Are you laughing at me for not having a mecha? But I am the king of mechas!

Chapter 168 The Relic Ring, An Ancient Legacy!
The battle in the Forbidden Zone of Ten Thousand Demons lasted for a week, ending with Liu Tianqiong and a group of acting deans emerging from the Forbidden Zone. All that was known was that a heaven-defying treasure had appeared in the Forbidden Zone, causing the monsters to go berserk.

Liu Tianqiong and his companions managed to snatch this incredible treasure at an extremely heavy cost.

The number of warriors who perished within a week was 200,000, including powerful individuals from all ranks.

More than a dozen acting deans were also seriously injured, and ten ninth-level experts in the secret realm perished, five were crippled, and the rest suffered injuries of varying degrees.

The heavy losses suffered by the strongmen stationed on the northwestern border were broadcast nationwide, plunging the entire nation into a somber mood.

After this battle, it will conservatively take ten years for the Forbidden Zone of Ten Thousand Demons to recover its previous strength!
Many newly emerging powerhouses have witnessed the true meat grinder of the battlefield, leading to a continuous stream of ambitious geniuses joining the various frontline military units.

The Forbidden Zone of Ten Thousand Demons, the military camp!
A woman with an icy demeanor hurriedly entered the camp with a group of guards. The first thing she saw was Liu Tianqiong lying in a nutrient tank. After two days of treatment, Liu Tianqiong no longer needed life fluids to nourish him.

"Father, how are you??" Liu Qingxue ran to Liu Tianqiong's side. Seeing the shocking wounds on her father's body, her eyes reddened, and hot tears welled up in her eyes.

"I'm fine, just some internal injuries." Liu Tianqiong's face was still somewhat pale, and his voice wasn't as loud as before.

"Father, what exactly happened in the Forbidden Zone of Ten Thousand Demons?" Liu Qingxue calmed herself down and asked anxiously, tightly gripping Liu Tianqiong's hand.
"Due to an earthquake, an ancient ruin was discovered within the Forbidden Zone of Ten Thousand Demons. The ruin happens to be located within our base, and it contains many treasures. The monsters inside sensed the energy emanating from these treasures and wanted to seize them."

"And so a great war broke out. The treasure was too mysterious and powerful, and it would be terrible if the monster got its hands on it. So we paid a heavy price to take away many treasures, but we could not take the ruins themselves with us."

"Perhaps in a few years, the strength of the monsters inside will increase significantly, and ninth-tier monsters may appear one after another."

Upon thinking of this, Liu Tianqiong's expression darkened, and his furrowed brows revealed a hint of worry and concern.

However, Liu Tianqiong quickly regained his composure: "The rest of you may leave."

Upon hearing this, all the medical staff and guards in the camp turned and left, leaving only Liu Tianqiong and Liu Qingxue in the camp for a moment.

"Father, what's going on??" Liu Qingxue looked at Liu Tianqiong with a face full of doubt.

Liu Tianqiong didn't speak, but with a flick of his wrist, an ancient ring appeared in her hand: "Qingxue, this ring is kept on the high platform of the ruins. I estimate that this ring should be the most precious thing in the entire ruins, and there should be an ancient inheritance inside the ring."

"Ancient heritage??"

Liu Qingxue frowned slightly upon hearing this. Isn't this the kind of thing that only appears in novels?
"That's right, it's an ancient inheritance. There are some things that you won't benefit from knowing now. Your main task now is to obtain the inheritance within this ring."

"Once you obtain the inheritance within, your potential might break through the shackles of the ninth rank." Liu Tianqiong looked at Liu Qingxue with a serious expression.

Liu Qingxue's pupils trembled slightly upon hearing this.

Did my father suffer such serious injuries just to get this ring for me?
Although Liu Qingxue didn't know how fierce the battle inside was, she could feel her father's love for her.

"I understand, Father. I will definitely not let you down."

Liu Qingxue bit her lip and reached out to tightly grasp the mysterious ring that still emitted a faint warmth.

At night, Liu Qingxue sat cross-legged in her tent.

In her hand was the ring that Liu Tianqiong had given her. She didn't know how to open the ring, so she put it on her finger.

She then slowly enveloped the ring with her combat energy, but no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't enter it. She then attached her mental energy to the ring.

Sudden changes occur.

The mysterious ring suddenly emitted a tremendous suction force, forcibly absorbing Liu Qingxue's spiritual power. Liu Qingxue was shocked and tried to withdraw her spiritual power.

However, her meager power was utterly fragile in the face of the ring, and she could only let the ring absorb her spiritual energy.

Her spiritual power was being constantly devoured. If this continued, she wouldn't be able to keep up with Zhou Luo's pace, and she would soon become an idiot.

When her mental energy was reduced to only one-tenth, the ring suddenly calmed down. The next moment, a mysterious light was released from the ring, and Liu Qingxue was directly sucked into the ring's space.

Liu Qingxue felt a dizzying sensation before her body crashed heavily to the ground.

She looked up and surveyed her surroundings.

A towering ice mech, tens of thousands of feet tall, lay on the ground. A woman surrounded by ice sat on the mech's finger, watching Liu Qingxue with great interest.

The woman was slender and tall, wearing a thin white gauze dress, her straight legs dangling in the air, her smooth, jade-like feet treading on the air.

"Your talent is really trash compared to the previous ones."

"But there's no other way. If I don't choose a successor soon, I will perish completely."

The woman's voice was extremely cold, even showing some disdain for Liu Qingxue.

Liu Qingxue did not refute it. It was not difficult to determine that the towering mecha in front of her should belong to this woman. This mysterious powerhouse was indeed qualified to say such a thing.

The towering mecha shocked Liu Qingxue greatly.

"Liu Qingxue greets Senior." Liu Qingxue bowed respectfully.

"Never mind~ Although the talent is trash, it can be cultivated."

With a single, slender gesture from the mysterious woman, Liu Qingxue's body was enveloped by a powerful force, and she was uncontrollably thrown towards the woman.

Liu Qingxue then realized that the mysterious woman in front of her was over two meters tall, but her figure was extremely perfect, like a work of art. Although she looked similar to a human, Liu Qingxue was certain that this person was definitely not human.

"Let's go~"

With another gentle wave of her hand, Liu Qingxue was thrown into a pool of mysterious liquid, followed by the mysterious woman's icy voice once again.

"If you can persist for half an hour, you will receive my true inheritance, inherit my mantle, and roam freely across the endless starry sky!"

The moment Liu Qingxue entered the mysterious liquid, the pool of water immediately boiled, and she felt excruciating pain all over her body.

Her meridians, bones, and flesh were all shattered, and then reassembled under the influence of mysterious energy!
Her human sequence is undergoing a dramatic transformation!
"what--!!!"

(End of this chapter)