MONSTER PARADISE

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Chapter 561: Pick Up the Body

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Three days had passed since Lin Huang spoke to Hong Zhuang at the Union Government. The investigators had left the Martial Hunter College during the past few days and classes were back to normal. Lin Huang was back to his routine of going to the library, the training battleground, and his dorm.

Although he empathized with Hong Zhuang, he decided not to get involved in the case. He was not close to her after all. Although they knew each other, they were not on familiar terms. Lin Huang knew very well from the training camp that none of the people from the Purple Crow were honorable. Hong Zhuang chose her own path. As an adult, she should learn to accept the consequences of her decision, even if the result was death.

It was past nine in the morning. Lin Huang stuck to his routine of reading at the library. Suddenly, his Emperor’s Heart Ring vibrated. It was a message.

“Hong Zhuang has been executed. Please bring her body back from the Union Government as soon as possible.” Seeing the message, he did not hesitate. He closed the search page in the library and left. He had promised to retrieve Hong Zhuang’s body, and he did not want any delay.

As he stepped out of the library door, he summoned his dimensional relic and stepped into it. He then appeared at the entrance of the Union Government. He asked for the morgue’s location and headed to the first floor. The morgue was located at the west wing on the first floor. Lin Huang planned to ask the forensic officer for guidance, but seeing that the door was opened, he walked straight into the morgue.

“Hi, I received a message earlier. I’m here to pick up the body,” Lin Huang spoke to the man who was standing next to a body.

The man with a lollipop in his mouth turned around and said, “Register at the forensic desk next door. They’ll bring you back here after confirming your registration.”

“Thanks.” Lin Huang looked at him and walked to the forensic desk next door after thanking him.

After spending a couple of minutes registering himself, a lady in her 20’s brought him back to the morgue to pick up the body.

“Hi, Deputy Director Wu.” The lady blushed when she saw Wu Sheng.

“Hmm.” Wu Sheng proceeded to check the body in front of him as he responded casually. He did not seem to bother about Lin Huang and the lady walking in.

“Please give me a minute. I’ll look for it. Hong Zhuang’s body was sent here this morning.” A semi-transparent list appeared in front of the lady. Soon, she found the cabinet where Hong Zhuang was in and took her body out.

Lin Huang walked up to see a frozen corpse. It was Hong Zhuang. Due to the freezing temperatures, she looked pale. Her red lips were purple now. She was wearing the white clothes that she had on a few days ago. Her body was in pristine condition.

As he was checking the body out, Wu Sheng glanced at him secretly from the back.

“I don’t see any wounds on her. How did you guys execute her?” Lin Huang asked after confirming that the body was still in perfect condition.

“The Union Government usually uses euthanasia for most prisoners nowadays. The same applied to Hong Zhuang,” the forensic lady explained.

“Euthanasia… I hope she didn’t have to suffer before she died.” Lin Huang nodded and looked at Hong Zhuang’s peaceful expression which seemed like she was asleep. Perhaps death was a relief for her.

“So, do I just bring her away with me?” Lin Huang asked.

“Yes, you may since you’ve already registered. Just make sure that it’s the right body.” The forensic lady smiled.

“Alright then. I’m bringing her with me.” Lin Huang then put Hong Zhuang’s body into his storage space.

“Thanks!” He thanked the forensic lady. He even nodded at the man with the lollipop as he was the one who had asked him to register.

As he left the Union Government, Lin Huang stepped into his dimensional relic and arrived at a B-grade foothold near the Eastern Ocean. He did not want to delay anything as Hong Zhuang’s wish was to scatter her ashes there. Since it was still early, he planned to burn her body somewhere with nobody around.

He then summoned Thunder and in less than half an hour. He arrived at the Eastern Ocean beach. After confirming that there was no one around, he took Hong Zhuang’s body out. After all, it was inappropriate to burn a body in front of strangers. It would be horrible if kids witnessed it. Luckily, there was nobody around where he could do that openly.

He took some time to figure out the fire source as he took the body out. It would take forever to burn her body with regular fire. The first thing that popped into his mind was Charcoal as its Dragon Flame would be the quickest solution, but it would be too much to burn a body alone.

“Never mind then. I shall use Witch Fire.” Lin Huang performed a hand seal. The Witch Fire was one of the techniques from Witchcraft. It was a fire attribute attack, but it was much more challenging to fight compared to a typical fire attack. It was hard to put the fire out as soon as one was attacked.

It only took Lin Huang a couple of seconds to perform the hand seal. A cloud of blue flame covered Hong Zhuang’s body. The frost on her body disappeared as the fire burned and her clothes were burnt to ashes. Lin Huang did not realize anything was wrong under the burning flame. Suddenly, Hong Zhuang’s eyelids moved under the blue flame. Soon, she opened her eyes.

“Xiao Linzi, are you planning to kill me?” In less than a minute since Lin Huang had summoned the Witch Fire, her voice was heard. The body that was covered in flames stood up slowly. Before a shocked Lin Huang could put the fire out, the blue flames disappeared after an energy wave rippled. Lin Huang looked at the naked Hong Zhuang in apparent shock. He was dumbfounded that she was still alive. On the other hand, he was stunned by her voluptuous body.

“My little brother, do you miss me?” Hong Zhuang walked towards Lin Huang. He looked away and tossed a set of clothes that he had found from his storage space to her.

“Erm… Please dress first.”

Hong Zhuang smirked as she put on the clothes that Lin Huang passed to her.

“I’m dressed now. You don’t have to look away anymore.”

Lin Huang had given her a set of male clothes that he had never worn before and kept in his storage space after purchasing them. Hong Zhuang looked attractive even in male clothes.

“You faked your death?” That was the first question Lin Huang asked.

“I learned that from you.” Hong Zhuang grinned at him.

“But how come I could keep you in my storage space even though you faked your death?” Lin Huang thought it was odd.

“Because my way of faking death is more advanced than yours. So advanced that the storage space even mistook me as a dead body.” Hong Zhuang smirked as she explained.

“So, you’re using me to escape the White Capital?” Lin Huang squinted.

“Not really. I really thought I would die this time. It’s just that I was lucky enough to meet a friend at the Union Government…” Hong Zhuang stopped there and did not proceed to explain further.

“Alright then. Since you managed to escape, please behave yourself.” Lin Huang was skeptical.

“I’m giving you back your stuff. Please don’t come to me anymore.” He flicked her Emperor’s Heart Ring to her and walked into his dimensional relic.

“I’ll remember owing you my life. I’ll return you the favor when I get the chance.” Hong Zhuang smiled as she waved goodbye at Lin Huang.

“It seems like I have to make another fake identity and stay low-key for some time…” She glanced at the storage space ring in her hand as she watched Lin Huang left with his dimensional relic.

Chapter 562: The Stunning Effect of The Misfortune Card

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Mu Yuntian had been in horrible luck ever since he returned from the White Capital. A flower pot fell on his head when he was walking on the street, a brick flew at him as he was walking at a construction site, and he encountered various birds when he was flying and covered in feathers as well as bird shit…

Those were just the minor ones. What annoyed him was that everything he used in the laboratory exploded. He even made a huge gash on his hand when he was dissecting a body. Fed up, he went back to his office to deal with his documents, but a fire broke out of nowhere. Many of his documents were destroyed, and even his Emperor’s Heart Ring was not working.

“Can you please focus on your work?! Look at you these past few days. You’ve made the laboratory explode 11 times. Are you messing around?!” The white-bearded Si Nan glared at Mu Tianyun in the office. “Are you unhappy with me and actually intend to mess with me?!”

“No… No.” Mu Yuntian held his head down. He had no idea why he was so unlucky these few days. No matter what he did, something terrible would happen!

“You even lost the demigod relic a few days ago. Tell me what else you’re going to do now!” Si Nan proceeded to scold him. In his gold-framed glasses, Mu Yuntian hung his head as he thought to himself, “Am I cursed? If this persists, I’ll need to go to a shaman…”

Life Power was a magical thing. Some of the Life Power would turn into negative Life Power when one died. The negative Life Power carried a unique curse or other adverse effects with it. Most of the people could not see the curse. Only a shaman could see and remove it.

Mu Yuntian started wondering if he was cursed since things had been going wrong for him for the past two days.

“Oh yeah, did you get anything from the two dead bodies these few days?” Si Nan just remembered after scolding Mu Yuntian for ten whole minutes.

“I’ve tried to break through their brains, but that didn’t work. The team’s thinking of other ways to decode it.” Mu Yuntian did not dare to tell him that the laboratory had caught fire two days ago and almost destroyed the two bodies.

“Alright then, since we have the bodies with us, we don’t have to rush to decode their brains. Take it slow, do it properly, and don’t damage the bodies,” Si Nan said, frowning.

“What noise is that?”

“What noise?” Mu Yuntian was stunned as he heard the banging as well. He had a bad feeling. Alarm broke in the entire base.

“There’s a meteor shower around the ocean near our base. There’s a giant meteorite that just landed on Skull Island above us. A third of the island is destroyed!” A panicked announcement came from the monitoring room.

“Skull Island has been destroyed?!”

Mu Yuntian and Si Nan were shocked. They then summoned a dimensional relic and stepped into it. They appeared above Skull Island to see that the northern side of the island was destroyed. The building under the island was revealed, upsetting the duo. Since the building was out on display, that meant the Union Government and the other organizations might find out about the underground base that they had built for tens of years.

Meteorites were still raining down. Some of them were headed towards Skull Island while some crashed into the ocean, creating vigorous waves.

“Let me handle this. Bring the two bodies away. Don’t let anything happen to the two bodies!” Si Nan flew up and destroyed the meteorites with black streaks that shot out of his two fingers. Without hesitation, Mu Yuntian summoned his dimensional relic and stepped into it.

Just when he returned to the base under the sea, he smelled something burning.

“What’s happening?” He grabbed an alarmed staff.

“I think the quake just now broke a couple of lamps and a fire spread. Many of the Surveillance Snails went into their shells, so most of the cameras have been blacked out. Until now, we’re unable to find the source of the fire.”

“Useless!” Mu Yuntian snapped the staff’s neck and rushed towards the laboratory where the bodies were.

His heart skipped a beat when he saw smoke coming out of the laboratory. As he attempted to unlock the door with his fingertips, the door only responded with a notification that the door was not working.

“F*ck!”

Mu Yuntian did not expect this to happen. He punched the door twice, but nothing happened. Only then did he recall that the door was made of a unique metal to prevent theft. It was as powerful as a supreme relic which could not be opened with violence.

“Sir, the laboratory door isn’t working. It’s not opening.” Mu Yuntian had to ask Si Nan for help.

“If the door isn’t working, can’t you just break the wall? Did you lose your brain?!” Si Nan shouted.

Mu Yuntian was stunned when he realized that the door was made of metal but not the wall. As he hung up, he punched a hole in the wall and smoke billowed out of it.

He could not care about the smoke anymore, and he crawled out of the wall. The laboratory was in a mess. The bodies were covered in flames. Mu Yuntian’s heart dropped when he saw that scene. He put the fire out immediately and put them into his storage space without checking. He took out the bodies again to monitor their condition only after he had left the burning laboratory.

The bodies were burnt, and the automatic fire extinguisher in the laboratory seemed to be spoiled way before the fire happened which caused the bodies to be burnt. Mu Yuntian did not know what to do as he looked at the corpse heads that were completely burnt. Suddenly, the base was trembling again. Before Mu Yuntian could react, the ceiling on top of him collapsed. He managed to dodge the falling ceiling, but the two heads were totally crushed…

Mu Yuntian was in shock. There was still hope to save the burned brains earlier, but now nothing could be done as the heads were utterly crushed.

“I’ve handled the meteorites, but the base is destroyed now.” A voice came behind Mu Yuntian.

The voice was getting closer.

“Where are the bodies?”

Before Mu Yuntian could respond, Si Nan spotted the two burnt bodies.

“Please don’t tell me these two bodies are…” Si Nan’s heart almost stopped beating.

“I’m sorry, Sir…” Mu Yuntian did not expect this to happen and he wanted to cry.

Si Nan was upset beyond words.

Chapter 563: Lancelot’s Triple Mutation

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

As Hong Zhuang’s case was entirely over, Lin Huang’s routine was back to normal for the next few days. He would go to the library and the battle training ground every day and return to his dorm. He would go to class when it was time. It was as if nothing had happened. He did not say anything about Hong Zhuang faking her death. The Union Government had announced to the public that she sentenced to death, and they did not mention that Lin Huang had taken her body away.

This time, the Union Government announced the truth on the forum of the Union Organizations. The attack was made by the Purple Crow together with an underground organization called the Leib Lab with the intention to take the bodies of the first and second elders of the Saint. The monster horde outside the White Capital was orchestrated by them as well. The objective of the monster horde was to get the imperial-level humans there so that the attackers in the city could escape.

Many were unfamiliar with the Leib Lab, so the Union Government shed more light on that as well. The organization had been the top underground organization 200 years ago, also known as the Scarborough Workshop. It was a hot topic among the Union Organizations members as the two top underground organizations worked together against the Union Government.

The Union Government announced war on all the Union Organizations forums but since the forums were only opened to the cultivators, ordinary people did not know about that. All of them thought that the monster horde had been caused by an opening of a Virtual Eye while the explosion in the White Capital was a weather phenomenon that the news had explained earlier.

Lin Huang noticed that ‘theuglytruth’ had posted the truth on the website again, but nobody believed in him. None of the people thought his prediction would come true as they had not seen his previous speculation about the fight between the two underground organizations and the Union Government. As Lin Huang had been upset the past few days, he did not follow the updates anymore.

However, Lin Huang had become popular in the Martial Hunter College after the news about him joining the Purple Crow training camp was exposed. Many thought that he was a Purple Crow spy at the beginning of the investigation. However, the investigation results from the Union Government proved that he was innocent.

Many of the teachers and students looked up to him now as he had managed to escape the Purple Crow under Hong Zhuang’s watch, especially some of the teachers who knew that Hong Zhuang’s ability was comparable with an imperial-level’s. Even if she was not as powerful as she was a year ago, she should have been one of the top-ranked among the immortal-levels. Meanwhile, Lin Huang was not even on holy fire-level a year ago. However, some of them suspected the accuracy of the investigation and still insisted that Lin Huang was a Purple Crow spy. Lin Huang decided to ignore those people.

Without Hong Zhuang and the Purple Crow’s threat, Lin Huang was in contact with Lin Xin again. It was the first weekend of December. Lin Huang had brought her to hunt for a bronze-level Life Seed, so Lin Xin was now on bronze-level. He then dropped by a severe danger zone to get Lancelot to kill a double mutated Sword Dao monster. He obtained a new sword servant called the Swordfiend Soldier.

What he did not expect was that the new sword servant would trigger Lancelot’s triple mutation’s hidden conditions. He had completed his triple mutation, and he was now the legendary-level Ruthless Sword Dominator. He did not undergo any significant changes. His black armor was now a dark maroon, and there was a claret red crown on his head. The black mist surrounding him was also now dark red. Lancelot’s upgrade was a complete surprise. However, he did not obtain any special bloodlines. Lin Huang then used the last Reborn Card on Lancelot.

In Kylie’s mini world, Lancelot transformed into a dark red cocoon under a golden glow. He broke out of the cocoon the next day. He had not changed much, but the mist surrounding him had disappeared. His aura was even more terrifying now. Even Lin Huang, who was on the same combat level, was slightly threatened by his aura.

“Which bloodline did you get?” Lin Huang asked.

“God’s blood. The Ruthless God, low-level,” Lancelot replied.

Lin Huang was stunned as he did not expect to obtain a second god’s blood! He then activated his last Blood Thickening Card on Lancelot. After getting out of the cocoon for less than a minute, Lancelot transformed into a maroon cocoon once again…

Soon, a couple of hours had passed. Lancelot got out of the cocoon, and his bloodline was now at mid-level. Lin Huang then looked at the card’s description.

