Chapter 4272 — The Ruins of Aoduo Cultivation City
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"We've heard of the Myriad Crossing Golden Core Fruit too, and of course we'd like to have it. It's just that we have no idea where to look for it, and having lost our teammates, with only the two of us and our level of strength, I doubt we could get there even if we knew the place," Wei Zhao said, heaving a sigh of feigned helplessness while secretly laughing to himself.
He had already obtained the Myriad Crossing Golden Core Fruit—going looking for it now would be idiotic. He and Huang Xiaotao were not the insatiably greedy sort.
Rather than take pointless risks, it was better to lie low and gather more spirit herbs, then leave through the teleportation array once enough time had passed. That was the safest course.
"That's true enough. To keep your heads in the face of a treasure like that, to know your own limits—that's no small thing," Brother Chang praised, then changed tack: "Still, rather than stay here and waste your time, why not come along with us?"
"Come along with you?" Wei Zhao was taken aback and exchanged a look with Huang Xiaotao. They were complete strangers to this man, and normally people wanted teammates they knew inside and out. He had not expected the other to spring such a proposal on them.
"That's right. We're on our way to the ruins of Aoduo Cultivation City. For an expedition to a place like that, the more people the better, of course—it's just a pity the teleportation array can take at most six. I never expected to run into you two here; it must be a rare stroke of fate." Brother Chang, looking quite approachable, took the initiative to explain: "Come with us, and the rewards you stand to gain will be far better than staying here pulling weeds, won't they? And we can look out for one another—it'll be safer too. What do you two say?"
"Oh? The ruins of Aoduo Cultivation City? What kind of place is that? Are there treasures inside?" Wei Zhao could not help asking.
Back when they had been with Chu Bubai and the others, everyone's attention from beginning to end had been fixed solely on the infant ginseng; matters unrelated to it were seldom mentioned. As for these so-called ruins of Aoduo Cultivation City, he had never even heard of them.
"You haven't heard of it?" Brother Chang was slightly taken aback as well. The place was practically one of the hallmarks of Lufeng Forest—though, considering it was their first time here, it was hardly surprising they hadn't heard of it.
"No, we're not locals, and our knowledge is limited—forgive us for making a fool of ourselves," Wei Zhao said, cupping his hands with a touch of embarrassment.
"Not at all. The ruins of Aoduo Cultivation City were once an important city of the spirit beast race. It's said it was quite large at the time, the symbol and center of power of the whole of Lufeng Forest. But later, for some reason unknown to anyone, every spirit beast in Aoduo Cultivation City, from the highest to the lowest, fell under the sanction of the Spirit Beast King and was put to death overnight. From then on it became a deserted city—what we now call the ruins," Brother Chang explained, taking it upon himself to enlighten them.
Only then did Wei Zhao understand, and a doubt that had been lingering in his mind was finally resolved.
Lufeng Forest lay at the edge of South Island, but it was still within South Island's bounds, and powerful spirit beasts made their dens there. So why did the spirit beast race pay it no heed at all? R1152