MONSTER PARADISE

501-520

Chapter 501: Sacrifice

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Due to the Saint’s interruption, the three-day battle drill ended after just a day later. The college gave the Year 1 students a three-day break while adjustments took place for the Year 2 and Year 3 classes. More than 600 teachers had died from the incident this time and teachers from other classes had to replace the fallen teachers. While the college was recruiting new teachers, they were also following up on the incident.

The news that the Union Government posted on the Division 7 Heart Network two days later almost broke the entire network.

“On 1 October, the underground organization — the Saints – disguised as members of the heretics and attacked 3,000 new students of Martial Hunter College, attempting to make them offerings to their God. Led by the two elders, Yu Wenbin and Wu Fa, 102 members attacked the battle drill of the college which took place in Mist Forest. The 100 Saint members including Yu Wenbin were killed with the cooperation of Martial Hunter College and Hunter Association!

“The shamelessness of the Saints have crossed the line. The President and the 12 presenters of the Division 7 Union Government have decided after many rounds of discussion.

“The Division 7 Union Government is officially at war with the Saints! All Union organizations will have to give at least a third of their support to fight this war together with the Union Governments!

“If any of the organizations are working together with the Saints, whether officially or secretly, you’ll be treated as the Saint’s allies and will become the target of the Union organizations!”

…

The Union Government even published all of the photos of Saint member bodies at the bottom of the announcement. Yu Wenbin’s photo was on top. There were 101 of them, including Wu Fa’s body that was retrieved from Yu Wenbin’s ring. Besides the corpses of Wu Tian and a few of them that were severely damaged, each of the bodies was under the guise of the heretics, and their actual photos were published as a comparison after being verified by the forensics team.

The Union Government’s harsh announcement had become a hot topic among the people. In less than half an hour after the announcement was posted, the Hunter Association, Adventurer Paradise, and other Union organizations had announced their support towards the Union Government. What the people did not expect was the heretics publishing a video clip after the announcement came out. In the video, the heretics’ judge was in his black robe and terrifying white mask.

“Hi, everyone, I’m the judge of the heretics. I’m sure many of you saw my video last year. If you haven’t, you can search for the video if you have the time…”

“Boss, go back to business!” A voice came from the side.

“Oh, right! The reason why we’re posting the video is to mainly thank the Union Government and the other Union organizations. Thank you for only announcing the news after proper investigation to save us heretics from being blamed. We’re saddened by what the Saints have done! Attacking the people is shameless. We heretics would never do anything like that!

“We have discussed the Saints disguising as our members and putting the blame on us. We’re sharing the information of the Saint members that we have collected over the years with the Union Government. If necessary, we’ll help the Union organizations with the mission to kill the Saints!

“Lastly, please allow me to advertise. Everyone, if you’re interested to join us heretics, please call the number on the bottom right of the screen to join our assessment.”

“What a hilarious organization!” Lin Huang was not sure if he should laugh or cry when he saw the video.

Besides the announcements from the Union Government and the other Union organizations, the heretics’ video was also being forwarded by the netizens on the Heart Network. It became not only the main topic among the Union organizations but also a hot topic among the people.

It was the first time in the past 80 years since the Division 7 Union Government had announced war! As the announcement went out, there was a stir among the underground organizations. Many of them were waiting to watch the Saints make a fool out of themselves. Even a few of the organizations that worked with the Saints had abandoned their cooperation as they did not want anything to do with the Saints. All of them knew very well that the Union Government was serious about this.

“The Saints are going to be dead!”

“The 200 years of building of the Division 7 Saint will be doomed just like that.”

“The heretics are crazy. They’re helping the Union now?”

…

At the Division 7 Saint headquarters, the first messenger standing in the middle was a tall, skinny old man with a white beard. He was two meters tall like a bamboo stick. He looked across like a hawk at the people in his white robes printed with a silver cross.

“Elder, is there still no news about Wu Fa?” The messenger’s voice echoed in the air like thunder without having to open his mouth.

“There’s still no news about him… I suspect he might have been captured alive by the Hunter Association.” The elder was an old man with a crooked spine.

“Elder, stop protecting that kid. I’m guessing that kid has failed his mission, leaving my grandson to die and he’s escaped as he doesn’t know how to face us,” the Second Elder said. He was just a few years younger than the First Elder, but he looked like a young man. The First Elder had had a major injury many years ago and his Life Wheel was damaged.

“How about the other person who disappeared with Wu Fa? Did you find out who that is?” The messenger ignored what the Second Elder said and asked.

“Yes, it’s Han Yi. There were only six females who joined the mission this time. She’s the only one who’s been excluded from the five female photos that were published by the Union Government. The rest which the bodies who couldn’t be recognized were all males,” the first elder replied.

“Get Granny Wu from the black market to help. She must know where Wu Fa is. He knows too much,” the messenger instructed.

“But Granny Wu…” The First Elder looked troubled.

“That’s your problem, all I want is the result,” the messenger interrupted the elder without waiting for him to finish what he was saying.

“Sure… Then, what should we do about the Union organizations’ war?” The First Elder asked.

“What should we do? Do you plan to go against the Union Government’s anger?” It was the second messenger who spoke this time. Similar to the first messenger, he spoke without having to open his mouth, but his voice was husky.

“So…” The elder looked troubled.

“All the core members can leave now. First Elder, you shall stay to host the meeting,” the first messenger said expressionlessly.

“This mission was your suggestion, so you should take all the responsibility. Moreover, we need someone in charge to ease the Union Government’s anger. God will forgive all the sins that you’ve done and protect you until you’re with him.”

The First Elder looked upset as he knew that he was condemned to be a sacrifice. The Second Elder grinned because if the First Elder died, he would be promoted.

“I thought about it and figured you alone won’t be sufficient. You should choose an elder to be with you,” the third messenger said while the other two messengers nodded in agreement.

The elder was concerned.

“Then, I’m taking Second Elder with me since the mission was his idea. I thought it was doable, that’s why I suggested that to the messengers,” the First Elder advised while smiling.

“Gong Sunhai! You’re taking personal revenge!” The Second Elder’s heart skipped a beat and he shouted.

“It’s your problem that you’re dying. Why drag me with you!?”

The First Elder remained smiling without looking at him.

“It should be enough with the both of you. It’s set,” the first messenger said ignoring Lu Yuan’s objection. Lu Yuan was shocked to hear the messenger’s decision.

“The rest of you will prepare yourselves when you get back. We’ll leave tomorrow morning. First and Second Elders, please stay to handle this. Also, contact Granny Wu as soon as possible and let me know when you get anything from her.” The first messenger patted their shoulders and walked out of the hall with the rest.

Chapter 502: Yellowbird

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

In the western ocean waters of Division 7, there was a gigantic building underneath an island that looked like a skull 3,000 meters below on the seabed. The lights were all turned on. Nestled on the seabed, in the building was a huge, bustling base. In one of the surgery rooms on the lowest floor in the base, the knife in the hand of the man with glasses disappeared.

“This defective product is useless now. Destroy it.”

The man took off his medical gloves and looked solemnly at the surgery table. The man that was lying on the surgery table had his chest cut open. A few young people, who were surrounding him, could see that his heart was still beating hard. Besides his chest, his head had been cut open too. The greyish-white brain tissues were there for everyone to see. The man’s green eyes were wide. The pair of eyes would look terrifying on usual days, but right then, tears poured from them. He seemed to be conscious.

“Sir, the color of his eyes is pretty unique. Can I keep them as a sample?” A girl with her golden hair in a bun asked. Although she was wearing a medical mask, her voice was sweet.

“Anything, you guys can take whatever you want. But I can only maintain this for another half an hour. Just remember to get rid of the parts that you don’t need. Also, don’t mess up the surgery room.” The man left without turning his head.

In the surgery room, a few young people in green scrubs started discussing among each other.

“The size of his penis isn’t bad. I could keep it in my collection.”

“Is there anything in his head that anyone of you would like? I would like to keep his skull. If none of you want any part of his head, I’ll chop it off and bring it back.”

“If you want the skull, then I don’t want his teeth anymore. Give me his brain. I’ll take it out myself later.”

“Wait! Give me his scalp. I want to try if I can grow his red hair from the part that he’s shaved off.”

“Such a healthy heart. Don’t take that away from me! Including this heart, I’ll have 99 of them! I’m one step closer to collecting 100 hearts. Yay!”

…

As the man with the glasses left the surgery room, he took off the green scrubs and put on a white coat while heading to an office that was on the top floor of the building. There was an old man with white hair and a beard in a white coat reading his Emperor’s Heart Ring. The man with the glasses knocked on the door that was open.

“Come in!” The old man nodded.

The man with the glasses walked in and stood before the old man’s desk with respect.

“Sir.”

“So, did you get anything from the kid?”

“His body is quite disappointing whereby his gene integration did not upgrade since he was created 12 years ago. It has been maintained at 17%,” the man with glasses said without any expression.

“That’s expected as he’s a failed product from the first generation.” The old man did not react.

“How much does he know about the Saints?”

“I have been trying to unseal his brain memory for the past two days. I must say, the Saints are impressive when it comes to this. Although I managed to unseal his memory, his core memory of their God isn’t there. I can’t be sure if he doesn’t have the authorization or the Saints have taken control of that part of his memory. All I got from him is basically what we already know,” the bespectacled man frowned as he explained.

“It shouldn’t be about his authorization. Besides the First Elder, the rest of the elders have the same authorization. The elder is already the Saint’s core hierarchy. He was an elder too. Although he couldn’t reach their God directly, he should be able to learn something about their God. His memory of their God might have been deleted from the Saint’s side,” the old man thought to himself and speculated.

“Is there anything else?”

“We got something unexpected,” the man in the glasses smirked as he said.

“There’s a special young man in the recycled memory…”

“Oh, a person that even you think is special. Do tell.” The old man noticed the smirk on his face and became interested.

“The young man is only white flame-level, but he could force himself to level up to gold flame-level. Besides that, when he became gold flame-level, he was so powerful that he managed to kill an immortal-level rank-5!” The man in the glasses was excited as he spoke.

“A gold flame-level killing an immortal-level rank-5. He’s considered a supreme genius already. But leveling up from white flame-level to gold flame-level, are you sure that he did not conceal his combat level?” The old man thought the hiding of combat level was a likelier situation.

“I’ve looked at the part of that memory for a couple of times. I confirm that the young man’s real combat level is only white flame-level.” The bespectacled man nodded.

“A gold flame-level killing an immortal-level rank-5?” The old man’s eyes lit up.

“Show me!”

Suddenly, a strand of the old man’s hair floated up like it was alive. It looked like a sharp thorn. From the other end, a strand of hair from the man in the glasses floated up as well and connected with the old man’s hair like a snake biting a thorn. Soon, the two strands of hair disconnected and went back to normal.

“Sir, I would like to capture him for research,” the man in glasses requested.

“You can’t do anything to this kid just yet…” The old man frowned after looking at the clip.

“He has a powerful background?” The bespectacled man raised his eyebrow.

“This kid is called Lin Huang. He’s old man Fu’s apprentice. It’s too risky to offend him because of this kid.” The old man shrugged helplessly.

“That Mr. Fu’s apprentice?” The man in the glasses looked upset.

“Old man Fu has got himself a great apprentice. For a white flame-level killing an immortal-level rank-5, he would be rare even if he’s placed in Division 1… Why aren’t I as lucky as he is?” The old man sighed and shook his head.

The man in the glasses was unhappy.

“Sir, we can capture him when Mr. Fu isn’t in Division 7,” the man in glasses said after a moment of silence. He did not seem to want to let it go.

“I won’t stop you if you insist, but I have two things to warn you. First, do it cleanly and leave no trails. Second, if old man Fu finds out it’s done by you, not only will I not help you, I’ll draw a clear one with you. You know that I won’t be living too long. I can’t be bearing a burden like this.”

“Understand, I’ll remember that!” The man in the glasses replied with his head held down.

“There’s one more thing that I need you to do.” The old man changed the topic immediately.

“The Union will be fighting the Saint together soon. The Saint will definitely go for an escape plan by sacrificing the elder in their organization. I need you to get more elder bodies to dig more secrets about the God. Do a clean job!”

“Yes sir, I’ll do my best!” The man in the glasses nodded.

“You can leave now if that’s all that you have for me.” The old man then focused on the Emperor’s Heart Ring’s panel in front of him.

“I shall be going now.” The bespectacled man bowed and left.

Chapter 503: Back to a Peaceful Life

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

After the attack of the Saints, the entire Division 7 was chaotic and everyone had their guards up. Meanwhile, it was surprisingly peaceful in the Martial Hunter College. The families of the 600 teachers who were killed in the incident were given a generous compensation from the college while the teacher recruitment drive was successful. There were hundreds of people that came to the recruitment drive as soon as the news was released. The classes remained but the teachers were much busier than they usually were.

Nobody in the college knew that Lin Huang had killed the two immortal-level Saint members as the secret was safe with the two Vice Presidents. Only the teachers knew that he had saved most of the students on his own. The students did not know about his admirable feat. His life in the college did not change much as he continued training in the Undefeatable Warrior and integrating his sword skills. The only additional mission he had was to teach Bai sword skills.

Meanwhile, life went on as normal for Lin Xin. She seemed not to have any idea about what had happened in the Mist Forest. As Lin Huang was clueless as well, he decided not to dwell on that matter. Besides attending classes, Lin Xin had been absorbing Life Power from Life Crystal pieces at night to trigger her gray Life Wheel columns. Before one became an adult at the age of 15, most of their Life Wheel was unstable, which was why most people chose to level up to iron-level only after they turned 15.

Now that Lin Xin was 15, Lin Huang had checked her Life Wheel and gave her a bunch of Life Crystals to trigger the gray Life Wheel columns since she could level up to iron-level now. As soon as the Life Light in her Life Wheel was full, he would get her to achieve iron-level. Considering that she wanted to be a firearms master in the future, Lin Huang had chosen the Purple Dressed Demon as her Life Seed monster to increase her speed.

As the battle drill was suspended, the students were not given any rankings. The registrar office was in a mess but they did not have the time to do such a calculation. Most of the Year 1 students were still in shock and did not have the mood to think about the ranking at all. Soon, it was Friday again, and Lin Huang was sitting in the office at 1.40 p.m. Just when he had arrived, Mu Xiaolan arrived shortly after.

“Miss Mu,” Lin Huang smiled and greeted.

Mu Xiaolan was not as active as she usually was. All she did was force a smile and nod at Lin Huang. Lin Huang was stunned to see her response as Mu Xiaolan would always greet him first and was usually friendly. She was oddly cold today. However, Lin Huang did not want to think too much about it. Soon, Qin Tianxing arrived too. He decided to sit in Lin Huang’s class again.

At first, he had chosen to sit in as he was worried that Lin Huang might not be able to handle the students. Later on, he found out that Lin Huang had mastered the Sword Dao and now he realized how powerful Lin Huang was. He knew very well that most of the Saint members who had been involved in the Mist Forest incident were mostly purple and even gold flame-levels but Lin Huang had killed almost 60 of them on his own. It only proved how powerful Lin Huang was. Sitting in the class was to improve his knowledge in Sword Dao. On the other hand, he wanted to get closer to Lin Huang. Since Lin Huang was always on his own, the only way to spend time with him was to sit in his class.

