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Chapter 781: Hornet’s Nest
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

In the Secret Forest, Lin Huang’s body had shrunk to a size of fewer than two millimeters tall. Everything seemed so massive to him.

Lin Huang felt that even an ordinary palm-sized leaf could be compared to a huge dome. Trees in the Secret Forest were like towering cliffs that nobody could pass through.

Fortunately, his combat strength and telekinetic power were not affected. The region detected by his Territory skill and his Divine Telekinesis were not restricted as well. He could still detect what was within a 4,000-meter radius and take great advantage of it. Under such circumstances in which all the creatures were shrunken, the coverage of his detection was expanded to 1,000 times larger. This allowed him to travel without obstacles and avoid danger.

Of course, Lin Huang did not bypass all the obstacles. Most of the time, he would choose to fight through it, going through all the obstacles in the shortest possible time. Only when he encountered monsters like the Witch Petals or obstacles that were rather troublesome or regions that he could hardly get through in a short period of time, he would ask the Mighty Ape for help to make it through these areas.

Standing on the Mighty Ape’s shoulder, Lin Huang suddenly warned, “There’s a hornet nest not far away from us. Let’s prepare for a fight.”

Roar!

The Mighty Ape let out a low growl, slowing down its crawling speed, and was on alert.

After a short while, Lin Huang then detected the hornet nest with his Divine Telekinesis.

The black hornet nest was not very large. It was approximately the size of two human fists and was hanging on one of the tree branches.

However, the hornet nest was extremely huge to Lin Huang in his condition. Each of the hornets that were flying around the nest was a few times larger than him. Some of them were even ten times larger than Lin Huang.

“The Combat Hornetdemon is on the 56th checkpoint for real. Perhaps it’s the remaining Combat Hornetdemons on the 55th checkpoint that built these hives after the monster horde. Fortunately, the hornet nest became much smaller since the Combat Hornetdemons shrank. There should be less than 20,000 Combat Hornetdemons in the hive.”

Combat Hornetdemons were monsters on the 56th checkpoint. Their nests were everywhere on the 56th checkpoint of the Stairway Tree.

Combat Hornetdemons were demons that liked confrontation. They had powerful territorial awareness, killing any creatures that attempted to invade their territory.

Their combat strength normally ranged from immortal-level rank-7 to rank-9. Their personal abilities were not that strong, but they were not afraid of death, and they liked to gather in a swarm and were venomous.

Contact with their venom resulted in pain and itching. The poison would spread quickly throughout a person’s body. Black pustules would grow non-stop, and the fluid inside was contagious, and the infection could spread to others. The venom would only work on the surface of the skin in the beginning. However, after more than 24 hours, it would penetrate through the flesh and burrow deep into the organs after 36 hours. Even the brain would be infected. Eventually, the infected person would then die.

There was a slight difference in the composition of the venom in each of the Combat Hornetdemons’ body. However, the venom could work in multiple doses.

If an immortal-level rank-9 was injected with a Combat Hornetdemon’s venom, the person could only survive for, at most, 40 hours. If a second shot were given to this person by a second Combat Hornetdemon, the destructive effect would be multiplied and the time for it to take effect would be reduced by half. This meant that this person could only live for a maximum of 20 hours. If this person were stung by a third Combat Hornetdemon, the venomous effect would be even worse. Of course, the person’s physique had to be able to support the multiplier effect of the poison. Most immortal-levels would die as they could not take it after getting poisoned by more than three Combat Hornetdemons.

Most imperial-levels would avoid places with a large swarm of Combat Hornetdemons. This was also the reason why they did not want to offend monsters like this. The venom of a Combat Hornetdemon seemed to have no effect on an imperial-level. However, if seven or eight Combat Hornetdemons attacked one, the imperial-level would be poisoned due to the multiplier effect of the venom. Since the number of poison multiplier was high, they would still die.

Seeing the hornet nest from afar, even the Mighty Ape, who was usually not afraid of anything, stopped moving forward. Although it could not recognize the Combat Hornetdemons, it could still sense that the monster was threatening.

“Since we’ve encountered the Combat Hornetdemons here, it’s time to try a few of the hunting skills that I’ve previously thought of,” Lin Huang mumbled, “Charcoal’s dragon flames can restrict the Combat Hornetdemon’s venom; Bai’s Vampire Particles can be an excellent defense against the Combat Hornetdemon’s attack. Because of Tyrant’s defenses and its physique, it has no fear of the Combat Hornetdemon’s poison. Lancelot’s Dark Mirror can perfectly guard against the Combat Hornetdemon’s attack. Its Saber Dao Territory and Sword Manipulation are good skills to attack with. Kylie’s Lightning Control can be a counter to the negative effects and should be effective for the demonized poison while the Ghastly Clown’s telekinetic power and illusion skill are good for fighting in a group. The Eclipse Boa’s engulfment ability has no fear of the poison as well. There are also two fiends with advanced-level bloodlines (The witch is now with Lin Xin).”

Although the Mighty Ape that had gone through its third mutation was not weak, its ability was still weaker than Bai and the rest. It was not suitable to fight a venomous monster like the Combat Hornetdemon.

“This fight is not yours to take up. Get some rest first. We’ll continue our journey later.”

After recalling the Mighty Ape, Lin Huang then crushed the monster cards. Charcoal, Bai, Tyrant and the rest were summoned, and they appeared in front of Lin Huang.

“The plants…” Bai frowned. Charcoal and the rest noticed that the plants over there were strange as well.

“There are some special rules imposed in this forest. All creatures that enter, including local creatures, will be 1,000 times smaller,” Lin Huang explained briefly and immediately got back to his main point. “The reason why I summoned all of you today is to kill the Combat Hornetdemons. Bloody will be in charge of the battle.”

After briefly describing his plan, Bloody then projected the Combat Hornetdemon’s information.

Bloody did not directly join the fight. He was in charge of strategizing the entire battle to maximize everyone’s efficiency to kill. Parasitism would not work on creatures with a combat strength higher than Bloody’s. It was currently on immortal-level rank-4 while the weakest Combat Hornetdemon was on immortal-level rank-7. If its combat strength were not restricted, Bloody could fight all the Combat Hornetdemons alone regardless of how many of them there were.

“This is just a warm-up battle. There’s only a small number of Combat Hornetdemons. I hope that all of you can try your best to follow Bloody’s plan, killing the monsters at the highest efficiency. The number of enemies will be hundreds of times larger during the fight on the 56th checkpoint. It’ll be much more difficult. Not all of you are immune to the Combat Hornetdemon’s poison, but I hope not to see any injuries,” Lin Huang glanced at the Supreme Overlord as he said. He was not worried about the rest, but the Clown was quite a character.

Seeing Lin Huang looking at it, the Supreme Overlord stuck its tongue out, flashing a funny face.

Lin Huang then let Bloody take over the conversation. Bloody began distributing the work to each of them.

After a short while, Bloody was done assigning tasks to them.

“Alright, let the slaughter begin!”

Lin Huang raised his hand up, pointing towards the hornet’s nest from afar. Before he could finish his words, Bai and the rest had already headed towards the hive.

Chapter 782: A One-Sided Fight
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

There were ten monster cards, and Bloody was there to be in charge of what went on behind the scenes.

Kylie, who was in her black armor, flapped the 12 pairs of black wings on her back and in the next moment, she arrived right in front of the hornet’s nest.

Despite her flying abilities being restricted by the rules of the Stairway Tree and her speed being affected by her size, her short-distance flight was still the fastest among all the other monster cards. Even Thunder could not compare to her.

Before everyone else arrived, Kylie picked up her spear. A razor-like, purple electric glow sparked on her black spear.

As soon as the tip of the spear was flung out, a few of the Combat Hornetdemons were engulfed by the purple electric glow and instantly turned into ashes.

Just as Kylie attacked, the Combat Hornetdemons flapped their wings and surrounded Kylie. Many of the Combat Hornetdemons in the nest could sense the energy generated outside the hive. They immediately gushed out of the hornet nest, and Kylie was besieged on all sides.

Just before Kylie got entangled in an intense battle, Bai then joined the fight.

In its black robe with its 12 pairs of wings on its back too, Bai was a sight to behold. Its wings were made of Vampire Particles which were utterly blood red in color. Compared to Kylie’s wings, Bai’s wings were more like a weapon that possessed a terrifying ability to slice and kill.

As soon as Bai joined the battle, it was surrounded by another swarm of Combat Hornetdemons.

However, it had no fear at all. Its killing speed was even faster than Kylie’s. Transforming its Vampire Particles into sharp blades or thorns, dead bodies of Combat Hornetdemons fell wherever its wings sliced through.

Soon after, Bai’s attack had lured a large number of Combat Hornetdemons away, and Kylie’s side of the battle had become less stressful.

Before the swarm of hornets surrounded the both of them, Charcoal and the rest struck.

As Lin Huang had leveled up to gold flame-level, Charcoal’s combat strength was upgraded to immortal-level rank-4. It was now 4,000 meters tall. Despite the fact that its body was compressed to thousands of times smaller, it still stood at a staggering height of four meters. Charcoal was considered huge compared to the Combat Hornetdemons which were only about two centimeters tall.

As it opened its mouth, black dragon flames gushed out of its mouth and enveloped the massive swarm of hornets. Its speed was even faster than Bai’s.

Not far away from Charcoal, Tyrant crushed the swarm of hornets like a tank. Although its body was less than a tenth of the Combat Hornetdemon’s, each attack it rained managed to kill the monsters. As Tyrant struck a heavy blow on the Combat Hornetdemons, they exploded without him having to make a second attack.

Tyrant had never released its body after feeling the Celestial Giant’s bloodline in his body. Its body had always been only about 2.5 meters tall all the while. Even Lin Huang had no idea how huge it could truly be.

Typically, the size of a giant could reach thousands of meters tall, and its body could be as large as a king sea monster or a super gigantic monster. An adult could grow more than 10,000 meters tall.

However, Lin Huang knew nothing about the Celestial Giant.

Not much information was passed down from the ancient times. He had referred to many of the information sources in the Martial Hunter College, but he found nothing about the Celestial Giant.

According to what Tyrant told him from the memories it had inherited, the body of the most powerful Celestial Giant during the ancient times was comparable to a galaxy. It was a tremendously powerful and terrifying creature.

Although Lin Huang had never seen Tyrant’s real body before, he guessed that even if it was not a Celestial Giant with pure blood, it would not be any smaller than a king sea monster or the supreme giant.

Lin Huang was pumped up when he saw Tyrant’s attack strike right into the Combat Hornetdemon’s body.

Lancelot, the Ghastly Clown, and the rest of them were incredible. The one-sided slaughter began as soon as they got into the fight with the swarm of hornets.

In fact, the combat strength of Bai and the others were only 4-stars. Since they were immortal-level monsters that had gone through three mutations, they were capable of engaging in a battle to fight enemies that were two levels higher than themselves. In addition to that, the God’s Blood creatures, the fiends, and the Celestial Giant had an enchantment effect on their blood. Even if it were only beginner-level enchanted blood, it could fight enemies that were a level higher, let alone Bai and the rest who now had advanced-level blood power. They were only one step away from getting the pure blood whereby they could then fight enemies that were three levels higher easily.

Although their combat strength was only on immortal-level rank-4, the addition of their combat strengths resulted in their abilities being on par with an immortal-level rank-9. Besides, Lin Huang would train them when he was free, and he would occasionally teach them something related to martial arts. As long as they did not encounter a supreme genius, they were capable of handling enemies below imperial-level.

The Combat Hornetdemon was only an ordinary double mutated monster and did not possess enchanted blood. Even if their combat strength was on immortal-level rank-9, they could definitely not fight Bai and the rest. Despite there being a large number of Combat Hornetdemons, they could not harm Bai and the rest.

The fight was a one-sided massacre. The horrifying Combat Hornetdemons were like helpless little lambs in front of them as they had no way of fighting back at all.

Bloody, who was in charge of the entire battle, did not give any instructions mid-way at all. At the beginning of the fight, Bloody issued some brief instructions and distributed the work among them. They then did the work on their own.

Bai and the rest knew each other’s abilities very well, and they had great teamwork.

It took them more than half an hour to defeat more than 10,000 Combat Hornetdemons.

Just as Lin Huang was about to recall them back into their card forms, he heard Bloody’s voice. He nodded after listening to what Bloody said, gathering Bai and the rest. “Your overall performance is quite good, but there are some minor problems. Bloody, please explain to them.”

Bloody nodded and stood out from the rest. It then called out their names.

“Ghastly, I know that your fighting style tends to be lazier, but I hope that you can change your attitude in the following battles. You’re only using about 20% of what you’ve got to protect yourself. You relied on the others to kill the enemies, and it’s kind of irresponsible as a team member. Luckily, you didn’t slow us down. Otherwise, I’d have asked Master to expel you.”

Lin Huang frowned, looking at Ghastly. It was the one with the worst attitude among all his monsters.

“I actually think that the rest of you were capable of handling them. That’s why I didn’t help out. Since you’re telling me this, I’ll take it more seriously next time.” The Supreme Overlord shrugged its shoulders, worried that Lin Huang might not summon it anymore.

Bloody caught a glimpse of the Supreme Overlord and did not say anything else, shifting its gaze towards Bai.

“Bai, you went too deep into the monster horde. Your physique isn’t completely immune to the Combat Hornetdemon’s attack like Tyrant. Although the defenses of your Vampire Particles is quite good, I guess you’ll still collapse if you’re attacked by tens of the immortal-level rank-9 Combat Hornetdemons.”

“I’d suggest you not to go too deep into the battle. Try to reduce the number of enemies that you need to deal with at any one point in time. According to the control you have over your Vampire Particles, fighting 12 enemies at the same time will be ideal. There won’t be a significant increase in your efficiency if you were to fight more enemies. There’ll be only a 20% increase in your efficiency at the most. Therefore, as soon as you make it through the monster horde, it’s unnecessary to fight 20 to 30 monsters at the same time. You should make sure that you’re fighting at the best efficiency instead of the highest killing rate. The latter will cause you to make mistakes more easily. In the following battles, we’ll fight in a team. If any of you happen to collapse, the pressure faced by the rest of us will increase. I hope that you’re not the one that collapses.”

“Got it.” Bai accepted its comment.

Bloody nodded its head and shifted its gaze towards Kylie.

“Kylie, I know that you’re pretty strong on your own. However, I wish that you can do better when you fight in a team. Instead of simply killing the monsters, you can actually have better control of the fight by unleashing your Lightning Control. Attacking with lightning reduces the number of monsters the rest of the team members will encounter, and it’ll be much easier for them to handle the monsters. Moreover, the number of monsters killed in this way might not be lesser than what your number from directly killing them.”

Kylie did not refute and nodded her head, expressing that she understood what Bloody was trying to say.

Bloody then pointed out each of their shortcomings and suggested ways to improve. All of them accepted his suggestions.

After recalling all the monster cards, Lin Huang looked towards the hornet’s nest hanging on the tree branch and grinned. “The Combat Hornetdemon’s honey is fantastic stuff. Selling it together with the hive will be worth even more!”

Lin Huang then appeared at the bottom of the hornet’s nest in a flash. He took out his combat sword and hacked at the nest for about seven minutes before storing it in his storage space.

After putting the hive away, he summoned the Mighty Ape again and quickly climbed towards the forest.

Chapter 783: The 56th Checkpoint on the Stairway Tree
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

The second half of the journey in the Secret Forest went smoothly.

It was not because the challenges on the 55th checkpoint were easy. Instead, Lin Huang had taken significant advantage of the situation as the capabilities of his Territorial skill and his Divine Telekinesis were not suppressed, allowing him to avoid the danger.

The Mighty Ape carried Lin Huang along and was guided by him. They did not encounter any obstacles on their way.

At about 4 p.m., the both of them finally passed through the Secret Forest.

The moment when the Mighty Ape swung through the Secret Forest from one of the tree branches, Lin Huang’s facial expression changed. Before recovering to its original body size, he instantly recalled the Mighty Ape back into its card form.

The next second, he returned to his original state.

As he landed on the ground, he crouched down and hid in the bushes. He restrained his aura, studying the object that had caused him to turn grave through the gaps between the grass blades.

It was a massive hornet nest that was black. It was less than 300 meters away from where he was hiding.

After analyzing it for a couple of moments with his Divine Telekinesis, Lin Huang was relieved. “Oh, it’s just an abandoned hornet nest. It scared me!”

The reason why he had recalled the Mighty Ape was that he had spotted the horrifying hive at first glance. If the Mighty Ape returned to its original body size, it would definitely become the Combat Hornetdemon’s target within such a short distance.

Fortunately, the hornet nest was abandoned. Lin Huang was relieved when his Divine Telekinesis detected that there was no Combat Hornetdemon in the nest.

The abandoned hive could actually do no harm to Lin Huang, but he simply did not like to attack passively.

Instead of being attacked by a swarm of Combat Hornetdemons the moment he entered the 56th checkpoint, he would prefer to be the one who started the fight once he was ready so that he would be on the winning side.

Shifting his gaze away from the abandoned hornet nest, Lin Huang began to sense what was happening within the region covered by his Territory skill. He combed through the area with his telekinetic skill as well, overlapping with the area covered by his Territory skill. He could sense anything that was within a four-kilometer radius as if he was monitoring everything from God’s perspective. He could even see what each Combat Hornetdemon was doing through the exterior of the nest.

“The hornet nests are densely distributed. There are 13 hives within a four-kilometer radius. Except for the one that’s nearest to me, there are Combat Hornetdemons gathered in the rest of the nests.” Lin Huang stood up, activating his Ocular skill, and headed towards the nests that he had just detected. In fact, all 13 hornet nests were clearly visible.

However, Lin Huang knew very well that he would not be discovered easily because the 56th checkpoint was somewhat similar to the 55th whereby the both of the checkpoints were rich with flora. As long as he hunched his body a little, he could hide in the bushes.

Confirming that he was temporarily safe, Lin Huang then summoned Bloody.

Bloody saw the hornet nest not far away from him as soon as it was summoned. Just as it was getting ready to fight, Lin Huang’s voice was heard.

“Don’t worry. It’s an abandoned hornet nest.”

“Is this the 56th checkpoint?” Bloody observed for a while, realizing that not a single Combat Hornetdemon was found near the hive. Only then did it begin to let its guard down.

“Yes, it is. I need you to check the distribution of the hornet nests. After locating the hornet queen, please check if there are any hornet guardians on security patrol.” Since the area that could be detected by Lin Huang was very limited, he needed help from Bloody’s Leech Pods in order to expand the area to monitor their whereabouts.

The hornet guardians he mentioned were directly under the hornet queen. They were triple mutated Combat Hornetdemons as well as having a combat strength of immortal-level rank-9. They were brutal and had the courage to fight even if they encountered an imperial-level despite not being able to fight them. However, if three hornet guardians were to fight together, they were capable of dealing with an imperial-level face-to-face.

As for the hornet queen, she dominated the hornets. The queen bred hornets and hornet guardians. Under normal circumstances, the hornet queen would not leave their nest or fight. It was said that the hornet queen would only give birth to a new generation and had no ability to fight. Somebody had also once said that the hornet queen actually possessed remarkably terrifying abilities and surpassed the abilities of the hornet guardians. However, she would not easily engage in a fight.

Of course, there were also the ordinary hornets which were what Lin Huang encountered in the Secret Forest. Their combat strength ranged from immortal-levels rank-7 to rank-9, and they were double mutated monsters.

