When Tang Yu arrived at the entertainment city, Lorraine, Gray Blade, and the others were guarding in front of the surveillance screen.
The surveillance camera didn't integrate runes, so the captured image wasn't very clear.
But the powerful eyesight of the Transcendent rank was like a filter, easily filtering all the interfering information, leaving only the most critical and most needed clues.
"Letting Lorraine and the others filter was really the right choice. If it's an awakening rank, if I missed important information, it'll delay the important matter."
He pondered and looked at the surveillance screen.
On the screen was a white-haired old man with wrinkles on his old face.
He walked very slowly, holding a walking stick in his hand, just like an ordinary old man.
"What's so special about him?"
"The old man talked to himself in the 'fantasy game.' Originally, it was nothing. But I was careful and found some inconsistencies in his behavior."
Lorraine said, "Later, I found out that the old man didn't play the game for long, but he spent hundreds of spirit stones to experience all kinds of games. It's not normal for an old man who looked like an ordinary person to spend hundreds of spirit stones."
Tang Yu nodded slowly.
But it didn't mean anything. There were many abnormal people in the entertainment city.
Lorraine continued, "Later, I scanned the old man in the 'spiritual space.' Sure enough, I found an anomaly. In order to get more detailed information, I even secretly used an intermediate detection crystal on him. As a result, I found …"
She clasped her hands behind her back and kept them in suspense, causing the others to glare at her angrily. Then, she said embarrassedly, "This old man is not simple. He is already … more than a thousand years old. This means that he was at least … a Second Rank Transcendent!
The detection results also showed that he suffered a very serious and irrecoverable injury. That's why he looked so old. "
The old man was walking out of the entertainment city step by step and was about to leave the surveillance range.
Tang Yu immediately ordered, "Gray Blade, follow him."
… …
The old man wandered on the seemingly bustling street with a cane in his hand.
The idea of the fantasy game was very interesting. If it was a peaceful era, he could earn a lot of spirit stones with this. But it didn't help the capital's current situation.
"Old Feng."
Someone who knew him shouted.
The old man smiled and nodded in response.
Feng was his pseudonym. He had long forgotten his real name.
In the long river of history, there was only one name for him.
The Great Sage!
He was the most knowledgeable person in the Aino Kingdom. He knew everything in the world. While most people had their eyes on the Aino Continent, he firmly believed that there was always someone better out there.
The dark creatures that descended from the sky were the best proof.
But the Great Sage was not happy.
There was a hint of bitterness in her smile.
He had already suffered heavy injuries and the fires of his life were incomparably weak. If it weren't for the capital city and the entire world being in imminent danger, he didn't even know what he could do to hold on.
"But, even if he lingers on his last breath, what can he do?"
"The high-level forces of the kingdom have either died in battle or been controlled. Now, who can save this world?"
"They are too terrifying. The Black Tide is not as simple as it seems. If the kingdom's military strength was at its peak, there might be a chance to resist. But now …"
The truth of the battle back then had long been covered up by the mastermind behind the scenes.
In the entire capital, perhaps he was the only one who knew.
It was said that the sacrificial ceremony would be held in a few days …
The Great Muse almost gave up.
No matter how knowledgeable he was, there was no way he could think of a way to counterattack when the gap between him and the enemy was so obvious and the base crystal only had a sliver of HP left.
"It seems that I can only sleep with the capital city."
He returned to the house where he lived and smiled bitterly.
Knock, knock, knock —
Suddenly, there was a knock on the door.
"Open the door, check the gas meter."
The Great Sage was confused?
He disguised his identity as a fallen aristocrat. Although he was in dire straits, he still had a sum of spirit stones. Whether it was lighting or cooking, he used spirit stones.
He didn't report the installation of a gas pipe.
Suddenly, he became alert and didn't respond.
The knocking on the door continued.
The people outside seemed to be confused.
In other words …
"Open the door, the community sends warmth."
…
"Open the door, census."
…
"Forget it, forget it. I'll do it myself."
Click.
Click.
The door opened with a soft sound.
He looked at the few people who walked into the room.
He faintly felt that his aura had been locked.
"Should I call you Old Feng or the Great Sage?"
As soon as the words came out, the old man's pupils shrank imperceptibly.
He quickly calmed down.
He didn't make any unnecessary movements.
If Zhang Xuan had been an enemy, given that his Origin Energy had been severely damaged and he had been struggling at death's door for the past few decades, there was no way he could have escaped.
If it was not the enemy …
…
"I can't believe there are such strong people in other countries."
Even if the Great Sage didn't have his strength, his eyesight was still top-notch in the kingdom.
He could tell at once that the people who entered the door were not old. Judging from the radiance of life and some details, they were not more than two hundred years old, but they were already experienced Transcendents. Before the Blacktide, they would have been the most talented people in the Aino Kingdom with unlimited potential.
Among them, the girl in black armor gave him the feeling that she was younger, but also more terrifying.
He couldn't believe it. At this age, she had reached Transcendent Rank 2?
In the history of Aino, there was no such thing.
And the young man in the lead. Apart from his handsome face, he couldn't capture the slightest aura from him. His every move seemed to be just an ordinary person, but it made his eyelids twitch.
It was like a fog.
After so many years, he had never met someone he couldn't see through.
However …
The Great Sage didn't know that his judgment was not accurate.
Becoming a senior Transcendent before the age of two hundred meant that his potential was almost not consumed, and he could reach a higher level in the future.
Unlike those senior Transcendents who only condensed three source power cores at the age of seven or eight hundred, even if they could break through to Rank 2, their potential was basically exhausted. In the future, unless there was a chance, their progress would be limited.
Gray Blade, Lorraine, Fanny, Bamboo Rat Oguri, and Nancy indeed had unlimited potential in the future. However, among these people, even the oldest Fanny, Tang Yu estimated that she was only in her thirties (although her mental age might be in her teens). He didn't ask specifically, nor did he scan her with the Eye of Insight.
And the young ones, such as Bamboo Rat Oguri, had just reached adulthood.
According to the law of the Great Xia Kingdom, Nancy was still a minor girl.
Two hundred years old?
Wouldn't that make her an old man or an old woman?
The Great Sage was observing them.
Tang Yu was also observing him.
The Eye of Insight was activated. Countless streams of data flashed through his eyes. The results of the analysis were even more detailed than the intermediate detection crystal.
In terms of age, the Eye of Insight had an accurate result.
This was an old man who had lived for 1569 years.
A Transcendent Rank-2 existence.
He walked the path of Energy Transformation. Whether it was a broken heart or a beheaded head, it wasn't a fatal injury for him.
However …
Perhaps because of the repeated Energy Transformation to repair his body and the damage to his origin, the Great Sage had reached the point of exhaustion. The lifespan of a Transcendent Rank-2 was three thousand years. But Tang Yu could see that the old man in front of him didn't have many years left.
He claimed to be from another kingdom and stated his purpose of coming.
The Great Sage didn't doubt it.
Or rather, he regarded Tang Yu and the others as the last straw.
The worst case scenario was that he would just sleep with the capital. That's all.
He had seen through it.
He said slowly.
"The history of the Aino Kingdom starts with a tree."
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