Fey Evolution Merchant

by welldarn

Posting this for my own convenience.

40. Chapter 40

1951 The Flower Calamity Beautiful Devil Evolves Again!

Then, the Su family should choose to move up their plans, thinking that they had control over a Class 5 Creation Master and possessed so much of the Peaceful Calm Air Moss.

When Lin Yuan returned to his room on the second floor, he set aside all thoughts of the situation in the Divine Wood Federation and entered the Spirit Lock spatial zone to evolve the Flower Calamity Beautiful Devil's bloodline to enable it to break through past higher devil.

Lin Yuan had no idea what the higher devil bloodline could evolve into. It was possible that many of the Freedom Federation's members of royalty were unaware as well.

Lin Yuan summoned the Flower Calamity Beautiful Devil inside the Spiritual spatial zone.

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At that moment, the Flower Calamity Beautiful Devil resembled an archbishop of brambles. The bottom of its robes was green and had nine different colored flowers embroidered on it that corresponded to the Calamity Flowers in the Flower Basket of Calamity.

Its face had an inexplicable beauty, yet it also seemed to scorn every living creature on earth. It was as though every lifeform was nothing more than a toy for it to play with. To put it in slightly crude terms, it had both an intimidatingly overbearing yet also sexy air about it.

The mole at the corner of its eye made it seem slightly aggressive.

The Flower Calamity Beautiful Devil's appearance caused Lin Yuan to be able to stand in Duan He's shoes. Some superior feys indeed trumped spirit qi professionals in terms of looks.

When the Flower Basket of Calamity had been Silver VI, the nine Calamity Flowers had only been about the size of bowls, But now, they were about as large as Lin Yuan's head.

The blooming Calamity Flowers were made of pure elemental energy.

When they bloomed, the properties of their elemental energy caused their surroundings to become even more beautiful.

But when Lin Yuan saw the Flower Calamity Beautiful Devil's exceptional looks and exquisite attire, he did not feel happy in the slightest.

He dared not imagine what he would look like once he fused with it.

Since Lin Yuan had formed a contract with the Flower Calamity Beautiful Devil using his soul, it could sense what it was thinking.

This caused the Flower Calamity Beautiful Devil to be hurt.

The Flower Calamity Beautiful Devil was extremely satisfied with how it looked, but it would choose to look like a muscular man if it could if this would make Lin Yuan happy.

Lin Yuan had already walked over to the Element Well.

Ever since he attained the Flower Calamity Beautiful Devil, which used up a large amount of the water from the Element Well, the water in the Element Well had not increased in the slightest.

Previously, Morbius told Lin Yuan that the Element Well could increase its production. This required Lin Yuan to find the mouths of Ley Line Spirit Springs and embed them in the walls of the Element Well. T/his chapter is updat𝓮d by n𝒐v(ê(l) /m

When Lin Yuan went to the Yi family's residence, he had purposely mentioned Ley Line Spirit Springs to Yi Huailong.

As such, he found out that the Yi family did not have any of the Ley Line Spirit Springs, but the Su and Bai families had one each, while the Yang family had three.

However, the five Ley Line Spirit Springs had all been taken by the Holy Lady and transferred into the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm.

Yi Huailong's words allowed Lin Yuan to have a new reason for entering the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm.

Now, besides searching for the mysterious lifeform, he also wanted to search for the five Ley Line Spirit Springs and dig out their mouths to embed them in the Element Well.

This should significantly increase the production volume of the Element Well.

Lin Yuan pulled out some of the water from the Element Well in a glass bucket and scooped out two bowls of water before he returned the glass bucket back into the Element Well.

The Ten Thousand Poison Bacteria Mushroom could become any type of poison, and no lifeform besides poison-type feys could get close to it.

Nonetheless, Lin Yuan was not afraid of the Ten Thousand Poison Bacteria Mushroom in the slightest.

The Vicious Poison Law had evolved from pinnacle Myth II to pinnacle Myth III. As such, Lin Yuan now had resistance to poisons akin to poison-type feys that had just evolved to Myth Breed.

He could be so casual about handling the Ten Thousand Poison Bacteria Mushroom because its grade was not high.

If the Ten Thousand Poison Bacteria Mushroom had reached Diamond grade, Lin Yuan would have to be more careful when he touched it.

In order to extract the Ten Thousand Poison Bacteria Mushroom's venom, he needed to remove the hidden spores.

Lin Yuan used his finger to gently lift up the lid of the Ten Thousand Poison Bacteria Mushroom, and a plume of grayish-green powder scattered all over the water in the bowl.

The grayish-green powder immediately dissolved inside the Element Well's water.

Once the grayish-green powder stopped fully dissolving, Lin Yuan knew that the poison-elemental energy in the Element Well's water had become saturated.

Lin Yuan slowly added the other bowl of the Element Well's water into the bowl of infused water.

Once the spores fully dissolved, the bowl of pure poison-elemental energy was ready.

Lin Yuan did not immediately instruct the Flower Calamity Beautiful Devil to consume the bowl of pure poison-elemental energy.

Instead, he raised his hand and tossed the Mineral-Consuming Mongoose's feces into another glass bowl.

The dark gray feces turned bright gold inside the glass bowl. There was also faint silver light within the gold brilliance.

The Flower Calamity Beautiful Devil was very interested in this gold and slightly silver light.

The Flower Calamity Beautiful Devil was very vain, and it was very eager to gulp down the gold and slightly sliver fluid so that a Calamity Flower of the same color could be produced.

When he saw the Flower Calamity Beautiful Devil staring transfixed at the fluid made from the Mineral-Consuming Mongoose's feces, Lin Yuan decided not to tell it what the base ingredient was.

Otherwise, the Flower Calamity Beautiful Devil might be troubled when it drank the fluid.

Lin Yuan took a deep breath and held up the two glass bowls in front of the Flower Calamity Beautiful Devil and said, "Flower Calamity Beautiful Devil, success will be dependent on these two bowls of fluids."

The Flower Calamity Beautiful Devil accepted the two glass bowls with trembling hands.

It understood what Lin Yuan was trying to say.

There were not many types of elemental energy in the world, and several of them were difficult to prepare, much less pure versions.

If its bloodline did not evolve after the metal- and poison-elemental Calamity Flowers grew, it would be difficult to evolve in the future. This was because it would be difficult for Lin Yuan to prepare another new type of elemental energy.

Although the future and whether its bloodline could successfully evolve were unknown, the Flower Calamity Beautiful Devil was not afraid in the slightest.

This was because the Flower Calamity Beautiful Devil knew that its bloodline was on the cusp of transforming. It was likely that one more Calamity Flower was all it took for its bloodline to evolve.

The two bumps at the center of the bramble crown were evidence of this.

But even if it failed, the Flower Calamity Beautiful Devil had faith that Lin Yuan would be able to find another way to evolve its bloodline. This was because it knew how wealthy Lin Yuan was and fully leaned on him and his abilities.

1952 Calamity Territory Flower Puppet

The Flower Calamity Beautiful Devil bravely gulped down the bowl of the metal-elemental energy.

Once the metal-elemental energy entered the Flower Calamity Beautiful Devil's stomach, Lin Yuan noticed that its aura had changed.

Previously, the Flower Calamity Beautiful Devil's aura had been one of beautiful evil. But now, intense inauspiciousness and treachery was flowing out of its body.

As the phantom images of various Calamity Flowers continuously grew and spread, the Flower Calamity Beautiful Devil's long archbishop robe extended.

The pattern of a large gold Calamity Flower appeared amongst the embroidery of the nine Calamity Flowers.

Soon, the embroidery of ten Calamity Flowers bloomed on the long archbishop robe.

The more vibrant the flowers became, the more intense the aura of treachery and inauspiciousness became.

The long hair on the Flower Calamity Beautiful Devil's head had been combed toward the back of its head. But now, it was flying freely and rested on the train of the long archbishop robe. Its white hair, infused with devil aura, had changed to black.

Suddenly, Lin Yuan watched as the Flower Calamity Beautiful Devil let out a violent roar.

The Flower Calamity Beautiful Devil's features twisted together, making its beauty appear even more ferocious.

The thorn of brambles closed up fully, and more and more devil tattoos appeared on the crown's surface.

