Monster Pet Evolution

by Stayrr

Three years ago, the animals and plants on Earth underwent crazy and unexplainable changes that included transformations, reversions, and the addition of otherworldly species. And it was the start of a brand-new type of profession in the new generation of humanity – Monster Trainers, people who specialized in taming monsters. On his 18th birthday, the protagonist of the story, Gao

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Chapter 641: The Magic Willow

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

Since the day he had returned, Ze Hai realized that he seemed to have attained an extraordinary power. The story began on the first day after his return.

The very day Ze Hai returned to his house, he took out some air-dried Overlord-tier monster meat from his cellar to feed his familiar. However, when his right hand touched the corner of his familiar's mouth, a mysterious power erupted from his middle finger.

He could only watch as his familiar, the Poison-Horned Lizard, let out a chilling roar. Its body wouldn't stop growing, muscles expanding distinctively to the extent that it was visible to the naked eye. The skeleton of the lizard grew thicker as blood shot to its eyes and its teeth grew sharp and long. What had once been a tame lizard had now turned like a ferocious tyrannosaurus.

An eerie green poisonous fog was dispersed along with a black and red liquid, and the foul smell of decay wafted in the air. His familiar had completely changed overnight.

When some of the elders of the tribe realized the massive change his familiar had undergone, he made up an excuse to conceal the truth, saying that his familiar had swallowed an unknown fruit and mutated.

For some time after that, Ze Hai attempted to use his newfound abilities in hunting grounds in the wild. He realized that only his middle finger had the incredible power to mutate any monsters that it came into contact with.

After trying again, Ze Hai realized that his power could be stopped temporarily at his own will, meaning that he wouldn't have to worry about accidentally touching anyone and activating his power, therefore revealing himself.

Then he realized that the enhanced ability of his middle finger had no limits! It seemed like he could constantly strengthen any monster at any time.

He captured an Elite-tier wild boar and utilized his ability by constantly strengthening it. After ten days, this wild boar had become a Lord-tier red-skinned monster. Its thick armor faded away to reveal bloody muscles, exposing its flesh. Seemingly, it possessed the ability to spread infection. That was something that Ze Hai had failed to notice at the beginning.

This was unknown to Ze Hai at the time, because his Poison-Horned Lizard was a Poison-type familiar, too. Hence, its main ability was always to infect its enemies, causing them to be poisoned and decay.

At the start, he had thought that his ability was merely to strengthen and enhance. However, he eventually realized that all of the monsters he had strengthened gained the ability to infect.

Ze Hai didn't continue to experiment with his powers, because his free time at the tribe was over. He was summoned back to Earth Star to handle the Tree Demon.

There were also Overlord-tier monsters among the Tree Demons. Some people had even discovered Saint-tier monsters, but enemies of the Quasi God tier were yet to be found.

At this point, the Mutated Tribe hadn't appeared. Hence, the superiors of the tribe were still in training mode.

Gao Peng, who was away at the Black Fog World, had obtained information regarding the current status of Earth Star from a certain channel. He sent Dumby to randomly catch any two Tree Demons so he could study them.

On its way back, Dumby caught one Tree Demon at its convenience.

"Dumby, did you misunderstand the meaning of 'randomly'?" Gao Peng looked at the weird Tree Demon that was being held down by Dumby with merely one hand. It was attempting to escape with strenuous effort but was foiled at every attempt. It looked exceptionally miserable.

Dumby contemplated before it answered Gao Peng earnestly, "When Master said 'randomly'… I reckoned that Master wanted the best ones. My ability is limited. This is the best I could get. If Master still isn't satisfied with this catch, I'll achieve Quasi God before catching a more powerful one for Master."

Gao Peng was speechless. Looking at Dumby's sincere face, Gao Peng was considerably moved.

Some of the other familiars had developed their own voices and thoughts as they grew. While it wasn't necessarily a bad thing for them to have their own opinions, meaning that they weren't liveless robots, they would be different from Dumby, who took every order from Gao Peng as seriously as though the orders were imperial edicts. In a way, Dumby's seriousness was rather adorable.

"Is there a fierce battle happening on Earth Star?" Gao Peng asked as he noticed that Dumby was a level higher after it returned from a short trip.

"There were many bodies and souls," Dumby answered honestly.

Ever since it achieved Saint-tier, Dumby's level had been stagnant. Before receiving Gao Peng's command, it was only at Level 86. After it picked up this mission and went on a trip to Earth Star, its level immediately raised to Level 87.

Gao Peng was puzzled as he continued to do the math in his mind. Now Dumby's growth has begun to slow down. Even if it's currently the boss of the biggest slaughterhouse in the city of Hope, it takes a very long time to level up.

Don't the people from the tribe wish to form an alliance with us? For the time being, Huaxia won't consider collaborating with the tribe, as they're focusing on their development, but I can help them personally!

Gao Peng reckoned that his ideas were feasible.

He didn't have to worry much about his own safety, as there were Fatty Big Sea and Windstorm Water Magic Spider. Compared to the Windstorm Water Magic Spider, Dumby's combat power was superfluous. With or without Dumby, there wouldn't be a significant difference.

Right now, Earth Star was a battlefield for the Asura, and it was the best time for Dumby to sneak in… or not. In fact, it was a good opportunity for Dumby to enhance itself, an opportunity that wouldn't be missed. All of a sudden, Gao Peng thought that the best place for Dumby to improve was the battlefield's wreckage.

"Well, Dumby, wait for me to inform the White Dragon tribe, then you can go to Earth Star to support our friends from the tribe," Gao Peng said to Dumby.

"Master is really shrewd," Dumby said, admiring its master.

Gao Peng nodded in satisfaction before he turned to meticulously observe the Saint-tier flora monster that Dumby had captured.

[Monster Name: Infection, Magic Willow of Sanguinary Plague

[Monster Grade: Normal/Perfect

[Monster Level: Level 81 (Saint-tier)

[Monster Attributes: Wood/Poison

[Monster Skills: Venomblood Plague Level 7, Hardened Bark Level 5, Sturdy Branch Level 5, Fortified Self-healing Level 5

[Monster Territory: Venomblood Territory

[Monster Weaknesses: 1. Holy Condition 2. Fire Attribute

[Monster Description: Originally, it was an Overlord-tier King Court Cloud Willow monster. After being affected by an unknown influence and consuming a lot of latent energy, it advanced to the Saint tier. All of its wisdom was completely wiped out, leaving only its instinct to kill.

It turned out to be an early Saint-tier monster at the Normal grade. No wonder it had surrendered to Dumby so easily; the difference between the two tiers was significant. Dumby had absolutely had the upper hand.

Moreover, the difference between their grades gave an even greater impact. Dumby was five grades higher than it was. Excellent, Perfect, Epic, Legendary, then Mythical.

When the surface of the infected Magic Willow was released, Dumby gently shook its right hand, which was holding tight to the branch. The deadly gas hungrily engulfed its entire body. The territory of the Magic Willow was completely eroded by the deadly gas before it left the trunk of the creature.

Even though its Venomblood Territory ability had a corroding effect, Dumby's grade was too high. Furthermore, the Flame of the Undead within Dumby was purer than the territory.

This was the most pathetic and weakest Saint-tier monster Gao Peng had ever seen. He suspected that even Da Zi at Level 77 could easily defeat it… Of course, even if it was weak, it was still a Saint-tier monster, and therefore had a very high value.

Gao Peng summoned the Dark Child, who stared at the Magic Willow for a very long time before it turned to Gao Peng, saying, "You've always wanted to upgrade your flora familiar, right? This is a shortcut for you."

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"Are you talking about the Amorphic Hell Tree?" Gao Peng said.

"No, I'm saying that your Amorphic Hell Tree is already at the Saint tier, so why do you need a monster at the same tier?" Dark Child said speechlessly.

"I've seen this method used by many before, but the precondition is that its grade must be at least two grades higher than the one being used as a graft, as well as the fact that they both have to be Flora-type monsters."

Then Dark Child whispered a series of words into Gao Peng's ear. Gao Peng nodded his head continuously with thoughts in his head.

"I understand. You can try that that."

Xiao Cao, who had already advanced to Level 71, was called over by Gao Peng. On the other side, Dumby was holding the Magic Willow in place.

Gao Peng had let Fatty Big Sea spit out the Sea Emperor's Devouring Teeth, then let Dumby beat Magic Willow almost to death. After that, losing its will to struggle, Magic Willow laid quietly on the ground.

Using the Sea Emperor's Devouring Teeth, a small wound was scraped onto Magic Willow's body, which Xiao Cao's roots were then grafted onto.

Xiao Cao's vines wound inwards. They rooted deeper and deeper, while the finer vines stretched to fill space.

Magic Willow's wound expanded. It seemed as though it wanted to struggle, but it was too weak, so it resisted briefly for two seconds before it stopped moving.

Plop! Plop! There were noises of little bubbles popping coming from inside the wound.

Xiao Cao's roots were extending like crazy. As a proper Overlord-tier flora monster, although Xiao Cao's power didn't have extended features, this was still a flora monster's instinctual power.

Gao Peng took a long look at the situation from the side. As Dark Child had mentioned, even though grafting had a high probability of success, there was still a certain possibility that it would fail and result in it backfiring.

After all, there was no 100 percent success rate on the road to evolution. Every procedure was bound to have a few accidents. If not, there wouldn't have been so many myths and legends.

After three hours, Xiao Cao's graft was on the right track. In Gao Peng's eyes, there was a suffix tacked on to Xiao Cao's name—"devoured."

"At the end of the evolution, approximately what tier will Xiao Cao be?" Gao Peng asked.

"I don't know, but I'm guessing that it would be at least early Overlord tier to late Overlord tier," Dark Child replied.

After summoning Da Zi to let it take care of Xiao Cao, Gao Peng took his familiars away.

"Young Master, the White Dragon Tribe replied to our message. They've agreed to your request," Xu Qingzhi said happily while on a phone call with Gao Peng.

Gao Peng nodded. That was within his expectations. After all, the two sides hadn't lost face yet. Even though the Quasi God monster trainer of the Assembly of Elders had caused You Huangming to undergo a big loss, the two sides had yet to lose face.

You Huangming hadn't fought the Windstorm Water Magic Spider for the sake of the title of the Assembly of Tribe Elders, but instead, had done it privately with a secret identity.

But of course, the most important thing was that You Huangming had still lost. This was the most significant point, one that was marked in red. Because he had lost, he wasn't disgraced.

If he had won, I'm afraid that his attitude would have been perceived differently. In their eyes, active participation in the war showcased a good attitude.

"Dumby, you can go to Earth Star. Don't take the initiative to participate in the war. Your responsibility is simply to help detach the dead souls. Oh, yes, and pass this to Growing Brain." Gao Peng handed it a phonograph. Dumby nodded and left with the phonograph.

The space between the depths of the Desolate Labyrinth and the Earth Star was heavily guarded, but occasionally, in this period of time, there were some tree demons that accidentally wandered in. To protect the safety of the civilians, these trees had to be taken alive to the experiment room to be studied. It was unknown whether they were cut into slices or pieces.

Upon seeing Dumby approaching, the soldiers in charge of guarding the town confirmed its identity before clearing a path in succession. A few soldiers were guiding the rest in the front while making a spacious path for Dumby.

"Your Majesty, this way please."

Dumby walked on the path silently, its right leg crossing a crack in the space. Just as it crossed, a black shadow came towards it with the desire to attack. Raise your right fist and swing forward.

The Air of Death wailed, its coldness condensing into a fist before a punch flew out. Boom! The air exploded. Circles of horrible clouds formed and twisted in the void in front of everyone's eyes as if a sword had flown past them.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The vines and branches were torn to pieces. The broken vines sprayed a large amount of green juice that rippled throughout the distorted air.

The impact of the punches fell on the trunk of the tree, and the sections that came into contact with this pressure collapsed instantly. The vitality of the trunk was robbed by the Air of Death. The withered trunk imploded, collapsing inward from the middle.

Boom!!

The Overlord-tier peak-grade Big Tree Demon still kept its vines in position even though its torso was broken to pieces. Finally, it hit the ground with a loud crash.

Dumby retracted its right fist as if what it had just done was of little importance. It then turned around and strode south.

Waiting until Dumby was far away, the Big Tree Demon on the floor that had been attacked took its last breath and let out a sigh as it burst, causing the dark gray of the sky to dissipate along with the wind on the horizon.

Yuzhou City, which had been rebuilt after the disaster, was once again in ruins. This city had turned into shambles for a second time, the repercussions of the first disaster still faintly visible in the ashes of the city.

Monsters with no aim in life scattered and wandered in the ruins. Some Tree Demon monsters would walk until they were tired before stopping, the sweep of their branches cleaning up the rubble and debris on the ground. After that, they would take root and begin to photosynthesize happily. They would eat meat and drink blood, but also absorb sunlight.

It was worth mentioning that after the Clam God left, the original sun had disappeared without a trace. Instead, it had left a vast expanse of sky above everyone's heads. It was eternal and lonely, remaining in the center of the sky.

While waiting for night to come, the sun would gradually subside, and the same long-standing crescent moon would take the place of the sun, hanging high in the sky.

They would both exist there, quietly overlooking the universe. It was only when the sun and moon needed to alternate that they quietly conversed. But now, Earth Star had already regressed to Jiutian Shidi, so the sun and moon above everyone's heads were the sun and moon of Jiutian Shidi.

Dumby came to the side of the Yangtze River. The mighty river surged with turbulence. While Dumby was standing by the riverbank, the river seemed to turn still. The tempestuous waters turned calm, so calm and emotionless that it practically became a mirror.

The surface of the water started to rise, condensing into the silhouette of a human made of pure water, its feet facing Dumby.

"This is something that Master asked me to give to you. You should know how to use it." Dumby took the phonograph and threw it towards the figure before turning away, for the two familiars never communicated much.

The human form accepted the phonograph and turned on its play button. Gao Peng's voice could be heard from it…

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Chapter 643: The Yangtze River Water God

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"Thank you so much for your efforts all this time. Though all the others familiars are following me by my side, you're left alone on Earth Star because your ability is needed there. Therefore, you'll have to stay there for the near future until further notice. I hope that you won't be mad at the decision I've made…"

The Growing Brain was over the moon upon hearing those words because it was expecting that Gao Peng would bring it home eventually.

"I believe that you will have successfully taken over the Yangtze River in this long period of time. This will be a great start for you there. Now, I would like to hand you a tough and vital mission, which is to take over the Pacific Ocean. However, you aren't required to complete the mission immediately. Instead, you may take your time, or you could reconsider my request after you've advanced into Saint-tier."

The water figure, whose body was made entirely of water, was hanging out above the water. It was holding the phonograph with its transparent hand and seemed to be in a good mood.

If it was to return to Gao Peng, the Growing Brain itself would have to live its life with its nose on the grindstone because he didn't allow his familiars to have breaks or enjoy their personal time. For example, Dumby was Gao Peng's number one hitman, but it had to spend most of its time staying by his side, except for holidays. What kind of prison life was that?!

Therefore, the Growing Brain would definitely turn insane if Gao Peng was to do this to it. It had already been a high-tier wild monster before being captured by Gao Peng. After turning into Gao Peng's familiar, it was told to take over the Yangtze River. Therefore, its days were spent in a "relaxing" manner, though it was the most violent familiar among the rest.

Recently, the Growing Brain was causing trouble and doing evil things in the Yangtze River as if it was trying to become the king of the river.

"Dad! Dad, look! There are a bunch of monsters trying to cross the Yangtze River in front of us!" An awful-looking devil fish with the face of a human peeped out of the water and stared right at the Growing Brain. The devil fish's cheeks were chubby and adorable. The Growing Brain burst into joy upon looking at the chubby devil fish. It couldn't help but pinch its chubby cheeks.

Once it had completely taken over the Yangtze River, the Growing Brain had fused entirely with the river and acquired immortality. Unless it had chosen to switch its target, or the Yangtze River evaporated entirely, or a Psychic-type monster tried to attack the Growing Brain itself through its soul, it would remain invincible.

"I see. We'll just let them pass." The Growing Brain didn't bother much with intruders, because there were too many monsters crossing over it every day. If it was to check on them one by one before they crossed over, it would be a waste of time.

"Dad! Those monsters were hunting down human beings."

Hunting down human beings? It must be Gao Peng and his team… The Growing Brain began contemplating. It had expected Gao Peng and the rest of the familiars might have forgotten about its existence after it had been away from the other familiars for such a long time. If it hadn't been for Dumby coming over to find it, it would have thought that Gao Peng had completely forgotten about it.

Seems like it still had to create a sense of existence around its master. In that case, it would have to do things by itself.

Besides, it had nothing else to do lately, because all the monsters living in the Yangtze River had turned into its adopted children. Therefore, its life was boring, as there weren't any competitors there to entertain it.

Boom!

The smooth river raised rapidly all of a sudden. The water then gathered and formed a Water Giant. It was standing in the Yangtze River with its left hand holding a trident. There was an infinite ring behind its head, and underneath his feet, there were two water dragons lying down.

"Who do you think you're messing with? I am Shen Chang, the supreme Yangtze River Water God. How dare you slaughter innocent civilians in broad daylight?! You shall be punished by my Trident!" The Water Giant roared in anger while striking its trident into the river, causing gigantic, overwhelming waves.

The Yangtze River had become even longer and wider after the Cataclysm. Moreover, the water level had rapidly increased by over a hundred times.

The giant surging waves were like the end of the world, swallowing everything around them. Several tree monsters that had failed to escape in time were caught by the waves and fell into the Yangtze River.

Those landlubbers who had fallen into the river became the food of the beasts in the water. Without any command from the Growing Brain, these "adopted children" charged directly towards the land monsters and tore them apart.

The bloody water had stimulated the intention to kill among these beasts, turning their eyes red. They peeped out of the water and stared at the civilians on the riverbank who were scared silly.

"Water… Water God?" An old monster trainer with a bristly unshaven chin was terrified by the gigantic Water God who came out of the river. He nearly fell onto the ground in his fright.

"This isn't right… According to history, there aren't any Water Gods called Shen Chang." One of the youngsters of the team, who was a fan of myths and legendary biographies, was confused. However, he kept that in his mind, because he was too afraid to share his thoughts with the team.

Actually, each and every thought of theirs had been heard clearly by the Growing Brain through its mind-reading ability. The Growing Brain suddenly recalled that it had once read something interesting in its memory. Therefore, it tried to trick them with its mind powers.

The effect of mind-reading wasn't quite obvious. It would only affect their personalities and minds at the surface level.

For example, imagine one was searching for a book in a sea of books, and he or she accidentally saw a random book. The person wasn't interested in the topic but right at that moment, a sudden thought told he or she to pick up the book and flip to the first chapter, and eventually, he or she was drawn into the story to the point that they could even write reviews for the author. People would usually call it destiny or fate.

The Water God disappeared shortly after appearing, and the Yangtze River returned to its peaceful look.

This group of people had decided to leave the Yangtze River probably due to their worries. They didn't station themselves at the riverbank. Instead, they took a break in a cave located at the mountainside.

"The thing that appeared that just now… was a god?" someone said doubtfully when they were taking a break.

"I'm not sure… but whether it's a true god from the myths and legends or not, it didn't seem to have any bad intentions toward us. It even saved our lives. Isn't that true?" said Huang Tao.

"You're shortsighted. Yes, it did save us from danger, but who knows what intentions it had?"

"Hmph! Even though someone saved you from death, you're still doubtful of others. The Water God shouldn't have saved you. Rather, it should have turned you into food for those beasts in the river," said Huang Yao while laughing coldly.

The man's expression changed slightly. Ingratitude was never a pleasant title. "No, that's not what I meant."

"What did you mean then?!"

"Enough! Knock it off." The team leader took a suck on his cigarette and spit out a mouthful of smoke. The thick smoke had his face entirely covered.

"After all, he was the one who saved us from being swallowed by those beasts. If we can… I insist we repay them next time." The leader, Lao Yan made this decision.

The main reason why Lao Yan had become the leader of the team was that he was a King-tier monster trainer. This was also the source of the entire team's confidence.

"However, it wasn't the Yangtze River Water God after all. How are we going to repay it? Even if I were to contribute these 200 pounds of gold, it would probably decline the offer!"

"Indeed, the Water God will definitely turn down your offer of a 200 pounds of gold." Lao Yan shot him a glance. "Think about what the gods needed in the myths and legends. Do you think they needed your gold?"

"Do you mean… a sacrifice?"

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Chapter 644: Sacrifice

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"Correct, a sacrifice." Lao Yan took one last suck on his cigarette, its tip glowing a bright orange. Tossing the cigarette butt into the campfire, Lao Yan inhaled the remaining smoke into his lungs.

"Isn't it like what they say in those myths? A sacrifice to appease the gods. Even if they end up not fancying it much, they still wouldn't hate it, right? Just slaughter a couple of fat pigs, two live cows, light some incense, then worship them a bit; that should be enough."

"All right." Everyone else agreed, as they didn't have any better ideas.

"If we can establish a good relationship with this river god, it would be another layer of safety for us." Lao Yan's murky eyes glinted with a well-honed craftiness.

After all, they were currently hunting in the vicinity of Yuzhou, which had been built along the Yangtze River. They didn't dare stray too far from Yuzhou, so having the blessing of this river god would definitely make their operations smoother.

"Hey, do you guys think that people back then worshipped their river and sea gods like this? Just so that these gods would bestow their divine protection upon them?" Huang Tao asked enthusiastically, appearing to be fascinated by the subject.

However, the rest of the group seemed to be less impressed by this talk of river gods, water gods, and the like. A few of them yawned widely, curling up in their sleeping bags and drifting off immediately, as evidenced by their loud snores.

Huang Tao wasn't disheartened by the lack of response. Instead, she got up and trudged over to the cave opening where her familiar, the Flowing Water Crocodile, was resting. Its dead fish-like eyes were staring unblinkingly at the tree in front of it.

Huang Tao crawled onto the crocodile's back. She sat there with her hands supporting her chin, gazing dreamily at the expanse of the river. River god… I wonder what kind of being you are.

"You're not asleep yet?" Lao Yan emerged from somewhere behind her. He sat down on the floor next to her, not caring about the dust and dirt that would surely sully his pants.

"Nope, can't sleep," Huang Tao said as she shook her head.

Seemingly looking through her, Lao Yan asked, "Are you still thinking about the river god?"

"Mhm." Huang Tao nodded and turned to look at Lao Yan. "Did you know that I had an encounter with the supernatural back when I was young? At that time, I was just five years old. My mother had gotten into a shouting match with my maternal grandfather at their house, which led to her leaving with me in tow. She carried me on her back as we made our way home through the night.

"On the way back, we came across a cemetery. Suddenly, we could hear my grandfather calling my mother's name from behind. Her expression darkened immediately, and she warned me to not turn around no matter what. Her pace quickened as she jogged along the path with me bouncing on her back.

"Despite that, the voice kept following us. At the start, it was calling my mother's name, but seeing that my mother ignored it, it elected to call my name instead.

"Being a naive child, I stupidly turned my head when I heard someone calling for me. When I turned around, I saw an old man in yellow clothes standing behind me, his face seemingly gentle and kind, like a wise grandfather. He had a child-sized yellow coat in his hands that he draped on my back. As I was young at the time, I was paralyzed with fear by that scene, so I could neither fight back nor scream.

"When we got home, I fell sick. It was a mysterious illness, one that couldn't be cured even by the medicine prescribed by the town doctor. At last, my mother brought me to her mother, my maternal grandmother. I told my grandma what had happened to me that day.

"My grandmother was a well-known medium in the villages in her district. She led me to a temple in the mountains behind her village to pray to its resident statue of a deity, which my grandma told me was a mountain god. After praying to the mountain god, I went back. After a night's sleep, my illness was miraculously cured.

"From that day onwards, I started to believe in the supernatural. Gods, ghosts, the whole package." Huang Tao smiled. "Long after that, whenever I told my friends about this experience, they wouldn't believe me. They thought that it was something that I had come up with myself, or claimed that I was too young to properly recognize what was happening."

"I see." Lao Yan nodded. "Some things are certainly hard to explain."

Three days later, next to the riverbank, a large bronze cauldron was erected on a relatively flat area of land. Inside the cauldron was a multitude of incense candles, their cloying scent spreading through the air.

There were a few small tables in front of the cauldron that served as altars. Arranged atop these makeshift altars were offerings such as melons and other fruits.

Originally there had been a smart aleck who had asked if a pair of children, a boy and a girl, were necessary as a sacrifice. Lao Yan had smacked the top of his head soundly and chastised, "A pair of children? How about some steamed lambs, steamed bear paws, steamed deer tails, roasted ducks, roasted chickens, and roasted geese?"

Despite the lack of the aforementioned dishes, there were still two healthy, bulky cows that were knocked out and tied up on the floor. As a child, Huang Tao had been taught the basics of these sacrificing rituals by her grandmother. After that fateful incident, Huang Tao's interest in this particular field had been piqued. Interest was the best teacher, thus by her own efforts, her knowledge of these things was fairly vast. Until now, she could still recall most of the steps that made up such a ritual.

As the clock ticked by, the ritual was finally concluded. However, there was still no response from the river in front of them.

"It can't be… it doesn't exist?" someone grumbled under their breath.

"Shut up," reprimanded another person standing off to the side.

"It'll work if we believe in it. Be sincere; have faith," said someone else softly.

Huang Tao stared at the Yangtze River with wide eyes, hope mixed with vague hints of desire overflowing in her heart.

Deep inside the Yangtze River, there was a consciousness. It suddenly sensed something strange happening. In the depths of its mental sea, a peculiar flow of warmth, originating from a mysterious source, flooded into its soul.

Despite the weak, unfulfilling flow that didn't contribute much to its satisfaction, its effects were instantly obvious. Just like hunger, which couldn't be satisfied by a mere mouthful of rice, this one mouthful was enough to spark the desire to devour more.

This feeling was… The Growing Brain started to trace the source of this energy.

"It seems like the River God isn't going to show up. Chief, let's just pack up and leave," one of the people said to Lao Yan.

Lao Yan couldn't help letting out a sigh as he glanced at Huang Tao's back. Huang Tao had turned 21 this year, and a lot of her features, like her petite stature, as well as her personality, reminded him of his late daughter who had been eaten by a monster during the Cataclysm. This was the main reason behind the care and concern that Lao Yan showed towards Huang Tao.

Whoosh, whoosh!

A strong wind suddenly whipped up by the river, where all of them were standing. The vicious wind caused their flags to billow wildly in the air. Whoooo… The wind howled ominously. All of the familiars paced uneasily, whimpering in fear or warning.

The surface of the water suddenly parted, and from within, a gigantic hand made of water emerged. It reached out and grabbed the peak of a mountain behind it.

Splash! The river surface parted again, another gigantic watery hand reaching out to grasp another mountain.

Even though it wasn't their first time witnessing this phenomenon, they were still stunned by a re-enactment of what had happened the last time.

Fwoosh! The water rose up in a formidable wave. The sun's rays shone on the riverbank through the water, coloring everything a shade of blue. It was as if a blue silk robe was draped over everything on the bank.

Not too far away, a platoon of monster hunters was on the hunt. Out of the blue, they heard a great commotion from the river at the base of the mountain. All of them scrambled to the edge and peered downwards, where a gigantic titan made of water was emerging from the river. It was almost as tall as the mountain they were on.

"Oh, sh*t, what's that creepy thing? I swear, it seems like Earth Star is getting scarier with each year."

"You're still looking?! Run!"

"Wait, bro, look at that." One of them pointed at the riverbank.

On the riverbank, no one had tried to run. Instead, their heads were raised, as if they were conversing with this mega-sized being whose sheer size went beyond anything ever recorded in history.

There were even those who whipped out their phones to take pictures and record videos.

In the frame of one of those recordings, a cold, emotionless voice could be heard reverberating through heaven and earth. "I am Shen Chang, the river god presiding over the Yangtze River. I came into existence in the Eastern Han dynasty and have been protecting the citizens near this river for more than 1,700 years…"

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Chapter 645: The Series of Dream God

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"The Yangtze River Water God, Shen Chang? What is this person trying to do?" Gao Peng, who was far away in the Black Fog World, had also received the news. On the second day after it was shot, this video spread like wildfire across the whole city of Hope.

In this era without religion, since everyone could only depend on themselves, the sudden appearance of a god was undoubtedly breaking news.

"Bah! This shameless Growing Brain! How dare it proclaim itself the Yangtze River Water God? It even said it blessed nearby citizens for about 1,700 years. How could it be so shameless?" Goldie exclaimed in an aggrieved tone. Such a pretentious opportunity should have fallen into my hands.

"I doubt anyone would trust a bald duck like you if you pretended to be a god," Flamy smirked, for it could tell what Goldie was thinking about.

"Nonsense!" Goldie burst into anger as its thoughts were exposed. "How could you mock me like this?"

"Was I mocking you? Yikes… Since when you dare to talk to me so loudly, Little Baldie?" Flamy said in a gentle tone.

Goldie couldn't help the quiver in its body as a cold sweat broke out on its bald head.

"It intends to follow the pathway of the Faith to God." Fatty Big Sea hit the nail on the head. With its experienced and intimidating insight, it could see through the Growing Brain's approach.

"Even though the pathway of Faith to God is the fastest to turn into a god, there are many disadvantages," Fatty Big Sea said.

"What are the disadvantages?" Gao Peng asked curiously.

Fatty Big Sea used its fin to stroke its chin and slowly nodded. "Let me tell you a story. Last time, there was an influence in the Wei Mian Sea. This influence was called the Series of Dream Gods, which had great power. The gods in this time were well-equipped with the magical, spirit, spiritual, and dream rules. They used to be the most influential back then, as they had a total number of approximately hundreds of gods."

"Hundreds of gods?" Gao Peng found it unbelievable, as this number was too big.

"Yes. Because the Series of Dream Gods had many, its influence increased tremendously at the height of its power. Within the Series of Dream Gods, there were four main god leaders—the Magical God leader, the Heart God leader, the Thought God leader, and the Dream God leader. The holy power of each god leader expanded vastly.

"It wasn't known how many of them wanted the Wei Mian Sea. It was also because their power was strong, so they became more ambitious. One day, the series of Dream Gods announced its slogan—Conquer Wei Mian Sea."

Fatty Big Sea heaved a deep sigh. "The expansion of their influence caused many other gods to be displeased with it, and after they announced their slogan, it even caused the gods to be filled with flames of fury.

"When the war started, countless gods from the Wei Mian Sea acted as though they had agreed on fighting together against the Series of Dream Gods. The war lasted for exactly 30 years. I also took advantage of this period to rise abruptly as a god, but when I became a god, the war had almost ended. Four of the god leaders were killed in the battle, or maybe only three were dead and one dream god leader went missing.

"Anyways, the Series of Dream Gods were damaged badly, and almost all the gods who were named were killed," Fatty Big Sea said.

"If it's as you say, then the Faith to God path must be very powerful, since it was able to develop so many gods," Gao Peng muttered.

"This was definitely the benefit of the Faith to God route. But first, you need to know that the reason why they could produce so many gods was that they also had a large group of believers," Fatty Big Sea uttered. "They became the guardians that looked after the needs of a large group of people from a certain race with low-level but comparably high IQ and mental strength, then turned them into passionate believers.

"The most important thing was that… the combat power of the gods that took the Faith to God route was the weakest among the other gods at the same level," Fatty Big Sea explained.

Gao Peng was a little surprised. "The Faith to God path creates the weakest gods? I thought the weakest path was…" Gao Peng kept his mouth shut, then stared at the Fatty Big Sea, grinning without a word.

"F*ck!" Fatty Big Sea was dumbfounded for an instant before it regained its composure.

"Forget about it! Forget about it!" Fatty Big Sea turned into a fat fish head in a grumpy mood while huffing, looking like a dolphin. No matter who asked it a question, it wasn't willing to say a word.

"If I ever tell you about these things again, then I'll become a dog!" Fatty Big Sea sneered. "A fat dog head!"

As Goldie heard that the combat power of the Faith to God was the weakest, it became uninterested immediately. Most of the other familiars under Gao Peng also had waning interest in the Faith to God path. This wasn't to say that they hated it, but they just stopped eavesdropping.

Birds of a feather flocked together, and it was the same for the monsters and familiars. Dumby, Da Zi, and Goldie, as well as the former god, Fatty Big Sea, that were at the Mythical grade, had caused Gao Peng's familiars to broaden their horizons. Hence, they would definitely be less interested in following Faith to God.

Only a few familiars couldn't restrain their desire. Moneymaker ran over eagerly. "What are you talking about? What is the Faith to God? It sounds like something very impressive."

As a non-combat Familiar, it was never Moneymaker's job to be involved in battle, and a soldier wasn't what it considered itself. It thought itself an excellent Moneymaker Mouse who was responsible for supporting the team diligently and shouting cheers at its big brothers.

"Are you okay, Little Brother?" Goldie squatted down and slapped Moneymaker's head. "How could you be so unambitious? Faith to God sounds like rubbish, and yet you said that you're interested in it!?"

Moneymaker stammered as it said, "Errr… I feel like Faith to God isn't bad…" Goldie looked too fierce to it.

"What's good about that d*mn thing?! Wait until I become a god, then I'll kill two individuals that followed Faith to God to entertain myself." Goldie chuckled.

"Stupid Baldie, come back here." Flamy couldn't bear watching this anymore. That's your choice to not believe in Faith to God, but please don't scare Moneymaker off. Moneymaker is indeed an adorable creature. Usually, it uses its ability to search for good food and present it to me. It's such a good mouse.

Flamy extended its neck, its beak sandwiched between Goldie's neck, and moved backward. Moneymaker glanced at this scene surreptitiously, hiding the smile in its heart. It hadn't introduced the bird to the wrong creature.

"Okay, okay! I'll stop talking. Flamy, you better not cause yourself to experience the symptoms of a miscarriage." Goldie smiled as it stooped down.

Excuse me?! Symptoms of a miscarriage?

The group of familiars immediately switched their attention, for their interest was piqued by that statement. The group of them stared Flamy down, causing Flamy to feel its body heat up.

"I… I'm not pregnant." Flamy was filled with unutterable anger in its heart. "I only gained weight because I've eaten too much recently."

"Oh, oh—" Gao Peng and the group of familiars revealed expressions that showed that they had known what was going on as they chuckled.

"Honk!!!" The skyrocketing flames enveloped Goldie, the blazing column rising to hundreds of miles high…

"Although the combat power of Faith to God wasn't considered high, at least it could make a god. No matter how weak a god is, it's still better than a Quasi God…" Gao Peng thought of an example when he mentioned it. He altered his speech pattern and said, "A weak god is still so much stronger than many other Quasi Gods!

