421: Yan Xiao's good fortune

Old Potato felt a chill upon hearing this, and couldn't help but ask:

“Does that mean... you plan to imprison me here?”

Helian Rui shook his head and said, “What do you mean, imprison? That sounds too unpleasant.

“From now on, my Yuyao Kingdom will Cultivate you in an all-round way, training you to become the top-tier Heterogeneous Fire Artifact Refiner in Prison Land.

“And all you need to do is fulfill our contract and temper a genuine second-grade immortal artifact for us.

“As long as you haven't completed this mission, you will remain here day after day, year after year, forever.”

Old Potato remained silent for a moment, finally unable to resist saying:

“Wait, have you considered that I can directly Self-Destruct and Restart?”

Helian Rui smiled instead:

“If I hadn't figured out the characteristics of you Players, how would I dare invite you to perform Artifact Refining?

“Yes, you can Restart.

“But as soon as you dare to Restart, the Heterogeneous Fire you have refined will scatter here, benefiting our Yuyao Kingdom for free.

“This must also be the reason why you didn't dare to fight us and chose to come here for cooperation and negotiation, right?

“And even if you genuinely abandon the Heterogeneous Fire and choose to Restart and return,

“you will merely resurrect in the place called Newbie Village.

“That place is only protected by one fourth-rank Spirit Beast, and at most, a fourth-grade magic treasure that has gained sentience.

“My Yuyao Kingdom's Throne only needs to employ a minor trick to easily capture you back from the Newbie Village!

“Not to mention, many Players have agreed to join my Yuyao Kingdom recently and have been sent back to the Immortal Dynasty to act as Spies.

“As long as you want to continue to Improve Cultivation Base in the future, you will inevitably interact with other Players, which will surely lead to exposure.

“We have countless ways to capture you again!”

Old Potato's heart was now completely cold.

What the Yuyao Kingdom needed was an Artifact Refiner with Infinite Lifespan, so they could fully grasp the Yuyao Kingdom's Artifact Refining Legacy, achieve Breakthroughs over their long Lifespan, and then temper the second-grade immortal artifact.

Therefore, they didn't actually need to focus on him alone.

If he refused, there were plenty of Players who could be captured to do the job, as long as stability was maintained afterward.

However, there were many variables involved, so many that Old Potato felt the plan was completely unreasonable just by thinking about it casually.

However, when he switched his perspective, adopting the Long-Lived Species viewpoint,

he suddenly realized, and asked:

“I'm just a Casual Move, right?”

The Long-Lived Species don't care about the temporary gains or losses of a certain plan, or even its practical feasibility.

Over the long years, they often act on a whim and suddenly make a Casual Move.

Then they wait for time to change, looking back a hundred or a thousand years later.

If it succeeds, it's naturally a good thing.

If it fails, it doesn't matter.

Because there are too many such Casual Moves.

“You Players...”

Helian Rui mused for a moment, then said, “You are very useful.”

Having finished speaking, Helian Rui leaped up onto the back of a Bird Demon and gracefully flew towards the outside of the valley.

Old Potato was left behind, guarded by a group of Bird Demons, trapped in the center of the White Bone Mountain Range.

The Beast Fire stored underground roared, and the abundant Fire Virtue Spiritual Qi brought Old Potato back from his contemplation.

The Yuyao Kingdom ultimately did not go too far.

Just as they said, this was a cooperation.

The reason they chose such a forceful posture for cooperation was actually because they considered that Players would find it difficult to accept collaborations spanning hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of years.

But if he disregarded the time factor and only looked at the treatment,

Old Potato realized that this place was truly the most suitable location for him to Cultivate.

What he needed most right now was Beast Fire, and this place provided countless Beast Fires.

Moreover, the Spiritual Qi here was abundant, making his breathing and absorption efforts twice as effective with half the effort.

What satisfied him most was that as he began using Beast Fire to Promote into Heterogeneous Fire, Helian Rui would also send in some Cultivation Materials periodically.

Naturally, he also needed to continuously study the Yuyao Kingdom's Artifact Refining Legacy.

“As long as I cooperate properly, serving as a Laborer here doesn't seem to be a problem?”

Old Potato actually felt that this kind of life was quite good, and there seemed to be some hope for the future.

Of course, at this moment, he still didn't know how difficult it was to forge a second-grade immortal artifact, or how much time it would consume... Ma Dun followed Yan Xiao all the way north.

During this time, he only felt that it was absurd.

Extremely absurd.

Just as they crossed the state-stabilizing seal Great Wall and arrived at the Northern Mountain Territory,

a wave of Grand Void Fluctuation immediately occurred.

Yan Xiao then stayed in place for several days.

While Ma Dun was still feeling bewildered, a Cave Heaven suddenly fell.

It turned out to be a part of the former Kongming Dao Lineage.

Ma Dun's eyelids kept twitching as he looked at the Cave Heaven, which covered an area of over a thousand square miles, and the towering Spirit Peaks within it.

Seriously, so many Players, so many Native Cultivators.

Everyone calculated and waited, only managing to wait for the Green Emerald Heaven and Mingshui Heaven Cave Heavens to fall.

The Legacy of the Kongming Dao Lineage was always incomplete, forcing many Players Cultivating the Kongming Dao Lineage to Switch Cultivation Methods.

Now you're telling me that as soon as Yan Xiao arrived, a Cave Heaven smashed directly into his face?

Ma Dun was utterly dumbfounded.

And when Yan Xiao entered the Cave Heaven, found a pile of golden body statues, and then inexplicably smashed a bunch of them, causing a large number of Old Grandpas in the Player community to Suddenly Die,

Ma Dun already dared not look at the Forums.

Some Players had already posted threads exposing him, fiercely criticizing him for bringing Yan Xiao inside.

Yan Xiao searched the Cave Heaven for a while and communicated with the Old Grandpa soul body inside him.

His final judgment was:

This should be the last Cave Heaven created by the Kongming Dao Lineage back then, and also the most hidden and safest one. Therefore, whether spontaneously or arranged by descendants,

everyone's golden body statues were placed here, and there were even Plaques inscribed with names.

Strangely, besides the Old Grandpa soul body inside Yan Xiao, two other golden body statues were mysteriously missing, leaving behind only the name Plaques:

Star Fiend.

Moon Abyss.

Yan Xiao's Teacher believed that these two must have had post-mortem Contingency Plans, just like him, which allowed them to relocate their golden body statues and hide them in places ordinary people could not find.

In plain language, these two Soul bodies were extremely dangerous and might still be hiding some Contingency Plans.

Aside from the golden body statues, as the final remnants of the Kongming Dao Lineage, there were also many Treasure Troves inside, hiding abundant Cultivation Resources.

Yan Xiao plundered them one by one, and incidentally shared some with Ma Dun.

The latter's expression was complex.

By the time Yan Xiao left with him, the latecomer Players began pouring into the Cave Heaven, searching inch by inch, but there were no good items left.

Yan Xiao definitely wouldn't miss the Cave Heaven's Supreme Treasure, but no one knew exactly how precious the treasures he obtained were.

Afterward, Yan Xiao continued heading north with Ma Dun.

Almost immediately after leaving the range of the Cave Heaven by a few hundred miles,

suddenly, a mountain range burst open.

Gushing Earth Springs, carrying large amounts of Spiritual Qi and Heaven And Earth Treasure, surged out.

An Earth Dragon Turned Over, rolling up an Ancient Predecessor's Ruins hidden underground.

Palaces and Pavilions, Spirit Fields and Spirit Peaks, treasures preserved by the earth's pressure for an unknown number of years, reappeared under the sun.

Ma Dun was completely numb.