“Monster Card: Lancelot

“Rarity: Legendary

“Monster Name: Ruthless Sword Dominator

“Type of Monster: God’s Blood (Mid-Level)

“Nickname: Ruthless

“Combat Level: Gold Flame-Level

“Major: Sword Dao

“Major Skills: Sword Master, Dark Sword Spirit, Sword Dao secret skill, Saber Dao Territory, Holy Power.

“Minor Skills: Sword Steps, Dark Mirror, Enhanced Regeneration

“Summon Authority: Activated

“Card Remarks: Intensive training is recommended!”

There were significant changes to the card, and there were now many skills in the slots. There were more than 30 skills in the Sword Dao secret skill alone, and there were more than ten of them under minor skills.

“Freaking amazing!” That was Lin Huang’s comment on the new Lancelot.

“The Dark Mirror seems to be an upgraded Dark Shield…” Lin Huang looked at the changes on his exclusive card and noticed that the Dark Shield was replaced by a Dark Mirror.

He took a close look at the card and realized that nothing much had changed to his defensive abilities whereby his limit was still ten times of his most powerful attack. However, there was a new attack bounce function whereby he could make the attacker’s assault rebound back at 100% within his defense limits.

“This skill is ridiculous!” He was stunned as he studied the upgraded skill.

He thought of what he needed to do after his initial excitement. He could finally extract Lancelot’s skill now. He still had two skill slots that were reserved for Lancelot. Xiao Hei’s notification came soon after he crushed the Skill Extraction Card.

“Extracting skill… Excluding Dark Mirror that has been extracted… Selecting a skill randomly… Random selection is completed!

“Congratulations, you have obtained Sword Dao Territory!

“The system has detected that this skill can be integrated with Medium Territory to create a new secret skill. Would you like to activate a Skill Integration Card for the integration?”

“Yes!” Lin Huang decided without thinking twice.

“Skill Integration Card has been consumed. Monster Skill Sword Dao Territory and secret skill Medium Territory have been consumed. Coming up with a new Secret Skill card…

“Congratulations, you have obtained a new Secret Skill Card: Exclusive Territory.

“Exclusive Territory: Make a 1,000-meter radius into your own exclusive territory. Within the area, your ability will be twice as powerful, and you can suppress your opponent’s ability up to a certain level.

“Remark 1: Within the territory, the user can attack any corners of the territory with any attacks and the attack strength won’t be weakened.

“Remark 2: Territory can be integrated with a small part of defensive skills to strengthen the defense power.

“Remark 3: The territory attributes can be modified according to your combat needs. The attack strength will be increased when the territory attributes align with the attack attributes.”

“Exclusive Territory? Isn’t that a skill that only imperial-levels have?!” Lin Huang was familiar with Exclusive Territory. It was a skill that was activated whenever a Life Castle was summoned to increase the combat strength. He had heard of it from Mr. Fu before, but he did not expect to obtain this secret skill when he was only a holy fire-level.

“I wonder if my Life Castle Exclusive Territory can be activated together with this in the future. If that’s possible, that means I’ll have double territory!” Lin Huang was thrilled.

Chapter 564: Lin Huang’s Plan

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

After Lin Xin broke through bronze-level, she leveled up to bronze-level rank-3 in less than a day just by eating Life Crystals. Her speed of upgrading was so fast that even Lin Huang, who owned a Goldfinger, was impressed. Luckily, she could not break through a whole level just by eating Life Crystals, or else she would get to imperial-level within a week.

Since her Life Power was almost stable now, Lin Huang started training her once a week, mainly to strengthen her battle experience. She was also fast in gaining battle experience. Besides training Lin Xin, Lin Huang gave his all to his students as well. His class on Friday should have started from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., but he would always stay back until 11 p.m. and sometimes even midnight. That was like giving three sessions of classes. However, the students of Sword Dao Class 2 were all ambitious. None of them complained and were dedicated to learning.

The battle drill at the beginning of December was when Lin Huang had been interrogated for Hong Zhuang’s case which caused the Sword Dao Class 2’s assessment results to deteriorate. Although the class ranked No. 2 in the Sword Dao faculty, they were more than 200 points away from Class 1 and almost ranked No. 3 at less than 20 points ahead of No. 3. That made the students even more determined in their training.

Lin Huang was glad to see the students’ dedication. Meanwhile, Qin Tianxing seemed to be depressed due to Hong Zhuang’s incident, and he did not sit in this time. Lin Huang knew that it had nothing to do with himself, but because Qin Tianxing liked Hong Zhuang. He took it very hard when he found out that Hong Zhuang was one of the Purple Crow members and that she was now dead.

However, Lin Huang did not plan to tell him that Hong Zhuang was still alive. On the one hand, it was because Hong Zhuang wanted to keep it a secret and on the other hand, he did not want Old Qin to get close to her. With his character, it was very possible that Hong Zhuang might kill him. Qin Tianxing was one of the countable good friends that Lin Huang had in the college. He did not want to see Qin Tianxing fall into Hong Zhuang’s trap.

Time flashed by, and it was the end of December. Some parts of the White Capital was snowing. Although it was sunny every day in the Martial Hunter College which was located in the central zone, the lake in the college was frozen. Students started wearing fur coats to college. Of course, this weather was nothing to transcendent-level humans. Lin Huang still dressed casually in school to continue his routine to the library, the battle training ground and his dorm.

After dinner, he trained with Liu Ming again. Liu Ming suppressed his combat level to purple flame-level during the training. If not for his breakthrough in Sword Dao, Liu Ming would have suppressed his combat level to gold flame-level while training with him. Throughout the 20 days, Liu Ming was impressed by Lin Huang’s abilities. He could feel Lin Huang’s improvement over time when they trained. It was scary to know that Lin Huang was getting more and more powerful with each training.

With Liu Ming’s high Sword Dao mastery and the pressure of his abilities, Lin Huang did not limit himself to sword skills anymore. He used Vampire Particles, Telekinesis, Witchcraft, Punishment, and other attack Monster Skills during the training. As he grew in his command of Sword Dao, Lin Huang was getting familiar with Vampire Particles, Telekinesis, Witchcraft, and the other skills. He had activated some new techniques from those Monster Skills. He had even modified his Worldly Purification to Flowing Fire Sword!

The new technique was inclusive of tens of millions of sword techniques whereby the effect was similar to Worldly Purification. The target would be burnt to ashes from the attack. Lin Huang was working on the second technique as he wanted to compress the Thunder Sting to become a powerful attack with even faster speed. He had been discussing with Liu Ming for the past few days as well as training for many days, but nothing happened.

“Bro, why are you still going to the library every day? Shouldn’t you have finished all the sword skills required by the school programme? I’ve already shown you the sword skills that aren’t in the books. Why not use the time you spend in the library to train here?” Liu Ming felt refreshed over time as he trained with Lin Huang since they were going for different directions in Sword Dao. Although Lin Huang’s mastery of Sword Dao was not as far as Liu Ming was, Liu Ming would always learn something new from Lin Huang, so he wanted to train more.

“I’ve already read about all the sword skills and learned all of them. What I’m reading now is about other combat skills including Saber Dao, Spear Dao, and other gunfighting techniques to see if I can get some inspiration.”

Liu Ming was stunned when he heard that as he had never thought of reading about other topics. It was definitely an inspiration for him, but there might be some disadvantages to that.

“It’s okay to read other stuff as long as you’re not distracted.”

“Don’t worry. I’m not distracted.” Lin Huang shook his head while smiling.

“Oh yeah, it’s less than a month to the school holidays. What plans do you have?” Liu Ming asked in anticipation. He was not asking what plans Lin Huang had during the holidays, but rather if he would like to teach in the school after the semester.

Lin Huang understood what Liu Ming was trying to say.

“I’ll leave Division 7 after I’m done with some stuff. I won’t be able to teach after this semester ends.” Lin Huang shook his head and smiled.

Although Liu Ming was disappointed, he had expected that.

“It’s good to leave. The proper place for you to shine would be the core zone. You don’t have to resign. I’ll save a spot for you here. You’re always welcome back,” Liu Ming said.

“Since you have leveled up to imperial-level, I supposed you’ll leave next year too, bro?” Lin Huang recalled.

“Yeah, the management has informed me that I’ll be the Vice President of the Martial Hunter College in Division 3. There’ll be a new dean sent here, but that doesn’t change your position here. Many people in this college hold the position of a teacher, but they don’t teach. Besides, the college’s system is connected. If you’re willing to, you can follow me to Division 3 to teach,” Liu Ming invited.

“It’s okay. I don’t think I’ll have the time to teach.” Lin Huang shook his head.

“Then, you’ll still have your position in the college, but you don’t have to teach. It’s set.” Liu Ming decided to ignore Lin Huang’s rejection.

“Alright, then.” Seeing that Liu Ming insisted, Lin Huang did not decline.

“Oh yeah, brother, there’s something that I need to ask,” Lin Huang recalled something that he had always wanted to ask Liu Ming or Mr. Fu. “You know that I’m on holy fire-level now. I’m restricted from a lot of information if I don’t join any organization. Do you have any suggestion about what I should do?”

“There’s nothing much that you can do if you don’t join any organization since most of the information is held with organizations nowadays. The information open to transcendent-levels and above is expensive on the black market. They even sell some of the free information, and there is plenty of fake information. The best is to join an organization.

“But, of course, you can build your own small organization if you don’t want to join any organization. Though, you’ll have to work with other bigger organizations for your information data bank. There’s nothing else you can do as it takes tens of years to build a data bank for your own organization.” Liu Ming did not have any better suggestion than that. “I think it’s easy for you to get yourself an executive position in the Hunter Association. Their management is pretty liberal.”

“It won’t take much time to be a staff below the executive level, but executives will have to sign a contract, and there’s a mission every year. I’m used to being on my own. Let me think about it then.” Lin Huang smiled awkwardly as he shook his head.

Positions above executive level were officially considered top management in the Hunter Association. There would be some restrictions as they would not have the freedom of ordinary hunters.

“Why not you ask Mr. Fu?” Liu Ming could not think of anything else than that.

“Alright, then. I’ll ask him after he comes back a few days later. He might be busy now.” Lin Huang nodded.

“Wait for him to come back? Where did he go?” Liu Ming raised an eyebrow.

“He said he would leave Division 7 for a couple of days. I’ve no idea where exactly he’s gone. He’s been away for half a month.” Lin Huang shook his head.

“He left Division 7? Why did he leave?!” Liu Ming was in shock.

“What’s wrong with him leaving Division 7?” Lin Huang thought what Liu Ming asked was odd.

“No… Nothing.” Liu Ming peeped at Lin Huang and did not say anything further.

“It’s late. Let’s end our training here,” Liu Ming said after realizing it was past 11 p.m.

“Bro, are you and master hiding something from me?” Lin Huang figured that something was not right.

“I guess Mr. Fu has his reasons for not telling you. It’s better for me to not interfere. Maybe it’s better for you to ask him yourself.” Liu Ming did not deny it.

“Okay, then.” Lin Huang thought about it and shook his head.

Chapter 565: I Won’t Be Responsible for The Students’ Suffering

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

It was a Wednesday on 5th January. The sky was blue while the sun was shining brightly. It was a good day. More than 3,000 Year 1 students queued according to their classes on the Martial Hunter College field, including Lin Huang and the other teachers. It was the last battle drill for the Year 1 students in the semester where the results would be taken into consideration for their final exam. It was important that the teachers and the students took it seriously. Everyone was present.

It was the first time the Year 1 students saw how the dean, Liu Ming, looked like. Since he had leveled up to imperial-level, Liu Ming had lost weight. Lin Huang had contributed to that as well since the both of them were training every night for at least five hours a session. It was impossible for Liu Ming not to lose weight when he was working out every day. His features were sharper now. Although he was short, his position gave him a magnificent vibe. If Lin Huang did not know him, he might have been scared of Liu Ming.

That intimidation worked on the students on the field. As the news of Liu Ming leveling up to imperial-level spread in the college, the students looked at him with awe and respect. There was complete silence when he appeared; none of the students spoke. He then started giving his speech. As it was his first time speaking since the semester started as well as his last time speaking during his tenure in the college, he made it a long one.

Lin Huang poked the gloomy Qin Tianxing next to him with his elbow.

“Old Qin, how’s your preparation with the students for this assessment? Are you confident in winning Class 1?”

“It’s alright, I guess, but it’s difficult to surpass Class 1.” Qin Tianxing smiled awkwardly as he shook his head. He had lost his usual confidence and determination.

“Have you been going too easy on yourself these days? Why have you been so mopey recently and not sitting in my class?” Lin Huang jested and pretended that he did not know about his crush on Hong Zhuang.

“You’re the one who’s going too easy on yourself!” Qin Tianxing glared at him and gave an excuse. “Maybe I’ve been busy recently…”

“That’s a shame. Let’s get a drink tonight. Tell your bro all about it!” Lin Huang could not take Qin Tianxing being in the doldrums anymore.

“Okay then,” Qin Tianxing agreed after some hesitation.

The both of them drew lots but they were not selected as the guardians of the battle drill this time. The battle drill would take place from Tuesday to Friday, so those would be their rest days for the next couple of days. After Liu Ming finished his speech, the other two Vice Presidents went up to give their speeches. Before the battle drill officially started after that, Lin Huang and the other teachers spoke to the students one last time.

Lin Huang then walked to the students of Sword Dao Class 2. The students were upset because they had heard he would not be teaching anymore after the semester ended.

“Sir Lin, are you really not teaching us next semester?” Zhou Ling had tears pooling in her eyes.

She had complained about him for a couple of weeks when the semester started and had even talked badly about him behind his back. However, her attitude changed after going through classes. With Lin Huang’s guide, it was obvious that the Class 2 students had improved by leaps and bounds. Zhou Ling was not the only one. The other students did not want Lin Huang to leave either.

Lin Huang nodded and did not bother hiding the truth.

“We’ll meet again. I’ll leave Division 7 after this and won’t be teaching you guys anymore.

Hearing that he was going to leave Division 7, all of them fell silent as that confirmed that he would definitely leave the college.

“Don’t think too much. Focus on your assessment. We have one last class next week. I’ll teach you guys a new sword skill. It’s a simplified gold-level combat skill!” All the students’ eyes lit up when they heard Lin Huang’s promise.

The students had learned four sword skills this semester as Lin Huang would teach a new one every month. That would add up to be five sword skills if he taught another one next week. Meanwhile, most of the students from other classes had only learned two sword skills while another two or three classes had picked up three sword skills. A gold-level combat skill would mean that the sword skill could be used all the way until they got to gold-level. The college usually only taught bronze-level skills while some of them would teach up to silver-level skills. There had never been a teacher who taught gold-level skill, let alone a simplified one.

The students were all pumped by this news. Lin Huang then gave the students some reminders before seeing them off to the dimensional relic. The battle drill took place at a grade-2 wild zone, the Dry Desert, this time. As the semester had passed, all of the new students were now on iron-level. They were vastly different from who they were months ago, so it made sense for the battle drill to be more difficult this time.

As the Dry Desert was a grade-2 wild zone, there were bronze-level monsters there. The threat was much more prominent than the first two assessments that had taken place in a grade-1 wild zone. Moreover, this wild zone had limited water source. The assessment was extra challenging because the students were prohibited from bringing any food or water during the three days in the wild zone. Lin Huang and Qin Tianxing were laughing as they watched the excitement on the students’ faces from the video projection.

“These kids think that they’re on vacation,” Qin Tianxing chuckled.

“I’m sure somebody’s going to cry soon,” Lin Huang laughed and nodded.

The Dry Desert looked beautiful as the humidity in the air was low. The dehydration rate would speed up with time, and perhaps the students would be thirsty in less than two hours. Some of the students realized that and looked for a water source the moment they arrived there while most of the students were taking selfies with the beautiful scenery.

As Lin Huang expected, many of them started feeling thirsty after one to two hours. They realized that the assessment was not as simple as they had thought. In reality, everyone, including the teachers had no idea that it was Lin Huang who had suggested the venue to Liu Ming. He wanted to leave the students with an important lesson before he departed the college. Liu Ming agreed to his suggestion right away, not because of Lin Huang’s position, but because he wanted the students to remember the battle drill as well. As expected, many students were crying even before the first day of assessment ended.