"Also, the path of every familiar is different. The fact that Growing Brain could find a suitable pathway for itself is a good thing. As Fatty Big Sea mentioned about the Series of Dream Gods, I imagine the ability of the Growing Brain is quite similar to that of the Series of Dream Gods. Since others could pursue this pathway for this long and be this successful, it proves that the future of this route must be very bright."

Gao Peng said, "Since that's the case, our focus now is to support the Growing Brain to help simplify its route. If anyone of you has any ideas, feel free to express your opinions enthusiastically."

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Chapter 646: Common Believers

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"The most important thing about a belief is the degree of faithfulness. The more faithful a believer is, the more belief they can provide. Moreover, besides belief, the number of believers are also considered," the Windstorm Water Magic Spider said. It leisurely left once it had finished its words.

Gao Peng muttered, "Apparently, we need to plan this well. It would be great if we could produce a congregation similar to that of a church for the Growing Brain."

Later, Gao Peng had a discussion with his familiars, but they had absolutely no idea what was going on. Their experiences weren't varied enough, hence the advice they gave was similar—catch a group of people to believe in the Growing Brain, kill more monsters to make others have faith in it, and shave it, since only a god without hair would have believers.

As Gao Peng was speechless with their ideas, he went to find his grandfather for a discussion. Before he left, he purposely dropped by to sneak a glance at Xiao Cao.

Now, Xiao Cao's graft had already started the right path. The Magic Willow, which was rooted in the earth, was crazily absorbing the nutrients from the earth while Xiao Cao was settled on the Magic Willow, absorbing the nutrients from its body with all its might.

An electric fence had been built around this region to prohibit the entry of trespassers. The thick roots of the Magic Willow appeared like veins that penetrated the earth, with the soil swelling, causing the surface of the ground to look like a broken, ruined sight.

The flat ground was filled with pitted holes, resembling a patient whose body was severely injured and full of needle tubing for blood transfusions that continuously extended deep into the earth.

The radiance around Xiao Cao's body was growing more mystical, faintly beaming a flash of flirtatious red light. A gust of wind swept in from a distance away, and Xiao Cao swayed with the movement of it.

"Xiao Cao has turned to the right path." Gao Peng nodded, satisfied, calling out for the married birds, Goldie and Flamy, to take good care of Xiao Cao. Just then, he took the rest of the familiars to leave for the new Headquarters of the Southern Sky Group in the city of Hope.

"Faith to God?" Ji Hanwu murmured. "I know about this. I've heard about it from the historical accounts, but the Faith to God method isn't that simple," Ji Hanwu uttered seriously.

Gao Peng chuckled as he said, "I know it's not easy, but don't we have you, Grandfather?"

Ji Hanwu smiled faintly. "I can't guarantee it will be a success, but we can try our best."

"To believe in a god isn't a big problem, because many people are in need of spiritual support in an environment like nowadays. The spiritual support many of them look for is based on belief," Ji Hanwu said. "Maybe you don't pay attention to this issue normally, but in fact, based on the knowledge and understanding of the people now, it would be too hard to turn them into faithful believers."

"Especially when it comes to the people of the Huaxia region," Gao Peng confirmed.

"Yes… In ancient times, there were numerous devoted believers, but that was also due to their foolishness. Now, even if science isn't talked about… to transform them into faithful believers is still a rather difficult thing to achieve, but to make them common believers is simple.

"Common believers are also the simplest and easiest, because you don't need to truly believe in a god; you only need to make sure that you don't hate it or feel disgusted at it. As a matter of fact, many people are common believers, as they only pray once in a while or even only worship their god once a year. Moreover, they wear all sorts of pendants that represent gods on their necks or place a god's statue around their house or public areas. Even worse, they pray in their heart the day before an exam to make sure they can pass it. All these belong to the category of a common believer.

"Although common believers provide the least faith, the number of common believers is the highest." Ji Hanwu continued, "So we don't have to force these people to be faithful in the Growing Brain. We only need to make them change the name they're used to whispering during prayers to a new one."

Gao Peng seemed to be deep in thought. That being said, the simplest strategy for a god was to cooperate with the current royal court. That was why many dynasties loved to "create gods," and strictly forced the citizens to only believe in a certain god while labeling other gods evil. All this made sense.

"If you trust me, then just leave it to me. It just so happens that the senior officials from the Huaxia region invited me to collaborate with them not long ago. I can use this as an exchange of conditions with them." Ji Hanwu blew on his tea and slowly sipped it.

"Thanks for going to the trouble, Grandfather."

"These tea leaves were delivered by the Little Sparrow earlier. It said it was from a tea tree grown near the volcano. To put it in layman's terms, it has a strong desire to live." Ji Hanwu started laughing as he said, "That's quite cute."

"Let me try it." The curious Gao Peng lifted the teapot to fill a cup of tea for himself. The tea was red in color, and inside, a few pieces of pure white tea leaves floated on the surface of the cup.

Gao Peng looked like a cow chewing a peony, finishing the drink in one sip. The bitterness and stimulating feelings sprinted toward his taste buds. After these strong feelings disappeared, a strong aroma filled his mouth, leaving behind a faint fragrant smell and bitterness in the end.

The smell remained for a long time. A cup of tea was enough to make the aftertaste remain in Gao Peng's mouth for exactly half an hour. Gao Peng wasn't an expert in tasting tea, but he had a feeling that this type of tea leaves wasn't bad.

"Is the production rate high?" Gao Peng asked curiously.

"It's okay. About 75 to 85 pounds per year," Ji Hanwu answered. "I didn't ask anyone to harvest it because I felt that this type of tea leaves needs to be natural for the best quality. Human cultivation will cause that kind of smell to vanish."

"Oh, yeah! Your younger cousin was here recently. Anyhow, she's your younger relative, and you always bullied her when she was little. I figured you could help her search for a familiar." Ji Hanwu was discussing the matter with Gao Peng.

"No problem." Gao Peng nodded and recalled the little girl in her red robe with mucus flowing out of her nose.

After having dinner that night, Karen Chen came over.

"What type of familiar do you want?" Gao Peng was ready to bring Karen Chen to the laboratory. There were a few testers in the laboratory. Some were successful, while others were out of shape.

"You can choose one for me, older cousin. It'd be best to find one that has a similar personality to me." Karen Chen, who had tied her hair in a ponytail, was walking in front, as though she was bouncing about, She looked like a rabbit.

"Similar personality?" Gao Peng was astonished, then he nodded. "Now I know." As he brought Karen Chen to the laboratory, the familiars that were locked in each cage in the basement abruptly emitted continuous howling sounds. At that moment, it was complete chaos in the laboratory, as all sorts of monsters were shrieking loudly.

Gao Peng called out the Desolate Frost Lion. Desolion hit its foot on the ground, and a circle of cold and dignified blue light rays enveloped the whole laboratory, causing all the monsters in the laboratory to immediately calm down.

"Come and check a few of these familiars." Gao Peng opened the door and took out a few monsters from the cage to put them in front of Karen Chen.

Gao Peng looked like a farmer who had walked to his backyard to choose two big, fat hens from his poultry pen to serve his guests.

"Well… older cousin, can you introduce these monsters to me?" Karen Chen could sense that something was amiss.

"Oh, oh. You see, this is Big-Mouth Toad, Big Eater Pig, Greedy Devil Squirrel, and Hungry Giant Python," Gao Peng introduced the monsters to her one by one.

Karen Chen was speechless.

Chapter 647: The Chubby Boy

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"Then what are their positive similarities?" Karen Chen forced a trace of a smile onto her face.

"Hmm, if it's positives, then it must be their ability to eat." Gao Peng contemplated for a while as he gently stroked his chin. "Big eaters!" he exclaimed in a firm tone.

"Croak!" The Big-Mouth Toad stood upright, making a loud croaking sound. The swelling of its skin looked like pits that were quite terrifying to look at.

"C'mon, look at this guy! Even though it eats a lot, has lots of swelling on its back, and likes to fart when it sleeps, it's a good toad with a heart of gold."

Karen Chen was confused.

"And also this Big Eater Pig. Although it eats a lot, it grows a great deal of flesh! It never wastes its food, as it's determined to become a good pig that eats the least but has the most flesh." Gao Peng rapped the big ear of the Big Eater Pig. It made an oinking sound while it continuously nodded, showing its happiness.

Karen Chen breathed in deeply, thinking that if she was able to defeat Gao Peng, she would have jumped high up in the air to hit his head. Why does it feel like your impression of me is as a big eater?

"No way!" Karen Chen rejected firmly. "I want a good-looking familiar," Karen Chen finally came to the realization that she couldn't let her older cousin choose a familiar for her.

"Good-looking?" Gao Peng was stunned for a second, then muttered, "I didn't know that you were someone who judged a book by its cover."

Gao Peng wasn't demanding in terms of the outer appearance of his familiars, as long as they were capable and displayed good behavior. One could tell this from his early familiars, Stripey and Da Zi.

"Let me think about it." Gao Peng went silent for an instant and finally clapped his hands. "I thought of one. But I need to get permission from its' parents first."

Karen Chen followed closely behind Gao Peng, her eyes filled with suspicion, as she was extremely doubtful about her unreliable older cousin, Gao Peng, at that moment. Gao Peng brought Karen Chen out of the laboratory, leaving from the back door of the laboratory, then led Karen Chen in the direction they had come from earlier.

As they reached the backyard and passed through the small garden, the back of the garden had a large and wide lake. The lake wasn't very outstanding, and the scenery at the shore wasn't as magnificent as a picture. The only benefit of this lake was that it was rather large.

Pit-a-pat. Gao Peng squatted down to pat on the surface of the water. In a flash, a big silvery-white head emerged from the surface of the water. Two sharp antlers were growing on its forehead, and its huge watery eyes seemed very happy to see Gao Peng.

"Puff—" It sucked in a mouth of water and then spat it on Gao Peng's leg.

"You lost weight again recently, Chubby Boy," Gao Peng praised.

This big fish with long antlers on its forehead was the fat child of both the White Dragon and the Silver Dragon. When Gao Peng had first seen it, it had been as fat as a shining white silkworm.

Now, it not only had long antlers, but had also become thinner, as though it had turned on a beautifying face filter.

"I was only slightly plump earlier. I've returned to my original looks now." Chubby Boy wagged its tail happily by the shore.

"This is…" Karen Chen had hardly ever seen such a spiritual monster, causing her to be a little shocked.

"This is Chubby Boy, the son of the White Dragon and the Silver Dragon. It's filled with the blood of dragons in its body. It's a Descendant of Dragonblood."

"This is the offspring of Grandfather's familiars!" Karen Chen's eyes brightened, as she had heard what others said about the offspring of this type of advanced familiar.

Usually, the offspring of King-tier or even Emperor-tier familiars would be in great demand, as they were believed to be promising youngsters. Some of the familiars under King-tier monster trainers would certainly be King-tier familiars. However, the natural gifts of the King-tier familiars' descendants were incomparable to normal familiars. However, the offspring of these advanced familiars would normally not be for sale to outsiders.

They would only be passed down to their successors or relatives. Now, Chubby Boy had faintly revealed the early stage of development of the new hierarchy.

Inherited from one generation to the next, as long as the dominant traits could be maintained for a few generations, a creature would create a family with influential familiars for generations.

Although Chubby Boy's talent wasn't too bad, actually quite brilliant, Gao Peng wasn't ready to simply take any new familiars under his wing. Unless they had extraordinary abilities or attributes that were lacking in his team of familiars, he didn't need them.

If Flamy was really pregnant and gave birth to a little Fladie, then it would be a descendant of a double Emperor-tier couple at the Legendary and Mythical grades.

"If you're fond of Chubby Boy, you need to get approval from the White Dragon and the Silver Dragon first. If they don't agree, then I can't help it. Also, you need to ask for permission from Chubby Boy, as well," Gao Peng explained.

"I like it!" Karen Chen quickly nodded, staring eagerly at her older cousin.

Chubby Boy's outer appearance was a lot better than the rest of the four monsters, not to mention that it was of high quality, and most importantly, it was the offspring of the White Dragon she admired most.

Two long shadows at the bottom of the lake were approaching, causing a stronger pressure as they made it closer to the water's surface. Thud, thud!

Two long bodies escaped from the surface of the water. A splash of water fog rushed into the sky. As the mist settled, a faint rainbow was seen in the sky.

Gao Peng told the White Dragon and the Silver Dragon about the fact that Karen Chen was signing a familiar and was fond of Chubby Boy. The White Dragon and Silver Dragon glanced at each other, then lowered their heads to look at Karen Chen. The White Dragon hummed. "We have no problem with it as long as Chubby Boy himself is content with it."

The Silver Dragon turned its head over its shoulder to sneak a peek at Chubby Boy without saying a word, then swiftly chased after the White Dragon.

"It seems that the White Dragon's status at home isn't low." Gao Peng spoke as though he had realized something surprising and hid a grin on his face.

"Become a familiar?" Chubby Boy was totally dumbfounded. Do you want to turn me into a familiar?

"No, no, no—" Chubby Boy shook its head crazily.

Unexpectedly, the White Dragon and Silver Dragon, who they thought were the biggest obstacles, hadn't rejected them, but Chubby Boy disapproved of it.

"Ahhh, Chubby… Chubby Boy, why aren't you willing?" Karen Chen, who was squatting down by the shore, was anxious.

"Hmph. I get to eat and sleep every day in the lake. My life is so comfortable now. I don't want to be a familiar that's required to battle every day." Chubby Boy blinked its eyes, a tinge of cunning revealed deep in its eyes. "Unless Brother Gao Peng is willing to be my monster trainer. Then I would agree."

Gao Peng couldn't help but laugh at the fact that Chubby Boy had rather good taste even though it was slightly lazy. It could detect the most excellent human monster trainer at first sight.

As Gao Peng caressed his face, he thought that he could actually earn a living with his looks and didn't need to rely on his talent—it was so exhausting.

The smile on Gao Peng's face faded, and he said seriously, "I already have many familiars, Chubby Boy. If you can defeat one of my familiars, then I'll agree to accept you as my familiar. Can you do that?"

"Ahhh." Chubby Boy was perplexed.

"She's my younger cousin and has the same interests as you. I believe both of you will have many topics to talk about. Also, she's not a monster trainer who goes to battle." Gao Peng laughed as he said this.

Chubby Boy lowered its head into the water for a while. It only appeared back at the surface of the water after a long time, looking at Karen Chen with its thin white face. "Then… then you need to make sure to feed me lots of fish."

Karen Chen's eyes curved into crescent moon-like shapes. She kneeled down at the shore and lowered her waist carefully to touch Chubby Boy's head with her fair and clean palm. "Oh, great! My name is Karen Chen. Next time, I'll use all my pocket money to buy you fish."

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Chapter 648: Look for Me If You Want to Buy Fish

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The Yangtze River Water God's name was slowly spreading across the city of Hope. In fact, it was spreading like wildfire.

It was said that the Yangtze River Water God had been born 3,000 years ago. He had been a fisherman who was kind and helpful towards others when he was still alive. He would still be a good man even if he was reincarnated ten times. He was bestowed the title of Yangtze River Water God after he drowned in the Yangtze River, entangled in weeds while he was trying to save a child who had fallen into the river accidentally.

There was another saying that Shen Chang had previously been a big demon who had lived in the Yangtze River for more than a thousand years. A temple was built to worship it, and it was finally given the title of god because it constantly saved those who accidentally fell into the river and used its powers to regulate good weather for the common people living on both sides of the river.

Someone found a small temple covered in vines somewhere on a hill. Stone monuments were also dug up from the mud by the river.

All these rumors seemed to be true. Those who believed them became Shen Chang's followers. Those who didn't believe the rumors came to partially believe in them after the overwhelming news.

All of this was naturally a result of the actions of the Southern Sky Group and the authorities. Nonetheless, they still respected freedom of religion and wouldn't force anyone to believe in anything. However, those who did believe in the Yangtze River Water God could claim a small subsidy from the government every month.

After a period of time, the Water God Religion was formed in the city of Hope. It was almost the official religion of the region.

Despite the internal positions within the Water God Religion being too complex and having only a small number of people, they were all considered elite. At the moment, the position of the leader of the Water God Religion was shouldered by Huang Tao.

The Water God Religion didn't hold a lot of power because it was understood that too much authority could lead to the downfall of man. Thus, the religion had to accept the control and administration of the government.

The primary task of the Water God Religion was to be responsible for conducting the worshipping activities of the Yangtze River Water God. At the same time, if there was anyone that wanted to worship the Water God individually, that person would be able to reach out to the Water God Religion to be taught how to perform the ritual of worship by the relevant people.

With the passing of time, the reputation of the Yangtze River Water God Religion became greater, to the point that many groups would provide offerings to the Water God before going to Earth Star for monster hunts.

Reinforcements were provided from the Water God or its servants sometimes when they were incapable of fighting while faced with monsters. However, these people started to notice that something was wrong.

For example, the frequency of the Water God's appearances and his servants were connected to their beliefs, as well as frequency and intensity of worship.

Those who prayed internally and only lit a candle from time to time would only receive reinforcements from a few water monsters from the Yangtze River in times of danger. In other instances, they would be able to cross the Yangtze River safely without being attacked by any monsters in the river.

For those who worshiped more frequently or with higher intensity would receive help from stronger water monsters in times of danger. Sometimes, if they were extremely lucky, the Water God would help them personally. Hence, there were those who felt that the Water God was too biased…

However, there were those that argued against that by saying that in contemplation of the length of the Yangtze River and the immense number of followers of the religion, the Water God couldn't possibly help everyone at every moment in time. Along the same lines, of course, the Water God would first help those who were stronger believers. To blame the Water God for this would only be the follower's own fault for not being devoted enough in their belief. Of course, the formation of a new influence or religion was accompanied by many ups and downs.

Once the Water God Religion was on the right track, Gao Peng removed his focus on Earth Star temporarily and brought his familiars to the depths of the Black Fog World to hunt monsters and break them down to be trained and bred as familiars.

Gao Peng left Goldie and Flamy behind to take care of Xiao Cao. Xiao Cao was placed behind Grandpa's new villa after the grafting process. It was a large open space. There were low hills around to block peeping eyes, and there was even a small stream a distance away.

Goldie ate its dinner and patted its round belly as it stepped out for a walk with a swing in its steps. "Flamy, I've finished eating. I'm going out for a walk," Goldie said carefreely while it pushed its sunglasses up the bridge of its nose.

Flamy turned his head around to glance at Goldie and simply huffed before lowering its head and closing its eyes. Flamy waited for Goldie to venture further before getting up sneakily and quickly scraping the dirt to expose a hole in the earth. There was an iron box at the bottom, half-filled with dried fish.

Flamy looked down at its own round belly as hesitation appeared in its eyes. It then quickly became determined as it convinced itself that it would only have the strength to lose weight with a full stomach!

Goldie didn't bother to hide and walked on the main road as carelessly as if it was a bully inspecting its territory. Looking left and right, it didn't even let go of the chance to scare a bird pooping by the side of the road.

"Why are you sh*tting here?! Don't you know that this is my territory? I sure didn't allow you to sh*t here. Eat sh*t. You better hold it in!" Goldie picked up a stone from the ground and threw it at the bird, then cackled uncontrollably as it watched the bird fly away in panic while still pooping.

"Caw, caw, caw—"

Goldie cackled as its sense of mischievousness was largely fulfilled. Sweeping a hand across its bald head happily, Goldie continued to walk towards Old Ji's villa.

There was a shoulder-length haired girl in a long red dress walking in the opposite direction alongside a thin white fish with horns on its head. The water particles from the air were absorbed by the fish and condensed constantly to form a small water bubble that enveloped its body.

Goldie took a short glance before turning its eyes back again. Even though Goldie was usually arrogant, it would never bully other monster trainers, especially those living nearby, because there was no telling if they were Master's friends. These days, even gangsters were cultured beings.

"Oh, Chubby Boy, my allowance has been spent only on buying you fish, and I only get a million Alliance dollars per month … How about I buy you more fish next month?" Karen Chen sighed. Chubby Boy was too picky in eating and refused to eat normal fish. It would only eat fish at the Commander tier or above.

Commander-tier fish were sold by the pound, so they didn't come cheap. It would still cost at least tens Alliance credits no matter how small the fish was.

"A million?" Goldie stopped in its tracks as its eyes flashed beneath its sunglasses. It couldn't resist taking a sharp intake of breath. This girl doesn't even look that old. I can't believe she's so rich! Could she be the legendary Kay?

After turning its head to properly look at Karen Chen, it proceeded to walk towards her confidently. "Hey, little lady, are you buying fish?"

"What?! Ah… Ah." Karen Chen was stunned by the sudden sight of a talking duck in front of her.

As Goldie's left hand silently moved into its own pocket, feeling the warmth of the cash between its fingers and its personal savings plan, it came up with a plan. "I'll sell fish to you on the condition that you don't haggle with me. Five… six… one thousand! One fish for a thousand!" Goldie gave a ridiculous price.

Initially, being as greedy as it was, Goldie wanted to ask for a thousand and five hundred for a fish, but considering that it could scare her off, it settled on a thousand.

"Goldie?" mused Karen as she began to recognise him even though it didn't recognize her. There was no one who didn't know of Gao Peng's famous familiars.

"Did you say a thousand Alliance credits?" asked Karen, her expression conveying consternation. Her monthly allowance was only a million Alliance dollars, equating to a thousand Alliance credits.

Even though she still had some personal savings, she wouldn't be able to buy much.

"Alliance credits? I meant Alliance dollars! Don't think that you can use those worthless things to fool me. Gao Peng already told me that Alliance credits are a scam! I may be a duck, but I've seen more than a hundred movies and plenty of television series. My life experience is greater than you can imagine!" Goldie flared up.

Karen Chen was suddenly confused. Do you have some sort of misconception towards the market value of Alliance credits?

Karen Chen thought of something suddenly. Is this how my devious cousin has been tricking this silly duck all along?

Nodding her head without revealing her thoughts, she said, "I'm sorry, Goldie, I misspoke. To show you how sorry I am, I've decided to give you an extra thousand Alliance dollars for every fish. I'll buy every fish for 2,000 Alliance dollars. What do you think?"

Only then did Goldie's anger dim as it laughed internally. This silly girl. I conned her just by pretending to be angry. This is a prime example of the rich being stupid.

"All right then, but I've been busy as of late, so I don't have the time to fish currently. Leave the money with me, and I'll go to the river to catch a few fish for you later. Trust me. I won't cheat you out of your money," Goldie said as it nodded with satisfaction. It then turned around to walk back.

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Chapter 649: Heart Ant

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On top of a snowy mountain in the Black Fog World, Gao Peng sat on Fourth Baby's back while directing a group of young Dragon Ants into battle.

"Elder Baby, go forth and attack. Control that Snow Demon Lion," ordered Gao Peng through their psychic connection. The psychic connection space was filled with the chatter of the other young Dragon Ants.

"Big brother, quick! Use your enormous teeth to bite it."

"Big brother, you're so good at this!"

"Make way, make way." Third Baby, which was a Power King Kong Ant, though it was as small as a bean, rode on the back of Elder Baby as Elder Baby charged toward the Snow Demon Lion. The Snow Demon Lion roared in anger and bit the head of Elder Baby, causing it to involuntarily take a step back, its foot landing on Third Baby's head coincidentally.

Both silly and stupefied, the thought of retreating didn't cross Third Baby's mind, even if it had been hit in the head. Instead, it charged forward relentlessly. its body length of five feet made it look pocket-size compared to the other Dragon Ants as it shouted, "Charge!"

Third Baby rushed forward to grab the Snow Demon Lion with its claws and tried to hurl it with all its might. Thud! The earth's surface shook, snow exploding everywhere.

Elder Baby and the Snow Demon Lion were both picked up by Third Baby and thrown aside.

Elder Baby breathed out streams of white smoke through its nostrils, howling excitedly because the more injured it was, the stronger its healing abilities and strength would become. It didn't fear injuries at all unless there was a possibility that it could be killed in one go.

Its dark red armor became brighter. Elder Baby's Blood Rage ability was triggered passively, inciting an increase in its strength. Its two front claws dug into the Snow Demon Lion's fur as blood came gushing out.

"Second Baby, use your Diurnal Pupil, but be careful not to harm Elder Baby and Third Baby," ordered Gao Peng from the side. "Fifth Baby, wait for the right timing."

Second Baby's huge pair of eyes brightened to the point that they finally shot out two streams of white light, piercing through the Snow Demon Lion immediately, boring two holes in its body.

The enraged Snow Demon Lion started closing its large jaws in pain, and a sickening crunching sound came from Elder Baby's neck where the Snow Demon Lion was biting its tough armor that slowly caved in and broke, so it was almost decapitated.

Fifth Baby, the Hidden Dragon Ant, crept up behind the Snow Demon Lion silently, then its slender legs cut into the Snow Demon Lion's spinal cord precisely, like a surgical blade.

The Snow Demon Lion's jaws stopped mid-bite and could no longer continue closing. As the light in its eyes quickly dimmed, a burst of anger shone through at the last moment. If I'm going down, I'm bringing it down with me.

The Frost Breath within its body burst through, making the snow mountain shake ferociously as the freezing cold current swept in every direction. The remaining ice in the air swiftly formed small, irregular polygons.

Rumble— The entire snow mountain reverberated with the echoes of explosions. With a great boom, the snow mountain nearby collapsed, subsequently causing an avalanche.

The Snow Demon Lion's jaws suddenly clenched close, its teeth sinking into Elder Baby's neck. Elder Baby's body trembled.

"Big brother, don't die!"

"Big brother!"

"NO!"

The group of young Dragon Ants wailed and shouted.

"…I'm not dead yet," whispered Elder Baby weakly. The psychic connection space quieted immediately.

"Quickly, Third Baby, help Elder Baby open up the jaws of the Snow Demon Lion," said Gao Peng to Third Baby.

"Okay!" Third Baby was very obedient. Whatever Master said, it would do it. It climbed onto the Snow Demon Lion, grabbed its lower jaw, and opened it.

Elder Baby pulled out its head accordingly, its neck bloody and its head almost bit off, with only a small part of flesh still connecting its head to its body.

Elder Baby laid on the ground quietly while the injury on its neck healed swiftly. It closed its eyes as it lay on the ground, the speed of healing increased as it actively used its Blood Rage ability, temporarily numbing the pain.

"Not bad. You have all killed a Level-75 Perfect-grade Snow Demon Lion, but you still have to work on your cooperative skills, because theoretically, the tacit understanding that you all should have from being born from the same mother, plus the existence of Seventh Baby's psychic connection, should be higher. Seems like all of you have to work on your tacit understanding," said Gao Peng.

On Gao Peng's shoulder sat another Dragon Ant. Among the seven brothers, the smallest ant wasn't Third Baby, the Power King Kong Ant, but Baldie.

Baldie was only as big as a human palm, so small that it could be carried around in one's pocket.

[Monster Name: Heart Ant (Baldie/Seventh Baby)

[Monster Level: Level 72 (Overlord-tier)

[Monster Grade: Epic

[Monster Attributes: Psychic

[Monster Abilities: Psychic Barrier Level 6, Psychic Shield Level 6, Psychic Snooping Level 6, Reinforced Psychic Abilities Level 6

[Monster Weaknesses: Poor in close combat, weak life-preservation ability

[Special Characteristics: Psychic Space (Every Heart Ant has an independent psychic space deep within their soul. They're able to invite the consciousness of other beings into this space and are able to maintain communication between each other within a certain perimeter.

Passive Effect 1: The ability to communicate with beings that cannot have a conversation, for example, stones, provided that they are conscious.

Passive Effect 2: The ability to invite different units of beings into the psychic space to communicate. At the same time, the speed of time in the psychic space is ten times slower than in the outside world.

Tip: The connection to the psychic space will automatically be cut off if the distance is too far away from the Heart Ant)

[Monster Description: A mutated Dragon Ant that swallowed part of a Psychic Dragon, hence it has a mutated part of a Psychic Dragon's abilities.

Baldie was a Heart Ant. It had initially resolved to learn how to fly, which it eventually did, but it was still far off from its vision of being big and mighty. Thus, a little Dragon Ant with big dreams was said to have lost itself on the road to fulfilling an ant's life.

Once upon a time, Baldie had wanted to be a hero, but it realized later on that it could only be a sidekick and as such, it lost itself when it realized the difference between its dreams and reality.

It hadn't been able to accept reality for the longest period of time until Gao Peng had shown it a movie and told it that there was no such thing as weaknesses; there was only the weak. From then on, Baldie had let go of its internal conflict and trained its abilities with exceptional fervor.

When it was in the Black Fog World, Baldie constantly snuck out at night to train its abilities. It used its psychic abilities to brainwash wild monsters, persuading them that it reigned superior or used it to brainwash them into committing suicide. It might have seemed rather cool, but after an incident where it was almost eaten by a King-tier monster, it never dared to sneak out alone again.

After that, Baldie never believed in the nonsense Gao Peng spouted again. Everything he said, that there was no such thing as weakness and only the weak, it was all rubbish!

Second Baby, who was actually smart although it seemed silly, had once discussed this with it in the dark. "I can't believe you actually believed what he said. Have you ever seen our Master tame familiars with poor grades?"

"Hmm…that's true," said Baldie.

To a certain extent, its abilities were very similar to the Growing Brain in that both of them were Psychic-types. Their differences were found only in their specialties.

The Growing Brain's Seizing Ability allowed it to have an extremely strong vitality and combat prowess, whereas Baldie's ability leaned toward support and defense, which was natural to it.

In fact, the ability of the Psychic Dragon wasn't quite useless. Its powers specialized in something called the Psychic Cage. Such an ability could lock a monster's consciousness within an enclosed space while causing trauma to its consciousness and soul through intense psychic attacks. Additionally, considering that time in the Psychic Cage would be slowed down, only monsters with an extremely strong consciousness would be able to escape.

This ability had mutated when it transferred to Baldie… However, despite this ability being a disadvantage to Baldie personally, it was a major help to the entire team in the sense that it largely elevated the tacit understanding between team members.

That day, Gao Peng had only been trying out Baldie's abilities to meld his familiars' cooperation and train their understanding of each other, but it seemed to him that it was still a work in progress.

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Chapter 650: The Venomous Lizard King of the Blood Sea

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"Gao Peng, the issue with them is simply that they don't practice enough. Although they share the same birth mother, it's still essential for them to have battled together since they were young in order to acquire tacit understanding between each other." Fatty Big Sea shook its head and proceeded to dive right into the pile of snow and swim to its heart's content.

"The only way to build tacit understanding between them is to frequently train them in battle together," Fatty Big Sea emphasized once again in a serious tone.

Gao Peng spent a moment in deep thought and concluded that Fatty Big Sea did have a point. And so, for every single battle in the following period of time, Gao Peng formed a battle team with seven individual Dragon Ants, assigning each a variety of opponents, all of which were acquired from countless terrains and environments, ranging from great snowy mountains to volcano colonies, swamps, hills, plains, and many more.

Of course, as this all happened, the other familiars weren't left idle; Flowing Light, Desolion, or Da Zi, were all occupied with hunting monsters.

Every night, Dark Child would be kept busy, as heaps after heaps of monster bodies were brought in, awaiting their decomposition into various rare resources. For Gao Peng's familiars to raise their tiers so quickly, Dark Child most certainly played a role of utmost importance.

During this time, it seemed as though Gao Peng hadn't gotten any rest at all, because every monster had its own territory, and especially those of higher tiers possessed an evidently stronger sense of territory. Because of this, the search for different monsters of high tiers was a rather time-consuming task.

But of course, that was all there was to it. It was merely time-consuming since the procedure wasn't too complicated. It was exactly because of their strong sense of territory that, when approached by monsters of similar or slightly lower tiers, they would be extremely infuriated!

Subsequently, monsters in their territories would show themselves to protect their territorial rights. If the invading monster had a lower tier than them, they would appear aggressive and incomparably arrogant, putting these bold trespassers in their place as the owners. By eating all of them.

In the case that they came to the realization that the trespassing monster was at a tier much too high to compete against… they would resort to fleeing in secret. And as for the territory, well, they would simply have to find more land to take over.

Gao Peng would always send a little Dragon Ant as bait—this way, not only would he not scare the smaller monsters away with a high tier, but he would also be able to lure them out.

Under so much training, their tiers, as well as the tacit understanding between the seven little ones, shot up at amazing rates.

The bark on the surface of the Magic Willow grew wrinkled, its trunk shriveled and dry. Like an extract seeping into its body, its scarlets roots were encased in a steady stream of scarlet light that was gradually being absorbed into Xiao Cao's body.

The roots overflowed with color, scarlet liquid flowing through them. Their slow squirms made them seem as though they were full of life.

Xiao Cao had since then become incredibly huge, like a humongous tree that grew robustly, towering over everything else in the middle of the valley. The aura encircling Xiao Cao began to grow dangerous. On its left, a vile Dark Power had spread across the place, while on its right, clean, white streaks of Light Power bloomed from its surroundings. Light and darkness perfectly divided the valley into two halves.

Under the blanket of Light Power, the plants growing on the right half of the valley became radiant and stood tall with confidence. Even their petals seemed to have grown a tad bit prouder.

Meanwhile, on the left portion of the valley, the plants gradually fell gloomy under the darkness. A number of them even looked extremely displeased, as if they would turn violent any second—they just didn't seem easy to get along with.

The amounts of elemental power consumed by Saint-tier and Overlord-tier monsters were completely different, just like how trains and cars consumed different amounts of fuel and electricity.

Xiao Cao was not only absorbing the power of life of the Magic Willow; it was also absorbing the Elemental Power of the heavens and earth with the help of the Magic Willow's body. By adding the two together, Xiao Cao's tier and growth rate continued to skyrocket at an alarming rate.

Flamy stopped at the entrance of the valley and lay back on the grass watching Xiao Cao's evolution. From time to time, it picked up a couple of slices of dried fish from the plate next to it and put them in its mouth.

To monsters with tiers like Flamy's, the flesh of regular monsters wasn't sufficient for any sort of upgrade. There was hardly any difference in consuming Emperor-tier flesh or Normal-tier flesh, because both filled its stomach anyway. Because of that, Flamy would normally opt for marinated spicy dried fish.

"Why hasn't Goldie come back yet?" Flamy squinted and let out a satisfying burp. Goldie had been sneaking out to play a lot recently. Under normal circumstances, Flamy would have been pissed, just because. But well…since Goldie had previously bought dried fish snacks for Flamy, it decided to just let the little Baldie go this time around.

On the other side, somewhere in the middle of the Land of 1,000 Streams, Goldie strode across the creek in an exaggerated manner while holding a fishnet that was dotted with vibrant colors. The light reflected off the many Fish-type monsters trapped inside.

"Ha!" Goldie grunted, slamming its right foot into the river. The several-hundred-foot-wide creek began to shake, and a 230-foot-high wave exploded from the surface of the water. A few moments later, a big fish with its eyes rolled backward into its brain slowly rose to the top, revealing itself on the surface of the river…

A very excited Goldie hauled the fish by its tail and flung it into the net, and proceeded to count carefully, "One, two, three, four… twenty-one."

