MONSTER PARADISE

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Chapter 841: Bloody’s Puppet Army

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

In the blink of an eye, it was the third day since they entered the Fallen God Land.

Early in the morning, Lin Huang went all out to summon 15 monsters, which was the limit of his summoning authority.

They were Killer, the Evil Dominator, Bloody, Kylie, Lancelot, Bai, Tyrant, Grimace, Charcoal, Warlord, Bloody Robe, the Death Knight, the Fallen Knight, and the two Dark Crescent Snakes.

“Bai with Grimace, Tyrant with Charcoal, Warlord with Bloody Robe, and the two knights with the two Dark Crescent Snakes each. The Evil Dominator, Kylie and Lancelot will be fighting alone.”

“I wouldn’t have released all of you if not for the sprawling ruins. There are a total of 8,000 people who’ve entered the ruins this time, which is over 20 times more than the last search. However, from Bloody’s investigation, there are still many areas that have yet to be explored by humans. The places that all of you are going to are those that humans have yet to step foot in.

“Those who perform well in the next three months will be rewarded while those who underperform will have their previous reward taken away.” Lin Huang looked at Grimace intentionally when he said that.

Grimace had not asked for junk food for his last reward. Instead, he had asked for an ancient relic-level puppet whose price was double of an ancient relic-level telekinetic weapon. It had been painful for Lin Huang. However, the puppet doll was rather practical. At least, it could be used to fight an imperial-level black gold-rank powerhouse under Grimace’s control.

“Can I ask for three puppets this time?” Grimace asked with anticipation written all over his face.

“Two,” Lin Huang bargained. The toy Grimace wanted was too expensive. He began to worry that he might not be able to afford to keep Grimace.

“Deal!” Grimace agreed directly.

Lin Huang was secretly relieved to see Grimace so obedient.

After a round of simple briefing from Lin Huang, Bai and the rest dispersed under Bloody’s guidance.

Lin Huang together with Bloody and the Parasitic Puppet army it moved from Kylie’s mini world were the only ones left.

“That many of them?” Lin Huang was shocked to see the army.

“There are a total of 1,128 of them. 32 of them are black gold-rank while the rest are immortal-level rank-9. Also, all of the puppets are tripled mutated.” It was clear that Bloody was bragging a little bit judging from its tone. “I’ve tweaked the battle formations that Kylie gave me last night. I’ve also done some preliminary development and come up with 21 foundation battle formations and over 400 combo battle formations that suit these bunch of Parasitic Puppet army the best. We can officially begin practice now.”

“What are you waiting for then? Let’s go!” Lin Huang was interested to see the power of battle formations from this parasitic army.

Soon, Bloody found its first target, which was an imperial-level black gold-rank corpse ghost.

Its height was around two meters and it looked like a dead human corpse that was going through the first stage of rotting. However, there were red flames burning in its eyes like lava.

The 32 imperial-level black gold-rank puppets did not participate in this battle.

Over 1,000 immortal-level rank-9 Parasitic Puppets formed into a battle formation instantly and began to fight the corpse ghost.

The corpse ghost almost escaped in the first couple of minutes, but soon, Bloody was at its peak of controlling the battle formation. In less than five minutes, they managed to kill the corpse ghost.

Later on, it spent a couple of minutes parasitizing the corpse ghost, adding another member to its imperial-level black gold-rank puppets.

“Your battle formation seems to be even more powerful than Kylie’s,” Lin Huang voiced out what he thought after watching the battle.

“Mine is a complete foundation battle formation and I’ve more puppets than her Nephilic Judges. Also, my puppets’ combat strength and mutation level are higher than her army’s. Furthermore, I’m controlling everything in this battle formation whereby I can adjust them whenever I want. It makes sense that the overall ability is more powerful than her Nephilic Judge army’s,” Bloody explained, “But Kylie’s upper hand is that her Nephilic Judges have a high growth rate which my Parasitic Puppets don’t. I can only replace the Parasitic Puppets with higher combat strength ones continuously to strengthen the battle formation.”

For the next few days, Lin Huang stayed by Bloody’s side at all times. He saw it performing different versions of battle formations every day while they got more and more powerful.

Bloody would parasitize the imperial-level black gold-rank monster every time whenever one was killed. More and more imperial-level black gold-rank puppets were added to its collection.

Until the third day, the Parasitic Puppets finally mastered the foundation battle formations fully, so Bloody began to practice the combo battle formations.

The power of the combo battle formations was undoubtedly a few folds more compelling than the foundation battle formations earlier. They could kill imperial-level black gold-rank monsters almost like a piece of cake. They then began to hunt for higher ranked preys in the form of crimson gold-rank monsters.

The truth proved that the imperial-level black gold-rank puppets that were added to Bloody’s puppet battle formations were good enough to fight imperial-level crimson gold-rank powerhouses face-on.

Ever since the imperial-level black gold-rank monsters were added into their battle formations, they slaughtered the imperial-level crimson gold-rank monsters easily.

Bloody then began a new around of hunting and parasitizing, possessing more and more imperial-level crimson gold-rank puppets.

In this ruins, Bloody’s puppet army was like a bulldozer, killing everything wherever it passed. All of the deceased monsters became one of the puppet army.

During these couple of days, the other Monster Cards did not stay idle as well.

Lin Huang felt the spiritual energy in his God Figurines growing each day. Although the amount of growth was minor, he knew it was possible for the combat soul in his body to grow to imperial-level crimson gold-rank during this trip to the ruins.

The objective of letting Bai and the rest out in the ruins was to help him to hunt for spiritual energy. Looking at the current progress, it was almost ten times faster than him hunting on his own.

Lin Huang had accompanied Bloody all the time during the past few days. He did not fight even once. Apart from the time they were on the move, he was always practicing his swordsmanship.

The pseudo-god-level sword skill Killer had gotten from the Regal Sword Killer had yet to be integrated into his Sword Dao system. It was the best time to practise it.

Lin Huang’s Sword Dao reached bottleneck since he achieved gold flame-level which caused him to almost stop practicing entirely. Now that he had broken through to immortal-level rank-3, he already had the basic foundation to advance further. What he was lacking the most now were his sword skill resources. He had only mastered less than 80 types of legendary-level sword skills, which was the reason why he had requested access to the Central Library.

The level-one reading authorization even gave him the access to pseudo-god-level methods, but he could only read one set of method per day at the most. Lin Huang only had three days of authorization which meant that he only had the opportunity to learn a maximum of three sets of pseudo-god-level sword skills.

A level-two reading authorization would give him access to any legendary-level methods with no restrictions. This authorization was usually given to imperial-level powerhouses who contributed to the Union Government.

‘I’ll make a trip to the Central Library after the three months of searching the ruins is over before heading back to Division 7,’ Lin Huang secretly planned.

However, Lin Huang and Bloody had no idea that they were targeted even though they avoided all the areas where humans were hunting along the way.

It was the middle of the night when five people gathered in a tent hundreds of kilometers away.

The five of them wore white robes with a golden cross on their foreheads. They were the members of the underground organization, the Saints.

“The reason I ask you all to gather is because I noticed a huge amount of beasts 2,000 kilometers away. There are over 1,000 beasts. Most of their combat strength is on immortal-level rank-9 while there are tens of black gold-rank beasts. I think we can sweep them together!”

“Immortal-level beasts living in such a massive scale? Are they beasts living in groups?” One of them could not help but ask.

“I’ve no idea what beasts they are exactly, but all of you know about that demigod-level detection relic that I have. It can detect the rough condition of creatures within 3,000 kilometers. It can only be activated once a day, so it’s a yes or no for this mission. But I must warn you, I’m not sure when will we ever see such an insane number of beasts in the future if we miss this opportunity now.”

“I’m in! 1,000 immortal-level rank-9 beasts are worth some great sacrifice.”

“I think that’s a sign that God is showing us!”

“Thank you, God !”

Chapter 842: Meeting the Saints Again

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

It was in the middle of the night. Lin Huang sat in the tent with his legs crossed while he tapped open the virtual map to look at Bai and the rest’s coordinates.

Bloody had planted virtual positioning in them, so they could see everyone’s exact location.

The Evil Dominator, Kylie, the two knights, and the Dark Crescent Snakes were still on the move while the rest of them were on idle mode.

“Kylie’s still leading her army to hunt. The two knights’ killing efficiency is higher at night due to the two Dark Crescent Snakes.” Bloody had been watching them at all times. “Meanwhile, the Evil Dominator challenged a powerful crimson gold-rank, but he failed, so he’s running for his life now.”

“Is the Evil Dominator going to be alright?” Lin Huang did not want to lose a pseudo-mythical-level Monster Card.

“He’s alright. None of his substitutes are dead. He seemed to be waiting for the opportunity to turn the tables around, so he provoked the monster along the way. If not for that, he’d have gotten away from the monster long ago,” Bloody said while projecting the video that its Leech Pod had taken earlier.

In the video, the Evil Dominator took off his pants and farted at the monster. Most importantly, he was not using his own image, but the Regal Sword Killer’s image.

“If Killer found out about this, he’d definitely kill him…” Lin Huang was speechless.

The Evil Dominator was pretty close to Killer. Due to their close relationship, Killer gave a lot of his blood to Evil Dominator to duplicate his Evil Blood Substitutes over and over again. If Killer found out that the Evil Dominator had used his substitute to do this, he might not provide Evil Dominator even a drip of his blood ever again.

“Ask Kylie not to rush things. Tell her to rest when she needs to,” Lin Huang told Bloody to pass his message.

After turning off the map, Bloody’s voice transmission came out of nowhere just when Lin Huang was going to sleep.

“We might be targeted. A Saints team is coming close to where we are at rapid speed. They’re less than 300 kilometers from us now.”

“A team from the Saints?” Lin Huang put away his tent immediately and got into fighting mode. “How many of them? What are their combat strengths?”

“Five of them. Two imperial-level yellow gold-ranks and three imperial-level crimson gold-ranks.”

“Do you have the confidence to defeat them? Do you need me to hold the two imperial-level yellow gold-ranks for you while you take the three imperial-level crimson gold-ranks first?” Lin Huang asked.

“No need. I happen to have 28 imperial-level crimson gold-rank puppets that I’ve yet to put into battle formation. They can practice by joining the battle this time. There are only two imperial-level yellow gold-ranks, so we should be able to handle them.” Bloody was always confident in its battle formation.

In reality, even without imperial-level crimson gold-rank puppets participating in the battle formation, a battle formation with imperial-level black gold-rank puppets as its core was sufficient to fight imperial-level yellow gold-ranks. It was just that they did not have the ability to kill an imperial-level yellow gold-rank.

Bloody had not hunted any imperial-level yellow gold-rank monsters for the past two days. The reason being, it could not parasitize them, so it had been hunting imperial-level black gold-rank and imperial-level crimson gold-rank monsters to increase the number of its Parasitic Puppets.

At the moment, apart from the 28 imperial-level crimson gold-rank puppets, the number of imperial-level black gold-rank puppets had skyrocketed to 96.

However, to avoid scaring their prey away, the 28 imperial-level crimson gold-rank puppets had been in hiding mode.

That was the reason why the Saint members did not manage to detect the 28 imperial-level crimson gold-rank puppets.

After confirming the five Saint members’ whereabouts, Lin Huang was ready to fight on his side.

The five Saint members, on the other hand, had no inkling about that. They were rushing towards the coordinates following the detection relic.

They traveled across hundreds of kilometers in a couple of minutes.

The five Saint messengers saw the group of a variety of monsters far away. Just when they thought that it was odd, the monsters suddenly moved. They went into their battle formation and surrounded all five of them.

The five of them had a slight change of expression at that moment. Soon, they realized that someone was controlling the monsters because most of the monsters were obviously foreign. The ruins’ local monsters only consisted of undying and spirit types.

Soon, apart from almost 100 imperial-level black gold-rank monsters, they saw the tens of imperial-level crimson gold-rank monsters among the group. They looked even more aghast now.

A human powerhouse who could control up to 100 imperial-level monsters and up to 1,000 of immortal-level rank-9 monsters was not someone that they could defeat.

“Senior, the five of us are messengers from the Saint. We’ve made a mistake coming to your territory. Please forgive us. We’ll leave right away,” apologized one of the imperial-level yellow gold-rank messengers who was the leader immediately. He was the one with the demigod-level detention relic.

“I didn’t hunt you, but you showed up at my doorstep. Since you’re here, let’s just stay.” Lin Huang did not reveal himself, but his voice came from the monsters and entered the ears of the five messengers loud and clear.

After the command, the Parasitic Puppet battle formation launched their attack.

The participation of imperial-level crimson gold-rank puppets boosted the battle formation power.

One blow was all they needed to kill one of the imperial-level crimson gold-rank messengers.

The remaining four of them then come together in an attempt to launch a sneak attack.

However, the two imperial-level crimson gold-rank messengers were killed in less than three minutes. The two imperial-level yellow gold-rank messengers were the only ones left.

“Now that we’re done warming up, let’s play.” Bloody’s voice subsequently rang out.

More than 1,000 Parasitic Puppets changed their formation in an instant, forming a six-armed giant with the 28 imperial-level crimson gold-rank puppets as its core.

The giant was 10,000 meters tall whereby a single palm alone was 1,000 meters long. The giant slammed its palm towards the two imperial-level yellow gold-rank messengers.

Bang!

As the palm smashed into them, the ground within hundreds of kilometers radius shook. The ground where the palm was hit had sunken in while a gigantic crater thousands of meters deep was created.

Although the two messengers were not killed by the attack, they were badly injured and they spat out mouthfuls of blood.

“Let’s split up!” One of them whispered softly. The two silhouettes emerged underground and escaped towards two different directions.

“Stay!” The six-armed giant shouted while extending both arms in an attempt to catch them.

The duo saw a black shadow coming from above their heads and in the next second, they were wrapped in an immense force, unable to move.

“Die!” The six-armed giant clapped its palms hard together with the duo trapped in them.

Both of them felt like their bodies were crushed together by giant walls. The attack almost broke every bone in their bodies while none of the organs in their bodies functioned after that.

They were almost killed by the attack.

“Not dead yet?” The six-armed giant threw six giant punches at them continuously after tossing them onto the ground.

One punch, two punches, three punches…

The ground trembled intensely with each punch that was thrown.

Lin Huang was a little speechless as he watched. Both of them were already dead when the six-armed giant threw its third punch, but it still ravaged the two corpses.

Bloody only got the six-armed giant to stop after it threw 100 punches while the duo had completely turned into a pile of mushy meat.

“You were venting because you can’t parasitize them since they are imperial-level yellow gold-rank, am I right?” Lin Huang said while pouting.

Bloody looked embarrassed when Lin Huang called out its game.

Bloody told the six-armed giant’s battle formation to retreat and began the parasitization on the three imperial-level crimson gold-rank messengers after handing over the items from the five of them to Lin Huang.

“You can use the three of them, but you must change their clothes and remove the cross on their faces. We’ll bring unnecessary trouble to ourselves if someone sees this.” Lin Huang then turned around and began to set up the tent after he was done speaking.

“Yes, Sir!”

Chapter 843: The Third Pseudo Mythical-level Monster Card

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

In the Fallen God Land before daybreak, the golden cross on the forehead of a man in white robes shone brightly out of nowhere like it was burning in flames. The glow dimmed quickly a moment later.

In his white robes, Min Ze opened his eyes all of a sudden.

“Yuan Feng and Luo Liang are dead?! And so are three of our imperial-level crimson gold-ranks?!” Everything that happened before the five of them were killed came clearly into his mind.

“A battle formation made of up to 1,000 different monsters and its ability is close to an imperial-level white gold-rank’s battle form…” Min Ze frowned while feeling perplexed. “There must be someone controlling these monsters. Who exactly is that who can control up to 1,000 monsters at the same time?!”

In reality, not only did Min Ze see that. The other Saint messengers saw the same thing too and they were horrified.

The Saints had sent a total of ten imperial-level messengers and half of them were killed. Furthermore, they did not see the murderer’s face from the beginning until the end.

Min Ze, the No. 1 powerhouse among the Saint members who were sent into the Fallen God Land did not see any information about the murderer from the scenes that were transmitted from the five dead men. Apart from knowing that the person was a powerful Imperial Censor, he did not have any idea about the location where they were killed. He could not avenge them even if he wanted to.

“I’ve no clue apart from knowing that the person’s a powerful Imperial Censor. I can only hope that I’ll have the opportunity to bump into this person who controls the monsters within these three months.”

Lin Huang, who was over 20,000 kilometers away, had no idea that the news about the Saint members being killed had been received by the remaining Saint members.

To him, the death of the five Saint members was just a tiny bump which did not affect him much.

In less than a week, Bloody accumulated over 150 imperial-level black gold-rank puppets and it even had over 50 imperial-level crimson gold-rank puppets. The battle formation consisting of those puppets gave them the ability to fight imperial-level white gold-rank powerhouses.

However, Bloody knew that was the limit of its puppet battle formation.

It was not about the battle formation itself, but the core level of the battle formation.

To be able to reach a level whereby they could kill imperial-level white gold-ranks, it must have at least 20 imperial-level yellow gold-rank puppets as the core of its battle formation.

However, with Bloody’s current combat strength, it could not parasitize imperial-level yellow gold-rank monsters at all.

While Bloody’s battle formation had almost reached its bottleneck, Kylie’s battle formation was soaring.

She now had over 120 triple mutated Nephilic Judges which made up a third of her army. Furthermore, since her Nephilic Judges had elevated to immortal-level rank-8 and rank-9, the battle formation power was much more compelling than when she had just entered the Fallen God Land. The army was powerful enough to kill most imperial-level black gold-rank powerhouses.

Lancelot surprised Lin Huang even more as he spent most of his time on the move these days.

The reason being was that the hunting condition was too strict. The prey had to be Sword Dao monsters whereby their combat strength had to be immortal-level rank-9. In addition to that, they must be triple mutated too.

There were only 31 monsters that fit the condition in the entire Fallen God Land and they were scattered far away from each other.

However, after spending over ten days, Lancelot had finally elevated all nine of his sword servants to triple mutation.

They even encountered prey that was immensely powerful along the way, so Lancelot was forced to fight. That caused the elevation to fail twice and they had to look for prey all over again.