“I’m so thirsty! I need water…”

Meanwhile, Lin Huang who was the culprit of the students’ suffering was merrily drinking with Qin Tianxing.

Chapter 566: The Last Class

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

The battle drill that stretched over three days was a miserable one. Among the 3,000 students, only 800 of them completed the drill, which was barely a quarter of them. Most of them were brought back by the guardians after suffering severe dehydration. Still, the 800 students who completed the assessment almost cried when they heard the drill was finally over. Many teachers could not help but laugh when they watched the students crying for help from the surveillance cameras.

“What a great assessment venue the dean picked! I’m sure the students will remember this battle drill for the rest of their lives and figure that the real wild zone isn’t as simple as they thought.” Qin Tianxing drank with Lin Huang during the first couple of days. He vented out his crush towards Hong Zhuang while sobbing. He ended up feeling much better after that. However, Lin Huang did not tell him that Hong Zhuang was still alive.

“It was I who suggested the venue to the dean,” Lin Huang whispered into his ear.

Qin Tianxing was speechless.

The assessment results came out on Monday. Among all of the Year 1 students, the highest passing rate came from Lin Huang’s Sword Dao Class 2 whereby among the 50 of them, 36 students had passed. In contrast, no other classes had more than 20 students who passed. 19 students passed in Saber Dao Class 1 and 16 from Sword Dao Class 1. Therefore, Sword Dao Class 2 became the dark horse of the assessment and achieved the first place among the entire Year 1. They did not only surpass Sword Dao Year 1 but also Saber Dao Class 1.

Of course, there were two most outstanding students. One of them was Mu Xiao from Saber Dao Class 1. He had leveled up to bronze-level rank-3 during the past few months. It was obvious that he did not take it easy on himself at all. Another one would be Lin Xin (Ling Xue). Lin Xin’s combat level was actually the same as Mu Xiao’s, but she had concealed her real abilities. She used gunfighting technique during the battle, and she was only 12 points away from Mu Xiao, which was far away from the third best student.

Looking at the results, Qin Tianxing could not help but ask Lin Huang, “Did you tell the students about the assessment venue before the battle started?”

“Definitely not. I know the rules, I’ve never ever mentioned the battle drill’s venue.” Lin Huang shook his head as he looked dead serious.

“Then, how do you explain your students’ excellent passing rate?” Qin Tianxing was still skeptical.

“I’ve always taught them the ways to handle different terrains. You’ve sat in my classes before. Besides the desert, I’ve taught them the survival skills to go through islands, glaciers, and the ocean,” Lin Huang explained. Qin Tianxing thought about it and recalled that Lin Huang really did talk about all those during his class and had gone through them thoroughly in his explanation.

As the results were announced on Monday, many of the students who did not complete the battle drill thought that they would fail, but Liu Ming gave all of them a pass and explained the purpose of the battle drill. The assessment left a deep impression on all of the students. After the results were announced in the morning, the students sat in class as usual. It was the last week of class in this semester. All of the cultural studies’ examinations would end this week.

Knowing that all of them passed the battle drill, the students were relieved. In the following days, Lin Huang proceeded with his routine. He basically memorized all of the information that he had studied in the library. He even had copies of the information stored in his Emperor’s Heart Ring. Soon, it was Friday, the students’ last day of the semester.

In the battle training ground, Lin Huang gathered his 50 Sword Dao Class 2 students and taught them the sword skill that he had promised them – the Great Sword Scripture (simplified). The Great Sword Scripture was actually an advanced sword skill which Lin Huang had first learned. It formed a solid foundation for him and made the learning of other sword skills easier for him. There were 36 forms in the complete Great Sword Scripture, which belonged to the transcendent-level combat skill and was challenging to learn. If Lin Huang had not learned it by accumulating card pieces, it would have taken him one and a half years to master this sword skill.

To make it easier for the students, Lin Huang broke the sword skills down into 12 forms and downgraded it to a gold-level combat skill. It was now much easier to pick up.

“The sword skill that I’m teaching today is called the 12 Great Swords. It comes from a transcendent-level combat skill…”

“A transcendent-level combat skill?!” All of the students’ eyes lit up when they heard that.

“This is the last sword skill that I’ll be teaching you guys. I hope that you’ll learn it properly.”

After the simple introduction, Lin Huang started performing the 12 forms three times before letting the students train. The students were serious during this class where they trained from 2 p.m. until past 11 p.m. None of them left. Some of them who had bought tickets to board the Demonic Crystal Spaceship postponed their ride. Lin Huang looked at the 50 students who were present and gave his farewell message.

“I hope that all of you can shine at what you’re good at after you graduate two and a half years later. I believe I’ll be proud of you when I meet any of you in the future.”

“Sir Lin…” Many of the girls started weeping, and some of the boys even had tears rolling down their faces.

“Alright, the class ends here. Class adjourned!” Lin Huang looked across the room and beamed.

“Sir Lin, please don’t go yet. I still have questions for you!” Shangguan Hui raised her hand.

“Sir Lin, I have questions too!” Zhou Ling and the rest echoed Shangguan Hui. The students raised their hands one by one.

Lin Huang smiled awkwardly as it was already past 11 p.m. but the students still refused to leave.

“Alright then, each of you gets to ask one more question, and then you’ve got to stop messing around. Go back to your dorm after this! It’s okay if you don’t need rest, but the management lady deserves her holiday!”

“Sir Lin, which division are you going next year?” Somebody asked immediately.

“I think this has nothing to do with your learning.” Lin Huang was irritated.

“Sir Lin, please tell us that!” A couple of students insisted.

“Alright then. I’m considering going to Division 3,” Lin Huang answered helplessly.

“Sir Lin, Sir Lin, I heard the girls saying that Ling Xue from Class 1 is your sister. Is that true?” The students went into gossip mode.

“She’s my cousin.” Lin Huang nodded and admitted. As Lin Xin was using a different alias now, he had to say that she was his cousin.

“Sir Lin, are you really only 16?” Another girl asked.

“I’m 17 this year.” Lin Huang smiled.

…

The students asked their questions rapidly. Most of them were merely gossip that had nothing to do with their studies. None of them followed Lin Huang’s rule of one person getting only one question each. They chatted until 3 a.m. and soon, the sky was getting bright. Lin Huang stopped the questions as some of the students were evidently sleepy.

“Alright, return to your dorms to rest. Go back home during the holidays and spend more time with your families. I won’t delete the group chat, so I’ll see whatever you guys are talking about. You can talk to me personally if you need to. I’ll still be in Division 7 before New Year’s Eve.”

The students left unwillingly. Lin Huang watched the battle training ground after sending of the students. He knew that it was the end for him and the college…

Chapter 567: Lin Huang’s Invitation

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

“Brother, when did you come back last night?” Lin Xin walked down the stairs while looking sleepy in her pink pajamas early in the morning. She had gone to Lin Huang’s dorm after packing her stuff yesterday afternoon. She thought she could chat with Lin Huang, but he was still not back at 1 a.m, so she had gone to sleep.

“I could have been back just slightly past 11 p.m, but the kids didn’t want to let me go, so we chatted until past 3 a.m.” Lin Huang was making breakfast in the kitchen as he turned around and smiled at her.

“Brother, did you really resign?” Lin Xin had heard about the news.

“Yes, but the dean rejected my resignation, so I still have my position in the college. However, I won’t be teaching.” Lin Huang shook his head.

“Go wash up and get ready for breakfast. We’ll talk later.”

“Oh…” Lin Xin then went upstairs. She had gone to the kitchen as she heard the sounds of moving about before she could wash up. Soon, Lin Xin came downstairs while Lin Huang served breakfast on the dining table. He did not get the chance to make breakfast for the past few months as his three meals had been provided at the college canteen. However, it was the winter holidays now. The canteen and the stores near the college were closed, so he had to settle his usual three meals by himself.

“Brother, where do you plan to go next year?” Lin Xin asked as she munched on her fried egg.

“That’s what I’m about to tell you…” Lin Huang swallowed the food in his mouth before he spoke again, “I’m leaving Division 7 and head to Division 3.”

“You’re leaving Division 7?!” Lin Xin was shocked to hear that. She put down her cutlery immediately. She knew that Lin Huang would leave the college, but she did not expect him to leave Division 7 at all.

“Yeah, I’ll leave after settling some stuff next year.” Lin Huang nodded.

Lin Xin remained silent. Whenever Lin Huang disappeared, no matter how long, he was always within Division 7. She could not accept him leaving Division 7 out of nowhere.

Seeing that Lin Xin was unhappy, Lin Huang comforted her, “I won’t be leaving for long. I’ll be back in July during your summer break. It’ll be from March to June, so that’s just four months. It’s going be the same as when I was in Division 7. Just pretend that I have a long mission in Division 7.”

“Oh…” Lin Xin was still upset.

“Oh yeah, where do you want to go during this winter break?” Lin Huang changed the subject.

“I haven’t thought about it.” Lin Xin shook her head.

“How about we go to a couple of wild zones and return to Winter City on New Year’s Eve?” Lin Huang suggested.

“Wild zones? But you’re not allowed to help me!” Lin Xin was excited.

“Of course, it’s for you to train your battle skills,” Lin Huang smirked.

After they decided, they started packing their stuff. Since Lin Huang would not be teaching at the college anymore, he would have to move out of his dorm. Having finished packing his things at past 10 in the morning, he cleaned the dorm one last time. He sent a goodbye message to Liu Ming, and Qin Tianxiang then stepped into the dimensional relic with Lin Xin. The both of them appeared on an island.

“This is a grade-3 wild zone, the Wild Forest Island. Give me all your food and water. You have to survive on your own for the next three days.” Lin Huang extended his hand.

“Are you being serious now?” Lin Xin was surprised.

“Of course, you’ll need to protect yourself since I won’t be in Division 7 next year,” Lin Huang replied in all seriousness.

“Alright then.” Lin Xin passed Lin Huang all her food and water.

“Send me your location at 10 a.m. three days later, and I’ll come get you.” Lin Huang put her food and water into his storage space.

“Then, what will you be doing during the next three days?” Lin Xin was curious.

“I’ll train somewhere. Okay, your battle drill starts now.” Lin Huang had arranged his own agenda.

Lin Xin projected the map and headed into the forest with her Black Eagle 33 after identifying her location. After she disappeared, Lin Huang summoned Kylie.

“Follow her. Protect her in secret. Don’t help her unless she’s in danger.”

Kylie disappeared in her black armor from where she was after recalling the 12 black wings on her back.

After settling Lin Xin, Lin Huang called someone. A while later, the video call was connected. A beautiful lady with long legs appeared on the screen.

“What’s up? What kind of trouble have you gotten yourself into again?” Yi Yeyu wore a light pastel shirt with short sleeves and a mini skirt. It was as if she was not living in the same season as Lin Huang.

“It’s winter. Is it really okay for you to dress so lightly?” Lin Huang was speechless.

“I don’t feel cold. Why do you bother? We have a heater at home.” Yi Yeyu rolled her eyes.

“Okay…”

“Is it a holiday at the college?” Although Lin Huang had never mentioned it, Yi Yeyu had found out that he was teaching at the Martial Hunter College. It was easy for her to ask around the social circle that she was living in.

“Yes, it’s the first day of the holidays, but I’ve already resigned.”

“Resigned? Were you fired because you’re lousy at teaching?” Yi Yeyu grinned.

“You’re overthinking. My students got the first place among the Year 1 batches in their year-end battle drill, alright?” Lin Huang raised an eyebrow.

“I could easily ask around about the truth of this. Don’t lie to me.” Yi Yeyu grinned.

“Go ask around. My class did get No. 1.”

“Alright then. Why did you call? Are you looking for a new job?” Yi Yeyu asked.

“Are you free next year?” Lin Huang asked directly.

“I’m free during February and March. What’s up?”

“I have a ruins key with me. Let’s form a team to go into the ruins with your brother,” Lin Huang finally admitted his purpose of calling.

“Really? Where did you get the ruins key? Only top organizations would have that. Even our family only have two sets.” Yi Yeyu was shocked.

“I have to keep this a secret… So, are you coming?”

“Of course! But including my brother, that would only make the three of us. Isn’t it a little wasteful to go into the ruins with only three people? Yi Yeyu asked.

“I’ll get a few more friends, and we’ll go together.”

“Great, let me tell my brother so that he can clear his schedule. When exactly is it?”

“I’ll let you know next year, but don’t tell anyone about the ruins key,” Lin Huang reminded.

“Of course, I know that!” She rolled her eyes at him.

After he hung up, Lin Huang called Leng Yuexin. It was much simpler speaking with her compared to Yi Yeyu.

“What’s up?”

“Are you free next year?”

“When exactly?”

“Around mid-February to mid-March. We’ll need a month,” Lin Huang provided her with some rough dates.

“I’ll try to postpone some of my plans. It shouldn’t be a problem.” Leng Yuexin agreed before even asking what they were going to do.

Lin Huang then told her that he planned to go into the ruins with a team. Although she was surprised that he had a ruins key with him, she agreed to join without asking further. After getting Leng Yuexin to commit, Lin Huang then called Li Lang and Qin Tianxing. Li Lang decided to join without even thinking while Qin Tianxing rejected him with a wan smile. He had classes next year, and he did not like to take leave from work. It would take more than a month, which meant that he would miss four to five classes. It was unacceptable to him. In conclusion, Lin Huang managed to get a total of five people to join the ruins excursion.

Chapter 568: It’s New Year’s Eve Again

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Twelve days passed by quickly. Lin Huang brought Lin Xin to three wild zones. Her battle ability and adaptability to various environments had improved tremendously during that half a month. Lin Huang occupied himself during those 12 days as well. He had modified a sword skill called the Thunder Eclipse with Thunder Sting as the foundation. It was more than ten times faster and more powerful than Thunder Sting.

“Brother, where are we going next?” Lin Xin, who had dirt all over her, smiled at him, baring her fangs. She did not feel tired for the past 12 days. On the contrary, she had fun killing monsters.

“Of course, we’re going back to Winter City. It’s the New Year in three days. You should rest.” Lin Huang picked out the fallen leaves caught in her hair. “You could do with a shower when we get back.”

“It’s another three days to the New Year, so why not we go to another wild zone? Let’s spend two days hunting and one day for the New Year!” Lin Xin was not done with her killing spree.

“We need to go shopping, and there are things to prepare before the New Year. One day is not enough for that. Even if we manage to get all those done, it would be quite a rush for us.” Lin Huang shook his head and rejected her suggestion.

“Let’s head back earlier. We can shop for two days and rest for a day. That’s more like it.”

“Alright then.” Lin Xin had to admit that his arrangement made more sense, so she agreed to it.

As they stepped into the dimensional relic, they arrived at their home in the Winter City. The city was much colder than the wild zones that they were in for the past week. The Emperor’s Heart Ring showed that it was -15 degrees Celsius. Although Lin Xin was shivering, Lin Huang did not feel the cold.

Lin Huang covered Lin Xin with a coat and lit up the black rock in the furnace on the first floor.

“Stay warm for a while. Let me look for hot water.” Lin Huang walked to the bathroom. It had been half a year since they left the Winter City. The air quality there was much higher than the air on Earth. There was not much dust in the house, but the place was dull. He had no idea if some of the home equipment were even still working.

He turned on the Demonic Crystal heater and let the cold water out. He then filled the bathtub with hot water.

“There’s hot water in the bathroom. Go and shower after the tub is filled. I’ll open the windows for circulation. We can turn on the heater later. ”

The house had a centralized heater whereby the heat would be sent all over the house when the valve was opened.

Lin Xin nodded, then stared at the flaming red furnace.

“Brother, where do you think Xiao Xuan is right now?” Lin Xin asked when Lin Huang was going upstairs after opening the windows on the first floor.

Lin Huang was stunned when he heard her, and he froze on the stairs. He recalled last year this time when Lin Xuan had been there with them. The three of them had spent New Year’s Eve together. Lin Xuan loved staring at the furnace while he sat on the carpet.

