Chapter 1061: Dirty Business
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Ignoring Xiao Hei’s notifications, Lin Huang glared coldly at the Master God’s projection that was turning into a cold, blue mist and vanishing.
The dimensional gateway that seemed like a black hole was shrinking rapidly. A thunderous deafening roar came from the other side of the black hole.
“I’ll remember you, brat!” Almost at the same time that the voice came, a blue ferocious glow shot out the black hole. The blue glow was extremely fast as it penetrated Lin Huang’s body almost at the same time it detached from the dimensional gateway.
Lin Huang saw a black mark appearing on his chest when he snapped back to his senses.
A giant tentacle made of black fog appeared out nowhere in his body. It looked like a gigantic black boa that attached itself to the blue glow that penetrated his body. It then tugged hard. Soon, the blue glow was crushed and vanished right away.
The Master God exclaimed from the dimensional gateway that was closing, “What did you do?!”
In a surprise, Lin Huang looked into his body to see what exactly the Master God had done to him. However, he did not see anything odd in his body.
Even the black mark on his chest had disappeared on its own accord as if it had never been there.
As he snapped back to reality, Lin Huang happened to see the dimensional gateway close completely. It turned into a bronze token hovering in the air.
The bruised corpse stepped forward in a flash and grabbed the token, putting it away in Lin Huang’s storage space casually. He then shifted his focus onto Grandmistress Wei who was not far away.
Since the Master God’s projection was dead, the defense around Grandmistress Wei dropped automatically. However, she was still unconscious.
Lin Huang lifted her up by grabbing her neck before he injected a gush of Divine Power into her body to wake her up.
Grandmistress Wei was in despair when she saw the bruised corpse before her. She had no idea that the Master God’s will projection had been there. The last thing she saw before she passed out was the bruised corpse killing the Master God’s clone.
One must know that the Master God was her god. Upon witnessing her god collapse before her, she lost all strength to fight Lin Huang.
“Look into my eyes,” commanded Lin Huang as he lifted Grandmistress Wei’s chin. As if a pebble was tossed into the water, a ripple spread in her bloody pupils.
Grandmistress Wei lifted her head without fighting back, locking eyes with Lin Huang.
She froze in the next second. All she could feel was that she had fallen into a bloody sea. She was deep in the water and could not get out of it.
The bruised corpse’s eyes had continuous ripples spiraling within then. In less than two minutes, he retrieved all the information in Grandmistress Wei’s head.
After retrieving everything in her head, the killing intent in Lin Huang surged even more.
Wei Clan had done many dirty jobs for God Bless. Human trafficking, smuggling young girls, and drug trafficking were just the tip of the iceberg.
Under Grandmistress Wei’s control, every business the Wei Clan had ever transacted became God Bless’s source of income. They would do anything that could get them money since there was no moral baseline for them at all. Almost everyone in the Wei Clan was involved in dirty business.
‘All of you deserve it,’ Lin Huang condemned secretly peeping at the Wei Clan’s ancient castle that had turned into ruins. He then shifted his focus back to Grandmistress Wei.
In torn clothes, she actually looked pretty attractive. However, Lin Huang was disgusted by her face.
The bruised arm stretched out and pierced through Grandmistress Wei’s chest. A moment later, a Godhead appeared between Lin Huang’s fingers.
At that second, Grandmistress Wei snapped back to her senses. She stared terrified at the black Godhead in Lin Huang’s hand as her vital signs faded.
She heard the bruised corpse talking to her before she lost consciousness completely, “Since little fatty died by your order, you’ll pay for his life with yours.”
After removing Grandmistress Wei’s Emperor’s Heart Ring and picking up the god relic battle armor and sword, Lin Huang tossed her corpse aside casually.
Lin Huang summoned Bloody and the Warlord, getting them to summon their armies to clean up the battlefield.
In less than 20 minutes, the two armies swept all of the loots. They did not let go of the buried items in the Wei Clan’s ancient castle which had collapsed.
After putting the loots and the Monster Cards away, Lin Huang got the Ninetails Lynx to release Guan Zhong from its alternate dimension.
Guan Zhong could not help but gulp after glancing at Grandmistress Wei and the Master God’s clone not far away as well as Lin Huang who appeared unharmed and the bulky bruised corpse next to him.
He was sent into the Ninetails Lynx’s alternate dimension when the Master God’s clone showed up. He did not see what happened in the battle later on. However, Lin Huang, who stood intact before him, and the dead bodies scattered on the ground proved the result of the battle.
“Master Emperor…” Although he was the vice president of the Union Government’s Agency EA, who was on the same rank as the leaders of many organizations, he could not help but hang his head down in shame before Lin Huang at the moment.
“I’ve taken the loots. Do you have anything to say about that?” Lin Huang looked at Guan Zhong and spoke calmly.
“Nothing. So, the bodies…”
“Since you’re investigating God Bless, I’ll leave the bodies to you while I take the Godhead. Also, I’ll leave the Wei Clan’s information for you guys. You’ll have to find out the rest on your own.”
“Thank you, Master Emperor!” It was Lin Huang who had killed the people after all. He did not even manage to cheer for him earlier.
Even if Lin Huang took the bodies with him, there was nothing he could say. After all, Lin Huang had the power and ability, hence there was no reason for him to give the Union Government any face.
Lin Huang knew that Guan Zhong must have a high-ranking position in the Union Government since he was a Virtual God, so he said, “Also, I hope that you can tell the Union Government not to interrupt my next mission.”
“Could you reveal what your next mission is?” Guan Zhong asked immediately.
“I’ll head over to Division 1 to kill the other two God’s Messengers directly and destroy God Bless’s headquarters. You guys can’t do anything to them without any valid reason. Am I right? I’ll do it for you guys then.”
“That’s… against the rules…” Guan Zhong looked aghast.
“It’ll be days later by the time you guys are done getting the shreds of evidence. The news of the Wei Clan being destroyed will definitely spread today. If we don’t get rid of God Bless’s headquarters right now, their people will definitely destroy all the evidence when they hear the news. By then, it’ll be difficult for the Union Government to do anything to them.
“In order to eradicate a cancer such as God Bless, you sacrificed your time to spy on the Wei Clan for so many years. Isn’t this what you want? You guys just have to turn a blind eye and let me handle this. You guys will only be responsible for cleaning up later. I don’t see why not!
“Furthermore, this is the last time I’ll get involved in this. You guys will handle their divisions after I get rid of the headquarters. I don’t have the time for that.”
Guan Zhong fell into silence for a moment and nodded eventually. “Sure! We’ll do as you say, Master Emperor.”
Chapter 1062: Blessing Trading Group
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The sky had turned dark when Lin Huang returned to Division 1.
He did not have the time to look at the loots or to go through Xiao Hei’s notifications properly.
Instead of returning to Emperor City, he went straight to where God Bless’s headquarters was — the Golden City.
Lin Huang knew that the news of the Wei Clan being destroyed would get to God Bless’s headquarters very soon. He had to seize every second.
The No. 1A8 Golden City was a grade-A foothold under the Union Government’s territory. It was also one of the most prosperous footholds in Division 1.
The main reason for the Golden City’s development was that this foothold was the only grade-A foothold that allowed businesses to be run by underground organizations.
In the Golden City, the Union Government would turn a blind eye to underground businesses as long as it did not do anything against the Union Government’s laws publicly. In other words, the Union Government would ignore the businesses as long as they did not do anything inappropriate openly.
Perhaps many did not believe that there was such a shady foothold in Divison 1, but it was the truth. It was an agreement between the underground organizations and the Union Government.
The Golden City sounded like a wonderland filled with gold, but in reality, it was a dirty land with a clean surface. There were all sorts of corrupt and unbearable events secretly happening every day.
In the Golden City, God Bless was called the Blessing Trading Company on the surface. Its main business covered all sorts of genetic elixirs manufacturing and sale. Apart from that, they covered hospitals, medical equipment, and health products.
They had land in the middle of the expensive Golden City and it occupied approximately 800,000 square meters of space.
According to Grandmistress Wei’s Memory, God Bless’s headquarters was hidden under the land.
Lin Huang saw the Blessing Trading Company’s building tens of kilometers away as soon as he stepped out of the dimensional portal.
The Blessing Trading Company’s headquarters that was more than 800 meters tall was the third tallest building in Golden City. It stood out even in the middle of Golden City. One could see it clearly from far away.
“Master Emperor, please wait for approximately 20 minutes. I’ll prepare the energy shield to prevent the battle impact from reaching the people,” said Guan Zhong who came with Lin Huang as soon as they stepped out of the dimensional portal.
Lin Huang nodded by way of permission. God Bless was his target, thus it was unnecessary to harm others.
The entire Golden City might be destroyed if he were to allow his God Figurine’s Combat Souls to fight as they fancied without any energy shields. Most people below demigod-level might not be able to take the first impact of a battle among Virtual Gods.
Seeing Guan Zhong summon a dimensional portal and step into it, Lin Huang flew in a flash toward the Blessing Trading Company’s building.
He arrived in a business district two blocks from the Blessing Trading Company’s land in the blink of an eye.
Since he promised Guan Zhong that he would wait for 20 minutes, he did not want to alert the enemies before that.
After all, his face was familiar to the people from God Bless. He would be detected easily with Divine Telekinesis if he got too close.
Meanwhile, the business district before him was a place that many cultivators frequented. Even if he was within the sensing range of the two God Bless God’s Messengers, the duo would not use to Divine Telekinesis to scan for nothing.
As he walked into the crowded business district, Lin Huang soon blended in with the people, appearing like a tourist who had just arrived.
He arrived at a sophisticated-looking medicine store when he was halfway through the street. He could not help but lift his head to look at the sign. The word ‘Blessing’ was written on it.
Lin Huang hesitated. A silhouette came out of nowhere in the alley next to the store just when he was thinking if he should go in.
“Brother, are you looking for genetic elixirs?” A voice came into Lin Huang’s ears all of a sudden.
He turned his head and looked to see a skinny, middle-aged man waving at him in the alley next to Blessing’s store.
He walked to the middle-aged man with a raised brow. “Do you sell genetic elixirs?”
“That’s right. It’s Blessing’s elixir, but it’s 30% cheaper than the store.” The middle-aged man took out a few tubes of elixirs in various colors from his storage space.
“It’s so much cheaper. It has to be fake!” Lin Huang raised his suspicion.
“I can guarantee that they’re all authentic. It came from Blessing’s production line directly. They’re cheap because there’s no tax and operating fees. To be honest, the profit I’m making from selling to you at a 30% discount is even higher than selling them in the store.”
“You said they came from the production line. How would I know if they’re authentic?” Lin Huang questioned suspiciously.
“We support product authenticity verification. The store is just next door, so you can verify them after purchasing the product.”
“You’ll be gone after I’ve paid and gotten the product. How can I possibly find you if they happen to be fake after the verification?” Lin Huang stood his ground.
“How about this? I’ll bring you to Blessing’s production line to collect the stuff if you’re buying in bulk. They have to be authentic that way, right?” the middle-aged man said.
“So, how many do I have to purchase to be able to collect them from the production line?” Lin Huang asked immediately.
“At least 100 tubes.” The middle-aged man named his number.
“100 is a little too much… How about 80? I don’t have that much money.” Lin Huang looked troubled.
“Alright then, 80. Follow me!” The middle-aged man nodded right away and waved at Lin Huang. He then turned around and walked into the alley.
Lin Huang followed him immediately.
He wanted to see what the man was doing exactly. He did not believe that Blessing had such a sales model.
Although the tax and operating fees were high, the daily traffic at the store would be so much higher than the man soliciting sales that way. It was impossible for Blessing to make such low-efficiency sales for the sake of a measly profit.
In the beginning, Lin Huang thought the man was not someone from Blessing. He must be someone who had Blessing’s products for some reason and was selling them secretly.
However, he just realized it was not as simple as he thought while he walked to Blessing’s building with the man and entered the factory.
The man was clearly from Blessing. However, theoretically, it was impossible that Blessing would do such soliciting. The only possibility was that the middle-aged man had another purpose of getting him into Blessing!
What surprised Lin Huang was that the man really did take him around the production line. His act was thorough.
As they were done visiting the production line, the middle-aged man smiled and said to Lin Huang, “What do you think? I told you that I work at Blessing and you didn’t believe me. Do you believe me now?”
“Yes, yes, I believe you,” Lin Huang assured immediately, “So, how do we go about the deal?
“The goods in the production line haven’t been sent to the warehouse yet. Follow me to the underground warehouse. We’ll deal there. If you’re still unconvinced after the deal, you can bring them to test at the store since it’s nearby,” the middle-aged man said.
“Sure!” Lin Huang agreed right away and followed him to the elevator.
The middle-aged man pressed ‘B1’, but the elevator was still moving after descending for half a minute. Lin Huang figured that something odd was happening.
“Isn’t it B1? Why is it taking so long?” Lin Huang asked on purpose. Anyone else would definitely be suspicious if it took so long.
“Due to the cargo demands, this elevator is a little slow. Our underground warehouse is massive, so it takes a long time to get there. Don’t worry. We’ll arrive soon.” The elevator finally stopped just when the middle-aged man was done speaking.
Lin Huang walked out of the elevator behind him.
He looked around to find that it was empty. It was clearly not a warehouse.
“Didn’t you say we’re going to the warehouse? This can’t be the warehouse.”
“Of course, this isn’t the warehouse.” The middle-aged man turned around and grinned maliciously.
At that moment, a silhouette sneaked up behind Lin Huang. Almost at the same time, a burgundy silhouette with a sword appeared behind Lin Huang out of thin air.
When the man swung his sword, the sneaky assassinator was killed from the attack that came without warning. His body was sliced into half and he fell onto the ground.
The man in burgundy armor holding a sword then turned around and stood next to Lin Huang. He looked at the middle-aged man before him smugly.
“So, can you tell me why you’ve brought me here now?” Lin Huang put both of his hands into his pockets and revealed a harmless smile.
Chapter 1063: Sneaking In
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“This room in the underground is exclusively for people to take care of those who they’ve deceived. When people are lured here, they’ll be beaten until they’re unconscious, then their clothes and Emperor’s Heart Ring will be taken away. They’ll be sedated, cleansed and sterilized. Eventually, they’ll be given a Life Power inhibitor shot and put into custom-made cages as test subjects.
“The people who are captured can’t fight back at all since they’ll be given a Life Power inhibitor shot every day. Moreover, the cages are made of monster bones and metal. Even an imperial-level powerhouse could hardly break it.
“The stubborn ones who fight back will be killed in front of the rest. The rest of them will feel numb eventually and give up fighting, accepting their fate of being test subjects.”
Lin Huang finally found out the middle-aged man’s real purpose after getting Bloody to read his mind.
There was a specific bunch of people in the Blessing Trading Company who would use the excuse of selling genetic elixirs at cheaper price as bait. The victims who were lured would be trapped by the company like lab rats, allowing them to run all sorts of tests on them.
Naturally, the baiting act was not the Blessing Trading Company’s main supply of test subjects. Their main test subjects came from the human trafficking business through black markets. They would look for sources from other channels if the black markets had insufficient supply. The con job Lin Huang encountered was merely one of the supply channels.
The killing intent in Lin Huang spiked after finding that out.
Just when he was going to kill the middle-aged man before him, Bloody’s voice came into his ears through voice transmission all of a sudden. “Don’t destroy him just yet. The God Messengers’ territory will definitely sense something off if you kill too many. We should think of a way to get to the B2 floor to save Chan Dou before our identity is exposed.”
Bloody’s urging soon calmed Lin Huang down. He put the battle sword in his hand away after taking a glance at the middle-aged man who looked blank before him.
Bloody then began explaining to him through voice transmission, “According to this middle-aged man’s memory, there are a total of three floors in the underground of the Blessing Trading Company.
“The first floor is the one that we’re currently on. It’s mainly for experiments and the modification of living things. The main purpose is to create human warfare weapons that will obey orders. The second floor is a prison for living materials. Not only is it a prison for humans with special skills, but there are also some unique monsters. The third floor is the core floor where God Bless’s headquarters located. All major God Bless meetings are held here and all the core information are also stored in this floor. The Master God’s clone and the two God Bless God’s Messengers live here too.
“Looking at Grandmistress Wei’s memory, Chan Dou should be kept on the second floor. Only a handful of people in the entire the Blessing Trading Company has access to the second floor.”
“Can’t I just go there in specter form?” Lin Huang asked.
“You can’t. The Master God set up many barriers in the entire underground. Besides blocking out the Divine Telekinesis detection coming from the ground, each underground level is blocked. Specter’s spirit form can’t pass through these barriers. Furthermore, the two God’s Messengers who control the barriers will sense it as soon as you touch the barrier. The only way of not getting exposed is through the regular channel, which is the elevator.”
“So, we need someone who has access to the second floor? And go there with his identity?” Lin Huang figured Bloody’s plan out.
“Yes, there happens to be someone like that on this floor.”
Lin Huang nodded and agreed after hearing Bloody’s plan.
After putting the body on the floor away, he recalled Lancelot into its card form.
Bloody controlled the middle-aged man, who was parasitized, to get a white coat for Lin Huang. As Lin Huang put on the face mask, his eyes were the only thing that was showing, so nobody knew how he looked like. He walked out of the room just like that.
He turned left as he came out of the room and walked straight along the corridor.
He stopped walking when he arrived at the end of the corridor before a room on his right. He said to the people inside, “Is Sir Chen here?”
“He went to the cage room,” a man in white coat replied casually.
“You need an ID card to enter the cage room,” Bloody reminded him through voice transmission.
“Oh, thanks.” Lin Huang thanked him while smiling. He stretched his Divine Telekinesis out and stole the person’s ID card from his chest secretly. He then turned around and walked to the cage room.
The Sir Chen that he mentioned was the person-in-charge of the current floor they were on. He was also the only person who had access to the second floor. Apart from that, he was also the disciple to the person-in-charge of the second floor, Wang Lao.
The cage room the man in the white coat mentioned was the lab to test living things on the first underground floor.