Although there were some bumps, all nine sword servants completed their elevation.

Lancelot might not have expected this himself, but since the nine sword servants completed their triple mutation, he was elevated to pseudo-mythical-level.

Lancelot becoming the third pseudo-mythical-level Monster Card went beyond Lin Huang’s expectations.

Even since he had elevated to pseudo-mythical-level, Lancelot did not only experience a boost in ability, but his sword servant quota had increased by one fold. He now had 18 slots for sword servants.

He had been busy looking for new sword servants since then.

“I’ve never expected this fella who loves vegetables to become the most powerful one among all of you.” Lin Huang could not help but chuckle when he said, “He should have the ability to kill imperial-level crimson gold-ranks together with his sword servants.”

“Master, I should be the most powerful one overall ability-wise,” Bloody corrected him with full confidence.

“Oh, I almost forgot about you and your army!” Lin Huang just recalled that Bloody’s puppet army was truly invincible now. They would fight imperial-level white gold-rank powerhouses head-on whenever they encountered one. They were more powerful than a few pseudo-god-level powerhouses combined.

“If my combat strength breaks through further and I get to imperial-level black gold-rank, I’ll be able to control imperial-level yellow gold-rank puppets. By then, we’ll be able to even kill imperial-level white gold-rank powerhouses!” Bloody was not boasting at all. As soon as the core of the battle formation rank was elevated, the entire battle formation power would be boosted by folds.

Compared to Bloody, Kylie, Lancelot, and the other Monster Cards did not go through that much increase in their abilities.

After all, their combat strength was still stuck on immortal-level rank-9. There was no way that they could elevate further. It was even more impossible for them to mutate further, so it was only natural that their ability had an insignificant boost.

The only improvement they could have was richer battle experiences.

After watching Bai and the rest battle, Lin Huang was planning to buy some pet equipment for them when the search in the ruins ended.

He had always thought pet equipment was expensive and impractical for them. However, after seeing Grimace control his puppet relic, he realized that the elevation in a summoning beast’s ability was correlated with their equipment.

Grimace had killed imperial-level black gold-rank monsters with Bai earlier whereby they would have to show their trump card almost every time they fought. However, with the puppet relic, it was clear that killing was much easier for them. The puppet alone minimized the stress from all imperial-level black gold-rank monsters.

“I’ll get Bai two demigod longsword relics to boost his attack ability. I’ll get Tyrant either a demigod-level battle hammer or battle ax which can boost his attack ability by a few folds at least. Charcoal too… I’ll get it a fire attribute crystal…” Lin Huang was thorough with his plan, but he knew his pathetic savings was unable to buy all of his summoning beasts equipment.

Most pet equipment was even more expensive than human equipment as some of them had to be customized according to the pet’s ability, allowing the pet to boost their ability to their maximum capacity.

As time went by, half a month passed since the opening of the Fallen God Land.

The intensity of the combat souls in Lin Huang’s God Figurines rose rapidly every day from the continuous hunting by his 15 summoning beasts.

“Looking at the progress, the three combat souls in my body will be able to elevate to crimson gold-rank in five days at the most, or the soonest, in three days.” The elevation speed was much faster than what he imagined.

“The monsters that we can kill away from human-populated areas are getting lesser and lesser. More than 80% of the immortal-level rank-9 and imperial-level black gold-rank monsters in these areas have already been cleared,” Bloody told Lin Huang a piece of rather bad news, “Those humans who’ve entered the ruins are searching towards all directions continuously, so our activity range is getting smaller and smaller.”

“It’s very common for the collision force to spread up to 1,000 kilometers away with fights involving imperial-levels. People will find out about us sooner or later. It’s just a matter of time,” Bloody voiced a realistic opinion.

“I’ve thought about what you said, but I didn’t expect it to come so soon.” Lin Huang frowned. “How about we get them to kill underground organization members whenever they encounter one? They’ll kill them if they’re capable to and they’ll avoid them if they’re unable to fight them. We won’t fight if we encounter any non-underground organization members. We’ll avoid them entirely.

“Also, handle their bodies cleanly and don’t leave any traces so that we won’t bring any unnecessary trouble to ourselves.”

Chapter 844: Golden Cicada Substitute

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

It was a windy night.

Wang Xu stood next to a beast’s carcass whose head was severed. He took out a piece of paper from his Emperor’s Heart Ring and wiped his demigod relic, the Waning Moon, that was covered with blood.

The Waning Moon was a scimitar that resembled a crescent moon.

Wang Xu had this mid-grade demigod relic scimitar customized especially before he entered the Fallen God Land. He had spent almost all of his savings on it.

However, he thought it was worth it. He had gotten the hang of it these days and felt that his ability had elevated like never before.

A ferocious glow was glistening on the silver saber body after the blood was wiped off.

As he put the carcass away, he tossed the paper onto the ground and was ready to leave. Just as he was turning around, Wang Xu suddenly felt a stirring force coming from far away.

“Is that a fight between imperial-level crimson gold-rank powerhouses?!” He lifted his head and looked towards the direction of the force while showing hesitation on his face.

He would have definitely avoided such a situation in the past. The reason being, he had just broken through to imperial-level crimson gold-rank less than half a year ago. The chance of him defeating an imperial-level crimson gold-rank expert was extremely slim.

Wang Xu was in a pickle for a moment as he looked at the Waning Moon in his hand. Eventually, he made up his mind as a fierce gleam flashed through his eyes.

‘Those who have guts will benefit while the timid ones starve. I might not lose even if I fight him now. Moreover, since both of them are fighting now, I’ll just hide while waiting for them to finish. By then, I’ll reap what’s left without putting any effort in.’

Wang Xu put the scimitar away as his thoughts flowed. He then hovered in the air and flew quickly towards the source of force.

His black robes seemed to be invisible in the night sky. However, the white circle on the back of his vest stood out. There was a purple crow standing on a branch in the circle and it seemed lively as if it were alive.

His collar that was lifted fluttered in the wind. There was a purple metal piece the size of a thumb inside the collar. Like the crow on his trench coat, the metal piece was a purple crow.

Sensing the force that was getting more and more intense, Wang Xu slowed down and flew lower.

After flying for around 800 kilometers, he finally saw the duo that were fighting.

It was an imperial-level crimson gold-rank human fighting an imperial-level crimson gold-rank monster.

The human was covered in black robes which made it hard to identify which organization he came from. His weapon was a demigod longsword relic and he had extraordinary abilities.

Meanwhile, his opponent was a Seventails Scorpion, a poisonous undying monster.

This monster had a super regenerative ability whereby it could recover from almost any wound immediately. The only way to kill such a monster was to destroy its heart.

The black-robed man seemed to be aware of that, so he had been trying to aim for its heart. Unfortunately, the monster had a seamless defense.

Both man and monster seemed to fight equally as they had powerful abilities.

Wang Xu realized that the difference between him and the old-time imperial-level crimson gold-rank powerhouse was very clear now. Even with the Waning Moon, he would still rank slightly below average.

However, he did not plan to leave just yet. Instead, he proceeded to hide in the bushes a couple of kilometers away and hid his aura as much as he could.

The fight between man and monster went on for some ten minutes while the black-robed man’s stance turned weak all of a sudden.

‘What happened? Is he poisoned?’ Just when Wang Xu was in doubt, the black-robed man began to retreat quickly. He was retreating towards the direction where he was hiding.

‘Sh*t!’ Wang Xu did not think that the man had noticed him. He thought the black-robed man might have been poisoned and attempted to flee since he could not defeat the monster, and just so happened to run towards his hiding place.

The Seventails Scorpion caught up with the black-robed man as soon as he began to run.

However, the black-robed man was simply dodging the monster’s attacks or running towards some other direction instead of retaliating.

Tail whips struck through the air continuously, creating massive potholes in the ground.

The black-robed man happened to deflect one of the attacks from where it was and slammed towards where Wang Xu was hiding.

Feeling helpless, Wang Xu retreated immediately and managed to dodge the attack.

Although he dodged the Seventails Scorpion’s attack, Wang Xu had revealed himself.

“Brother, you’re finally here!” The black-robed man shouted to Wang Xu suddenly, “Help me quickly. Let’s get this monster together!”

The Seventails Scorpion began to attack Wang Xu right away as soon as it heard that.

Wang Xu only snapped back to his senses after a while of being stunned. He did not expect his plan of waiting for free fortune to end up making the Seventails Scorpion thinking he was the black-robed man’s partner. He was being attacked just like the black-robed man was.

“I know you’re hiding here to wait for the reward, but there’s nowhere for you to escape now,” said the black-robed man through voice transmission, “Let’s kill it together and half the reward. Or you don’t have to agree to my plan. I’ll just retreat now and you won’t get anything.”

“Sure, let’s kill it together!” Although Wang Xu agreed to him, he had another plan in his head.

‘Since you’re poisoned anyway, we’ll kill the monster together, then I’ll kill you,’ he thought to himself.

“You’ll contain its tail and I’ll find ways to attack its heart.” The black-robed man came up with a plan immediately.

“Why don’t you contain its tail instead?” Wang Xu was a little reluctant.

“Your scimitar’s more suitable for defending a wider range while my sword’s more suitable for a focused attack.”

Wang Xu had nothing to retort back to the black-robed man. The reason why he had picked the scimitar as his weapon was because of its powerful cutting ability and indeed, he had a defensive saber skill that was suitable for a scimitar of such form.

Feeling helpless again, Wang Xu charged towards the Seventails Scorpion.

After blocking the Seventails Scorpion’s tail whip attack, Wang Xu felt a sense of threat coming from his back as he was thinking about what he should do to the black-robed man after killing this monster.

Just when he wanted to dodge, the Seventails Scorpion’s tail came whipping before him and he had nowhere to run.

In the next second, a silver ray pierced through the left side of his chest.

As he was going out of consciousness, he heard a voice by his ear, “I’m sorry. I wasn’t poisoned at all. I pretended to retreat so that I could end you first before I could fight this Seventails Scorpion in peace.”

After killing the core member of the Purple Crow, the black-robed man did not even glance at the body and proceeded to fight the Seventails Scorpion.

Around half an hour later, the Seventails Scorpion become the second dead body on this battlefield.

The black-robed man took off his hood and picked up Wang Xu’s scimitar. His face then turned into Wang Xu’s instantly.

Lin Huang grinned as he nodded, watching the result of this battle 10,000 kilometers away.

“The Evil Dominator’s performance isn’t too shabby. He killed an imperial-level crimson gold-rank and imperial-level yellow gold-rank in the past two days with the help of Bloody. After obtaining two Golden Cicada Substitutes, he possesses the ability to kill imperial-level crimson gold-ranks now. If he takes his trump card out, he’ll be able to fight imperial-level yellow gold-ranks,” Lin Huang said.

“Unfortunately, the Golden Cicada can only make human substitutes. Otherwise, he’d have at least ten imperial-level crimson gold-rank monster substitutes. Although the Evil Dominator doesn’t have such a limitation, he has a time restriction. The two skills have flaws of their own,” Bloody commented.

Lin Huang smiled without saying anything. The Evil Dominator would be almost invincible if there were no flaws in either skill.

Lin Huang had both of the skills while his Evil Blood Substitute was exactly the same as the one the Evil Dominator had.

However, his Golden Cicada had been extracted from the Evil Dominator’s body by Xiao Hei back then. It was the lower-end version which he could only use three times per day*.

Lin Huang did not really care about the substitute’s ability back then. After all, the substitute had not exactly been powerful when he had used it to kill an evil spirit type of monster as it just seemed to be harder to be defeated.

However, its terrifying ability seemed to be coming out as his ability elevated.

Just like the Evil Dominator which was on immortal-level rank-9, his ability would elevate to imperial-level yellow gold-rank as soon as he summoned the imperial-level yellow gold-rank substitute. It was many times more powerful than his own combat strength.

‘Looking at my current body strength, I could bear an imperial-level yellow gold-rank’s substitute forcefully which is a rank higher than the boost using the knight’s skill. Moreover, the Golden Cicada can copy the substitute’s inheritance, memory, and abilities completely…’ A new idea popped into Lin Huang’s head instantly as he thought about this.

“Bloody, please look for some imperial-level crimson gold-rank sword cultivators from an underground organization for me. I would like a few of them, also some imperial-level black gold-rank sword cultivators as well!”

*Translator’s note: (details in Chapter 769)

Chapter 845: We Didn’t Hit It Off

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Ever since entering the Fallen God Land the past half a month, Han Jie’s journey had been a smooth sailing one.

As a Duke of Dynasty, the members from the other organizations would avoid him no matter what kind of monsters he was hunting.

Although his combat strength was only on imperial-level crimson gold-rank, which was the lowest among the 20 imperial-level Dukes from Dynasty who entered this round, even some imperial-level yellow gold-rank powerhouses dared not challenge him for prey due to the golden cape he was wearing.

Once, he even encountered an imperial-level yellow gold-rank from the Hunter Association, but the person did not fight him.

“This Fallen God Land’s such an amazing place! I’ve already killed more than 20 imperial-level crimson gold-rank monsters in the past 20 days while I’ve already killed up to 100 imperial-level black gold-rank monsters. I’ll make a clean cut of tens of billions of Life Crystals just by selling all these monster carcasses. With the extra reward, I’ll make at least hundreds of billions…” Han Jie grinned while looking at the corpse wearing a trench coat under his foot as he spoke.

The body was lying facing him, and there was a logo of a purple metal crow on the collar.

As a member of an underground organization, although his main goal was to kill monsters every day, Han Jie did not let go of other organization members whenever he encountered one. No matter if it was members of the union organization or an underground organization, he basically destroyed everyone that he could defeat.

The body below his feet was the fifth imperial-level black gold-rank powerhouse that Han Jie had killed ever since he arrived at the Fallen God Land. Three days ago, he attacked an imperial-level crimson gold-rank powerhouse from the Union Government when the person was fighting a monster. Eventually, he killed the powerhouse.

Everything in the person’s Emperor’s Heart Ring naturally belonged to Han Jie eventually.

“I’ll make billions selling these human bodies as puppets!” After browsing through the items on the body, Han Jie was planning to let go of them.

As a member of Dynasty, he did this kind of business frequently. Even if it was a naked corpse, he would sell everything he could possibly retrieve from the body.

In reality, all organizations would recycle dead bodies and bury them. Since there were few human corpses with high combat strength, the selling price was many folds higher than monster carcasses of the same level.

Although Lin Huang would take everything from the dead people that he killed too, he had never done any business selling human bodies.

“Who is that?!” Just when he was ready to leave after putting the dead body away, Han Jie lifted his head all of a sudden and looked towards one of the directions.

A man in a black trench coat walked over, and he had a purple crow pin on his collar too.

Han Jie was stunned for a moment when he saw the person’s attire. After all, the imperial-level black gold-rank powerhouse that he had just killed was from the Purple Crow and now, he was caught by someone else from the same organization.

He was slightly relieved after sensing that the person had the same aura as he did, which was imperial-level crimson gold-rank.

“Brother, I killed him because he attacked me first.” Han Jie turned the tables around before anything could happen.

“Really? I might believe it if you’re from a union organization,” said the man in the trench coat as he walked towards Han Jie slowly.

Han Jie knew that what he said was hard to believe.

Dynasty was worthy of being called the No. 1 underground organization in Division 3 with which other underground organizations were unwilling to have any conflicts. Even an imperial-level yellow gold-rank Purple Crow member might not attack Han Jie if they bumped into each other, let alone an imperial-level blank gold-rank member.

“So what do you want? To avenge him?” Han Jie had his guard up slightly, but he still thought it was quite impossible for the person to attack him.

“Why would I do that? I wasn’t close to him.” The man in the trench coat shook his head while smiling. “Let’s just share 50% of the reward since he belongs to the same organization as I do.”

“What makes you think that you deserve that? I was the one who killed him. You did nothing and you’re asking for 50% of the reward?!” Han Jie scoffed in disdain. It was clear that the person did not plan to attack him, so there was no need for him to be afraid of him. “I’m leaving now. Don’t tell me you’re going to stop me?”

“I won’t stop you, but I’ll tell on you.” The man in the trench coat continued to grin. “The father of this person you killed is a demigod while his brother’s in this ruins as well. He’s an imperial-level purple gold-rank powerhouse. What’re the odds of you walking out of this Fallen God Land alive when I tell them who the murderer is? Even if you manage to survive the remaining two months or so, do you think Dynasty would protect you if a demigod demands for you by then?”

“You…” Han Jie was sweating profusely when he heard this revelation. He had no idea that he had killed such a prominent person. However, he now had the intention to kill this black-robed man before him.

“Naturally, I won’t sell you out as long as you give me 50% of the reward. I’d be asking for death if I did that,” proceeded the man. “I’ll give you a minute to think about it. You can reject me, then I won’t ask you to stay. I’ll leave and report about you.”

“How do you want to do it? He only has one Emperor’s Heart Ring.” Han Jie chose to compromise temporarily while looking irritated.

“Give me the Emperor’s Heart Ring. I’ll give you half of the contents after I unlock it.”

“No way. What if you ran away after taking the Emperor’s Heart Ring from me?” It was clear that Han Jie did not trust the man in the trench coat before him.

“Don’t worry. I’ll definitely share half of the items with you. I don’t want you to turn the tables around and tell people that I killed him when you get out of this place.” The man looked down and glanced at the time on the Emperor’s Heart Ring. “Also, you don’t have any other choice now. You only have 30 seconds. I’ll leave if you don’t decide.”

“Fine, I’ll give you the Emperor’s Heart Ring!” Han Jie tossed the Emperor’s Heart Ring at him while looking reluctant.

Just when the man reached out to grab the ring, Han Jie moved all of a sudden. He tore towards the man in the trench coat while unsheathing his battle sword in an instant.

A fleeting green sword ray flashed through the air and arrived at the throat of the man in the trench coat while the Emperor’s Heart Ring was still in the air.

 

However, an intense sense of danger came at this moment.

Han Jie saw a black ray radiating through the air and the man passed him in the next second.

He felt a devastating pain radiating from his chest at the moment.

