“Sure thing, is one enough?”

You watched as Hua Wuyan pulled out five or six dried Stainless Flowers from under her large robe.

“Uh... this...”

“I’ve always been the first to pick the Stainless Flowers every time they bloom. Over all these years, I’ve naturally saved quite a few.”

As she spoke, Hua Wuyan poured the medicinal liquid into a corner of the cave.

She said this liquid was actually used to catalyze the Stainless Flowers to sprout again.

This big shot was planning to go into mass production.

You shamelessly took two.

Now, of the five treasures needed to refine the Five Regions Sacred Pill, you had already obtained two: “Forgetful Dust Water” and “Stainless Flowers.”

It wasn’t easy to meet Hua Wuyan.

So, afterward, you shared with Hua Wuyan the intelligence you currently held and expressed your guiding principle of establishing a defensive force in the human world ahead of time and uniting all forces in the human world to fight the enemy together.

“Because this matter is hard to believe and involves foreseeing the future, I’ve only exchanged information with the Sword Lord of the Limitless Sword Sect so far.

Next, I want to meet the Shen Family Founding Ancestor and the Free and Unfettered God. Once I have their support, I’m confident.”

You were mainly confident in your «Chinese-Style Succubus» trait.

Before this simulation started, you had thought about handing this task over to the human Guardians to handle.

But now, you felt that doing it yourself might yield a higher degree of completion.

Hua Wuyan didn’t press you on why you knew about the future.

The path she cultivated, the Shaman Dao, already allowed for divination and prophecy, so to her, it wasn’t anything unusual.

“This road won’t be easy...

My lifespan is running short. In the days ahead, I’ll have to focus most of my energy on training a successor.

I’m afraid the task of establishing the human world’s defense line will have to fall more on your shoulders.

But don’t worry, child, I will help you.”

Hua Wuyan asked you to extend your hand, and with her sharp fingernail, she drew a blood talisman on your palm.

After that, you saw a layer of her body surface turn ethereal, and a part of her soul merged into this blood talisman.

“At any moment, snap your fingers and form a hand seal, and you can communicate with me through your mind.”

“Senior, will this seal harm you?”

“It’s nothing.”

First, there was the Free and Unfettered Token, which could summon people from the Free and Unfettered Holy Land.

Now, there was Hua Wuyan’s Soul Blood Seal, which could directly summon a human Guardian!

Your Networking King trait hadn’t even activated yet, and your network was already almost invincible!

But that wasn’t all.

Hua Wuyan’s large robe billowed without wind, and pieces of armor flew out from under her robe, assembling in mid-air into a majestic set of armor emitting a five-colored radiance.

On the armor were patterns resembling great mountains and rivers, as if the entire human world was imprinted upon it. The sound of majestic chimes echoed with a solemn resonance.

“This is the Great Dao Immortal Artifact, Mountain River Armor. With its current power, once worn, no one below the Martial God realm can harm you.”

A Great Dao Immortal Artifact!

You were truly shocked!

The aura of a Supreme Treasure you had been sensing from Hua Wuyan all along was actually a Great Dao Immortal Artifact!

Was she just giving it to you like this?

You felt incredibly flattered.

“Senior, we only met today, yet you trust me this much... Your junior is truly humbled...”

You knew that maybe this was partly due to the «Chinese-Style Succubus» trait taking effect, but perhaps it was also your personal charm.

Hua Wuyan laughed.

“I’m the one who should be humbled. Everything you are doing now is what a Guardian should be doing.

If my divination hadn’t told me that my successor must be female, I would have preferred to take you as my disciple today and pass on the title of Guardian to you in the future.”

You thought to yourself, old senior, taking on two disciples wouldn’t be such a bad idea either.

Hua Wuyan seemed to read your mind.

“I can see that you are destined for an even greater position, one higher than that of a human Guardian. It might be better for you not to be my disciple.”

A status higher than a Guardian?

Hua Wuyan looked up and spoke to the Mountain River Armor.

“Mountain River Armor, from today onwards, you no longer need to accompany me. Go and protect Chen Yi.”

The Mountain River Armor did not speak, but silently flew over to you, directly merging into your body, transforming into faintly visible lines that appeared and disappeared on your skin.

You probed it with your Divine Sense.

“There’s no Artifact Spirit?”

Hua Wuyan nodded.

“That’s right. There’s only a rudimentary form, barely enough to understand your general instructions.”

The Ten Thousand Souls Banner beside them laughed.

“Haha! A grand Great Dao Immortal Artifact doesn’t even have a proper Artifact Spirit? That’s a joke!”

You gave the ill-mannered Ten Thousand Souls Banner a beating.

You were curious about where the Artifact Spirit of the Mountain River Armor had gone.

Hua Wuyan said she wasn’t sure either.

She explained that about a hundred years ago, she had sensed a change in the destiny of the human world.

After some divination, she located the position of this anomaly and went to investigate.

That was when she found the Mountain River Armor, which had lost its Artifact Spirit.

Over the past century, Hua Wuyan had used secret Shaman Dao techniques to re-gestate the Artifact Spirit of the Mountain River Armor, finally managing to create a rudimentary form.

“Someone wanted to destroy the Mountain River Armor, but as the most indestructible object in the human world, the opponent couldn’t break the artifact itself, so they shattered its spirit instead.”

“A hundred years ago...”

Had the Dragon-Man tribe arrived a hundred years ago?

Probably not.

The Demon Seed, Feng Yucheng, who served as the anchor point, was only less than twenty years older than you.

Great Dao Immortal Artifacts were having problems one after another.

The reincarnated Artifact Spirit of the Nine Provinces Cauldron was hunted down, the Qiankun Mirror was left with only half, the Mountain River Armor lost its spirit, and the Heaven and Earth Sword couldn’t distinguish friend from foe...

You had initially thought it was the work of the Dragon-Man tribe, trying to destabilize the human world.

But now it seemed that it might have nothing to do with the Dragon-Men.

The person who harmed these human-world Great Dao Immortal Artifacts was likely someone else.

In some unseen place, there was another hand pulling the strings, acting in the shadows.

“Senior, do you know about the Blood Moon organization? I suspect they are related to the destruction of the Great Dao Immortal Artifacts!”

“You mean that assassin organization?”

“Exactly! Do you know much about them? For instance, the true identity of their leader? Where their main headquarters is hidden? How their underlings communicate?”

Hua Wuyan let out a self-deprecating laugh.

“If I knew, given their deeds, do you think they would still be at large?”

The Guardian was neutral.

Hua Wuyan wouldn’t wipe out an organization just because it was evil, like Demonic Cultivators or assassins.

What is good, what is evil, and where the boundary between them lies—that is for humanity to decide. The Guardian makes no judgments.

But, if someone tried to destroy a Great Dao Immortal Artifact and destabilize the entire world, the Guardian would naturally have to step in and deal with it.

You gained a new level of respect for the Blood Moon.

Even the human Guardian didn’t know their true face!

Everything that needed to be discussed with Hua Wuyan had been discussed. The time to part had come.

You still had many things to do, and Li Lingyue had to stay by Hua Wuyan’s side to begin her path as a Female Emperor.

Li Lingyue held your hand.

“Are you leaving?”