Ice Age Apocalypse: I Hoard Billions of Supplies

The matter of the Southwest Region was temporarily settled for now.

There were still many trivial matters left for Luozhuo and the others to resolve.

Zhang Yi declined their attempts to keep him, choosing instead to leave with his companions by his side.

Their journey to the Southwest Region had been incredibly fruitful.

Zhang Yi had acquired a handy weapon, the Sword in the Tree, as well as two Epsilon-class Essences.

Additionally, there were several portions of God Essence, which could create another potential Epsilon-class Transcendent for him.

His heart gained a bit more security.

However, the sense of crisis lingered on. Because his strength was still not enough!

At the very least, when facing those mysterious underground civilizations, he was far from able to contend with them.

Even Prince Anrit, who had just stepped into the Bishop Level, had left him almost unable to fight back.

Let alone the oppressive presence of the Underworld Gatekeeper and the enigmatic Bai Longzi.

The car drove slowly on the way back. Zhang Yi did not use Spatial Shifting to teleport everyone directly back to Tianshui City.

After experiencing a great battle, his body and mind were somewhat exhausted, so he wanted to use the scenery along the way to relax his mood.

It was rare to be out, so everyone might as well treat it as a road trip—a nice experience in itself.

As for the girl Hua, whom he had brought back from Nash Kingdom, Zhang Yi kept her by his side. Now that the entire Nash Kingdom had been destroyed, Hua was the sole survivor. Zhang Yi hoped to obtain information about Nash Kingdom from her.

Uncle Yu was tasked with driving, while Zhou Ke’er massaged his body beside him, relaxing his tense muscles and soothing his mind and body.

Meanwhile, Yang Xinxin was tirelessly devoted to deciphering ancient texts.

The complete Epic of King Gesar consisted of over ten million words. After translation, it still needed to be carefully analyzed.

This epic was a later generation’s tribute to the hero King Gesar, containing mythical stories and the life of King Gesar.

However, as a family of historians, the Pagyi family’s records were closer to the truth and included some lesser-known secrets.

What Zhang Yi was most interested in was the nature of the Tantric Sect’s reincarnation cycle and the origin of the underground mysterious civilizations.

But after the Demon Kingdom journey, he was somewhat disappointed.

In fact, what the Tantric Sect called ”Demon Kingdom people” were all humans transformed by the power of the Three-Eyed Tribe. It was likely that even the Demon Kingdom’s inhabitants had little contact with the Three-Eyed Tribe.

Such information needed to be organized and analyzed from the materials obtained from the Demon Kingdom.

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Not long after, Zhang Yi and the others returned to Tianshui City.

Although only a month had passed since they left, it felt incredibly long to Zhang Yi and his group. It was because the events during this time were so complicated that it felt almost surreal.

The moment they returned home, Frog hopped out excitedly to greet them.

”Ribbit! Wow, my good friends, you’re finally back!”

”During the time you were gone, I was almost bored enough to go back into hibernation!”

Frog jumped over and gave Zhang Yi a bear hug. Zhang Yi patted him on the back and asked with a smile, ”How are the ground centipedes doing?”

Frog puffed out his chest proudly. ”Don’t worry! Raising bugs is my specialty! They’ve all grown nice and plump now! If any of them misbehave, I just pop ’em in my mouth and eat ’em. Only the obedient and well-bred ones are left!”

Later, Zhang Yi went to check on those ground centipedes. He almost didn’t recognize the things.

The originally slender, bamboo-jointed ground centipedes had been practically raised into silkworm babies by Frog. Each one was so fat they could only wriggle around the farm. Good grief, they had all become wrigglers!

Zhang Yi rubbed his forehead.

”Well, that’s fine! As long as they can provide Essence materials, they don’t really need to be strong fighters.”

After everyone returned, Zhou Haimei and Yang Siya immediately cooked a lavish feast, and the group celebrated heartily.

Meanwhile, Fatty Xu proudly pulled out the notebook given to him by the dying Three-Eyed Tribe scholar.

It was called a notebook, but it was taller than Fatty Xu himself.

”Boss, this is something given to me by a knowledgeable elder of the Three-Eyed Tribe. I think it might contain important documents about them. Take it and study it well!”

Zhang Yi took a look and said, ”Let me have a good look!”

He laid the heavy book flat on the ground, estimating it weighed at least several hundred jin. If he hadn’t trained daily, he wouldn’t have been able to move it at all.

Zhang Yi was curious about what material it was made of.

When he opened it, however, all he found were characters he couldn’t understand at all.

”No way around it. I’ll have to leave this for slow deciphering!”

Zhang Yi shook his head.

He glanced at Hua, who was still a bit timid. She blinked and mumbled, ”It seems... I can understand some of it, but not quite.”

As a human from Nash Kingdom, basically a pet or food source, her literacy was extremely lacking.

But Lu Keran walked over, carefully examined the material of the stone slab, and then said seriously to Zhang Yi, ”Brother Zhang Yi, the material of this stone slab is extremely ancient. It must have a very long history!”

Zhang Yi raised an eyebrow curiously. ”Oh? Is that so?”

Fatty Xu couldn’t help but chime in, ”Well, stones always have a long history, right? They’re all billions of years old, aren’t they?”

Lu Keran was amused by Fatty Xu’s comment.

”That’s not how it works!”

She explained to everyone, ”Even stones have old and new distinctions. Impurities that have settled underground long enough can also form new stones.”

She pointed to the mysterious stone slab. ”This stone slab—I can tell at a glance that it has experienced at least millions of years!”

After all, as a top-tier Transcendent in materials research, her words couldn’t be wrong.

Zhang Yi rubbed his chin and said to Yang Xinxin, ”Xinxin, you’re going to be busy for a while. All the materials we brought back from the Southwest Region—you need to decipher them.”

There were three main research materials.

First, the original Epic of King Gesar—the simplest, as it could be translated by machine and then analyzed.

Second, the historical materials from the Demon Kingdom—a bit more troublesome, but not particularly time-consuming. After all, the Demon Kingdom had also evolved from the people of the Snowy Highland. These historical records were at most a few thousand years old, and the script was ancient Tantric Sanskrit.

Third was the most difficult: the notebook Fatty Xu had obtained from the scholar, as well as the mysterious ancient stone slab.

Yang Xinxin’s eyes sparkled with excitement—the joy of peering into the secrets of ancient times.

”Don’t worry, big brother. Leave it all to me!”