Han Jie looked down and suddenly noticed a gash which appeared on his chest without even realizing it. The wound went through his chest and his heart beneath it was crushed.

As his vision was fading slowly, the voice of the man in the trench coat came from behind faintly, “Your sword’s too slow…”

The man’s body changed as soon as he put away his sword into its sheath. Soon, the person took on Han Jie’s appearance.

“This is the sixth imperial-level crimson gold-rank substitute now…” A cloud of purple mist came out of the sleeve of the substitute Han Jie slowly. “You could’ve killed him in one hit. Why did you have to talk so much with him?”

“Why must we use violence so soon? I think it’s nice to chat. I might let the person go if I encounter someone who hit it off with me,” said ‘Han Jie’ while smiling. “Too bad this fella from Dynasty didn’t hit it off with me.”

Bloody roughly understood what Lin Huang said.

Not everyone who joined an underground organization was wicked. Some of them were forced to enter, but they were not evil just like Xiao Mo, the boy Lin Huang met in the Purple Crow training camp.

The reason why Lin Huang chatted with the person was because he was deciding if he should kill him.

For the past few days, Lin Huang had been killing underground organization members. Since the Golden Cicada secret skill would give him their inheritance, everyone he killed was sword cultivators.

There had been 17 imperial-level black gold-rank sword cultivators and six imperial-level crimson gold-rank sword cultivators who died by his hand in the past few days.

With his current ability, he could even fight imperial-level white gold-ranks with an imperial-level crimson gold-rank substitute. If not for the heavy burden an imperial-level crimson gold-rank substitute brought him and the time limitation that was restricted to half an hour, he could even kill imperial-level white gold-rank powerhouses.

It was not difficult for him to kill an imperial-level crimson gold-rank powerhouse in one blow under the condition of using an imperial-level crimson gold-rank substitute. Meanwhile, he could kill imperial-level yellow gold-rank powerhouses within 10 swings of his sword.

Apart from the increasing number of substitutes, the three combat souls in Lin Huang’s body completed their breakthrough two days ago. They elevated from imperial-level black gold-rank to imperial-level crimson gold-rank.

His overall ability was considered a rank higher now.

However, his summoning beasts began to face trouble.

Due to the ever-growing expansion of human exploration areas, Bai and the rest could not avoid encountering humans.

Their hunting speed was plummeting more and more in the past week due to the encounter with humans.

As Lin Huang asked them to avoid members from the union organization as well as the underground organization members that they could not fight. This caused their activity range to be more and more limited.

Moreover, the army Kylie led was too large. They were sought after a couple of times as their whereabouts were revealed by the humans’ detection relics.

Her Nephilic Judge army had close to 200 triple mutated Nephilic Angels now. With Bloody’s improved battle formations, they could even fight imperial-level crimson gold-rank monsters.

However, there were some imperial-level yellow gold- and white gold-rank people who joined two of the hunting expeditions looking for Kylie and her army.

If not for her mini world, Kylie and her Nephilic Judge army would have been caught alive.

Although the rest of his summoning beasts were doing better than Kylie, Lin Huang speculated their hunting range would be completely occupied by humans in a few days. By then, he would have to turn them back into cards.

However, Lin Huang did not consider that as a setback. What upset him was not having any news about the God Figurines since the day he set foot in the Fallen God Land over 20 days ago.

“Did Chan Dou trick me?” Lin Huang even began to suspect that Chan Dou had misled him about the God Figurines being in the ruins just to trick him to enter.

Chapter 846: A Sudden, Unusual Phenomenon

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

As time passed, it had been more than a month since Lin Huang entered the Fallen God Land.

A few days ago, since the number of human explorers was constantly growing, Bai and the rest did not have any place to hunt. Aside from Bloody, the rest of the summoning monsters had been recalled back into their card forms.

More than 200 Nephilic Angels from Kylie’s army had completed their triple mutation. Despite the fact that all the Nephilic Judges had completed the upgrade, her army was still incapable of fighting a yellow gold-rank.

However, there were not only yellow gold-ranks but also white gold and purple gold-ranks.

Although Kylie was unwilling to do so, she still accepted Lin Huang’s arrangement.

Lin Huang promised her that she would be summoned again when the time was right.

He had never stopped hunting for those who majored in swordsmanship from the underworld. The number of inheritances he obtained increased as well.

The number of legendary-level sword skills he used to have was less than 80 and there were more than 180 of them now after they had been multiplied.

He even obtained pseudo-mythical-level sword skills: the Void Sword and the Instantaneous Slash.

The Void Sword was a very powerful skill, but it was rather different from Killer. Killer leaned more towards a close-range attack whereas the Void Sword tended to be a Life Power attack. Of course, it would not be weak if one were to use it for a close-range attack.

As for the Instantaneous Slash, it was a completely different kind of sword skill as there was only one hit for the skill. It was an extremely fast attack.

Lin Huang had practiced sword skills of such speed before. He had even derived many legendary-level sword skills from Thunder Sting. The sword skill that he recently used to kill the crimson gold-rank was the new version of Thunder Sting.

However, be it the speed of the sword, its cutting ability or its speed when the attack was launched, it was more than 10 times faster than the new version of Thunder Sting.

Despite the fact that the skill consisted of only one single hit, its power was tremendously terrifying. Even Lin Huang dared not fight such an attack.

Lin Huang felt that the Instantaneous Slash would be on par with the mythical-level skill. The one who created this skill was definitely on god-level.

The scariest part of Golden Cicada was that not only did it allow others to learn the skill, but it could be directly inherited and the memory could be retained.

In the past 10 days, each time when Lin Huang killed a person who mastered swordsmanship, he was able to completely obtain their experience in sword training. He could even get the hang of the skill.

Lin Huang’s Sword Dao was improving by the day.

Aside from taking a good rest, he basically did only three things every day which were to proceed with his journey, kill sword majors, and go for sword training.

As for Bloody, it had stopped hunting for the Parasitic Puppet.

Its responsibility was to provide Lin Huang with a hunting target and parasitize the sword majors that had been killed by Lin Huang. Also, it had to look for the God Figurine which nobody had any idea about.

Lin Huang practiced his sword skills as usual tonight.

Before midnight, a silver glow lit up abruptly in the sky as if there was an explosion.

The silver cloud lingered in the air and did not clear away even after a long while.

Seeing what just happened, Lin Huang stopped his sword training and asked, “Bloody, can you see what’s happening out there?”

“A beam of light was released from the foggy area which I’ve no way of exploring. However, there are no changes in the fog.” Bloody’s Leech Pods could immediately identify where the silver glow originated from. “Hey, it’s kind of weird.”

“What happened?” Lin Huang immediately asked.

“There are people heading over there right now. It seems like even the people that are tens of thousands of kilometers away from the ruins have witnessed this phenomenon,” Bloody explained.

“If it’s bright enough, there’s nothing unusual about everyone seeing it. Just like how we’re able to see the sun and the moon.”

“However, it seems like only immortal- and holy fire-levels can see it. The imperial-levels can’t seem to see the strange phenomenon at all,” Bloody said, projecting a few of the imperial-levels. “The three imperial-levels are less than 100 kilometers away from the fog. The one who’s farthest away is only 300 kilometers away. Look at their reactions.”

From the projection, the three of them ignored the strange phenomenon above them. It seemed like they could not see it at all and they were busy getting their work done.

One of them ran in the opposite direction while another one was setting up a tent, getting ready to sleep. The third one got into an intense fight with the imperial-level monster.

“Aside from the three of them, it seems like all the imperial-levels are unable to see this phenomenon. They’re busy with their own work and none of them even bother to look in the direction where the strange phenomenon occurred.” Bloody projected more than 10 of the imperial-levels being monitored.

Lin Huang frowned. “Only those who’re below imperial-level are able to see it? That’s really strange.”

“Do we need to go and have a look?” Bloody asked. It was feeling worried because its Leech Pods were unable to explore that area.

“Let’s go!”

Lin Huang nodded his head without a moment of hesitation. “Chan Dou mentioned that the God Figurine is in the ruins. I guess he’s not bluffing as he won’t tell such a joke. You haven’t been able to find anything regarding the God Figurine for the past month. That being said, the God Figurine might be in an area that you’re unable to detect. If we don’t go and have a look, it’s a waste coming to the Fallen God Land.”

“However, I think it’s too risky as it’s an area that can distract the imperial-levels.” Bloody tended to avoid those unknown areas.

“The rest of the immortal-levels have the courage to go. Why don’t we give it a try? We’re capable of fighting a white gold-rank. Even if we encounter any danger, I guess our survival rate will be higher than the immortal-levels’.” Lin Huang was quite confident in his abilities. “In addition to having so many God Crashers in our hands, even if we happen to bump into demigod-levels, we can fight them. If we’re in really great trouble, we can even hide in Kylie’s mini world.”

After listening to what he said, Bloody frowned. It knew that Lin Huang had made up his mind and very unlikely that it could do anything to change his decision.

The foggy area was at the northwest of the ruins. It was an extremely huge stretch and was approximately half the area of Earth.

It had attempted to explore this region with its Leech Pods previously. However, once the Leech Pods entered the foggy area, they would completely lose connection. This was the reason it wanted to stay away from this region all the time.

However, the appearance of the phenomenon indicated that there might be hidden danger lurking there. It could be an opportunity for Lin Huang as opportunities were often accompanied by risks and it was inevitable.

If Lin Huang managed to obtain the God Figurine, he would level up to immortal-level rank-4 and advance to the intermediate level of an immortal-level. Its combat strength would be upgraded to black gold-rank as well. It would not be a problem to parasitize a yellow gold-rank by then. The upgrade in its abilities could even surpass more than that.

As it thought of this, Bloody no longer stopped Lin Huang from entering the area. However, it made a request. “We can go, but you have to promise me that you’ll quit if one of your clones dies.”

“Sure,” Lin Huang promised.

If it was so dangerous to the point that his crimson gold-rank clone died, he would probably perish there.

After coming to an agreement, the two of them departed.

Lin Huang then summoned Thunder and headed towards the fog.

Chapter 847: Tan Lang

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

It was past ten in the morning on the second day when Lin Huang arrived at the entrance of the foggy area.

The entrance of the foggy area was located in a valley and there were already hundreds of people gathering there.

Lin Huang saw a familiar person there — Huangfu Lin.

He saw her even before they entered the ruins. However, Huangfu Lin did not notice him among the crowd.

Startled was her first reaction when she saw Lin Huang. His presence was out of her expectations. However, after sensing his powerful aura, her frozen reaction turned into shock in the blink of an eye.

“It’s been awhile.” Noticing that Huangfu Lin had seen him, Lin Huang knew there was nowhere he could run, so he walked towards her while smirking. The reason he did not really want to meet Huangfu Lin, his old friend, was that of the illogical elevation rate of his combat strength.

As expected, the first thing Huangfu Lin said was, “Your combat strength’s on immortal-level rank-3 now?!”

The last time they had seen each other was merely half a year ago and Lin Huang’s combat strength had been only blue flame-level back then. Leaping five ranks above within half a year and elevating by a level from holy fire-level to immortal-level in between, his cultivation speed was so fast that it was absurd.

“Yeah, I just happen to have great luck.” Lin Huang nodded while smiling. However, that simple response halted the topic completely. What he really meant was that he did not want to talk about it.

Huangfu Lin did not ask further so she changed the topic, “You shouldn’t have come even though you’ve advanced to immortal-level rank-3.”

“I just thought of taking a look since there was quota available.” Lin Huang did not bother to explain although he knew he was being underestimated. After all, apart for a couple of people on holy fire-level, his combat strength was indeed the lowest among all who were present. It would be ridiculous for him to tell Huangfu Lin that he was actually so powerful that he could even fight an imperial-level white gold-rank.

“Why is everyone gathering at the entrance but not going in?” Lin Huang changed the topic to avoid Huangfu Lin discussing his combat strength.

“We can’t go in yet. The area covered in white fog seems to be blocked by a layer of invisible film. You’ll know what I mean if you touch it with your hand,” Huangfu Lin explained. She had arrived a few hours before Lin Huang, so she already found out what had happened.

“So what do we do now? Do we just wait?”

“The people from the Union Government said the defense layer will only be effective for 24 hours. It’ll fade away automatically 24 hours later. We can go in by then.” It was not confidential information, so naturally, Huangfu Lin did not have to keep it a secret.

After chatting with Huangfu Lin for a while, Lin Huang saw Shen Tao from the Heaven Alliance descending from the sky, riding on a beast.

Shen Tao noticed Lin Huang in the crowd in an instant.

After putting the beast away, he walked towards Lin Huang in large strides. He only noticed how extraordinary Lin Huang’s combat strength was when he got closer. “Lin Xie, your combat strength…”

“Just luck.” Lin Huang shook Shen Tao’s hand while smiling.

Compared to Huangfu Lin, Lin Huang had fought alongside with Shen Tao at the tribal land before, so it was natural for them to be closer.

“You guys go ahead.” Huangfu Lin nodded to both of them and left.

Shen Tao took a glance at Huangfu Lin, then patted Lin Huang’s shoulder and gave him a thumbs up when she left far away. He said softly, “That chick’s not bad!”

“You’re thinking too much. We’ve just met once before this.” Lin Huang shook his head while smiling.

“Let’s meet more frequently. Work harder. It’s possible to meet her for another 10 or 20 times,” Shen Tao winked as he spoke, “Let me tell you, you must be clingy if you want to win a lady’s heart.”

“I don’t need you, a single dog, to teach me how to woo a lady. I’m afraid I’ll have an even harder time to find a girlfriend after listening to your advice,” Lin Huang attacked him verbally in a straightforward way.

Shen Tao had nothing to say.

“What do you guys know about this foggy land?” Lin Huang said through voice transmission all of a sudden.

“We know nothing,” Shen Tao replied in all seriousness, “The Fallen God Land is a grade-7 ruins. The Union Government in Division 3 is keeping it confidential. Although the ruins opened on a major scale, they only provide us with the most basic information.”

“Although they’ve only explored less than a fifth of the ruins throughout the past hundreds of years, the Division 3 Union Government must have collected quite some information. As for this foggy land, I think the people from the union organizations such as the Union Government and Hunter Association might know something about it,” Shen Tao voiced his speculation.

Recalling what Huangfu Lin had said earlier about the people from the Union Government knowing the defense layer would only be effective for 24 hours, Lin Huang figured that Shen Tao’s speculation was accurate.

“Let’s not talk about this. Since you’re here, let’s join the rest, so we can take care of each other.” Shen Tao pulled Lin Huang towards the direction where the few Heaven Alliance members were gathering. “Big Brother Tan Lang’s here too. He’s been wanting to meet you.”

Lin Huang had only heard of Tan Lang but had never seen him before. In reality, Lin Huang had never seen any of the three Heaven Alliance deputy chiefs before and had no idea how they looked like.

Five Heaven Alliance members arrived before Lin Huang and Shen Tao did.

Seeing Shen Tao walking over with Lin Huang, the five of them from the Heaven Alliance were observing him while feeling a little curious. They did not expect Lin Huang, who was only holy fire-level from what they recalled, to elevate to immortal-level rank-3 now. They were all surprised by the elevation speed of his combat strength.

Lin Huang scanned through the five of them. Although all of them had a combat strength of immortal-level rank-9, he recognized Tan Lang immediately.

He was not as tall as Lin Huang had imagined at a little over 1.8 meters, which was similar to Lin Huang’s height. He wore a black, slim-fit trench coat with a stand-up collar while his body was rather skinny. However, Lin Huang was almost sure that he was the kind who appeared skinny but was chubby underneath those clothes.

His skin was tanned. Although his appearance was not considered handsome, he was very manly. There was a scar across the left side of his cheek which was almost three centimeters long. However, instead of making him hideous, it made him cool.

Although they were all immortal-level rank-9s, Tan Lang, who was clad in black, had the strongest aura which was much more powerful than the three of them among the four.

‘He’s indeed on par with the Seventh Prince from Dynasty,’ Lin Huang secretly commented.

Apart from Tan Lang, there was a baby-faced person who made Lin Huang do a double take. That person’s aura was just slightly weaker than Tan Lang’s, but it was clear that he was a supreme genius too.

His age should be at least 28, but he looked only 17 or 18 at the most. He dressed like a student with a gentle smile on his face which made him look rather harmless.

“He disguises himself to be harmless, but he’s actually not.” Lin Huang secretly gave him a label.

“Hi, everyone. My name’s Lin Xie.” Lin Huang walked forward and greeted them.

“Tan Lang.” Tan Lang was the first one who shook hands with Lin Huang.

“Li Jia.” The baby-face was the second.

After some introduction, Lin Huang found out that Tan Lang and Shen Tao both came from Division 1 while Li Jia came from Division 2. Among the 10 quotas that the Heaven Alliance were given, Chan Dou gave two to Division 1, one to Division 2 while the remaining seven were assigned to the local members from Division 3.

“Lin Xie, I know that your ability surpasses your combat strength. Although your combat strength’s only immortal-level rank-3 now, your real ability might be more powerful than many immortal-level rank-9 powerhouses. But there are many immortal-level rank-9 supreme geniuses who are coming into the ruins this time. Some even have the ability to kill imperial-levels while there might also be many imperial-level powerhouses who participated this time. To put it simply and although it was rather displeasing to hear, your ability’s not worth mentioning among these people.”

“Chan Dou gave me a mission before I came. If I happen to see you in the ruins, I must do my best to protect you. He thinks you’ve got the potential to be one of the Five Princes and hopes you won’t die here. I don’t want to judge if what he thought is accurate or not but I don’t want to fail my mission. Hence, I’m giving you a mission here. The mission sounds simple, but it might not be easy to fulfill: protect yourself,” Tan Lang said in all honesty and straightforward.

Although it was rather displeasing, it was clear that he came with good intentions.

“Alright then.” Lin Huang had no idea how to respond to what Tan Lang said.

“Don’t leave the group once we get into the foggy area. We must move together. If we’re separated, you must follow me first, Li Jia second and Shen Tao third…”

“Understood,” Lin Huang agreed while nodding calmly.

Chapter 848: Bug Master

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

At midnight, the silver clouds in the sky dispersed slowly while the phenomenon finally began to fade away

Everyone knew that the isolation layer lingering around the foggy area should be waning soon.

