Now they both work as teachers at the academy. Although it's not as Hu Jianxing's expedition, this kind of life is safer, allowing Meng Jie to take care of his sister with more peace of mind.
It is precisely because wizards live for a thousand years that they are allowed to have their own lives and choices!
Being a teacher in the academy is one of the safest professions in a wizard's life. The most risky thing about becoming a teacher is coming to this resource development zone and working with Body Refinement Wizard and the army of Gulu Beast to eliminate the dangers that exist.
Meng Jie didn't know what an expedition was like, but when he talked about it with Hu Jianxing and the others, they all said it was terrifying.
Meng Jie, who was not actually involved, could not understand this, and in his view, the current cleanup task was also quite dangerous.
Poisonous insects that may exist everywhere, shadowy killers lurking in the corners, and even vengeful spirits that have not dissipated even after hundreds of years, could all pose a threat to him and his sister.
More than once, Official Wizard have fallen before him, all killed by various bizarre means. As for the dead Gulu Beast, even more have perished. They died fighting other wild beasts, having their bodies torn apart by suddenly appearing spatial rifts, and protecting apprentices. It is said that more than a thousand Gulu Beast Gulu Beast have died.
Just like now, his sister has discovered something calling him over.
Meng Jie quickly led the level 11 Gulu Beast over, fearing that his sister might encounter some danger.
He completely forgot that his sister was also Level One Formal Wizard, and her strength was even slightly higher than his.
Meng Jie rushed to Meng Mengmeng's side and saw a patch of emerald green, fist-sized flowers in the direction his sister was pointing. Above these flowers, some ethereal, multi-winged butterflies were constantly fluttering.
Meng Jie exclaimed, "It's the Necromantic Blue Butterfly and the Necromantic Blue Flower!"
"That's right, this is the first time we've discovered such a large area," Meng Mengmeng said excitedly.
Meng Jie looked at the patch of Necromantic Blue Flower and Necromantic Blue Butterfly and nodded in shock. Necromantic Blue Butterfly and Necromantic Blue Flower are symbiotic organisms, and neither can survive without the other. Once they are found, they will always be in pairs.
They live only in places where many lives die, absorbing fragments of souls to grow.
Previously, they had only found a hundred or so pairs at most, but this time they found more than three thousand pairs.
Furthermore, because so much time has passed since the war, these two creatures have not been seen for decades, so it's unexpected that so many have been discovered today.
"Contact the college quickly and send other teachers over," Meng Jie said to Meng Mengmeng.
The mining methods for Necromantic Blue Butterfly and Death Blue Flower are extremely strict, requiring only Elemental Wizard of level one or higher to possess sufficient skill.
Neither Wizard Apprentice nor Body Refinement Wizard are capable; they lack the subtle control over elemental energy and can easily damage either type of creature. A moment's carelessness can cause the Necromantic Blue Flower to wither.
At the current Leo Wizard Academy, Official Wizard are still the most scarce combat force. Normally, only a small number of them are here to develop resources. When a large number of people are needed, the academy needs to be contacted for emergency allocation.
While Meng Mengmeng was contacting the academy, Meng Jie was also contacting the Body Refinement Wizard and the army of Gulu Beast in the surrounding area.
These two creatures are extremely valuable; each Necromantic Blue Flower is worth as much as one hundred energy crystals, and the ones in front of us are worth more than three hundred thousand energy crystals.
Faced with such immense wealth, Meng Jie had to summon a large number of Official Wizard and an army of Gulu Beast to eliminate all potential dangers.
In less than half an hour, dozens of Body Refinement Wizard and tens of thousands of Gulu Beast arrived.
A genocidal cleanup was launched around this Death Blue Flower, clearing the surrounding ten kilometers completely. Genocide means leaving no living thing untouched, killing even the smallest creature.
After all, this area is not only home to them, but also to a large number of ferocious beasts, as well as some wandering and nomadic wizards.
Faced with such a vast amount of wealth, it's impossible to tell whether these people would harbor murderous intent!
A day later, the teachers from the academy arrived and began the complex mining work.
Necromantic Blue Butterfly and Necromantic Blue Flower are semi-phantom creatures; they will instantly perish if a physical entity touches them.
Therefore, the mining work is very complicated. It cannot be touched or cause large fluctuations. It can only be dug out along with the strata several meters underground to ensure their activity.
"With this patch of Necromantic Blue Butterfly and Necromantic Blue Flower, we've met this year's target," Meng Mengmeng said with a smile, standing to the side and watching the mining progress.
"Haha, yes, we should thank you. Otherwise, we wouldn't know how to explain it to the academy." You Kaqi stood next to Meng Mengmeng, looking at the half-mined Necromantic Blue Flower with a relaxed expression.
