Ascending the Heavens as an Evil God

Chapter 307: Conjecture

The four suddenly became speechless when they heard the words "I won’t be buying it."

And after getting his guide, Gu Nan didn’t intend to go together with them and left directly with the guide.

After looking at each other for a while, Jiang Tingwei took the lead and said, "Since Gu Nan can resolve it by himself, let's return to Zi Luo Heaven."

Situ Jing and her younger brother Jiang Zheng naturally followed her lead, but Lou Wanying frowned. "But if we leave like this, aren’t we abandoning our teammate…?"

Seeing that he seemed a little uncomfortable, Jiang Tingwei advised, "With his strength, I don't think we can help him much. On the contrary, when we meet a powerful opponent, we might even become a burden for him."

Jiang Tingwei finally persuaded Lou Wanying with the most important word—strength. The four didn't stay here any longer and soon returned to Zi Luo Heaven.

There may be unforeseen events from the two leaders in Star Realm at any time. Of course they didn’t want to stay in Nirvana Heaven any longer than necessary.

Lou Wanying left on his own, while inside Jiang Tingwei's three-person team, the relatively simple-minded Situ Jing also left without much thought, leaving only the Jiang sister and brother.

"Say, could that Gu Nan possibly be…" Jiang Tingwei asked in an uncertain tone.

In front of her younger brother, Jiang Tingwei no longer had a stiff expression and instead revealed a somewhat worried expression, which she rarely did. Very few people knew that although Jiang Tingwei made the decisions in their team, the taciturn Jiang Zheng was actually their team’s real strategist.

"To treat Void Cutter Realm as nothing, yet such a powerful person doesn’t have an obvious reputation. I’m afraid there’s only that possibility left." Jiang Zheng sighed lightly. "He is a Star Ruler."

After getting the same answer from her younger brother's mouth, Jiang Tingwei finally confirmed her guess and sighed.

Just like that, a Star Ruler had wandered in front of herself and the others. If he had any evil intentions… Fortunately, it was over. She felt lingering fear just from thinking about it.

……

On the other hand, after Lou Wanying left the Seven Stars League, he entered a remote Daoist temple and asked an unkempt Daoist in front of him, "Master, where did such a strong fellow come from?"

Lou Wanying was merely a little simple-minded, but he wasn’t truly stupid. Looking back carefully afterwards, he could also understand that Gu Nan's strength was somewhat unreasonable, completely exceeding expectations.

After hearing Lou Wanying recount everything, the unkempt Daoist Lou Wanying addressed as his master also looked puzzled as he stroked his beard with some force. "Gu Nan?"

"Master, even you haven’t heard of him?"

"Your master isn’t an immortal. How can I know every person under the sun?!” The unkempt Daoist replied grumpily on the surface, but his heart sank slightly.

At his realm, he knew that mysterious experts wouldn’t appear out of thin air for no reason at all. The Myriad Heavens Universe was only so big, and even powerful people had their own roots.

An exceedingly strong powerhouse who mysteriously appeared… If he wasn’t someone famous in disguise, then there was only one possibility left.

"In short, just don't provoke him," the Daoist solemnly told his disciple.

……

In Nirvana Heaven, Gu Nan had already reached the capital of Qinggu Domain and found a house to stay in.

Distance didn’t mean much at all for cultivators above Void Cutter Realm. They could even travel between different planes at will, much less inside a plane.

Instead, it took some trouble to find the coordinates of the capital.

"My Lord, the auction will begin in three days,” a young girl said slightly nervously as she stood before Gu Nan.

Her name was Long Xuan, a girl with a pair of exquisite dragon horns and dragon blood in her veins, who was given to Gu Nan by Wu Jing as a guide.

Before this, of course Long Xuan was indoctrinated on how powerful Gu Nan was, and since she was given as a gift, there was no possibility of going back.

"In three days? Who is holding the auction? Where did they store the auction items?" Gu Nan asked one question after another.

