MONSTER PARADISE

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Chapter 981: A Demigod Has Fallen!

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Lin Huang only spent just over ten minutes to cross more than 2,000 kilometers.

Apart from being attacked by an imperial-level white gold-rank monster not long into their journey, no other monsters attacked them since then.

The reason being that he summoned the Destructive Divine Mammoth right away. Its terrifying imperial-level purple gold-rank combat strength and True Spirit aura echoed across the land. All the monsters trembled wherever the Destructive Divine Mammoth passed, including monsters on the same level. None of them dared to come looking for trouble.

The Python-belly Poisonous Frog sensed the Destructive Divine Mammoth coming into its territory from a distance. The aura that alarmed it also faintly sent a thrill down its spine.

“This terrifying aura must be that of a mythical-level quadruple mutated monster! It trembles deep in my soul even when it’s hundreds of kilometers away!” Fear did not provide the Python-belly Poisonous Frog reason to retreat at all. Instead, it boosted its battle will. “There’s a high possibility that I could break through to quadruple mutation as soon as I eat it and elevate to mythical-level! My combat strength might even break through and I might become a Virtual God!”

Sensing the Destructive Divine Mammoth advancing at a high speed, the Python-belly Poisonous Frog glared viciously at the silhouette that was moving rapidly in the range of its territory while drooling. Meanwhile, Lin Huang, who was next to the Destructive Divine Mammoth, was completely ignored.

Approximately two to three minutes later, Lin Huang and the Destructive Divine Mammoth finally arrived above the swamp where the Python-belly Poisonous Frog was.

Before Lin Huang could figure where the amphibian monster was, a bloody glow shot into the sky at a high speed, aiming at the Destructive Divine Mammoth’s heart.

Even Lin Huang’s eyes could not detect such an abrupt attack. All he saw was a red shadow that flashed through the sky and heard a rumble that sounded like thunder coming from where the Destructive Divine Mammoth was. The Destructive Divine Mammoth shot out like a cannon and went right through a few large mountains tens of kilometers away.

The attack that hit the spot made the Python-belly Poisonous Frog realize that its opponent’s defense was more powerful than it imagined even before it could get excited. It was surprised that its attack did not break through the opponent’s defenses. It just realized that its current opponent was much more impressive than it thought.

“It’s worthy of being called a mythical-level monster!” Not only did the Python-belly Poisonous Frog not have any sense of failure, but it also became more enthusiastic now. The more powerful its opponent was, the more benefits it would obtain from devouring it.

It had never imagined what the consequences were if it were no match for its opponent since it had never lost any battle throughout centuries.

The Destructive Divine Mammoth had always been a defensive alpha among the True Spirits. It was hard for one to break through its defenses even if other True Spirits of the same level were to attack it, let alone a mere demigod-level Python-belly Poisonous Frog.

Any other imperial-level purple gold-rank or even mythical-level monsters would be killed or severely injured by the Python-belly Poisonous Frog’s attack. However, to the Destructive Divine Mammoth, it was no different from an itch. It could not feel any pain, let alone be harmed by it.

Still, such a great impact pissed him off a little.

The Destructive Divine Mammoth stared at the Python-belly Poisonous Frog’s direction as he stood up from the fallen gravel and shook the soil on his body off. His eyes were a little red with fury.

He was furious now!

The Destructive Divine Mammoth released a long shriek tens of kilometers away. He slammed its long trunk, and charcoal gray Life Power echoed like a whip, shooting across the sky towards the Python-belly Poisonous Frog.

Although the Destructive Divine Mammoth was not a monster built for speed, that did not mean that it had no speed-related technique.

The trunk whip was the fastest attack that would go furthest in his inherited memory.

Its attack speed was no slower than the Python-belly Poisonous Frog’s attack earlier.

The Python-belly Poisonous Frog did not seem to expect its opponent to have such a quick reaction from so far away. It only snapped back to its senses when the charcoal gray trunk whip was coming near it. It hopped on both its rear legs and dodged the attack.

Unfortunately, it was too late. The trunk whip brushed through its body.

Under the terrifying attack, half of its body was hit by the compelling power.

The impact made its body shoot out, and it smashed into a mountain that was even further away like a cannonball.

Lin Huang did not see the Destructive Divine Mammoth’s movements clearly. All he could see was a gray shadow flashing in the sky and a silhouette shooting out. He then saw mountains collapsing far away.

He had just heard the thud coming from the trunk whip attack when the mountains collapsed. Meanwhile, the sound of the mountains collapsing only came echoing a while later.

The Python-belly Poisonous Frog that was buried deep in the gravel had shock written all over its face. It had never thought that the opponent would not only have such stunning defense techniques but also be able to launch a terrifying attack too. The one attack alone almost smashed its body to smithereens.

“A mythical-level monster really is terrifying. It seems like it’s hard to kill it without some effort.”

By then, the Python-belly Poisonous Frog finally took its opponent seriously, treating him a powerhouse on the same level as it was although the Destructive Divine Mammoth was only on imperial-level purple gold-rank.

The Destructive Divine Mammoth knew that the Python-belly Poisonous Frog did not die although the attack sent it flying away. He appeared above the cliff the Python-belly Poisonous Frog was on in a flash. It stomped its foot in the air without even looking.

The entire mountain seemed to be suppressed by an invisible yet invincible power and turned into dust, disappearing into the ground. In the blink of an eye, it turned into a deep underground pit which was a couple of kilometers wide as if a meteorite had struck.

At that moment, a red glow shot out from under the deep pit.

The speed was a few times faster than the Python-belly Poisonous Frog’s first attack. Moreover, the red glow coming from the attack this time was as glaring as the sun.

This time, the Destructive Divine Mammoth held both its legs high and stomped in the air once again.

An elephant’s leg that looked like a giant pillar appeared in the air and blasted the ground.

Unsurprisingly, the red glow and the elephant leg collided hard.

A glaring golden glow lit up the epicenter of the collision as if hundreds of nuclear bombs had gone off at the same time. In an instant, the area within thousands of kilometers looked like it had changed from night to day.

All the monsters looked at the center of the battle in fear.

Even Lin Huang who was watching the battle was dragged into Ninetails Lynx’s alternate dimension that it had been hiding in.

Meanwhile, an insane heat that was billions of degree Celsius high as a result of the impact spread hundreds of kilometers away from the core of the battle between the two monsters. Everything within that radius was destroyed.

The energy wave that came from the explosions was like gallons of water washing everything within 3,000 kilometers away together with petrifying wind pressure.

Countless plants were destroyed as if they had experienced a category-18 typhoon.

All monsters below imperial-level yellow gold-rank were killed by the impact within 3,000 kilometers. The imperial-level yellow gold-rank and imperial-level white gold-rank monsters also suffered different levels of injuries, except for the imperial-level purple gold-rank monsters which were barely affected.

The Destructive Divine Mammoth that was in the center of the battle stood sturdily midair while glaring dangerously somewhere beneath.

The Python-belly Poisonous Frog was still alive, but it was dying.

It had activated the Divine Power in its body for the attack earlier in an attempt to kill. However, it did not expect its opponent to fight it with Life Power as well as suppressing its most powerful attack. It had no choice but to insert more Divine Power, but the opponent’s Life Power seemed to be endless. Eventually, the Divine Power in its body was worn out and it was completely defeated.

Because the Divine Power in its body was drained, it could only use its Life Power to defend itself forcefully during the explosions. However, it could not handle the impact that came from the explosion of Divine Power even though it had drained its Life Power.

Sensing his opponent’s remaining aura, the Destructive Divine Mammoth stomped again without thinking twice.

The ground that had already turned into a deep pit collapsed tens of meters further.

Within the gravel that had been crushed into dust, the Python-belly Poisonous Frog which had completely lost its defensive ability turned into a pile of mush instantly.

Chapter 982: The Cultivation System’s Fatal Flaw

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

“Congratulations, you’ve killed the Python-belly Poisonous Frog (Demigod-level). You’ve obtained Mythical-level Python-belly Poisonous Frog Monster Card Pieces x2”

Lin Huang only found out that the Python-belly Poisonous Frog was dead after hearing the notification from Xiao Hei.

“It’s settled so soon?” Lin Huang came out of the alternate dimension and hovered above the deep collapsed pit. He retrieved the Python-belly Poisonous Frog’s carcass that was smashed into a mush deep in the underground with his telekinetic threads.

Xiao Hei’s notification came again just when he saw the tragic carcass.

“The system has detected a demigod’s soul and a Godhead (broken). Would you like to retrieve them?”

“Retrieve them,” Lin Huang confirmed.

Obtaining the demigod’s soul was the main purpose of his hunting demigods this time. As for the broken demigod’s Godhead, he had no idea what he could do with it after retrieving it.

Looking at the memories he read from all the mini-worlds and the great worlds, it was possible to merge a Godhead, but Gods who elevated from the merging of the Godhead might not be able to elevate his combat strength forever. Therefore, not many people would want to merge others’ Godheads, let alone a demigod’s broken Godhead.

In less than half a minute, Lin Huang held two cards in his hand: a demigod’s soul and a broken Godhead.

Putting the demigod’s soul card away into his body, Lin Huang crushed the broken Godhead’s card.

An irregular, thumb-sized, charcoal gray crystal appeared in his palm. He looked at the crystal with his face pinched. “What does such a broken Godhead do?”

“Perhaps this thing is useless to others, but it’s useful stuff for you,” said the stone tablet, smiling all of a sudden.

“Useful stuff? I don’t want to merge someone else’s Godhead, let alone merge this broken Godhead.” Lin Huang was very confident about elevating to Virtual God, but merging someone else’s Godhead was out of the picture.

“I’m not asking you to merge it but to refine it,” explained the stone tablet while smiling.

“Refine it? What does this thing do after refinement?” Lin Huang was even more puzzled now.

“Do you think you can elevate to imperial-level successfully with your cultivation system?” The stone tablet did not answer Lin Huang’s question. It asked him another question instead.

Lin Huang was stunned to hear the stone tablet’s question.

He had never thought about that before. The reason being he would need over a month to visualize the three remaining God Figurines’ Combat Souls before elevating to imperial-level. He needed time to cultivate the God Figurines too, so it would be at least two months later when he really elevated to imperial-level.

However, now that the stone tablet raised such a question, it made Lin Huang began to think hard about how he should elevate to imperial-level. He was frowning more and more as he thought about it.

“I can’t inherit the Divine Fire if I take the imperial-level monster’s Life Base… Which means I can’t elevate to imperial-level with the current cultivation system.”

Lin Huang began sweating upon realizing the issue and he asked the stone tablet immediately, “Do you have a solution to this?”

“In reality, the biggest crux of the problem with elevating to virtual god-level in your world’s cultivation system is the imperial-level. It’s actually a good thing that you can’t elevate with the current system.”

“I thought the incomplete world order that we have is the reason for lesser people elevating to Virtual Gods?”Lin Huang asked rather confusedly.

“An incomplete world order will only cause the failure to elevate to True Gods. The number of Virtual Gods is restricted to a certain level, but it’s possible to elevate to Virtual Gods. Moreover, it’s not that there are few people elevating to Virtual Gods in the current world that you’re in. There are none at all,” corrected the stone tablet.

“What’s wrong with imperial-level? From what I know, most cultivation systems in other mini worlds and great worlds go through the forging of Life Palaces. They just have different names. But they can elevate to virtual god-level and true god-level, so they don’t have any problem at all.”

“Think about it properly. When do other cultivation systems forge Life Palaces?” asked the stone tablet while smiling.

Lin Huang thought about it carefully and frowned even deeper a moment later. “It’s rather odd. Basically, all cultivation systems forge Life Palaces in the beginning stage of cultivation. Do you mean our cultivation system has gotten the sequence of forging Life Palaces wrong?”

“Indeed, the wrong sequence is the main reason.” Noticing that Lin Huang figured out the problem, the stone tablet proceeded to explain, “The so-called Life Palace of yours is called a Life Base in the great world. The reason it’s called a Life Base is that it’s the foundation of the entire cultivation. Only with a sturdy foundation will your house be stable when it’s built.

“In the great worlds, there was once an era called the Cultivation Era. During that era, humans were the most powerful race in the entire great world. Furthermore, the first step of almost all human cultivation in that era was to forge a Life Base. The first cultivation level was called the base building-level.

“The reason why humans in that era were powerful was that they forged a sturdy foundation as their first step. Since then, the cultivation system that was built later on grew more and more powerful. In the end, it cultivated countless powerhouses and conquered the entire great world.”

“So, why did that cultivation system not become the main system in that era later on?” Lin Huang asked rather confusedly.

“Because there’s a fatal flaw in that cultivation system, it took too long. A person would need at least millions or even tens of millions of years to grow to the top combat strength in the great world.” The stone tablet’s tone became a little awkward all of a sudden.

“What I’m trying to say is that most cultivation system nowadays place forging of the Life Base in the early stage because they were influenced by the Cultivation Era. Basically, all cultivation systems hardly rely on foreign items when it comes to forging the Life Base. Instead, they cultivate it slowly with their own ability. The Life Base that’s forged that way is many times more powerful no matter the compatibility or growth compared to the Life Base that you take from others. Moreover, their Life Base will elevate following their level whereby it’ll grow and evolve continuously. Eventually, it can be cultivated through divine force and transform from there.

“Your cultivation system has an ordinary quality since it’s taken from other monsters. It’s not even achieved a tenth of the growth and compatibility compared to other cultivation systems. Furthermore, it’s too late to forge the Life Base. The lack of cultivation makes the consolidation of the Life Base into the Godhead impossible. Most importantly, the transformation of the Life Base is simply not there.

“It’s possible to elevate successfully if the imperial-level purple gold-rank powerhouses in your world are willing to spend thousands or tens of thousands of years to absorb the divine force slowly and cultivate the Life Base, then break through when it’s on the verge of transformation.

“However, you guys have gotten used to the cultivation method of taking whereby you kill demigod monsters and break through forcefully, relying on the Divine Power in the demigod monsters’ bodies. This won’t work at all! The Divine Power in the demigod’s body is insufficient to consolidate into a complete Godhead. Plus, a Life Base that hasn’t gone through sufficient cultivation can’t take the impact of the Divine Power.”

“So, are you suggesting that I consolidate the Life Base myself instead of taking the available Life Base in imperial-level monsters’ bodies?” Lin Huang finally grasped what the stone tablet meant. “But what does that have to do with this broken Godhead that I have?”

“Let me ask you… Where did you get this broken Godhead?” The stone tablet asked while grinning.

“It’s formed from those demigod monsters that failed to elevate to Virtual God.”

“What is a broken Godhead converted from?”

“A Life Palace…” Lin Huang understood what the stone tablet meant right after he said that. “Are you saying that I can consolidate a Life Base with this broken Godhead as the material?”

“Not one, but a massive amount of broken Godheads. Use as many as your inner world can handle!” The stone tablet chortled out loud. “You could consolidate an invincible Life Base that’s even more powerful than a Godhead!”

Chapter 983: Hunting Demigods

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Lin Huang peeped at the Destructive Divine Mammoth, not sure whether to laugh or cry after putting the Python-belly Poisonous Frog’s tragic carcass away. He then put the Destructive Divine Mammoth back into his body.

To him, the poisonous frog’s carcass that was now mush had no use to him other than getting Mr. Fu to turn it into food.

Lin Huang looked around the area that had completely turned into ruins. He hovered into the sky and flew north.

Xiao Hei retrieved the Python-belly Poisonous Frog’s demigod soul and made it into a card. Naturally, Lin Huang could not read the memory in its head. All he could do was to find another imperial-level monster to acquire the other demigods’ coordinates.

Lin Huang flew more than 2,000 kilometers north from the southeastern corner on the third layer of the Abyss Brink. It was still a burnt ruin in his field of vision. He did not even sense a single living thing’s aura along the way.

It was his first time learning how powerful a demigod really was then.

“The impact of the battle collision alone destroyed everything within 3,000 kilometers. I don’t see any imperial-level monsters that survived. A demigod’s power is really terrifying!

“The collision of the Divine Power is the main reason for such great destruction. If that poisonous frog didn’t use its Divine Power, the destruction as a result of the collision would only cover an area within 1,000 kilometers at the most. Also, not all monsters were killed by the battle impact. Many of the injured had fled. After all, they had no idea if another collision that was similar would occur again. Those that survived fled the impacted area as soon as they could,” explained the stone tablet.

Until he flew 3,000 kilometers out, Lin Huang finally saw the border of the destroyed battleground. A scorched line extended towards the east and the west so far that Lin Huang could not see it with his eyes. The entire land looked like a painting that was half-burned and half-green.

Finally, Lin Huang sensed a living being’s aura when he proceeded 1,000 kilometers up north.

At the same time he sensed the aura, the monster attacked.

A green gleam flashed through the sky like a whip coming at him.

