Chapter 1332 Number One Famous School Battle of the Nine Provinces
“Congratulations on becoming the sect lord, reaching a pinnacle in your career! You’re rewarded with one mysterious gift!”
The system’s congratulation that hadn’t rung for very long finally appeared.
“System, why have you been dead for the past few years?”
Sun Mo teased, having the feeling of meeting an old friend once again. “You’ve owed me a lot of rewards.”
The system didn’t reply and was so quiet as if it had never appeared. Only a chest that was flashing in silver light landed in front of Sun Mo.
Sun Mo opened it.
There wasn’t any voice that introduced the item he obtained like there was in the past. It was still silent as a winter day that had a thick layer of accumulating snow.
There was only a silver turtle shell floating in front of him.
“Hmmm? This thing?”
Sun Mo was stunned. This turtle shell required him to collect seven pieces of them to form a complete shell. As Sun Mo had only had six and had been lacking one, he had forgotten about it. He didn’t expect to obtain it as a mysterious prize.
But wasn’t it too big of a fraud?
He felt that it didn’t feel like a precious item!
“Sun Mo, I still have work to do, so I’ll be leaving soon!”
Mei Ziyu returned to Jixia Academy through the teleportation gate to complete her studies.
At this moment, Sun Mo took out all the turtle shell pieces and put them together. Then a light beam that was over one feet long spurted out like spring water. “If you can see this, then my mission should have ended, and you should already be standing at the pinnacle of the great teacher world. As a reward, I’ll tell you the secret of this world.”
The voice belonged to the system, but it should have been pre-recorded.
Sun Mo continued listening and his expression turned solemn.
The system’s message was too astonishing, so much so that Sun Mo was unwilling to believe it. However, if he were to take a more realistic approach to consider things, there didn’t seem to be any loopholes.
After Sun Mo became a saint, he naturally knew how many great teachers there were and what star-level they were respectively at.
Out of which, saints were the fewest in number, with only a handful of them. Sun Mo found this very strange. After all, there were quite a number of secondary saints in comparison.
Right now, the mystery had been solved.
“It’s no wonder I keep having the feeling that I have forgotten some people!”
Sun Mo got up and walked over to the window, looking at the sky illuminated by the sunset. He suddenly felt that the world was shrouded in darkness.
In the following days, Sun Mo pushed away some work and started focusing on researching spirit runes.
Some people said that Ancestor Sun had new inspiration and this made the entire spirit runes circle become agitated. After all, the spirit runes electronic devices that Sun Mo invented had entered every home, bringing great improvements to people’s lives.
Of course, spirit runes firearms were the most amazing of them all. They allowed ordinary people to be able to explore the Darkness Continent as well. Although the death rate was a lot higher than cultivators, the great returns made people who were unafraid of death keep on flocking toward the Darkness Continent.
It was another day in July and the sun was hot like fire.
Sun Mo’s spirit runes invention hadn’t been announced, but a new great topic erupted in the great teacher world.
An exploration team had found an ancient divine hall that had yet to be explored on the third level of the Darkness Continent.
The moment this piece of news was reported, the entire Nine Provinces broke into a commotion. It was because this meant that there’d be all sorts of lost secret treasures waiting to be discovered in unexplored terrain.
The first people who couldn’t sit still were the Nine Greats. They formed explorer groups and prepared to travel there.
Usually, after people discovered such darkness ruins, the Saint Gate would hide the news and try to keep it a secret. But this time around, too many people already knew about
Therefore, distribution became a problem.
Thankfully, great teachers were revered in the Nine Provinces. The final decision was that the Nine Greats as well as the Saint Gate’s explorer groups would be the first powers to lead the exploration.
They’d be followed by the ‘A’ grade famous schools, as well as the top-tiered strong empires in the Nine Provinces, such as the Great Tang and the others. The list would then go down
To sum it up, it’d be dependent on strength.
Of course, the Saint Gate and the Nine Greats relied on their reputation, so they couldn’t appear too greedy. Therefore, they found an excuse to say that they were going to use the ancient divine hall to carry out the Number One Famous School Battle of the Nine Provinces.
The school who found the most valuable secret treasures would be the number one in the Nine Provinces.
This suggestion wasn’t bad. The last contention amongst the Nine Greats was ten years ago, and it was indeed time for them to go through another round of ranking.
The Central Province Academy, especially, had been waiting for very long, wanting to recover the glory from their past.
With Sun Mo around, it was an easy feat for Lu Zhiruo to find a leisure job in the Saint Gate. However, she didn’t do that. With Sun Mo as her role model, she wanted to teach and educate people, helping the children. Therefore, she taught in the Central Province Academy.
Although her star-level wasn’t too high, she was hardworking and serious. She was like a brick that could be moved to wherever she was needed.
Li Ziqi had stopped teaching students as much. Instead, she led a spirit runes team and tackled some technical problems.
Take now for example, she was studying spirit qi steam engines.
As for Sun Mo’s other students, they had all rushed over to the Saint Gate after hearing this matter. If it wasn’t for their relationship with Sun Mo, they’d be unable to enter that ancient divine hall.
“We can join the Saint Gate’s exploration team!”
Qin Yaoguang grinned and massaged Sun Mo’s shoulders.
Sun Mo’s students had all turned of age and Sun Mo couldn’t interfere much in their actions anymore. Therefore, he gave them his silent consent.
After the three months’ preparation ended, the various famous schools’ explorer groups gathered on the third level of the Darkness Continent, outside the ancient divine hall.