Soon, Lin Huang arrived at the entrance of the cage room according to the middle-aged man’s memory.
After he scanned the ID card he stolen on the sensor at the door, the door to the cage room opened automatically. He walked in and clipped the ID card on his chest casually.
The room was massive with endless black metal cages stacked in the room. There were at least 10,000 cages in his field of vision.
Most of the cages were empty. Only a quarter of them had living things in them. The living things captured in the cages were riled up when they heard someone coming in.
It was the cage room on the first underground floor. Apart from the regular eating and shitting time twice a day as well as the occasional lab test, these test subjects were kept here at all times.
As Lin Huang scanned through the cages with his Divine Telekinesis, he found out that there were over 3,000 living things in there. Most of them were in human form, and some of them even retained their human parts.
He saw a few female monsters who obviously had pert breasts. Some of the monsters clearly had human faces and skin, making them appear like humans with abnormal growth. However, most of them had lost their human characteristics.
Furthermore, the living things in those cages seemed to have experienced severe intelligence deterioration as they moved like wild beasts. All of them looked like they had an instinct to attack.
“None of these living things in the cages are in the monster guide. They’re most probably new species modified from humans,” Bloody voiced its speculation.
“God Bless!” Lin Huang clenched his fists angrily. Although he had heard of such organizations in the Golden City much earlier, he was boiling in rage when he witnessed these modified monsters with his own eyes.
At that second, a silhouette walked out of the darkness not far away. Lin Huang contained his emotions and walked up to the person.
He called out before the person spoke, “Sir Chen, you’re here.”
“You are…?” A man wearing golden-framed glasses looked at Lin Huang in confusion. Although Lin Huang was wearing a mask, his voice and face were unfamiliar. However, he did not figure that an outsider had invaded. Instead, he was trying to figure out who the person was.
Lin Huang arrived in front of him just when he was contemplating to himself. Bloody stretched a tentacle from Lin Huang’s sleeve and wound it around his neck.
In the next second, it released its tentacle. The man in the glasses froze.
Lin Huang removed his face mask and took out a golden mask from his storage space. When he put the mask on, his appearance soon looked exactly like the man in the glasses.
Lin Huang removed the man’s golden-framed glasses and put them on. He then removed the ID card on the man’s chest and clipped it on himself.
Just when he was done with the disguise, Bloody stretched a tentacle out and put it on his forehead. It transferred the man’s memory to Lin Huang after arranging it.
The door to the cage room opened a moment later. A man in glasses wearing a white coat walked out and headed towards the elevator.
Chapter 1064: Your Master God is Doing Great Down There
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After entering the elevator, Lin Huang scanned the ID card, then verified his fingerprints and irises of both eyes. The elevator descended to the second floor.
He was relieved to have passed through all the verification processes.
Approximately ten seconds later, the elevator arrived at the second underground floor. Lin Huang then walked out of it.
Following the memory of the man in the glasses, Lin Huang walked towards the observation room where Chan Dou was captured.
He bumped into a few men in white coats along the way. Lin Huang followed the man in the glasses’ habit whereby he ignored them directly.
He saw an old man with gray hair and two middle-aged men working on something as he walked into the observation room.
“Sir,” Lin Huang greeted the old man and turned his head to look at the room behind the observation glass.
There was a naked, muscular man who had all his limbs bound by black shackles in the room. Even his neck was locked.
There were all sorts of wounds on his body. He had clearly gone through inhumane torment.
There was a black monster that looked like mud stuck on his shaved head. It seemed to be hurting him, causing him to struggle and groan.
Lin Huang’s eyes turned bitter upon seeing Chan Dou’s devastating state.
“Why did you come today?” Wang Lao’s voice echoed behind Lin Huang. He sounded pretty surprised.
“The new toxin lab report is out. I went to your office earlier, but you weren’t there, so I figured you should be here.” Lin Huang swiveled around while smiling. “How is it so far? Is there any progress?”
“It’s progressing really slowly. The god item in his body is very powerful and has been protecting his consciousness, preventing him from collapsing. I’ve been getting the Rotten Soul Beast to insert all sorts of spiritual toxins into his body. However, with that god item, the corroded part of his soul has been regenerating each day.
“But I heard the new spiritual toxin that you guys have developed has a pretty astounding effect. I’ll take a look at the report later and see if I can add it in.”
“I’ll send you the report,” Lin Huang responded and walked to Wang Lao while grinning.
Bloody stretched a tentacle from Lin Huang’s sleeve all of a sudden when he stood still before the old man. It turned into a pile of gooey mess stuck on his face directly. It sealed his mouth and nose, stopping him from releasing any sound.
Wang Lao stood at an angle where his back was facing the two other people in the lab. He blocked Bloody’s action completely, so the two researchers who were not cultivators did not notice anything off at all.
After casting a parasite on Wang Lao, Lin Huang walked past him and headed toward the two people in the lab.
He patted their shoulders while smiling. “Thanks for your hard work.”
Almost at the same time, Bloody stretched its tentacle again and completed the parasitization.
The reason Bloody used close-range parasitization instead of Leech Pods was that Leech Pods could be detected within the territory of powerhouses above imperial-level. To prevent their identities from being exposed, Bloody could only perform close-range parasitization which was slightly more troublesome.
The parasitized Wang Lao opened the door to the room where Chan Dou was captured under Bloody’s control. Lin Huang followed behind him.
Almost at the same time that the duo walked into the room, the Rotten Soul Beast extended its tentacles toward the both of them. However, it was immediately swallowed by the Undead Styx that Lin Huang had summoned.
Lin Huang removed the shackles on Chan Dou’s body and took a blanket out from his storage space to cover his body up. He then got the Ninetails Lynx to send him into its alternate dimension.
The Rotten Soul Beast was dead, but the remnants of the spiritual toxin in Chan Dou’s body did not vanish right away. It would take time for it to get out of his system, so Chan Dou would be unconscious for a while.
A voice came out of nowhere just when Lin Huang sent Chan Dou into the alternate dimension.
“I thought some rat came to our base. I didn’t know it’s someone so important!”
Lin Huang did not expect to be exposed, but he was not entirely surprised. The person must have done something to Chan Dou and found out that something was off as soon as Chan Dou disappeared. Lin Huang did a quick check on himself with his Divine Telekinesis and found that his disguise was perfectly fine.
Two silhouettes soon appeared not far away from him.
One of them had a muscular body with a stiff expression and a strong aura. The other looked sullen with an unfathomable aura.
Lin Huang soon found out about the duo’s identity through Grandmistress Wei’s memories.
The muscular one was called Gao Ming while the sullen one was called Qi Shihan. The duo had a combat strength of Virtual God rank-3 which was even more powerful than Grandmistress Wei.
“If I’m not mistaken, you should be the Emperor Dynasty, aren’t you?” Qi Shihan’s tone sounded like he was taunting Lin Huang. “Why are you here in my Blessing Trading Company in the middle of the night?”
“Ah, it’s great that you recognize me. I can save time introducing myself.” Lin Huang had to stall since Guan Zhong had yet to come back to him. Clearly, he was not done building the energy shield.
“Did you ask why I’m here in the Blessing Trading Company in the middle of the night? I didn’t want to come, but it was your staff who invited me here. I saw a store in the business district earlier, and I wanted to go in. There was a guy in the alley next to the store who told me that he’s your staff and that I could get 30% off on the elixir if I buy it from him. He even enthusiastically invited me to visit your production line. In the end, he brought me underground after the visit was done. Someone even attacked me, so I killed the person. I couldn’t find the exit for a long time and ended up on this floor for some reason.”
“It seems like both of you are the Blessing Trading Company leaders. You guys should know how do I get out of this horrible place. Am I right?”
The duo looked dumbfounded after being mocked by Lin Huang. They finally found out how he had sneaked in, and they also knew that he was playing dumb.
“He’s stalling. He might have partners,” Gao Ming spoke through a voice transmission, “His partners might have blended in with the staff, so it’ll take time for us to check one by one.”
“Lock the place down to prevent them from escaping. I’ll bring him up to lure his partners out! His identity is rather sensitive. We must kill everyone who came with him. Spare nobody’s lives!” Qi Shihan replied through voice transmission.
The voice transmission ended with them merely locking eyes.
Gao Ming disappeared right away while Qi Shihan forced a smile. “I see. Let me send you out, Master Emperor.” Qi Shihan brought Lin Huang to the elevator as he spoke.
With plans of their own, Qi Shihan and Lin Huang remained silent in the elevator. None of them spoke again.
Lin Huang’s Emperor’s Heart Ring vibrated all of a sudden when the elevator arrived on the first floor and they walked out.
It was a message from Guan Zhong whom he just added into his contact list. There were only two words in the message: ‘It’s done!’
Next to him, Qi Shihan peeped at the screen. He did not understand what the two words meant. However, he had a bad omen upon seeing the smirk on Lin Huang’s lips.
At that moment, Lin Huang turned around and looked at him. He smirked. “Your Master God asked me to send his regards. He wants to tell you that he’s doing great down there, but he’s lacking two strong men to serve him.”
Chapter 1065: Fighting Virtual Gods Again
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Qi Shihan and Gao Ming were petrified when they heard what Lin Huang said.
Both of them knew that the Master God’s clone had left to handle something not long ago, but they had no idea where he went.
They did not think of much when they saw Lin Huang. However, they were concerned when they heard him mention their Master God.
The Master God had just left less than 20 minutes ago and Lin Huang came to them coincidentally. Besides exposing the existence of God Bless and the Master God, he even knew where Chan Dou was captured. They could not help but suspect that something had happened to the Master God.
‘Could Mr. Fu be the one who attacked?’ The duo looked at each other with the same thought flashing through their minds almost at the same time.
They knew that the Master God’s clone had a combat strength of Virtual God rank-9, and there were very few powerhouses in this gravel world who could fight him. Among those countable powerhouses, Mr. Fu, who was Lin Huang’s master, was the only person who was related to him.
The duo spread their Divine Telekinesis as they thought of this detail. They were searching for all the possibilities.
Naturally, they could not detect Mr. Fu from the hunt. However, Guan Zhong and the other two Union Government Virtual Gods were completely exposed.
Qi Shihan and Gao Ming were getting more and more concerned after sensing three Virtual Gods hiding nearby.
Lin Huang summoned three God Figurine’s Combat Souls which were the Destructive Divine Mammoth, the Ninetails Lynx, and the Enchanted Fairy as soon as he was done speaking.
However, what Lin Huang did next confused Qi Shihan and Gao Ming.
‘Is he using his few imperial beasts as bait? I guess the three Virtual Gods hiding nearby will attack us as soon as we move an inch.’
The duo saw through Lin Huang’s plan like a piece of cake. They had their guard up against the three Virtual Gods hiding nearby, and they did not want to attack first.
Lin Huang had no idea that Guan Zhong and the rest were exposed. He felt puzzled when the two God Bless God’s Messengers did nothing to him despite what he said earlier.
The confused thought flashed by his mind and vanished. Lin Huang then gave the Destructive Divine Mammoth and the Ninetails Lynx his orders right away.
He could unleash hell since Guan Zhong had completed the setup of the energy shield.
The Ninetails Lynx could no longer wait and disappeared in a flash as soon as it heard the order.
The Destructive Divine Mammoth did not go after it. Instead, he stood where he was and lifted his front feet high. He stomped hard after releasing a long, deafening shriek.
The gigantic feet came from the sky like two pillars, they were stomping above the two God’s Messengers’ heads.
Until then, Qi Shihan and Gao Ming, who initially ignored the three God Figurine’s Combat Souls, had a dramatic change of expression.
The duo clearly sensed the intense danger coming from the Destructive Divine Mammoth’s attack. Just when they were about to dodge, they realized they could no longer move.
It was the effect of the Destructive Divine Mammoth’s power. As long as the opponents were not more powerful than him, they basically could not break away from the seal.
As the grayish-black gigantic feet that seemed like pillars consolidated in the air, a white silhouette passed by the duo.
Almost at the same time, Qi Shihan and Gao Ming’s clothes were all torn. The god relic battle armors in their bodies were revealed automatically, protecting their bodies.
Divine Power was rushing into their god relic battle armor as the deafening noise of thousands of dense metal colliding roared. The armor blocked the attack head-on.
The attack that came out of nowhere jolted the both of them, and their backs were drenched in sweat.
They only saw a white silhouette pass by, but they did not see how it attacked at all. What was even scarier was that the silhouette’s single blow had drained close to a fifth of the Divine Power in their bodies.
The white silhouette that zoomed by was naturally Lin Huang’s God Figurine’s Combat Soul, the Ninetails Lynx.
Clearly, the little white cat was upset that its maximum effort attack was obstructed by the god relic battle armor on their bodies. It wanted to defeat them before the Destructive Divine Mammoth did.
The Ninetails Lynx manifested itself in the air when its attack was to no avail.
It had hair as white as snow, and it was only the size of a palm. It looked like a cute, harmless animal that any animal lover would want to pet.
However, Qi Shihan and Gao Ming had no intention of petting the cat at all. They looked terrified and worried when they looked at this cute, little creature.
Just when the duo was shocked by the Ninetails Lynx’s ability, two giant pillars came from the sky. They stomped above the duo’s heads, and it was as if an elephant was trampling on two ants.
The grayish-black silhouette came down like a mountain collapsing. The duo’s Divine Power rushed out and collided with the two gigantic legs above their heads.
The enormous legs collided with their sword glows in the blink of an eye.
Two dazzling white glows lit up at the collision point. The impact of the Divine Power and Life Power spread towards all directions as endless wind energy blew all around.
The buildings within the Blessing Trading Company’s property were crushed into dust. However, thanks to a layer of energy shield outside the land, nothing else was impacted at all.
Meanwhile, a white crystal arc wall consolidated around Lin Huang’s body that was situated in the middle of the battlefield. All the impact of the energy and the wind were blocked.
It was naturally the Enchanted Fairy next to him who had done that.
The jaws of the two Virtual Gods, who were responsible for holding up the shield, dropped as they witnessed the battle outside the shield.
Never had he thought that the two imperial-level purple gold-rank imperial beasts could fight two God Bless Virtual God rank-3s head-on. Furthermore, they clearly had the upper hand.
Watching the battle aside, Guan Zhong had a rather complicated expression on his face. He had witnessed Lin Huang destroying the Wei Clan before. Although he did not watch the battle with the Master God, he did witness the ability of Lin Huang’s ‘imperial beasts’. He was shocked to watch the ‘imperial beasts’ fight again as an outsider.
Apart from that, he secretly exclaimed about how Dynasty had played their cards right by getting Lin Huang to be their Emperor.
Although he did not want to see Dynasty rising in the Union Government’s shoes, that was almost a sure case. He just hoped that Lin Huang could take everyone into consideration as an Emperor because he did not want a war to break out among the people.
For the sake of building a solid relationship with Lin Huang, he ignored the Union Government’s rules and allowed Lin Huang to carry on with his mission secretly. He even became an accomplice, getting people to help build the energy shield. If the Emperor was just a mediocre person, prohibiting the mission aside, it would be nice of him not to put the person into the Union Prison.
In the battlefield, Lin Huang was not sure if he should laugh or cry. The opponents were Virtual God rank-3s after all, which was the reason why Lin Huang had gotten both his God Figurine’s Combat Souls, the Ninetails Lynx and the Destructive Divine Mammoth, to fight them. His initial plan was to get them to fight one-on-one. In the end, the two God Figurine’s Combat Souls chose to fight both of them. In addition to that, they went all out as soon as they attacked.
Qi Shihan and Gao Ming’s performance rendered him speechless. Their jaws dropped upon seeing the two imperial beasts’ ability at the beginning of the battle. Almost half of their Divine Power was drained after merely one match.
“We can’t be slacking like this. The duo is clearly quadruple mutated mythical-level monsters. Their abilities are too terrifying. Our Divine Power will be completely drained if they attack again! We must kill Lin Huang as soon as we can!” Qi Shihan hissed to Gao Ming in a panicked tone through voice transmission.
“There’s another monster guarding him. It’s probably also a quadruple mutated monster. I’m afraid it’ll be hard to kill.” Gao Ming frowned, seeming rather beaten. Both of them never expected Lin Huang’s imperial beasts to be so powerful.
“I’ll distract the guard and lure the three imperial beasts to attack me. However, you’ll only have one chance to attack. I won’t have any Divine Power left to defend the next attack if you fail. They won’t be lured the second time.” Qi Shihan’s expression was extremely grim as he warned him.
“Understood!”
Chapter 1066: God Bless Has Fallen
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The two dazzling white glows dimmed gradually. The two God Bless God’s Messengers did not look like they were in the best shape.
The two God Figurine’s Combat Souls’ single attack had drained almost half of their Divine Power.
Qi Shihan moved before the white glows faded completely. He was going after Lin Huang.
Although the Enchanted Fairy was guarding the front of Lin Huang, the Ninetails Lynx and the Destructive Divine Mammoth left Gao Ming behind anyway and went after Qi Shihan in an attempt to stop him.
Qi Shihan shook his body and released hundreds of clones that charged at Lin Huang from different directions.
The Ninetails Lynx and the Destructive Divine Mammoth attacked the hundreds of clones one after another, but they did not find Qi Shihan himself.
The Enchanted Fairy waved her sleeve upon seeing that the clones were arriving before Lin Huang. The area hundreds of kilometers before Lin Huang turned into a snowfield.
The clones turned into ice sculptures, and only one silhouette broke out among the ice sculptures. It was running away quickly in the opposite direction, appearing to flee.
The Enchanted Fairy went after it without hesitation.
Right at that moment, a muscular silhouette appeared behind Lin Huang. The battle sword in his hand turned into a bloody glow and aimed towards Lin Huang’s waist.
The bloody sword glow froze all of a sudden when it was approximately a meter away from him.
Then, he stepped out and flashed hundreds of meters away.
Only then did the frozen red glow penetrate where Lin Huang was originally standing.
Lin Huang, who was completely unharmed hundreds of meters away, turned around slowly with a smirk at Gao Ming who had attacked him sneakily.