"I've done it!" Goldie exclaimed, its voice carrying evident excitement as it tilted its head back in laughter. It leaped into the air at least a couple hundred feet high, jumping around like a happy little duckling.

Boom! The ground beneath began to rumble violently, and within a few seconds, Goldie had swiftly disappeared on the horizon, nowhere to be found.

A few monster trainers who were hunting on-site had the privilege to witness everything unveil before their very own eyes. They wiped off the beads of sweat forming on their foreheads, their minds in sync: The Black Fog World is indeed a dangerous place.

As time silently slipped past, the number of monsters roaming Earth Star had noticeably decreased; the mutated Tree Demon monsters had also stopped spawning endlessly—it was safe to say that the situation on Earth Star was gradually growing stable. Apart from the Tree Demon monsters, there were no unwelcome invasions by any new monsters or mutant monster trainers in sight.

The experienced tribal monster hunters snuck in through the passageways and to their surprise, found no planned ambush on the other end, as though there was no one for miles. It was as if the mutants hadn't heard the news of their arrival.

Not more than three miles away laid some sort of huge monster gathering spot. The groups of monsters inside had flourished in terms of intelligence. They seemed to have a clear division of labor and were even observed supporting other monsters, with a Quasi God-tier monster as their leader.

"Ze Hai, you've exceeded my expectations of being a monster trainer at such a young age. The future growth of our Poison Marsh Tribe depends on you now," Ze Yuan showered Ze Hai with praise.

"It's all thanks to Grandfather's excellent teaching," Ze Hai replied calmly in a humble tone.

Behind Ze Hai laid his familiar, looking so incredibly strong that it was impossible to tell what it had originally looked like; the difference was like the one between ice and fire.

Spanning a height of over 160 feet with its tail at a length of over 650 feet, it had blood-red scales the size of tabletops and emerald eyes that sparkled with a mysterious glow. The rich smell of blood laced with frightening poisonous fog spread around its body like haze, creating a blurry effect.

This kind of hegemonic body size was unique and uncommon, especially for the Poison-type familiars of the Poison Marsh Tribe. Poison-type familiars were usually considered petite compared to other familiars of the same tier, but Ze Hai's Venomous Lizard King of the Blood Sea was undoubtedly a striking rule breaker.

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Chapter 651: Ruins

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"If your familiar can evolve to a Quasi God, then our Poison Marsh Tribe will also have the opportunity to fight against the other top tribes." Ze Yuan's eyes gleamed with a trace of hope. He had always hoped for his own tribe to become stronger one day. This was also every tribe members' innermost ambition.

This sense of glory had already been engraved in the depths of their souls. In fact, even if Ze Hai did become a Saint-tier monster trainer, his innermost dream was still to make his tribe grow stronger until it was the best tribe. Then, not only did he want to be a Saint-tier monster trainer, but he also wanted to become a Quasi God monster trainer, and even a legendary… god.

If he had been his past self, he would have treated this as wishful thinking at most. After obtaining the mysterious ability, Ze Hai suddenly felt that this was in fact not impossible, as it had only taken him more than a month for his own familiar to evolve from Overlord to Saint-tier.

What if he gave himself a year, or maybe even ten years? There was something in Ze Hai's eyes that gradually surfaced—it was called ambition.

"Yeah, I'll become a Quasi God," Ze Hai said lightly.

Ze Yuan, after seeing Ze Hai's attitude, didn't get mad. Instead, he praised Ze Hai while laughing heartily. "Nevertheless, this is the attitude of a gifted person."

After Ze Yuan left, Ze Hai cocked his head to one side, pondering for a moment, then the corners of his mouth lifted, forming an amused smile. He thought of his childhood days. After being bullied by children of the same age from the tribe, he had cried for his grandfather, only to be slapped in the face.

Until now, he still remembered the way his grandfather had looked at him. "You can't even win a fight. You really are that woman's son, trash, just like her tribe members."

Gifted? Haha. While taking a deep breath, Ze Hai thought of his hazy memory of the woman. He whipped his head back, eyes gazing at the sky.

The battle on Earth Star was beginning to come to an end. The number of Tree Demon monsters wasn't as frightening as one would imagine. After experiencing the previous wave, when a great number of Saint-tier Tree Demon monsters had been hunted down, those remaining wouldn't be able to survive for long.

The ones who had suffered the biggest losses in this battle were neither the humans from Earth Star nor the ancient tribes, but rather, the monsters that had originally lived on Earth Star.

They had already faced the risk of being hunted down. Later, when the humans finally moved away, after not even two days of living peacefully, a large group of hungry Tree Demon monsters came out of nowhere and gobbled them up.

On the boundaries of Earth Star, ruins were left one after another. Even corpses couldn't be seen, as they were completely eaten. However, the only good thing was that they hadn't consumed souls. Even though the smell of death lingered in the air, the departed spirits were still everywhere.

Despite that, even the always indifferent and noble Dumby that appeared in the outside world couldn't help but feel happy. Its burning Soul Flames were jumping for joy in their eye sockets.

From afar, a strong wind came from between the mountains. When the winds blew by, sobs from the departed spirits could faintly be heard in the air.

Dumby took a deep breath, inhaling the ashy fog. Its right foot halted in midair for a millisecond, and afterward, resolutely stepped on the ground, taking long strides to a faraway destination.

While Dumby was leaving the mountains, the ruins lost their usual gloominess as the sun illuminated the land. From the north to the south, in the realm of its own senses, Dumby could clearly feel the air filled with death from all over the world. Whenever there were people, or even monsters, dying, no matter where they were, the Air of Death would linger.

The origin of the Air of Death was still unclear, as monsters that could sense the Air of Death were extremely rare. The internal part of Earth Star currently didn't launch any relevant research on it. Maybe in the future, there would be experts researching it and also experimenting with the method of its dissipation, however, there was no such thing at that moment.

Dumby could clearly sense which locations had an intense Air of Death; the more intense the Air of Death was, the heavier the Yin energy would be, and more souls could be found in those areas.

In just half a month, Dumby had finished walking around the whole Huaxia region and upgraded two more levels. Currently, Dumby was rushing to the Jinsha region, preparing to travel from the Jinsha region to Europe, and after that, around Africa. As such, it would more or less have covered already all the major places on Earth Star. Even if there were still some minor places it hadn't visited, it didn't matter to it.

Gao Peng, who was hunting for familiars in the Black Fog World, suddenly stopped what he was doing. He had just received Feedback from the Soul Power through his Blood Contract.

This Soul Power's Feedback came from Xiao Cao's Blood Contract. After evaluating the Soul Power's Feedback, Gao Peng estimated that Xiao Cao was at Level 79 or 80 already.

For Xiao Cao's sudden rise in level, it seemed that the role of Magic Willow had already reached its optimum effect. What a pity that Magic Willow's rank was still a bit lower. If only it was Level 84 or above, then maybe Xiao Cao could have used this opportunity to achieve a breakthrough and become Saint-tier.

Unfortunately, they never captured a Saint-tier flora monster with a higher class again. Saint-tier flora monsters were very rare. One could only come across them with luck. Meeting them was already a fate, so they couldn't just demand a rare flora monster according to their wishes.

However, Gao Peng's hunt was also coming to an end soon, as there was one important matter that required his immediate return. As he brought his familiars with him to return to the city of Hope, after a period of cultivation, these familiars became stronger and fiercer, and even their levels were higher than before.

Coincidentally, Fourth Baby had made a breakthrough and became an Overlord-tier a few days ago. Gao Peng had managed to return to the city of Hope in about five days. From afar, one could see the three perimeter walls surrounding the city.

The distance between each perimeter wall was tens of miles. Crops were planted in between both the outermost and middle perimeter walls, and there were a few buildings there, too.

In both the middle and innermost perimeter walls was a relatively low-rise building complex. There were also some buildings that could be seen from time to time. They included a courtyard manor, hunting ground, wrestling ring, monster cultivation center, slaughterhouse, and a few other large buildings.

There were a lot of monster hunters constantly patrolling, so the chances of the city of Hope being breached were extremely small. If the war really reached the city, then the only thing that separated them was a dispensable perimeter wall.

Of course, because of its location, outside of the first perimeter wall, the land around there was also extremely cheap, and there were a lot of preferential policies. Hence, the Southern Sky Group purchased a whole quarter of the land in this area, carrying out large scale construction and building cities in between the walls.

Gao Peng, riding on Fourth Baby, fell from the sky and slowly landed in that area.

In the sky, there were monster trainers patrolling on Griffins with sharp swords by their sides. After seeing Gao Peng's figure, they stopped and hovered one after another for a moment to salute him. Fourth Baby slowed down while Gao Peng nodded to them. While nodding, Gao Peng inadvertently noticed a figure.

Wearing a peaked cap with a tall and sturdy physique, it was dragging a hemp rope on one shoulder, and behind them was a large fishing net that was loaded with fish.

Gao Peng finally recognized it as Goldie. At this point, Goldie also saw Gao Peng and shivered.

It hurriedly grabbed a fish from the fishing net with its left hand and swallowed it.

Gao Peng withdrew his line of sight. Forget about it… He was too lazy to argue over a trivial matter.

Landing on a lawn, Gao Peng jumped down from Fourth Baby's back before recalling it, then took large strides to the group headquarters, arriving at the top floor.

While receiving a phone call, Grandpa's back was facing Gao Peng, "Send someone to capture those newly discovered monsters in the eastern region as soon as possible and quickly send evaluators to assess them. For those with cultivation value, capture and domesticate them. If they don't have cultivation value, just kill them all. Collect all the resources and continue to expand the search for new monsters."

Hearing movements behind him, Ji Hanwu turned around and glanced at Gao Peng, a smile plastered on his face. Gao Peng waved at him, indicating that there was no hurry and they could talk after Grandpa finished the call.

After talking for a while, Ji Hanwu finally hung up. His face was full of smiles as he stepped forward and squeezed Gao Peng's shoulder. "Even sturdier."

"Grandpa, do you still remember the site of the historical remains? I still remember the last time you said that they would be opened soon," Gao Peng said.

"You want to go inside?" Ji Hanwu was stunned for a moment, then nodded. "No problem! In fact, the Sang Tong Tribe has been in contact with us. Last week, Tong Ling came over and asked whether we wanted to go. Since I thought that you wouldn't be coming back, I didn't reply."

"Of course I would like to go." How could he not go? He had been thinking about the historical remains for a long time already! Not only that, but Fatty Big Sea had said that these kinds of historical remains were very likely to be the former land of gods or maybe gardens that were formerly established by gods.

Generally speaking, gods that had capabilities to do things like this didn't exist for nothing.

"Okay. Then I'll go and reply to that lady from the Sang Tong Tribe. Travelling such a long distance just to inform us, she really was considerate."

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Chapter 652: The Levitating Island

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The relic was located on the Polo Surface, which was a wasted surface. A fierce war had happened on the wasted surface before, leaving countless people dead or injured.

The world had broken apart after the chaos, leaving destructive turbulence to flow through the sky. The ferocious space was full of fractures, with lightning and storms crossing over each other. This was Gao Peng's first impression of the Polo Surface.

"Let's not separate. It's extremely dangerous here, and there will often be destructive behemoths appearing beyond the World Barrier," said the leader to the team. He was the Quasi God monster trainer of the Green God Tribe. By sending a Quasi God into the tribe to lead the team, it showed how important the mystery land exploration mission was to the Green God Tribe.

Gao Peng thought that the people would go against him at the very beginning. However, he was surprised when he realized that they were treating him very well. Furthermore, even the Quasi God monster trainer was kind towards him. He was treating Gao Peng like his junior. Sometimes, he would even ask Gao Peng for advice.

This made Gao Peng regretful, because he realized he had been judging a person unfairly with his own despicable mind.

"Roar!" A continuous roaring sound came from the back of the space fracture. The sound then gradually faded away after a few seconds.

Qing Yunnan's face was pale and wan. "It's a little bit unfortunate that we came today. There's a destructive beast wandering around here."

"A destructive beast?" One of the Saint-tier monster trainers in the team suddenly changed his expression.

The destructive beast they were talking about wasn't only a kind of monster, but a major beast category. They lived on the surface rift of the Surface Sea and were known as crevice monsters. Fresh air was like poison to them. Although it wasn't as deadly as toxic gas, it would still make them unwell if they inhaled it excessively.

Due to their critical weakness towards fresh air, they would never appear in the normal world. Furthermore, they rarely appeared in the broken world, either.

They were like the predators of the shore. Although the food in the water was delicious, unless it was necessary, they would never simply go into the water.

As these monsters lived in the Spatial Rift, they were often dubbed as "those who lived in the crevice." However, the Spatial Rift wasn't paradise to them.

In fact, the environment in the Spatial Rift was extremely harsh. There were massive void windstorms all over the space, mixing up with chaos turbulence, destructive lightning, floods, and many more natural disasters. Therefore, the monsters that were able to survive under such harsh conditions were extremely ferocious.

A vague giant figure with red scales appeared behind the Spatial Rift. A few moments later, the trace of the destructive beasts disappeared. The people there felt relieved right after they found out that the beasts were gone.

"Are those destructive beasts powerful?" someone asked.

"Well, not quite. The weakest one would be a Saint-tier monster."

"Then we shouldn't be afraid of them any longer. If we're lucky, we might have a chance to feast on them! Honestly, I've never tasted them before."

"Yeah, right. If we're unfortunate enough to meet with giant monsters that could kill gods, then we'll definitely turn into their meal."

They made it to the outside of the mystery land safely. It was a collapsed semi-levitating island. It was supposed to be floating in the sky, but due to unknown factors, it had fallen from the sky. However, even though it crashed to the ground, the levitating island wasn't completely destroyed.

One side of the disc-shaped island was connected to the ground, and there was a spider web of rifts all over the area in contact with the island, forming one huge dark rift. There were massive plants and vines surrounding the rift, turning it into a rare and unique sight. It seemed like the impact of the levitating island from the sky had caused widescale destruction to the ground, elevating the ground area and turning it into a mound. There were plants growing all around the mound, turning the area into a luxuriously green forest.

The overall structure of the levitating island was still in good condition. It was standing at a 75-degree angle from the ground, completely against normal mechanical principles.

"So this is the mystery land?" Gao Peng was shocked.

"No. In fact, the entrance to the mystery land is right inside the island," said the demigod, Qing Yunnan. "Boys and girls, you may bring along your familiars while entering the maze through this entrance. I won't proceed any further with you all because no one above the Quasi God-tier is allowed to enter the mystery land. If we do, we'll be eliminated once we step into the land."

"Remember, any rewards you find there are yours. You don't have to tell others about it, including me…because I'm afraid that I can't control myself to do anything insane upon hearing," said Qing Yunnan while laughing.

"Haha…" All of the young monster trainers from different tribes laughed. Gao Peng laughed along with everyone else.

"All right. If you guys face any dangerous situations in the mystery land, I hope you can help each other out, as we're all of the human race. If you can contribute any help to each other, please kindly do so," said Qing Yunnan.

"Don't worry. It's going to be fine."

"We'll be fine."

All of the monster trainers nodded at the same time, showing a congenial atmosphere as the monster trainers arrived at the bottom of the semi-collapsed levitating island. Several thick, solid vines dropped down like a waterfall from the top of the levitating island, and the team immediately grabbed the vines and started climbing up like a bunch of apes.

On the way up, a young lady in a yellow dress and a ponytail started moving closer to Gao Peng. "It's been a while." Gao Peng nodded in response to her.

The young lady was called Tong Lin. Her expression was unreadable, as it was the first time she had met Gao Peng after being released.

Gao Peng didn't care about the incident that had happened last time. However, Tong Lin obviously still had it in her mind…

"Erm… Can you help me get an item from this mystery land?" Tong Lin asked softly.

"Why?" Gao Peng countered by asking her another question. He didn't immediately accept her request just because she was a lady.

"I can provide you with a map. It was created by the ancestors of my tribe through their adventures in the past, and it can save you a lot of time. After all, some of the places here have been explored by plenty of people, and those valuable resources are non-renewable or might take a long time to renew," said Tong Lin.

Gao Peng stared at Tong Lin for a few seconds and then nodded. "Sure. I'll do it."

The reason why Gao Peng had accepted her request wasn't because of getting the map as a reward; instead, it was because she had told Gao Peng that the people in her tribe made the map.

"Well, it seems like I could borrow a few maps from them to proceed with my mission," Tong Lin continued.

Gao Peng lifted his head and smiled while looking at the monster trainers who were climbing up the vines cheerfully.

"We should start to climb, too," Gao Peng said to Tong Lin. Tong Lin nodded and then prepared to take out the map for Gao Peng.

"Not now," Gao Peng declined her offer. Tong Lin was stunned for a while because she didn't understand what Gao Peng was thinking.

"You don't have to pass it to me while we're alone now. I'll tell you what to do later, and you just have to cooperate. First,… Then…" Gao Peng squatted down and started drawing instructions on the floor. After he finished telling her the instructions, Gao Peng stepped on it and cleared the traces away with his feet.

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Chapter 653: Da Feng

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

The entrance to the secret border was located in the middle of the wreckage on the Levitating Island.

Gao Peng and Tong Ling were among the last to enter, and there was a moderate amount of those who remained nearby after entering the secret border.

Gao Peng clapped his hands, attracting the attention of the remaining people. "I would like to borrow a map from someone. Don't worry, I just want to take a look; I'll return it to you after that," said Gao Peng with a smile.

The atmosphere suddenly chilled as everyone looked at each other. Someone scoffed coldly as he took a step forward.

"Young man, don't overstep your boundaries. Master Qing Yunnan is still outside guarding the ruins," said the person, hiding a message in his words. The tone of his voice was threatening.

"Oh?" Gao Peng tilted his head to the side and looked at him. This person raised his head as well to make eye contact with Gao Peng. The corners of their mouths curved up at the same time.

Boom! Boom! Bolts of lightning exploded in the void in front of both of them with arcs of dark purple and silver exploding at the same time, expressing an overbearing aura.

As the two overbearing auras clashed with each other at the same time, even the air became distorted.

"Roar!"

"Howl!"

Sensing immediately that the two of them were about to summon their familiars, the surrounding onlookers' expressions changed, and they summoned their own familiars to distance themselves from the battlefield.

The curved talons of a dragon claw covered with dark purple scales tore into the void ferociously as strands of silver lightning twisted around the dragon's claw.

Silver Lightning!

A tail comprising entirely of red-purple lightning blocked the dragon's claw. The claw grasped the tail violently, causing a collision of two extremely different types of lightning.

All of a sudden, a series of big explosions and screams ensued. Flashes of light rumbled wildly. The aftermath was thunderclaps that rolled through the skies in all directions. Arcs of lightning twisted and cut through the ground, leaving behind long gullies and turning plants into ash along the way.

Da Zi roared loudly as the 19 pairs of wings on its back unfurled at the same time. In an instant, the sky turned as dark as if the heavens above were blocked from view by its wings. The sky was completely shrouded beneath its wings, while the thick bolts of lightning gathered upon its dark purple scales thundered like bombs going off. Rumble—

Below the sky, a fierce yet strange monster with eight tails comprised of dark purple energy occupied the ground. It looked like a fox, but it had the talons of an eagle. With its eight tails entwining and twisting around each other as cover, its head was firmly shielded.

As the two giant beasts released Saint-tier breaths from their bodies at the same time, the pressure that crushed down upon the people surrounding them was like two massive mountains.

"Don't think that you're the only Saint-tier monster trainer. Moreover, I'm not the only Saint-tier monster trainer here," said Lei Yi lightly.

Just as Lei Yi finished speaking, two Saint-tier breaths erupted from the left and right of Gao Peng.

A dark golden double-horned Yak King stared intently at Gao Peng with its head lowered. At the back, however, was an odd monster with the form of a canine but the face of a human. It was mainly white and had the black-speckled wings of a bird of prey on either side of its body. Its head was currently tilted as it stared at Gao Peng with a weird smile.

"I feel that it would be too dangerous if someone like you continued to remain in this secret border, so please leave." A yellow-haired man sat on the Yak King with his eyes narrowed slightly, a small white gourd dangling from his earlobe.

"Get out. We won't kill you," said the white-haired male sitting atop Da Feng coldly.

[Monster Name: Da Feng

[Monster Level: Level 84 (Saint-tier)

[Monster Grade: Epic/Legendary

[Monster Attribute: Wind

[Monster Skills] Controlling Wind Element Level 8, Sharp Talons Level 6, Speed Increase Level 6

[Monster Territory: Da Feng's Domain

[Monster Special Characteristics: Evil Wind (Winds controlled by Da Feng will turn into Evil Wind, which possesses an extremely strong destructive power and can inflict extreme damage to the flesh.

Passive Effect1: Lethality of wind element will increase largely.

Active Effect 2: After casting the ability, Da Feng will completely meld into the fierce wind.)

Sky Covering (When Da Feng spreads its wings, the sky will be covered completely.

Active Effect 1: After spreading its wings, Da Feng can turn the surroundings of a big area into an environment as dark as night, the vision of the area will be affected greatly.

Passive Effect 2: The night environment of the covered sky will significantly increase Da Feng's lethality.)

[Monster Description: A fierce bird of prey from legends and myths, it is large in size and able to create wind with a flap of its wings. With the form of a canine but the face of a human, it smiles at whoever it meets and is as swift as the wind. Its appearance is an omen of a windstorm.

It was the divine beast Da Feng from Huaxia mythology.

Although the Yak King in the rear left was of a lower tier, it was still a Level-83 Epic-grade familiar. In addition, the eight-tailed electric fox in front of him was a Level-86 Epic-grade familiar.

Gao Peng looked around. "Any more Saint-tier monster trainers? If there are, you might as well come out together, lest you lose unwillingly later."

"How arrogant!" Sitting on Da Feng's back, the white-haired male's expression turned cold, and his body slowly disappeared to meld with Da Feng's to become one.

"Roar!" Da Feng leaped up with the wings on its back unfurling. The wings, which hadn't seemed large initially, suddenly appeared humongous after they unfurled to become two pitch-black masses of black light that flew toward the sky.

The white sky was rapidly devoured by the two masses of black light, and in the blink of an eye, the sky turned so dark and dim that no one could even see their own hand.

As a gust of strong wind came from the rear left, Gao Peng immediately melded together with Da Zi.

Bang! The 18th wing on Da Zi's right side erupted in fiery pain. Using the weak light of the lightning arc on the wing, Gao Peng turned around to see long claw marks ripped into the wing, where the surrounding scales had turned outward from being torn open, showing a mangled mess of flesh and blood.

The surrounding darkness had a devouring effect on everything that emanated light. Even the lightning on Da Zi's body could only throw light upon areas within a yard's radius. Anything further than that was shrouded in darkness.

Moreover, this fellow's attribute was wind, meaning that its speed was nowhere near slow.

"For the sake of the Quasi God on your back, leave the secret border, and your life will be spared." Da Feng's voice emerged from the darkness like the bark of a canine.

Gao Peng narrowed his eyes. The easy way now would be to summon Dumby, who would be able to rely on its strong Soul Power to pinpoint Da Feng's position precisely. However, Gao Peng now had an even better option.

Da Zi lifted its wings, forming a circular ring shape to wrap around its body as the Thousand Lightning Field enveloped Da Zi in protection.

Second Baby was summoned from its chest. Like a grain of rice, Second Baby stuck to Da Zi's body with its six claws gripping onto Da Zi's scales tightly and the two huge eyes on the top of its head looking around.

Gao Peng said internally, "Sense sharing."

This was a monster trainer power that had been awakened with Gao Peng's first Saint-tier familiar and allowed Gao Peng to share a familiar's senses, including but not limited to sight, hearing, taste, the sixth sense, and more.

After experimenting, Gao Peng had discovered that this power could even be used when he was melded with a familiar, which meant that when he was melded, he could use the sight of two familiars. Although it had been hard to get used to at first, he found that this power was very useful after he had adapted to it.

Using Second Baby's sight, the heavy darkness before his eyes gradually broke down and vanished as the silhouette of Da Feng in the distance gradually became clearer.

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Chapter 654: One Against Three

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Da Feng bent its back like a bow, its wings on both sides nowhere to be seen. It stared intently at Da Zi as if it were a vicious hunting dog slowly approaching.

Intentionally, Gao Peng pretended not to see it and casually maneuvered Da Zi to look to the left. This allowed its back to be completely exposed to Da Feng's fangs.

Da Feng took a deep breath while its eyes shone as it stared at the back of Da Zi's neck. Its body shook, turning into a shadow and vanishing on the spot.

On Da Zi's left, a gust of wind began gathering out of thin air. This monster even knows how to create diversions. Gao Peng gave a faint smile. But even so, it will all end here.

The wings on Da Zi's back quietly gathered intense lightning as the lightning condensed in the void to form a terrifying power that became stronger and stronger.

Now! Da Feng's eyes shined bright as a flash of ferocity passed through its eyes. I gave you a chance, but you asked for it.

Boom!

Da Feng's body shuddered, making its silhouette seem especially blurry. It transformed into a mass of shadows that went directly for the back of Da Zi's neck. For most monsters, the back of the neck was the absolute Achilles heel!

Da Zi raised its head and took a deep breath, inhaling strands of lightning that entered its nostrils.

Da Zi's body glowed brighter and the emanating light gradually became more radiant. "Silver Thunder Wrath."

A wild roar tore from Da Zi's throat as the air erupted with a series of sharp whistling sounds. Its huge tail swept to the side like a dragon waving its tail.

The lightning-patterned wings on its back flashed as thunder echoed and rumbled all over the place. In an instant, the earth turned dark purple, red, and silver as three very different types of lightning transformed into three thunder dragons that attacked Da Feng vigorously.

Da Feng, completely unable to dodge, was hit directly. It growled in anger as it condensed the power of the wind element within its body furiously to counter the lightning. However, it was a heavy burden for the wind element within to bear.

One second, two seconds, three seconds, four seconds… A minute had passed and a sense of despair rose from the bottom of Da Feng's heart. How is it possible to have so much power of lightning? Is it a pig?!

The lightning tore through its skin and pierced its cheek, causing blood to spurt everywhere. The blood spilt was even cleanly evaporated by the lightning in mid-air.

Da Feng was thrown back and tumbled back a few times. Finally, it landed harshly on the ground. Its front upper body was a mess of blood and flesh charred black from lightning, the rise and fall of its chest the only proof that it was still alive.

Following Da Feng's heavy injury, the darkness shrouding the area had also vanished to reappear as two pairs of wings on Da Feng's back. Gao Peng called Second Baby back quietly without anyone noticing.

With a shake of its wings, Da Zi flew into the air and looked down upon the people below. "Both of you can attack together," said Da Zi indifferently.

The Yak King and the eight-tailed Thunderbeast glanced at each other, and with a silent understanding, they attacked Da Zi from the left and right.

"Moo—" The horn atop the Yak King's head was raised up high as it gleamed coldly with pink light and released a large amount of pink-colored fog. "Ultimate Musk." The musk in the Yak King's body turned extremely thick and wafted in all directions.

Although musk was a medicine, once the concentration of the musk absorbed had surpassed a fixed amount, even a tonic could become a poison.

The Ultimate Musk itself was a very toxic poison produced from a mutation of extremely concentrated musk.

Gao Peng was astonished. "I never thought that you, the Yak King with big eyes and thick brows, would play with poison!"

The Thousand Lightning Field expanded, forming a barrier that kept the Ultimate Musk out.

"Lightning Sea of Purgatory!" Da Zi growled.

As the lightning element of the earth was drawn, a sea of lightning rumbling across the sky struck down at the two familiars.

Although Da Zi was only at Level 81, lower than either of them, in the aspect of Elemental Power reserve, Da Zi could beat them by a great deal.

Lightning bolts fell heavily, like rain. Both the Saint-tier monsters expended their efforts to withstand the onslaught of the lightning, so much so that they were completely unable to find an opportunity to attack Da Zi.

After five full minutes had passed, Da Zi began to slowly tuck in its wings. The dense lightning vanished into thin air.

Gao Peng calmly said, "Now can you let me have a look at the map?"

"No way," replied Lei Yi out of habit.

"All right, another five minutes then," said Gao Peng plainly.

After five minutes, "How about now?"

Without even waiting for Lei Yi to speak, another Saint-tier monster trainer quickly answered, "Take it; it's all yours." I would really die after another five minutes!

Gao Peng took all the maps from the other monster trainers with a smile, looking through each and every map.

These monster trainers watched Gao Peng anxiously, afraid that he wouldn't return the maps to them.

"You said you would only take a look," said Tong Ling poutily with tears about to drip from her watery eyes.

"Don't worry, I always keep my word," said Gao Peng as he proceeded to summon Silly and retrieve a mobile phone from Silly's space to take pictures of each map.

For each picture taken, he would return a map to someone. These people who had never really seen a mobile phone before looked at the scene before them in confusion. What is this?

"This, this looks like a mobile phone," said someone strangely. He had heard of mobile phones before and understood some of their functions, but he had never really cared before. Yet this time…

"What is he doing with this thing called a mobile phone? By swiping it twice, this monster will remember the map?"

At this moment, Tong Ling spoke, "I know. Mobile phones aren't monsters. They're tools, just like the pots and pans you all use to eat rice. Anyone can use it." This caught everyone's attention.

"I've been to the Earth Star before," said Tong Ling. "So I've also used a mobile phone. It can take pictures, and anything that has been captured will be replicated in the mobile phone to be browsed through at any time."

"Whew, that's amazing."

"So where can I buy this mobile phone?"

"Although I dislike Gao Peng, I've heard that Earth Star's Huaxia Region has the best mobile phones, especially from the Southern Sky Group, which is Gao Peng's family's company. They produce mobile phones that have the best quality," said Tong Ling calmly.

"So that's the case…" The whole group of monster trainers nodded.

"Other than mobile phones, they also have many interesting little gadgets. Even if they aren't much use normally, they can come in pretty handy during certain instances."

By this time, Gao Peng had finished taking pictures. Holding the phone, he returned the maps to everyone. "I told you all that I would only borrow them for a while, and I didn't lie."

After taking back the maps, these monster trainers had perplexed looks on their faces.

Gao Peng was silent for a moment, then he spoke, "How about this; I won't take your maps for free. Since you all know about mobile phones, you should know that besides mobile phones, we still have computers, the internet, and many other high-tech products. But these things need a network… meaning that to unleash their biggest function, you need something called a base station."

"Base station?" Naturally, these monster trainers had never heard of this term before.

"Yup, a base station." Gao Peng paused for a second, and with a tone that portrayed just how big of a bargain they were receiving, he said, "As compensation, I will install a base station from Huaxia in everyone's tribe for free! I won't take a single cent!"

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"For free?" Everyone's expression at the scene portrayed interest.

Gao Peng laughed and said, "I'll send someone to your tribes to discuss the details of our collaboration after we get out of the maze." After speaking, Gao Peng directed Da Zi to leave and flew away.

The divine border was a large forest teeming with thriving wildlife and also habitat to many monsters. Furthermore, there were also quite a number of Dragon-type monsters.

"This place might be the divine border of the Dragon God," said Fatty Big Sea to Gao Peng through their Blood Contract.

"Dragon God…" Gao Peng slowly nodded.

Da Zi had now grown to reach the Mythical grade, and if it continued evolving, it would reach the Eternal grade.

However, Gao Peng didn't think that he would find the ingredients for Da Zi's evolution in the god's backyard, but maybe… Little Seven could be considered.

Little Seven had only reached Epic-grade, and the ingredients needed to evolve from Epic-grade to Mythical-grade weren't too precious. It was just that they were rarer, but maybe he would be able to get all the evolution ingredients for Little Seven there. By allowing the quick evolution of Little Seven's grade, it would also contribute to the rapid acceleration of the strength of the familiar team under his command.

"During my great grandfather's last visit, he saw a water mulberry, but he didn't pluck it because it still needed up to a hundred years before it could ripen."

"Aren't you worried that it was eaten by other monsters after such a long time? After all, it's been so many years," said Gao Peng.

"When my great grandfather left, he killed the monster that was guarding the water mulberry and planted two psychedelic trees nearby so ordinary monsters wouldn't be able to discover it, but I invited you to come just in case anything happened," Tong Ling said apologetically.

Gao Peng nodded. This wasn't unexpected news.

The psychedelic fruit was a type of fruit tree that could grow in most environments. The fruit had the ability to conceal its breath, as well as reflect its surroundings to produce an overlapping mirage of the areas nearby. Normally, an experienced monster trainer would be able to recognise the psychedelic fruit. There would usually be hidden treasure in places where the psychedelic fruit was planted artificially. However, since there were no outsiders allowed in this divine border except during the stipulated time, it was quite safe to use the psychedelic fruit as cover.

Both of them walked for three days along the divine border. The border would only be open for a month, and after that time ended, stragglers would be transmitted to the location where they entered no matter, where they were along the border.

The period of three days wasn't a short time, and wasting it could already be regarded as paying the price.

Coming to the place where her great grandfather had found the flower, the psychedelic fruit was still growing in good condition.

Taking out a small bottle containing a small red bug, she opened the cork to free the bug, which flew out from the bottle eagerly towards the psychedelic fruit tree. After half an hour, the psychedelic fruits on the tree were eaten, and the mirage was broken.

Tong Ling took out another small glass bottle. In it was some powder ground from psychedelic fruit, of which she poured a little into another bottle. After a short while, the small red bug flew excitedly into the bottle with a clatter, after which Tong Ling covered the lid and put the two bottles away.

The small red bug that wasn't very intelligent touched the wall of the glass bottle confusedly. What did I do? Why am I still in here? Interesting.

Gao Peng found it interesting to watch. Regardless of whether it was the psychedelic fruit, the small red bug, or the grounded psychedelic fruit powder, it demonstrated the culture that the tribesmen had accumulated with their own intelligence over the years.

"The water mulberry is still there. It's a few more months away from ripening, but we could hasten the process." Tong Ling heaved a sigh of relief as she couldn't afford to be negligent on the matter of the water mulberry. This mission was already halfway to its completion, and now, she only needed to follow the instructions given by the tribe elders for the rest of it.

Tong Ling bowed to Gao Peng. "Thank you."

"It was a fair deal, no thanks needed." Gao Peng waved as he turned around to leave. He summoned Silly and took forty mobile phones out from its space. On every phone was an image of a tribe's map.

Gao Peng observed the forty photos simultaneously, his eyes swiftly identifying and differentiating them. Then, a bigger and more comprehensive photo started to form in his head. "Here… Here…" It was like a scattered newspaper that was slowly being put together by Gao Peng.

"Why does this look like a garden?!" Gao Peng looked at the nearly-completed map in his hand as an absurd thought emerged suddenly in his head. He quickly took out his sketch board and paper and immediately began to draw. In a short while, a more complete map appeared on the sketch paper.

