Ding Huan hadn’t reached the room when he said in a low voice,
"Xinyue, don’t cultivate here, and don’t practice spells either; think more about the issues you’ve encountered during the cultivation process. Lao Liu, you do the same."
Qi Xinyue naturally listened to Ding Huan, and Lao Liu, helpless, nodded his head.
He was a cultivation-obsessed monkey; given the slightest bit of time, he would seize the opportunity to then surge towards Foundation Establishment Demonic Cultivation.
It must have been the treasured items contributed by Ding Huan that had an effect, thus his assigned room was the first one with the letter Yi.
Just as they were about to reach the room, Ding Qi quickened his pace and overtook Ding Huan.
As he passed by Ding Huan, he slipped something into Ding Huan’s hand.
Ding Huan did not look but discreetly tossed the item into the Star House.
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They quickly arrived at the room.
The room was not very large; all told, it wouldn’t exceed ten square meters, with an adjustable partition in the middle that could divide the space into either three or four areas.
Ding Huan adjusted the room into three spaces, with himself on the outermost, Lao Liu on the inside left, and Qi Xinyue on the inside right.
A faint trace of Divine Will swept over, and Ding Huan was startled.
Ever since entering the City Lord Mansion, he hadn’t released his own Divine Will.
In his opinion, including Sang Yuhe, the five strong figures should all have Divine Will present.
But from start to finish, he had not detected the slightest trace of Divine Will.
Now, the sudden sweep of Divine Will made him even more cautious.
His guess was indeed not wrong; these people all possessed Divine Will; it was just unclear whose Divine Will had just swept over.
Although Ding Huan did not understand Array Dao, the arrays he had encountered were still numerous.
Moreover, he was currently studying talismanic skills, which in some ways was close to Array Dao.
Both were derived from the changes in the world and everything in it; upon entering this room he could feel that some sort of array had been set up.
"Xiao Tu, I..."
As soon as Qi Xinyue entered the room, she wanted to speak, but Ding Huan interrupted with a smile,
"What’s there to worry about? Senior Sang and the other seniors are all aboveboard, and this time we’ve received their care.
Remember, we just need to do everything as the seniors have instructed."
"I understand," Qi Xinyue nodded.
Indeed, she understood.
Ding Huan’s words were not meant for her, but for those seniors.
Since those seniors were not here, and Ding Huan was still speaking like this, it meant that this place might be under surveillance.
Ding Huan was certain that there were no technological monitoring devices in this room, but he was also certain his actions could be monitored by someone.
Thus, it was very likely that a Monitoring Array was in place.
Ding Huan honestly went back to his compartment, sat down, and closed his eyes.
His Divine Will penetrated into the thing Ding Qi had handed to him in the Star House.
It was just a piece of paper, with only one line of text written on it:
"Do not test for talent; if I’m not wrong, the geniuses being taken away are not for anything good, and it’s very likely they are being sold to powerful beings who need to take over bodies."
Seeing these words, cold sweat seeped down Ding Huan’s back.
He had been planning to find an opportunity to tell Sang Yuhe that Qi Xinyue’s Spirit Root talent must be excellent.
Imagine if he really did so, wouldn’t that be harming Qi Xinyue?
Body snatching, Ding Huan knew it all too well; he dared not go to the Ten-thousand-year-old Ancient Cypress in Lu River City precisely for fear of being taken over.
He was indeed too kind-hearted, always unconsciously thinking the best of people.
Moreover, Sang Yuhe and the others had helped him, making him subconsciously feel that these people were not too bad.
But judging from Sang Yuhe and the others’ actions, they were likely not officials sent by the government.
With this in mind, why would anyone risk their lives to transport geniuses to Advanced Star Land? To do good deeds?
Ding Qi truly was a good person, knowing how to repay kindness.
Ding Huan simply began studying Big Calculation Skill and also predicted his own situation.
With his current predictive ability, he could at most calculate events from ten days before or after.
In ten days’ time, nothing happened; the spaceship sped on, with no one coming for them.
Only every two days, someone would deliver a not-so-ample amount of food.
Without cultivation, this was just enough to prevent them from starving.
Qi Xinyue was a girl who could withstand loneliness; as long as Ding Huan was by her side, she could endure without doing anything.
Moreover, Ding Huan had given her two books on analyzing medicinal herbs and ores for her to study when she had nothing to do.
She should also consider the issues she encountered in her cultivation.
As for the content on talismanic skills, Ding Huan did not dare to let Qi Xinyue study them.
Not because he feared it would waste Qi Xinyue’s time, but because in this place, someone was monitoring them at every moment.
Lao Liu simply hibernated all day long, it was unclear whether it was contemplating how it had once established its foundation or how it could establish its foundation.
Only Ding Huan studied Big Calculation Skill every day, improving his predictive ability day after day.
What was extremely strange to him was that, in Four-direction Star Land, each prediction yielded a clear image.
Yet here, when predicting those few powerful beings aboard the ship, the images were all blurry except for himself and Qi Xinyue.
Just as the tenth day had passed, he predicted again, and it seemed his predictive ability had increased, but the predicted results did not manifest.
This made Ding Huan increasingly perplexed.
And so, the spaceship entered a relatively quiet period.
In the blink of an eye, half a year passed, and Ding Huan’s predictive ability soared.
After studying Big Calculation Skill for over a year, the content obtained from the Jade Scroll, even the concealed and easy Dao, appeared in his eyes as simple and shallow as an infant learning to speak.
At the same time, Ding Huan also vaguely felt that when he attempted to predict the outcomes of those with strong abilities, the results were always unclear.
It wasn’t that his prediction abilities were inadequate, it was very likely that his level of cultivation was insufficient.
