Jiang Hao was seated in the house watching his strength and quantity of spirit qi increase as he had just broken through to the Mid Stage of Soul Sea Realm.
He had cultivated constantly without going out of the house. A total of 10 months had passed in the inheritance realm with only 2 months were left for their stay in this inheritance site.
He stood up. Seating constantly for this long hadn’t impacted him in any way. He stretched a little and stepped out of the house.
The first thing that entered his eyes was the crowd. There were a lot of cultivators moving here and there on the streets. The streets of main safe zone cities were far bigger than the normal cities, so it wasn’t crowded, but nonetheless, there were many cultivators.
The second thing he noticed was vendors. Most of the disciples were seated on the sides of the street while a lot of resources were being placed in front of them.
Jiang Hao understood easily why they were doing it. Cultivators need specific resources according to their needs of cultivation techniques, so they can easily exchange resources with someone else if they both have resources which the other needed.
Some might be selling it for only spirit stones, but definitely, most of them were exchanging equal value resources.
This whole main safe zone city looked like a real city right now.
He looked towards the house of Ming Yue and Yi Lin. He wondered if any of them had come out or not? Even if his senior sister hadn’t reached Mid Stage, she wouldn’t be far either.
Should he try to enter? He hadn’t tested his strength against the barrier of a Soul Sea Realm region.
He shook his head internally. He shouldn’t give her any more chance to tease him. Who knows what embarrassing things she will utter this time.
He walked onto the streets while looking towards the various resources. Various voices entered his ear while he continued his journey.
"Water attributed Soul Sea Realm herb in exchange for wind attributed Soul Sea Realm herb..."
"Tempest ore grade 4..."
Mostly were selling spirit herbs, but some of them were also selling ores, beast cores, and many weapons too.
Certainly, those weapons were from the cultivators they had killed by ambushing, and they weren’t afraid to show it here.
As he kept walking, his eyes went to a group of women. They all belonged to the same sect, a total of 19 of them.
Well, it wasn’t like he was attracted towards anyone, it’s just that their robes were similar to what Yi Lin had worn.
She had said that there were twenty disciples from their sect in the Soul Sea Realm, so that means all other 19 had survived this ordeal.
This sect is a top sect for a reason. He had a feeling that it was definitely stronger than Mountain Sword Sect.
Till now, what he had seen, he came to the conclusion that the Eastern Region might be the weakest region in the whole world.
Well, it didn’t matter to him either way, but there might be some reason for it which he wasn’t able to find in historical books.
He went past them and continued his journey through the city.
There really were a lot of cultivators here. This goes to show how many of them had entered the inheritance site, as most cultivators had definitely died or had left at the 6-month mark.
But it was also an expected outcome, given cultivators from various regions had come for opportunities here.
While walking, he heard the voice of a particular cultivator walking in front of him.
"Hey, it’s been 10 months already, by now everyone should have made it here, right?"
"Who knows, maybe some are still trying to find some hidden inheritances and might come in the last month, but yeah, most of those who are capable of making it here are already here."
"So how come I have not seen those cultivators from the Central Region?"
"Well, I don’t know either. In fact, there is information from some of those who came late. Remember how on the 8th level, cultivators of these sects were moving towards the Central safe zone? Well, those who came from that way said that the area in front of the city was totally destroyed.
There were big pits of 100 meters in front of it. All the pits are so finely circular that it didn’t feel like they were caused by destruction from someone’s attack but like someone had perfectly carved them out.
It is quite unbelievable, but this was verified from many cultivators coming out from that pathway.
This information had created quite a stir in this city, with a lot of deduction about what might have happened. Too bad you were in seclusion at that time."
"I see. It does seem to be quite unbelievable. So anyone found out what had happened there? It must be done by those from Central Region, right?"
"Who knows? Assumptions are in the end assumptions. Unless we have eyewitnesses, no one can predict the exact reason for those pits.
But there is one assumption which seems to be quite believable, as there were witnesses to prove it.
But before that, let me tell you one more piece of information. It quite matches the description of the previous information. It came from the Core Formation region.
The area in front of the main safe zone of that region is also filled with pits, but the size of the pits is 5 meters at max. But the shape is eerily similar to the one I have described earlier.
The reason why I am telling you about it is because this one is definitely done by an ability. Many people in the Core Formation region had seen this ability.
It was used by none other than Jiang Hao, yes, the one who is deemed a traitor along with Ming Yue."
"Oh... those two were in Core Formation region, huh? Is this the reason why cultivators of those sects stopped their search here?"
"Yes, they were in Core Formation region. But I haven’t told you everything yet. You might get shocked and won’t believe it, but it’s the truth, so listen.
In the Core Formation region, those sects had recruited lots of cultivators to hunt those two traitors. The rewards for successfully killing Ming Yue and Jiang Hao were quite enticing indeed.
These cultivators had gone directly to the main safe zone, leaving every opportunity behind. But when others reached the main safe zone, there were no cultivators from those sects present there. It was like all of these cultivators vanished into thin air.
The whole main safe zone city seemed quite empty right now. Many people went there to verify and all agreed on this point."
"What? Doesn’t that mean that they were all killed? And given that the whole area in front is destroyed, it is an undeniable truth that immense battle has occurred there?"