Repairing the Divine Armor

In the end, Xiang Tian summoned his Flying Sword and took them back to the academy.

Along the way, Lou Yi was truly taken aback, but he did not say much. He planned to investigate Xiang Tian's background properly once they returned to the academy.

Inside the office, Xiang Tian took out the Divine Armor controller and asked Qiu Changfeng, "Dean, do you have any connections that could repair this thing?"

Qiu Changfeng accepted the controller and turned it over in his hands. It was something novel even to him, and he pondered for a moment.

"I heard that Linglong Treasure Pavilion has a master artifact refiner. After reaching a bottleneck on the path of artifact refinement, he turned to studying these gadgets. Riyao once invited him to participate in researching a new generation of Divine Armor. Perhaps he has a solution."

Linglong Treasure Pavilion? What a coincidence!

He had visited that place several times before and had even dealt with a few people there.

"Then this will be easy. Dean, it should be fine if I leave for a few days, right?"

Xiang Tian's question put Qiu Changfeng in a difficult spot.

The last time you went out, even the Black Abyss made a move. If you go out again, trouble will probably come one after another. How could he possibly rest easy?

Xiang Tian knew what he was worried about and merely said, "Dean, there is no need to worry. I know what I'm doing."

After hearing him, Qiu Changfeng felt that it made sense. After all, Xiang Tian had so many methods that he could not even see through them. Judging from this incident alone, he had been nothing more than a bystander along for the ride.

And so, Xiang Tian skipped class. When the people in the class saw that he had not appeared for several days, discussions immediately sprang up.

They heard he had gone out to carry out a mission, but the other three had already returned to the academy. Xiang Tian was skipping class without cause and was supposed to face punishment.

However, none of the instructors said anything, so naturally they did not dare bring it up. Still, they secretly rejoiced. Whether this guy was around or not, the atmosphere in the class was like night and day!

After leaving the gates, Xiang Tian did not ride his sword. The city where Linglong Treasure Pavilion was located prohibited martial activity, so he chose to go to the station and take an aerial train.

The hovering trains flying all over the sky had designated routes. Within those areas, cultivators were forbidden from traveling through the air by any means.

These things were no slower than the supernatural techniques of cultivators. Thus, in the Heavenly Realm of today, not everyone yearned to cultivate the Great Dao. Cultivators were a minority, while most ordinary people lived free from worries over food and clothing in this highly developed world.

Once aboard the train, Xiang Tian gazed at the fluffy white clouds beyond the window. The sight of clear skies stretching for thousands of miles refreshed his heart and delighted his eyes, and the train swiftly entered the city.

Qingfeng City had countless willows planted along its shores, their hanging branches soft and graceful. As a major center of trade, it was bustling with people every day. Beneath the willow trees by the riverbank, one could always see all kinds of people cooling off, forming a distinctive sight within the city.

After getting off, Xiang Tian walked through the streets. The roads were broad, and passersby wore all manner of clothing. Contemporary fashion stood in stark contrast to the attire of cultivators who revered the Great Dao, yet there was not the slightest sense of disharmony. Perhaps that was the unique charm of the modern age.

Though Linglong Treasure Pavilion had an immortal-sounding name, it was in truth a modern steel building. Its design followed traditional architecture, and while it possessed an antique elegance, it lacked a little spiritual charm. Still, it was impressively tall; looking upward, its countless floors made one dizzy.

Inside Linglong Treasure Pavilion, the chief shopkeeper's door was knocked on.

"Come in."

Meng Wei spoke without looking up from the account book before him.

A receptionist entered the room and respectfully handed over a card.

"There is a guest downstairs. He is one of our diamond-tier members and says he wishes to see you."

A diamond-tier member?

Meng Wei put down the account book, took the card, and the membership information surfaced.

Name: Xiang Tian

Number of purchases: Four

Total spent: 35,000,000 Sky Crystals

"Fuck!"

Meng Wei sprang to his feet.

There were quite a few diamond-tier members, but he remembered someone who had reached that level after only four purchases. Xiang Tian had previously spent nearly ten million Sky Crystals at Linglong Treasure Pavilion, buying several chew sticks that an Immortal King from ancient times had used for his beloved pet.

