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Chapter 170 We've already taken it

A little over a year ago, when Jingyang was born, he visited a fake underground tomb of the True Martial King Kajin on Ghost Island.

It is likely that King Zhenwu is indeed dead.

According to Arantriel at the time, his teacher, King Freecss, after investigation, believed that three or four hundred years before the True Warrior King was active, he was fully capable of dominating the entire continent of Ezhen, and even unifying all six continents. However, just before he had made full preparations and was about to take action, he suddenly gave up.

As Zhenwu King grew older, he became increasingly eccentric and locked himself in an underground tomb, appearing as if his later years were fraught with misfortune.

Jingyang once speculated that Zhenwu King's so-called preparation for unifying the six continents might be to fully promote the cultivation of Nen abilities and train an extraordinary army composed entirely of Nen users within the Kajin Empire. However, when it came time to put it into action, it encountered unexpected changes and ultimately came to nothing.

What exactly happened?

It's hard to imagine that a legendary king would give up his ambition to conquer the world.

Could it be related to his eventual death?

Now Jingyang has learned that the True Martial King once possessed a considerable quantity of Longevity Rice, which clearly came from the Dark Continent. It is also obvious that he must have obtained it from the Dark Continent himself, because no one would be so kind as to give away such a treasure of longevity to others after obtaining it.

In other words, the True Martial King Vihugo once wanted to unify the six continents, went to the Dark Continent to obtain Nitrogen, but still died and perished. In the end, his tomb seems to have become the target of treasure hunting and exploration for the world... Now, what Jingyang wants to know most is, which came first, the True Martial King's desire to unify the entire human world or his arrival at the Dark Continent to obtain Nitrogen?

If the former comes first and the latter comes later, then this is how it works:

King Zhenwu was full of ambition and was about to prepare his army when he encountered an accident. He then went to the Dark Continent and returned with a group of Nitromoe. He abandoned his original ambition to unify the human world. Or perhaps he simply became mentally unstable shortly after returning and eventually perished.

It's possible that he brought some kind of 'calamity' to the Dark Continent, or perhaps... consuming Nitromi itself was a calamity.

If eating the immortality rice actually led to an unfortunate end for King Zhenwu, then that would be quite a dark joke.

If such dark humor really exists, then Jingyang would have to adjust his future plans—no matter how much he wants to eat the longevity rice, he doesn't want to end up with an unfortunate old age; isn't that ridiculous?

However, if True Martial King went to the Dark Continent to obtain Nitromote first, and then intended to unify the human world, then the truth of history seems to be quite different:

King Zhenwu believed that he had achieved immortality after consuming Nitrome, which fueled his ambition to unify the six continents. However, an unexpected event forced him to abandon this plan, and in the end, he did not truly achieve immortality...

Even if one eats the immortality rice, it doesn't mean they won't be killed. So the key question is, what accident could have made the True Martial King abandon his conquest of the six continents, and what accident ultimately led to his demise...? Could it be the same accident?

All of Jingyang's speculations about the True Martial King lead to the same question—is the rice he forced to leave behind actually edible?

Will I get sick from eating this?

While Jingyang was lost in thought, the old lion elder had already finished carving the three small jade Buddha pendants and neatly placed them on the ground in front of him.

Although Jingyang was a little distracted, the Grand Elder was only carving and wouldn't have missed any details. Moreover, Xiao Di, who was full of curiosity, was observing more carefully.

"And then?" Little Drop asked, "Is it over?"

"There is still the most important step," the elder said solemnly, as he used a carving knife to make a cut on his arm, and drops of blood dripped down. "Only by drawing the talisman with blood can it be completed and given divine effects."

Little Drop reminded us, "It's no longer effective."

The Grand Elder choked. "Didn't you all insist on seeing the process?"

Just as Jingyang was about to follow suit, he saw the Grand Elder dip his finger in the blood from his wound and then start dancing like a shaman. After a while, he painted a pattern on the first small jade Buddha.

Xiao Di and he both watched carefully and immediately memorized the strokes he used to draw the pattern.

But these shamanistic rituals...

Xiao Di might be willing to try. But Jing Yang felt it was unnecessary, especially since the old lion was performing a shamanistic ritual and drawing talismans while muttering incantations. While others chanted scriptures during shamanistic rituals, he seemed to be chanting things like "twice-cooked pork," which was utterly ridiculous.

