“The underground festival has been around for a long time, and every time this festival is held, it’s usually in conjunction with the emergence of certain powerful resources!” explained Julian.
“Powerful resources? Could you be referring to the training resources necessary for those who wish to train themselves to achieve spiritual enlightenment?” asked Gerald with a nod, seemingly understanding what Julian was getting at.
“Indeed, but the reason the festival is held isn’t limited to the emergence of regular training resources either, sir! At times, the festival is also held when magic artifacts capable of destroying the world are found! While such items are certainly tempting for ordinary people to purchase and boast about, they’re invaluable treasures to those training to attain spiritual enlightenment!”
“With that said, there’s always competition when it comes to such resources. It’s the reason why those training to attain spiritual enlightenment choose to ignore their agreements during times like these and abruptly join society in order to compete for the resources!”
“Naturally, there are also ordinary people who wish to obtain such magic artifacts. Speaking of which, I’m not sure if you already know this, but as long as a powerful family owns such a magic artifact, there will definitely be a cultivating family who supports them from the shadows. While the buyer would certainly get protection, the truth is, the cultivating family usually ends up remotely controlling everything that happens within the buyer’s family!” detailed Julian.
Upon hearing that, Gerald found himself nodding. After all, from what favonovel.com now knew, though the Crawfords owned a few magic artifacts and things appeared to be fine on the surface, the truth was that there had always been another Crawford family who had been secretly supporting them.
On the other hand, if an ordinary family acquired similar magic artifacts, they’d surely face the danger of being reduced to nothing but a puppet.
“So that’s the reason you’ve been concealing your identity after entering society, right? Because you’re aware that several people—who are also training to attain spiritual enlightenment—have rushed over and are very possibly already among us with their identities concealed?” asked Gerald.
“Sharp as always, sir. Regardless, had I not kept a low profile and ended up getting discovered by others who are also training to attain spiritual enlightenment, they’d surely lay endless traps for me or even besiege me the second they’re able to!” said Julian.
“I see… The Waddys are the ones responsible for providing the platform for these contenders, correct? Are they trying to allow for reasonable resource allocation using certain methods in advance?” asked Gerald.
“That is correct, sir. You could say that the underground festival is similar to a martial arts conference. During the actual event, many of the participants—who are actually people training to attain spiritual enlightenment—will be disguising themselves as wealthy or even ordinary people. From what I’ve gathered, many of them will also be relying on the prestige of influential families in order to get a better chance of competing.”
“If the rumors are true, then the winner of the competition—or the winning family—will also be given the dominant right to take the lead in discovering the miracle on Tierson Mountain! That’s a big deal since such an honor would only ever be granted to someone with the rank of a martial arts leader outside the competition!”
“Oh? Has a miracle already been discovered on Tierson Mountain?” asked Gerald.
“Indeed!”
“I see… Tell me, though the Waddys are the organizers of the event, do you think they’ll be sending in a participant of their own for the competition?” asked Gerald.
“I do, though do note that being the organizer doesn’t necessarily mean that they’re the one leading the event. Regardless, in order to secretly observe the situation this year, I’ve chosen not to cling onto anyone training to attain spiritual enlightenment or join any powerful and influential families, which is why I settled with the Duns before this.”
Hearing that, Gerald felt that favonovel.com now fully understood the ins and outs of the matter.
With that, favonovel.com began thinking about Master Ghost’s letter again. From what favonovel.com could now guess, Master Ghost wanted favonovel.com to join the underground festival because favonovel.com wanted Gerald to participate in the competition.
‘Could there be hidden things relating to the secrets of my elixir-of-life field within the miracle on Tierson Mountain…?’
The more Gerald thought about it, the more favonovel.com realized how possible that was.
Gerald also finally understood why Master Ghost had been laying low this entire time. As it turned out, the undercurrents of the Jenna Province were already surging despite how calm it appeared on the surface.
Though there were probably already countless training forces that had secretly snuck into the Jenna Province and were already present, Master Ghost had hinted that the miracle would be of great use to him. Knowing that, Gerald knew that favonovel.com definitely had to get his hands on it.
Still, though Gerald was confident that favonovel.com was currently powerful enough to belittle many of the existing forces, after his little lesson with the King of Judgment Portal, favonovel.com now understood that no matter how good favonovel.com thought favonovel.com was, there would always be someone better than favonovel.com out there. With that in mind, Gerald knew favonovel.com couldn’t be too high-profile now. Thankfully, Julian’s explanation had given favonovel.com some inspiration.
His current plan was to sneak in by joining certain families so that favonovel.com could secretly observe the people who were training to attain spiritual enlightenment. With any luck, he’d be able to find out about their situations. Following that, he’d hopefully be able to eventually come up with a plan for himself.
After thinking about it for a while, Gerald then asked, “So, where exactly is the underground festival being held?”