“Did you really think I didn’t take my personal safety into consideration? You thought I only got the Enchanted Fairy to protect me, didn’t you?” Lin Huang stretched his palm out as he spoke. A golden clock hovered above his palm.
It was Lin Huang’s God’s Figurine’s Combat Soul, the Creation Clock.
He did not actually just summon the Creation Clock. Instead, he had summoned it at the same time when he summoned the Ninetails Lynx in the beginning. It was just that he got the Ninetails Lynx to send the Creation Clock into its alternate dimension.
The Creation Clock had been watching the battle in the alternate dimension. When it saw Gao Ming attack, it penetrated the alternate dimension with the Ninetails Lynx’s paw print and blocked the attack.
Due to restriction on its combat strength, the Creation Clock could not use many of its powerful abilities at that moment. However, its limited abilities could constrain many powerhouses.
The technique used to defend Gao Ming was called the Time Gully. It targeted the area behind Lin Huang and slowed time down by a million times. That was the reason why the sword glow froze in the middle of the action.
After Lin Huang dodged the attack, the Creation Clock removed the effect, so the sword glow went back to its normal attack speed.
Naturally, Lin Huang would not mention the Creation Clock’s secret to his opponent.
Just when Gao Ming was going to attack again due to his missed shot, the Ninetails Lynx began attacking him. It slapped his face hard and shot him out.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the battlefield, Qi Shihan, whose Divine Power was drained, was completely frozen into an ice sculpture by the Enchanted Fairy. Although he was not dead yet, his vital signs were deteriorating.
His earlier attack was fancy as he had released the clones first to pretend to attack Lin Huang and pretended to run to lure the Enchanted Fairy away.
As he was chased by the three God Figurine’s Combat Souls, he managed to summon his God’s Figurine’s Combat Soul in time. He defended himself from the three God Figurine’s Combat Souls’ fierce attack, preventing his death on the spot.
However, his fancy technique did not stop the three God Figurine’s Combat Souls from suppressing him together. His Divine Power drained eventually and the Enchanted Fairy turned him into an ice sculpture.
After tossing the frozen Qi Shihan at Lin Huang’s feet, the Enchanted Fairy followed behind the Ninetails Lynx and the Destructive Divine Mammoth to join in the fight against Gao Ming.
Gao Ming ran for his life looking troubled. He knew that the battle on Qi Shin’s side had ended when he saw the Ninetails Lynx.
Qi Shihan merely held on for less than three seconds under the duress of Lin Huang’s three imperial beasts.
Without even thinking, Gao Ming gave up the thought of fighting Lin Huang and fled immediately.
However, in the next second, he realized that the area around the Blessing Trading Company had been sealed. The layer of shield killed his last hope of running for his life. He swung his sword at the shield, appearing ferocious as he attempted to shatter the shield to run for his life.
As the sword glow powered up, the shield went through a tremor as if there was an earthquake. However, it did not shatter.
Gao Ming’s eyes lit up when he saw that. So, the shield was not as powerful as he thought.
Just when he was going to swing his sword to break the shield again, a giant pillar locked onto him from the sky.
The Destructive Divine Mammoth in the black armor that was not far away stared at him coldly. It then stomped both its feet.
At the same time, the Ninetails Lynx and the Enchanted Fairy tore forward at the same time.
The god relic armor on Gao Ming’s body merely held on for approximately a second and went back into his body. His Divine Power drained out and he turned into an ice sculpture from the white crystal-like snow.
In less than three minutes, Lin Huang had killed two Virtual God rank-3 powerhouses.
Watching this, Guan Zhong forced a smile. The two Virtual Gods, who were responsible for holding the defense up, were shocked.
In the beginning, they thought Gao Ming was weak since he had been suppressed by three imperial beasts. However, the sword Gao Ming charged earlier proved that he was definitely one of the top powerhouses in this gravel world.
The shield was made of a god item. The duo was only responsible for maintaining it by inserting Divine Power.
However, Gao Ming’s single swing of his sword drained half of the Divine Power in their bodies. One could imagine that his ability surpassed the duo by heaps. However, such a powerhouse could not even hold on for a minute when facing the three imperial beasts.
Looking at the two ice sculptures that were tossed in front of him, Lin Huang summoned the Warlord. “Grab the loot.”
The Warlord released thousands of mechanical puppets and began searching for loots.
Meanwhile, Lin Huang took the bruised corpse out and synced his consciousness with it.
The bruised corpse soon opened its bloody eyes and pressed the frozen Gao Ming’s head. The white ice melted right away, exposing the head.
Gao Ming heard a voice in his ears as his weak consciousness just woke up. “Look into my eyes.”
In the next second, his consciousness was completely drowned in a bloody sea.
A moment later, Lin Huang stretched his arm out, penetrating the ice directly. He pierced his hand into Gao Ming’s chest and took a gray Godhead out.
As he let go of his hand that was squeezing Gao Ming’s head, the half-frozen body collapsed to the ground.
The bruised corpse then turned around and held onto Qi Shin’s head, pulling it up. After repeating the same steps, he let go of his hand and tossed Qi Shin’s body onto the ground.
Lin Huang spread his Divine Telekinesis out after getting the Enchanted Fairy to defrost both bodies. He took out the duo’s Emperor’s Heart Rings and god relic battle armors that came out. He picked all of the weapons up and put them away in his storage space.
A Virtual God outside the shield could not help but ask Guan Zhong, “I’ll turn a blind eye to him killing everyone, but how are we supposed to get the information from the God Bless God’s Messengers if he’s taking the Emperor’s Heart Rings?”
“I’ve already discussed this with the Emperor. He’ll take the loot while we’ll have the information. He’ll send us the information after the unlocking is done,” Guan Zhong explained, feeling rather helpless. He had no authority in the matter at all, so he dared not ask for it even if Lin Huang refused to give him the information.
The Virtual Gods said nothing else after hearing that.
Chapter 1067: Saved A Sum of Processing Fee
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Saved A Sum of Processing Fee
Destroying God Bless’s headquarters was much easier than Lin Huang imagined.
After all, Wu Mo and he had gotten rid of the biggest trouble in the battle back in Division 2, which were the Master God’s clone and the Master God’s will projection.
The most powerful beings at God Bless’s headquarters were just the two Virtual God rank-3 God’s Messengers. Their ability was pretty similar to the Grandmistress. Naturally, it was easy for Lin Huang to kill them.
Meanwhile, the Blessing Trading Company and God Bless’s headquarters were completely destroyed as a result of the virtual god-level battle. Not only did the Blessing Trading Company’s building which was the third highest in Golden City collapse, but the other buildings around also turned to dust. Even the three levels deep in the underground were completely destroyed.
The God Bless members in the buildings were killed by the impact of the battle. Lin Huang scanned the structure with his Divine Telekinesis, but he did not find a single living thing around the entire property.
Approximately half an hour later, Guan Zhong only walked in after seeing that Lin Huang was done searching for the loot and had even recalled his imperial beasts.
“Like always, I’ll take the loot and you can have the bodies and the information.” Lin Huang nodded at Guan Zhong. He knew Guan Zhong was fulfilling his promise since he only walked in after he was done searching for the loot.
“God Bless only has their branch broken at the moment, but their roots are much deeper than we can ever imagine. It’s not news that they’re scattered in all of the other organizations with their influence. It’s best that you guys check your Union Government departments and get rid of the spies. We’ll have to eradicate everyone in God Bless, or else, they’ll bounce back again.
“God Bless’s ultimate goal is to bring their Master God back. Their Master God is a ninth-rank True God, so it’ll definitely be a deadly catastrophe for us if he really comes. Even if he’s rejected by this gravel world, he should be able to stay until he has killed all the rebels.”
Guan Zhong responded to Lin Huang’s reminder.
“We’ll take note of whatever Master Emperor said but is it possible if you provide us some help?”
“What kind of help do you need?” Lin Huang asked while raising his brow.
“The spies name list.” Guan Zhong did not bother to beat around the bush and told what he most desired. “I suppose you’ve retrieved the memories of the three God’s Messengers before you killed them, haven’t you? If I guessed correctly, there should be a list of spies who went into the Union Government in their memories.”
“Won’t you retrieve their memories when you brought back the bodies? Is it necessary to get a list from me now?” Lin Huang asked.
“It’s necessary indeed.” Guan Zhong nodded while explaining in all seriousness, “It takes time to break into a corpse’s memory. There might be a loss of information during the process of memory retrieval. In comparison, the memories that you read are much more complete.”
“I’m just worried what those spies will do when they hear about God Bless being destroyed.”
“Will you believe the list that I give you? Aren’t you afraid that I’ll give you a fake list to sabotage the Union Government?” Lin Huang asked while grinning.
“We’ll verify it. It’s impossible for us to execute with one name list alone,” Guan Zhong explained honestly.
“Alright then. I’ll give you the list but it’s not free,” Lin Huang said and named his condition, “After you guys are done investigating God Bless, send me a complete copy of the report. I want the report with the highest authorization.”
“That shouldn’t be a problem. I can promise you that,” Guan Zhong agreed.
“I’ll send you the list after I’ve sorted it out.”
“So… Shall we take over the rest now?” Guan Zhong asked Lin Huang.
“Please take over,” Lin Huang replied.
Just when he was summoning his dimensional portal to leave, he stopped walking out of the blue and turned his head to ask Guan Zhong, “The intel department of your Union Government should be able to unlock Emperor’s Heart Rings. Am I right? Can you unlock a batch of rings for me for free?”
Guan Zhong looked puzzled upon hearing the request. He thought to himself, ‘Do you really lack money to pay for the processing fee?’
However, it was merely a thought. Guan Zhong still promised to do that for him.
Unlocking Emperor’s Heart Rings was not difficult, and the Union Government would do it once almost every month. It was no different adding Lin Huang’s batch to the monthly activity line-up.
Lin Huang was delighted to hear the firm answer. He had gotten quite a number of Emperor’s Heart Rings from God Bless this round, and there should be a load of good stuff in them. After all, those were everything God Bless had accumulated for hundreds of years. The processing fee would definitely be high if he got someone to unlock them for him. Getting the Union Government to do it for him for free would mean him saving a hefty sum of processing fees.
“I won’t disturb your work. Remember to contact me to unlock the Emperor’s Heart Rings when you’re done with your stuff,” Lin Huang said and summoned a dimensional portal which he stepped into.
Guan Zhong only called out to the two Virtual Gods after seeing that Lin Huang had disappeared, “You guys can remove the energy shield now. Change it to an illusion shield to prevent people from coming in. Also, the longer the shield can maintain, the better. Don’t tell anyone about God Bless being destroyed. Just drag it out as long as you can.”
“Then, get people to clean this ruins as soon as possible and sort out the information from here.”
Guan Zhong then fell into busy mode.
It was midnight when Lin Huang returned to Emperor City. Huang Tianfu was relieved to see him finally return after having gone missing for a day.
However, he looked rather surprised when he took the Star Titan’s ring from Lin Huang because the Star Titan was damaged pretty badly.
However, since it was a god relic airship, it would fix itself as long as sufficient Divine Power was provided.
Huang Tianfu was not upset that the airship was damaged. He was just surprised and wondered what kind of opponent Lin Huang had encountered which resulted in such destruction.
He did not know that the Star Titan was not attacked since the beginning until the end. It was just ‘baptized’ by the impact of the two true god-level powerhouses’ battle.
After returning the airship filled with Divine Stones to Huang Tianpu while feeling sorry, Lin Huang turned around and returned to his Emperor Palace.
The first thing he did as soon as he sat on the throne was neither to look at the loot nor glimpse at the card. Instead, he got the Ninetails Lynx to release Chan Dou from its alternate dimension.
Lin Huang frowned slightly after seeing that Chan Dou, who was wrapped in a blanket, was still out of it.
“Is Chan Dou going to be okay?”
“His soul has been corroded by the Rotten Soul Beast’s spiritual toxin for a long time. Judging by the speed of his recovery, it’ll take at least half a month for him to wake up. Moreover, due to his soul that’s so severely damaged, he might suffer from a certain level of memory loss,” the stone tablet’s voice came calmly.
Chapter 1068: The Fourth God’s Messenger
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“Memory loss…” Lin Huang scowled. “Can it be recovered?”
“I’m not sure about that. Soul damages are rather complicated. If the memory root is affected, it’s impossible to fix no matter what.
“Theoretically, it can be fixed if it’s just the projection of memory root in his consciousness, but determining how long it would take to recover depends on his body and the level of damage. Maybe a few days if it’s short and decades if it’s long. It could even go up to 100 years.”
Lin Huang fell into deep thought after hearing the stone tablet’s uncertain answer. He gave up the thought of sending Chan Dou home.
He figured there might be God Bless spies in the Chan Clan when Chan Dou had been attacked back then.
Now that he was in a coma, it would mean that he had lost the ability to protect himself. If Lin Huang were to send him back just like that, Chan Dou would be at risk, so it would be safer to keep him in Dynasty instead.
Lin Huang had made up his mind to place Chan Dou at Dynasty for the time being. He would decide if he should send him home when he woke up. He then asked two guards to come after glancing at the man wrapped in the blanket with a filthy face.
“Clean him up and bring some clean clothes. The fewer people know about this, the better.”
The reason why Lin Huang added the last sentence was that Chan Dou’s face was familiar to many. If too many people saw him, the news might spread outside Dynasty. By then, Chan Dou’s presence in Dynasty would be exposed and it might even cause many to think it was Dynasty who had captured him.
However, the two guards had no idea about that at all. They realized it was a man wrapped in the blanket and he obviously was not properly dressed. They gawked rather awkwardly at Lin Huang.
After getting the two guards to bring Chan Dou away, Lin Huang thought about it and asked Xiao Mo to come.
As he chatted with Xiao Mo for a while, the guards brought Chan Dou, who was cleaned up and dressed, back to the Emperor Palace.
Lin Huang only said to Xiao Mo after getting rid of the guards, “You’ll be responsible for this guy’s safety for the next half a month or so. I don’t trust anyone else to do that.”
Xiao Mo turned his head and looked at Chan Dou who was lying on the stretcher. He was stunned when he saw the man. He asked doubtfully, “Is he Chan Dou?!”
Lin Huang nodded. “You know him too?’
“Of course, I do. He’s one of the Five Princes, the most powerful powerhouse among the young generation. Everyone in our generation knows him, and many of the Purple Crow’s female members are fans of the Five Princes. Many of them are Chan Dou’s fans,” Xiao Mo explained while smiling.
“But I heard he went missing a few months ago. It created a stir on the Heart Network. Why is he in Dynasty?”
“God Bless took him, but I’ve just rescued him today.” Lin Huang waved his hand as he spoke after noticing Xiao Mo was going to ask more, “We’ll talk about this in the future when there’s time.”
“This guy’s soul is damaged, thus he might only wake up at least half a month later. It’s not entirely safe to bring him back to the Chan Clan. I thought about it and thought it’s better to keep him in Dynasty and figure out what to do next when he wakes up. His identity is rather sensitive, so I don’t trust others to take care of him and I’m afraid that the news might leak. I only trust you to take care of him. I’ll leave him in your hands for the next half a month.”
“Sure, I’m on it,” Xiao Mo responded and promised right away.
“Notify me as soon as Chan Dou wakes up.”
“Also, I’ll get Xin Er to cultivate properly during this period of time and we won’t disturb you. Somebody else will take care of her safety,” Lin Huang added.
“It’s alright. I can take up more responsibility.” Xiao Mo saw Lin Huang taking a careful look at him while smiling as he spoke. The entire Emperor Palace fell into a dead silence. He could not help but gulp nervously. “I think Sister Xin should really spend more time on cultivating.”
“Alright, that’s settled.” Lin Huang patted Xiao Mo’s shoulder in satisfaction.
After sending Xiao Mo off with Chan Dou, the doors of the Emperor Palace were shut.
Lin Huang summoned Bloody and shared the memories he had retrieved from the three God’s Messengers with it.
It was a little unfortunate that he did not manage to read the Master God’s memory.
When the Master God’s clone was killed, its will projection arrived before Wu Mo could read his memory. Later on, when the will projection was killed, it faded into energy and vanished. Wu Mo fell into a deep sleep while the bruised corpse could only read a living being’s mind through their eyes. Therefore, Lin Huang did not retrieve the Master God’s memory.
Fortunately, there was quite some information on the three God’s Messengers’ memories. It covered almost every secret about God Bless.
Soon, Bloody sorted out the list of spies and shared the complete list with Lin Huang.
Fulfilling his promise, Lin Huang sent the list of the spies in the Union Government to Guan Zhong after adding encryption to it.
Approximately five to six minutes after he sent the list over, his Emperor’s Heart Ring began to vibrate. It was Guan Zhong calling.
As the video call connected, Guan Zhong’s upper body was projected clearly. His expression was rather grim.
“Master Emperor, are you sure that everyone on the list is a God Bless spy?”
“That’s the complete list I compiled after reading the three God’s Messengers’ memories. Of course, I only gave you those who are in the Union Government. I guarantee you that all the names on the list came from the three God’s Messengers’ memories. I made none of them up.” Lin Huang gave a firm answer.
“I know you’re in disbelief that your superior, the president of Agency EA, who is also its founder, is a God Bless spy. However, I must tell you that this is the truth. The man named Zhuge Feifan has been a God Bless member since 700 years ago. He received the Master God’s order directly to become a spy in the Union Government. He founded Agency EA later, which was also the Master God’s order.”
“I’m sure it’s not hard for you to guess what Zhuge Feifan’s position is.”
Guan Zhong fell into silence for a moment and spat two words out forcefully, “God’s Messenger.”
“That’s right. He’s the most secretive God’s Messenger in God Bless whereby only the Master God and the other three God’s Messengers know his name in the entire organization.”
“He’s my master…” Guan Zhong clenched his fists so hard that they were going to bleed.
He had been working with Agency EA for years, so he had read through everything about Lin Huang ever since he became the Emperor of Dynasty. He knew how Lin Huang was like, and he also knew that it was impossible for Lin Huang to do such a thing.
