Inheritance and Plea

After everyone had finished picking, Ji Jue was still leading his mule caravan through the ruins, sorting through the debris as though he wanted to haul even the stones back with him.

It couldn't be helped. He really was poor.

He refused to let even the shattered fragments go, much less all sorts of scrapped junk.

The soul of a Garbage Collector burned fiercely within him!

For a moment, everyone felt faintly wistful. Just how had Ye Xian raised her student? The poor kid had been starved into this state... Ji Jue had already taken such a major step back; they wouldn't stoop to fighting him over trash.

If the kid liked it, let the kid have it.

But...

As they cleared away the last fragments and confirmed that no contamination remained, Ji Jue suddenly waved. "Hey, Captain, come take a look at this..."

Within the deep pit cleared out by the many mule beasts, a collapsed trace had emerged. It still faintly carried the aura of the Eternal Gate.

It seemed that something had been sent away when the Workshop had completely shattered.

The arrangement had been far too covert, and it had been hidden exceptionally well.

But to Ji Jue, the traces left behind by the Eternal Gate were practically marked in bright highlights by the Doomsday Train's detection system. How could he possibly overlook them?

More importantly, within the remaining ruin pit was a bizarre insignia.

It resembled an incomplete overlap between a square and a triangle. At first glance, it was indescribably strange, yet the longer one looked at it, the more harmonious it seemed, as though it pointed directly to the essence of Alchemy. Its mysteries were boundless, making people unable to stop themselves from pondering it closely, from reaching out to...

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