After instructing Bloody, Lin Huang appeared at the bottom of the abandoned hornet nest in a flash. He raised his head and carefully observed the hive.

The lotus-shaped hive looked like a dried lotus from which its seeds had been extracted. The only difference was that it was slightly bigger. From the front, the hornet nest had a diameter of about 150 meters long, resembling a small hill. However, Lin Huang felt like it did not seem as large as the one that had hung from the tree branch in the Secret Forest. He was actually right. If the hive in the forest was magnified 1,000 times more massive, its diameter from the front should be approximately 300 meters. The diameter was double of what he saw now, and its volume was about eight times more.

Although there was no honey in the hive, the value of a complete hornet nest would be comparable to an ancient relic. Aside from being highly valuable, many insects liked to stay there. Imperial Censors who owned insects as pet monsters would be more than happy to pay a high price for it. Besides, after the hornet nest had decomposed, a rare constituent could be extracted for detoxification purposes. The extracted compound could be used to make an expensive broad-spectrum antidote which was effective for 80% of the known poisons.

Despite Lin Huang being really eager to store the hornet nest in his storage space, he decided to put that idea on hold.

The nest was too huge. If it disappeared, perhaps the other 12 hornet nests would find out that something was wrong. The rest of the nests within 20 kilometers would realize that something was off.

Suppressing his desire to take the hornet nest away, Lin Huang sat down quietly and patiently waited for the detection analysis from Bloody.

After about half an hour, Bloody finally opened its eyes.

“The hornet queen’s nest is very far away from us. It’s 1,000 kilometers away. Also, I can’t detect any hornet guardians leaving the hornet queen’s nest and patrolling.”

“What about humans?” Lin Huang asked. He did not want anyone to see him summoning ten monsters at the same time.

“Two humans are trying to level up. The one who’s closest to us is about 350 kilometers away.”

After getting the updates from Bloody, Lin Huang grinned.

“Since the hornet queen and the hornet guardians have shut themselves up, and the human who’s nearest to us is also 300 kilometers away, this is undoubtedly the best time to collect points.”

“Xiao Hei, summon Bai, Tyrant, Charcoal … Lancelot!”

After finishing his words, Bai, Tyrant and the rest of the monsters appeared right in front of Lin Huang at almost the same time.

It took Bloody about half an hour to delegate the tasks to them. Bloody then repeatedly reminded them about a few of the things that they had to be aware of. After making sure that there was no other issue, it then nodded its head at Lin Huang.

“Are you ready?” Lin Huang gazed at each and every one of them.

“I’m ready!” Bai and the rest answered confidently.

“Begin the massacre!”

After receiving Lin Huang’s order, Bai and the rest rapidly headed towards the first hornet nest.

Chapter 784: A Sudden Rise in Points
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

The only tip the Heaven Alliance could give anyone to break through the 56th checkpoint was: get through it in one sitting!

It was as simple as that because the hornet nests on this checkpoint were densely distributed. There was a nest for about every 1,000 meters. Most of the areas with hornet nest overlapped one another. There was no safe route where they could actually avoid fighting the Combat Hornetdemons. Therefore, getting through the checkpoint in one sitting could significantly reduce the chances of encountering the Combat Hornetdemons.

However, Lin Huang’s main intention was not to get through the checkpoint. Instead, he wanted to collect points.

At this moment, he was engaged in a tough battle as what he intended to do was different from the rest.

“Bloody, the first wave of reinforcement is arriving. There are eight hornet nests that have joined the reinforcement. The eight reinforcements have at least 2,000 of them and probably 4,000 at the most,” Lin Huang whispered to Bloody, sharing what he observed according to the discovery of his Divine Telekinesis.

In less than a minute after Bai and the rest began to clear the first hornet nest, a few of the hives nearby discovered that there was a battle going on and immediately sent reinforcements.

Lin Huang was not surprised though as he knew earlier that it was only natural of the Combat Hornetdemons to do so.

On the 56th checkpoint, all the Combat Hornetdemons were the future generations of the hornet queen. Although they were living in different hives, they did not classify themselves according to the different nests but followed the entire hornet group instead. Realizing that one of the nests was being attacked, they would immediately send reinforcements to defend against the enemies.

In the beginning, the hives would send about a tenth of the total number of Combat Hornetdemons in the nests as back-up.

If the reinforcements were unable to help the besieged hornet nest, the second wave of Combat Hornetdemons reinforcements would swarm out, leaving only about 10% of the Combat Hornetdemons to guard their home nest. The rest of the Combat Hornetdemons would join the army, fighting the invaders at full strength.

Apparently, they understood that mutual dependence was needed for survival. Once the hornet nest nearby was being attacked, it indicated that their hive would soon be attacked.

Therefore, before their nest was attacked, sending reinforcements to kill all the invaders was the most cautious solution to get rid of the danger.

Unfortunately, the hornets were going up against Lin Huang and the rest.

“Ghastly, your task is to create chaos, activating an illusion to cover a wide area. Walk around the entire battleground and try your best to set the Combat Hornetdemons up.

“Lancelot, activate Sword Manipulation with extensive coverage. Each attack doesn’t necessary have to kill. Causing severe injuries is good enough.

“Kylie, you are the fastest. Assist Lancelot and hit the Combat Hornetdemons that haven’t died after being attacked by Lancelot’s Sword Manipulation.”

…

Bai and the rest that were led by Bloody launched a one-sided massacre.

Lin Huang’s Stairway points increased tremendously.

He initially had about 24 million points when he was ranked first on the leaderboard. When he entered the Secret Forest and encountered the first hornet nest, his points had exceeded 60 million within half an hour.

The points were now increasing at an even terrifying rate.

60 million, 70 million, 80 million…

Just as the sky was turning dark, Lin Huang’s points had exceeded 200 million.

Nobody had ever racked up points like that before, and it immediately became a hot topic among the members of the Stairway Tree who were now online.

“Is there something wrong with the system!? He has accumulated 200 million points in just a day!”

“If there’s nothing wrong with the system, it means that even the Stairway Tree system can’t detect when Lin Xie is cheating!”

“I’m saddened by Lin Huang’s cheating. He has broken the rules of the Stairway Tree and has even violated the fairness and justice of the leaderboard on the Stairway Tree. He has disregarded everyone’s else efforts. What I wanted to say is, bro, please count me in!”

There were only a small number of people who believed that Lin Huang had collected the points with his own ability.

“The monster with the highest combat strength on the 21st checkpoint is on immortal-level rank-4. Killing each of the monsters can only earn 80 points. Lin Xie managed to accumulate eight million points in one night. He’s now on the 56th checkpoint where the monster with the weakest combat strength is on immortal-level rank-7. He’ll gain 640 points by killing such a monster. He can even obtain 2,560 points for killing an immortal-level rank-9. It’s not impossible to accumulate 200 million points in a day.”

“If anyone else collected 200 million points in a day, I’d have thought that the person was cheating, but Lin Xie might have gotten the points with his own capabilities. He’s incredible.”

Lin Huang knew nothing about their comments. He was busy fighting the Combat Hornetdemons.

Many of them believed that Lin Huang had cheated because even people like Chan Dou would not want to offend the Combat Hornetdemons.

There were at least 20,000 Combat Hornetdemons in a regular hive. Although Chan Dou was strong, he did not have a monstrous physique like Tyrant and the rest. Furthermore, he was not immune to poison like Kylie. He could only deal with about 3,000 Combat Hornetdemons at the same time. He might die if he were to handle more than 3,000 Combat Hornetdemons. It was impossible for him to kill hundreds of thousands of Combat Hornetdemons in a single afternoon.

The reason why Lin Huang had managed to wipe out the hornets with ten summoning monsters was that the monsters that he had chosen were capable of controlling the Combat Hornetdemons to a certain extent. In addition to the bloodlines they possessed and the distribution of work almost being perfect, he could fight the Combat Hornetdemons with ease.

Of course, if Lin Huang were to fight them alone, he would be unable to collect points in this way.

At about 6.30p.m., the sky was turning dark.

“It’s getting darker, and the monsters on the Stairway Tree are coming out to hunt for food,” Bloody whispered to Lin Huang, “If we were to continue collecting points, we’re not only going to face the Combat Hornetdemons. Two other types of monsters are way more powerful. We won’t encounter monster hordes like this by then. It’s going to be a massive monster horde consisting of tens of millions of monsters.”

As the sky turned dark, the Stairway Tree would be a paradise for the monsters. All the monsters above checkpoint 55 and below checkpoint 66 would head over to the human gathering point on checkpoint 55.

“I’d suggest to exit first and continue tomorrow,” Bloody added.

Lin Huang frowned, stroking his chin. Soon, he made up his mind and said, “The auction will begin three days later. I’m going to meet Yi Zheng tomorrow, so I guess I don’t have much time left tomorrow. If I were to give up collecting points at night when there’ll be monster hordes, I only have one day left…”

“I guess we can give it a try even though it’s riskier at night. We can go back to the Secret Forest since it’s rather spacious over there. When the monster horde appears, they’ll become smaller in size. The monsters will scatter all over the place, and we can take advantage of that to hide. If the outcome of the detection happens to be undesirable, I’ll recall all of you back into your card forms right away and log out of the Genius Union.”

Chapter 785: Guerrilla

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

At about 7 p.m., the sky was pitch black.

All the monsters on the Stairway Tree looked like they had consumed stimulants as they got ready to hunt for food.

On each of the checkpoints with monsters, a variety of creatures headed towards the human gathering point.

There were three checkpoints with monsters between checkpoints 55 and 63, namely checkpoints 56, 58, and 61.

The monsters that occupied checkpoint 56 were the venomous Combat Hornetdemons. They lived in a large swarm and were extremely difficult to handle.

The Mutated Serpent, a unique snake monster, occupied checkpoint 58. Almost all Mutated Serpents would go through a genetic mutation when they were young, causing each of them to be different from one another. Some of them were huge, some of them could release venom, some of them were terribly fast, while some of them could even control the elements. Even twins would be utterly different from each other after the mutation.

As for checkpoint 61, it was occupied by the Luna Beast. The Luna Beast was a type of monster with long ears, looking somewhat like a rabbit. It had red fur all over its body, fangs, and sharp claws which looked like the cat’s claws. Its body was usually two to three meters long. It had explosive power and speed, and at the same time, it possessed immense strength. It had a very powerful defensive ability and was adept at close-range attacks. It could also absorb moonlight, going on a rampage whereby its combat strength would be multiplied.

All three types of monsters were not easy to handle. Still, Lin Huang decided to fight the monster hordes.

Just as Lin Huang returned to the Secret Forest on checkpoint 55 along with Bloody and the rest while waiting for the arrival of the monster hordes, the people at the gathering point on checkpoint 55 started discussing when they saw that Lin Huang’s name was still lit up on the leaderboard.

“The sky has turned dark, and the monster hordes are arriving. Has Lin Xie not logged out yet?”

“According to the points he has just gained, he must be on checkpoint 56. He hasn’t returned to the gathering point yet. Could it be that he wants to fight the monster hordes on his own?”

“He must’ve cheated. Why didn’t he come back and fight the monster hordes with us? He didn’t want us to see him cheating!”

The people from Heaven Alliance soon noticed that something was wrong.

“What’s Lin Huang doing? The monster hordes are arriving, and he’s still there to collect points?”

“Perhaps he’s surrounded by the hornets and is unable to get rid of them.”

“If he dies, he’s going to have to bear the loss. He’ll lose half the points from the 200 million points that he just gained.”

As the creatures from the outside entered the Secret Forest on the 55th checkpoint of the Stairway Tree, their bodies would be reduced 1,000 times smaller. Lin Huang and the rest had many places to hide like behind the grass, the flowers or even the splits in the bark. This made their hunting much more convenient.

At that moment, Lin Huang and the rest were hiding in one of the bark fissures, patiently waiting for the monster hordes to appear.

At about 7.20 p.m., the sky had turned completely dark. Lin Huang knew that the monster hordes would come very soon.

After almost half an hour, Lin Huang heard a buzzing sound from far away. The sound was fast approaching.

“It’s the Combat Hornetdemon. It seems like after their body size has been reduced, they scattered everywhere. There aren’t many hornets, less than 50,000 of them. I guess they’re from the same hive.” Lin Huang could tell what was happening a few kilometers away with his Divine Telekinesis. “No other monster hordes are discovered so far within the area covered by my detection. However, we need to be fast. The monster hordes behind will catch up soon.”

“Let’s get ready to fight and give your all. Try to kill all the enemies at the fastest speed possible. After killing the hornets, we’ve got to move.”

Bloody had discussed with Lin Huang earlier that it was not practical to launch a frontal attack on the monster hordes that consisted of tens of thousands of monsters. Therefore, they planned to launch guerrilla attacks according to the topography of the Secret Forest. They would move after the fight and try to get rid of the monsters.

“I’ll be aware of what’s happening out there. If there’s any monster horde that approaches us, I’ll judge whether if it’s going to be harmful to us. If it is, I’ll recall of you back into your card forms whether or not the hornets have been cleared. I’ll then leave the battleground immediately. The same goes for the rest of the battles.” Lin Huang and Bloody whispered to each other and came up with a strategy.

Bai and the rest had no objections. They clearly knew that their abilities were far from being capable of handling all the monster hordes.

After a short while, the hornets appeared in front of Lin Huang and the rest.

“Fight!”

Bai and the rest immediately rushed towards the hornets after receiving the instruction from Bloody.

Charcoal had returned to its original size. Despite it being reduced to 1,000 times smaller, it still looked gigantic at about four meters tall.

Black dragon flames gushed out as it opened its mouth. The hornets fled.

It was not easy to put the flames out once the dragon flames tainted them. Charcoal was a high-level dragonkin. With its dragon flames, even an imperial-level would not dare to offend it. Perhaps even the chief of the Heaven Alliance, Chan Dou, would not want to get tainted by the dragon flames.

Lancelot had fully activated its Sword Manipulation as well. Thousands of black swords accompanied by powerful sword intent penetrated through the swarm of hornets like swimming fish. If it were not on immortal-level rank-4 with its ability being restricted, perhaps it could fight the hornets with ease.

Bai’s attack was like an artistic performance. No extra movements were needed. As it flowed, it managed to cut a few of the Combat Hornetdemons into half without a second attack. Despite it only being on immortal-level rank-4, encountering the immortal-level rank-9 Combat Hornetdemons, the fight was like slicing vegetables to it.

Ghastly was probably the most relaxed one compared to the rest. He made it through the Combat Hornetdemons leisurely, creating chaos wherever he passed. Not only could they not see Ghastly at all, but they had also gone insane and even attacked each other.

Other than Bai and the rest, even Lin Huang joined the fight so that they could get rid of the swarm of hornets as soon as possible.

Three supreme telekinetic weapons and thousands of telekinetic flying daggers whistled in the air. Controlled by his Divine Telekinesis, they penetrated through the Combat Hornetdemons’ bodies.

Lin Huang was unable to dominate the ancient telekinetic weapons without using the Transformation Card. Despite the fact that the power of his flying daggers was much weaker than before, they were capable of killing the immortal-level rank-7s and rank-8s. Even if he could not kill the immortal-level rank-9s in one hit, the monster would be severely injured, and it would be much more convenient for Kylie and the rest to kill.

The battle lasted for about 20 minutes before it ended. Before completely obliterating the Combat Hornetdemons, Lin Huang suddenly raised his head and frowned, looking towards the border of the forest.

“Luna Beast?!”

Using his Divine Telekinesis, he could see that at the crossing point of checkpoints 55 and 56, a large number of Luna Beasts were heading towards the Secret Forest.

Chapter 786: Outstanding Bait

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

“Please hurry. The Luna Beast is entering the Secret Forest,” Lin Huang immediately informed Bloody and the rest just as he detected.

“Don’t worry. We’re 3.3 kilometers away from the border of the forest. Under normal circumstances, the Luna Beast can travel a distance of three to four kilometers in a blink of an eye. However, since they’ll be compressed to a thousandth of their usual size, the Luna Beast will need at least 40 minutes to reach here.” Bloody felt that they had sufficient time to fight.

“I know, but it’ll be better for us to get rid of the hornets as soon as possible. The more time we have, the better we can prepare ourselves.” Lin Huang nodded. “The Luna Beasts are actually much stronger than the Combat Hornetdemons. Apart from that, there are more of them than the Combat Hornetdemons. At least 50,000 of them to be more precise. If we don’t have any plan and were to fight them face-to-face, perhaps it’ll be difficult for us to clear all of them.”

“That’s true,” Bloody agreed with what Lin Huang said.

Although the ability of the Luna Beasts would be slightly weaker than that of the hornet guardians, they were much stronger than the ordinary Combat Hornetdemons. Even if it did not go on a rampage, a Luna Beast was capable of fighting three Combat Hornetdemons. If it did go on a rampage, one Luna Beast could fight ten Combat Hornetdemons. In addition to their strong defenses, killing them would be much more difficult than killing the Combat Hornetdemon.

“I’m thinking to ask the Clown to set several traps. However, it’ll need some time to set those traps up. 40 to 50 minutes might not be enough for it,” Lin Huang revealed his plan. However, he could not confirm whether if his plan could achieve the desired outcome. “Do you have any better suggestions?”

“Your plan is too time-consuming. Besides, if Ghastly were to set a large number of traps, the damage caused will be limited. If Ghastly were an immortal-level rank-9, it could easily kill the Luna Beasts. He’s now only an immortal-level rank-4.” Bloody immediately scrapped the plan and gave its own suggestion. “It doesn’t have to be so troublesome. There are many dangerous places in the Secret Forest. We’ve avoided all those areas, and it’s time to make good use of it now.”

“We can actually lure the monster hordes to those places. Right after their strength has been drained, we can then capture all at once.”

“Do you think that the Luna Beasts will be tricked?” Lin Huang was still worried.

“The Luna Beasts aren’t smart, and they’re monsters that are all brawn and no brains. As long as we try to bait them, they’ll bite,” Bloody said confidently.

“Bait?” Lin Huang frowned when he heard what Bloody said.

Bloody did not continue talking, shifting its gaze towards Kylie who was attacking the hornets instead.

Lin Huang immediately understood what Bloody’s plan was and kept quiet.

“Only Thunder and her speed can compare to that of the Luna Beasts’. Aside from their speed, the Luna Beasts possess terrifying explosive power within short distances. They can even go on a rampage so that their speed can be multiplied. She is more suitable than Thunder to be bait.” Still, Bloody did not mention Kylie’s name.

Lin Huang remained silent as usual. Regardless of how fast Kylie’s speed was, it would be risky for her to be the bait alone. She would be surrounded by the monster hordes even if only a small mistake was made. She would be ripped into pieces by tens of thousands of Luna Beasts. Moreover, if she were to lure the Luna Beasts to the danger zone, she had to enter the danger zone as well.

“I’ll be the bait.” Kylie appeared in front of the both of them all of a sudden. What she said had clearly expressed herself.

Bloody had not secretly contacted Kylie. Instead, she had heard the conversation between the both of them. Seeing Lin Huang’s indecision, she then spoke out.

As Lin Huang was still keeping quiet, Kylie added, “I’ll be fine.”

“Alright, then,” Lin Huang finally said, “I’ll relinquish the task to you. Please be careful.”

Kylie nodded and did not say anything else. She then returned to the battleground, killing the remaining Combat Hornetdemons.

“Where are you going to lure the Luna Beasts to?” Lin Huang turned his head back, looking at Bloody.