“He should be doing well. Don’t worry about him.” Lin Huang forced a smile. He knew what he said was not only comforting to Lin Xin, but to himself as well.

“Do you think he misses us?” Lin Xin remained silent for a while and asked Lin Huang again.

“Of course he does. We’re family!” Lin Huang was sure of that.

“Alright, go take a shower now!”

“Okay.” Lin Xin seemed to have heard the answer that she was waiting for. She nodded and headed towards the bathroom.

Lin Huang went upstairs to open the windows on the second and the third floor. There was snow nearly 20 centimeters thick on the balcony of the second floor. Although the sun was shining, the snow did not melt in the cold city.

He opened the sliding door on the second door and looked far away as he stepped on the snow. It was the spot where he had watched Lin Xin and Lin Xuan playing in the snow last year.

“Where are you, Xiao Xuan?”

After letting the fresh air in for ten minutes, he closed all the windows in the house and turned on the heater. He then took a shower on the second floor.

When he returned to the first floor, Lin Xin was already dressed and sitting on the carpet next to the furnace. Her hair was still damp. Lin Huang walked into the kitchen, opened the refrigerator and got rid of the food that had expired. There was nothing much left in the refrigerator.

“There’s nothing to eat at home. Let’s eat out later and go shopping after lunch. But before that, let’s clean the house since it’s been half a year since we last cleaned it.” Lin Huang got Lin Xin to help him on purpose so that she would be distracted.

“Okay!” Lin Xin snapped out of her zone.

They spent more than an hour cleaning the third floor. It was almost noon when they were done, and they left the house after they changed. Lin Xin’s mood was much better when she saw the snow outside.

“The snow on the ground is so thick!” As they had arrived in the living room on the first floor earlier, Lin Xin did not notice the snow outside.

“The winter in this city is longer. It starts to snow in October, and the snow only melts in April. The Winter City snowed a few times when we were away,” Lin Huang smiled as he explained.

Lin Xin took some photos of the scenery and posted it on a social media app. Many of her friends liked her pictures. Lin Huang had the same app, but he hardly used it. They started shopping after they had lunch at a restaurant. Perhaps due to the shopping or the beautiful scenery, Lin Xin felt much better. They shopped until past six in the evening. Lin Huang only managed to get a few items as they spent most of their time buying clothes for Lin Xin. They had dinner and headed home when it was past 10.

“It seems like we’ll have to shop again tomorrow,” Lin Huang thought to himself when they got home. He was much relaxed the day before New Year’s Eve while Lin Xin was back to her shopaholic mode. She started buying cosmetics thanks to the influence of her roommates. Lin Huang began to decorate the house the day before New Year’s Eve after he was done with shopping, making the house looked rather festive.

On the night of New Year’s Eve, Lin Huang sent his well wishes to his friends. Besides Mr. Fu, the rest of them replied his message. Mr. Fu seemed to be busy, but Lin Huang thought about it and decided not to disturb him. On the first day of the year, the Winter City started snowing again. Lin Xin woke up early in the morning and dashed down the stairs in excitement. She could not wait to open her presents. Meanwhile, Lin Huang was sitting on the couch, reading the news quietly. Most of the news was really New Year wishes, and there was nothing much on the Hunter Forum, which made Lin Huang realize the importance of the restriction of information.

“Brother, this is for you!” Lin Xin gave him a present.

“You got this for me?” Lin Huang was surprised. Lin Xin was holding a small box wrapped in golden wrapping paper. He accepted the box immediately.

Just when he was about to open the box, he noticed a blue box on the coffee table.

“One would be enough. Why did you get me two presents?” Lin Huang smiled as he shook his head.

“That’s for Xiao Xuan. I’ve saved half of the stuff that you bought for him. If he returns one day, we can give him all the presents.” Lin Xin beamed warmly.

Lin Huang did not say anything and patted Lin Xin’s head.

“Sure, let’s keep the presents for Xiao Xuan!”

“Brother, open your present now!” Lin Xin then urged Lin Huang to open his present.

Lin Huang opened the box immediately. There was a black scarf in it. It looked somewhat normal without any patterns. However, Lin Huang did not have any expectations as it was the thought that counted.

“Do you like it?” Lin Xin was excited to hear what Lin Huang thought.

“I like it!”

“I knitted it myself!” Lin Xin declared proudly.

“You made this? When did you learn to knit?” Now, Lin Huang understood why this scarf looked so ordinary.

“My roommate taught me. I worked on this every night when I had the time. I’ve knitted two scarves in the past few months. One for you, one for Xiao Xuan. The one for him is white in color,” Lin Xin explained.

“Brilliant craftsmanship!” Lin Huang tied the scarf around his neck and gave her a thumbs up.

Chapter 569: The Five of Them Together

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

“I’ve got a triple mutated Frost Demon. Are you interested?”

“I’m sorry, not interested.”

Lin Huang turned off the black market mission page after replying in a dark forest. At the beginning of November last year, Lin Huang’s Life Fire was already burning at its limit of 300 meters high. After more than a month, his combat level completely stabilized in December and he was ready to level up to crimson flame-level. However, it was already February now, yet he had yet to find a tinder monster that was suitable, so his combat level stagnated.

The reason was simple. Lin Huang was picky when it came to choosing tinder monsters. First, it had to be at least triple mutated and there were not many monsters that qualified for that condition in Division 7. It was rare as many Imperial Censor families were after this type of monster as well. Secondly, the monster would be, at best, a holy fire-level, and the highest would be an immortal-level rank-1. To be honest, triple mutated monsters were powerful. He might not be able to handle a monster higher than immortal-level rank-1 if he ever encountered one. If that happened, instead of obtaining tinder, it would become a suicidal attempt.

Thirdly, the tinder would have to cater to his needs. That last condition made the mission impossible. As it was difficult to find the tinder that he desired in Division 7, he had to head to the core zone. The safe zone in Division 3 was 2.4 times bigger than Division 7. The safety zone was much more developed than Division 7. Besides having more powerful monsters, the number of monsters were a couple of times more than the number of monsters in Division 7.

Without compromising the criteria of his tinder, the only way to level up was to look for the tinder in the core zone. As he turned off the black market page, Lin Huang sensed somebody walk into his territory. He smirked as he looked at the person’s direction. Soon, Lin Xin revealed herself within the trees. She had a light silver glow under her feet. She had leveled up to silver-level. Although they were in a grade-4 wild zone, she was not as clumsy as she had been before. She had leveled up to silver-level two days ago and she was now on silver-level rank-3. She could definitely fight gold-level rank-3 monsters now.

Just as Lin Xin appeared, a black shadow materialized. It was a lady in a black dress. The triple mutated Wicked Witch looked exactly like a human. She had been familiarizing herself with Lin Xin and Lin Huang recently. Initially, Lin Huang wanted to get Kylie or Tyrant to protect Lin Xin as she was more familiar with the both of them. However, their appearance was too attention-seeking, so he thought that the Wicked Witch would be more suitable for the job. Besides, the Witch could conceal herself in Lin Xin’s shadow to protect her anytime, anywhere.

“Brother! Witch!”

Lin Xin leapt from the branch when she saw Lin Huang and the Witch, landing less than two meters away from Lin Huang.

“Not bad,” Lin Huang complimented as he knew Lin Xin could basically protect herself now.

The three of them stepped into the dimensional relic and disappeared from the forest, appearing at their home in the Winter City.

It was the Wicked Witch’s first time here. She looked around with curiosity.

“Xin Er, show the Witch around,” Lin Huang suggested.

“Brother, are you leaving tomorrow?” Lin Xin looked at the calendar on her Emperor’s Heart Ring.

“I’m meeting my friends the day after tomorrow, but I want to go there tomorrow night. It’s I who invited them after all. It’d be horrible for them to wait for me. There’s still half a month to your winter holidays. Enjoy the holiday or train your gunfighting techniques at home. I’ve already booked the ticket back to the White Capital for you. They’ll confirm your trip with you a day before,” Lin Huang said.

“Alright then.” Lin Xin knew that Lin Huang was not going to Division 3 this time but to the ruins. He would be back in March, so she was not that upset.

“Witch, let me show you around!” She waved at the Wicked Witch.

…

It was the middle of the night on the second day at foothold No. 7B51 Laotian City. On the 131st floor in a luxury hotel, Lin Huang gazed at the snow while standing on the balcony with a glass of green juice in his hand. The communication page on his Emperor’s Heart Ring was open.

“I’m here. Let’s meet at the City Sky Hotel at 9 a.m. tomorrow. Don’t be late.” He sent the message to four people in his contact book.

“Got it!”

“I know.”

…

Soon, the four of them replied. The next morning, Lin Huang woke up early. It was not even eight when he was done with his buffet breakfast. He checked out at the reception and sat down at the cafe on the first floor. He ordered a black coffee as he read the news. It was less than ten days since New Year’s Day had passed. There was nothing much on the news or on the Hunter Forum. Most of the hunters were relaxing during this period, so there was nothing new.

As Lin Huang was bored, he decided to check his social media app. Many friends posted photos of sceneries and food. He snapped a photo of the coffee that he was drinking and posted it on the app. Lin Xin was the first one who liked his photo while Yi Yeyu and the rest followed suit. After turning off the app, he then launched another app called Weibo and started reading news on topics that he was following. He came across a short post by ‘theuglytruth’. It was posted before the new year.

“There’s a battle of demigods in Division 1. Many of the islands on the quiet ocean have collapsed… It’s too far away, so I can only see the blur images.”

“A demigod battle in Division 1?” Lin Huang frowned. A person sat across him before he could think any further about the post.

“You sure know how to enjoy life!” It was Li Lang who he had not seen in a while. As usual, he was wearing his boring white suit with a red ribbon around his neck and combed back his hair.

“You’re pretty early.” Lin Huang turned off the app and smiled at his old friend.

“Of course! I’ve always been a punctual man! Tell me, are there any hot babes this time?” Li Lang bent down and asked softly.

“Yes, the lady from the Yi family that you’ve met.”

Li Lang rolled his eyes. “Who else?”

“Her brother.” Lin Huang grinned.

“I’m talking about ladies!” Li Lang emphasized.

“There’s another one.”

“Who’s that?” Li Lang was excited.

“She’s here!”

Lin Huang looked up at the hotel entrance. A girl in a white trench coat and sunglasses spotted him at the same time. He waved to her. She nodded and walked towards him.

“This is…?” Li Lang could not recognize her.

As she walked over to them, Lin Huang and Li Lang stood up immediately to offer their seats.

“This is Ms. Leng Yuexin. This is my friend Li Lang,” Lin Huang introduced.

“Hi.” Leng Yuexin took off her sunglasses and shook Li Lang’s hand.

“You’re the lady from the Leng family?” Li Lang was stunned.

The three of them sat down. After Li Lang and Leng Yuexin took a few sips of their coffee, Yi Zheng and Yi Yeyu arrived at the hotel. The duo had seen the photo that Lin Huang posted and headed straight to the cafe. Yi Zheng was wearing a slate blue trench coat, looking exuberant while Yi Yeyu wore a navy blue dress under a knitted coat. It was not even 8.40 a.m. when the five of them gathered. Lin Huang was dressed the most casual among the five of them in his regular sports attire. Since it was still early, Yi Zheng and Yi Yeyu ordered coffee for themselves as they chatted after the introduction.

The Yi siblings knew Leng Yuexin as they had met at some events before. Many people in the cafe were looking at them as the five made a handsome bunch.

“Lin Huang, you’ve grown taller,” Yi Yeyu teased.

“Yeah, I’m 178cm now. Maybe 180cm when I’m wearing shoes.” Lin Huang nodded. He was not the kid that they knew two years ago.

“I wouldn’t have noticed that if you didn’t mention it. He was a whole head shorter than I was two years ago, but now he’s catching up with me.” Yi Zheng had just noticed Lin Huang’s height.

The four of them had met two years ago where they recalled Lin Huang’s height when they first met. Lin Huang had grown from a teenager to a man.

“But why are you still on white flame-level? I’m already a purple flame-level and Xiao Yu is now a crimson flame-level, going onto blue flame-level.” Yi Zheng thought it was odd.

“There’s no tinder that I’m after in Division 7.” Lin Huang shook his head.

“Did you choose a triple mutated monster?!” The four of them looked at him in shock.

“Yes,” Lin Huang confirmed.

“Which monster did you choose to get to white flame-level with?” Now, even Leng Yuexin was curious.

“The Blacksword Killer,” Lin Huang told a half-truth.

“You’re insane!” Li Lang was shocked. It was difficult for him to kill double mutated monsters, but Lin Huang had managed to kill a triple mutated monster.

As they chatted and got familiar with each other, it was almost 9 a.m. and they had finished their coffee.

“Where’s the entrance? How long does it take to fly there?” Yi Zheng glimpsed at the time and realized that it was about time they moved.

“Don’t worry about it. I’ve already pinned the location last night. Just step into the dimensional relic and we’ll be at the destination.” Lin Huang brought the four of them out of the cafe and summoned his dimensional relic. The five of them stepped into the dimensional relic. As it closed, the five of them disappeared from the hotel.

Chapter 570: Treasure Card

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

As they stepped out of the dimensional relic, the five of them appeared in a canyon.

“Is this the War Canyon?” Yi Zheng studied the cliffs on both sides and figured out where they were.

“Yes.” Lin Huang nodded and summoned Kylie.

Besides Lin Huang, the four of them were stunned when they saw Kylie, who was clad in black armor and had 12 wings on her back, appear before them.

“Kylie, the ruins key,” Lin Huang instructed.

Kylie glared at the four of them and passed Lin Huang a black metal box with the ruins key inside. Lin Huang accepted the box and recalled Kylie.

“Was that an angel?” Li Lang was skeptical.

“I think so. A Dark Angel.” Lin Huang was not paying attention.

“A purple or gold flame-level?” Yi Zheng asked as he felt he might not be able to fight Kylie.

“A gold flame-level.” Lin Huang did not plan to lie.

“Is she triple mutated? The bloodline thickness should at least be mid-level,” Leng Yuexin offered a more concrete estimation.

“Yes,” Lin Huang replied but did not give an exact answer. He opened the metal box directly. There was a conical cube the size of a palm in the box.

The four of them looked at it immediately.

“Is this the ruins key?” It was the first for them to see a ruins key up close.

The ruins key detached from Lin Huang’s palm after he inserted a full Life Wheel of Life Power into it. It floated in the air and transformed into a black swirl of energy less than 20 meters away from them.

“Alright, let’s go!” Lin Huang nodded to them.

The four of them entered the whirlpool accordingly while Lin Huang was the last to step in. In less than a minute after Lin Huang stepped into it, the black swirl disappeared from the canyon as it had never appeared before. The five of them entered a space with a dark sky and an ominous aura in the air. All they could see was dry land with craters left by the damage of the war. There were monsters and even human bones scattered everywhere.

As the ruins entrance behind them closed, the key returned into Lin Huang’s hand. It seemed to be able to recognize Lin Huang by his Life Power. He kept the key in his sleeve when he heard Yi Zheng speak, “This seems to be an ancient war zone, so there should be many undead and spirit monsters here.”

“If that’s the case, are these skeletons our enemies as well?” Li Lang asked softly.

“We can’t exclude that from the facts,” Yi Zheng said.

“What do you know about this ruins? Do you have a map?” Yi Zheng turned around to ask Yi Zheng.

“Erm… Don’t ask me. I don’t even know what grade of ruins this is.” Lin Huang was stuck.

“How dare you bring all of us here when you don’t even know the grade of the ruins?” Li Lang was speechless.

“You idiot!” Yi Yeyu scolded.

“The ruins take a year to reopen. I can’t be coming here myself and only get your guys in next year. So, I thought of getting all of you to discover this place together. If it’s suitable, we can kill the monsters. If the grade is too low, we can leave right away. I’ll buy you guys a meal. Treat this as a New Year’s gathering. If the grade is too high, we can come back a few years later,” Lin Huang explained helplessly.

“Where did you get the key? Do you not know anything about this place at all?” Yi Yeyu was irritated.

