The nightmare hadn't ended yet. It wasn't an easy thing to leave the desert. After Jiang Xiu came out, the entire land began to tremble and the golden giant also sunk under the sand.
Soon, that giant sunk just enough to seal the entrance to the Ancient City with its body. Meanwhile, a storm brewed up in the sky as sand blew all across the land, forming a unique astronomical phenomenon.
This phenomenon lasted late into the night and would settle down after 2 days.
Just as everyone was exclaiming about this phenomenon, two people tried to slip away stealthily.
"You plan to escape?"
Both bandits were survivors of Meng Fei's gang.
"M-Mr. Jiang, please spare our lives…"
Jiang Xiu had blocked them, "I'm not interested in your lives. I just wish to know why you hunted Xie Ting and how did you know about the Ancient City?"
One of the bandits revealed it, "We heard it from the boss."
"Meng Fei, huh?"
"Then, have you seen this stone anywhere?"
That bandit took a careful look at it then shook his head.
The other bandit added in, "I-It looks like the one General Meng had, but that one had a different color. Yours is red while the one General Meng possessed was… blue."
"Who is General Meng?"
"Our boss' elder brother. He established a country in the desert and has ten of thousands of soldiers as well as planes and tanks."
"Hoh, that sounds interesting."
If he had guessed it right, the Meng clan was also the later generation of the Ancient City. Since Xie Sanxian was affected by the Longevity Stone he possessed but General Meng was completely fine, it meant that this General Meng had an affinity towards evolution to become the Divine Race. It was possible he owned a Divinity Cultivation Art.
"Mr. Jiang, please allow me to kill them…" Li Chengzhi and his son dashed over in a fit of fury.
The bandits face turned ashen.
As these bandits had killed so many people, it was impossible that the other party wouldn't take revenge.
The father and son pointed the machine guns towards the bandits. Jiang Xiu had no intentions to protect these bandits as well. Along with an angry roar, the Li father and son pair fired at them, killing both the bandits.
By now, all the bandits were dead.
"Li Lei!"
"Brother!"
"We have taken revenge for you!"
The others who witnessed this at a distance remained silent. This trip to the desert had toppled their worldview entirely. They had personally experienced the bloody, ruthless and primal side of the world as well as seen a God.
"Let's return. This place is no good to stay at."
All of them packed up and hastened on their journey.
After leaving the desert zone of the Ancient City, Jiang Xiu couldn't help but glance back at it. He unfathomably recalled the scene of Xie Ting lying still under the river.
"Goodbye, Mr. Jiang…"
Jiang Xiu felt as if he had heard her farewell at that time.
"Big Brother Jiang, what's up?" Xie Ting noticed that he alone had fallen behind, seemingly reluctant to leave, so she too stopped walking to wait for him. Her seductive brows raised at a beautiful arc, gaze clear and refreshing as if it were drawing one's soul into it.
"Nothing. Nothing at all…"
Xie Ting smiled at him, "We should hurry then. The sun will set soon, and though you can endure it, the others won't be able to last…"
"Mhm!"
Xie Ting seemed quite familiar with the way inside the desert. Having her as the guide, the journey was quite easy as she knew which direction to go and where to find water.
When night fell, Xie Ting actually took them to an oasis which was full of water. The students could refill their canteens, and some of the boys even took baths by jumping into it. Leaving these aside, they had also found two hares at this oasis.
The group impatiently butchered the hares and made barbecue out of them.
After eating and drinking to their fill, the party was quite fatigued, so they fell asleep after laying on the ground.
Roughly around 10 PM, a very late time into the night in the desert, after the group had already slept for 3-4 hours, Xie Ting and Qiu Yinru stealthily sneaked away.
Jiang Xiu hadn't slept at all. He always felt that there was something wrong with Xie Ting. He thought that the current Xie Ting wasn't the same Xie Ting he knew, but the appearance was exactly the same.
That's why he quietly followed after them.
And well, this had ended up something disastrous as well. It almost made our Deity Xiu have a nosebleed after taking a look. These girls had come over to the oasis pool to take a bath.
