58: Chapter 58 Unaware of Human Suffering
Everything in the surroundings gradually settled down.
Jiang Mingyue stared blankly at the massive corpse before her, which was slowly turning into crystal; she was still in a daze.
"Just like that... he's dead?"
A shock far more intense than any she had felt before rose spontaneously from the depths of her heart.
Ning Yuan rested the dragon slaughter spear on his shoulder, looking completely nonchalant.
"Otherwise? Keep him around to celebrate the New Year?"
Hearing this, Jiang Mingyue could no longer suppress her excitement. She walked quickly to Ning Yuan, her beautiful eyes wide and round.
"Do you have any idea? That was Yan Kuang! He was ranked twenty-fifth in this Transcendent Academy tournament! He was a powerful Fifth-Order peak prodigy!"
"I know, so what?" Ning Yuan still wore that smiling expression, as if he had just swatted a fly.
Jiang Mingyue took a deep breath, trying hard to calm her turbulent emotions. She spoke with absolute certainty and resolve:
"You! You must have also broken the Qi and Blood Limit! Tell me, is your limit twenty million jin, or thirty million jin!"
At this moment, for the first time, she felt a pure, heartfelt admiration for the youth before her!
She asked herself.
With her current strength, if she were to face that Yan Kuang, she could never have done it so effortlessly, let alone suppress and kill him so forcefully!
On the contrary, she had just been chased by Yan Kuang and might have even needed to use her trump cards to escape.
The gap between them was simply too vast!
She stared intently into Ning Yuan's eyes, desperately wanting to know his true depth.
Their eyes met.
However, in the next instant.
The sliver of admiration that had just risen in her heart was completely shattered.
Ning Yuan's face once again displayed that familiar, mischievous smirk.
"Take a guess?"
The veins on Jiang Mingyue's forehead throbbed uncontrollably.
She took several deep breaths in succession before barely managing not to explode on the spot.
"Hmph! Fine, don't tell me! It's not like it's a big deal!"
She spun around abruptly, turning her back to Ning Yuan, her voice full of disdain.
But in her heart, she couldn't help but add a thought.
"Alright, it actually seems like a pretty big deal."
After all, that was a top-tier Fifth-Order Prodigy capable of going head-to-head with a Sixth-Order powerhouse!
It was her first time meeting someone like Ning Yuan.
He could always easily shatter all of her preconceptions.
Powerful, mysterious, and unfathomable.
But at the same time, he was mischievous and lacked any sense of decorum.
The most infuriating thing was that with her current strength, she actually couldn't beat him!
"Just you wait! Once I successfully step into the Extraordinary realm, I'm definitely going to give you a good thrashing!"
Ning Yuan looked at her huffy back and chuckled.
For some reason, seeing this easily-provoked 'little brother' always made him want to tease her.
He turned his head and nodded to Wang Zai, who had been salivating on the side for a long time.
Seeing this, Wang Zai immediately cheered and opened its massive mouth, which seemed capable of swallowing heaven and earth!
A powerful suction force instantly swallowed the entire crystalizing corpse on the ground!
This was the core essence of the Yan Clan, and for a Heaven Swallowing Beast, it was a great tonic!
Wang Zai let out a satisfied burp.
It turned its head and gave a kind, big-brother-like smile to White Moon, who had just poked its little head out from Jiang Mingyue's wrist.
However, this smile scared poor little White Moon so much that it shuddered all over, trembling as it quickly burrowed back into the wrist mark on Jiang Mingyue, not daring to show its face again.
As for that unlucky Golden Horn...
Under Ning Yuan's punch, he had already been completely reduced to the most basic particles in the universe, leaving not even a single hair behind.
The flesh and blood essence of a mere Third-Order Golden God Clan member wasn't of much use to the current Wang Zai anyway.
Ning Yuan bent down and picked up the dimensional bracelets left behind by Golden Horn and Yan Kuang after their deaths.
He shook the two bracelets in his hand and asked Jiang Mingyue:
"Here, one for each of us?"
Jiang Mingyue shook her head, her tone carrying a hint of unquestionable principle.
"You killed them, so the spoils of war naturally belong to you."
Besides, strictly speaking, Ning Yuan had just saved her life.
Seeing this, Ning Yuan didn't try to persuade her further.
In any case, in his view, these were likely just a bunch of useless scrap metal.
He sent his divine sense into the bracelets.
Sure enough, just as he expected.
Inside was indeed a pile of treasures that would make countless people in the outside world go wild with desire.
The net worth of these two guys was indeed substantial.
But...
To Ning Yuan, it was just mediocre.
One item caught his attention.
He discovered that inside these two bracelets, there were actually two ancient-looking horns, one large and one small.
dimensional horns.
He held them in his hand and gave them a simple try, and his eyes instantly lit up!
He tossed the smaller horn to Jiang Mingyue.
"Second Bro, take this. This thing seems to allow communication even inside this ruin. I was wondering how those two met up so quickly; turns out they brought some good stuff."
Hearing this, Jiang Mingyue's eyes also lit up.
With this, it would be much more convenient for them to stay in touch within the ruins, and they wouldn't have to worry about getting separated.
Ning Yuan continued to rummage through the bracelets.
As he searched, he muttered, "Why is it all just trash!"
Standing nearby, Jiang Mingyue's mouth couldn't help but twitch.
This guy was really asking for a beating!
This was simply the definition of being ignorant of the world's hardships!
Suddenly!
Ning Yuan's eyes snapped wide!
In Golden Horn's dimensional bracelet, he had found a peculiar object!
It was a sphere composed entirely of pure golden energy, its surface glowing with a rhythmic golden light!