“There’s a Fiendish Osiery about two kilometers away from us.” Bloody had a plan.

“A Fiendish Osiery… That’s too dangerous.” Lin Huang frowned, lifting his head and gazing in the direction where Kylie was. He was still worried about her.

“We don’t have any other choice. We need to bear some of the risks. Within five kilometers, the Fiendish Osiery is the most suitable area to fight the Luna Beasts.”

“The Fiendish Osier looks like an ordinary willow, and no energy fluctuation will be alarming to the Luna Beasts. They’re quite smart. If the prey doesn’t go deep into the forest, they won’t simply launch an attack. Right when the Luna Beasts realize something is wrong, perhaps the entire monster horde would’ve already entered the forest.”

“The Fiendish Osier’s abilities can restrict the Luna Beasts. The splitting of the tree branches can restrict the movements and the strength of the Luna Beasts to a great extent. However, with Kylie’s speed, as long as she doesn’t go too deep into it, it’s not difficult for her to escape.”

Lin Huang nodded and did not say anything else.

After a short while, they cleared the swarm of hornets. Lin Huang gathered Bai and the rest again.

Bloody pulled Kylie aside and whispered to her. After the conversation between them had ended, only then did they join the team.

“Kylie, please stay. The rest of you, please follow me and lie in wait outside the Fiendish Osiery. I’ll explain the details later when we’re on our way.” Bloody did not say anything else. It nodded its head at Lin Huang, transforming into a vine and wrapping around his left arm.

“Follow me.” As soon as Lin Huang uttered these words, he activated his double acceleration and headed towards the Fiendish Osiery.

Bai and the rest immediately followed after him. Kylie was the only one who stayed there, watching the rest leave.

Right after Lin Huang and the rest had disappeared from her sight, Kylie then transformed into a black glow and headed in another direction.

After half an hour, Lin Huang and the rest finally arrived where the Fiendish Osiery was.

Seeing the peaceful Fiendish Osier, even Lin Huang’s Divine Telekinesis could not sense anything strange. The Fiendish Osier was like an ordinary willow.

If the Fiendish Osier had not been introduced in the information provided by the Heaven Alliance, perhaps not only Lin Huang, even Bloody might not realize the specialty of this forest.

Scanning the forest, Charcoal then said, “It looks like an ordinary plant.”

“Be careful. According to what has been recorded in the information provided by the Heaven Alliance, at least 50 people have died in this forest ever since it has been discovered. They were sent back to the first checkpoint on the Stairway Tree. Bear in mind that humans who reach here are supreme geniuses that have made it through 55 checkpoints on the Stairway Tree,” Lin Huang reminded.

After listening to what he said, the facial expressions on Bai and the rest became serious.

In the Genius Union, those who managed to reach checkpoint 55 were at least immortal-level rank-7s. The geniuses of these combat strength were a step away from achieving imperial-level.

Although Bai’s ability was on par with the geniuses that were three levels higher, it was much weaker than them, let alone the other monsters.

“Kylie has approached the Luna Beasts. We should do something now. Let’s move and do what I’ve told you to do earlier.” Bloody was monitoring Kylie with its Leech Pods.

Several kilometers away, Kylie had launched an attack as soon as she discovered the Luna Beasts. She summoned Lightning to cover the entire region, striking hundreds of Luna Beasts. They growled from the pain they suffered. Although not a single Luna Beast was killed, she had successfully triggered their rage. Hundreds of her victims then led the rest of the Luna Beasts to pursue her.

Chapter 787: Bloody’s Misjudgement
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Kylie’s speed and explosiveness in short-distance flight surpassed all the monsters Lin Huang owned. Even Thunder that was good at flying could only excel Kylie in long-distance flight.

Encountering Luna Beasts with extremely high explosiveness, it was apparent that Kylie could make better bait than Thunder. In fact, Kylie did an impressive job.

Kylie was about 10% faster than the Luna Beasts all the way.

The Luna Beasts had made several attempts to accelerate, but Kylie sped up only when they were less than a meter away from her, maintaining her speed at 10% faster than the Luna Beasts. Some of the Luna Beasts had gone on a rampage, but they were still trailing behind by Kylie.

Kylie maintained a speed at which the Luna Beasts could see her but were unable to attack her.

Lin Huang and Bloody were monitoring the situation on Kylie’s side all the while. They felt relieved, seeing Kylie’s performance.

All of a sudden, Lin Huang frowned.

“The Luna Beasts are slowing down!”

“It seems like they’re giving up on Kylie.” Bloody was surprised.

The Luna Beasts had terrible tempers, and they were monsters that held grudges. They were not intelligent and under normal circumstances, they would chase after their enemies non-stop and would not choose to retreat.

It seemed like the Luna Beasts had lost their patience upon realizing that the possibility of chasing after Kylie was low. They were not going to bug her anymore.

“She’s made it through half the journey. What should we do now?” Lin Huang raised his head and looked towards Bloody.

“Ask Kylie to attack them,” Bloody suggested.

“Would it work? Since they’ve already found out that they can’t possibly chase Kylie…” Lin Huang doubted.

“I guess it’ll work this time, but I’m not sure if it’ll still work the next time.” Bloody did not expect the Luna Beasts to retreat after being fooled by Kylie.

After getting the confirmation from Bloody, Lin Huang immediately contacted Kylie with his Divine Telekinesis and told her what to do next.

A few kilometers away, Kylie then turned back to the Luna Beasts after listening to what Lin Huang told her. She then realized that the Luna Beasts were actually slowing down. She scoffed and again, she activated her Lightning Control.

Hundreds of beams of black lightning rained down from the sky. The attack covered a broader range compared to the first attack launched by Kylie. Besides that, it was much stronger as well.

More than 500 of the Luna Beasts let out a howl of pain. Their fur was burnt and singed.

Still, Kylie was unable to kill any of the Luna Beasts.

Nevertheless, it was quite effective. The Luna Beasts lost their rationality and began to chase after Kylie insanely.

Seeing what Kylie did, Lin Huang flashed a thumbs-up. “They’re now bearing a huge grudge!”

“Don’t count your eggs before they hatch. While it’s effective, it’s still unknown whether Kylie can lure them to this place.” Bloody pointed out pessimistically.

Lin Huang kept quiet for a moment, and something seemed to have dawned on him. “Does it mean that the effect will be reduced each time Kylie attempts to aggravate them?”

“Yes, it does. Although the Luna Beasts aren’t intelligent and can be easily triggered, they won’t be tricked repeatedly. Since they’ve already confirmed that they are unable to catch up to Kylie, they’ll be wise enough to give up their target. Once attacked, they’ll temporarily lose their rationality. The more they’re attacked, the less likely they’ll act irrationally and the higher the possibility that they’ll give up their target.” Bloody nodded while giving a detailed explanation. “Also, the Luna Beasts will regain their rationality in a shorter period this round. Soon, they’ll realize that it’s useless to chase after Kylie.”

“What should we do?” Lin Huang’s eyebrows knitted together. He now understood why Bloody had expressed its doubt on whether Kylie could successfully lure the Luna Beasts to this place.

“The best way is to change baits.” Obviously, Bloody had a plan. “They’ve lost confidence in chasing Kylie, and it’s time for us to change their target. They’ll regain the thrill of the chase once they have a new target. They can then complete the second half of the journey.”

“Do you mean that we need Thunder to be the bait?” Lin Huang knew who Bloody was referring to.

“Other than Kylie, it’ll be the most suitable one.” Bloody nodded.

“No, we can’t. Thunder is too huge, and its agility is nowhere near Kylie’s. If it happens to enter the Fiendish Osiery, it’s difficult for it to survive through it,” Lin Huang rejected.

Compared to Kylie, Thunder’s size would make it an easy target. Moreover, Kylie’s agility would allow her to avoid sudden attacks whereas Thunder was much weaker than her and it would be easier for the Fiendish Osiers to attack it. Once it became the Fiendish Osiers’ target, it would be in great danger.

“Do you have any other plan?”

It was already risky for Kylie to enter the Fiendish Osiery. If Thunder was the one that entered the Fiendish Osiery, the probability of it surviving was close to zero.

A pet monster was different from humans. If it died on the Stairway Tree, it would die in reality instead of returning to the first checkpoint on the Stairway Tree.

Bloody kept quiet for a long while after listening to what Lin Huang asked.

“This isn’t how you’d look like if you’re running out of ideas.” Lin Huang knew that it was not because Bloody had no other plans. It was because of some reason that it was reluctant to tell. “Just spit it out.”

“Other than Kylie and Thunder, there’s actually someone who can be the bait,” Bloody then said slowly, shifting its gaze towards Lin Huang.

Lin Huang was stunned. After a couple of moments, he then pointed at himself and asked, “Me?”

After confirming that Bloody was referring to him, a thought suddenly ran through Lin Huang’s mind. “Oh, right, the Transformation Card! How could I forget about it?!”

Lin Huang had almost forgotten that he could actually use the Provisional Transformation Card, transforming into Kylie or Thunder. As long as he changed into how they looked like, he would have all of their abilities, including their speed.

“I’ll first transform into Thunder and become bait. As soon as I enter the Fiendish Osiery, I’ll transform into Kylie and get out of there as swiftly as possible.” Bloody was unwilling to reveal its plan. It did not want Lin Huang to take the risk, but it was running out of solutions.

Setting the Luna Beasts up was risky business.

“Alright, I’ll take on the task!” Lin Huang accepted without thinking twice.

“It’s too dangerous,” Bai, who had kept quiet all the while, frowned as he said. It turned back and looked at Bloody. “Is there any other way?”

Bloody shook its head helplessly. “Changing the bait is the only way to solve the problem. It’s uncertain whether any other solutions are going to work.”

“Don’t worry. After using the Transformation Card, my combat strength will level up to immortal-level rank-4. My abilities will be stronger than any of you.” Lin Huang patted Bai’s shoulder reassuringly. “I didn’t really make any contribution for the whole day. It’s time to move and do some exercise.”

“That’s it. I’m going to back Kylie up!”

Chapter 788: Falling into the Trap
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

In the Secret Forest, a charcoal grey silhouette flashed through the tree branches quickly.

The silhouette was extremely fast. The immortal-level rank-8 and rank-9 monsters only managed to detect that a black shadow passing through.

When one actually throttled down the speed of the silhouette 100 times slower, one could actually see that it was a charcoal grey bird with an intricate golden pattern on its body. It had a slender body that looked elegant yet powerful.

The bird that looked almost eerily similar to Thunder was, of course, Lin Huang.

Lin Huang could not get used to Thunder’s body in the beginning. Unlike Bai and the rest that were humanoid monsters, he felt awkward having his hands change into wings. However, in less than an hour, he had gotten used to the body and even liked flying by flapping his wings.

Feeling excited for only a few minutes, Lin Huang started to calm himself down.

Sensing that Kylie was approaching him at a breakneck speed with his Territory skill, he slowed down. While waiting for Kylie to appear, he started practicing some skills that could trigger the anger of the Luna Beasts.

After a short while, he saw a black shadow flying towards him at lightning speed. There was a massive monster horde that followed the black shadow.

Lin Huang immediately fluttered his wings and stopped moving forward, staying in one place.

Kylie caught a glimpse of Lin Huang and brushed past him without slowing down.

This was what Lin Huang had instructed Kylie earlier. She had to pretend that she did not know Lin Huang and continued to flee, leaving the rest of the act to Lin Huang.

Obviously, Kylie did what she had been told. She did not even greet him. She directly grazed Lin Huang and flew away. It went so smoothly as though it had been practiced countless times.

“She simply just left…” Lin Huang thought to himself.

The Luna Beasts, of course, noticed Lin Huang in the first place. He now looked exactly like Thunder, and its body was a few times bigger than Kylie’s, so it was hard not to steal the attention.

Seeing the monster horde chasing after him, Lin Huang did not immediately turn back and flee. He flapped his wings, and his body began to glow purple.

His body was flickering in a purple electric arc, creating peculiar patterns. As Lin Huang opened his mouth wide, a purple glow accumulated within his mouth.

The dazzling purple light glowed even brighter as Lin Huang flapped his wings. In just a short while, the intensity of the beam of purple light had reached its peak, becoming much more resplendent.

At that moment, Lin Huang let out a screeching bird cry, accompanied by the purple glow shooting out from his mouth.

The fist-like purple sphere lingered in mid-air. While it expanded, it rotated quickly. The purple sphere expanded to the size of a fitness ball in just one breath, and it was still increasing in size.

Just when the Luna Beasts were less than ten meters away from Lin Huang, the sphere that consisted of the purple thunder exploded.

A dazzling purple beam was instantly released. Nobody could gaze directly at the brilliant beam of light.

Countless beams of purple electric arcs were gushing out like snakes, spreading in the form of a fan towards the direction where the monster horde was. It was like casting a net into a lake full of fish.

The attack which Lin Huang had deliberately launched covered a much wider region compared to Kylie’s. It covered almost half of the monster horde.

The purple electric arc struck tens of thousands of Luna Beasts. Although it could do no harm to the Luna Beasts, they would still experience numbness and pain. Reacting to the assault, the Luna Beasts roared in pain.

Despite the range of attack being much more comprehensive than Kylie’s, the force was relatively weak. Lin Huang knew very well that the attack would not be able to kill any of the Luna Beasts, but it was the most suitable skill to trigger them.

Lin Huang turned back and fled after the attack without a moment of hesitation.

The angry Luna Beasts soon targeted Lin Huang and started pursuing him.

Although his agility was incomparable to Kylie’s after transforming into Thunder, Lin Huang had his way of getting rid of the Luna Beast’s attack. He did not fly in a straight line, but he flew in a Z-shape instead. He was like a drunkard, flying up and down.

He became much more provoking to the Luna Beasts. The insult level had been 100% initially, but it had now risen to 120%.

The group of Luna Beasts had forgotten entirely that they were previously chasing Kylie. The evil bird was now their target.

“The outcome is pretty awesome.” As the bait-changing plan was working, Lin Huang felt relieved.

Kylie was flying at her maximum speed and had already disappeared from his sight.

Lin Huang then leisurely led the Luna Beasts forward.

Perhaps because the attack had triggered a large number of Luna Beasts or because Lin Huang looked much easier to defeat than Kylie, the Luna Beasts did not give up on him easily.

Lin Huang then managed to bring the Luna Beasts to their destination.

Sensing that Bloody and the rest had hidden well and were ready, Lin Huang grinned and looked towards the Fiendish Osiery. He then accelerated and headed towards it.

The Luna Beasts were so naïve, and they did not realize that the Fiendish Osiery was dangerous. They thought that Lin Huang wanted to get rid of them using the forest. Therefore, they sped up and followed him.

Of course, they did not realize that Bloody and the rest were hiding there. The monster horde followed Lin Huang and entered the terrifying Fiendish Osiery.

After entering the Fiendish Osiery, Lin Huang immediately looked back at the Luna Beasts. He was worried about the Luna Beasts finding out and retreating at the very last minute. The group of Luna Beasts was obviously not as alert as he thought. They went into the Fiendish Osiery without hesitation.

“Success!” Lin Huang was exhilarated.

As the Luna Beasts got into the Fiendish Osiery, 80% of the hunting plan had succeeded. He knew that he could gain tens of millions of points with extreme ease.

Although more than half of the plan was turning out well, Lin Huang did not let his guard down.

He did not immediately leave the Fiendish Osiery. Instead, he continued leading them deeper in.

He knew that nobody could retreat after entering the Fiendish Osiery. If he did so, the Fiendish Osiery would immediately block his way, and the Luna Beasts would definitely be startled by them.

In addition to the monster horde not going deep enough into the Fiendish Osiery, if they found out that something was wrong, it was highly possible that they could get rid of the controlling willow forest. Once they managed to get rid of the Fiendish Osiery’s control, Bai and the rest would not be able to stop such a large number of monsters. The plan would definitely fail.

“It’s best for me to go 43 meters deep into the Fiendish Osiery. The Luna Beasts will follow me at least 30 meters deep…” Lin Huang was doing the calculations in his mind so that he would not make any mistakes.

The best distance was, of course, calculated by Bloody based on its understanding of the Luna Beasts and the Fiendish Osiers. It was the distance where the Luna Beasts could be controlled, and at the same time, it was also the safest distance for Lin Huang.

“35… 40, 41, 42, 43!” As soon as it reached the depth calculated by Bloody, Lin Huang immediately flapped his wings, turning back and flying right towards the Luna Beasts that were chasing after him.

Chapter 789: The Uncatchable Prey
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Lin Huang had caught the Fiendish Osier’s attention the moment he turned back. It began extending its osiers, reaching out for Lin Huang.

The Fiendish Osiers in the Fiendish Osiery were really patient. If their prey did not go deep enough, they would patiently wait until they were confident enough to control their prey before launching any attack. However, as for those who wanted to leave after breaking into the Fiendish Osiery, they would immediately attack, forcing their victim to stay.

As Lin Huang retreated, he undoubtedly triggered the Fiendish Osiery’s instinct which was to extend their osiers to stop him immediately.

Hundreds of osiers headed out for Lin Huang from all directions. Ten tentacles with the circumference of an adult’s arm extended from the tip of each of the osiers.

“Although I’ve seen this earlier, it’s kind of disgusting to see it at such a close distance,” Lin Huang thought to himself.

The tentacles were green in color and looked somewhat sticky like a slug. It was like a future generation of the earthworm and the slug that had gone through some kind of mutation. Not only was it ten times bigger, but it was also hundreds of times uglier. One would indeed find them disgusting.

Lin Huang’s mentality was considered stable, but still, he felt sickened seeing those tentacles.

Thousands of tentacles wriggled in mid-air, heading out for Lin Huang.

At the same time, the Luna Beasts in front of Lin Huang were in trouble as well. The Fiendish Osier extended their osiers, and there were millions of tentacles going after the Luna Beasts.

Since they had already revealed themselves, the Fiendish Osiers was not going wait any longer. If they did not take any action to make the Luna Beasts stay, perhaps the Luna Beasts could escape from the Fiendish Osiery very quickly with their speed, which was the reason why the Fiendish Osier attacked without hesitation.

As the group of Fiendish Osiers went on a rampage, Lin Huang did not feel panicked at all. What happened right in front of him was entirely within his expectations.

Tens of thousands of tentacles did not stop chasing him. There was an ocean of tentacles right in front of him. Lin Huang flapped his wings and distanced himself from the tentacles. Seeing that he was about to enter the ocean of tentacles, he immediately crushed a Provisional Transformation Card.

His immensely colossal body immediately shrank and transformed from Thunder to Kylie. He did not stop and sped up instead as he flew towards the Luna Beasts. He then entered the region where there were countless tentacles.

The Luna Beasts that were chasing after Lin Huang were caught in a frenzy as the Fiendish Osier was suddenly attacking them. At that moment, only then did they know that they had fallen into a trap.

The Luna Beasts could no longer go after Lin Huang as the Fiendish Osier attacked them. They were alarmed.

A majority of the Luna Beasts knew that they had to flee in the direction where they had come from in order to leave the Fiendish Osiery as soon as possible. A small number of them were confused, and soon, they were captured by the Fiendish Osier’s tentacles.

Those who fled in the correct direction were entangled by the Fiendish Osier as well. They had no way of getting rid of them. Despite being able to break the tentacles with their fangs and sharp claws repeatedly, the Fiendish Osier’s tentacles could regenerate on their own endlessly. Their energy and Life Power were being drained, resulting in many of the Luna Beasts being caught.