Before Lin Huang could do anything, a white light shot through the sky. A little white cat appeared on Lin Huang’s shoulder in the next second.

Lin Huang looked down and saw the imperial-level white gold-rank Jasper Boa that was attacking him with its tail sliced into pieces. It was now dead.

He shook his head and landed on the ground slowly.

Bloody came out of his sleeve and connected a tentacle to the Jasper Boa’s head that was severed. After a while, all the information in the Jasper Boa’s head that was still active was retrieved.

“A thousand kilometers to the north is the demigod-level monster, the Titan Boa’s territory. The Ghastly Spider Lady’s territory is approximately 3,000 kilometers west.”

Lin Huang was familiar with the two monsters since they were in the monster guide.

The Titan Boa was a supreme giant monster. It had a colossal body and possessed imperial-level combat strength. When it turned into an adult, it would be at least tens of thousands meter long. This one in the Abyss Brink with demigod-level combat strength might be at least 50,000 meters long. Its body was even bigger than Tyrant’s complete form.

The Titan Boa’s gigantic form did not only mean that it had a terrifying ability, but it also had a scary defensive ability. Its combat technique was similar to the Destructive Divine Mammoth whereby they both suppressed their opponents with force.

However, this monster had a petrifying ability, the Star Engulf.

As soon as the ability was charged, there would be a scary engulfing force that surged from its mouth, sucking its opponents into an isolated space inside its body.

Meanwhile, the Ghastly Spider Lady had nothing to do with an arachnid monster at all. She was an undead monster that looked a bit like a female human. She had long hair with a beautiful face but appeared rather pale. The biggest difference compared to a female human was that neither did the Ghastly Spider Lady have human breasts, nor did she have genitals or hair that humans usually had. From far away, she looked like a drained dead body that had been soaked in water for a long time.

The reason the monster was called a spider lady was that her hair was her attack weapon. The attack mode was similar to how spiders hunted.

The Ghastly Spider Lady appeared countable times throughout history, but there was tons of information about her recorded in the monster guide.

Her hair had broad functions including cutting, piercing, tying, weaving webs, and setting traps. It could also be consolidated into a shield and a weapon for defense.

She also had powerful telekinetic power. Not only could she strengthen her hair with various techniques, but she could also give it an attribution ability.

Combining telekinesis and ghastly hair that she was born with, she gave them a comprehensive ability. Apart from slightly weak close-distance combat strength, she almost had no flaws.

Moreover, as she was born undead, the only way to kill her was to cut all of her hair. She would not die even if they still had a single strand of hair attached.

To Lin Huang, this monster was much more difficult to handle compared to the Python-belly Poisonous Frog due to its immensely powerful hair. Even if a strand of demigod-level Ghastly Spider Lady’s hair was not as powerful as a demigod relic, it should be on par with a demigod relic when tens of them came together. One could imagine how difficult it would be to cut hundreds of thousands of such locks.

“Let’s go for the Titan Boa first then.” Lin Huang decided almost without hesitation after a while of comparing.

The Titan Boa was much easier to kill compared to the Ghastly Spider Lady.

After acquiring the Titan Boa’s coordinates, Lin Huang continued his journey to the north.

A couple of minutes later, he saw a scary giant boa that looked like a massive mountain from far away. From guesswork, Lin Huang figured that this Titan Boa’s body was at least 70,000 meters long.

“What a monster!” The monster’s form was the top three biggest monsters Lin Huang had ever seen.

The Titan Boa sat there with its eyes shut, pretending to sleep. Although it did not seem to sense Lin Huang’s existence, in reality, it sensed him coming when he was hundreds of kilometers away.

However, it did not take Lin Huang seriously no matter what his combat strength or form was. It did not think that this immortal-level human was coming for it. Instead, it thought Lin Huang was just passing by.

Finally, it could not take it when Lin Huang arrived 20 kilometers away and was still approaching it when he could clearly see the monster’s existence. It opened its eyes and looked straight at Lin Huang.

The glance alone from the Titan Boa gave Lin Huang a suppressive demigod aura.

‘Seems like it looks down on me completely!’ Lin Huang forced a smile while shaking his head.

If he were some other immortal-level powerhouse, the overwhelming intensity coming from the glance alone was sufficient to kill.

However, to Lin Huang who possessed Divine Fire and God Figurines in his body, the Divine Fire would extinguish such a demigod-level spiritual suppression as soon as it came within a certain distance of his consciousness. It could not threaten Lin Huang at all.

“I can’t believe it’s using its spirit to suppress me when it’s an expert in body combat. Let me show you the master who’s really skilled in this!” Lin Huang smirked cunningly. “Come on out, Nightmare Tapir!”

Chapter 984: Die, Titan Boa!

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

The Titan Boa was slightly stunned when its spiritual suppression did nothing to the immortal-level human before it. Although it was not a monster expert in spiritual skills, even an imperial-level purple gold-rank powerhouse among demigods could not ignore its spiritual suppression. It had killed imperial-level white gold-rank humans in the past in the same way.

However, it could clearly sense that the human before it ignored its spiritual suppression completely. He hovered into the sky like a tough coral in the wave of its spiritual suppression. He could not be affected at all.

In the next second, it saw Lin Huang summon a monster with an elephant trunk and the body of a leopard. The Titan Boa was shocked to sense the monster’s aura.

It could sense that the monster’s combat strength was only on imperial-level purple gold-rank, but there was an odd aura that caused it to be instinctively fearsome.

“The chill that strikes my spirit…” Soon, the Titan Boa noticed that the chill was a form of suppression that came from its opponent’s level. “This fella is on mythical-level!”

Its eyes were filled with fear when it looked at the Nightmare Tapir.

Compared to the Python-belly Poisonous Frog, it dared not underestimate its mythical-level opponent.

The Nightmare Tapir with an elephant trunk and the body of a leopard was only less than three meters long. It was like a mere ant before it.

However, at that very moment, it treated the Nightmare Tapir as its deadly rival that it had never encountered before.

Thousands of meters away, the Nightmare Tapir’s eyes turned completely black all of a sudden.

The Titan Boa jolted before it attacked without thinking twice.

Its body that was lying down shot out of nowhere. Its tail that was like a gigantic mountain range whipped through the air and appeared where the human and beast were in the blink of an eye, drowning the both of them.

The strong wind and energy wave coming from the end of its tail plowed a fan-shaped area which radius exceeded 800 kilometers on the ground. The trees and flowers within the entire area turned into dust.

The attack was practically the most powerful attack the Titan Boa could launch without using its Divine Power.

However, it was not elated at all despite having released all it had. Instead, it had a slight change of expression because it clearly sensed that its attack had landed on nothing.

“Where is he?” The Titan Boa sensed all the surrounding areas within its range of its territory with all its might in an attempt to detect Lin Huang’s whereabouts.

Just when it sensed something, it jolted again and shot forward all of a sudden.

However, a sharp claw mauled its neck at the moment, leaving a few massive wounds that were at least 20 meters long on its neck.

Its scales with powerful defensive abilities seemed to have zero defenses against the opponent’s sharp claws.

Bearing the pain, the Titan Boa turned its head to look at the Nightmare Tapir. Its initial shock calmed down a little.

If it were to dodge the attack earlier a millisecond later, its head might have been torn off and smashed into mush.

“You won’t be that lucky next time,” said the Nightmare Tapir through voice transmission while grinning coldly.

“I admit that you’re powerful, but there’s something that I have that you can’t compare to.” The Titan Boa released a deafening sound. “You have no Divine Power in you!”

“I can still kill you without Divine Power!” The Nightmare Tapir raised its head and whipped its elephant trunk as soon as it was done speaking.

The elephant trunk swept through the air like a whip. As if it were a giant scimitar that sliced through the air, everything it passed by was sliced into half.

The long whip arrived before the Titan Boa in a flash, going straight to its vital point.

The Titan Boa lashed its tail madly again without thinking twice. This time, it inserted almost half of its Divine Power into it.

The massive mountain-like snake tail collided with the long elephant trunk which diameter was less than 15 centimeters long.

At the moment, a golden flare that was as glaring as the sun lit up the collision point.

The golden flare was growing brighter just as its size was growing rapidly too. It grew into a sphere that was thousands of meters in diameter within a few breaths.

Eventually, the golden sphere did not seem to be able to withstand the rapidly expanding speed and exploded entirely. White light shot out all over the place.

In that second, the entire night sky was lit up. The area within thousands of kilometers turned into day.

Endless energy waves and wind pressure swept towards all directions with the collision point as the epicenter.

The area within 2,000 kilometers turned into ruins. All the plants turned into dust while most imperial-level monsters were either injured or killed. Only a minority of them managed to escape with their injured bodies away from the energy waves like rabid animals.

…

From a distance, Lin Huang, who hovered mid-air, saw that the Titan Boa’s eyes had turned completely black long ago. The Divine Power in its body experienced a tremor, and its aura fell away a while later.

He could not help but swivel his head to look at the Nightmare Tapir next to him. “What exactly did he dream about?”

“Fighting me,” replied the Nightmare Tapir, turning its head and smiling.

“Close-distance combat?’

“Yes.”

“Aren’t you lousy at close-distance combat?” Lin Huang asked in confusion.

“It thought I’m good at it, so I made it think so on purpose. I made my close-distance combat ability super powerful.” The Nightmare Tapir could not help but chuckle out loud. “Not only do I have the Ninetails Lynx’s speed and claws, but I also have a defensive ability on par with the Destructive Divine Mammoth. It was beaten up real good.”

“Oh wow, that’s so powerful!” Even Lin Huang could not help himself and gave the Nightmare Tapir a thumbs-up.

He could only wonder if he would be invincible if the Nightmare Tapir integrated all nine True Spirits’ most powerful abilities into his body in his dream.

The remaining Divine Power in the Titan Boa’s body went through another tremor when the duo was chatting. A moment later, its aura dropped rapidly and it was soon dying.

The Titan Boa looked devastating in the dream world.

It laid in the ruins while its body had hundreds of thousands of wounds like it had been cut with a sharp blade. There was no flesh in pristine condition from its head to its tail as if it went through slow slicing execution.

Its scales and tough flesh did not seem to be able to defend it at all. Each wound on its body was at least tens of meters long. Its red flesh could almost be seen from its scales that were torn open. Some wounds were so deep that they went into its organs.

The cuts were bleeding continuously with no sign of healing. Blood spilled from the Titan Boa’s mouth like a stream.

“I lost…” There was no yielding in its voice.

“This is the toughest battle I’ve ever had in my life. It’s also the battle in which I was suppressed entirely. The power and defensive ability that I’m proud of were like babies to you. Even my most powerful ability, the Star Engulf, can’t do anything to you.

“Although I never underestimated you since the beginning, never had I thought that a mythical-level would be so much more terrifying than I imagined!”

“I think there’s something that I must tell you.” The Nightmare Tapir that was hovering mid-air looked at the Titan Boa in a condescending way. It finally spoke, “I’m not on mythical-level. I’m on a level that’s even higher than mythical-level!”

However, the Nightmare Tapir kept something a secret. It was still a child now.

“Is that so? I didn’t lose in vain then…” The very last wisp of breath in the Titan Boa finally faded when it learned the ‘truth’.

“Congratulations, you’ve obtained a complete Titan Boa Card (Legendary-level) x2!”

“The system has detected a demigod soul and Godhead (broken). Would you like to retrieve them?”

Chapter 985: Secret Skill – Stealthy Snake

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Lin Huang was rather surprised to see Xiao Hei’s notification about acquiring a complete Titan Boa Monster Card.

Under normal circumstances, the chances of obtaining a complete Monster Card from killing a monster was extremely low.

According to Lin Huang’s past experience, the chances of it occurring was definitely much lower than 1%. Sometimes, he might only obtain a few hundred complete Monster Cards after killing millions of monsters.

However, he obtained a complete card after killing the second monster.

“Seems like my luck’s great today!” Lin Huang put away the gigantic monster carcass into his storage space after retrieving the demigod soul and Godhead.

On the other hand, the Nightmare Tapir shared the memory it had retrieved with Bloody.

“How is it going? Do we have the other demigod monsters’ coordinates?” Lin Huang only asked Bloody when he saw the Nightmare Tapir detach its elephant trunk from Bloody’s head.

Bloody nodded in confirmation. “Almost there. Apart from the two that we’ve killed, there should be another 14 demigod-level monsters on this layer. The one that’s closest to us is the Ghastly Spider Lady that I told you about earlier. It’s approximately 3,500 kilometers from us in the southwest. Apart from that, there’s a Ghoul Lynx at least 5,000 kilometers north.”

The Ghoul Lynx was a spirit monster. There were not many recordings of it in the monster guide because most people who saw such a monster were dead.

This monster was immune to most physical attacks. One could only harm it on a spiritual level. However, it was an expert in soul-type of attack techniques, illusions, and hypnotization.

“They’re hard to handle no matter if it’s the Ghastly Spider Lady or the Ghoul Lynx.” Lin Huang fell into silence for a moment. “Let’s go for the one that’s closest to us. Plan the route, Bloody.”

“Alright.” Bloody soon plotted the route. “We’re heading west now. After killing the Ghastly Spider Lady, we’ll head northwest, then go north. If we follow this route, the Ghoul Lynx will be our last prey.”

“Sure!” Lin Huang had no objection. To him, there was no difference whoever they killed first.

After all, he did not plan to spare any of the remaining 14 demigod-level monsters.

After putting the demigod soul and the Godhead away as well as recalling the Nightmare Tapir into his head, Lin Huang made his way to the Ghastly Spider Lady’s territory with Bloody.

Approximately 20 minutes later, they arrived at the Ghastly Spider Lady’s territory. Lin Huang crushed a Lucky Card and summoned his chosen fighter to go against the Ghastly Spider Lady — the Ninetails Lynx.

He only had three imperial-level purple gold-rank monsters with him at the moment. They were the Destructive Divine Mammoth, the Ninetails Lynx, and the Nightmare Tapir. The rest of them were on imperial-level white gold-rank and while they might be able to fight demigods, they could not suppress them easily. As for the three God Figurines that he had just obtained, he had yet to visualize them until now since their Combat Souls had yet to be consolidated.

The Destructive Divine Mammoth, the Ninetails Lynx, and the Nightmare Tapir were the only ones that he could use at the moment.

Theoretically, among the three God Figurines’ Combat Souls, the Nightmare Tapir should be the most suitable to fight a monster like the Ghastly Spider Lady.

The Nightmare Tapir was the best expert in dragging his opponent into dreamland without them realizing and draining him to death there.

No matter how intricate the Ghastly Spider Lady’s ability was, she would be controlled by the Nightmare Tapir in the dreamland. There was no way that she could turn the tables.

One reason Lin Huang chose the Ninetails Lynx was that the latter was eager to fight after watching the Destructive Divine Mammoth and the Nightmare Tapir’s battles earlier. On the other hand, he wanted to watch the fight against the demigod-level powerhouse himself. He had not witnessed the fight between the Nightmare Tapir and the Titan Boa earlier.

What he had no idea about was that the Nightmare Tapir could actually pull him into dreamland to watch the fight. Since he did not mention it, the Nightmare Tapir did not know that he intended to watch it.

The Ghastly Spider Lady locked her sights on Lin Huang who was coming at her at a rapid speed. In reality, she noticed this human who intruded her territory when he was hundreds of kilometers away.

Her hunting instinct taught her patience, so she waited for her opponent to reveal his flaws in order for her to kill it in one blow.

However, what puzzled her was that this human, whose combat strength was obviously only immortal-level, did not show any flaws at all. Even though he was moving at a high speed, he still maintained his high alertness, ready to take any attack from all directions at any time.

“This human’s an expert. It’s too bad his combat strength is too weak. If he has the same combat strength as I do, I’m afraid he’ll be a difficult opponent.” That was the first impression the Ghastly Spider Lady had of Lin Huang.

She smirked when she noticed Lin Huang advancing to her soon.

A couple of strands of hair were waving like they were living things. Gradually, they faded and turned invisible. They were like poisonous snakes hiding in the dark, slithering their way to Lin Huang.

There was no sound or trace left behind everywhere they passed.

That was her assassination secret skill, the Stealthy Snake.

Such a secret skill attack was not only invisible, but it also blocked out the ability to sense one’s territory.

The Ghastly Spider Lady had killed countless preys with this secret skill. Up until the moment they were dead, many preys had no idea what attacked them.

Lin Huang frowned suddenly when he was still more than 20 kilometers away from the Ghastly Spider Lady.

Using his Divine Telekinesis, he found out that there were over 30 strands of hair that could not be seen with the naked eye coming toward his direction rapidly. What surprised him was that even his Territory skill did not sense the hair. It did not sense anything out of the ordinary.

“It seems like this is a powerful one. Without my Divine Telekinesis, I’m afraid I’d have been dead right now.” Lin Huang summoned the Ninetails Lynx right away. He knew he could not go up against such a demigod-level attack without having his trump card to boost his combat strength.