The devil's long horns were now linked to its skull.

The change in its skull and horns caused the Flower Calamity Beautiful Devil agonizing pain.

Lin Yuan's attention was not focused on the Flower Calamity Beautiful Devil's crown of brambles. Instead, he was staring at the two long horns that had grown out of the center of the crown.

The two horns extended continuously.

Once the two horns poked through the crown, the smooth black horns were instantly covered with spiral patterns.

The Flower Calamity Beautiful Devil's violent aura finally ceased.

When the Flower Calamity Beautiful Devil opened its eyes, Lin Yuan noticed they had changed from brown to golden-red.

There was the head of a black mountain goat slowly spinning within the gold-red eyes.

Lin Yuan could be certain that the Flower Calamity Beautiful Devil's bloodline had broken through past higher devil.

Lin Yuan suddenly realized that two black tears were rolling out of the Flower Calamity Beautiful Devil's gold-red eyes. When they landed on the ground, they turned into two black diamonds.

Lin Yuan used True Data to check on the two black tears and saw that their names had changed from the Higher Devil's Tears to Satan's Tears.

This meant that the bloodline evolution of a higher devil would transform it into Satan.

The Flower Calamity Beautiful Devil walked over to Lin Yuan.

Although it had an expression of treachery, inauspiciousness, and wickedness, the Flower Calamity Beautiful Devil still knelt down solemnly in front of Lin Yuan.

Lin Yuan looked down at the Flower Calamity Beautiful Devil and pulled it to its feet while he used True Data to check on it.

[Fey Name: Flower Calamity Beautiful Devil

[Fey Species: Satan-species/beautiful-evil-god-species Aall 𝒏𝒆west ch𝒂pt𝒆rs on n.o./v𝒆l𝒃i/n/.c𝒐m

[Fey Grade: Gold (9/10)

[Fey Type: Natural

[Fey Quality: Legend

Satanic Abilities:

[Calamity Judgment: According to the elemental energy the target wields, a Calamity Flower will bloom on the target. Every time the target uses elemental energy, the Calamity Flower will absorb and store the elemental energy. When the Calamity Flower is exploded, the target will suffer a backlash from the stored elemental energy.

[Calamity Flower Toying With Life: The Calamity Flower will fall from the Flower Basket of Calamity and become hidden. When a lifeform of the same type as the Calamity Flower comes into contact with the Calamity Flower, it will be compared with the purity of the elemental energy within the Calamity Flower. If it is purer than the elemental energy in the Calamity Flower, the Calamity Flower will give the target a boost. If the elemental energy is less pure than the elemental energy within the Calamity Flower, the Calamity Flower will rob the target of its elemental energy and use an 'about to die' effect on the target. Before the 'about to die' effect ends and the target is not reimbursed with elemental energy, the target will die. If the elemental energy is of the same purity as the elemental energy in the Calamity Flower, it can decide whether to boost the target or steal its elemental energy and place the 'about to die' effect on it.

[Misfortune for All: All the creatures in the area will form a net of karma linked by misfortune. Two types of calamities will be compared and the weaker one will automatically sacrifice half of its calamity to the stronger party before entering a temporary state of feebleness.

[Calamity Territory Flower Puppet: When faced with lifeforms that also have the devil bloodline, it can suppress its target according to its bloodline and rob the usage of satanic abilities of inferior devils. After the inferior devil is killed, the inferior lifeform will become a flower puppet in the sea of flowers. The flower puppet and sea of flowers will inherit the satanic abilities of the dead devil and a portion of the Flower Calamity Beautiful Devil's own abilities. When faced with lifeforms that do not have the devil bloodline, the calamity territory can be opened. Three Calamity Flowers will automatically bloom on the target when the target enters the calamity territory. When the calamity territory is opened, the Flower Calamity Beautiful Devil will not be able to move, and the toil of using other satanic abilities will be magnified.

Lin Yuan noticed that the Flower Calamity Beautiful Devil had indeed evolved as per his expectations.

It had originally been higher devil species/beautiful devil species. But now that its bloodline had transformed, it had become satan-species/beautiful-evil-god-species.

Recently, Lin Yuan had been reading the Annal of Monster Information he had taken from the Hidden Moon Pavilion.

However, there was a myriad of information in the Annal of Monster Information, and Lin Yuan was studying it carefully. Thus, he had only read a few tens of pages so far.

The Annal of Monster Information mentioned that when devils wore their crowns, the patterns of black mountain goats would appear on their two horns, and the image of a black mountain goat would also appear in their eyes. This meant that the devil had awakened its Satan bloodline and had become a genuine god of evil.

Satans could control the satanic abilities of more lowly devils.

Previously, Lin Yuan had been confused about the description in the Annal of Monster Information. But now, he finally understood what it meant.

The transformation of the Flower Calamity Beautiful Devil's bloodline had indeed proceeded as per the description in the Annal of Monster Information.

Now that the Flower Calamity Beautiful Devil had transformed into Satan, its new satanic ability Calamity Territory Flower Puppet once again proved the legitimacy of the content of the Annal of Monster Information.

Calamity Territory Flower Puppet allowed the Flower Calamity Beautiful Devil to use its bloodline to suppress other lifeforms with the devil bloodline and rob their usage of satanic abilities.

This fully coincided with how the Annal of Monster Information described the Satans' oppression of the satanic abilities of inferior lifeforms.

This made the Annal of Monster Information even more important in the eyes of Lin Yuan.

1953 Bloodline Not at its Limit!

If a book without a genre was right about one secret, it could be counted as a coincidence. If it was right about two secrets, there had to be something fishy going on. But if it was right about three secrets, it meant that the author had to have possessed undeniable knowledge.

It was possible that the author had interacted with feys with the Barren bloodline, sea demons, and devils. Otherwise, they would not have been able to write such a book.

After three verifications, Lin Yuan could be certain that the rest of the Annal of Monster Information was also accurate.

Lin Yuan called Genius out of the marsh world and instructed it to memorize the entire Annal of Monster Information.

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Lin Yuan was going to read the book for himself because there were many parts he could ponder over.

But this way, before Lin Yuan was done reading the Annal of Monster Information and verified its contents, he would not have to worry about it becoming lost or destroyed.

When the Flower Calamity Beautiful Devil evolved to higher devil, Lin Yuan was already shocked by the satanic ability Misfortune for All and how it could form a net of karma with everything around it and pick two of the attributes within the net. It could then limit or boost the feys with the two attributes. This had already greatly surpassed Lin Yuan's understanding of abilities. It was even stronger than the abilities of some sacred source lifeforms.

But when the Flower Calamity Beautiful Devil evolved into Satan and gained the ability Calamity Territory Flower Puppet, Lin Yuan's understanding of mystic feys was refreshed.

He now understood why the Radiance Federation, Azure Federation, and Freedom Federation, which had Class 5 Creation Masters and even Class 6 Creation Masters were so particular about their mystic realms.

Through the Flower Calamity Beautiful Devil that had evolved to Satan, Lin Yuan now understood what was meant by a hulking foundation. Aall 𝒏𝒆west ch𝒂pt𝒆rs on n.o./v𝒆l𝒃i/n/.c𝒐m

Rather than the control over the rest of the world, the crucial asset of Calamity Territory Flower Puppet was its control over lifeforms with the devil bloodline.

When any devils with a more inferior bloodline to the Flower Calamity Beautiful Devil entered the calamity territory, they could become flower puppets that would be under the Flower Calamity Beautiful Devil's control.

It went without saying that Lin Yuan felt that it would not be easy for the Flower Calamity Beautiful Devil to use Calamity Territory Flower Puppet to control higher devils because after a devil formed a contract with a spirit qi professional, the spirit qi professional could depend on the devil and vice versa.

The higher devils' contractors could be talented spirit qi professionals like Lu Ou, who were born with a silver spoon or were just powerful experts in general.

No expert would stand by and watch as their contracted devil was taken control of and turned into a flower puppet.

Although the Flower Calamity Beautiful Devil could not be used to hunt higher devils, it would be easy to hunt intermediate devils.

Lin Yuan had fought against intermediate devils before, and their satanic abilities were also nothing to sneeze at.