Other wizards were basically in the same boat, and one can only imagine how worried they were in private when faced with the demands of their own academies.
In a way, the two colleges are quite similar—they're both very poor!
Even the Leo Wizard Academy is poorer; it's said that they haven't finished paying off the loan they took out at Green Cottage.
The only source of income for the entire academy is this secretly developed resource territory.
With this batch of resources, they have essentially completed the year's workload assigned by the college, which will not only ease the financial burden on the impoverished college, but also allow them to relax a bit in their subsequent work.
As all the wizards chatted and laughed, preparing for their rare rest, no one noticed that a very thin black spatial rift had appeared above them, like a hunting maw that had closed but was about to open.
" Leo, something terrible has happened! A spatial rift suddenly appeared and swallowed dozens of our wizards, not only our wizards, but also wizards from the Undying Body Academy."
On the floating island, Leo lay quietly on a deckchair. No one knew how long he had been lying there; they could only guess that he had maintained this posture for at least several decades by looking at the thickness of the dust on his body.
Yaoyao suddenly appeared on Leo's shoulder, kicking up a cloud of dust, but now was not the time to worry about the dust. She shouted anxiously into Leo's ear.
Leo slowly opened his eyes. He had been deeply immersed in his own world for a long time, which had completely cut off his perception of the outside world. Yaoyao did not wake him up by sound, but by a soul vibration.
"What did you say?"
Leo was still lost in his own world and didn't hear what Yaoyao had just shouted.
"I told you that a spatial rift has swallowed our wizards and teachers from the Undying Body Academy. It's an emergency; we need you to rescue those teachers."
Yaoyao quickly recounted what had happened. It was originally a good thing—the discovery of a large area of Necromantic Blue Butterfly and Necromantic Blue Flower —but while they were mining, a huge spatial rift suddenly appeared, swallowing up an area of several kilometers before the wizards could react.
Not only did their academy lose two hundred Official Wizard, Undying Body Academy also lost one hundred, in addition to the wizards and twenty thousand Gulu Beast.
The Gulu Beast aren't important; they can afford to lose them. But the wizards are a different story. Two hundred Official Wizard represent a third of their academy's resources. It takes a hundred years to train so many; it's a devastating loss, comparable to crippling damage.
And those Body Refinement Wizard, with so many losses, how can they explain it to the Undying Body Academy?
"What kind of spatial rift is it? Where does the other side lead? The world or the void?" While Yaoyao was talking, Leo had already gone through his memories and reconnected with the memories before his seclusion.
After building twenty nuclear fusion reactors, he completely cut off all contact with the outside world.
The first twenty years are a period of tempering mental strength, and the next hundred years are a period of mental strength stimulating the Bloodline.
Yes, 120 years have passed since Leo returned from the New Earth, and a full 100 years have passed since he stimulated his Bloodline with his spiritual power!!
"I forgot to check, but the spatial rift is still there. You can go see it now." Yaoyao grabbed Leo's arm and started to leave.
"I've already anchored the shadow there; we can get there in an instant."
Leo closed his eyes and indeed sensed two points of light, one beneath him and the other a little further away.
The point of light beneath them is the anchor point set up at the academy; the second one is the one Yaoyao mentioned.
As his mental energy touched the second point of light, Leo's figure instantly disappeared from the floating island.
Not long ago, Meng Jie and his sister discovered the location of the Necromantic Blue Butterfly and the Necromantic Blue Flower. The entire earth looked like an apple that had been bitten, with a crater several kilometers long and several meters deep.
In the center of this huge crater, there is a spatial rift that is slowly shrinking, but it is not as large as it is over ten kilometers long; at this moment, it is only about half the size of a person.
Leo stepped out of the shadows. The first thing he saw was a spatial rift that had shrunk to only half the size of his body. Through the rift, he could see that the other side was... a world!!!
The sky was standard, with clouds, and if you looked down from above, you could even see a meadow.
Just by seeing this, you can tell that the other side is a world where you can live!
Leo's heart, which had just been in seclusion and seemed not to have awakened yet, instantly became clear.
Meng Jie and his group are currently in the opposite world, trying to return through the spatial rift. However, they seem to be blocked by an invisible barrier; they can see the spatial rift but cannot pass through it.
The teachers from both academies are trying their best to attack the spatial rift, but all their attacks have been ineffective.
This spatial rift is more like a one-way rift; you can only enter but never return!
Leo tried to release his mental energy to reach the other side, but it was like throwing a stone into the sea; he couldn't enter the other world. This was normal; although they seemed to be only a few centimeters apart, they were actually two worlds that were unknown how far apart they were.
Let alone him, even Level-Six Stigmata Great Wizard would likely be unable to enter the other world with his mental power.