Regardless of how fast the Luna Beasts were, how powerful its explosiveness was, and how sharp its fangs were, they were vastly outnumbered by the Fiendish Osier’s tentacles, putting them at significant risk in the battle.

Their destiny was like a script written in advance whereby the outcome had already been determined.

Lin Huang, who had transformed into Kylie, approached the ocean of tentacles as well.

There were 12 pairs of black wings on his back, fluttering at a horrifying frequency. He was traveling through the ocean of tentacles at an extremely fast speed. Like a swimming fish in the ocean, he was moving forward with ease.

The tentacles attempted to capture him several times, but still, he managed to avoid the capture perfectly by flapping his wings.

Lin Huang could clearly sense that the movements of all the tentacles that were covered by his Territorial skill. In addition to Kylie’s speed and her explosiveness, he could easily sense the attack coming from any of the tentacles. He managed to dodge the attacks in advance and could even use Flicker when necessary. This allowed him to travel in the danger zone without obstruction.

Moreover, the Luna Beasts had caught the Fiendish Osier’s attention. Lin Huang was not worried that he might be unable to leave the Fiendish Osiery at all.

The osiers of the Fiendish Osier spasmed, extending their tentacles towards their enemies.

If one of the tentacles tangled the Luna Beast, it was fated that it would be unable to break free from the entanglement of the tentacles. This was because if it happened to pause for just a moment, the rest of the tentacles would twist around it one after another.

Nothing would work even if the Luna Beasts struggled to rip them apart. After breaking one of the tentacles apart, more than ten others would replace it. The broken tentacle could even regenerate at the speed that was visible to the naked eye.

The Luna Beasts were being wrapped like dumplings. The Fiendish Osier soon realized that there was a prey that they were unable to capture.

It was much smaller than the Luna Beasts. Upon closer inspection, it was a humanoid monster with 12 pairs of wings.

It seemed as if any of the tentacles that approached him at a certain distance could complete the capture at the next second. However, he always managed to dodge the capture. Most of the time, he was capable of avoiding the attack of the tentacles by moving a little as though he could foresee things.

“You must have discovered the weird guy with 12 pairs of wings on its back.” One of the Fiendish Osiers realized that Lin Huang was different from the rest as it failed to catch him after several attempts. Soon, the information spread everywhere, and tens of the Fiendish Osiers nearby could receive the incoming message.

“He might be a human. He has strange movements as though he can foresee the trajectory path of our attack.” One of the Fiendish Osiers next to it found out that something was weird about Lin Huang.

“Humans used to be evil. It’s normal if they invented some movements to restrict our attack.” Seemingly, the Fiendish Osier had dealt with humans before and did not have a positive experience.

“I don’t think that he can dodge all of our attacks!” After finishing its words, it immediately launched another attack on Lin Huang. More than 20 osiers headed towards Lin Huang and hundreds of tentacles gushed towards him.

“It’s not easy to encounter such an interesting prey. Let’s see who has the ability to capture him!” Another Fiendish Osier suggested. Many of the Fiendish Osiers agreed with his suggestion.

After reaching a consensus, most of them had given up capturing the Luna Beasts. Lin Huang was their primary target, and they were giving their all to catch him.

Lin Huang knew nothing about the discussion between the Fiendish Osiers. The only thing he knew was that the Fiendish Osier was quite smart, but he did not know that this type of monster could actually communicate with each other.

He unconsciously became the target of tens of the Fiendish Osiers.

Despite not knowing that they were talking about him, he soon noticed that something was wrong because there was a larger number of tentacles that attacked him.

“What’s happening? Are they afraid that I’ll be able to leave this place, so they’re all turning on me?” Lin Huang soon realized that the tentacles of the Fiendish Osiers had ignored the Luna Beasts that were not far away from him. Not a single tentacle was extended towards them. Instead, the tentacles were all coming at him!

Chapter 790: The Insane Fiendish Osier

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Seeing the tentacles coming for him multiply many times over, Lin Huang frowned.

The events that had just transpired were far beyond his expectations. Although he was faster than the Luna Beasts and according to Bloody’s calculations, there would still be half the number of Luna Beasts remaining when he would escape the Fiendish Osier. Theoretically, it would target the larger group of Luna Beasts who were clustered in a group and would be more easily captured. However, they seemingly had a greater interest in Lin Huang instead of the Luna Beast group.

“Bloody, what’s wrong with the Fiendish Osiers? Why would they give up attacking the Luna Beasts and come after me?” Lin Huang was under a lot of pressure and asked Bloody with his Divine Telekinesis.

Bloody kept quiet for a moment before answering, “The information we have on the Fiendish Osiers is very limited. I didn’t notice it previously as I used to think that they’re just demonic plants that are rather evil when they hunt. However, it seems like I’ve underestimated the Fiendish Osiers’ intelligence.”

“Most of the triple mutated monsters or those who’re weaker are limited by intelligence. They hunt for survival. However, it seems like the Fiendish Osiers are beyond that and are more intelligent. Not only are they hunting for food, they’re also hunting for higher level needs — fun.”

“You’ve probably become their main target because your unusual behavior drew their attention. Hunting for you has become a game to them, and whoever that managed to capture you will be the winner of the game.”

“Just like how a well-fed cat will hunts for mice. They’re not going to eat it, it’s just for fun.” Lin Huang soon understood Bloody’s explanation, “I’m now the Fiendish Osier’s mouse.”

“You’re right.” Bloody nodded.

“So before I get caught, it’s less likely that they’ll give up such an ‘interesting’ prey right?” Lin Huang knew the predicament he was in.

“Yes, it is. Before getting bored of you, a well-fed cat will definitely not give up their prey that easily.” Bloody was not panicked though, “You’re halfway through the 43-meter flight. You’ll be able to make it through the remaining 20 meters in your current condition. You just need to be extra careful.”

“Alright, I got it. Don’t worry and get ready to attack. Immediately launch an attack as soon as I get rid of the Fiendish Osiery!”

After contacting with Bloody and knew what was actually happening, Lin Huang felt relieved.

The Fiendish Osier was behaving like how a cat was trying to fool a mouse. They extended their tentacles, attempting to capture Lin Huang. However, they failed.

Lin Huang flew past countless tentacles and accelerated from time to time. At times, he slashed his sword to get away from the tentacles and occasionally moved his body aside to dodge the attacks. Flicker would also be used to get rid of the tentacles at times…

Regardless of how many tentacles there were, the angle he was being attacked from, and the speed the attack, they were unable to even touch the edge of Lin Huang’s clothes. However, there were several hits when they managed to cordon the area off but still, Lin Huang managed to break through it with ease with Flicker.

Seeing countless criss-crossed tentacles before him attempting to wrap him up, he grinned.

‘It seems like the Fiendish Osiers have no idea what they can still do now. They’ve used the same attack over and over again but they’ve been rendered useless. Still, they’re using the same skill to attack.’ Just as the thought ran through his mind, Lin Huang’s body reacted. He flapped the twelve pairs of black wings on his body abruptly and soon, he completely disappeared. When he reappeared, he had already passed through the big net formed by the tentacles, appearing at a location where there were no tentacles at all.

However, when his body became visible, something had put him on alert.

He immediately activated Flicker and again, he disappeared.

At almost the same time that he disappeared from his original position, a big net made of tentacles emerged from the ground, enveloping the area where Lin Huang was initially at.

Lin Huang who was dozens of centimeters away saw what just happened and was glad that he believed his instinct so he managed to avoid the danger.

Lin Huang had his guard up after figuring that there was a trap. “It seems like the Fiendish Osiers are much more intelligent than what has been described!”

“There’s less than a third of the distance remaining. Don’t be careless anymore. I didn’t even notice that they’ve set a trap underground with their roots. Despite their intelligence being inferior to triple mutated monsters, it’s on par with the intelligence of a 10-year-old child. If you happen to underestimate them again, you’re possibly going to bear some losses.” Bloody reminded, “It was mere luck that you managed to overcome the danger with your instinct. However, bear in mind that your instincts are not there to help all the time. In order to survive in such a dangerous place, abilities and cautiousness are of utmost importance.”

“In fact, I was too careless. I didn’t expect the Fiendish Osier to be actually able to attack with their roots.” Lin Huang admitted his carelessness. “The Fiendish Osiers are totally depraved. They set me up by using their roots that I’ve never seen before. I was almost tricked by them.”

“Another thing that you need to be aware of is that breaking the Fiendish Osier tentacles might not be as easy as it seems despite how unassuming it looks. I’ve been monitoring the battle between the Fiendish Osiers and the Luna Beasts and realized that only a small number of Luna Beasts managed to break free form the tentacles after being captured. Most of the Luna Beasts struggled for a couple of moments before they gave up, looking sluggish. I suspect that the tentacles contain a poison that can restrict the activities of their prey.”

“Got it. I’ll be careful.” Lin Huang was focused on fleeing from the Fiendish Osier but did not notice this point. The information regarding the Fiendish Osiers he had made no mention of their poisonous tentacles. However, according to what had been observed by Bloody, Lin Huang believed that it was true.

Lin Huang did not know that he had triggered the Fiendish Osier’s rage when he managed to escape earlier.

“How can he possibly get away from us? He’s really good at escaping!”

“His movements aren’t the best. It’s his ability to foresee the future! He can accurately predict our attack and dodge it in time. That’s the scariest part.”

“Did you realize that he’s only immortal-level rank-4? If he advances to immortal-level rank-9, what’s going to happen?”

All the Fiendish Osiers that joined the discussion then kept quiet.

After a short while, one of the elder Fiendish Osiers said, “After leveling up, perhaps he’ll come back and take revenge on us. We won’t be the ones attacking him by then, for the sake of our safety, I think we should make him stay.”

“I agree!”

“I agree too!”

…

The rest of the Fiendish Osiers agreed with it as well.

“Since there are no objections, inform the rest of the members who’re still able to reach him with their attacks, we don’t need to catch him alive!”

All the Fiendish Osiers did not treat it as something fun now. Instead, they treated Lin Huang as their greatest enemy.

Although Lin Huang knew nothing about it, he was on alert after nearly being trapped by them.

After the discussion, the Fiendish Osiers’ killing intent immediately grew, and Lin Huang could sense that the atmosphere was somewhat strange.

The next second, the battle escalated. The Fiendish Osier gave up hunting for the Luna Beasts. Millions of tentacles were now heading out for Lin Huang.

Lin Huang was shocked. Although he had no idea what was happening, his body had already responded to the attack.

He activated Flicker, transforming into a silhouette and disappeared from his original position. Just as the silhouette appeared, countless tentacles ripped it into pieces.

“Are they crazy?!” Lin Huang mumbled, feeling that it was ridiculous.

“Get out of the Fiendish Osiery as soon as possible. Stop bugging them.” Bloody had no idea what was happening as well. What they had to do now was to make sure that Lin Huang could get rid of the region covered by the Fiendish Osiers’ attack.

“Okay.”

Just as Lin Huang answered while nodding his head, the tentacles pounced towards him again. The number of tentacles was about the same.

The entire dimension was being vacuumed as a large number of tentacles moved. No noise could be heard.

However, Lin Huang knew it earlier and again, he activated Flicker and was several meters away. He was less than eight meters away from the border of the Fiendish Osiery.

After stabilizing himself, the Fiendish Osiers performed another attack. They knew that they had very few chances left to kill him. Their opponent could escape for another three times at most before getting away from the area within the Fiendish Osiery’s attack range.

Seeing countless tentacles come after him, Lin Huang activated Flicker again.

However, as soon as his figure could be seen, a huge net immediately emerged from the ground. Just as it was about to wrap Lin Huang up, Lin Huang disappeared again after slightly moving his body aside.

The next moment, shots scattered through the air and surrounded Lin Huang within a ten-meter-wide area as soon as his body appeared.

He fixed his gaze on the Fiendish Osier and noticed them exploding abruptly, transforming into countless daggers that flew in all directions. A majority of them did not take aim at Lin Huang.

“There’s nowhere else you can escape to, and the only thing you can do is to attack while teleporting.” Bloody could clearly see everything that happened with his leech pods from the top. The Fiendish Osier’s daggers had covered an area with a circumference that spanned about 13 meters. The attacks of the daggers were irregular and there were no more safe places.

Lin Huang nodded his head. The next moment, he activated Dark Mirror. The daggers then hit the dark sphere that covered Lin Huang’s body, creating ripples on the surface of the sphere before they were reflected.

After the activation of Dark Mirror, Lin Huang decided to test the attack power of these daggers. Again, he took a step forward and appeared a few meters away.

“The Fiendish Osiers must’ve gone insane. They’d rather harm themselves to kill me.” As soon as he showed up, his Dark Mirror was attacked by countless daggers.

Lin Huang smirked as he was now only two meters away from the border of the Fiendish Osiery.

“He’ll completely get rid of our control if he were to teleport again. Don’t let him run away!” After listening to this, all the Fiendish Osiers went into a frenzy.

On the osiers, countless catkins were dispersed by the wind and instantly enveloped an area dozens of meters wide.

Just as Lin Huang was feeling terrified, the catkins exploded and transformed into flares. Seeing himself being surrounded by dozens of catkins that were about to explode, Lin Huang took a leap and soon disappeared.

Chapter 791: It Is Here

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

“These demonic monsters are really crazy!”

As Lin Huang showed up in the next moment, he had already left the area of the Fiendish Osiery that was within the osiers’ control. He then turned back to look at the continuous explosions of the catkins that were scattered through the air. A third of the region near the Fiendish Osiery was now shrouded in flames.

“It’s not that out of the ordinary for demonic monsters to do something crazy like this.” Bloody slowly floated toward Lin Huang, “The mentality of those demonic monsters is controlled by their negative emotions. When they’re triggered, their negative emotions will multiply, causing them to lose all ability to think rationally and consider the consequences of their actions.”

“But why would they hurt themselves to kill me?!” Lin Huang felt amused when he saw the Fiendish Osiery shrouded in flames with most of the osiers left with nothing.

Neither the daggers not the bombs were usually used by the Fiendish Osiers. Those abilities were usually reserved for self-protection and once activated, it would remain unusable for the next three months. The Fiendish Osiers had given their all in their attempt to kill Lin Huang.

“It’s almost time to attack! Although the explosion did directly affect the group of Luna Beasts, some of them may have been severely injured. If we don’t attack them now, the Fiendish Osiers might kill them.” Bloody reminded, “If they’re killed by the Fiendish Osiers, you won’t get any points.”

Lin Huang nodded his head and shifted his gaze in the direction where Bai and the rest were. “It’s time to show up!”

After saying that, a few shadows flashed by and at the next moment, Bai and the rest appeared standing next to Bloody.

“I relinquish the task to you.” Lin Huang then allowed Bloody to take charge of the situation.

Bloody nodded slightly and called out the first name. “Charcoal!”

As soon as Bloody’s voice was heard, Charcoal rapidly returned to its original body size.

It knew very well what it was doing because Bloody had already planned a strategy to fight when they began setting up the trap. Charcoal only had to follow what had been planned.

It opened its mouth wide as black flames shot out in waves, engulfing the Fiendish Osiers and some of the Luna Beasts.

The Luna Beasts that were caught in the attack attacked groaned as they struggled. They wanted to break free from the Fiendish Osier’s entanglement and escape from the fire.

However, the Fiendish Osier waved their osiers, extending their tentacles in Charcoal’s direction to rip Charcoal into pieces.

In the beginning, Charcoal would still flutter its wings so it could fly to a higher position. It feared getting tangled by the Fiendish Osiers but soon, it realized that the height Bloody told it to fly at had already exceeded the Fiendish Osier’s range so it did not need to worry about attacks from the Fiendish Osiers.

“Kylie!” Bloody’s voice was heard before the first attack was over.

Kylie who was in her black armor then picked up her spear, pointing the tip of her spear toward the sky. A purple electric glow began flickering on the spear.

All of a sudden, dark clouds were formed in the air, and purple lightning was quickly formed on top of the cloud layers.

After a short while, endless thunder rumbled in the sky and lightning bolts struck the ground like a storm was coming.

The lightning accompanied with the purification power was a poison to the Fiendish Osiers. In addition to the injuries caused by Charcoal’s dragon flames, many of the Fiendish Osiers were burned and died on the spot. Despite there being a small number of Fiendish Osiers that were still alive, they were severely injured and were already on the verge of death.

As for the Luna Beasts, the Fiendish Osiers had almost taken their lives away. After experiencing the explosion of the catkins, the dragon flames, and the lightning strikes, it was not easy for them to stay alive. They did not have the energy to run away now, let alone engage in a fight.

Bloody did not seem satisfied with the battle’s outcome so it did not immediately ask the rest of them to enter the Fiendish Osiery. Instead, it called Lancelot.

Lancelot nodded its head before it brandished its saber, pointing toward somewhere in the Fiendish Osiery.

A strange force wave could be felt coming from the sky. A black saber was then formed out of nowhere. Its blade was narrow, long, and was about a meter long.

As soon as the first saber appeared, a second and third saber with the same length began to form. In a blink of an eye, tens of thousands of black sabers that looked exactly the same appeared in front of Lancelot.

The tips of the sabers were all pointed in the same direction as the saber Lancelot was holding – the Fiendish Osiery.

“Kill!”

A deep voice was then heard, accompanied by tens of thousands of sabers that streaked across the sky with a whistling sound.

The streaking sabers raced toward the Fiendish Osiery like a torrential rain, passing through the bodies of the Fiendish Osiers.

Lancelot’s Sword Manipulation was not that strong and could only be compared to a random attack from an immortal-level rank-8. Usually, it could do no harm to the Fiendish Osiers. However, its attack was the final straw that would spell the doom of the Fiendish Osiers. The ones that were already knocking on death’s door could no longer defend themselves against their enemy. Soon, they succumbed to their injuries after the onslaught of the sabers.

The Fiendish Osiers finally died after three attacks from Charcoal and the rest. Less than a tenth of them managed to survive the onslaught.

The Luna Beasts were rather pitiful. Each attack from Lancelot’s dominating saber was a fatal strike especially since the Luna Beasts had depleted their life power earlier. The onslaught of Lancelot’s sabers only added to their casualties.

However, due to a limited range attack, it only managed to cover a twentieth of the Fiendish Osiery.

“Charcoal, Kylie, Lancelot! Continue assisting the fight. Attack the rest of the areas in the Fiendish Osiery. You don’t need to care how many Luna Beasts and Fiendish Osiers are killed. I’ll ask the rest to complete the remaining task.”

After instructing Charcoal and the rest, Bloody turned its body around and looked toward Bai.

“Bai, please lead the rest to continue clearing up the monsters. Kill the remaining Fiendish Osiers and Luna Beasts that are still alive after the first wave of attack. Don’t go to places where Charcoal and the rest haven’t been to. Just go after them and complete the kill.” Bloody intentionally glanced at Ghastly after finishing its words as if it wanted to warn Ghastly.

Ghastly grinned as if it did not mind at all.

“I’ll look after it.” Bai took a glance at Ghastly and whispered to Bloody. After taking a leap, a voice was heard, “Follow after me!”

Tyrant and the rest immediately followed after Bai and Ghastly was no exception. However, it followed at the back of the team, looking relaxed without even an ounce of nervousness despite the fact that the battle was about to begin.

Soon after, the battle began as instructed by Bloody.

The battle was not as intense as expected by Lin Huang. After three rounds of attacks launched by Charcoal, Kylie, and Lancelot, they no longer had the strength to fight back, be it the Fiendish Osiers or the Luna Beasts. This made it much easier for Bai and the rest to complete the kills.