The boys were there before, so they felt embarrassed about it, but as the boys had all fallen asleep right now, they sneaked away to take a bath.
This couldn't be helped. 10 days had passed since they had taken a bath and this was very difficult to bear for those girls who liked to keep themselves clean.
Moonlight dawned on the pool, making it glow with a silvery luster. The girls waddled their alluring bodies in the water, and this was all in plain view to Jiang Xiu. He enjoyed the view with a clear conscience.
"Feels so good. I felt really unwell these past few days." Qiu Yinru stated.
"Yes. Our hair was full of sand, and it had even reached our undergarments. It felt really weird as the sand chaffed against the body. It feels much better now, but it's a pity that there are no extra clothes to change into." Xie Ting agreed with her.
"Yeah. I really want to leave the desert soon."
Qiu Yinru peeked at Xie Ting's bosom, "Sister, how old are you?"
"Just reached 17."
"A year younger than me then, it didn't look like that though." Campus Queen Qiu revealed envy in her eyes. She had a good figure too, but it was notch lower when compared to Xie Ting's figure.
Jiang Xiu was also surprised. He hadn't expected Xie Ting to possess such an impressive figure. Looks like I had underestimated her, indeed underestimated her a lot. Looks like this girl has a lineage related to foreigners?
The pool water swayed under the still night scene, softly hitting their lovely bodies. It was as if nature was creating an opus artwork depicting beautiful women under the dazzling moonlight.
Those two girls bathed so that they could wash off the fatigue which had piled up, totally oblivious that a person had conveniently benefited on the side.
However, that might've not been a case as Xie Ting made a meaningful grin while raising her head, somewhat brazenly showing off her body while acting coyly.
Qiu Yinru, who was quite confident in her appearance and figure, acted quite intimately with Xie Ting. The counterpart's skin was paler than hers, appearance better-looking than hers, figure sexier than hers, waist slender than hers, legs longer than hers; no matter which aspect was compared, she lost utterly. She couldn't help but feel surprised at the care nature had given Xie Ting, giving her a perfect body with no blemishes. It was her dream model, one each girl possessed in her mind.
"You're beautiful!" She expressed her heartfelt admiration.
"You too."
On the next day, all the members of the group were in high spirits, so they moved faster than usual. After three days, with Sage Xie Ting guiding them, they smoothly returned to the town they had set out from.
30 of them had set out, and only 9 of them returned. At the moment the party entered the town, Professor Xu, as well as Specialist Qian, fainted on the scene. They were quite old and somehow steeled themselves through the journey, but after relaxing now, they immediately lost consciousness. The surrounding members supported them and took them to the Medic Station of the garrison.
The garrison had sent two soldiers to accompany them, and both were dead now. They would have to give an explanation regarding this, and this was Professor Xu's job, but as these adults had all lost consciousness, so they had to undertake this responsibility now.
One side of the garrison's entrance had a flag waving in the wind. The grand national emblem hung at the main entrance of the building and soldiers donned in military attire went in and out in formations.
Jiang Xiu didn't go in but instead found a place to recharge his phone then called to his men in Bodhi Gene, "Mr. Jiang!"
"Pinghai Province's, Jin family!"
"Pinghai's Jin family? Do you mean Jin Mu Sen's family? He's a person on the Demigod Ranking, and some of the elders of the family have tread quite far into the Arcana Stage."
"I already killed Mu Sen."
The other party on the other end of the call drew in a cold breath. The man was shocked.
"Those elders are dead as well."
The other side replied, "Alright, I understand, Mr. Jiang."
First, it was Wang Jianzhi, then Li Bodhi and now Jin Mu Sen. Three Demigods had died under Jiang Xiu's hands.
Mr. Jiang's strength was pretty valiant.
Since the Jin family was the money-holder of the Jiang family, Jiang Xiu naturally didn't plan to let them off. After he hung the call, he called Wang Xintong, "Xintong, prepare funds to attack all the listed companies of Pinghai's Jin family."
"Understood!" Wang Xintong answered him.
Any large regime needed vast amounts of capital to thrive. Jiang Xiu wanted to see how the Jiang family will handle him and his father without money.