“I got the key from the Saints last year. I really know nothing about this place.” Lin Huang smiled awkwardly and shook his head.

“Let’s just pick any direction then. Without any information, we can only explore blindly,” Leng Yuexin said.

“Then, you pick the direction then since you’re the leader.” Yi Yeyu poked Lin Huang.

The three of them looked at him expectantly. Lin Huang looked around, completely lost. It was a barren land that was left from the war, and it seemed like there was no difference which direction they picked. The map on their Emperor’s Heart Ring would not work in such an isolated space. Besides that, the communication and network were locked. It would spell trouble if they lost each other along the way.

“Let’s just pick any direction. It looks the same anyway,” Li Lang urged Lin Huang when he noticed that he could not make up his mind.

“Wait!” Lin Huang suddenly thought of a card that he owned that could be used here as he was feeling lost.

“Treasure Card

“Function: Once the card is activated, it’ll guide you to the nearest location with treasure including mineral mountains, graveyards, and ruins.

“Remark 1: The card is not used to create a treasure. Instead, it’s used to track the location of the treasure. The detection point will be tracked from the user’s activation point, and the limit is a 1,000-kilometer radius. As soon as the card is activated, the detection point will be set. Whether there’s treasure within the range or not, the card will still be consumed.”

“Remark 2: Each card can be used once, and only one treasure point can be selected. The treasure point can’t be changed once confirmed. As soon as the user is guided to the treasure point, the coordinates will disappear.

“Remark 3: Once the card is activated, the coordinates will stay for a month. After that, the coordinates will disappear if the user doesn’t arrive at the coordinates and will be considered as an aborted mission.”

“Remark 4: There will be three colors of the coordinates according to the value of the treasure. White color indicates normal treasure, red color for rare treasure and gold color for legendary treasure. If there are gold-colored coordinates, the brighter the color, the higher the value of the treasure.”

Lin Huang instructed Xiao Hei secretly after reading the card’s description, “Xiao Hei, activate one Treasure Card!”

“Are you sure you want to use your current location as the detection point and to start searching for treasure?”

“Yes!”

“Treasure Card has been activated.”

A ten-meter long white arrow appeared at Lin Huang’s two o’clock.

“White coordinates… I really have bad luck!” Lin Huang thought to himself.

“I’ve decided. Let’s go here!” Lin Huang pointed at his two o’clock and flew up without waiting for them to say anything. The four of them followed him as they did not have a choice.

Chapter 571: I’m Envious of the Imperial Censors

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

As Lin Huang moved along the direction of the white arrow which was invisible to the others, it was still flickering at a distance of fewer than 20 meters away from him.

He maintained the regular speed and flew for more than half an hour. Lin Huang and the four of them behind him found it odd that they did not see any living beings over the distance of hundreds of meters. The five of them heard nothing else aside from the whistling sound produced from the friction between the air and their clothes. Not even a single buzz from the worms or a single chirp from the birds could be heard. It was as if they were in a deadly still world.

“Do you guys feel that the ruins are horrifying?” Li Lang asked Lin Huang and the rest.

“We haven’t encountered any living beings so far. It’s unusually quiet.” Yi Zheng’s voice was soon heard.

“Could the resources have been depleted? If so, no treasure can be found in the ruins,” Yi Yeyu expressed her opinion.

“It can’t be. If the resources have been depleted, the ruins will collapse, but the ruins are still operating as usual. However, it’s bizarre that there are no traces of living beings.” Leng Yuexin frowned.

“Don’t overthink it. We’ve arrived at our first destination.” After flying for more than half an hour, Lin Huang could finally see the final location pointed by the navigation arrow at a distance of more than 700 kilometers away from the entrance, and he quickly landed.

The other four of them felt it was strange but still, they followed after Lin Huang and landed.

After descending, Yi Yeyu and the rest then discovered that there was an entrance to the underground.

Lin Huang and the four of them landed at a distance less than ten meters away from the entrance to the cave. Right at that moment, Lin Huang could see that the white arrow had disappeared.

“You have crazy excellent eyesight to discover the cave at such a height!” Li Lang laughed as he said.

“I have a monster skill that’s somewhat similar to the ocular skill,” Lin Huang simply came up with an excuse as to hide the fact that he was using a Treasure Card.

“Let’s go in and have a look!” Yi Zheng was eager to take the lead. However, he was stopped by Lin Huang.

“Wait a moment!” Lin Huang summoned Bloody.

Bloody turned into a purple, scaleless small snake and twisted around Lin Huang’s left arm. It looked like a harmless animal in an anime. As it blinked its pair of big eyes, Yi Yeyu and Leng Yuexin were attracted to it.

“It’s so cute!” Yi Yeyu felt like touching it.

“Bloody, have a look at the situation inside the cave,” Lin Huang instructed.

More than ten dots of purple lights were released from the surface of Bloody’s body and dispersed towards the entrance of the cave.

When Yi Yeyu was about to grab one of them when Yi Zheng grabbed her wrist, shaking his head. Yi Yeyu thought that Yi Zheng wanted to stop her from bothering them. In fact, Yi Zheng vaguely felt that the dots of purple light were intimidating.

Leng Yuexin could feel that as well. Her eyes flashed with a trace of uncertainty, shifting her focus towards the little beast that twisted around Lin Huang’s arm.

“Lin Huang, what’s Bloody’s combat level?” Li Lang was familiar with Bloody as he and Yi Yeyu had witnessed Bloody’s investigating skill before at the Volcanic Hell.

“Its combat level is higher than yours.” Lin Huang did not give a direct reply. Instead, he just answered with a cryptic smile.

“How could it be? My crimson flame-level Life Fire is filled. I’m going to proceed to blue flame-level.” Li Lang found it unbelievable.

“Is it a gold flame-level?” Yi Zheng guessed. The level of the monster would definitely not be lower than his as he could feel that the monster was intimidating.

Lin Huang nodded. In order to avoid the rest from asking him the combat level of his summoning monsters, he explained, “Most of my summoning monsters have basically reached gold flame-level.”

Yi Zheng initially thought that he would be the strongest among the team members. However, when he heard what Lin Huang said, he instantly understood that Lin Huang was the one with the strongest overall abilities despite the fact that he was just a white flame-level.

“So what even if it’s a gold flame-level? It definitely won’t be able to fight me in an actual battle.” Li Lang glanced at Bloody arrogantly. Up until now, he was still naive as he was set on the thought that Bloody was a monster that could not fight.

Bloody blinked its eyes while looking at Li Lang. It then turned around and looked at Lin Huang innocently. Although it did not say anything, Lin Huang understood what it wanted to say from its gaze. He meant to say, “I can fight 10,000 people like him alone!”

Lin Huang sniggered. With Bloody’s parasitic abilities, it was not joking when it implied that it could fight 10,000 people like Li Lang. Bloody’s parasitic abilities allowed it to defeat weak enemies. As long as their combat strength was below its own, they would not be able to escape from being parasitized by the parasite. Quantity meant nothing to Bloody. If Li Lang were unable to surpass Bloody, even if there were one million Li Langs, they would all become Lin Huang’s puppets.

Yi Yeyu did not pay much attention to Bloody’s combat strength. Similar to Li Lang, she originally thought that Bloody was just an ordinary summoning monster. However, it was so powerful even though it was just a double mutated monster. She thought that its strongest ability was its detection which could be done by releasing the dots of light. Perhaps, the remaining skills were merely skills for protection, and it did not have any attack skills.

However, Yi Zheng, who was on purple flame-level, and Leng Yuexin, who was on blue flame-level, had a completely different opinion. Both of them had encountered the transcendent monsters more often than Yi Yeyu and Li Lang had, and they were more sensitive to danger. Despite disguising itself well, both of them could still sense that it was not an ordinary summoning monster.

Before obtaining the results of the investigation, Yi Yeyu then stood next to Lin Huang and touched Bloody’s head. Seeing Bloody had closed its eyes as it enjoyed being caressed, Li Lang joined her as well.

“You two idiots,” Yi Zheng scolded quietly.

In just a short while, Bloody opened its eyes and sent the image detected by its Leech Pods to Lin Huang’s mind.

“Is there any news?” Yi Zheng immediately asked as he noticed Bloody’s reaction.

“Yes, let’s go in,” Lin Huang nodded and instructed. Lancelot that was wearing a maroon armor gradually appeared in front of them.

Although the surface of Lancelot’s body was no longer misty, it became even stronger after integrating with the aura of god. Its appearance was somewhat intimidating compared to Kylie’s.

If it were a game, there would be a name in bloody red color on top of Lancelot’s head, indicating that it was an extremely dangerous character.

Aside from Lin Huang, Yi Zheng could confirm that the monster that was in the maroon armor could easily kill four of them within seconds.

“Lancelot, please lead us,” Lin Huang instructed.

Lancelot’s blue eyes gazed at Yi Zheng and the rest, then finally, it nodded as it looked at Lin Huang. It then strode into the cave.

Lin Huang and the four of them followed after Lancelot and entered the cave as well.

As the five of them took a few steps forward, Li Lang’s voice could be heard, “I’m envious of the Imperial Censors!”

Chapter 572: Lancelot’s Ability

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

The five of them followed after Lancelot and entered the cave.

The channel towards the cave was like a descending slope.

As they walked along the twisting path for more than ten minutes, Lancelot then dove into an underground cave with them.

The cave was dark, and they could not even see their fingers in front of their faces.

However, darkness did not hinder the vision of transcendents like Lin Huang and the rest. Soon, the five of them could clearly see the situation inside the cave.

The cave was quite spacious, and the ceiling of the cave was about ten meters high. It was a vast underground world.

However, their concern was not the size of the underground world. Instead, they were worried about the monsters in the cave.

From their body size, they looked like monkeys. However, there was no fur on their bodies. They had pale, waxy skin that resembled dead human corpses. Also, they had elongated limbs. Their faces looked like humans’ with ears that were about twice the size of the average human ear. Their eyes had no pupils and irises. Only the white of their eyes could be seen. They had no noses, and there were only two tiny nostrils where a nose should have been. They had sharp teeth that looked like dogs’ and when they extended their tongue, it was about three times longer than that of the ordinary human’s.

Some of these monsters were climbing the wall while some of them were hanging upside down from the ceiling of the cave. There were at least 100 of them, and it looked like they had fallen asleep.

“There are finally creatures here. They look hideous!” Li Lang commented.

“Are they Cavernous Devils?” Yi Yeyu asked in doubt. She had heard of the monster before, but she had never looked up the information of the monster in the monster guide.

“Yes, they are Cavernous Devils.” Lin Huang nodded his head.

He had been going through various types of reading material at the Martial Hunter College. He could almost remember all the contents of the monster guide. Although he could not remember the information in detail like Bloody could, he could basically recognize all the monsters recorded in the monster guide.

The Cavernous Devil was a type of monster that lived underground. It normally ate carrion. When there was no carrion, they would hunt down living beings and eat them after they had decomposed. Under conditions when there was an insufficient supply of food, they would go dormant. If the issue of food supply could still not be solved after being dormant, they would hunt their own species. Therefore, these monsters were rather ruthless.

The monsters liked to live in a group. When they became adults, they would automatically level up to gold-level. A minority of them was commander-level, and their claws and teeth were poisonous. This was the reason why even people on holy fire-level were unwilling to offend this type of monster.

Lin Huang and the rest had intruded into the Cavernous Devil’s lair.

Although the monsters had gone dormant, with their sensitive hearing, they would still be awakened if anything happened.

“There are more than 400 of them. Looking at the population size, it’s highly possible that there are commander-level monsters and there might be more than one of them.” Leng Yuexin shifted her gaze towards Lin Huang. She only told them what she had analyzed without giving any suggestion.

“It’s not worth killing such monsters. Nothing from their bodies can be used as a material, and it’ll be troublesome to kill them due to their large numbers. Should we fight them?” Yi Zheng was not interested in hunting this type of monster.

“Let’s warm up since we’re already here,” Lin Huang said, “It won’t take us a lot of time to clear these monsters.”

Lin Huang had no intention to reveal Bloody’s parasitic abilities. He then gave Lancelot a simple instruction, “Kill them all!”

A blue glow flashed through Lancelot’s blue eyes. Before Yi Yeyu and the rest could react, a golden glow quickly formed in front of his body, shining brightly throughout the cave as if it was daytime.

The ray of light triggered the Cavernous Devils that had gone dormant. They woke up and started growling crazily.

Yi Yeyu and the rest were speechless when they saw this. They wanted to secretly kill the monsters since they had gone dormant. They tried not to make any noise and intended to kill as many of them as possible. Therefore, even when the monsters woke up, the monster horde would not have such a significant advantage over them.

Lin Huang was kind of speechless as well as he placed his hand on his forehead. He had instructed Lancelot to kill all the monsters, but he did not ask it to kill them alone. However, Lancelot had apparently thought that it had to kill them on its own. Therefore, it had unleashed its ultimate skill, the Sword Manipulation. The golden glow flashed through the air and a short blade that measuring about 10 centimeters long was formed.

As the group of Cavernous Devils knew what was happening, they pounced on Lin Huang. The short blade blasted off and penetrated through the bodies of the Cavernous Devils. Soon after, the second and the third groups of monsters were attacked.

In less than ten seconds, the crypt that was initially noisy became quiet.

Yi Zheng and the rest of them were stunned, staring at the carcasses of the Cavernous Devils that were scattered all over the ground. They remained silent for a few moments.

The four of them had just witnessed how powerful Lancelot was in the one-sided battle. They were shocked.

“It’s so powerful!” Li Lang had no idea what else could he say to describe what he had just seen.

“The killing rate is terrifying!” Yi Yeyu gushed.

“I might not be able to defend against the skill if it were to use it as a single attack.” Yi Zheng had only seen Lancelot’s skill once, and he could confirm that he was incapable of fighting Lancelot.

“Is that the… Sword Manipulation?” A flicker of fear flashed through Leng Yuexin’s eyes. The thought ran through her mind, but she had not dared to ask about it earlier.

Lancelot’s abilities had been revealed, but it was not planned. Lin Huang was helpless as he had not given explicit instructions just now. However, since its abilities had been exposed, there was nothing to hide as he still had many other monster cards.

“Since the Cavernous Devils have been killed, let’s take a look and see if there are any valuable things here. Otherwise, there’s no use sticking around.” Lin Huang was the first one to look around the cave.

Actually, Bloody had roughly studied the cave. Lin Huang walked straight towards the big pit, lowering his head and peering into the pit. There were skulls of various types of living beings, both monsters as well as humans.

“Come over here!” Lin Huang shouted at them.

Yi Zheng and the rest of them immediately rushed over there when they heard Lin Huang shouting at them.

“A bone pit? Is that the grave of the monsters?” Yi Yeyu asked curiously.

“No, this is the place where the Cavernous Devils stored their food to eat,” Lin Huang explained. “In other words, it’s their kitchen, dining room, and also their rubbish bin. All the monsters that have been killed are thrown here. As soon as the dead bodies have decomposed, they’ll eat them and all that’s left are the skulls. That’s the reason why the bones have accumulated over here.”

“Are we going to find any treasure here? Even if there are many of the Emperor’s Heart Rings, we can hardly dig them out.” Li Lang opened his palm and said.

“Be patient.” Lin Huang grinned. “Bloody!”

Bloody then came out of Lin Huang’s sleeve and plunged into the bone pit.

A few moments later, Bloody’s body turned into the shape of a sphere from which its antennas extended. The antennas then swooped downwards and penetrated through the gap between the skulls.

Soon after, Bloody managed to dig out the Emperor’s Heart Rings with its antennas. After a few minutes, it had found hundreds of Emperor’s Heart Rings.

“There’s such a function?!” Li Lang was startled.

Chapter 573: The Cavernous Devils’ Memories

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Inside the bone pit, Bloody did not stop spreading its antennas and continued penetrating through the gaps between the bones. It extracted the Emperor’s Heart Rings and a few valuable items.

After more than half an hour, Bloody stopped digging and gradually floated out of the pit. It levitated in front of Lin Huang. As it opened its mouth, it spat out all the items it had extracted.

