59: Chapter 59 Remains
"What on earth is this thing?"
Ning Yuan held the golden sphere in his hand, examining it curiously.
He even tried tossing it slightly to feel its weight.
He recognized almost everything else in the golden-horned bracelet; they were mostly precious medicinal herbs or spiritual materials that would be considered quite valuable in the outside world.
But this sphere alone was something he had never seen mentioned in any ancient records.
Moreover, he could vaguely sense an extraordinary energy fluctuation coming from within it.
This thing was definitely not simple!
Suddenly!
An incredibly urgent low shout rang out in his ear.
"Don't touch it!"
The moment Jiang Mingyue saw the golden sphere in Ning Yuan's hand clearly, her pretty face turned deathly pale in an instant, and her skin crawled with terror!
Ning Yuan was also startled by her violent reaction.
"What's wrong? You recognize this thing?"
Jiang Mingyue carefully took the golden sphere from Ning Yuan's hand.
She checked it repeatedly with great care, and only after finding that the seal on the surface of the sphere was still intact did she let out a long sigh of relief.
As a Martial Saint in her past life, her knowledge was naturally much broader than Ning Yuan's.
A long-lost sense of superiority welled up from the bottom of her heart.
She gave a light snort and glanced sideways at Ning Yuan, her tone full of feigned arrogance.
"Hmph! You country bumpkin, you don't even know what this is?"
She finally felt like she had regained some dignity!
Then, she began to explain:
"This is an extremely special Dao-protecting remnant of the Golden God Clan. When some powerful elders of the Golden God Clan are nearing the end of their lifespan, they will actively contract and condense their lifelong power and divine soul, eventually turning into a golden sphere like this to lock in their power. Then, it is carried by the younger generation of the clan. In times of life-and-death crisis, it can be released to protect their path and slay enemies!"
"Such a thing is extremely precious. Normally, only the most highly valued top-tier Prodigys within the Golden God Clan are eligible to be gifted one by their elders."
"That Golden Horn, being the descendant of a Saint, having this item makes sense."
At this point, Jiang Mingyue's expression became incredibly serious.
"If I'm not mistaken, at least one sleeping Emperor-level powerhouse of the Golden God Clan is sealed within this remnant! If we were to rashly disturb and wake him now, even under the suppression of this ruin's rules, he could still exert the terrifying power of the peak of the Sixth Order! That is definitely not something we can match right now!"
Hearing this, Ning Yuan couldn't help but click his tongue in surprise.
If he had really treated it as some ordinary energy treasure just now and crushed it directly...
The consequences would have been simply unimaginable.
The gap between different Sixth Orders was also immense.
"Truly insidious, these golden poop people!" Ning Yuan couldn't help but complain.
"But then again, why didn't that Golden Horn guy use this thing just now?"
Jiang Mingyue looked at him speechlessly.
"He was turned into powder by your punch instantly, he didn't even have time to react, how was he supposed to use it?"
Ning Yuan gave an embarrassed smile.
"I guess that's true."
He carefully put this hot potato away again, placing it in the deepest part of his dimensional bracelet.
This thing wasn't easy to deal with for the time being.
He would wait and find an opportunity later to figure out how to dispose of it.
After processing all the spoils of war, the two of them worked together to wipe away all traces of the battlefield.
Jiang Mingyue looked at the now calm dense forest and asked, "Where do you plan to go next?"
Ning Yuan replied casually, "The True Dragon Blood Pool."
Jiang Mingyue wasn't surprised to hear this.
"I knew it. But do you know how to get there?"
Ning Yuan chuckled and shook the ancient jade talisman in his hand.
"Sorry, I have a map."
Jiang Mingyue was dumbfounded on the spot.
After a moment, she squeezed out a few words through her teeth.
"I hate people with special privileges!"
Seeing her look of envy and jealousy, Ning Yuan said with a smile:
"I'll take you with me."
Jiang Mingyue's eyes instantly sparkled.
She lunged forward, grabbed Ning Yuan's arm, and shouted in an extremely saccharine voice, "Boss!"
Although her dependence on true dragon blood wasn't that great,
it was still a legendary supreme treasure after all. If she could use it to temper her physical body, there would naturally be many benefits!
Ning Yuan was so startled by her sudden action that his whole body shuddered in disgust.
"Go away! Go away! I already said I'm not into guys! If you want to find a man, turn left out the door and go to Chuanxing!"
Jiang Mingyue gave him a huge eye-roll.
Internally, however, she was snickering.
She had suddenly found a way to counter Ning Yuan.
"This guy thinks I'm a man. If I do this every now and then, won't it gross him out to death!"
At the thought of this, she laughed even more happily in her heart.
She had finally won one back!
Ning Yuan shook his head helplessly.
"Alright, let's go together."
The two of them set off again.
Their current location wasn't too far from the True Dragon Blood Pool marked on the map.
Along the way, the Dragon-blooded creatures they encountered became increasingly powerful.
From time to time, powerful Fourth-Order or even Fifth-Order creatures would leap out from the dense forest.
However, with their current strength, these did not pose much of an obstacle.
During this period, they also encountered other students twice from a distance.
However, those parties were also humans.
After all, among the students who entered the ruins this time, humans made up the absolute majority.
Keep the benefits within the family, so to speak.
Those two teams of students, after seeing from afar that these two death gods, Ning Yuan and Jiang Mingyue, had joined forces, immediately turned tail and ran without a word.
Following the light-and-shadow map produced by the jade talisman, the two continued forward, successfully bypassing many unnecessary obstacles and dangerous areas.
Soon, they approached the location of the small gourd-shaped opening on the map.
Suddenly!
The two of them stopped at the same time and exchanged a glance, their eyes filled with vigilance!
In the distance, extremely violent combat fluctuations were faintly coming through!
The two of them silently concealed their auras and stealthily approached the source of the fluctuations.
They stopped on a cliff far away and looked down.
They saw that at the entrance of a huge valley below, three figures were working together to besiege a massive Dragon-blooded creature!
Ning Yuan and Jiang Mingyue recognized those three at a glance.
They had all just shone brilliantly in the Transcendent Academy competition and were top-tier existences ranked in the top twenty of the Transcendent Academy!
One of them was a human.
The other two were from the Green Ox Clan and the Mad Lion Clan, respectively.
Judging by their tacit cooperation, it was clear they had formed an alliance long ago.
And the Dragon-blooded creature they were besieging was a giant Dragon Turtle, its body like a small mountain and its shell covered in profound dragon patterns!
The aura it emitted had impressively reached the terrifying level of the Sixth Order!
Judging by that terrifying momentum, the purity of the dragon blood in its body was definitely not low, and its combat power far exceeded that of an ordinary Sixth Order.
Seeing this, Jiang Mingyue's expression grew solemn, and she couldn't help but curse in a low voice:
"These three guys, instead of going to the True Dragons Nest in the depths of the ruins to fight for greater opportunities, they actually came here to seize the True Dragon Blood Pool! They've truly lost all face for the geniuses of the Transcendent Academy!"
Then, she said with some worry:
"What do we do now? The three of them are blocking the entrance. And that big turtle isn't easy to deal with either."
One had to know that each of the guys below was even more powerful than that Yan Kuang from before!