It was certainly a one-sided fight, and Lin Huang’s points kept increasing every second.

In the Fiendish Osiery, Bai and the rest were busy with the fight while Ghastly walked leisurely as if it was on a vacation.

It did help to attack the Fiendish Osiers in the beginning. However, it began to slack off after a while.

Since it did not influence the overall efficiency of the team, Bloody did not bother scolding it.

Ghastly walked before one of the Fiendish Osiers for about five times, having observed it for a long time. Them, as it made up its mind, it waved its right hand that wore a white glove. Soon, a gigantic arm was formed out of nowhere, grabbing the Fiendish Osier’s trunk and easily uprooting it. Ghastly then dragged it toward the sky and disappeared from sight.

Bloody and Lin Huang saw everything that just happened clearly.

“Ghastly, what are you doing?” Bloody frowned as it asked.

“Killing all of them is just a waste. I want to catch a few of them alive so that I can do some experiments.” Ghastly was being frank with Bloody.

Although the instruction given was to kill, Ghastly did not actually go against Bloody by catching a few of them alive. Bloody did not say anything else.

“It’s fine. Just let it be.” Lin Huang then whispered to Bloody.

He did not mean to spoil Ghastly. In fact, there was nothing wrong with Ghastly’s decision to catch them alive.

Despite Ghastly slacking all the while, the battle ended very quickly. After less than 10 minutes, they were about to end the fight. They managed to wipe out all the Luna Beasts and almost two-thirds of the Fiendish Osiers had sacrificed themselves in the battle.

Just as Bloody was about to give the last instruction to clear up the Fiendish Osiery, its body suddenly became stiff.

At almost the same time, Lin Huang who was standing next to Bloody had a shocked expression.

Lin Huang’s neck was stiff as he turned his head around to look at Bloody. Bloody’s face had a shocked expression as well as both of them exchanged glances with each other. They knew they had seen.

“It seems like it has discovered us.” Bloody was feeling worried.

“Yes. In fact, it’s already staring at me.” Lin Huang shook his head, forcing a smile.

“I felt like something was wrong right at the moment when she entered the area covered by my Territory. I checked what’s actually happening out there with my Divine Telekinesis. However, it activated its telekinetic skill as well and the power it was on par with mine. It then managed to locate me after getting into contact with me.” Lin Huang told Bloody what had just happened.

“I’ve hidden thousands of leech pods throughout the journey, and it has destroyed all of them in an instant. I was wondering how it did it earlier but after listening to what you said, I finally understood. It’s because of its telekinetic skill.” Bloody felt relieved as it was really frightened by its opponent.

“It’s really strong even without its telekinetic skill. Its aura can be compared to that of Chan Dou. It’s the strongest immortal-level monster that I’ve ever encountered.” Lin Huang’s face contorted.

“Should we leave?” Bloody asked.

“Yes, we should.” Lin Huang quickly nodded his head. “The ability of the hornet queen is incredible. Also, there are 12 hornet guardians that have abilities that are almost at the imperial-level as well as millions of Combat Hornetdemons. With our current abilities, we’re incapable of fighting them.”

“Moreover, I’ve earned enough points.” Lin Huang smirked as he looked in the direction where the hornet queen was leading a swarm of hornets at several kilometers away. “Keep the rest of the Fiendish Osiers alive, let’s get them into trouble.”

Chapter 792: Three Demigod Relics
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Seeing the points of the first name on the leaderboard constantly increasing, the people on the Stairway Tree started feeling bored. Lin Huang’s points had never stopped rising.

However, as it reached 287 million points, it suddenly stopped increasing, catching the attention of many.

“Lin Xie’s points have stopped changing since 10 minutes ago, but the name on the leaderboard shows that he’s still online. Is he looking for a place to hide?”

“The monster horde has just begun for a while but he can already no longer fight them. It seems like he isn’t as strong as we think. I thought that he could fight the entire night.”

“You said that it has just been a while but to be exact, it’s been two hours. Lin Xie had the courage to stop the monster horde in the Secret Forest and still, he didn’t die after the two-hour fight. This has indeed proven his ability. Those who think that Lin Xie isn’t that powerful, why not enter the Secret Forest and see if you can stay alive for two hours?”

…

Lin Xie did not bother about the discussion that went on in the Genius Union at all. Instead of logging out, he entered the Stairway Mall.

“There’re a total of 287 million points. 263 million points are usable which equals 263 billion Life Crystals. The outcome is completely out of my expectations.” Lin Huang laughed. He thought that he would be fortunate enough if he could earn tens of millions of points in two days as he already had 24 million points previously. He did not expect using that Bloody’s battle strategy, the points he gained would far exceed his expectations.

“It’s not worth directly exchanging your points for Life Crystals here,” Bloody reminded.

Before returning to checkpoint 55 on the Stairway Tree, he had recalled Bai and the rest back into their card forms. He only brought Bloody along with him to the Stairway Mall.

“I know. That’s why I brought you along to see if there’s anything that’s worth exchanging here to be sold at a premium out there.” Of course, Lin Huang would not directly exchange his points for Life Crystals. It was terribly silly to do so.

“The rarer the item, the higher the offer price at the auction. With your points now, your first choice will be to purchase a demigod relic. Among the demigod relics, demigod-level swords and sabers have the highest demand, followed by armors. If you were to sell these demigod relics at the auction, you don’t need to worry that nobody will buy it,” Bloody laughed as it suggested.

“Although 263 million points seem like a lot, we can only afford to buy a few demigod relics. The cheapest demigod relic at the Stairway Mall costs 10 million points.” Lin Huang had skimmed through the prices of the demigod relics. He was now screening through the items again, looking at the big screen at the Stairway Mall.

“The cheapest demigod-level saber costs 16 million points. It’s 15 million points for the sword and 19 million points for armor.” Lin Huang realized that they were much more expensive than what he had seen previously. Perhaps the cheaper items might have already been purchased by others.

“Check the details,” Bloody was staring at the screen as it said.

Not many demigod relics were left at the Stairway Mall. The weapon which was in abundance was the saber; they had 28 of them. The item they had least was armor with only 17 of them remaining. There were 23 swords as well. Lin Huang and Bloody soon read through the detailed information of these three types of items.

“The items with the highest price are the best quality ones. If I were to sell them at the auction, perhaps the increment in price will be lower than that of the lower priced items.” Lin Huang was quite well-versed with this matter. “Should we buy the lower priced items?”

“Have you seen the list of items for sale at the auction? What’s the last item to be sold off on the last day of the auction?” Bloody asked, not suggesting anything right away.

“Yes. The two items to be sold off on the last day are a demigod-level saber and a demigod-level combat sword.”

“Are there only two of these demigod relics for sale?”

“Yes, there are only two of them. The demigod relics aren’t cabbage. It’s considered an attractive thing to have these two items sold off on the last day.” Lin Huang nodded.

“How’s the quality of the two demigod relics?” Bloody asked again.

“According to the information provided, their quality is about the same as these two items.” Lin Huang then selected a demigod-level sword and a demigod-level saber on the screen. The price of the sword was 22 million points whereas the saber cost 23 million points.

“Since that’s the quality of their last item for sale at the auction, we should try giving them a chance to change the items for sale on the last day of the auction.” Bloody chuckled.

“Do you mean that we should look for a demigod relic that’s of an even better quality so that it’ll be the last item for sale at the auction?”

“Yes, you’re right. Since they’ve announced the last item for sale in advance and the price has already been fixed, they can offer a better price if we were to send them items that are even better in quality. Since people can compare these items in terms of quality, the bidders will spend more in order to bid for a higher quality demigod relic.” Bloody already had the entire plan in its mind.

“But they’ve already promoted those items. Even if I were to send these items in today, it’s a bit too late to do so. Are they still going to offer me the best price?” Lin Huang was still worried.

“Don’t worry. They’re experts in this field and they will have their way. We just need to send them the items and they’ll do the rest,” Bloody assured confidently.

“Choose this for the saber. It costs 31 million points. It has a better quality than the saber that costs 23 million points. Choose the sword that costs 29 million points.” After Bloody had finished its words, it then picked out a set of armor which cost 33 million points.

“These three items, right?” Lin Huang confirmed.

“Yes, these three are enough. Having three different types of items, we can target three different customer groups. This is the only armor being sold and it will definitely excite the bidders. There’s already one saber and sword being sold at the auction. Therefore, buying one sword and one saber will be enough. They’ll feel that it isn’t valuable if we have more. The rest of the demigod relics have very low demand and we can hardly sell it off at a good price. There’s no need to get those items,” Bloody explained.

The Heaven Alliance members would receive 30% off their purchase. Lin Huang spent 65.1 million points purchasing the three demigod relics that Bloody had chosen. He saved about 28 million points which was almost equivalent to buying two items and getting one free. Initially upset, he felt much happier now.

After purchasing the three demigod relics, Lin Huang then logged out of the Genius Union after leaving the Secret Forest for about half an hour.

On the Stairway Tree, many people were staring at the points on the leaderboard, wondering if something had happened to Lin Huang.

After half an hour, Lin Huang’s points never changed right until the light on his name dimmed.

“Lin Huang has logged out?!”

“His points never changed for half an hour. He’s just started playing. How can he log out at this moment!? What is he doing? Is he fooling us?”

“Could he have encountered some scary monsters or a massive monster horde and was escaping from them?”

Many people agreed with this hypothesis because one would not be able to instantly log out from the Stairway Tree. There was a two-second delay. If the person was distracted during the two seconds delay, he or she would not be able to log out. If monsters were chasing Lin Huang the past half an hour, then everything would make sense.

Just as everybody was discussing on the Stairway Tree, Lin Huang had dressed himself up in a disguise and rushed towards the auction in Wanbao City.

Chapter 793: A Unique Disguise

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

“Disguise Card is activated. Please choose your disguise. Please choose the race that you would like to disguise as.”

“Human race.”

“Please choose a gender.”

“Male.”

“Please choose a combat level that you would like to disguise as.”

“Demigod-level.”

“Please proceed with a detailed character design.”

“Random.”

“Starting to create the body of the character randomly. Appearance and attire loading… The character has been randomly created.”

“Would you like to confirm your disguise? (If your answer is no, a face will be randomly chosen again.)”

“Yes!”

A skinny and tall man was then randomly created. He had a height of about 1.92 meters with long limbs. Even the size of his palm far exceeded an ordinary man’s.

However, all these did not draw Lin Huang’s attention. What stunned him was his reflection as he fixed his gaze at the mirror.

He had a sinister yet handsome face. Pairing his gloomy face with a pair of bloodshot eyes, he looked extraordinary. From his face, one would know that he was definitely not a kind person. Looking into his eyes, anyone would wonder how many people’s blood was on his hand.

Lin Huang smirked as he looked at the mirror. As he opened his mouth wide, a chill spread everywhere.

He shivered as he saw his own reflection and he immediately dropped his smirk.

“I look scary.”

He practiced some expressions and movements in front of the mirror, familiarizing himself with the new body. Lin Huang then donned a black robe.

It was a long robe which completely covered his body. It was difficult to even detect his body shape after putting on the robe. His head was covered by a hat, and his hairstyle could not be seen at all. His face was barely visible as the shadow of the hat masked it. One could hardly see him clearly.

“The attire makes me look even scarier.” Lin Huang smirked in mockery.

After preparing himself well, Lin Huang then left and headed towards the Wanbao Auction.

The Wanbao Auction was open for 16 hours a day from 8 a.m. to 12 a.m.

When Lin Huang logged out of the Genius Union, it was not even 10 p.m. yet. It was just slightly after 10 p.m. when he arrived at the auction which was lively as usual.

A week before the auction officially began, the small dealers had very brisk business because many people from different footholds went there to seek good deals. They wanted to find treasures that people might possibly miss out on.

As he entered the auction, the liveliness of the place was out of Lin Huang’s expectations. He thought there would not be that many people at this hour. However, he seemed to have entered the wet market area where it was incredibly crowded.

As he gazed around the auction square, Lin Huang walked towards a lady in a uniform. From the uniform that she was wearing, it was not difficult to identify that she was neither a seller nor a buyer. She was an auction staff.

“I have something to sell. Please bring me to meet your boss,” Lin Huang said as he approached the lady. He did not bother whispering.

“May… May I know what kind of item you have?” Seeing Lin Huang’s pair of red eyes, the uniformed lady was frightened and stammered immediately. She tried not to distance herself from him while forcing a smile.

“Demigod relics,” Lin Huang spoke audibly.

Despite the fact that it was noisy at the auction, complete silence fell over the hall as soon as he uttered his words. Most of them then looked towards Lin Huang who grinned as this was precisely the effect he wanted.

He wanted as many people as possible to know that he had demigod relics for sale. Therefore, many of them would know that there would be more than two demigod relics on sale on the last day of the auction. They would then prepare more credits for the relics.

However, many of them did not size Lin Huang up immediately. The moment when they saw his pair of eyes, they quickly shifted their gazes as they did not have the guts to look at him.

A minority of them checked him out, but they did not fix their gaze on Lin Huang any longer. They tagged Lin Huang as “an extremely dangerous” person.

Only a small number of people could bear the effect of deterrence and secretly observed Lin Huang. They wanted to know if they could get some clues from him.

Lin Huang did not mind at all. He stared at the staff, patiently waiting for her reply.

“Demi-Demigod relic?!” The staff was terrified and still, she spoke with a stutter. Her lips moved slightly as if she had something else to say. However, Lin Huang interrupted her.

“Stop wasting my time. Bring me to meet your boss.”

Lin Huang’s character was meant to be rude and unreasonable. A person like his character would certainly not have the patience to listen to her.

The staff’s body shivered slightly. Fearfully, she brought Lin Huang to meet her boss. She had completely forgotten that she did not have the right to bring anyone to meet the boss. Under normal circumstances, if someone requested to meet the boss, she had to inform the manager who would have the power to bring the guest to meet the boss.

After a short while, the staff brought Lin Huang in front of a door.

“This is the boss’s office.”

After completing the task given by Lin Huang, the staff felt relieved and no longer spoke with a stutter.

“Is he in at this hour?” Lin Huang wondered as it was about 10 p.m.

In order to disguise himself, he had even removed his Territorial skill as he was afraid that someone would notice that something was off. He dared not simply activate his Divine Telekinesis either. He knew nothing about what was happening behind that door.

“He should be in at this hour. The auction is about to begin. The boss is in the office almost 24 hours a day.” The staff nodded her head. Lin Huang did not ask her to go and she also did not dare to leave.

Just as Lin Huang was about to push the door open, a voice was heard coming from behind the door.

“The VIP is here. Please come in.”

After finishing his words, the door opened on its own accord.

Lin Huang grinned and strode into the room without any hesitation.

He looked around the room as he entered.

It was a room with a clean and simple renovation, but one could tell that it was an extremely luxurious room just by looking at the room details.

The office table was made of ink lightstone which was a scarce type of mineral. Seemingly, the entire ink lightstone had been used to make the office table. Based on its weight, Lin Huang estimated its price to be comparable to an ancient relic’s.

On the other hand, the office chair was built using dark gold. Dark gold was an alloy and it was one of the primary materials used to make ancient relics. The chair was made of quality materials and its price could also be compared to an ancient relic.

The cost of the sofa was high. Just by looking at the sofa legs and arms, it was apparent that its frame was made from the bones of monsters. The leather that wrapped around the sofa was from the black-scaled dragonkin while its back and seats were made of skin with leopard print. Lin Huang could roughly recognize that it was the skin of a monster called the Sapphire Coeurl. As for the leather, it should be made from the skin of the Thinscale Night Dragon. Both of them were imperial-level monsters. Therefore, Lin Huang guessed that the bones of the monster must belong to the bone of an imperial-level monster as well.

As for the price of the sofa, it should be equivalent to the price of an ancient telekinetic weapon.

The both of them sat up straight on the sofa.

Chapter 794: Glorious Exit

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

The duo sitting on the sofa did not release any aura that was suppressing to Lin Huang. However, they did not bother to restrain the aura that exuded from their body. Lin Huang had dealt with imperial-levels several times, so from their aura, he could easily identify that the both of them were on imperial-level.

While the both of them were sizing Lin Huang up, Lin Huang returned the favor.

The one sitting on the left side of the sofa was quite tall, and he was wearing a navy blue suit. It was evident that he had recently just shaved as he had a mild green tint on his face. However, one could also see the growing stubble on his face. Right at this second, he was sitting up straight like a ramrod and his facial expression was stern. He looked at Lin Huang like he was scrutinizing him.

The man sitting on the right was very lanky too. However, he was thinner than the man sitting next to him. He had long brown hair that was tied back in a ponytail. He had a mustache and a beard that he shaved very often.

He looked much more relaxed than the one sitting next to him. However, he did not completely lie back on the sofa as he was still on his guard. He did not scrutinize him though, but he looked at him curiously.

After studying up, Lin Huang then took off his hat, revealing his hidden face.

He did not worry that both of them might discover that something was amiss. Xiao Hei had told him before that only a True God could see through the effects of the Disguise Card. Even a Virtual God would not realize anything wrong if they were to look at him close-up, let alone the two imperial-levels.

Just as Lin Huang took off his hat, the disguised aura of the demigod was released.

Although there was only a slight release of the aura, the two imperial-levels could clearly sense the combat level screened by Lin Huang at such a close distance. Their pupils immediately dilated, and they exchanged glances with each other. They stood up from the sofa at almost the same time and bowed deeply to Lin Huang.

“Sir!”

A demigod had the most powerful combat strength on this land and was undoubtedly one of the strongest people even if they were to go to the Land of Origin in Division 1. Many of the old and well-known families at the core zones and the leaders from various organizations were also on demigod-level.

The man with the ponytail and the man in the suit were respectful not just due to the difference in combat strength, but also the disparity in status. The status of all demigods on this land, including those who trained themselves without joining any organization, could be compared to the elders from the royal families. Both of them ought to respect the elders.

Of course, Lin Huang knew about this and did not feel strange when they paid him their respects. He waved his hand slightly and walked towards the sofa. He then moved one of the single-seater sofas and sat down. He did not say anything while sizing up the man with the ponytail.

After a moment of silence, the both of them felt nervous and the man with the ponytail finally initiated the conversation.

“May I know if you’re a buyer or a seller?”

“I have a few items for sale, but I’m not sure if you know much about them.” Lin Huang sounded as if he was lecturing his juniors.

“Don’t worry. We have 28 professional appraisers. 25 of them are Grade-A appraisers and the other three are Grade-S appraisers. The man next to me and I are both Grade-S appraisers.”

An appraiser could not be blase when examining the grade of an item. A true appraiser had to be capable of clearly determining the ingredients of each item, its raw materials, the price of each raw material, and the difficulty of the finishing process of the product. Only then could the appraiser make an accurate estimate of its price. An appraiser had the right to set the call price of each item.

The grade of each appraiser was highly dependent on their combat strength. The reason being was that the appraiser would need to insert Life Power into the relic in order to know the exact function of the relic, the conversion rate of the Life Power of the relic and other details.

For example, anyone below immortal-level would be unable to activate an ancient relic. Therefore, in order to examine an ancient relic, one would need to fulfill the requirement whereby their combat strength had to be at least on immortal-level.

The so-called Grade-A appraisers were on immortal-level. They could accurately evaluate an ancient relic. At the same time, they had the right to set a price for the ancient relic, so the auction could refer to the price provided to fix the call price.

