He had no time to deal with the big black dog, and the dog was very cautious, always keeping a distance of over a thousand meters from him. So as long as it didn't enter that range, he didn't plan to deal with it for the time being.
Standing in front of a three-story villa, Jiang Yuan stood there for a long time. This was his first opportunity to learn about Ning Yanlan's true past.
“Ning Yanlan, ever since we met, you have been taking control of my future step by step. Now, it’s my turn to look at your past.”
Jiang Yuan felt a mix of emotions. Their paths had gone astray since the beginning of Nancheng, leading to their mutual demise. Although he couldn't bring himself to hate Ning Yanlan in the end, he still needed to understand her past. He needed to give an explanation to his vow and to all those who had died in Nancheng.
Pushing open the iron gate, Jiang Yuan slipped into the villa's courtyard.
"There's a formation!"
Jiang Yuan was about to step down, but his instinct as a formation master made him stop in his tracks.
He activated his Eye of Insight to observe the villa, and as he looked, countless array patterns appeared before his eyes.
"Looks like the companion god paid quite a bit in hush money!"
Jiang Yuan sneered. The array set up inside this villa alone was worth hundreds of millions of low-grade Holy Spirit Crystals.
If he hadn't managed to hunt down enough array fragments by chance this time, he might not have been able to enter the villa. After all, once the Ning family was alerted, the people behind the Ning family might appear, and it would be much more difficult for him to find out the truth then.
Jiang Yuan didn't rush in. Instead, he slowly and methodically began to decipher the formation. Of course, it was neither realistic nor necessary to completely decipher it. This was Ning Yanlan's home, and he wanted to keep it a secret from everyone except him.
He was already a Heavenly Spirit level array master, so these arrays weren't particularly difficult for him. However, he still had to spend the time necessary. After working for three hours, the arrays in the entire villa were melted down to create a narrow passage, which was enough for him to enter the villa.
Pushing open the door, Jiang Yuan's first sight was the various ancient paintings in the hall. There were nine long scrolls from the entrance to the hall, the last of which was not yet finished and appeared to be half-unfolded.
"This is?"
Jiang Yuan fell into thought. He looked at the paintings and felt a strange feeling, but for a moment he couldn't remember where the feeling came from, until he fixed his gaze on the last unfinished painting.
"battlefield!!!"
Jiang Yuan's heart tightened. He realized that the background of the last painting was none other than the South City, which had been blasted up by the source of the battlefield, and the numerous figures appearing in the painting. All of this indicated that Ning Yanlan knew that the birth of the source was accompanied by the destruction of a city.
"It was all premeditated, wasn't it?" Jiang Yuan revealed an enigmatic smile. From their initial encounter in Beicheng to his gradual growth into a powerful figure capable of contending with alien races, all of this was part of Ning Yanlan's plan.
In other words, even if he weren't the chosen one, Ning Yanlan would have experienced the same storyline and outcome as everyone else.
"Are there nine paintings in total, symbolizing the nine battlefields you have experienced?"
Jiang Yuan moved away from the unfinished scroll and looked at the other eight paintings. The other eight paintings were all completed, and each one was rolled up and sealed with wax clay.
"I'll take my time to look at it when I get back!" Jiang Yuan didn't dare to open the scroll here. If these were divine paintings that accompanied him, he would definitely be discovered if he opened the seal. So he took them away first and studied them slowly later.
"And this too!"
Jiang Yuan didn't forget to take away the last painting; he would help Ning Yanlan finish the painting she hadn't completed.
After passing through the corridor, Jiang Yuan searched through each room, but found nothing. Ning Yanlan's life seemed extremely monotonous, lacking all the various trinkets a little girl should have.
Jiang Yuan, who had not overlooked any detail, could only head towards Ning Yanlan's boudoir. Even if she was a god, she would still have her own private space, and there must be some clues left in her boudoir.
Jiang Yuan calmly entered the room, and his gaze was drawn to the rows of photo albums on the wall above the bed. The albums contained only one girl, with a total of twenty-two photos, recording Ning Yanlan's appearance from age one to twenty-two.
"It seems that Ning Yanlan really did grow up in this family?"
Jiang Yuan pondered, thinking to himself, "Could it be that the companion god simply reincarnated a wisp of life soul, which then happened to enter Ning Yanlan's body?"
If these photos are authentic, it means that Ning Yanlan has a complete growth trajectory just like any ordinary person, rather than simply being a companion god clone.
"It's mine now!"
Jiang Yuan accepted them all, taking all of Ning Yanlan's photos from each year. Ning Yanlan owed him these photos, so it wasn't unreasonable for him to take some of them.
After collecting the photos, Jiang Yuan began rummaging through everything in Ning Yanlan's room. He practically looted it, taking everything from tables and cabinets to clothes, shoes, and jewelry.
"This is!"
Just as Jiang Yuan was about to leave, a notebook, slightly larger than the palm of his hand, fell off the bookshelf.
"A diary?" Jiang Yuan hesitated as he looked at the notebook. Clearly, reading someone else's diary was immoral.
"Ning Yanlan shouldn't be considered anyone else, right?"
Jiang Yuan, relying on his magical logic, opened the dusty diary.
Turn to the first page; the date is the first day of my eighteenth birthday.
"Today is my first day as an adult. My parents were too busy to come with me, so I went to the antique market to buy myself a coming-of-age gift. I had my eye on a gold flower and butterfly headdress worth 300,000 yuan, but in the end, I inexplicably bought a sword! I think I've gone crazy!"
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"After returning from school, I still have no friends, and a woman's voice keeps appearing in my head. Do I have a split personality?"
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