“Do you sense the invisible hair?” Lin Huang asked through voice transmission.

The Ninetails Lynx nodded. “This stealthy technique isn’t too shabby. There’s a unique shield layer on the surface of the hair that blocks out a large chunk of the sensing ability of the Territory skill. Unfortunately, the hair occupies space no matter how small it is. In the range of my territory, anything in the material world that occupies space can’t escape from me.”

It saw through the structure of the shield on the hair in one glance.

Lin Huang was completely relieved when he heard what the Ninetails Lynx said. He was thinking of getting the Nightmare Tapir to fight again if the Ninetails Lynx could not sense the hair. The Nightmare Tapir could pull the opponent into dreamland so that there was no way it could fight at all.

At least 30 strands of hair slithered less than 100 meters from Lin Huang using the Stealthy Snake when the human and cat were just done talking.

The little cat returned to Lin Huang’s shoulder, seeming like a white shadow that flashed in the air.

At that moment, Lin Huang’s Divine Telekinesis just sensed that the 36 strands of hair that were attempting to attack him were now sliced into pieces.

The Ghastly Spider Lady that was 20 kilometers away let out a deep groan. The pair of eyes on her pale face shifted slowly. She was now staring at the little white cat on Lin Huang’s shoulder 20 kilometers away.

She flashed her white teeth with a devilish smile. “So, he has an assistant.”

Chapter 986: She Becomes Bald but No More Powerful

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The missed hit made the Ghastly Spider Lady shift her attention to the Ninetails Lynx on Lin Huang which was even more threatening.

The Ninetails Lynx looked at her from far away too.

As they locked eyes, the Ghastly Spider Lady clearly noticed that her soul was shaking. At that moment, she realized that it was on a higher level of suppression.

“It’s on mythical-level?!” The moment the Ghastly Spider Lady was stunned, the Ninetails Lynx on Lin Huang’s shoulder disappeared again.

Almost at the same time, a white streak appeared before the Ghastly Spider Lady without warning.

It was too late when she noticed that. Before she managed to do anything, the white streak had pierced through her body.

In the next second, the white streak appeared hundreds of meters behind the Ghastly Spider Lady, revealing itself gradually. It was the Ninetails Lynx that had been on Lin Huang’s shoulder earlier!

Lin Huang only noticed that the little white cat on his shoulder was no longer there when he saw it appear behind the spider lady.

By then, he had arrived less than five kilometers from the Ghastly Spider Lady. He was stunned when he saw her naked body sliced into tens of pieces. He recalled something all of a sudden and spoke to the Ninetails Lynx through voice transmission immediately, “She’s an undead monster. You must cut all of her hair off to kill her!”

The Ghastly Spider Lady’s body was healing rapidly at a speed that could be seen with the naked eye as soon as the voice transmission was heard.

Her head turned 180 degrees directly, and her black eyes on her pale face glared deadly at the Ninetails Lynx. Her long hair began dancing like snakes.

“Die!” A devastating shriek came from the Ghastly Spider Lady’s throat.

Clearly, she was extremely furious that she was attacked. She had gone into a frenzy, not caring whether the opponent was on mythical-level at all.

At the same time that she shrieked, her long hair swept towards the Ninetails Lynx like an ocean wave.

Her black, long hair turned into bunches of black threads and swept through heaven and earth. It was like flood flushing out of a broken dam.

Nonetheless, the Ninetails Lynx was fearless, its eyes turned a little red as it charged like a white streak again.

Not only did the white streak not run away, but it also entered the flood formed by the black strands of hair.

The white streak was sparkling mid-air. At the same time, sharp air blades formed from the white streak attacked the hair again and again.

The bunches of black hair was like hair being cut whereby they broke off easily wherever the scimitar-like sharp blade passed by.

None of the hairs managed to touch the white streak at all.

“Didn’t they say that the Ghastly Spider Lady’s hair is as powerful as a demigod relic?” Lin Huang began to suspect whether the information recorded in the monster guide was true. According to his observation, the Ghastly Spider Lady’s hair seemed to be no different from an ordinary human’s hair whereby it was easily snipped off.

“The information in the monster guide should be verified,” Bloody voiced its speculation, “There should be two reasons why the hair can be cut so easily.”

“One is that the Ninetails Lynx is extremely powerful, and its attack contains the slicing of space. The second reason is that the Ghastly Spider Lady’s hair’s attribute isn’t the highest defense mode at the moment, but is her most powerful attack mode.”

In the short couple seconds of battling, the Ghastly Spider Lady who had a third of her hair gone realized that her opponent was much more powerful than she imagined. She calmed down gradually.

“No, I’ll definitely lose if this goes on!”

She noticed that her opponent would cut a great amount of her hair easily whenever it mauled her with its claws. Although she had no idea how it did it, she knew that she would be defeated sooner or later, so she changed her strategy immediately.

Her black hair scattered all of a sudden and turned into thin threads. They swept towards the Ninetails Lynx from all directions.

In the blink of an eye, the Ninetails Lynx seemed to have fallen into a trap whereby it was covered completely by countless strands of hair. Furthermore, its space was shrinking.

“Let’s see how you’re going to run!”

A sense of disdain flashed through the Ninetails Lynx’s eyes when it noticed that.

In the next second, it flashed away while the prison made of the long hair suddenly became empty.

The Ghastly Spider Lady jolted upon realizing that the Ninetails Lynx was gone.

Almost at the same time, the Ghastly Spider Lady’s head was left with a round and naked scalp. She looked similar to a middle-aged man who suffered from baldness.

Yes, she was bald.

However, no, she did not become more powerful. Instead, her aura was dropping rapidly.

The Ninetails Lynx’s attack almost made her lose two-thirds of her hair.

Lin Huang was not sure to laugh or cry when he witnessed that mid-air. The Ninetails Lynx had made its opponent bald! It was clear that the cat had done that on purpose.

Perhaps because she thought the top of her head was a little chilly, so the Ghastly Spider Lady could not help but touch her head. Her expression turned terrible when she found out that she was bald.

Her pallid face was even paler now. The expression on her face was gravely ferocious. Clearly, she was extremely mad.

“I’ll kill you! Kill you! Kill you!”

Anyone could not help but have goosebumps when the devastating shriek that reflected despair spread hundreds of kilometers away into the night.

The Ghastly Spider Lady fell into a complete frenzy later on. She lost her calm and ditched her strategy entirely. She consolidated her remaining hair into a long whip, even inserting Divine Power into it while lashing everything around her madly.

The Ninetails Lynx did not bother to fight her and dodged with sparkles continuously. It even had the time to grab Lin Huang and send him into the alternate dimension to prevent him from feeling the impact.

The Ghastly Spider Lady was even more enraged now that the Ninetails Lynx could still take care of others under its attack. She increased the frequency of her lashes.

However, apart from destroying everything within hundreds of kilometers, her attack did not even touch a hair on the Ninetails Lynx.

By going into a rage, the spider lady revealed all of her flaws to the Ninetails Lynx.

The flaws that kept spilling made the Ninetails Lynx assault her scalp over and over again.

When it attacked for the sixth time, it removed the very last strand of hair behind the Ghastly Spider Lady’s head.

By then, the Ghastly Spider Lady became completely bald. Her shiny scalp reflected the bright moonlight.

The Ghastly Spider Lady, whose hair was completely removed, looked like she had turned into a rock. She stood frozen where she was while her eyes lost spirit slowly and all signs of life were fading rapidly.

Xiao Hei’s notifications came one after another on Lin Huang’s side.

“Congratulations, you’ve obtained complete Ghastly Spider Lady Card (Legendary-level) x2!

“Congratulations, you’ve obtained demigod soul crystals (Pseudo-mythical-level) x2

“The system has detected a demigod soul and a Godhead (broken). Would you like to retrieve them?”

Chapter 987: Bai Agrees to Elevate

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Before hunting the Ghastly Spider Lady, Lin Huang used a Lucky Card intentionally but never had he expected that complete Ghastly Spider Lady Monster Cards would come out. Besides that, there were even demigod soul crystals.

After retrieving the Ghastly Spider Lady’s demigod soul and Godhead in her body, Lin Huang put the carcass away and said to Bloody in his sleeve with his head down, “Where to next?”

“There’s a Golden Venom Silkworm 6,800 kilometers in the southwest.”

“Let’s go!” Lin Huang hovered into the sky directly after putting the Ninetails Lynx away and headed straight southwest.

Past 10 a.m. the next morning, Lin Huang finally returned to the second layer from the third layer of the Abyss Brink.

He had spent the entire night killing all 16 demigod-level monsters in the Abyss Brink.

With the effect of the Lucky Cards and Double Reward Cards, his night full of reward was pretty handsome. He obtained a total of six compete Monster Cards, four demigod soul crystals, four demigod relics, 32 demigod souls, and 32 broken Godheads.

The six complete Monster Cards were two Titan Boas, two Ghastly Spider Ladies, and two Ghoul Lynxs.

Although they were all demigod-level monsters, due to the restriction of Lin Huang’s combat strength, they were just like Bai and the rest whereby their combat strength was only on imperial-level yellow gold-rank.

Lin Huang also obtained 16 cross-ranking rewards. Since he had killed demigods, he would receive 80 card draws each time he killed one. With the Double Reward Cards, he obtained a total of 2,560 draws.

Lin Huang summoned Bai when he returned to the land where Tyrant and the rest were elevating.

Bai was rather puzzled when he saw the three golden eggs. However, he soon sensed the aura that he was familiar with inside the eggs. Tyrant and the rest were in there!

Lin Huang only explained upon seeing Bai glaring at the golden eggs, “I elevated Tyrant and the other two to mythical-level since I’ve gathered sufficient materials for them.”

A sense of envy flashed through Bai’s eyes when he heard that, but soon he hid his emotions.

“You don’t have to be envious because I’ve gathered the materials for you too. You can elevate now.” Lin Huang took out the materials one after another while speaking.

“You can’t summon me after I elevate, can you?” Bai asked.

“It’s alright. That’ll just be temporary,” Lin Huang explained while smiling, “I’ve found a way to elevate to imperial-level, so I should complete the elevation soon.”

Bai fell into silence for a moment before asking again, “Your Combat Souls… Are they much more powerful than us?”

It was Lin Huang’s turn to fall into silence when he heard the question. He nodded a while later. “There are three of them who can kill demigods now while the remaining four should be able to fight demigods face-on.”

“I get it now. Let’s elevate then.” Bai nodded firmly after hearing the answer.

“Let’s begin then.” Lin Huang handed the materials to Bai one after another for the integration following the instructions on the cards.

The integration process was extremely torturous, especially integrating the demigod blood and demigod soul. The expression on Bai’s face was so distorted that he looked like something else now.

Usually, it only required the integration of a ton demigod blood and ten demigod souls. However, the instruction at the back of the card said the more, the better.

Bai integrated a total of three tons of demigod blood and 32 demigod souls. He said nothing throughout the entire process whereby he stood where he was while blood gushed out of the pores all over his body.

Even Lin Huang, who stood aside, was frowning hard when he saw this grisly scene. He did not stop Bai. Instead, he crushed five Advance Cards.

Bai’s pain finally faded when the five Advance Cards turned into five golden glows which penetrated his body. Just like Tyrant and the rest, his body began turning into a golden egg too.

Lin Huang released a long exhale of relief upon seeing Bai enter the elevation mode. “This round of elevation is finally done.”

Since he had completed the core goal of elevating the four imperial monsters, Lin Huang turned his head and looked at the two God Figurines’ Combat Souls beside.

He then summoned all four of his imperial-level white gold-rank God Figurines’ Combat Souls.

The Divine Sun Tree mastered the Fire Rule. Everything would be inflammable when it elevated to its peak in order to strengthen itself.

The Enchanted Fairy mastered the Ice Rule. It could freeze the entire world from revolving when it was elevated to its peak.

The Undead Styx mastered the Spirit Rule. When it elevated to its peak, it could turn any living thing into its loyal worshippers as it wished, building countless undead armies. It could also retrieve countless inheritances from the numerous souls and own them.

The Withered Flower mastered the Life Rule. It could revive the dead on a large scale when it elevated to its peak. It could also engulf all living things in the world and turn it into a dead, barren land.

All four Combat Souls had abilities no less than the Ninetails Lynx and the rest. It was just that they were one rank lower in terms of combat strength.

Initially, Lin Huang could not decide which Combat Soul he should use the two demigod soul crystals that he had obtained from auctioning the god relic Ba Huang on. However, he had obtained another four during the hunt this time, so it was sufficient now.

After summoning the four God Figurines’ Combat Souls, he took out four demigod soul crystals and threw them towards the four Combat Souls that grabbed the demigod soul crystals without thinking twice and swallowed them.

The God Figurines’ Combat Souls completed their breakthrough merely over ten minutes later. All of them had elevated to imperial-level purple gold-rank, and their aura was just as strong as the Destructive Divine Mammoth.

Lin Huang made the Undead Styx stay to guard the premises as he put the three God Figurines’ Combat Souls away.

He began practicing on his own.

The Undead Styx had hundred thousands of imperial-level armies in its body whereby it had close to 200 imperial-level purple gold-rank powerhouses alone. Even if it did not fight by itself, the hundred thousand-strong armies were sufficient to fight two to three demigods. Furthermore, it was under the premise of no battle formation.

In reality, Lin Huang got Bloody to share all of its battle formation knowledge to the Undead Styx ever since it formed its undead army. What he had no idea about was how well the Undead Styx mastered the battle formation now.

…

Two white-robed people rushed through the second layer of the Abyss Brink, ignoring any monsters’ aura around completely.

In reality, there was nothing that they should worry about since both of them were imperial-level purple gold-rank powerhouses. They did not hide their aura at all. All of the monsters along the way would hide when they sensed the duo’s aura. They were afraid that they would be discovered.

The most powerful monster in the second layer of the Abyss Brink was only on imperial-level yellow gold-rank after all. Picking a fight with anyone whose combat strength was two ranks higher was definitely asking for death.

“We’ve searched through the few usual hunting zones on the second layer, but we didn’t find Lin Xie’s trace at all. Could he not be in the hunting zone?”

“There are only two possibilities. He’s either in the hunting zone or he’s gone to the third layer.”

“Why did he even come to the Abyss Brink if he’s not going for the hunting zones?”

“Who knows? We can only search following the map. We can’t let go of even a single zone!”

Chapter 988: God Bless

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Two white silhouettes, one tall and one short, were flying north at high speed in a dense jungle in the northeast of the second layer of the Abyss Brink.

“This is the last zone. If we can’t find Lin Xie here, it means that he has either gone to the third layer or he’s left the Abyss Brink,” said the tall one without any expression on his face.

“I think there’s one more possibility.” The short one had disdain written all over his face. “That brat named Lin Xie might not even come to the Abyss Brink at all. The news that we got might be fake since the beginning.”

“This possibility is low.” The tall one shook his head expressionlessly.

“So, what do we do if we don’t find him in the last zone?” asked the short one, “It’s been two days and one night since we last rested.”

“We can only search the third layer if we can’t find him in this layer.” The tall one could not help but frown as he spoke.

“I think this is a complete waste of time,” the short one objected immediately. “He’s on immortal-level. He’s not stupid. How is it possible that he’d go to the third layer? Wouldn’t he be looking for death if he does that? We’ll forget it when we’re done searching through the second layer. Why should we torture ourselves?”

“Master asked me to team up with you on purpose because he knew you’d give up fast. Don’t you ever think of slacking…”

“Stop!” The short one spoke through voice transmission and interrupted the tall one from speaking further.

“What?” The tall one looked confused.

“Shh!” The short one made a shushing gesture and pointed to his right.

“Do you see something?” The tall one spoke through voice transmission this time.

“Someone set up an illusion in the canyon on the northeast side. I’m suspecting it might be Lin Xie.” The short one became a little excited now.

“Let’s go take a look.” Both of them hid their aura immediately as soon as the tall one was done speaking. They lowered their flight and rushed toward the zone the short one detected.

Lin Huang, who was practicing his sword skills in a canyon more than 100 kilometers away, smirked all of a sudden. “They’re finally here.”

Yesterday, when Lin Huang returned from the third layer of the Abyss Brink, Bloody found out about these two imperial-level purple gold-rank men in white robes since its Leech Pods filled the entire the second layer of the Abyss Brink.

When Bloody informed Lin Huang about the duo’s whereabouts, he connected the dots to the two people who had captured Chan Dou and were wearing white robes too. He suspected that they were the same people. How could he have known that that they would be coming for him now?

Lin Huang summoned the Nightmare Tapir. “Don’t kill them yet. Remember to read their minds. Find out which organization they’re from and where they brought Chan Dou to. Is he still alive? Also, find out how many demigods are there in their organization and where their headquarters is.”