There were already over 5,000 human powerhouses gathered at the entrance of the foggy area. It surpassed half of the total people who had entered the ruins.

Among the thousands of people, most of them were immortal-level rank-9 powerhouses while a minority of them were holy fire-levels. There were even over 30 imperial-level powerhouses among them.

These imperial-level powerhouses could not witness the phenomenon in the sky at all.

Most of them came here following the news spread by the immortal-level members from the same organizations. Although the communication function on the Emperor’s Heart Ring could not be used, these major organizations had their unique way of communicating. However, it was not as convenient as the Emperor’s Heart Ring which had a limited communication range too.

There was also a minority of them hunting around the area and could not help but go there to check it out after noticing many immortal-level powerhouses gathering towards the direction.

Among the crowd, many of the immortal-level powerhouses were complaining discreetly. With more than 30 imperial-level powerhouses there, they might not even get a piece of monster bone if they got in.

The phenomenon in the sky was fading quickly and many of them began to touch the invisible isolation film at the entrance of the valley.

Soon, someone in the crowd shouted, “The isolation layer’s gone!” The people became excited when the scream rang out while many of them began to rush into the valley.

Lin Huang and the rest were behind them. They saw many of them entering the entrance and disappearing into the fog. In a while, they could no longer sense any of their aurae.

The members of the few major organizations under Union Government did not rush in like the rest. Instead, they got their members to join hands and walk into it in groups.

“I don’t think the people from the Union Government joined hands because they’re afraid they’d be separated. They might be transported when they go in,” Tan Lang voiced his speculation as he watched.

The rest agreed with what he said.

Just when the 10 of them from the Heaven Alliance joined hands before entering, an imperial-level powerhouse dashed towards the entrance all of a sudden.

However, the person seemed to have smacked himself onto an invisible glass and his face deformed a little when he bounced back.

Everyone was stunned to see that.

“Is the entrance closed?” Someone shouted in surprise.

An immortal-level member from a group extended his hand and passed through the layer of isolation easily. He then disappeared with his team into the fog.

Later on, other immortal-level groups went in one after another and none of them faced any obstacles.

Imperial-level powerhouses then extended their hands, but they realized that they were blocked out. It was clear that the foggy area stopped imperial-levels from entering.

An imperial-level white gold-rank powerhouse frowned a little and appeared next to a group of immortal-levels that was going into the valley in a flash. He grabbed one of the group members’ hands. “Bring me in!”

The member dared not deny him, so they had to bring him in.

The group of five passed through the isolation layer very soon, but when it was the imperial-level white gold-rank’s turn, he let go of the immortal-level’s hand that he was holding automatically when he bounced back.

Looking at that, the rest of them basically confirmed one thing. This foggy area prohibited imperial-level powerhouses from entering.

Tan Lang and the few of them were secretly pleased.

Without the participation of imperial-level powerhouses, it would mean they were the most powerful powerhouses in the area. They would not have to tiptoe around other powerhouses when they were looking for resources, so it was undoubtedly great news for them.

The rest of the imperial-level powerhouses looked extremely horrified. They had spent the entire day waiting outside, but they could not enter in the end.

“Let’s go!” Staying there and watching would only make the imperial-level powerhouses even madder, so Tan Lang urged them to join hands and dash towards the entrance.

The ten of them made it through the isolation layer successfully as they vanished into the fog.

All Lin Huang felt was that he passed through a layer of white fog and his vision became clear all of a sudden.

The fog around vanished completely and the ten of them appeared on a field while joining hands. There was a fresh floral aroma in the air.

There was a red and a purple crescent moon hanging in the sky above their heads, giving the night a mysterious cast.

“It kind of looks like we’re back in our world,” Shen Tao mumbled softly.

“Can we let go of our hands now?” Lin Huang turned to look at Tan Lang beside him.

After letting go of their hands, Tan Lang looked around before speaking, “There’s no one else’s aura around. We should be transported somewhere in the foggy area as a team while the other team should be experiencing the same thing.”

“Does anyone have any detection abilities or detection relics? Let’s see if there’s anything odd happening around here and see if there’s anywhere to rest our feet.”

“I’ll do it,” Li Jia walked out from the crowd and said to Tan Lang.

Tan Lang nodded. As the deputy chief of the Heaven Alliance, he had a rough understanding of his Heaven Alliance members. Especially before going there, he did his homework as he had gotten the list from Chan Dou beforehand.

Li Jia closed his eyes slowly. A while later, black, flying bugs that were the size of mosquitoes came out of his collars and sleeves. They flapped their wings and flew towards all directions.

“A Bug Master?!” Someone among the crowd shouted out loud.

Lin Huang was a little surprised too as it was his first time seeing a Bug Master.

He had heard of such profession before whereby he knew that a Bug Master was even rarer than an Imperial Censor, but he had never seen a real one.

In the ancient times, a Bug Master was actually a branch under an Imperial Censor — a Bug Imperial Censor.

However, due to further studies into varieties of bugs, the Bug Imperial Censors came up with all sorts of new abilities and new battle modes. That was how they got their independence from the Imperial Censor and a new profession was born — the Bug Master.

Bugs had the most varieties among all monsters, hence the battle style of a Bug Master was more colorful than an Imperial Censor’s. They walked on a different path which only got further away from Imperial Censors. Now almost everyone agreed completely that the Bug Master was an independent profession which was different from the Imperial Censor.

To Lin Huang, Li Jia’s detection skill was similar to Bloody’s Leech Pods. However, the number of bugs was limited while its detection range was smaller. Their detection accuracy was definitely below Bloody’s. After all, Bloody possessed Supreme Intelligence which allowed it to control information coming from tens of millions of Leech Pods. Li Jia definitely would not be able to do that.

However, Li Jia had released up to 10,000 bugs now. It proved that his soul was much more powerful than those who had the same combat strength as he did.

Around some ten minutes later, the bugs came back and entered Li Jia’s body. He then opened his eyes slowly while looking a little peculiar.

“What’s wrong?” Tan Lang asked immediately.

“There are natives here…” What Li Jia said shocked everyone. He then proceeded to give a detailed explanation, “In our 10 o’clock, 120 kilometers away is a little town where people live. They’re all ordinary people who have no cultivation base and they dress rather strangely. They kind of dress like those ancient people, like the kind of clothes I’ve seen in the museum…”

Chapter 849: Little Town

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Li Jia’s discovery was rather unexpected. Even Lin Huang was a little surprised by that.

“Are you sure it’s a mistake? Are they really human and not disguised by monsters?” Tan Lang still thought it was a little unbelievable.

“They should be real. It’s clear that the buildings in the town are made by humans and it’s brightly lit now. I don’t think monsters are able to build such a human town.” Li Jia was sure of that.

“Could they be survivors from the ancient times?” Shen Tao could not help but frown. “It’s possible that the people who survived during the war gathered and bred, then slowly built a town of their own.”

“It’s certainly possible theoretically.” Lin Huang nodded to agree with what he said.

What Shen Tao said was logically reasonable.

“Maybe this foggy area happens to protect them and prevents outsiders from interfering with their lives. Maybe that’s how they managed to live for generations until now,” Li Jia added.

His voiced thoughts made everyone believe those people might really be survivors of ancient times.

“Then, let’s check it out together. We need a place to rest anyway, so we can ask around about the area as well.” Tan Lang came up with a plan after some thinking. However, he did not forget to remind them, “No matter whether these people are ancient time survivors or not, we should have our guard up. Remember, we’re still in grade-7 ruins. It’s possible for anything to happen.”

After that piece of short advice, Tan Lang then led them to fly towards the town ahead.

Soon, they saw the town that Li Jia was talking about.

The town was small. It was approximately 40 to 50 square kilometers large. The buildings in the town were almost all low houses with red bricks and green tiles. There were hardly any double-story houses.

There were red lanterns lit up at the entrance of every house. The fire burned inside the lanterns; the light did not come from energy stones.

“I’ve seen such lanterns at the museum before. I remember them being used by the commoners in the Middle Ages as a source of light,” recalled an immortal-level rank-9 powerhouse, “I think the fuel is made of animal fats.”

They descended slowly from the sky.

“There really isn’t any energy around. The people around here should be ordinary people who have no cultivation base.” Tan Lang finally proved that Li Jia’s speculation earlier was accurate. He was relieved after finding out about it himself.

Meanwhile, Lin Huang noticed a 12 or 13-year-old boy looking at them descending from the sky through the window in a house not far away.

He turned to look at where the young boy was. The young boy hid his head under the window immediately and only revealed half of his head slowly to peek at Lin Huang and the rest after a while.

Lin Huang smiled while nodding at him. The boy was stunned for a moment and seemed troubled for a while before he opened the window and shouted at Lin Huang, “Are you guys immortal?”

Lin Huang and the rest were stunned to hear his question.

“Kid…” Lin Huang held Shen Tao’s shoulder just when he was going to say something and shook his head.

Lin Huang took a step forward and said to the young boy with a smile, “We’re not immortal, we’re cultivators.”

“But I saw you guys fly from the sky. It means all of you are immortal!” The young boy said with conviction.

“You mean like this?” Lin Huang hovered from the ground slowly and flew towards the window.

“You guys really are immortal!” The young boy’s eyes lit up and he was no longer scared upon realizing that Lin Huang was friendly. He then said to Lin Huang in excitement, “You guys must know how to kill demons then!

“Demons?” Lin Huang was stunned again hearing that, but he responded, “How does the demon you mentioned look like?”

“They…” The young boy was interrupted all of a sudden.

“Xiao Yu, who are you talking to?” A woman suddenly opened the door to the young boy’s room.

“Aunty…” The young boy turned to glance at the door immediately.

“Who are you?” The woman looked at Lin Huang warily. She then stepped forward and pushed the young boy behind her.

“Aunty, he’s an immortal!” The young boy named Xiao Yu exclaimed excitedly.

“Immortal? More like a con man!” The woman seemed even more skeptical now.

“He’s not a con man. I really saw him fly!” Xiao Yu explained on behalf of Lin Huang quickly.

“Are you leaving? I’ll call the police if you don’t!” The woman threatened Lin Huang fiercely. She was sure that Lin Huang was a con man.

“Sis, please calm down. I just want to ask about the demons.” Lin Huang wrung his hands helplessly.

“Oh, you want to know about the demons. You really think you’re immortal, don’t you!?” The woman said in disdain, “I’ve seen so many scammers in my life. You’re not the only one who can fly. Do you think I don’t know the tricks that you guys play to scam people?! If you really are who you said you are, then make me fly! I’ll believe that you’re immortal if you make me fly.”

“If you say so.” Lin Huang could not help but smile hearing what the woman said.

He extended two telekinetic threads which tangled around the bodies of the woman and the young boy. Lin Huang moved his fingers slightly while the duo’s feet floated from the ground.

“I…” The woman wanted to say something but she realized that she was hovering in the air. She swallowed the words that were coming out of her mouth.

“I’m flying!” Seeing that he was flying, Xiao Yu was cheering and dancing with excitement.

“So, can we talk now?” Lin Huang said with a smirk after a while, waiting for the woman to snap out of her bewilderment.

“You really are an immortal…” The woman mumbled softly.

After opening the door and letting Lin Huang and the rest into the house, she realized that there was not only one immortal who came, but ten of them.

“Please… Please take a seat…” The woman brought all of the stools that she had at home out clumsily, but there were only eight of them. She was panicking even more now.

“Sis, don’t panic. We only have a few questions.” Lin Huang knew the woman might be spooked.

“Please do shoot away. I’ll definitely tell you everything that I know.”

“Well, we’ve just arrived at this town, so we’ve no idea what’s the situation here. I heard from Xiao Yu that there are demons here. Could you tell me more about that?” Lin Huang went straight to the point while Tan Lang and the rest listened carefully because they did not want to miss a thing.

“Oh, so you guys are here to kill the demons! That’s great!” The woman was relieved and started rattling on like a bullet train. “There’s this Black Dragon Mountain near our town and there’s a super powerful demon on the mountain. I heard it’s a black, one-eyed dragon. The black dragon has tens of small demons as its minions and each of them is insanely strong. Even the officers from the local authority can only fight equally with the demons. One small demon can take on three officers. Those small demons would come into town to devour people every three to five days. My poor son was taken away by a wolf demon even though he was hiding under the bed…”

“Sis, how do those small demons look like?” Lin Huang asked after listening to the woman narrate her story in tears.

“All of them look different. Some look like monkeys, some like wolves, and some of them are like humans and they walk as we do… No matter what, they have sharp teeth and claws. They’re stronger than tigers!”

Lin Huang looked at Tan Lang and the rest. They were almost sure that the demons the woman was talking about should be monsters.

“Sis, why don’t all of you move away since there are demons in this town?” Lin Huang proceeded to ask.

“Wouldn’t it be the same no matter where we move? Which town doesn’t have demons now? I heard that people from a town died of no reason every day before this. And nobody even saw any demons in there. They had no idea where to hide, so all of them ran away. At least, we can still see the demons here and we can hide somewhere,” explained the woman helplessly, “The cities are safe, but they’re too far away. We don’t have the money to live there!”

“Why are the cities safe?” Now, Lin Huang finally understood that this town was not the only town in the foggy area. There were many towns, and there were more people living there.

“There are walls around the cities and guards. Of course, they’re safe!” The woman did not know much about the cities.

After confirming those pieces of information, Lin Huang asked a couple more questions and found out that her knowledge was limited. It was clear that she had heard rumors and hearsay, some of which were exaggerated and fake. Moreover, she told many things that were unrelated to what Lin Huang asked, such as Xiao Yu’s parents being captured by the demons and that she was taking care of him out of pity…

Since he was sure that he could not ask any further, Lin Huang and the rest then left her house.

Chapter 850: The Remnants of the Immortals

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

The Good Luck Inn was one of the rare double-story buildings in town.

Lin Huang and the rest stayed in the biggest dormitory in the inn.

“Now, we’re basically sure that there are many humans living in this foggy area as well as a massive amount of monsters around. People are living in two types of places. One is the town that we’re currently in where security is low while the other one is the cities, which is the safest place. They’re similar to the human footholds in our world, just that the classification isn’t as detailed.

“There are many towns while the guards depend mainly on the officers from the local authority. The officers are called ‘warriors’ and their aura is basically below holy fire-level. People who are more powerful than warriors are called immortals. To the commoners, only immortals can fly. I’m guessing that the ‘immortals’ they’ve labeled are cultivators above holy fire-level, but they have a different cultivation system than we do.

“There are only 12 cities with high walls surrounding them and immortals guarding them. They have to pay a high accommodation fee in order to live in the city in return for the protection. Hence, most of the people who can’t afford it only live in the towns. Although the towns are invaded by demons, it’s still much safer than living in the wild.

“The demons that they talk about are monsters of our world. These monsters are scattered all over with many varieties. Most of them consume humans and other animals. A minority of them don’t consume humans, but they’re not exactly friendly to humans since they hunt and kill them for fun.

“These demons live in groups while many of them are of different kinds whereby the most powerful one will be the leader. Some of the demon leaders can even speak the human language. These demons usually live near towns where humans are easy prey. Apart from that, places with more monsters have a head honcho which they call a demon king. The demon king is in charge of a territory.

“According to what the local authority said, demon kings have powerful abilities while some of them can even kill immortals. From my speculation, those so-called ‘demon kings’ have a much more powerful ability than the leaders. They should have immortal-level combat strength, but we’ve no idea for now if there are any monsters that are more powerful than demon king.”

Tan Lang summarized the information that he had gathered one by one. He had gotten most of them from the local authority earlier.

After leaving Xiao Yu’s house earlier, Lin Huang and the rest headed straight to the local authority. The officer saw all ten of them flying, so he told them everything that he knew and answered every question quickly. The information they obtained from him was much more detailed and clearer than what the woman had told them earlier.

“I guess only ‘immortals’ can give us more detailed information. I think we should head straight to the city to know more about the situation from the ‘immortals’,” Li Jia suggested.

“The cities have curfews at midnight when people are prohibited from entering and exiting. The officer said that demons that fly won’t be able to fly into the cities as there’s a prohibitive barrier in the sky above the city wall. We can only head over there when the city door opens tomorrow morning. Let’s rest well tonight.” Tan Lang came up with a plan.

“I think we should clear the demons nearby before we leave,” Lin Huang who was standing aside said all of a sudden.

The rest looked a little uneasy upon hearing what he said.

Lin Huang could roughly figure out what they were thinking about. After all, the people in this world were different from theirs. It was unnecessary for them to protect the people, so they were unwilling to put in any effort to help.

“I’ll take a walk. You guys rest well.”

“I’ll go with you.” Seeing that nobody responded, Shen Tao patted his thighs and stood up.

“It’s alright. I’ll go on my own. I’ll come back in a couple of minutes,” Lin Huang rejected Shen Tao’s kind intention.

He could feel that Shen Tao was actually unwilling to do it, but he initiated accompanying him just so Lin Huang did not seem so awkward alone.

Lin Huang hovered into the sky after getting out of the inn and headed towards the Black Dragon Mountain.

Li Jia shook his head and said while smiling and watching Lin Huang vanish into the sky, “Young people just can’t sit still.”

“You look even younger than him,” Shen Tao teased.

“I’m already 28, which means I’m already an uncle,” Li Jia wanted to look mature, but his baby-face was not convincing at all.

“Your constipated face makes you look nothing older than 18!” What Shen Tao said made everyone burst out laughing.

Black Dragon Mountain was less than 300 miles from the town, so it only took Lin Huang a short while to arrive above the mountain range.

The mountain range stretched up to a hundred miles across and it was filled with dense, lush greenery and hulking trees.

“Bloody, release your Leech Pods and see what’s the deal about this world. Also, look where those demons are hiding.” Lin Huang had hidden Bloody when he was with Tan Lang and the rest, so he did not get it to release its Leech Pods to look around to prevent Bloody from exposing itself.

Although the Leech Pods could hardly be discovered under usual circumstances, it was possible for one to see them if the distance was very close. After all, Tan Lang’s ability was considered the best of the best among immortal-level powerhouses while Li Jia had extraordinary spiritual energy since he was a Bug Master.

