Ultimate Scheming System

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio  Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

Liu Jingning’s statement startled Xu Que and his companions, and their eyes widened in surprise.

“Little demoness, you know something terrible again. Why do you know everything?” Xu Que asked.

Liu Jingning had previously learned all about Guan Chuchu and Xuanyuan Qishang thanks to a secret scroll kept by the Utmost Happiness Faction. Moreover, Guan Chuchu had been a saint of the Utmost Happiness Faction and she was related to Liu Jingning. This was why it was normal for her to know about them.

But now, she unexpectedly knew about whoever was stranded underground. This was too amazing. She seemed too knowledgeable.

“That’s right, that’s right. I have traveled extensively during the last few years. So why are you more knowledgeable than I am? It’s illogical,” Duan Jiude also questioned her.

Liu Jingning smiled and answered, “You should read more books.”

“It isn’t possible for me to read books. I can only undertake shady affairs…,” Duan Jiude started to speak.

However, when Duan Jiude had gotten halfway through his speech, Xu Que put his hand on Duan Jiude’s forehead and pushed him away.

“F*ck! Lad, what are you trying to do?” Duan Jiude yelled angrily.

“You still have the nerve to question me? Do you know today’s date?” Xu Que glared at him and spoke, “Today is the yearly college entrance exam day, yet you are here dissuading people from reading books. What do you mean by this?”

“F*ck! What college entrance exam? I never heard of it,” Duan Jiude shouted.

“Hee, hee. You don’t even know about the college entrance exam. It’s no wonder that you are so uncouth,” Xu Que spoke insultingly and shook his head. “Just look at me and the little demoness. We have pretty faces and a classy style. It’s all thanks to reading books frequently, while you…”

“I…” Duan Jiude opened his mouth to answer back, but then he lowered his head to observe his sloppy clothes and recalled his wretched appearance, and he was left at a loss for words.

“F*ck! I have no defense. It’s so infuriating!”

Duan Jiude was so incensed that he gnashed his teeth. Then he spoke anxiously, “Why are we talking about this? Why don’t we take care of proper business? Whoever is stranded underground?”

“Oh, that’s right, we got engrossed in talking about the college entrance exam, and we have almost forgotten about this matter. Little demoness, who is stranded underground?” After Xu Que came back to his senses, he looked at Liu Jingning and questioned her.

Liu Jingning shook her head and said, “As a matter of fact, it isn’t a human that is stranded underground, but a great demon.”

“A great demon…??” Xu Que was startled. He had not expected this.

“That’s right, he was mentioned in the Utmost Happiness Faction’s ancient records. Many other factions know about those records also.”

Liu Jingning continued, “A great demon appeared near the end of the Gods’ era, and it turned into a snake that devoured several heavily injured Gods. This incident gave rise to a commotion, and the great war was stopped briefly due to it. It was probably because the Gods found this incident disgraceful, yet it may also have been for different reasons. But in any case, they later joined hands and killed the snake.”

“F*ck! So why does this mean that the snake isn’t dead yet,” Xu Que asked, confused.

He had previously heard the plan thought up by Yi Fang to harm him, and he knew that Yi Fang had hoped that Xu Que would perish along with that terrifying being or that both of them would sustain heavy injuries. This was the reason why Xu Que had assumed that the person stranded underground was a person at the Celestial King or Celestial Prime Stage.

He didn’t imagine that it was a great demonic snake that had once devoured Gods.

“How could he fight it?”

“The Gods’ era had already ended, and this was why it was difficult to discern the meaning of their records. After the great snake was killed, a God extinguished its Spiritual Consciousness, stole its body, and tried to use it to craft artifacts. But the snake’s body was able to put up a tenacious resistance, and soon the Gods’ War erupted. This was why the God had to hide the great snake’s corpse.”

After Liu Jingning spoke, she pointed at the cave with her finger. “A certain statement in the Utmost Happiness Faction’s records implied that after a God buried the snake’s corpse underground, he planted the Chiliad Gold Resurrection Vines to mark the region so that it would be easy for him to find it later. Moreover, he had even recorded it so that his descendants could find it.

“But it was a pity that after the end of the Gods’ war, all the Gods died. No one survived, and the world’s rules changed greatly. Many natural phenomenons that moved mountains and turned seas into land occurred. This was why when the Gods’ descendants looked for the great snake according to their records, they couldn’t manage to find it because the terrain had changed greatly.”

“Why are you sure that it was that God who planted the Chiliad Gold Resurrection Vines?” Duan Jiude looked with confusion at Liu Jingning and asked a question.

“They shouldn’t assume that the great snake was buried here just because the Chiliad Gold Resurrection Vines existed here.

“What if it was just a coincidence?”

“A map was in the records, and it pointed out the approximate location. It just happens that the land shown in it is in the Tianxiang Celestial Realm. Our Utmost Happiness Faction’s records are intact and quite detailed because they were preserved well. A certain ancestor had once studied the records, and he spent a lot of effort on them. This was why he managed to pinpoint the snake corpse’s burial ground, and he deduced that it was in this Mystery Land,” Liu Jingning replied.

Liu Jingning turned her head and looked with a smile at Xu Que. She spoke further, “However, this is obviously our Utmost Happiness Faction’s secret, and other people wouldn’t associate the Divine Farmer Clan’s Chiliad Gold Resurrection Vines with the great snake that existed in the past.”

“This is why we mustn’t excavate here. We will really suffer a loss. The Chiliad Gold Resurrection Vines main root is so big, and, if I don’t take it with me, I won’t feet at ease,” Xu Que smiled bitterly and spoke.

“Lad, your understanding is lacking. Didn’t I say previously that the Chiliad Gold Resurrection Vines was just a marker. It isn’t used to imprison the great snake,” Liu Jingning shook her head and spoke.

“But you have also said that that’s just one of the many interpretations, which means that there are other interpretations. I really don’t believe that the Chiliad Gold Resurrection Vines were only used as a symbol. It’s quite worrying!”

Xu Que spread out his arms and looked again at the cave mouth. He said earnestly, “But no matter which interpretation is true, we are still certain of something, and it’s that the great snake is buried underground. We now have an issue at hand, and it is whether we should excavate or not.”

“Kiddo, let’s dug it out,” Buttface spoke promptly.

“It’s out of the question. Faction Leader, we must deal with this issue carefully,” Mo Junchen opposed this matter right away.

He didn’t believe that they should take risks for it. After all, they just needed a few Chiliad Gold Resurrection Vines, and they could take enough of it from the main root. This was why they didn’t have to touch the main root.

If they released the great snake by mistake, then they wouldn’t be the only people who would die, as the whole Heaven Continent would be doomed.

After all, that was a great snake that had devoured even Gods.

Xu Que stroked his chin and wore a pensive look.

After several seconds, it seemed as if he had recalled something, and his eyes lit up suddenly. “Well, hold on! It seems like I have a way to take care of this.”

Xu Que stared at the cave mouth and strode forward with a smile. “I have a daring idea. Hee, hee, hee.”