Gao Peng summoned Fatty Big Sea. "Big Sea, what do you think this drawing looks like?"

Fatty Big Sea looked at it and said with certainty, "This is a garden, isn't it?" It paused a moment, then its eyes flashed in realization. "So the place we're in now is the backyard of the god?" Thereafter, Fatty Big Sea's eyes glittered in excitement. "Damn, we've struck gold this time! Ordinary gods don't have the right to build a divine border, only Extreme Gods and higher beings."

"What's a divine border?"

"A divine border is…" Fatty Big Sea contemplated seriously for half a minute. "You wouldn't understand even if I explained it to you. Just think of it as a God's dwelling and treasure chamber."

"There won't be any valuables in a god's backyard, as this is just a place that the god can relax in during their free time," said Fatty Big Sea. "Even if there was anything valuable, it would be the plants in it, but after such a long time, most of the valuable plants would have been eaten by the monsters in the backyard."

Listening to Fatty Big Sea's words, Gao Peng felt like something was off. There's nothing valuable in the backyard, and those valuables would have been eaten by the monsters… But these tribes always seemed as if they struck the jackpot every time they were here.

Hmmm… Gao Peng swiftly adapted and asked, "Then where do you think we should go?"

"The god's treasure chamber would usually have the spoils of wars that are valuable or meaningful, whereas the god's divine artifact would be in their dwelling." Fatty Big Sea analyzed.

"So do we head to the dwelling?" Gao Peng was interested when he heard the words divine artifact. It wasn't because he wanted nothing but the divine artifact, but because Gao Peng was a bit of a hoarder, especially for valuable things like divine artifacts. Even if they were useless, it was still great to just keep them at home as collectibles.

Moreover, Gao Peng, who had seen the Sea King Devouring Teeth and Endless Reincarnation Labyrinth before, didn't think that the power of the divine artifact was weak. It was simply because they weren't powerful enough to use it.

"No, let's go to the treasure chamber!" Fatty Big Sea shook its head. "I suspect that the divine artifacts that belonged to the Extreme God may already have their own consciousness, or else this divine border wouldn't have stood indestructible after so long. Moreover, there are more valuable things in the treasure chamber, things that we could probably use immediately."

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Chapter 656: Volcano Cluster

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"But looking at the garden's map, we would need quite some time, at least ten days, to go to the next entrance, and we can't even be certain that it'll be the treasure chamber." Gao Peng gestured across the map. "It's too far. We've already wasted three days, and it would be another ten days wasted if we were to go. We would have wasted half of the time we have, and if it turns out it isn't the treasure chamber, we would need to go to another entrance again… We'd be wasting time for nothing."

Gao Peng felt helpless. No wonder no one from the tribes had explored the divine border in depth. In the beginning, he had thought that the tribesmen didn't know that this was a divine border, but now it seemed like they had known for a long time.

However, it was no use even if they knew, because they didn't have much time to explore. Within the limited timeframe, they could only gather experience slowly and continue to explore more of the divine border under the condition that they could guarantee their gains.

Moreover, due to the limitation at the divine border that restricted the presence of any being that surpassed the Holy grade, it became more difficult for them to further their exploration. Gao Peng had to consider whether there was any treasure left in the treasure chamber, as well.

Various signs indicated that the master of these ruins, the god, had already fallen. Thus, it was highly likely that its treasures would have already been taken by its enemies. These were all factors that Gao Peng had to take into account.

"What do you need to consider? Why do you need to contemplate all the time? Why are you such a coward?! Da Zi must have learned this from you! You have me, a god, leading you! I can't believe you're still afraid you won't gain something!" Fatty Big Sea complained, unsatisfied.

"Bullsh*t, I'm no coward." Da Zi interrupted at the right moment to demonstrate that it was courageous and that said courage was totally unrelated to Gao Peng.

"Come with me. I'll show you all the shortcut," Fatty Big Sea said.

No matter how much Gao Peng asked, Fatty Big Sea would merely keep a mysterious front.

They headed toward the east and met some monster trainers from other tribes along the way. Upon seeing Gao Peng, all of them tried to avoid him like the plague, as if Gao Peng was a terrifying monster, while Gao Peng greeted them happily.

Three days later, Fatty Big Sea brought Gao Peng to the edge of the divine border. In front of them was an extremely high crystal wall that took up the whole view. "This is indeed a divine border," Fatty Big Sea said with certainty after seeing the crystal wall.

Fatty BIg Sea opened its mouth, and its retainers flew out from its mouth. A disc-shaped black hole appeared over the Sea King Devouring Teeth. The black hole slowly approached the edge of the divine border, and the crystal wall, which was indestructible in the eyes of the tribesmen, was devoured immediately after coming into contact with the black hole. The hole engulfed the wall like a diamond penetrating tofu, turning the wall into fine dust effortlessly.

Ten minutes later, a small black hole appeared on the surface of the crystal wall and Fatty Big Sea hurried Gao Peng urgently, "Quickly, pass through it."

Gao Peng looked at this doghole-like thing that was half a yard in diameter and was pulled deep into his thoughts.

"Put me into your Familiar Space and summon me again after you've passed through," said Fatty Big Sea confidently.

Gao Peng nodded silently and waved his hand, retrieving Da Zi and merging with Fatty Big Sea. Fatty Big Sea quivered, its big carp face showing terror. "Gao Peng, you're so shameless." Gao Peng stayed silent as he controlled Fatty Big Sea's body to shrink and slipped into the hole like a ghost. After five minutes, he suddenly saw light in front of him.

A wave of heat blew against his face, the boiling hot lava flowing slowly in the river unchanging and eternal. The view in front of him was entirely colored red, orange, scarlet, golden red, purplish red… Waves of heat rolled by, and even the air became distorted under such horrifyingly high temperatures.

Fatty Big Sea quickly manipulated the Sea King Devouring Teeth to form a small black hole that devoured all of the heat energy. "I don't think this is the treasure chamber…" Gao Peng was very doubtful, as no one in their right mind would build a treasure chamber like this.

"The structure of the divine border is kind of like a beehive. I can bring you directly through the walls of different 'rooms' without passing through the door," said Fatty Big Sea proudly.

"Did you do this often in the past?" Gao Peng finally asked the question that he had kept to himself for the longest time.

"Do what?" Fatty Big Sea paused in confusion.

Gao Peng said politely, "Look for treasure to steal."

Fatty Big Sea's small, yellow, bean-like eyes blinked. "F*ck off!"

The area was full of volcano clusters. Small clusters grew on the outside, forming a dense space that surrounded an extremely tall volcano in the middle. The size of the volcano was massive, with dark blackish-red clouds shooting into the sky and ash that blotted out the sunlight and the sky. Upon witnessing the scene, Gao Peng suddenly found himself reminded of one of his familiars.

Gao Peng climbed up the volcano with Fatty Big Sea and looked down into the mouth of the volcano. The golden-red lava in the volcano was like a pot of boiling water where huge air bubbles burst from time to time as it emitted green smoke. The air was filled with the smell of sulfur.

"Eh?" Gao Peng noticed that there were numerous floating golden beads within the lava of the volcano that were floating in dense clusters.

[Item Name: Earthfire Melting Crystal

[Item Description: Can be used to forge objects and has an obvious strengthening effect on monsters with both Earth and Fire attributes.

Doesn't Stripey have Earth and Fire attributes? A thought came into Gao Peng's mind. He summoned Stripey, and with a thud, Stripey fell onto the ground, causing the earth to shake.

"You finally thought of me, Gao Peng," Stripey said innocently. It rubbed itself against Gao Peng happily, after which the hills tottered, the earth quaked, and the ground was upturned, throwing everything into total chaos.

Cough, cough, cough…

Gao Peng crawled out of the debris coughing. "All right, all right, Stripey, stop cuddling me," Gao Peng said to Stripey. "See whether you can absorb the golden beads in this volcano."

Stripey sniffed earnestly, and as it looked at the boiling lava, its stomach gurgled. "This smells kind of nice." With a leap, Stripey had jumped into the mouth of the volcano. As the heavyweight contestant took a free fall, the lava surged up at least a hundred feet high. Looking at Stripey as it behaved like a mischievous kid, Gao Peng smiled uncontrollably in satisfaction.

"This is the Earthfire Melting Crystal… This is for…" Fatty Big Sea slapped its fat head suddenly. "There's something in the volcano."

The lava in the volcano under their feet surged violently. A massive hand condensed from lava suddenly stretched out from the edge of the volcano, then Stripey shook its bottom. With a squish, the massive hand broke apart softly.

"Gao Peng, I think I sat on something. It's so uncomfortable," said Stripey shyly.

"Roar!"

"Roar!"

The surrounding volcanoes around them began roaring fiercely, one after another. These were sincere shouts made by followers to show their loyalty to their boss who had been injured.

Fatty Big Sea scoffed in indifference as it took out the Endless Incarnation Labyrinth and threw it onto the ground. Rumble! Rumble!

Massive walls formed from huge rocks and lava emerged from the ground, creating an enormous labyrinth. The powerful aura released by the divine artifact silenced the followers' roars immediately. The only thing that was left was the massive hand that reached out from the surface of the lava, flailing in the air, trying to grab anything.

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Chapter 657: A Pot Of True Dragon Fruit

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As Stripey swallowed the golden-red crystals from the lava, its body temperature increased, and its skin began to turn a reddish-black color… A massive breath pierced through the clouds. The blackish-red clouds above Stripey became thicker, as if they were the core of the earth, and at that moment, the power inside Stripey became terrifyingly strong. It was to the point where the rampaging energy within Stripey could almost explode.

The being that was squashed under Stripey tried to escape multiple times but laid quietly for a long while after Stripey had moved its butt a few times.

"What's that thing under it?" said a frowning Gao Peng.

"It's probably the leader of those little fellas," replied Fatty Big Sea.

Looking around, Gao Peng saw many Flame Giants climb out of the volcanoes in the distance and wander around helplessly through the labyrinth. They tried moving closer as they obeyed their Flame Giant leader's summons from under the volcano. However, the walls within the labyrinth prevented them from traveling in a straight line and didn't allow for them to scale the walls, thus they were forced to follow the rules of the labyrinth and reach the center through straightforward trial and error.

Hence, the dim-witted Flame Giants wandered helplessly through the labyrinth.

Gao Peng had observed that labyrinths like this that were restricted by rules were still usually stronger than other rules of a similar level, even though there were many restrictions. For example, a three percent water rule was unable to destroy walls created by a three percent labyrinth rule.

"Stripey, how long will it take for you to digest these crystals?" asked Gao Peng.

The hardworking and studious Stripey began counting its fingers earnestly. "About three months!" replied a proud Stripey.

Three months… Gao Peng shook his head silently. That would take too long, and they would be long gone from the ruins by then. Since everything inside the Familiar Space was paused, Gao Peng simply let Stripey swallow all the crystals and then recalled it back into the Familiar Space. He would let Stripey digest these crystals after they left the place; the most important thing right then was to explore the divine border.

This area was filled with volcanos, each with a Flame Giant living inside of them. These Flame Giants' abilities were easily at Overlord-tier. Even the Flame Giant leader currently squished under Stripey's butt was at peak Overlord-tier.

After Gao Peng and the others were long gone, the Flame Giant hiding in the volcano emerged cautiously and roared in the direction they had departed in. After that, Fatty Big Sea led Gao Peng through the divine border, which was much bigger than imagined and contained various different biomes.

One of the spaces was filled with mountains made from iron and had many divine weapons stuck on its peaks. However, these weapons were all rusted and chipped. The smell of rust hit them as soon as they stepped foot in the area. Through the ravaging of time, all these divine weapons on the peaks had long since lost their gleam from times before.

"Without the protection of rules, not even items crafted from the finest materials can survive the ravages of time." In that moment, it was as if Fatty Big Sea was a melancholic poet.

There was another space that was an entire ocean formed of Heavy Dark Ash Water. Heavy Dark Ash Water was a strange liquid that was both heavy and light. When on land, it would become very light, to the point that its weight would decrease until it became as light as a feather, but as soon as it left land, its weight would gradually increase until it was a hundred times heavier than normal seawater.

Even though Gao Peng had no idea what to use it for, he decided to collect a few hundred tons of the water using Silly's space in the spirit of eliminating waste. Even if it was regarded as some sort of toy to bring back, this amount was enough to fill a small pond.

A week later, they finally arrived at a place that looked like a treasure chamber. It was a huge hall. The metallic black hall had an ancient and regal feeling to it, with the perimeters structured from black walls covered in beautiful carvings.

The carvings depicted different dragon-shaped monsters, and from the order of them, it seemed to be the records of some sort of story.

"This is a god's epic," said Fatty Big Sea, blinking with a sense of nostalgia. "It records the life story and achievements of the god, including how it prospered."

Gao Peng was uninterested. "If you want to tell all these tall tales, I'll give you two bottles of liquor and listen to you do that once we get back. But for now, let's just focus on finding treasure." Gao Peng rushed Fatty Big Sea.

Fatty Big Sea licked his thick fish lips.

"Actually, if you take a closer look at this god's epic, you should be able to tell which god it belongs to, as well as the spoils of war within the treasures. You're too impatient, young man."

The expressionless Gao Peng pointed at the gigantic walls, thousands of feet tall and so long that there was no end in sight from the left to the right. "I doubt you could even finish studying this in two months, so why don't you just stay behind and look at it slowly."

"Ahem." Fatty Big Sea let out an awkward cough before turning around. "Let's go. You can summon that little rat of yours, right? It's more capable of finding treasure than us."

Gao Peng nodded. "I'm preparing to summon it. This place should be safe, right?"

"It's hard to say. It depends on the personality of this god. If it's the kind that's sly, even the toilet will be booby trapped." Fatty Big Sea shook its head. "But from our experience so far, I doubt that this god is the sly type."

Gao Peng summoned Moneymaker with a snap of his fingers. Moneymaker's tail stood up as soon as it was summoned, and it stood up on its hind legs as its two front paws gripped its chest.

"Oh my god." Moneymaker's features contorted as joyful tears filled its tiny eyes. "I'm so touched, Master. How did you find such a wonderful place?!"

"Ahhhhh." Moneymaker let go of its paws as its heart beat faster and faster until a heart shape was imprinted on its chest.

"Oh, be still, my beating heart." Moneymaker stood up like a human and began sprinting with its two hind legs like they were wheels being led entirely by its pounding heart.

Fatty Big Sea paused awkwardly.

Gao Peng quickly summoned Da Zi and hopped on its back. "Da Zi, let's go!"

The treasure chamber's topography wasn't complex. There were simply tightly shut doors appearing on both sides of the corridor every now and then. Perhaps the owner of the treasure chamber hadn't considered much when building it and merely thought that simplicity would be best.

Moneymaker continued racing forward through the wide corridor, ignoring the surrounding sealed rooms and mumbling to itself as it ran. "I can't take it anymore. I'm dying, I feel like dying, I need to find some treasure fast to release this stress."

Urgently turning with a step and a hop of its right leg, Moneymaker made a 450-degree turn in the air and kicked on a door to its left with its little rocket-like right leg.

Clang— The door was kicked wide open.

Inside the empty room sat a giant tree with a platform beside it, and on the platform, there was a fruit basket weaved from branches and filled with red fruits. A small elf with two horns and a fierce-looking face sat on top of the platform. Before the elf could put the fruit in its left hand into its mouth, it froze in confusion at the sudden sight of intruders.

Gao Peng's gaze was immediately drawn to the fruit in the dumb-looking elf's hand. It was the size of a fist and looked slightly like dragonfruit. However, it was covered with light red scales and had two dragon horn-like stems on the top.

[Item Name: True Dragon Fruit

The nearby fruit baskets were all filled with the same red fruit as well and seemed heavy. A basket full of… True Dragon Fruit? Since when could these things be counted in baskets?!

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Chapter 658: Dragon Elf King

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"Eh… f*ck you." The muscular little elf with the two pointy horns threw the True Dragon Fruit into the basket as it stood up emotionlessly, its aura turning mysterious.

Gao Peng's face darkened. Although he couldn't make out the words at the beginning of the sentence, he could still understand the last few words at the end.

The muscular elf showed no emotion as it shook its neck lightly and let out a stream of weird noises. As it took a step forward, its aura became utterly horrifying, but somehow, it still looked rather charming as a little elf covered in muscles.

"Roar, roar, roar!" The muscular elf's aura became so increasingly horrifying that even the surrounding void was distorted. It was as if it was a demon king on a rampage. "You… how dare you all disturb the deep sleep of the great Dragon Elf King, Lord Sai Mo? Every one of you shall be punished and doomed!"

As it finished roaring its words, the muscular elf's body disappeared on the spot, its body seeming especially obscure and mysterious. Boom, boom, boom—

The air reverberated with the echoes of violent sonic explosions. In the closed room where the explosions continuously resounded, the powerful sound waves banging against the wall creating loud crashes and booms. The branches and leaves of the huge tree situated behind it also began to shake vigorously.

"That's an incredible punching speed." Moneymaker eyes focused on the scene before it, and its face portrayed the kind of admiration that only powerful beings had for one another.

"Could… could this be a match between the best of the best? Come on, let me see if your punches or my speed are quicker!" Moneymaker's golden eyes narrowed as its whiskers on both sides on its nose stood upright like sharp swords that cut through the skies.

Moneymaker stood up as it arched its back into the shape of a bow with its tail upright and stretched out one paw while its other paw curled into its chest. "Southern Sky's Moneymaker, be my guest…"

A spark of lightning struck above Moneymaker's head, turning its whiskers into charred black instantly due to the electric current, causing its face to turn gray with ash.

"…Do enlighten me." Moneymaker opened its mouth, and as it spat out a cloud of black smoke, it rolled its eyes before falling backward onto the ground with a loud thud.

"You talk too much." Da Zi grunted coldly and unfurled the seventh wing on its left to block the exit.

Bang. The muscular elf smashed its head against Da Zi's hard scales and ended up with bruises on its face. Just like a painting falling off the wall and landing on the ground slowly, its fat buttocks slowly fell to the ground with a squeak. The muscular elf had been smacked silly and was still unable to regain focus.

Gao Peng bent down to pick up the muscular elf that wasn't very large in size and carried it single handedly.

Huff, huff, huff. The Dragon Elf King was slightly stunned when Gao Peng grabbed it, but after looking around and realizing the unexpected position it had been put in, it began huffing.

Gao Peng observed the muscular elf earnestly for a while and couldn't help but sigh, "How ugly." It wasn't as cute as the little elves that were mentioned in the legends. In fact, this muscular elf was merely a few feet tall, no bigger than a barbie doll.

It was clothed in green attire weaved from leaves and sported a yellowish-white flower crown on its head. Such attire was normal for an elf, but as for the elf itself… it wasn't a normal one. Its exposed arm was thicker than its waist, with muscles that no one would dare to doubt.

It had a muscular build, thick brows, and big eyes, with two large nostrils as terrifying as black holes, as well as a huge mouth and two pointy dragon horns on its head.

Even a devil isn't that hideous. Gao Peng sighed deeply.

[Monster Name: Dragon Elf King

[Monster Tier: Level 70 (Emperor-tier)

Monster Grade: Legendary

[Monster Attribute: Wood

[Monster Abilities: Strength Enhancement Level 6, Natural Superhuman Powers Level 6, Explosive Muscle Level 6, Endurance Growth Level 5, Plant Affinity Level 3

[Monster Specialty: Guardian of True Dragon Fruit Tree (When the Dragon Elf King is around the True Dragon Fruit tree, it brings a series of beneficial effects to the True Dragon Fruit tree. In return, the True Dragon Fruit tree supplies the True Dragon Fruit for consumption.

Passive Effect 1: The Dragon Elf King enables the increased growth speed of the True Dragon Fruit tree.

Passive Effect 2: The Dragon Elf King enables the True Dragon Fruit tree to bear more fruit each season.

Passive Effect 3: The Dragon Elf King keeps the True Dragon Fruit tree immune against various diseases and disasters.)

Dragon Power King Kong (Excessive consumption of the True Dragon Fruit will allow the Dragon Elf King's body to become extremely strong. The Dragon Elf King is able to obtain power from other dragon plants and can also transmit its power to them.

Passive Effect 1: Each new dragon plant will give a part of its power to the Dragon Elf King.

Passive Effect 2: The plants that have given power to the Dragon Elf King will be protected by it in return and allowed an increase in production, as well as protection from diseases and disasters, thus allowing the dragon plants to grow healthily.)

[Monster Description: It was originally a purebred Wood Elf King, but after consuming large amounts of True Dragon Fruits over the years, it eventually underwent mutation to become a rare breed of Dragon Elf King.

The Dragon Elf King was able to obtain power from various dragon plants in exchange for protecting these species from harm.

[Advancement Route to Mythical Grade: Requires collection of ten thousand different kinds of dragon plants in order to evolve to the Mythical grade.

Gao Peng said, "What's wrong with the strength of that series? Is this really the Dragon Elf King? Oh please, this muscle ability is way off! And that last Plant Affinity Level 3, are you sure you didn't just remember that this is a wood elf and simply grant it the Plant Affinity ability as a sign of courtesy?!" Gao Peng had a mouthful of thoughts that he felt like spitting out…

Unfortunately, the advancement route for the Dragon Elf King was very difficult, since it required ten thousand different kinds of dragon plants. Gao Peng highly doubted that there were even that many species to be discovered in the ancestral lands of the dragon family species.

It wasn't ten or a hundred kinds, but ten thousand! Dragon plants were already rare in the first place, hence it was extremely difficult to collect such species. However, Gao Peng showed great admiration for the special characteristics that the Dragon Elf King had. It was a natural gardener! Although the species was restricted to Dragon-type plants, it possessed the ability to prevent diseases and disasters as well as increase the plants' production. That in itself was an excellent ability.

Gao Peng looked toward the True Dragon Fruit tree that stood in the middle of the room. With this True Dragon Fruit tree, the dragon monsters back in Southern Sky would be able to benefit.

He ordered Silly to absorb the True Dragon Fruit Tree entirely into its space. Upon sensing the disappearance of the True Dragon Fruit tree, the Dragon Elf King, which had its eyes tightly shut, suddenly opened them to the point that it seemed as if its eyeballs would pop out.

"If we work together in the future, I shall continue placing that tree under your care and grant you even more dragon plants so you can build a botanical garden." Gao Peng began promoting and marketing his big idea to the Dragon Elf King that seemed inexperienced.

As predicted, the inexperienced Dragon Elf King was either deeply attracted by Gao Peng's alluring offer or fearful of Da Zi, who was staring intently at it, so it nodded its head hurriedly. Beating against its rock hard chest with its fists roughly, it said, "The great Dragon Elf King, Lord Sai Mo, gives you his promise reluctantly."

"Huh?" Da Zi narrowed its eyes and brought its head a couple of centimeters closer, breathing heavily against the Dragon Elf King's face.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, I'll promise you anything. Just please don't eat me! Please leave me alone! I don't want your head anywhere near me!" The Dragon Elf King couldn't stop its tears from falling and began crying hysterically.

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Chapter 659: Scattered Pieces Of The Divine Artifact

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Just like that, the ugly-looking and muscular Dragon Elf King was tamed with the addition of a True Dragon Fruit tree and a tray of True Dragon Fruits. Gao Peng felt that even if he were to leave this secret border now, he could still consider this a respectable profit.

Based on Gao Peng's estimations, even if the True Dragon Fruit was considered a treasure in the dragon's ancestral lands, it wasn't really that precious, since it had no effect on dragon monsters above the Mythical or Legendary grades. However, having a True Dragon Fruit tree meant an endless supply of True Dragon Fruits, meaning that it could continuously help produce excellent monsters for a force.

Moreover, familiars and monster trainers that had their grades evolved after being given such rewards were usually more loyal. Perhaps it was because they knew that strength and power didn't come easily and were thus more appreciative of the opportunity for evolution.

Since they had already arrived at the treasure chamber, Gao Peng could only take a deep breath as he squatted down to pick up Moneymaker, who was playing dead. "Stop acting like you're dead. Hurry up and find the treasure."

"Master, you're really too unreasonable. Every time we find treasure, you never share it with me and just continue exploiting me," Moneymaker complained as it opened its eyes to look up resentfully at Gao Peng while escaping the grasp of his hands.

"Don't worry. If there's anything you can use from the treasure we find this time, I'll give it to you for sure." Gao Peng laughed.

"Really?!" Moneymaker looked at him with round eyes while shaking its tail like a dog without a trace of the pitiful look it had put on just before.

"Do you think I would lie to you?" Gao Peng laughingly scolded it.

After hearing Gao Peng's promise, Moneymaker immediately stepped back onto four legs from two and disappeared on the spot. Moneymaker's ears turned speedily, and its ability, Extreme Treasure Hunting, was activated.

In Moneymaker's eyes, the world had changed. It could smell different scents with its nose, and in the blink of an eye, most of the scents disappeared, leaving only the thickest one. The scent was like small, crispy biscuits scattered with sesame seeds, a lingering fragrance that filled its nasal cavity.

Extreme Treasure Hunting was an ability that heightened a sense for treasure dramatically in a short period of time. This skill enabled the detection of the most valuable treasure even if there was only a faint smell in the air. And this treasure was located at…

Moneymaker raced forward at top speed, heading toward the deepest part of the hall. Finally, it stopped suddenly at the center of the hall to run toward the farthest left of the three rooms in the middle of the hall.

Gao Peng caught up with it while riding on Da Zi. As he looked at the middle door that was the biggest, before he even had time to wonder why Moneymaker hadn't chosen it, Moneymaker had already kicked the left door.

Clang. The door was kicked open. The room shone with shiny but flawed altar fragments of different sizes. Well, it was an altar, yet it resembled a well.

On one side of the altar grew a laurel tree that emitted a strange luster. The laurel tree was extremely short with gleaming droplets of water on its leaves that fell into the well drop by drop. At the same time, the water within the well released white fog that wafted the air and lingered around the uppermost part of the tree, where it would eventually condense into water droplets again.

[Divine Artifact Name: Divine Well of Darkness (Brutal) (1/2)

[Precept Content: Water rule 8.8% Yin rule 3.2%

As if he had been gifted something huge, Gao Peng's head went blank. He had been joking when he had mentioned finding a divine artifact… but who knew one had really existed! Damn!

"What the f*ck!" Fatty Big Sea appeared behind Gao Peng and couldn't help but swear when it saw the well. "I didn't expect to find an artifact here. This must be worth a lot."

As if alarmed by Fatty Big Sea's voice, a transparent water snake slowly slithered out of the calm well. The snake, which was seemingly made out of a water-like liquid, waved and shook its glimmering crystal clear body. As it appeared, the humidity of the air suddenly escalated. Water droplets began condensing on the cold black metallic wall.

Gao Peng could feel the cold breeze that blew toward him, and the cold that Gao Peng felt was completely transferred onto Fatty Big Sea. "Big Sea, this is a Water-type monster that's also at Saint-tier," Gao Peng told Fatty Big Sea.

Fatty Big Sea sneered as it straightened its short and thick neck. "That fatty's playing with water. Playing with water in front of your granddaddy, Fatty? What a joke!"

Fatty Big Sea's flesh shook vigorously as its body rumbled, showing the solid muscles underneath its thick gills. Its fierce eyes filled with unruliness. "Kneel before me!" A terrifying aura imploded around Fatty Big Sea.

The impact was as though the earth shook as oceans churned while all the rivers and mountains of the world were cracking. The water element in the air acted like a repelling force to suddenly change the direction of attack towards the water snake.

Hiss… The water snake let out a wretched hiss and tried to re-enter the well to escape with a wail. However, Fatty Big Sea was already prepared for that. As it opened its fish lips, the Sea King Devouring Teeth charged forward and transformed into a golden light that attacked the water snake.

Splash, splash. The noise of seawater rising and receding could be heard from the Divine Well of Darkness.

Although the Divine Well of Darkness currently didn't have a master to control and manipulate it, divine artifacts had spirits, which meant that the presence of another divine artifact would automatically trigger their defenses and Divine Power.

"Quiet." Fatty Big Sea gestured again, and likewise, the Endless Reincarnation Labyrinth turned into a golden ray that flew toward the Divine Well of Darkness. A miniature Endless Reincarnation Labyrinth appeared above the Divine Well of Darkness, repressing it while continuously releasing a comforting aura.

The situation was like a peacemaker trying to talk two short-tempered men out of having a fight. "Calm down, calm down, please don't fight for my sake…"

The Sea King Devouring Teeth bit the water snake's body, and as the Saint-tier water snake was unable to resist, it was swallowed entirely in one bite.

Gao Peng was a bit grateful for the rule in the divine border that restricted the entry of beings above the Saint tier. The rule had initially been affixed by the owner of the divine border to prevent intruders from entering, but now, it seemed to benefit Gao Peng.

The water snake had been birthed from the Divine Well of Darkness, and its existence was reliant on the well. In fact, it had already reached Level 90, the peak of the Saint tier, which was only a step away from it turning into a Quasi God.

It was a pity that the divine border had such restrictions. If not for this rule, the water snake would have surpassed the Quasi God stage many years earlier. Gao Peng watched eagerly, but he understood that only Fatty Big Sea had the ability to conquer the divine artifact.

Fatty Big Sea walked around the Divine Well of Darkness, carefully observing it, and told Gao Peng thereafter, "This is a water element divine artifact and may have other elements within, it but it's mainly the water element."

Pausing for a bit, Fatty Big Sea continued speaking excitedly but this time, the excitement in its voice was undisguisable. "With this water element divine artifact in hand, my ability will be able to recover quickly."

Gao Peng was ecstatic for Fatty Big Sea too. "Once you make a breakthrough to the Quasi God stage, I'll finally own a Quasi God familiar as well."

"Hmph, who says I'll only be limited to the Quasi God stage?" Fatty Big Sea fulfilled its daily quota of boasting.

After that, Fatty Big Sea spent an entire day persuading the Divine Well of Darkness to reluctantly shrink and enter its mouth.

Meeting Gao Peng's eyes, Fatty Big Sea patted its own chest, indicating that it would keep the divine artifact on his behalf temporarily and return it back to him once he had other Quasi God familiars.

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Chapter 660: The Coming Of Destruction

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In the following days, Gao Peng brought Moneymaker along to make a clean sweep of all the treasure in the treasure chamber. By closing the door of the last room, Gao Peng had lived up to the good habit of closing doors when entering and exiting rooms.

In the few days that Gao Peng swept through the entire treasure chamber, the treasure found wasn't considered a lot, but not very little either. Many of the rooms were empty, with nothing left, whereas in some of the rooms, the treasure preserved within had lost its spirituality over the years, turning completely into a pile of rotted wood or scrap metal.

"With this harvest, my fortune is probably no worse than those top tribes," Gao Peng said while carrying Silly in his arms and petting its smooth belly. Silly was so comfortable being held and petted by Gao Peng that it began making weird noises through its mouth.

Only Gao Peng knew how great this harvest was. Initially, the greatest difference between him and the big tribes was their fortunes and backing, as the big tribes had rich supplies. Fortune was simply treasure that had been handed down from generation to generation or hidden cards that they held unbeknownst to others.

Even if only one top treasure was harvested in 100 years, that would still mean an accumulation of a hundred treasures in 10,000 years. Of course, in a strict sense, it couldn't be calculated this way. However, there wasn't much difference on the whole.

While sometimes, certain treasure would be of no use at the time, as long as it was accumulated, it was still part of the fortune, and could quite possibly be of great use one day. Naturally, Gao Peng had also accumulated many materials for evolution this time.

Right as Gao Peng was pondering, the surrounding void distorted and Gao Peng, as well as his familiars, could only feel the surrounding imagery flickering as they were transmitted to the entrance in a flash. There were a lot of people standing near the entrance, and all of them stared at Gao Peng.

Gao Peng felt very awkward. Is there anything on my face?

"Why are you all staring at me?" Gao Peng laughed.

"No particular reason." Those who stood nearest shook their heads, and some even took a step back.

A short youngster with a large nose and big eyes complained to Qing Yunnan, "Sir, that's him. He's the one who snatched our maps in the secret border."

"I was just borrowing them. In any event, I didn't even look at them for free. Didn't I say that I would help you all build a base station for free?" Gao Peng sighed.

"How are you such a grumpy young man? We just borrowed your maps for a look. I can't believe you're complaining to him like a little b*tch." Gao Peng was speechless, since he thought that something serious had happened.

Upon hearing Gao Peng call him a little b*tch, the young man who had snitched pulled a face as if he had suffered some sort of tremendous indignity. He glared at Gao Peng with his fists clenched tightly.

"I even thought of the perfect lines for you. What goes around, comes around, and the world changes constantly. Don't bully a young man who's poor." Gao Peng chuckled.

"I… I'm not poor! My grandfather is a chief!" The young man mustered up his courage to respond.

Qing Yunnan furrowed his brows and said, "All right, let's just leave the matter here." Qing Yunnan had a lot of authority, so since he had spoken, the others naturally kept quiet.

After all, Gao Peng wasn't a member of their tribe, hence Qing Yunnan wouldn't try to control him. He merely turned to look at Gao Peng, hesitant to speak.

"Come on. Let's head back to the tribe." Qing Yunnan turned and left without asking the others if there had been a good harvest.

Qing Yunnan walked in front, followed by the others. The monster trainers gathered together excitedly, discussing the treasures they had each gained, the monsters they had seen in the secret border, and all kinds of peculiar situations they had encountered.

There were also some of them that appeared sad and covered their faces as they wept. This was because some of their companions hadn't come back and would stay forever in the secret border. There were some that were happy and others that grieved.

"ROAR!" Boom. The air echoed with a deafening growl.

The crack in the area in front of them suddenly broke apart. The space that had once been firm became extremely fragile at this moment with the space torn apart in large cracks. It looked extremely terrifying. Just like a collapsed building, the void collapsed like an avalanche as layers of space fell from the fragmented sky and left half of the sky shattering.

Qing Yunnan's face changed. "Back up!"

A long howl echoed from the depths of the broken space. Behind the broken void was the large Vanity Turbulence. Disorderly and lawless, it wanted to destroy everything in front of them.

Gao Peng saw the Destructive Behemoth for the first time with the last ray of light that emanated from the broken space. Just like a giant whale that had come up from the endless deep sea, its bright silver jaw was patterned with wavy lines that spread all the way to its sides. In the area that spread to its ears, the color became deeper where the dark purple skin was smooth and clean. There were eight orange-colored eyes in total, like orange lamps on both sides of a submarine.

Although the area it took up was small, it was particularly eye-catching.

"Roar!" The Destructive Behemoth opened its huge jaws and bit down venomously on a lofty peak in front of it.

Snap. Like biting a crispy rice cake, the peak was bitten off with a crisp snap, pulling the trees and creatures on it with it like sesame crumbs sprinkled on top of a cake. With a roll of its big red tongue, nothing was left.

