Chapter 76: Chapter 74: Void Split (Part 3)_1
There were seven calls on the phone from Jing Haichuan and Li Xingwang, while the other thirty-nine were from Liu Qianqian. There were also eight emails from Liu Qianqian.
Fang Ren then opened the messaging app to discover that two privileged young men had sent many messages in a discussion group of three. Most of the messages were news reports from the past couple of days, and they also inquired about his current health condition.
Because so many reporters were around his house, neither of them had come over; otherwise, if the reporters caught them entering his house, they would definitely probe to the bottom of it.
Additionally, there were 99+ messages from Liu Qianqian, most of which were expressing concern for his health. Knowing that he was unharmed, she breathed a sigh of relief. Then she mentioned the matter of Mu Hui being the Xuan Nv of Nine Heavens, and finally, she asked about his love life.
Moreover, at the end of Liu Qianqian's messages, there was a notification that the school's teaching building had been so damaged that classes could not be held, and all students from the school would need to report to a university in the neighboring Linyang City called Baili University to attend classes with the students there.
After checking the time, Fang Ren turned to Lin Bozhong and said, "I need to go to another university for classes. Please find someone to fix this villa for me."
As he spoke, Fang Ren took out the bank card that Shang Han had given him.
"Young master, please keep your money. I've already taken care of this matter, and I estimate that someone will arrive here soon. I have also hired a housekeeper for you.
After all, your current strength is not strong enough, and since I still need to protect you by your side, I cannot always attend to this place," Lin Bozhong said.
Fang Ren nodded. Seeing that he refused to take the money, he simply opened the door and walked toward the second floor, saying, "I have two things for you."
Lin Bozhong followed him curiously. Fang Ren entered his room and bent down to open a drawer at the bottom of his cabinet—a drawer he had made himself, where he kept some of his better elixirs.
He took out a small box from the drawer, opened it, and took out two purple elixirs into his pocket. Then he handed the box to a stunned Lin Bozhong.
Lin Bozhong stared at him blankly, then swallowed hard, stuttering, "Young, young, young master! Were those, just now, fifth-order elixirs?!"
"Yes, there is also a fourth-order and another fifth-order inside. They should be of some help to someone of your realm," Fang Ren said nonchalantly.
Lin Bozhong felt utterly dumbfounded, catching the box Fang Ren handed him, his gaze trembling as he opened it to find indeed, one fourth-order and one fifth-order elixir inside—one shimmering gold, the other radiating a dazzling purple light!
"Did you make them yourself?!" Lin Bozhong almost shouted out loud.
"Yeah, I never thought I'd ever need these things, but it turns out there was a day I'd be forced to use them," Fang Ren said with a helpless smile.
"Ah?!"
Lin Bozhong nearly jumped up from the ground when he heard him admit it himself.
These were genuine fifth-order elixirs!
The top Alchemy Grandmasters of the Ninth District could only refine one such precious rarity a day at most!
And most of those top Alchemy Grandmasters from the Ninth District were already over ninety years old! And the young master? He was just a youthful twenty-two! That's a gap of sixty-eight years!
The young master's talent in elixir making was completely defying the heavens!
If this were to be revealed, the young master would directly become the Xuan Nv of the Elixir Field! No, male!
He would create a sensation across the whole world!
"Alright, I need to head to school now; I can't be late on my first day at another university," Fang Ren said, promptly leaving the room.
"Young, young, young, young master!"
Lin Bozhong immediately rushed after him, his eyes wide as he called out, "Forget about bloody school! Come back home with this old man! I'd like to see which beast dares to harbor ill intentions toward you!"
"What's the point of going there, to see the parents I haven't seen in over twenty years, then for them to offer me warmth? I don't need it," Fang Ren said, continuing to walk past him.
"But if you're staying here..."
"I'll return there in my own way. As for what I'll do, I'll decide for myself."
Then Fang Ren looked at him and added, "Oh right, isn't there a global university students' elixir competition? I heard my second uncle is going to take the first place winner as his Closed-door Disciple. I'm eager to see what he can teach me."
Having said this, he walked out with a slight smile on his face, and the little Qianye was sleeping soundly in his hand. Behind him, Lin Bozhong stood stunned, his face a mix of shock and excitement.
Staying low-key is a life principle, but in the face of marrying Mu Hui, it's worthless.
He doesn't want to stay low-key. He doesn't want Mu Hui to be sad. He doesn't want to see Shang Han's helplessness. He doesn't want to see his second uncle's smug face, nor does he want to see Xia Fu Lan beyond the reach of justice.
He wants Mu Qing Mountain to acknowledge him. He wants to shatter the world's strong ideals about marriage. He wants to live vibrantly, to see his second uncle looking annoyed yet incapable of doing anything about him.
Starting today, from this moment on, he'll march forward with a song, crushing everything in his path!
"The young master... has changed..."
Lin Bozhong, holding the elixirs, stood in place, murmuring to himself.
