I Can Reap Qi Fortune from Players-Chapter 468 - 259: Ancient Trap

These days, Ning Zheng has been in the mountain estate, catching up on knowledge.

Now that his status as a Xirong Divine Craftsman is quite high, many of the Xinyi Family’s materials are open to him.

Of course he knows what the [Outer Heaven Meteorite] is all about.

There’s often a legend among the people: whenever there’s chaos, a calamity star will descend!

But the true nature of the calamity star is actually the nursery battle overhead, which pierced that huge flat sky island, creating various holes, and numerous fragments fell like meteor showers.

This is the principle behind the calamity star.

At the backside of this nursery, the tombs are filled with ancient corpses, their tombstone rocks are treasures refined by their aura.

The fall of the Outer Heaven Meteorite is a top-notch forging material.

Moreover, within the meteorite, there are all kinds of treasures mixed in, tables, chairs, boards, benches—any good things leaking from the fingertips of those big shots are enough to change the fate of those low-level cultivators.

The last calamity star dates back to tens of thousands of years ago, during the Nine-State Saint’s attack on the Capital City, when the nursery was blasted open, breaking some fine meteorite pieces.

At that time many people collected and prospered.

"I didn’t expect a piece to fall near our mountain estate."

Ning Zheng sighed with emotion.

The battles between the big shots are truly mighty.

He wanted to run a bit further away, but unexpectedly even though he ran far, he was still affected by the war, with some stones splattering down.

Rumble!

The entire mountain swiftly moved with the giants.

Traversing mountains, crossing ranges, Ning Zheng felt a scorching sensation in just a few minutes, and a distant area of the mountain ranges appeared bare.

Trees on the mountains burned to ashes, the mountain ranges turned black, the closer to the center, the more it felt like entering a Flame Mountain.

The small blacksmiths in the estate were also sweating all over.

"So hot, without a protective shield, we’d become grilled Qilin Children directly." Qilin Child suddenly sweated, "Aren’t Qilins supposed to be heat-resistant? We mixed breeds, not quite up to it."

"I’m really going to become a heated weapon." A weapon with thin arms and legs complained.

"The background map of this estate changed, can even trigger unexpected meteorite events."

"You don’t understand, it’s normal for the navigation highway mode to encounter opportunities, trigger events, bump into NPCs."

"Wow, fun, wonder what instance this is?"

...

The giants kept approaching.

The closer they got, the stronger this burning sensation became.

Temperature rose rapidly, arriving at the center, they saw a huge meteorite crater, bubbling with lava heat, an intense heat wave kept assaulting them.

Ning Zheng looked at his Qi Fortune Value.

Continually rising, continually falling.

[Today’s Qi Fortune Value: 21,300]

[Today’s Qi Fortune Value: 2,000]

[Today’s Qi Fortune Value: 11,300]

This situation belongs to the coexistence of blessings and curses.

This left Ning Zheng somewhat silent.

"If it drops close to zero, does it mean I might die??"

Ning Zheng was stunned.

Inside there, how could something kill me?

Even if the meteorite pieces aren’t treasures and just cemetery building materials, they should be top-tier forging materials... how would there be danger?

I have an Embers Avatar from the One Heart Realm to guard me!

He felt the danger might be twofold.

1. There is some creature, living person, or Demon Artifact inside the meteorite, bringing danger!

2. Though 99% of the wilderness is uninhabited, perhaps some hidden force or city in the nearby deep mountains saw the meteorite fall and came over; we might clash with them.

But having the presence of One Heart Realm, even if there’s an Upper Grade force’s city nearby, the basic setup at this level is a Two-Phase Realm sect leader, an ancient One Heart Realm tomb ancestor.

I wouldn’t back down.

Could it be a stroke of bad luck, with an old Celestial Level force from the Xinyi Continent nearby?

"Whew!"

Ning Zheng sighed: "The probability of encountering Celestial Grade forces is very low, maybe it’s the problem with the rock? Can it kill me even if I have One Heart Realm combat power?"

He rethought the logic, trying to speculate in more sinister ways.

Ning Zheng took a deep breath: "There won’t be living people inside the meteorite; how can a group of ancient ghostly figures have living people inside... if there is something threatening me inside, could it be some sort of Gu poison?"

"Pretending to have a great battle with Xin Xichen, actually blasting an innocent tomb, using the tomb owner’s belongings as bait, secretly poisoning the furniture, pots, and pans, and throwing it to the Nine-State fishes...??"