"Roar!" The nose seemed to come into contact with air for too long, and black spots had begun to grow on it. The Destructive Behemoth stepped backward quickly, hiding in the Turbulent Vanity tp stalk its prey that was on land.

[Monster Name: Giant Destructive Butcher Whale

[Monster Tier: Medium God

Gao Peng could only see these two rows of data as he watched the Giant Whale that was lurking within the Vanity Turbulence. This was the first time he had met a monster at God tier… or rather, the monster of a God. Gao Peng was utterly attracted to it from the first moment it appeared.

Howl! This was the second time Gao Peng had heard this noise.

A humming came from the nose of the Giant Destructive Butcher Whale as its eyes became bright, and its gigantic mouth slowly opened to turn the echoing howl into a berserk and blood-lusting roar!

Destructive Whale Swallow! A dark ray shot from its gigantic mouth like a black hole that sucked everything before it into its mouth, including space debris, mountains, rivers, and even continental plates—everything went into its mouth.

This time, it was finally full and turned around to leave indifferently, swimming back into the depths of the vanity. As for Gao Peng and the others, including Qing Yunnan, it didn't even spare them a glance.

It was just like a hungry man on the street who tiptoed to pluck two fruits from a tree to satiate his hunger, never even noticing the many ants on the branches of the tree.

"The road that we used when we came is broken. Let's take a new route," Qing Yunnan said helplessly while looking at the collapsed world.

Moreover, it was too dangerous here. The collapse of the world's walls meant a big gap that had a big possibility of attracting other Destructive Behemoths.

"Maybe in the next hundred years, the secret border will be gone. You guys will probably be the last people to explore the secret border," Qing Yunnan said in a low tone.

"Ah, that's a pity. There are so many spiritual treasures in the secret border."

"Yeah, there are so many spiritual treasures that we haven't gotten our hands on," someone sighed.

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Chapter 661: Treasure Spirit Stone

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A speaker could not have intentions in his or her speech, but the listener could gather his or her own meaning from it.

As Gao Peng thought of how he had evacuated the Treasure Chamber, he felt a little sorry at first. But now, the feelings of regret had all disappeared because these treasures would have been wasted if he hadn't taken them.

I'm making an outstanding contribution to preserve and sustain treasures. It's the truth. Without me, a god's territory would mean a hellish place alongside the destruction of the world. It would also mean being bitten by the damaged beast in the void that will "wipe its mouth and release a fart after eating."

The more Gao Peng thought of this, the less guilty he felt. His back straightened, and the volume of his voice was louder than before. On the other side, Qing Yunnan considered him in secret. Based on the speed of the space collapse, perhaps it would only take several years to spread to the region of the secret border.

When the secret border and vanity turbulence came in contact, it'll be our best chance. Last time, we could only send Saint-tier monster trainers to enter the secret border, so perhaps this time, everyone can give a hand to accomplish something bigger.

Should I inform Gao Peng, seeing as they have a Quasi God in the Huaxia region?… Forget it, since he's not from our tribe. Moreover, one extra Quasi God won't make much of a difference. Moreover, adding one more person means that one extra person will share the treasures.

Within a brief moment, many thoughts flashed through Qing Yunnan's mind, but his face looked serious as he gazed steadily forward. "Let's go around from the left. Hopefully, the spatial tunnel isn't destroyed, or else we can only wait for rescue or be left in this world," Qing Yunnan teased.

After walking for approximately ten days, a piece of land with low buildings appeared in front of them. These must have been the residential areas of the owners living in this region.

Gao Peng widened his eyes as he looked at these buildings. All these low houses were seriously broken, but these buildings were similar to those on Earth Star. Although some details and designs were different, they were the same in general.

It was similar to the designs of the Huaxia region in the 18th to 19th centuries. Other than the broken relics, there were no other remainings, not even a single monster.

Gao Peng walked into a room he found. In the corner of the room laid two skeletons. Both skeletons curled up and held each other tightly, their bodies filled with wild grass. The wild grass grew out from between the gaps in the bones, wrapping the bones together.

A table seemed to have a scroll used to record writing. On top of it were thick layers of dust. Gao Peng wiped off the dust on top, realizing that the written words were unfamiliar to him, and it wasn't the same as any writing developed on Earth Star.

Gao Peng heaved a sigh in his heart. At one corner of the world, there could be the existence of similar human beings who were undergoing reproduction without limits. However, some emerging ones were snuffed out, like the civilizations of this world. If it wasn't for the special geographical location of Earth Star… Well, it's hard to say.

As they accelerated their pace, they finally saw the Spatial Rift that they first came through two weeks earlier.

"We should bid goodbye to each other, then." Qing Yunnan nodded to Gao Peng with a good attitude.

"Goodbye." Tong Ling smiled faintly.

After they walked their separate ways, Gao Peng mounted Fourth Baby to return to the city of Hope. As Gao Peng was approaching the outer city, he looked toward the inner city, hesitated for a moment, and he eventually decided not to enter the city, choosing to rest for a bit outside.

After locating a remote and a silent place, he summoned Stripey. The emergence of Stripey caused the land to tremble. Boiling hot vapor emitted from Stripey's body continuously, and the black and red gloomy clouds on top of its head shielded it from the sunshine.

"You digest the crystal first, Stripey." Gao Peng patted Stripey's claws. The claws were so big that Gao Peng doubted Stripey could feel it.

"Okay!" Stripey obediently sprawled on the ground.

Gao Peng found a clean and open space, cleaning up the wild grass and gravel on the ground. He then took out a lab table to place it in the open space.

The Dragon Elf King was set aside to sit down. With the presence of the True Dragon Fruit Tree, he wasn't afraid it would run away. This creature sat on one of the tree branches. It was extremely nervous at first, staring at Gao Peng and the others with vigilance, but after a while, it wasn't frightened of Gao Peng like before.

Its left hand involuntarily grabbed the fruits to its side and picked one to eat. Snap!

Fourth Baby fixed its gaze at it, the wings on its back acting like whips, hitting the rocks to the side and causing them to break into pieces.

"Please don't simply touch." Fourth Baby and the other six of them treated this True Dragon Fruit Tree as their personal belonging.

The Dragon Elf King paused, retracted its left hand, and gradually raised to its feet, revealing a menacing aura. "Are you asking me not to simply touch my tree?"

"It's just under your supervision," Fourth Baby said in a firm manner.

"Hehe." Dragon Elf King sneered.

Do you think I'm still the 'me' from the past few days? Within a short period, I successfully broke through to the Overlord tier.

"Shut up." Da Zi's eyeballs rotated in their direction with their dark gold vertical pupils showing off their majestic aura, revealing its rage.

The Dragon Elf King, which had been acting impressive earlier, seemed to have recalled a terrible experience and sat back discreetly.

Fourth Baby withdrew its gaze, the violent and flurry wings stuck to its back. It told itself that it was merely good for riding.

Gao Peng fetched a True Dragon Fruit, first crushing it, then mixing it with other supplementary materials. When he was half-done mixing, the sky darkened and was engulfed by gloomy clouds.

Fatty Big Sea snuck a peak above its head, plucking off a piece of its scales and tossing it to the sky. With a whooshing sound, the scale reached the gloomy clouds above its head. The gloomy clouds suddenly became calm. In an instant, the sky cleared.

"I'm done mixing." Gao Peng looked at the bottle of crimson red potion on the table with satisfaction. The potion he could use to upgrade Elder Baby's grade was done mixing. Next would be Second Baby.

After working for 25 hours relentlessly, Gao Peng finally stretched his body. All seven potions were mixed. He distributed the potions, and as he lowered his head, he saw Moneymaker sitting by the side of the laboratory table alone, looking off into the distance in loneliness. Its hand was holding a cigarette, though he didn't know where it was from.

It was muttering some weird words to itself. "Once the rabbit is killed, the dog can be stewed, as it's no longer useful. Once the fat bird is killed, and the bow is of no use, then it's better to put it away."

Gao Peng rolled his eyes. "Enough, enough! I'll prepare to upgrade you this time."

At first, he had wanted to take a rest first before continuing with his work. Forget about it. I'd better get it done in one go.

Calling out for Silly who had fallen asleep three times and woken up three times, he asked it to take out a strange multi-faceted crystal. This crystal had been moving for the entire 24 hours. With every second, its cross-sectional area would make changes.

[Material Name: Treasure Spirit Stone

He took out other materials to mix a bottle of liquid, and later, he inserted the Treasure Spirit Stone into the liquid.

Moneymaker's nerves tensed as it stared intensely at this bottle of liquid. Five minutes later, the Treasure Spirit Stone melted completely into the bottle of liquid, and the liquid turned into a viscous dim gold liquid.

"It's done! You can drink it all up," Gao Peng said to Moneymaker.

Moneymaker seemed to release its burdens as its tense nerves relaxed. It revealed tears of joy. "Finally, I know you're not going to stew me."

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Chapter 662: A Gorgeous Transformation

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"I…" As Gao Peng was about to ask what it meant about stewing it, he thought about Moneymaker's previous evolution methods and withdrew his words. He slowly lowered the hand he had lifted to touch Moneymaker's fuzzy ear. "How could I bear to stew you?"

Moneymaker finished the drink all at once and let out a burp in a bold manner. Along with a snap, it fell from the table to the ground and lost consciousness.

The Dragon Elf King shivered after seeing this scene, not daring to utter words about wanting help to upgrade its level in case this human being poisoned it.

Fatty Big Sea snuck a look at those familiars that had found things to do. It yawned and said to Gao Peng, "I'll continue to regain my strength. Summon me if you need anything." Upon finishing its words, Fatty Big Sea spat out the Divine Well of Darkness and crawled into the well. The piercingly cold and dark divine water caused Fatty Big Sea to sneeze comfortably.

Moneymaker, who had fainted for three whole days, regained consciousness for the first time while the rest of the seven familiars were still fast asleep.

Moneymaker's first appearance after it woke up displayed its tremendous transformation. First, its body size had become four times bigger than its previous size, and next, its outer appearance wasn't as golden as before, but it had transformed into a strange form…

It looked a little bit like liquid, flowing all the time, but the outer appearance of its body had many intersecting surfaces. As these surfaces were too small, it looked like a sparkling diamond from afar.

Gao Peng gave out a low-pitched cough in an awkward manner, unsure if Moneymaker would get him into trouble if it knew that it had evolved into this ghost-like appearance.

Before it was completely evolved, Gao Peng hadn't known how it would look after the evolution, therefore, he had only been able to roughly guess based on the name.

In fact, Moneymaker's name after the evolution was the Treasure Rat. It seemed pretty normal, judging from the name. Before the evolution, Moneymaker had been named Detective Rat. Detective Rat and Treasure Rat appear to correspond to each other, right?

"Squeak, squeak?" Moneymaker stood up and lowered its head to look at its body. It jumped up excitedly after realizing it was shining with silver flashes. My body is so valuable!

[Monster Name: Treasure Rat

[Monster Level: Grade 70 (Emperor-tier)

[Monster Grade: Legendary/Legendary

[Monster Skills: Sense of smell of the treasures Level 5, Enhancement of Luck Level 4, Agile Body Level 6

[Special Characteristics: Ultimate seeker of treasures

Hiding and Receiving Treasures (Treasure Rat will carry a treasure storage area with it to collect a large number of treasures. As long as there are treasures in the storage area, it will improve its ability to seek treasure and simultaneously quicken its speed and cloaking abilities. The current rate of treasure collection: none)

Looking at Moneymaker's skills, Gao Peng couldn't help his eyes from brightening. "Come here, Moneymaker." He waved to Moneymaker.

Moneymaker ran over as its diamond-like flowing body glittered brightly. "What's the problem, Gao Peng?"

"Go ahead and swallow this. I'm asking you to swallow it, not to eat it," Gao Peng reminded Moneymaker.

Moneymaker blinked its eyes quietly. You're asking me to swallow it, but not to eat it. Are you a fool, Gao Peng?

Moneymaker, which had just evolved, wasn't used to its own abilities yet. Gao Peng could see through its ability at a glance, but Moneymaker itself was indeed confused. Under Gao Peng's instructions, it could forcibly adapt to its Hiding and Receiving Treasures skill.

"Don't tell me you're secretly a huge Treasure Rat, Gao Peng?" Moneymaker said with its head tilted to one side. "I don't even know my own skills, but I can't believe you know everything so well."

Gao Peng was speechless.

Moneymaker ate the True Dragon Fruit. In the field of Gao Peng's vision, behind the rate of treasure on Moneymaker's attribute table, a True Dragon Fruit appeared.

Indeed, I can see what treasures Moneymaker hides. In this regard, I won't have to worry if it hides things away from me in secret. Gao Peng nodded to himself.

"You can try and see if your speed becomes faster," Gao Peng said to Moneymaker.

Moneymaker raised its claws to give it a try carefully. "Gee, I seem to be a little bit faster."

"It's good that you're faster." Gao Peng nodded, then let Silly pass all the treasures that were currently not in use to Moneymaker. Silly had no feelings for these treasures as its heart was only occupied with the ample boxes of fruit juices in one corner.

After swallowing these treasures, Moneymaker's speed became faster by more than ten times. Run like the wind, and be as fast as lightning.

Even when Moneymaker didn't move, its body would gradually become invisible.

Boom! Stripey, who was in the distance, suddenly revealed a terrifying demeanor. Its furious aura of fury like giant waves rolling through. A violent and hot lava field burst forth around it.

It was normal for monsters that had just leveled up to the Saint tier to have a field that covered only within a radius of 33,000 feet. This was because an ordinary Saint-tier monster had a volume of no more than thousands of feet, and a radius of about 33,000 feet would be ten times the diameter of its body volume, which would enable it to increase its combat power.

Stripey's field area reached up to a 330,000 feet radius. If converted, it was equivalent to within a radius of 62,000 miles. Also, because it was too tall, it could even see the people in the city of Hope clearly from this distance.

In fact, several big-scale cities didn't even have such a large area. Stripey took a deep breath. The gloomy disaster clouds in the sky entered its chest.

Stripey's body, which was big and tall as a mountain, emitted red blood lava rays. It looked like a dead tyrant that had walked out of hell or the underworld. A depressing and hot aura burnt others and hurt their cheeks.

In the Holy Domain space, it had manifested volcanic eruption and created a scene like judgment day—the earth cracking and lava spewing.

An invisible layer of chains was broken into pieces; Stripey broke through the Saint-tier restrictions and upgraded to the Saint tier!

"What colored the sky red?" People who were walking on the streets paused, looking at the view in astonishment from a distance.

"The Holy Domain…" The atmosphere in the factory was at full blast as the chimney released black fog. Ji Hanwu, who was patrolling the factory, stopped and frowned as he looked to the west. "A monster has broken through the Saint tier."

"That's the aura of your grandson's familiar." The White Dragon's voice resounded in Ji Hanwu's heart.

"Is it?" Ji Hanwu's emotions shifted from anxiety to joy.

The White Dragon in the lake poked its head through the surface of the water, staring in Stripey's direction with a puzzled look.

"I ate the meat essence, as well, but why could it upgrade faster than me?" The White Dragon's voice was accompanied by a disappointed feeling.

Its level of evolution had always been ahead of others initially, but now, it was continuously being surpassed by Gao Peng's familiars. This made it very unhappy, thus it was working very hard in secret. Besides, Gao Peng wasn't too stingy to share the meat essence that Dark Child had decomposed with his grandfather and Uncle Liu.

With the White Dragon's effort to do both things at once, it had managed to break through the to Overlord tier in a week, but before it could show off, Stripey had already made a breakthrough to the Saint tier.

"This…" The White Dragon felt stumped.

"Fine. I know that someone surpassed your level, but it's okay, since it's not an outsider," The Silver Dragon emerged from behind the White Dragon with its head lying on the White Dragon's neck. "Besides, the more capable you are, the greater your responsibilities will be. I don't wish to see you encounter any unexpected misfortunes," the Silver Dragon said with bitterness hidden in its heart while it was drawing small circles on the White Dragon's chest.

The White Dragon furrowed its brow. "I don't like to hide behind others. Please don't repeat these words in front of me again."

The Silver Dragon wasn't angry, but in return, replied gently, "All right, I understand. I won't say it anymore."

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Chapter 663: Dragon… Dragon Ant Little Adamantine?

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The midday sun was glaring as gusts of hot wind blew by. Gao Peng wiped the sweat off of his forehead.

On the vast plains laid seven little creatures. Even an extremely weak King-tier monster could eat them all at this point, but with a group of familiars guarding the area, only naive monsters would dare approach them.

As the seven little ones stirred from their deep sleep, they became increasingly grumpy. Seventh Baby, the Heart Ant which laid in the middle, shivered. Moneymaker, thinking that it had woken up, immediately sprung over when it noticed massive amounts of white fog spreading from gaps around its body. Moneymaker scurried backward and looked on with shock and confusion. The fog spread everywhere and formed six chains, connecting Seventh Baby with the other six.

The commotion caught the attention of Da Zi, who was dozing off. It snuck a peek with its right eye and quickly sat up when it saw what was going on. It hurried to nudge Gao Peng, who was sleeping, with its claws.

"Gao Peng, Gao Peng, get up quick. We have a big problem."

Gao Peng jolted up and rushed to observe the situation from the hills. At that moment, he saw the seven little ones levitating in mid-air, joined together by an invisible force.

[Monster Condition: Merging

Merging? Gao Peng's face went pale. He had never allowed these seven brothers to merge, nor was he prepared to let that happen. Why was such a strange thing happening so suddenly?

He ran to the shadowed area at the foot of the hills as the temperature near the Shadow Well dropped about forty to fifty degrees. A gust of cold wind froze the ground with a layer of frost as snowflakes hung atop the surrounding tree branches.

In that instant, Fatty Big Sea was bobbing about in the well, sinking, floating, and rolling around. Gao Peng couldn't grasp Fatty Big Sea's current condition. If it was a critical moment before the next breakthrough, it would be quite troublesome.

His brows furrowed and he couldn't help but let out a sigh.

Fatty Big Sea was the only one that he could rely on, yet nobody knew when it would wake up.

"Calm down. It's not a bad thing that they're merging." The only thing that made Gao Peng less worried was that the seven little ones weren't going through a bad change. Merging… wasn't considered a bad change at the end of the day.

Boom! Crash! The thundering noises of dark clouds colliding came from above, while the sun was eventually engulfed as the black clouds thickened. The clouds were as dark as ink, about to unleash a downpour.

The shell on Stripey's head cracked, and from the cracks spewed gloomy disaster clouds. Like blood-red Mars hidden within black smoke, two dark clouds crashed head-on. The lightning was swallowed before it could strike past the thick mass of gray clouds. Some time later, the gray clouds cleared unwillingly.

This is the second time! I will not forget this!

As the wind blew, the seven brothers gently floated up, then began to move toward the Heart Ant in the middle. The glare from a bright white light obstructed every view of the surroundings. The seven brothers' breath became more and more shallow, but never gone, merely combining.

Phew.

Glazed golden armor covered their fists. One punch pierced through the white light. Within the interlacing of fine scales in purple and gold hues, its aura became sharp and intimidating. A deep dragon-like roar echoed across the plains.

Boom! Its fiery blood and chi set the ground ablaze.

Heavy footsteps reverberated in all of the monsters' ears. They couldn't help but narrow their eyes from the dangerous vibes emitted.

"Dragon Ant, greetings, Master." A burly, ten-foot-tall human-like beast in golden armor strode out and kneeled down on one knee.

Its knee sunk down heavily, firmly bracing itself on the ground. The moment it landed, the ground sunk and quickly bounced back. Cracks appeared and intensified, stretching over thousands of yards as if they were ferocious fangs.

Its lowered head was covered by thick blood-red armor, hiding its face. Beneath the armor, its eyes glowed with brutality and bloodlust.

Until then, only faint yellow smoke had risen from the boundaries of the cracks.

[Monster Name: Hundred Faces Dragon Ant (Bloody)

[Monster Level: 80 (Overlord-tier)

[Monster Grade: Mythical

[Monster Attributes: Impure

[Monster Skills: Dragon Power Level 6, Hard Dragon Scales Level 6, Epic Endurance Level 6, Determination Level 6

[Monster Specialty: Hundred Faces (The Hundred Faces Dragon Ant can shapeshift into different Dragon Ants, possess the abilities of two Dragon Ants at a time and completely inherit those abilities, and can stack its current ability with their own basic attributes.)

[Current Monster Condition: Bloody Dragon Ant, Power King Kong Dragon Ant

[Stacking Abilities: Dragon Power Level 1, Possesses "Blood Rage" characteristics, "Epically Odd Strength" characteristics

Dragon Devour (When the Hundred Faces Dragon Ant swallows sufficient new species of dragon meat, it will unlock the corresponding Gift of Dragons.)

Endless Hearts (Possession of Endless Hearts enables the Hundred Faces Dragon Ant to store the powers of different dragon tribes.)

[Current Possessions: Blood Dragon Ant, Diurnal Ant, Power King Kong Ant, Aurora Dragon Ant, Hidden Dragon Ant, Smoke Dragon Ant, Heart Ant

[Monster Description: A very rare breed among Dragon Ants. Only when one mother breed and more than five Dragon Ants of the same tier and grade evolve at the same time will they merge. The evolved Hundred Faces Dragon Ant can freely change their attributes and possess the abilities of two Dragon Ants combined. The only flaw is that the Hundred Faces Dragon Ant's body is controlled by all the brothers at once, which makes it moody.

It was just one step away from the Saint tier, but there was still an obstacle. Even though the Hundred Faces Dragon Ant's specialties seemed neither great nor terrible, similar to other familiars' specialties, but Gao Peng didn't view it that way. He had been a trainer for many years and had lots of experience in fights and battles.

There was one thing the Hundred Faces Dragon Ant had that other familiars did not—all familiars were born with their abilities while the Hundred Faces Dragon Ant was in some senses… able to choose its powers!

It could choose its abilities and change them anytime, to abilities suitable for non-fighting mode purposes, without any delay.

Blood Rage and Epically Odd Strength were originally Elder Baby and Third Baby's abilities, respectively. They were both special for their strength. Now that they had combined, it wasn't just a simple one plus one equaled two.

The fact was that it hadn't made a breakthrough to Saint-tier yet, but its powers were already at Level 7. If both passive skills that had increased its strength were triggered, then the Dragon Ant's strength would skyrocket to an unimaginable level.

Two days later, Fatty Big Sea finally woke up, noticeably stronger. It seemed like it had gained quite a lot. I just woke up, but why are my surroundings so quiet? The seven little Dragon Ants used to be so noisy and active.

"Eh, who are you?" Fatty Big Sea noticed the Hundred Faces Dragon Ant perching on a rock nearby.

The Hundred Faces Dragon Ant saw that Fatty Big Sea had woken up, stood up, and then walked towards Fatty Big Sea. When it took a stride, its armor changed color abruptly. It was a cream color now.

Da Zi and the others understood. This was Sixth Baby controlling the body. "Let's test our strengths together!"

White fog surrounded the Hundred Faces Dragon Ant's arm and finally condensed into a gigantic misty fist, flying toward Fatty Big Sea.

"Sixth Baby?" Fatty Big Sea could instantly tell that this was Sixth Baby's smoke powers. With a swing of its tail, the misty fist was defeated.

"Sixth Baby, you changed quite a lot." Fatty Big Sea found it hard to believe that it had overlooked Sixth Baby before.

"Once more." The Hundred Faces Dragon Ant didn't back off. Instead, it attacked with two rays of light from its pupils.

Fatty Big Sea was shocked; was that not Second Baby's power?

Under conditional reflection, a fish fin appeared with a smack. A water wall condensed out of nowhere and smashed toward the Dragon Ant rapidly.

The water wall shattered the daylight and with its consistent force, slamming against the Hundred Faces Dragon Ant's body. It was knocked out immediately.

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"Knocked out?" Fatty Big Sea was startled. Was I too hard on it? But it didn't unleash any attacks.

Fatty Big Sea hesitated for a moment. After some thought, it whirled up some waves and surfed over. Using its fish fins, it pulled back the Dragon Ant's eyelids.

"Still alive." Fatty Big Sea sighed in relief. "How could this fellow have Second Baby and Sixth Baby's powers at the same time?" Fatty Big Sea kept thinking about it, but it had no answers.

"Merged and evolved," Gao Peng said while shaking his head.

"Huh, merged and evolved?" Fatty Big Sea slapped its big fat head and rolled its eyes. With a longing tone, it continued, "I still miss those little Dragon Ants. Even though they were a little dumb, they were quite obedient. Now, who controls their body?" Fatty Big Sea asked with uncertainty.

Usually, for this type of merging and evolving, several different souls would kill each other for the right to control the body. In the end, only one winner would control the body. Even in special cases, there would be only two souls at most—one main soul and one secondary soul.

"The seven brothers will take turns being in control," Gao Peng said.

"Huh?" Fatty Big Sea's eyes widened. "Seven souls?" It had never heard of seven souls controlling one body for as long as it had lived.

Just like a normal human would find it hard to imagine the possibility of a person with seven heads conjoined, this was preposterous. Fatty Big Sea furrowed its brows, a gloomy haze flashing below its eyes. "Could it be that one of the babies was just pretending to be the others to trick you? They were from the same mother and know one another very well, so imitating the others wouldn't be a difficult thing."

"Nope." Gao Peng shook his head. "It's seven souls." Since Gao Peng had said so, Fatty Big Sea could only believe it.

"Unbelievable, unbelievable," Fatty Big Sea mumbled, staring at the Hundred Faces Dragon Ant like it was some kind of wonder.

"Actually, this is quite good. I liked all seven of them, so to exclude any one of them would be sad. Even though their bodies no longer exist, at least their souls are still here. We can still see them anytime." Gao Peng comforted Fatty Big Sea, at the same time, himself as well.

Fatty Big Sea had a sudden idea. "In the future, if they can evolve into a creature with seven heads, maybe they can all appear at the same time. There are numerous creatures with many heads, such as the Nine-Headed Snake, Multi-Headed Cannibal Devil, Hundred-Headed Griffin, and Three-Headed Dragon."

"Okay. Since you're awake, let's head back first." Gao Peng patted Fatty Big Sea's head and smiled.

"What are these metal thingies, Lei Jiao? I've never seen them before." At the edge of the Ominous Thunder Tribe, two youngsters who had just made it back from hunting walked swiftly into the tribal grounds. Behind them was a thunder beast that looked like a triceratops. It carried the yields of the day on its back as it headed towards the slaughterhouse.

They smiled and waved to other members of their tribe as they passed them before running curiously to join a crowd of onlookers around a strange structure. It was being constructed by a group of oddly-dressed people who wore yellow bowler hats on their heads.

"What is this? For sleeping?" Lei Can laughed exaggeratedly as he stood up and gestured. He chuckled twice before realizing that no one had paid any attention to him… His laughter became awkward.

"It's a chicken station!" a senior said firmly.

"Chicken station? To rear chickens?" Lei Can stared at the steel structure, which already had a visible profile intertwined with steel reinforcement bars. He nodded thoughtfully and said, "So it's a place for chickens to live in. Since chickens can fly, there's no need to worry about them falling to their deaths."

"Enough, enough, what nonsensical chatter. Go back and spend time with your wives." A tribe elder of the Ominous Thunder Tribe came and chased the group of onlookers away.

"My wife is here to see this as well," Lei Dashi barked.

Typically, the people of the tribe had very little entertainment. Other than going out hunting, they would just stay home and make babies. Sometimes, they would catch a naive crocodile or a blind tiger as a pet to play with. That was their only form of amusement. Obviously, they wouldn't miss this rare chance to observe new happenings in the tribe.

"This is not for rearing chickens!" Naturally, the tribe elder had more experiences and knowledge than the other tribe members.

"Then what does it rear?" Lei Can's face was filled with confusion.

"It rears nothing!" The elder was slightly angry now. "Everyone shut up and listen to me.

"This is a gadget from the Huaxia Tribe; they gifted it to us for free, saying it was some base station. It also came with stuff like servers and a network host. They say that after we build this, we can use handphones," the elder said calmly before coughing. Truthfully, he didn't know much either. All the technical terms that those people had mentioned sounded like Greek to him. He could only remember so much, but it was enough to fool these lowly b*stards.

"Hand chickens?" One guy was deep in thought, reaching out his left hand and making gestures. He tried grabbing the air and found it hard to picture it as fun. If I squeeze it once, will it make a noise? I can squeeze a chicken to death.

At the same time, groups of people from the Huaxia Tribe support division rushed toward various other tribes, bringing them warm greetings and care from the people of Huaxia.

On Earth Star, mountains were trembling and the ground was shaking; the land rumbled loudly.

In the Shuzhong area, deep mountains had turned into monstrous jungles and thick fog rose from the torrents of rivers, as the sun incinerated the surface of the river, vaporizing it into a thin layer of gold mist. The land where the three rivers met was still a piece of untouched land.

Surprisingly, there was a sizeable town at the foot of a mountain. In fact, there were many monster trainers living in this town. It was hard to believe that people still lived on Earth Star even after it had been destroyed to this extent.

"You old bald donkey, you oppressed me for many years. Today, I will destroy everything that you want to protect! Hahahaha—"

The surface of the river whirled, and a great wave rose up. The people by the shore were used to it. They packed up their stores calmly, then shut their doors and windows before retreating to a cave in the mountain behind the town.

Boom! A tidal wave rose into the sky as a gale howled. An extremely long aquatic dragon, ink green in color, boldly stirred and leaped out from the choppy waters.

"That swine." The Giant Buddha of Joy Mountain who had been sitting steadily on the ground opened its eyes suddenly. It was so mottled that even its mossy outer shell had split open, releasing a terrifying aura from within.

"After all these years, it's still not safe." The voice echoed from the sky above.

Boom— Piercing past the layers of clouds, a powerful and enormous hand slammed down from above. The five fingers closed in unison, grabbing the aquatic dragon mid-flight, as if it was catching a mudskipper.

Bang. The aquatic dragon turned into a skyful of bloodied mist. The enormous hand then gradually disappeared from heaven and earth.

The peak of the mountain trembled violently, and the crags on the body of the Giant Buddha of Joy Mountain began to fall off rapidly, revealing gold skin beneath.

"It's awake." In a land far away, a Quasi God monster trainer from the Qingshen Tribe stood on the shoulder of a Qing Luan, a mythical bird creature, looking toward the south. The Qing Luan said with a deep voice, "This was the power of the Ancestral Land back when it was still asleep. Should we approach it?" The monster trainer's eyes were fixed in the direction of the south.

They already knew that the area had a terrifying existence that was asleep, but because the existence had never shown any malice, to prevent any sudden conflict, they never approached it.

"Let's see what its next step will be." The Qing Luan shook its head.

The outer shell of the Giant Buddha of Joy Mountain had completely fallen off. A gleaming golden giant that measured up to 330 feet descended into the human realm; it had a face of Buddha with a swastika symbol between its brows.

The enormous Buddha stood up and looked at the people who had ran out from the cave by his feet. It calmly said, "I've been here to bless thee for thousands of years. Our fate has ended."

After finishing the sentence, it lifted its head and marched toward the location of the portal that led to Jiutian Shidi.

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Chapter 665: The Green Dragon

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When the Giant Buddha stepped into the plains of the Qing Tian Plateau, it was already noon, and the sun was shining right over everyone's heads. The bright sun shone down on the Buddha, making it hard to tell whether the light emitted by Buddha was its own halo or the sun's rays.

Right after stepping onto the Qing Tian Plateau, a large swathe of green fog started to blanket the plains, spreading further than a thousand miles in a blink of an eye.

The Buddha stopped and looked towards the depths of the plains. It said in a clear voice, "I'm just passing by. I hope that you can allow me passage."

The fog thickened and spread non-stop for a long time. Eventually, it condensed into a silhouette of a Green Dragon that spread for thousands of miles in the sky. The Green Dragon looked down at the Buddha from its position above. "It's not yet time."

"I kept my promise from years ago to guard this place for a thousand years. Why is it not yet time for your part of the bargain?" the Buddha grumbled unhappily.

"I said that it hasn't arrived yet, so that means it hasn't arrived yet," the Green Dragon replied flatly, refusing to listen to the Buddha's argument. The Green Dragon rolled in the sky and turned back into a green fog, which dissipated into the air. In a flash, everything was back to pleasant weather with blue sky and white clouds, grass swaying in the breeze.

The Buddha stood amidst this picturesque scenery. It stood there in silence for about ten minutes, then snorted in dissatisfaction. "If only I weren't this afraid of you." Turning around, it then walked back towards the direction of Joy Mountain.

Halfway through, the Buddha's pace was slowing down. It looked sideways to the North. From its point of view, it should only have been able to see a vast expanse of mountains. Nonetheless, the vision of the Buddha seemed to have passed through the numerous hills and streams to fall on somewhere farther away. It fell on the Qing Luan, which was looking right at it.

The Buddha clenched its fists. "Sneaking around suspiciously and peeping at people? They're definitely no good!" It clenched its fists tighter after it finished talking and smashed them into the mountain next to it.

The Qing Luan squinted its eyes. This guy… he's got a short fuse indeed. Its glowing green eyes turned away.

Sensing that the spying gaze from afar had disappeared, the Buddha huffed and finally left the place with its chin raised.

"Did you see the Green Dragon with your own eyes?" asked Bai Tongming, the old patriarch of the White Dragon Tribe, with a frown. He was still somewhat unconvinced that a being on Earth Star existed that terrified even the Qing Luan.

"Yes. Although it wasn't in its true form, its breath was still extremely terrifying, causing my familiar, Qing Luan, to be almost paralyzed with fear," Qing Yunbei said heavily.

"The bloodline of your Qing Luan is almost pureblood, and Qing Luan is a legendary species. Its position on the Mythical Familiar Ranking Index isn't low. Could it be that it was genuinely a pureblood Green Dragon?" Bai Tongming said in contemplation.

"There's a high chance that it is indeed a pureblood green dragon," agreed Qing Yunbei. "If it's actually a pureblood, what would its grade be?"

"A pureblood Green Dragon…" Bai Tongming muttered to himself. Their White Dragon Tribe had been raising White Dragons for generations and worshipped White Dragons as superior to other dragons. Only the most outstanding tribespeople could establish Blood Contracts with White Dragons, therefore their understanding of Dragon-type monsters was impossible for other tribes to measure up to. Not only that, but they had also been studying other species of dragon monsters in quite some depth.

"Among the legendary familiars, the dragons and phoenixes are of the highest tier. Between them, the dragons are yang, and they outnumber the phoenixes by quite a fair number," said Bai Tongming, "Thus, the dragon species monsters are numerous in their population. The ancestors of our own White Dragons were a pair of purebloods…"

"Hmm." Qing Yunbei nodded, appearing to agree with him, when in fact, he was grumbling in his heart. Every time he wanted to talk about important matters, Bai Tongming would always derail them and start lecturing him about his precious dragon species monsters.