That day, as was his usual practice, Ding Huan continued to deduce what might happen in the coming days.
If it didn’t involve those powerful individuals, he could easily predict events within a month, and if he put in more effort, he could even predict further ahead.
But as soon as those powerful ones were involved, the results of his predictions became instantly vague.
Ding Huan was primarily focused on those few powerful people, and even though the predictions were blurry, he persisted.
At first, everything seemed ordinary. But when Ding Huan predicted the events of the third day from the current date, he nearly cried out in shock.
He saw Ding Qi being killed, the vision extremely blurry, to the point that it was indistinct.
If not for seeing Ding Qi’s head being chopped off, he wouldn’t dare confirm Ding Qi had been murdered.
It was an extremely vague figure who wielded the blade that severed Ding Qi’s head.
Ding Huan started to panic—if Ding Qi was killed, he would certainly be killed too. Was this the work of the Black Ship?
But why would the Black Ship wait half a year before killing Ding Qi?
During his earlier predictions, Ding Huan seemed to see Ding Qi pulling something out. He was only calculating the general safety of the spaceship and not involving individuals.
If he had to predict the actions of every person, it would waste much more energy and time.
Besides, he couldn’t clearly predict the actions of powerful individuals.
But now, he had to figure out why Ding Qi would be killed, as it was a matter of his own life and death.
This time, Ding Huan specifically chose to predict Ding Qi, and as the Big Calculation Skill operated, he once again saw Ding Qi during the prediction process.
On the third day, Ding Qi suddenly pulled out an old-fashioned book from his bosom.
This time, Ding Huan saw clearly that the book’s cover had four ancient characters: Heaven and Earth Treasure.
Ding Huan’s scalp tingled—could the Heaven and Earth Treasure really exist?
Many people believed the Heaven and Earth Treasure was one of the three books of Heaven, Earth, and Man, pertaining to the Earth Book. Ding Huan thought that even if the Heaven and Earth Treasure wasn’t the Earth Book, it must be connected to it in some way.
It was very likely part of the Earth Book, while the other part was comprised of the precious Mountain Sea Scripture.
This was a treasure of Zhen Yuanzi, capable of penetrating everything.
As for predicting the past and future, that was just a minor part of its capabilities; besides that, the book contained top-level Daoist skills.
Now that the Heaven and Earth Treasure had emerged, there was a high probability that Zhen Yuanzi truly existed.
No wonder Ding Qi was killed with a single blow—such a high-level treasure emerging would naturally lead to his death.
The cultivation technique practiced by Ding Qi was probably from the Heaven and Earth Treasure, and this fellow was likely at the Foundation Establishment Realm.
How exceptional must the cultivation technique be, for someone at the Foundation Establishment Realm to battle and even gain the upper hand against someone in the Zhan Changjing Realm who had created their own techniques above Foundation Establishment?
If this fellow was indeed practicing a technique from the Heaven and Earth Treasure, then he would have the ability to do so.
Ding Qi was a rather cautious person and had not practiced any cultivation since coming aboard.
He must have encountered some problem while meditating on his cultivation technique.
Having pondered for a long time without finding a solution, he finally risked bringing out the Heaven and Earth Treasure.
However, this fellow was unaware that his room was equipped with a Monitoring Array.
Ding Huan hesitated for a moment but decided to warn Ding Qi.
If the presence of the Heaven and Earth Treasure on Ding Qi was detected, would those people come to investigate him?
The conclusion was that they would certainly investigate him, even if it meant killing him by mistake; they wouldn’t let anyone slip through.
With this in mind, Ding Huan carefully projected his Divine Will.
At the moment his Divine Will touched Ding Qi, Ding Qi was clearly startled.
"Don’t pull out anything, there’s a Monitoring Array here…" Ding Huan left behind this message before swiftly withdrawing his Divine Will.
He felt extremely uneasy in his heart.
Although his Divine Will was strong, to the point where it had even become tangible, he was not sure if such a message would be detected.
What relieved Ding Huan was that after he warned Ding Qi, everything proceeded normally, and nothing had occurred.
He immediately began to deduce future events.
After warning Ding Qi, the future would undoubtedly change.
Ding Huan’s prediction was focused on whether this change would involve him.
An hour later, Ding Huan completely relaxed.
Nothing had happened; nothing had happened to him, nor to Ding Qi.
It seemed that Ding Qi had heeded his warning.
In fact, Ding Qi was more shocked than Ding Huan.
He had been restraining himself for almost half a year, with one problem in his cultivation that seemed emergent yet remained elusive.
Thinking that nothing had happened to him during his half-year stay here, he had been tempted to take a look at the Heaven and Earth Treasure.
Indeed, he practiced the techniques from the Heaven and Earth Treasure, but he hadn’t mastered them completely. While he was somewhat better than Zhan Changjing, it was still not much of a distinction.
Thus, like Zhan Changjing, even after Foundation Establishment, he hadn’t developed his Divine Will.
Just when he was nearly unable to restrain himself any longer, Ding Huan’s reminder shocked him back to awareness.
This was someone else’s spaceship, and what was the Heaven and Earth Treasure? If he took it out and people noticed, it would mean nothing but death for him.
Realizing he had almost killed himself, cold sweat instantly covered his forehead.
Right, who had warned him just now?
There was only one person who could have warned him here, Ding Huan.
Could Ding Huan be a hidden high-level expert?
Ding Qi quickly confirmed his own thoughts. If he could hide, why couldn’t Ding Huan?
"Thanks," Ding Qi silently thanked Ding Huan in his heart.
His emotions completely settled down, and the previous impulse to take a glance at the Heaven and Earth Treasure was gone.