Moreover, the flower puppets under the Flower Calamity Beautiful Devil's control would also gain a portion of the Flower Calamity Beautiful Devil's abilities.

If an intermediate devil gained the abilities of a Satan, it might not be able to take down higher devils, but it was unlikely that any other intermediate devil would be its match.

Additionally, Calamity Territory Flower Puppet targeted not only lifeforms that possessed the devil's bloodline but any lifeform that entered the calamity territory.

When lifeforms entered the calamity territory, three Calamity Flowers would bloom in their bodies.

This ability could work together with and boost the Flower Calamity Beautiful Devil's other satanic abilities Calamity Judgment and Calamity Flower Toying With Life.

Calamity Judgment could only cause one Calamity Flower to bloom in the target's body.

Every time the target's elemental energy was used up by the Calamity Flower imprint, the effects of Calamity Judgment would determine how much of the elemental energy stored in the target's body was drained by the Calamity Flower. This would cause the target to lose twice the amount of elemental energy.

When the Calamity Flowers exploded, the targets would also experience recoil from their own elemental energy.

Moreover, whenever the target used its abilities once, the three Calamity Flowers from the Calamity Territory Flower Puppet would absorb four times the elemental energy that the target used up.

This meant that the fey might be drained dry after only using a few abilities. Then, it would be hit by the recoil of the four times of elemental energy it had used up.

Because of this, Calamity Judgment had become a lethal move.

Calamity Flower Toying With Life was akin to competing with the amount of elemental energy in the opponent's body.

Lin Yuan's method of nurturing the Flower Calamity Beautiful Devil made it a main lethal move.

However, the only flaw of Calamity Flower Toying With Life was that it was difficult to mark targets. But Calamity Territory Flower Puppet perfectly made up for this flaw.

Alas, Calamity Territory Flower Puppet was not without its flaws.

When the Flower Calamity Beautiful Devil used this satanic ability and opened the calamity territory, the Flower Calamity Beautiful Devil could not move its body, and using other satanic abilities would put a larger strain on itself.

The Calamity Territory Flower Puppet kept the Flower Calamity Beautiful Devil trapped.

As such, the Flower Calamity Beautiful Devil could not continuously use Calamity Judgment and Calamity Flower Toying With Life after it opened the calamity territory.

Nonetheless, Lin Yuan did not care about this because the Flower Calamity Beautiful Devil would never be fighting on its own.

As its contractor, Lin Yuan possessed many feys. He could ensure the Flower Calamity Beautiful Devil's safety after it opened the calamity territory.

Additionally, with the support from the three Calamity Flowers, Calamity Judgment and Calamity Flower Toying With Life were lethal weapons. It did not make a large impact even if they could not be used excessively.

As he looked at the Flower Calamity Beautiful Devil that had evolved from intermediate devil to the Satan it was today, Lin Yuan was filled with a sense of accomplishment.

The Flower Calamity Beautiful Devil allowed Lin Yuan to stand tall when he fought against experts from the Freedom Federation.

As he looked at the Flower Calamity Beautiful Devil's messy hair, Lin Yuan walked up to it and helped it to arrange its bird's nest. Next, he combed its hair into a simple style like he did for Chu Ci when they were younger.

Once the Flower Calamity Beautiful Devil was combed to neatness, a strand of its black hair fell out of place and landed in front of its face, partially covering the mole at the corner of its eye.

Now, the Flower Calamity Beautiful Devil was much more beautiful than it was before.

There was no lifeform that the Flower Calamity Beautiful Devil felt closer to than Lin Yuan.

He was the one who gave it its Satan bloodline.

It saw him as its savior.

Thus, while Lin Yuan was combing its hair, the Flower Calamity Beautiful Devil, whose basic nature was to toy with the hearts of lifeforms, felt strange when it was filled with happiness. This caused the Flower Calamity Beautiful Devil's expression to waver.

Once Lin Yuan was done combing the Flower Calamity Beautiful Devil's hair, he said, "I will still supply you with pure elemental energy like what I've been doing all along. You might have evolved into Satan, but you still have to drink the bowl containing poison-elemental energy. Once you drink it, we'll know if Satan is the limit of your bloodline. If your bloodline evolves again, I will try to find more types of elemental energy for you."

1954 Young Girl Digging Under the Scorching Sun!

Lin Yuan's words caused the Flower Calamity Beautiful Devil to instinctively reach out to hug him.

The Flower Calamity Beautiful Devil was now Lin Yuan's contracted fey, and Lin Yuan was not going to turn down its sincere emotional gesture.

Nonetheless, he felt strange to be hugged by a female devil.

After it hugged Lin Yuan, the Flower Calamity Beautiful Devil drank the rest of the grayish-green liquid in the bowl.

Soon, a dark green flower sprouted in the Flower Basket of Calamity and glowed with a dray light. A beautiful dark green embroidery of the same Calamity Flower appeared and bloomed on the Flower Calamity Beautiful Devil's robes.

The dark green flower did not stand out amongst the ten colored flowers.

But the dark-colored chain gave the Flower Calamity Beautiful Devil's robes a completely different feeling.

After the Flower Calamity Beautiful Devil drank the bowl of pure elemental energy, Lin Yuan noticed that its bloodline had been refined to a noticeable extent.

Apparently, the Satan bloodline was not the limit of the devil bloodline. It was likely that the Flower Calamity Beautiful Devil's bloodline could transform again in the future.

Nonetheless, this could only happen if Lin Yuan managed to obtain more types of pure elemental energy.

Now that he was done evolving the Flower Calamity Beautiful Devil, Lin Yuan returned it to the Spiritual spatial zone.

He did a quick count and realized that more than seven days had already passed since the last Astronomical Parliament parliamentary meeting.

Now that all the members of the Astronomical Parliament possessed the Thoughts Letter Paper, it had become their main channel of communication.

Bei Xu and Bu Po were the most communicative and had become close friends.

This was because they shared very similar experiences and because Lin Yuan, Wen Yu, and Su Yiren were much too busy.

Ta Lei used to be active in sending messages. But ever since he started to manage his territory, he did not even have enough time to sleep.

Wo Lun occasionally chimed in during Bei Xu and Bu Po's conversations.

Overall, the Astronomical Parliament's internal group had a good flow of communication.

Almost everything could be discussed using the Thoughts Letter Paper. Thus, there was no need to hold the parliamentary meeting most of the time.

This time, Lin Yuan was only going into the marsh world to see Wen Yu and ask her to hold the Astronomical Parliament parliamentary meeting because too much time had passed, and it was time for a new member to join.

Since Wen Yu was trying to strengthen her link to every member of the Astronomical Parliament, she could not accept too many members at once despite her substantial increase in spiritual energy.

However, Wen Yu and Lin Yuan were not bothered by this. They had always asserted quality over quantity when it came to the Astronomical Parliament's members.

At the same moment that Lin Yuan entered the marsh world to see Wen Yu, a young girl with skin that was covered with sunburns was using her hands to dig the dirt by her feet on the cracked ground.

She did not use any tools because to her, her hands were her best tools.

Her fingernails were long, and the skin of her hands was pale, making her hands resemble knives.

As she dug under the scorching sun, it did not take long for her body to be covered in sweat.

When the sweat rolled over her burnt skin, her whole body started to itch, and her skin turned faint red due to the blood rising in her pores.

Nonetheless, she did not dare to stop because she knew that there were only three months of rainfall on the continent she lived in. At any other time, there was no way to obtain even a single drop of water.

As such, water was the most important resource in this continent.

The young girl doggedly dug the ground by her feet because she guessed that the Duck-Mouthed Lungfish had buried itself underground at this spot.

During the rainy season, the Duck-Mouthed Lungfish would tunnel out of the ground and enter the rivers formed by rains to consume the spirit qi professionals and feys who tried to fetch water from the river.

But during the dry season, it would bury itself underground and become immobilized as it entered a state of hibernation. During this time, it would be easy prey. Thus, the Duck-Mouthed Lungfish would try to bury itself as deep underground as possible.

The girl was searching for the Duck-Mouthed Lungfish so zealously because it took in water from the mud while it hibernated and because she hoped that the Duck-Mouthed Lungfish would be Silver grade and below so that she could form a contract with it.