For example, during the full-month-long celebration of Bai Tongming's grandchild, he had invited some of his old friends over to have some drinks, then started to boast while everyone was drinking peacefully. "This is my ninth grandchild, born to my second eldest son. He's a descendant of the main bloodline and has inherited the talents of the White Dragon Tribe. Speaking of the main bloodline, I'm reminded of the first ancestors of our White Dragon Tribe, a truly magnificent pair of pureblood White Dragons. The dragon monsters are numerous in quantity, but even among the dragon monsters, the White Dragons are also…"

Coming back to the current situation, Bai Tongming was finally feeling parched after blathering on for quite a while. He finally noticed the impatience in Qing Yunbei's eyes. Only then did he come back to the topic and say, "In fact, having said so much, the gist is that they're divided into two major categories, the family of Giant Dragons and the family of Ethereal Dragons.

"Within the Ethereal Dragon family, White Dragons, Black Dragons and Yellow Dragons are considered the most powerful among colored dragons. However, Green Dragons are an exception to that rule, as they're extremely rare. Thus, they have a special status."

"And what kind of status is that exactly?" Qing Yunbei asked indifferently.

After a pause, Bai Tongming finally said, "A pureblood Green Dragon should be slightly above the status of Quasi God."

"Above a Quasi God… Then isn't that… Moreover, this one is actually a pureblood. If it experiences its awakening, then…" Qing Yunbei's breathing became heavier.

"That's why, since the start, I couldn't believe that you saw an actual green dragon in the sky above the Qing Tian Plateau. How could such a high-level being appear here casually?" Bai Tongming shook his head.

"But now I hope that what you've said is true." Bai Tongming looked serious.

"Are you crazy?" Qing Yunbei frowned. This situation was like a tiger appearing on the doorstep of their house. Even if he knew that the tiger wasn't hostile for the time being, no one would see this as an auspicious event.

"The scouts who went all over the world to explore have finally gathered information, including bad news. Fortunately, it isn't bad enough to be catastrophic." Bai Tongming's expression was complicated. "On this matter, it would be better to discuss it when all the available elders from all three of our tribes can gather here. It is very important."

Qing Yunbei contemplated what he had heard before nodding his head. "All right, I will return immediately and inform them now."

After making sure that Qing Yunbei had left, Bai Tongming lowered his head and unfurled the goatskin scroll in his hands. On the scroll, there was a sketch of mountains, rivers, river valleys, cities… and countries.

Two days later, other than the Quasi Gods who had isolated themselves to hone their abilities and those who were deep in slumber, the Quasi Gods and elites of the three major tribes had all gathered at the Jade Emperor Peak of the Tai Mountain. The Tai Mountain was the first of the five sacred mountains of Huaxia. It also held the honor of being the most important mountain of the five sacred mountains. Ever since the Qinshi Emperor had made pilgrimages to the Tai Mountain, the emperors of the following dynasties had continued to make pilgrimages to this place.

Since ancient times, various legends and myths relating to the Tai Mountain had already been spread around. Such a legendary mountain then became more and more extraordinary after the Cataclysm. In the depths of the Tai Mountain, an Emperor-tier Cross-Mountain Draconic Eagle once lived. The ability to raise an Emperor-tier Cross-Mountain Draconic Eagle was enough evidence of the natural wonders of the Tai Mountain.

On the Jade Emperor Peak, the air was permeated with thick mist, and the freezing wind was howling. There were candles burning in the palace, and a total of 13 people were sitting on papyrus sitting pillows.

"I have some bad news to tell all of you. We're lucky that for now, it's not too bad," Bai Tongming said in a low voice. "This is the same information gathered by the monster trainers assigned to explore Jiutian Shidi. This is the map that they drew. Do take a look." Bai Tongming spread out the goatskin scroll in the middle of the circle.

As the goatskin scroll unfurled, the mountains, rivers, cities, and countries all popped up in their vision.

"It's just a map; what's so special about it?" someone looked down at it and said flatly. "How about the rest of the information? Just lay it out for us."

"Don't keep us guessing! I know more about the history of our White Dragon Tribe than you do!" snapped an elder with a magnificent beard that almost touched the ground as he glared at them. He was a Quasi God monster trainer from the White Dragon Tribe. However, his rank was much higher than that of Bai Tongming.

"The bad news is… for thousands of decades, the advancement of the Mutated Tribe was even faster than we expected," Bai Tongming explained slowly. "Not only that, but their elite members have completely surpassed us, both in quantity and quality."

The atmosphere in the room turned cold. Nothing could be worse than hearing that their enemy was developing very well, extremely well even.

"The good news is that over the years, the Mutated Tribe has developed into many countries, and these countries are currently embroiled in warfare."

"That's great! Who knew that these mutated tribes also liked internal conflict." A Quasi God monster trainer laughed uproariously.

"Exactly, they're also vulnerable to infighting… I had never thought that our hopes would actually rely upon our enemies' internal conflict," another Quasi God monster trainer mumbled to himself.

The monster trainer who had been laughing just before gradually became silent and seemed a bit awkward.

"But this is precisely our chance!" Bai Tongming's eyes sparkled in the flickering candlelight.

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"What kind of opportunity?" several others asked at the same time.

"According to their intelligence, the mutated tribe haven't discovered us for the time being. Or… maybe they've found us but can't be bothered with us," Bai Tongming said as he smiled, his eyes crinkling.

"That's definitely a good thing."

"The more they look down on us, the more opportunities to develop we have, and everything will be fine once we have our own God-level monster trainers." The atmosphere in the palace became joyful and upbeat.

These people were all elderly but experienced. The loss of composure earlier was because they were suddenly hit in the face by the bad news, thus resulting in them collectively losing their cool as they clambered for a solution. Now that they had sorted out their emotions, they could calmly begin to calculate their potential gains and losses.

In contrast, their pride wasn't important at all. They needed their pride, as they were a group of Quasi God monster trainers after all, and they were highly respected elders of their respective tribes. Surely, they valued their pride very much. Nonetheless, they also understood that rather than an insubstantial reputation, tangible benefits were definitely much more important.

"Let's also inform the Huaxia Tribe of this matter. More Quasi Gods on our side would definitely be a good thing," suggested Bai Tongming all of a sudden. At this point, it would be advantageous to bolster their combat power as much as they could, so naturally, the rest didn't disagree.

"I'm fine with it. It's just that we don't know them very well, so we'd have to burden Chief Bai with the responsibility," said an elder of the Xuanhu Tribe.

The other Quasi Gods were indifferent. They weren't overly concerned about the potential response to their invitation, as while it would be beneficial if Chief Bai could convince them, if they still chose to refuse, they wouldn't make them join by force either.

A cold voice suddenly spoke up. "If they reject us, then get rid of them. I don't wish for someone to stab us in the back while we're fighting against the mutated tribes."

Bai Tongming turned his head towards the voice, his eyes falling on an elder who was wearing a couple of clips in his hair. He had a fresh and healthy-looking face, despite the silvery streaks on his head. He slowly lifted his teacup and drained it.

Seeing that Bai Tongming was looking at him, this elder then tipped his cup towards Bai Tongming in a mock salute.

Bai Tongming was baffled from the bottom of his heart. He had never seen this person before, but judging from his posture, as well as his proximity with the rest of the Xuanhu Tribe, he was one of their senior elders… right?

"My dearest father, you actually found a divine artifact on this outing! You're truly as talented as ever," the Windstorm Water Magic Spider mocked as it extended its head from the vanity, looking contemptuously at Fatty Big Sea.

"Heh heh, my daughter, just wait until I've restored my strength, then I'll lend it to you immediately." Fatty Big Sea, who was lying in the Divine Well of Darkness, shook its blubbery belly as it spoke to the Windstorm Water Magic Spider who was above.

The Windstorm Water Magic Spider laughed. "That's not necessary. It's just the Holy Water of Darkness; it's not like I've never seen it. You just lie in the well and enjoy it. To be frank, the way you're currently lying in the well is like a nice fat fish being steamed in a pot."

On the other side, an unexpected guest had arrived at the Huaxia Tribe. The sudden visit was hastily reported to Gao Peng and Ji Hanwu. They didn't dare to dilly-dally any further, immediately stepping forward to welcome the visitor with open arms.

Bai Tongming clasped his hands behind his back as he looked around casually. The high-rise buildings and huge steel monsters made him do a double take in surprise. Such interesting things! Although he could destroy them easily, they did give off a strange and indescribable feeling.

"Chief Bai, here you are." Gao Peng quickened his pace and greeted Bai Tongming.

"Yes. I just hope that you won't find me annoying." Bai Tongming chuckled, then shifted his gaze to Ji Hanwu, who was standing behind Gao Peng.

The moment he saw Ji Hanwu's appearance, his body trembled. He was shocked to the core of his heart. He looks exactly the same… Bai Tongming stepped forward and bowed down in front of Ji Hanwu, saying softly, "Master, do you still recognize me?"

Ji Hanwu shook his head. "I'm afraid you have the wrong person."

Bai Tongming stayed silent for a moment before nodding. "I'm sorry, I must have mistook you for someone else."

Ji Hanwu smiled. "The world is so big that I think it's normal for certain people to look similar. It's all right."

"Hurry up, move the things over there and try not to disturb the master." A tall girl wearing denim shorts and a wide sunhat was directing familiars at the side.

Gao Peng glanced at her a few times before he could recognize the girl. Wasn't she Xun Quanquan, the girl who had worked as a receptionist at the studio previously? After Gao Peng returned to Southern Sky, the studio had been incorporated into the Southern Sky Group. After so many years, it seemed like she was doing quite well.

A few clumsy monsters passed by. The place where Gao Peng and his companions were standing was within the vicinity of the factory. A monster's hand slipped, causing an iron block that weighed at least a few tons to accidentally topple off and fall towards Gao Peng's head.

Gao Peng raised his right hand and caught it gently, then casually tossed the iron block back to the monster. He patted the butt of the clumsy Pig Headed Chain Monster and cautioned, "Be careful. Don't drop it again."

The Pig Headed Chain Monster turned around and grinned dumbly at Gao Peng. It was smiling just like an 800 dollar braised pig head on a dining table, with its tongue lolling out and dripping saliva on its greasy shirt collar.

"I'm here to invite all of you to join our alliance. Please don't reject me in such haste," implored Bai Tongming as he looked around. Gao Peng knew that this wasn't a suitable place to talk, so he led his guest and his grandfather to the lounge and dismissed everyone else who was loitering about. When the last person left, only the three of them were left in the room.

"You guys know about Jiutian Shidi, right? I believe that I don't have to introduce it since you should also know about that place. Now, the Mutated Tribe has been doing its utmost to proliferate on Jiutian and has already established many countries. They may have forgotten about us in the past 10,000 years. Currently, many of their countries are at war as the mutated tribes are in the midst of a bloody civil war."

"The two countries closest to us are Murong and Mingyue." Bai Tongming slid a carved goatskin scroll across the table and passed it to Ji Hanwu. Ji Hanwu didn't open it, instead gently nudging it in front of Gao Peng.

His meaning was obvious. Now the person in-charge here was Gao Peng, and the elderly man had chosen to take a back seat. Gao Peng unfurled the goatskin scroll in his hands and saw a map. It showed the passage between Earth Star and Jiutian Shidi in the center and expanded outwards for thousands of miles. Although it was just a rough sketch of the terrain, it was still incomparably valuable.

"Yes. I must admit that this is an opportunity, but you must not forget—we call them the Mutated Tribe. Correspondingly, in their eyes, we are also mutated tribes," said Gao Peng. "Before this, they may clash within their own species, but if we invade, they might unite to fight against us, who are ultimately foreign enemies to them."

"Not exactly. You might have overestimated them, but we won't expose ourselves so easily," Bai Tongming said with a laugh. "There's no way to differentiate us from the mutated tribes based on appearance alone. The most significant characteristic that sets us apart from them is that our blood is red, whereas theirs is green."

"Green? That's so weird!" Gao Peng was shocked.

"Yes. The mutated tribes think that our red blood is very strange as well," Bai Tongming countered with a laugh.

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Chapter 667: Quasi God

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"I see." Gao Peng nodded. No wonder the White Dragon Tribe was able to fish for information; they could even draw the maps without being caught by the Mutated Tribe. Before one was hurt and bled, it would be impossible to tell whether the person was a human or a member of the Mutated Tribe purely based on looks.

The blood of the Mutated Tribe was green, while humans' blood was red. Green was the complementary color of red, so it was no wonder that the Mutated Tribe and humans were born to oppose each other.

"I understand. I agree to join you all. However, I also have some conditions, mainly that our Huaxia Tribe must enjoy the status of a top tribe, and for certain decisions, we retain the right to make autonomous choices and rejections," Gao Peng said in a deep voice.

"Top tribe…" Bai Tongming looked seriously at Gao Peng and laughed. "Do you know the backgrounds of the top tribes? Every top tribe can take out at least five or more Quasi God-level creatures. This is the prestigious background of a top tribe. It isn't enough to have only one Quasi God.

"At most, we can only give your Huaxia Tribe the discourse power that is equivalent to the seven King-tier tribes, nothing more than that. They would never agree," Bai Tongming said.

"If it's not possible with one Quasi God… then how about two Quasi Gods?" Gao Peng asked.

"You guys have two Quasi Gods?" Now Bai Tongming was really surprised.

"Before this, no, but now we do." Gao Peng laughed. As soon as he said this, a frightening aura came from outside of the room.

Bai Tongming's body suddenly trembled.

Boom— Sounds of growing waves could be heard. Outside the factory, screams and exclamations could be heard. An extremely terrifying aura was continually approaching at a tremendous speed. A powerful aura inside Bai Tongming's body began to wake up.

Clack. The wall was broken by sharp, spear-like claws and stopped within a hair's breadth of Bai Tongming. A White Dragon with its hair dancing in the breeze was hovering behind Bai Tongming, and the eyes of the White Dragon was glaring at the sharp claws.

"Hehehe." A hoarse but enchanting voice echoed in the house, "It's best not to simply disturb others when they're breaking through, as this is impolite. What do you think, little White Dragon?"

Bai Tongming broke into laughter. "I'm not that small-minded, and I mean no harm to any of you." He walked to the windows after he finished speaking and pushed them open. Outside the windows, majestic waves of great power were sweeping in all directions, spreading far and wide.

Bai Tongming was very impressed. "From a Saint-tier to a Quasi God, it's been a long time since this was seen. It's still so spectacular."

The raging blue waves rushed to the front in a blink of an eye. Nonetheless, Bai Tongming showed no fear at all. The White Dragon wanted to step in, but Bai Tongming extended his right hand and pressed on the back of the White Dragon's claws, signaling it to stay calm. The rough blue waves pierced through the wall and passed through Bai Tongming's body. This was just an illusion.

Overlooking the ground from a high altitude, the city of Hope had been completely engulfed by the sea and turned into a land flooded with water. The blue ocean passed through the tall buildings, the crowd, and their familiars. It was like a dream, as if it had been projected into reality.

The ocean was projected onto the world. The raging waves rolled non-stop, manifesting anomalies. The seawater tumbled violently in roaring waves. The ocean was the birthplace of life; everything was born in the water! From microorganisms at first, to small fish and prawns later, the size of sea creatures grew bigger and bigger. Time passed very quickly. Billions of years had been compressed into a short period of time.

All of the people in the whole city of Hope were shocked as they looked at all the fish and sea monsters that passed by. In the beginning, they thought that it was real, and it terrified a lot of people, but later, it seemed like they had noticed that it was just a projection and no longer felt that scared anymore.

The giant monster of the deep sea rose from nothing, and the ruler of the ocean recovered from the destruction. "I am the ruler of the ocean, the messenger of the storm, I am… I am the king of the stormy seas!" A deep voice echoed between heaven and earth.

"An Imperial God." Bai Tongming, who had looked indifferent, finally had an expression on his face. How could it be possible for an advanced Quasi God to have an Imperial God?!

Only when a Quasi God had advanced to a god could they have the cohesion of an Imperial God. This was also to manifest the basic rules of their godship, because the strength of a god came from this precept, and the type of percept the god controlled could be determined from its Imperial God status. Bai Tongming had never heard of a Saint-tier that could reach the Imperial God stage during their advancement to Quasi God. This was absolutely impossible!

Very soon, Bai Tongming managed to calm down. Even if he had never seen something, it didn't mean that it didn't exist.

He had only seen a Saint-tier breaking through to a Quasi God several times, and it wasn't, so he didn't necessarily know everything.

Maybe some talented familiars would become Imperial Gods during their breakthrough, but no matter what the truth was, this Quasi God Familiar was certainly not simple.

"Roar!!!" The sea became violent.

Fatty Big Sea opened its giant mouth. The biggest difference between a Quasi God and Saint-tier was that a Quasi God had undergone deification.

And the first item that Fatty Big Sea had deified when it broke through to a Quasi God was its teeth! Endless strength rushed to its teeth. If they were in another realm, the many tiny golden participles could have been seen rushing toward Fatty Big Sea's teeth. Its teeth were getting sharper and sharper, the cold light frightening.

A roar came out from its throat, its giant mouth wide open as if it was going to break the world in one bite. The Sea King Devouring Teeth were fully formed and bit down at once. Space was broken, and the uneven cracks were like two black bolts of lightning.

Only a god could have the ability to destroy space, and one bite from Fatty Big Sea already had the power that was close to that of a god.

A broken crystal in the vanity suddenly felt a strong attraction and turned into a meteor that then disappeared from where it had originally been. The giant monsters that were wreaking havoc as they wandered in the vanity felt the delicious aura. Nonetheless, they could only sense the dissipated scent retaining in the air when they rushed there. The giant monsters snarled with dissatisfaction.

The world had self-healing abilities. The space cracks were gradually closing. At the last moment of closure, Big Fat Sea noticed something. The devouring power of the Sea King Devouring Teeth increased suddenly, breaking the space cracks that were about to close up.

Among the turbulent vanity, an irregular light blue crystal entered Fatty Big Sea's mouth. Its body trembled, its chest was shaking violently, and its eyes expanded until they turned bloodshot.

"Hahaha—" Fatty Big Sea laughed out loud, then screamed arrogantly.

Boom— The dull sound of an explosion came from the projected sea.

Bai Tongming couldn't see what had happened in the distance. He could only feel an extremely suppressed aura in the making.

"Mother, what is that?" A boy with a head the size of a watermelon was holding his mother, pointing at the sky, or the upper layer of the sea, with a shaking hand. A large projection fell into the sea bed as if a prehistoric demon was coming from the past.

It went as far as the eye could see, and one couldn't see the tail of it at all. The shockingly huge body gently swayed, and the typhoon that had been set off blew the high-rise buildings to pieces.

At the next moment, all the projections, including the prehistoric demons that were wandering in the sky, disappeared like they had never existed.

Splat. A big, fat, round-headed fish leaped in through the window.

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Chapter 668: Jiutian Shidi

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"Hehe, hello there," Fatty Big Sea said, chuckling. "I suppose you're here to take part in my advancement ceremony. I hope I didn't scare you." Immediately after saying that, Fatty Big Sea shouted, "Gao Peng, I'm hungry. Have the chef serve the food quickly."

Gao Peng lowered his head as he checked Fatty Big Sea's attributes. It had already advanced to Level 91, and its chosen deification part was its teeth.

"My dear father, you really are as lazy to work as ever," the Windstorm Water Magic Spider slowly said.

After hearing all of Gao Peng's advice, Fatty Big Sea's heart had already become quite broad. As a god, its heart naturally had to be as broad as the wide sea.

A little teasing from its daughter was no big deal, but if it had been the old Fatty Big Sea, it would have had no mercy. But right now, Fatty Big Sea looked impassive. It elegantly turned over, its fins laid on the table, supporting its big head, which was two and a half feet in diameter. "I worked so hard for our family," said Fatty Big Sea devotedly.

The Windstorm Water Magic Spider was speechless. Poof! It disappeared into the spider web space.

This old man was growing more and more stubborn. Bai Tongming, however, was a little surprised upon discovering such big news. He had never thought these two Quasi God familiars from the Huaxia Tribe were actually father and daughter. And this unsightly Fathead Fish was actually a Quasi God?! Never had he seen such an ugly Quasi God. It didn't look much different from the Fathead Fish one could catch in any river, except its mouth was much bigger.

But of course, Bai Tongming wouldn't make such a lowly mistake as to judge someone by their appearance. Instead, he nodded at Fatty Big Sea, smiling. "I came to watch the ceremony without any prior notice. I hope Your Excellency can forgive my presumptuousness."

The kitchen help, having already prepared everything much earlier, served the food. They spread a tablecloth over the table and served up platters of vegetables and fruits, including bowls and chopsticks as well, turning the space into a dining room in the blink of an eye.

The food made for Fatty Big Sea naturally wasn't roasted monsters that were a few yards long. To creatures at such a level, wanting to fully fill up their stomachs was a hard thing to do, so eating was only to savor the taste.

Dish upon dish of mouth-watering food and beautifully decorated pastries were served. Bai Tongming and his familiar tasted some of them. "Such a unique taste." Bai Tongming nodded.

Bai Tongming's familiar, the White Dragon, kept stuffing food into its mouth. Evidently, the food on the table was very appealing to its taste buds.

It had always been said that dining together was the quickest way to close the distance between people. After the meal, Bai Tongming, Gao Peng, and Ji Hanwu indeed had many more conversations with each other.

"After a period of preparation, we sent a number of monster trainers to Jiutian Shidi, and we'll also guard the entrance of Jiutian Shidi strictly; we won't easily allow anyone to come in and out," said Bai Tongming.

"I agree that it would be troublesome if some monster trainers exposed our existence." Gao Peng agreed with this point very much. It wasn't scary to have a god-like opponent, but it was scary to have a teammate as useless as a pig.

Moreover, the desires of men were the hardest to explain. It would be a hassle if a traitor sold information about Earth Star to the people of the Mutated Tribe. Since they hadn't truly exposed themselves to the people of the Mutated Tribe yet, they had to be very careful.

All the monster trainers that were dispatched had to be absolutely trustworthy with close relatives living on Earth Star. Although this might have been a little harsh, there was no other choice.

"If it's possible, I hope I can be in of the next batch of people to go to Jiutian Shidi," Gao Peng said when sending Bai Tongming off.

"You wish to go?"

At such a young age, Gao Peng had already become a Quasi God-tier monster trainer, and if nothing went wrong, becoming a God-tier trainer was only a matter of time. If he managed to have a strong weapon with him at such a young age, then having ambition and aspiration was normal.

As he gazed at the massive sea which was Jiutian Shidi, he was itching to jump from the puddle from Earth Star into the big sea. Bai Tongming nodded, expressing that he understood.

"Naturally, I approve of it, but some people might not be so willing. For this, you need to be mentally prepared," Bai Tongming told Gao Peng.

"If anyone objects, I would like the elders of the White Tribe to give me a list—I'll personally go and have a chat with them." Gao Peng laughed.

Bai Tongming couldn't help but laugh too. "How good it is to be young." Passing through the spatial rift, the expression on Bai Tongming's face became thought-provoking. Two Quasi Gods… Two Quasi Gods possessed the power to change the Top Three Tribes.

This strong power wouldn't be overlooked by anyone, regardless of where it was kept. Now, even the elders of the other two tribes also wanted to pull the Huaxia Tribe onto the chariot and head into war together.

Bai Tongming returned to the Jade Emperor Peak of Tai Mountain. It had now become a long-term residence for many Quasi God-tier monster trainers.

After its elemental recovery, the richness of the elements in Tai Mountain and other places were beyond imagination. It was paradise everywhere. Many tribes had started to migrate here, and the only reason they hadn't all migrated to Earth Star was because they were afraid of Jiutian Shidi.

"What did that yellow-haired child say?" You Huangning said indifferently.

"He hopes he can join the next batch of monster trainers entering Jiutian Shidi," Bai Tongming said. "A Quasi God-tier monster trainer that's willing to pave the way is considered a very good thing."

"Hah, he calculated it so perfectly. I suspect he wants to make connections with the Mutated Tribe." You Huangning sneered.

"I think you're going too far." Bai Tongming scowled. "He just wants to help."

"Bai Tongming, watch your tone. Even if your father was standing here, he would still have to call me his senior," You Huangning said furiously.

Staring at You Huangning, who looked healthy in his old age, Bai Tongming shook his head helplessly. You Huangning's seniority was very high, for he was one of the two most senior members in the Top Three Tribes, and as usual, he took advantage of his seniority to criticize people and order them around.

He didn't have much power himself, but You Huangning's ability to breed familiars was quite good, and he was very lucky too, or else he wouldn't have been able to train Quasi God-tier familiars, but his overall view on things and way of handling them… was nothing worth talking about.

"When I went over, I saw one of Gao Peng's Familiars break through and become a Quasi God with my own eyes," Bai Tongming said to the others. "Including the Windstorm Water Magic Spider from before, the Huaxia Tribe has two Quasi God familiars now."

Upon hearing this, the many Quasi God monster trainers in the audience were extremely shocked. Two Quasi God familiars?

One Quasi God Familiar was still fine, because Quasi God familiars could still be surrounded, and once one really riled them up and attacked with a group, even though it was a Quasi God familiar, it still wouldn't stand a chance! But when there were two of them, it would be different, regardless of the strategic significance and the difficulty to surround and kill them.

Even if a person could escape one, it wouldn't be the end of his or her troubles.

"Having two Quasi God Familiars at such a young age, it looks like this Gao Peng's luck is unusually extraordinary," You Huangning piped up. He thought that many people would respond, but other than some Quasi God monster trainers from his own tribe uttering a word or two, the people of the White Dragon Tribe and the Green God Tribe said absolutely nothing.

Even the few Quasi God trainers of the Black Tortoise Tribe went along foolishly, nodding their heads. You Huangning looked at the scene before him with a shocked expression on his face.

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Chapter 669: Fragrant Ink Pill

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You Huangning waited for the others to leave before he left the room as the final occupant. Lowering his head, a greenish-brown ball of fur emerged from his sleeve. The ball of fur leapt up effortlessly onto You Huangning's shoulder. As the sun in the sky slowly disappeared, the air felt chillier, since dusk was approaching.

"Tao Wu, are we getting old?" You Huangning's face was crestfallen. "Back in the days when all the tribes had migrated from Jiutian Shidi, those juniors who saw us would greet us as seniors. I still remember when we tried to stall more time for them, a total of 70 of us stayed behind. I was the only one who emerged alive. Even you almost died when you were sliced at the waist, and then when the tribe chose a permanent resident, it was us who fought tooth and nail for it. I've given my life to the tribe. They said that I've done them a great service and contributed most of my life to them."

"Wu." The familiar on You Huangning's shoulder turned its head and gave his ear a nuzzle. Tao Wu was a familiar that looked like a tiger but had tusks like that of a wild pig, as well as long fur, on its body.

"When did we became so unwelcomed?" You Huangning muttered to himself.

Tao Wu had lived for many years, and these years also passed by in a blur. It didn't have high intelligence, and it could be said that Tao Wu was a rare beast that wasn't very smart. It was one of the ancient beasts—hard to tame, a picky eater, and disobedient. In other words, it was a simpleton.

A simpleton naturally wouldn't know how to console somebody, so Tao Wu simply continued to nuzzle behind You Huangning's ear, while it mewled to console its owner. "Wu, wu, wu…"

You Huangning's rough hand petted Tao Wu's head. "It's not as if I'm envious of their progress; it's good that the juniors are able to surpass the older generations. But who is that Gao Peng, but an earthling!" You Huangning muttered in indignation, his face becoming red.

"Those that aren't from the same tribe must have an agenda! Don't they know this? That Gao Peng became a Quasi God trainer at a very young age. He experienced what we went through in such a short amount of time. It's like playing with the devil. One day, our tribe will be destroyed by him!" You Huangning coughed as his emotions got the better of him. His eyes were burning in anger.

The Quasi God trainer who had been walking a distance away stopped. Others sighed, while some shook their heads. However, none of them had a trace of regret on their faces.

Of course they knew that whatever You Huangning said had some truth in it, so what if they were approaching somebody dangerous to work with them? Was the other party the only dangerous one around?

Now, Gao Peng wasn't their enemy, nor was he from the Huaxia Tribe. He was mutated. What more did they need to say… Regarding a monster trainer who had managed to be so successful, who wouldn't feel special?

Their familiars were limited by the sparse resources of the Sky World and trapped in the Quasi God Realm, If not for that, most of them would have become God-tier trainers. After what happened that day, You Huangning was never to be seen again. Trainers from the Black Tortoise Tribe said that he locked himself away. Very few people truly know where he went.

"Old senior, I would advise you to just go home. My familiar cannot fare against your Tao Wu, plus your familiar's appetite is quite big… compared to my Da Zi," Gao Peng said helplessly to the white-bearded man.

A couple of hours earlier, the old man had searched for Gao Peng alone, and then one night when there was no one around, he finally found him. When the old man saw Gao Peng, his first words were to rid the people of the monster.

He then proceeded to throw out his familiar, Quasi God Tao Wu.

Gao Peng grew annoyed and yelled at the old man, "You're crazy!" Climbing into another person's home in the middle of the night was one thing, but the old man was a Quasi God-tier trainer. What he had done embarrassed all of the Quasi-God tier trainers.

Thankfully, Fatty Big Sea had been beside him, so both familiars had started to fight. The old man's Tao Wu controlled its power, as did Fatty Big Sea. As the two familiars went head to head, in normal circumstances, Fatty Big Sea wouldn't have been able to hold out against a Level 97 monster, but the fish was equipped with three divine artifacts, so it managed to tackle and pin Tao Wu in place.

The old man stayed near Gao Peng, going on and on about how Gao Peng had no good intentions and would unfurl his evil plans. He also said that people that weren't from his tribe had to have an agenda and so on.

Gao Peng didn't mind all that, but Tao Wu was eating Gao Peng's food, using Gao Peng's stuff, and not forking over even a single cent. Gao Peng was just scared that the Tao Wu would starve and start to go on a rampage, so he sent people to feed it until it was full.

Surprisingly, Tao Wu had such a ravenous appetite that it could down several thousand tons of meat in one sitting. After that, it would let out the stinkiest gas. The smell was so bad that it could be described as a walking toxic gas grenade.

The only thing that made Gao Peng feel better was that even though the old man had been nagging him, saying that he was trouble, he had never attacked anybody else. Or else, judging from his familiar's fighting power, it would have been a nightmare.

The second day after Gao Peng finished his dinner, he started to pack. If you want to stay here then so be it. I'm heading to Jiutian Shidi now, so bye-bye.

"You Huangning went and looked for you?" Bai Tongming asked.

"He's called You Huangning? He only has one familiar, Tao Wu?" Gao Peng heard the old man's name for the first time. He also knew his identity now. Since his surname was You, he was most likely from the Xuanhu Tribe.

"Yeah, he's an antique, so he can be quite stiff," Bai Tongming said in a matter-of-fact tone. Bai Tongming was also a white-bearded old man. When he said that somebody was antique, it was quite weird.

"You living beings on Earth would have more knowledge compared to us tribesmen. Even though we've lived for a long time, our days were basically spent hunting monsters and scaring away beasts, all only to survive," Bai Tongming explained as he reminisced.

"That's why we sent you as a delegate to the tribespeople on Earth. I'm preparing for you to command them," Bai Tongming said to Gao Peng.

Gao Peng was taken aback. He had such a lazy demeanor; was he even fit to be a commander? It would be a miracle if he could avoid commanding others into a trap. Gao Peng quickly rebuffed Bai Tongming and rejected the offer.

"No need to reject it in a rush. They're all accomplished members in their tribes, and they're also the young prodigies of our top three tribes. As long as you can guide them in the right way, you don't have to worry about your people in the Huaxia Tribe." Bai Tongming gave Gao Peng's shoulder a firm pat.

In the afternoon, each tribe has already discussed and agreed on who to send as delegates. In addition to Gao Peng, there would be a total of eleven people. The three top tribes and seven royal tribes would each send one of their people.

Ze Yuan held Ze Hai's hand, as he said emotionally, "The future of the Poison Marsh Tribe depends on you."

Ze Hai kept up his smile as his tribe expected. "I understand, grandfather."

"This is the Fragrant Ink Pill, which will enable you to disguise yourself as mutated. The mutated's blood runs green, so make sure that you don't get hurt. Protect your identity at all costs." Bai Tongming handed the bottle of pills to Gao Peng. "A pill can last you up to one month, and there's a total of 36 pills in the bottle."

Gao Peng opened the bottle and poured out a dark green pill. Looking at its smooth green surface, he fell into deep thought. Looking around at the others who had already swallowed the elixir, Gao Peng finally gripped his fist tightly and swallowed the pill.

He called out to Desolion and commanded it to create an ice mirror. Gao Peng noticed that the color of his face was beginning to change, the blood vessels on his face turning green as if green blood was flowing through them. Even his lips were turning a shade of purple.

His entire being gave off a gloomy aura. His skin had a slight green tint to it. Though not obvious, it looked weird. Gao Peng touched his face. "My entire body has really turned green."

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Chapter 670: Blood Lizard, the Giant Plague King

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"Let's go. I'll make sure that all of you return in one piece," proclaimed Gao Peng.

The monster trainers from each tribe came forward and greeted him. They were all basically close friends of the familiars that would be sent out of their homes. They decided that it would be better to be closer to Gao Peng so that they could watch out for each other during their journey. One would think this was nothing more than a necessary relationship, yet it ran deep among their clans.

As Gao Peng turned, a voice behind him shouted, "Come back safely."

"Okay." Gao Peng flashed a smile and waved back at Bei Qing Yan, who stood among the crowd.

The old hag who was draped under a large white cloak stood beside Bei Qing Yan and wore an odd expression. They're on surprisingly good terms. The old hag's eyes suddenly started to spin as she burst with vigor.

Meanwhile, with a detailed map in hand, Gao Peng set off and led the ten trainers on their journey. As the wind blew, the sea of lush-green grass rolled in curling waves.

"Well, let's get to know one another. Tell me your familiar's attributes and tiers," said Gao Peng to the ten trainers. Their overall abilities were still a mystery to him and because it was each person's secret, most likely, no one was going to be entirely honest about themselves.

"I'm Bai Haixuan of the White Dragon Tribe, Overlord-tier monster trainer."

"I'm You Zijin of the Black Tortoise Tribe, Overlord-tier monster trainer."

"I'm Qing Qing from the Green God Tribe, Overlord-tier monster trainer." Noticeably, this was one of the two girls among the ten of them.

"Bei Huangmi of the Northern Ice Tribe, Emperor-tier monster trainer," the other girl introduced herself.

"I'm Ze Hai of the Poison Marsh Tribe, Saint-tier monster trainer." The least noticeable among them was the last to speak. Instantly, Ze Hai caught everyone's attention.

Saint-tier monster trainer?

