Nightmare Immortal Era

Chapter 18: Avoiding the Holy Mother

After Yang Ning climbed to the top of the tree, the flying boat quickly arrived, and a rope was lowered from it.

Climbing up the rope, Yang Ning casually glanced at the distant waterfall on the way, then quickly averted his gaze.

In just a moment, the waterfall widened by several hundred meters, and a huge pit exploded in the center, transforming the originally straight waterfall into a concave U-shape.

Yang Ning was not surprised by Lin Tianheng's actions. After all, Tuobu River could not simply die obediently; he would definitely leave something that could provoke Lin Tianheng.

What shocked him even more was the extent of the destruction. Was this the destructive power of the Gold Core stage? He just didn't know if Lin Tianheng did this casually or with full force.

"Deep Blue, what level of damage is needed to cause such a scale of destruction?" Yang Ning asked.

"The main structure of Mount Qin is made of Huanggang rock, which is hard and dense. The destruction caused by Lin Tianheng is like a cylinder, with a diameter of 477 meters and a height of 1866 meters. It's as if it was struck by a giant pillar on a sunny day, with a power equivalent to 300,000 tons of TNT explosives, which is 20 times that of the Hiroshima atomic bomb!"

"What nonsense are you talking about!" Yang Ning immediately retorted. "No atomic bomb has ever been dropped there. I haven't seen it with my own eyes!"

Deep Blue immediately changed its statement. "Then it is equivalent to the explosion of a 300,000-ton equivalent atomic bomb!"

"That's about right!" Yang Ning nodded. So the destructive power of the Gold Core stage is this high?

He just didn't know if Lin Tianheng created such a large impact in one strike or if he struck multiple times.

Climbing up the rope onto the boat, Yang Ning's first sight was Lin Tianheng sitting on top of the mast with a gloomy expression.

He stared at Yang Ning with his deep blue eyes.

"I've been discovered?" Yang Ning had a thought, but he only felt a slight panic. His expression also showed some guilt. After being busy for half a month, he hadn't found any clues about the thief. He truly felt sorry for the trust placed in him by the senior.

"Hmph!" Lin Tianheng snorted coldly and then looked away.

"Indeed, you were deceiving me, or rather, deceiving everyone!" After all, a Gold Core stage expert who did nothing but stare at you would expose anyone who felt guilty.

But Yang Ning had practiced the Black Tortoise Aura Concealing Technique, so he could completely control his emotions, heartbeat, blood pressure, and even his mental state.

Of course, Lin Tianheng would never have expected that a mere Third Layer cultivator could cultivate such a technique. Naturally, he took a glance and let it go.

"Yang Ge!" Ning Rong softly called out. She was sitting in a corner, with a green-clad girl leaning against her.

The girl was lying in her arms, trembling. She seemed to be crying, and Yang Ning didn't know what had happened. But with Lin Tianheng sitting above, the whole boat was silent, so it wasn't the right time to ask.

Sitting next to the two, Yang Ning first looked at the other people on the boat and realized that the two hundred disciples from the Immortal Ascension Academy had already gathered, but only six hundred and forty of the eight hundred Immortal Seedlings had come up.

The flying boat was still picking up people, and Lin Tianheng stared at each person who came up, one after another. It wasn't until two hours later that Lin Tianheng came down from the mast, and his expression had relaxed a lot.

"Sir, there should still be forty people who haven't come up!" Wei Chaoyang saw Lin Tianheng come down and quickly approached him.

"There are no forty people left!" Lin Tianheng sneered. "Everyone who is alive is here!"

"What?" Wei Chaoyang exclaimed. "But..."

"But what? Some of the Immortal Ascension Academy disciples died in the mouths of wild beasts in the mountains. Your selection skills aren't that great!" Lin Tianheng said indifferently.

"This..." Wei Chaoyang widened his eyes. Even if they were cultivators, in the first month, they were only practicing breathing techniques and couldn't increase their combat power much.

Even if they were at the Second Layer of the physical body, a twelve-year-old Second Layer cultivator would not be a match for an adult tiger or black bear!

But he didn't dare to argue. He could only watch as Lin Tianheng casually flicked his sleeve and disappeared from the boat with one step.

"Ah!" Wei Chaoyang sighed and then waved his hand. "Since there's no one left, let's go back!"

"This... is it over?" Seeing Lin Tianheng leave, the voices on the boat suddenly became louder, as if a natural enemy had disappeared.

"What else can we do?"

