, and coupled with his own diligent cultivation, he finally became a Dou Emperor and joined the Black Annihilation Army.
Among the ancient clan, members of the Black Annihilation Army held a high status, and Gu Yin thus gained the approval of the parents of the girl he had admired for a long time.
The wedding date had been set, right after this duty.
Gu Yin bought a bracelet made of sixth-grade jade with three months of his income, planning to give it to his beloved girl when he returned.
"Gu Qin, wait for me to come back..." he murmured softly.
He put the bracelet back into the exquisitely crafted wooden box, placed the box on the ground beside him, stretched, and moved his limbs.
Next to his shadow, there was also a long, slender shadow, seemingly present for a long time. Gu Yin only then belatedly realized there was someone behind him.
He turned around and saw a young man dressed in a black robe, wearing a pointed soft hat, with a monocle made of crystal on his right eye.
"Are you thinking of someone?" Amon asked.
"Yes... She's the best girl in the World," Gu Yin said with a smile.
He sized up Amon, confirmed he hadn't seen him before, and that he wasn't from the Black Annihilation Army, so he reminded him:
"Outsiders are not allowed on the city walls of Ancient Sacred City. Who are you, sir? If you didn't know the rules and came up unintentionally, please leave quickly."
Gu Yin met Amon's gaze and saw the flowing starlight in the other's eyes. Then, his own eyes began to lose focus, and his mind became dazed.
A few seconds later, the young man with the monocle disappeared, leaving only "Gu Yin" at the scene.
His face was somewhat stiff, and faint wriggling worms could still be seen beneath his skin.
The wriggling of the worms gradually stopped, and the stiffness on "Gu Yin's" face also slightly eased. He raised his right hand, pinched his right eye socket, and slowly curved his lips into a smile.
Three days later, a massive warship slowly flew out of the silver vortex above Ancient Sacred City.
Lin Xio, the commander of the Black Annihilation Army, waited in the square with the warriors who had finished their duty and were preparing to rotate.
The warship slowly descended, and a long-haired young man walked off the ship. His appearance wasn't particularly handsome, but he exuded a sense of calm and reliability.
"Gu Zhen? Why is it you? If I'm not mistaken, the one who should be replacing me this time is Ling Quan, right?" Lin Xio's face showed surprise.
Gu Zhen smiled slightly: "I'm not the only one who came."
Lin Xio was startled, then looked behind Gu Zhen, where a man in a green robe was slowly approaching.
"Gu... Brother Gu Qingyang? How could this be? You shouldn't need to be stationed here, should you?" Lin Xio was even more surprised, his confusion unconcealed.
"The patriarch asked us to come. He said there's a very excellent young man, and he wants us to get in touch with him," Gu Qingyang, dressed in green, cast his gaze towards Zhou Mingrui, who was standing at the end of the Black Annihilation Army's ranks, wearing a black training outfit that seemed out of place among the surrounding armor.
"It's him?" Lin Xio showed a look of realization.
Zhou Mingrui's identity here was Gu Chen's disciple, but Gu Chen had evidently sensed something, realizing the patriarch's attitude towards his newly accepted disciple was somewhat strange, and thus, after throwing him into the Black Annihilation Army, he no longer bothered with him.
Lin Xio didn't inquire further. He completed the handover and then led the rotating Black Annihilation Army warriors onto the warship.
With a tremor, the warship slowly ascended and flew into the spatial wormhole leading to the Ancient Realm.
Zhou Mingrui looked at Gu Qingyang and Gu Zhen, who were coming towards him, and grinned, revealing a distinct smile.
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