Once she formed a contract with a water-type fey, even if it was just the Duck-Mouthed Lungfish, she would have the ability to produce water from the air.

In the Broiling Rock Continent, any person who had the ability to produce water would gain the respected title of Rain Master and be able to find a job in one of the large cities.

Hence, finding one of the Duck-Mouthed Lungfish in the parched lands was the most important test in the lives of every young person who lived in the Broiling Rock Continent.

If they could not live in one of the large cities, they would not be able to enjoy the lakes in the cities.

In the dry season, they did not have any life preservers, and no one wanted to live like that.

The blistering daytime lasted for more than 16 hours each day.

Without a water-type fey, spirit qi professionals below C-rank would not be able to hold out for more than eight hours in such searing weather.

Thus, any stone wall that could be used as a shelter would have many spirit qi professionals taking refuge under it.

Unless one lived in one of the larger cities of the Broiling Rock Continent or was a spirit qi professional, the only ending would be death in the sizzling weather.

After a spirit qi professional couple had children, they would bring them up till around the age of 15 years old. Then, the children would be chased away.

This was the same as when mother lions chased away their cubs when resources were scarce. Ne/w novel chapt𝒆rs are published on no/vel( /m

This girl was clearly younger than 15 years old, yet she was already digging for the Duck-Mouthed Lungfish. This was because her parents never returned after they left the rock shelter in the dry season the previous year.

The girl did not know if they had met with an accident or shed her as dead weight.

Regardless, this young girl that was not even 13 years old had to fend for herself in the dry season.

Recently, whenever she returned to the rock shelter region, she received looks of pity. The reason behind the sympathy was not her parents leaving, as this was common, but because she was so severely sunburnt.

With such serious sunburns and no Rain Masters to help to wash her wounds, the salt seeping into the open wounds and the burning rays from the sun would cause her skin to start festering in less than five days.

This morning, the young girl had already sensed a clear odor emanating from herself. She knew that she would not be able to last another two days.

1955 Despair Before Hope!

When the wound was infected, it would lead to a fever that not even spirit qi professionals could handle.

As the young girl tirelessly dug, her sharp and light green fingernails suddenly disappeared as two light green caterpillars collapsed on the back of her hands.

While she was digging, the young girl had sensed the soil around her hands becoming wetter. This indicated that she was closing in on the Duck-Mouthed Lungfish.

However, the Finger Blade Insects were out of energy, and she could only continue digging tomorrow.

The young girl was unsure if she would make it to see the sunrise tomorrow. She also did not know if someone else would take over the hole she had already dug once she left.

The young girl stored the two Finger Blade Insects in her cloak before she started using her hands to dig the visibly softened soil.

It was fine to use her hands to dig once. But after sticking her hands into the ground hundreds to thousands of times, the young girl's untidy fingernails were pushed out by the dirt and started to crack. It did not take long for blood to start flowing out of her fingers.

The young girl's movements started to slow down as her mind slowly filled with fuzzy hallucinations.

She shook her head to force herself to remain alert.

She could see that her hands were pressing water out of the dirt and knew that she would reach the patch of mud covering the Duck-Mouthed Lungfish after digging around five meters deeper.

She knew that her life was about to change.

In the year after her parents left, she had spent every day digging but had failed to find the Duck-Mouthed Lungfish's true hiding spot.

Now that hope was right in front of her, but her body was preventing her from digging the final five meters, the severely dehydrated young girl watched as her only recently ignited hope was extinguished right in front of her.

Before she lost consciousness, two hot tears rolled down her face.

A wish formed in her heart.

All I want is to live. Even if I'm still denied water, I want to continue living. I'm willing to trade everything as long as I can keep on living.

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Although Lin Yuan usually spent his time in the Spirit Lock spatial zone, where he passed through Klein Hub to enter the marsh world so he could obtain the spirit fluids that Genius collected from the army of Hundred Questions Beasts, thoughts of the marsh world's development had not crossed his mind in a long time.

When he saw how his territory was prospering, Lin Yuan puffed up with pride and was filled with a sense of accomplishment.

All of the precious plant-type feys, such as the Soldier Ration Radish and Twin Red Pagoda, were planted in areas that could be reached by the emerald green ancient tree's effects.

Lin Yuan had used a special method to split its wood-textured stem and manually cultivate it.

The Soldier Ration Radish only grew veined leaves, and its wood-textured stem grew extremely slowly.

For this, Genius had specially researched and produced a Grade 4 spirit fluid. Nonetheless, the effects had been negligible.

Lin Yuan understood this because Chef Supreme had specially nurtured the Soldier Ration Radish. He had to have used Class 5 Creation Master methods.

Genius still had a long way to go before it reached Class 5 Creation Master and could not be compared to Chef Supreme.

However, the emerald green ancient tree had sprouted in the Spirit Lock spatial zone.

Thus, Genius no longer needed to use Grade 4 spirit fluids to water the Soldier Ration Radish to urge the development of the wood-textured roots.

In the short span of two weeks, the Soldier Ration Radish's wood-textured stem had grown from around five centimeters and the width of two fingers to ten centimeters long and the width of a wrist.

At this point, the Soldier Ration Radish had reached the ideal stage to be divided.

Genius was currently instructing the two Class 4 Creation Masters, Feng Shuang and Elder He, to divide the Soldier Ration Radish.

Lin Yuan had taken possession of these two Class 4 Creation Masters as part of the spoils when he defeated the Zheng family in the blood pact ultimate fight.

Lin Yuan had taken possession of a total of three Class 4 Creation Masters and turned them into the team named 'Marsh'. This was so they could focus on developing his territory in the marsh world.

But due to Hu Tian's fey, the Scary Claw Rock Bear, Hu Quan kept him behind to help with the construction of the underground palace and provide him with Class 4 Creation Master resources. Thus, Hu Tian had not been sent to the marsh world yet.

But given the current situation, it was enough to just have Feng Shuang and Elder He helping in the marsh world.

Although Sun Ningxiang and the team of spirit qi professionals and regular people she led to plant plant-type feys needed a large amount of low-class Creation Master resources, the army of Hundred Questions Beasts was enough to supply their needs.

With Wen Yu's fey with the Barren bloodline, the Wailing Snake, the spirit qi professionals, and regular people were not in danger while planting plant-type feys.

With the Sentient Being Protective Dragon, it could use Place in the World to keep the plant-type feys growing swiftly but still healthily even without the boost from the emerald green ancient tree. Alll 𝒍𝒂test nov𝒆l𝒔 on novelb𝒊n/.c𝒐m

When the family of the six Bug-Consuming Thearch Emperor Lizards had been in the Dark Dream Forest, they often went hungry.

But ever since they entered the marsh world, they felt as though they had entered heaven, as there was an endless supply of insects to eat here.

Although the insects were not delectable, they were still palatable.

The husband and wife Bug-Consuming Thearch Emperor Lizards could not remember the last time their bellies were so full.

The family of six Bug-Consuming Thearch Emperor Lizards fed on all the insects in the territory in a frenzy. Hence, the regular people and spirit qi professionals no longer had to be plagued by the insects and could rest in peace when they were not working.

Since the Wailing Snake could change the profile of the ground, Wen Yu had personally instructed it to construct houses for the over 10,000 regular people and spirit qi professionals to live in.

Once the houses were built, the rest of the decorating could be done by the regular people and spirit qi professionals while Lin Yuan provided the necessities needed to fill the house for free.

For this, Lin Yuan had spent close to 500,000,000 Radiance dollars.

But he still felt that it was a necessary expenditure.

These people had entered the marsh world and left society because they trusted him.

Lin Yuan needed to take responsibility for their happiness.

In order to fill their lives with more happiness, Lin Yuan had given all of them a bottle made of powdered jade-textured wood, thousands of luxury items, and over 3 billion Radiance dollars of spending money.

Lin Yuan's generosity made the regular people and spirit qi professionals feel as though they were on top of the world.

Lin Yuan also sent many feys used for farming into the marsh world, such as the Plowing Cultivation Cow, Diamond Sealing Gray Rabbit, and Ground-Moistening Earthworm.

Since the spirit qi professionals had formed contracts with these feys and nurtured them using resources provided by Lin Yuan, they swiftly evolved to Silver grade.

