"The characteristics of that realm? It's really hard to guess. Everyone tried to get information from the soldiers he brought back. But they wouldn't say anything no matter what. Only once, a soldier got drunk and said that there were many special monsters there, and to deal with them, you had to take off all the armor you brought and put on the special armor of that realm. He only said that he never wanted to go there again. As soon as he saw the monsters, soldiers started dying in droves. The special armor was useless; it could only last for a minute at most. After a minute, it would shatter, and after the armor shattered, the body would shatter next. Even if he didn't die this time, he would definitely die next time. He cried and begged others to save him. Later, he went to war again and never came back."
It does sound terrifying, but if you know that it's full of space-type monsters, it all makes sense.
Judging from the large amount of spirit stones required for the expedition from Aoqin, those special armors must have been made of spirit stones. This is because spirit stones possess spatial properties. Otherwise, the only way to create teleportation arrays would be with spirit stones.
Upon arriving here, Jiang Hao was able to confirm that the realm where Aoqin had set out was the origin of Aorong's spatial skills.
However, knowing only these aspects within so many realms is clearly insufficient to further narrow down the scope.
So Jiang Hao tried asking Minggen different questions in different ways.
"Eight teleportation arrays. There are eight teleportation arrays around the royal city, each corresponding to one of the eight directions of the realm."
"He uses it in rotation. He always uses it in a clockwise circle. Oh, I remember now, a long time ago, about three years ago, he only used the easternmost teleportation array. Maybe two or three times, and then he started using it in a circular pattern."
Jiang Hao, by observing Ao Qin's habit of using teleportation arrays, further narrowed down the scope of the realm. He must have gone to the Eastern Realm! As for why he used it in circles later, it must have been after Ao Rong reminded him, and he deliberately tried to deceive others.
"Yes, I have encountered them. The Ten Wolves Legion of the Imperial Expeditionary Force, General Qin Hao once let slip that he had encountered the legion of Aoqin. As for which region, he didn't say. Later, everyone was curious and got him drunk, but he still didn't say. He only said that someone had warned him that if he dared to reveal it, his entire legion would lose their heads."
Jiang Hao was overjoyed; the clues were finally starting to become clear.
"Yes, he's on my right flank this time."
The Ten Wolves Legion was clad in gray armor and helmets, with their helmets shaped like wolf heads. Through Yun Xinghe's vision, Jiang Hao immediately locked onto a general on Minggen's right flank.
So he waved his staff, and Qinhao was pulled over. After being killed and resurrected, the soul link was activated, and Qinhao became one of his own.
When the city lord of Jinling and Yun Xinghe saw Jiang Hao pulling over one jackal general after another, they knew that he had locked onto his target.
This also gave me a new understanding of how cautious and prudent Ao Rong was in his actions.
Concealing the movements of an army of several million is simply impossible, especially one with a fixed destination. The fact that the target required clues from three generals from the same faction demonstrates Oron's extreme caution.
"The Aoqin Legion? I've seen them once. In Realm 9237. At the time, the Imperial Expeditionary Force Command said that a large number of magical beasts had been discovered in that realm, and they ordered me to clear them out. These kinds of missions are the most dangerous but the least rewarding, especially in an undeveloped realm. So I let my deputy lead the army on the mission, while I stayed in the camp with a few personal guards, drinking. Then I saw the Aoqin Legion coming out of the teleportation array. At the time, I was puzzled. I had already received the mission for this realm, so how could the Empire have sent another legion?"
"Later, they left on their flying demon wolves. I was puzzled. Normally, if it were a territory of our empire, they would build a multi-star teleportation array. Even smaller territories would have a small teleportation array. Why didn't they use the small teleportation array next to them and instead rode flying demon wolves? It's really strange."
It seems this realm does not belong to the gnolls. Moreover, the nearest gnoll realm is this realm number 9237.
“I asked the guards in the camp where they had gone. They just shook their heads. I pressed them to tell me, but they just knelt down and kowtowed. They still wouldn’t say anything. I killed several guards before one of them finally said that Aoqin’s operation was an imperial secret and they dared not reveal it. So I stopped pursuing the matter.”
"When I returned to the capital, I was immediately summoned by the Grand Preceptor, who ordered me not to mention my meeting with Aoqin to anyone. So I kept the matter to myself. But my curiosity was piqued."
"After returning, I used the star map to identify three suspicious areas based on the flight range of the Flying Demon Wolf. Then I thought that the Aoqin Legion might have changed mounts along the way, so I expanded the target to 31."
“I figured that if it was a fully developed realm, then there was no need for Aoqin to launch an expedition. So I narrowed down my targets to two: realm number 9352 and realm number 9685.”
The realms within the Spirit Ruins are not distributed on a single plane. Rather, they are three-dimensional, like stars in the sky, some high and some low.
The domains are numbered based on their distance from Domain One, the most central domain in the Spirit Ruins. Domain Two is closest to Domain One. It could be east of Domain One, while Domain Three could be west of Domain One.
Therefore, the closest boundary to boundary 9237 is not necessarily boundary 9238 or boundary 9236.
Therefore, the inference about the number Qin is entirely reasonable.
Having reached this point in the interrogation, there was no possibility of going any further. Jiang Hao was overjoyed to have narrowed the target to just two regions.
Jiang Hao then asked a few more generals about other things, but he couldn't get any useful information out of them.
It was only by chance that I learned today was the day Aoqin set off, and that Aodu had already returned to the capital two days ago. In other words, Aoqin has already arrived at his destination.
Jiang Hao suddenly felt a strong urge to meet this jackal brother.
However, his own soul had not yet fully recovered, and Qiu Si's invincibility was still in the process of being restored, so Jiang Hao dared not summon Xiao Shit out of the summoning space.
Jiang Hao then pointed his finger in the air, sending beams of white light into the mustard seed in the void. Subsequently, Jiang Hao assembled hundreds of humanoid mustard seed clones, beginning to enrich the biological diversity of the land where the ancient gods had fallen.
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