785: Chapter 784 Qin Yan, who holds a grudge.

For now, he noted down this debt. In the future, once he was strong enough, he would definitely uncover the other party's identity and make them pay back today's near-fatal disaster with interest.

With the help of the destruction water shield, Qin Yan encountered no obstacles along the way and soon arrived at the edge of the deep Core Area.

The protection of the spirit blade of destruction allowed him to move through this dangerous zone like a fish in water, as if walking on flat ground.

Subsequently, Qin Yan put away the Destruction Battle Blade and continued walking toward the outer perimeter.

The spirit blade of destruction was, after all, a fifty-thousand-inscription spirit weapon!

If he used it for too long, he would easily be targeted by others.

He needed to keep a low profile now.

Soon after, Qin Yan continued walking toward the outer perimeter.

Just as he stepped into the outer perimeter of the Core Area, he saw a familiar figure sitting cross-legged on a flat boulder from afar—the woman wore a white profound robe, her long hair tied high in a neat ponytail, and her entire body emitted a faint golden glow of Spear Intent. It was none other than Jiang Li.

Just as Qin Yan spotted Jiang Li, Jiang Li also sensed his aura almost at the same time.

She opened her eyes, which were as bright as stars, and her gaze pierced through the gray mist to land on the white-robed figure rapidly walking toward her. The heavy stone that had been weighing on her heart for several days finally lifted.

As Qin Yan quickly walked up to her side, Jiang Li carefully sized up the young man before her and asked softly, "Qin Yan, are you alright?"

Although her tone was calm, the concern revealed in her voice could not be hidden.

Although Qin Yan had already changed into clean robes, his face still carried a trace of lingering paleness, and a few wisps of un-dissipated destruction aura along with a faint scent of blood still clung to his body.

Clearly, during the Legacy inheritance over the past few days, what he went through was by no means smooth sailing.

Qin Yan shook his head and said, "It's nothing, just a minor injury. I've mostly recovered."

Jiang Li nodded slightly, the concern in her eyes quietly receding a bit.

"It's good that you're fine. Such a massive upheaval occurred in the Core Area earlier; it's great that you could return safe and sound."

She had witnessed the disaster in the Core Area with her own eyes. Destruction and purple lightning intertwined, and raindrops poured down like a torrential downpour.

Even Grandmaster experts were killed by the raindrops.

For Qin Yan to come out alive from such a place was already a stroke of immense luck.

"Thank you for your concern, Miss Jiang Li," Qin Yan said, his tone sincere.

He could feel Jiang Li's concern.

In this unfamiliar place, in this dangerous environment, having a friend waiting for him, caring about him, and worrying about him—this feeling was truly wonderful.

Subsequently, Qin Yan looked around and noticed that quite a few super experts were currently standing in the vicinity.

Among those experts, some were Grandmasters and some were Great Grandmasters, wearing robes of various colors and radiating powerful auras.

At this moment, the gazes of these experts were all locked tightly onto Qin Yan.

They were extremely curious: how did Qin Yan walk out of the Core Area?

That place was filled with all kinds of violent energies—black mist of destruction, purple lightning, forbidden Domains, and spatial rifts. Even Great Grandmaster-level experts risked falling if they mistakenly entered!

Yet Qin Yan, a young man at the Rank 6 Peak, actually walked out alive, and his injuries did not even seem severe.

How did he do it? What trump cards did he have? What did he obtain?

Some gazes also carried greed.

After all, it was highly probable that Qin Yan had obtained the Legacy of Venerable Destruction.

If they could snatch it from Qin Yan's hands or force him to hand it over, they would strike it rich.

Feeling the surrounding gazes, Qin Yan frowned slightly.

He knew he had become a target for everyone.

The Legacy of Venerable Destruction made him a piece of fat meat in the eyes of these experts.

"Jiang Li, let's leave this place and return to the Holy Land."

Qin Yan spoke in a low voice to Jiang Li.

Seeing Qin Yan's serious expression, Jiang Li was slightly taken aback, then nodded and said, "Alright."

Subsequently, Qin Yan and Jiang Li turned into two streaks of light, flying straight toward the outside of the Ruined Battlefield.

After Qin Yan and Jiang Li left, several Grandmaster experts secretly exchanged glances, a tacit understanding flashing in their eyes.

Soon after, their figures also quietly vanished, turning into a few looming streaks of light that followed far behind Qin Yan and Jiang Li.

High in the sky, First Prince Jun Wentian saw all of this.

Shifting his gaze from Qin Yan and Jiang Li, his eyes fell upon the several tracking Grandmasters, and a cold sneer flashed in his eyes.

A bunch of ants, yet they also want to covet the Legacy of Venerable Destruction?

Truly overestimating themselves.

Subsequently, First Prince Jun Wentian looked at the two people behind him—they were two death warriors he had trained, both Grandmaster Peak-level experts, formidable in strength and fiercely loyal.

"Let's go as well."

First Prince Jun Wentian said calmly.

"Yes, Your Highness."

The two of them responded respectfully, bowing slightly.

Then, they silently followed behind those few people, neither too close nor too far, neither too fast nor too slow.

Their figures were even more concealed and harder to detect than those of the Grandmasters.

...

On the way back.

Qin Yan also asked Jiang Li why the Core Area had become like that.

The sky full of destruction raindrops, the terrifying purple lightning, the overwhelming explosions—how on earth did all of this happen?

However, Jiang Li also expressed that she did not know.

She had only waited on the outer perimeter and had not entered the Core Area; she had only watched from afar and had not observed from up close.

She only knew that a massive energy fluctuation had suddenly erupted in the Core Area, then raindrops fell from the sky, and then the Grandmaster experts fled one after another.

As for what exactly happened, she was not clear either.

Still, she told Qin Yan what she knew, as well as the speculations of many experts who had returned from deep within the Core Area.

Hearing this, Qin Yan raised an eyebrow, a strange feeling welling up in his heart.

The time the disaster occurred in the Core Area was precisely the day he began to accept the Legacy of Venerable Destruction.

In terms of timing, it was a perfect overlap.

"Could the disaster in this Core Area... be related to me?"

Qin Yan thought to himself.

If it was truly because of him, because of the Legacy of Venerable Destruction, that the Core Area turned into a living hell, causing several Grandmaster experts to fall and countless Resentful Spirits to suffer Soul Flying Away and Spirit Scattering—then did he count as an indirect murderer?

"Young Miss, there is a group of Grandmasters tracking you from behind."

Just then, a deep voice echoed in the air.

Immediately afterward, in the Void Realm behind them, a figure completely covered in brilliant golden light slowly emerged.

It was a middle-aged martial monk clad in a golden kasaya, with a square and resolute face, golden light circulating all over his body.

His knuckles were thick and powerful, the edges of his palms glowing with a faint golden Buddhist light. His entire aura was as stable as a mountain and as vast as the deep ocean; just standing there gave off an unshakeable sense of pressure.