It wasn't very surprising, since there was Gao Peng, who was no older than 30 and already a Quasi God-tier monster trainer. Here was a peer who was a Saint-tier trainer, which was nothing to be amazed about.

"I think I might have heard of him. Recently, there was a rumor that the Poison Marsh Tribe had a powerful ace, but I didn't think he'd be this young," exclaimed Lei Hou of the Vicious Thunder Clan, an Emperor-tier monster trainer.

Gao Peng wondered whether if it was his own misperception, but Ze Hai appeared to have a strange but familiar aura. Despite Ze Hai not showing any form of a threat, Gao Peng couldn't help feeling unsettled and turned to look at him a few times.

Everyone had their own methods for success, through luck and skills, as well as possessing the proper basics of cheating. Not only did Ze Hai possess incredible decomposition abilities, but he was also a transmigrated deity. Adding to that, he had cheating buffs as well as the divine artifact fragment. With these four elements within its grasp, only Fatty Big Sea could emerge as a Quasi God. He had never considered himself a genius—just a privileged cheat user.

If Ze Hai's familiar didn't possess the Sinner's Gift, then he would surely also be an ordinary fellow too. They forged an unlikely friendship by cheating.

"Nice to meet you." Gao Peng smiled and stuck out his hand to greet him.

Ze Hai was surprised that Gao Peng had initiated a greeting. He was wary at first but still promptly reached out his right hand to return the favor anyway. He seemed rather reluctant to mingle with Gao Peng, much less with the others. Without a word, he briskly shuffled to the furthest end of the group. It was obvious that he didn't fit in.

"Your tribe sure is bold to have sent you," Lei Hou said admiringly while he shot Ze Hai a thumbs up. In the Seven King Tribes, to have a Saint-tier monster trainer was like finding a black pearl, and people were usually reluctant to send them off in fear of a bad accident happening to them. That would be a pity.

Ze Hai furrowed his brows and swiftly closed his eyes without uttering a word. He couldn't stand the attention he was getting, much less entertain them with an explanation.

They continued to trudge across a huge field, and at the edge of it was Jiutian Shidi. Beyond the horizon emerged the faint sight of a mountain range. The range was difficult to make out due to the distance, but a blue silhouette could still be identified.

As they neared it, Gao Peng realized that the mountain was barren at its peak, with just yellow soil and large gray rocks that remained. There was nothing scenic about it, only rubble and desolation ruling dominant.

The mountain range was so barren and desolate that it was as if a bomb had gone off there. Empty, empty, empty. It was barren as far as the eye could see.

As Bai Haixuan took in the sight, he felt a cold chill rise deep from his heart and couldn't resist the urge to reach up to his head with his left hand. Only after feeling around for his thick mane did he heave a sigh of relief.

Gao Peng spread open his map and tried to gather his bearings. They currently stood at the entrance, and beyond that was a mountain range. This mountain range was as big as Africa after the Cataclysm, so naturally, everyone would have seen it.

After a long hike around the mountain, they finally came across human inhabitants. Between them stood quite a distance to the two Mutated Tribal Countries: Mingyue and Murong.

"We'll head to Mingyue," said Gao Peng as he put down the goat-skin scroll, leading the group to the northwest.

The moon hung high as night fell, the crescent moon replacing the sun. Under the brilliance of the campfire, the monster trainers released their familiars, who circled around them as the night cloaked them in darkness.

A group of Emperor, Overlord, Saint, and even Quasi-tier familiars huddled together. If the light from the fire had attracted any predators, well, they were in for a surprise.

That was when Gao Peng saw Ze Hai's Familiar—the Blood Lizard, the Giant Plague King. It was a huge lizard, so large that it seemed like a small mountain crawling on the ground. Its body gave off a rancid, decaying odor.

[Monster Name: Blood Lizard, the Giant Plague King

[Monster Level: Levell 86 (Saint-tier)

[Monster Attribute: Poison/Blood

[Monster Grade: Epic/Legendary

[Monster Skills: Venomblood Plague Level 7, Gigantism Level 7, Blood Decay Level 7, Enhanced Healing Level 7

[Special Characteristics: Venomblood Infection (The vicious plague poison that circulates its body possesses a contagious effect that, upon creating a wound in the enemy, has an even more potent contagious effect to the infection, causing severe damage to its enemy. If the enemy were to die and their body contained residue of the plague poison, it will cause a secondary mutation and infection on the corpse.)

[Monster Weakness: Death-type

[Monster Description: Infected by the broken finger of the Plague God, its body contains strong Plague Power. Its regeneration is strong, and it's gigantic, but it's lacking in agility. It prefers to consume living prey and dislikes high-temperatures.

The broken finger of the Plague God? Sitting in the darkness, Gao Peng's eyes lit up. Could Ze Hai's golden finger be something related to the Plague God?

Gao Peng had initially assumed that the Water God, Sea God, and others were just a form of address for certain existences or even the statuses of these gods, but here it seemed as if that was no longer the case.

As long as the creation of gods followed a particular element, they would be referred to as the god of that element. This was the difference between the water, fire, and war gods. They didn't exist for the same reason.

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Chapter 671: The Legendary Princess

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The night was silent. In the following days, the team Gao Peng led crossed the mountain range speedily, and they finally arrived at the frontier of Mingyu.

A war had broken out between Mingyu and Murong. The warfare between them was unceasing. From time to time, a few crazy monster trainers would rush into the enemy's territory to carry out genocide. Both countries were shrouded in a solemn air, as everyone within the borders was in fear.

It was still drizzling. After the rain, the dirt road was covered in mud.

Right in front of them, a tall man with green skin was standing at the entrance of the town. His complexion was a lush green, as if he had been exposed to the sun for a long period of time, turning into a green plant.

Gao Peng was shocked. How could there be someone with such a complexion? Even I'm not as green as him!

Next to him was a Human-Faced Wild Tiger familiar that was crouching down. It looked extremely fierce with its huge face and flat cheeks. It was keeping an eye on all the people who were going in and out with its inverted triangular eyes.

"Move, get out of the way." A shrill yell came from the other side. There were three roads leading to the town, and the sound spread from one of the other main roads.

The ground was shaking as a gray-skinned gigantic rhinoceros up to 30 feet tall was walking on the street expressionlessly. It was wearing an iron helmet, and two thick red iron chains were locked on its shoulders. Attaching to it was a lofty four-wheeled bronze carriage.

On the roof of the car, there was a little umbrella, small yet unique. A strange white-feathered parrot was standing under the umbrella, its eyeballs as dark as black onyx.

It was an adorable parrot. However, it wasn't very likable when it spoke, as its voice was sharp and mean. "Get out of the way, you lowly peasants. If you guys get trampled to death, my little master will need to give out my food supply for a month as compensation," the white-feathered little parrot said in a high-pitched voice.

"Huff." Qing Qing burst out in laughter. She thought it would be for another reason. It seemed like the master in the car wasn't very bossy.

"Where are we now, Robust?" a gentle and soft voice said from the car.

"Your honor, we're now back at the Mingyue's territory." A bald and brawny man was standing like a tower on the chassis of the bronze carriage. He was wearing leather armor and wristbands on both his hands. His strong muscles were comparable to the governor.

The strength of monster trainers was reflected through the power of their familiars, hence they could obtain great power even if they didn't exercise. Thus, the most muscular monster trainers were those who loved to train or those who trained their familiars frequently.

The window of the four-wheeled bronze carriage was opened, then a head leaned out from the window. Gao Peng finally understood that true beauty was, regardless of race. Her beautiful black hair flowed over her shoulders, her skin was as fair as snow, and her eyebrows arched like willow leaves. Under her crystal clear cheeks, the tiny blood vessels were obvious, but even though her blood was green, she exuded an aura of exoticism.

This town was located at the border of Mingyue, thus it was likely to experience war at any time… However, the fact that there was no army stationed in the town indicated that it had been abandoned. All the highly respected people had long fled, leaving behind only the interracial peasants.

People with dirty faces were hiding in the alleys or rooms, secretly peeping through the door to observe these nobles. Some of them hadn't eaten in a long time.

"I thought that this place was also a paradise. Never thought that there would be so many starving people," You Zijin said softly with a smile.

"Watch your mouth," Gao Peng warned.

The man named Robust snuck a glance in their direction before retracting his gaze. "Robust, I remember that there's a surplus of food. Distribute the grains that aren't in use to them," the girl in the car instructed.

"Okay." Without hesitation, Robust searched through hundreds of followers behind the vehicle to find a middle-aged man in a black robe. After they discussed in a soft tone, the middle-aged man in black robe summoned his Space familiar. It was a white-skinned frog with a huge belly and a long horn on its head.

The White-Skinned Single Horn Frog opened its big mouth; vomiting large, sealed sacks. In the blink of an eye, the sacks piled up, forming a small heap in front of them. Under Robust's command, the grains were distributed.

Gao Peng suspected that they used to speak the same language, as the interracial language was similar to the current language of the tribe. However, it was still hard for him to understand.

Furthermore, after so many years, the accent had also undergone some changes. Confused, Gao Peng could only understand a few words. Thus, he could only guess what they were saying.

"They were saying that we don't look like locals and our trace is mysterious. Hence, they suspect that we are spies. Be careful. The bald one is secretly observing us," said Gao Peng grimly.

The ten of them were shocked. They quickly gathered around with tense alertness.

At first, Robust could faintly hear their whispers, but he wasn't concerned, even though they didn't dress like normal civilians. However, Gao Peng and the others' reactions made him nervous. Could they be killers sent over by Murong?

"Protect the little master," Robust instructed the others around him. Then, he emotionlessly walked toward Gao Peng and the others.

"What do we do? The Patriarch told us not to expose our identity before we arrived," Bei Huangmi said worriedly. How had they been exposed the moment they arrived… This was too much. They would definitely be laughed at when they returned.

"Play it by ear," Gao Peng said calmly. He looked calm even though deep in his heart, he was panicking.

"Everything on earth withers!" Suddenly, an unkempt old woman hidden among the civilians stepped forward. As the gray spot on her chest expanded quickly, the old woman vanished and turned into a spot of light.

Boom! After a gray light burst, a huge Rooted Behemoth appeared in the same spot. The gray tree bark was mottled and rough. It had a winding waist, and the long branches ran through the ground like spears. The gray area was spreading around it.

After being shrouded by the area, some followers started to tremble, and their mouths opened uncontrollably. Their faces also quickly turned pale. Thump, all of them fell to the ground like wooden stakes.

Upon seeing this, Robust's facial expression changed. "If you dare hurt the princess, you're seeking death!" He turned around and stomped his feet. The air split apart, forming an oval void. A Blue-White Giant Tiger leaped out of the void through the channel.

"Roar!"

Robust joined forces with the Blue-White Giant Tiger. The next moment, the giant tiger's eyes created a strong divine beam, and the transparent space quickly enveloped the whole town.

Through a leap in space, the Blue-White Giant Tiger instantly disappeared. Then the black spatial rift moved like a flying whip. All the tentacles of the Rooted Behemoth were cut off.

A strong intent to kill was flaring in the eyes of the giant tiger. "Split Space Decepticon!"

Boom! The Rooted Behemoth was instantly divided into two halves! The aftermath crushed the earth, leaving a bottomless crack up to hundreds of yards deep in the ground.

However, the Rooted Behemoth that fell on the ground was still alive. A large number of tentacles scurried out from its torn body, connecting it back together. Countless branches were also drifting wildly like giant pythons.

The tentacles were tearing up the houses as if they were destroying toys. The walls were easily pierced through, and the blood of the civilians spurted out everywhere as though green flowers were blooming in the town.

In the blink of an eye, countless vines shrouded the sky, turning it almost completely into a dense ocean. Outside, the whole town and the nearby areas were covered with tentacles, forming a big hollow wooden ball.

At the edge of the wooden ball, there were numerous vines connected to the surrounding forest, absorbing its power.

"Wooden World: everything under the sun." A husky voice echoed throughout the town.

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Chapter 672: Crush

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"These interracial… people of Mingyue are too scary." Bei Huangmi almost let the cat out of the bag, but he managed to alter his words in time.

Just outside the forest, two Saint-tier familiars could be seen fighting in a particular remote town.

This is indeed like a joke, and it's such a big one.

"The guys from Murong are just hard to deal with." Robust's face was serious. He crawled on the roof of the four-wheeled bronze carriage, protecting it under his soft belly.

The shadow of the sun was cut into a fragmented net by countless vines.

"You people are freaking disgusting!!!" Robust roared. The violent shock wave turned into real substance, sweeping in all directions, with him as the center point.

The vines trembled in the shock wave, and a rich black glow condensed in his mouth.

"Spatial Crush!" The black light shot out, tearing the net apart. It continuously pierced through the outer wall of the wooden ball-like net, rushing into the sky and flying out over hundreds of miles before gradually disappearing into the air. The wooden net had a huge gap cut in it.

The Blue-White Giant Tiger felt a little tired as well after releasing this trick. Gasping for breath, it lowered its head, picking up the four-wheeled bronze carriage and rushing straight toward the exit! The Gigantic Rhinoceros whined in terror, begging the Blue-White Giant Tiger to bring it along, but it was ignored.

Along with the damage, the net began to absorb every living thing that could be absorbed around it, regardless of whether it was a plant or an animal.

Dressed in a black robe, Dumby revealed its smooth, clean, and crystal-clear ankle bones. Stepping on the gravel ground and carefully avoiding the wild grass, it came before Gao Peng and bowed down. "Master, this is a part of the Language Memory that I absorbed from two fresh souls."

"Pass it to me." Gao Peng stretched out his right hand.

Through the grip of bone and flesh, pieces of well-processed memory fragments were like a bowl of cooked porridge that was sticky until it turned into a pulp. Every word, term, language, and culture was absorbed by Gao Peng at a slow and steady speed. Gao Peng couldn't help closing his eyes. Dumby took a step forward, silently waiting beside its master. The wind blew and the cloak drifted.

Meanwhile, the ground shook, a few vines penetrated through the earth, and the swaying vines smelled the air. The smell of human beings fascinated them, hence, they tried to fly toward Gao Peng and other monster trainers accompanying him.

Dumby bowed its head, casually raised its right foot and stepped down gently. The vines snapped and were squashed into a paste that resembled minced meat.

"Ouch." The single-horned Giant Rhinoceros wailed, falling to the ground in one movement; its legs were entangled with a large number of vines. As the blood rapidly flowed out from its body, it transformed into a monster with dry gray skin in the blink of an eye.

From the inner walls of the wooden net emerged the face of a gloomy old woman staring deadly at the Blue-White Giant Tiger, which was thinking about how to escape the net. "You can never escape," the old woman said.

It gave a flick of its paw downward—there was still a colony of ants that hadn't been sucked dry. A large number of vines grew out from the torn net, growing wildly and binding together. The Blue-White Giant Tiger shook its body, about to vanish on the spot.

The Space Field collided with the Wooden World Field, and the two distinct forces seemed like two wild beasts crashing together. The void vibrated, shaking violently.

Damn it, the field is restricted! There's no way to escape. Robust felt uneasy in his heart, his eyes revealing a hint of anxiety.

He wasn't concerned with himself, but he was worried that the little princess wouldn't be able to bear the aftermath. If he hadn't had to protect the princess and save his spare power, he could definitely kill this guy.

A puff of Air of Death emerged from the bottom of the crash.

"You deserve death for disturbing Master over and over again!" A raging and hoarse voice spread out through the atmosphere.

"It's… It's them!" Robust was shocked deep in his heart. At first, he had thought that those pedestrians were the killers from Murong. Later, he didn't pay much attention to them, thinking that these people had been killed in the aftermath. Saint-tier!

The old woman shook her body. "You've had the Saint-tiers lurking and only sent them out now, not caring about the lives of many people. Your scheming is too deep," the old woman said with bitter resentment.

She wasn't invincible, as she only relied on this big statue to act immorally as a way to protect others. Now that two Saint-tier familiars had appeared, the old woman couldn't help thinking about her retreat.

The miserable dead souls were screaming, and the people being wronged were chanting. This place was about fear, this place was about death, this was… the world of dead souls.

Ahh! Ahh— With a rumble, the sky darkened. The Air of Death swept in all directions and covered the world. The windstorm blew until the forest bowed down, and it also blasted until the edge of the sky closed its eyes.

"Such a terrifying Air of Death!" the old woman shrieked.

Unlike the ancient tribes, the resources of the ancient tribes were relatively fewer compared to Jiutian Shidi, so it was more difficult for them to advance to the Saint and Quasi God tiers there. Therefore, the grades of their monster trainers were usually of exceptional quality, since they couldn't rely on objects. Basically, Epic grade was the lowest level that could advance to the Saint and Quasi God tiers. Moreover, Jiutian Shidi was rich in resources, thus the requirements to make a breakthrough to the Saint and Quasi God tiers were much lower.

The old woman's familiar, the Sudo Tree, was just a Saint-tier familiar at the Perfect grade.

Robust showed a hint of astonishment in his eyes. He could feel that its existence hadn't surpassed the level of Quasi God, or he could have killed it with just one hit. But he felt that both the old woman and his fields were enveloped by a larger Death-type field.

This field was more advanced than theirs, but not as advanced in terms of the law. Spatial Law was regarded as a high-level law. However, his understanding of the Spatial Law was too shallow to be considered significant.

When a high-level field encountered a low-level field, it would form a crushing type of power! Thick fog was everywhere, and the gray mist was cold and damp.

"You little thing, where are you going?" Dumby's unhurried voice spread out from the gray mist.

The old woman flew for a long time, but still couldn't fly out of the field's range, and eventually, she found herself circling where she had started. Knowing that she was no match for the other party, she decisively kneeled on the ground. "Forgive me, Your Excellency! I am willing to serve you, only to ask for you to spare my invaluable life."

The Sudo Tree also hit its head hard on the ground, kneeling in position.

Dumby walked out from the gray mist slowly, the dense Flame of the Undead looking as though it could penetrate hearts. "Why are you so weak…? You're weak like an Overlord-tier," Dumby sighed quietly.

This was indeed the second weakest Saint-tier it had ever encountered, but of course, the weakest was still the Willow Demon.

"You're right, Your Excellency. I shouldn't be so weak." The Sudo Tree suddenly shuddered, with red light coming out of its eyes.

Upon seeing its master begging in humiliation to another familiar, the Sudo Tree allowed its strong self-esteem to take over its body. It raised its head suddenly, staring at Dumby with blood-red eyes. The trunk cracked open a dark mouth, like the giant mouth of a devil roaring in rage. "Master, you don't have to be like this. I'll protect you even if it means I die!"

Two huge tree fists were held high, frightening energy gathered in them. Puff. A snow-white bone finger pierced through the space between its eyebrows. The energy the Sudo Tree had halfway gathered drained, and it fell to the ground with a thud.

The old woman in a short black coat was detached from her body, and her life energy was sucked dry by the gray mist before she could even say a word.

"This was too easy," Dumby said slowly. Turning around, it walked toward the depths of the gray mist.

From behind, the Sudo Tree's spirit stood up silently from its body.

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Chapter 673: Scatter

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The Sudo Tree spirit melted into the surrounding gray fog. It stood there, but appeared as if it was in another void. It moved with the wind, proceeded in the mist, and existed in the gray fog.

There was no wind in the fog, but the spirit swayed as if blown around by the wind. A while later, a song came from the distance. In the heart of the gray fog, ghosts lined themselves up like disciples before their god. The Sudo Tree spirit joined their ranks, standing in place silently…

Whoosh— A great wind came, and the gray fog dissipated. Gao Peng sneezed and rubbed his nose. He was finally done absorbing the memory. The moment he opened his eyes, he saw people around him gazing with admiration or secretly studying him.

"Why are you looking at me?" Gao Peng frowned. "The enemy's still at large. Don't get distracted."

"It's already… finished." You Zijin looked at Gao Peng with a complex expression.

"Master, the enemy has been beheaded," Dumby's voice said in Gao Peng's mind.

"Is that so?" Gao Peng finally realized. With the death of the Sudo Tree, the Wooden World had fallen apart, too. It dissolved into segments of giant vines, which fell into the mountains and on the town. The scattering aura of the Wooden element made the top layer of vines quickly sprout new leaves.

"Thank you for saving us. I'll ask my father, the king, to give you a position in his office," said a girl in a long white dress as she curtsied with a smile on her face. Her twinkling eyes observed Gao Peng secretly.

He had a tall nose bridge, and his defined brows extended into his temples. Yu Huanxiang withdrew her gaze as a blush rose high in her cheeks.

A position in office? Gao Peng chuckled to himself. Why should I get a position? I'm not from the Mutant Tribe, and I have no interest in being an official.

"You're the princess?" Gao Peng's eyes glowed.

Yu Huanxiang went blank, then quickly nodded, still smiling.

Robust wanted to say something, but he glanced at Gao Peng and closed his mouth. He merely stood quietly behind the princess.

Gao Peng thought to himself, She counts as an important person. Would it be a great contribution if I killed this important person? But this was only a fleeting thought. Unless Gao Peng could completely wipe out all his tracks, it would be terrible if he was found out. It wouldn't be worth the effort. This princess looks like an empty suit anyway, so killing her wouldn't mean much to Mutant Tribe.

The ten listened to the strong man converse with the beautiful woman before them, but they couldn't understand their conversation at all.

"Forgive me, Your Highness." Gao Peng bowed and said, "We're eleven fellow apprentices. With war breaking out all over the land, we're following our Master's order to descend the mountain and find opportunities to train."

The ten were so astonished to hear Gao Peng speak fluently in the Mutant Tribe's language that their eyes almost fell out of their sockets.

F*ck, how does he know Mutant Tribe's language? Robust was quietly listening on the side. He heard the Shalin Town's dialect in Gao Peng's speech. He's probably not lying about having lived around here for a long time.

Everyone from Shalin Town had just been killed by that old woman, so there was no way to confirm what he said. As the princess' bodyguard, he had to be cautious of anyone who tried to approach her.

"Since the princess is now safe, we won't be bothering you any longer. Goodbye." Gao Peng nodded at her, then turned and left. The ten followed him in confusion. They couldn't understand anyway, and they relied on Gao Peng to fight. They felt like ten salted fish hanging on Gao Peng's neck. All they had to do was cheer Gao Peng on when he was fighting.

After seeing Gao Peng walk away so carelessly after rescuing the princess, with his ten fellow apprentices also looking relieved, Robust went blank for a second. Perhaps he really had been mistaken?

"Please wait, hero," Robust yelled.

"No." Gao Peng waved his hand. Seriously, these ten burdens couldn't even speak or understand. If he stayed any longer, they'd be exposed. Gao Peng might've agreed if he had been alone, not because the princess was pretty, but because he could derive nutrients from this big tree called Mingyu Country.

Once they were a distance away, Gao Peng passed his language memory fragments to the ten through Dumby. The ten fell into a trance just like Gao Peng had previously. It took them a while to come back to. Muttering their newly-learned language to themselves, the ten finally understood why Gao Peng could speak the Mutant Tribe's language.

"Our first mission on this trip is to record Jiutian Shidi's current state in detail. We'll always be victorious if we know the enemy inside and out. Furthermore, we want to conceal the existence of the portal between Jiutian Shidi and Earth Star, which is why I said we were apprentices of a sect going through training."

According to previously acquired information, Jiutian Shidi had many powerful individuals who had created their own sects in addition to the many countries. "All of these sects have their own posts. If we can mark the area that links to Earth Star as our sect's post, we'll have much less of a chance of exposure," Gao Peng said coolly. "Of course, we'll try our best to meet the second goal, but it's fine if we don't. Our top priority is still the first goal."

"So where should we go now?" Bai Hai Xuan asked.

"From now on, we'll speak Jiutian Shidi's language." Gao Peng glanced at him. "Otherwise, we never know when you could expose yourselves."

Shoo. Dumby vanished in place. The violent sounds of an explosion came from the jungle in the distance. Trees snapped, and two waves of brutal energy exploded, then ceased abruptly. A moment later, Dumby came back with a person's head.

"This guy has been following us this entire time. He exposed himself when he became nervous while listening to us." Gao Peng frowned. Bai Hai Xuan's squad lowered their heads in shame.

"Does that mean our identities were exposed?" You Zijin asked.

"I don't know," Gao Peng said calmly, then he added after some thought, "Probably not."

"Master, when I caught him I tried to read his soul for memories, but on the brink of death, he did something that tainted his soul, so all the memories I extracted are black…" Dumby told Gao Peng through the Blood Contract.

"Okay, I'm aware. Let's head to the nearest city first." They had entered this strange land suddenly, so Gao Peng was at a loss, too.

Half a day later, Gao Peng and his crew entered the city. Unlike Shalin Town, which was a remote town near the border, Fallen Star City was a city on the border that played an important role. An endless stream of merchants came and went through the city. It wasn't a place that Shalin Town could compare to.

Pedestrians filled the streets. Gao Peng led the ten to a place that looked like a storefront and went inside to ask the owner if they accepted monster corpses. He sold the corpses of some monsters they had killed along the way at a low price. After he received the money, he led the ten to an inn and rented a courtyard to stay in.

The currency in Mingyu Country was silver-colored coins. They weren't made of silver, but instead, a metal that Gao Peng didn't recognize. This metal was very light and rough to the touch. Many of the coins had small chips on their edges.

After distributing the coins to each of the ten, Gao Peng said, "I asked the owner for a five-day stay. You can do whatever you want in the next five days, but stay safe and don't expose yourselves."

Once everyone left, Gao Peng retrieved Dumby, then summoned the Hundred Faces Dragon Ant. He switched its element to Diurnal Ant and Hidden Dragon Ant before merging with it.

Creak— The wooden door was pushed open, but only air stood in the doorway.

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Chapter 674: One Bite

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After he left the courtyard, Ze Hai first went to the nearby shops to look around, then bought a couple maps in a store. After he had the maps, Ze Hai flipped through them, then put them away, disappearing into the crowd.

The streets were bustling with activity. The monster trainer felt something bump his shoulder, but when he turned to look, there was nothing.

"Come get this deal! A Lord-tier Saffron Tiger! Its three tufts of hair are as red as blood, an authentic Saffron Tiger!"

"Qingyuan fruit, Qingyuan fruit, the premium food for Earth-type monsters! Don't miss out, come take a look—"

Ze Hai inconspicuously left the city gates amid the hollering of street vendors. On his head was a bamboo hat that had come from nowhere, and he had changed into different clothes. He turned around and looked at Fallen Star City with an unreadable expression, then took big strides north.

Gao Peng was tailing him.

After a day of walking, he was very far from Fallen Star City. Ze Hai stopped in his tracks. He turned to look in the direction of Gao Peng. In that direction, an invisible Gao Peng stood quietly in place. Two bright eyeballs glowed in his eye sockets. They were crystal clear, with white light flowing out of them.

Gao Peng could see Ze Hai's every more from six miles away. He had been exposed. That's what he thought when Ze Hai turned around, but Ze Hai probably wasn't the one who had discovered him. Rather, it was the being hiding in Ze Hai's body.

He thought this because Ze Hai's gaze was empty. He had looked in Gao Peng's direction, but they were separated by mountains and hills. If Ze Hai had really seen him, his gaze should have been focused, but at that moment, Ze Hai's gaze was scattered. It was probably the being inside him that had informed him of Gao Peng's location.

"Come out, since you've been following me all this way… Gao Peng," Ze Hai said slowly. "I didn't expect you to actually follow me. Why did you do that? Are you tired of living?" He sighed. "I really do admire you. We're different, you and I. You're a genius who made it through your own hard work."

Stretching out his right hand, he distorted the vanity space. A large, blood red monster hit the ground like a small mountain. Rumble—

A cloud of dust rose from the ground as the Blood Lizard's giant body roared at the sky. The Blood Lizard, the Giant Plague King, was covered with a mass of blood-like liquid. Its dense blood aura pierced the sky.

Ze Hai took a step forward and became one with the Blood Lizard. At almost the exact same moment, the Blood Lizard roared furiously. Its scales shattered, and its eyes glowed crimson. The air was thick with the aura of madness.

Crack, crack. Bones dripping with blood pierced through its skin. Its fangs swelled. While the Blood Lizard took on a terrifying appearance, its aura also grew increasingly disturbing.

"Merge with me completely!" With a howl, the Blood Lizard's aura became frantic. It instantly broke through the barrier between Saint-tier and Quasi God-tier. A wave of blood washed over the sky, the lizard's eyes filled with madness.

At this moment, the Blood Lizard's appearance changed completely. It became a prehistoric beast, though its eyes had an inkling of clarity hidden behind the madness.

"Plague Bloody Sea!" It opened its mouth and out gushed a sea of bloody mist. A sea of blood washed over them, the dense mist devouring everything in its path. Trees, rocks, monsters—everything it touched was disintegrated, becoming new sanguine mist.

"Make it fast!" The Blood Lizard knew it couldn't maintain this form for much longer. It would attract the attention of that person in Mingyu Country. It decided to finish Gao Peng within the minute.

"Your familiar just broke through the Quasi God tier a month ago. It's new to Quasi God. It won't take more than a minute to kill you!"

"Big Sea." Gao Peng saw the Blood Lizard, which had broken through to Quasi God-tier, and gave up the idea of summoning Stripey to beat it. It looked like he could only summon Fatty Big Sea.

Slap. A big-headed carp flopped on the ground. Fatty Big Sea opened its eyes to a giant Blood Lizard charging at it through a sea of blood. Its mouth was like a bottomless hole, its uneven teeth giving off a cold glint. It was so close that Fatty Big Sea could even smell the sourness of its breath in the air.

Fatty Big Sea's mouth twitched, its nostrils twitched, and it huffed out two puffs of air. Eat me?

"Howl!!" A wild wind swept across the ground. The mountain peaks were crushed flat, the sky darkened, and suddenly, a howling beast that had slaughtered gods in ancient times showed its true form. Each of its black, shiny scales was the size of a house.

Crunch. The Giant Plague King disappeared, as did the sea of blood and the plague. Only a messy battlefield, some crushed mountain peaks nearby, and the ground that had been corroded hinted at the destructive battle that had just taken place.

A seven-foot-long Fatty Big Sea lay in place leisurely, chewing on something like a carrot. "Achoo!" Fatty Big Sea sneezed and spat out a red and green blood clot that resembled an organ. The blood clot, which encased a white finger bone, was still wriggling around. This thing tried to make a run for it the moment it touched open air. Fatty Big Sea, who had expected this, took out the Endless Reincarnation Labyrinth and caught it in its net.

"I'm a god; I can give you endless power. I can make you the strongest familiar—"

"Noisy." Fatty Big Sea shut the Endless Reincarnation Labyrinth. Hmph! The only reincarnated god that Gao Peng needs is me! Violence flashed in Fatty Big Sea's eyes. It looked like it wanted to find a chance to finish this guy off.

Gao Peng's footsteps approached from behind. "You finished him, huh," Gao Peng said with a laugh.

"Of course. I took the field and gobbled it up." Fatty Big Sea said without a change in expression.

"That guy probably had a snapped finger from the God of Plague. Don't lose it," Gao Peng advised.

Fatty Big Sea was stunned. How did you know it had the God of Plague's finger?! Fatty Big Sea didn't feel embarrassed about its useless attempt to hide this information and nodded maturely. "I put that finger away. By the way, next time you want me to face something like this, give me a heads up. This God of Plague might have only been a tattered body, but it still has some Divine Power. Eating it gave me a cold!" At the end of his sentence, Fatty Big Sea sneezed again. "Achoo!"

"You're infected? Are you all right? Should we get you treatment?" Gao Peng said with concern.

"It's no biggie." Fatty Big Sea waved its fins carelessly. Then its expression changed and began to study the environment. "We're in Jiutian Shidi? How did you get here? Watch out, this place is murky."

"What's murkier, Jiutian Shidi or Surface Sea?" Gao Peng teased.

"Obviously Surface Sea!" Fatty Big Sea humphed. "Don't look at me like that, I'm not just tooting my own horn. What you know of Surface Sea is only a very small part of it. Even I don't know how big Surface Sea really is. The Divine System battles didn't affect the entire Surface Sea.

"But the Surface Sea I'm talking about is the real one hidden in the heart of chaos. The part of the sea that's in contact with Jiutian Shidi is no match for Jiutian Shidi. That Surface Sea once went into battle with Jiutian Shidi and suffered heavy losses. This world has a lot of powerful beings."

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Chapter 675: Treasure

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Half an hour after Gao Peng left, a white line pierced the horizon, hovering over the mess of a battlefield. "Two Quasi Gods just battled here," said a Blue White Divine Bird in a low voice.

"These guys…" Mingyu Country's Southeast governor, who was riding the Blue White Divine Bird, murmured to himself as he caressed a white jade ring on his thumb. "They're getting too arrogant! They don't have any respect for the law!" Before Mingyu Country and Murong Country's war had broken out, powerful individuals such as Quasi Gods hadn't dared to be so openly lawless.

"Messenger," the Southeast governor said solemnly. "Send Wood and Earth-type monster trainers here to revive the ecosystem of this region."

"It's this thing," said Fatty Big Sea as it took out the Endless Reincarnation Labyrinth and pointed at a murky dark red block inside. It rolled its eyes constantly, and one couldn't tell what it was thinking.

[Monster Name: God of Plague's Tattered Body

[Monster Description: Contains the remaining conscience of the God of Plague, as well as some of its Divine Power. Capable of infecting monsters below God-tier.

Gao Peng showed concern for Fatty Big Sea again but relaxed after confirming it wasn't infected. He didn't feel comfortable letting his other familiars come into contact with it anymore.

"Please, Your Grace, spare me! I'm a god!" the God of Plague's tattered body exclaimed the moment it saw Gao Peng.

Gao Peng went quiet for a moment, inspecting this God of Plague's battered body with interest.

The God of Plague knew exactly what these humans wanted. They liked to kiss up to the gods and were even willing to give up their lives. Even if they acted like they didn't care, once they found out its identity, they try to gain its favor the moment no one else was around. Ha, humans.

Gao Peng held his nose. This thing looked hideous. "Fatty Big Sea, eat it."

The God of Plague's Tattered Body didn't understand what was happening at all. "Wait! I have treasure. If you form a Blood Contract with me, I'll tell you the location of that treasure. It's my savings from back when I was still a god," the God of Plague said hurriedly to Gao Peng. This human's tone and expression didn't look fake at all. It was suddenly interested in this human.

"Gao Peng, don't be fooled. This guy was a God of Plague, and it's the tattered body of a god. It still has some Divine Power remaining in its body. Divine Power is a gross and troublesome thing. If you're not careful, you'll be infected by it, and that would be a lot of trouble," Fatty Big Sea told Gao Peng quickly through the Blood Contract.

"If it were up to me, we would just kill it and avoid the trouble!" Fatty Big Sea said coldly. At this moment, it felt like an emotionless, cruel god.