“You guys can verify and check through the authenticity of the list. No matter what, everything that happens next is on the Union Government. I won’t be interfering unless you want me to.”
“I’m happy to kill a God’s Messenger again. I’ve already killed three after all, and I won’t be at peace if the last one is still alive.”
The reason why Lin Huang did not go after this fourth God’s Messenger after ending God Bless’ headquarters was that this particular God’s Messenger had a sensitive identity. There was no way that he could kill him recklessly.
“There’s no need to trouble you, Master Emperor. We’ll handle it on our own. It’s the Union Government’s internal conflict after all.” Guan Zhong’s heart sank. He hung the phone up after some small talk.
Lin Huang could not help but say after sighing as he hung up. “I hope the Union Government will execute this guy as soon as possible so that he won’t be able to do anything disastrous.”
Chapter 1069: God-slaying Power and Origin God’s Heart
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Lin Huang glanced at the time after his call with Guan Zhong ended. It was almost 9 p.m. He shook his head while forcing a smile, feeling helpless.
He did not even have the time to go through Xiao Hei’s notifications due to his busy day earlier.
Now, he finally had the time to look at the notifications that had popped up earlier.
“Congratulations, you’ve killed a True God. You’ve won the title of Godslayer!”
“Congratulations, you’ve obtained a rule power — the God-slaying Power!”
“Congratulations, you’ve obtained a god item — the Origin God’s Heart!”
Killing humans did not earn any cross-ranking reward. There was an extremely low probability of the deceased’s items falling off including their skills, secret skills, divine abilities, divine skills, items, equipment, and cards.
However, Lin Huang had terrible luck this time. He did not even obtain a single Skill Card or Equipment Card from killing a True God, three Virtual Gods (excluding the puppets) and at least 20 demigods who were killed by the impact of the battle.
Apart from the two notifications Lin Huang had seen earlier, he realized he had obtained a god item which he considered a reward.
He ignored the new notification and asked Xiao Hei the question that he had been wanting to, “What’s this title thing?”
“You’ll be given a relevant title after achieving a certain special condition. Different titles have different effects. Some give you the ability to master a rule power, some might be a divinity ability, and some might allow you to comprehend a certain true meaning besides some other special effects.
“For instance, for those who have extraordinary luck, they may obtain the title of Destiny’s Child and the world will take care of them. Not only will they encounter all sorts of fortuitous circumstances, but they can also get out of any threats. Basically, they won’t die no matter what they do. Furthermore, there’ll be a spillover effect on the people around them and they’ll become lucky.”
“I’m envious of him!” Lin Huang’s eyes lit up when he heard that. However, he knew that he was born to have bad luck. Although his luck had gotten better since he traveled there, he was far behind from getting extraordinary luck. He would never win a title such as Destiny’s Child in this life. If he did, he would be able to draw any cards he wanted from Xiao Hei. He would not have to spend endless cards to trade them for a specific card he desired.
“So, what’s the effect of this Godslayer title that I’ve received? Did I obtain the rule power of God-slaying Power?” Lin Huang could not help but ask upon observing that the second notification seemed to be related to the first.
“Yes, the title Godslayer means that you’ve obtained the God-slaying Power. The God-slaying Power is a god rule under the Kill Rule. It’s an attack rule power that’s suitable for battles. Under normal circumstances, god rules are rule powers that are only mastered by True Gods. However, since you’ve obtained the title of Godslayer, it means that you’ve mastered the rule power in advance.”
“Does that mean I’ve got the ability to kill True Gods now?” Lin Huang felt a current of excitement run through him.
“Of course not. Theoretically, you possess the ability to harm True Gods, but you’re still far from having the ability to kill god order-level (True God) powerhouses.
“The vast difference in speed and strength aside, it’s hard for you to break a True God’s defense even if he were to stand still and allow you to do so because god rule power can be charged from both sides. Those True Gods obtain god rule power as well just like you do.
“Furthermore, there’s almost no way for you to elevate your God-slaying Power before you get to god order-level. You’ll stay on level-1, which is the lowest level. The other true god-level powerhouses will block you like a piece of cake.”
“Then, how about killing Virtual Gods? It shouldn’t be a problem, should it?” Lin Huang continued to ask, “Don’t talk about the difference in strength and speed.”
“Without taking the difference in strength and speed into consideration, killing Virtual Gods is child’s play. God rule power falls under the rule power. To virtual god-level powerhouses who don’t the master god rule power, they won’t be able to defend your attack just like ordinary people who can’t defend against steel, blade or swords cutting into their body. Of course, that’s based on the premise that your opponent has no rule power god relic on.
“It’s good enough to kill Virtual Gods. Killing True Gods is something too farfetched. There’s no need to worry about it at the moment.” Hearing Xiao Hei’s explanation, Lin Huang was pretty satisfied with the god rule power he had obtained. He then looked at the third notification.
“So, what’s this Origin God’s Heart?”
“The Origin God’s Heart is a Protoss’s heart. Owning this god item will give you a Protoss’s body. Due to the combat strength restriction before, you can’t use Divine Power while the power created from the Divine Fire in your body is merely Life Power. Although your Life Power has a higher quality than the rest due to the refinement of Divine Fire, it’s still Life Power after all. It’s nothing compared to the real Divine Power. To describe it as you would back in your hometown, the difference between Life Power and Divine Power is almost the difference between coal and nuclear energy.
“After integrating the Origin God’s Heart, being able to use Divine Power isn’t the only advantage. Due to the Protoss’s body that you’ve been given, though restricted to a combat strength whereby your body will be far behind the real Protoss, you’ll be much more powerful than anyone who is on the same level as you. Your strength, mobility speed, and attack speed will break through the limits that you possess at the moment.
“The abilities of your God Figurine’s Combat Souls will also be transformed further. All of them have perfect power systems in their bodies. However, in reality, their abilities have been restricted due to the power you’ve provided. They haven’t been showing what they really have got. Now that there’s Divine Power, their abilities will be recovered by heaps.”
“So, are you saying that I’ll obtain Divine Power and the god power rule with my current combat strength which is immortal-level rank-10? In other words, I’ll become a True God whose combat strength is only immortal-level rank-10. Is that right?” Lin Huang could not help but tease Xiao Hei after hearing its explanation.
“You’ve no Godhead or God Territory. You haven’t even refined your Life Base. Your god rule is only on level-1, which is the lowest level. You can’t even break a True God’s defense…” Xiao Hei corrected him honestly, which was rare.
“Alright then, I was full of myself. Thanks for popping my bubble.” Lin Huang became a little depressed after his two-second bout of excitement.
“Would you like to activate the title of Godslayer?”
After Ling Huang had read through the notifications and Xiao Hei had explained everything to him, another notification popped up.
“Activate!” Lin Huang nodded without hesitation.
“Activating Godslayer!”
“Activating god rule — God-slaying Power!”
Lin Huang raised his brow as he realized there was no significant change to his body after the two notifications echoed in his ears.
He gathered the Life Power in his body onto his palm. His Life Power was now mahogany in color like molten lava.
He gazed into his body immediately. He realized that the ten Divine Fires that were pitch-black like ink were now mahogany.
An unknown power was hiding within the Divine Fires. Lin Huang could only feel the power faintly but could not catch it clearly. He knew that it should be the legendary god rule power.
A golden card appeared in his hand when he snapped back to reality.
There was a heart that looked like a golden gem in the middle of the Origin God’s Heart card. He flipped it over to look at the details. It was the same as what Xiao Hei said but more detailed.
Lin Huang crushed the card after reading the description.
“Activating god item Origin God’s Heart!”
“Beginning integration: 1%, 2%, 3%…”
As soon as the integration began, Lin Huang could feel the changes in his body obviously. Until the ‘integration completed’ notification came, he felt much more powerful now. Almost each and every cell in his body had transformed. The feeling was more intense compared to the time he had elevated from holy fire-level to immortal-level, crossing a whole new level. It felt more like the time he had elevated to transcendent-level back then which was a transformation in his life level.
He looked through his body immediately as soon as the integration was completed. He realized he did not transform to level-3 on the life level.
“As expected, it was just an illusion…”
“Actually, it wasn’t an illusion. Your body indeed transformed deep down in your core, but it’ll only show when your combat strength fulfills the transformation condition,” Xiao Hei explained.
“Alright then.” Lin Huang accepted the fact begrudgingly. “But my ability has indeed elevated. Before this, with my immortal-level rank-10 combat strength, I should have the ability on par with an ordinary imperial-level white gold-rank powerhouse when I had no combat strength boost technique. I could fight them head-on, but it was hard to defeat them. Now, I should have the ability on par with an ordinary imperial-level purple gold-rank powerhouse even without using the Divine Power and the god rule power.”
Lin Huang thought of a question all of a sudden after the Origin God’s Heart integration was completed.
“Xiao Hei, isn’t the Origin God’s Heart something in a Protoss’s body? I didn’t kill any Protoss today, so where did this Origin God’s Heart come from?”
“The system retrieved it randomly from the Master God when you killed the Master God’s will projection.”
“Isn’t the Master God human? Where did he get the Origin God’s Heart?”
“Perhaps it’s a treasure he stored in his storage space.”
Chapter 1070: Loot Inventory
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Lin Huang called out to Bloody that was in his sleeve after activating the card reward on Xiao Hei’s side.
“Bloody, what’s the loot today like?”
Bloody reported the data it had compiled calmly, “We’ve gotten a total of 3,021 Emperor’s Heart Rings, 20 god relics, 34 demigod relics, two god-level puppets, 11 demigod-level puppets, 74 God Figurines, four Godheads, and 23 broken Godheads.”
“That many God Figurines?” Lin Huang was stunned. He had spent some effort obtaining God Figurines earlier and ended up accumulating ten, which was not an easy feat. However, now he had just obtained 74 God Figurines in merely a day.
“The God Figurines fell off when the Virtual Gods and demigods were killed. The Master God’s clone alone had nine. Seven from Grandmistress Wei, and five and six respectively for the other two God’s Messengers. Meanwhile, the 20 or so demigods basically had one or two God Figurines refined for emergencies while a few of them even had three,” Bloody explained. The Warlord had compiled the data for it when he was gathering the loot.
“Seems like I went to the wrong places before. So, the fastest way to obtain God Figurines is by killing human demigod-level and virtual god-level powerhouses. Too bad it’s a tad bit late that I’ve only found out about this now,” Lin Huang mocked himself.
As he visualized his God Figurines into True Spirits, all of them possessed a strong sense of territory, resulting in one Life Wheel being able to only contain one God Figurine. Now that he had surpassed the life wheel-level, the number of Life Wheels were fixed to ten. Ten Life Wheels would mean he would only be able to contain ten God Figurine’s Combat Souls, so it would be redundant to have more God Figurines.
‘I’ll get Sister Mo Mo to pick one of these God Figurines to be her vessel when she wakes up. Apart from that, it seems like I can only use them as battle puppets.’ Lin Huang thought about it thoroughly and figured there was nothing better that he could use them for.
He asked Bloody after setting the God Figurines’ matter aside, “Are there any sword and telekinetic weapons among the 20 god relics?”
“There’s a battle sword among the god relics but no telekinetic weapons. However, there are two sets of telekinetic weapons among the 34 demigod relics.”
Lin Huang nodded and mumbled to himself, “I can give the puppets to Grimace and the Witch as their toys. For the four complete Godheads, I’ll refine them together with the broken Godheads. I wonder if I could build a Life Palace after this round of refining.”
In order to build a Life Palace, Lin Huang had been refining the broken Godheads in the demigods’ bodies with Divine Fire, mainly because it was cheap to purchase broken Godheads and rather easy to refine them.
Meanwhile, a complete Godhead was expensive and the price to performance ratio was low. Moreover, with the speed of the Divine Fire in his body, refining a complete Godhead had extremely low efficiency. The time taken to refine a complete Godhead would be hundreds of folds more than refining broken Godheads.
Due to the various reasons, he had never thought of refining complete Godheads before this.
Now, he happened to have four complete Godheads whereby three of them were on Virtual God rank-3 while another was on Virtual God rank-9. Although it would take a long time to refine all of them, the refinement by Divine Fire was automatic. It would not affect Lin Huang in any way, so it would be a waste if he did not do so.
Lin Huang took action instead of hesitating any longer as he thought about this. He tossed the four Godheads into his body together with all of the broken Godheads that he had been accumulating. Then, he began to refine them by activating his Divine Fire.
As the Godheads entered his body, the ten Life Wheels in his body began shaking at the same time out of nowhere. The Godheads seemed to be pulled by an invisible force and all of them gathered together in his body.
Subsequently, the ten Life Wheels formed a circle rapidly and surrounded the Godheads in the middle. Divine Fire was shooting out of the Life Wheels, drowning the Godheads completely.
Approximately an hour later, cracks were showing on the broken Godheads. As time went by, the cracks on the broken Godheads expanded. Around two hours later, the first broken Godhead finally turned into tiny, dark gray gravel.
Since the first broken Godheads disintegrated, the second one soon followed suit, then the third… The broken Godheads disintegrated one after another. Now, all of them had taken the form of tiny, dark gray gravel. The gravels formed a cloud of mist as if they were alive and floated within the ten Life Wheels.
Lin Huang had been observing the process until past midnight. He watched the last broken Godheads disintegrate and become one with the cloud of mist. The four complete Godheads experienced no changes from the beginning until the end.
He felt helpless and snapped back to reality. Just when he was going to wash up and sleep, his Emperor’s Heart Ring vibrated out of the blue.
He checked and realized it was Guan Zhong who was calling. When he peeped at the time, he frowned. It was already 12.41 a.m. It was definitely bad news for Guan Zhong to be calling him at such an hour.
He figured what Guan Zhong was going to say roughly as he clicked the pick-up button.
Guan Zhong’s upper body was projected when the video call was connected. He clearly looked terrified.
“Master Emperor, Zhuge Feifan has escaped. I’m calling you just to tell you to be careful. He found out that it was you who ended God Bless all by yourself, so he might seek revenge.”
Lin Huang had already guessed what Guan Zhong was going to tell him when he saw him calling. He grimaced upon hearing the news. However, he did not mention the Union Government and Guan Zhong’s neglect of duty. Instead, he asked, “Can you tell me more about it?”
“It’s my fault. After you destroyed the Wei Clan, I sent a brief to Agency EA to give a short report on the situation. Perhaps he found out that his identity was exposed when he saw the brief.
“I contacted the Union Government president as soon as you gave me the list of spies. He had also given me the search warrant immediately. However, just when I was going to search for him as soon as I got the warrant, he disappeared.
“Everything in his office was cleared and the surveillance was wiped. His few accommodations were completely burned down, so there was no evidence left. Even his Emperor’s Heart Ring’s account was deleted and his messages were reformatted. A special virus, which destroyed all of the information he stored in the cloud, was planted.”=
“Since I couldn’t find anything from him, I thought I’d go for the people who are close to him on the list. I later found out that everyone on the list you gave me were all dead overnight. All of them were killed as a result of their brains having exploded. I can’t even retrieve any information in their heads.
“The autopsy shows that these people died almost at the same time. The cause of death is an energy bomb that was installed in their heads going off. That should be some special ability that Zhuge Feifan has never revealed to anyone.”
“So, you guys have zero clues on where he might be hiding now?” Lin Huang concluded after what Guan Zhong told him.
“That’s right,” Guan Zhong admitted that feeling helpless.
“Maybe I’ll drop by the Union Government tomorrow. Perhaps I might be able to help,” Lin Huang suggested.
“I think that’s alright. It’s a mess over here. You won’t be able to help with anything if you come. Let’s not complicate things.”
“What if I tell you that I have a secret image playback skill that shows what happened within 24 hours?” Lin Huang initiated assistance because he would feel uneasy as long as the fourth God’s Messenger was still alive. He was not afraid to be assassinated, but he had a sister and he did not want Lin Xin to be dragged into this for no reason.
Guan Zhong was stunned to hear Lin Huang’s offer. “Do you really have such a secret skill? It’s not the right time to joke now.”
“Do I look like I’m joking?” Lin Huang raised his brow and asked him back.
“It’ll be great if you weren’t. When can you come?” Guan Zhong asked rather frantically after confirming that Lin Huang indeed had such an image playback ability.
“I’ll drop by after breakfast tomorrow morning.”
Guan Zhong was speechless and mocked him secretly, ‘You still have the mood for breakfast!’
Chapter 1070: Loot Inventory
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Lin Huang called out to Bloody that was in his sleeve after activating the card reward on Xiao Hei’s side.
“Bloody, what’s the loot today like?”
Bloody reported the data it had compiled calmly, “We’ve gotten a total of 3,021 Emperor’s Heart Rings, 20 god relics, 34 demigod relics, two god-level puppets, 11 demigod-level puppets, 74 God Figurines, four Godheads, and 23 broken Godheads.”
“That many God Figurines?” Lin Huang was stunned. He had spent some effort obtaining God Figurines earlier and ended up accumulating ten, which was not an easy feat. However, now he had just obtained 74 God Figurines in merely a day.
“The God Figurines fell off when the Virtual Gods and demigods were killed. The Master God’s clone alone had nine. Seven from Grandmistress Wei, and five and six respectively for the other two God’s Messengers. Meanwhile, the 20 or so demigods basically had one or two God Figurines refined for emergencies while a few of them even had three,” Bloody explained. The Warlord had compiled the data for it when he was gathering the loot.
“Seems like I went to the wrong places before. So, the fastest way to obtain God Figurines is by killing human demigod-level and virtual god-level powerhouses. Too bad it’s a tad bit late that I’ve only found out about this now,” Lin Huang mocked himself.
As he visualized his God Figurines into True Spirits, all of them possessed a strong sense of territory, resulting in one Life Wheel being able to only contain one God Figurine. Now that he had surpassed the life wheel-level, the number of Life Wheels were fixed to ten. Ten Life Wheels would mean he would only be able to contain ten God Figurine’s Combat Souls, so it would be redundant to have more God Figurines.
‘I’ll get Sister Mo Mo to pick one of these God Figurines to be her vessel when she wakes up. Apart from that, it seems like I can only use them as battle puppets.’ Lin Huang thought about it thoroughly and figured there was nothing better that he could use them for.