Lin Huang did not overthink about Qin Tianxing’s intention as he had always been a friendly man since the beginning. Even if he came with an intention, it should not be a bad one. In the college, Lin Huang needed someone like him who could answer whatever questions that he had about the college. It was a win-win situation for the both of them.

“Brother Qin, I heard you’re teaching a couple of classes recently. Do you still have the time to sit in my class?” Lin Huang teased.

“I have to no matter how busy I am. I would love to learn sword skills from you too,” Qin Tianxing said humbly.

“Stop teasing.” Lin Huang smiled and shook his head. “Oh right, how’s the recruitment going?” He asked.

“Many of them who came but not many passed. Looking at the progress, we’ll need at least a month to get back to our normal arrangement.” Qin Tianxing shook his head.

“It’s almost time. I shall get to my class now.” Mu Xiaolan left after that.

Lin Huang looked at the time. It was not even 1:50 p.m. As she left, Lin Huang asked Qin Tianxing softly, “What happened to Miss Mu? She seems a little off today.”

“She had a crush on Sir Wang Yan who taught Year 2 Sword Dao faculty for years now. He was one of the guardians in the battle drill and he was killed by the Saint…” Qin Tianxing peeked at the direction Mu Xiaolan left and shared softly.

“I asked her to take a break for a week or two a few days ago but she declined. She always seems happy but deep inside, she’s stubborn.”

Lin Huang did not ask further after hearing what had really happened.

“Alright, it’s almost time. Let’s go.”

Lin Huang taught a new speed sword skill called Wind Flow today. The students were excited to learn something new after training their Blood Killing Forms for a month.

“Same rule applies. Train properly when you guys get back. The faster you learn, the more sword skills I’ll teach. Whether you learn three or four sword skills this semester depends on you. I’ll be examining your progress as usual next Friday,” advised Lin Huang, motivating the students.

“Isn’t it a little too much to learn four sword skills in one semester?” Qin Tianxing could not help but ask Lin Huang after the students left.

“We usually teach two sword skills in a semester. After all, the students have other classes, so it’s impossible to spend all of their time on Sword Dao.”

“You underestimate their potential. It might be too much to learn four sword skills in a semester but learning three sword skills wouldn’t be too difficult for them. They’ll have too much time on hand if I only teach two and they won’t practice properly. With proper pressure, they’ll take it seriously .” Lin Huang spoke from experience. He used to always burn the midnight oil right before his exams when he was studying in university and he was the most efficient during that time. The pressure was there as he did not want to fail.

Hearing Lin Huang’s theory, Qin Tianxing was considering if he should change his way of teaching as well.

After class, it was the weekend. Lin Huang’s Emperor’s Heart Ring vibrated while he was teaching Bai sword skills when they were in the battle training ground on Saturday evening. It was Lin Xin who was calling, so he picked up immediately.

“Brother, the Life Light in my Life Wheel is full now!” Lin Xin excitedly broke the news.

“Prepare yourself tonight. It’s Sunday tomorrow. I’ll bring you to Wangyou Forest to hunt for your Life Seed tomorrow.” Lin Huang had had that in mind since the beginning.

Chapter 504: Lin Xin’s Odd Physique

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

On Sunday morning, Lin Huang brought Lin Xin to the mountain at the border of Wangyou Forest. As Thunder perched on top of the mountain, he summoned Bloody.

“Bloody, find me a Purple Illusion Demon. An iron-level rank-1 one would be the best. If not, find me an iron-level rank.” Bloody released a massive amount of Leech Pods and started getting busy. In less than half an hour, Bloody had found Lin Huang a target.

“I’ve found one! There’s a Purple Illusion Demon on the northern side of the central zone in the forest.” Bloody extended two of its tentacles and pinned the coordinates on Lin Huang’s and Lin Xin’s maps that were projected from their Emperor’s Heart Rings.

“Alright, I’ll wait here then. If I get too close, I might affect you.” Lin Huang leaped from Thunder’s back.

“Thunder, leave as soon as you drop her at the destination.”

Thunder nodded and brought Lin Xin away. It landed on an empty land more than ten minutes later and flew away after Lin Xin alighted.

Lin Xin, who was clad in a long-sleeve top and long pants, realized that the coordinates that Bloody had pinned were less than a kilometer from where he was standing. She took out her two GrayEagle 17’s and held one in each hand, making sure that they were both loaded with armored bullets before dashing towards her target. As a kilometer was just a short distance, she arrived at the destination and saw the Purple Illusion Demon.

She was petrified although she was hidden in the bushes, looking at the monster that was spacing out in the burnt land. It was an iron-level rank-1 Purple Illusion Demon that looked the same as the iron-level rank-3 one that Lin Huang had killed a year ago. It had an odd white mask on its face and six crystal arms. Its purple dress was 20 to 30 centimeters from the ground, but its feet were nowhere to be seen.

“This monster is just a little ugly. There’s nothing scary about it. You’re a firearms master. Just don’t let it come close to you,” Lin Huang’s voice came from the Emperor’s Heart Ring’s earphone as he was watching Lin Xin via Bloody’s Leech Pod.

“If you’re nervous, take a deep breath to calm yourself down.”

Lin Xin did as he said. Bloody’s Leech Pods were not complete sentient being, so it would not affect her obtaining her Life Seed. Armed with that knowledge, Lin Huang got Bloody to monitor her situation.

Lin Xin’s heartbeat slowed down after taking a few deep breaths.

“I’m a firearms master. I can definitely kill it with a single gun fighting technique as long as I don’t get close to it!” She mumbled to herself while looking at the two GrayEagle 17’s in her hands.

She then stood up and opened fire using a gun fighting technique called Potshot. As the armored bullets were released, the Purple Illusion Demon was completed engulfed by the bullets.

It sounded like there was a woman groaning and screaming among the loud cracks. Still, Lin Xin did not stop firing as long as she heard screaming. Finally, she stopped as it had gone completely quiet. As soon as the smoke faded, she saw the Purple Illusion Demon had slumped onto the ground. It was completed destroyed and its mask was shattered. It was obvious that it was dead.

“It’s already dead. Go to it right now before the Life Seed fades away.”

Lin Xin heard Lin Huang’s instruction and walked quickly towards the carcass. Just as she took a few steps forward, a white glow came out of the broken mask, shrouding her completely…

Lin Xin woke up ten minutes later.

“Wait where you are. I’ll get you together with Thunder,” Lin Huang commanded through the earphone as soon as he saw Lin Xin open her eyes.

Soon, Thunder dropped Lin Huang next to her. After recalling Thunder and Bloody, he took out a storage ring and gave it to her.

“There are 10,000 Life Crystals in this. They’re mainly for you to refill your Life Wheel and, of course, you can spend it as your allowance.”

“That’s too much…” Lin Xin knew that one Life Crystal was comparable to 100 years of Life Power crystals and was equivalent to 100,000 credit points. To most gold-level people, 10,000 Life Crystals was an enormous amount of wealth.

“That’s not much. In fact, it’s necessary for your cultivation. The further you go, the more Life Crystals you’ll need.” Lin Huang did not say further while summoning his dimensional relic and he brought her back to the Martial Hunter College.

Lin Xin’s mission this time was much easier than the time when Lin Huang had completed his whereby she killed the Purple Illusion Demon by opening fire at it. Ever since she leveled up, besides going to classes, she spent most of her time refilling her Life Wheel in the training room. She could now learn many beginner-level gun fighting techniques that she could not pick up earlier. She knew the biggest issue that she had was having insufficient Life Power.

Time passed by, and soon it was Wednesday. As Lin Huang was training with Bai during the evening, his Emperor’s Heart Ring vibrated. It was Lin Xin who was calling.

“What’s wrong, Xin Er?”

“Brother, is there anyone with you?” Lin Xin asked.

“Only Bai.”

“Oh, I think there’s something wrong with my body.” She was hesitant when she spoke.

“Where are you? I’ll look for you now!” Lin Huang frowned.

“I’m in training room No. 28.”

“Wait for me. I’ll be there shortly!” Lin Huang then looked at Bai. “We shall call it a day here. Something’s happened to Xin Er.”

Bai nodded and Lin Huang recalled him, then left for the training room. Three minutes later, he knocked on the door to training room No. 28 and Lin Xin answered the door immediately. As soon as he got in, she hurriedly bolted the door.

“Brother, do you remember that Little 7 could swallow Life Crystals directly?” Lin Xin asked.

He nodded.

“I found out that I can do that too…” Lin Xin whispered softly.

“What do you mean? Did you accidentally swallow a Life Crystal?” Lin Huang did not get what Lin Xin was trying to tell him.

“Not accidentally. Well, I did it on purpose…” Lin Xin shook her head slowly.

“So, this is what happened. I’ve been absorbing the Life Power in the Life Crystals these few days. I thought that’s too slow as I’ve only filled tens of the columns in the past few days. Then, I thought of Little 7 eating Life Crystals directly, so I thought of trying that as well… As soon as the Life Crystal was in my mouth, it melted right away and flowed into my body from my throat. Then, I realized that the Life Power in my Life Wheel had increased tremendously. I tried another two Life Crystals later on, and the same thing happened…”

“Really?” Lin Huang thought it was ridiculous as he had never heard of any human who could eat Life Crystals directly to absorb Life Power. If anyone could do that, the person could definitely level up so much faster than he could. While he had to kill monsters out there, the person could just munch on Life Crystals as snacks at home!

“Is there something wrong with my body?” Lin Xin was concerned.

“Show me,” Lin Huang encouraged while placing his hand on her shoulder. He inserted his Life Power all over her body.

“You can do it now.”

Lin Xin took a piece of Life Crystal from her storage space and put it into her mouth. She opened her mouth so that Lin Huang could see what was happening to the Life Crystal. In less than two seconds, the Life Crystal melted into a cloud of white haze on her pink tongue and flowed into her throat. Lin Huang could feel the sudden gush of Life Power that entered her body and flowed straight into her Life Wheel. He could not understand what had just happened. The entrance of Life Power did not make sense as it did not pass through any of the routes of Life Power in her body but suddenly gushed into her Life Wheel.

Lin Huang then checked her Life Wheel and released his Life Power after confirming that everything was normal.

“Everything seems fine with your body now. Although it’s an odd way to absorb Life Power, that could mean you have a unique physique. It could be a special bloodline that’s been activated since you arrived at iron-level. There’s nothing to worry about,” Lin Huang comforted her.

“Is that so?” Lin Xin sighed in relief.

“This is between us. Don’t tell anyone about this, including your roommates and good friends. If this goes out, it might catch the underground organization’s attention. They might capture you to be their guinea pig,” Lin Huang warned her.

“Alright, I promise I won’t tell anyone!” Lin Xin nodded. The incident with the Saint got her guard up towards the underground organization.

“After the first circle of your Life Power is filled, don’t break through to iron-level rank-2 just yet. I’ll get you a combat level disguise relic, then you can level up after putting that on.” Lin Huang did not want anyone to know about her ability to level up so swiftly.

She had many Life Crystals with her now. If she did not have to obtain Life Seed to level up each rank, she would take less than a week to get to gold-level rank-3 just by eating Life Crystals. That would be tens of times easier than how Lin Huang had leveled up.

“Relic…” Lin Xin’s eyes lit up when she heard that. She knew that only Transcendants could utilize relics.

“Can I use it?” Lin Xin was concerned.

“It’s a unique relic that doesn’t require you to activate it. It can suppress your aura just by you putting it on,” Lin Huang nodded and explained.

“Oh yeah, these three equipment rings are your presents to celebrate your breakthrough to iron-level. I’ve ordered them long ago but they only arrived yesterday, so I’m only giving them to you today.” Lin Huang took three black rings from his storage space and gave them to her.

“What are these?” Lin Xin accepted them and looked at them with excitement.

“Two custom-made modified BlackEagle 33’s and the latest Black Demon Armor. The two guns have functions of their own. One has accelerated attack speed while the other has added attack strength. You’ll get used to them slowly.”

“Thank you, brother! You’re the best brother in the world!” Lin Xin thought it would be great to have one BlackEagle 33, but she did not expect two modified ones instead. The price of what she had obtained far surpassed her imagination.

A week passed since Lin Xin found out about her odd physique. Lin Huang had gotten her the combat level disguise relic. It was an expensive grade-5 relic that looked like a metal bangle which could disguise combat levels below immortal-level. To be safe, Lin Huang taught her a skill to hide her aura after giving her the bangle. Lin Xin, who had just got her first circle of 360 columns in her Life Wheel filled, starting consuming Life Crystals again and reached iron-level rank-3 in less than half a day…

Chapter 505: Flying Power Sigil Building

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Soon, two weeks passed. The speed of Lin Huang’s Life Power and body transformation slowed down. His ten Life Fires that were smaller than his thumb was now the size of a ping-pong ball and their flame was more than 20 centimeters high. He was halfway there since he had the Undefinable Warrior Skill Card out. His body was practically non-human now and was more than three times more powerful than the usually transformed physique. Any weapons that were below relics could no longer hurt him.

The density of his Life Power was incomparable to the time when he was complete gold-level. Besides being many times thicker, some of its characteristics had completely changed. It was like a transformation to a totally new energy. Since stepping into holy fire-level, the Life Fire and Life Power were dependable on each other. The Life Fire would extract and release Life Power as well as absorb Life Power to grow. As tinder had a different ranking, the strength of the Life Fire was different as well

The flame of tinder that was not mutated could only burn a maximum of one meter after it became a Life Fire. Single-mutated tinder could burn up to three meters, while double-mutated tinder could burn up to ten meters, and it was said that triple-mutated tinder could burn up to 50 meters. Meanwhile, nobody knew how high a quadruple-mutated tinder could burn. Lin Huang was curious about how high his Life Fire could burn. The stronger the Life Fire, the faster it could absorb and release Life Power and the higher the density of Life Power.

“It’s been more than a month since I leveled up to white flame-level. My Life Power and body must have stabilized from the growth now. It’s time to get the cross-ranking rewards that I obtained earlier.” He was beyond excited.

“But before that, there’s something that I need to do…” Lin Huang mumbled to himself while taking out a few Monster Cards. They were the Supreme Overlord, the Sanguine Skeleton Spirit, and the three fiends.

He wanted to extract their Monster Skills. He had not done that earlier as he had limited slots in Monster Skills whereby he only had three slots out of ten left. Besides, he left the slots vacant as the Supreme Overlord was not unsealed yet. However, since he got to white flame-level, he now had 20 Monster Skill slots which allowed him to own more Monster Skills.

“Xiao Hei, extract the skills of these five cards!” Lin Huang instructed after glancing at the cards.

“Skill extraction has been activated… Randomly choosing skills… It has been completed!”

“Congratulations, you’ve obtained – Doll secret skill (Supreme Overlord).”

“Congratulations, you’ve obtained – Punishment (Sanguine Skeleton Spirit).”

“Congratulations, you’ve obtained – Demonic Telepathy (Inferior Imp).”

“Congratulations, you’ve obtained – Demonic Regeneration (Malachian Fiend).”

“Congratulations, you’ve obtained – Witchcraft (Witch).”