1956 Rising Lizard's Change

Many spirit qi professionals who did not even possess Bronze feys never imagined they would one day be able to possess Silver feys.

The marsh world was now a paradise.

The biggest beneficiaries of the emerald green ancient tree were not the Soldier Ration Radish and the Twin Red Pagoda but Endless Summer's Barren River Orchid Bud and the Marsh Ground Sphagna.

The Marsh Ground Sphagna had covered the main part of the territory.

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The previous plant-type feys were grown on the Marsh Ground Sphagna, and it regulated water for them. Thus, it had won all of the bonuses from the emerald green ancient tree.

During Lin Yuan's examination, he saw that the area reached by the emerald green ancient green formed a boundary.

The Marsh Ground Sphagna within the boundary was dark-colored and soft as it had always been. It resembled a translucent crystal.

The Marsh Ground Spaghna outside of the boundary was still its original light green.

But both the Marsh Ground Sphagna inside and outside of the boundary had significantly increased in temperature.

Lin Yuan had instructed Genius to move Endless Summer's Barren River Orchid Bud over.

Previously, its leaves and flowers had grown, but there were no fruits in sight.

But after it was replanted within the boundary of the emerald green ancient tree, the Barren River Orchid Bud started growing wildly, and three fruits had grown.

The Barren River Orchid Bud's Stars had increased from 1 Stars to 3 Stars within two weeks.

Extrapolating this rate, Lin Yuan estimated that the Barren River Orchid Bud might be able to evolve to 8 Stars within two years.

Lin Yuan's arrival immediately attracted Wendy, Rising Lizard, and White Pavilion.

Rising Lizard had grown from a few tens of meters to almost 1,000 meters. When it ran, the ground shook beneath its feet.

Although Rising Lizard was not as large as the Bug-Consuming Thearch Emperor Lizard, it looked like an even more lethal weapon than the Bug-Consuming Thearch Emperor Lizards.

Rising Lizard now had nine heads and could even take on pinnacle Myth III feys.

Lin Yuan could not help but be amazed by the speed of Rising Lizard's increase in power.

The Medusa Snake Demons had surely been feeding the Rising Lizard with fervor. They attracted not only the Marsh Crocodiles for it but also the Medusa Giant Lizards, causing them to become Rising Lizard's nourishment.

The Medusa Snake Demon did not live in groups and preferred to move as an individual, especially when it was hunting.

The aura of one Medusa Snake Demon could not compare to that of many Medusa Snake Demons.

Hence, Lin Yuan's territory, where a group of the Medusa Snake Demons gathered, had become a beacon for all of the Medusa Giant Lizards to charge toward.

Thus, there was not a single Medusa Giant Lizard within Lin Yuan's territory.

After all, the Medusa Giant Lizard was not a common dimensional lifeform.

After eating countless of the Medusa Giant Lizards, Rising Lizard's body and limbs were extremely thick, and the curved horns on its nine heads had grown from around three meters to close to 20 meters.

This was also due to the size of Rising Lizard's body.

When the Rising Lizard swung its nine heads, it could easily slash 900-meter-tall mountains in half.

Bony protrusions also jutted from Rising Lizard's wrinkled neck skin. The bony protrusions were as sharp as knives.

Even if Rising Lizard did not use the horns on its head, its bones sprouting from its neck could even carve out about two tonnes of the flesh of same-sized feys that made contact with it.

The spikes on its long tail and the bony protrusions on its tail were sharper than those on its head and neck.

Rising Lizard's totem had also become brighter. Now, it had more than 30 believers and 17 Favored Believers.

It would not be long before its faith power could be strengthened.

At that moment, Rising Lizard could activate its source sacred body and change into human form.

Wendy still had a long way to go before it could activate its source sacred body because it did not have as many believers and Favored Believers as Rising Lizard.

However, Wendy was not much weaker than Rising Lizard.

Rather, Rising Lizard would not want to fight against Wendy.

Although Wendy was only Class 6, it possessed powerful venom. Yôur f𝒂vorite stories on 𝒏/o/(v)𝒆/lb𝒊n.c𝒐m

Wendy's natural skill Snake Frontier Playground not only allowed the snake-species feys around Wendy to grow quicker but could also turn them into Wendy's hair. Wendy would then absorb the snake-species feys' venom to increase its power.

Lin Yuan had put a lot of effort into giving Wendy its snake hair.

First, he had chosen different types of snake-species feys that all possessed the most potent of poisons. They were also extremely beautiful.

After picking the snake-species feys, Lin Yuan patiently evolved them to Bronze/Legend.

Thus, when Wendy absorbed the snake-species feys' venom, its own venom had become terrifyingly strong.

When it rolled grades in battles against enemies with weaker venom, targets that could kill Wendy would also end up dying after they made contact with its venom.

Furthermore, due to Snake Frontier Playground, Wendy could expel its venom as stones through its eyes' ability to petrify.

This made it extremely easy for Wendy to poison targets. All it had to do was look at the target, and it would petrify in moments.

Nonetheless, with special care from Genius, White Pavilion had still managed to evolve from a Class 2 dimensional lifeform to Class 4 dimensional lifeform.

Rising Lizard was much too tall now and covered in deadly weapons. Thus, it could not use its neck to nuzzle and cuddle with Lin Yuan.

Lin Yuan was only around 65 kilograms. Even if Rising Lizard's neck only just nudged him, he would be sliced clean through

Wendy was taller than it used to be, but it still transformed into a small snake and climbed up Lin Yuan's sleeve like it used to do before it changed into human form in his arms. It hugged his neck and affectionately called him 'Dad'.

1957 Sun Ningxiang's Hope

Wendy had not seen Lin Yuan in some time.

When Lin Yuan was last in the marsh world, Wendy had been at the back of the mountain preparing the carnivorous plant-type feys it had promoted to become its Favored Believers. Thus, it had not been able to meet him.

As such, Wendy missed him terribly.

When Lin Yuan saw Wendy this time, he thought, Wendy finally isn't bald!

Previously, Wendy only had a few strands of hair, and its hairline had been shockingly high. Now, it had more than 50 strands of snake hair and was looking like a true medusa.

Since Wendy was the Snake Change Medusa, its scales' color changed according to its venom's strength.

The stronger its poison, the more vibrant the color of its scales would be.

Now, Wendy was beautiful enough to stand out amongst the Medusa Snake Demons.

Every time the three dimensional lifeforms that Lin Yuan had turned into Apostles saw him, they would start to report their achievements to him.

Previously, Rising Lizard had managed to distinguish itself in front of Lin Yuan.

White Pavilion's evolution was slow, and it could not say much in front of Lin Yuan.

This time, it was time for Wendy to shine.

"Dad, I have taken in another five believers and one more Favored Believer! The new Favored Believer is the Water Demon Support Willow! It now has another natural skill, Overload Fixing, on top of Excessive Splitting. It can quickly use up the energy of the bodies of water around it to fix itself."

Wendy knew that Lin Yuan looked highly on the Water Demon Support Willow.

Thus, although Wendy had carefully picked out all of its five new believers, it still chose to promote the Water Demon Support Willow to Favored Believer first.

Delight spread across Lin Yuan's face.

He always saw the Water Demon Support Willow as a miniature underwater kingdom.

Because of its natural skill, Excessive Splitting, it could grow endlessly as long as it had sufficient vitality and its roots were not damaged.

Hence, the Water Demon Support Willow would be able to expand Lin Yuan's territory even further.

After Wendy promoted the Water Demon Support Willow to Favored Believer, its new natural skill, Overload Fixing, did not have combat abilities but could ensure that Lin Yuan's underwater kingdom did not collapse.

The Water Demon Support Willow could only have been injured because a war had taken place in the marsh world.

Wars in the marsh were always accompanied by the mass deaths of the Marsh Crocodiles. As a result, the water would be filled with energy.

Thus, the endless amount of energy available would enable the Water Demon Support Willow to fix itself and did not require it to use the energy stored in its branches.

Wendy smiled sweetly when it saw Lin Yuan's smile.

Wendy loved Lin Yuan voraciously. When he was happy, Wendy was even happier than when it increased its power.

Other than the Water Demon Support Willow, Wendy had more good news for Lin Yuan.