Although they were all from the Heaven Alliance, Lin Huang did not want them to find out about Bloody’s skills. Hence, he used an excuse to get away from the people before getting Bloody to release the Leech Pods. Killing the demons surrounding them was just something he would do conveniently.

Bloody found a demon after releasing its Leech Pods for a moment.

“Found it!” Bloody projected the demon right away.

Lin Huang raised his brow slightly as he watched the projection. “I thought it would either be a dragonkin or a sky dragon. Hmm, it’s just a boa…”

Lin Huang remembered the woman from Xiao Yu’s house claiming that the demon on the Black Dragon Mountain was a black, one-eyed dragon. However, what Bloody projected was a humongous black, one-eyed boa.

The boa was hundreds of meters long and had a green eye with black scales all over its body. Half of its body was hidden in the swamp, which was pretty terrifying to look at.

“Its combat strength’s just purple flame-level on the holy fire-level. It should be double mutated judging from the intensity of its aura,” Bloody voiced its observation.

“Cast parasites on it then. See if there’s any useful information in its head.”

Such a holy fire-level monster was too easy for Bloody to cast parasites on since Bloody was on immortal-level rank-9.

The Leech Pods went into the demon’s body like a piece of cake without it even realizing at all. Its consciousness was taken away and replaced in the blink of an eye.

It only took less than three seconds to retrieve its memory. Just like that, Bloody received everything in its head.

“This demon’s called the Dark Water Boa. It has a demon king behind it called the Bewitching Spider Lady. It’s a monster that can turn into a human lady. The Dark Water Boa received her orders to watch the Black Dragon Mountain. It has to hand 100 humans to her to consume on time every month. The Bewitching Spider Lady has 16 leaders guarding each spot under her. The other leaders have a similar ability as the Dark Water Boa.”

“It seems like this Bewitching Spider Lady should have a combat strength of immortal-level. It’s very possible that it’s triple mutated since it can turn human.” Lin Huang nodded lightly after hearing the report and asked immediately, “Is there anything about the demons above the demon king?”

“No. According to the memory of this Dark Water Boa, the Bewitching Spider Lady has the most powerful ability it has ever seen. It has some images of the Bewitching Spider Lady fighting human powerhouses from this world in its head. Looking at the images, the Bewitching Spider Lady’s ability should be mid-immortal-level while the human powerhouse who fought her should have a similar ability as hers.”

“So, there are immortal-level powerhouses among those ‘immortals’…” For now, Lin Huang could only be sure that there were immortal-level powerhouses in this part of the world, but he could not confirm if immortal-level rank-9 was the highest combat strength in this area. He was not even sure if imperial-level powerhouses existed in this world.

“This monster doesn’t know much about human cultivators. It’s killed a few ‘immortals’ but they had inferior abilities,” Bloody proceeded.

“How about the remnants of those ‘immortals’? Did it keep them?” Lin Huang asked not because he figured there might be something valuable from those immortals. Rather, he wanted to learn more about the human cultivators from those remnants.

“It kept them. They’re all hiding in his stomach,” Bloody confirmed, “I’ll bring it over.”

A while later, the black boa whizzed in front of Lin Huang and spat everything out of its stomach.

Apart from a few weapons and armors, Lin Huang saw a few rings.

He extended telekinetic threads to retrieve the four rings into his palm and began to take a good look at them.

“These should be storage rings to store items, but their craftsmanship is completely different from an Emperor’s Heart Ring.” Lin Huang attempted to insert his Life Power, but the rings showed no response. He then used Divine Telekinesis which activated the rings in an instant. He began looking into the space of the rings right away.

“I see. They can be activated with spiritual energy.” Lin Huang was elated by the unexpected discovery.

As opposed to the Emperor’s Heart Ring, these storage rings would not be locked after the owners died. Instead, the rings would go back to ownerless mode. They would be activated again as soon as spiritual energy was inserted while the items inside could be explored and taken out as one wished.

Soon, a gray crystal that was the size of a thumb appeared in Lin Huang’s hand. This was what occupied most of the four storage rings.

“It has a massive amount of active energy, but it’s completely different from Life Power.” Lin Huang studied it for a while with Divine Telekinesis. “All the crystals are of the same standard. If I’m not mistaken, this should be a currency similar to the Life Crystal which could be the exclusive currency used among the immortals. Looking at its active energy, the immortals’ cultivation system here should be completely different from ours.”

After peering into the storage rings for a while, apart from the gray crystals, Lin Huang found many tiny bottles too. There were tiny pills with different colors in those bottles. There were many metallic and non-metallic materials as well as some herbs.

Eventually, a couple of crystal clear jade slips caught Lin Huang’s attention.

“Are these accessories?” Lin Huang was a little perplexed as he picked up a jade slip. “But there’s no hole, so how does one wear it?”

Lin Huang could not help but release his Divine Telekinesis to see if he missed out any details. However, an extensive amount of information rushed into Lin Huang’s head as soon as his Divine Telekinesis touched the jade slip.

“Ice Heart Tactic?” After taking some time to read all of the information, Lin Huang came to a realization. “These jade slips contain methods and tactics!”

Chapter 851: City

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Lin Huang used his Divine Telekinesis to inspect the jade slips one by one and found out that all six of them had cultivation methods recorded in them. However, those were incomplete methods which could only get someone to immortal-level at the most.

The system of these cultivation methods was completely different from the usual cultivation system outside. Instead of elevating by killing monsters, it involved internal cultivation.

They belonged to the same system as the Twisted Fate Scripture Lin Huang had cultivated before, but these methods had a much lower threshold than the Twisted Fate Scripture.

One must know that Lin Huang had to cultivate the Army Attack Tactics to level 10 before he could learn the Twisted Fate Scripture. The threshold stopped most cultivators out there from developing the method.

However, the difficulty in cultivating the methods recorded in these jade slips was just slightly higher than cultivating the Army Attack Tactics. Basically, anyone who was on holy fire-level was eligible to cultivate them.

To Lin Huang, it was easy to cultivate these methods to immortal-level. However, since the method content did not include anything beyond immortal-level, it prevented him from identifying if these methods were similar to the Twisted Fate Scripture whereby they required the cultivator’s innate ability to develop them. He had no idea what level those methods could get a person to.

If it could get someone to virtual god-level and the requirement was low, it would mean that many powerhouses would be elevated to virtual god-level in the future.

It was great news to a certain extent because the more powerhouses there were, the more force could be used to fight the Abyss Brink crisis.

However, it was bad news for Lin Huang and Mr. Fu.

Mr. Fu was the only Virtual God in the continent (at least for the moment). Although he was dying, he could still fight anyone who was less powerful. His rivals and those who wanted him dead dared not do anything to him for now.

As soon as the new cultivation system spread out, there would be a boost in Virtual Gods in the world and Mr. Fu would be in danger. Lin Huang had yet to mature entirely. Even though he could fight imperial-level powerhouses by using all of his trump cards, he could not fight demigods at all, let alone virtual god-level powerhouses who were even more dominant.

Lin Huang was thinking a lot while holding the jade slips in his hand. Eventually, he decided to keep this a secret for the time being. He planned to discuss this with Mr. Fu after getting out of the ruins to decide what to do about them then.

Whether others would discover this secret or not, there was nothing that Lin Huang could do about it. All he could do was to let God take the wheel.

After putting the jade slips away, Lin Huang glanced at the Dark Water Boa while a ferocious gleam flashed through his eyes. “Kill it. Kill those little demons too. Spare no lives.”

In the next second, the one-eyed boa’s humongous head exploded right away. Its headless carcass fell onto the ground while black blood spilled all over the place.

The heads of the tens of small demons more than ten kilometers away exploded like watermelons falling from a high place. All of them turned into headless carcasses.

After putting the one-eyed boa’s headless carcass away, Lin Huang brought Bloody back to the inn.

A couple of them had fallen asleep at the inn.

Tan Lang sat on the couch as he was on night watch duty. Seeing Lin Huang coming in, he asked while keeping his voice low, “Is it done?”

“Mm-hmm.” Lin Huang nodded.

Li Jia sat on the bed with his legs crossed, only opening his eyes upon hearing their conversation. He looked at Lin Huang with a rather surprised expression. “So quickly?”

Although the Black Dragon Mountain was not far from them, it was rather difficult to find monsters on the mountain range that stretched a hundred miles across.

“I was rather fortunate to have found that snake monster not long after I got there.”

“It’s not a sky dragon?” Shen Tao, who was sitting aside, asked.

“No, it’s a boa.”

“Go to bed early. Get a good night’s rest. We’ve no idea what’s the condition in the city that we’re going to tomorrow.” Tan Lang stopped the few of them from chatting.

Lin Huang had something on his mind and had no mood to chat anyway. He went to a vacant bed and lay on it after taking his jacket off.

Shen Tao and the rest figured he must be tired, so they did not bother him.

Lin Huang did not sleep at all that night. Although his eyes were shut the whole time, he was thinking about the methods and tactics in the jade slips.

They headed straight to the closest city the next morning the moment the sun rose.

They had no idea that the news about the immortals coming to town had spread early that morning.

The innkeeper and the servant found out that the ten paupers who were staying in the dormitory last night were immortals.

However, Lin Huang and the rest had arrived in the city when the news spread.

Cities would collect fees from commoners and warriors, but it was free for immortals.

Lin Huang and the rest found out from the local authority in the little town last night that immortals held an exclusive privilege in this world and they were treated properly everywhere they went.

The ten of them waited for the city gates to open before they descended from the sky, attracting many to watch. The city guards welcomed the ten of them into the city, smiling all the way.

The reason they did that was because they did not have any local currency. They had borrowed money from the officer at the local authority to pay for their accommodation at the inn and stayed in the cheapest dormitory. If they did not reveal their immortal identities, they would need to pay a large sum to enter the city.

“Can we go to a market or an auction? At least, get us some local currency. It feels terrible to not have any money,” Shen Tao was the first to suggest as soon as they entered the city.

“I agree. Experiencing the life of a pauper for a night is more than enough,” Li Jia added immediately, “Also, I want to stay in a room of my own tonight. You guys have stinky feet.”

“That excludes me. My feet have no odor,” Shen Tao defended himself immediately.

“I’m talking about you. The odor on your feet’s stinkier than salted vegetables that have been marinated for 18 years.” Li Jia glared at Shen Tao when he said that.

“Alright, stop fighting. Let’s go to the market and get some money from selling monster carcasses.” Finally, Tan Lang could not take it anymore and interrupted the conversation.

Soon, they found a market that was exclusively for immortals. Each of them took out a few monster carcasses that they had killed in the ruins and sold them for money.

The first monster carcass Lin Huang brought out was the one-eyed boa that Bloody had just killed by making its head explode. He then brought out two high immortal-level monsters carcasses which heads were destroyed and could not be used for parasitization.

Looking at the monster carcasses in their mortifying condition, Tan Lang and the rest looked at him rather oddly.

“I didn’t know you’ve got a fetish of blowing monsters’ heads up,” Shen Tao rubbed his nose and teased softly.

Lin Huang did not bother to explain anything. He had always assumed the identity of a psychic on the Stairway Tree. A psychic who used flying daggers to attack a monster’s crucial parts such as its head would indeed cause its head to explode.

The currency used to purchase monster carcasses at the market was the same currency used by immortals: the spirit stone.

It was the gray crystal that Lin Huang had found in the storage ring earlier.

A high immortal-level monster carcass could be sold for between one to ten million spirit stones.

After selling just a few monster carcasses, they went from broke men to rich men.

Having gotten their hands on spirit stones, Tan Lang stayed at the market for a little while and brought the rest to an inn called the Hidden Dragon Inn after speaking to some people around.

He heard that the owner of the Hidden Dragon Inn was a powerful immortal and that the inn was most frequented by immortals in the entire city. They only took spirit stones at the inn and no commoners’ currency was accepted.

As soon as they stepped into the inn, Lin Huang and the rest sensed the cultivators’ aura. There were holy fire- and immortal-levels.

However, the most powerful powerhouse there only had an aura of mid-immortal-level, which was far behind Tan Lang and the rest who had a combat strength of immortal-level rank-9.

Tan Lang gave Shen Tao a signal upon noticing many cultivators ogling them.

Shen Tao took a step forward and spread out his terrifying immortal-level rank-9 aura in the inn. The inn then fell into dead silence from the pressure.

Some of them who had been looking at them with ill intentions seemed petrified now.

After sending out the intended warning for a moment, Shen Tao withdrew his aura and turned to the counter. “Servant, get us ten premium rooms!”

The servant actually had a combat strength of golden flame-level, but he was nothing compared to the ten of them.

He was shocked after sensing Shen Tao’s aura earlier. He only snapped back to his senses when he heard Shen Tao speaking to him, so he greeted him passionately.

After checking them in, he eagerly brought them to look at the rooms on the third floor right away.

He only returned to the counter on the first floor to work on other stuff after they had picked ten rooms that they were satisfied with.

“So, what should we do now?” All ten of them gathered in Tan Lang’s room.

“We’ll wait for the people from the government residence. According to the person I spoke to at the market, the governor will meet any immortal-level powerhouses who enters the city. It should apply to us.” Tan Lang got Shen Tao to release his aura intentionally so that the news of their arrival would spread out faster.

“As soon as we manage to speak to the governor, many of our questions will be answered.”

Chapter 852: Hidden Sect

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Just as Tan Lang expected, the deputy governor Lu Wen visited Lin Huang and the rest early the next morning. He invited them to the government residence.

Naturally, they did not decline the request since that was their intention. They then followed Lu Wen and the two guards in silver armor into the monster car.

The monster car appeared to be the size of a horse carriage from the outside, so theoretically, it would be a little crowded carrying four adults.

Lin Huang and the gang hesitated a little when they were getting in. After all, there were ten of them in the group. Together with Lu Wen and the other two, that would make a total of 13 of them. It would be too small for all of them to squeeze into even if they were to stand. However, they went in anyway upon seeing Lu Wen waving at them from the car.

As soon as they stepped into the monster car, they realized that the interior of the monster car was a rather spacious guest lounge.

Lu Wen poured some tea for them and began to chat while smiling.

Lin Huang and the gang learned about the rough situation going on in the city from him.

The city’s authority body was called the government residence. It was similar to the Union Government outside, which was the proper, official organization of this world.

The city was run by a governor and his two deputies. The three of them were picked among the most compelling powerhouses in the entire city.

Apart from the governor and the deputy governors, there was another institution called the elder institution which was made of 12 powerhouses.

The elder institution was responsible for making decisions about a variety of meetings and they shared the same voting power as the governor and the deputy governors.

One could say that the development of the entire city was set and guided by the governor, the deputy governors, and the elder institution.

Apart from that, there were also immortal guards responsible for protecting the city.

The qualification to be an immortal guard was rather low as one could enroll themselves as long as they had holy fire-level combat strength. The entry assessment was very simple; more than 95% of holy fire-level powerhouses could pass. Only a minority of them who had zero battle experience would be disqualified.

Naturally, that was just the requirement for ordinary immortal guards.

There was an independent legion among the immortal guards called the honorary immortal guards that specially took immortal-level powerhouses in. It was said that they would only be eligible to join if they brought back three immortal-level demons that they had killed themselves.

The two guards wearing silver armor who had come to the inn with the deputy governor were the two captains of the honorary immortal guard. The duo had a high immortal-level combat strength. Judging from their aura, they were not much weaker than the deputy governor.

The monster car was driven by a humongous deer beast. Although the deer beast had no wings, it could leap into the air and fly. Despite carrying more than ten people in the carriage, it seemed to feel no weight and its feet seemed to move as light as a feather.

In less than three minutes, Lin Huang and the gang arrived at the entrance of the government residence in the monster car.

As soon as the monster car stopped, Lu Wen guided them into the government residence. The two immortal guards in silver armor stopped following them and stayed at the entrance.

Lu Wen led them into the meeting room and got someone to serve them tea.

“Please wait for a moment. The governor will be here soon.”

Not long later, a tall, middle-aged man walked towards them just when the tea was done being served.

The man had a similar height with Shen Tao, which was over 1.9 meters, but he was much more muscular. Even his aura was alike; he was on his way to break through to imperial-level.

Lin Huang and the rest knew who he was without guessing as soon as he opened the door.

The man chuckled happily and introduced himself, “I’m Zhou Yun Long. Welcome to all of you!”

“This is our governor,” Lu Wen stood up and added.

Lin Huang and the rest stood up to greet him.

After some light banter, Zhou Yun Long sat in the main seat while the rest remained where they were sitting.

“I realized that all of you have extraordinary abilities. I wonder where you’re from.” Zhou Yun Long went straight to the subject in an instant.

Tan Lang grinned as all of them had discussed what they were going to say yesterday.

“Governor, the ten of us come from a secret sect called the Heaven Alliance. Our sect has been hiding in the forest since tens of thousands of years ago and the door has just been opened recently. The ten of us are sect brothers. We’re the first batch from the sect to come into the world after so many years.”

“A secret sect from tens of thousands of years ago?!” Zhou Yun Long and Lu Wen’s pupils shrunk when they heard this.

A sect that had existed for tens of thousands of years must be terrifyingly powerful.

Zhou Yun Long might not believe it if someone else had said this, but apart from Lin Huang, the rest of them had the same aura as he did. Two of them had a more powerful aura than he did, which made him sit on the fence now.

After taking a careful look at the ten of them, Zhou Yun Long’s eyes eventually landed on Lin Huang.

“Is this little brother from the same sect as all of you?”

Just when Tan Lang was going to speak on behalf of Lin Huang, the latter gripped his shoulder immediately.

“It seems like you’re skeptical of my ability, governor?” Lin Huang took a step forward and smirked faintly. He did not say much.

“Come out, Herculean King!”

As soon as he spoke, a gigantic golden ape appeared in the courtyard out of nowhere while its terrifying aura shot up into the sky.

The Herculean King roared ferociously into the sky at Lin Huang’s subtle cue. The entire government residence shook when the roar was released. The roar even spread throughout the entire city, shocking many.

Many of them thought there was a demon attacking the city, so the immortal guards dashed towards the source of the roar and surrounded the Herculean King that was even taller than the buildings in the city.