After extracting the five skills, Lin Huang had 12 of his Monster Skill slots filled. He wanted to keep the remaining eight slots vacant as the Regal Sword Killer was still in card form, so its skills could not be extracted yet. Meanwhile, the eight sword servants from Lancelot were all epic-level. There were no skills that Lin Huang desired from them, hence he did not extract their skills.

“The skills that I obtained this time aren’t bad at all. The Doll secret skill, Punishment, and Witchcraft are control skills that I’ve always wanted. The telepathy and regeneration abilities aren’t bad too!” Lin Huang was satisfied with the extraction results.

Later on, he looked at the time and realized that it was only past seven in the evening. He called Mr. Fu right away. On the second ring, Mr. Fu answered his video call.

“What’s up, my dear apprentice?” Mr. Fu had a chess board in front of him, and he seemed to be playing chess with someone.

“Master. My Life Fire and body have stabilized now. The sigils that you told me about earlier…” Someone sitting across Mr. Fu started speaking before Lin Huang could finish what he was saying.

“Hurry! If you don’t play, I shall consider you the loser!”

“Go away. I’m talking to my favorite apprentice.” Mr. Fu waved his hand and turned around to look at Lin Huang.

“I’ll send you the flying sigil after I finish my game. Take your time to study. Ask me whenever there’s anything you don’t understand.” Mr. Fu hung up the phone right away.

In less than ten minutes, Mr. Fu sent the sigil to him. There were many varieties and levels of the sigil. The lower level ones could be purchased at the Hunter Association or on black markets. The sigil that Lin Huang desired was a flying one which was integrated with many different variations that included anti-gravity, dynamic, kinetic adjustment, steering, balancing, sheltering and resistance reduction sigils.

These sigils had to be activated by rotating Life Power. The more they were activated, the more likely it was that it would merge to form part of one’s instinct. The reason why people below Transcendent-level could not fly was because the sigils had to be built from the detachment of Life Power, which was impossible for them. On the other hand, many Transcendent monsters could fly as they had inherited similar sigils in their memory.

Since he had gotten the sigils, Lin Huang tried it for the first time. The set of sigils that Mr. Fu had given was complicated and detailed. It was made of more than 20 sigils. Lin Huang started learning them one by one. The first one he learned was the anti-gravity sigil. It was tens of times more difficult than the anti-gravity sigil that he had seen on the Heart Network earlier. He tried it over and over again patiently.

Although he had just reached white flame-level not long ago, he was familiar with Life Power detachment as he had used Blood Power in his earlier days. Nevertheless, he finally mastered the anti-gravity sigil after failing for more than 20 times. The complicated sigil alone would cause normal people to be dizzy just by looking at it, let alone drafting it. To draft it using Life Power, it was hundreds of times more difficult.

After activating the anti-gravity sigil, Lin Huang’s body started to float. He felt like he was a helium balloon as his body detached from the ground. However, because he had just mastered the anti-gravity sigil, he lacked control of where he could go, only able to float off the ground. He repeated the drafting a few more times until he managed to do it perfectly with his eyes closed before learning the second sigil…

That night, he trained until 1.30 a.m. and he only managed to learn two sigils. However, the first few sigils were more complicated and the subsequent aiding sigils were much easier. The following days, he spent all his time on the battle training ground, learning the drafting of sigils. From non-gravity to dynamic, kinetic adjustments, and steering the sigils… After multiple attempts and failures, he managed to integrate all of the sigils on the sixth day.

Lin Huang could finally fly!

Chapter 506: Misery

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

“Congratulations! You’ve obtained a special legendary-level Skill Card (Flying). Please name the skill.”

“Let’s call it Imperial Flight!” Lin Huang thought before christening the new skill. He smirked as he watched the name of the skill appeared on the purple card. There was a famous line that was passed around among Transcendent-level humans that went, “How can one be considered as a Transcendent-level if he can’t even fly?!”.

Ever since the building of the flying forcefield was completed, Lin Huang had finally become a true Transcendent-level. He tried the flying effect of Imperial Flight. Its regular flying speed could reach 1,200 kilometers which was close to Mach 1. He could even reach 2,500 kilometers per hour if he accelerated, which would be over Mach 2, but it took up to five times more Life Power compared to the normal flying speed. Double acceleration would allow him to reach 3,700 kilometers per hour which was over Mach 3 and use up at least 50 times more compared to flying at the normal speed.

Without the activation of his Seraphic Speed, Lin Huang could reach 4,000 kilometers at the maximum, which was slower than Thunder and Kylie. If he needed to get to a place which was far away in an instant, it would be better to ride on Thunder. The sigil set that Mr. Fu had given him was the top among the flying sigils. The normal sigil only had single acceleration whereby a limited number of them had double acceleration and could only reach Mach 2.5. The flying speed would not change much for a holy fire-level as the sigil was fixed. However, as one got to immortal-level, the sigil could be further explored and the speed could be 30% to 40% faster.

“Now that I’ve mastered Imperial Flight and extracted the monster skills, I’ll spend the next two days familiarizing myself with the monster skills, then I shall head to the danger zone this weekend to finish what I have to do.” Lin Huang looked at the calendar that was projected out of his Emperor’s Heart Ring. It was Wednesday today and he could not leave just yet as he had class on Friday. He would usually take less than a day to complete what he wanted to but it would take more than a day if an accident happened. He did not want to risk missing his class, so he thought of taking the few days to familiarize himself with the new monster skills and only head to the danger zone after his class on Friday.

Soon, two days had passed and it was already Friday. That November week was supposed to start with a battle drill. However, since the Saints incident last month, the Union had yet to settle the issue with the underground organization, so the Martial Hunter College suspended the battle drill this time for safety purposes. All the Year 1 students would attend classes as usual. Although some of the students were unhappy with such an arrangement, they chose to conform when they recalled the terrifying incident.

It was 1.40 p.m. and Lin Huang arrived at the office. When it was past 1.50 p.m, Qin Tianxing arrived at the office but Mu Xiaolan was nowhere to be seen.

“Brother Qin, is Miss Mu on leave?” Lin Huang asked Qin Tianxing as he found her absence odd.

“She’s resigned.” Qin Tianxing shook his head.

“Resigned?!”

“She couldn’t let go of Wang Yan and there seems to be no result in the Union fighting the Saints. She was unsatisfied with that, so she resigned last week after her class. She said she wanted to try breaking through to white flame-level and join the mission to fight the Saints. The registrar and I have been asking her to stay but she didn’t listen.” Qin Tianxing shared what had happened.

“Why hasn’t the mission come to an end yet? It’s been more than a month.” Lin Huang was puzzled. He was only a gold hunter in the Hunter Association, so he could not retrieve the news meant for Transcendent-levels. However, Qin Tianxing had joined the Hunter Association’s executive, so he had the access to some of the internal news.

“The Saints disappeared. When the Union arrived at their headquarters, it was completely empty and all of the branches in the other footholds had moved away. Fortunately, the Saints are everybody’s enemies now. The heretics and the black markets have been providing all sorts of information. More than 80% of the Saint members who were hiding have been captured. Still, to capture all of them, that would take at least ten days to half a month,” Qin Tianxing explained.

“Hopefully, Miss Mu is doing fine,” Lin Huang shook his head and sighed. Besides Qin Tianxing, Mu Xiaolan was the other staff that he was close to. As they had the same class schedule, the both of them would see each other in the office every Friday. Lin Huang did not want anything bad to happen to this friendly and happy lady.

“It’s almost time now. You should be in class. Looking at the army that the Union has, Miss Mu will be joining the force of many, so she should be alright. Don’t worry about her.” Qin Tianxing patted Lin Huang’s shoulder.

…

In foothold No. 7B99 — Misery City.

Misery City was located in the extreme north in Division 7. It was a place for prisoners during the old epoch times. It was said that a monk passed through the place one day and named it Misery as bodies were strewn everywhere. Since the new epoch, the Union Government used the name when they were rebuilding the city.

Mu Xiaolan had killed a mutated Transcendent-level monster here five days ago. The moment she leveled up to white flame-level, she rushed directly to Misery City without waiting for her transformation to be completed. She heard from the black market that Misery City was one of the hiding places of the Saint members. As she was a registered gold hunter, she used the dimensional tunnel that was exclusive to hunters and arrived at the place after spending a day transferring in between a couple of footholds.

The following days, she spent most of her time in the black market to ask about the Saint. With the mission of the Union Government, there were many other hunters who were here to kill the Saints. For safety purposes, she was staying in a hotel that was occupied by hunters. On that day, a man in gold-framed glasses and a white coat walked towards her when she just got out of the black market. Mu Xiaolan, who was dressed in a black robe, had her guard up.

“Hi, Miss Mu.” The man stopped walking and smiled at her when he was less than two meters away from her.

“You’ve got the wrong person.” Mu Xiaolan remained cold while her face was concealed under the hood.

“It can’t be. You’re Mu Xiaolan who teaches at the Martial Hunter College. You were in love with a male teacher named Wang Yan. Unfortunately, Wang Yan was killed when the Saints attacked a month ago, so you’ve resigned last week and plan to take revenge by killing the Saint members.” The bespectacled man looked warmly at her under the dimmed street lamps.

“Who are you?” Mu Xiaolan took off her hood and stared at the man with her bright eyes.

“Don’t worry, I’m not one of the Saints. You can call me doctor.” The man smiled as he introduced himself.

“You know so much about me. Even if you’re not from the Saints, you must be up to no good. I’m not interested to talk to you. Go away.” Mu Xiaolan was wary even if the man was not one of the Saint.

“Alright then. I shall tell you my intentions.” The man pushed his glasses up his nose before proceeding.

“I heard that Lin Huang is your colleague and that you guys are pretty close. I need something about him from you.”

“No comment!” Mu Xiaolan finally knew that the man was here for Lin Huang.

“Lady, this is not your decision.” The man took off his glasses. A sigil sparked from his left eye and Mu Xiaolan collapsed.

Suddenly, there was a golden glow that shot out of the relic in the man’s hand and covered Mu Xiaolan who was about to slump onto the ground. As the golden glow faded, Mu Xiaolan disappeared. The man summoned a dimensional relic and stepped into it. Soon, the dimensional relic closed and the black market alley was silent again like nothing had happened.

Chapter 507: Please Stop Dreaming

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

On Saturday morning, Lin Huang had decided on his first destination. It was a severe danger zone with more than ten commander-level monsters or at least three chief-level monsters. Only the top-ranked people dared to enter such a precarious zone. There were a total of 28 severe danger zones in Division 7. This time, Lin Huang’s target was a chief-level monster in the zone, which was also an immortal-level monster.

“Xiao Hei, assuming I get ten reward card draws for a quadruple cross-ranking kill, do I get more card draws if I kill more than that?” Lin Huang grinned while he was on the road.

“Sextuple cross-ranking kills – Reward Card Draw x15!”

“Septuple cross-ranking kills – Reward Card Draw x20!”

“Octuple cross-ranking kills – Reward Card Draw x25!”

“Nonuple cross-ranking kills – Reward Card Draw x30!”

“Decuple cross-ranking kills – Reward Card Draw x40!”

“Above decuple cross-ranking kills – you’ll receive Reward Card Draw x10 for every rank.”

“Now that I’m on white flame-level, if I use a Provisional Transformation Card to increase my combat level and use another two Provisional Combat Strength Upgrade Cards, I can get to immortal-level rank-2. Then, it won’t be too difficult to kill an immortal-level rank-7 monster. It’s 11 ranks from white flame-level to immortal-level rank-7, so I can get 50 card draws. If I use the Double Reward Card, I’ll get 100 card draws and 10 kills would mean I get 1,000 card draws…” Lin Huang sat on Thunder’s back and smiled into the sky like an idiot.

“You’re thinking too much. The cross-ranking kill depends on your combat level. If you’re using the card to upgrade your combat level temporarily, the calculation will start from the combat level that was upgraded from. That would be no different from you killing an immortal-level rank-1 when you’re on white flame-level. To be able to obtain more cross-ranking rewards, you should think about how to increase your combat level.”

“Ah, is that so? That’s disappointing.” Lin Huang had been fantasizing about obtaining a massive amount of cards but his dream was crushed.

“Please stop dreaming. Thank you!”

“If that’s the case, I shall get my fiends to help me to kill immortal-level rank-2 monsters. Too bad the fiends have limited abilities, so they can’t do much if we encounter immortal-level rank-3 monsters. Maybe I should try my luck and see if they can kill such monsters.

“Then again, killing immortal-level rank-3 monsters would mean a sextuple cross-ranking kill, which means 15 card draws and that’s 30 card draws if doubled. Ten kills mean 300 card draws, which is 100 more cards than a quadruple kill,” Lin Huang recalculated how to obtain more cards.

Before obtaining the new monster skills, he could already cross one level to kill an immortal-level rank-1 monster. Now that he had five new monster skills with upgraded abilities, he thought it would not be difficult to kill an immortal-level rank-2 monster with the help of the three fiends. However, Lin Huang wanted to spend some time exploring the severe danger zone before he did his hunting. He wanted to know the exact location and the abilities of each chief-level monster.

Although he had the preliminary information from the black market, most of the information was from many years ago. Some of them were as long as 20 years ago, and only a few them were refreshed last year. After all, there were 28 severe danger zones and not everyone would go into them every year. Since more than 20 years had passed, the monsters might have upgraded, be killed or moved away. Those were the possibilities. He wanted to confirm the accuracy of the information and pin his next destination on the dimensional relic.

One and a half hour later, Thunder brought Lin Huang to their first destination, Big Devil Island. He was familiar with the name of the island as he had been to Little Devil Island when he joined the Hunter Assessment a year ago. There was not much relationship between these two islands as one was on the southeast while the other was on the southwest of Division 7. Both of the islands were across half of the division. Their names were similar as both islands had the shape of a devil’s face. The one that was bigger was named the Big Devil Island while the smaller one was named Little Devil Island.

However, the two islands had the same ecosystem with the existence of demons, the undead and soul-type monsters. Of course, the Big Devil Island was a severe danger zone which was incomparable with the grade-4 wild zone of the Little Devil Island. From what information Lin Huang had obtained, there were a total of six chief-level monsters, two immortal-level rank-2 monsters, one immortal-level rank-4 monster, two immortal-level rank-5 monsters and one immortal-level rank-7 monster on the island. There were hundreds of commander-level monsters on the island. However, the statistic was as old as 11 years.

Initially, Lin Huang was here for the immortal-level rank-7, but armed with the knowledge of the cross-ranking kill rewards from Xiao Hei, he changed his target to the two immortal-level rank-2 monsters. It was just before 9 a.m. when Thunder landed on a beach at the border of the island. Lin Huang sat on its back and summoned Bloody.

“Bloody, check where the chief-level monsters are on this island and their combat levels,” Lin Huang said to Bloody.

Purple specks spread out from Bloody and flew away. Twenty minutes later, Bloody’s voice came to Lin Huang’s ears.

“There are only three chief-levels, one immortal-level rank-2, one immortal-level rank-3 and one immortal-level rank-4. They’re spread out…” Bloody marked the locations on Lin Huang’s map. It marked the immortal-level rank-2 in red and another two in white.

“Only three of them? The statistic from 11 years ago isn’t reliable,” Lin Huang sighed.

