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This was no longer a fishing rod... It was a fishing rod Xue Jing had used to beat people with.
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Moreover, Xue Jing had used it in a public competition! There was video evidence to prove it!

The commemorative value and historical significance it held were thousands of times greater than that of the fishing rod itself.

If one day Xue Jing was gone, this thing would be his Holy Relic!

"This little fishing rod, what merit or ability does it have!"

Ning Yuantai was seriously considering how to preserve the fishing rod, wondering if he should make a bank-grade safe for it...

"Yuantai, you should head back to Zhige Base first,"

Xue Jing wasn't clear on what Ning Yuantai was thinking but suddenly spoke out.

"Huh?"

Ning Yuantai was startled and asked in confusion, "Don't you need me to drive you back?"

Xue Jing shook his head and said, "Just in case... the coming time might be dangerous, and I might not be able to look after you."

Upon hearing this, Ning Yuantai immediately became solemn.

He understood that Xue Jing was referring to Lu Shenliu.

The world's most dangerous White Emperor Sword, the sharpest among men, just one step away from earning the title of Eternal Overlord, the current peak Martial Artist.

If Lu Shenliu's target was Xue Jing, then now that Zhou Yinglin's plan to kill Xue Jing in the ring had completely failed, it was the most likely time.

"...I understand. I'll head back right now," Ning Yuantai said with a grave look and nodded.

He knew very well that his staying would only add to the chaos, and in the eyes of someone like Lu Shenliu, he was no more significant than an ant.

Xue was a Natural Gifted One, a Divine Chosen. In situations where he acted alone without concerns, he might have a chance to escape, and he could not afford to be a burden.

Ning Yuantai, holding the fishing rod, left the Super Arena heavy-hearted and headed towards the parking lot.

"Jing, do you think Lu Shenliu could reach you and make a move?"

After Ning Yuantai left, Miao Miao began licking her paws and cleaning her face while speaking in her youthful, crisp girlish voice.

She wasn't too worried, though. Despite Lu Shenliu's extremely terrifying strength, being one of the very few people who knew almost all of Xue Jing's abilities, she knew well how capable Xue Jing was at protecting himself.

Regardless, his life was not something she felt she needed to worry about.

Xue Jing glanced at her and smiled, saying, "Not really... I'm just being cautious."

Miao Miao's tail began to wag unconsciously as she snorted lightly, "You still trust your Boss Wu that much, huh..."

Xue Jing touched her cat head gently and said softly, "What unnecessary jealousy you're harboring."

While soothing the increasingly jealous Miao Miao, Xue Jing opened his panel to check it.

[...Warlord Experience Points +2267]

[...True Martial Experience Points +2129]

...

[Detecting Divine Substance, absorbing Divinity...]

[Holding Divinity: 2639...2652...2678]

The Divinity continued to rise.

Since he had obtained the Wind of All Beginnings, the growth of Divinity had never stopped.

Before the encounter, he had 2037 points of Divinity, but now the absorption was already exceeding the average value of about 500 points from other Divine Relics he had interacted with before.

'The top three-hundred Divine Relics really are different!'

Xue Jing watched his Divinity exceeding 2700 yet still rising, he thought.

This was his first encounter with a Divine Relic ranked within the top three hundred, even ranking quite high within that range, '098'.

Though it was only one-ninth of 098, its content of Divinity still surpassed that of the 'ordinary' Divine Relics ranked after three hundred.

Besides...

Xue Jing, looking at the lowest part of the Divine Skill bar, watched as the light points continuously formed and gathered, his eyes filled with excitement.

A new Divine Skill!

It had been so long... The last time he gained a Divine Skill was the previous time.

Since then until now, he had touched at least twenty more Divine Relics, yet without any.

It seemed as if the initial times when he obtained [Twin Lifes] and [Shadow Flame] from every three to five Divine Relics were false...

Xue Jing almost thought his skill bar had reached its limit.

Now it appeared not to be the skill bar limit; it was just not yet time, but when it's time, it would still happen!

"Let's go, let's get to a higher place and see, maybe we can spot something rare that we don't see on other days," Xue Jing thought for a moment, temporarily closed the panel, and said to Miao Miao.

No sooner had the words left his mouth than his figure disappeared from the spot, a few moves later, he arrived at the highest rim of the Super Arena.

He deployed Aura Blockade, minimizing his presence to an extreme, and although tens of thousands of spectators milled about densely in the plaza, none of them noticed him, who should have been very conspicuous.

Not knowing how much time had passed.

A pop-up on the panel [Divine Absorption completed] appeared.

Xue Jing only had time to see his current Divinity reaching 3266 points, one-ninth of a Divine Relic, totaling a gain of over twelve hundred Divinity Points!

Before he could see the name of the new Divine Skill displayed on the panel, his heart suddenly stirred as if sensing something, and he turned his head to look up at the sky.

"Here it comes..."

Xue Jing murmured to himself.

Suddenly, the whole heaven and earth seemed to quiet for a moment.

The noisy crowd of people, the incessant honking on the streets due to the traffic jam... all the sounds seemed to vanish at that instant.

The next moment.

An endless white blade light erupted from a central point above in the sky.

"Zi zi zi zi—!!!"

Each stroke connected heaven and earth, impossibly large, where it passed, the airflow stirred violently, clouds were slashed apart, and the blue sky seemed to be cut into pieces like a puzzle.

Faintly, along with the blade light, roared what seemed to be the sound of a fierce tiger.