As for the Grade-S appraisers, they basically had to be on imperial-level and they must possess the ability to examine a demigod relic. Of course, they had the right to set a price for the demigod relic.

Lin Huang was surprised. Despite not having been to many of the auctions, he knew that as the largest auction house in Division 7, the Kyoto Auction House only had three Grade-S appraisers.

The Wanbao Auction could only obtain the 10th place among all the auction houses in Division 3. It was no better than the Dark Auction House which was ranked 11th. Basically, the Wanbao Auction could possibly be replaced at any time by the Dark Auction.

However, such an auction house would be on par with the first auction house, the Kyoto Auction House in Division 7.

“This is a core zone for real. Other divisions are incomparable to it,” Lin Huang thought to himself. However, he acted as if there was nothing exciting.

“Are the both of you Grade-S appraisers?” Lin Huang glanced at the both of them with a scrutinizing gaze.

The man with the ponytail smiled while projecting his certificate as an appraiser. “Sir, this is my certificate.”

The man in the suit who stood next to him immediately projected his certificate without any facial expression.

It was a card with only some brief information about the appraiser. There was information like photos, names, certificate ID, and registration time.

Information such as items that had been examined and the detailed evaluation reports was hidden. The appraiser would need to authorize others in order for the rest to have access to it.

Lin Huang did not need to know all this. It was not necessary for him to look at their certificates though. To prove his arrogance, he doubted their identity, behaving in a manner he should be.

Glancing through both of their certificates, Lin Huang immediately shifted his gaze back to the man with the ponytail and smirked.

“Your name is Tang Xu. Are you from the Tang family?”

Among a few of the royal families in Division 3, the Tang family was one of them with two demigods from the Tang family. Before coming to the Wanbao Auction, Lin Huang had no idea that the auction house was actually the run by the Tangs.

“Please don’t laugh at me.” Tang Xu smiled, nodding his head.

Lin Huang nodded and did not ask further about Tang Xu’s identity. “It’s quite reliable I guess since the auction house is part of the Tang family’s business.”

After finishing his words, Lin Huang took out the demigod saber chosen by Bloody from his Emperor’s Heart Ring. He then gradually drew it from the scabbard.

As soon as the saber was pulled out of the scabbard, a blood intricate lit up on the blade of the saber, releasing a faint bloody glow. Soon after, the bloody glow surrounded the entire blade of the saber.

“Demigod relic!” Right after the saber was being drawn out of the scabbard, the both of them fixed their gazes on the saber.

“What do you think about this saber?” Lin Huang grinned as he asked both of them.

“It’s an incredible saber! It’s much better than the one that we intend to sell on the last day of the auction!” Tang Xu excitedly grabbed the saber from Lin Huang and took a closer look at it. He was in love with the saber.

The man in the suit who stood next to him carefully looked at each and every inch of the saber as well.

“Offer me a price.” Lin Huang did not show them the other two demigod relics. He patiently waited for the both of them to have a better look at the saber before he requested them to offer him a price.

“The call price of this saber is 30 billion,” the main in the suit offered.

“What do you think?” Lin Huang seemed to be unhappy with the price, turning his head back and looking at Tang Xu.

“30 billion is a pretty reasonable price.” Tang Xu kept quiet for a moment before responding to him, “However, the price can be a little higher since the saber can be sold off on the last day of the auction. I’ll fix the price at 33 billion then.”

After setting the price, Tang Xu noticed that Lin Huang’s facial expression remained unchanged. He then continued, “Sir, the call price doesn’t have to be too high. If the price being set is too high, you might scare some of the potential bidders away.”

“What’s the call price of the item that you just mentioned which you intend to sell on the last day of the auction?” Lin Huang asked.

“25 billion. The price is slightly higher than usual. If it weren’t the last item for sale at the auction, the price wouldn’t be higher than 23 billion.” Tang Xu was honest.

“Alright. I’ll accept the offer then.” Lin Huang grinned. “Since the price of the saber is 33 billion, I suppose that the other two demigod relics of similar quality will be offered almost the same price, right? Can the both of you please have a look at them?”

After having his words uttered, Lin Huang then took out the other two demigod relics where he had a combat sword and a set of armor.

Tang Xu and Tang Yi were startled. Lin Huang had set them up. The price of the saber was actually set slightly higher than normal price. They did not expect Lin Huang to have another two demigod relics.

However, both of them were soon attracted by the other two demigod relics.

Spending almost 20 minutes to complete the evaluation, both of them then decided the final price of the relics after a short discussion.

“The quality of the sword is almost the same as that of the saber as it can be sold during the last day of the auction as well. The call price will be 32 billion. As for the set of armor, since it’s the only demigod-level armor we have at the auction, it can be priced slightly higher at 38 billion. Sir, do you agree with the price offered?”

“Okay.” Still, Lin Huang answered without any facial expression. In fact, he was feeling great inside. He was expecting to earn about 90 billion from the three demigod relics. However, the price offered had exceeded 100 billion.

“Under normal circumstances, a 5% administration fee will be charged by the auction house. I’ll give you a Supreme Member Card and only 3% administration fees will be charged. If you feel like buying anything from the Wanbao Auction, you’ll get 20% off on all items!” Tang Xu then paused for a moment, lowering his voice and added, “Including the illegal items.”

“Also, the card will be valid for a lifetime as long as our auction house does not go bankrupt,” Tang Xu said as he took out a golden card the size of half a palm from his Emperor’s Heart Ring and passed it to Lin Huang. “Scan it with your Emperor’s Heart Ring and it’ll be in sync with your identity. Our system will be able to detect your Emperor’s Heart Ring on its own then.”

Lin Huang took the card from him and fiddled around with it. “Does it mean that the card can no longer be used after scanning it with my Emperor’s Heart Ring?”

“Yes, it is. You can only sync one Emperor’s Heart Ring to one card. You no longer need to use the card after it’s in sync with your identity. You can do whatever you like to the card.”

“Does it mean that I can give it to anyone as long as I don’t connect it to my Emperor’s Heart Ring?” Lin Huang asked again.

“Yes, it is. However, only the Emperor’s Heart Ring that’s in sync with the Supreme member card will be eligible to enjoy those offers.”

“Alright, I know. I’ll leave the items here and I’m not going to the auction. My apprentice will be attending instead.. You shall just pay the final amount of money for the items sold to him. He’ll bring along this card when he attends the auction.” Lin Huang was preparing himself for what was going to happen soon as he had to come along with Yi Zheng and he could not attend the auction by wearing a disguise.

“It’s sad that you can’t attend the auction on your own. However, we’ll treat your apprentice well.”

“Please remind him about the underground auction as well. I think he has something to buy,” Lin Huang deliberately urged him. He knew that an invitation was required in order to join the underground auction as there were many illegal items that could not be sold in public. They had to restrict the buyers to avoid getting into trouble.

“Okay, I got it. Don’t worry. I’ll make arrangements for you.” Tang Xu nodded his head as he did not feel strange about it.

“I’m done with it. You may continue with your work. Thank you for your hospitality.” After finishing his words, Lin Huang’s body was akin to the breaking of glass as it decomposed swiftly and faded away.

The duo was stunned when they saw what just happened. They only regained their senses when Lin Huang’s body had disappeared entirely.

“The skill of a demigod is fantastic!” Tang Xu exclaimed.

“I can’t even recognize if it was a unique body movement or a cloning skill.” Tang Yi was feeling surprised.

“There’s a monitoring system in my office. The scene should’ve been recorded.” Tang Xu looked in the direction where the Surveillance Snail was being hidden.

“I guess we should show this to the elders. Perhaps they’ll know who he is.” Tang Yi suggested.

“That’s what I was thinking too.”

Hundreds of meters away from the hotel, Lin Huang grinned.

In order to create such an astonishing departing effect, Lin Huang sent his clone to meet the both of them. The clone was created with his Cloning Card. The clone then wore a disguise with the Disguise Card, putting his consciousness into the clone. His real body had been sitting on the hotel sofa since the very beginning.

Just as he wanted to use the Disguise Card, Lin Huang pondered how he could leave the auction house without being followed so that his identity would not be revealed. Regardless of how well he could disguise himself, his combat strength was only on holy fire-level. If he were followed by an imperial-level, he would be unable to get rid of them.

After a long while, only then did he come up with this plan. He met them with his clone, making such a glorious exit. Nobody could follow after him and he could even deter the people from the auction house.

Lin Huang even asked Xiao Hei to turn his Emperor’s Heart Ring into a card. The card was recalled right as the clone left. As for the Supreme member card, Lin Huang had already stored it into his Emperor’s Heart Ring.

Putting on his Emperor’s Heart Ring that gradually formed in his hand, Lin Huang took a deep breath and said, “I’m glad that there were no mistakes.”

Chapter 795: Yi Zheng Is Here

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Late August marked the beginning of autumn at Wanbao City. The temperature was about 27 degree Celsius and it was much more comfortable than the climate a week ago.

Framing both sides of the road were Jingui Trees with stunning blossoms and its fragrance permeated the air.

It was named the Jingui Tree because its flower was golden in color. It glowed as the sun shone on it, looking luxurious.

The plant was somewhat similar to the sweet osmanthus on Earth. However, it was lightly scented and did not overpower the senses.

Contrary to its reserved scent, the Jingui Tree was larger and taller than the sweet osmanthus on Earth. Most of the trees were 15 meters to 25 meters tall. A few of them reached 30 meters and above. Those with a height of 50 meters and above were known as Jingui Kings. They were rare and their price could be compared to that of an ancient relic’s.

Lin Huang had taken his bath early in the morning. He leisurely walked toward the portal located at the center of Wanbao City.

He went to a café opposite the portal and sat by the window. He then ordered a set of breakfast with a black coffee, patiently waiting for Yi Zheng to arrive.

He even captured a photo of his breakfast and posted on his social media.

There were a few comments and likes less than three minutes after the photo was posted.

“Are you waiting for my brother?” Yi Yeyu was the first person who commented. She seemed to be tracking all of her friends’ activities constantly.

“Why are you taking pictures of food? You should’ve taken pictures of the beautiful ladies!” Li Lang posted the second comment.

Leng Yuexin liked the post without commenting on anything.

Lin Xin commented with an emoji showing bared teeth.

On his way, Yi Zheng saw his post as well and he commented, “I departed without eating breakfast. I’m ravenous now… Xiao Yu, comfort me, please. Boohoo!”

However, Yi Yeyu’s reply was “F*ck off!!!”

Lin Huang did not expect Mr. Fu to comment as well. However, his comment was “Does it taste good?”

After chatting with his friends for a while, Lin Huang browsed the news on his Emperor’s Heart Ring since it was still early.

By default, the Emperor’s Heart Ring would show the local news. Unless he changed its default homepage, the news that first popped up would be the local news regardless of where he was.

As he tapped the webpage open, he was startled to see the news headlines.

The headline was “Wanbao Auction Will Have Three Secret Items to Be Auctioned Off on the Last Day of the Auction!”

Lin Huang immediately tapped it open to read the contents.

The news reported that there was a demigod who secretly visited Wanbao Auction House at night, leaving three items to them and left.”

The news did not mention what those three items were. However, it did say that the two demigod relics that they intended to sell on the last day of the auction would be shifted to the first day of the auction instead.

Right after the news was published, many people began commenting.

“The three items have replaced the demigod relics. Could they be God relics?”

“They might be God relics or God items.”

“Items offered by a demigod must be at least on demigod-level. The quality of these items must be better than the previous two demigod relics in order to be able to replace them. The three secret items are definitely worth looking forward to.”

The people from different royal families and organizations panicked after reading the news early in the morning.

“There might be the appearance of Virtual God items at the auction. I need more cash!”

“Regardless of the probability of having a God relic or a God item at the auction, as long as there’s a gleam of hope, we have to be well prepared and get them all!”

“The last time there was a God relic at the auction was 31 years ago. As for the God item, the last time they had such an item for sale was at the Land of Origin 46 years ago. If there really is a God item or a God relic at the auction, we’re getting it by all means!”

Lin Huang was the culprit who had caused all this to happen. He was now leisurely reading the news while drinking his cup of coffee.

At 9.26 a.m., Lin Huang received a voice message from Yi Zheng. “I’m here. Where are you?”

“Exit from the south door. I’m in the café opposite.” Lin Huang then finished his last sip of coffee and strolled out of the café.

Just as he stepped out of the café, he saw Yi Zheng walking towards him from the south door of the portal.

He waved his hand and Yi Zheng walked towards him with a smile.

“I haven’t seen you in half a year. You’ve grown taller.” Yi Zheng patted Lin Huang’s shoulder.

“Is it?” Lin Huang asked as he raised his brows. He had been in Division 3 for more than four months using Lin Xie’s fake identity most of the time and he did not realize the changes in his body.

“You’re almost the same height as I am,” Yi Zheng compared. The difference between their heights was probably less than a centimeter and was hardly detectable. He was 183 centimeters tall. Half a year ago, when the both of them entered the grade-5 ruins together, they were about five centimeters different in height, which was apparent.

“Perhaps I’ve really grown taller.” Lin Huang realized that they were now at the same eye level.

“Let’s go back to the hotel.”

“You haven’t taken your breakfast. Don’t you want to eat something first?” Lin Huang turned his body slightly, pointing at the restaurant that he had just taken his breakfast at. “They serve pretty good food.”

“It’s okay. I’ve taken my breakfast. I was just teasing Xiao Yu just now.” Yi Zheng smiled, shaking his head.

“Alright. Let’s go back to the hotel then.”

Lin Huang immediately summoned the Dimensional Portal without a moment of hesitation. The both of them then strode into it.

In the next moment, they arrived at the hotel where Lin Huang was staying.

“The room looks cozy,” Yi Zheng teased as he glanced around the room.

“This is your room. Mine is to the right of yours.” Lin Huang pointed at his room. “I’ve done the check-in process for you, so you’re all set. I’ll send you the key card now.”

After finishing his sentence, Yi Zheng then received the electronic key card from Lin Huang.

“Do you want to take a rest first and walk around the stalls later after lunch? Or do you want to go now?” Lin Huang asked.

“I think we shall go now. The auction begins tomorrow. I need to familiarize myself with the place first. Let’s see if we can find something worth buying,” Yi Zheng said in excitement.

Before the auction officially began, sellers peddled a variety of items outside the auction house. Not every one of them would set up a stall. Some of them had their own platform to display the items for sale. However, everybody had already gotten used to calling them “stalls”.

Most of the people who wanted to attend the auction would usually walk around these stalls before the auction officially began. They hoped to buy something that others could have possibly missed out on.

“Alright, then let’s walk around the stalls first.” Lin Huang had actually visited these stalls on the very first day that he arrived at Wanbao City. However, there was nothing worth buying. Seeing Yi Zheng’s excitement, he did not want to disappoint him.

Chapter 796: A Healthy Sibling Relationship
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

The hotel which Lin Huang was staying at was less than 300 meters away from the auction house.

He left the hotel with Yi Zheng. They walked along the street and soon, they arrived at the auction house.

There were many sellers outside the auction house. Yi Zheng then joined the crowd excitedly and visited each of the stalls.

Lin Huang followed after him. He took a glance at the stalls and he clearly detected everything through his Divine Telekinesis.

Most of them were just selling worthless stuff and there were many counterfeit goods as well.

Lin Huang scanned through tens of stalls with his Divine Telekinesis. Not a single transcendent item could be found.

Although Yi Zheng did not possess Divine Telekinesis, he had been brought up in a royal family. Despite not being an appraiser, he was definitely an expert in this field.

They spent the entire morning visiting hundreds of stalls. Soon, Yi Zheng’s facial expression changed as he found nothing to buy.

“I’m overthinking. There are just a few transcendent items which aren’t really great in terms of quality, but they’re being sold at an exceptionally high price.”

“The stalls have been here for more than a week. Many immortal and imperial-levels have visited these stalls. If there were items that were really valuable, they’d have bought them earlier,” Lin Huang raised his brows and said with a simper, “Are you really expecting to find something valuable here? That’s too good to be true.”

“Let’s go in and walk around.” Yi Zheng did not want to give up yet.

Lin Huang had no choice but to follow him into the auction house.

It was much more crowded inside. Yi Zheng had regained his enthusiasm and soon, he followed the crowd. Lin Huang accompanied him for a while but was quickly left behind. Although Lin Huang could easily locate his position with Divine Telekinesis, he could not follow him closely as the auction house was now jammed packed.

He was too lazy to make his way through the crowd, so he decided to follow the crowd while detecting the stalls nearby with his Divine Telekinesis.

He had to admit that the items the stalls in the auction house sold were of a higher quality compared to the items being sold outside. Lin Huang scanned through more than 20 stalls with his Divine Telekinesis, and almost every stall had transcendent items available for sale. Most of the sellers were on holy fire-level and there were even some immortal-levels as well.

However, those transcendent items came at a steep price as they were at least 20% more expensive than the market price.

As Lin Huang glanced through the stall, he noticed a few supreme relics as well. However, none of them managed to attract his attention.

Among the supreme relics he owned, he had two combat swords, three sets of telekinetic daggers and two sets of armor that were still new. As for ancient relics, he had a sword, an armor, and three sets of daggers. Of course, he would not be interested in the items sold at these stalls.

With his Divine Telekinesis, he detected that Yi Zheng had stopped in front of one of the stalls not far away from him. He was looking at a supreme relic that was in the shape of an umbrella. Soon, he began to bargain with the owner.

Lin Huang felt that it was strange and he contacted him, “Why do you want to buy this?”

“Since I’m here in Division 3, I’ll need to buy some New Year gifts for Xiao Yu. The umbrella looks pretty. I think that she’ll like it,” Yi Zheng answered.

Lin Huang was speechless. He could buy an umbrella like this anywhere. Moreover, the one that Yi Zheng was holding was not an umbrella. It was a unique type of weapon that appeared like an umbrella. The process of making of that particular umbrella was very complicated. The market price of this item was at least 50% much more expensive than a sword of the same grade. The stall owner was quoting him double the cost of a supreme relic.

Nevertheless, Lin Huang did not stop him. From a short distance, he saw Yi Zheng purchase the umbrella at a price that was 1.8 times higher than the price of a sword of the same quality.

“He’s a siscon for real…” Lin Huang mumbled. The face of a short-haired girl with bangs then flashed through his mind.

“Xin Er…”

Lin Huang had a rather soft gaze as he thought about Lin Xin. “What New Year gift should I buy for her?”

It was about 1 p.m. after he visited all the stalls.

Lin Huang did not buy anything while Yi Zheng’s only purchase was the umbrella.

“Let’s eat something first. I know a seafood restaurant nearby that serves delicious food,” Lin Huang suggested as they walked out of the auction house.

“Okay. Let’s talk over lunch. I’m interested in what you’ve been through over the past few months.” Yi Zheng respected Lin Huang to some extent. He had left home at the age of 18 and trained in the core zone alone. It seemed like he had been doing exceptionally well there.

They then arrived at the restaurant and ordered some food. Yi Zheng initiated the conversation. “What do you want to buy at the Wanbao Auction? An ancient relic?” He could sense that Lin Huang’s combat strength had advanced to gold flame-level. That being said, he was actually close to immortal-level.

“No. I have an ancient relic. I’m here to sell off some of my stuff and have a look at the underground auction. I want to buy God Crashers.” Lin Huang did not hide his intention from Yi Zheng since they had discovered the God Crashers together.