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Meanwhile, in the vast battlefield of the Ninth District.
Mu Hui Qing, donned in silver armor, frowned at the trembling Void Hole in the sky.
Behind her were tens of thousands of female warriors clad in Silver Armor, and on both sides were the millions-strong armies led by other generals. In front of her, stretching onto the distant land, lay an endless mountain of Void beast corpses.
A battle had just ended, leaving numerous warriors still covered in blood.
"It seems like a big one is about to come down."
The middle-aged man in black armor beside her frowned.
"The arrival of the Ninth-order Void Beast didn't cause such a commotion. What could be inside this one?"
"Let's just hope it's not something we've never encountered before."
An old man dressed in a long robe stepped forward and said with a grave face, "Hui Qing, activate the Large Formation. The Nine Heavens Corps will protect Hui Qing's formation; the rest of you, follow me!"
Upon the elder's command, Mu Hui Qing flew up into the sky and threw the Hundred Martial Divine Weapons behind her up into the air, covering dozens of miles around. Soon after, the Large Formation spanning those miles began to awaken.
Boom——
At this moment, the trembling amplitude of the Void Hole in the sky began to increase significantly, and the movements of the millions of soldiers on the ground also hastened.
"Something's wrong! The Eighth Zone and Ninth Zone just sent messages! The edges of the Void Hole are trembling too!" shouted a middle-aged warrior clad in black armor.
"What! Does that mean the entire Void Hole is unstable?"
"This couldn't possibly be the work of a Void beast, could it…"
"Look quick! Cracks are starting to appear in the center of the hole!"
Everyone simultaneously looked up at the sky, at the distant Void Hole that extended to the horizon, which had begun to sprout all manner of cracks, large and small.
"Is this… could the Void Hole be fracturing?" one of the elders asked, dumbfounded.
"Does that mean… Earth is safe now?"
"Don't get complacent! Everyone, stay alert!"
...
Snap, snap——snap, snap——
The Void Hole in the sky began to split and fragment, continuously breaking apart before everyone's eyes.
"Have we… have we really ended the resistance?" one soldier exclaimed, ecstatic at the sight.
"It's broken! It's really broken!"
"Is it really over? Damn! We're going home!"
"Momma! I can finally go home and reunite with my wife!"
At that moment, the entire battlefield erupted into cheers.
Yet some of the veteran warriors remained grim-faced with furrowed brows, and Mu Hui Qing did not lower the Large Formation she held in her hands.
The sky was erratic and ever-changing; nobody knew what kind of anomaly it would produce next.
Hum——
The fragmented Void Hole in the sky began to divide into twelve portions, slowly moving towards the distance. Each fragment started to re-form into a circle, with the space inside constantly changing.
"Damn it! It's dispersing!"
One of the elders roared, "Stop celebrating! Chase after them! General Sun, immediately contact the other battle zones! Keep up with these fragments!"
"Damn it! It's not breaking apart, it's splitting! Where is this thing heading?!"
"Shit! Could the Void be consciously avoiding the Large Formation?"
"It's over! If they leave the range of the Large Formation and drop a Ninth-order Void beast, we're going to suffer even more casualties!"
"Chase!"
Sitting on the bus to Baili University, Fang Ren was emotionlessly flipping through news on his mobile phone.
There were many reports about the return of the Nine Heavens Mysterious Lady to the battle zone and the sudden appearance of a Fourth-order Space Beast, yet there was not a single message about the connection between the Nine Heavens Mysterious Lady and him.
Ding dong——
He received a message on the chat app.
He opened it and saw it was from Liu Qianqian.
[Are you nearly here? Class starts in half an hour; there will be a lot going on today. I've reported your absence in the dormitory, and I also collected some of your things and took them to my dorm. When you arrive at school, I'll fetch them for you.]
[Thanks for the trouble, class leader.] Fang Ren replied casually to Liu Qianqian's message.
Afterward, Fang Ren returned to the news app and refreshed the news feed, only to see a prominent headline pop up.
He read the headline and then frowned.
"Alert! Global alert! The Void Hole is splitting and moving towards various global positions!"
Fang Ren immediately clicked on the news article and the deeper he read, the more his brows furrowed.
The gist of the news was that the Void Hole had suddenly split into twelve parts early that morning, slowly moving in various directions across Earth.
The largest fragment, with a diameter of three hundred miles, was moving towards Tianjiang, while four medium-sized fragments, each covering a hundred-mile diameter, were moving in the east, south, west, and north directions.
The remaining seven smaller fragments, each fifty miles in diameter, floated unpredictably, with no discernible pattern or direction.
"Does this mean that any place around the world could become a battlefield now?" Fang Ren's face was expressionless.
He didn't know whether the news was good or bad. The good news was that with the drift of the Void Hole, he might be able to see Mu Hui Qing soon.
The bad news was that if the Void Hole came to this area, with the descent of the Void beasts, he didn't know whether the people he cared about would die in the disaster.