The Nightmare Tapir nodded. Sensing the duo approaching at high velocity, it raised its head and flipped its trunk instantly while releasing an ear-splitting shriek.

The screech spread a hundred times faster than the speed of sound. It reached the two white-robed men in the blink of an eye.

The two white-robed men slowed down all of a sudden.

“Did you hear that?” asked the short one.

“I did. I wonder what kind of monster’s shriek was that?” The tall one nodded.

“It seems to be coming from that canyon.” The short one seemed timid now.

“No matter what it is, the highest its combat strength will only be is imperial-level yellow gold-rank. Monsters of a higher combat strength can’t enter the second layer at all.” The tall one remained calm.

“Oh yeah, I forgot about that.” The short one was relieved now.

The duo soon passed through more than 100 kilometers and arrived deep in the canyon.

An ungulate monster with black scales all over and a horn on its head lay on the ground of a cave. It was breastfeeding two of its babies.

“It’s a… Midnight Unicorn?!” The tall one raised a brow when he saw that creature.

“It seems like that fella set this illusion up. We’ve wasted our efforts again.” Disappointment remained all over the short man’s face.

“Our luck’s awesome! The Midnight Unicorn is a rare spirit-type monster that’s expert in illusions. It happens to have two babies, so we’ll have one each.” The tall one killed the mother monster quickly as he was speaking. He grabbed the two baby monsters and passed one of them to the short one.

“None for me. I’m not a fan of keeping pets,” the short one rejected right away. “What do we do now? We’re already done searching the last zone, but we didn’t find any traces of Lin Xie.”

“What else can we do? We can only go to the third layer. We can’t go back without even taking a look at the third layer. Am I right? Or do you think that you can get away from Master’s questioning?”

The short one fell into silence for a moment and eventually nodded unwillingly. “Let’s go to the third layer then, but you’ll search on your own if want to do it at night. I’m going to sleep.”

“Sure, let’s take a rest tonight. Let’s take a look at the third layer together tomorrow,” the tall one agreed directly.

…

Lin Huang began observing the two white-robed men when they appeared before him.

The tall one was skinny. He was at least 1.9 meters tall like a bamboo stick. His skin was rather fair. He seemed to have taken on an unhealthy pallor as if he had been staying indoors for a long time without getting any sunlight.

The short one was obviously less than 1.7 meters. Perhaps, he was only 1.6 meters at the most. He was plump and tanned while the pores on his nose were huge with many blackheads.

The white robes they were wearing were pure white without any labels. Lin Huang only found two Emperor’s Heart Rings on them; they had nothing else.

After he was done observing them, the Nightmare Tapir transferred all of the information it had retrieved to Bloody.

“How is it? Are they the ones who took Chan Dou?” Lin Huang asked immediately upon seeing Bloody looking at him.

“Yes,” Bloody confirmed.

“Is Chan Dou still alive?”

“He’s still alive, but this is so much more complicated than we imagined!” Bloody had no idea how to put it into words. “They’re from an organization called God Bless. It’s not a new underground organization, but it’s been hiding under the radar for over 800 years. They’ve even joined the organizations founded by the Union Government and the Hunter Association. Their people have penetrated the higher management of organizations including the Union Government and the Hunter Association… Apart from the Union Government organization, they’ve occupied almost all the major underground organizations’ higher management.”

“I’ll transfer the memory after I’ve arranged them. Take a look for yourself.” Bloody extended a tentacle that slithered to Lin Huang’s forehead after speaking. A sea of information rushed into his head rapidly.

Lin Huang only opened his eyes a long time after Bloody recalled its tentacle. He was frowning hard.

“No wonder these people dare to capture the direct descendants of the Chan Clan who have demigods guarding their clan. They basically control all the major organizations in this world.”

“It should be them who attacked Master that time! Only they could do it. They used the Union Government name to set the trap for Master and destroyed the evidence perfectly.”

“Now, the most troublesome thing is that there’s no way we can identify who is from God Bless and who isn’t,” Bloody voiced the biggest existing conundrum.

Lin Huang, who had just digested the new information in his head, looked serious now.

Making enemies with God Bless was no different from making enemies with all the organizations in the world.

Chapter 989: Herculean King, Quadruple Mutated

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Lin Huang found out from the two white-robed men’s minds that Chan Dou was still alive, but the duo had no idea where he had been sent to.

The God Bless organization was massive whereby there were a couple of branches in each safety zone and each branch in the same zone served different purposes. The white-robed men only knew what was happening at their branch, but they knew nothing much about the other branches and the headquarters. They did not even know where were the exact locations of those branches and headquarters.

Although Lin Huang found out about the location of their branch as well as there being a demigod there from the duo’s memory, he did not plan to alert the enemy just yet.

Bloody shared the same opinion.

“Looking at the current situation, it’s easy for us to destroy this branch that we know of. However, the people from God Bless will be even more cautious as soon as the branch is destroyed. It will only bring our further investigation a bigger obstacle, so we can’t do anything to this branch just yet.”

“I think so too, but the current issue is that we can’t obtain more information to deepen the investigation if we don’t drop by this branch.”

“We don’t have to do the investigation ourselves,” Bloody said and looked at the two white-robed men who were still wandering in dreamland. “We can send two spies in.”

Lin Huang’s attention shifted to the two white-robed men. He stared at them for a while and turned his head to ask the Nightmare Tapir, “Can you do it?”

“It shouldn’t be a problem. I can imprint a part of me in their bodies. As soon as they fall asleep, I can retrieve the information from their heads no matter the distance. Furthermore, nobody will find out about that including themselves,” said the Nightmare Tapir, nodding, but he raised a question, “But there’s one problem. Many things they experienced in the dreamland can’t be explained properly. If we let them go just like that, there’d be many loopholes when someone were to question them. They’d find out about it sooner or later. I’m afraid they’d know we did something to them by then.”

“Tell me about what they went through. I’ll make you a new script.” Bloody took up the responsibility.

Bloody saw everything in their heads a moment later. “I get it now. I might need your help to delete the beginning portion of their memory. Start from the Midnight Unicorn illusion they saw when they came to the canyon. Change it to them seeing a male Midnight Unicorn which ran away when it saw them from far away.”

…

Soon, two days had passed. The two white-robed men returned to the second layer of the Abyss Brink from the third layer.

“I’ve already told you that he’s definitely not on the third layer. We wasted two days for nothing,” the short one complained, feeling irritated.

“It seems like Lin Xie has left the Abyss Brink,” the tall one ignored the short one’s complaint while speaking to himself, “Since he’s not on the second and third layers, I think we should take a look at the first layer.”

“Go by yourself. I don’t have the time to play along with you. I’m going back to report myself now.” The short one did not bother the tall one and rushed to the exit of the second layer right away.

The tall one frowned slightly. Seeing the short one disappearing from his field of vision, he followed, feeling helpless.

Over half an hour later, the duo got out of the second layer exit of the Abyss Brink one after another. They returned to the land.

Just when they returned, the duo summoned a Dimensional Portal and stepped into it.

…

In Division 3, Magical Sky City.

In a tall office building, there was a well-lit office with three transparent membrane walls.

An old, gray-haired man in a ponytail who was sitting at a meeting table was looking at the two white-robed men standing before the office table through the frameless glasses on his nose bridge.

One of the two white-robed men was short and the other, tall.

The tall one was at least 1.9 meters tall. His skin was unhealthily pale.

The short one was less than 1.7 meters tall. His skin was tanned, and one could see the pores on his nose from a couple of meters away.

The old man placed his elbows on the table while crossing both of his hands as he listened to the two men talking.

“Do you mean the both of you have browsed through the second and third layers of the Abyss Brink but you didn’t find any trace of Lin Xie?”

“Yes, boss. We didn’t only browse through the hunting zones this time. We also went through every inch of the land from the south to the north, from the east to the west, but we didn’t find Lin Xie,’ added the short one.

The old man did not look at the short guy. Instead, he turned his head to look at the tall one and asked, “You didn’t miss out any place?”

The tall one nodded. “Yes, we didn’t miss out an inch on the second and third layers.”

“So, you didn’t browse the first layer?” The old man frowned slightly.

The short one nudged the tall one next to him with his elbow. “See, I told you that we should browse the first layer, but you insisted that it’s impossible for Lin Xie to go to the first layer and you said we must come back to report ourselves right away.”

“You…” The tall one was enraged to hear that. Just like that, the short one turned the tables around!

“Never mind. It doesn’t matter if you didn’t browse through them. Indeed, it’s pretty impossible that Lin Xie would go to the first layer.” The old man waved to stop the duo’s fight.

“Alright, both of you may leave now. Be on standby and don’t go too far. There will be a mission soon.”

“What mission, boss?” the short one asked rather curiously.

“Something from the Purple Crow. Don’t ask about the detail. I’ll tell you guys by then.” The old man waved to get them to leave directly.

…

Lin Huang had been staying in the second layer of the Abyss Brink. He had been guarding the four golden eggs while practicing his sword skills every day.

At midnight on the ninth day, one of the golden eggs finally hatched.

Lin Huang put the wooden sword in his hand away immediately hearing the cracking of the shell. He looked at the few golden eggs and soon realized that it was the Herculean King’s golden egg that was cracking.

The crack seemed to have formed automatically. It was just a hairline crack in the beginning at only over ten centimeters. Soon, it turned into the size of a thumb while its length expanded to hundreds of meters. The crack spread out, and there were more and more cracks.

Approximately half an hour later, cracks of all sizes filled the entire egg. All of a sudden, countless golden rays shot out of the cracks. Subsequently, the entire shell broke and turned into pieces. The tens of thousands of eggshell pieces turned into golden dots sparkling in the air. It looked like stars in the night sky.

Lin Huang saw the giant golden ape covered in the sparkles. The giant ape opened its eyes slowly as if it was waking up from a deep slumber. At the moment, the golden dots went through a tremor out of the blue. They turned into a golden stream and penetrated the giant ape’s chest.

After a long time later, the golden gleam faded completely. The giant ape stepped forward, shrinking with every step it took.

Its height shrunk to three meters when it appeared before Lin Huang.

With the help of a bonfire, Lin Huang saw the Herculean King’s transformed appearance.

His long hair was short now. He looked more like a human when he was standing up. The biggest difference was that many parts of his body were covered with a layer of golden armor. He even had an exquisite golden headband on his head and golden flames burned in his eyes.

‘The Monkey King bar is the only thing you’re missing to be the Monkey King!’ Lin Huang thought to himself upon seeing the Herculean King’s transformation.

Chapter 990: The Imperial Monsters that Hatched

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Lin Huang sensed clearly that the Herculean King’s aura was much more powerful than before. It was at least 100 times more powerful now.

The golden flames in the Herculean King’s eyes faded slowly when he saw Lin Huang.

He walked to Lin Huang before speaking, “Master, you must take care of yourself when we’re not around.”

“I will. Don’t worry. You guys just wait for me to elevate to imperial-level.” Lin Huang patted the Herculean King’s arm. “Your new style isn’t too shabby. You’re quite handsome!”

The Herculean King smirked when he heard the compliment. His body turned into orange pieces before he could say anything more as he converted into an orange card before Lin Huang quickly.

Lin Huang extended his hand and the card was drawn to his palm.

The card was completely orange with the Herculean King’s image on it. He was waving at Lin Huang in there.

Lin Huang smiled and flipped the card over to look at the details.

“Monster Card: Herculean King

“Rarity: Mythical-level

“Monster Name: Super Strength Battleape (Fire attribute)

“Type of Monster: Demon God-type (Pure Blood) / Ancient era Mighty Ape Tribe)

“Nickname: None

“Combat Level: Imperial-level Yellow Gold-rank

“Major: Martial Dao

“Major Skills: Superhuman Strength, Undefeatable Warrior, Unbending Will, Unrestrained Divinity…

“Minor Skills: Demon God Armor, Demon God Shield…

“Summon Authority: Denied (To be activated when you reach imperial level)

“Card Remarks: The second Monster Card that you can show off.

“Demon god-type…”

Seeing that description on the card, Lin Huang recalled the introduction of such a tribe in his memory of the great world. During the ancient era, the demon god and god’s blood were the two major tribes of almost of the same rank. They were glorious.

The reason they were fallen later on was mainly because the demon gods needed to maintain pure bloodline in each subgroup while most subgroups had low reproduction. Eventually, that caused the tribe members to drop and soon they were fallen.

Putting away the Herculean King’s card into his body, Lin Huang gave his undivided attention to practicing his sword skills. He waited for the remaining three golden eggs to hatch patiently.

In the next afternoon, the second golden egg hatched when the sun was glaring the hottest in the middle of the sky.

It was Charcoal that hatched from the golden egg this time.

Charcoal’s body shrunk to approximately 30 meters, but its appearance was at least a grade higher now.

The current Charcoal had shiny scales all over its body like a coat of piano shellac that reflected Lin Huang’s image clearly. The scales were like shiny black mirrors.

Not only had it shrunk, but its body was also slenderer now. It lost the clumsiness it had before and seemed rather elegant now.

Although it did not look as suppressive as before, Lin Huang clearly sensed that the aura the current version of Charcoal had was so powerful that it was terrifying.

Charcoal disappeared just when Lin Huang saw it hatch out of the shell. It then appeared before Lin Huang, rubbing its head against him. Lin Huang staggered from the slight scare.

He did not see the dragon’s trajectory of movement at all which shocked him a little. “His speed’s a few folds faster than Kylie before she elevated!”

He patted Charcoal’s head. “Your strength’s different from before now. Please behave.”

“Hehe, I’m more powerful now! Soon, I’ll be able to fight.” Charcoal grinned.

“It’s still far away from that. Stay in your sealed form patiently.” Charcoal’s body began to turn into a card as soon as Lin Huang was done speaking.

Lin Huang flipped the card in his hand directly to look at the detailed information on the back.

“Monster Card: Charcoal

“Rarity: Mythical-level

“Monster Name: Demon Flame Dragon (Fire attribute)

“Type of Monster: Dragonkin (Pure Blood) / Ancient Era Demon Dragon Tribe)

“Nickname: Flame Lord

“Combat Level: Imperial-level Yellow Gold-rank

“Major: True Dragon Dao

“Major Skills: Evil Flame, Dragon Power, Dragon Breath, Draconic secret skill, Dragon Realm, Dragon Flame…

“Minor Skills: Elemental Immunity, Divine Regeneration, Physical Reflection…

“Summon Authority: Denied (To be activated when you reach imperial level)

“Card Remarks: Trainable!”

Lin Huang proceeded with his sword practice after putting Charcoal’s card away.

On the morning of the 11th day, Lin Huang heard the cracking of an eggshell when he had just washed up and was having a snack.

He looked up and saw a crack that was so subtle that it was almost invisible to the naked eye on the giant golden egg which was so colossal that it was touching the sky. Since he had experienced the same thing twice, Lin Huang proceeded to munch on the dried meat in his hand while waiting for Tyrant to break out of the egg patiently.

Almost 20 minutes had passed when he finished his breakfast in leisure. By then, Tyrant finally hatched from the egg.

Tyrant’s height that was over 30,000 meters tall was shrinking rapidly. He only stepped out and appeared before Lin Huang when he shriveled to approximately two meters tall.

“Master.”

Lin Huang began taking a closer look at Tyrant that looked almost similar to a human now.

He was over two meters tall with huge muscles bulging all over his body while his skin was its usual bronze color. He had blonde hair now while his pupils were black. The beard on his face was cleanly shaven. He looked like a handsome hunk who was 25 years old at the most.

The once-dark gold armor that was attached to his body was pitch-black and it flaunted his body even more now.

Lin Huang sensed the explosive power coming inside of Tyrant’s body unquestionably. Although he was only two meters tall, his real flesh was tens of thousands of meters tall. His power was condensed in each cell of his body.

“Not bad! You’re much more powerful now.”

Tyrant smirked while scratching the back of his head, feeling bashful.

“I’m sorry that I’ll have to seal you guys for a while. I’ll release all of you as soon as I’ve elevated to imperial level.” Lin Huang patted Tyrant’s shoulder.

Tyrant’s body soon began to fade and turned into a card.

Lin Huang looked at the back of the card in his hand right away.

“Monster Card: Tyrant

“Rarity: Mythical-level

“Monster Name: Genie Combat God

“Type of Monster: Archaic-type (Pure Blood) / Celestial Giant Tribe

“Nickname: Combat God

“Combat Level: Imperial-level Yellow Gold-rank

“Major: Combat God Dao, Martial Dao

“Major Skills: Combat God Technique, Combat God Power, Combat God Rage, Combat God Ax…

“Minor Skills: Divine Regeneration, Physical Immunity…

“Summon Authority: Denied (To be activated when you reach imperial level)

“Card Remarks: Trainable!”

