Ning stayed with Aegis for a little while longer, helping him where he could. However, after a few days, he had to leave to find the place he had promised.
After all, Dahlia and everyone else that was still back in Kumia was waiting for him. He had no plans of staying here since he still had family back on earth.
As a result, he wished to leave them with something that could help them live safely for a very long time.
"I'll be back in a month or two to take you all," Ning told Aegis before leaving. Aegis secretly wanted to leave with his master, to go on an adventure again. However, he was too old for that. He needed to look after his children now. So, he could only wait for his master to come and take him away.
Ning sat at the back of a carriage with Ely, going out of the city.
"What are you doing?" Ely asked, seeing that Ning was lost in his own thought.
"I'm looking for a perfect place where everyone can stay at," he said. "This is certainly the best world for that, but I can't find a place that is empty enough. I might have to take over a city or something."
"Oh, is this the best world out there? Did I luck out by coming here?" Ely asked.
"One of the best," Ning said. "There are thousands of planets with Qi in this galaxy, and of them, hundreds have Immortal Qi. Even amongst them, there are exactly 13 planets that have the maximum Qi a planet can hold in this universe. This one happens to be one of them."
"So, what exactly are you looking for?" Ely asked. "You must have a list of criteria or something to select the land right?"
"I do. First of all, it had to be large enough to host an entire city's worth of people while being far away from any other city so they can live in peace. I want some sort of natural defense like the Origin was in Kumia, but—"
Ning paused. "Wait, can I maybe turn the Origin of this planet into the same?" he wondered.
"Oh, that's not a bad idea," Ely said. "Where is the Origin?"
Ning shrugged. "I don't know," he said. "The system won't tell me. It's one of the few things it still won't tell me still."
"How did you find the last one?" Ely asked.
"Trial and error," Ning replied. "I will have to go look for a place with a lot of Qi to see if it is the location or not."
"You have somewhere to start then," Ely said. "Let's just go find such a place."
Ning thought for a moment and asked the system a series of questions to figure out something. When he did, he frowned a little.
"I found 2 locations that have the potential to be the Origin," Ning said with a sigh.
"Why do you sound dejected instead of Happy?" Ely asked.
"Well, it's because the locations are quite dejecting," Ning said.
"What? Are they in a graveyard or in the middle of the ocean or something?" Ely asked.
"No," Ning said. "They are in a more troublesome location."
Ely was very curious now. "What exactly is this place that makes you act this way?" she asked.
"Well, one of those locations is right in this continent, at the heart of the continent too, in the Nightfall City," Ning said.
"Nightfall city…" Ely thought for a bit. She felt like she had heard of the name before somewhere. "Wait, isn't that the Capital of the Blackspire dynasty? That's the capital of this entire continent."
"Yes," Ning said. "And if what I found out is true, then the Blackspire Dynasty's royal palace is built around the secret realm that holds the Origin of this planet."
Ely gasped when she heard that. "No way!" she said. "Doesn't that mean that you will have to… "
"Kick them out? Yes," Ning said with a bitter smile on his face. "I will have the make the rulers of this continent leave their home if I want to find a place for my people to live in."
"That… doesn't sound very fun to do," Ely said. She didn't doubt if Ning could do that or not. There was no question regarding that. However, the problem came with the fact that if Ning did evict the rulers from their own land, the other people would notice this and realize that someone else must be living there.
Not only that, the Blackspire Dynasty itself would want to go back to their ancestral land and would thus launch an attack on his people frequently.
It would be hard to keep them safe if people were constantly trying to look for them and entered this secret realm. if someone did manage and learn how great the Origin was, it would be disastrous for anyone living there.
"But I'll still have to check," Ning thought to himself. "If it's not, great. If it is… then we will have to persuade the Immortal Emperor to let them stay there. Dammit, should I just dominate his mind and make him my servant? I wonder how much energy I will have to spend if I ever tried to do that."
Ely grabbed his palms. "Let's think about it when we get there, okay? There is nothing you should be worrying about, anyway," she said.
"Sigh, you're right," Ning said. "I don't have anything to worry about."
From the carriage, they switched over to a boat after reaching the next city, which flew through the night to arrive at the Nightfall city before dawn had even arrived.
Ning went around the city to find them a room to stay in. "Let's just rest for now," Ely said. "You can check out if the Origin is there or not tomorrow."
"I know," Ning said and lay on the bed. "I wasn't planning on going there right away. I will go later once the sun comes up."
Ning's mind still worked to find a workaround if the situation did come to be true as he imagined.
'Sigh, I am overthinking this. I will find out tomorrow anyway.'