“God Crashers?!” Yi Zheng frowned as he heard that. “Have you used up all the God Crashers?”

Lin Huang grinned, nodding his head and he did not say anything else.

“It seems like the past few months have been hard on you.” Yi Zheng knew that Lin Huang definitely would not have used the God Crashers if it was not an extreme emergency. He had encountered danger for more than once since he had used up all the God Crashers.

“Division 3 is a complicated place. You have to be careful if you are to train here.” Lin Huang did not explain any further and warned Yi Zheng. He then changed the topic. “How’s Yeyu?”

“As usual, she still slacks off at training.” Yi Zheng looked resentful. “She’s actually way more talented than I am. As long as she’s willing to put more effort into her training, she’ll be able to surpass me very soon.”

“Will you be worried if she beats you?” Lin Huang teased.

As a siscon, it was his nature to protect his sister. If Yi Yeyu happened to be stronger than him and no longer needed his protection, he would probably be upset.

Yi Zheng was stunned when he heard that. He kept quiet for a couple of moments before changing the topic again. “Tell me what you’ve done in the past few months so that I can learn from your experience. Knowing that you’ve used up all the God Crashers, I worry if I’ll die in Division 3. If I die during the training, Xiao Yu might engrave stuff I wouldn’t want to see on my grave such as ‘The weak person who died from choking on his saliva’, ‘The fool who died from slipping on a watermelon rind…”

“Both of you sure have a healthy sibling relationship!” Lin Huang thought to himself.

Chapter 797: I’m Just Selling off a Few of the Demigod Relics

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

The long-awaited Wanbao Auction officially began on the first of September.

Slightly after seven o’clock in the morning, Lin Huang knocked on Yi Zheng’s door as his room was just next to his.

After a short while, Yi Zheng opened the door and was stunned when he saw Lin Huang. He then shook his head helplessly. “I’m not used to seeing you in this guise.”

“I’ve no choice but to temporarily use this identity in Division 3 to avoid getting into trouble.” Lin Huang shrugged his shoulders as he had already disguised himself as Lin Xie. “You’ll get used to it soon.”

He had told Yi Zheng about his fake identity the night before. He even showed him how he looked like after putting on his disguise. It was Yi Zheng’s second time seeing this face but he still could not get used to it.

“Your name is Lin Xi, isn’t it?” Yi Zheng confirmed with Lin Huang again. Lin Huang had already told him the night before, but he was afraid that he might recall wrongly.

“You’re right.” Lin Huang nodded his head.

“I’ll address you as Lin Xie from now onwards.” In order to avoid calling him the wrong name, Yi Zheng decided to start addressing him as Lin Xie.

“I guess you should get a pseudo-relic in the future. It’d be best if it were an ancient relic which can cheat most imperial-levels,” Lin Huang then said, “It’s very complicated in Division 3 with so many underworlds. Some of the footholds are ridiculously confusing. There’s almost half a year left to the new year. You’ll face some trouble. Sometimes, when you don’t feel like getting involved at all, trouble will come to you too. Having a pseudo-relic can save you from that hassle.”

Yi Zheng was not weak and he was just as experienced as Lin Huang.

Lin Huang was telling him all this not because he doubted Yi Zheng’s ability and experience. Instead, he was worried that Yi Zheng did not realize how dangerous Division 3 was. He would die if he were to be careless especially in places like Division 3.

“I’ve got it. Don’t worry. I won’t put my life at risk.” Yi Zheng’s facial expression became serious. “As for the pseudo-relic, I’ll get myself one soon.”

In fact, before meeting up with Lin Huang, Yi Zheng did not take training seriously. He used to think that he was now on immortal-level and nothing could possibly endanger his life. He thought that the half-year training program could not be compared to the training at home. However, after listening to what Lin Huang said regarding the distribution of various organizations and some of the incidents between the organizations in Division 3 the night before, he suddenly felt that he had entered an ancient forest. There were cruel, carnivorous monsters that could kill him at any time.

After chatting for a while, they then entered the floating staircase and had their buffet breakfast on the first floor of the hotel. It was just 7.30 a.m. After leaving the hotel, they leisurely headed towards the auction house. Soon, they arrived.

Many of the stalls had been set up at the plaza in front of the auction house. Some of the crowd was casually walking around the stalls but most of them were there for the auction.

The auction began at 9 a.m. and they could only enter at 8.30 a.m. They had to wait for another hour. Since they had gone there early, they could only walk around to kill time.

“Let’s walk around?” Yi Zheng asked, turning his head back at Lin Huang.

“There’s nothing to see here. Let’s enter the auction house.” Lin Huang then walked towards the entrance of the auction house.

“We’re only allowed to enter at 8.30 a.m.!” Seeing the two guards in uniforms stationed in front of the entrance, Yi Zheng whispered to Lin Huang. He could sense that the both of them were at least on immortal-level rank-7.

“I’m a member, so I’m allowed to go in earlier.” Lin Huang did not stop and continued heading towards the entrance of the auction house.

Yi Zheng had no choice but to follow after him.

As they reached the entrance, the guards blocked their way.

“The auction hasn’t started yet. Only members and Supreme members are allowed to enter. Please show us your member card.”

Lin Huang then projected the Supreme member card that had been synced to his Emperor’s Heart Ring. A beam of red light shone out from the Emperor’s Heart Ring of the guard on the left. A notification sound was then heard.

Beep…

“Identity is verified. Identity: Supreme member. You’re allowed to bring three people along.”

“A gold flame-level Supreme member?”

Both of the guards secretly exchanged glances with each other and moved aside. They then allowed Lin Huang to enter. “Welcome.”

Although Yi Zheng did not say anything, he looked at Lin Huang with a strange expression.

As they entered the auction hall, a tall female staff approached them.

“Please follow me.”

The female staff then led them to a closed floating staircase and said, “Please scan your member card at the detector.”

Lin Huang projected the Supreme member card and scanned it on the detector built into the floating staircase. The number three then lit up on the upper part of the floating staircase.

Soon after, the floating staircase began to move.

Lin Huang could clearly tell that the floating staircase was moving upward. After reaching a certain distance, it began to move horizontally.

After a short while, the floating staircase stopped moving and the door opened.

He then noticed that the floating staircase had actually stopped right in front of a room.

The female staff led them out of the floating staircase and entered one of the big halls.

“The rooms on the third floor are VIP rooms for the Supreme members. There’re a total of eight VIP rooms. We’ll arrange it according to the sequence the VIP members arrive. VIP room No. 1 is now full and this is VIP room No. 2.”

“Is this the hall?” Seeing the luxurious design of the hall which was more than 500 square meters, he felt that it resembled a small palace.

“Yes, it is. The Grade-S VIP room for all the Supreme members has been renovated with the highest standard of design. The total area of each of the VP rooms is more than 3,000 square meters. Aside from its living room, bedroom, kitchen, toilet, and other basic functions, it’s also equipped with a training room, game room, cinema, bathhouse, swimming pool, balcony, and other facilities. Of course, the most important facility will definitely be the stage that enables them to have a full view of the auction.

“Building the VIP room must cost a lot. Is the room left vacant when there’s no auction?” Lin Huang, who followed after the female staff, asked. Perhaps the price of building the VIP room would far exceed the price of an ancient relic.

“No. The VIP rooms normally serve as a hotel. This isn’t only an auction house, but it’s also one of the three most expensive hotels in Wanbao City. However, the Grade-S VIP room will never be opened to the public. Only members and Supreme members are eligible to check into the hotel. Non-members are only allowed to check into the Grade-A VIP room.

“Also, during the auction, the VIP room won’t accept any check-ins. We’ll provide a free stay for members and Supreme members. When there’s no auction going on, even Supreme members will need to pay for their stay.

“The guests in VIP room No.1 came three days ago. They have to pay for their stay up until last night. He’s eligible for the free stay starting from tonight. There are other guests in the Grade-S VIP room too. However, because of the auction today, all of them have checked out yesterday.”

“So, the hotel business is quite profitable?” Lin Huang raised his brows.

“Yes, it is. We’re booked out until next June.”

“Are there many of them who book the Grade-S VIP room as well?”

“As for the Grade-S VIP room, the bookings are full until next September since the number of rooms available is relatively few,” the female staff laughed as she said.

“I’m wondering if we should check out from our current hotel…” Lin Huang thought to himself.

The female staff guided Lin Huang and Yi Zheng to walk around the room. It took her about 50 minutes to finish introducing all the functions available in the VIP room.

“Dear customer, if you need anything else, you may visit the check-in webpage of the hotel on the Emperor’s Heart Ring and click on the bell-shaped button. We’ll then make the arrangements for you.” After telling them what to do, the female staff then left the room.

“The auction is about to start. Let’s go to the stage and have a look.” Lin Huang glanced at the clock. It was about 8.30 a.m.

The stage in the VIP room spanned about 20 meters. There was an artificial periosteum that was akin to a huge, arc-shaped, transparent glass which separated the VIP room from the auction hall.

It was as clear as glass if one were to look at the auction hall from the stage. However, from the auction hall, it seemed like everything behind it was covered by a huge black curtain.

The both of them then sat on a sofa in front of the stage. Lin Huang unsealed an alcoholic beverage, pouring it for himself and Yi Zheng.

They then gulped the drink, slowly finishing their beverages. Yi Zheng, who had been keeping quiet all the while, then turn his head back and looked at Lin Huang. “I’ve been wanting to ask you in the beginning. What did you offer them for sale to the point that you’re now the Supreme member of Wanbao Auction?”

“To be honest, I’ve no idea what we should do in order to become a Supreme member of Wanbao Auction. However, I know that there are two ways to become their ordinary members. The first one is to spend more than 100 million Life Crystals and the other is to sell items that worth more than 500 million Life Crystals. That being said, even if you were to sell an ancient relic, you need to sell at least 10 of them.”

Yi Zheng paused for a moment. He then added, “Of course, it’s okay if you don’t feel like telling. I’m just asking out of curiosity.”

“There’s nothing that I can’t tell.” Lin Huang then downed the other half of his drink, turning his head back with a smile as he looked at Yi Zheng. “I’m just selling off a few demigod relics.”

Chapter 798: The Auction Has Begun

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

At 8.30a.m. the door of the auction house officially opened and the bidders entered the auction house one after another.

Excluding the VIP room, Wanbao Auction could accommodate 12,000 people at most. It was different from the stadium that could simply hold tens of thousands of people. Wanbao Auction was considered big for an auction house.

It was because the spectators in a stadium were mostly ordinary people. However, those who attended an auction were mostly the cultivators and the number of transcendents who attended could be more than one-third of the total number of people at times.

Some of the cultivators attended the auction not because they wanted to bid at an auction. Instead, they wanted to gain knowledge and see how the transcendents looked like. There were also people who came here just for fun, wanting to see the war between the pros at the auction.

Soon, 12,000 seats were occupied. Lin Huang and Yi Zheng could clearly sense that there were about 5,000 transcendents out there and a majority of them were on holy fire-level.

“There are only four immortal-level and none of them is on imperial-level.” Yi Zheng looked around, feeling surprised.

“Perhaps they’ve entered the VIP room.” Lin Huang stood up, walking towards the transparent periosteum. He lowered his head as he looked downward. It was covered in black and he could see nothing.

As the staff brought the both of them to look around the room, she had briefly told them about the VIP room. Aside from having eight Grade-S VIP rooms on the third floor, there were 128 Grade-A VIP rooms on the second floor as well.

It was about 9a.m. now after getting the crowd seated.

The auctioneer who had been waiting for them then gradually walked onto the auction stage.

The auctioneer looked young as if he was at the age of 20. He was handsome and was definitely a young guy who could attract many women on Earth.

However, Lin Huang and Yi Zheng could clearly tell that his combat strength was on immortal-level rank-9. His age was definitely not as young as he looked.

“Welcome to Wanbao Auction. I’m the auctioneer – Yu Bo. I hope that you’ll be able to bid whatever you want in the next five days.”

“I’m not going to waste your time and I’ll keep it short. Let the bidding begin!” Yu Bo took a look at the time and it was 9a.m. sharp. He then got straight to the point.

“Let’s take a look at the first item!”

After finishing his words, the staff who had already prepared themselves then brought over the first item which was covered by a red cloth.

By looking at the shape itself, it should be a long box.

Generally, there would be a sword type weapon in a box of a shape like this.

Of course, Lin Huang could not be completely sure about it as there could be some other items inside the box.

“The first item is…”

Yu Bo then unveiled the red cloth, revealing a red wooden box with delicately made engraving. Even the lock was made of pure gold.

“Ancient relic – Gold Saber!”

After having his words uttered, the red wooden box was slowly being opened and a saber could be seen.

The saber was about one meter long with a black handle. It had a golden scabbard with exquisite engraving on it.

“The Gold Saber was dropped by the Gold Serpent after being killed by an imperial-level. It’s extremely sharp…”

Many of them had a stronger interest in it after listening to Yu Bo’s explanation.

Even Yi Zheng felt the same about it. He had heavy breathing and it was obvious that he was already attracted by the first item.

“Do you want to buy the saber?” Lin Huang asked, raising his brows.

Lin Huang had read through the information regarding the Gold Serpent on the monster guide before. Its combat strength varied from black gold-rank to yellow gold-rank. After it was being killed, the probability of dropping an ancient relic was extremely low. However, among the ancient relics, the Gold Saber was only considered as a beginner-level weapon. Lin Huang felt that it was not worth buying it.

“The ancient relic is a very rare weapon in Division 7 and it’s rarely available for sale on the market. After getting into immortal-level, the ancient relic which my family rewarded me was merely a Blackscale Saber. The weapon was obtained from killing the Dragonscale Hog where there’s no addition of attributes. The quality of the Gold Saber is quite good with sharpness addition. It’s much better than the one that I’m using.” Yi Zheng said helplessly.

Lin Huang was startled as heard that. He then thought of it carefully, as compared to Division 3, Division 7 was indeed a place that faced resource scarcity. There was only a small number of imperial-level monsters over there. On the other hand, there were very few people who were on imperial-level as well. The two reasons had amplified the impact as the probability of a monster dropping an ancient relic was extremely small. One could then tell its supply rate.

As for the black gold-rank Dragonscale Hog, other than having outstanding defensive ability and strength, it had nothing special in other aspects. It even had relatively low intelligent. If the immortal-level were to fight in a group, it would not be difficult to kill it as long as an appropriate way was used. Therefore, a large number of Blackscale Sabers obtained from this monster was available for sale on the market. It was not difficult to buy it as long as one was willing to spend some money for it. However, one could hardly find an ancient relic better than it and normally had to get it from the auction.

Yi Zheng’s first destination was Wanbao Auction and his intention was clear. He wanted to change his equipment in the first place, preparing himself for the training after that.

On the auction stage, after the auctioneer had done a brief introduction, he finally revealed the starting price of the ancient relic.

“The starting price will be 22 million Life Crystals! The price increment must not be less than 500,000 Life Crystals each raise.”

After having his words uttered, the bidders began to place their bid.

“23 million!”

“24 million!”

“25 million!”

…

After just a couple of moments, the bid price had exceeded 30 million.

Seeing the situation at the auction house, Yi Zheng had not placed a bid yet. It was not because he did not want to bid for it, it was simply because the bids were being placed too quickly. He did not even have the chance to hit the button to place a bid each time.

However, after the price had increased to 30 million, the number of bidders had reduced significantly. The price increment for each raise was no longer one million but only 500,000.

Just as the price rose to 31.5 million, Yi Zheng finally pressed the button to raise the bid. He then offered his bid price, “35 million!”

Lin Huang did not stop him as he could use it first after purchasing it. He could buy another one when there was a better choice later on. If he were to sell it to the auction house by then, he would not suffer great losses. It could be treated as the usage fees.

All of them shifted their gaze in the direction where the Supreme member who had just placed a bid on the third floor.

Since it was being covered by a black screen, what could be seen were the golden characters, “35 million!”

It was the special effect for the bid price of the Grade-S VIP room. The price would be displayed in the state of a golden spark on the isolation layer which was 20 meters long.

Yi Zheng was the first person who placed a bid among all the guests in the VIP rooms.

Many of them began to talk about it as it was their first time to join Wanbao Auction. What just happened was like a novelty to them.

“He’s on the third floor. I heard that only the Supreme members are qualified to enter the Grade-S VIP room.”

“It’s really different to be in the Grade-S VIP room. They even have a special effect on the bid price!”

…

“The Supreme members of Wanbao Auction will usually have a powerful background. Why is he interested in an ancient relic of such a quality?” A man who wore glasses and had blond hair in one of the Grade-A VIP rooms on the second floor smirked. Soon after, he pressed the bid button.

“36 million!”

Characters in silver color suddenly lit up on the isolation layer on the second floor. It was the special effect for the members in the Grade-A VIP rooms. However, it was much weaker as compared to the effect it had when Yi Zheng placed a bid.

“Someone in the Grade-A VIP room just placed a bid!”

“What is he doing? Is he trying to suppress the pro on the third floor with his wealth?”

“What’s happening? Is there anything special about the saber?”

…

What the bidder from the Grade-A VIP room on the second floor just did had attracted many people’s attention.

A few of the bidders no longer had the desire to bid for the saber as they saw the price being offered by the person on the third floor. They were afraid that they would offend the pro on the third floor. Seeing that the bidder from the second floor was trying to get into the bidding war, they got even more excited to watch the show.

“40 million!”

Yi Zheng had no idea why he placed a bid but he could not be bothered to continue the bidding war with him, so he simply increased the bidding price to 40 million.

“The more you desire, the more it shows that something’s wrong with the saber!” The blonde man on the second floor grinned, pressing the bid button again.

“41 million!”

“61 million!” Yi Zheng unexpectedly increased the price by 20 million.

The crowd was overwhelmed as they felt that the pro on the third floor might be feeling angry now. Some of them doubted that there could be some hidden secrets in the saber being sold on the auction stage.

Even Lin Huang who sat next to him was startled, “Bro Zheng, stop fooling around. The saber worth at most 30 million. You can buy two sabers at this price.”

Yi Zheng did not stay anything, staring at the auctioneer on the auction stage. Nobody knew what he was thinking about.

At the next second, the bidding price on the second floor lit up again.

“62 million!”

Lin Huang was worried that Yi Zheng would place another bid. However, Yi Zheng turned back and patted his shoulder, “Don’t worry, I’m not going to place another bid.”

At the auction hall, many of them lifted their head, fixing their gaze at the VIP room where Lin Huang and Yi Zheng were at. They were hoping to see the new bid price offered by Yi Zheng.

Even the auctioneer was thinking about the same thing. However, the isolation layer on the third floor remained dark. Right until the auctioneer announced that the deal had been made, the isolation layer on the third floor did not light up.

“62 million going thrice! Deal!”

“Congratulations to the bidder in VIP room No. A22 for getting the first item for sale at our auction!”

The blonde man on the second floor frowned, “Why didn’t he place another bid? Perhaps I’ve made the wrong guess?”

In the VIP room on the third floor, Lin Huang smirked as he sized Yi Zheng up. “You did it on purpose?’

“Did I?” Yi Zheng was trying to look innocent, “I wanted to increase the price by two million but I end up entering another zero. I then accidentally hit the bid button and the bid was placed… Fortunately, the bastard on the second floor placed a bid for it. Otherwise, I’m going to suffer great losses.”

“I’m not going to believe you.” Lin Huang thought to himself.

After the first item was being sold at a price of 62 million, the second item was then being displayed on the auction stage.