Lin Huang put the card back into his body after reading Tyrant’s card description. He turned his head and looked at the last golden egg far away for a while before glancing away.

“Bai won’t complete his elevation so soon. The materials he digested were a few times more than the standard amount so it will delay the digesting time,” Bloody explained while smiling upon noticing Lin Huang’s behavior.

“I know.” Lin Huang nodded.

He said nothing more. In reality, he was rather worried that Bai would elevate abnormally. The reason being was that he had asked Xiao Hei a couple of days ago if there would be any side effects if Bai used too many integrated materials. Xiao Hei said that the material amount recommended by the system was the best suggestion. Too much or too few might cause the elevation to fail.

Time passed by and another week passed. It was the 18th day since Lin Huang entered the Abyss Brink.

Early in the morning, he finally heard a soft crack.

Chapter 991: Bai Who Has Elevated

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Before Lin Huang managed to wash up, he got out of the tent immediately and looked at the very last golden egg hearing the cracking noise.

He confirmed what he heard was not an illusion upon noticing a tiny hair-line crack on the golden egg.

After washing up, he took his time to finish his breakfast and put the tent that he had been sleeping in for more than half a month away. He then sat on the rocks while waiting for Bai to complete his elevation patiently.

Nobody knew if it was the eggshell that was extra hard or some other reason, but the cracking of Bai’s golden egg was significantly slower than Tyrant’s and the rest. The golden eggshell finally broke completely and turned into beams of light that penetrated into Bai’s body a full three hours later.

Bai took a step forward and arrived before Lin Huang after he completed his elevation.

He did not undergo a major change in terms of appearances. His hair remained white but his eyes were completely bloody red now. There was a red crystal in between his brows that was the size of a thumb while a thin layer of bloody mist lingered around his body.

The black robe he was wearing changed from pure black to crimson patterns that looked like divine patterns. The crimson patterns looked like living things as they were flowing slowly.

Bai’s bloody eyes turned back to black when he trained his eyes on Lin Huang. The blood crystal in between his brows sunk back into his skin automatically, disappearing. The bloody mist lingering around his body also faded quickly. Even the crimson patterns on his black robe stopped flowing as if they were just ordinary patterns now.

What puzzled Lin Huang was that he did not sense a powerful aura from him like Tyrant and the rest had. To be exact, he did not sense any cultivator’s aura from Bai. It was as if he was just an ordinary person without any cultivation.

“What happened to your aura?” Lin Huang asked while thinking how odd it was.

“I’m hiding it,” Bai explained while smiling, “The effect of elevation this time is so amazing that it’s out of my expectations.”

What he said puzzled Lin Huang even more in the end.

Just when he wanted to probe further, Bai’s body began collapsing. Soon, he turned into a golden card hovering mid-air.

Lin Huang was stunned to see the color of the card.

A mythical-level Monster Card was orange in color but Bai’s card was golden. From what Lin Huang knew, only a supreme god-level Monster Card would be gold in color.

He stretched out to pick up the card and turned it over to read right away.

“Monster Card: Bai

“Rarity: Supreme God-level (Pseudo)

“Monster Name: Vampire King

“Type of Monster: Fallen God’s Blood (Pure Blood) / Blood Demon Tribe

“Nickname: Vampire

“Combat Level: Imperial-level Yellow Gold-rank

“Major: Blood Bond

“Major Skills: Almighty Vampire Particles, Blood Moon, Blood Demon secret skill, Blood Demon Realm…

“Minor Skills: Flesh Regeneration…

“Summon Authority: Denied (to be activated when you reach imperial level)

“Card Remarks: Recommended to train with maximum effort!”

Lin Huang was a little dizzy just looking at the hundreds of skills in Bai’s skill slots. There were quite a number of skills that made him envious when he took a glance at them.

“Almighty Vampire Particles

“Function 1: Evolved from Vampire Particles. It can imitate any form as well as constructing any form from one’s imagination as long as it doesn’t defy the law of physics.

“Function 2: The owner of the skill can read all information about another living thing on the gene level from their blood. It gives the owner of the skill the ability to imitate the subject perfectly (unable to imitate living things possessed by high-level owners)

“Function 3: The owner of the skill with the living thing’s blood can influence and assimilate the subject, and turn it into his Blood Servant. The maximum efficiency would be assimilating a living thing of the same combat strength as the owner of the skill.

“Blood Moon: A Blood Moon can be consolidated from Blood Power and Divine Power coming from the owner’s body. Every living thing that the moon shines on within the territory will turn into Blood Servants (only applicable to living things with combat strength and level lower than the owner of the skill)”

“Flesh Regeneration: As long as the owner of the skill has 1% of flesh left on his body, he can be resurrected using the remaining portion of flesh.”

Apart from these skills, there were a couple more in the Blood Demon secret skill that made Lin Huang envious.

“Blood Demon Embodiment: An Embodiment made of Blood Power and Divine Power. The embodiment will possess 80% of the owner of the skill’s abilities and most of the owner’s skills. As long as the owner’s Blood Power and Divine Power are available, the embodiment can be consolidated over and over again no matter how it is killed.

“Blood Power Extraction: The owner of the skill with any injuries at all can use this skill to extract all living things’ blood within his territory and turn it into Blood Power for healing (only applicable to living things with a combat strength and level lower than the owner of the skill)

“Bloody Sacrifice: The owner of the skill can use this skill to sacrifice a massive amount of living things within his territory to acquire temporary level elevation (the sacrificial lives must have a combat strength and level lower than the owner of the skill. The maximum elevation with this skill is one level higher)

“Stealthy Blood: Hide all life aura and transform oneself into a drop of blood to go completely stealthy”.

“What’s wrong? Any there issues on Bai’s elevation?” Bloody could not help but ask when it saw Lin Huang staring at the card silently for a long time.

As his summoning beast, it could not see the card. However, it knew Lin Huang was looking at Bai’s card details.

“Nothing.” Lin Huang just snapped back to his senses. He put Bai’s card away and shook his head while smiling. “Bai elevated to pseudo-supreme god-level directly. Some of his skills are very impressive.”

“He elevated to pseudo-supreme god-level directly?!” Bloody gasped. It was clearly surprised. “Man, I’m envious!”

“There’s no need to be envious of him. All of you will elevate to supreme god-level as long as you follow me. It’s just a matter of time,” Lin Huang assured with full confidence.

“A mythical-level quadruple mutated monster is already a legendary figure. It’s a little hard for me to imagine how powerful would a quintuple mutated supreme god-level monster be.” Bloody was in awe.

Lin Huang thought it was funny as he watched it. Bloody was usually extremely rational, so it was rare for it to take that much interest in something.

Since the mission of elevating his summoning beasts was completed, Lin Huang’s goal of coming to the Abyss Brink this time had come to a perfect end. He could even say that it was more than what he bargained for.

Apart from learning about God Bless which was considered to be bad news, overall, the trip was rewarding.

Not only did he obtain a massive amount of cross-ranking kill rewards and six complete legendary-level Monster Cards, but he even acquired sufficient demigod soul crystals to elevate seven of his God Figurines’ Combat Souls to imperial-level purple gold-rank. Lastly, he learned how to elevate himself to imperial-level and even obtained 32 broken Godheads that could be used as elevation material.

Lin Huang called out to Bloody after recalling Grimace who was in charge of setting up the illusion and the God Figurine’s Combat Soul Undead Styx that was in charge of guarding, “Let’s go!”

Bloody snapped back to its senses and returned to Lin Huang’s sleeve immediately.

Lin Huang then summoned a Dimensional Portal and stepped into it.

Chapter 992: Bronze Crow City

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Lin Huang returned to Wanbao City as soon as he came out of the Abyss Brink. However, he did not stay in a hotel this time. Instead, he headed straight to the Wanbao City dimensional portal.

He had lunch and waited for almost two hours before entering the dimensional portal heading to Bronze Crow City.

No. A17 foothold, Bronze Crow City, was one of the two grade-A footholds which the underground organization Purple Crow terrorized in Division 3.

The reason he went there was that he had a massive amount of storage equipment that he needed Yang Ling to unlock for him.

Since he had storage equipment from the great world and other mini worlds, Yang Ling could not unlock them for him from a distance because he would need the storage equipment with him. As a result, Lin Huang could only make the trip to get it done.

He informed Yang Ling that he would visit when he had just gotten out of the Abyss Brink more than two hours ago.

A middle-aged man walked toward him not too far away just when Lin Huang opened the map after coming out of the dimensional portal.

“Brother, do you need accommodation?” asked the man who smirked while speaking through voice transmission, “We offer our special services.”

Speechless, Lin Huang did not expect this world to have such a soliciting technique too.

“It’s alright. I’ve already booked a hotel.”

“We have everything here. Young ladies or mature women, pick anyone you like. You definitely won’t have such service at those usual hotels,” continued the man through voice transmission.

“Thanks, I don’t need that.” Lin Huang waved to reject him outright.

However, just when he was going to key in the name of the hotel on the map, the man spoke through voice transmission again, “If you don’t like girls, we have men too. Young boys and old men, you can pick anyone you like. 16 to 60 years old, we have everything.”

Lin Huang blocked the voice transmission speechlessly while keying the hotel name in. After setting the coordinates, he hovered into the sky directly, leaving an explosion as he took off.

The middle-aged man turned around after watching Lin Huang leave. He shook off the wretched expression on his face and walked into an alley. He dialed a number after clicking the communication page on his Emperor’s Heart Ring.

“I saw Lin Xie. He’s going to the Phoenix Hotel now.”

A voice came behind him as soon as he was done speaking. “Are you talking about me?”

The middle-aged man turned around stiffly and realized that it was Lin Huang behind him. “You…”

“I already knew that you’re not some motel owner as soon as I saw you, let alone some pimp,” Lin Huang said while smiling.

The reason he said that was because the Nightmare Tapir who mastered spiritual force could clearly sense bad intention from anyone. The moment the man locked eyes with Lin Huang, the Nightmare Tapir in his body sensed his evil intentions and informed him immediately.

Subsequently, Lin Huang released the God Figurine’s Combat Soul, the Nightmare Tapir, to pull the man into dreamland. Everything was just an illusion, from him speaking to Lin Huang to seeing him leave and informing his senior about Lin Huang’s arrival.

In reality, the man had just taken a step toward Lin Huang’s direction whereby he had yet to even speak to the latter.

Naturally, him speaking to Lin Huang at the moment was an illusion too. It was the Nightmare Tapir who projected the dreamland for Lin Huang, giving him the opportunity to participate in the dreamland.

In the dreamland, the plot went on.

“If I’m not mistaken, you must be someone from God Bless.” The middle-aged man’s heart jolted when he heard what Lin Huang said. He did not expect his organization to be exposed.

‘No, I must send out the news about Lin Xie knowing about the organization. I’ll get the higher management to kill him immediately!’ He covered his sleeve with his hand while composing a message using telekinesis secretly in his sleeve.

He was relieved when he noticed that Lin Huang did not seem to realize he was sending the message out. However, he had no idea that whatever he was doing in the dreamland was futile.

“You must be a professional intel to be playing tricks before me!” Even Lin Huang admired the man’s professionalism when he noticed the man’s secret trick.

“So what if you’ve found out? I’ve already sent the message out. You can’t change the truth even if you killed me.” The middle-aged man seemed to be fearless of death at all. His eyes were filled with disdain when he stared at Lin Huang.

“Thanks for making me understand something. I can’t underestimate anyone in God Bless.” Lin Huang assigned the man the death penalty as soon as he was done speaking. “You may rest in peace.”

A flying dagger shot out of his sleeve as soon as he concluded with that sentence. It pierced through the man’s head, penetrating the air tens of times faster than the speed of sound.

The head of the middle-aged man, whose combat strength was only mid-level immortal-level, exploded like a watermelon. He did not have time to respond at all.

When he was pulled out of the dreamland back to reality, the middle-aged man collapsed onto the ground all of a sudden and he was pronounced dead.

Lin Huang walked past the body without stopping at all, as if the person’s death had nothing to do with him.

However, he secretly used his Divine Telekinesis to steal the Emperor’s Heart Ring on the person’s finger silently.

Many people surrounded the body after he took a few steps away. He left the crowd without any reaction and walked to an alley hundreds of meters away.

The Nightmare Tapir transferred the information it had retrieved to Bloody in the alley. Bloody then shared the information to Lin Huang after it was done organizing the data.

Lin Huang could not help but frown after looking at the middle-aged man’s memory.

“Why did the people from God Bless come to Bronze Crow City?”

From the middle-aged man’s memory, all he could see was that most of the higher management from both God Bless branches in Division 3 came to Bronze Crow City two days ago. However, since the middle-aged man was just a normal spy with extremely low authorization, he had no idea what the two branches were doing in the city at the same time. His responsibility was just to monitor the situation around the dimensional portal.

“If I’m not mistaken, it must be something to do with the Purple Crow. You can take a look at the underground organization forum whether the Purple Crow has been up to something recently,” Bloody speculated.

Lin Huang looked at the forum immediately and saw a piece of news that the Purple Crow posted a few days ago. He came to a realization after reading it.

‘So, the Purple Crow is electing its Crow Spirit!’

Lin Huang was familiar with the Crow Spirit. He had learned from Hong Zhuang earlier that the Crow Spirit was the Purple Crow’s Holy Son or Virgen on the surface, but in reality, they were the Crow God’s vessel in the world.

Among the candidates, the Crow Spirit who was eventually selected would have his or her consciousness wiped away by the Crow God. The Crow God would take the body and make it its puppet completely.

‘So, Hong Zhuang is here to elect the Purple Crow’s Crow Spirit?’ Lin Huang could not help but think of that possibility. He could not figure out why she would come to Bronze Crow City that was not considered a tourism city instead of any other foothold in Division 3.

‘Forget it, I don’t care. What that lady does has nothing to do with me. I’m just here to get Yang Ling to help me unlock those stuff. I’ll leave right after that instead of causing trouble.’ Lin Huang shook his head and pushed the thought out of his head. He turned off the webpage on his Emperor’s Heart Ring and hovered into the air. Then, he flew toward the Phoenix Hotel.

Chapter 993: Meeting Hong Zhuang Again

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Getting to the 81st floor using the elevator, Lin Huang walked along the corridor on his right. He stopped when he arrived at Room 023. Then, he knocked on the door.

A moment later, the door opened. It was a familiar person at the door — Hong Zhuang.

Hong Zhuang had a short, chin-length bob while her fringe grazed above her brows. There was not much makeup on her face and she looked 20 years old at the most. She was at least five years younger compared to the time when Lin Huang saw her for the first time.

She dressed very casually in a white t-shirt and a pair of blue and white jeans. The bottom of her jeans was rolled up, showing her fair ankles. She wore a pair of blue and white sneakers.

Even Lin Huang was doubting whether this lady was Hong Zhuang at a first glance. However, she clearly did not recognize him.

“You’re the client Yang Ling mentioned, aren’t you? I’m Yang Ling’s friend. Please come in,” Hong Zhuang greeted him in a friendly manner.

Lin Huang had just snapped back to his senses and quickly spoke to cover his looking lost earlier, “I can’t believe that guy managed to find such a beautiful girlfriend.”

All Hong Zhuang did was smile, and she did not respond to what he said. “Yang Ling’s working on something in the reading room. Please take a seat. Can I get you a drink?”

“Tea will do. Thanks.” Lin Huang sat on the couch on his own.

Soon, Hong Zhuang came back with a cup of tea. Lin Huang put it on the coffee table after accepting it from her.

He dared not drink the tea Hong Zhuang made. Who knew what that lady would do to him?

“Do you mind if I look around?”

“That’s fine. Please go ahead.” Hong Zhuang nodded and flashed a kind smile.

‘This lady has acting skills that can win her an Oscar,’ Lin Huang thought to himself. He stood up and walked towards the balcony outside the living room.

The al-fresco balcony was vast. It was at least 15 meters long and three meters wide. There were two sun beds and a small coffee table on the left. There were also a huge sun umbrella and a swing on the right.

Lin Huang stood on the balcony and peered around. The sceneries within tens of kilometers filled his eyes; there were all tall buildings farther away.

He recalled that the hotel was not in the center of the foothold but was more than 100 kilometers to the west of the center.

As he was staring far away while standing on the balcony, Yang Ling was finished with his thing and returned to the living room. He walked out and noticed Lin Huang on the balcony. “What are you looking at?”

“The sceneries aren’t too shabby. It’s just that the hotel’s a little far away,” Lin Huang turned around and commented to Yang Ling with a smile.

Yang Ling was dressed neatly like the last time Lin Huang saw him in the video call. He wore a white t-shirt with dark blue slacks. On his feet, he wore a pair of shiny, black leather shoes. His hair was much shorter now. It reached his earlobes and he even donned a cool hairstyle.

If Lin Huang had not seen how he used to look like, it was hard for him to imagine how messy and lazy this guy’s old life was.