He asked Bloody after setting the God Figurines’ matter aside, “Are there any sword and telekinetic weapons among the 20 god relics?”
“There’s a battle sword among the god relics but no telekinetic weapons. However, there are two sets of telekinetic weapons among the 34 demigod relics.”
Lin Huang nodded and mumbled to himself, “I can give the puppets to Grimace and the Witch as their toys. For the four complete Godheads, I’ll refine them together with the broken Godheads. I wonder if I could build a Life Palace after this round of refining.”
In order to build a Life Palace, Lin Huang had been refining the broken Godheads in the demigods’ bodies with Divine Fire, mainly because it was cheap to purchase broken Godheads and rather easy to refine them.
Meanwhile, a complete Godhead was expensive and the price to performance ratio was low. Moreover, with the speed of the Divine Fire in his body, refining a complete Godhead had extremely low efficiency. The time taken to refine a complete Godhead would be hundreds of folds more than refining broken Godheads.
Due to the various reasons, he had never thought of refining complete Godheads before this.
Now, he happened to have four complete Godheads whereby three of them were on Virtual God rank-3 while another was on Virtual God rank-9. Although it would take a long time to refine all of them, the refinement by Divine Fire was automatic. It would not affect Lin Huang in any way, so it would be a waste if he did not do so.
Lin Huang took action instead of hesitating any longer as he thought about this. He tossed the four Godheads into his body together with all of the broken Godheads that he had been accumulating. Then, he began to refine them by activating his Divine Fire.
As the Godheads entered his body, the ten Life Wheels in his body began shaking at the same time out of nowhere. The Godheads seemed to be pulled by an invisible force and all of them gathered together in his body.
Subsequently, the ten Life Wheels formed a circle rapidly and surrounded the Godheads in the middle. Divine Fire was shooting out of the Life Wheels, drowning the Godheads completely.
Approximately an hour later, cracks were showing on the broken Godheads. As time went by, the cracks on the broken Godheads expanded. Around two hours later, the first broken Godhead finally turned into tiny, dark gray gravel.
Since the first broken Godheads disintegrated, the second one soon followed suit, then the third… The broken Godheads disintegrated one after another. Now, all of them had taken the form of tiny, dark gray gravel. The gravels formed a cloud of mist as if they were alive and floated within the ten Life Wheels.
Lin Huang had been observing the process until past midnight. He watched the last broken Godheads disintegrate and become one with the cloud of mist. The four complete Godheads experienced no changes from the beginning until the end.
He felt helpless and snapped back to reality. Just when he was going to wash up and sleep, his Emperor’s Heart Ring vibrated out of the blue.
He checked and realized it was Guan Zhong who was calling. When he peeped at the time, he frowned. It was already 12.41 a.m. It was definitely bad news for Guan Zhong to be calling him at such an hour.
He figured what Guan Zhong was going to say roughly as he clicked the pick-up button.
Guan Zhong’s upper body was projected when the video call was connected. He clearly looked terrified.
“Master Emperor, Zhuge Feifan has escaped. I’m calling you just to tell you to be careful. He found out that it was you who ended God Bless all by yourself, so he might seek revenge.”
Lin Huang had already guessed what Guan Zhong was going to tell him when he saw him calling. He grimaced upon hearing the news. However, he did not mention the Union Government and Guan Zhong’s neglect of duty. Instead, he asked, “Can you tell me more about it?”
“It’s my fault. After you destroyed the Wei Clan, I sent a brief to Agency EA to give a short report on the situation. Perhaps he found out that his identity was exposed when he saw the brief.
“I contacted the Union Government president as soon as you gave me the list of spies. He had also given me the search warrant immediately. However, just when I was going to search for him as soon as I got the warrant, he disappeared.
“Everything in his office was cleared and the surveillance was wiped. His few accommodations were completely burned down, so there was no evidence left. Even his Emperor’s Heart Ring’s account was deleted and his messages were reformatted. A special virus, which destroyed all of the information he stored in the cloud, was planted.”=
“Since I couldn’t find anything from him, I thought I’d go for the people who are close to him on the list. I later found out that everyone on the list you gave me were all dead overnight. All of them were killed as a result of their brains having exploded. I can’t even retrieve any information in their heads.
“The autopsy shows that these people died almost at the same time. The cause of death is an energy bomb that was installed in their heads going off. That should be some special ability that Zhuge Feifan has never revealed to anyone.”
“So, you guys have zero clues on where he might be hiding now?” Lin Huang concluded after what Guan Zhong told him.
“That’s right,” Guan Zhong admitted that feeling helpless.
“Maybe I’ll drop by the Union Government tomorrow. Perhaps I might be able to help,” Lin Huang suggested.
“I think that’s alright. It’s a mess over here. You won’t be able to help with anything if you come. Let’s not complicate things.”
“What if I tell you that I have a secret image playback skill that shows what happened within 24 hours?” Lin Huang initiated assistance because he would feel uneasy as long as the fourth God’s Messenger was still alive. He was not afraid to be assassinated, but he had a sister and he did not want Lin Xin to be dragged into this for no reason.
Guan Zhong was stunned to hear Lin Huang’s offer. “Do you really have such a secret skill? It’s not the right time to joke now.”
“Do I look like I’m joking?” Lin Huang raised his brow and asked him back.
“It’ll be great if you weren’t. When can you come?” Guan Zhong asked rather frantically after confirming that Lin Huang indeed had such an image playback ability.
“I’ll drop by after breakfast tomorrow morning.”
Guan Zhong was speechless and mocked him secretly, ‘You still have the mood for breakfast!’
Chapter 1071: We’re Going to the Union Government? Aren’t We Walking Right Into the Trap?
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
“What? Where did you say you’re going?”
Huang Tianfu thought he was experiencing a hallucination when he saw Lin Huang greet him early in the morning and say he would drop by the Union Government headquarters.
“I’m going to the Union Government headquarters.” Lin Huang thought it was odd. Was he not being clear earlier?
“Why are you going to the Union Government headquarters?” Huang Tianfu was rather irritated as he glared at Lin Huang’s face as if it was not odd that he was going to the Union Government headquarters. He remained calm on the outside, but he thought to himself secretly, ‘Why do you put it like you’re buying groceries? Do you think the Union Government headquarters is a supermarket? Since when does our Dynasty have such a great relationship with the Union Government?!’
In reality, Huang Tianfu could not be blamed for having such a stirred reaction at the moment. Dynasty was a top underground organization, and the two parties were completely against each other. Especially in Division 3, the opposition was gravely severe.
Furthermore, almost all of Dynasty’s core members were on the Union Government’s blacklist. One would win a handsome reward for capturing them.
If the relationship was put in an Earthly context, the Union Government was the equivalent of a country’s government while Dynasty would be a massive terrorist group. Lin Huang going to the Union Government headquarters as the Emperor of Dynasty was almost the same as a terrorist group visiting the White House.
However, Lin Huang sounded like he was going shopping. “Something happened at Agency EA and they asked me to help”
“Agency EA?!” Naturally, Huang Tianfu knew what that agency was. A thought flashed through his mind when he heard the name. ‘Could Lin Huang be a part of the Union Government’s Agency EA?’
He got rid off the ridiculous thought a second later and asked Lin Huang, “Master Emperor, how did you come to know people from Agency EA?”
“I just got to know one yesterday.” Lin Huang waved. “I’ll tell you the details when I get back. I’ll have breakfast and I’ll go straight to First City.”
Huang Tianfu wanted to say he would follow out of habit, but he jolted when he realized they would be going to the Union Government. He changed what he was going to say instantly. “Master Emperor, it’s not safe for you to go alone. Why not… I get Tufu to go with you?”
“Alright then, ask him to come to me at the breakfast place, the one with the soup dumplings. He knows where it is.”
…
There was a food street called Huangfan’er less than a kilometer from Dynasty’s headquarters in Emperor City.
This food street was crowded from morning until night because there were night markets and many breakfast stalls.
The one that Lin Huang most frequented on the street was the plump aunty’s soup dumpling place.
The owners of the stall were a plump couple. The husband was a fatty who was at least 200 pounds in his early 40’s. His wife, on the other hand, was at least 160 pounds and looked 35 or 36 years of age. One could tell that she was a beauty when she had been slimmer.
The couple was just ordinary and they were always beaming no matter who they met. Not only were they friendly, but they also had amazing cooking skills too.
Lin Huang’s favorite was their crab meat soup dumpling.
The main ingredient of the soup dumpling was a type of exclusive soft shell crab which was only the size of an adult thumb.
The soup and crab roe would spill at the same time as soon as one took a bite after dipping the dumpling with soft shell crab with a little vinegar. Every bite of the chewy texture of the pork and crab meat within as well as the tantalizing taste from the vinegar was heaven on earth for Lin Huang.
Soon, he inhaled the serving of dumplings. Lin Huang could not help but order another serving.
Huang Tufu arrived when the second serving of dumplings came.
“Boss, give me ten servings of crab meat dumplings,” Huang Tufu called out to the owner as he sat across Lin Huang.
The plump owner ran over, feeling rather bad. “Sir, we only have five servings that are ready for now. You’ll need to wait for ten minutes if you want ten servings.”
“I’ll have five servings then.” Huang Tufu thought about it and figured he should not let Lin Huang, the Emperor, wait since he had something to do. If not, he did not mind waiting for ten minutes at all.
“Do you usually eat that much?” Lin Huang could not help but ask.
“In reality, demigods basically don’t have to eat, especially perfect-stage demigod-level powerhouses. We can live even if we don’t eat or drink for a year. We only need to replenish ourselves with Divine Power,” Huang Tufu explained while grinning, “So, I only eat something that I want and I’ll only stop when I’m satisfied.”
The plump owner served the dumplings as they chatted for a short while.
Huang Tufu could not resist shoving a dumpling into his mouth immediately. He asked inaudibly while chewing, “Where are we going later?”
“To the Union Government headquarters.”
“Pu!” Huang Tufu spat a mouthful of dumplings out just when Lin Huang was done speaking.
Fortunately, Lin Huang reacted in time and held up the Dark Mirror as he moved his finger slightly. The dumpling Huang Tufu spat out bounced back onto his face.
Huang Tufu wiped his face with a paper towel, looking speechless. He then looked at Lin Huang in confusion.
“Why are we going there? Aren’t we walking right into the trap?” Huang Tufu expressed what Huang Tianfu thought honestly.
“Remember I told you guys about God Bless before?” Lin Huang swallowed the dumpling in his mouth and said calmly, “The Union Government found out that the founder of Agency EA is God Bless’s spy last night. He’s missing now, so they’ve asked me to help them find him.”
“Why are you helping them? Is it related to you?” Huang Tufu was even more confused now.
“It was me who told them that the guy is a spy.” Lin Huang picked up a dumpling and dipped it in the vinegar sauce. “I’m a little worried that he might seek revenge, so it’s better that I find him as soon as I can and kill him.”
‘Couldn’t you have just not exposed him from the beginning?’ Huang Tufu thought to himself, ‘That guy wouldn’t have gone looking for trouble if you didn’t expose him.’
He had no idea that Lin Huang had destroyed God Bless’s headquarters. Even if he did not expose that guy, it was only a matter of time the guy would seek revenge.
“Must we go?” Huang Tufu looked petrified. He was really reluctant to go to the Union Government.
“I can go by myself if you don’t want to.,” Lin Huang did not mind if Huang Tufu decided not to follow him.
“Will the people from the Union Government attack us, seizing the opportunity since we are going to them?”
“I’m not sure if they’ll attack you but I didn’t do anything to them, so why would they attack me?” Lin Huang thought he was a moral citizen who obeyed the law.
“You’re the Emperor of Dynasty. If they manage to capture you, it’s enough for the people from the Union Government to boast about it for centuries,” Huang Tufu said with a pout.
“You’re overthinking. They don’t have the time to bother whether I’m the Emperor or not.” Lin Huang shoved the last dumpling into his mouth. He then asked Huang Tufu after swallowing the dumpling and putting the chopsticks down. “So, you aren’t going? I’ll go by myself if you’re not.”
Huang Tufu thought about it and agreed while clenching his teeth. “I’ve never been to the Union Government headquarters in my life. I’ll visit them today with Master Emperor then!”
“Wait, I haven’t finished my dumplings…”
Chapter 1072: The Neo Armstrong Cyclone Jet Armstrong Cannon
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
The No. 1A1 foothold in Division 1 was the very first city the humans built outside the Land of Origin since the new era. Therefore, the Union Government named this foothold the First City.
The First City was the oldest city among the 12 safety zones in the human world. It had expanded and developed throughout 800 years, it was the city with the biggest surface now. Its population exceeded 1.8 billion people and it occupied 80 million square kilometers of land. This massive city even surpassed half of the surface area of Earth.
The Union Government’s headquarters in Division 1 was located in the middle of this foothold.
Before 8 in the morning, Lin Huang and Huang Tufu passed through the dimensional portal and arrived in First City.
Lin Huang did not stop looking around as soon as they walked out of the dimensional portal.
“I heard there’s a stall that sells pretty good pancakes near First City’s dimensional portal, but I don’t know the exact location.”
“Shouldn’t we get to the Union Government now?” Huang Tufu asked.
“I think the government organization here isn’t opened yet.” Just when Lin Huang was done speaking, two men walked towards him. Both of them had demigod-level combat strength.
Huang Tufu, who was standing next to Lin Huang, had his guard up as soon as he saw the duo.
“We’re Silver Fox and Viper from EA.4. It’s our pleasure to meet Master Emperor and Mr. Tufu.” The duo introduced themselves as they approached.
Huang Tufu let his guard down when he heard that. He looked puzzledly at Lin Huang, clearly in disbelief that people from the Union Government had come to escort him. The duo who came were two demigod-level powerhouses.
“So early? What time did you guys get here?” Lin Huang knew Guan Zhong must have sent the duo to pick him up.
“We’ve just arrived too,” responded the gray-haired young man, who called himself the Silver Fox, while smiling when he saw the Viper attempt to speak.
Naturally, Lin Huang noticed that but he did not dwell on it. “Do we go there now? It’s not even 8 a.m. I suppose your office building isn’t opened yet, is it?”
“I think you’re talking about the office building that’s opened to the public. Our real office building runs almost 24 hours every day. We’ll have people in each department at night handle unforeseen circumstances,” the Silver Fox explained while smiling.
“24 hours every day? That’s dedication right there!” Lin Huang raised a brow. “Bring us there then.”
Seeing the Viper bring out the dimensional portal, Lin Huang could not help but say, “Since you guys are here, I want to ask something. I heard there’s a pancake place that everyone talks about. Where’s the exact location?”
“You must be talking about the pancake place runs by an uncle, Master Emperor. His pancake is amazing indeed.” The Silver Fox pointed at an alley not far away. “Walk into that alley. You’ll see it when you walk about 200 meters to the left.”
“Thanks, I’ll go when I have the time.” Lin Huang nodded in satisfaction after getting the exact location.
“You can buy some now if you’d like. We’ll just wait here. It’s a stall by the street and it’s only available in the morning. The owner is pretty capricious. He runs his business according to his mood. He sometimes closes his stall for a few days when he’s having a bad mood. He would close after 10.30 a.m. even if he’s supposed to be open. You might not see him when you come the next time.”
“Alright then. Please wait for us here. We’ll go over to buy some pancakes. We should try the pancakes since we’re here,” said Lin Huang and he ran towards the alley with Huang Tufu.
A moment later, Lin Huang saw the stall the Silver Fox had mentioned after passing the alley.
The stall owner was an uncle who had a beard and looked rather messy. He did not look in the best of health as though he did not get enough sleep.
For some reason, Lin Huang thought of the plump uncle and aunty at the dumpling stall earlier. He figured the uncle before him must be single.
“Boss, give me a pancake. I’d like to add an egg, pork tenderloin, sliced cucumber, lettuce, pickles. No parsley, no sweet sauce. Make it a little spicy.” Lin Huang was actually full, but he just wanted to try how the pancake tasted like.
“Give me five. I want to go all out since I’m eating.” The gluttony Huang Tufu, who was standing next to Lin Huang, was obviously not full from eating five servings of dumplings earlier. “I want two servings of eggs, two servings of pork tenderloin with sliced potatoes, pickles, bean curd skin, and green onions. Oh, more parsley. Put as much as you can. I want garlic sauce and make it super spicy. Put all of that on all five pancakes.”
Lin Huang thought to himself after hearing Huang Tufu’s order, ‘I’ll stay away from him later.’
Since Huang Tufu ordered five pancakes, it took some time for the order to be done.
The Silver Fox and the Viper came to them since they did not see them return after waiting for a while.
Huang Tufu’s order happened to be ready just when the duo passed through the alley. The duo thought that Huang Tufu had packed the pancakes for them. They were slightly touched.
However, Huang Tufu did not give them the pancakes when he walked up to them. They then realized they were overthinking.
“We can go now.” Lin Huang did not plan to waste any more time since they were done buying the pancakes. After all, they had made the two people who were picking him up wait for quite some time.
The Viper summoned the dimensional portal again.
The four of them walked into the dimensional portal one after another. They arrived at the Union Government headquarters building when they appeared again.
Lin Huang did not even bother with mocking when he saw the building that looked similar to a toilet bowl.
“Master Emperor, do you think the shape of the building looks a little like a toilet bowl in the late era?” Huang Tufu honestly said what Lin Huang had in mind.
The Silver Fox and the Viper, who was standing aside, looked horrified when they heard that.
“This is our office building that is open to the public. The office for internal staff is the block at the back.”
The duo brought Lin Huang and Huang Tufu around the toilet bowl building and walked towards the real office building.
However, Lin Huang was even more speechless when he saw the building.
Meanwhile, Huang Tufu spat the pancake from his mouth as laughter consumed him. He cackled to the point that he almost could not stand straight.
“Doesn’t this office building’s shape look like a male…?”
“Eat your pancake,” Lin Huang interrupted Huang Tufu directly.