No wonder the other black mist lions didn't know how this little jade Buddha pendant was made. With this process, how could they possibly show it to anyone? If their disciples and followers saw it, would they still have any reverence for the so-called temple?

Jingyang further suspected that this comical talisman-drawing process was perhaps a joke that Vivi Hugo played on this guy back then?

The Grand Elder was once a Warcraft cub himself, and teasing a little fool is something every adult enjoys doing...

"Twice-cooked pork..."

The elder was dancing with joy, already drawing talismans with blood on the third small jade Buddha.

Xiao Di's face didn't show much expression, but her hands and feet were eager to try, but Jing Yang pressed her down.

Xiao Di looked puzzled.

The elder performed three leaps and three strokes in succession, seemingly still somewhat unsatisfied. He looked up at the black jade Buddha statue riddled with cracks, then down at the three small jade Buddhas smeared with blood on their chests, and sighed, "Indeed, the spirit is lost! Before, after completing the ritual and drawing the blood talisman, these talismanic patterns would completely integrate into the pendant, but now..."

He shook his head with a wry smile.

The bloodstains on the chest of the small jade Buddha slowly flowed down, gradually blurring the original pattern.

Jingyang focused his gaze, observing the black jade Buddha statue.

If this thing has special abilities, it must contain some kind of spiritual energy, but right now we can't see anything at all.

In the Hunter world, even antiques and treasures are tainted by aura.

Ki is not exclusive to Nen users. Everyone has Ki, and some masters with extraordinary skills may unintentionally infuse their Ki into their works, even without awakening it.

What about treasures actually created by Nen users?

But the black jade Buddha statue in front of him seemed to be just an ordinary stone carving, full of cracks, and could collapse at any moment. It was the kind of thing that no one would even glance at if it were thrown on the roadside.

The three newly made jade Buddhas were similar. The pendants worn by the black mist lions I had seen before all contained some kind of spiritual energy, but it was concealed by their own aura and not easy to distinguish. But these three newly made jade Buddhas had no spiritual energy at all, only traces of fresh blood dripping down their sides.

The elder looked at them helplessly, "This is all we can do."

Do you want one like this?

If he didn't want it, he could give away his own pendant. However, since they were all pendants that had lost their spirituality and divine power anyway, the one he was wearing now wasn't much different from the three failed ones on the ground.

Jingyang smiled and said, "Of course I want it. It'll be nice to keep it as a souvenir."

After wiping the bloodstains off the three small jade Buddhas, he put them away, glanced at the cracked face of the black jade Buddha, and said, "Thanks, Vivi."

Come to think of it, my body in this life almost became a descendant of this Vivi Hugo.

He said that the things he left behind were connected to him, so it's not entirely nonsense.

I went to Sensui Mountain to help Kurapika find Scarlet Eyes, but ended up running into a Gray Guo Meat and ended up giving myself half of a Nen Beast.

This guy came all the way to the Kamwal Mountains to rescue Kurapika, but then he ran into a gray-faced monster who ended up giving him a truckload of what looked like immortal rice.

I wonder which gray bream I'll run into next? And what good stuff will it give me?

And both times it was related to Kurapika, you're really a lucky charm!

Jingyang went to check on Kurapika, who was lying dead. Although his condition had improved, he had probably completely relaxed after realizing he was free and had been unconscious for a long time without showing any signs of waking up.

"We have to go. Find him a hospital to stay in as soon as possible," Jingyang said.

Xiao Di naturally had no objections.

Ou Si said, "I'll arrange it. After all, I'm a professional hunter with a license and V5 special permission. It'll be more convenient for me to act first and ask for permission later."

He smiled and borrowed Jing Yang's earlier joke.

"Then I won't be polite." Jingyang nodded.

……

In front of the dilapidated Zen temple, Ouji, being taller and obviously older, volunteered to carry Kurapika.

Ryan, the Black Mist Lion, had remained silent the entire time, but now he spoke, thanking Jing Yang and the other man. He guessed that if it weren't for them, he might have been killed along with Rand in the black mist.

Jingyang said, "But if it weren't for us, your other two companions probably wouldn't have escaped to the temple and been killed by that patriarch, right?"