Lin Huang and the rest glanced through the items. There were thousands of Emperor’s Heart Rings among the rest of the items.

“There are 2,276 Emperor’s Heart Rings in total. As for the relics and the other valuable items that are still in good condition, there are 133 of them.” Lin Huang obtained the exact figure from Bloody. “Let’s see if there’s anything that you guys need.”

They shook their heads. Apparently, they were not interested in items of such levels.

Lin Huang then took out the storage ring that Leng Yuexin had given him previously and stored all those items in it.

“Since we got these items together, I’ll store them in the storage ring first. After exploring the ruins, I’ll look for someone to unlock the ring. I’ll then make a list, and we’ll divide the stuff among the five of us equally. That way, we don’t have to go through the redistribution of the stuff each time since it’s a waste of time,” Lin Huang suggested. “Of course, you may speak up if there’s something that you need. You’ll have the priority over the others and get what you want. The person will have to exchange it for the item of the same value and give it to the rest of the group.”

“What if several people request for the same item?” Li Lang raised one of the possibilities.

“We’ll then come up with a solution to distribute the stuff to which those who request for the item agree. After the ownership has been determined, regardless of what the result is, the rest of them mustn’t argue against it.” Lin Huang had thought of this answer earlier.

“What if the item costs a lot and the person can’t afford to exchange the item for the rest of the items the person has? Does the person need to pay the balance with other items?” Li Lang asked.

“Yes, the person will have to pay the balance according to the market price. It’s best if one pays back with the items that we need instead of something unnecessary. If there’s indeed nothing that we need, one may pay the balance with Life Crystals or other types of crystals,” Lin Huang explained the additional conditions.

“As for the personal items that you guys get on your own, if the others ask for it, it depends on whether the owner of the stuff is willing to exchange it with items of similar value. If the owner disagrees, nobody can force a trade.

“Let’s come to an agreement first to avoid any conflict when it comes to the distribution of stuff. You may raise your objections now if there’re any or if there’s anything else that has to be added.”

Since they were all friends, Lin Huang did not want them to fall out over money. Therefore, he lay out the rules beforehand. If anything happened during the distribution of the items, they would handle it according to what they had agreed upon earlier so that there would be no arguments.

“I have no objection.” Leng Yuexin was the first one to nod her head.

“The same goes for me.” Yi Yeyu looked like she did not care.

“Although the rules are simple, you have made everything clear. We’ll discuss in detail if there’re any contradictions in future.” Yi Zheng agreed as well.

“I can’t think of anything to add so far.” Li Lang had no objection as well after thinking about it.

“Okay, since everyone has agreed, we’ll follow the rules.” Lin Huang then continued, “The four of you are all my friends. If there’s anything that you really need, don’t feel embarrassed to ask for it. Since it’s a fair deal, there’s nothing to be embarrassed about. Don’t regret when the item that you need is given to the others.”

The rest of them nodded in agreement when they heard what he said.

“Bloody, please check again if there is any remaining stuff. If there aren’t any items left, we’ll leave.” Lin Huang then turned around and gave Bloody a new instruction.

Bloody rereleased the dots of purple light and looked around. It found a few more Emperor’s Heart Rings from the Cavernous Devils’ fingers. It seized the opportunity to parasitize the commander-level Cavernous Devils and retrieved the information regarding the ruins from their memories.

After confirming that there was nothing left, Lin Huang then led the team and returned to the ground.

“Bloody, please check the situation in the ruins.” As they returned to the ground, Lin Huang gave Bloody a new instruction again. It then investigated the situation in the ruins.

Bloody floated in mid-air. Countless dots of purple light were dispersed in all directions, resembling purple clouds that were clearing away.

“It’s so beautiful!” Yi Yeyu exclaimed.

“What an amazing investigating skill!” As usual, Li Lang was envious of the Imperial Censor.

“How many detection pods can it release at most?” Yi Zheng was somewhat interested in its abilities.

“It can release millions of those pods at most,” Lin Huang answered with a smile.

“Is the distance that the pods can cover restricted? How far away can they leave Bloody?” Yi Zheng asked again.

“I’ve never considered this. It seems like there is no restriction. Let me ask and see…” Lin Huang smiled and looked at Bloody. After a short while, he answered, “Bloody said that there’s no problem to cover the whole A-grade foothold.”

That was actually the answer that Bloody told Lin Huang to inform Yi Zheng. The actual answer was that it could cover half of the safe zone.

“What about their speed? It seems like they move quite fast,” Yi Zheng continued asking.

“I guess their maximum speed is about 1,200 kilometers.” Lin Huang had asked Bloody about this before. However, Bloody had given him the answer before it leveled up to holy fire-level. Their speed must be much faster now since Bloody was already a gold flame-level that had gone through its third mutation.

It seemed like Yi Zheng was interested in Bloody’s investigating abilities as he continued asking several questions. After listening to Lin Huang’s reply, he then nodded his head in satisfaction and kept quiet.

“Are we going to wait over here until the investigation ends?” Seeing the pods had all disappeared, Leng Yuexin turned back and asked Lin Huang.

“We don’t have to wait until the investigation ends. Let’s walk around as we might probably discover the second exploration point before it.” Lin Huang smiled, shaking his head.

Bloody shared the information that had been extracted from a few of the Cavernous Devils’ brains with Lin Huang, so he now had a brief understanding of the ruins.

The level of the ruins was high. According to Cavernous Devils’ memories, the strongest monster that they had encountered was an imperial-level. Therefore, it must be at least a 4-star ruins.

Most of the monsters lived underground during the day and would return to the surface at night to hunt for food. Moreover, the dry bones that they could see everywhere along the roadside would be revived at night. These monsters had a strong desire for blood and flesh, and they were quite sensitive to the aura of living beings.

There was only one way for Lin Huang and the rest to survive in the ruins, which was to look for a site that could cover their aura before sunset.

There was such a site in the memory of the commander-level Cavernous Devils, and it was not far away from them.

Lin Huang could not explain how he had obtained the memory of the Cavernous Devils. Therefore, he guided the four of them and headed towards the right location. It was the only place where they could survive the first night.

“I have a foreboding that there’s a big treasure waiting for us over there!” Lin Huang pointed in the direction of their four o’clock.

“Did you just randomly point towards a direction?” Yi Yeyu rolled her eyes as she felt that Lin Huang was too spontaneous.

“Don’t tell me it’s a bone pit again!” Li Lang said.

“Let me check it out since I’m the leader.” Lin Huang then flew into the sky along with the four of them and Lancelot, heading towards the second destination.

Chapter 574: A War Foothold That Existed Hundreds of Years Ago

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The ruins in the Cavernous Devil’s memory were located more than 600 kilometers away from the cave.

Within half an hour, Lin Huang saw the ruins under him and quickly descended along with Yi Yeyu and the rest.

“Yo, the ruins exist for real!” Li Lang teased as he thought that Lin Huang had got it right only by sheer luck.

“See! I didn’t lead you guys the wrong way.” Lin Huang was proud of himself.

“What’s so good about that? We don’t know if there’s anything in it.” Yi Yeyu raised her eyebrows and glanced at Lin Huang. She could vaguely feel that Lin Huang had known that the ruins were there in advance.

Yi Zheng and Leng Yuexin did not say anything as if they noticed that as well. Lin Huang was resolute in his action as he pointed towards the ruins. Moreover, he was flying in a straight line, and the ruins were just in front of them without any deviation. If he had found the cave by luck the first time, it was strange that he had managed to find the ruins by luck for the second time.

Both of them were smart. Although they knew that it was strange since Lin Huang did not want to talk about it, there was no need for them to delve further into the matter as well.

After looking around, Leng Yuexin frowned. “It looks like a war foothold…”

“It is indeed a war foothold. Judging from its size, it’s not a regular, small foothold. It’s a least a medium-sized one. The underground must be expansive.” Yi Zheng was born in the Yi family, and he could identify it at first glance.

“Did you really think that you’re the only one who knows this?” Yi Yeyu rolled her eyes at Yi Zheng. She finally had the opportunity to show off what her talent, but Yi Zheng had stolen her thunder.

“Fine. Pray, tell.” Yi Zheng immediately noticed that he had made a mistake.

“I’m not interested!” Yi Yeyu turned her head away.

Lin Huang and the rest believed what Yi Zheng said.

Leng Yuexin had met the Yi siblings earlier, and Li Lang knew about Yi Yeyu’s background as they had gone to the Volcanic Hell together. Any of the Yis knew about stuff related to the armed forces very well, let alone the descent of the Yi family.

“So… Brother Zheng, are there any treasures in it?” Li Lang immediately asked.

“There might be the remnants of the army in the storehouse. However, it seems like the foothold existed hundreds of years ago. It’s useless despite valuable items like medicine remaining.” Yi Zheng felt that it was less likely that they would retrieve anything from the ruins. “Of course, the storehouse might have been emptied, and there could be nothing left…”

“Keep your big mouth shut, Brother Zheng. I was hoping that I can get something valuable here!” Li Lang immediately shouted.

As both of them were chatting, Lin Huang instructed Bloody again, “Bloody, please check it out.”

Bloody then released dots of purple lights that spread into the ruins.

Just when they were waiting for the results of Bloody’s investigation, Yi Zheng walked towards one of the walls of the ruins. As he put pressure on the wall, a hole was instantly formed. The place where Yi Zheng had touched with his fingers was crushed, turning into sand.

Yi Yeyu then went over and asked, “Can you determine the exact year of the foothold?”

“As it has weathered to this extent, the foothold must have existed for at least 500 years or even longer.” Yi Zheng could only make a rough estimation.

“Division 7 has only been developed for about 300 years…” Yi Yeyu was dumbfounded.

After a short while, they obtained the results of Bloody’s investigation. In the ruins, many monsters were gathered. Three floors under the ground, there was a chief-level monster that was fast asleep in the storehouse which made up the most significant area.

“A chief-level monster? What’s its rank?” Lin Huang immediately asked Bloody when he heard the news about it.

“From the aura, its combat level can’t be exceeding immortal-level rank-3.” Lin Huang was relieved after listening to Bloody’s reply.

“Alright, Bloody has confirmed that there are many holy fire-level monsters in the ruins as well as an immortal-level,” Lin Huang shared the results of Bloody’s investigation.

“There’s an immortal-level?!” Four pairs of pupils dilated when they heard about the immortal-level.

“Let’s explore another place.” Li Lang wanted to retreat.

“An immortal-level… That’s troublesome indeed.” Leng Yuexin frowned.

Yi Yeyu then looked at Yi Zheng. “Are you confident about defeating an immortal-level?”

“I barely managed to kill the immortal-level rank-1. I’m unable to kill those on rank-2 or higher.” Yi Zheng shrugged his shoulders and looked at Lin Huang. “Can you determine the rank of the immortal-level monster?”

“It can’t be higher than rank-3.” After Lin Huang finished his words, all of them remained silent. Lin Huang then continued, “I’ll kill it.”

“Are you sure?” Yi Zheng took a glance at Lancelot before asking Lin Huang.

“Yes.” Lin Huang nodded.

“How confident are you?”

“I’m 100% positive,” Lin Huang answered dauntlessly.

“This is not the time for heroics. How confident are you?” Yi Yeyu frowned and repeated Yi Zheng’s question.

“100% positive!” Lin Huang gave the same answer.

“Lin Huang, if you fail to kill the monster, all of us will have to die here. Stop fooling around!” Yi Yeyu stared at Lin Huang with a serious expression.

“Don’t worry. It’s not my first time killing an immortal-level rank-3.” Lin Huang had no choice but to reveal one of his small secrets.

“Are you really that amazing!?”Li Lang stared at Lin Huang with eyes wide open.

The four of them knew Lin Huang very well. They knew that he would not put their lives at risk. However, they were shocked to hear that.

“Let Lancelot take the lead. We’ll work together with it and clear all the monsters.”

Lin Huang did not intend to reveal Bloody’s parasitic abilities since its ability to manipulate a battle was rather terrifying. It was also one of Lin Huang’s trump cards. Although he had faith in Yi Yeyu and the rest of them, the trump card was something too personal. Unless he had no other choice, he would not easily reveal it to the others.

“Lancelot, try not to use a large amount of your Life Power. The usual attack will do. We’ll handle the remaining monsters. Minimize the use of your Life Power and save it for the ultimate warrior,” Lin Huang instructed Lancelot. It would not bode well if Leng Yuexin and the rest did not get to kill a single monster. He could not let them follow Lancelot and lament about how powerful it was.

“Do I need to summon the Sword Servant? The servants will kill the weak monsters, and I’ll be able to save my Life Power,” Lancelot suggested. Apparently, he wanted to clear all the monsters on its own and did not want to miss out on any of them.

“There’s no need to do so. Just make some random kills, and we’ll do the rest,” Lin Huang rejected its suggestion.

“Alright.” Lancelot did not say any other thing. It lifted its legs and strode into the ruins.

The five of them immediately followed after it.

Chapter 575: Eating The Meat Without Saving the Soup

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Most of the regions of the war foothold had collapsed. The walls and the ceilings that had disintegrated sealed many of the places off, resulting in dimming the whole ruins.

As Lin Huang and the rest entered, they started sizing up their surroundings.

The wall of the room was covered with moss and poisonous mushrooms of various colors that grew in the corner of the wall. There was the occasional grass that occasionally appeared on the ground, and the leaves rustled as the wind blew past, reminding them that they were not in an entirely dead world.

Lancelot followed after Bloody, leading them towards the entrance of the underground.

Earlier, Bloody had checked the buildings that had collapsed to ensure that there was no presence of monsters. However, Lancelot, Lin Huang and the rest were still being careful as they walked through the place.

On their way, they saw more small plants and fungus. Aside from that, they found nothing.

After walking along the path that Bloody detected for five to six minutes, they finally arrived at the entrance of the underground.

The entrance looked like a straight path that would lead them to the well of the underground. However, the area of the opening was much larger than the well as it had a diameter of about five meters.

Rust covered the metal staircase at the entrance. Fortunately, they were not going to use that.

Lancelot was the first one that jumped through the entrance, and soon, Lin Huang and the rest followed after it.

When their feet touched the ground after a while, Lin Huang looked upwards. The underground cave was at least hundreds of meters deep.

However, Lin Huang soon noticed that something was wrong.

Previously, when he was underground, he could not detect anything with his Territory skill as if something had blocked it. However, his detection abilities had recovered although he was underground now. He could sense that within the region of his territory, apart from Yi Yeyu and the rest, there was the presence of other creatures.

Lancelot could sense whatever Lin Huang could as the detection radius that its Sword Territory could cover was similar to Lin Huang’s Territory.

“It’s so smelly!” Yi Yeyu mumbled softly and quickly pinched her nose a second later after her feet touched the ground.

Yi Zheng and the rest were on high alert. Despite not possessing a territorial talent and not being able to detect the presence of the monsters, the pungent smell was apparently due to the excretion of the monsters. This indicated that the monsters in the underground were still alive. If those monsters had died, the smell would have disappeared after hundreds of years.

There was a long corridor that had a diameter similar to that of the well. They frowned seeing the muddy and wet ground. They immediately floated up to a distance of a few centimeters away from the ground to avoid their shoes from getting dirty.

Lancelot did not mind at all and took a step forward. As its feet touched the mud on the ground, it squished and echoed in the darkness.

Lin Huang and the rest followed after it. Aside from Lin Huang, all of them summoned their relics and got ready for a fight.

As they walked along the corridor, they soon arrived at the first room in the underground.

The room was at least 1,000 square meters large and had a ceiling of about 10 meters tall. Within the region that Lin Huang’s Territory covered, there were more than hundreds of holy fire-level monsters. A minority of them was awoken by Lancelot’s footstep, and they peered curiously at them.

“Are they Bloodthirsty Corpses?” Yi Yeyu asked.