At the time, while those items contained traces of ancient Dao essence, their greater value came from the weight of history accumulated upon them.

Honestly, who would buy such things? Unless they had so much money they had nowhere to spend it!

Yet Xiang Tian had bought them, without even bargaining, all in one smooth stroke!

Meng Wei had been delighted for quite some time afterward and had even specially treated Xiang Tian to a drink.

"Quick, invite him in for me. Have someone brew the tea as well."

Meng Wei was overjoyed. Today might just bring another huge deal.

Very soon, Xiang Tian met Meng Wei.

"Chief Shopkeeper, I hope you have been well."

Meng Wei exchanged a few pleasantries with Xiang Tian, invited him to sit, and handed him a cup of hot tea.

"It has been a long time. Brother Xiang Tian, have you come to Linglong Treasure Pavilion because you have your eye on something?"

Xiang Tian shook his head and took out the controller.

"To be honest, I would like to ask one of your pavilion's masters to repair this for me."

"A Divine Armor controller?"

Seeing the item in Xiang Tian's hand, Meng Wei was somewhat curious. Such a thing was not something an ordinary person could possess. When he took it and looked closer, the dragon-head emblem on the controller was especially eye-catching.

"Ah!"

Meng Wei jolted in shock, and the controller slipped from his hand. In a flurry of panic, he barely managed to catch it.

His entire hand had gone unresponsive, trembling violently. The room was cool and comfortable, yet beads of sweat had already formed on his forehead.

Th-this emblem... This was a controller from the Black Abyss!

Anything connected to the Black Abyss never ended well.

"Th-this, this, this..."

Meng Wei was so frightened that he could not speak. He raised his head and stared at Xiang Tian.

"Shopkeeper, why be so surprised? It is merely a small controller. Besides, since it is damaged, the Black Abyss cannot track it. You only need to repair it and send it to Changning Immortal Academy, stating that it is for me."

Then, he took out a card specially used to store Sky Crystals.

With a slight activation, a string of numbers appeared upon it, making Meng Wei's eyes widen.

Ones, tens, hundreds, thousands...

A full twenty million Sky Crystals! Meng Wei was utterly dumbfounded.

Xiang Tian was very satisfied with Meng Wei's expression and said with a smile, "I believe twenty million should be enough, yes? I only ask that you repair it and deliver it to me within ten days. After deducting the repair costs, whatever remains on the card will count as my personal token of thanks."

He handed the stored-value card to Meng Wei, who accepted it with trembling hands.

He was only a shopkeeper of Linglong Treasure Pavilion. The Artifact Immortal Sect stood behind it, and to put it bluntly, he was merely an employee. If he accepted Xiang Tian's stored-value card, he could pocket at least ten million Sky Crystals!

What did that mean? Even after serving as a shopkeeper for decades, he might not earn that many Sky Crystals!

"Rest assured, I will handle this matter perfectly!"

Seeing Meng Wei make his promise, Xiang Tian nodded in satisfaction.

Endless Sea, Black Abyss headquarters.

The Lord of the Black Abyss roared furiously at a group of subordinates.

"Bastards! Why have we still not been able to contact Gu You's controller after so long? Could it be that we really have to storm Changning Immortal Academy and seize it back?"

The Divine Armor was stored in the controller's virtual space. If they could not contact the controller, the Divine Armor inside could not be transferred at all.

The Black Abyss only had eighteen sets of Divine Armor in total, one for each of the Eighteen Generals of the Black Abyss. Gu You was dead, and they could train a new Eighteenth General, but damn it, the Divine Armor was gone. Where were they supposed to find someone to train as the Eighteenth General?

If Divine Armor of that level were easy to make, the Black Abyss would have had far more than eighteen generals.

That alone would have been bad enough, but what he found most unacceptable was that the Convergence Cannon had actually sent a damage report. When it was teleported back, all that remained was a pile of scrap iron.

At least the Divine Armor had vanished without a trace. The Convergence Cannon, at least, had left behind a whole corpse.

Thus, the Lord of the Black Abyss felt like his head was about to explode. He had truly never imagined that the life the Ding Family had purchased this time would make them suffer so bitterly.