By the time Sun Mo and his students rushed over, they saw that many tents had been set up and the place was crowded with people.
“Wow, isn’t that the Heavenly Mystery Academy’s headmaster? He came too?”
Qin Yaoguang saw many famous people and was very agitated. “Other than fighting for the title of being the top famous school, they’ll also be fighting for secret treasures in this exploration. Therefore, all the famous schools sent out their elites.”
Tantai Yutang rubbed his palms together, ready to put up a good show, getting his hands on a secret treasure of darkness that could be treated as a family heirloom.
After finding out about Sun Mo’s arrival, the respective famous school’s group leader came to pay respect to him.
“This time around, will Aunt Mei be the one to lead the group?”
Sun Mo didn’t dare to act arrogant in front of Mei Yazhi.
“En!”
Mei Yazhi sipped on tea while looking excited. “But the Jixia Academy’s two headmasters have come too. This time around, we’re going to prove ourselves.”
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Sun Mo welcomed and sent off people. When he saw An Xinhui, he was a little surprised.
“Headmaster An didn’t come?”
Sun Mo frowned.
“He came!”
An Xinhui sighed. For some reason, when she saw Sun Mo again, she felt that they were even more distant than before.
To everyone, an unexplored darkness ruin being placed right before them was like an unparalleled beauty who wasn’t wearing clothes. Who’d be able to hold it in?
When it reached the decided time to set off, the nine groups from the famous schools gushed into this ancient divine hall, unable to wait any longer.
“Let’s go too!”
Sun Mo led the 50-men team of judges from the Saint Gate and entered the divine hall.
Other than them, there were three other groups who’d move separately after they entered the ruins.
There were no light rays in the ruins and it was very dark. However, this wasn’t a problem for everyone. Other than having prepared illuminating tools, high-level cultivators were able to see things in dark environments.
As the sect lord, Sun Mo didn’t need to put himself in danger. There was a small team of professionals in front who’d test if there were toxins in the air, if the underground water was safe, as well as if there were any traps.
The group advanced gradually.
Two days passed by. The Saint Gate’s team didn’t not obtain any valuable spoils, but they had seen quite a number of strange murals.
“Why do I feel that this place is like a spaceship from outer space?”
Li Ziqi frowned.
“Spaceship?” What’s that?” Xianyu Wei felt curious.
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Li Ziqi didn’t know if she should explain this. It was something she had seen in the Black-White Game.
“I wonder how Zhiruo and the others are doing.”
Helian Beifang felt worried.
“With Mistress An taking care of here, it’ll definitely be fine.”
The moment Qin Yaoguang said that, her ears twitched.
“Everyone, be careful and remain silent.”
Sun Mo raised his hand to gesture to everyone to stop moving forward.
Very soon, a figure wearing a cloak appeared not far away. His voice was very deep. “Sun Mo, bring your people and leave this place. Otherwise, all of you will die.”
“Who is this, putting on an act here?”
Zhou Zhiwang scolded. He was the vice-leader of the team and an expert in the legendary realm.
“Sun Mo, leave this place! Do it as soon as possible!”
The cloaked figure hadn’t finished his words when Zhou Zhiwang darted out and slashed out with his blade.
Boom!
However, he didn’t manage to hit anything.
“It must be people from the Dark Dawn. They must be wanting to hoard the treasures here for themselves and are deliberately putting on an act!”
Zhou Zhiwang spat out thick phlegm and had everyone continue to move forth. He felt that Sun Mo was too careful and if this continued, all the good things would have been snatched by others.
“Sect Lord, I don’t want to say this, but speed is vital in exploring a darkness ruin!”
Zhou Zhiwang shared his experience. “I know that you’re worried that we’d have casualties, but this is inevitable.”
In Zhou Zhiwang’s opinion, Sun Mo was too softhearted.
“Everyone, be more careful.”
Sun Mo was very worried. He reckoned that not just the Dark Dawn, but the people from the dark famous school would also not miss out on this great opportunity.
After exploring for another hour, agonizing cries suddenly rang out from the scout group in front.
“Stay here and don’t move! Teacher Zhou, protect the group!”
As Sun Mo said this, he darted out.
“Sect Lord, save me!”
A scout was dragged into the darkness by a monster that was flashing with luminous blue light.
There were no traces of blood or corpses at the scene, but all the members of the scout group had gone missing.
Zhou Zhiwang was very strong and naturally wouldn’t stay behind to wait. He followed after Sun Mo. “Where are they?”
“I don’t know!”
Sun Mo shook his head.
“Sigh, I knew that we should have moved together, but you had to send the scout group ahead first. In the end, they still end up in trouble!”
Zhou Zhiwang was upset. If everyone stuck together, they could take care of each other.
“Teacher Zhou, if everyone stuck together, there’d be even more casualties!”
Li Ziqi defended Sun Mo.
The other party could wipe out a five-men team scout group without any sound within five seconds. How terrifyingly strong was this?
“Leave this place!” Sun Mo instructed.
“Why?”
Zhou Zhiwang was unwilling to do so.
“At least two-thirds of the people in this group aren’t a match for that monster.”
Sun Mo explained.
“You guys can leave if you want, but I refuse to leave!”
Zhou Zhiwang was extremely upset. As the vice-leader, he had the right to claim a share of the spoils. However, given how careful Sun Mo was, it’d take forever before they could find any secret treasures!
And now, Sun Mo was still thinking of leaving!
“Those who don’t wish to leave can come with me!”
Zhou Zhiwang was planning on splitting up the group. He was in the legendary realm and had the right to do so.