"Even if I come here joyfully to collect opportunities, with an One Heart Realm avatar bodyguard, I can still fall prey. What about others encountering meteorites?"

He felt a chill down his spine.

This toxic Saint is truly despicable!

Not willing to provide his own bait.

They smashed up people’s homes, used their treasures to poison, and threw them down to the Nine-State below.

So stingy!

The owner of that tomb must be cursing!

"But there’s something wrong with this thing, how could it appear before me with my luck?"

Ning Zheng reasoned in reverse, "In other words, if this thing comes before me, it’s actually my opportunity... but it kills on contact, how could it be an opportunity?"

Suddenly he thought of something.

Is it possible that this opportunity isn’t the treasure...

But rather the information it contains, which is a massive resource!

His eyes immediately brightened, and he quickly connected to Xinyi Yun’s communication token.

"What’s wrong?" Xinyi Yun immediately answered.

"Have you heard about the meteorite from the heavens?" Ning Zheng asked.

"Of course, our rescue team’s Dharma Aspect has already arrived at the Rose Continent."

Xinyi Yun said, "We’ve already raised the Ark to rescue refugees everywhere, and we’ve just encountered a meteorite, preparing to observe it."

Ning Zheng showed a ’just as expected’ expression: "It’s a trap, be careful! In addition, notify the Nine Great Continent Kings of the entire Nine-State to communicate that people should not approach this thing lightly."

"What?" Xinyi Yun froze, he instantly guessed the greatest possibility, "Could it be someone took this chance to poison the meteorite? Or parasites, gu insects?"

He also immediately detected the horror within.

An Outer Heaven Meteorite, according to inertia thinking, there will always be people retrieving it, if there really is a problem.

Moreover, the big fight between the Saint and Xin Xichen, going to great lengths to make this initial move, was it really just to poison some unfortunate souls picking up meteorites?

No!

It couldn’t be that simple.

He could almost conclude that there was some contagious nature on the meteorite.

The people who retrieved it would become the first batch of carriers.

"Suspected highly infectious pathogen..." The more Xinyi Yun thought about it, the more frightened he felt.

The ancient Emperor’s Mausoleums, each being a forbidden existence, overpowering the world in their era, what heaven-defying divine techniques or chaotic trump cards they have, are not uncommon!

"I must immediately alert the other forces."

Xinyi Yun immediately said, "If this is true, then it’s a great help, the people of the whole Nine-State will thank you."

Ning Zheng said, "In the end, the displaced refugees have not gathered together, if they did gather, in the few human core fortresses, warding off everything from the outside, these wild traps would not be so easily triggered."

"Yes."

Xinyi Yun said in a deep voice, "We need to speed up."

"We will also host Ximen to accelerate the construction of the Ark." Ning Zheng said.

Defense Towers and Yin Yang Corpse-Slaying Sword series will be completely halted, concentrating on producing the Ark is most important.

Once there are enough Arks, then producing Defense Towers to reinforce the Ark’s defenses.

"Whew."

Ning Zheng hung up the message and sighed:

"Spending more than ten thousand Qi Fortune every day isn’t in vain, it’s worth it! Deliberately falling before me is indeed an opportunity, not just my luck but also the luck of the entire Nine-State people."

Although speculated to be poison.

But Ning Zheng felt it wouldn’t be that simple.

Those ancient Saints, aiming to regain control of the world, how could they poison their own people?

But still, poison was used.

Who knows what special properties this poison has.

He waved a hand to summon Yan Shuangying, "Send out a squad willing to sacrifice themselves to investigate the situation."

"Alright!"

Yan Shuangying immediately accepted the order.

The little blacksmiths nearby, watching the old steward’s wave of dialogue and CG plot performance, were eager to try, extremely excited.

"Wow, I heard the plot-triggering dialogue, so cool."

"We discovered the trap, who knows how many people we saved!"

"As expected of the Xirong Divine Craftsman, the Savior of the Human Realm in the world!" Someone put their hands on their hips, feeling proud.

"Master, we are willing to go detoxify and use our lives to remove the mines for the Nine-State people!"

"We are willing to obtain the first-hand information!" 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝙬𝙚𝓫𝒏𝓸𝓿𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝙤𝓶

"Yes, even if the world has been notified to take precautions, some might have already fallen for it, we must obtain detailed intelligence!"

"Please let our daring squad take action!"

...

They were all passionate.

Saving the Nine-State starts with us.

Countless people looked at the distant sea of lava, filled with emotion.

This unexpected meteorite instance is a bit too cool, it has a sense of mission, and the plot is tense and thrilling.