“Now, let’s take a look at the second item!”

Chapter 799: The Death Knight and the Fallen Knight

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

After the first item was sold at a high price of 62 million Life Crystals, it seemed like none of the following items was priced higher than that. A few of the ancient relics were put up for sale, but there was no saber type of weapon. Yi Zheng was not interested in the sale, let alone Lin Huang.

Everyone would expect better quality items later in the auction. The show only began especially on the last day of the auction.

Soon, the first day of the auction ended.

There was nothing appealing and it made most of the crowd sleepy. Some of them could not bear it any longer and left early.

Just as the first day of the auction was about to end, the auctioneer suddenly dropped a bombshell.

“The last item for sale today won’t disappoint you. Many of you know that we have three secret items to be sold off on the last day of the auction. Therefore, one of the two demigod items that we initially intended to sell on the last day of the auction will be the last item for sale today!”

As the red cloth was unveiled, it revealed a long, golden scabbard which exuded a powerful aura.

Without a doubt, it was a demigod relic.

In the auction hall, everybody obsessed over it as soon as they saw the saber.

Even Yi Zheng who sat next to Lin Huang had his eyes fixed on it. “This is the saber of legends…”

Although Lin Huang could tell that he was dying to get his hands on the saber, he was not going to lend Yi Zheng his money.

Only an imperial-level would be capable of activating a demigod relic. Yi Zheng would have no way of using it despite buying it now. He had just made it to immortal-level rank-1. Lin Huang had no idea how long Yi Zheng would have to wait until he could level up to imperial-level. Instead of buying a demigod relic, he would be better off buying equipment that he could use and training guides that were useful for him to improve his abilities.

 

“It’s called the Dragon Slayer. Its master used to be a demon slayer who achieved imperial-level about 100 years ago. The saber was originally obtained from killing a triple mutated white gold-rank Silver-Winged Rocfiend. It was then modified and reforged with 99 sets of dragonkins’ teeth and three dragonkins’ vertebrae as auxiliary materials…”

On the auction stage, Yu Bo was putting a lot of effort to introduce the particular item and hype it up.

After listening to him for a while, Lin Huang then ignored him and began searching for the “demon slayer” online. After a short while, he went through all the information about this item’s previous master.

The demon slayer’s original name was Jiang Yi who was an imperial-level in Division 3 more than 100 years ago. About 80 years ago, he was severely injured after he explored one of the underwater ruins in the Peaceful Ocean. Less than half a year after he returned to Division 3, he died from an incurable illness. The Dragon Slayer he owned then became his son’s legacy. However, after tens of years, none of his descendants managed to break through to imperial-level. None of them could use the saber and it was then abandoned.

However, Lin Huang had no idea why the saber would appear at the auction house. Since the auctioneer dared to reveal the actual information about the saber, it had to be a legitimate item. Otherwise, they could only sell it at the underground auction instead of selling it in public.

As one of the top auction houses in Division 3, the Wanbao Auction knew the unspoken rules of the business very well and it was impossible for them to make such a silly mistake.

While Lin Huang was pondering to himself, Yu Bo who was on the auction stage had completed the introduction. “I’ll stop bullshitting now. Let’s begin the last round of bidding!”

“Dragon Slayer! Its starting price is 20 billion Life Crystals. The price increment mustn’t be less than 500 million Life Crystals each round!”

“25 billion!”

Just as the auctioneer finished his sentence, the bidder in the VIP room on the second floor placed a bid at a price that was five billion higher than the starting price.

Seeing the silver figures light up abruptly on the black screen, most of the onlookers at the auction house were surprised.

“He increased the price by five billion without thinking twice… I can’t even spare 50 Life Crystals for a bowl of noodles.”

“It’s great to be rich. As peasants, we wouldn’t know how it feels like…”

“To the rich man on the second floor, are you looking for a son-in-law?”

…

As the black screen on the second floor lit up for less than two seconds, the black screen on the third floor lit up as well.

The figures were bigger and brighter this round, and they were golden in color.

“30 billion!!!”

The bidder on the third floor raised the price for the second time and again, it was an increment of five billion. The bidding price had immediately risen up to 30 billion.

At the auction house, everybody appeared stunned. Nobody would expect such an aggressive bid for the second time!

“To the rich man on the third floor, are you looking for a son-in-law? Or do you need a houseboy? I’m an excellent bedwarmer!”

Seeing the one who said this was a muscular man who was more than two meters tall, the crowd gagged.

 

Yi Zheng, who was in VIP room No. 2 on the third floor, was shocked as well.

“Why are the pros in Division 3 so rich? I used to think that I was wealthy enough with hundreds of millions of Life Crystals.”

“You aren’t considered rich with hundreds of millions of Life Crystals.” Lin Huang laughed, shaking his head. “The cheapest ancient relic costs tens of millions of Life Crystals. Those on white gold-rank basically cost at least hundreds of millions. As for those on purple gold-rank, the starting price is at least 200 million. Not forgetting the telekinetic weapons whereby the lowest ranking is on black gold-rank and costs at least 100 million. You aren’t even qualified to bid for the purple gold-rank telekinetic weapon if you don’t have at least two billion Life Crystals. The price of the demigod relic is even higher. Any of them will start from 10 billion Life Crystals. If they’re of really premium quality, they don’t accept Life Crystals but Divine Stones instead.”

“Divine Stones?” Yi Zheng had just arrived at Division 3 and it was his first time coming across this term.

“A Divine Stone is a rare ore that comes with God’s energy. A Divine Stone is equivalent to 100 million Life Crystals. However, almost none of them will exchange Divine Stones for Life Crystals. The God’s energy within the Divine Stone can be absorbed by demigods. This is a high-ranking currency only used by the demigods to trade.”

Lin Huang heard the information regarding the Divine Stone from Mr. Fu who had casually mentioned it and he could remember it up until that day.

On the auction stage, the price of the Dragon Slayer had increased to 38 billion. The number of bidders had increased from two to five as well. Each time, the increment of price would either be 500 million or a billion.

Among the five bidders, three of them were Supreme members on the third floor whereas the other two were members on the second floor. None of the people in the auction hall had placed any bids and they were just sitting there, watching what was going to happen next.

It was not strange though since only an imperial-level was capable of activating a demigod relic. The strongest person in the auction hall was only on immortal-level rank-7.

The bidding lasted for more than ten minutes and the Dragon Slayer was finally sold to somebody else.

“The member in No. S4 VIP room bid 43 billion Crystals!”

“43 billion going once!”

“43 billion going twice!”

“Anyone wants to place another bid? Otherwise, you might not have the chance anymore!”

“Alright, 43 billion going thrice!”

“Sold!”

“43 billion…” Yi Zheng was so envious of him.

Lin Huang then thought to himself, “If the saber can be sold at 43 billion, I guess I can sell mine at 55 billion and above.”

The first day of auction then ended. Lin Huang and Yi Zheng went back to the hotel empty-handed.

After having their dinner, just as Lin Huang and Yi Zheng were about to walk around the night market, Kylie’s card suddenly vibrated in his body.

“I just thought of something else I have to deal with. You go first and I’ll meet you at the night market after getting my things done.”

After sending Yi Zheng off, Lin Huang went back to his room and summoned Kylie. “What happened?”

“The two dark knights that you placed in my mini world have completed the evolution and awoken the bloodline.”

“Let’s have a look.”

Before coming to Wanbao City, Lin Huang had advanced the two Dark Knight cards that he just obtained, transforming them into two cocoons. Nothing happened after that but they finally managed to break free from their cocoons.

Lin Huang could not wait any longer to enter Kylie’s mini world. Soon, he saw the two Dark Knights that had been transformed.

The two of them used to be exactly the same but after the evolution, they were now completely different. However, the change was out of Lin Huang’s expectations.

“They look formidable.”

Sensing the aura of the two knights, Lin Huang frowned and immediately checked their information in detail.

“Monster Card

“Rarity: Legendary

“Monster name: Death Knight

“Type of Monster: Spirit type

“Unique Bloodline: Death (Beginner)

“Combat Level: Immortal-Level Rank-4

“Skill 1: Immortal

“Skill 2: Dead Eye

“Skill 3: Disastrous Ring”

…

“Skill 9: Death Punishment

“Summon Authority: Activated

“Card Remarks: Trainable”

…

“Monster Card

“Rarity: Legendary

“Monster Name: Fallen Knight

“Type of Monster: Undying Species

“Unique Bloodline: Master of the Abyss (Beginner)

“Combat Level: Immortal-Level Rank-4

“Skill 1: Triple Inferno

“Skill 2: Instant Kill

“Skill 3: Cursed Ring”

…

“Skill 9: Falling Abyss

“Summon Authority: Activated

“Card Remarks: Trainable.”

“They’re really powerful!” Lin Huang exclaimed after looking through their information.

Having nine beginner skills were the maximum of what a triple mutated monster could have.

Many other skills could be derived from beginner skills, forming a massive skill tree. However, many of the derived skills and advanced skills could not be used yet and were gray in color. Lin Huang knew that the two monsters had great potential just by briefly looking at their information.

“The Immortal skill is incredible. It has full blood revival three times. After the fourth death, it’ll transform into a strong, immortal egg. Dead Eye is a spirit type attack skill that can directly burn its opponent’s spirit. Disastrous Ring deters creatures in a specific region, depriving the opponent’s intent to fight to various extents, lowering the opponent’s ability to fight.

“The skills of the Fallen Knight are impressive too! Triple Inferno allows it to recover its total blood volume to 50%, 30%, and 10% three times in a row when it’s on the edge of death. Its ability will be multiplied each time as its blood is restored! The Cursed Ring can weaken its opponent and includes curse effects in its skill to lower its opponent’s ability. In addition to that, the Falling Abyss contaminates most of the creatures, demonizing them and gaining control over them. I suppose this is the ability of a parasite…”

Even Lin Huang was envious of some of the skills.

He then took out a bottle of mineral water from his Emperor’s Heart Ring to wash his hands and face after that. After preparing himself in a spiritual way, Lin Huang mumbled, “Buddha, Jade Emperor, Guan Yin, Monkey King, Xuanzang, Pig God… Please bless me with two solid skills…”

As Lin Huang mumbled his words, he opened the skills that he had obtained.

“Skill extraction has been completed!

“Congratulations, you have obtained a skill – Knight (Death Knight).

“Congratulations, you have obtained a skill – Integration (Fallen Knight).”

“Eh…” Seeing the two skills, Lin Huang had no idea what to say. The two skills were possessed by both the Death Knight and Fallen Knight. They were not weak and were even considered powerful. However, Lin Huang was not interested in becoming a knight. He was more inclined to get into a solo fight.

“Knight: The user of the skill is allowed to ride on any non-human monsters. On a ride, the mount’s combat strength will be one to three ranks higher (depending on the grade and combat strength). At the same time, the user and the mount can share all the skills that the both of them possess, which increases the skill power anywhere from three to five times stronger.

“Remarks: A knight without a mount is not a complete knight.”

…

“Integration: The user of the skill can integrate with any mount, pet, or summoning monster. After the integration is completed, one’s combat strength can increase anywhere from one to three ranks higher (based on the one with a higher combat strength). The leader possesses all the skills of those one has integrated with.

“Remark 1: Integration can only be done upon agreement of both parties. Otherwise, integration can’t be completed.

“Remark 2: The skill can be used to overlay with the effect of the Knight skill.”

However, after carefully reading the skill descriptions, Lin Huang noticed that both of the skills could be used to compensate for his greatest weakness which was his weak combat strength.

“If I were to use Knight and Integration at the same time, Bai’s combat strength will be considered the initial combat strength which is immortal-level rank-4. I can level up to at least two ranks higher, reaching immortal-level rank-6. If three Provisional Combat Strength Upgrade Cards are used, my combat strength will be upgraded to immortal-level rank-9 and I can even save my Transformation Card.

“I didn’t expect that the two skills that I’m not interested in are much more practical than the skills I’ve been longing for.”

Lin Huang was just skimming through the skill description of the two knights. He did not analyze them carefully as to which would be the most beneficial to him. He only noticed a few of the skills that he was eager to obtain. After obtaining the skills, he then realized that it was not necessary for the skill to have amazing effects. The best ones would be those that suited him the most.

He still had a few Skill Extraction Cards whereby he could extract the skills for the second time. However, after obtaining two of the new skills, 20 of his skill slots had been filled. He had to wait until he got to immortal-level for more vacant skill slots.

“My combat strength can only be upgraded to immortal-level rank-7 at the most with my Transformation Card and Provisional Combat Strength Upgrade Cards. It’s a limit that I can never break through. However, with the two new skills, it’s no longer difficult for me to upgrade my combat strength to immortal-level rank-9. I’m now capable of killing black gold-rank and crimson gold-rank enemies. I can finally compensate for my weaknesses!”

Chapter 800: The Fifth Day

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

On the second day of the auction, still, nothing caught Lin Huang’s attention and he did not join the bidding war.

Yi Zheng spent 48 million bidding for a set of ancient armor. He did not buy anything else.

However, just as the auction was about to end on the second day, the last item became everybody’s focus again.

Wanbao Auction had taken the demigod-level combat sword out as the last item to be sold off on that day.

The members on the second and the third floor placed their bids. The fight was even more intense compared to the first day when they wanted to buy the Dragon Slayer.

Eventually, the combat sword named Combat Shade was sold at a price of 46 billion. The buyer was the member in VIP room No. A21 on the second floor.

Since the identity of the members would be kept a secret, Lin Huang could not see how the buyer looked like.

Although the buyers in the auction hall did not place any bids, they looked happier watching the bidding war rather than placing a bid of their own.

The second day of auction then ended in high spirits.

The auction remained rather dull on the third and the fourth days as nothing appealing was sold. Over the past two days, the most expensive item that was sold as a set of ancient telekinetic weapons which was priced at 23 billion. The price was just a portion of the price of a demigod relic.

On the fourth day, Yi Zheng had finally gotten whatever he wanted after buying an ancient relic at 51 million Life Crystals. Its quality was higher than the one sold on the first day of the auction.

Just as the auctioneer mentioned that the deal was closed, he was so thrilled because he was afraid that someone would continue to raise the bid.

Lin Huang had never hit the bid button. If Yi Zheng had not been in the room, people might have doubted that there was anyone in VIP room No. 2 on the third floor.

He did not place any bid because there was nothing he was interested in. In the past four days, there was nothing that caught his attention.

There were no problems with the items sold at Wanbao Auction. Instead, Lin Huang had a very clear target. He did not like fancy things and his main concern was the practicality of the item itself. Unless it had a better function than the equipment that he was using currently or if it was an item that possessed a unique function that could improve his abilities, nothing could catch his eye. The former was hard to find and the latter was exceptionally rare. Indeed, none of the items sold at the auction fulfilled his two criterions.

Time passed and soon, it was the fifth and last day of the auction.

Before the auction began, all the seats were already occupied and the attendees were talking excitedly to each other.

In the auction hall, the seats of the guests never changed. Despite the fact that they did know not each other in the very beginning, after being “desk mates” for four days, they started to familiarize themselves with one another.

In addition to being the last day of the auction, the last three secret items to be sold off at the auction would be revealed soon. It was the reason why the people were feeling rather excited and the auction hall was livelier than it had been a few days ago.

Almost everybody was discussing the same topic – what were the last three secret items for sale?

On the third floor, Lin Huang and Yi Zheng were chatting with each other in VIP room No. 2.

“It’s so lively today and it’s much better than the past two days. I almost fell asleep then,” Lin Huang said before tossing a red berry into his mouth.

“Today’s the last day. Many of them are here for the items that you’re selling,” Yi Zheng said while making himself a cup of tea. After a short while, the room was filled with the fragrance of tea leaves.

“I hope that they can be sold at a good price.” Lin Huang raised his brows.

“Don’t worry. The prices of the three demigod relics itself aren’t low,” Yi Zheng laughed as he said, “They had a fierce fight to bid for the demigod relics on the first and the second day. The war between them will definitely be more intense on the last day of the auction.”

Lin Huang smiled, nodding his head without saying anything else.

The room remained quiet for a short while. Soon, Lin Huang broke the silence and asked, “Where are you going after the auction?”

“I’ll stay in Wanbao City for a period of time. I’ll adapt myself to the environment in Division 3 and gather some information so that I can prepare myself for the upcoming training.” Apparently, Yi Zheng had a plan.

“Wanbao City is under the Union Government’s jurisdiction. Compared to the footholds with the code after No. A10, it’s safer. Footholds after No. A10 are mostly under the underworld’s jurisdiction. It’s different from Division 7 where there are different kinds of people in the areas under the underworld’s jurisdiction.” After finishing his sentence, he told Yi Zheng about the incident of him being blackmailed by the people in Division 3 when he first arrived.

Yi Zheng simmered with laughter when he heard the anecdote.

“Despite many of them from the underworld not being strong, they have their ways to blackmail others. They can do bad stuff to you. You have to be careful when checking into a hotel. You need to check the background of the hotel before deciding whether to stay there or not. Some of the hotels look luxurious in photos, but they’re actually tourist traps. Not to mention robberies and the badger game, some of them will even use guest towels to wash the toilet bowl. After that, they’ll use the same towel to clean the glasses and tea set…”

Yi Zheng fixed his gaze on the tea set that he had just used. He then took a long, hard look at the cup that he was holding, pretending as if nothing had happened and placed the cup back on the table.

After chatting for a while, the auction finally began.

After the auctioneer’s opening remarks, the first item was soon available for bidding.

“The first item we have today is an ancient telekinetic weapon… The starting price is 300 million Life Crystals! The price increment must be at least five million Life Crystals each round.”

“310 million!”

“330 million!”

“350 million!”

…

The last day of the Wanbao Auction then began.

35 items had been sold as lunchtime approached. Aside from a few of the items that managed to trigger an intense battle, there were no eye-catching items.

“It’s about noon now. Let’s go for lunch!” Lin Huang stood up from the sofa, stretching his body.

“There are six more minutes to go. There must be one more item to bid for.” Yi Zheng did not stand up.

“The items are almost the same. There’s nothing to see.” Lin Huang was not interested at all.

“Let’s wait for a while. Just a few more minutes to go.”

“Alright, let’s see what’s next.” Lin Huang then sat down helplessly.

36 items were brought up the auction stage.

As the red cloth was unveiled, it revealed a palm-sized wood carving.

Lin Huang caught a glimpse of it, seeming as if he was not interested in it. All of a sudden, he received a peculiar feedback from his Divine Telekinesis.

Before Lin Huang could confirm what the feedback from his Divine Telekinesis was trying to tell him, a voice urged him, “Buy it!”

“The voice is coming from…” Lin Huang frowned. “The stone tablet?”

“It’s me,” the stone tablet soon responded, “It’s best if you can buy the item on the auction stage.”

“It’s just a wood carving. Is there anything special about it?” Lin Huang could not understand why he had to get it. However, he could sense that there was something odd about the detection of God’s Soul. However, he could not understand the feedback it was providing.

“It’s a God’s Figurine. I’ll explain to you later when we have the time. Buy it first. It’s more valuable than a demigod relic!”

On the auction stage, Yu Bo began introducing the item, “This wood carving originated from the battle ruins. We don’t know any further information about it though. We aren’t hiding it from you. Our appraisers have no idea what it’s made of and its grade can’t be evaluated as well. However, this item is exceptionally hard. We’ve tested it with an ancient relic many times and no traces were left on it. The wooden material used might be a new material that hasn’t been discovered yet…”