Blue Card Starry Sky

Chapter 172 Exploration
In Tianjing City, a new "NIO Chamber of Commerce" opened. On its auspicious opening day, it attracted many city residents to visit. This chamber of commerce was unlike any other, offering many strange and unusual goods, as well as many treasures, decorations, and objects never seen before. Young ladies and gentlemen of all races in the city flocked to shop.

The NIO Chamber of Commerce has three floors. The first floor is a lobby with all kinds of items. The second floor has private meeting rooms and a VIP area. The third floor is the premium trading area, with a special private trading hall that only major clients and distinguished guests can go up to and see the rare items.

In a secret room on the third floor of the NIO Chamber of Commerce, Lan Tian was instructing everyone on their work, while Luo Xi stood respectfully behind him serving them. These shop assistants had just been transferred from the Blue Card Continent and needed to be trained as soon as possible to adapt to their work here. The Chamber of Commerce had been very busy lately and had specially arranged for some new people to come over.

It turns out that the NIO Chamber of Commerce is the shop that Lan Tian and his team opened in Tianjing City. It is their first stronghold in the Wasteland, and everything is gradually getting on track, becoming a teleportation base in the Wasteland.

Lan Tian and his group brought goods from the Blue Card Continent to sell here, and then traded them for various materials needed by the Blue Card Continent in return. It was a win-win situation, and the merchant guild thrived. In addition to this, Lan Tian also purchased a property in the suburbs, hiding it away, and using Tianjing City as an important liaison residence for the wasteland. Besides doing business, everyone was also constantly gathering information about the wasteland, understanding the strength and combat power of the wasteland's demon beasts.

In reality, there have always been five races in the Wilderness besides the Fairy Beast Clan. However, the Fairy Beast Clan is the ruler here, and the other five races are relatively weak. No warriors of the Demon Emperor level have emerged. They have all become vassals of the Fairy Beast Clan, with low status, living in dire straits, suppressed, and without any chance to rise above others. They are the lowest of the low in the Wilderness.

Those with even a modicum of ambition have all gone to curry favor with the nobles of the Fairy Beast Clan! For a long time, no Demon Emperor-level expert has emerged from any of the five races in the Desolate Region. They've been exploited by the Fairy Beast Clan, who are rumored to possess skills that suppress the other five races, allowing them to easily manipulate and control them, preventing any chance for development. What exactly are these skills? This makes Lan Tian and his companions extremely wary; they dare not easily reveal their identities, lest they end up like those before them, becoming slaves controlled by the Fairy Beasts.

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In the dead of night, two men in black appeared at the Heavenly Essence White Tiger Demon Emperor's residence.

During the day, the Heavenly Spirit White Tiger Demon Emperor suddenly left Heavenly Spirit City and returned to Heavenly Wasteland City! Currently, only some low-ranking guards remain in the Heavenly Spirit White Tiger Demon Emperor's residence. This is information Lan Tian and his companions have gathered, and it's a rare opportunity. Lan Tian and Hai Liang will secretly investigate the Heavenly Spirit White Tiger Demon Emperor's residence at night to see what secrets the main city holds. The two men in black are Lan Tian and Hai Liang.

The main city was vast, with countless buildings and rooms. For a moment, Lan Tian and his companions didn't know where to begin their search. They could only search room by room. This time, they had entered the main city in a great hurry and hadn't observed carefully. The two moved slowly, trying to avoid conflict with the guards and to operate covertly.

After an hour of searching, Lan Tian discovered that there were no guards in the main city. The guards who were on duty during the day were all fast asleep in their rooms. There were no patrols or guards at all. Was the security in the wasteland really this good? No one dared to make any bad plans for the main city. It was peaceful here.

Finally, their hard work paid off. Lan Tian and his group discovered the prison cells for holding slaves in the backyard of the main city. These were individual, sturdy rooms paved with stones, making escape extremely difficult. In one of the dimly lit rooms, several slaves from the Blue Card Continent were imprisoned. These were the people Lan Tian and his group were looking for.

Lan Tian found no soldiers guarding the area, so he opened the door and went inside, startling the people inside. They only stirred slightly, ignoring Lan Tian's arrival, remaining motionless on the damp, straw-covered ground, not even wanting to open their eyes, and continued sleeping.

Lan Tian approached a servant who appeared to be of a higher cultivation level, intending to communicate with him. However, he saw that the servant's eyes were filled with confusion, devoid of any consciousness, and he looked completely foolish, making it impossible to communicate with him. The servant immediately fell fast asleep again, completely ignoring Lan Tian.

Now, the blue sky is meaningless. How can I get them back to normal, tell them what happened here, what kind of attack they suffered, and how they ended up like this?
Lan Tian discovered that among these people, their souls and consciousness were completely manipulated! They had completely lost their consciousness and become soulless tools, at their mercy.

How could he restore them to normal? Lan Tian was truly at a loss! It seemed these people had all been attacked by the sea of ​​their souls, completely losing their sense of self and becoming soulless tools. Lan Tian needed to find a way to save them as soon as possible. If he waited for the Heavenly Essence White Tiger Demon Emperor to return, these people would be sold again, becoming slaves to others and suffering endless torment.

Lan Tian had left a teleportation array near the prison to facilitate his entry and exit at any time. Now, they took a servant away and teleported him back to his suburban mansion in Tianjing City to secretly study how to break the restraints on the servant. It was obvious that these people were all subject to a secret restraint, which sealed their souls and consciousness, turning them into mere tools.

Currently, Lantian and everyone else are working hard to break the seal and find a way to rescue them. Only by breaking the seal can we better fight against the Wasteland, break free from its control, and find a way to coexist with the various races of the Wasteland.

Everyone in the mansion was quite disgusted by this sight. This servant was once an outstanding high-level expert on the Blue Card Continent, and it's a real pity that he has become like this!

Lan Tian's investigation of this servant revealed that his soul and consciousness were sealed, and he himself could not unseal the other parts. There was no way to unseal the soul and consciousness, so he could only slowly explore a method to break the seal.

Suddenly, Lan Tian thought of Little Cutie. She had lived through many eras, and he wondered if she knew how to break the seal.

"Little Cutie"

"Master, you called me? How did you end up in the desolate region?"

"Do you know this is a wasteland? Have you been here before?"

"Yes, I've been here before. The entire Blue Card Starfield used to include the Wilderness, Blue Card Continent, Ancient Battlefield, Snowfield, and the Endless Sea."

"What? You mean the Blue Card Starfield used to include this place, the ancient battlefield, and the snowfield? What was this desolate region like before? Tell me!"

After hearing what Little Cutie said, Blue Sky realized that the Wasteland used to be together with the Blue Card Continent, and wasn't separated and isolated like it is now. So how did the Wasteland become like this? What secrets does the Wasteland hold, and what makes it so special?

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(End of this chapter)