That's a very...

Old Nineteen felt comforted, but also felt that the words carried a slight insult.

What do you mean he's not as talented as Junior Brother Yan?

Uh...that's true.

But it just makes people feel really uncomfortable.

"Now, only Senior Brother Nineteen is capable of taking on this responsibility. Senior Brother, don't worry, let's try harder."

As Jia Xitong spoke, she took out new alchemy materials, saying, "Senior brother, don't worry, we have enough materials."

Actually, there wasn't enough. As a rare and precious treasure, only four Heavenly Ginseng Fruits had ever been produced. She said that simply to let him go all out.

Just as Jia Xitong was worrying about the Heavenly Ginseng Fruit, in another distant world, someone had already arrived at Niu Chuanchuan's hometown.

Barren land.

The ground was completely ripped open, and a huge monster was writhing underground.

In the original story, Shang Yanting merely glanced to the side, and several incredibly powerful demonic cultivators instantly rushed out from behind him. In the blink of an eye, the enormous demonic beast worm on the ground was cleaved into several pieces.

Even after being severed, the monster continued to writhe, as if it were about to split apart.

The demonic cultivators who followed were no pushovers.

They suddenly sprinkled yellow powder, which stuck to the flesh worms and instantly turned them into corpse fluid.

Fierce and decisive.

In the original story, Shang Yanting looked down and saw a desolate landscape, completely unlike the Niu Family Village mentioned in the intelligence report.

Where are they?

The person is still alive.

"Palace Master, the person is here."

The female demon cultivator who had been following Shang Yanting in the original story captured a young man. He was dressed in coarse cloth short clothes, had dark skin, a strong physique, and his features were somewhat similar to the man Shang Yanting had seen in the illusion.

"Your name is Niu Chuanchuan?"

The man was slightly taken aback, then overjoyed. "Immortal, my name is Niu Sanchuan. Do you recognize me as my second brother?"

Back then, his second brother had also studied at the Immortal Abode for a few days. Could they have been his old friends?

Niu Sanchuan was excited, but Shang Yanting frowned even more deeply. "Where's your second brother? Take me to see him."

Both the illusion and reality have Niu Chuanchuan, but they are different Niu Chuanchuans.

Niu Chuanchuan lay paralyzed on the bed, lacking the spiritedness he displayed in the illusion. His eyes were glazed, his spirit was listless, and his body was unusually weak.

What's wrong with him?

Shang Yanting looked at Niu Sanchuan beside him.

“I once went to the Holy Capital Academy to learn from a master, but I was expelled because I lacked comprehension.”

Niu Sanchuan recalled a long time ago.

Although his second brother was expelled from school, he had learned some skills at the college. Their family lived a simple life of herding cattle and sheep in their hometown. Although they were not wealthy, they were content and happy.

However, all of this was destroyed starting with an earthquake.

"The monster in that field appeared a long time ago. My second brother has a naturally keen sense of danger and can foresee it. However, even so, we still couldn't escape the monster's attack."

My second brother lost both legs to a monster while trying to save our parents.

However, their mother died in that monster attack, and as for their father...

He left not long after.

An ordinary yet tragic life.

In the original story, Shang Yanting glanced at this ordinary family, got his answer, and left directly.

There was indeed a person named Niu Chuanchuan, who had been suspended from school before he entered Holy Capital Academy. They had never met, and he had never known of such a person's existence, yet in that illusion, they were portrayed as very familiar people…

"Palace Master."

The subordinates caught up with them.

She didn't understand why the palace master went to such great lengths to find this completely unrelated man, only to leave after just one glance at him.

"Dovian."

"Your subordinate is here!"

Do you think... there might be another you or me in this world?

What?

Dovian was slightly taken aback, somewhat confused by Shang Yanting's meaning, but the other party had already left...

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Real world

Jia Xitong encouraged Hu Changxiu to experiment freely, and after consuming a considerable amount of magical artifacts from the warehouse, he actually managed to discover some things.

"The core of the array is this metal-attribute magic weapon!"

Hu Changxiu brought over a bronze-colored weight, her fair and delicate face flushed with excitement.

This magical artifact...

Jia Xitong looked at the object; it seemed familiar.

She quickly remembered that this was a treasure she had obtained from a group of islanders named Tuohaizi when she had gone to the wrong sea area while searching for treasure in Guangluoyu Sea.

When this treasure was taken away, the entire island fell apart and fell into complete silence.

She and Shang Yanting initially thought it was a super treasure, but it turned out to be useless except for throwing things at people. Because it was so useless, they threw it into the warehouse. Unexpectedly, it came in handy at this moment.

If the metal-type magic item has already been found, she seems to have some recollection of the water-type magic item as well—

The glass bottle obtained from the Queshan mountain range.

It is a standard water-based magical artifact, and only cultivators with water-based talents can use it.

but……

This has already been given to Meiji!

She gave it away, and now she wants it back... Even with her thick skin, she feels embarrassed about it.

Jia Xitong thought about it carefully and decided to find other alternatives first.

She suddenly remembered when Uncle Karl introduced her to the four deans for the first time, and all four deans gave her gifts. The Wanqi clan chief, who had long since been defeated, gave her a useless bottle, a stone bottle said to be made from the last stone the God of Artifacts stepped on on the day of his ascension.

She had used that vase to hold flowers for several years. Thinking of this, Jia Xitong hurriedly returned to her palace and brought out the vase.

"Teacher Hu, do you think this bottle is useful?"

In order to find the five magical artifacts of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, she really dug up all her old secrets.

Upon hearing this, Teacher Hu took the bottle.

The bottle is jet black, has a cool touch, and feels quite heavy when held in your arms.

Hu Changxiu took it back and tried it on the spot.

I picked up the items at noon, and they turned out to be ready in the afternoon—okay!

Hu Changxiu never expected that Jia Xitong would find another magic artifact just by casually going back into the room. "This magic artifact belongs to the earth element."

So only wood-type, water-type, and fire-type magical artifacts remain.

“Xixi, we have tried all the magical artifacts of the wood, water, and fire elements in Xianlong Peak, but none of them work.”

To arrange these into the Zhou Tian Xing Dou Grand Array, you will need these three things.

"Don't worry, I will definitely gather all of these things."

Jia Xitong assured Hu Changxiu, acting as if she had everything perfectly arranged. In reality, to gather these three items, the academically challenged student unusually went to Shang Yanting's room to find books to read…

---Aside---

Goodnight everyone!