If Zhao Ming and Sun Qing knew what the people of Douluo Continent were thinking, they would definitely spray them to death with a mouthful of salt soda.
This was a thirty-year-old Venerable!
Being able to break through to the Venerable Realm before the age of a hundred already meant one's talent was absurdly formidable. Not to mention becoming a Venerable at thirty—such talent had probably appeared only a handful of times in the history of the Eight Regions!
No, whether it had ever appeared at all was questionable!
If a native thirty-year-old Venerable truly emerged, it would be no less than an earthquake powerful enough to shake the entire Eight Regions apart!
"Of course, I'm not a native cultivator of the Eight Regions either."
Just as the two of them were adding to their own speculations, Zhao Xiao's next words blew them both numb.
What did that mean? He was neither an Upper Realm powerhouse nor a cultivator of the Eight Regions, so who exactly was he?
"In short, I am not from your world. Cultivators at your level have no need to know about such matters."
Sun Qing and Zhao Ming exchanged a glance, and both saw fear in the other's eyes.
If Zhao Xiao was telling the truth, then they might truly have gotten caught up in something extraordinary...
Seeing Sun Qing and Zhao Ming's uncertain expressions, the cultivators of Douluo Continent were practically dying of laughter.
"Hahahaha, so watching others display their lack of knowledge is this entertaining."
"Yeah, yeah, look at Sun Ming's face. That little expression is killing me."
"Still, I didn't expect Ning Rongrong and Qian Renxue to meet up so quickly. Do the two of them know each other? Could this turn into a touching reunion?"
"How could that be? Although Douluo Continent isn't as boundlessly vast as the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, it supposedly has 140 million people. The odds that two out of 140 million people happen to know each other are way too small."
"You can't put it that way. They're both Soul Masters, and neither of them is weak. They might really know each other. After all, the circle of powerful people is only so big."
"When you put it that way, it does make some sense. Now I'm actually looking forward to seeing them meet."
At the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Ning Fengzhi's face had completely darkened.
When Qian Renxue had been forcibly sent aboard the Star Extremity Sect's battleship earlier, he had still been lamenting that Douluo Continent was about to lose another person. Yet in the blink of an eye, his precious daughter had boarded the pirate ship too.
Now, he only hoped that that bastard surnamed Zhao could protect his daughter. As long as he kept his daughter safe, everything else was negotiable...
"You bastard surnamed Zhao, don't you dare let me down!"
Meanwhile, at Spirit Hall, Bibi Dong felt somewhat relieved when Zhao Xiao boarded the Star Extremity Battleship.
Although Zhao Xiao had seemed somewhat problematic from what she had seen so far, judging by Zhao Ming and Liu Qing's attitudes toward him aboard the Star Extremity, the two of them clearly feared Zhao Xiao. It could even be said that they were terrified of him.
In that case, as long as Zhao Xiao spoke up, wouldn't Xue'er avoid being sent to her death?
That was right. Although Sun Qing had told Lin Wanwan and Qian Renxue earlier that they had been granted a tremendous opportunity, Bibi Dong did not believe a single word of it.
If there truly was some opportunity, their own people would have claimed it first. How could they possibly give it to others?
As for Zhao Ming's earlier claim to Liu Yiyi, the princess of Hundred Flowers Palace, that the Saintess and candidate Saintess of the Star Extremity Sect would also be going, she treated it as complete nonsense.
After all, no one had seen them.
At the same time, seeing Zhao Ming and Sun Qing's expressions constantly changing, Zhao Xiao rolled his eyes without restraint and casually said,
"Alright, alright, stop guessing wildly. I'm really just hitching a ride. By the way, where are you going?"
He did not even know the destination, yet he had the nerve to call it hitching a ride?
That really was standard talk from a powerhouse...
Though the two cursed Zhao Xiao inwardly, neither dared reveal the slightest hint of it.
Who knew what kind of temperament this inexplicable powerhouse had? What if he had a bad temper and exploded at the slightest provocation? Wouldn't they die for nothing?
"Reporting to you, Young Brother, we are preparing to head to the Star Extremity Sect. We received a mission from the Upper Realm to select outstanding female cultivators from the Heavenly Domain and send them to the Upper Realm."
Zhao Xiao froze for a moment, then instantly revealed an understanding expression.
"So that's how it is. If you'd said that earlier, then we'd count as our own people."
What the hell did he mean, their own people?
Zhao Ming and Sun Qing cursed inwardly, but they did not dare say it aloud, afraid that this so-called ally would wipe them out in a fit of rage.
"It doesn't matter if you don't understand. You only need to know that I'm on the same side as you. Oh, arrange accommodations for the female cultivator behind me, and prepare some suitable clothes, as well as medicinal herbs needed for the Blood Transporting Realm and Fierce Beast True Blood. She's too weak. She must become a little stronger before going to the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, or she could easily die in the passage."
As Zhao Xiao's words fell, Sun Qing and Zhao Ming both froze.
They truly had not expected Zhao Xiao to say such a thing.
Could they really be on the same side?
And what did he mean by easily dying in the passage? Could people die while traveling from the Eight Regions to the Upper Realm?
Seeing that Sun Qing and Zhao Ming had not reacted after a long while, Zhao Xiao looked at them strangely.
"What are you waiting for? Hurry up and make the arrangements."
"Yes, yes, yes. We'll arrange it right away."
After hesitating for a moment, Zhao Ming felt it was still necessary to ask.
"Young Brother, you just said that one must become stronger before heading to the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, otherwise they would die in the passage. What did you mean by that?"
Zhao Xiao waved his hand indifferently and answered casually.
"It means nothing. If you want to enter the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands from the Eight Regions, not just any Tom, Dick, or Harry can get in. You need a certain level of cultivation. If I remember correctly, under normal circumstances, one needs the strength of the Divine Fire Realm to enter the Three Thousand Dao Provinces. But since you received orders from over there to gather female cultivators, they naturally won't have you train them to the Divine Fire Realm before letting them enter the Upper Realm. So they will definitely find a way to open up a passage between the two realms."
"Though that's true, I'd guess that even if the Divine Fire Realm isn't necessary, the Spirit Transformation Realm surely is. After all, the Two Realms Passage isn't somewhere just any Tom, Dick, or Harry can go. The pressure inside is immense. One careless mistake, and you'll be crushed until your body explodes by the pressure in the passage."
As Zhao Xiao's words fell, Sun Qing and Zhao Ming both revealed thoughtful expressions.
Indeed, according to legend, one needed at least the cultivation of the Divine Fire Realm, having ignited divine fire, to travel to the Three Thousand Dao Provinces in the Upper Realm. Without sufficient cultivation, one did not even qualify.
Although they were gathering female cultivators for the Upper Realm powerhouses, presumably they would not need to train those women to the Divine Fire Realm. Otherwise, if they wanted to train the women to the Divine Fire Realm and have them travel there on their own, even if the Star Extremity Sect emptied its coffers, it could not cultivate more than a few of them!
Everyone on Douluo Continent was dumbfounded. They had never imagined that Zhao Xiao would reveal such important information!
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