“Hong Zhuang doesn’t like crowded places.” Yang Ling walked next to Lin Huang and looked into the distance.

“How’s the progress now?” Lin Huang asked while smiling.

“She rejected my proposal.” Yang Ling shook his head while forcing a wry smile. “Now, we’re just friends. That’s the farthest we can go.”

“How did she reject you?” Although Lin Huang expected that, he wanted to know how Hong Zhuang rejected Yang Ling.

“She said she’s someone horrible and that she’s no match for me. She told me that she only approached me so that I could help her to look for someone.”

“Who is she looking for? Can you tell me?” Lin Huang proceeded to ask.

Yang Ling glanced at Lin Huang and took out a packet of cigarettes. He shoved one into his mouth. “She’s looking for her brother.”

Lin Huang perked a brow. He recalled Hong Zhuang mentioning her brother, but he thought it was just something that she made up. However, now it seemed like it might really be the truth.

“So… Did you find him?”

“No. If I had, we wouldn’t have come to Bronze Crow City.” Yang Ling shook his head.

“Is there a clue that her brother is here?”

“No clue, but there’s something here that could possibly help us look for her brother,” Yang Ling said before adding “I can’t tell you what it is exactly.”

“Alright then.” Lin Huang did not proceed to ask.

“Did you bring the stuff?” Yang Ling changed the subject directly.

“Yep.” Lin Huang took the temporary storage ring that he had prepared earlier out. He had been putting the storage equipment that required unlocking which he had collected over the course of time in the temporary storage ring. There were various coded storage equipment from the great world and the mini-worlds as well as Emperor’s Heart Rings from the gravel world.

“They’re all inside?” Yang Ling took the temporary storage ring.

“They’re all in there,” Lin Huang confirmed.

Yang Ling could not help but raise his brow after taking a quick look. “That looks like more than plenty.”

“There are a total of 413,628 storage rings and a total of 827 different types of storage equipment,” Lin Huang reported the data. Naturally, it was not him who calculated that, but it was Bloody that did.

“You’re so detailed in calculating.” Yang Ling grinned but become serious later on. “There’s something that I must clarify with you. At least half of these storage equipment you brought are old. There are even some antiques that have existed for millions of years. Even if I manage to unlock them, I think there is nothing useful in them. However, I’ll definitely charge the unlocking fee according to the number and types of items. The most I can do is to waive the commission if the unlocked items are useless. Of course, I can give you a 20% discount for all the items. You’re my old client, after all.”

“No problem.” Lin Huang nodded to show that he understood, but subsequently voiced his doubt, “However, I have a question. How do you tell that these storage equipment coming from the great world and other mini-worlds are old? How do you manage to distinguish that some models are over millions of years?”

“Well…” Yang Ling rolled his eyes around in a cheeky way and said while smirking, “Of course, I have my ways.”

Yang Ling beating around the bush made Lin Huang think that he might have been to other mini worlds and even to the great world. However, since he was unwilling to share more, it was meaningless for him to proceed with the question.

“Roughly when can you get it done?”

“I’ll try my best to finish them within a few days.”

“Alright then. I’ll only leave when you’re done.”

Initially, Lin Huang thought of returning to Wanbao City first if Yang Ling needed a long time to unlock the storage equipment. He thought of finding a cultivation room to visualize the True Spirits. He would go back to Yang Ling when he was done visualizing the last three God Figurines’ Combat Souls. However, since Yang Ling said he could get it done in a few days, Lin Huang thought he would just stay for a few days and leave when Yang Ling was done with the unlocking.

“Just treat this as a vacation and travel around for a few days,” Yang Ling said with a grin, “I’ll inform you as soon as I’m done with them.”

“Sure.” Lin Huang nodded in a straightforward manner. “I shan’t disturb you guys then.”

He patted Yang Ling’s shoulder and turned around to head to the living room. Suddenly, Yang Ling’s voice came from behind when he was arriving at the door. “Bronze Crow City might be a little chaotic lately. Please be careful.”

Lin Huang stopped walking when he heard that warning. He thought of Hong Zhuang and the Purple Crow.

Hong Zhuang happened to walk out of the bedroom at that very moment. Seeing that Lin Huang was leaving, she said with a smile, “You’re leaving already? Be careful on your journey.”

Her tone was so gentle that she sounded like someone else.

Lin Huang turned around to take a glance at her. Since he could not see any flaws on her face, he nodded while smiling. “I will.”

He then opened the door and left.

Chapter 994: A Chance Encounter

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

The Phoenix Hotel was located in a rather remote area whereby there were no decent shopping malls around. Lin Huang thought about it. He figured that he would be staying there for a few days since it would be more convenient for him to stay somewhere more crowded. Eventually, he did not stay at the same hotel as Yang Ling did. Instead, he found a hotel in the central zone of the foothold a hundred meters away.

The hotel that he picked was called the Homing Hotel. It was located in the most bustling zone of the Bronze Crow City. The biggest business district of the city was just downstairs. There was everything from food to entertainment, and it was crowded.

Lin Huang did not enjoy the crowd; he just wanted convenience.

Although he would most probably stay in the hotel to practice his sword skills these few days, he did not want to rule out the sudden urge to take a look outside. Moreover, even if he was going to order delivery in, the choice of food around the Homing Hotel was much wider compared to the hotel Yang Ling was staying at.

Just when he had checked in at the front desk, he could not help but raise his brow when he saw the people who were walking out of the elevator. He turned around naturally and began talking to one of the guests in an attempt to be friendly.

“Uncle, your jacket is pretty cool. Where did you get it?”

The man was an uncle who looked over 60 years old and was dressed rather fashionable. He was excited to hear Lin Huang ask about his attire.

“You’ve sharp eyes, kid. I designed and made it myself…”

Lin Huang nodded and smiled as he listened to the uncle ramble on about the story and process of making clothes.

He only interrupted the man’s story when the people who walked out of the elevator left the hotel and were nowhere in sight. “I’m sorry, uncle, I thought of something that I need to do all of a sudden. I’ll talk to you some other time.”

“Our old man can’t stop talking whenever he talks about making clothes. Ignore him, kid. Go do your stuff.” The woman who looked like she was in her 50’s next to the uncle patted her companion’s shoulder, signaling him to stop talking.

“It’s great that you have something you’re passionate about,” Lin Huang said while smiling. He walked to the elevator after saying goodbye to the couple.

When he walked into the elevator, he squinted slightly.

“Never would I have thought that I’d be staying at the same hotel with the people from God Bless. Hmm, this is interesting.”

The few people who walked out of the elevator earlier were God Bless members. The reason Lin Huang recognized them at first glance was that there had been tons of information about them in the memory of the middle-aged man who was monitoring the dimensional portal, including their appearances.

Lin Huang picked the room on the 188th floor, which was the top floor of the Homing Hotel.

The elevator finally arrived at the 188th floor after traveling upward for almost half a minute.

Soon, he found his room and entered after swiping the key card.

He called out to Bloody right after he shut the door, “I saw people from God Bless.”

“Me too,” Bloody said after coming out of Lin Huang’s sleeve, “A demigod and two imperial-level purple gold-rank members.”

“The demigod is called Shen Yu. He’s the person-in-charge of God Bless’s second branch in Division 3. The other two imperial-level purple gold-rank powerhouses are members from the second branch too. According to the man’s memory, there were one demigod and four imperial-level purple gold-rank powerhouses from the second branch this time. There should be another two imperial-level purple gold-rank powerhouses guarding at the hotel.”

“I think we can eavesdrop on what exactly they’re up to in Bronze Crow City.” Lin Huang grinned.

“I thought you didn’t want to create trouble.” Bloody could not help but ask, “Didn’t you say that you’d leave right after Yang Ling was done with the unlocking and that you wanted nothing to do with this?”

“Since we’re staying in the same hotel, it doesn’t matter if I eavesdrop conveniently.” Lin Huang replied righteously, “Since I’m bored these few days, I’ll just treat it as story time.”

“Do it your way then. They’ll find out about my Leech Pods,” Bloody said feeling a little helpless.

“They wouldn’t find out about us as soon as we cast parasites on them.” Lin Huang smirked.

“What do you mean? Did you find out which rooms they’re staying in?”

“I scanned the two imperial-level purple gold-rank members who are guarding in the hotel with Divine Telekinesis.” Since Lin Huang knew how the duo looked like, he found out about their coordinates simply with his Divine Telekinesis. “They’re staying in the king suite on the 100th floor. There’s a huge viewing aquarium in the living room with quite a number of fish monsters in it.”

“Indeed, they won’t find out about the parasites if we cast them on the fish monsters. The energy wave in the monsters will mask the Leech Pods’ energy wave,” Bloody explained, “But the problem is, they’ll find out about my Leech Pods in the process of casting the parasites. You must know that the radius of an imperial-level purple gold-rank powerhouse’s territory is over 100 kilometers. They can clearly sense it whenever there’s an energy wave that’s out of the ordinary within the range of their territory.”

The Territory skill was slow in detecting idle objects, they would simply appear as clouds of black silhouettes. Including human and monsters, their faces could not be seen; only their shapes could be projected. However, a moving object’s trajectory course could be easily captured. Including energy waves, it was as glaring as a beam of light in the dark when the Territory skill was unleashed.

The reason Bloody could not use its Leech Pods was that they contained a tiny amount of energy. Though tiny, they drew attention just like fireflies within a powerhouse’s territory. Bloody could block the detection if the person’s combat strength was lower than itself. However, they were going up against imperial-level purple gold-rank powerhouses. The powerhouses would definitely find out as soon as Bloody released its Leech Pods.

“If we can’t do direct parasitization using Leech Pods, we might be able to do it another way.” Lin Huang squinted slightly. “For instance, through the hotel staff… I remember you have an infectious parasite ability, don’t you?”

“I think I know what we should do now.” Lin Huang’s suggestion made Bloody’s eyes light up as it came up with a plan immediately.

After discussing through voice transmission, Lin Huang activated his Emperor’s Heart Ring and called the front office of the hotel.

“Hi, Mr. Lin. May I know if there’s anything that we can assist you with?” sang a sweet front desk attendant’s voice.

“The toilet in my bathroom is clogged. Please get someone to fix it now,” Lin Huang answered while sitting on the couch.

“Is your room number No. 188021?”

“Yes.”

“Sure, I’ll make the arrangements right away.”

“Thanks.”

In less than three minutes after the conversation with the front desk attendant, someone rang his door.

A young man asked with a smile after Lin Huang opened the door, “Hi, are you Mr. Lin? Did you call about the clogged toilet?”

“Oh, yes. Please come in.” Lin Huang nodded and extended his hand.

The young plumber was stunned, but he shook Lin Huang’s hand anyway.

While they shook hands, Bloody’s tentacle stretched from his sleeve and tapped on the plumber’s palm lightly. The plumber turned into a parasitical puppet right away.

Then, Bloody controlled the plumber to stroll into the living room while Lin Huang closed the door.

It only took a moment for Bloody to read all of the plumber’s memory.

“The virus parasite that I’m using is a microbial-level parasite. There’s no energy reaction, but it can only be contracted through skin contact,” Bloody explained to Lin Huang through voice transmission, “I can control this young man to infect the other hotel staff he knows. The parasite’s pathogen will spread continuously from him, so it should take less than an hour to infect all of the staff in the hotel.”

“Yes, the first step has been very successful. Let’s proceed with the rest of the plan that we discussed.” Lin Huang nodded. He could not help but secretly be in awe with how terrifying the parasite species of monster could be.

Chapter 995: Infected

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

In the staff toilet at the Homing Hotel, a middle-aged man lit up a cigarette for himself at the urinal. He unzipped his pants slowly and began peeing.

At the moment, a young man walked in. It was the plumber who had just left Lin Huang’s room not long ago.

“Brother Wang, you’re smoking in the toilet again.” The plumber greeted him with a wry smile and stood at the urinal on the right of the middle-aged man.

“Well, I can’t smoke anywhere else,” the middle-aged man responded unclearly while dragging on the cigarette.

“Give me a puff,” said the plumber who turned his head while smiling.

“Didn’t you quit?” Although the middle-aged man asked that, he passed the cigarette from his mouth anyway.

“I told Xiao Wen that I quit, but how could I ever quit?” The plumber took the cigarette and accidentally touched the person’s finger…

…

The security officer walked out of the toilet and walked toward the security room.

A bunch of young men in the security room projected the pages of their Emperor’s Heart Rings. Some were playing games, some were watching videos while some were binging on dramas.

They shut their Emperor’s Heart Ring pages in panic when Old Wang entered.

“You bunch of bastards sure are lazy. It’s working hours, yet all you guys care about is having fun!” Old Wang slapped their heads lightly one after another.

…

A young security guard walked toward the front desk in the hotel lobby while a female attendant was flushed upon seeing him walking over.

The rest of the female attendants were waiting for a good show to begin.

“Why did you come? It’s working hours now,” said the female attendant softly when she saw the security guard arrive before her.

“They’ve just started to sell red plums on the market. I got you some and I’ve already washed them.” The security guard took a box of red plums out from under his shirt and handed it to the female attendant. “I wanted to pass it to you after work, but I remembered you didn’t really eat at lunch. I brought it to you, figuring you might be hungry later.”

“I have snacks here. I can eat them to fill my stomach if I’m really hungry. Don’t come here during working hours again. It’s inappropriate if the manager sees us.” Flustered, the female attendant accepted the fruit box.

The security guard pinched her hand mischievously and only let go a moment later.

…

At the front desk, the female attendant Xiao Li watched her security guard boyfriend leave while blushing.

“Xiao Li, I bought you red plums and they’re washed,” a female attendant ridiculed her by imitating the security guard boyfriend’s tone earlier.

“You’re showing off much earlier than usual today,” the other female attendant teased while smiling.

“I want a boyfriend too. I want one who’d send me food every day,” whined a female attendant with a puffy face while looking envious.

“Let’s try how these fresh red plums taste.” Xiao Li opened the box and grabbed a few for everyone. She passed them around by wrapping the red plums in serviettes.

…

In the hotel room No. 188021, Bloody nodded to Lin Huang half an hour after sending the plumber out. “Over 90% of the staff are infected now. We’ve completed the preliminary work, so we can go on with the next step now.”

“Let’s do it.” Lin Huang nodded.

A moment later, Xiao Li the female attendant called a number using the hotel line at the front desk.

The Emperor’s Heart Ring of a God Bless man with a buzz-cut began vibrating all of a sudden. He tapped the communication page open and picked the call up, seeming a little puzzled after realizing that it was the hotel front desk calling.

“Hi, this is the front desk. May I know if you’re the guest from Room No. 100003?”

“What’s up?” asked the man while frowning a little.

“Oh, it’s just a small matter. Today is the day we do our monthly aquarium cleaning for the king suites. Our staff will go to your room later to change the water in the aquarium. The process might take approximately 20 minutes. I hope that it won’t disturb you. If you’re not okay with this, we can transfer you to another room with a clean aquarium.”

“What’s wrong?” asked the short, buff man next to him.

“The front desk said they’re coming to change the aquarium water. It’s the official aquarium-cleaning day today,” replied the man with the buzz-cut.

“Oh, no wonder I sensed staff going into a couple of rooms on this floor earlier.”

The man with the buzz-cut recalled sensing something like that within the range of his territory earlier. He said to the front desk, “We don’t need to change rooms, but please be quick with the cleaning.”

“Sure, we’ll make the arrangements right away. It’s our pleasure to be at your service.”

Approximately two minutes later, the doorbell of Room 100003 rang.

The man with the buzz-cut only let his guard down when he opened the door and sensed no cultivator’s energy wave from the two young hotel staff in uniform.

“Please clean the aquarium quickly. My boss has a bad temper. He doesn’t like being disturbed. It’s best that you get it done by seizing the opportunity since he’s not here.”

“Sure, we’ll get it done as soon as we can.”

The man with the buzz-cut closed the door and walked to the balcony for a puff. However, he was facing the living room to watch the two young men work.

The staff used a net and another used his hand to scoop the fishes out one after another before putting them into a temporary tank.

These fish monsters seemed to have gotten used to such a routine, so they did not struggle at all.

After scooping all the fishes out, the duo removed the plug at the bottom to release the water. Later on, they began cleaning the inside of the tank with tools such as the water gun.

The man with the buzz-cut lost his interest when he watched them to this point. He turned around and looked outside the hotel.

Approximately 15 or 16 minutes later, the aquarium was filled with water again as the fishes were slipped back in one after another.

The duo put the tools away and wiped the floor completely dry. They then informed the man with the buzz-cut that they were done and left.

“There’s nothing to be nervous about. The two of them are just ordinary people. They were just doing their job all the way and they did not do anything else,” reported the short, buff man as he walked into the living room with a grin. “Look, the water in the aquarium is so much cleaner now.”