Huang Tufu recalled that this was the Union Government’s territory as he was interrupted by Lin Huang. He finally shut his mouth. However, he was still stifling his laughter while eating the pancakes.
The Silver Fox and the Viper looked extremely embarrassed now.
The office building not far away was divided into three parts. The section in the middle was tall while the two buildings next to it were spherical.
Looking at the building, Lin Huang could not help but recall a joke he had heard on Earth back then. ‘Isn’t this the legendary Neo Armstrong Cyclone Jet Armstrong Cannon? The resemblance is astonishing!’ Lin Huang only thought to himself and did not say that out loud.
“Follow me. Our Agency EA office is the short building on the left.” The Silver Fox ignored Huang Tufu, who was trying his hardest to hold back his laughter and changed the subject.
Chapter 1073: Oh My God, That Smell!
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Lin Huang and Huang Tufu were greeted by eye salutation when they followed the Silver Fox and the Viper into Agency EA’s building.
People did not recognize Lin Huang and Huang Tufu, but because the Silver Fox and the Viper were the bosses of EA.4, almost everyone in the agency knew them. The people could not help but peep at Lin Huang and Huang Tufu twice as they were brought in. They wanted to know who were the duo both the bosses had escorted in themselves.
Even Huang Tufu who had been there done that, felt a little uneasy as he walked into Union Government office building. One must know that he was the Third Grand Duke of Dynasty. Furthermore, since Dynasty was against Division 3’s Union Government, his name was on top of the Union Government’s blacklist.
He had never thought that he would walk into the Union Government headquarters leisurely during this lifetime. He was glancing around as he walked to the point that he even forgot to eat the pancakes in his hands.
Lin Huang, on the other hand, was not nervous at all. He strolled while eating the pancake, seeming so relaxed like he was walking in a night market.
Nobody knew that the current thought he had on his mind was, ‘This pancake’s really great!’
The people in Agency EA began discussing among themselves after the four of them walked away.
“The two men are EA.4’s Silver Fox and Viper, am I right? Why do the two people who were walking with them look so familiar?”
“If I’m not mistaken, the young man is the newly appointed the Emperor of Dynasty. His face was all over the headlines two days back.”
“You got it right! The young man is the current the Emperor of Dynasty, Lin Huang. Meanwhile, the muscular man next to him is the Third Grand Duke of Dynasty, Huang Tufu.”
“Am I dreaming? I think I saw the Emperor of Dynasty and Third Grand Duke walked into our Union Government office building leisurely!”
Apart from the Agency EA’s upper echelon, nobody else knew that Zhuge Feifan had escaped. They were working on their own stuff as usual. In reality, the upper echelon above EA.4 was in a messy situation.
Soon, the news of the Emperor of Dynasty visiting the Union Government spread through the entire Agency EA.
Lin Huang, who was the newly appointed underground boss, had been the most talked about person in the cultivation world. Almost all the media headlines were about him these few days and almost every cultivator had heard of his name.
Many Agency EA members let their imaginations run wild since this the Emperor of Dynasty visited the Union Government all of a sudden after merely a few days since his coronation.
Many girls tried to approach him, dying to see if this legendary Emperor was as good-looking as they had seen on the news.
One of them even took a sneaky photo of him.
In the photo, Lin Huang was eating a pancake with his mouth wide open. The photo was taken at the perfect moment when he had just shoved the nicely folded pancake into his mouth and was just going to bite into it.
The girl sent the photo to Agency EA’s group chat. It was then forwarded and shared by up to 1,000 people.
Lin Huang had no idea that a picture of him eating a pancake had created a stir on the Internet.
Soon, they arrived at the top floor, which was the 99th floor with the guidance of the Silver Fox and the Viper via the elevator.
The duo was brought into an office as they walked out of the elevator.
Then, the Silver Fox and the Viper walked away as soon as they were done with their duty.
In the office, Guan Zhong was chatting to a middle-aged man on the couch. He stood up as soon as he saw Lin Huang and Huang Tufu walk in.
“Master Emperor, you’re finally here!” Guan Zhong smiled while greeting them. “This is Qian Rui, our Vice President. His code name is Fortune God.”
“Hi, Fortune God,” Lin Huang responded, “I suppose everyone knows this person next to me, the Third Grand Duke, Huang Tufu.”
Huang Tufu clearly sensed that the duo were virtual god-level powerhouses. He walked up and greeted them immediately.
“Take a seat.” The four of them took their seats after some small talk.
Lin Huang threw the packaging of the pancake into the trash can casually. He had finished it before getting out of the elevator.
Huang Tufu ate faster than he did, having already wolfed two and a half pancakes down. He finished the other half pancake when he walked into the room and put the remaining two away.
“How’s the investigation going?” Lin Huang asked directly as Guan Zhong poured him some tea.
“The same as last night. Nothing much.” Guan Zhong shook his head and served the tea to Lin Huang.
Qian Rui, who was sitting next to him, could not help but pipe up, “Zhuge Feifan is thorough in destroying all of his traces. We hit a dead end after investigating through a few sources.”
“Aren’t you guys Diviners? Can’t you tell where he is?” In reality, Lin Huang had been curious about that when he heard the news last night.
“The most powerful Diviner in our Union Government is Mr. Ke Lai who only has a combat strength of demigod-level. It’s extremely difficult for him to tell the fortune of a Virtual God. He tried three times last night, and he’s still unconscious until now. He didn’t get Zhuge Feifan’s exact location, but he told us that he’s in a safe place.”
“How is that different from not fortune telling at all?” The straightforward Huang Tufu pointed out with a wry smile. The garlic and onion smell in his mouth wafted towards the duo’s faces, making the two vice presidents nauseous from the smell.
Oh my god, that smell!
On the other hand, Lin Huang was much smarter. He shut his breathing system directly when he heard Huang Tufu speaking next to him. He breathed internally instead.
The duo, who were sitting across them, had not gotten any sleep all night. Piling up with anxiety, they did not feel great. It took them some time to snap out of their nausea as they stopped breathing immediately while looking pale.
“He has erased the surveillance. Is there any other way to track him?” Lin Huang asked again.
“We’ve tried every tracking method that we have but it’s useless.” Guan Zhong shook his head helplessly. “Don’t laugh at us but 70% of the materials we’ve been using for hundreds of years came from him. He knew each and every method we have very well.”
“Zhuge Feifan aside, it’s as difficult as reaching the sky for us to capture anyone in EA.4 who has escaped. We know our tracking methods like the back of our hands. We can perform all sorts of anti-tracking methods like a piece of cake,” added Qian Rui who was sitting next to him.
“Since he knows all of our methods, we’ll need help from people outside of Agency EA or even outside of the Union Government to be able to do it because he won’t be taking precautions on tracking methods that he doesn’t expect.”
“I thought of that all of a sudden last night. That’s the reason why I’ve decided to ask for your help.” Guan Zhong lifted his head and looked at Lin Huang and asked in all seriousness, “Master Emperor, that ability of yours… Does it have any restriction on the target’s combat strength?”
“No restriction. The ability is just a reflection of the playback of a specific space on what exactly happened. It has nothing to do with people,” Lin Huang added after he was done speaking, “Of course, what we see might be disrupted if there’s a True God, who has mastered the Time God Rule or Space God Rule, interferes with the image playback with the rule power.”
‘What are you guys talking about? How come I understand nothing suddenly? What ability are you guys talking about? Can anyone tell me?’ Huang Tufu looked lost.
Chapter 1074: Image Playback
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
“This is Zhuge Feifan’s office.” After chatting in Guan Zhong’s office for a while, Guan Zhong and Qian Rui brought Lin Huang and Huang Tufu to Zhuge Feifan’s office.
The entire office was empty. There was no desk, couch, or coffee table. There was not even a bookcase that was usually used as decoration.
“It was already like this when we came last night. To avoid missing out any pieces of evidence, Zhuge Feifan moved the entire office,” Guan Zhong explained upon seeing Lin Huang and Huang Tufu appearing so shocked.
“It looks like he just moved house. The floor tiles are the only thing that he didn’t bring with him,” Huang Tufu could not resist throwing a joke in.
Lin Huang glimpsed at Huang Tufu. This guy used to be a quiet man. After they had gotten more familiar with each other, Huang Tufu had become a different person.
However, his description was on-point.
Apart from the hanging lamp and the floor tiles, there were only four walls and the windows in the barren room. Basically, everything that could be moved had been moved.
“Do you guys know roughly at what time did he go missing?” Lin Huang summoned the Book of Sorcerer Dao while asking Guan Zhong and Qian Rui.
“Someone saw him coming in yesterday morning. He came to the office around 8 a.m. but nobody saw him leave. He must have summoned a dimensional portal and left right as soon as he moved his office,” Qian Rui told him.
“Who was the first to find out that this happened to his office? And at roughly what time?”
“It was I who found out about that. I came back to the office when I got the list from you last night, then I realized that his office was locked when I got here. I thought I would look for evidence, seizing the opportunity since he wasn’t here, but I saw this when I opened the door. The exact time was approximately 9 p.m.,” Guan Zhong replied.
Lin Huang was speechless to hear what the duo said. He had posted the two questions to confirm the time Zhuge Feifan had gone missing. The duo turned out to give two different timings ranging from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. which was such a wide gap.
“Never mind. I’ll just set the time at 8 a.m,” Lin Huang said and soon activated a couple of runes on the Book of Sorcerer Dao.
As soon as the runes were activated, they shot out of the Book of Sorcerer Dao while golden beams of light radiated midair. These sparkly, golden glows soon integrated and broke away all of a sudden, filling the entire room.
A moment later, the golden glows disappeared. 3D videos began to manifest in the room like a projection.
An office desk, a couch, a teacup, a bookcase… Everything that was gone in the office reappeared.
Huang Tufu reached out to touch the bookcase, but his finger penetrated it directly.
Even Guan Zhong, who was standing aside, could not help but exclaim, “These videos are exactly the same as the real thing!”
However, Lin Huang said nothing. Although the videos in the room replayed what the office looked like, there was no one in the office.
Lin Huang adjusted the time flow to fast-forward the videos.
When it was approximately 8.15 a.m., a young man, who looked like he was in his early 20s at the most, walked in.
Was this Zhuge Feifan?
Lin Huang glanced at Guan Zhong in a questioning manner. Understanding what he meant directly, Guan Zhong nodded at him.
Zhuge Feifan looked really young at 22 or 23 at the most. He had a ponytail and wore a white robe that made him looked like a saint. In his hand was a paper fan.
To label him quite negatively, he was extremely pretentious.
“Does he usually dress like this?” Huang Tufu turned his head and asked Guan Zhong and Qian Rui.
Guan Zhong nodded to him, feeling helpless.
“No matter whether men or women, if anyone were to dress like this in Emperor City at night, he or she would definitely wake up naked in some alley. Besides that, he or she would likely have a painful butthole,” Huang Tufu said in all seriousness.
Were the customs in Emperor City so rough?!
Apart from Guan Zhong and Qian Rui, even Lin Huang exclaimed that secretly.
Zhuge Feifan sat on the couch in the video projection and began performing a tea ceremony on his own.
The four watched it for a while and felt really bored, so Lin Huang began to fast-forward the video again.
Until he fast-forwarded it to past 4 in the afternoon, Zhuge Feifan did nothing serious in the office at all. He drank some tea, took a nap, watched videos, and played games.
A message popped up on his Emperor’s Heart Ring 4 p.m. He fell into deep thought while sitting on the couch after checking the message. Then, he began packing his stuff.
“I finally found the time he escaped!”
“What was the message he received?” Qian Rui asked immediately.
Standing next to him, Guan Zhong looked puzzled. “If I’m not mistaken, it was I who sent the message. I sent a brief to the headquarters when the Wei Clan was destroyed, and he must’ve read it.”
“The Wei Clan is destroyed? The Wei Clan in Division 2?” Huang Tufu repeated, seeming surprised. “Do you know who did it?”
“Didn’t your Master Emperor tell you that?” Guan Zhong asked him back.
Huang Tufu looked at Lin Huang in confusion.
“I destroyed the Wei Clan,” Lin Huang admitted casually as if he had done something insignificant.
“Oh…” Huang Tufu did not expect Lin Huang to give such a simple answer. He flashed Lin Huang a thumbs-up. “You bada*s!”
He knew how powerful Lin Huang was since the beginning.
“Can you pause the projection and enlarge the message he received?” Qian Rui insisted on finding a new clue.
“I can pause it, but I can’t change the size of the projected video. This skill of mine can only view what was recorded. If you’d like to read what the message was, you can walk closer after I’ve paused it,” Lin Huang said and played the video back to the moment when Zhuge Feifan received the message.
The projection paused in the next second the message popped up. Zhuge Feifan, who was sitting on the couch, froze.
Qian Rui walked up to read the projected message while Lin Huang and Guan Zhong followed behind him.
Huang Tufu, on the other hand, took out the half pancake he had kept earlier and munched on it. The entire room soon stank of onion and garlic.
The three of them soon confirmed that the message Zhuge Feifan had received did indeed come from Guan Zhong.
“As expected, I exposed the whole thing.” Guan Zhong speculated that Zhuge Feifan had seen the message he sent and escaped because he was worried that his identity might have been exposed. Guan Zhong felt immensely guilty to find out that it was him who had caused that.
After confirming that, Lin Huang continued the projection which began playing again.
In the room, Zhuge Feifan first opened the drawer of the desk and took a few documents out to put into his storage space. He froze suddenly.
He seemed to have figured something out in the next second as he pressed his hand against the desk and put the entire desk away into his storage space.
As the first big item was tossed into the storage space, Zhuge Feifan then put away the couch, the teacup, the bookcase, and so on. Everything went into his storage space as he put everything that could be moved away.
After putting everything in the room into his storage space, Zhuge Feifan then checked the room. He made sure that did not miss anything out, then he summoned a dimensional portal and stepped into it.
Chapter 1075: I Must Eat A Pancake to Get Over the Shock!
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
The empty room fell into dead silence as soon as the projection ended.
Apart from watching everything Zhuge Feifan did from moving his possessions to leaving via the dimensional portal eventually as well as finding out his reason to escape and the exact time of escaping, they seemed to have learned nothing more.
“Are there any clues?” Lin Huang turned his head to look at Guan Zhong and Qian Rui.
Guan Zhong shook his head helplessly. “Not really, but he didn’t set the coordinates when he took the dimensional portal out in the end. Instead, he just stepped into it right away. It shows that those are the default coordinates, so it should be coordinates that he frequents. We can go back to the places that he usually goes and perform the video playback one after another to see if we can find more clues.”
“Can’t the Union Government get the usage data from the dimensional portal? Can’t you just get his last teleportation coordinates?” Huang Tufu interrupted unclearly while munching on the pancake.
“The dimensional portal data system was only set up 36 years ago. We only have data backup for dimensional portals that were produced since the data system was set up. We’ve no data backup for those that were produced prior to that, so we can’t find out anything about it,” Qian Rui shook his head as he explained, “Zhuge Feifan has been using this dimensional portal for over 100 years. We can’t find any related data in most of our databases.”
“But don’t all dimensional portal companies have a data storage record before the database was set up? Can’t we retrieve anything from them?” Lin Huang remembered seeing some related information at the library back them. He had been slightly interested since it was related to dimensional portals, so he had taken a peek.
Guan Zhong glanced at Lin Huang, not expecting Lin Huang to know such a thing so well. He added on to what Qian Rui said earlier, “Indeed, we can retrieve dimensional portal data from the dimensional portal company that produced it. However, the one he’s using is a model that was produced over 100 years ago. Plus, we’re not sure which company produced it. There are up to 100 companies that produced dimensional portals 100 years ago. Today, only three companies with the biggest model in the entire continent are left while most of the rest went bankrupt. Those that were fortunate would’ve been bought over and there might’ve been data that was left behind while those that were unfortunate would’ve lost their data long ago.”
“Even if we’re lucky enough to get the dimensional portal data and find the coordinates, it can’t be Zhuge Feifan’s final hiding place. With his stealthy character, he definitely won’t use the particular dimensional portal again,” Qian Rui continued.
“But no matter how many dimensional portals he has, we can only search following this clue since we’ve no other hint at the moment.”
“Do you guys want to look at the playback again? Or do we go to the next location?” Lin Huang asked both of them without giving any other opinion.
After all, anyone from Agency EA would be more professional than him in tracking. He had no other option on his side.
“Let’s take a look again then,” Qian Rui said without thinking twice, “We can skip the front part. Start from the time when he saw Guan Zhong’s message until he left.”
Lin Huang nodded and performed the video playback again. He set the playback time to past four in the afternoon when Zhuge Feifan got the message until he stepped into the dimensional portal a few minutes later.
“Pause here. Let me take pictures of this dimensional portal,” Qian Rui shouted immediately.
Lin Huang paused the video. Qian Rui walked up to it and took pictures of every side and every detail of the dimensional portal. He did not want to miss a thing.
He only nodded at Lin Huang after he took a few minutes to finish. “I’m all done. Sorry for the trouble.”
“Don’t worry about it.” Lin Huang waved and put the Book of Sorcerer Dao away into his body.
Qian Rui, on the other hand, sent out the photos and called a number. He got his underling to check the details about the dimensional portal.
As everyone was done working on their own thing, Huang Tufu happened to finish the last pancake.
“Do we go to the next location now?” Lin Huang asked Guan Zhong and Qian Rui.
Guan Zhong then summoned a dimensional portal in which they stepped in one after another.
Lin Huang had no idea that within less than two hours, all the social media applications were having fun with the picture in which he was guzzling the pancakes.
The topic of ‘Dynasty’s Newly Appointed Emperor’ which had just cooled off was now a hit again. The topic now became ‘Stickers of the Emperor Eating Pancakes’.
It was more popular than the topic ‘Everyone in the Wei Clan Has Gone Missing’ which ranked No. 1 and ‘The Blessing Trading Company Explosion’ ranking No. 2 that morning.
Even the comments of the next two top topics were related to pancakes.
“Supernatural stuff happened to the Wei Clan? It’s so scary! I must eat a pancake to get over the shock!”