He had no intention of participating in the fight between Zuo Zuo and Red. He just wanted to get the items he wanted and get out of here as soon as possible.

If he could determine the exact location of the life-death stone, he didn’t mind stealing it directly.

Of course it was more reliable to steal things he couldn’t afford. Anyhow, Nirvana Heaven was Zuo Zuo's territory. His fame within Zuo Zuo’s camp will probably never get to the positives in this lifetime, so it was better to make good use of this opportunity to plunder.

Long Xuan's nervousness became more severe, and she even began to stutter, "I-I heard the seller is very mysterious… They are holding simultaneous auctions in the capitals of all sixteen domains! They invested a lot of money into the auctions!"

Even Gu Nan couldn't help being slightly taken aback.

Holding simultaneous auctions in all sixteen domains was equivalent to spreading one’s influence throughout the entire Nirvana Heaven. This kind of scale really wasn’t a normal kind of big.

The seller could do such a thing, yet the public didn’t even know the seller’s identity or where they got the goods from. This seller was indeed extraordinary.

But then Gu Nan shook his head again. The identity of the seller had nothing to do with him. All he cared about was high-quality life-death stones.

"Then I’ll just wait for a while. It's only three days." No matter how much of a hurry Gu Nan was in, he hadn’t reached the point where he couldn’t even wait for three days.

……

In a remote small plane deep in the endless starry sky, Qian Han’s head was bent over a pile of documents. He wore a pair of reading glasses and carefully examined the files one by one.

With Qian Han's current strength, his eyesight naturally wasn’t damaged in the slightest. This pair of reading glasses was just a habit left behind from his early years.

It was his habit to look up important materials personally. He would slow down his reading speed by changing the font so as to ensure that he wouldn’t miss any information.

"Gu Nan… What a terrifying young man." After a long time, he slowly took off his reading glasses, closed the files and hid them, and then sighed with emotion.

After returning from the golden giants clan, Qian Han knew that it was already impossible for him to escape, so he had no choice but to help them get rid of Gu Nan.

Since an existence like Jin Wuyin was determined to hold him hostage, Jin Wuyin naturally had plenty of ways to track him down.

So Qian Han found a small plane with a faster time flow, dug up Gu Nan's past information bit by bit, and then analyzed it word by word.

Such a meticulous analysis caused Qian Han to reach a rather terrifying conclusion.

There was definitely more to Gu Nan than meets the eye. He absolutely wasn’t as simple as just having a fast cultivation speed.

If one analyzed Gu Nan’s every move starting from his first public appearance, one would find that he almost always had a clear-cut goal behind his every action. He was just like a sword that pointed directly at the enemy’s vitals.

It's just that his goals often weren’t logically connected to his improvement in strength, which made people overlook this point.

But by looking at all of Gu Nan’s experiences at once, one could see that this situation was repeated again and again. It couldn’t possibly be a coincidence!

"This conjecture is still missing a critical link. It seems that he has a way to improve his strength from these irrelevant events… What is it?" Qian Han tapped his finger lightly, but his mind couldn't help thinking of Jin Wuyin.

‘That's right! Golden giant!’

‘If I have to name one thing in the world that I can’t understand, isn’t an otherworldly clan the greatest possibility?’

‘Gu Nan may actually be the descendant of a golden giant and may have even unexpectedly awakened some strange talent specific to his clan. That’s why he can improve his strength so quickly.’

‘As for those seemingly unrelated events… In all likelihood, they’re the secret technique of the golden giants clan!’

The more Qian Han thought about it, the more plausible it seemed. He’d already combed through all of Gu Nan's background, and the only remaining question was his abnormal cultivation speed, but the golden giant’s bloodline perfectly explained this.

At this time, another piece of information was sent to him with a red “urgent” stamp at the top.

Qian Han's gaze sharpened slightly, and he casually opened the information. The document started with such a sentence: "Traces of someone suspected of being the target were found in Nirvana Heaven. Accuracy Rating: A."