“I wasn’t nervous. I was just being cautious.” The man with the buzz-cut snubbed the cigarette out with his fingers and walked straight into the living room. He shuffled into the kitchen, took out a bottle of beer from the refrigerator and popped it open with his thumb. Then, he took a big gulp with his head up.

“Old Lei, we’ve known each other for say, over 20 years. Don’t you think I can’t tell whether you’re cautious or nervous?” teased the short, buff man while smiling.

The man with the buzz-cut was quiet.

“You escaped from the Purple Crow. The Boss brought you here on purpose. This is a mission against the Purple Crow. He’s giving you an opportunity to prove yourself, so don’t do anything foolish,” the buff man proceeded.

“I’ve told you countless times. I didn’t escape. I went in as God Bless’s spy since the beginning,” explained the man with the buzz-cut while frowning. “The reason why I was unwilling to come isn’t that I still have feelings for them, but I know how scary the Crow God is…”

In Room No. 188021 on the top floor of the hotel, Lin Huang was smirking as he sat on the couch while Bloody projected what was happening in Room No. 100003. In the projection, the conversation between the man with the buzz-cut and the short, buff man was crystal clear.

Chapter 996: The Crow God’s Eye

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Shen Yu brought the people back to the hotel when the sky was turning dark.

The man with the buzz-cut and the short, buff man wanted to ask him something, but they decided to keep quiet upon noticing his extremely grim expression.

Shen Yu walked past the living room directly to the balcony. After taking a few deep breaths in, he turned around and headed back to the living room. He asked the few of them, “Tell me, which part of me, Shen Yu, is less than that person surnamed Feng? I’ve been with God Bless longer than he has and I’ve gone for more missions than he has. If he didn’t obtain a massive amount of God Bloods by kissing as*, I would’ve beaten him up to the point his mother can’t even recognize him!”

The four imperial-level purple gold-rank powerhouses dared not speak. All they did was listen while standing. Even the man with the buzz-cut hid the beer bottle in his hand behind his back secretly.

“F*ck! He made my team bait while his team went for the loot. Who the hell does this Feng Li think he is?! He’s just good at kissing as*! They even asked him to lead the mission this time!”

The four of them listened to Shen Yu vent for over ten minutes without saying anything. Until he had released everything and returned to his room, the long-haired man who came back with Shen Yu asked the man with the buzz-cut and the short, buff man, “Old Lei, Old Cui, have you guys had dinner?”

“Not yet, we were waiting for you guys to come back,” The man with the buzz-cut who was addressed as Old Lei took another sip of beer.

“Let’s order take-out. I’m sure Boss doesn’t want to eat out.” The long-haired man glanced at the remaining three of them. “What do you guys feel like eating?”

The few of them named what they craved. He walked to Shen Yu’s room after jotting them down.

Old Lei then waved at the bald man who came back with Shen Yu. He asked while lowering his voice, “What exactly happened, Old Wei?”

Old Cui came closer after hearing Lei An’s question.

Old Wei peeped at Shen Yu’s room. Noticing that Shen Yu did not stop them with the question, he spoke quietly, “Boss Feng is the captain of the mission this time.”

A cough came from Shen Yu’s room as soon as he spoke. It clearly came from the long-haired man.

Old Wei changed what he was going to say immediately. “As the captain of the mission this time, Feng has three demigods and 20 imperial-level purple gold-rank powerhouses in his team. He asked our team and Master Li’s team to be the bait to get the Purple Crow’s attention. As the third team, they’ll be hiding in the dark all this time and will only show themselves to get the target in the very last moment. Moreover, he asked both of our teams to be their backups.”

“In other words, we’re just the bait and they’ll take the credit.” Old Cui raised his brow.

“There’s nothing that we can do. Feng has a good relationship with higher management. They made him the captain of this mission.” Old Wei spread his arms while feeling helpless. “Furthermore, we’re not the only bait. I’m guessing except himself, everyone else, including the team that he’s leading, are the bait too.”

“Don’t worry about it. Him wanting to go for the target himself is a good thing for us. Believe me. That thing is a curse as soon as you touch it.” Old Lei took another sip of his beer.

At the moment, Shen Yu flung the door open all of a sudden. “Lei An, what exactly do you know about the Crow God’s Eye?”

“I’ve already reported whatever I know to the headquarters, but the higher management only sees the benefit and ignored the risk of the item. I emphasized the risk on purpose, but they said I’m just being an alarmist and they ignored me completely!” Lei An had helplessness written all over his face.

“Tell me everything you know.” Shen Yu took a step out and appeared before Lei An.

“Sure,” Lei An nodded, “I’ll give you guys a rough explanation.”

“The Crow God of the Purple Crow is a true Protoss. He’s on a completely different level from the fake Protoss that attacked us 800 years ago. His combat strength is at least True God-level or even higher.”

“Legend has it that the Crow God has a total of 108 eyes with different abilities in each of them. The one that the Purple Crow has is called the Detective Eye. It can see through lies and reveal the truth. It’s an extremely rare god item.

“To the Purple Crow, the main function of the Detective Eye is to pick out the Crow Spirit. At other times, it’s hardly used apart from in special situations. Only the No. 1 Crow Leader in the Purple Crow’s headquarters has the authorization to use it. The rest have very limited knowledge about this god item.

“The reason I said it’ll be a curse to the person who takes this item is that the Detective Eye isn’t a stand-alone god item. It’s connected to the Crow God’s will. Although this item isn’t necessary the Crow God’s eye, it’s tightly connected to the Crow God. Cutting off such a connection might trigger the Crow God himself. That’s what has been bothering me recently.

“Although it’s impossible for the Crow God to come himself, the fury of a True God or higher existence isn’t something that we can handle. Nobody knows if the Crow God has an attack tactic that could cross to another realm among the over 100 abilities he possesses.

“Apart from the Crow God’s Eye, the Crow Spirit is a gravely dangerous existence too.

“Each Crow Spirit that’s been selected from the candidates using the Crow God’s Eye will be transformed by the Crow God in an extremely short time. The Crow Spirit will possess a body and spirit that’s as powerful as complete-stage demigod-level as well as the Crow God’s inheritance. The transformation only takes a few mere minutes.

“The transformed Crow Spirit will possess complete-stage demigod-level abilities. They can even unleash virtual god-level ability when necessary.”

“Therefore, if we’re still going for the second target which is the Crow Spirit, the only time to do it is the few minutes when the Crow Spirit is being transformed. If we’re too early, the Crow Spirit might not be elected yet. If we get there late, the Crow Spirit will become a great obstacle in our mission.

“If we really can’t do it, we can only give up the second target. The first target which is the Detective Eye is our first priority,” Shen Yu said without thinking twice.

“If we only focus on the first target, indeed, the difficulty of the mission will drop by heaps.” Lei An looked at Shen Yu while frowning. “But would Feng agree to this? Judging by his character, I guess it’s pretty impossible for him to give up the second target.”

“That dumbas*, he might be killed by the Crow God’s hand in this mission,” Shen Yu condemned, “I really don’t understand which part of him does the God’s Messenger like.”

…

In Room No. 188021 on the 188th floor, Lin Huang watched the entire discussion the few God Bless members had while sitting on the couch. He heard everything the five members said without missing anything.

“So, the Purple Crow’s electing the Crow Spirit…” Lin Huang only found out about the reason why God Bless came to Bronze Crow City. He also found out that God Bless had more than two teams. There were three teams in total while one team was in hiding.

“If I’m not mistaken, Yang Ling and Hong Zhuang must be coming for the Detective Eye too!” Soon, Lin Huang recalled Yang Ling telling him that there was something that could help Hong Zhuang find her brother. Looking at the current information he had, the Detective Eye was most probably it.

Chapter 997: I Bet You’ve Never Seen An Immortal-level Who Managed to Kill Demigods

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Lin Huang heard quite a number of secrets through the fish monsters in the hotel room.

He thought he just happened to bump into people from God Bless and was curious about what they were up to. Never had he thought that it would have something to do with the Purple Crow and even involved Yang Ling and Hong Zhuang.

“So, do we stick our noses in this?” Bloody turned its head to ask Lin Huang after they were done eavesdropping on the God Bless members.

“I’m not interested in the Purple Crow’s Crow Spirit and that Detective Eye. It doesn’t hurt for me to stay to watch the show if time permits.” Lin Huang’s purpose of going to Bronze Crow City was just to look for Yang Ling to unlock the storage equipment. He planned to return to Wanbao City as soon as he collected the unlocked items so that he could perform closed-door cultivation to visualize the last three True Spirits.

However, he never thought that he would encounter such a matter during his trip to Bronze Crow City.

Lin Huang did not mind staying just to watch if the election of the Purple Crow’s Crow Spirit was just a few days away from Yang Ling completing the unlocking. Witnessing a demigod battle was rare. Furthermore, he wanted to know what exactly Yang Ling and Hong Zhuang possessed in order to be fighting for the same target with an organization that was guarded by demigods. Apart from that, he wanted to confirm whether the Crow God, the existence which combat strength was at least as powerful as true god-level, could really attack by crossing realms.

However, if the Purple Crow delayed their election of the Crow Spirit, he did not plan to waste his time there. He was eager to elevate his combat strength and ability since he found out about the condition of the gravel world in the great world as well as the existence of God Bless. No matter how excellent the show was going to be, it would serve no purpose to the elevation of his ability.

“On the other hand, I’m pretty interested in the Detective Eye,” Bloody said while smiling, “I’ve been thinking how it’ll work theoretically when the man with the buzz-cut was describing the Detective Eye earlier. The more I listened to him, the more I thought that the thing is more like a medium instead of a god item that comes with detecting functions.”

“What do you mean?” Lin Huang’s interest was piqued after hearing what Bloody said.

“God items usually form naturally and usually come with only one ability. Even if it contains various abilities, the nature of the abilities are in-line.”

“According to that man with the buzz-cut who fit Lei An’s initial description, the function of the Detective Eye should be exposing lies and revealing the truth. It makes sense to use this to elect the Crow Spirit.

“However, he mentioned later on that the Crow Spirit that’s been elected through the Detective Eye will be transformed by the Crow God. The Crow Spirit will even obtain the Crow God’s inheritance. That’s strange because the Detective Eye will now become the medium connecting the Crow God and the Crow Spirit.

“This medium function has nothing to do with the detection ability at all. It’s two different abilities on the other side of the spectrum.”

“It’s impossible for a natural god item to possess two completely different abilities. Therefore, I’m suspecting that the so-called Detective Eye doesn’t possess detective ability but rather a medium item.”

‘So, you’re saying it’s the Crow God who is electing the Crow Spirit instead of the Detective Eye? The Detective Eye’s real ability is just a disguised medium?’ Lin Huang thought to himself carefully and figured it might be possible. ‘So, the Crow God’s transformation of the Crow Spirit and the passing on of the inheritance by crossing realms is made possible with this medium too?!’

“The so-called Crow God’s Eye should be a gimmick the Purple Crow came up with to disguise the Detective Eye’s real function.” Bloody nodded. “If I got it right, God Bless’s motive of taking this Detective Eye is valid.”

“They want to use this medium to connect the great world organization behind them!” Lin Huang declared the motive out loud.

The entire thing went through a painstaking analysis. The more Lin Huang thought about it, the more he thought that Bloody’s speculation might really be the truth.

“So, Yang Ling and Hong Zhuang…”

Now that he basically confirmed the Detective Eye had no detection function, Hong Zhuang would not be able to find her brother even if Yang Ling and she were to obtain the god item.

Lin Huang could not help but frown a little when he thought about this.

Bloody’s voice came through voice transmission at the moment. “I’m not sure about Yang Ling, but I think Hong Zhuang most probably knew about the truth about the Detective Eye. That lady Hong Zhuang was a core member of the Purple Crow. She escaped from the Purple Crow because she found out about the truth of the Crow Spirit. It’s highly possible that she knows the real function of the Detective Eye.”

“So, are you saying she’s just messing with Yang Ling when she told him that she’s looking for her brother so that she could earn his sympathy?” Lin Huang was stunned when he heard that. He thought he was becoming more and more clueless about Hong Zhuang now.

“It’s possible, but maybe she’s a team with Yang Ling. I can’t figure that out at the moment,” said Bloody, “But I suggest that it’s best you don’t trust Yang Ling entirely. He has most probably been to the great world and other mini-worlds.”

Lin Huang frowned even deeper now.

When Yang Ling recognized the age of the storage equipment from the other worlds, Lin Huang figured he must have been to the great world and the other mini-worlds. Although Yang Ling had zero cultivator’s aura from him and seemed like a completely ordinary person, Lin Huang knew very well that Yang Ling was a traveler who possessed a Goldfinger like he did.

Since Yang Ling came from Earth just like he did, he always felt close to Yang Ling since they came from the same hometown. Though he had his guard up, he never thought that they would be enemies.

Lin Huang was even more puzzled now. He was not even sure if Yang Ling was with Hong Zhuang out of love or if both of them had intentions of their own and were just acting.

“Also, whether Yang Ling knew about the real function of the Detective Eye or not, he’s in the same boat with Hong Zhuang now. Knowing the truth or not doesn’t change this fact.”

Lin Huang thought the entire thing was getting more and more complicated as he delved deeper into it.

In Room 081023 of the Phoenix Hotel more than 100 kilometers away, a couple was having a chat.

“That client of yours with the surname Lin who came earlier looks familiar. I wonder if I’ve seen him before.” Hong Zhuang stood at the reading room and chatted with Yang Ling, pretending to be casual.

“It’s not odd that you find him familiar. His name is Lin Xie and he’s the No. 1 supreme genius on the Genius Union leaderboard for two years consecutively.” Yang Ling gave a short response while working.

“That name… It’s a fake identity you made for him, isn’t it?”

“Yes,” Yang Ling confirmed. He seemed like he was unwilling to reveal his client’s confidential information.

“Have you seen his real face before?”

“I haven’t. He looked like that since we first met.” Yang Ling lifted his head to look at Hong Zhuang while speaking in a rather jealous tone, “Are you interested in him?”

“Stop overthinking. I just find him a little familiar. I’m worried that he’s from the Purple Crow,” Hong Zhuang explained while smiling.

“Don’t worry about it. The Purple Crow won’t be able to train such an outstanding guy like him.” Yang Ling felt relieved and shook his head with a smile.

“He’s just on immortal-level no matter how powerful he is.” Hong Zhuang pouted. Clearly, Yang Ling included her in his earlier reference.

Yang Ling raised his brow and thought to himself secretly, ‘I bet you’ve never seen an immortal-level who has managed to kill demigods.’

“Oh yeah, I almost forgot about this. The Crow God Ceremony of the Purple Crow will officially take place at 12 a.m. in three days. Are you ready?”

“I’m all set.”

Chapter 998: Exposed Ability

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

It was the second day since Lin Huang arrived in the Bronze Crow City.

“I’ve unlocked all of the storage equipment. Are you coming to get them now or are you coming over tomorrow?”

It was past 11 at night and Lin Huang had just finished practicing his sword skills and was planning to go to bed. A message popped up on his Emperor’s Heart Ring all of a sudden. Naturally, it was Yang Ling who had helped him to unlock the storage equipment and sent him the message.

“I’ll be there right away.” Lin Huang summoned a dimensional portal as soon as he replied to the message. He then stepped into it.

As he walked out of the dimensional portal a moment later, he arrived at the entrance of Yang Ling’s hotel room.

He rang the doorbell and Yang Ling, who was dressed in pajamas, opened the door a while later.

He was surprised to see Lin Huang standing at his doorstep. “How did you come so quickly?”

“I set the coordinates of your hotel room the last time I came.”

“Come in then.” Yang Ling gestured him to enter.

Lin Huang did not see Hong Zhuang when he entered. However, he sensed someone lying in the bedroom within the range of his territory. He thought to himself, ‘She has such a healthy lifestyle!’

“Hong Zhuang is already sleeping. Let’s talk in the reading room,” Yang Ling lowered his voice and led Lin Huang straight to the reading room.

The reading room was a little messy, but it was clearly much better than where Yang Ling used to work.

Lin Huang glanced through the room without missing anything. He thought Yang Ling had undergone a significant change compared to the past. No matter whether it was his state of mind or personal lifestyle, it was undoubtedly much healthier now.

Looking at those details, it did not seem like he was putting on an act.

Relating to Yang Ling’s messy life in the past and the changes he had made since meeting Hong Zhuang, Lin Huang was more convinced that Yang Ling had no idea about Hong Zhuang’s real intentions.

Naturally, Lin Huang’s guard remained up since Yang Ling hid the fact that he had been to the great world.

After closing the door to the reading room, Yang Ling passed Lin Huang the temporary storage ring he had given him earlier.

“There are a total of 413,628 storage equipment, 133,186 of which can’t be unlocked although I’ve unlocked the rest for you.

“Why can’t you unlock them?” Lin Huang asked rather confusedly.

