Chapter 5139 — The Antiquity Project
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"The Antiquity Project? Heh. The Center truly lives up to its name—no small ambition. Very well, since they've come all this way, we shouldn't let the trip go to waste. Take them to have a look. It'll do you the favor of earning some merit along the way," Wei Zhao said after a moment's thought.
From the very name of the Antiquity Project, he could already vaguely guess that these people of the secular world's Central Headquarters were by no means simply after a batch of Foundation Establishment experts. It was very likely that, just as with Cloud Terrace Island, they meant to seize the chance to extend their reach into the Antiquity Minor Jianghu. Once there is one, there will be a second—such a thing was far from impossible.
"That… where am I supposed to take them?" Brother Dafeng was utterly baffled. His knowledge of the Antiquity Alliance came purely from Wei Zhao's own account; many things Wei Zhao had never mentioned were naturally unknown to him, and his understanding was even far less detailed and complete than Central Headquarters'.
After all, with Central Headquarters' intelligence network, once they set their minds to it, they could pinpoint one by one even those Antiquity Alliance experts scattered across the secular world—something not even the Mystery Investigation Bureau could accomplish. And as for the situation at the gathering place of the Antiquity Alliance experts, even Central Headquarters knew nothing at all, let alone him.
"There's a teleportation array in the back courtyard of the mountain gate. It can send you to the way station between the secular world and the Antiquity Minor Jianghu—a cluster of islands at sea. Since these Antiquity Alliance experts aren't at the mountain gate, they've most likely all been summoned to the islands for secluded cultivation," Wei Zhao prompted.
In truth, when he had first come out, those brought to the way station for secluded cultivation were only the prospective disciples newly recruited from the secular world; the other Antiquity Alliance trainees were still concentrated at the outer mountain gate. It was only because Xin Yi'an had repeatedly and strictly ordered them not to stir up trouble in the secular world that, over time, these people gradually lost their inclination to wander about there. Rather than stay outside wasting time, they might as well go cultivate on the way-station islands—the spiritual qi there was a rare find even in the Antiquity Minor Jianghu.
Wei Zhao could even guess their deeper motive. After all, Leng Leng had once said that upon concluding this secular-world training, they would immediately enter the Antiquity Trial—that was the true main event. Most of these Antiquity Alliance disciples were surely hoping to conserve their strength early and be ready to show their prowess when the time came.
"The way station? Is it all right to reveal that to Central Headquarters' people?" Brother Dafeng hesitated.
"It's fine. Just take them there and see what they're really up to." Wei Zhao showed not the slightest worry. With Xin Yi'an, an expert of the early Gold Core stage, holding the field, a mere dozen or so Foundation Establishment experts from Central Headquarters could hardly stir up any trouble—and moreover, Old Man Wei was there now as well, which made it even less of a concern. Wei Zhao had great confidence in his strength.
Unlike Ergoudan, Lin Dongfang did need to drink a few sips of spirit spring water at irregular intervals, but the spring water's hold on him was far less constraining; a month or so away from West Star Mountain was no problem at all. Otherwise, Wei Zhao would never have proposed that he go stay at the way station for a while.
"Well, all right then. I'll take them to have a look," Brother Dafeng nodded. (To be continued.)