“Everyone, retreat!” Zhou Yun Long told them to back off as he watched.

The reason why he ordered them to do so immediately was that he was really afraid the giant ape would kill his immortal guards. He clearly sensed that this giant ape’s aura was just as mighty as his.

“So, this little brother’s a Demontamer. It’s I who was being rude,” Zhou Yun Long apologized to Lin Huang and he looked at him rather respectfully now. He was not terrified by Lin Huang’s ability, but he was respectful of a Demontamer.

Even Lin Huang had no idea that there were very few Demontamers in the world and the few top sects desired such people. Currently, there were only two top sects that had one Demontamer each, and they were pampered and trained by the sects at all costs. The two Demontamers had more powerful abilities than Lin Huang did, but their demon-taming ability was not as impressive as how he summoned this giant ape.

Since Lin Huang had revealed his hand, Zhou Yun Long and Lu Wen stopped doubting their identities as hidden sect disciples.

After recalling the Herculean King into its card form, Lin Huang noticed that Tan Lang and the rest were looking at him in a rather odd way.

He had summoned the Herculean King at the Stairway Tree before. Back then, the Herculean King’s combat strength was only immortal-level rank-2 and many of them knew that. Now that just half a month had passed, the Herculean King’s combat strength had skyrocketed to immortal-level rank-9. Such an acceleration in combat strength was incredibly terrifying.

Since confirming Lin Huang and the gang’s identities, Zhou Yun Long’s attitude was much friendlier now.

“I wonder how can I help you since you came to our Gushan City.”

“We’re just here to ask around. We want to know how has this world changed. After all, our sect’s been hidden for tens of thousands of years. We have limited information about the outside world,” Tan Lang finally told them their objective of being there.

“That’s easy. I’ll give all of you access to the library and the government residence’s database. All of you can come anytime you want to access the information. You can ask Lu Wen directly if you’ve any questions at all.” Zhou Yun Long made the arrangements immediately.

“Governor Zhou, there’s something that I think you should know,” Tan Lang called out to Zhou Yun Long who had stood up and was about to leave.

“Yes?”

“Actually, we’re not the only hidden sect that’s been coming into the world recently. There are tens of them. A portion of them are like us who want peace, but there are some of them who are devil cultivators. They kill and take, and they are the essence of evil.”

The devil cultivator that Tan Lang was talking about were the people from underground organizations. As soon as they discovered human cities, they would definitely kill and loot without respecting the house rules. The devil cultivators of this world were a similar bunch and they would do anything for resources.

“There are hidden sects with devil cultivators?!” Zhou Yun Long frowned when he heard the news. He asked after a moment of silence, “How are the devil cultivators’ abilities compared to all of yours?”

“Their personal abilities are similar to ours, but there are some devil sects that have released many disciples this time… Possibly up to 100 people.” Tan Lang shared this information because he knew that they were fighting the underground organizations. As soon as they bumped into each other in this world, a battle was unavoidable, so he thought of asking for the locals’ help.

“100 people who have similar abilities as you all do.” Zhou Yun Long inhaled sharply.

“Although we don’t have cold, hard proof whether these devil cultivators are on their way, I thought it’s better for you to prepare ahead before the battle so that you won’t be caught off-guard when the devil cultivators arrive.”

Chapter 853: The Immortal Path That Was Cut Off

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

For the next two days, the ten members of the Heaven Alliance were divided into two groups.

A team of three stayed in Gushan City mainly to source for information while the other group of seven was assigned the task to hunt for items. They came to an agreement whereby the seven of them would share the items they found with all ten of them aside from the monster carcasses that they obtained.

Lin Huang chose to stay in Gushan City where he was responsible for collecting information at the library.

For the past two days, apart from the library closing at night, Lin Huang practically did not leave the library at all. With Bloody’s help, he was wading through a sea of information rapidly each day.

This world had a completely different cultivation system compared to the outside world.

In the outside world, life wheel-level cultivators were called “mortal-levels” in this world. The more common name for them would be “warriors”.

People on one level higher, which was holy fire-level, were called “mortal transformation-levels” there.

Meanwhile, immortal-levels were called “ascendance-levels”.

People on the next level, which was imperial-level, were called “human immortals”.

Lin Huang read about even higher levels which were the earth immortals and the celestial immortals. He speculated that those were Virtual Gods and True Gods in the outside world.

Since the ancient books had such complete recording on different levels, Lin Huang was sure that there must have been Virtual Gods and even True Gods in this world. However, he was not sure if there were any now.

Ever since they entered the foggy area, the most powerful local powerhouse that Lin Huang and the rest had seen was just ascendance-level which was the same as immortal-level. They did not even see a single human immortal (imperial-level).

Full of doubts, Lin Huang skimmed through many other books, but he did not find any explanation about the disappearance of human immortals. Eventually, he had to ask Lu Wen about it.

Hearing the question, Lu Wen looked at him rather oddly, but he explained anyway, “You should know that people on ascendance-level will have to go on the Immortal Path to obtain immortal roots in order to elevate to human immortal-level, don’t you?”

“I know that.” Naturally, Lin Huang knew about the requirement to get to human immortal-level. “We’ve never seen any human immortals until now. Is it because it’s difficult to go on the Immortal Path?”

“Difficulty isn’t the only factor…” Lu Wen looked helpless as he let out a long sigh while shaking his head. “Throughout these tens of thousands of years, nobody came back alive after taking the Immortal Path. Not even one!”

“How can that be?!” Lin Huang was shocked to hear that.

“Aside from humans, the same goes for those demons too. Everyone who goes on the Immortal Path goes missing,” Lu Wen continued further, “There has been a rumor in the past 1,000 years that the Immortal Path in our world has been cut off.”

“You mean there are no human immortals in this entire world?” Lin Huang queried immediately.

“I’m not sure if there’re any now.” Lu Wen shook his head, feeling helpless. “All I know is that there were human immortals in this world tens of thousands of years ago. Even more potent powerhouses existed. But one day, all the powerhouses above human immortal-level vanished out of nowhere. Later on, something happened to the Immortal Path. Since then, nobody has ever elevated to human immortal again. The stars above seemed to be cut off as well, so there’s no way for human immortals to elevate to earth immortals.”

“People on mortal transformation-level live up to 1,800 years, while ascendance-levels can go up to 3,000 years. No matter how powerful a human immortal is, he can only live up to 10,000 years. In order to live, they have to seal themselves. Since then, there’ve been fewer and fewer human immortals in this world. Now that tens of thousands of years have passed, nobody knows if those human immortals who sealed themselves are still alive. Furthermore, there are no longer any ascendance-level powerhouses who dare to go on the Immortal Path now.”

“Didn’t any human immortal try to take the Immortal Path to see what went wrong?” Lin Huang could not help but ask.

“Of course, there were. Many human immortals volunteered to take a look at it when the Immortal Path went wrong. But just like the ascendance-levels, none of them come back alive.”

Speaking to Lu Wen provided Lin Huang much more information that was not recorded on the books.

However, he had yet to confirm whether there were still any living human immortals in this world.

While Lin Huang had his hands full in the city, outside, Tan Lang and the rest did not stay idle.

The seven of them maimed and slaughtered all the way even when they encountered demon kings. Small demons were just appetizers to them.

Moreover, with Li Jia the Bug Master with them, they managed to dig out everything, no matter how secretively the demon kings and demon leaders hid their treasures.

In the short few days, the seven of them killed almost every single demon within a 1,000-kilometer radius around Gushan City.

They obtained over 200 storage rings alone.

In the middle of the night, the Heaven Alliance members sat in a circle once again.

Tan Lang took out all of the items they obtained and began to distribute them.

“I really couldn’t fight the complete ascendance-level monster that we encountered today. I might not really have been able to kill her if we didn’t fight her together,” Tan Lang could not help but lament over the rather unsuccessful hunting experience that happened that day.

“But there’s so many good stuff in her lair. I’m guessing there are three storage rings that belonged to powerful peak ascendance-level powerhouses. There are billions of spirit stones in the spirit cards and many rare metals too. There’s even a storage ring with a demigod relic!”

Although they had different cultivation systems in this world, the weapons and equipment could be activated and used through Life Power.

“I’ll give everyone the Life Crystals after I sell the demigod relic when we’re out. We’ll share the other items equally as we agreed. Put those items that you don’t want aside. Don’t throw them everywhere.”

After distributing the items, the remaining ones were just miscellaneous items.

Lin Huang collected all of the jade slips from the miscellaneous pile.

In reality, Li Jia had discovered the local cultivation methods in the jade slips on the first day. He was a Bug Master after all and he had extra sensitive spiritual energy compared to others. It was a piece of cake for him to find out about the secret.

However, the methods recorded in those jade slips could only get a cultivator to ascendance-level.

Furthermore, he had lost all interest in the jade slips since he found out that it had been tens of thousands of years since any human immortals appeared in this world.

However, those jade slips were treasures that were hard to come by to Lin Huang.

Since he was done browsing for the information two days ago, he began to run simulations of the methods from the jade slips and those that he had found in the library in his head. He wanted to know how it was like to cultivate them.

Surprisingly, he found out that the simulation of the methods boosted his proficiency in the Twisted Fate Scripture.

His cultivation of the Twisted Fate Scripture had been increasing bit by bit initially, but since he performed a simple simulation of the methods in the jade slips recently, his proficiency skyrocketed.

In those few days, he came close to the one million points required for the first rotation in the Twisted Fate Scripture.

Lin Huang used his Divine Telekinesis to read all of the jade slips as soon as he received them. He was surprised to find two methods that allowed one to cultivate straight to human immortal (imperial-level).

After the distribution of items, Lin Huang and the other two shared what they found for the day.

Meanwhile, Tang Ning, who was in charge of communicating with the government residence and market, broke a piece of bad news.

“The underground organizations are on the move. They’ve seized seven out of the 21 cities. The news was blocked a few days ago and was only spread out today. For now, we know that those underground organizations who have started wars include Dynasty, the Purple Crow, the Saint, and Charm…”

Chapter 854: Invasion

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

This happened a few days ago in North Sand City.

It was evening when Nie Jun returned to an inn in North Sand City after a whole day of hunting.

“Waiter, get me four catties 1 of oxen meat, three ounces of boiled peanuts, and a bottle of flower wine.”

That was a classic warrior’s meal.

However, Nie Jun was not a warrior. To be exact, he was not a warrior at that moment. He had been practicing martial arts for years and only joined a cultivation sect after spending 30 years in martial arts and advanced to mortal transformation-level.

Although he was already a great mid-ascendance-level cultivator, a warrior’s habit was forged in his blood.

He was not fond of staying in a crowded, luxurious inn with other cultivators. It was not that he had no spirit stones to spend; he despised talking about things cultivators were always going on about. Compared to that, staying with warriors gave him peace of mind.

Looking at those drunk warriors who were chowing down on meat and gulping swigs of wine, he felt like he was looking at the very person he used to be. However, those brothers who used to dine and drink with him had passed away. He could not find anyone who would drink with him now.

After ordering from the waiter, Nie Jun headed upstairs right away.

The waiter knocked on his door with a tray as the sky was getting dark.

“Sir, the food you ordered is ready.”

“Come in.”

The waiter opened the door and placed the tray on the table. He then turned around and left, shutting the room door as he went out.

Nie Jun stood up and walked to the food that was served on the dining table. He did not bother to use the chopsticks as he grabbed the sliced meat with his hands directly.

A mouthful of meat, a sip of wine, followed by a mouthful of appetizer.

Soon, the plates on the table were emptied.

After swilling the last drop of wine, Nie Jun put the bottle down and belched loudly.

Just when he was ready to get up, he felt a sense of danger coming from behind. Before he managed to react, a silver dagger was on his neck, causing him to sweat.

“Don’t make a sound and get up slowly.” A deep voice came from behind.

“Brother, if you’re robbing me, my storage ring’s on my left middle finger. Just take it. I promise I won’t come after you.” Nie Jun raised his left hand to show the attacker the storage ring on his left hand.

The reason he did that was because he was sure that the person was a professional assassin. Only a professional assassin would be able to find a place to hide himself perfectly in such a small room to the extent that Nie Jun did not realize his existence throughout his meal.

Looking at the person’s speed, his ability was definitely on par or even more powerful than him.

Pain flared from Nie Jun’s left hand just when he spoke.

“I warned you not to make a sound.”

Nie Jun looked towards his left hand and noticed that his left middle finger had been chopped off simply because he had spoken. The person was obviously ruthless.

Nie Jun’s heart sank to the bottom at that moment. Not letting him speak would mean there was no room for negotiation. He had met people of all walks of life during his 30 years in martial arts, so he roughly knew what kind of person he was dealing with from the signals the person sent.

‘It seems like I won’t be able to escape death today.’ Nie Jun forced a smile quietly and did not attempt to speak again. He knew the person would give him an even more intense warning if he were to talk again. The person might kill him right away.

“Pick up the plates and bring them to the door.”

Nie Jun placed the plates and wine bottle onto the tray as he was told. As he walked to the door and opened it, the dagger distanced from his neck all of a sudden.

Nie Jun’s eyes lit up, but he noticed that something was off just when he was going to run. A thread that was as thick as human hair wound around his neck.

“I’m glad that you didn’t do what you were attempting to do. Otherwise, your head wouldn’t be on your neck right now,” said the deep voice from behind.

Nie Jun was sweating all over his forehead. He just realized what had sliced off his finger earlier.

After opening the door, Nie Jun bent at the waist and placed the tray on the ground.

As he got up, a short blade appeared from his right pocket. He cut through the narrow space between his neck and the transparent thread. He squatted down as he did that, causing him to dodge the threat from the colorless thread.

Without the thought of fighting the man, Nie Jun pumped his legs in an attempt to run.

However, both of his ankles screamed immediately. His body lost balance and he slumped onto the ground.

At the same time, he finally saw how the assassin looked like. It was a skinny man who was covered in a black robe and wore a black mask on his face. There were two oval holes on the mask, revealing his black, cold and emotionless eyes.

“Smarty pants.” The man in the mask walked towards Nie Jun slowly.

Nie Jun lay in a pool of blood, appearing like he was dead inside.

After closing the door, the man grabbed Nie Jun’s collar and threw him onto the chair in front of the dining table.

Nie Jun had lost his will to fight since his legs were severed together with his chance to run. He just allowed the person to do anything to him.

The man took out a syringe from his storage ring and injected it into Nie Jun’s arm.

Without knowing what its contents were, all Nie Jun could feel was his whole body turning numb. Not only could he not speak at all, but he also could not even move a finger now.

Later on, he watched the man bring out a dagger and slice open his skull slowly…

Before his consciousness blacked out, he heard the man in the mask mumble faintly, “Let’s see if there’s anything that I want in your head…”

…

In the middle of the night, 20 people in masks wearing black robes gathered in a dark room. Although their masks were all black, each mask was of a different design.

“How’s the investigation going?” It was a lady who asked that question. There was a red ruby the size of a thumb at the forehead area on her mask.

“I’ve got something,” spoke up a skinny silhouette. His mask was exactly the same as the person’s who had killed Nie Jun earlier.

“I caught a fella who was on his own today. His combat strength is on par with mid-immortal-level aI found something pretty useful in his head.”

“They call people on imperial-level human immortals in this world. It has been tens of thousands of years since any human immortals have shown themselves, and there’s nobody who has elevated to human immortal-level for the past tens of thousands of years.

“Currently, the most powerful people in this city are the three governors who have a combat strength that’s on par with immortal-level rank-9. The three of them are the enemies that we must face.

“Apart from that, the people that we must be careful of should be the honorary immortal guards. It’s said that all the honorary immortal guards in every city have mastered battle formations and with their abilities, they can fight human immortals that are less powerful.”

“Did we alert anyone?” The lady asked.

“No, the earliest they’ll discover the body should be tomorrow morning,” said the skinny man confidently.

“Then, let’s do as we’ve planned. We’ll move out today.” The lady in the ruby red mask seemed to be the leader of the pack as she made all the arrangements immediately.

“There are only 20 of us from Charm who came in. We’re not like those major organizations like the Union Government, the Hunter Association, and Dynasty, so we have to try our best to minimize our losses in battles and maximize our advantages. After midnight, all of you will kill every living thing in the government residence as fast as you can and rob the treasury. Try to leave before the honorary immortal guards come.”

Chapter 855: We’re from the Heaven Alliance!

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

It was before daybreak in North Sand City.

20 black silhouettes gathered around the government residence quickly and hid in dark corners. Nobody noticed their existence since there was a wall outside the government residence.

“Go!” As a lady’s voice transmission came into their ears loud and clear, two silhouettes moved almost simultaneously.

Two black rays flashed through the air like needles.

In the next second, two honorary immortal guards that were guarding the door pressed their temples and collapsed onto the ground quietly.

Before they fell, the two black silhouettes dashed towards them immediately and dragged the two bodies into the bushes.

From attacking to handling the dead bodies, the entire process took less than two seconds.

After settling the guards, the 20 black silhouettes slipped into the government residence.

They slunk out of the dark corners and scattered around, beginning the official hunt.

In the government residence, the powerhouses, who were in deep sleep, died silently in a variety of ways.

Some of them had their heads severed right away, some had a blade pierced through their head while some had tiny needles stabbed through their heads. There seemed to be no wounds on the surface.

In the governor’s room, Wei Yun who was sitting with his legs crossed on the bed opened his eyes all of a sudden.

“Who is that?!” He fairly sensed that he was being watched by a poisonous snake in the shadows and would experience a fatal attack anytime.

“You’ve quite an extraordinary sensing ability…”

A black silhouette revealed itself from the shadows slowly. There was a black mask on her face and a red ruby mounted on the forehead of her mask.

“An assassin?!” Wei Yun’s pupils shrunk a little. Although he saw the lady before him, he did not sense her existence at all. Only a top professional assassin would be able to hide her aura to such an extent.

“You got that right. I’ll reward you for that!” The black-robed lady walked towards Wei Yun slowly, not seeming to be in a rush to kill him. “Why don’t you choose how you want to be killed?”

“I choose for you to be dead instead!” Wei Yun got up and launched his attack. He threw a hard punch at the lady’s face right away.

However, a silver ray lit the room up all of a sudden while a spike bayonet pierced through Wei Yun’s face.