“Yes. Bloodthirsty Corpses can be easily identified as they have very fair skin which causes their greenish-purple veins to be rather apparent. The veins on their arms and legs that look like tattoos can be seen at first glance. Other than that, their bodies are deformed to a certain extent due to the side effects of demonification. The characteristics on their face are obvious as well. Their eyes tend to glow bright green in the darkness. Besides, they have sharp teeth which are similar to canine teeth of carnivores…” Lin Huang gave a brief scientific explanation. “One thing that is different from the Cavernous Devil that we encountered earlier is that it has a very sensitive sense of smell. Even if we didn’t make any noise, the Bloodthirsty Corpses that are asleep would wake up if they smell the aura of living beings.”

After finishing his words, many of the Bloodthirsty Corpses that were asleep seemed to have sensed their auras and gradually opened their eyes, looking in their direction.

Before Lin Huang could even instruct him, a dark red sword appeared in Lancelot’s hand.

As it swung its sword, it penetrated through the heads of the Bloodthirsty Corpses that were about to attack from hundreds of meters away. Before the rest could react to it, Lancelot had started a one-sided killing spree.

Each time it brandished its sword, the head of four to five Bloodthirsty Corpses that were within its Territory would explode without any trace. With every step forward, there would be at least ten monsters that were killed by its sword.

Yi Zheng and the rest were shocked at the scene in front of them, and they were still immersed in their thoughts even after a while.

Lin Huang was speechless as well. Obviously, Lancelot was not going to miss any of its targets.

“Is that the Territory skill?!” Yi Zheng was the first one to recover from his thoughts and discovered the skill which Lancelot was using.

Lin Huang nodded his head helplessly.

“It seems like we don’t need to fight.” Leng Yuexin seemed to be upset as she had no chance to fight the monsters.

“Lin Huang, where did you obtain such a summoning monster? I’d like to seal a monster like this with my monster taming token.” Li Lang salivated over the possibility of that.

“You’re overthinking. There’s only one monster like this that exists in the world.” Lin Huang shook his head. “I don’t have the energy to train another monster like this.”

“Isn’t it the triple mutated monster that Mr. Fu caught for you?” Yi Yeyu asked curiously.

“No, I caught it on my own. It had just gone through its first mutation when it’s caught,” Lin Huang explained.

The four of them instantly kept quiet. Although they did not have a thorough understanding of the job scope of the Imperial Censor, even Reserve Hunters knew that it was challenging for a monster to go through a mutation even only once. A lot of resources and time were needed for training. Therefore, most of the strong Imperial Censors would capture an already triple mutated monster. They had no idea how much effort was required to train a mutated monster into a triple mutated one. This was also the reason why Lin Huang had said that there was only one such in the world.

In the underground room, despite Lancelot not activating its ultimate skill, its performance was terrifying.

As covered its Territory, it seemed like none of the monsters was able to approach Lin Huang and the rest of them. They were at least hundreds of meters away from them. Regardless of which direction the monsters were coming from, as long as it thrust its sword forward, the monsters were instantly killed.

In less than three minutes, it wiped out hundreds of holy fire-level Bloodthirsty Corpses. Lin Huang and the rest became its cheerleaders again.

The blood of the Bloodthirsty Corpse had medicinal value. Therefore, their carcasses were valuable. Lin Huang started collecting the dead bodies.

While he was collecting the carcasses, Bloody chose few of the strongest Bloodthirsty Corpses and completed its parasitizing process. It also retrieved their memories from their brains.

After collecting the carcasses, Lancelot stopped and was about to continue their journey. Yi Zheng, who was standing next to them, finally said, “Let us take the lead and the both of you can follow after us. Otherwise, there’s nothing for us to play with.”

Lancelot then looked at Lin Huang in doubt.

“Why are you looking at me? You ate the meat without saving the soup for them. Let’s back the rear up.” Lin Huang grinned, shaking his head.

Lancelot then slowed down so that Yi Zheng and the rest could overtake them before he followed after them.

Chapter 576: Yi Yeyu and Li Lang Show Their Abilities for the First Time

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“There are three floors underground. On the first floor, there are 16 rooms that are similar to the first room we entered, and each room is occupied with hundreds of holy fire-level monsters. On the second floor, there are 12 rooms with holy fire-level monsters that are even stronger. Basically, they are on blue and purple flame-level. There are fewer monsters over there as there are 30 to 50 monsters in each room. On the third floor, which is also the lowest floor, there are two big storehouses. The first storehouse contains four gold flame-level monsters whereas there’s an immortal-level monster in the second storehouse…”

Lin Huang gave brief introduction according to the information he obtained from Bloody. He then continued, “Let’s start from the first floor. Kill all the monsters in each room and go further down. If we do so, when we’re going to kill the last immortal-level monster, it won’t have any backup. If the monsters aren’t all cleared, we might be hindered during the process of killing it.”

The four of them nodded in agreement.

Soon, they reached the second room. As they stepped into the room, the monsters pounced on them without a moment’s hesitation.

“Damn! What’s that!? It’s moving so quickly!” Li Lang immediately dodged the attack with his spear as a monster almost struck him.

Yi Zheng brandished his sword supreme relic and attacked a few of the monsters that came after him.

At this moment, Leng Yuexin and Yi Yeyu who were standing behind them, joined the fight.

Lancelot turned its head and looked at Lin Huang. Although it did not say anything, Lin Huang knew what it wanted to ask.

“If you join the battle, they won’t have any fun. Let’s kill the monsters that they missed.” Lin Huang did not intend to fight, and he put his hands in his pockets.

Lancelot turned back and looked at the four of them who were fighting helplessly. However, it did not have the chance to attack.

The monsters in the second room were Blind Apes. Their appearance was similar to apes, and they were just as agile as well. There was green fur all over their bodies. However, their eyesight had deteriorated entirely. They could only rely on sound waves released to identify a situation and hunt for their prey.

Blind Apes would level up to holy fire-level by default when they reached adulthood. Under normal circumstances, the highest level that they could achieve would be blue flame-level. It would be tough for them to get to levels higher than that. The monsters had strong limbs, a rapid attack speed, and immense strength. They preferred to live in groups. Typically, those who were on gold flame-level would not want to offend them.

There were almost 200 Blind Ape in the second room. Under normal circumstances, those below immortal-level would not provoke this kind of monster. However, Yi Zheng and the rest were going to provoke a faceoff.

Among the four of them, Yi Zheng was the most formidable as he was on purple flame-level. He was followed by Leng Yuexin, who was a blue flame-level. Yi Yeyu and Li Lang were on crimson flame-level. Although they were not stronger than the Blind Apes, as they fought against the monsters together, they managed to defend themselves against the attack of hundreds of Blind Apes. Aside from the fact that they had taken advantage of the supreme relics, this indicated that the four of them had extraordinary abilities.

However, they could soon feel the pressure coming from the monster horde.

“These monsters are moving too quickly!” Li Lang grumbled. He was using a long spear which compromised his agility. As they fought the monsters together, he only barely managed to defend against them. Whenever he wanted to perform a counterattack, the Blind Ape would have retreated. After a couple of minutes, only a few of the monsters were injured by his attack, but none of them died. His face was dismal.

Yi Yeyu was not in any better condition than him though. She only managed to kill three monsters after a few minutes. Watching Leng Yuexin’s performance, she felt annoyed.

Leng Yuexin’s performance was much better as she had completed level-2 Sword Dao and could possibly achieve level-3 anytime. In fact, the speed of her sword was much faster. It somehow gave people the illusion that it was slow, causing many Blind Apes to be killed by her.

Yi Zheng was the strongest as he managed to kill a Blind Ape each time he slashed his sword. He never missed any of them. Within a few minutes, he had killed about 50 monsters, which were more than the total number of monsters killed by Leng Yuexin and the other two.

It seemed like Yi Yeyu had been triggered by Leng Yuexin and Yi Zheng as she was suddenly flipping out. Red flames were gushing out crazily from her blade that was already blood red. In an instant, a few of the Blind Apes surrounding her were drawn into the flames. The Blind Apes that were shrouded in flames started growling from the pain they suffered. However, their growls lasted for less than five seconds before they stopped. The red flames then disappeared, and the Blind Apes had utterly turned into ashes.

“The temperature of the flames is scary!”

The power of Yi Yeyu’s flames surpassed Lin Huang’s expectations. Even Lancelot that was standing aside fixed a nervous glance at the blade.

Soon after, it seemed like Yi Yeyu was not going to hide her abilities. She waved her sword that was covered in flames. The Blind Apes that were tainted by the flames were burnt in an instant even though only their fur was tainted with the spark. The monsters that she had killed were no weaker than her. The power of her flames was incredibly potent.

On the other hand, Li Lang frowned. Seeing the three of them so mighty and his lack of progress, he felt stressed. The long spear that he was holding became longer and bigger, transforming into its second state. The spear that was originally 1.5 meters long and 5 centimeters thick was transformed into a massive spear that measured more than three meters long. Aside from the tip of the spear, it looked exactly like a large blunt blade.

Initially, it was a one-handed spear. However, it had now evolved into a two-handed spear. After the supreme relic had changed its state, there was a significant change in its weight.

Several Blind Apes pounced on Li Lang again and attacked him. However, Li Lang fought back, thrusting his spear forward. When his spear touched the Blind Apes, the cracking sound of the bones was immediately heard. The apes were flung away as they were attacked by Li Lang and were smashed against the wall. Nobody knew if they were alive or dead.

“He has improved like mad!” Seeing Li Lang’s performance, Lin Huang nodded in satisfaction.

The team of four could easily pin down all the monsters as Yi Yeyu and Li Lang showed off their abilities.

Previously, Lancelot had been wielding a spear in its hand as it got ready to fight. However, when it saw what had happened, it had no choice but to put its sword away. It then continued watching the battle.

Soon, the four of them had wiped out about 200 of the Blind Apes. None of the monsters survived.

Yi Zheng and the rest started collecting the carcasses. The voice box in the Blind Ape’s throat was a unique type of biological material which many laboratories were looking for.

Lancelot was upset as it did not get a chance to fight.

“Now you know how it feels? Previously, you killed all the monsters alone, and the others could only be your cheerleaders.” Lin Huang laughed teasingly at Lancelot.

Lancelot kept quiet as it finally understood why Lin Huang had asked it to let the rest to kill the monsters that it missed.

“After cleaning up, let’s proceed to the next room!” Lin Huang shouted at Yi Zheng and the rest while patting Lancelot’s shoulder jovially.

Chapter 577: Lancelot Likes to Eat Vegetables

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Four hours later, Lin Huang and his posse cleared all the monsters in 16 of the rooms on the first floor. From the second room onwards, it basically became their show time as Lancelot would only help them out occasionally.

Most of the monsters on the first floor were below blue-flame level. One to two blue flame-level monsters would only appear once in a while and barely provided a challenge to them.

After Yi Yeyu and Li Lang showed off their abilities, Leng Yuexin and Yi Zheng started fighting freely.

Leng Yuexin’s Sword Dao was utterly different from that of Yi Yeyu’s as it was of the ice element. If she showed her elemental powers, the speed of the monsters would be affected. In addition to the terrifying Sword Dao that she possessed, she could handle her sword fluidly like flowing water.

Yi Zheng’s Sword Dao belonged to the wind element. The level of his Sword Dao was on par with Leng Yuexin’s. However, his sword realm was completely different. It could launch a swift and fierce attack with a horrifying killing rate. Each time he brandished his sword, the effect of the attack would never be rendered useless.

Lancelot finally found something interesting while watching the battle among the few of them, fixing its gaze on Yi Zheng, Leng Yuexin, and Yi Yeyu. Although the level of its sword realm was much higher than the three of them, it could still learn something new from them.

“It’s not a problem for Yi Zheng and Leng Yuexin’s Sword Dao to achieve level-3 before they get to the immortal-level,” Lin Huang secretly evaluated their performance. Since he now possessed a level-3 Sword Dao which was also called the Pinnacle level, he could easily identify their accomplishments in Sword Dao.

He then shifted his gaze towards Li Lang and Yi Yeyu. He knew that aside from a few of the killing skills that Li Lang had not used, he had basically done his best. Most of the monsters that Lancelot destroyed were monsters that he had missed.

However, Yi Yeyu was in greater trouble. Although she had a fast attack speed and could even be compared to Leng Yuexin’s quickness, her attack was too dependent on the flames in her body. This would suppress the development of her Sword Dao to a certain extent, and it was not beneficial in the long run. If this continued, Yi Yeyu would be able to trounce the weak monsters. However, she would be quickly killed by the strong ones, especially those that were immune to elements.

“We’ve killed all the monsters on the first floor. Let’s take a break and have some snacks. The fight on the second floor will be more difficult,” Lin Huang suggested after the last battle on the first floor where they had cleared all the monsters.

Yi Zheng took a look at the time and shook his head. “It’s already two o’clock now! Four hours have passed!”

“I didn’t even notice that.” Li Lang lowered his head to confirm the time. “It was shocking how time flew by so fast!”

They exited the room that was full of blood stains and returned to the clean corridor. They then took out their snacks. They had dried meat and dried vegetables as snacks. Yi Yeyu saw that Lin Huang did not give any food to Lancelot, so she gave a piece of dried meat to it.

Lancelot then turned its head back and looked at Lin Huang, asking for his approval. Lin Huang nodded and said, “Take it. You may have a try.”

Lancelot then accepted the dried meat from Yi Yeyu. When it moved its index finger, it cut a small piece of it and tossed it into its mouth. After munching on it, it gave the remaining to Lin Huang. “It doesn’t taste good.”

“Alright…” Lin Huang had no choice but to take the piece of dried meat. He had never fed Lancelot before. Therefore, he had no idea what Lancelot preferred to eat.

Yi Yeyu was upset when she heard Lancelot’s comment. However, it was just a summoning monster, so she could not do anything to it. She could only shoot Lin Huang a deadly stare.

Lin Huang then took a bite of the dried meat that Lancelot had given him. After a few bites, he nodded his head at Yi Yeyu and remarked, “It’s quite delicious. Perhaps something is wrong with its taste buds.”

Lin Huang then gave Lancelot some dried vegetables. Lancelot hesitated for a while as it supposed it should reject human food after giving the dried meat a try. However, it felt that because Lin Huang was its master, it was inappropriate to do so. It then accepted it.

Again, it cut a small piece of the dried vegetable and put it into its mouth. After a few bites, its blue eyes glowed in delight. “It’s delicious!”

It then put all the vegetables left in its mouth. After finishing them, Lancelot turned to look at Lin Huang. Although there was no expression on his metal helmet, Lin Huang knew that he had fallen in love with vegetables just by examining his pair of blue eyes.

“It likes eating vegetables…” Lin Huang mumbled to himself. At the same time, he took out a packet of dried vegetables from his storage space and gave it to Lancelot. “It’s all yours.”

The stony, cold expression on its face immediately disappeared as it gorged on the vegetables. It looked like a kid that had been starved for many years and had just seen delicious grilled meat.

“Why didn’t you tell me that he likes vegetables?” Yi Yeyu stared at Lin Huang again.

“You gave it meat without asking,” Lin Huang answered. However, a thought ran through his mind. “How I would know what it likes to eat? I’ve never fed it.”

“Hmph!” Yi Yeyu growled with a pout and ignored Lin Huang.

As Lin Huang was chewing on his third piece of dried meat, Lancelot had already finished the whole packet of dried vegetables. Even the small morsels of dried vegetables in the empty packet had been cleaned up. Until it was sure that nothing was left in the packet, it turned to peer at Lin Huang.

“I don’t have many packets of dried vegetables left. You finished the whole packet in just a short while. We’re going to stay in the ruins for a month. There won’t be enough dried vegetables for you if you eat at the speed at which you do!” Lin Huang was speechless.

“So petty! You don’t even want to feed it dried vegetables,” Yi Yeyu mumbled and took out another pack of dried vegetables for Lancelot. “I have some with me! Eat mine!”

Lancelot did not accept it. Instead, it looked at Lin Huang expectantly again.

“Take it. I only bought a few packets of the dried vegetables.” Lin Huang shook his head helplessly.

Since Lin Huang had granted permission, Lancelot then took the packet of dried vegetables from Yi Yeyu. However, after learning that the supply of the dried vegetables was limited, it ate at a rather slow speed.