“I’ve cast my Leech Pods on a blue flame-level monster. According to its memory, someone was here three years ago and fought the overlord-rank monsters on the island. The person killed the three most powerful ones,” Bloody explained.

“Is that so?” Lin Huang nodded and patted Thunder’s back.

“Thunder, let’s go to the location marked in red.”

Half an hour later, Lin Huang arrived 50 kilometers away from where the immortal-level rank-2 monsters were. The immortal-level monsters had a much stronger sensing ability than holy fire-levels. They could sense an enemy that was tens of kilometers away. It was risky for Lin Huang to appear 50 kilometers away. If he got a little closer, the monsters might attack him. His plan was not to fight them but to mark down their coordinates.

He had limited Double Reward Cards; there would be enough cards if he used one of them for every kill. The only way was to complete ten cross-ranking kills using a Double Reward Card within the given time. After pinning the coordinates in his dimensional relic, Lin Huang smirked at the direction of the first targeted monster.

“I’ll kill every one of you after I’ve completed marking down all your locations!”

Chapter 508: The Black Serpent

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

There were a total of 28 severe danger zones in Division 7. Lin Huang spent three days visiting all 23 of them and pinned the locations of ten immortal-level rank-2 monsters. It showed that aside from the information that was refreshed last year, none of the information from three years ago was accurate. The information that was as old as 20 years was so inaccurate that Lin Huang regretted paying such a high price at the black market.

“Damn it!” Although he had not exactly been cheated since the date was clearly jotted down on top of the documents, he was unhappy.

“I’ll sell this piece of information to earn back the money after I finish the remaining islands and complete all the cross-ranking kills!”

The Union Government and the Hunter Association did a check on severe danger zones every three years. However, the result was not opened to the public. It was confidential, and only core members who joined them officially were privy to the information.

Ever since Lin Huang got to holy fire-level, he realized the importance of joining an organization. Resources were not crucial as he could obtain them by himself as long as he had the ability. The most important thing was the access to information. In this world, most information was controlled by organizations. Their members could obtain the information that was not publicly available easily while those who did not join any organization would have to spend their money at the black market. Furthermore, some of the information was not up for purchase.

If Lin Huang was one of the executives in the Hunter Association, he could obtain the information of the severe danger zone without spending a fortune. He had no idea about the progress between the Union and the Saints but, to Qin Tianxing who was an executive in the Hunter Association, the information was provided to him for free.

“I’ll consider how to obtain that information after handling this.” Lin Huang shook his head and got rid of his thoughts.

He pushed open the dimensional relic and returned to Big Devil Island again. After recalling the dimensional relic, he flew above the island and stared at his first target that was tens of kilometers away. It was a double mutated giant, the Black Serpent.

It was at least 2,000 meters long with black metallic scales that gleamed under the sunlight. It was lying next to a gigantic lake, appearing like a black mountain.

As Lin Huang stared at it, it seemed to sense somebody watching it and it gazed at Lin Huang with its four bloody eyes.

“It saw me! Such sensitive sensing abilities!” Lin Huang did not expect to reveal himself to its observation. However, he did not mind that.

“Since I’m already discovered, I’ll kill it then!”

He smirked and activated a Double Reward Card while summoning his three fiends.

He then activated double acceleration and dashed towards the monster. A white cone of vapor was created in the air, and soon an explosion was heard on top of Big Devil Island. In less than a minute, Lin Huang whizzed past 50 kilometers and arrived before the Black Serpent. Sensing that Lin Huang was unfriendly, the Black Serpent attacked without thinking twice.

It opened its mouth wide while black flames spat out like dragon flames towards Lin Huang.

“That’s Black Flame. It’s a venomous attack with both water and fire attributes. It’s corrosive, and an immortal-level person’s skin will fall off or you may die,” warned Bloody that was hiding in Lin Huang’s sleeve.

“You need to kill it right now. If it manages to spit out too much of the venomous flames, it’ll accumulate into a lake and it’ll then perform its ultimate move of activating the black lake to attack. By then, countless venomous tentacles will ambush us and we will basically lose.”

Lin Huang shifted and managed to avoid the flame. Since the attack failed, the flames rained onto the ground and created a deep path which resulted in a black river. Looking at the sight of the phenomenon, Lin Huang had to admit that Bloody was right.

“This thing is tricky.” Lin Huang held his supreme relic in his hand and inserted Life Power into it. It released a misty white glow.

“I thought you’re some powerful human, but you’re just a white flame-level kid.” The Black Serpent’s four eyes focused on Lin Huang and it realized that he was just a white flame-level.

“Hey, don’t underestimate me! You’ll regret it.” Lin Huang grinned.

As he said that, his three fiends appeared next to him.

“So, you’re an Imperial Censor! No wonder you have the guts to challenge me!” The Black Serpent noticed the three fiends immediately.

“Three fiends, hmm, I’d be afraid if they’re immortal-level, but they’re only gold flame-level. They’re just food to me.”

The Black Serpent then spat Black Flames at the four of them. They were completely engulfed by the flame that was like a massive ocean wave.

“That’s it? Humans are such weak creatures…” The Black Serpent soon stopped its flames.

As the flames faded, a black sphere floating in mid-air appeared.

“Hey, don’t you have any other techniques?” The black sphere faded and revealed Lin Huang and the three fiends who were unharmed.

“I was anticipating fighting you but it’s pretty boring that you only have this one mundane technique.”

Lin Huang picked his ear to show how bored he was.

“Human kid, it depends if you deserve my other techniques. If you think your psychological game will make me change my attacks, I’m sorry. I won’t be fooled.” The Black Serpent grinned like a human.

“Do you think that’s a psychological game? You’re thinking too much, I just thought that you spitting saliva is a little… disgusting,” Lin Huang teased.

“In the human world, what you’re doing is unhygienic and you’ll be fined.”

“How dare you!?” The Black Serpent spat flames again. The four of them spread out and avoided the attack.

“Hey, spitting saliva at people is uncourteous. Didn’t your mother teach you that?” The ground where the flame touched was corroded. All of the things around was now purplish-black.

“Go to hell!” The Black Serpent proceeded to spit flame.

“Black Serpent, I’ll get mad if you do that again!” Lin Huang’s aura was rising.

“Die!” The Black Serpent shouted and opened its jaws wide.

Suddenly, a shadow appeared under its mouth. A punch was launched from under its chin, smacking its gaping jaw shut with a snap. Black chains appeared out of nowhere and muzzled its mouth, containing the flames in its mouth. Almost at the same time, the remaining flames on the ground became four gigantic guns and fired at the Black Serpent’s four eyes.

Lin Huang grinned and sliced the Black Serpent’s heart like a lightning bolt.

The Black Serpent’s furious groaning and screaming stopped immediately, blood dripping from Lin Huang’s sword onto the ground…

“Congratulations, you have obtained an epic-level Monster Card – Black Serpent (Giant) x2!”

“Congratulations, you have completed a sextuple cross-ranking kill with reward card draw x30!”

“Do you really think I triggered you just to make you change your mode of attack? I just wanted to distract you so that the three of them could attack you.” Lin Huang descended and looked at the Black Serpent’s head that looked like a small hill…

Chapter 509: I Love You, Therefore I’d Eat You

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Lin Huang would have loved to prolong the fight with the Black Serpent but since the Double Reward Card effective time was only an hour, he could not stay any longer. He needed to complete ten kills within an hour, which was six minutes on average to kill each monster. Therefore, he had to kill the Black Serpent immediately.

By teasing the Black Serpent, he managed to distract it while the three fiends cooperated to attack it. First, it was the Malachian Fiend who locked the Black Serpent’s attack and the Witch that used Witchcraft to seal its mouth temporarily while the Inferior Imp was simply a distraction. The real ultimate move was Lin Huang’s Star Dome sword skill. After integrating many sword skills, the Star Dome was no longer comparable to legendary-level skills. The more sword skills were integrated, the stronger the sword skill was. Although the Star Dome was far from being mythical-level, it was much stronger than most legendary-level sword skills.

Moreover, since his sword realm had strengthened following the improvement of his sword skills, although he was still far away from level-4 Sword Dao, he was much more powerful than the time he had first stepped into level-3 Sword Dao. Besides, the location Lin Huang chose to attack was the Black Serpent’s heart, which was the weakest point on its body. That was how he managed to slice the terrifying giant with only a single swing of his sword. If he was to cut any other location, he would only manage to puncture less than 20 centimeters into its body, which was an insignificant wound to the Black Serpent.

However, the Black Serpent was killed before it could show how mighty it was. The entire process took less than two minutes.

“Great teamwork!” Lin Huang flashed a thumbs-up to the three fiends. After storing the Black Serpent’s carcass, he summoned his dimensional relic and brought the three fiends along. The second target that he chose was in another severe danger zone called the Mysterious Colored Desert.

It was a vast, unique dessert that changed colors as the weather changed. It would go through at least 30 shades of colors from morning to night. Different areas would have different colors as the weather and temperature varied. The colors would change as well when it was raining, snowing or windy. It was beautiful. However, great danger lied in this beautiful land. Bloody had run a check and found out that there were eight chief-level monsters around. The most powerful one was an immortal-level rank-9. However, Lin Huang’s target this time was only an immortal-level rank-2 Arachnid Enchanter.

The Arachnid Enchanter had a human torso and a spider’s body as its bottom. The divide between its uppper and lower body was at its waist and it looked like the manga Monster Girl that Lin Huang had seen when he was on Earth. However, this Arachnid Enchanter was not as cute as the one in the manga. The Arachnid Enchanter was more than three meters tall with its bottom half more than two meters in length. Its furry abdomen and eight claws that released a frigid aura were terrifying. Its chest was bare and its breasts were at least E-cup in size.

In reality, there was not only female Arachnid Enchanters but handsome male ones as well. The reason why humans hardly saw male Arachnid Enchanter was because the males would be attracted by the Arachnid Enchanter once they became an adult. They would go into a mating frenzy which would last for more than three days and sometimes went on for more than ten days. They would not rest, eat, or drink between mating. The male would be weak after mating and the female would take the advantage to smash the male’s head and eat it slowly.

The Arachnid Enchanter’s love was simple. I love you, therefore I will eat you. According to the statistics done by humans, a single female Arachnid Enchanter could eat up to ten male Arachnid Enchanters in a lifetime. The more they ate, the more powerful they were. Sometimes, they could get to imperial-level just by eating male Arachnid Enchanters. The one that Lin Huang targeted was an immortal-level rank-2. Looking at its combat level, it would have eaten at least two to three male Arachnid Enchanters.

As they passed through the dimensional relic, Lin Huang, Bloody, and the three fiends appeared in the Mysterious Colored Desert. Although it was not his first time there, Lin Huang was still enthralled by the colorful sand he stepped on. No matter which angle you took it from, any photos that was taken there could be used as a desktop image.

“I shall bring Xin Er here for a picnic when we have the time. She’ll definitely love the view.” Lin Huang stayed where he was before looking at the Arachnid Enchanter’s direction. He leaped and rushed towards it as the three fiends followed him.

In less than a minute, Lin Huang traveled through tens of kilometers and appeared in the oasis where the Arachnid Enchanter was hiding. The female Arachnid Enchanter was sleeping on its spider web. As soon as Lin Huang invaded the oasis, it opened its eyes.

There’s prey!

“Bloody, where is she?” Lin Huang asked softly. He was standing at the location where Bloody had pinned three days ago but he did not see the Arachnid Enchanter.

“We don’t have to look for her. She know that you’re here. I’m sure she’ll be here soon.” Bloody did not cast its Leech Pods this time as it was familiar with the Arachnid Enchanter’s hunting behavior.

“Her spider web will vibrate automatically and mark our location when we enter this territory. She’ll be here soon.”

Lin Huang nodded after hearing what Bloody said while waiting where he was patiently waiting. Suddenly, a white glow invaded Lin Huang’s Territory. It was hurtling towards his head from his back. Lin Huang stepped out and glided aside, managing to avoid the attack. The white glow missed him and passed through tens of trees. He turned around to look at the direction of the attack and saw a female Arachnid Enchanter tilting her head while looking at him with great interest.

The top half of her body was naked. Her hot body would definitely make all men lust for her until their noses bled. Her long, black hair barely covered her breasts but that made her even more captivating. What was more attractive was her perfect face. From a human’s perspective, she was a goddess. It was not exaggerating to call her a deity. However, from the waist down, she was terrifying. There were yellow mottled spots all over her dark brown abdomen that was filled with dense, sharp thorns. Below that were eight yellowish-black killer weapons in the form of legs

“Oh, it’s a human. It’s been a long time since I’ve eaten human flesh…” Th Arachnid Enchanter licked her bloody red lips seductively.

Chapter 510: The Arachnid Enchanter

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

“Why do all monsters love eating human flesh?” Lin Huang mumbled to himself as it was not the first time hearing about monsters wanting to eat human flesh. However, he thought about it and figured it was the same theory about humans preferring to eat the Swine Beast. It was just a matter of preference. He turned around as he heard an explosion from his back. A white glow exploded from tens of trees away and spider webs streaked everywhere. Lin Huang frowned.

“Once the Silk Cocoon explodes, the spider web that’s spread out will cover up to hundreds of meters. Each spider web is as powerful as a relic. They’re sticky and will affect your movement tremendously. The more Silk Cocoon she shoots, the worse the battlefield. However, it’s an advantage to her,” Bloody reminded.

“Also, her spider web gets stronger every time. Once the Silk Cocoon covers the entire area, it’ll be her explosive territory.”

“Human, you look really delicious. I shall enjoy you,” Arachnid Enchanter cooed and attacked Lin Huang again. Shots of white glow came out from the end of her abdomen. The attacks were not targeting only Lin Huang but went in every direction.

“Oh no, I missed!” The Arachnid Enchanter lamented on purpose.

Lin Huang did not avoid her attack this time.

“Thunder Sting!”

As he shouted, his body turned into a white lightning bolt while white electrical arcs surrounded his sword. He moved as fast as lightning when he swung his sword to break every Silk Cocoon. The Arachnid Enchanter was shocked to see him do that.

“Do you really think I have no idea what you’re trying to do?” Lin Huang leaped into the air and rushed towards the Arachnid Enchanter.

“Hmph!” The Arachnid Enchanter scoffed and spat white mist towards him. The mist seemed harmless but it was heading towards Lin Huang at an alarming pace.

“Be careful! The poisonous mist can penetrate into most creatures’ skin, causing illusion!” Bloody said.

“This would’ve been tricky if it happened a few days ago, but now…” Lin Huang smirked while waving his left hand. A strong wind blew, and the white mist went back to the direction it came from, covering the entire Arachnid Enchanter.

“Telekinesis!” Arachnid Enchanter exclaimed in shock. Although the mist could not deceive the Arachnid Enchanter, it covered most of her vision as she looked around cautiously. Suddenly, Lin Huang walked out of the white mist and sliced the Arachnid Enchanter’s waist with his sword. Although she was hot, he did not plan to show her any mercy. The Arachnid Enchanter did not manage to avoid his attack, but she opened her cute little mouth and released a strand of silk.

The strand of silk soon expanded into a huge spider web covering him.