Ryan said, "We attacked you first. If we hadn't attacked you, none of this would have happened."

“He’s much more reasonable than before.” Jing Yang nodded and punched the other man in the chest.

"Let's go." Jing Yang turned and strode away. The outline of the mountains in front of him was already reddened by the rising sun, and the dawn dispelled the darkness of night.

Oushi, carrying the thin Kurapika on his back, and Shizuku followed closely behind.

Watching the three depart, Ryan remained silent, then suddenly asked in confusion, "Why are they all empty-handed? Didn't they take those three little jade Buddhas with them?"

The elder said, "Perhaps it's in his pocket."

"That would make it bulge out, I'd definitely be able to tell..."

"Why think about this? It's no longer effective, maybe we can just throw it away." The elder let out a long sigh, cold sweat finally breaking out, and muttered, "It's too similar. The feeling these people have is too similar to that twice-cooked pork... There are groups among humans who possess terrifying power, they're practically like monsters among humans... Luckily, we didn't really anger them."

……

As the four-person group departed, Jing Yang, who was leading the way, walked slower and slower, while Ao Si, who was following behind, became increasingly puzzled. Finally, he couldn't help but ask, "Isn't this the way to where we got off?"

"If you knew the way, you should have said so earlier!"

Jingyang slapped Ou Si's arm hard.

"You walked so fast, I thought you knew!" Oushi chuckled, then turned around, carrying the sleeping Kurapika on his back. "Come on, follow me. Don't let my appearance fool you, I'm a professional hunter after all. Finding people, knowing the way, and surviving in the wild—these are a hunter's essential skills..."

"Aren't you an Oath Hunter?" Jingyang and Xiaodi followed up, casually making sarcastic remarks.

He had looked up Ous on the Hunter x Hunter website a few days ago, so he naturally knew what kind of hunter Ous = Plutonium Ryke was.

The most common type of professional hunter is the bounty hunter, but there are also gourmet hunters, crime hunters, treasure hunters, relic hunters, ocean hunters, and so on...

Jingyang couldn't find any pattern to follow. It seemed that the name of the hunter depended entirely on what the hunter wanted to "hunt".

For example, there are professional hunters called Blacklist Hunters. What kind of nonsense is that?

Jingyang only found one Oath Hunter on the Hunter Association's official website, and there were no duplicates.

Jing Yang seriously suspected that if anyone wanted to become a mother hunter, they might be readily approved by that unreliable old man, Netero.

The titles of ordinary members and hunters in the Hunter Association are publicly disclosed unless the hunter himself chooses to conceal them.

For example, the unreliable father of the comic's protagonist, Xiao Jie, directly encrypted his own information to a level comparable to that of a king, purely to make it more difficult to find his own son...

Ousi led the two of them at high speed through the mountains, patiently teaching them about navigation and wilderness survival along the way.

Jingyang felt that the latter was not very useful with the star protection, and Xiaodi's wilderness survival skills were already maxed out. The former, however, did benefit him a lot, and he exclaimed that he had learned a lot.

"Oh, right, that pile of rice..."

When the SUV stuck at the mountain road intersection was in sight, Ou Si suddenly asked about what had happened before.

Previously, after Zhen Yuanzi asked Elder Black Mist Lion about the matter of white rice, he gave him a look that signaled him to calm down, seemingly indicating that Zhen Yuanzi had already obtained the answer he wanted to ask.

Including Kurapika, this pile of rice that resembles Nitromote was something the four of them found by chance. Jingyang didn't intend to bypass Oushi and eat it all by himself, so he said, "Rice, to explain this, we have to start with the continents beneath our feet... Oushi, I think you've heard of the Dark Continent, right?"

Two hundred years ago, V5 concluded a treaty establishing the inviolability of the Dark Continent.

While the Dark Continent is a secret, it's far from being unknown. In fact, it's not just not a secret; many people are well aware of it. Even school teachers, knowing of its existence, deliberately avoid discussing it and refrain from touching this Pandora's box in front of their students…

Under the rising sun, several spotted deer lingered near the off-road vehicle parked at the entrance of the mountain road. Jingyang walked over while explaining to Ao Si. At first, the spotted deer noticed them but did not leave.