I Contracted All Ancient Divine Artifacts-Chapter 281 - 180: Sword Remains

"Han Zhan has been missing for an entire day, is there still no news?"

"Yes, the whole Fulong City has been secretly searched, and there's no trace of him."

In Wofeng Palace, Gongyang Jin and Elder Bing talked to this point, and both fell silent.

"It's that little girl staying at his house, Nuannuan," Gongyang Jin suddenly said.

Elder Bing looked at her with some confusion.

For some reason, he detected a slight hint of jealousy in Gongyang Jin's tone?

"Alliance Leader, why are you so sure?"

"A woman's intuition."

Elder Bing: "6"

Back to the topic.

Han Zhan's disappearance did not cause an uproar in the entire Anti-Xia Alliance.

Because Gongyang Jin directly suppressed this matter.

At first, she thought it was the work of Chen Tao, but upon closer thought, even Chen Tao couldn't make Han Zhan disappear under so many people's eyes in Fulong City.

It must have been an even more bizarre means.

Like those strange shadows that Han Zhan mentioned before.

"In the end, I was still careless. I shouldn't have let him continue this way. If only I had discovered it earlier."

Gongyang Jin was anxious.

Just then, a figure appeared outside Wofeng Palace.

"I'm back."

Seeing Han Zhan appearing outside the palace gates, both Gongyang Jin and Elder Bing were stunned.

"Where did you go? Why couldn't anyone find you for a whole day?"

Gongyang Jin asked as she quickened her pace to meet him.

Elder Bing was stunned again.

He had suspected the relationship between the two.

In his original guess, Gongyang Jin might have had some interaction with Han Zhan in Great Xia.

But seeing Gongyang Jin's words and actions once more.

Their relationship was probably not just as simple as knowing each other.

What a good kid!

At a young age, he already knows how to tend to someone else's garden stuff.

Unlike in our days, where everyone was just a bunch of clueless straight men.

Thinking of this, Elder Bing's gaze at Han Zhan was a bit more comforting.

"I went to the bamboo forest," Han Zhan answered.

"The bamboo forest?!"

Han Zhan nodded and continued to recount his experiences and observations in the bamboo forest.

"So you mean, the Sun Never Sets Knight Order, the Mechanical Sect, the Holy Bishop, the reason they've been so quiet lately is that their leaders are attacking the bamboo forest?"

"That's right."

"And you were the first to enter the bamboo forest, then you saw Nuannuan all grown up. After she gave you a few words of warning, the entire bamboo forest was sealed again, and you returned to the City of Extreme Evil from there."

Han Zhan nodded.

Gongyang Jin and Elder Bing exchanged glances, seeing the seriousness in each other's eyes.

"Why you? Why did she, Nuannuan, choose you?" Gongyang Jin asked.

This question, even Han Zhan couldn't answer.

However, he already had a guess.

"Perhaps, Nuannuan is a sealed Divine Soldier."

When Han Zhan said this, he gently rubbed his brow and the corner of his eyes, which was a hint from the Divine Radiance Talent.

If Nuannuan isn't one of the ten Ancient Divine Soldiers, the Divine Radiance Talent wouldn't have such a strong reaction.

This was the first time he encountered a situation where a Divine Soldier was sealed.

"If that's the case, then we need to give our all in the upcoming Slaughter Battlefield."

Hearing Han Zhan mention "Divine Soldiers," Gongyang Jin's gaze suddenly became determined.

She knew what Ancient Divine Soldiers meant to Han Zhan.

Given this, the upcoming Slaughter Battlefield must be won!

"The Slaughter Battlefield can open at any time. Before that, you must break through to Tier Seven as Nuannuan instructed," Gongyang Jin paused, "How long until you break through to Tier Seven?"

"I'm already at Tier Six Peak strength. To break through to Tier Seven, I'm still missing a Spiritual Remain."

Spiritual Remains are the key to a High Level Awakened breakthrough.

The stronger the Spiritual Remain, the greater the enhancement after the breakthrough.

Previously, due to consuming the Celestial Snake Spirit Remains, Han Zhan's two breakthroughs had no bottleneck, but the Celestial Snake Spirit Remains could only help him break through to Tier Six Peak.

To go further, he needs to find new Spiritual Remains.

"Ordinary Spiritual Remains are easy to find, but that would waste the solid foundation laid by the Tier Nine Celestial Serpent Remains. So I need a Spiritual Remain as high tier as possible to serve as my foundation for breaking through to Tier Seven."

This is the real reason for Han Zhan's realm being stuck.

As long as he wants, as long as he has suitable Spiritual Remains, he can break through to Tier Seven at any time.

"Spiritual Remains, huh?"

Before Gongyang Jin could speak, Elder Bing, who had been silently listening, suddenly spoke up.

"If it's Spiritual Remains you're looking for, I do know of a place."

Saying this, Elder Bing glanced at Gongyang Jin, then mentioned the name of that place.

"The desolate city bordering the Alien Race Territory, Buried Sword City."

Han Zhan took notice.

When the words Buried Sword City were mentioned, Gongyang Jin's gaze wavered for a moment.

"Buried Sword City, what kind of place is that?"

"Once a main city of the Anti-Xia Alliance, but now surrounded by the Alien Race, it has become a desolate city."

"Why is it surrounded and not occupied?" Han Zhan noted a detail in Elder Bing's words and asked.

"Because they can't occupy it," Gongyang Jin finally spoke after a brief silence.

"My adoptive father, Chen Zhongxia, the former Alliance Leader, died there. After his death, a vast amount of Vigorous Sword Energy gathered without dispersing and merged with a dying Sword-shaped Contracted Spirit, creating a unique existence."

"Anyone entering the city, who is not a citizen of Buried Sword City, will be exterminated without exception."

Han Zhan understood.

Chen Zhongxia was Chen Tao's biological father and Gongyang Jin's adoptive father. He was the former Alliance Leader of the Anti-Xia Alliance, Jia Zhou.

He and his Contracted Spirit died unexpectedly in Lingyan Pavilion, and it turned out it was in Buried Sword City.

"After Alliance Leader Chen's death, he fused and assimilated with his Contracted Spirit, forming a strange symbiotic state, leaving behind only instincts and Cultivation Realm."

"Once fused, this Sword Spirit also successfully broke through to Tier Nine, and within it, an Abnormal Skeleton was born, which only Exotic Beasts possess."

"We call it, Sword Remains."

Tier Nine Sword Remains!

"In those days, when Alliance Leader Gongyang was at Tier Eight Peak, she could have fused the Sword Remains to successfully break through to Tier Nine and become the first in the City of Extreme Evil. But she gave it up and eventually won the Slaughter Battlefield and left the City of Extreme Evil."

"If it were anyone else, I wouldn't allow them to target the Sword Remains because, after all, it was the former Alliance Leader who turned into it."

Elder Bing paused here, not continuing.

It was because he sensed the unusual relationship between Han Zhan and Gongyang Jin that he made this suggestion.

After Elder Bing's supplement, Han Zhan's gaze also fell on Gongyang Jin.

To go or not to go?

The final decision needed to be made by Gongyang Jin.