“A piece of cake!” Lin Huang shouted and brandished his sword at the spider web. The spider web was immediately cut open. He got out of the web and swung his sword at the Arachnid Enchanter again. There were white electrical arcs dancing on his sword, and the space that he sword swung through became a vacuum. As the Arachnid Enchanter managed to buy herself some time from casting the spider web, she lifted her two legs up and kicked Lin Huang’s sword.

Bang!

The white sword tip collided with the Arachnid Enchanter’s two legs, creating a loud thud. The impact of the collision spread kilometers away. There was a deep crater in the area and the trees were all destroyed. Even the three fiends that had just arrived chose to avoid them at that moment and did not get any closer. The collision lasted for a moment and a shadow sprinted away. There was a huge path tens of thousands meters left on the ground from the impact.

From the attack alone, Lin Huang had really reached the immortal-level standard whereby his attack was disastrous. If he were to fight at the human foothold, he would cause a catastrophic amount of damage, which was also why the Union Government controlled the number of human immortal-levels and above in the A and B-grade footholds.

Although Lin Huang managed to fling the Arachnid Enchanter tens of thousands of meters away, he knew very well that the attack did not really harm her. The impact of his sword was contained by her two legs, and she would suffer minor skin injuries from that. The Arachnid Enchanter was no more powerful than the Black Serpent that he had killed a few minutes ago. No matter her strength, defenses, or physique, the Arachnid Enchanter was much weaker. She managed to face Lin Huang’s attack as she could see what was coming.

Lin Huang leaped and appeared before the Arachnid Enchanter in an instant. The Thunder Sting had left electrical arcs all over her body, temporarily numbing her body. Without hesitating, Lin Huang held his sword high and looked at her calmly like he was killing a Swine Beast. His Life Power filled the tip of the sword, making it grow half a foot longer.

“Star Dome!”

As Lin Huang whispered that softly, he swung his sword from the top to the bottom. The air around was slightly distorted. There were even light black electric arcs whizzing around…

The Arachnid Enchanter smelled death on the sword. Although her body was numb, the death threat allowed her to spit countless spider webs at Lin Huang on instinct. However, the spider webs did not stop Lin Huang’s sword. They disappeared when the white sword tip touched them. The sword swing destroyed everything that came its way! The Arachnid Enchanter’s struggle was redundant, and she did not manage to slow down the sword at all.

“No!” As a miserable groan was heard, a loud bang echoed. The sword sliced the Arachnid Enchanter into half all the way into the 30-kilometer deep path. Even Lin Huang was shocked at what he had done.

“Am I really this powerful now?” Lin Huang looked at his sword in disbelief. The faded Life Power revealed his half-silver, half-black sword. There was purple blood dripping from the tip.

“Hmm, but it’s still difficult for me to kill an immortal-level rank-2 on my own now…

Chapter 511: Xiao Hei’s Ability

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

“Congratulations, you have completed sextuple cross-ranking kill with reward card draw x30!”

Lin Huang looked at the time when he heard the notification from Xiao Hei.

“This took five minutes. Looking at the progress, I have just enough time. It seems like we need help.” Lin Huang frowned. The fight started one-on-one. As the both of them collided together, the three fiends could not find a way to help, so it took more time than the previous fight.

If he had not used Thunder Sting on the Arachnid Enchanter, the fight might not have ended so easily. After concluding the experience silently while standing, he put his sword and the Arachnid Enchanter’s carcass away, then summoned the dimensional relic again.

“Let’s go!” He waved to the three fiends and stepped into the dimensional relic. After completing two kills, he grasped the basic understanding of immortal-level rank-2 monsters. With Bloody’s help on each monster’s weaknesses and abilities together with the fiends’ assistance, Lin Huang managed to kill seven monsters in less than half an hour.

“There are 23 minutes left. We should be able to kill all of them.” Lin Huang became excited after winning battle after battle. He stepped into the dimensional relic and appeared on an island. It was the Enigma Island where there were many peculiar, unknown monsters. There were new monster types that could not be found in the monster encyclopedia. Some of them were transformed from other existing monster types.

Lin Huang’s target was an unknown ape on the island. Although Bloody could not distinguish the type of monster, he could still use it as his target because it was also an immortal-level rank-2. It was Xiao Hei’ that suggested making this island their final destination. Its reason was that there were many odd monsters that it wanted Lin Huang to kill for research. Since he had completed all the cross-ranking kills, it was the perfect timing as he needed to kill monsters to obtain more Life Power to grow his Life Fire.

“This ape looks a little like the Mighty Ape from the ancient epoch. The Mighty Ape was a triple-mutated ancient beast and its ability was the top of the triple-mutated monsters. Not many same level monsters could fight it with its strength. However, according to the monster encyclopedia, The Mighty Ape had three descendants, but none of them looks like this one,” Bloody said.

“There’s something that I’m not sure if I should tell you about…” Bloody hesitated.

“Just tell me everything.” Lin Huang nodded.

“This ape gives me an odd feeling that I can’t describe… In reality, since the first time we came here a few days ago, besides this ape, I feel that all of the monsters on this island give me an… uncomfortable feeling…” Bloody said out loud.

“Really?” Lin Huang thought that was odd.

“This island is a little familiar to me. Like… I’ve been here before,” the Inferior Imp that was standing next to Lin Huang said after looking around.

“I have the same feeling too. It’s like I’ve been here before.” Just when Lin Huang was stunned by what the Inferior Imp said, the Witch nodded and agreed.

“Me too.” The Malachian Fiend nodded in assent.

“Did that happen before you guys became my summoning monsters?” Lin Huang thought it could not be a coincidence that the three fiends shared the same feeling.

“I think so, but my memory is unclear. I feel the familiarity when I look around the place,” the Inferior Imp replied.

“Xiao Hei, do the Monster Cards retain their memories before they die?” Lin Huang contacted Xiao Hei secretly.

“That would involve the forming of Monster Cards. You have the authority to know about this now, but are you sure you want to hear about it?”

“Yes.”

“The forming of the Monster Card is actually the breakdown of the dead monster’s flesh and soul, transforming it into a particle that can be made into cards. To explain this in Earth language, it’s like a three-dimensional creature that’s placed into the data world in a computer.

“To make it simple, you’re a three-dimensional human and I’m the computer that you’re using while your Monster Cards are the data on the computer.”

“If that’s so, how does the Monster Card appear in the world with body and flesh? On Earth, the data in the computer can’t be transformed back into a three-dimensional creature.” Although Lin Huang understood what Xiao Hei was saying, he now had more questions.

“That’s because of my existence. I allow the ‘data’ to interfere with reality!”

Lin Huang became silent before nodding.

“I understand now. That means all the Monster Cards retain their memories before they died.”

“When they are broken down, all of the information in their heads, even the information that was inherited from their genes will be completely copied. To avoid trouble, I have categorized their memories. Most of their memories remained while some of them are sealed. However, to retain their intelligence and character, the memories aren’t completely sealed, so they feel the familiarity whenever they encounter familiar environment and incidents.”

“So, what happened to the Supreme Overlord who managed to escape from its card form earlier?” Lin Huang asked.

“As you did not have enough authority, you could only seal a living creature in a semi-card form. Once the card’s combat level surpasses your authority and I’m unable to suppress it, the living creature will escape back to the world from its semi-card form.”

“You’re my power source. The higher your authority, the more powerful I am. Before you arrived at white flame-level, my power was limited by you and I couldn’t manage legendary-level cards. That’s why I had to seal them when your Monster Cards leveled up to legendary-level. The Supreme Overlord was only in a semi-card form so I could only seal a portion of his power, not the material portion of him. That’s how he managed to escape.

“In reality, as long as you have enough authority to supply me with sufficient power, not only can I turn all the monsters in this world into their card forms, I can even make the entire world into a card…”

What Xiao Hei said puzzled Lin Huang.

As long as it had sufficient power, it could turn the entire world into a card?!

Chapter 512: The Unknown Ape

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

After communicating with Xiao Hei, Lin Huang had a better understanding of the Goldfinger than he did before. He did not know that Xiao Hei was powerful enough to control the entire world. A while later, he snapped out of his shock and recalled what he wanted to ask.

“So, you mean that the three fiends have been here before since they find it familiar?”

“Yes, there’s no other reasonable explanation for that. It could be a coincidence if only one fiend feels the deja vu but it’s definitely not a coincidence if the three of them are experiencing the same thing.”

“Haven’t you seen this part of their memory before?” Lin Huang thought Xiao Hei’s explanation was odd.

“I realized that the information in their bodies was messy when I was returning them to their card forms. Some of their memories had been erased earlier. While I was organizing their memories, I didn’t find anything that’s related to this area, so I have no idea what was the memory that was erased.”

“I first saw them at the Mystery Auction. They were brought by the Purple Crow. If they’ve been here before, could that mean that this is one of the footholds under the Purple Crow’s territory?” Lin Huang frowned as none of his encounters with the Purple Crow had ever been a positive one.

“That could be possible… Do you remember that I told you that these three fiends were modified by humans before?”

“I remember. The three of them looked much more ferocious at the auction. I even asked you what happened to them before.”

“I found out from Bloody’s Leech Pods’ surveillance that there’s a similar aura coming from the creatures on this island. The same aura as before the fiends were returned to their card form. I suspect they were modified on this island!”

“This entire island could be a creature laboratory, but I can’t confirm at the moment if it’s been formed by nature or if it’s man-made. This is also why I picked this place as the final destination. I need you to kill as many monsters as you can on this island so that I can analyze the monster modification.”

“I understand now.” Lin Huang nodded.

If this foothold belonged to the Purple Crow, he did not mind causing damage to this place. Even if it was not, it was perfect for him to kill more monsters to grow his Life Fire.

“Let’s go!” Lin Huang waved to the three fiends.

“Don’t do anything at the moment, let me try to kill it first,” Lin Huang said, then activated double acceleration immediately and scooted towards where the ape was. It only took him a moment to arrive at his destination. This ape was 200 meters tall. Although it was nothing comparable to the Black Serpent he had encountered earlier, its aura was even more powerful.

The ape had green hair with three gigantic heads. There were six white eyeballs on each of its head, and its teeth were as sharp as a beast’s. As its teeth were too huge, its mouths could not be closed completely. Its six arms were muscular, each of them a few times bigger than its thighs. It was obvious that its upper body strength was terrifying. Its palms were gigantic and were no smaller than its faces.

From the front, it had detailed golden scales from its neck all the way to just above its thighs. On its back, there was a metal golden armor from its neck downwards, appearing like an enlarged metal spine that extended all the way to its tail. It did not only cover two-thirds of its back; its entire tail looked like it had been galvanized. The end of its tail looked like a golden metal needle.

Although its legs were thinner than its arms, compared to normal apes, they were much more muscular and powerful. Its black feet created odd cracking sounds when walking on the ground, sounding very much like snow being crunched on. It was the sound of the gravel becoming powder under its feet, leaving deep footprints on the ground.

“A strength-type monster with powerful defense…” Lin Huang checked it out and figured what type of monster it was.

“The only weakness is both sides of its body but it has two heads and four arms on both sides. This is tricky…”

Just as Lin Huang was checking the ape out, it noticed his presence. Three of its heads turned around while its 18 white eyes that seemed devoid of pupils stared at Lin Huang. Fortunately, he was not trypophobic, or he would have had goosebumps all over his body.

As the ape locked eyes on Lin Huang, it did not seem to bother if he was friend or foe. It tore right at him.

“Attacking directly… It seems to only have battle instincts,” Bloody mumbled.

“Perfect!” Lin Huang shouted and held his battle sword in his hand. He dashed towards the ape after activating his Seraphic Speed and Thunder Steps.

“Thunder Sting!”

White sparks shone brightly on the sword while electric arcs dashed into the sky. The combination of the Seraphic Speed, Thunder Steps, and Thunder Sting was so fast that Lin Huang looked like he transformed into a white electric bolt.

The crescent moon sword glow raced towards the ape that was charging towards Lin Huang. The ape swung its muscular arms at Lin Huang, and a loud explosion was heard. A strong gust of wind blew as a shockwave exploded in the air. The white glow collided with the gigantic fists.

Bang!

The collision was not like a thunderclap. Instead, it was like a nuclear bomb explosion. Green and white shockwaves shot into the sky in the center of the collision. Circles of energy waves rippled in the air and spread out. The area within 78.5 square kilometers was completely destroyed.

The collision lasted less than two seconds before a figure shot out like an arrow…

The one remaining was the gigantic ape.

“Such powerful strength!” Lin Huang exclaimed. Although the ape was only an immortal-level rank-2, its strength surpassed an immortal-level rank-3’s standard and was almost equivalent to an immortal-level rank-4’s. Looking at his deformed right hand, Lin Huang could tell that the single collision had broken every bone in his hand.

Fortunately, he managed to heal his hand immediately with the Demonic Regeneration Monster Skill that he had just obtained. Within seconds, his broken bones were completely healed, and the injury seemed like an illusion to him.

“It doesn’t seem to be affected by Thunder Sting at all…” Lin Huang looked solemnly at the monster.

“I need to try something else…”

Chapter 513: Professor Jin

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

From that single attack, Lin Huang was sure that the ape was much more powerful than he expected. Fortunately, his broken hand was healed immediately with the Demonic Regeneration skill which did not affect him much. The ape charged towards him once again. Each step it took brought it 1,000 meters closer, and it was coming right to Lin Huang.

He realized something as he watched what the ape was doing.

“So, this is it… Most apes aren’t only agile but fast as well. However, this fella has an advantage in strength and defense which makes its speed and agility drop tremendously.”

The ape arrived before Lin Huang after a few steps while swinging its fist towards him again. He stepped back with the help of Thunder Step, pulling a distance away from the ape. As the ape swung its fist in the air, there was a sonic boom in the air but Lin Huang was not affected at all. Seeing that he managed to avoid its attack unharmed, the ape chased after him furiously. However, it was not any faster than before.

“It seems that this is its maximum speed. That’s perfect!” Lin Huang smirked.

He leaped into the air and turned around out of nowhere then stormed towards the ape. As the ape raised its fist again, Lin Huang was like a loach that avoided its attack easily. The battle sword in his hand was covered in white, glowing Life Power and he launched it at the ape as it attacked. There were white trails on the ape’s golden scales but it did not manage to break its defense.

Lin Huang stepped back again before the ape managed to swing its fist at him.

“I can’t break it… The defense of these scales should be above immortal-level rank-3 while the thicker metal armor on its back should have a higher defense.” Lin Huang observed both sides of the ape.

Roar!

Suddenly, the ape bellowed furiously into the sky. It was mad as Lin Huang attacked it continuously. Although he did not break its defense, the blows of the sword hurt. Furthermore, it was irritated as it could not hit Lin Huang since the beginning.

“This monster seems not to have any intelligence but relies only on battle instinct.” Lin Huang peeked at his Emperor’s Heart Ring.

“I’ve got 18 minutes left. It’s meaningless to waste time with it like this.”

Lin Huang snapped out of his thoughts and tore towards the ape with his sword.

…

“What’s happening? Who’s fighting on the island?”

The glassware in the huge laboratory under the sea of the Enigma Island was clattering against one another. A petite old man with silver hair in a white coat glared madly at the middle-aged man in the white coat.

“I’m sorry, Professor Jin. A young male human invaded the Enigma Island. He’s fighting with a Tri-headed Ape,” the middle-aged man explained.