The room fell into dead silence.

After removing the spike bayonet from Wei Yun’s face, the lady took out a white handkerchief and wiped it in her hand.

“I forget to tell you that I’m not only good in assassinating, but I’m also pretty good at fighting too.”

After wiping the blood off the spike bayonet, the lady then tossed the bloody handkerchief onto Wei Yun’s deformed face and opened the door as she turned around.

At the door entrance, the 19 black-robed men gathered and waited.

“There’s still 57 minutes before the honorary immortal guards change shifts. Let’s look for the valuables as fast as we can…”

What was happening in the North Sand City government residence was happening in a few other cities at the same time.

The only difference was that the people and the plans in each city.

After one to two days of lurking, the underground organizations only revealed their ruthless side after finding out there were no imperial-level powerhouses in this world.

The massacre in government residences and plundering of resources were nothing.

Some of them carried out massacres in the entire city.

Powerhouses such as the Seventh Prince were almost invincible when they fought people on the same combat strength. They broke through the honorary immortal guards’ battle formations easily. Moreover, since all underground organization members were genius powerhouses on immortal-level rank-9, nobody at the government residences could fight them.

The whole world was plunged into a panic of invasion and plunder.

…

In the middle of the night, the Heaven Alliance members gathered again.

“I’ve two pieces of bad news,” Tang Ning spoke in all seriousness before they distributed the items.

“People from the Saints invaded the city today. Over three million in Fenglai City were killed. Nothing was left.”

All of them were horrified to hear that.

“How did that happen? Don’t they only use virgins for their sacrifice? Why do they have to kill everyone in the city?” Tan Lang was a little puzzled.

“Their sacrificial ceremony was interrupted. They killed the entire city in their rage, saying that they had to do that in order to put out their god’s anger,” Tang Ning explained while feeling a little helpless.

“Did nobody from the Union Government and the Hunter Association do anything?” Lin Huang asked while frowning.

“The Union Government has their hands full dealing with Dynasty for the past few days, so they wouldn’t have time for this. Dynasty has robbed two cities and tens of smaller towns. If nobody stops them, I wonder how much resources will be taken away.”

“The Hunter Association’s dealing with the Purple Crow, so it’s hard for them to spare time to help as well. The adventurers are the only ones that are allocating people to try and stop the Saints and prevent them from doing more harm.”

“How about Charm and the heretics? Are nobody dealing with them?” Shen Tao asked immediately.

“That’s the second bad news.” Tang Ning looked perturbed all of a sudden. “People from Charm seem to be coming for us…”

Everyone was overwrought with anxiety upon hearing what Tang Ning said. The room fell into pin-drop silence.

“Should we retreat? We’ve no upper hand if we’re dealing with Charm,” Li Jia consulted Tan Lang, “If we’re fighting, we still have the upper hand to win if we fight one-on-one. But they have double our people, the odds of us winning are slim. Moreover, Charm is an organization of professional assassins. Their people are experts in assassination and other sneaky techniques. It’s impossible for us to watch out for their attacks.”

Tan Lang became silent and nobody knew what he was thinking about.

“I think it’s possible for us to give it a shot,” Lin Huang could not help but speak up, “We can work with the government residence to fight them. In that case, the number of people from Charm will no longer be their upper hand. In terms of assassination, we’ve Li Jia who’s skilled at sensing. I suppose they won’t be performing at 100% with their sneaky techniques since Li Jia’s with us. I’ve some techniques in that aspect, so I should be able to help. Moreover, we can ask for help from the union organization. We just have to stall until the rescue team arrives. We don’t have to kill everyone from Charm.”

Although Lin Huang said that they would not have to kill everyone from Charm, he was already thinking about how to kill all of them in one shot and take everything that they had plundered.

He even thought of getting away from the group and hunt for the people from Charm if Tan Lang and the rest decided to retreat. After all, they had sent themselves to their doorstep and he could not let them get away just like that.

After a moment of silence, Tan Lang finally spoke, “Retreating without trying isn’t who the Heaven Alliance is. Even if we have to fight Dynasty, we’ll fight and not retreat! Our enemy is Charm this time, so not only will we stay, but we must also win! However, this battle is a tough one and some of us might even die. Please be prepared for that and don’t take any chances.

“We’re from the Heaven Alliance. We’re the No. 1 genius organization in the world! We’ll show everyone in this battle that we, the Heaven Alliance, deserves the No. 1 title!”

Chapter 856: The Exterminated Charm

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Lin Huang knew nothing much about Charm.

He only knew it was the No. 2 assassin organization in Division 3. Overall, ability-wise, they were slightly weaker than the Purple Crow and the heretics. However, they were considered an outstanding underground organization.

The assassin organization that ranked No. 1, Shadow Killer had their hands full with the opening of another set of ruins in Division 2 lately. They allocated most of their powerhouses from the Division 3 branch to help, so they did not participate in the Fallen God Land this time.

Lin Huang knew about the news of Charm before Tang Ning broke it to them.

He had been getting Bloody to monitor all the organization’s movements.

Apart from Charm, even Dynasty and the Union Government were under Bloody’s watchful eye.

He had gained a better understanding of these underground organizations through Bloody’s projections in the past few days.

To those people, humans were no different from animals.

They were killing people, destroying entire cities, and making people puppets. There was completely no limit to what they did.

Since Charm had sent themselves to their doorstep this time, it was only natural that Lin Huang would not let anybody live.

Bloody projected a video when the sky turned dark. There were 20 black-robed men going at full speed in the video.

“They’ll be here soon. They’re just less than 1,000 kilometers away.”

“Let’s go. We’ll go meet them.”

Lin Huang crushed a Provisional Specific Transformation Card and he turned into Spectre slowly. He penetrated the wall and glided down deep into the ground through the wall. He then tore towards the gates of the city.

After getting out of the city, he headed straight to the battle location that Bloody had picked and surfaced from the ground. He then removed the card’s effect.

The reason why he did all this was because he did not want Tan Lang and the rest to see his real ability.

Lin Huang had decided on going up against Charm since the beginning.

It was just a distraction when he talked about asking the union organization to help. He did not really plan to get Tan Lang and the rest to fight Charm.

It was true that every one of the Heaven Alliance members had a compelling ability. Their combat abilities might even be more powerful than the members of Charm. However, it was difficult to deal with Charm since they were experts in assassinating. The deaths and casualties of the Heaven Alliance members would be inevitable if they were to fight.

He would rather interrupt the operation in the middle, kill all of them, and reap all of the rewards all for himself.

Not long after he arrived, he saw the 20 Charm members speeding in the sky.

He hovered into the sky slowly and blocked their way.

“You’re not allowed to enter.” Lin Huang’s calm voice went into all of their ears.

“Kill him!” A lady’s voice rang out without hesitation.

One of the black-robed men disappeared and appeared next to Lin Huang in the next second. He pointed a dagger straight at Lin Huang’s face.

However, a black silhouette appeared at that moment. The black-robed man became stiff all of a sudden.

The bunch of Charm members saw a black spear protruding out of their partner’s chest. There were neat purple patterns on the spear.

“How dare you compare your speed with Kylie’s? You must be crazy…” Lin Huang mumbled softly.

Just as Kylie was done with killing the man, Bloody completed its parasitization. It controlled the black-robed man to draw the spear out from his body slowly. He then stood next to Lin Huang and looked at the Charm members who had once been his partners.

Watching that strange phenomenon, the Charm members had fear in their eyes. They clearly sensed that their partner had been dead earlier, but he was now alive. More outrageously, he had now become Lin Huang’s partner.

“Who exactly are you?!” The leading lady asked fiercely.

“Lin Xie from the Heaven Alliance,” Lin Huang reported his name and the sect he belonged to.

The lady was stunned to hear him. She did not expect Lin Huang to reveal his name. However, she thought that the name was rather familiar.

“Lin Xie? Are you the Lin Xie who ranked No. 1 on the Stairway Tree scoreboard this year?!” A black-robed man could not help but exclaim.

They were many Genius Union members in all organizations and naturally, that included Charm.

Many of them had actually seen pictures of Lin Huang, but the combat strength of the Lin Xie on the Stairway Tree’s scoreboard was very different from that of the person standing before them. The change in attire and hairstyle was also another factor why they did not recognize him.

“He should be the real Lin Xie. He looks exactly like the picture. Also, Lin Xie’s an Imperial Censor,” confirmed another black-robed man.

‘It can’t be! Since when does Lin Xie have such powerful combat strength? Wasn’t he only crimson flame-level a few months ago?!’ Many of them thought secretly, ‘His ability’s terrifying…’

“Lin Xie, are you trying to stop us on your own?” The leading lady took a step forward, her terrifying aura spreading all over Lin Huang.

Lin Huang did nothing about the pressure exuding from her aura. He had killed more than one imperial-level yellow gold-rank powerhouse, so an immortal-level rank-9 powerhouse who had an ability comparable to imperial-level black gold-rank could not scare him.

“Firstly, I’m not on my own. I’ve got summoning beasts. Secondly, I’m not planning to stop all of you. I’m planning to kill all of you.” Lin Huang took a step forward as well as he corrected her.

“Nonsense!” The lady screamed and turned to order the people behind her, “I’ll fight the summoning beasts and all of you will kill him!”

As soon as the order went out, the 18 black-robed men attacked Lin Huang from all directions. Meanwhile, the lady gripped the spike bayonet tightly and charged at Kylie.

Lin Huang stood where he was without moving, his face remaining calm.

Kylie did not flinch at the sight of the black-robed lady dashing towards her. As she waved her hand, 368 of her Nephilic Judge army advanced.

All of the Charm members were stunned when they saw a bunch of silver-armored monsters coming out of nowhere.

The Nephilic Judge army formed their battle formation as soon as they arrived and surrounded all of the Charm members.

“We’ve surrounded all of you,” Lin Huang declared while smirking faintly.

“Retreat!” Looking at the battle formation, the lady knew they could not win this battle, so she ordered them to retreat immediately.

“Kylie, kill all of them. Spare no lives!” Lin Huang was cold as he ordered.

“Kill!” Kylie hissed the word softly while her Nephilic Judge army attacked in an instant.

The Charm members attempted to break the formation, but it was to no avail.

In less than a minute, all 18 of them were killed. The female leader was the only one left.

“Lin Xie, my father will definitely come for you if you kill me! He’s an imperial-level purple gold-rank powerhouse. We came into the Fallen God Land together this time!”

“He won’t find out.” Lin Huang’s tone was calm as he said, “It’s fine even if he does.”

Although she was powerful, she did not last more than three minutes when Kylie joined the battle formation. Kylie’s spear pierced through her heart, killing her.

After recalling Kylie and letting Bloody performing parasitization on all 19 of them, Lin Huang summoned the Inferior Imp to destroy the battleground with meteors. After confirming there were no traces left behind, Lin Huang returned to the room at the inn quietly.

It took him less than 10 minutes to leave and return to the room.

Chapter 857: Augur

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

When it was slightly after 10 at night, Tan Lang instructed Lin Huang to meet.

Tan Lang led all the Heaven Alliance members and went to the government residence.

In order to fight Charm, Tan Lang made a plan with the government residence. He even asked the Union Government and the Hunter Association for backup.

Lin Huang pretended as if he knew nothing about the extermination of Charm. He went to the government residence with the team.

They waited until 7 o’clock in the morning but nothing happened.

“Can we go back to our hotel room and get a decent rest?” Lin Huang yawned as he was really sleepy.

“It’s daytime now. According to Charm’s fighting behavior, it’s less likely that they’ll fight us now.” Li Jia’s bug did not detect anything unusual.

“Let’s continue waiting. They might be waiting for us to slack off before fighting us.” Still, Tan Lang was worried.

One day and one night had passed. Of course, the exterminated Charm would not appear.

“It has been two days and they haven’t done anything. What if they’ve retreated because there are too many of us here?” Shen Tao speculated.

“Let’s continue waiting.” Tan Lang remained alert.

Lin Huang was speechless. Had it not been for him not leaving any traces, people would have known that Charm and the rest had been killed. Tan Lang would not have asked everybody to stay up all night with him either.

“I’m fooling myself…” Lin Huang had no choice but to stay up all night with them as well.

However, it did not last for a very long while. In the afternoon, Li Jia received a message from the Union Government.

“You guys don’t need to wait here anymore. The people from Charm won’t come. They’ve been killed.”

Apart from Lin Huang, everyone felt doubtful after listening to what Tang Ning said.

“Were they attacked by the Union Government?” Tan Lang’s first thought was that the Union Government had done something.

“No.” Tang Ning shook his head. “We did nothing this round.”

“The Union Government would definitely admit if they were the ones who did that. It’s a military glory.” Shen Tao seemed to have something to comment about the people from the Union Government. “From the message they sent, they mentioned that they didn’t do anything, so they’re definitely not the one.”

“If it wasn’t the Union Government, how can they confirm that the people from Charm are dead?” Tan Lang continued asking.

“There are two augurs in their team. Both of them got the same prediction results – 20 of them from Charm were killed. None of them managed to survive it,” Tang Ning told them what the Union Government said.

The crowd then no longer suspected the truth after knowing that it was the prediction results of the two augurs.

It was said that the main criteria of being an augur was to possess an ability related to time. The secret of being an augur was related to time, without which, regardless of how knowledgeable the person was, one would be unable to become a true augur. A true augur had to be capable of using the secret of time, exploring the past and predicting the future.

The two augurs were, of course, true augurs as they were chosen by the Union Government and were sent to the god’s land.

Since the two of them received similar prediction results, it meant that the prediction had come true.

“Does the augur know which organization did it?” Lin Huang paid attention just as Tan Lang asked this question.

It would still be fine if the Heaven Alliance knew about it. In fact, he did not want the Union Government to find out about his true abilities.

Somehow, Mr. Fu being set up had something to do with the Union Government. In addition to the Union Government being a very large organization, nobody knew how many of them were Mr. Fu’s enemies.

Despite the fact that he did not leave any traces, the augurs possessed unique abilities, so they might have seen something.

“The officers from the Union Government said that the two augurs attempted to check who did it. However, they didn’t manage to do so. Both of them saw a scene where meteorites struck the ground,” Tang Ning shared what he heard.

“Meteorite showers?” Other than Lin Huang, the rest of them were confused.

“Meteorite showers… Is there any chance that this is a prediction?” Tan Lang said while stroking his chin.

“I’ve really seen meteorites streaking across the sky a few days ago,” Shen Tao suddenly said, “Right before the sky turns dark.”

“Are you sure?” Tan Lang immediately asked.

“I guess my eyes didn’t fail me. Did anyone of you happen to see that?’

The crowd shook their heads, including Lin Huang.

“It’s on the east of the city. The meteorites struck somewhere less than 300 kilometers away from the city.” Shen Tao could remember it clearly.

“Bring me there,” Tan Lang immediately requested. It seemed like he would only feel relieved after seeing the dead bodies of the Charm members. “Li Jia, follow me. Let’s see if we can find any clues over there.”

Tan Lang asked two other people to follow after him and they headed towards the east of the city.

Since the three of them had left, Lin Huang was not worried. He was pretty sure that they would be unable to discover anything there.

“Did you manage to find it?” Lin Huang, who was lying on a deck chair under the sun, gradually opened his eyes to look at Tan Lang.

“We found a meteorite crater, but there’s nothing there.”

Lin Huang frowned without saying anything. He took his hat off to cover his face and continued sleeping.

“Since the augurs have already come out with the prediction results, I guess we don’t need to be really particular about what has actually happened,” Li Jia advised.

“Yes, that’s right. Instead of wasting time investigating this issue, why not let everything work as usual? Our main purpose of entering the ruins is to get more resources,” Shen Tao suggested.

“Let it be.” Still, Tan Lang did not reveal what he was worried about as he shook his head. “Let everything end here and have a good rest. We’ll leave Gushan City early tomorrow morning and head towards Enlightenment City!”

“Are you going to leave Gushan City?” Li Jia asked.

“We’ve hunted most of the monsters at Gushan City within 3,000 kilometers. It’s time to go to the next station.” Tan Lang nodded. He had prepared for this earlier. His initial plan was to overcome the danger before leaving. However, since Charm had been wiped out, there was no need for them to stay there any longer.

Gushan City seemed peaceful that day. However, there were many rumors going around. The news regarding the extermination of Charm soon spread to most of the organizations.

“Exterminated? Nobody managed to survive and not even a single dead body can be discovered?!”

“Do you think that the Union Government did this?!”

“I guess the Heaven Alliance is incapable of doing so since there’re only 10 of them. It’s less likely that they can wipe Charm out without injuries.”

“Although Tan Lang from the Heaven Alliance is strong, Ye Ye from Charm is not that much weaker than him. He’s incapable of defeating Charm on his own. Unless Chan Dou was the one who did that, he could’ve also probably done so.”

“Could it have been the human immortals?”

There were all kinds of speculations regarding the extermination of Charm.

The underworld organizations kept a low profile after receiving this news as what Charm encountered was really weird.

Most of the Union Government were thrilled upon receiving this news. A minority of them was worried about it. If it was an unknown who had done this, the level of threat in this world would be beyond their expectations.

The people from the Heaven Alliance did not ask about it any further. The next morning, Tan Lang and the rest left towards the second government residence.

Chapter 858: Do You Want to Sell Your Herculean King?

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Enlightenment City was a capital situated on the north-western border of the land. It was one of the few cities that had not been seized by any organization.

The Heaven Alliance members took the whole afternoon to arrive at the Enlightenment City.

After settling into their accommodation, they planned their attack strategy once more.

Only one liaison was required this time and the nine of them could join the fight.

However, Lin Huang summoned the Herculean King to replace his position in the team whilst he stayed in the city.

Tan Lang and the rest did not have any objections.

The ability of Lin Huang’s summoning monster far surpassed his and it was rather suitable to join the fight compared to Lin Huang.

After having their lunch, Tan Lang and his team left.

Lin Huang and Tang Ning, who was the liaison, stayed in the city.

Because of their relationship with Gushan City, Lin Huang and Tang Ning were easily given the authority to enter the library when they arrived at the capital.

After bidding Tang Ning goodbye, they then headed towards the library on their own.