“A minority of them are too old. A part of the storage equipment has decomposed, causing its insides to collapse. As for the rest that failed to be unlocked, it’s basically because the deceased’s immediate family logged out of the account and transferred the items out. The respective organizations collected the empty storage equipment back.”

What Yang Ling said confirmed Lin Huang’s suspicions that he had been to the great world even more. Otherwise, it was impossible for him to know about such a log-out process so clearly. However, Lin Huang did not question him any further.

“Thanks. I’ll take a look at them when I get back and I’ll pay your commission later.”

“Lin Xie, I have a favor to ask,” Yang Ling hesitated before saying all of the sudden.

“What is it?”

“There are over 300 storage rings among the pieces of storage equipment that come from the great world. I would like one, any one of them. I only want the ring. I don’t want anything in it,” Yang Ling finally voiced his request, “I can give you a 20% discount on the commission.”

“Can you tell me the reason why you want the storage ring?” Lin Huang thought about it and asked directly.

“I can’t tell you that. All I can tell you is that it’s related to my privacy. It won’t harm anyone.” Yang Ling stared at Lin Huang as he gave him an explanation that could not really be considered a reason.

Lin Huang fell into silence for a moment and eventually nodded. “Alright then.”

To him, it did not hurt to lose one of those storage rings. Furthermore, Yang Ling did not specify which one he wanted whereby Lin Huang could just pick any for them. Even if Yang Ling wanted a specific one among all of them, the probability of him having it was less than 1/300.

Lin Huang used his Divine Telekinesis to detect his temporary storage ring and casually picked a male storage ring. He handed it to Yang Ling after retrieving its contents.

Yang Ling had no objection, so he put the ring on his finger as soon as he took it. He smiled and nodded at Lin Huang. “Thanks.”

“I’ll make a move now if this is all.” Lin Huang put the temporary storage ring away and looked at Yang Ling.

“When do you plan to leave Bronze Crow City?”

“Within these two days. What’s up?”

“Nothing. It’s just that it’ll be chaotic in Bronze Crow City lately, so it’s best if you can leave as soon as possible to prevent from yourself from getting into trouble.” There was a hidden message in Yang Ling’s words as he looked at Lin Huang hintingly.

“I don’t usually create trouble, but I’m not afraid of trouble.” Lin Huang locked eyes with Yang Ling while speaking cryptically. “If some bastard insists on coming at me, it’s his bad day then.”

The two of them looked into each other’s eyes for a moment and smiled.

“I’m leaving!” Lin Huang waved and summoned a dimensional portal before stepping into it right away.

A moment later, the dimensional portal closed and Lin Huang disappeared. However, Yang Ling mumbled to himself with a sigh as he watched Lin Huang vanish, “I hope this guy won’t stick his nose into this…”

Lin Huang sat on the couch and remained silent for a long time when he returned to the hotel room. He knew that his ability was now exposed.

What Yang Ling said earlier clearly meant to urge Lin Huang not to interfere with what was going to happen in Bronze Crow City. It also meant that Yang Ling knew Lin Huang had the ability to interfere.

“How did I expose myself?” Lin Huang took out the temporary storage ring and looked into it with his Divine Telekinesis. He looked through the storage equipment in it one after another.

He soon found out what the problem was. There was Divine Power left behind in some of the storage equipment.

Bringing out the storage equipment, he soon found out the reason of Divine Power remnant was because of the blood on them.

In reality, many storage equipment would have blood on them and Lin Huang basically would not clean them. Nobody knew how long it would take to clean hundreds of thousands of storage equipment one after another. He would usually retrieve the loots and sell the storage equipment on the black market. The black market would clean the storage equipment themselves when they received the storage equipment.

However, the blood on the storage equipment was clearly not regular monster blood. Instead, it was demigod blood, hence the remnant of the Divine Power.

“That’s strange. How would these storage equipment have demigod blood? I used the temporary storage ring to keep the storage equipment temporarily. I put those demigod-level monsters carcasses that I killed in Abyss Brink away straight into my Emperor’s Heart Ring.” Lin Huang thought it was a little odd.

Bloody knew what happened as soon as it heard Lin Huang’s soft mumble.

“You must’ve gotten the blood from the Emperor’s Heart Rings you obtained from killing the demigod-level monsters on the third layer of the Abyss Brink. You put the hundreds of Emperor’s Heart Rings away in there too. I figured there might be rings used by demigods before and Yang Ling would see through your ability, so I took the time to pick them out before sending them for unlocking. Never did I think I would’ve overlooked the blood.” It was normal for storage equipment to have blood on them. Even Bloody overlooked it when it handled them, thus it did not think of the remnant of the Divine Power.

Such remnant from demigod blood would not last long and would vanish a month later the most. It was easy for Yang Ling to figure that the blood was left behind after killing demigod-level monsters.

“Forget it. Let it be if he finds out.” Lin Huang did not want to dwell on it since it had come to this point.

“The Crow God Ceremony is beginning in two days. He must be putting all of his focus on it instead of watching me.”

Chapter 999: There’s More Than One God in This World!

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Time flew by and soon two days had passed.

Lin Huang spent the past two days in the hotel room practicing his sword skills. He even handed the task of eavesdropping on the God Bless members to Bloody which relayed the important messages to him.

Apart from learning about the time and venue of the Crow God Ceremony, he did not only learned about the mission this time, but he even heard many God Bless secrets.

The founder of God Bless was called the Master God and his combat strength and ability were unknown. He had been in hiding for hundreds of years and had just come back to take over God Bless again.

That was also the reason why God Bless was active lately all of a sudden.

Below the Master God were four God’s Messengers whose combat strength was unknown as well.

However, judging from Shen Yu’s respect towards the God’s Messengers, the four of them might most probably be virtual god-level powerhouses. Shen Yu was a demigod himself, after all, and only Virtual Gods could make a demigod fear for them.

Then, there were Commanders below the four God’s Messengers.

The Commanders were in charge of all of the branches in the entire safety zone. Some safety zones had one Commander while some had a main Commander and a Deputy Commander.

The guy with the surname Feng whom Shen Yu mentioned earlier was Commander Feng Li. He was currently leading God Bless in Division 3, and he managed all three branches in Division 3.

The reason Shen Yu despised him was that the latter who had more experience was supposed to be appointed as the new Commander since the past Division 3 Commander was re-assigned. Never had he thought that Feng Li would appear out of nowhere. Not only Feng Li was given a massive amount of god’s blood and elevated to perfect-stage demigod-level despite only going on very few missions, but he was also assigned to be the Commander of Division 3.

Since Shen Yu secretly had the most complaints towards Feng Li, Bloody knew a lot about him.

Almost half of the Commanders from God Bless had the same combat strength as Feng Li whereby they were on perfect-stage demigod-level.

Perfect-stage demigod-level would mean that 100% of the Life Power in the demigod-levels’ bodies could transform into Divine Power. On a certain level, such a person was close to Virtual God. Powerhouses on perfect-stage demigod-level would have their flesh and soul washed completely with a sea of Divine Power, practically reaching Virtual God standard. Their ability was comparable with a virtual god-level rank-1 who had just elevated. People would easily mistake their combat strength as a virtual god-level powerhouse by sense.

However, the broken Godhead in their bodies made the construction of God Territory impossible. They could not produce Divine Power naturally, and could only replenish it from external sources.

Below Commanders were the Captains of each branch, which was Shen Yu’s current position at God Bless.

All of the Captains of God Bless had demigod-level combat strength; that was the mandatory condition of being a Captain.

God Bless had a couple of branches in the three core safety zones. For instance, Division 3 had three branches while Division 1 and Division 2 had more.

After the Captains came the normal members.

God Bless did not have many members. They were basically on high immortal-level and imperial-level. Each branch had few members with only 20 to 30 members or over 100 members at the most.

Comparatively, God Bless might have more spies allocated in each organization than their members.

Naturally, the spies followed another system that was entirely different from the system Shen Yu and the rest followed. Even the intel branches of each division were unrelated.

Shen Yu only chatted about that with his few underlings once and it was just a short conversation, so Bloody obtained very limited information from that.

Lin Huang frowned when Bloody was telling him that information.

“Are you sure those four God’s Messengers are Virtual Gods?” That was the first question Lin Huang asked after hearing what Bloody said.

“It’s confirmed. Shen Yu has no respect for this perfect-stage demigod-level Feng Li. Him taking Shen Yu’s position aside, Feng Li is just a demigod to him even though he’s on perfect-stage demigod-level. He’s not as powerful as Shen Yu who could easily get to perfect-stage demigod-level as long as he obtains sufficient god’s blood. Therefore, he has no respect for Commanders.

“However, he’s always calling God’s Messengers ‘Master God’s Messenger’ and dares not cross the line. He clearly respects them. It’s impossible for Shen Yu to fear perfect-stage demigod-levels.

“However, according to the cultivation system in our gravel world, it’s impossible for someone to elevate to Virtual God.” Lin Huang was very much aware of the current cultivation system’s flaw. Indeed, just like what the stone tablet said, it was impossible for someone to elevate to Virtual God.

“The current cultivation system can’t do that, but what if they’re cultivating using the old cultivation system?” Bloody voiced its opinion, “Or maybe they’re like Mr. Fu whereby they’re Virtual Gods who survived the ancient era?”

“According to historical records, many powerhouses’ bodies weren’t found during the battle 800 years ago. Perhaps most of them were eaten by monsters but we can’t rule out the possibility that there were some Virtual Gods who hid and healed from the battle.”

Lin Huang could not argue about what Bloody said because it was indeed possible.

“I personally think that these Virtual Gods elevated by integrating Godheads,” the stone tablet voiced its opinion out of the blue.

“Why would you say that?” Lin Huang asked immediately.

“Otherwise, where did the Godheads of Gods who died during the ancient era go when their bodies were found?” The stone tablet was calm as it posed the question.

What the stone tablet said terrified Lin Huang. There might be millions of Gods that died during the ancient era. Even if most of them remained unfound, as long as a minority of the Godheads were found by major organizations, they could manufacture many Gods from there.

“Judging from what you said, it’s very possible that the Master God of God Bless is a True God.” Lin Huang thought his view of the world was now completely shaken.

He had always thought Mr. Fu was the only God in this gravel world. However, now it seemed like this gravel world was much more dangerous than he imagined.

“If that’s the case, fighting God Bless is much more difficult than I expected.” Lin Huang looked helpless.

“I was thinking why would God Bless have to be secretive in their missions if they really had such power, especially when Bloody mentioned they might have four Virtual Gods? They could totally wipe out all the organizations in the entire world under the sun, making them the overlord of the gravel world.

“However, now it seems like organizations such as the Union Government and the Hunter Association might have more hidden god-level powerhouses. God Bless doesn’t announce their power not because they can’t, but because they know very well that there are even more powerful organizations that exist in this world.”

Lin Huang soon connected the dots after the stone tablet reminded him about it.

“These god-level powerhouses haven’t shown up for hundreds of years. They might’ve come to an agreement with all the organizations not to reveal themselves. Just like the game theory of deterrent forces that all the countries applied on Earth…”

Chapter 1000: Ten Candidates

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Late at night, two round red and purple moons hung in the sky like a pair of gigantic beast’s pupils in different colors.

The maroon moonlight shone on the blue ocean. Combined with the rumbling of the waves, the layers of mysterious colors rippled.

It was the Tranquil Ocean, a sea that branched out from the east of Peaceful Ocean 5,000 kilometers to the northeast of Bronze Crow City.

At the moment, there were four massive pitch-black airships above the Tranquil Ocean. They were flying towards the central zone of the Tranquil Ocean.

If one were familiar with airships, he would be able to recognize these four airships that looked exactly the same. They were demigod-level supreme motherships — the Midnight God.

The fuselage of the airship was flat while its rear looked like a flatland. Its length exceeded 12,000 meters, making it seem like a supermassive aircraft carrier hovering in the sky.

As a demigod-level supreme mothership, the Midnight God could be sold at a price similar to a god item in the market.

The four airships flew in sequence and soon arrived at the central zone of the Tranquil Ocean. They landed less than 100 meters above the ocean.

Subsequently, the four airships began transforming. Their rears turned into a 90-degree fan-shaped form and connected together perfectly. As the four massive motherships became one, they formed a round platform that was more than 24 kilometers in diameter.

There were over 4,000 dense cannons below the platform that stretched out of the platform, pointing in 360 degrees.

After the transformation was done, more than ten silhouettes in black trench coats appeared on the round platform at the back of the mothership in a flash. There was a white circle in the middle of the black trench coat where a purple crow perched on a dry branch.

Soon, the 13 of them began working.

One of them waved and opened a midnight-black dimensional portal.

A moment later, a gigantic black sharp claw reached out of the portal. The claw alone plugged the entire portal.

“Stop clogging the portal. Come out now,” shouted the man who summoned the portal at the monster that stretched its claw out.

The black sharp claw shrunk at a rapid speed as a pitch-black dragon-like creature came out of the portal. It glared at the person who shouted at it, feeling crossed, then looked around. “There’s no fight here, Lu Dong. Why did you summon us?”

The second monster crawled out of the portal as soon as he was done speaking. It was a green giant with countless lumps all over its body. Its height was approximately seven to eight meters tall, and it had bulky muscles all over.

“How many times do you want me to tell you not to call me by my name, Big Black? You’re my imperial monster. You should have some basic respect toward your master,” Lu Dong said with arrogance on his face. He would usually let it go, but many of his colleagues were around to witness the scene.

“Respect, my as*. Since there’s no fight here, I’m going back to sleep.” The dragon creature named Big Black snorted, turning the air into ice in the next second while the temperature on the platform plunged. He glared at his master and turned around in an attempt to leave.

“Dracaena!” Lu Dong shouted immediately upon seeing him leaving.

Big Black stopped right away while a hint of slyness flashed in his eyes. He swung his head. “300!”

“200! Go back to sleep if you don’t want any.”

“Deal!” Big Black then turned around.

“Barbecue!” The green giant looked at Lu Dong with a grin. Clearly, he was going to lock a deal down.

“Two tonnes, nothing more!” Lu Dong announced grimly.

The giant nodded immediately.

Another four monsters came out of the portal at the same time and they were grinning at Lu Dong.

Lu Dong glanced at them and looked even gloomier now. However, he said while gritting his teeth, “Give me everything you have today. Those who slack will have their reward taken away!”

Although they put on an amusing show whereby the master was bullied by his imperial monsters, Lu Dong’s colleagues did not make fun of him.

All six imperial monsters clearly had demigod-level aura, and it only proved Lu Dong’s power as an Imperial Censor.

Moreover, there was a demigod who had teased Lu Dong after seeing a similar situation and he was beaten up by Lu Dong and his six imperial monsters to the point that he was bedridden for half a month.

Given such a severe warning, nobody dared to make fun of Lu Dong.

The six demigod-level imperial monsters began working immediately. Apart from the two that stayed by Lu Dong’s side, the remaining four scattered. Two of them flew into the air while another two jumped into Tranquil Ocean to hide.

After the preparations, Lu Dong sat with his legs crossed while watching his 12 colleagues building the altar nearby patiently.

Approximately half an hour had passed. An altar that spanned a kilometer in diameter was erected on the platform at the rear of the airships.

It was 11.50 p.m. by then.

“The power of the Divine Stone is enough to hold up the airship’s defenses, isn’t it?” The leading middle-aged man glanced at the time and said to the lady next to him, “We’ll bring in the Crow Spirit candidates when the defenses are activated.”

The lady nodded and disappeared right away.

Soon, a semitransparent defensive layer formed quickly the air above the airship platform, engulfing the entire area.

Looking from far away, the platform at the back of the airships was not the only covered area. There was also a semitransparent membrane overlaying the bottom of the airships without the cannons.

Approximately two to three minutes after the shield was formed, the lady who disappeared and the other man brought ten young people in white robes in through the elevator.

The muscular man who had just arrived was clearly a demigod judging by his aura.

Meanwhile, the young people in white robes were of mixed genders and had different combat strength auras. Six of them were on imperial-level, and the one with the highest combat strength was on imperial-level purple gold-rank. The other three were on high immortal-level. The last one was on holy fire-level, having just stepped into white flame-level.

The leading middle-aged man glimpsed through the bunch of young people in white robes and began speaking, “Being selected as a Crow Spirit candidate is an honor. However, only one among you will be elected as the Crow Spirit, the Crow God’s representative in this world. We won’t know who’ll be elected until the very last moment. The election has nothing to do with your combat strength or ability. The will of the Crow God will determine the final decision.

“For those who aren’t selected, don’t give up. You’re an irreplaceable Purple Crow member. Be diligent in cultivating. You’ll still have the opportunity to go for my position as Crow Leader.”

The middle-aged man held his head down and looked at the time after he was done speaking. “It’s almost time now. Let’s begin.”