“A young man?” The old man named Professor Jin seemed to be interested. “Show me!”

The middle-aged man brought Professor Jin to the surveillance room. There were many of them watching what was happening. They left immediately the moment Professor Jin appeared. He walked to the surveillance monitors where everyone surrounded as he frowned. It was a live stream of Lin Huang fighting the ape.

“He looks so young! He doesn’t look like he’s older than 20!” Professor Jin exclaimed when he saw Lin Huang.

“What’s his combat level?” Professor Jin turned around and asked the middle-aged man next to him after watching for a while.

“He’s performing white flame-level skills but I suspect he’s using some relic to hide his real combat level,” the middle-aged man presumed.

“Usually, it’s impossible for humans to cross a level in battles. Only the legendary Supreme Genius can do that. Besides, the Tri-headed Ape is a double mutated immortal-level rank-2 monster and its strength and defense surpasses immortal-level rank-3. Even an immortal-level rank-2 human can hardly fight it.”

Professor Jin proceeded to watch the fight. After Lin Huang’s failed attempts to attack, he advanced to attack once more but this time, he aimed at the Tri-headed Ape’s lateral sides that were the weakest. Within a minute, the Tri-headed Ape was badly injured. The dejected Tri-headed Ape fell into a frenzy whereby its body grew bigger. Besides its spike in strength and defense, even its speed had increased tremendously.

Lin Huang avoided it calmly like an agile ape that was swinging among the trees. As the Tri-headed Ape showed its flaws again and again, Lin Huang managed to pierce through the 18 eyes on three of its heads with his sword. Finally, he pierced through its heart from the side of its body. The entire process lasted less than ten minutes.

Professor Jin stared at the screen without blinking. He did not want to miss a thing.

“Lock down the island immediately!” He shouted as soon as Lin Huang killed the Tri-headed Ape.

“Yes!”

The middle-aged man took out a Transmission Snail and instructed one of the departments, “Lock down Enigma Island!”

After carrying out the order, the middle-aged man turned around and asked, “Professor, do we kill him?”

“Are you an idiot? Of course, we’re capturing him alive!” Professor Jin shouted.

“I’ll arrange that immediately.” The middle-aged man remained polite.

“Wait, I want to test his ability.” Professor Jin raised his hand to stop him.

“Release ten inferior immortal-level rank-1 beasts from the cage and target this young man.”

“Ten? Won’t he be killed?” The middle-aged man was stunned.

“Get something to watch over him and don’t get him killed! I want him alive!”

“Sure, I’ll arrange that right away.” The middle-aged man nodded and left.

“This kid could be the legendary Supreme Genius. As long as I manage to capture him and run some tests on him, I can definitely make a creature that’s even more powerful!” Professor Jin looked at the screen with burning desire.

…

“Congratulations, you have obtained an epic-level Monster Card – Tri-headed Ape (Unknown Monster Type) x2!”

“Congratulations, you have completed a sextuple cross-ranking kill with reward card draw x30!”

“I got a complete Monster Card?” Lin Huang raised an eyebrow. The ten cross-ranking kills had gotten him 300 card draws and to his surprise, he obtained complete Monster Cards twice.

“I’ve told you that I need many modified monsters for research. These two Tri-headed Apes are my advanced reward for you. Unfortunately, I have bad news. The island is being locked down…”

Chapter 514: A Little Game

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

“There’s someone on the island?!”

The first thing that popped into Lin Huang’s mind was the Purple Crow when Xiao Hei told him that the island had been locked down as the three fiends in his possession had been brought by the Purple Crow to the auction.

“I’ve checked the island these few days. There’s no man-made building. The lock down must’ve been done by humans. The enemy is either hiding under the island or somewhere outside of the island but I’m pretty sure that we’re being watched,” Bloody analyzed.

Lin Huang turned on the communication page on his Emperor’s Heart Ring and found out that signal and network had been cut off.

“The signal has been cut. I definitely can’t use the dimensional relic anymore.” Lin Huang summoned his dimensional relic and found out that he could not set any location.

He recalled the dimensional relic and waved to the three fiends in the sky.

“Follow me!” He ordered and flew straight up to the sky. Within seconds, he arrived thousands of meters in the sky but was soon blocked by a transparent shield and could not get any further. He held his sword in his hand and white Life Power was coming out of the sword…

Suddenly, an excited voice came out of nowhere. It echoed to every corner of the island and sounded old.

“It’s useless, kid. Nobody below imperial-level can break the seal layer of the island. You can’t run anywhere. Just accept your fate of being my guinea pig!”

“We’re really being watched.” Lin Huang frowned and but he did not stop trying. He swung his sword at the shield on top of his head with his Star Dome. An intense impact was sent through his sword and he was shot right down. He crashed into the ground like a cannon. A crater hundreds of meters wide and at least 20 to 30 meters deep was created.

The three fiends caught up to him immediately and landed next to the hole.

“Master, are you alright?” The Witch asked immediately.

“I’m alright.”

Lin Huang got up from the hole slowly and coughed the sand in his mouth out. He then used his Life Power to clear the dirt on his body and flew to the surface.

“This shield should be all around the island. Since I can’t break it, what he said about those below imperial-level not being able to penetrate it is true. Seems like I need to think of another way to escape.” Lin Huang looked into the sky wistfully.

“Stop trying. There’s no way that you can run,” the old person spoke again.

“Oh yeah, I’ve prepared a little game exclusively for you. I hope you’ll have fun.”

“A little game?” Lin Huang frowned and soon, he sensed that he was being targeted by something which was heading towards him at full speed. He immediately understood what the person meant by “game”. Within minutes, ten ruthless shadows streaked towards him, ignoring the three fiends.

“Ten immortal-level rank-1… Such odd aura! They’re also uglier than one another.” Lin Huang put his sword away and slipped his hands into his pockets while grinning to the fiends.

“I’ll let you guys handle these ten.”

The three fiends were excited when they heard his instruction. The Witch performed a hand seal immediately. As the ten monsters were less than ten meters away from Lin Huang, ten purple vines with thorns grew out of the ground and entangled the monsters’ ankles. The vines then crawled up the monsters in an instant. The monsters’ body turned a plum color like they had been poisoned.

Lin Huang knew that it was not poison though. The vine was called the Crippling Vine, and it was a type of vine enchanted with witchcraft. Once someone was entangled by the vine, the person would be weakened whereby his strength and speed would drop by 10%. The thorns on the vines were not poisonous, but it was painful and itchy. It would be a form of living death if one was to be entangled by these vines. However, if one encountered monsters with powerful defenses, the thorns would be redundant.

As the Witch attacked, the other fiends followed as well. They had great teamwork. The Inferior Imp activated its Telepathy and covered the four of them in a circle. An intense wave shot the ten monsters out of the circle and prevented them from coming closer. Meanwhile, the Malachian Fiend punched through the two monsters’ abdomens that had turned plum without thinking twice. Without even looking at both the monsters, it turned around and started punching another two monsters…

Suddenly, there were black flames on two of the Inferior Imp’s claws. It was mauling the other two monsters ruthlessly.

The Witch was performing well too as she grabbed two figures and tossed them into the carcasses of the dead monsters that the Malachian Fiend had killed. The two dead monsters were revived and they dashed towards a monster after passing through Lin Huang and the rest…

In less than a minute, the ten immortal-level rank-1 monsters were completely slaughtered by the three fiends. Despite being killed, all of them were controlled by the Witch’s parasitic worms and they were revived. As the three fiends transferred their Life Power to him, Lin Huang could feel intense Life Power flowing into his Life Fire. His Life Fire was akin to being lit up with gasoline and burning wildly.

The immortal-level monster’s Life Power was the ultimate replenishment to Lin Huang’s Life Fire. Ten of his Life Fires that had been less than 30 centimeters tall was now burning at 1.5 meters. Almost every monster kill gave them a 10-centimeter growth spurt. As his Life Fire was stronger now, he could feel that his Life Power was more powerful now and his abilities had increased as well.

“The Life Power of the ten immortal-level rank-1 monsters only made my Life Fire grow more than one meter tall!” Lin Huang thought that killing one immortal-level monster would make his Life Fire grow by a meter but it was only 10% of what he expected.

“It seems like growing Life Fire isn’t easy!”

As he observed his Life Fire, the old man spoke again, “Hmm, so the game isn’t difficult enough. Let’s go big. I want to see how long can you stand this!”

Chapter 515: The Weird Old Man

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

In a huge laboratory deep in the sea under the Enigma Island, the silver-haired Professor Jin was excited as he watched the three fiends from the screen. He did not seem to be sad about losing ten inferior monsters.

“Let 50 monsters out this time. I don’t believe the kid won’t fight this time,” Professor Jin instructed without even turning his head. His eyes were locked on Lin Huang on the screen.

“Yes!” The middle-aged man in white coat nodded and made the arrangements using his Transmission Snail. When the old man spoke again, Lin Huang sensed that he was being targeted again.

“It seems like there’s more this time.” Lin Huang frowned.

A few minutes later, he saw an army of monsters of different varieties raining from the sky. They released their aura and headed towards him like a vampire desiring blood. Just like the previous ten monsters, they completely ignored the existence of the three fiends. They were ugly and they looked like aliens that were not part of this world.

“These should be modified monsters since I can’t differentiate their types. Their minds are in a mess. Perhaps it was caused by over-modification. All they have is their battle instinct and they just attack the target that they are assigned,” Bloody said to Lin Huang.

“Is there anything that can kill them fast?” Lin Huang asked.

“I can’t think of anything. As my combat level is restricted, most of my parasitic ability only works on holy fire-level. Although I can control immortal-level rank-1 monster carcasses, the effect is almost the same with the Witch’s parasitic worms. Now there are too many monsters, so the only thing we can do is to kill more monsters for the parasitic worms and control the monster carcasses to join the fight. The more monster carcasses, the more advantage we have.” Bloody did not have any better suggestions, but what it recommended was what Lin Huang had in mind.

“Well, I guess that’s the only thing that we can do.” Lin Huang accepted the fact.

The 50 monsters headed towards them in an instant. As the Witch controlled ten monster carcasses that were cast with parasitic worms, she activated the Crippling Vine towards the monsters. The Malachian Fiend dashed into the monster crowd and started punching. Almost every punch took a life. Meanwhile, the Inferior Imp changed its battle strategy. Instead of controlling like the Witch did, it joined the massacre with the Malachian Fiend. With its sharp claws added with Abyssal Fire, its speed of killing was no slower than the Malachian Fiend’s.

Lin Huang took out his battle sword and killed the monsters that broke the three fiends’ defenses easily. As the Witch was controlling the monster carcasses, she was releasing parasitic worms into more and more monster carcasses. The battle lasted less than two minutes. The monsters that were on Lin Huang’s side soon outnumbered the number of monsters who were attacking them. They were winning effortlessly, and the 50 immortal-level rank-1 monsters were settled within four minutes.

After this round of battle, Lin Huang’s ten Life Fires were burning at six meters high now. Besides the monsters that he killed and did not obtain their Life Power, the rest were fed to his Life Fire.

“Let’s see if it will burn even higher after 50 meters,” Lin Huang mumbled as he observed the Life Fire in his body. Rank-3 mutated tinder could burn 50 meters, but he was not sure if the tinder in his body was a rank-3 or a rank-4.

As he snapped out of his thoughts, Lin Huang looked at the monster army that was surrounding him. With the Witch’s parasitic worms, they obtained 50 more guardian monsters after the battle. As the monsters that were cast with parasitic worms were dead, they could still fight even though their heads were crushed since they did not have any senses anymore. As long as the parasitic worms were alive, they would continue to fight forever without tiring. It was a great advantage. Furthermore, the monsters that the old man released had no basic intelligence, so the monsters could do nothing as they were controlled by the parasitic worms.

Even though Lin Huang had a monster army now, he frowned as he knew it would not end so easily.

“Witch, can your parasitic worms control immortal-level rank-2 monster carcasses?” Lin Huang asked Witch telepathically.

“I can’t. Immortal-level rank-1 is the maximum.” The Witch shook her head.

“If that’s so, it’s going to get tricky…” Although he expected the Witch to give such an answer, he was worried when he heard the confirmation.

Just when Lin Huang was thinking, the old man spoke again, “Young man, congratulations for passing the level-2 challenge. The game’s difficulty level will proceed to increase. Let’s go to level-3 now!

“In this round, we’re giving you 30 immortal-level rank-2 monsters. Will you be able to pass this level? We shall see!”

“Such a weird old man…” Lin Huang mumbled but he remained focused.

He expected that the difficulty level would increase when the 50 immortal-level rank-1 monsters were released earlier.

“I’ve detected that the most powerful monster on this island is an immortal-level rank-8. Looking at the situation, the entire island is the old man’s fun laboratory. Since there’s an immortal-level rank-8 here, that means they have a monster army on the same level.”

“Judging from the current situation, even if we manage to defeat the immortal-level rank-2 monster army, there will be rank-3, rank-4 and even rank-5 monsters coming to us. As long as we continue to fight, the old man will definitely send monsters that are more powerful to kill us. If that persists, we’ll lose sooner or later. We must think of a way to leave as soon as possible!” Bloody said urgently to Lin Huang.

“I realized that when the monsters were sent for the second time,” Lin Huang replied.

“We’ll leave when my Life Fire burns at its peak later. It’s meaningless to stay here. Even if this is the Purple Crow’s foothold, there’s nothing that I can do now with my current ability.”

“How do we escape?” Bloody asked.

“I have a way.” Lin Huang had a plan since the beginning.

“Before we leave, I need you to check how he’s monitoring us. It would be perfect if you could deactivate his surveillance for some time. If you can’t do that, maybe cover the surveillance with something.”

“Sure, I’ll try my best,” Bloody replied.

Chapter 516: I Don’t Want to Play with You Anymore

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Just when Lin Huang was done discussing with Bloody, dozens of powerful aura appeared out of nowhere. They were pushing towards where Lin Huang and the rest were.

“They’re here!”

Lin Huang looked in the distance as he saw shadows descending from the sky. Their aura was much more powerful than the 60 monsters that had been sent earlier. It was like comparing domestic dogs to hungry lions.

Lin Huang knew that it was a tough battle. The bunch of immortal-level rank-2 monsters were on par with the abilities of the three fiends. The only flaw the monsters had was that they had no intelligence. Without waiting for the monsters to come closer, the 60 monster carcasses that were controlled by the Witch charged towards them. At that same time, the Witch performed a hand seal immediately while strands of vines came out of the ground. Besides the purple Crippling Vine, there were also black Paralyzing Vines.

The Paralyzing Vines could inject paralyzing poison into the creature’s bodies. As soon as the vine broke, the poison that shot out of it would be a few times even more powerful. The two types of vines crawled swiftly towards the monsters. The 30 immortal-level rank-2 monster that had lost their minds had their eyes on Lin Huang. They did not avoid the vines that were reaching towards them and soon, all of them were slowed down by the 60 monster carcasses as well as the vines.

The Malachian Fiend and the Inferior Imp’s bodies started growing tremendously. The Malachian Fiend grew from two to five meters, its greenish rock body now became blue. The scales on its arms had crystallized into a bluish-black, jagged matter. Its aura was also a few more times more powerful than before. Meanwhile, the Inferior Imp that was next to it was no longer five meters tall as well. Its body was burning in a crimson-black flame. The flame was hot, so fiery that the air around was distorted and its aura was much more terrifying than ever.