Since he had never revealed his sword skill at the Genius Union, Lin Huang was unable to train his sword skills. Recently, he discovered that practicing the methods in this world could increase his depth of skill in the Twisted Fate Scripture. Therefore, Lin Huang decided to memorize as many training methods as possible in this world.

It would not be difficult for Lin Huang. He could perfectly memorize all the content that he had gone through with his Divine Telekinesis. He did not need to read it with his eyes. Instead, he just had to skim through all the content with his Divine Telekinesis.

Lin Huang soon found the books he wanted in the library. He then sat on the floor next to the book rack, quickly skimming through them.

With his Divine Telekinesis, he could scan one page of words in less than 0.01 seconds. In fact, it would be much faster than his speed of flipping the page. If it were not because of the other people in the library, Lin Huang would have read the book with his telekinetic threads whereby hundreds of telekinesis threads would turn the page at the same time. He could finish reading a book within seconds.

The requirement of the training method for The Twisted Fate Scripture was not high. As long as the method was mortal transformation-level and above, there would be a substantial increase in his familiarity with the skill. At least, this was what happened in the second rotation.

The library did not lack any mortal transformation-level training methods. Lin Huang managed to find hundreds of them in Gushan City’s library. However, the ascendance-level training method was extremely rare and there were only a few of them.

However, Lin Huang was not in a hurry. He was currently practicing 35 types of mortal transformation-level skills and he had already gotten into the second rotation of the Twisted Fate Scripture.

The requirement to break through the third rotation had doubled where it required two million points.

Lin Huang spent the entire afternoon memorizing all the methods available in the library of the Enlightenment City.

More than 120 of them were different from the methods available at Gushan City and three of them were on ascendance-level.

At night, when Tan Lang and the rest of them returned, they were elated. Lin Huang and Tang Ning asked what had happened but they were reluctant to tell them.

After they had distributed all the rewards at night and Tang Ning confirmed that there was nobody spying on them, he then whispered a secret, “I found out that the ‘internal elixir’ created by the body of a monster is the ‘crystal core’ we mentioned. The Life Power within it can be extracted rapidly.”

“I discovered that the Life Power can be extracted earlier. However, the Life Power that can be extracted is only 50% of the total Life Power,” Lin Huang described his observation.

“Extraction and the speed of extraction are two different things.” Tan Lang looked at Lin Huang in excitement. “What I meant is that the crystal core can quickly replenish the Life Power that’s been drained during a battle. As long as there’s a sufficient amount of crystal cores, there’ll be no way to use up our Life Power!”

Everybody’s eyes brightened and even Lin Huang was startled.

He had Divine Fire in his body as well as 10 Life Wheels. He did not lack Life Power, but it did not mean that the others did not need it though.

In fact, many of them would not simply activate a powerful skill because they were afraid that their Life Power could hardly sustain it.

If a person could have inexhaustible Life Power, one could activate their most potent skill until their opponent died.

Previously, Lin Huang could kill the yellow gold-rank monsters with ease despite being a black gold-rank because of this.

The news meant nothing to Lin Huang. However, it was positive news for the rest of them.

“Luckily, I didn’t sell any of the monster carcasses that I’ve previously killed. I can now dig out all the crystal cores from the carcasses!” Shen Tao exclaimed happily like a kid.

“Why didn’t you tell me earlier? I’ve fed the carcasses to the bug.” Li Jia sulked.

‘I’m glad that my summoning monsters don’t need any food. Otherwise, I’d have fed them with the monster carcasses too,’ Lin Huang thought to himself, ‘Although I don’t need those crystal cores, if I were to sell them to the outside world, they could probably fetch a good price. If I were to collect more, I might be able to even earn a set of demigod-level telekinetic weapon!’

The price of a demigod-level telekinetic weapon was at least 10 times of an ordinary demigod relic.

Lin Huang was not interested in the beginner- and intermediate-grade demigod relics.

An ordinary expert-grade demigod relic cost at least 100 billion Life Crystals. One might not be able to buy a telekinetic weapon of a similar grade with 1.5 trillion Life Crystals. It was much more expensive than an ultimate-grade demigod relic.

Just as Lin Huang was calculating how many crystal cores he would need to exchange for a telekinetic weapon, Tan Lang suddenly chuckled and inched closer to him.

“Lin Xie, let me tell you something.”

Looking at Tan Lang’s revolting smile, Lin Huang was petrified and he leaned backward. “Deputy chief, please don’t do that to me. I’m only interested in women.”

“Hey…” Tan Lang’s smile became stiff and he slowly took a step backward. He then said, “I just wanted to ask if you want to sell your Herculean King?”

Lin Huang glared at Tan Lang. “No!”

It was within his expectations. However, Tan Lang still looked disappointed after listening to his reply.

He then took a glance at the Herculean King, whose body had shrunk, that was standing next to Lin Huang. The Herculean King noticed his sidelong glance.

“Do you want to fight?” The Herculean King stared at him.

Of course, the Herculean King would not be able to fight Tan Lang. Its abilities were only slightly stronger than an immortal-level rank-9 in the Heaven Alliance. Compared to Shen Tao, his strength was still unknown, let alone Li Jia and Tan Lang who were much stronger than Shen Tao.

However, Tan Lang did not get angry. Instead, he grinned at the Herculean King because he really liked it.

He paid close attention to the Herculean King’s abilities in fights. It had immense strength and terrifying defensive ability. Apart from that, it had a very strong battle instinct as well. If he were to train its combat strength, it would definitely be a very formidable companion.

Tan Lang would not have asked Lin Huang about it if he did not like it.

Of course, the Herculean King was unwilling to make such a change. It knew the benefits of following Lin Huang. Its upgrade to mythical-level was just a matter of time. Getting an upgrade in its bloodline would not be difficult either. The Herculean King felt that the man named Tan Lang was just slightly stronger than it was and that it would definitely surpass him in the future. How could he be its master!?

Lin Huang was reluctant to sell the Herculean King and he was unable to anyway since Xiao Hei had never activated the function of canceling a monster contract.

Chapter 859: You Won’t Go Through Whatever You’re Going Through Now If You Hadn’t Done What You Did

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

After knowing that the crystal core in a monster’s body could rapidly replenish one’s power, Tan Lang and the rest became more passionate about fighting.

The next morning, they left the city and began hunting for monsters although it was only seven o’clock in the morning.

Lin Huang then returned to the hotel room after having his breakfast. He took out an ascendance-level monster carcass, digging out the crystal core with a dagger.

The crystal core in the monster body was known as an internal elixir.

The crystal core in Lin Huang’s hand was the size of a male adult’s thumb and it was colorful.

He could clearly sense various types of energy stored in the crystal core as he held it in his hand. Life Power alone occupied about 50% of it.

Just as he was about to give it a try, from its hidden place up his sleeve, Bloody whispered, “The crystal core looks delicious.”

“What?” Lin Huang was stunned and he had a peculiar facial expression on his face.

It was not his first time extracting a crystal core. Bloody could see everything clearly from his sleeve every extraction. It had never mentioned that it felt like eating the crystal core. This was the only time when Bloody seemed to crave the crystal core.

“Is there anything special about this crystal core?” Lin Huang asked.

“I don’t know. I simply feel that it has a sweet fragrance and it smells like a very delicious kind of candy.” Bloody then slipped out of Lin Huang’s sleeve, lingering around the crystal core.

“A candy kind of smell?” Lin Huang smelt it and he frowned. He could not smell anything.

“Let it be. Just eat it.” Since Lin Huang could not find out the reason, he did not bother to ask any further and tossed the crystal core to Bloody.

Bloody immediately twisted its tentacles around the crystal core and quickly pitched it into its mouth.

After a short while, it closed its eyes as if it was enjoying it tremendously.

“Was it that good?” Lin Huang thought to himself.

After a couple of moments, Bloody gradually opened its eyes, shifting its gaze towards the monster carcass where its crystal core had been extracted. “I guess I know what’s happening.”

“Do tell.” Lin Huang was keen to know more.

“After eating the crystal core, I’ve inherited its memory. I even obtained two abilities from the owner of the crystal core,” Bloody shared what he received after eating the crystal core. It then continued, “If I’m not mistaken, only the crystal core that’s compatible with me will give such a weird craving.

“As for why I had such a weird craving, I suppose the answer lies in my genes where I can sense things that are beneficial to me, just like how most of the creatures are born with the ability to sense danger, but the strength of one’s ability to sense it will be different.

“Moreover, I think the crystal core doesn’t only work for me. It should work for Bai and the rest too. However, I think the crystal cores that we need will be rather different.”

“Didn’t you sense anything when you see the monster carcass?” Lin Huang asked again.

“No, I didn’t. I only sensed it after the crystal core was extracted. Perhaps, the monster carcass has isolated the effect of the detection ability.” Bloody shook its head.

“Alright, I got it.” Lin Huang nodded his head.

After summoning Kylie, Lin Huang brought Bloody to Kylie’s mini world.

He looked for open space and took out all the monster carcasses that he had collected in the past few days.

The monster carcasses piled up like up a mountain and there were more than 10,000 of them.

However, only about 100 of them that were on ascendance-level could be compared to immortal-levels. The rest were on mortal transformation-level.

Lin Huang then summoned Bai, Lancelot, Killer, the Death Knight, and the Fallen Knight as they were monsters with weapons in their hands.

“I have a task for you. Dissect all the monster carcasses and extract their crystal cores.” Lin Huang decided to slack off and summoned his monster pets to do all the work. “After extracting all the crystal cores, I’ll need to sort them out, so you’re not allowed to eat first. Try to keep the carcasses in their complete form and don’t eat them first. I’ll need to exchange them for crystal cores.”

They were excited the moment they were summoned. However, after discovering the reason why they were being summoned, they suddenly looked bitter.

“Is it suitable to use the human idiom ‘break a butterfly on a wheel’ here?” Bai turned its head towards Bloody and asked.

“Yes,” Bloody answered seriously.

“Every 100 carcasses dissected will be given a day’s worth of junk food as a reward.” Lin Huang extended his finger.

Lancelot’s eyes immediately lit up. “May I look for helpers?”

“Yes, you may.” Lin Huang inclined his head.

Without a moment of hesitation, Lancelot summoned the sword slayers and began dissecting.

The rest of them immediately worked on them as well.

Kylie caught a glimpse of Lancelot’s sword slayers. She then whistled and the Nephilic Judge army instantly arrived.

“Dissect all the monster carcasses and try not to damage them.” After she pointed at the dead bodies, more than 300 of the Nephilic Judges began dissecting the carcasses.

Kylie stood next to Lin Huang, turning her head towards him. “There aren’t that many monster carcasses. Do I need to hunt for monsters?”

“No, you don’t need to do so for now.” Lin Huang shook his head. Seeing Kylie’s disappointment, he then explained, “There’s something strange about this world. Let’s talk about your upgrade after leaving this place.”

Kylie nodded her head and did not say anything else.

After leaving Kylie’s mini world with Bloody, Lin Huang headed towards the library and began looking for information regarding the internal elixir from the monster’s body.

After reading for the whole afternoon at the library, Lin Huang still did not manage to find out about the exact explanation regarding how consuming the monster’s internal elixir could result in inheriting its memory. However, there were a few articles that mentioned humans becoming monsters after consuming the monster’s internal elixir.

One of the articles was very remarkable.

The main character of the story was a person called Mo Fei. He was very powerful and had killed countless monsters. One day, Mo Fei arrived at a small town. The people of the town were very friendly to him. However, everybody in the town would turn into monsters at night.

With a lot of effort, Mo Fei spent almost the entire night killing all the monsters. As the sun rose, he sat on the green staircase at his hotel with his saber. He then realized that all the monsters he had killed the night before were actually humans. He only realized that he had encountered a monster called an incubus. The monster set him up, causing him to exterminate all the humans in the town.

With guilt and hatred, Mo Fei began hunting for the incubus. It took him decades to hunt for the monster and his hatred grew even stronger. Eventually, he finally found a way to enter the dreamland and managed to find the incubus.

After a brutal fight, he murdered the incubus. Due to his intense dislike for the incubus, he ripped the incubus apart and devoured its internal elixir. He then became an incubus that was even stronger with many negative emotions.

“Is the story telling us that you won’t go through whatever you’re going through now if you hadn’t done what you did?” Lin Huang described how he felt in the first place after reading the story.

Chapter 860: Door Opening

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

In the next few days, Lin Huang was busy practicing the training methods in this world, improving his familiarity with the Twisted Fate Scripture.

Tan Lang and the rest were extraordinarily keen on fighting monsters. Sometimes, they would even hunt for monsters overnight.

Nobody knew whether it was because there had been an increasing number of hunters or because their aggressiveness in hunting monsters had increased, but the number of monsters Tan Lang and the rest killed had doubled.

Just as everybody from the Heaven Alliance was busy dealing with their work in the northwest of the city, a group of people who had invited themselves appeared at one of the northwest mountains.

They were clad in golden armor and the leader was a man that was 20 years old. His hair was all combed up his forehead and he was wearing a golden coat.

As they entered the Fallen God Land, everybody could easily recognize that it was the team from Dynasty which was led by the Seventh Prince.

“Are you sure this is the place?” The Seventh Prince turned his head and looked at a man wearing a vest. “There’s nothing here.”

The man in the vest looked like he was about 20 years old, and was rather plump and friendly.

“Yes, this is the place. We can’t see anything here because some skills that have been activated deter us from seeing the door,” said the plump man with a smile. “However, I’ve already found a way to activate the door from the governor’s knowledge.”

After finishing his sentence, the plump man took a step forward, rapidly creating 10 fingerprints.

As soon as the last fingerprint was created, loud crashes echoed in the air.

It sounded like a gigantic golden door was gradually being pushed open.

The sound grew louder and soon, the shadow of a huge red door was quickly formed in mid-air. Before it was completely created, the door opened.

“It took so much effort to come here. It won’t go unrewarded.” The Seventh Prince guffawed. “Let’s see what they have here in the Luotian Sect!”

After uttering those words, the Seventh Prince then entered through the door and the rest of the people from Dynasty immediately followed after him.

Right after everybody entered, the red door gradually closed and there was nothing.

The people from Dynasty began murdering and robbing as soon as they entered this world. They pillaged a few cities and towns. To ensure that there was nothing in this world that could threaten them, they began to attack the government residence.

If the Union Government had not stopped them, they might have robbed more than three government residences.

Since the Union Government was now having their eyes on them, Dynasty knew that it would be impossible to continue robbing the government residences. Therefore, they shifted their focus to the sects.

The treasures stored by the organizations that had existed for thousands of years would be no lesser than a government residence and they probably had more than a government residence.

With this in mind, the people from Dynasty retrieved the memories of the governor and the deputy governor that had been killed. They managed to find information regarding the sect. Activating the door of the Luotian Sect that was situated northwest of the mountain forest was one of the pieces of information they found out.

Striding over to the door, a broad staircase appeared right in front of them. The staircase stretched all the way as if it could arc across the sky.

“If you happen to bump into anyone, there’s no need to talk nonsense with them. Just attack and slaughter them all!” instructed the Seventh Prince.

The people from Dynasty reacted in outrage after listening to the instruction of the Seventh Prince.

100 of them moved upwards from the staircase.

After a short while, the Seventh Prince saw the living beings.

A few of them were in blue robes and their hair was bunned up. They looked like 11-year-old kids that were holding brooms, sweeping the staircase.

However, the Seventh Prince showed them no mercy. He grinned instead.

Holding two combat swords in his hands and with his arms spread wide open, he passed through the kids at an extremely fast speed by maintaining a low-level flight.

After a short while, blood began oozing out of their necks. Soon after, their skulls fell down to the ground, rolling down the stairs.

The headless bodies in the blue robes then fell down to their deaths.

“Hahaha…” After killing the weak children, the Seventh Prince seemed to be very proud of himself and he laughed loudly.

As the Dynasty members moved further forward, there was an increasing number of teenagers that were sweeping the floor in their robe.

The people from Dynasty then started a massacre.

These children were aged from 7 to 16 years old. Some of them had not begun their cultivation and the strongest one was only on mortal-level.

None of them was on mortal transformation-level. Obviously, the people from Dynasty had bumped into the weak ones.

As they fought and reached the end of the staircase, the Seventh Prince and the rest then saw some buildings.

Two muscular men in armor on mortal transformation-level were stationed at the entrance. Both of them could see the Seventh Prince advancing from afar.

“You’re not allowed to enter! This is the Luotian Sect and you’re not allowed to do whatever you want here!” One of the men in armor shouted at them.

The reply he got was a bloody sword glow.

The one who attacked was the person standing next to the Seventh Prince who majored in sword skills.

He was an immortal-level rank-9. The mortal transformation-level would be unable to dodge his attack. In fact, they did not even have the chance to capture the movement of the attack.

A red glow struck and the two men in armor were killed at almost the same time. Blood spattered all over the ground.

Witnessing what had just happened, the people behind the door screamed.

“Kill!” The Seventh Prince instructed again.

99 of the Dynasty members gushed into the buildings and began a new round of carnage.

Many of the ascendance-levels from the Luotian Sect finally revealed themselves, defending against the fight.

However, the Dynasty members were incredibly strong and their members were the top among the rest of the immortal-levels. Despite the fact that there was a greater number of humans on ascendance-level compared to Dynasty, they were unable to take advantage of the situation.

The Luotian Sect was soon defeated and a few of the ascendance-levels had died. However, although a few of the members from Dynasty were injured, their fighting spirit was not affected. Instead, they got more aggressive.

The members of Dynasty grew stronger each time after a dangerous fight. They teetered on the edge of death every time they completed a mission.

Of course, the people from the Luotian Sect could not be compared to the Dynasty members as the only real battle experience the disciples trained by the Luotian Sect had gone through were fights in the arena.

The Luotian Sect had members who were on immortal-level rank-9. However, when they encountered the people from Dynasty, it only proved which one of them was the winner.

Witnessing his members being defeated and many of them being killed, they were pressured by their opponent.

In his green robe, the chief of the Luotian Sect struggled for a long time. He then made up his mind, turning his head towards a kid standing next to him.

“Ling Quan, bring my token along and ask the patriarch to please show up!”