"But he killed so many people. Isn't he going to be punished?"

"He's an inner disciple! In terms of status in the dynasty, it's equivalent to a prince. If a prince kills a few ordinary people, who will punish him? Who dares to punish him?"

"Ah, I see!"

"And didn't Wei Shi already say when we boarded the ship, 'The Immortal Dao is ethereal, life and death are unpredictable. Without being prepared for death, where does the courage come from to embark on the path of cultivation?'"

Yang Ning did not participate in the discussion, and he noticed that Xia Yi did not come up.

First, he used his gaze to find Xun Hu, who was squeezed among several princes, enthusiastically telling something.

Yang Ning read his lips and realized that he had seen a group of monkeys in the forest and had followed them to practice the Monkey Form for more than twenty days, feeling that his cultivation had greatly improved!

"After boarding the ship, it seems like he really doesn't like to play with us anymore." Yang Ning thought of Tuo Buchuan's warning and looked at the others.

Groups had already formed on the deck, but they were mostly princes communicating with each other. Even the groups formed by princes and their servant boys were still dominated by the princes, with the servant boys only nodding along on the side.

It seems like what Tuo Buchuan said makes sense!

"Wu wu, Ning Rong, what should I do? I don't want to go back!" The sobbing of the girl in green next to him grew louder.

Yang Ning turned his head and saw Ning Rong looking at him with a pleading expression.

"What's the situation?" Yang Ning asked.

"She is the maid of the neighboring Yongguo prince, and also my good friend. But her prince, servant boy, and servants all died in Qinshan. According to the rules of the Immortal Ascension Academy, she has lost her qualification for cultivation and will be sent back!" Ning Rong pleaded, "Yang ge, I know you have always been resourceful, do you have any way to help her stay?"

After she finished speaking, the girl in green quickly raised her head and looked at him with teary eyes, saying, "Yang, Yang ge, help me, if you can help me, I'll do anything!"

Four people were selected from each country, and the maid quota was the only female among the four. The girl's appearance, temperament, and background were all top-notch. Although she was only twelve years old, she had already grown into an elegant and beautiful young lady.

In addition, after living in the forest for more than half a month, she had a somewhat disheveled appearance and tears in her eyes, making her look pitiful.

Yang Ning opened his mouth, looking like he wanted to help, but after thinking for a long time, he helplessly shook his head. "What can I do? I'm just an extra person myself!"

"But..." Ning Rong blinked.

"Ning Rong!" Yang Ning said with a weary face, "I know in your heart, my image is great, representing intelligence, omnipotence, and a series of nouns. But that's in the ordinary world. Everything has changed now!"

"My wisdom, my abilities, are completely useless here!"

"Ah?" Ning Rong's mind trembled. "Yang, Yang ge, did something happen to you? Why did you suddenly change like a different person?"

"I just realized how big this world is and discovered that I'm just a frog at the bottom of a well!" Yang Ning shook his head wearily. "I'm tired, I'm going back to rest!"

"This..." Ning Rong blinked. "How did it come to this?"

Xun Hu never played with her, and she didn't like the chubby Su Bai. As a result, now that Yang Ning seemed to have suffered a blow, he suddenly became dispirited.

Why is it that suddenly I have no one to rely on?

"Sister Rong?" The girl in green was originally seeking help, but seeing this scene, she was also dumbfounded.

But after thinking about it, she felt it was normal.

Although Yang Ning had a reputation, she had never personally witnessed it. Who knew if he was just hyped up or truly talented?

And now, after seeing it with her own eyes, the girl in green suddenly felt that those legends about Yang Ning might have been exaggerated.

At least a true genius wouldn't slack off and become dispirited at the first sign of difficulty. No matter the situation, they should strive to improve!

"I, I'll find someone else!" the girl said.

"Okay, fine!" Ning Rong nodded helplessly. "I'm sorry, I didn't know he would suddenly change like this."

"It's probably because he saw the greatness of Lord Tianheng and felt the gap!" the girl said. "Forget about him, after feeling the power of Lord Tianheng, I even have the impulse to bow down and submit!"

"But I feel like Yang ge isn't the type to give up easily!" Ning Rong said.

"That's because his previous life went too smoothly, he never encountered setbacks!" the girl said. "Now that setbacks have come, his true nature has been exposed!"

"Is that so?"

"That's right!"

Ning Rong nodded in confusion, not wanting to believe that the young man who had created one miracle after another in Yue Kingdom would really fall so easily.

(End of this chapter)