"Dad, not only is the Water Demon Support Willow more useful than before, but the Marsh Ground Sphagna has also evolved significantly. It is already sleeping deeply. Once it awakes, it should have transformed into a Class 12 dimensional lifeform. At that time, it will be able to return large amounts of faith power to me."

Lin Yuan looked even more excited.

Previously, the Marsh Ground Sphagna had only been a Class 10 dimensional lifeform. But in the short span of a few months, it had managed to evolve to Class 11/pinnacle Kalpa VIII and had gained Immortal power.

This was strongly related to the emerald green ancient tree that was growing in the Spirit Lock spatial zone.

It seemed that the most useful function of the emerald green ancient tree was not its ability to speed up the growth of feys but its ability to speed up the growth of plant-type dimensional lifeforms.

This was because the Medusa Snake Demons did not evolve in any way despite working near the emerald green ancient tree.

From what Wendy said and based on Lin Yuan's own observations, Lin Yuan now had a better understanding of the effects of the emerald green ancient tree.

However, the area covered by the emerald green ancient tree was much too small, and it could not reach the Water Demon Support Willow.

Otherwise, the Water Demon Support Willow would also have been able to evolve rapidly.

Lin Yuan said to Wendy, "Wendy, if you can find more small plant-type dimensional lifeforms, plant them near Klein Hub. This way, they will be able to increase their power just as quickly as the Marsh Ground Sphagna."

Wendy let out a gasp of joy. If this was true, its believers and favored believers in the future would greatly increase in power. Then, even if it did not have enough believers and Favored Believers, it could still quickly strengthen its faith power.

There was even a possibility of it surpassing Rising Lizard soon.

Lin Yuan looked at the Marsh Ground Sphagna under his feet.

He wanted to know if the emerald green ancient tree could help the Marsh Ground Sphagna to evolve again. If this was possible, Lin Yuan wanted to see how far the Marsh Ground Sphagna, the lowest plant-type lifeform in the marsh world, could go. Alll 𝒍𝒂test nov𝒆l𝒔 on novelb𝒊n/.c𝒐m

If it could already evolve to such an extent in just 15 days, how much longer would it need before it could reach Class 12 and even Class 13?

There was a possibility that the Marsh Ground Sphagna would catch up and surpass White Speak to become Lin Yuan's strongest combatant.

While chatting with Wendy, Rising Lizard, and White Pavilion, Lin Yuan spotted Sun Ningxiang walking toward him from a distance and said to the three Apostles, "The three of you continue to increase your power. A while later, I will return to focus on developing the marsh world, and we'll be able to see each other every day. Then, I will take the three of you to visit the Palace of Everything in the Marsh East Palace."

After Rising Lizard, White Pavilion, and Wendy left, Sun Ningxiang walked over to Lin Yuan and smiled serenely at him.

She had made a series of decisions ever since she entered the marsh world.

Her grandmother had more than once advised her to increase her power or risk being left in the dust by Lin Yuan.

After she saw Lin Yuan represent the Radiance Federation to take on the Freedom Federation envoy group, Sun Ningxiang understood that she would not be able to cover the gap between her and Lin Yuan with hard work alone.

No matter how hard she worked, she would still be far from catching up to Lin Yuan.

Now that she knew this, she stopped trying to use her power to catch up to him. Instead, she focused on using her talents to flourish the territory and make herself indispensable to Lin Yuan.

But after developing in the marsh world for some time, she had even contracted the Vitality Sloth so she would not have to sleep as much each day.

After days of unending hard work, Sun Ningxiang was done settling in the 20,000 people who had left society to work in the territory.

Now, the marsh world was finally starting to emit brilliance.

After achieving this, Sun Ningxiang had fulfilled her hope.

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1958 Realize Marsh Soil Freedom!

In Lin Yuan's memory, Sun Ningxiang still dressed lavishly and had her hair up in a complicated hairstyle when the Sun family was at its lowest.

But now, she was wearing a simple short-sleeved long tunic with her hair tied in a basic ponytail that she swept behind her shoulders.

Although Lin Yuan did not enter the marsh world every day, he received daily updates from Genius and Wen Yu.

Thus, Lin Yuan was well aware of Sun Ningxiang's news.

He looked at Sun Ningxiang and said, "Ningxiang, it has been tough on you. If not for you, there was no way that the marsh world could have developed to such an extent."

Lin Yuan's words touched Sun Ningxiang, and she quickly waved her hands as she said with a smile, "I have the Vitality Sloth, so it hasn't been tough at all. The Spirit Craftsmen are the ones who have not had an easy time!

"Lin Yuan, you asked me to nurture some of the Storing Ability White Peaches and Deposit Ability Litchi Branches. They are in this Diamond fey storage box. There are a total of 500 of each of them. Both of their roots are growing extremely well. If they are put near other plants, they will start fighting. Only one of them can be grown every 200 meters. The plan that I drew up is divided into squares of 10,000 square meters. Only 500 of the Storing Ability White Peaches and Deposit Ability Litchi Branches can be planted in each square."

Sun Ningxiang did not understand why Lin Yuan wanted her to nurture the Storing Ability White Peaches and Deposit Ability Litchi Branches.

Both of them had been eliminated by the fruit world.

They could only produce spirit qi to be absorbed by spirit qi professionals when high-class Creation Masters specially nurtured them.

But even then, the Storing Ability White Peach and Deposit Ability Litchi Branch could not be compared to one of the Spirit-Siphon Goldfish.

They did not have the Spirit-Siphon Goldfish's quality of being sustainable, nor were they more valuable than the Spirit-Siphon Goldfish.

Even the members of large factions were unwilling to use them.

Long ago, Condense Fairy Orchard had cultivated a large quantity of the Storing Ability White Peach and Deposit Ability Litchi Branch. They had resulted in heavy losses for Condense Fairy Orchard.

Sun Ningxiang did not know what Lin Yuan's plan was, but the Storing Ability White Peaches and Deposit Ability Litchi Branches were extremely useful to him. He was going to use them to take over the marsh world.

The 500 Storing Ability White Peaches and Deposit Ability Litchi Branches that Sun Ningxiang had prepared were enough for him.

Lin Yuan received the Diamond fey storage box from Sun Ningxiang and said, "Later, I will ask Wen Yu to return the Diamond fey storage box to you so you can continue cultivating the Storing Ability White Peaches and Deposit Ability Litchi Branches. Their fruits are of great use to me."

Even without a pointed reminder, Sun Ningxiang would carry out all tasks from Lin Yuan with the utmost seriousness.

Since Lin Yuan had highlighted the Storing Ability White Peaches and Deposit Ability Litchi Branches and said they were very useful to him, Sun Ningxiang was not going to be careless about this task. Yôur f𝒂vorite stories on 𝒏/o/(v)𝒆/lb𝒊n.c𝒐m

"Don't worry. I will send more people to watch over them. Both of them absorb water and require a large amount of water. I will ensure they get enough water while providing every 200 of them with one piece of mid-grade marsh soil. Every 100 of them can enjoy a piece of high-grade marsh soil."

When Sun Ningxiang was in charge of Condense Fairy Orchard, she was very thrifty with its resources.

This was because Condense Fairy Orchard had been surrounded by enemies. She was being eyed by the Miao family and more enemy factions and had to deal exhaustively with all of them herself.

As such, she dared not waste resources.

All of Condense Fairy Orchard's low-class Creation Masters had jumped ship. Even if she had resources to spare, Sun Ningxiang would use them to hire more low-class Creation Masters.

Moreover, there were many more uses for marsh soil than strange flames.

Marsh dimensional rifts did not open in the Radiance Federation as abyss dimensional rifts did.

Thus, marsh soil was always three times the price of strange flames that were the same grade.

Hence, Condense Fairy Orchard could not afford to use them.

But ever since she came to the marsh world, she had attained marsh soil freedom.

Although White Pavilion was not strong and was still only a Class 4 Apostle, it already had control over many Class 8 Marsh Crocodiles.

The Class 8 Marsh Crocodiles were very intelligent. All of them were eager to earn White Pavilion's affection so they could be promoted to become White Pavilion's believers.

White Pavilion had sent out thousands of the loyal Marsh Crocodiles.