“I heard THE Blessing Trading Company exploded! It’s so scary. I must eat a pancake to get over the shock!”
“The commenter above, stand there and don’t move. I’ll go get you a pancake.”
“The commenter above, buy fish head biscuits from me. 18 servings with massive fish heads. That will be a big portion to fill your tummy. It only costs 998 life crystals! You’ll be losing out if you don’t get it at 998 life crystals. You’ll regret if you don’t get it at 998 life crystals. You deserve it!”
Even Lin Xin, who was far away in Emperor City, saw the picture of Lin Huang eating pancakes. She shrieked so hard in laughter when she saw the stickers, and she downloaded them immediately.
Naturally, everyone in Dynasty saw that too. They downloaded the sticker pack without hesitation.
Even people in some group chats began making the Emperor’s stickers into emoticons. They were having so much fun.
Just when Lin Huang passed through Guan Zhong’s dimensional portal, his Emperor’s Heart Ring began vibrating.
He opened his communication page. Then, he clicked it immediately after seeing that it was a message from Lin Xin. He thought something had happened to her.
He realized she had sent him a comic. It was him eating pancakes in the comic with a sentence, ‘I must eat a pancake to get over the shock!’
Lin Huang had a bad feeling when he saw the comic. He figured out roughly what had happened.
He opened the Heart Network and saw the ‘Emperor’s Sticker Pack’ on the No. 1 daily topic. There were over 300 million clicks on it.
Lin Huang clicked the topic, feeling speechless. Soon, he saw over 30 versions of his pancake-eating stickers. One of the versions had more than 100 million downloads while another had over 80 million downloads.
Seeing that Lin Huang was checking his communication page, Guan Zhong and Qian Rui looked away. They did not want to stick their nose in his business.
On the other hand, Huang Tufu peeped over Lin Huang’s shoulder and saw the projected content. He could not help but chuckle out loud when he saw Lin Huang’s stickers.
Lin Huang turned his head and looked at him without an expression on his face. “What are you laughing about? You’re a part of it too.”
He then showed Huang Tufu his stickers. His stickers were even more interesting than Lin Huang’s since he ate more pancakes than Lin Huang did. He was simply not as popular as Lin Huang, so there were much fewer downloads. However, there were over ten million downloads for his most-downloaded sticker pack.
Huang Tufu looked horrified when he saw his stickers. “I was just eating pancakes. Why are these people so mean?!”
Lin Huang did not dwell on it and closed the Heart Network. He had seen many such cases back on Earth. No matter how popular the sticker packs were, it would only be a hit for a few days. People would forget about it after the heat was over, thus it was unnecessary for him to think too much about it.
Seeing that Lin Huang closed the Heart Network page, Guan Zhong then pointed at a small villa that was completely burned over ten meters away. “This is a property Zhuge Feifan owns in the First City. It’s also one of the accommodations he most frequented.”
“Let’s take a look.” Lin Huang nodded and walked straight into the charred house.
Chapter 1076: He Has Properties Everywhere
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation
Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
In the villa that was completely incinerated, almost everything in it had turned into piles of ashes, so nobody could tell what they were initially. Even the walls were distorted as a result of the high heat.
The temperature when the house was burned was clearly higher than a normal fire.
“The fire was obviously done by humans. The speed of the burning was extremely fast. It almost burned the entire house down within merely a couple of minutes. It became this when the firefighters arrived,” Guan Zhong explained to Lin Huang.
After observing the inside of the house for a while, Lin Huang summoned the Book of Sorcerer Dao again.
Guan Zhong and the rest quieted down and retreated behind Lin Huang while watching him performing witchcraft runes.
They had no idea that those were witchcraft methods that came from the middle era. They thought it was some secret skills that Lin Huang had obtained. Meanwhile, they thought the Book of Sorcerer Dao in his hand was some mysterious god item.
The Union Government knew that Dynasty had an organization from the great world behind them and the Emperor of Dynasty was capable of performing any methods. That was the reason why Guan Zhong and Qian Rui did not find it surprising.
Meanwhile, Huang Tufu had seen Lin Huang fought, hence he knew Lin Huang’s ability and was no longer surprised by his methods.
The runes of the video playback projected into the air and soon the video appeared just like it had before.
The villa that had turned into ruins seemed like it was restored entirely at that moment.
The ceilings, walls, and floors were so clean like they were brand new. The furniture was also perfectly restored.
“I’ve set the time to 4.12 p.m. yesterday.” Lin Huang set the time when Zhuge Feifan stepped into the dimensional portal.
However, Zhuge Feifan did not appear after they waited for two minutes.
“It seems like this wasn’t the first place he dropped by.” Lin Huang looked at Guan Zhong.
As Zhuge Feifan’s disciple, Guan Zhong should know best where Zhuge Feifan frequented.
Guan Zhong frowned slightly. “He has three other properties in First City, but from what I know, he usually stays here and hardly goes to the rest.”
“The first place he teleported to shouldn’t be anywhere else but First City,” Qian Rui could not help but speak up, “If I were escaping, I’d clear my office and get home to clear the most important evidence. Since he didn’t come here right away, it proves that the most important evidence isn’t here.
“Moreover, the sequence of clearing should be from the most important to the less important and closer to further. Therefore, the first place he teleported to should be in First City. He wouldn’t have gone to other cities and come back here.”
“So, it means there’s a high possibility that he went to the other property right away,” Lin Huang concluded.
“Not necessarily. Maybe he has other properties that you don’t know about. You guys wouldn’t be able to find out as long as he didn’t register in his own name,” Huang Tufu voiced a different opinion.
“What you said is possible too, but we can only search using the available clue now.” Guan Zhong did not deny the possibility Huang Tufu expressed.
Lin Huang fast-forwarded the video 10 times faster. A black dimensional portal appeared when it was almost 5 p.m.
A person walked out of it when the portal opened. It was Zhuge Feifan.
“Pause right here!” Qian Rui shouted all of a sudden.
The dimensional portal was clearly different from the one before.
Lin Huang paused the video while Qian Rui walked up and took pictures of the details of the portal. He nodded to Lin Huang after he was done taking the pictures.
The paused projected video proceeded. Zhuge Feifan put the dimensional portal away after walking out of it. He then walked to the study room, opened the drawer of the desk and began putting things away.
“You guys take a look and see if there are any clues in the drawer.” Lin Huang slowed down the speed of the playback and got Guan Zhong and the rest to take a look.
Zhuge Feifan took the items out quickly and put them away into his storage space. However, Guan Zhong and Qian Rui saw everything crystal clear since Lin Huang slowed it down.
After putting the few items from the drawer away, Zhuge Feifan then turned around to clear the bookcase. He put all the books and decor into his storage space.
When he was done with the study room, Zhuge Feifan got up and walked to his bedroom. He put some sex toys on his bedhead away into his storage space. Subsequently, he walked to his wardrobe and put away all his clothes and shoes.
He looked around to confirm he had missed nothing. A flicker of blue flames appeared on his palm. He moved his finger slightly, and gushes of blue flames shot all over the place.
At that very moment, the curtains, the bed, the bookcase, the table, the chairs, the couch, the coffee table… Almost everything that could be ignited was kindled. They began to burn rapidly.
Zhuge Feifan did not leave right away. He only summoned a dimensional portal and stepped into it after waiting for the fire to spread.
It was another dimensional portal that he summoned this time.
Qian Rui walked up and took pictures of the third dimensional portal immediately.
Lin Huang played the video after Qian Rui was done with the pictures.
The dimensional portal closed slowly, disappearing from where it was.
As Lin Huang fast-forwarded the remaining video ten times faster, the entire villa soon turned into a burned structure. The fire in the house was extinguished entirely when the firefighters arrived.
It was unnecessary to keep watching from then on. Lin Huang removed the projection and turned to Guan Zhong and Qian Rui.
“Did you find any clues?”
“There’s nothing important in his drawer actually. I guess he cleared that just in case he missed something out. The books and decor on the bookcase were nothing special, let alone the clothes and the shoes.” Clearly, Guan Zhong was dissatisfied with what they had gotten out of this trip.
“He used two different dimensional portals when he came and left. I’ve sent the detailed photos to my underlings to check thoroughly to see if there are any clues to that.” Qian Rui had sent the pictures over when Guan Zhong had been speaking. He was clearly a person who did things quickly and decisively.
“Do you guys want to look at it again?”
“No need. Let’s go to the next one.” Qian Rui shook his head.
Guan Zhong said nothing and summoned the dimensional portal. They walked into it and disappeared after he set the coordinates.
Zhuge Feifan’s second and third property were both villas. The locations were getting more and more luxurious.
However, in the two villas, Zhuge Feifan lit up the houses after merely putting away his clothes and stuff just like before. The only thing they got out of the footages was Qian Rui being able to take pictures of the two different dimensional portals again.
“We’re left with the last property. If we can’t find anything there, we can only wait for the dimensional portal user data.” Lin Huang felt incompetent. After all, the only help he could provide was a replay of the video. Agency EA would have to depend on their own apart from that.
Chapter 1077: Sister Jing
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
At a small area by the lake in the new eastern district of First City.
“This is his fourth property. It’s just a residential building where ordinary people live. Everyone living in this building is a common civilian. I’ve no idea why he bought this place back then,” Guan Zhong said while leading the few of them into the elevator.
The four of them arrived on the 33rd floor via the elevator. They saw the distorted door of Room 3301 as soon as they walked out of the elevator. The door was scorched black.
Without even thinking, Lin Huang knew that was Zhuge Feifan’s unit.
He stretched his Divine Telekinesis to open the door before the four of them then walked in.
The unit was considered spacious with almost 140 square meters. To ordinary people, it was considered a rather neat place. However, it was nothing to cultivators.
Just like the three villas before, everything in this house had been moved out as well. No clothes or shoes were left behind. Everything else including the furniture had been reduced to ashes.
Guan Zhong and Qian Rui found nothing after rifling through the house. They then nodded at Lin Huang who summoned the Book of Sorcerer Dao, projecting what had happened to this house yesterday.
He set the time to 4.12 p.m. again.
Soon, the room seemed to be restored to how it was like through the runes.
What surprised Lin Huang and the rest was that this time, not only were the furniture and the rest projected, but there was also a woman sitting on the couch.
It was a woman who looked around 30 years old. She did not look outstanding but she had a quiet charisma. She was folding clothes languidly on the couch.
Just when Lin Huang wanted to ask Guan Zhong who the woman was, the dimensional portal appeared out of nowhere and Zhuge Feifan walked out of it.
At that moment, Lin Huang and the rest were secretly relieved. They finally confirmed the first location Zhuge Feifan had escaped to. They were surprised to find that he had escaped to this inconspicuous apartment.
Guan Zhong looked puzzled. Given his understanding of his master, it was hard for him to imagine how important this place was.
“Feifan, you’re home!” The woman sitting on the couch greeted him while smiling as if she was welcoming him out of habit. “Why did you come back so early today?”
Zhuge Feifan did not seem to be surprised that she was at his place. He walked to the woman with a complicated expression on his face after putting the dimensional portal away.
“Sister Jing…”
“What’s wrong? Why do you look so troubled?” The woman whom he addressed Sister Jing smiled and stopped what she was doing. She lifted her head coyly and looked at Zhuge Feifan.
“What’s wrong? Did somebody bully you?” Sister Jing stretched her arm out to him and asked softly while holding his hand after Zhuge Feifan did not respond. “Tell me if you were wronged. You’ll feel better.”
“Sister Jing, will you hate me if I’m a bad person?” Zhuge Feifan asked all of a sudden after falling into silence for a while.
She kept quiet for a few heartbeats as she bit her lip before speaking again, “I don’t know if you’re a good person or a bad person, but I know you’re good to me. That’s enough. Even if you’re a bad person to everyone in the world, to me, you’ll forever be the best man in the world.”
Seeing that Zhuge Feifan had fallen into silence again, Sister Jing put the clothes that she was folding halfway aside and got him to sit down.
“Stop overthinking. Let’s eat your favorite boiled sliced pork later.” She stretched her arms out to pinch Zhuge Feifan’s cheeks like she was talking to a child.
Lin Huang and the rest could tell that they clearly had an extraordinary relationship.
Sister Jing was obviously a commoner. Her real age might not even be 1/20 to Zhuge Feifan’s.
However, they looked like a couple since Zhuge Feifan called her ‘sister’ and did not resist her pinching his cheeks.
Nonetheless, Lin Huang and the rest were curious. This woman called Sister Jing appeared very normal. Even to ordinary people, she only looked mediocre and was not pretty in the least. To Zhuge Feifan, with his appearance, wealth and power, he could easily find a woman who was hundreds of times more beautiful than Sister Jing. So, why did he go for such an ordinary woman?
Zhuge Feifan who sat on the couch in silence for a long time finally spoke again, “Sister Jing, I got into some trouble.”
“What kind of trouble? Do you need my help?”Sister Jing asked immediately, “If you need money, I’ve some savings here. You can use it first. Settle your thing and return the money to me whenever you can in the future.”
“Sister, listen to me,” Zhuge Feifan interrupted Sister Jing, “I got into some trouble involving cultivators. Nobody knows about our relationship at the moment, but they’ll find this house sooner or later. They might talk to you then.”
“Don’t worry. I won’t tell them a thing,” she assured immediately and added in all seriousness, “I won’t say a thing even if it means death for me!”
“It’s not as simple as you think. They have methods that are beyond your imagination. Some people can even read your mind directly.”
“Read my mind?” Sister Jing realized that Zhuge Feifan had offended people who were out of the ordinary as she heard this. “We can hire an assassin or we can get the Union Government…”
“Those people who are coming after me are from the Union Government,” Zhuge Feifan interrupted Sister Jing again and placed both hands on her shoulders. “I’m not a good person. They’re right to come after me.
“To avoid dragging you into this, the only way now is to erase everything about me in your head. That’s the only way to get you off their list.”
“Erase my memory?” Sister Jing seemed a little lost at that second, but she snapped back to her senses a while later. “Does that mean that… I’ll forget you forever?”
Zhuge Feifan fell into silence for a while before nodding slowly.
Sister Jing held her head down and only lifted it up again after staying quiet for a long time. She looked at him earnestly. “Feifan, will you truly be safe if my memory’s erased? They’ll no longer come after you?”
Zhuge Feifan remained silent. His heart was breaking apart as he looked at the anticipation in her eyes, but he nodded eventually.
“Alright then, go ahead and erase my memory.” Sister Jing forced a smile, but tears did not stop rolling from the corner of her eyes. “Erase it and don’t worry about me. I won’t remember you in my head, but I’ll never forget you in my heart.”
“Sister…” Zhuge Feifan pulled the woman into his arms and placed his chin on her shoulder. The tears he had been holding back finally burst out as he smelled the familiar fragrance of her shampoo.
The duo was locked in an embrace tightly just like that. Approximately five to six minutes later, Zhuge Feifan let go of his arms. He had dried off his tears with Divine Power by then.
He wiped the tears off Sister Jing’s face and looked at her with a bright smile. “Sister, meeting you is the happiest thing that has ever happened to me.”
“Me too.” Sister Jing stretched her arms and touched Zhuge Feifan’s cheeks gently.
Zhuge Feifan took a deep breath in and pointed a finger between her brows as she then closed her eyes slowly.
Tears were still pouring from the corner of her eyes, but she beamed with happiness.
“I’m sorry…” As a white glow lit up at his fingertip, Sister Jing’s body soon went limp and she fell onto the couch.
Chapter 1078: It’s Getting Cold, Put on Some Clothes
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
A moment later, the white glow faded away.
Zhuge Feifan put Sister Jing down onto the couch slowly.
He opened her Emperor Heart Ring communication page and soon found all of the conversation records he had had with her.
This foolish woman had given him her Emperor Heart Ring’s access when she could not even find information about a TV series that she was binging on.
Instead of deleting the messages, Zhuge Feifan read them one by one.
“My name’s An Jing, what’s your name?”
“You’re only 23. You’re not that young compared to me. I bet you’re only five or six years younger than me.”
“Xiao Feifan, someone broke up with me again. Come drink with me, your sister!”
“Are you sure you want to date me? I’m already 30!”
“Of course, I’ll promise you that, but you’ll have to call me Sister Jing for the rest of your life!”
“It’s raining now, so it’s a little cold. Remember to put on a jacket when you come back.”
“I’ve made your favorite boiled sliced pork today. Come back soon!”
“Feifan, I got you a trench coat. You’ll look good in it. Try it on when you come back from work.”
…
Without realizing it, tears streaked all over his face as he finished reading the last message.
After erasing all of the records, he turned off the Emperor’s Heart Ring communication page and turned his head to stare at An Jing for a long time. He then stood up and began clearing the house.
Some ten minutes later, Zhuge Feifan carried An Jing out of the house after he cleared the place.
Lin Huang expanded the projection range immediately, wanting to see where he was going.
In the end, Zhuge Feifan carried An Jing to Room 3302 next door. Immediately, he opened the door with a key.
So, they were neighbors!
Lin Huang and the rest were astounded.
Lin Huang paused the video as Qian Rui used his telekinetic power to get into Room 3302 to open the door.
They sensed that there was nobody in the house at that moment.
After walking into Room 3302, Lin Huang expanded the projection range again so that he included the entire unit. After that, he played the paused video again.
They saw Zhuge Feifan carry An Jing into the bedroom and put her down on the bed gently. Then, he tucked her into the blanket.
He then began to clear everything that was related to him in An Jing’s room.
Their photo on the bedhead, the photo hanging in the living room, the photo pasted on the refrigerator… His clothes and shoes in the cabinets, his toothbrush and the towel in the bathroom…
He spent merely ten minutes to wipe away each and every trace of him in An Jing’s life.
After confirming that he had missed out nothing, he returned to the bedroom and stared at An Jing who was sleeping for a while. He walked up and kissed her forehead.
“You’ll find your love since you’re such a good woman,” he mumbled softly before standing up. Then, he left without even turning his head.
Zhuge Feifan returned to his house after closing the door to Room 3302.