Leng Yuexin and the rest could not stand watching its plight and gave it their dried vegetables.

Seeing that Lancelot holding four packets of dried vegetables, Lin Huang found it humorous. He then extended his hand and said, “Give three packets to me. You should just take one.”

Lancelot hesitated for a while when it heard what Lin Huang said.

“You even know how to save the food for yourself!” Lin Huang chuckled, “I’ll keep it for you. They’re all yours.”

Lancelot then gave three packets of the dried vegetables to Lin Huang unwillingly.

The four of them simmered with laughter as they saw this.

They had finished their snacks and Lancelot had finished half of its second pack of dried vegetables.

“Alright, it’s time to work.” After resting for about half an hour, the five of them were prepared to go to the second floor.

Lancelot had stopped eating. As it realized that Lin Huang was staring at the half packet of dried vegetables that it was holding, it hid the snack behind its body as if it was not going to give it to Lin Huang.

Seeing its aggrieved expression, Lin Huang did not demand it back. Instead, he smiled, shaking his head. He then turned around, leading the team to enter the second floor. “Let’s proceed to the second floor!”

Chapter 579: Rose Demigod

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Lin Huang had already known from early on that the flames in Yi Yeyu’s body were of a high level. When they were at the Volcanic Hell, he had witnessed her physique almost being able to pin down all the fire element monsters. However, as he watched Yi Yeyu fight with her flames once more, he had a completely different feeling this time.

Shrouded in flames, Yi Yeyu looked like a burning goddess. Even if the Bat Demon had not touched her sword, they would still get instantly engulfed by the flames if they even had a slight contact with her burning body and turn into ashes.

Although Yi Yeyu’s combat strength was just at the crimson flame-level while most of the Bat Demons were at the blue or purple flame-level, none of them was excluded. Anyone of them who had come into contact with Yi Yeyu’s body would be turned into ashes within moments.

The flame attacks grew more and more aggressive compared to what Yi Yeyu had shown them on the first floor.

Yi Zheng, Leng Yuexin, and Li Lang were shocked at the scene they just witnessed. Afraid that they would be harmed by her flames, they distanced themselves from her.

“The flames are too fierce. Even gold flame-level monsters would be instantly killed by those flames.” Lin Huang felt that Yi Yeyu was like an unconquerable lighter, being able to ignite anything at her whim and burn them to ashes. There was no need for her to fight as she was invincible even when standing still. “I wonder if such an effect works on those at the immortal-level.”

As soon as few of the Bat Demons got burned to death, the rest of the Bat Demons gave up on their attacks against Yi Yeyu. Instead, they began to attack Yi Zheng and the rest.

However, Yi Yeyu noticed that the Bat Demons were avoiding her and attempted to attack them with her sword. However, it was rendered useless. She then put her sword away and created a red flaming whip with her Life Power.

Yi Yeyu’s whip attack could cover a large area. Beams of red light appeared in the air as her flaming whip flashed through. Despite the fact that the Bat Demons had terrifying speed, they could hardly dodge all the attacks. Many of them were hit by her whip and soon, they were burned to ashes.

As Yi Yeyu waved her whip, a look of excitement could be seen on her face. It was then that Lin Huang vaguely felt that she had made the wrong choice when she chose the Sword Dao. It seemed like a whip suited her rather well.

It had become a one-sided battle in the first room after Yi Yeyu unleashed her skill. It took them about ten minutes to end the battle and more than fifty of the Bat Demons were killed.

The muscle fibers of the Bat Demons could be sold to many biological firms at a good price.

Unfortunately, only a few of the carcasses were in a good condition. Yi Zheng and the rest collected the remaining ten carcasses and put them away.

“Let’s go to the next room.” Lin Huang nodded his head at Lancelot after they had finished cleaning up.

After she had vented her anger with the attacks, the flames around Yi Yeyu’s body disappeared and her expression returned to normal.

“I’d suggest for you to minor in the whip.” Lin Huang suggested while walking along the corridor.

“Are you trying to imply that I’m not talented enough in the Sword Dao?” Yi Yeyu glared at Lin Huang.”

“I didn’t mean that. Since you can’t become a gunmaster, you can overcome your weakness in ranged attacks with the whip. You’re quite talented with the whip.” Lin Huang explained.

Yi Zheng coughed as if he wanted to interrupt their conversation.

Yi Yeyu then raised her head and stared at Yi Zheng. She then explained, “To be honest, I really liked using the whip when I was younger. However, my father and brother told me that it would be hard to marry me off if I chose the whip as my main weapon so they forced me to take a major in sword skills.”

‘Would it be hard to marry you off if you use a whip?’ Soon, a man who was being tied appeared in Lin Huang’s mind and a woman in leather whipped him. ‘Could that be the reason?’

“That’s just prejudice. Females have the right to choose any weapon they prefer. The Rose Demigod is an exception. There are many women who use whips as a weapon before the Rose Demigod. If it wasn’t a problem then, why would you say that using a whip is a problem seeing that this only seemed to happen to her?” Leng Yuexin said. It was what she wanted to tell Yi Zheng.

“The Rose Demigod?” Lin Huang had no idea who she was.

Bloody seemed to have sensed what Lin Huang was thinking and immediately explained to him.

“The Rose Demigod is a female demigod that existed more than 500 years ago. She was powerful and her weapons were two whips laced with poisonous thorns. More than 500 years ago, her husband was caught in bed with another woman. Her husband and his lover were whipped into mincemeat and after that incident passed, she became mentally ill. Following that, she would often gather information about married couples and whenever she found someone who was having an affair, they would bear the brunt of her whip. This terrified the people in the core zone.”

“The president of the Union in Division 2 was found to be cheating on his partner as well. She attacked him in public but she faced attacks from others and fled before becoming insane. It took her several years to get in league with the monsters beyond the safe zone as they prepared an apocalypse-grade monster horde with the intention to destroy the entire Division 2.”

“There were 16 demigod-level monsters and more than a dozen billions of monsters that joined the monster horde with most of the monsters in the safe zone joining them as well. With that, they managed to almost wipe out the entire Division 2 in a single night. Thanks to the backup team from Division 3 and Division 1, they managed to prevent Division 2 from getting destroyed.”

“Although the Rose Demigod killed the president of the Union, she didn’t leave the battleground after she was exhausted and was killed by another demigod. Although it has already ended, humans still avoided using the whip as a weapon after hundreds of years, especially for females who intend on majoring in the whip.”

After listening to Bloody’s explanation, Lin Huang knew that he had misunderstood the matter.

Yi Zheng was speechless that Leng Yuexin supported Yi Yeyu. Although he knew that his understanding was inaccurate, he was still on his father’s side and advised Yi Yeyu to give up her intentions to learn the whip.

“That’s discrimination toward women. If women shouldn’t learn to use whips just because of the trouble created by Rose Demigod, why aren’t the men prohibited from using swords after the Sword Maniac incident? Instead, the number of men who use sword has doubled after the incident.” Leng Yuexin hated double standards.

Yi Zheng remained silent as he knew that he was in the wrong.

Li Lang who was standing next to them dared not interrupt them as he was not close to them.

Since Lin Huang majored in the sword, he knew very well about the Sword Maniac incident.

More than 400 years ago, a person named Sword Maniac was said to have the most powerful weapon in the world. He always held a black sword in his hand and challenged people from various places.

He challenged most of the people who were not using swords from Division 3 to Division 1 and none could defeat him.

Once he discovered that he was invincible, Sword Maniac went out of his mind. He went to the forbidden area in Division 3 and broke its seal, releasing hordes of monsters that had been sealed more than 800 years ago. He even fought against the first generation protoss for seven days and seven nights before eventually dying of exhaustion.

His insane actions had brought a great disaster to Division 3. It was then that the people said that the only reason they were able to suppress the first generation monsters was with divine help.

However, none of them suggested prohibiting the use of swords after the Sword Maniac incident. Instead, the number of people who were training with swords grew.

While he was being told the story about strong men in the past, Lin Huang felt that there were countless madmen in this world that would simply put their lives at risk.

“It’s fine. I simply wanted to give a suggestion. What you guys are arguing about?” Seeing the situation becoming awkward, Lin Huang immediately jumped in. “Nobody cares much about that nowadays. There are many of them who use whips in the arena. Yeyu, you can still train in the whip if you want to do so. However, it’ll take you some time to learn it. If you don’t want to learn the whip, you can minor in other things.”

The rest of them merely kept quiet for a moment. As they reached the end of the corridor, they turned right at the T-junction and soon arrived at the second monster room.

Chapter 580: Bladefoot Worm

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

The monsters in the second room on the second underground floor were the Bladefoot Worms.

The monsters looked like praying mantes. However, they had six pairs of long legs. Four of their hind limbs under their abdomen possessed an incredible jumping ability and grip which allowed them to climb anywhere. They would attack with eight of their forelimbs and each of them was as sharp as a sword, even comparable to an expert-grade relic.

Most insects would have a blind spot on their back. However, the Bladefoot Worm did not have any. Even if somebody attacked them from the back, they would be able to twist their bladefeet to defend against the attacks. They could twist like a professional yogi.

One of the abilities of the Bladefoot Worms that were often neglected was their wings. The pair of wings on their back were actually bladed wings that had a sharpness that was on par with their bladefeet. To be precise, there were not only eight blades on their body, there were ten of them instead. Many of the hunters were deceived by its name and were killed by their wings.

It was a monster that had speed, explosive power, and an incredible killing ability on their side.

The body of the adult Bladefoot Worm measured a length of about five meters with most of them on the blue flame-level. A small minority of their population managed to achieve the purple flame-level and were one of the top predators among monsters of the same level. Put simply, their personal abilities were a rank higher than their actual rank.

The moment Yi Zheng and the rest saw that the monsters in the second room were Bladefoot Worms, their faces turned grave.

This was especially so for Li Lang because he knew that it would be difficult for him to kill even a single monster like that.

“Xiao Yu, Xiao Li, be careful.” Yi Zheng reminded both of them. Unlike the Bat Demons, they might be killed if the Bladefoot Worm’s attack struck them.

Lin Huang and Lancelot were standing behind four of them looking relaxed. They were not interested in such monsters.

“Lin Huang, be careful. Ask your summoning monster to pay attention to the other monsters since they’re exceedingly fast.” Leng Yuexin was unsure of Lin Huang’s abilities so she frowned as she reminded him. She was curious as to why Yi Zheng did not remind Lin Huang about this. She then thought that it could be that Yi Zheng was of the opinion that Lancelot was strong enough to protect Lin Huang.

In fact, Yi Zheng felt that even if Lin Huang was weaker than him, he would not that much weaker since they had done battle before Lin Huang leveled-up to the holy fire-level. Yi Yeyu was one of the members in the audience of that battle and she knew how strong Lin Huang could be. As for Li Lang, he had earlier witnessed Lin Huang’s abilities at the Volcanic Hell and had no idea how much stronger Lin Huang could be but there was one thing he knew for sure — Lin Huang was much stronger than him. Leng Yuexin was the only one who had yet to witness Lin Huang’s abilities during the time when he was still at the complete gold-level. This was the reason she was worried about him.

“Don’t worry. Lancelot won’t let the monsters to come near me.” Lin Huang answered with a smile, without further explanation. He then told Yi Yeyu and Li Lang, “Yeyu, Old Li, be the doorkeeper. Don’t go too far.”

Li Lang knew that he was not strong enough and dared not enter rashly.

Yi Yeyu was reluctant to do so as she wanted to activate her flames again. However, she knew that the effect of her flames would not be similar to what it could achieve during a battle drill and she gave up after thinking carefully about it.

Soon, the Bladefoot Worm sensed the presence of Lin Huang and the rest as it immediately pounced on them.

Yi Zheng and Leng Yuexin were on the frontline, so they immediately made their way through the monster horde while Yi Yeyu and Li Lang were guarding the door not far away from them. Each of them had a monster coming after them.

Under such circumstances, there was a big gap between four of their abilities.

Li Lang’s long spear had transformed into a large spear that was about three meters in length. His abilities were on par with the Bladefoot Worm.

Yi Yeyu on the other hand, ignited her blood-colored sword as the both of them were similarly locked in their own battles.

As for Leng Yuexin, she held a sword in each hand. The swords were made up of the ice and fire elements respectively. She rushed towards the monster horde as an explosion occurred due to the opposing elements. The monsters retreated the moment she passed by.

On the other hand, Yi Zheng’s sword had already slipped out of his hand but he moved his hand slightly, manipulating the sword like the wind. By doing so, his sharp, long sword pierced through the body of the monsters.

Leng Yuexin and Yi Zheng had also finally shown their true power. As Yi Yeyu and Li Lang could not help out at all in the fight, both of them could no longer retain their abilities.

To be honest, Leng Yuexin’s dual attributes and Yi Zheng’s Sword Manipulation were out of Lin Huang’s expectation as he had never seen them using such skills.

Leng Yuexin’s current attacks were effective. She would freeze the monsters with ice and kill them with fire. Also, her ice sword could be used as a defensive weapon and she could launch an attack with her fire sword. However, Lin Huang knew that it was actually the simplest skill of the dual attributes. Leng Yuexin must have some other skills up her sleeves that were even more powerful.

Since he had seen the Sword Dominator’s skills, he had nothing to say about Yi Zheng’s Sword Manipulation. Right when Yi Zheng was about to unleash his Sword Manipulation, Lin Huang felt curious as to why did he not create few more swords. However, once he saw that Yi Zheng could not even control a single sword smoothly, he instantly understood that he had been expecting too much from him. Yi Zheng’s Sword Manipulation was obviously different from the one obtained from the monster. Instead, he practiced it on his own.

Lin Huang who had fought Yi Zheng before clearly knew that it was not Yi Zheng’s strongest skill. However, it was currently the most effective skill that he had. The speed of the Bladefoot Worm was fast and they could hardly be killed by a regular sword attack.

All of a sudden, one of the Bladefoot Worms gave up on its attack against Leng Yuexin. It changed its target and pounced on Li Lang instead.

With the strong explosive power of its hind limbs, it appeared in front of Li Lang in a blink of an eye before Li Lang could pick up his large spear in time.

“Damn it! I’m doomed!”

Scenes of how he would be cut into pieces flashed through his mind. Right this moment, a dark red glow flashed through the air and the Bladefoot Worm that attempted to attack Li Lang immediately exploded. It looked like a bullet that had penetrated through a watermelon, casusing it to explode.

Seeing the Bladefoot Worm’s dead body fell onto the ground, Li Lang then turned back and caught a glimpse of Lin Huang. As usual, Lin Huang was still watching the battle at the corridor, folding his arms across his chest. Lancelot took out a dried vegetable and put it in its mouth as if nothing had happened.

“Hey, don’t get distracted during a fight.” Lin Huang’s languid voice was soon heard.

Li Lang then shifted his gaze from them to the battle. Still, he could not calm himself down even after a long while. Despite the fact that he already knew that Lancelot was strong, he had never witnessed its strength before. However, the fact that Lancelot managed to kill in a split second frightened him. Not to mention that he had no chance to fight back at all, he could not even dodge its attack. He could only react to it when Lancelot’s attack had penetrated the Bladefoot Worm’s head. That being said, he would be killed by Lancelot within seconds.

“Could Lin Huang himself defeat Lancelot?” Li Lang doubted it. The next second, he denied his own doubt and thought to himself, “Lin Huang is only at the white flame-level. He’s definitely incomparable to Lancelot.”

The battle in the second room finally ended after half an hour.

A few of the monsters that attempted to attack Li Lang and Yi Yeyu were killed by Lancelot within seconds, the rest of the Bladefoot Worms seemed to have felt that there was something unusual so they dared not attack them any longer.

After fighting for about half an hour, more than sixty of the Bladefoot Worm were killed by Yi Zheng and Leng Yuexin.

The feet of the Bladefoot Worms were the most valuable parts of their bodies. They were one of the main materials used to make sword-type relics. Eight of its bladefeet could be sold at a price of two expert-grade relics. Heck, they could actually make some money from this.

After collecting the carcasses, they headed towards the next room.