It had even organized a competition. After set periods of time, White Pavilion would act as a judge. The Marsh Crocodiles that found the most marsh soil during this period and the better the quality of the marsh soil found would be promoted to Favored Believer by White Pavilion.

White Pavilion's competition sent the Marsh Crocodiles into a frenzy.

Because of this reason, Lin Yuan had gained a large quantity of marsh soil.

The development in the marsh world was progressing according to plan.

After chatting for a while, Lin Yuan said, "Ningxiang, you have been remaining in the marsh world to develop my territory. I don't think you've had time to increase your power. Not long ago, Wen Yu mentioned to me that you have comprehended a new Willpower Rune. Let me take a look at it so I can prepare a Bronze/Legend fey for you to contract. If you ever have any needs, you can tell them to the black-robed person guarding this place, and he will provide you with all the resources you need.

"Both your main feys, the Nine Core Life Lotus and the Bone-Healing Pomegranate, are splendid healing-type feys. The younger generation of the Radiance Federation is most lacking in spirit qi professionals like you. This year, there are only five members of the Radiance Hundred Sequence who are healing-type spirit qi professionals.

"I am not a healing-type spirit qi professional in the traditional sense. Work hard, and you should be able to participate in the Radiance Hundred Sequence selection next year. The Radiance Envoy and Radiant Knight selection will take place after the Radiance Hundred Sequence two years later. As long as you make it to Sequence #30 and above, you will be able to fight for a chance to become a Radiance Knight."

Lin Yuan's words did not sit right with Sun Ningxiang at first.

She did not mind being busy in the marsh world.

Lin Yuan had been the one who had saved both Condense Fairy Orchard and her grandmother. Without him, Condense Fairy Orchard would have fallen into the hands of the Miao family, and her grandmother would be dead.

Moreover, she had led Condense Fairy Orchard in joining Sky City and was considered one of the members of Sky City's branches.

It was clear from the way Lin Yuan treated the Spirit Craftsmen and people who had left society that he was exceedingly kind to his subordinates.

1959 Dew-Returning Welcome Spring

Sun Ningxiang did not want Lin Yuan to see her the same way he saw the Spirit Craftsmen and people who left society, as someone he gifted with resources just because she had helped him.

This made her feel as though Lin Yuan was drawing a line between the two of them.

But the later part of what Lin Yuan said had all been in consideration for her.

He did not see her as an ordinary subordinate because he would not care so much about the future development of an ordinary subordinate.

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Sun Ningxiang would never be able to become a Radiance Knight by relying on her own abilities.

All the top factions were doing their best to nurture their descendants so they would have the best chance of becoming a Radiance Envoy. Even if they fell short, they had to become a member of the Radiance Hundred Sequence at the very least.

Sun Ningxiang was a healing-type spirit qi professional and had been in the pits. It could not compare with other top factions.

Thus, Sun Ningxiang never dared to hope that she would have the power to stand next to Lin Yuan.

But now, he was giving her this exact chance by willingly providing her with resources to improve herself. Yôur f𝒂vorite stories on 𝒏/o/(v)𝒆/lb𝒊n.c𝒐m

Sun Ningxiang looked deeply into Lin Yuan's eyes and smiled charmingly. She reached out her right hand and said, "Lin Yuan, let's make a pinky promise. I will definitely do my best to become a Radiance Knight! As for my third fey, I hope that it can be a healing-type plant-type fey with combat abilities."

When Lin Yuan heard what Sun Ningxiang said, he naturally stuck out the pinky of his right hand and hooked it around hers.

"I believe that you have the potential to do so. However, you are a pure healing-type spirit qi professional, and a healing-type fey with combat abilities isn't suitable for you. Feys with combat abilities aren't necessarily good.

"Even a pure support-type spirit qi professional like Gao Feng was picked by Cicada Song. A large reason for this was his Yellow Spring Lily's special abilities that can save a team. If you have a fey like that too, your position in a team will be completely different in a strategic sense.

"I'm sure you will understand this principle after mulling over it for a while. Let me take a look at your new Willpower Rune first. I will help you obtain the special healing-type plant-type fey."

Lin Yuan's words stunned Sun Ningxiang.

He had not only mapped out her future but was also laying down the path for her.

Sun Ningxiang had long developed an independent character.

But at this moment, she felt that having someone to rely on was comforting.

She activated her spiritual energy and summoned her Willpower Rune.

A Willpower Rune in the shape of a flower bud appeared in her palm. It was emanating the aura of germination. It was as though it was about to bloom and transform.

With one look, it was clear that the Willpower Rune was suitable for healing-type plant type feys.

While Lin Yuan was thinking about which flowering healing-type plant-type fey would be suitable for Sun Ningxiang's Willpower Rune, his eyes lit up, and he thought about the Dew-Returning Welcome Spring he had seen in the Yi family's treasure vault.

Lin Yuan had been tempted by the Dew-Returning Welcome Spring himself because he was also affiliated with plant-type feys and could contract it.

But after some thought, he felt that the Jasmine Lily was enough to meet its needs.

The first fey he had formed a contract with after patching up Morbius with the Endless Gem was the Jasmine Lily.

He preferred functional-type feys like the Merciful Star Peony over healing-type abilities.

Thus, he eventually gave up on the Dew-Returning Welcome Spring.

He had seen more than his fair share of rare feys and had personally nurtured thousands of Bronze/Epic feys and hundreds of Bronze/Legend feys.

It could be said that Lin Yuan had seen everything that could be valuable.

Even regular Class 5 Creation Masters might not be able to nurture as many high-quality Bronze feys as Lin Yuan.

From the way that it even made Lin Yuan hesitate and consider forming a contract with it, it was evident how impressive the Dew-Returning Welcome Spring was.

The Dew-Returning Welcome Spring in the Yi family's treasure vault was Bronze VII/Flawless.

Lin Yuan was not only interested in the Dew-Returning Welcome Spring's Elite ability but also its exclusive skill.

Its Elite ability, Returning Spring, could put feys in a fake state of slumber, during which all the cells in its body would be activated to swiftly heal its injuries.

This ability would be useless during a duel, but it had extremely high strategic significance in a survival fight.

It took a very small amount of spiritual power to use Returning Spring to heal feys.

Returning Spring could quickly heal heavily injured friendly feys.

As such, the situation would not arise where it could not finish healing its teammates before it ran out of spiritual power.

The biggest duty of the Radiance Knights was to participate in the Major Federation Meeting.

The Major Federation Meeting would not only involve Capture the General and the group battle but also a survival battle in a set environment.

The Dew-Returning Welcome Spring did not exist in the Radiance Federation and was a very rare plant-type fey from the Startling Lines Continent. This was why Yi Huailong had stored it inside the treasure vault.

Once Sun Ningxiang formed a contract with the Dew-Returning Welcome Spring, Returning Spring would be enough for her to catch the eye of the members of royalty.

The Dew-Returning Welcome Spring's exclusive skill was even stronger than Returning Spring.

Its exclusive skill Germination would allow feys that were being healed to activate their own potential to temporarily boost their body.

Feys came in all shapes and sizes, but they could be broadly classified into two categories. The first group fought using their bodies, while the other one fought using special abilities.

Feys that fought using their bodies made up 2/3 of all feys.

Thus, there were many applications for Germination.

Increasing the power of the bodies of feys that fought using their bodies would essentially be increasing their combat power.

It would also be very beneficial to feys that fought using abilities to increase the strength of their bodies. After all, they had to use their body for simple skills like dodging.

More importantly, the Dew-Returning Welcome Spring was perfect for Sun Ningxiang's flower bud-shaped Willpower Rune.

This would allow the Dew-Returning Welcome Spring to retain the original characteristics of its exclusive skill after it evolved to Fantasy Breed.

"Ningxiang, I happen to have a fey that is suitable for you to contract. Later, Wen Yu will deliver this fey to you alongside the Storing Ability White Peaches and Deposit Ability Litchi Branches."

1960 Warm Team!

Lin Yuan had informed Wen Yu before he entered the marsh world.

However, she was using the Wailing Snake to help build breeding bases for the plant-type feys for the people who had left society.

Hence, she had not come to see him immediately.

But now, she finally rushed over.

Lin Yuan stored her inside the Jewelled Cave Golden Toad and brought her out of the Spirit Lock spatial zone to return to the tree castle.