As the both of them grew, they darted towards the monsters that were slowed down. The movement of the 30 immortal-level rank-2 monsters was interfered by the 60 monsters and the Witch’s vines. Meanwhile, the Malachian Fiend and the Inferior Imp dashed into the monster crowd. Lin Huang did not join the fight as he watched. Bloody that was hiding in his sleeve released transparent flecks everywhere. It could now change the color of its Leech Pods to whatever color that it wanted, including making them transparent.

Among the monster crowd, the Malachian Fiend targeted its first opponent. It looked like a deformed human monster. It was over two meters tall and walked on both legs. However, its head was twice the size of a normal human’s and its entire body was covered in citrine scales, including its face. The monster was entangled by two vines while two immortal-level rank-1 monsters attacked it. However, it did not seem to be hurt at all. It then mauled one of the monster carcasses with its claws, leaving a massive hole in its chest. Had the monster carcass been alive, it would definitely have been killed by that single attack. However, under the control of the parasitic worms, the monster carcass was not affected by the attack and it proceeded to attack the monster that was filled with scales.

The Malachian Fiend then headed towards the scaled monster and punched hard on its chest. The scaled monster had turned purple from the Crippling Vine since the beginning and its defense had fallen by tenfold. However, the Malachian Fiend’s punch only managed to cave its chest in and break some of its ribs. It did not die and instead, it attacked the Malachian Fiend back in pain.

The two monsters started fighting each other aggressively. However, due to the vines that were entangling it as well as the two monster carcasses that were surrounding it, the scaled monster soon lost the battle. In less than half a minute, the Malachian Fiend smashed its skull and the monster was dead. Although the fight took less than a minute, it was a tough one for the Malachian Fiend. Meanwhile, the Inferior Imp was experiencing almost the same situation. Without its Abyssal Fire, its strength was weaker than the Malachian Fiend’s. With the burning of the Abyssal Fire, it took less than half a minute to kill its first opponent.

“This isn’t very efficient…” Sensing that the Life Fire in his body growing, Lin Huang was not relaxed at all. Looking at the monsters that were slowly being killed, he pulled out his battle sword and ran into the monster crowd. A white glow enveloped his sword as he dashed among the crowd like a lightning bolt. He did not stop moving. Each of his sword swings were quick and each attack left a couple of deep cuts on those immortal-level rank-2 monsters. That was the maximum that he was performing as his aim was to injure the monsters and not kill them as he would not obtain any Life Power if he were to kill the monsters himself.

The monsters that were cut by Lin Huang experienced an instant deterioration in their abilities. The two fiends then proceeded to kill the monsters that were hurt. They aimed their attacks at the wounds that Lin Huang left on the monsters, successfully killing the monsters within two to three seconds. The immortal-level rank-2 monsters were killed one by one. As they fell to the ground, the Life Fire in Lin Huang grew tremendously within minutes.

When all of the monsters were dead, he looked at the Life Fire in his body.

“Each immortal-level rank-2 monsters gives a growth of over ten meters but it stopped growing at 300 meters…” Before Lin Huang started the battle, his Life Fire had been burning at over six meters. From his observation, each immortal-level rank-2 monster would give him a boost of over ten meters. Theoretically, killing all 30 monsters would at least give his Life Fire a boost of at least 330 meters. However, it had stopped at 300 meters.

“It seems like 300 meters is the limit of my tinder.”

After confirming that, Lin Huang knew that his mission had come to an end and it was unnecessary to stay any longer.

“Bloody, did you manage to pick up on how they are monitoring us?” Lin Huang contacted Bloody secretly as he picked up the monster carcasses.

“I’ve tried looking around with my Leech Pods but I can’t find anyone who is monitoring or if there are any monitoring monsters around,” Bloody answered helplessly.

“I suspect they’re using the defense layer on top of us to watch us. The areas that are covered by the shield should be within their surveillance.”

Lin Huang looked up into the sky.

“If that’s the case, we can’t carry out the plan that we had earlier…”

The old man spoke again before Lin Huang finished picking up the monster carcasses, “Young man, it seems like your parasitic worms can only control immortal-level rank-1 monsters… Will you lose if I increase the difficulty to level-4 by releasing 100 immortal-level rank-2 monsters?! I want to know the answer so badly…”

“You crazy old man!” Lin Huang shouted, furious that the old man treated him like a toy.

“Xiao Hei, I definitely can’t handle the fourth wave. Are these 90 monster carcasses enough for your research? If not, we’ll have to come back next time. I might be captured by this crazy old man for his research if we stay any longer,” Lin Huang contacted Xiao Hei secretly.

“Yes, they’re enough. Remember to store all of the monster carcasses before you leave,” Xiao Hei replied immediately.

“Witch, relieve all the parasitic worms,” Lin Huang turned around and instructed the Witch.

The Witch performed a hand seal and the monster carcasses fell onto the ground one by one. They were put into Lin Huang’s storage space immediately.

“What? Are you giving up now?” The old man spoke again. It was clear that he was watching whatever Lin Huang was doing.

Lin Huang shrugged his shoulders and recalled the three of his fiends as well as Bloody. It was just him alone.

“You’re smart. As long you’re willing to cooperate with my research, I’ll consider keeping your conscience and modify you, making you a truly powerful person.” The old man thought Lin Huang had completely given up fighting back.

“May I know how to address you?” Lin Huang asked while looking into the sky.

“You can call me Professor Jin.” The old man did not bother hiding his identity.

“Professor Jin, I’ll remember you…” Suddenly, Lin Huang smirked and pointed a finger into the sky. A white glow accumulated at his fingertip, growing brighter and brighter.

“Still trying to fight?” Professor Jin sounded sarcastic.

Within seconds, the white glow blossomed into a white sphere that was the size of a fist. Lin Huang flicked his finger and the white sphere exploded in the sky as it was flung a few meters high. The bright white glow covered a few kilometers.

“Crazy old man, I’ll remember what happened today. I’ll come back to end this one day. I have things to do, so I won’t play with you anymore for now. Bye!” Lin Huang’s voice came softly among the white light. He then crushed a card between his fingers, then his body turned into a cloud and he disappeared into the ground…

As the white glow faded, Professor Jin was stunned to see that Lin Huang was no longer where he stood.

“He’s gone?”

He got all his staff to scrutinize the surveillance cameras on the entire island. However, half an hour had passed but Lin Huang was still nowhere to be seen. He finally realized that Lin Huang had escaped and was furious.

“I don’t care how you do it. You guys have to find that kid for me!!!”

Chapter 517: Scarborough Workshop

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

As Professor Jin got everyone to search for Lin Huang on the island, Lin Huang had dove underground after transforming himself into the Spectre. As he went deeper, he found out that the middle of the island was hollow. There were many monsters of different varieties hiding underground. To his surprise, there was an entrance leading to the ground.

“So, the monsters that attacked us were released from here.” Lin Huang could not figure out where the monsters had come from earlier, but he had the answer now. In the hollow island was a huge space with many different monsters. There was also some staff in white coats working there. Lin Huang initially wanted to leave immediately, yet he could not help but take some photos as he strolled around the island within the walls.

“The staff are all wearing white coats. None of them are wearing the Purple Crow uniform. Are they not from the Purple Crow?” After a brief exploration, Lin Huang started suspecting that it was not the Purple Crow’s base as he could not find any of the organization’s logo there. Under normal circumstance, even the laboratory staff should have the Purple Crow logo emblazoned on their white coats. However, Lin Huang could not find any sign of the logo on their clothes. They looked more like doctors in normal hospitals.

However, considering his current situation, Lin Huang did not dwell on it as he proceeded to dive deeper…

There were many floors under the base on this island. There were monsters of different types on different floors, and Lin Huang felt dizzy looking at all the monsters.

“There are really immortal-level rank-8 and even rank-9 monsters here…” The deeper the floor, the more powerful the monsters that were captured. Lin Huang’s pupils dilated slightly when he saw the hundreds of immortal-level rank-8 and rank-9 monsters.

If a few imperial-level humans were to control these powerful monsters, they could destroy an A-grade foothold easily. These monsters were not probably trained by a run-of-the-mill organization.

“Is it really not the Purple Crow?” Lin Huang thought only a handful of top underground organizations could afford to do this. If it was not the Purple Crow, it had to be another top organization that was just as powerful as the Purple Crow.

Lin Huang did not stay any longer after snapping some pictures. The more he saw what was in the organization, the more he thought he should leave. As he dove into the bottom of the island, he entered the ocean as the Spectre. When he was ready to summon his dimensional relic, Lin Huang saw a light under the ocean. He hesitated and gave in to his curiosity, swimming towards the light. As he transformed into the Spectre, he did not have to worry about the water pressure or breathing difficulties. He soon dove hundreds of meters deeper where the light was getting brighter.

“This is a… base?!” As he dived 4,000 meters down, Lin Huang finally saw the source of the light. It was an underground base that was covered in a transparent defense layer that isolated it from the ocean. Looking at the bubbles, Lin Huang could tell that the island lockdown earlier had been orchestrated by the people from this base. He did not get closer as he locked eyes on the top of the base. There was a weird logo on it that looked like a table knife tilted in a circle.

“A table knife? Which organization is this?” Lin Huang could not recall any underground organization with such a logo. When he was in the Purple Crow training camp, he had learned most of the organization logos in Division 7, but he did not remember any of them having a table knife as a logo. He snapped a couple of photos but did not get any closer. Although he was in the Spectre form right now, he could not get into the base as there wasa defense layer around it. He decided to leave as soon as he could after snapping the pictures. After he was a distance away from the island, Lin Huang summoned his dimensional relic in the ocean and left.

…

In a control room under the sea, a bunch of staff was working hard. The silver-haired Professor Jin looked upset as Lin Huang was nowhere to be found on the island.

“Professor, we’ve looked all over the island, but we can’t find him. The only possibility is that he has escaped,” the middle-aged man next to him said.

“How is that possible? Isn’t the island locked down? Where could he have possibly run to?!” Professor Jin could not accept the fact.

“It’s not difficult for him to escape if he has a supreme escaping relic with him to break free from the lockdown,” the man explained softly.

“Besides a relic, if he has earth attributes skills or penetrating skills, he can escape from underground. The island is too big. The setting of the lockdown mainly focuses on the top of the island, and excludes the underground.”

“It has been more than half an hour now. No matter what he used, it’s sufficient time for him to activate a dimensional relic to escape,” the man speculated with a helpless expression.

“All of you are useless!” Professor Jin seemed to realize that what the man told him was the truth and became mad.

“If anything like this happens again, you guys should get ready to be fed to the monsters.”

The staff in the control room had cold sweat trickling down their backs.

“You have 24 hours to find out who exactly this kid is!” Professor Kin stomped out of the control room after bellowing.

…

After escaping from the ocean, Lin Huang returned to the Martial Hunter College dorm. He did not have the time to catch up on the past few days as he called Mr. Fu straight away.

As he explained what happened to Mr. Fu, he sent the photos that he had snapped on the island.

“Master, which organization does this table knife logo belong to?” Lin Huang could tell from Mr. Fu’s expression that he was familiar with the organization.

“What table knife?! That’s a surgical knife!” Mr. Fu chortled before explaining.

“This organization is called the Scarborough Workshop, or at least that’s what it was called 200 years ago. I’m not sure what it’s called now. The founder of the organization is a crazy old man. He’s very powerful and is one of my oldest opponents. He was beaten up by me badly. I thought he’d be dead by now, but it seems like he’s still alive…”

“Do you mean Professor Jin?” Lin Huang asked.

“No, Professor Jin is his apprentice. He used to have two apprentices. I killed the first one, and Professor Jin is the second one. I’m not sure if he has any new apprentice now,” Mr. Fu said like he could not care less.

“I don’t care what they’re doing, but they would never dare to touch you, so there’s nothing to worry about. Especially Professor Jin, he’ll be glad that he didn’t do anything to you when he finds out who you are.”

…

“Mr…. Mr. Fu’s apprentice…” Looking at Lin Huang’s details on the screen, Professor Jin became pale, and his heart was beating fast. The middle-aged man did not notice his reaction while he continued to look at the screen.

“This Lin Huang kid is working at the Martial Hunter College. Should I get someone to bring him back?”

“This is the end of it. Nobody touches this Lin Huang!” Professor Jin was even more upset after hearing the man’s suggested and shouted.

“But didn’t you say…” The man could not understand Professor Jin’s reaction.

“I don’t care what I said before. Everything before isn’t important now! The most important thing is that you must remember what I’m saying now. Lin Huang has never been here, and we have never had any conflicts with him!” Professor Jin looked seriously across the room.

All of the staff nodded immediately while remembering Lin Huang’s name. They could not understand how the kid could make Professor Jin so fearful.

Professor Jin headed straight to the washroom after leaving the control room. He panted as he leaned against the bathroom door after locking it. He snapped out of it after a while and washed his face. He had almost wet his pants when he saw Mr. Fu’s photo with that seemingly kind face on the screen. He still remembered how scary Mr. Fu was…

Chapter 518: Special Cards

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

The Scarborough Workshop was a powerful organization that was founded in the olden days. They mainly researched genetics where they were looking into genetic elixirs in the beginning, but they also secretly worked on genetic modification and artificial humans. Later on, as the new era came, the organization started researching on various monsters and modifications. They integrated the genetics of monsters and humans to come up with modified humans.

Scarborough’s owner, Si Nan, was not only powerful. He was also a genius scientist who supported human evolution. He said the new era was a world of new human beings. Those humans who refused to be modified would die with history. Lin Huang retrieved the basic information about the Scarborough Workshop from Mr. Fu. Although Mr. Fu only knew that the organization headquarters was located in Division 2 200 years ago, he had no idea where it was now. However, he asked Lin Huang not to worry about the organization as they were not a threat to him.

“It seems like the Scarborough Workshop sold the three fiends to the Purple Crow or they had some collaboration going on,” Lin Huang speculated from what Mr. Fu told him.

The Scarborough Workshop had modification businesses which many underground organizations worked with since hundreds of years ago. It was highly possible that the Purple Crow had bought the fiends from the Scarborough Workshop to join their army. However, both the organizations could be collaborating with each other.

Lin Huang thought it was normal that Professor Jin did not recognize the three fiends as they looked a lot more different than before. The fiends had appeared much more terrifying when Lin Huang found them at the Mystery Auction. When they were made into cards, their appearances were restored back to how the fiends usually looked like. However, according to Xiao Hei, the fiends’ modification data remained in their memories, which made them powerful enough to fight immortal-level rank-2 monsters when they were only double mutated gold flame-levels.

Lin Huang did not dwell on it further after finding out that the Scarborough Workshop was not a threat to him. However, he remembered clearly that Professor Jin had treated him like a toy and wanted to turn him into his guinea pig. He did not plan to look for Professor Jin at the moment as he was incapable of fighting him now. He would go back for him when he was more powerful in the future.

It was clear that Mr. Fu would teach the Scarborough Workshop a lesson as he had said that he would talk to Si Nan soon. Lin Huang decided to forget about the incident while browsing through the rewards that he had obtained in the past few days.