After some thorough investigation later, he lit up the entire house after making sure he had not missed out on anything.
Lin Huang only removed the projected video after Zhuge Feifan summoned a dimensional portal and left.
“I thought he’s a cold-blooded person who has no feeling at all.” Guan Zhong shook his head and forced a smile after watching the video replay that was over half an hour long. “In reality, he didn’t trust me since the beginning.”
“Don’t overthink it. This woman must’ve walked into his life by accident.” Qian Rui patted his shoulder, knowing that Guan Zhong must be feeling terrible now.
Guan Zhong might not have too many emotions if Zhuge Feifan had been cold to everyone. However, Zhuge Feifan had shared an extraordinary relationship with this woman called An Jing. Guan Zhong felt horrible about it.
“If Zhuge Feifan trusted you, would you have betrayed the Union Government with him?” Huang Tufu asked all of a sudden.
“No!” Guan Zhong answered without hesitation, “Although he’s my master, it doesn’t mean that I’ll support everything that he does unconditionally.”
“So, what difference does it make whether he trusted you or not?” Huang Tufu challenged while smiling.
Guan Zhong was stunned and subsequently forced a smile while nodding. “That makes sense. I’ve been standing on the other side since the beginning, so he didn’t dare give me too much of his trust. I can’t blame him for using me as his chess piece.”
“Can we find out anything from An Jing?” Lin Huang changed the subject directly to get Guan Zhong to work. It was more useful than any consolation.
“Although her memory of him is erased, we can use her since we know about their relationship.” Qian Rui looked like he already had a plan. “I suspect that Zhuge Feifan didn’t go very far. He might be secretly watching An Jing.”
“If I were Zhuge Feifan, I definitely wouldn’t leave before I make sure the woman I love is safe. I wouldn’t even let her leave my field of vision.” Huang Tufu agreed.
“So, are you guys planning to use An Jing as a bait?” Guan Zhong frowned slightly. “She’s just an ordinary person. It’s inappropriate to do that.”
“What’s inappropriate about that? It’s not dangerous to use her as bait, more so since Zhuge Feifan won’t kill her.” Huang Tufu begged to differ.
“What I’m saying is that this is a matter between cultivators. We shouldn’t drag an ordinary person into this.” Guan Zhong thought the idea was out of line.
There were some regulations in the Union Government whereby it was prohibited to involve ordinary people into cultivators’ matters. The most that they could do to ordinary people was to interrogate them, but they could not carry out other measures on them. However, it was a gray line whereby it mainly depended on how the individual handled the case.
“An Jing might be the biggest key to find Zhuge Feifan. We can’t give up just like that. We might be able to find useful information if we can retrieve the part of memory that was erased. We don’t necessarily need to use her as bait.” Qian Rui could only take a step back for now.
“We’ve gotten a lot more information this time. I’ve taken pictures of the interaction Zhuge Feifan shared with An Jing. I even took pictures of their photos that Zhuge Feifan put away. I’ll see if we can find anything useful when we get back later.”
“Should we take a look at the properties he owns in other footholds?” Lin Huang asked.
“Theoretically, it’s pretty impossible for him to have left First City since An Jing is here.” Qian Rui thought it was unnecessary.
“So, is our job here done?” Huang Tufu asked immediately. He could not wait to head back to Emperor City.
“I think we should take a look at his properties in the other footholds. What if there are clues over there?” Guan Zhong still hoped to find more evidence. “I’ll go with the Emperor. You’ll stay back to look around here.”
“Alright then, remember to take pictures.” Qian Rui patted Guan Zhong’s shoulder.
Guan Zhong spoke again after they sent Qian Rui off, “Apart from First City, I know Zhuge Feifan has five properties in other footholds at the moment. Apart from two properties in Heaven City, he has one in Ice River City, one in White Castle City, and one in Thousand Lake City. The property in Thousand Lake City is the getaway that he frequents most. I’ve been there thrice with him.”
“Let’s go then.” Lin Huang did not mind going to the rest of the properties since he would treat it as a sight-seeing trip. Moreover, he was eager to get rid of Zhuge Feifan, who was trouble, as soon as possible.
Chapter 1079: Emperor’s Heart
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Emperor’s Heart
After spending over an hour, they were finally done checking Zhuge Feifan’s remaining five properties.
It was almost 11 p.m. when they returned to the Union Government headquarters in First City.
“Are there any new clues?” Qian Rui asked immediately upon seeing them coming back.
“No, we only saw him packing his stuff and burning the houses down.” Guan Zhong shook his head helplessly. “But he changed a couple more dimensional portals, of which I’ve taken pictures.”
“This guy has so many dimensional portals,” Huang Tufu could not help but ridicule. They had seen nine dimensional portals so far and Zhuge Feifan would change one everywhere he went.
“I’ve sent the pictures. Did you get anything on your side?” Guan Zhong queried Qian Rui immediately.
“We’ve gotten An Jing’s details. Indeed, she’s just an ordinary person. She’s 32 this year and is teaching literature at the Hunter Reserve College in the new eastern district. She has no criminal records and is immensely popular at school. She has excellent relationships with her colleagues and the students.
“There’s nothing wrong with her identity. We still haven’t figured how exactly Zhuge Feifan got to know her for now. Zhuge Feifan must’ve bought the unit in the small area after knowing her.”
“The timeline you mentioned fits. I still remember that it was two years ago when he bought the unit. I was confused about why he would buy a property in such a small area back then. Now that I thought about it, he must’ve done that to woo An Jing.” Guan Zhong recalled when Zhuge Feifan bought the place and he confirmed Qian Rui’s speculation.
“We’ve also found out where Zhuge Feifan and An Jing took the pictures. Three of them were taken in First City, two at Lakeside Park in the new eastern district, and one at Heart Ocean in the central district. The remaining four were taken in different footholds.”
“Where’s An Jing now?” Lin Huang asked.
“It’s the summer break, so she’s been giving extra classes to her students. It seems like her memory is indeed erased. I haven’t sent anyone to monitor her at the moment because I figure that Zhuge Feifan might be around and he’ll be warned easily.” Qian Rui was afraid to alert Zhuge Feifan.
At that moment, Zhuge Feifan had no idea that his relationship with An Jing had been exposed. He thought that to the Union Government, An Jing was just a regular neighbor, so they would not take note of her. Zhuge Feifan would definitely find out if they were following her.
“I guess we’re off the mission now, eh?” Huang Tufu asked.
“Thank you so much, Master Emperor. You’ve helped us a lot this time. If not for you, we wouldn’t have found out about his relationship with An Jing.” Qian Rui thanked him while smiling graciously.
“Thanks for all the trouble, Master Emperor.” Guan Zhong was also being grateful.
“Hey, what about me?” Huang Tufu looked annoyed from being completely ignored.
“Mr. Tufu, too! Thanks for your hard work,” said both of them while smiling.
“Master Emperor, do we head back to Emperor City?” Huang Tufu glared at both of them and asked Lin Huang.
“There’s no rush. We’ll head back in two days. It’s not every day that we get to come to First City. Shouldn’t we do some sight-seeing since we’re here?” Lin Huang, on the other hand, was not in a rush to head back. “Moreover, Mr. Guan has yet to fulfill the condition that he promised me earlier.”
“What condition?” Guan Zhong was stunned to hear that.
Qian Rui peeped at him, worried that Guan Zhong might have promised to do something that he should not have.
“The complimentary Emperor’s Heart Ring’s unlocking service. Did you forget?” Lin Huang glanced at Guan Zhong with his brow raised.
“Oh, I’ve almost forgotten about that!”
Qian Rui was relieved to hear that that was the condition Lin Huang meant.
“Complimentary unlocking service? Can you count me in? I also have some Emperor’s Heart Rings that need to be unlocked,” Huang Tufu requested immediately when he heard that the service was complimentary.
“Sure,” Guan Zhong agreed right away. There was no difference for him to provide service for an extra person.
“I’ll bring you guys over now,” declared Guan Zhong and he summoned a dimensional portal.
The three of them stepped in one after another and soon disappeared from where they were.
Lin Huang realized they were in an underground cave when they walked out of the dimensional portal.
“Just put the Emperor’s Heart Rings that you guys want to unlock into the tree hollow over there.” Guan Zhong pointed at the giant sphere that appeared like it was made of layers of roots not far away. There were tiny, round holes on the surface.
“So, is this the Emperor’s Heart?” Lin Huang walked up skeptically. He then placed more than 3,000 Emperor’s Heart Rings into one of the holes.
Huang Tufu followed behind and took out a handful of Emperor’s Heart Rings and put them into the other hole next to it. He could not help but steal a peep at Lin Huang. To his shock, he saw a sheer amount of rings that almost filled the entire hole.
“So many Emperor’s Heart Rings! How long have you been saving those, Master Emperor?”
“I basically got them yesterday.”
Huang Tufu was even more shocked when he heard that revelation. He recalled that Lin Huang had not been in Emperor City yesterday.
Did he rob the entire organization?!
Meanwhile, Guan Zhong, who stood tens of meters away, did not find it strange. He had witnessed almost Lin Huang’s entire battle yesterday. Naturally, he knew very well where those rings came from.
As both of them placed the Emperor’s Heart Rings into the holes, roots stretched out of the tree hollow slowly and grabbed all of the rings.
Lin Huang took a few steps back and turned his head to ask Guan Zhong softly, “Approximately how long does the unlocking take?”
“It’ll be done in no time.” Just when Guan Zhong was done speaking, the roots brought the 30-odd rings back to where Huang Tufu had placed them earlier.
Huang Tufu was stunned when he saw that. “That’s it?”
“When they’re sent back, It means the unlocking is done,” Guan Zhong confirmed.
Huang Tufu then extended his arm to pick all of the Emperor’s Heart Rings up. He checked them one after another with his Divine Telekinesis.
A moment later, he put away all of the rings into his storage space happily.
Perhaps because there were too many, the rings that Lin Huang wanted to get unlocked took slightly longer. However, the roots sent all the Emperor’s Heart Rings back in less than a minute.
Lin Huang picked up all of the Emperor’s Heart Rings immediately, but he only checked one. After making sure that it was unlocked, he did not even look at the rest.
Just when he was ready to leave after putting the Emperor’s Heart Rings away, Xiao Hei’s voice came into his ears. “I sense a Goldfinger in him. It’s very powerful!”
“You mean the Emperor’s Heart?” Lin Huang peeped at the sphere in surprise.
“That’s right. You’re not looking at his real form. This is just a part of him.”
“Are you sure it’s not a mistake?” Lin Huang secretly panicked. If the Emperor’s Heart were a Goldfinger, it would mean there were other travelers behind it.
Lin Huang could not help but put his guard up towards other travelers after learning about the existence of Raiders from Yang Ling.
“It can’t be a mistake. If I’m not mistaken, he must’ve found out about me and the stone tablet by now.”
Lin Huang thought it was too risky to stay all of a sudden. He got Guan Zhong to summon the dimensional portal immediately and stepped into it.
He was finally relieved when the dimensional portal closed.
He had no idea that the sphere made of roots had transformed into a human face after he left via the dimensional portal. The face had complete features and looked like a bearded man.
The bearded man stared at the spot where Lin Huang had just disappeared and mumbled to himself softly, “Why does that kid have two Goldfingers in his body?”
Chapter 1080: Traceless
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
In a luxurious suite on the 181st floor of the Star Dome Hotel, Lin Huang was watching the news while sitting on the couch in the living room. On the other hand, Bloody was calculating the loot in the Emperor’s Heart Rings.
Huang Tufu, who was in the next room, was reading a novel, sprawled on the couch.
This Star Dome Hotel was one of the properties under the Hunter Association. The Union Government was a part of it too.
The hotel was merely three kilometers away from the Union Government office. The largest business district in the central zone of First City was just below the building, and it was extremely crowded.
Naturally, the hotel was expensive. Since it was Guan Zhong who had made the arrangements, Lin Huang and Huang Tufu did not have to spend any credit points on it.
Ignoring the ‘Emperor’s Stickers’ topic that ranked No. 1 on Heart Network, Lin Huang looked at the topics that ranked No. 2 and No. 3.
“The incidents of the Wei Clan going missing and the Blessing Trading Company’s explosion had spread through the entire cultivation world since this morning.” Lin Huang noticed that the two topics already had over 100 million views.
Everyone knew the Wei Clan in Division 2 was a clan that had been passed down for centuries. They were also the wealthiest family in Division 2, and they even had two demigods that were known to the public.
Many cultivators were concerned about the ancient castle of the Wei Clan vanishing together with the people of the Wei Clan out of nowhere.
The other clans in Division 2 were worried that they might be the next target.
One must know that the incident happened in Division 2’s No. 1 foothold. Theoretically, the foothold should be the safest foothold in the No. 2 safety zone. However, such a thing had happened.
Many people pointed fingers at the few top underground organizations. They verbally attacked the top underground organizations including Dynasty because they figured that only these organizations were capable enough of destroying a clan that had demigods, hence leaving no traces behind.
However, none of the top underground organizations including Dynasty responded to the incident.
Even the Union Government had been quiet. They did not even say anything officially, merely confirming that the destruction of the Wei Clan was the truth.
Naturally, Lin Huang knew that the Union Government did not say anything because they wanted to expose what the Wei Clan did after they got rid off God Bless completely.
However, all the clans in Division 2 had no idea about that. They pressured the Union Government for the sake of their personal safety. ‘It’s still under investigation’ was the only response they got from the Union Government.
As for the Blessing Trading Company in Golden City being destroyed, it would not usually attract any attention from cultivators.
The main thing was that the entire land around the Blessing Trading Company collapsed, causing the terrain to change on a certain level. Clearly, a battle had broken out between powerhouses who were on at least demigod-level.
Many people knew that the Golden City was filled with shady companies, but never had they thought that there would be a battle between demigod-level powerhouses.
The two incidents happened on the same day, which made many people’s imaginations run wild.
Some of them said the two incidents might be related, but the speculation was soon refuted because it was a piece of cake for them to find out that the Blessing Trading Company had nothing to do with the Wei Clan at all. They did not even have any business collaboration.
Lin Huang went through some forums and scrolled through social media sites for a while. By then, Bloody finally calculated everything in the Emperor’s Heart Rings.
“There are a total of 3,022 Emperor’s Heart Rings. We’ve obtained 2.12 million Divine Stones, 11 god relics, 56 demigod relics, three God Figurines, eight Godheads, 17 broken Godheads, and 123 ancient-level relics. There are also up to 10,000 relics of other grades, hundreds of billions of Life Crystals, all kinds of minerals, materials, and miscellaneous items.
“There are over ten types of rare minerals in them. There are six rare metals that are very valuable in the metallic materials.”
“Is there any weapon that I can use?” Lin Huang asked
“There’s one battle armor among the god relics. There are two sets of telekinetic weapons, five battle swords, and nine battle armors among the demigod relics. There are three sets of telekinetic weapons, 16 battle swords, and 21 battle armors among the ancient relics.”
After confirming the exact number of loots, Lin Huang put whatever he had gotten Bloody to sort out back into his Emperor’s Heart Ring.
“There’s something that I need to tell you. I think it’s best that we can find Zhuge Feifan before the Union Government does,” Bloody could not help but tell Lin Huang through voice transmission. “Zhuge Feifan is the founder of Agency EA and he’s been the president of the agency for hundreds of years. We can say that he’s the person who knows most of the secrets in this gravel world. If we can read his mind, not only can we obtain more information about God Bless’s Master God, but we can also even obtain all the secrets of the Union Government throughout more than 700 years directly.”
“That’s the reason why I stayed,” Lin Huang revealed. In reality, he initiated help to Guan Zhong with this intention since the beginning.
The reason why Agency EA had agreed to get Lin Huang’s help was that they were eager to find Zhuge Feifan. The longer Zhuge Feifan stayed missing, the higher the chances of some of the Union Government’s secrets leaking.
Moreover, Guan Zhong and the rest hoped that Lin Huang would return to Emperor City soon. They made the hotel arrangements for Lin Huang when they heard he was staying in First City mainly because they wanted to monitor Lin Huang, preventing him from stealing Zhuge Feifan away from them.
Lin Huang knew very well that although Guan Zhong seemed honest, he was buttering him up. However, this guy was definitely not capable enough to be able to be the Vice President of Agency EA.
Although the Vice President of Agency EA held a lower position than the Vice President of the Union Government, his authority might even be higher than the latter.
“Do you have any way to find Zhuge Feifan?” Lin Huang asked.
“It’s not difficult to find him if we expand the search territory,” Bloody replied, “He’s definitely not far away from An Jing.”
“Looking at his behavior in the projection, he has a special bond with An Jing. He definitely won’t leave First City until he’s ascertained her safety.”
“But there’s no way of finding his exact location. He’s at least on Virtual God rank-3, so he can monitor An Jing from thousands of kilometers away using Divine Telekinesis. He might be in a cafe thousands of kilometers away drinking coffee while monitoring her with Divine Telekinesis. The range is just too wide.” Lin Huang shook his head, feeling helpless.
“If we don’t mind crossing the line, it’s not difficult to find him. The easiest way is to kidnap An Jing. As soon as something happens to An Jing, Zhuge Feifan will definitely reveal himself.” In reality, everyone had the same idea as Bloody.
Besides Lin Huang, even the Union Government shared the same idea.
They were not using because there was an unspoken line among cultivators whereby they would not drag an ordinary person into their battle. Every cultivator knew that.
The line was even written in the Union Government’s regulation, and it had become their law.
“We can’t do anything to An Jing unless it’s the last resort.” Lin Huang shook his head after a moment of silence. “Do you have any other idea?”
“I haven’t thought of anything at the moment.” Bloody shook its head feebly. “There are too many powerhouses in First City, I can’t use my Leech Pods. They’ll find my Leech Pods as soon as I use them. Moreover, even if I could use them, the possibility of finding him is slim. As the leader of the spies, Zhuge Feifan has all sorts of stunning disguise methods. A simple disguise can get him to look like anything he desires if he wants to hide. In a big city such as First City, he’s totally traceless like a drop of water falling into the ocean.”