Naturally, Gao Peng knew what Fatty Big Sea was thinking and wasn't angry, so he secretly said to Fatty Big Sea, "Do you have a way of extracting its memory regarding the treasure? If you can get that, I'll leave it to you."

The dense forest blocked out the sunlight, its shadows covering Fatty Big Sea. A murderous expression came over its pea-sized eyes. "I have a way. Let Dumby out to help me."

A crystal clear fingerbone floated in the air. All of the muscle around it had been eaten off clean. Fatty Big Sea's stomach was swollen like a balloon. Now and then, it muttered, "I'm too full, I'm too full. I need to rest. Gao Peng, call me when you need me again." Then with a sway, it disappeared into a droplet of water that vanished into Gao Peng's clothes.

"Master, its memory isn't very complete, as much of it was destroyed. Luckily, its memory about the treasure still remains. Maybe that was its last resort to start over," Dumby said to Gao Peng.

"That's good." Gao Peng nodded.

"This God of Plague is a Lower God-tier monster. It doesn't have a monster trainer."

"It doesn't have a trainer?" Gao Peng was surprised now. He hadn't expected that.

"Yes, the God of Plague is a monster that became a god through practice. While it doesn't have a trainer, it does have many human devotees. It also had a religious sect that used to be of a grand scale."

"What about now?"

"It was destroyed by God-tier monster trainers from Mingyu and Murong. That's also when this God of Plague fell. Back then, two God-tier trainers were fighting each other. This God of Plague approached from behind and was killed by the two of them together."

Gao Peng was amused by Dumby's narration and even laughed. The two monster trainers had just been putting out a show to lure out the God of Plague. And it had really taken the bait and was fooled to its death.

Still, it was such a pitiful experience… Gao Peng was feeling a little sorry for this guy. Before its destruction, this God of Plague had collected many treasures that it intended to tempt Gao Peng with. But no one knew what was left of it…

When the tree fell, the monkeys scattered. If a god died, how much longer could these people struggle for? Its treasures had probably been looted by Mingyu and Murong already; these two were rotten.

"How long would it take us to get there?"

Dumby gave it a thought. "At the God of Plague's peak condition, probably only six hours." Dumby braced itself. "At the Dragon Ant's peak speed, probably a week or more."

That's too long, Gao Peng thought regretfully. If it had been closer, Gao Peng would have wanted to make a quick trip there in the next few days.

Five days later, at the Fallen Star City inn, only seven people showed up in the courtyard.

"Something must have delayed them," Bei Xiaomi said with hesitation.

"We'll wait for another night." Gao Peng didn't say anything else. He simply went back to his room and closed the door. "If they don't return by sunrise, there's no need to keep waiting," Gao Peng's voice said from behind the closed door.

The six looked at each other, speechless. The next morning, there was still the same seven people. Bai Hai Xuan shook his head and sighed. He could understand what some of them were thinking; staying by Gao Peng's side was a safe option, but at the same time, it meant less freedom. Some people were prideful and wanted to explore on their own.

"Let's go. We're heading to Rock City." Gao Peng named a place that none of them had heard of before. Of course, it was expected that they didn't know.

Rock City was west of Mingyu Country. They were currently on Mingyu Country's southeast border, so they were quite a distance away.

The God of Plague's religious sect was near Rock City. Naturally, Gao Peng wasn't going to explain the reason they were going there. Wisely, they didn't ask him either.

In Mingyu Country Palace, within one of the palaces, a graceful woman hugged a young girl. Her voice was full of love and heartache as she said, "Thank god you've returned, thank god. You've lost weight. Your heartless father forced you to marry abroad, but that crown prince of Murong is a short-lived guy. Thank god you didn't marry him."

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Chapter 676: Mingguang Mirror

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Gao Peng kept himself busy the entire journey. Every night, he talked at length with Dumby and helped Dumby distill the snow-white finger, which gave off a cold sheen.

Taking these foreign bones into its own body didn't affect Dumby at all. Its unique physique allowed it to merge freely with other skeletons. It then turned those skeletons into its own bones in order to completely absorb their nutrients. Of course, this wasn't a skill unique to Dumby. Many Bone-type monsters could speed up their evolution using this method.

This also proved how important a good corpse is. Life was a competition. Even in death, beings competed through bone quality.

Dumby finally managed to integrate the god's fingerbone. Its other body parts couldn't withstand the power of it, only its deified fingers barely able to handle it.

One week later, Gao Peng arrived at Rock City along with the xix. Before he even caught sight of it, Gao Peng sensed a grave aura. It permeated the air; every now and then, soldiers on patrol were visible.

Gao Peng saw a dozen soldiers guarding the city gate. "Who are you?"

"We need to check you."

"Come, take off your hat."

The soldiers were all very aggressive. Perhaps because they'd been on duty for so long, they were all ill-tempered. Some were even explosive.

On the left hovered a mirror-like familiar. It had a cloud of white mist carrying it from beneath. The mirror glinted each time it passed over someone. Almost everyone made it through the city gates without trouble. Before entering, everyone had to be hovered over on by this familiar, whether they were entering or exiting the city.

In the line of people exiting on the left, a person wearing a cloak quietly left the crowd after they noticed this mirror familiar.

"Halt!" Two hidden soldiers suddenly commanded their familiars to attack. They attacked with a roar.

Growl! The cloaked person's familiar was subdued before it could even react. The cloaked person was also captured. The mirror familiar shined over them, then a wisp of green mist floated above their head.

The commander of the gate security came out to pacify the crowd. "This is a surviving supporter of the Douwen Sect. Don't be afraid."

"No, I'm not!" The person's cloak was removed to show a green girl with purple hair. She yelled frantically, "I just happen to have a Poison-type familiar, but I'm not part of the Douwen Sect. Let me go."

"Hmph, we can't know if you're a survivor until we inspect you. If you're not a survivor of Douwen Sect, why did you try to flee?" The gate commander scoffed.

"I realized I had forgotten something at home, so I was going to get it," said the girl.

"Take her away!" The commander didn't want to listen to her explanations.

Everyone watched this numbly. No one came out to stand up for her.

"What is that familiar? It looks strong," Qing Qing exclaimed.

Gao Peng glanced at it.

[Monster Name: Mingguang Mirror

[Monster Level: Level 62 (Emperor-tier)

[Monster Grade: Perfect/Perfect

[Monster Attribute: Mystic

[Monster Ability: Delusion Cracking Level 5, Invisibility Investigation Level 5, Aura Tracking Level 4

[Monster Description: A Mirror-type familiar able to distinguish auras in a crowd. It can distinguish auras, investigate an enemy's tracks, and crack delusions. Due to its unusual abilities, it has been widely targeted. It is now extinct in the wild. It has a cowardly personality but is incredibly curious. It enjoys reflecting itself off of other mirrors, because it makes it feel like it's infinitely bigger.

What an interesting little mirror. Gao Peng chuckled. The Mingguang Mirror shined on Gao Peng and found the droplet of water hiding in his clothes.

"Hm?" the Mingguang Mirror sensed something. It couldn't help but be curious about what it was. I look, I look, I look some more! Hm? What kind of water droplet is this?

In the Mingguang Mirror's perception, this droplet of water grew bigger and bigger, until it finally became a vast ocean.

Glub, glub— As if it was in a deep sea, the dark, lonely, sealed ocean closed around it. Only the sound of swift currents resounded in its ears. Suddenly, eight spots of yellow light glowed in the ocean beneath it. The yellow lights came nearer and nearer, closing in distance. The delusion broke through reality like a huge mouth from the abyss was going to swallow it. Rows of dense, sharp teeth and a bottomless throat were before it.

Squeak!!! The Mingguang Mirror startled awake and trembled like a frightened kitten. It quickly turned around, too scared to look at Gao Peng. If its master hadn't ordered it to watch the city gates, it would've already fled by then.

The strange phenomenon there attracted the attention of the gate commander, as the Mingguang Mirror was his familiar. Walking over with quick steps, he saw how scared the Mingguang Mirror was and understood that it must've seen another fierce familiar. The creature was known for being chicken.

"Your Grace, please come in." The gate commander, who wore a sour face 99.9 percent of the time, was now smiling like a flower. This led the other people around to have different impressions of him. Maybe this commander was actually a warm and compassionate person?

"That's okay, I still have some friends in line. I'll wait for them here," Gao Peng said with a smile.

"No, no, if they're Your Grace's friends, then they're definitely not part of that Douwen Sect!" The commander said as he patted his chest with certainty.

"Oh?" Gao Peng raised an eyebrow.

"Haha, strong people like Your Grace would have no need to join the Douwen Sect." The gate commander rarely ever saw the Mingguang Mirror this frightened. In the past, it only ever acted like this when it saw a very influential person.

"That's okay. You have your responsibilities, and I shouldn't be an exception," Gao Peng said calmly. "Let my friends get checked too, then we can enter the city."

"Understood." The commander bowed and nodded. After he made the Mingguang Mirror scan the six, he welcomed Gao Peng into the city with great respect. When they made it away from the crowd, he secretly gave Gao Peng a token.

"Your Grace, this is a token of my identity. There are frequent searches for the survivors of the Douwen Sect. This token will save you a lot of trouble," the gate commander whispered.

Gao Peng nodded and patted the gate commander's shoulder. "Thank you for your kindness."

Once Gao Peng was a distance away, the gate commander rushed back to the gate and ordered his subordinates to continue keeping watch, then he left the city to head to a mountain villa in the suburbs. "General, another strong individual above Saint-tier has entered Rock City. I followed your orders and gave him a token."

"These random freaks are all showing up after the God of Plague's death." In the depths of the palace, an imposing nine-foot-tall man dressed in red armor tossed a chunk of raw meat into the pool of blood before him.

"Greed is really a bottomless pit." The man sighed and turned around. His once handsome face looked like it had been skinned. The bloody surface was ghastly and hideous; his eyes were bloodshot. Behind him, the pool of blood toiled. In it was great danger.

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Chapter 677: Vital Pig

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Rock City had a great atmosphere. The city's inhabitants came and went as if unaffected by the outside world. A street vender pushed a wooden cart filled with all kinds of trinkets. Some naked kids with snot hanging from their noses bought two sweet crepes before running off with their elephants swinging.

Rock City's name made it sound like some western city in the wilderness, but it wasn't. In reality, it was like spring year-round in Rock City, and the climate was warm and humid. Each land nurtured its own people. The girls of Rock City were raised well by Rock City's warm climate.

"How pale," a fatty with a mohawk remarked as he passed. "Like fresh onions! White with a hint of green, beautiful."

This fatty's voice was loud, and he yelled without caring if people heard him. Many people on the street heard him, but they all seemed to recognize him. They lowered their heads and shuffled off as if they hadn't seen anything.

The fatty was dressed in elaborate clothing, followed by a couple of people who looked like bodyguards.

"Hm?" The fatty saw Qing Qing immediately. His eyes glowed, and he cleared his throat, straightening out his already tidy clothes.

"Hello, beautiful." The fatty approached to flirt. "I know everyone in Rock City, so you must be from outside. Do you know anyone here? If not, would you like to come to my house?" The fatty looked very amiable when he smiled.

"That won't be necessary," Bai Hai Xuan said coldly. "We have a place to stay, so we won't be troubling you."

Everyone else knew the reason. Recently, Bai Hai Xuan had been flirting with Qing Qing. Qing Qing ignored him, but he still had feelings for her.

The fatty slapped his forehead, looking like he had just realized something. "Sorry, I guess I spoke out of turn." The fatty laughed and walked off. There was courage and charm in his stride. He looked like an elegant guy.

"You guys wait at the inn and remember to stay safe. I'm going to take a break. Don't disturb me for now," said Gao Peng. Then he went up the stairs into his room and shut the door and windows. He rested on the bed with his eyes closed.

That night, curfew had been enforced outside the inn. Gao Peng summoned the Dragon Ant, switched it to Invisible Mode, then pushed open the window. It shook out its transparent wings, then silently dove into the night sky.

Looking down from above Rock City was like a sleeping beast crawling between the mountains. The Dragon Ant flew into the clouds, disappearing without a sound. It flew over mountains and forests, finally stopping at the foot of a mountain.

It traveled east on foot for a small distance, though the path was blocked by hanging vines. Lifting the curtain of ivy, a serene cave led to an unknown destination.

Gao Peng switched his condition from Fourth Baby's flight ability to Second Baby's Diurnal Pupil, and the pitch-black cave instantly brightened in Gao Peng's eyes. The walls of the moist cave were overgrown with moss. The ceiling was wet, while the ashy walls were stained a dark brown by the water. From deep within the cave came the drip-drop of falling water.

The cave extended downwards. In the God of Plague's memory, this had been a secret passage to the treasure chamber. A clever rabbit had three burrows, and this god was the same. One could only attribute it to the God of Plague's cautious nature.

Turning a corner, a pond appeared. Gao Peng paused his steps. In his sight, the pond was a deep emerald color. The surface of the puddle was smooth, making it look like a gem. In the God of Plague's memory, the Mutant Tribe people from Jiutian Shidi had paid particular care of "ponds"—they liked to create a Soul Pool for the main familiar they fostered.

A Soul Pool used all kinds of precious treasures, as well as absorbing the essence of the sun and the moon. Gao Peng suspected they were just elements in the air. Soul Pools varied greatly. Depending on the familiar's attribute, their Soul Pools were endowed with different things.

But this Soul Pond was indeed valuable. Familiars grew many times faster in their Soul Pools than outside of them. Before them was a Soul Pool, and it was a Poison-type one.

As the water bubbled, a round head emerged from the Soul Pool. Water ran down its bald head, giving way to the pig's head underneath. It sprayed poisonous mist from the two round holes in its flat nose. It had two pointy, furless ears on its head—kind of like cat ears.

The moment this monster appeared, the atmosphere became grim.

"Who are you?" the cat-eared pig-headed monster asked inquiringly.

"I'm a devotee of the God of Plague. He ordered me to retrieve something from here," the Dragon Ant said without a change in expression.

"Oh, you're his devotee." The cat-eared pig-headed monster nodded. Suddenly it asked: "What's my name?"

The Dragon Ant had expected this. "Xiao Ming," he answered.

The cat-eared pig-headed monster nodded pleasantly, diving into the pond with a splash. "That's correct."

Withdrawing its gaze, the Dragon Ant walked around the pond, going deeper underground.

[Monster Name: Vital Pig

[Monster Level: Level 94 (Quasi God-tier)

[Monster Attribute: Poison

[Monster Grade] Epic/Epic

[Monster Territory: Venomous Domain

[Deification Part: Stomach and Liver

[Monster Ability: Gluttony Level 8, Delusional Venom Level 8, Tough Skin Level 8,

[Monster Characteristic: Ulterior Motives (Vital Pigs are sneaky pigs. Unlike ordinary pigs, they have low IQs, but are good at imitation and can follow others' orders.

Active Effect 1: When the Vital Pig uses Ulterior Motives, its IQ increases temporarily.

Passive Effect 2: When Vital Pig uses Ulterior Motive, it can tell if someone is telling the truth. If it was lied to, it activates its Ulterior Motive ability, delivering critical damage to the opponent's soul.)

[Monster Description: This is a monster with a down-to-earth personality. It is lazy and likes to sleep for a long time. Because of its unique abilities, it's usually captured by gods to be a guard pig.

Passing by the Vital Pig, Gao Peng quickly entered the heart of the cave. They walked for a long time. Given the Dragon Ant's speed, Gao Peng knew they had to be very far in. Finally, a faint light glowed up ahead.

Some mushroom-like monsters hung upside-down from the cave walls. They gave off a dim yellow light, illuminating the space. A sealed golden door closed off the entire cave. The Dragon Ant walked up, took the round handles of the golden door in its claws, and pulled with force.

With a rumble, the door was pulled open. Gao Peng entered with big strides.

The inside had been specially decorated. The first things that appeared in Gao Peng's line of sight were rows of large earthen jars. Their openings were completely sealed by metal blocks. With nine down and nine across, there were 81 in total.

"Hm? I smell God's Mummy." A droplet of water flew out from Gao Peng's collar. It expanded in the air, and Fatty Big Sea jumped out, commenting as it sniffed the air.

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God's Mummy—this was a new term for Gao Peng. "What is this?" he asked.

"God's Mummy, of course. It's a wonderful thing." Fatty Big Sea smacked its tongue.

"It should be something that the God of Plague prepared for itself. If it can benefit a god, wouldn't you say it's a good thing?"

"Oh, yes." Fatty Big Sea seemed to suddenly remember something. "You can summon your other familiars, as this a great supplement. Back then, I also made a batch of God's Mummy for myself, but only 49 of them, not as many as this."

"What is this God's Mummy?"

"Eat it and you'll understand. But you can't eat it. Humans won't be able to digest it; it's overly nutritious."

Gao Peng had his doubts. After all, someone as greedy as Fatty Big Sea would share something good? This wasn't like Fatty Big Sea.

He called out Dumby, Goldie, and Flamy. Opening the tank, Gao Peng went forward to look inside, but he could only see black water. It looked like ink, a blackish liquid. One couldn't see what was inside at all.

An algae-like hair floated up from the tank. The black ink had dyed the hair black. Why was there a hair? The water rippled and a child-like figure bobbed up in the jar.

Gao Peng was shocked, as he thought it was a human. The wet hair clung to the surface of the body that had the silhouette of a human figure. It looked just like a mummified body soaked in water.

Gao Peng thought it was alive, but after careful observation, he realized that this creature had no attributes. It was not a monster, but a lifeless object.

"This isn't human." Fatty Big Sea sensed Gao Peng's concerns and spoke. "It's made from the carcass of a monster's fetus.

"During this time, I've learned about your human race. Don't you like eating, especially the Huaxia Tribe? Many races are going extinct because your kind is eating them." Fatty Big Sea was speechless. Why was Gao Peng so hesitant this time?

"I'm not disagreeing. Go ahead and eat," Gao Peng said. Since it wasn't a human baby, it was okay to eat.

Flamy frowned and covered its beak with its wings to show its disdain.

Goldie rubbed its bald head. "If you don't like it, don't eat it." Goldie tried to control its laughter.

"Well, who said that I wouldn't eat it?" Flamy said proudly. There was a glint of brilliance in Goldie's earnest eyes before it resumed a silly expression.

After that, Flamy lowered its head, picked up the God's Mummy from the jar, and swallowed it. Upon swallowing God's Mummy, Flamy rolled its eyes, lifted up its head towards the roof, and spat out flames.

The burning flames licked at the roof, the air in the cave started burned up quickly, and the temperature slowly increased. Desolion tapped its right paw, and a cold glow flashed. The overhead flames were extinguished.

"This God's Mummy is made from familiars that are Perfect-grade and above. It needs to be an infant, so it's extremely rare," Fatty Big Sea slowly shared. "Familiars at the Epic grade and above are different from the familiars at the Perfect grade. They have more unique powers."

Gao Peng was deep in thought. He vaguely understood the logic. Because an Epic-grade familiar had special characteristics, such as top-quality monster characteristics matched with a high degree of compatibility, it could greatly enhance the combat power of the familiar by several times, or even dozens, of times.

What Fatty Big Sea was referring to was the power behind the special characteristics or the material that gave familiars special characteristics. An Epic-grade familiar wasn't very difficult to find. At least, Gao Peng had seen quite a few.

Reading Gao Peng's disdain, Fatty Big Sea shook its head. "Hmph, has it not occurred to you that it's usually the elites in the tribe and higher-ups who own Epic-grade familiars, and the level of contact that one comes into contact with corresponds with one's role? Those regular familiars that you come into contact with are not normal.

"And it requires pups. Only pups can be made into God's Mummy. During this process, after a certain period, a large number of treasures must be added. After a hundred years of brewing, a qualified God's Mummy can then be produced. Moreover, God's Mummy has a certain superstition and must conform to certain quantity rules. Otherwise, it is bound to fail.

"The lowest number of treasures allowed is 49, followed by 81, and above that would be 365 and 999. I've heard that the largest number is 999. It's just a legend, so I don't know if it's true."

Gao Peng nodded and seemed to understand something.

"A slight mistake in the process will lead to failure," Fatty Big Sea said. "Back when I successfully produced my God's Mummy, I received a lot of benefits. I broke into the Eternal grade after I swallowed my 49th God's Mummy that year."

Huh? This was the first time Gao Peng had heard of this.

"Of course, I had swallowed a lot of treasures before then, so I had a good base at that time." Fatty Big Sea explained hastily, worried that Gao Peng would blame it if the other familiars ate 49 God's Mummies and didn't break through to the Eternal grade.

After hearing from Fatty Big Sea about the benefits of God's Mummy, Da Zi and the gang were no longer on the fence. They quickly uncovered the lid and guzzled them down one by one. In half a minute, all 81 God's Mummies were gone.

Even Moneymaker hid in the corner and chomped on a God's Mummy not much smaller than it. Devouring with great delight, its stomach swelled like a gourd.

Fatty Big Sea stopped eating after nine pieces and licked its lips. Obviously, it would appreciate having more, but it just looked at the remaining God's Mummies and didn't compete with other familiars for them.

Although if it hadn't mentioned it, the other familiars might not have known the value of the God's Mummy, and it could've secretly eaten all of them, but sooner or later, they were bound to find out. Fatty Big Sea recently learned that it shouldn't hog all the good things, and should learn to share them instead.

After all, they were all underneath Gao Peng. They met all the time, and one would be isolated if they chose to undercut another.

The quality of these familiars wasn't low. As long as they didn't die, they would achieve great things and be of great help in the future. For now, it was the most effective fighter, but who knew for sure.

Fatty Big Sea also had its strategies. "Maybe there aren't many other treasures. This God's Mummy was very treasure-consuming. Every other year, a large number of treasures must be added. There are 81 God's Mummie here. I suspect that the God of Plague used all its resources on God's Mummies. A God's Mummy can be revitalizing for a moment, but it comes with a long period of drought."

With a long sigh, the Fatty Big Sea seemed to vaguely remember its past. Knowing that the God of Plague had used all this for God's Mummies, it was probable that the real cause of its death was related to this God's Mummy…

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Chapter 679: Breakthrough

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Every familiar had their own way of ingesting the God's Mummy. Some were wide-eyed and tried to swallow it in a gulp, while some stretched opened their mouths and tried to stuff it in. Others closed their eyes and tried swallowing forcefully. Still others sat on the ground and stroked their hairless bald heads while tearing it into pieces.

Dumby stood in its original position, silently lowering its head and looking at its boney ribs. There was a moment of silence as it placed its right hand on the top of the God's Mummy, and a black fog enfolded the item. In the dark fog, Dumby's expression became blurred, and only two faint red lights flickered in the dark fog.

Finally, Gao Peng searched the remaining treasure chamber. Though the treasure chamber was large, it was quite empty. Only a few odds items were piled up in the corner. Since these items related to the identity of the God of Plague, along with the 81 God's Mummies, the trip was certainly worth it.

Gao Peng closed all the doors tidily as he left and removed all traces of a human trail. The 81 God's Mummy pots were also put inside Dumby's space, as Fatty Big Sea had mentioned that these pots were valuable, since ordinary pots couldn't be used as containers for God's Mummies.

Of course, Gao Peng was also trying to prevent later generations from venturing there only to find empty pots. This wouldn't be good. Great excitement followed by great sorrow could cause high blood pressure.

After the last pot was put away, Gao Peng was relieved at seeing how clean the secret room was. It was cleaner than a bowl that a dog had licked. The last step was to leave the entrance and close the door carefully.

He turned and put all his familiars into the familiar space, leaving only Fatty Big Sea and the Dragon Ant outside.

"It's so uncomfortable," complained Fatty Big Sea while rubbing its round belly. It had barely digested the God of Plague from a few days ago. Now, after eating nine God's Mummies, he was even more uncomfortable. It was a happy problem.

Taking the path from where they had come from, they returned to the poisoned pool.

Splish, splash. The sound of water was heard from the pool. The humorous pig face of the Elemental Pig emerged from the pond. It propped itself on the side of the pool, stared at Gao Peng, and asked, "Are you leaving?"

"Yes, I'm leaving. I'm going back to look for Master," Gao Peng said, controlling the Ant Dragon's body.

"I knew long ago that Master had fallen," the Elemental Pig suddenly said.

Gao Peng stopped in his tracks, the hair on his neck rising. He was on high alert. It wasn't a good idea to deal with this Quasi God poison monster in this closed environment.

"If I wanted to eat you, I would have done so just now," the Elemental Pig said, sounding bored. "Aside from Master, you're the next to know my name. So you must know Master, otherwise, you wouldn't know my name.

"In the past, when Master was alone with me, he loved pinching my ears. Can you help pinch my ears?" The Elemental Pig gazed longingly at Gao Peng.

Gao Peng was stunned; he hadn't expected the Elemental Pig to make such a request.

The Elemental Pig swam out of the pool. It had a pig's head, cat's ears, and a python's body. There were no scales on his smooth skin, only dark thick skin. It slowly climbed to Gao Peng's feet. It had no feet or claws on its body.

Gao Peng bent over and stretched out his right hand to pinch the Elemental Pig's pointy cat ears.

It felt good, slightly bouncy and rather comfortable. "Mmm… mmm…" The Elemental Pig let out a snort of happiness, raised its head, and arched its back, It twisted around Gao Peng.

Gao Peng coughed twice. This was too much attachment. "Leave," Gao Peng said.

The Elemental Pig obediently went down.

Gao Peng hadn't expected this pig to be so obedient. "Turn around?"

The Elemental Pig looked at Gao Peng with a goofy face. After a few seconds, it began to turn in circles. So obedient! No one else would believe it was a Quasi God monster. It looked like a silly dog in the house of a foolish neighbor.

"Pinch me a while longer," the Elemental Pig whined after making three turns.

Gao Peng pinched the Elemental Pig's ears, and the pig was then content enough to crawl back to the pool.

"I still remember what my master taught me. He said to me, 'Don't trust anyone. There are too many bad people in the world.'" The Elemental Pig grinned and said, "You pinched my ears for me. You must be a good man."

"Since I'm a good man, would you like to follow me? Your master isn't here anyway," Gao Peng suddenly asked. If this fellow could be taken, it would be a good fighter.

Unexpectedly, this seemingly simple and honest Elemental Pig shook its head fervently. "I will not go with you." As it spoke, the Elemental Pig stood up to leave. "You're too weak… I could eat you in one mouthful."

Gao Peng was speechless.

"Master said that it's too dangerous outside. People eat people, and monsters eat monsters. If I don't stay here, I could be eaten as soon as I go out." The Elemental Pig said solemnly, "You're so weak that you should also stay here with me. It's safe here. My cave is very big. You can build a pool next to it. We can live together," the Elemental Pig said generously.

Gao Peng couldn't hold back his laughter; this Quasi God was too insecure. "I can protect you. What about this—if I can beat you, you leave with me?"

"Sure, but you're not allowed to ask for help. You have to defeat me by yourself," said the Elemental Pig.

Although Gao Peng found it regrettable, there was nothing he could do. He was using the body of the Dragon Ant, which meant that the Dragon Ant had to defeat this pig itself. The Dragon Ant wasn't its rival. It was only Level 80, two grades below the pig.

Bang. The Dragon Ant took a step and the rock under its foot burst open. Gao Peng suddenly felt the blood and elements in his body moving violently. They were bouncing with joy and seemed to be aligned with heaven and earth. What's this…?

"The Dragon Ant is going to break through to the Holy rank. This was from the God's Mummy," Fatty Big Sea said from within Gao Peng's mind. Gao Peng didn't dare delay further, so he quickly gave control of the body to the Dragon Ant so that he could find a remote place to complete its evolution.

After Gao Peng left, the Elemental Pig rose to the surface and looked towards the exit. As though in a trance, a bent-over figure appeared at the entrance of the cave. A black mask covered their face, but from under the mask there was a sharp round nose. From two sides of the nose, two rows of a fine white beard protruded.

"Master, you're back," the Elemental Pig said in surprise. It rushed out of the spirit pond and up to the figure.

Whoo— The wind blew, and the hunched figure dissipated like bubbles. The cave was still dark, leaving the Elemental Pig looking around at a loss. For a long time, a loud wail could be heard from the cave. "Master—"

Deep in the forest, in a remote mountain, the elements in the air were having a riot, the violent elements of the atmosphere creating a high temperature and pressure that enveloped the entire mountain.

For a long time, a shrill cry was ringing through the mountains. Fiery flames burned in every direction, the whole mountain completely covered by flames, turning into a flame mountain. After a very long time, the air in the mountains and forests regained peace.

Several heads popped out of the soil and observed the surroundings. It was finally over.

From the second half of the night, the mountain seemed to be possessed, alternating between fire, ice, thunder, and lightning. Sometimes, this was mixed with other strange attributes.

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Chapter 680: Poisonous Killer Star Beast

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There was a flurry of footsteps outside the hall. A 16-foot-tall, human-shaped monster of blood-colored armor strode over with a closed fist and said to the man in the room, "Reporting General, the remaining of the Douwen Sect are finally loosening their lips. They have revealed the identity of the Chief of the Douwen Sect."

This gigantic 16-foot-tall creature in blood-colored armor occupied most of the room's height. As its face was covered with a mask, one could only see blood-red eyes glittering with a demonic glow.

"Who's the leader of Douwen Sect?" The panting sound in the room became controlled, and a steady voice came from behind the screen.

"Erm…" said the blood-red armored familiar, seeming hesitant. The room fell silent. Not long after, a handsome teenager in a blanket hurriedly escaped through the side door, limping.

Behind the screen came a man with long shoulder-length black hair. His hair fell on his chest, strong muscles peeking out from the gap of the cloak. His only imperfection was his face, which was as fierce as a ghost's without skin, only blood-red muscles and white fang-like teeth.

"There are no outsiders now. Speak." The general looked at the familiar with blood-red eyes and laughed with delight. "Why did you join bodies with a familiar? What? Would I eat you? Talk to me with your real body."

The blood-armor familiar stiffly stayed in position, but after a long time, it coughed and said, "General, I'm used to it. I feel more powerful this way."

"Hahaha." The general threw his head back and laughed. He evaluated his subordinate, as if he had seen through his ploy, but said nothing more. "Who is the Chief of the Douwen Sect? I have hunted him for two years; I will not let him have an easy death once I get ahold of him." The general grinned viciously.

"It's… Yin Xiang Qi, the head of Rock City."

"Yin Xiang Qi?" The general was surprised at first, then sneered. "This ingrate. I treated him well, but he chose to secretly collude with evil spirits."

"Prepare the armies, lock down Rock City!" the general said arrogantly. "Today, we'll take this sinner down."

The army stationed a short distance from Rock City started moving in, smoke and dust billowing and flags filling the sky. The army moved and retreated in an orderly manner. The only fighting force in the army was made up of different kinds of familiars. At this moment, none the imperial beasts made a sound and only looked forward seriously. Rock City was locked down. Only entry was allowed; exiting was denied.

A purple lightning shadow hung in the sky. This had to be a rare element monster, as its body was made of lightning. It's lightning fingers were like dead branches, with all five fingers spread open. Lightning sizzled in the void, trapping the entire Rock City.

Several people who were eating on the first floor of the inn were startled by the sound of the thunder outside. Looking out of the window, the sky was wrapped in a fine purple lightning-net. Several birds accidentally bumped into the net and instantly evaporated.

The faces of the six people changed slightly. Bai Hai observed their surroundings with mystical eyes. Using the water on the table, he wrote: "Have we been exposed?"

Gao Peng shook his head silently and coughed. "Keep eating."

"Yin Xiang Qi, the sinner, has colluded with evil gods and secretly supported the Douwen Sect. He is to be punished!" A thunderous roar reverberated in the skies.

A scaly blood-red finger dropped from the sky and stabbed into the Head of the City's mansion. The power of merely the aftermath had flattened the houses near the city's main mansion into a sheet of paper. A pale red ring reverberated around the exterior of the finger, like a shock wave from an exploding star.

The audience of six was also a little alarmed, but they were comforted when they saw Gao Peng, who was sitting near them, eating calmly. At least with they had this powerful deity with them. Even if there was a real danger, there was a powerful being.

Calmly, Gao Peng repeatedly asked Fatty Big Sea, "Big Sea, you can feel the aura of that fellow above us. Can you beat him? Will you able to help us escape?"

"Rest assured; I have three magic artifacts of a Quasi God! Ordinary Quasi Gods aren't my opponents," Fatty Big Sea pacified Gao Peng.

Only then did Gao Peng calm down and squint at the six little ones. He saw the unrestrained panic on their faces and smirked. Still not stable enough— Gao Peng straightened his back and calmly sampled the wine.

"We're all Quasi Gods. What do you think a finger can do? Is this so despicable?" An angry roar emerged from the city's main mansion.

The poisonous mist suddenly turned into a shield to protect the mansion, and a dense glow flashed in the emptiness. Whoops. The finger was cut off and the blood squirted all over.

Somewhere in the mansion, a white-bearded old man looked at the sky. A slender mantis-like familiar with a pair of bat-like wings on its back stood by his side. Its arms were slender and much thicker than the mantis' arms. Its arms were relaxed by its side, but at the ends of them, there was a pair of inverted hooks moving inwards. Its compound eyes stared at the sky above its head. "By tomorrow, all should have left the city through the secret tunnel. Old friend, you can have a massacre then."

"Yes, Master."

The old man gave his familiar a look, then made a move with his left hand. The space beside him twisted, and another familiar appeared. It was only a palm-sized mosquito-like familiar. The old man took a step to the left, merged with the mosquito familiar, and escaped quietly.

Gazing at his Master, the Poisonous Killer Star Beast refocused.

His master had found it back when it was a baby. At that time, it was only an ignorant child, and his master was just an 18-year-old boy. Back then, his master had been full of confidence, as though they had the world under their feet, and had said they would become the most powerful familiar and monster trainer in the world.

Master… I'm afraid the Poisonous Killer Star Beast can't fulfill your wish. The broken finger fell on the edge of the main mansion, crushing a house. The house was crushed to pieces. A great deal of blood burst out from the crushed ruins, and in the blink of an eye, the city's main mansion turned into a bloody river.

A servant hiding in the house watched in horror as blood poured through the doors and windows and swam towards him as if it was alive. The familiars of the servants in the main mansion weren't beside him. Their imperial beasts were specially stationed and trained elsewhere. At this moment, his familiar was far away and could only helplessly watch the blood penetrate his body through his skin.

He fell to the ground with a mournful cry. Blood oozed from his eyes, nose, and mouth. His blood and the blood of the severed fingers blended together.

The Poisonous Killer Star Beast lifted its head and shrieked, its voice like two pieces of glass rubbing violently against each other, painfully shrill.

Boom—

"Poisoned stars slice and burn!" The deep green knife arc exploded in the air, accompanied by countless shadowed illusions. It turned into a phantom shadow and rushed up into the sky!

They sky knife arc tore up the lightning-net, rose up to the clouds, and fought violently with the general among the clouds. For a time, the wind and clouds changed.

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