“The mission took me a total of four days, and the ten Life Fires in my body are burning at 300 meters now, which exceeds the 50-meter limit of rank-3 tinder. I also got four epic-level monsters, two Black Serpents, and two Tri-headed Apes. However, as my combat level is restricted, these four monsters are suppressed at gold flame-level instead of its previous immortal-level rank-1. The main reward is the cross-ranking rewards…” His eyes lit up when he thought about that.

“300 card draws!”

Before Lin Huang reached white flame-level, he had less than 100 functional cards excluding Monster Cards. The mission this time had rewarded him with 300 card draws. It was like a lousy player who gotten $5 million and became a platinum player.

“300… Hehehe…” As he giggled to himself, Xiao Hei’s notification came through.

“You have accumulated 100 card draws this time, and that has activated a new function. I didn’t remind you earlier. I shall explain to you now before you draw the cards.”

“A new function?” Lin Huang was excited.

“The first new function would be a specific card draw whereby you’ll get one specific card that you desire for every ten card draws. Of course, the specific card may be either a Skill Card, an Item Card, a Function Card and even a Monster Card but not a Special Card.”

“Special Card?” Lin Huang was surprised to hear that. He was familiar with the four types of card that Xiao Hei had listed, but it was his first time hearing about a Special Card.

“A Special Card is a supreme card such as the Revival Card that can revive a dead person, the Invincible Card that makes a person immune to all harm and the Time Freezing Card that can stop time… The Deceiving Card that you used the last time is also a Special Card which allows you to hide away, deceiving every living thing in the world.”

Lin Huang was stunned at what Xiao Hei informed him as the effect of these cards were incredibly attractive.

“How about the second new function?” He only snapped out of his daydream zone a while later.

“The second new function will be the ability to obtain a Special Card. This function allows you to obtain one Special Card with 100 card draws. The card that you’ll get is random; there’s nothing I can do about it.”

“So that means I’ll only get three Special Cards for 300 card draws and what I get is random…” Lin Huang was tempted after hearing the effects of the Special Card. However, he remained rational.

“Xiao Hei, if I draw my cards now, I’ll definitely have the chance of getting a Special Card. Am I right?”

“Yes, but the probabilities are slim.”

“Do you have a more specific ratio?” Lin Huang asked.

“No. All I can tell you is that if you’re not lucky, the probability of getting it will be zero.”

“That depends on my looks then…” Lin Huang became gloomy after hearing Xiao Hei’s answer. He always hated games that depended on looks. Although he thought he had become luckier when he got to this world, he was still traumatized from playing ‘Master XX’ the last time.

Lin Huang made his decision a while later.

“Never mind then, I shall keep a hundred card draws for an emergency. If I ever encounter something threatening, at least I’ll have something that I can depend on.” He was insecure ever since he got to this world. After thinking about it, he decided not to draw all of the cards now.

“I should have enough for 200 card draws.”

“Xiao Hei, show me the cards that I can choose from!” Lin Huang said to Xiao Hei.

“I have randomly picked 3,600 cards for you. Pick 200 cards from these 3,600 cards as your reward.”

Lin Huang was surrounded by an ocean of cards as Xiao Hei spoke. It was like a card frenzy had set upon him…

Chapter 519: 200 Card Rewards!

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

The 3,600 cards floated in the air and surrounded Lin Huang like a gigantic circle. They looked exactly the same. The cards were all black with a flaming golden question mark in the middle. Lin Huang knew that what he would get depended on his looks. There was no skill to this, and there was no way to cheat around this. He could only pick the cards by his instinct. He took a deep breath and looked at each of them. Soon, he intuitively pointed at the cards.

“This one, this one, this one…”

All of the cards that he picked seemed to be lit up on fire. As the black faded away, the cards became flaming golden cards that stood out among the rest. He finally picked 200 cards half an hour later. The remaining 3,400 cards that were not chosen disintegrated into pieces and disappeared. The 200 cards that he had picked were arranged into ten rows of 20 cards each. The flames on the cards faded away, revealing what they were.

“Congratulations, the 200 new cards that you have obtained are as below:”

“Epiphany Card x1.”

“Skill Card x1.”

“Flawless Card x2.”

“Seal Card x2.”

“Theft Card x2.”

“Plunder Card x3.”

“Challenge Card x3.”

“Transportation Card x3.”

“Misfortune Card x3”

“Duplication Card x3.”

“Cloning Card x4.”

“Disguise Card x4.”

“Reborn Card x5.”

“Treasure Card x5.”

“Trap Card x6.”

“Mission Card x7.”

“Crippling Card x8.”

“Healing Card x11.”

“Item Card x17.”

“Advanced Card x25.”

“Time Cabin x1”

“Medium Destruction Card x3.”

“Skill Combination Card x4”

“Provisional Summoning Card x5”

“Provisional Transformation Card x8.”

“Skill Extraction Card x11.”

“Double Reward Card x12.”

“Monster Upgrade Card x16.”

“One-Time Skill Card x7.”

“Provisional Combat Strength Upgrade Card x4.”

“Blood Thickening Card x7.”

Lin Huang was satisfied with the cards that he obtained. Besides the additional Strengthening Cards that he already had, there were new cards that he had never seen before. He started looking at them one by one.

“Theft Card. Gives you the ability to steal one skill from your target and make the skill yours. Escape Card. Escape from any dangerous situations that you encounter upon activation. Plunder Card. Obtain three relics of a specific target within coverage. Misfortune Card. The specific target will experience three consecutive days of misfortune and the person’s fortune level will be negative…”

Lin Huang was excited as many of the new cards were practical.

“Now that I have enough Advanced Cards, I can finally upgrade Tyrant and Kylie to legendary-level.” Lin Huang had his eyes on the Advanced Cards. He initially had five with him. With the additional 25, he now had 30 Advanced Cards, so he did not have to worry about that for the meantime.

As he looked at all the cards, Lin Huang looked at the Monster Upgrade Card that appeared in his hand.

“Monster Upgrade Card: Once activated, a specific monster will be upgraded one rank higher permanently.

“Remark 1: Limitless cards can be used at once.

“Remark 2: Consumable. Each card can be used once. It’ll disappear once activated.”

“Xiao Hei, it says that limitless cards can be used at once. Does that mean if I have enough cards, I can upgrade my Monster Card from imperial-level to demi-level?”

“Of course not. Limitless means there’s no limit to how many Monster Upgrade Cards that you use on one Monster Card, but it’ll still be restricted by your combat level.”

“You’re white flame-level now, so the most your Monster Cards can be upgraded to will be gold flame-level. You can’t use the Monster Upgrade Card on them anymore.”

“If that’s so, why is blue flame-level the highest that I can upgrade Bai and Charcoal?” Lin Huang asked a question that had been bothering him.

“That’s the side effect of synchronized leveling up. When you were silver-level, your restriction was gold-level rank-3. When you reached complete gold-level, your restriction should have increased from gold-level to white flame-level, but since you had yet to unseal your Monster Cards, your Monster Cards stayed at complete gold-level, which made the synchronized level up to fail.

“Usually, when you’re gold-level rank-1, your Monster Cards will be at white flame-level. When you’re gold-level rank-2, your Monster Cards will be at crimson flame-level. When you’re gold-level rank-3, they’ll be at blue flame-level. When you’re complete gold-level, they’ll be at purple flame-level. However, you only started unsealing your Monster Cards when you were gold-level rank-3. That’s why when you were at gold-level rank-3, your Monster Cards were only at white flame-level, which resulted in your current situation whereby you’re already white flame-level, but your Monster Cards are only on blue flame-level. In reality, your Monster Cards should stay on gold flame-level now.”

“Is this why the three fiends experienced synchronized leveling up as they did not require unsealing?” Lin Huang finally understood after Xiao Hei’s explanation.

“Yes.”

“However, on different levels, your Monster Cards will have different restrictions. On holy fire-level, your combat level will be white flame-level while your Monster Cards will be at gold flame-level. However, when it comes to immortal-level, if you’re immortal-level rank 1, your Monster Cards’ restriction will be at immortal-level rank-9. But the level up will remain at the same speed where when you’re on immortal-level rank-1, the most your Monster Cards can be at is immortal-level rank-5 looking at your progress now. Under normal circumstances, you can actually upgrade your Monster Cards to immortal-level rank-9 when you have enough Monster Upgrade Cards.”

“I understand now.” Lin Huang nodded.

From what Xiao Hei had explained, as long as he had enough Monster Upgrade Cards, he could upgrade all of his Monster Cards to immortal-level rank-9 when he got to immortal-level. Thinking about the potential explosive ability upgrade, Lin Huang was excited. It was past noon when he put away all of his cards.

“It’s Tuesday today, and I have class three days later. I shall drop by Meteorite Desert these three days to upgrade my Monster Cards to legendary-level. Before that, I’ll have lunch.”

Chapter 520: Group Upgrade

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Lin Huang arrived in the isolated space in the Meteorite Desert before 1 p.m. on Tuesday. This place was the only place where the monsters’ triple mutation would be completely isolated and would not get any attention from powerful humans or monsters. Lin Huang summoned a total of eight summoning monsters which were Bai, Charcoal, Tyrant, Bloody, Ghastly, Lancelot, Kylie, and the Sanguine Skeletal Spirit.

Besides Bloody, the other summoning monsters were puzzled as there was no battle going on when they were summoned.

“I’m summoning all of you to upgrade your abilities as a whole. First, there’ll be an upgrade in your combat level. All of you are on the blue flame-level now. You’ll be upgraded to the gold flame-level and have 16 cards. In reality, I have exactly 16 Monster Upgrade Cards; no more and no less, and all of them go to you guys.” Lin Huang did not think that it was a pity to use all of his Monster Upgrade Cards to upgrade his monsters anyway. As he did not have anymore Monster Upgrade Cards, he decided to put Thunder aside as it was not meant for battle.

“Xiao Hei, activate all of the Monster Upgrade Cards. Two cards for each of them,” Lin Huang instructed.

“Monster Upgrade Card x16 will upgrade the eight monsters from the blue flame-level to the gold flame-level. Are you sure about using Monster Upgrade Card x16 to upgrade these eight monsters standing here?”

“Yes.” Lin Huang nodded.

“Monster Upgrade Card x16 has been activated. Upgrading the targeted monsters…”

When Xiao Hei’s notification was heard, the auras of Bai and the rest were increasing tremendously. Within seconds, they leveled up from the blue flame-level to the purple flame-level and seconds later, they leveled up to the gold flame-level. Their aura only stopped growing when they reached the complete gold flame-level. The entire process took less than half a minute.

They were surprised to sense that their combat level was two ranks higher now.

“Bai, you guys have completed your triple mutation. I’ll recall all of you now,” Lin Huang said to his four monsters that had completed triple mutation. Then, he recalled Bai, Bloody, Charcoal, and Ghastly into card form. If he did not have the limit of only summoning ten monsters at a time, he did not mind letting Bai and the rest stay and watch.

After recalling the monsters, Lin Huang summoned the three fiends, two Black Serpents, and a Tri-headed Ape. The Black Serpents and the Tri-headed Ape had shrunk. Looking at the ten monsters standing before him, Lin Huang could not summon the last Tri-headed Ape that he had. In reality, the Tri-headed Ape now had only one head and two arms after being restored by Xiao Hei as it was made into card form. However, its other two heads and four arms could grow out if it wanted them to.

“I only have 30 Advanced Cards, so the last Tri-headed Ape will have to wait,” Lin Huang mumbled to himself as he looked at the ape that he had summoned.

However, he waited no more and instructed Xiao Hei again, “Xiao Hei, use the Advanced Cards on these ten monsters to upgrade them to the legendary-level.”

“I would like to remind you that the Ruthless Sword Master can complete triple mutation on his own he fulfills the hidden condition. Are you sure you want to use your Advanced Card on him?”

Hearing Xiao Hei’s reminder, Lin Huang looked at Lancelot.

“Lancelot, Xiao Hei told me that you have a hidden mission that allows you to perform a triple mutation automatically. Would you prefer to do that or will you let me use my Advanced Card on you?”

Lancelot was surprised to hear the question, but he replied, “I would prefer to do it on my own.”

“Sure, I’ll try to fulfill your hidden condition.” Lin Huang respected Lancelot’s decision. He then recalled Lancelot and summoned the second Tri-headed Ape.

He instructed Xiao Hei once again, “Upgrade them to the legendary-level.”

Xiao Hei did not have any objections this time.

“Upgrading ten targeted Monster Cards. Consuming Advanced Card x30. Are you sure you want to use these cards?”

“Yes.” Lin Huang nodded without thinking twice.

“Advanced Card x30 has been consumed. Upgrading ten targeted Monster Cards…”

A white glow beamed down from the sky, covering all ten monsters.

The white glow on top of Kylie, the Sanguine Skeleton Spirit, the Malachian Fiend and the Witch faded after a few minutes. The armor on Kylie now had purple lightning patterns. The most significant change was her half red and blue mask now half-concealed her lips, revealing her eyes and forehead. Her blue eyes were as clear as lake water.

The Sanguine Skeleton Spirit was in its red robes as usual but the crown on his head was no longer red; it was now gold. There was a red precious stone in the middle of the crown. The most significant change was his eyes that had been blue but were now white. They looked like fog swirling in his eyes.

The Malachian Fiend did not change much. Only its face had changed from blue to green.

Meanwhile, the Witch experienced the most prominent change as she was not wearing black armor anymore. Her armor had been replaced by a black dress. Her tail was no longer there, and there were two tiny horns on her head that were less than 10 centimeters long. If not for the horns on her head, she looked just like a pale human.

They completed their triple mutation within a couple of minutes to achieve the legendary-level. However, they did not feel any changes in their bloodline. Meanwhile, Tyrant, the Inferior Imp, the two Black Serpents and the two Tri-headed Apes were wrapped in energy cocoons separately. Tyrant was wrapped in a bloody cocoon that looked like a heart. There were scars everywhere that looked like undulating blood vessels. The cocoon that wrapped the Inferior Imp up was flaming like lava. Heat was spreading out of the cocoon. The two Black Serpents were wrapped in two black opaque liquid spheres. The two Tri-headed Apes were wrapped in completely different cocoons. One looked like a green rock while another looked like white jade.

Lin Huang was stunned as he watched the gigantic cocoons growing under the glow from the sky. He had expected the mutation in Tyrant but not the Black Serpents and the Tri-headed Apes.

“Do mutations happen easily for animal-form monsters during the upgrade?” Lin Huang asked Xiao Hei in a low voice.

“That’s right. As the ancestors of animal-form monsters have a stronger reproductive ability and their bloodline was passed on to the next generations, that increases the probability of their bloodline inheritance.”

“These four monsters are experiencing mutation together as the data was duplicated when you killed the two Black Serpents and Tri-headed Apes that have a great probability of mutation in their body. But I must say that you have pretty good luck.”

Knowing that the mutation would take a while, Lin Huang watched for a moment and turned to Kylie and the rest.

“The Reborn Card can boost the monster’s bloodline, but I only have five. One for Lancelot, one for Ghastly, and one for Bloody. I’ll keep one for Kylie as well. Who should I use the last one on?” Lin Huang looked undecided at the Sanguine Skeletal Spirit and the Witch.