When he released her, Lin Yuan checked the time and said, "We don't have to rush into holding the Astronomical Parliament parliamentary meeting. You haven't seen Big Brother Liu in a long time. It just so happens to be time for a meal. The three of us can dine together, and you can update Big Brother Liu and me on recent happenings."

Wen Yu had not seen Liu Jie in a long time.

Although Lin Yuan did not usually stay in the marsh world for long, he visited frequently. As such, it was easy for Wen Yu to meet with him.

While Wen Yu was busy in the marsh world, she missed the times she spent with Lin Yuan and Liu Jie in the Return from Faraway Mansion.

She was overjoyed that the three of them were reunited.

After lunch, Wen Yu went off to prepare the ritual for the Astronomical Parliament parliamentary meeting.

Meanwhile, Lin Yuan went back into the Spirit Lock spatial zone to help Sun Ningxiang evolve the Dew-Returning Welcome Spring to Diamond X/Legend before he instructed the Sacred Sword Wielding Queen to release source-type power for the Storing Ability White Peaches and Deposit Ability Litchi Branches.

Every Storing Ability White Peach and Deposit Ability Litchi Branch happened to need exactly one unit of source-type power.

Lin Yuan did not take long to use up 1,000 units of source-type power.

It was difficult for dimensional lifeforms to gain access to pure source-type power, but it was as easy as a matter of absorbing 1,000 Law Source Crystals for the Sacred Sword Wielding Queen and Lin Yuan.

Lin Yuan already had over 100,000 Law Source Crystals in storage. Moreover, his collaborations with the major cities in the Radiance Federation provided him with enough Law Source Crystals to last a long time.

Once the 1,000 Storing Ability White Peaches and Deposit Ability Litchi Branches matured, the fruits they produced would be filled with pure source-type power.

Lin Yuan could imagine how fast the fruits would go when he sold them in the Marsh East Circle.

It was easy to use source-type power to guide the Storing Ability White Peaches and Deposit Ability Litchi Branches. Lin Yuan was done in less than 15 minutes.

At the same time that Lin Yuan stepped out of the Spirit Lock spatial zone, Wen Yu happened to be done with the ritual.

The meeting of constellations began once again.

Almost immediately after the Astronomical Parliament parliamentary meeting began, Yin Lin, Bei Xu, Wo Lun, and Bu Po appeared.

Although all of them could communicate with each other using the Thoughts Letter Paper, they still looked forward to the scheduled parliamentary meetings.

Although Su Yiren and Ta Lei were also in the Divine Wood Federation like Lin Yuan was, they still attended.

After Yin Lin, Bu Po, Bei Xu, and the rest were done greeting Lin Yuan and Wen Yu, they started to talk amongst themselves.

This had never happened in previous parliamentary meetings.

It was clear that the Thoughts Letter Paper had pulled the members of the Astronomical Parliament closer and allowed them to gain a better understanding of each other.

"Bei Xu, your situation is rather dangerous. Leo can evolve your feys, but you will have to raise your spirit qi professional rank on your own."

"Bu Po, how are things going with you? I heard that the Spirit Mother is very strict and that he's clearly male, but he is even more attractive than females! Is this true?"

"I've only met the Spirit Mother twice, but both times I was very far back in the hall and could not see his face behind his veil."

"Yin Lin, you said that my octopus might have awakened an unknown bloodline. Usually, deep-sea invertebrate lifeforms that have unlocked unknown bloodlines will grow to about 1,000 meters but rarely beyond 3,000 meters. However, the Blue Ring Sea Octopus' tentacles are already 4,500 meters long."

Lin Yuan and Wen Yu shared a look when they heard the words that were exchanged.

Both of them were happy with such an atmosphere amongst the members of the Astronomical Parliament.

Lin Yuan coughed and said to the group, "Including Libra and myself, there are eight members of the Astronomical Parliament. Today, another two members will join. I hope all of you will get along well with them!"

Lin Yuan's words immediately quieted the chatter coming from the north-south constellation seats.

Soon, Yin Lin said, "Don't worry, Leo. We will take good care of the new members."

Currently, Bei Xu, Ta Lei, and Wo Lun were dead weight to the Astronomical Parliament.

Su Yiren was fully reliant on Lin Yuan and did not have many capabilities on her own.

Although Bu Po had become the Spirit Mother's reserve disciple, the next Spirit Mother had not been decided yet, and the reserve disciples had no access to resources besides those needed to increase their power.

Moreover, they were constantly under watch by the Spirit Mother.

Hence, only Yin Lin could talk about taking care of new members.

Yin Lin was the Azure Envoy of the Azure Federation, which was one of the three major federations, and was also a direct descendant of one of the 12 aristocratic families. Thus, she indeed had the authority to say something like that.

Frankly, Yin Lin did the same for Bei Xu, Wo Lun, and the rest.

If any of them posed a question through the Thoughts Letter Paper, Yin Lin would immediately answer them if she saw it.

By instinct, the Astronomical Parliament members did not want more members because it would cause Lin Yuan's attention to be spread even thinner.

During the first Astronomical Parliament parliamentary meeting, Bei Xu and Yin Lin were the only members. Thus, they could take up the entire half an hour of the meeting.

But as the number of members increased and due to the set time of the Astronomical Parliament parliamentary meeting, all of them were given less and less time in the spotlight. Alll 𝒍𝒂test nov𝒆l𝒔 on novelb𝒊n/.c𝒐m

However, the members of the Astronomical Parliament could voluntarily contact Wen Yu and Lin Yuan and also had the Thoughts Letter Paper that they used to communicate with each other.

Hence, the members of the Astronomical Parliament truly saw each other as friends aside from the sense of duty they felt for Lin Yuan and Wen Yu.

As a result, the foundation of the Astronomical Parliament was altered to include unity.

Ergo, it was not just Yin Lin but all the members of the Astronomical Parliament who were enthusiastic about meeting the new members.

They were like a troop who looked forward to new comrades.

All of them were used to sharing their sentiments through the Thoughts Letter Paper.

Lin Yuan asked Wen Yu to use the constellations to search for people who met the requirement to join the Astronomical Parliament.

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Last time, Lin Yuan and Wen Yu took a very long time to choose new members for the Astronomical Parliament.

This was because the constellations gathered many people at once who were willing to use their everything to trade for their one wish, but very few of them were dependable.

1961 You Must Want to Take Back Your Position Badly!

When Lin Yuan searched for new members of the Astronomical Parliament, he was always strict about assessing their character. There was no way he was going to use resources to nurture a shell that only had power.

To many leaders of factions, power was everything.

It was a fact that Lin Yuan also placed importance on power, but power could be improved using Creation Master resources, which Lin Yuan had no lack of.

The wish made by the first person guided by the constellations was to trade everything he had in exchange for being beloved by all women.

Lin Yuan saw such wishes that casually stamped over life and dignity as ridiculous.

Usually, Wen Yu would seek Lin Yuan's opinion when she found someone somewhat acceptable. But after this person appeared, Wen Yu immediately kicked him out of the Astronomical Parliament and continued with the search.

A figure that had comprehended three Willpower Runes appeared in the Astronomical Parliament. He had to be talented to be able to comprehend three Willpower Runes.

This person's wish was understandable. He wanted to trade all he had in order to evolve his Fantasy Breed fey to Myth Breed.

However, Lin Yuan found this wish to be shameless.

He wanted to increase his power for the sake of an inheritance that was not rightfully his so he could snatch it out of the hands of a member of his family. More importantly, this family member always took good care of this man and had been the one who helped him to evolve his fey to Fantasy Breed.

Lin Yuan felt that such scum would be better off killed.

If not for the rule in the Astronomical Parliament that people who had been guided by the constellations but not yet formed contracts with the north-south constellation seats could not be killed, Lin Yuan would have eliminated this person.

Wen Yu had picked eight candidates, and each one of them was more ridiculous than the last one.

Although Wen Yu had picked them very quickly, it still took her almost ten minutes.

When the 11th candidate was guided to the Astronomical Parliament, Wen Yu and Lin Yuan inhaled sharply.

Both of them shared a look as they felt excitement explode within them.

Wen Yu frequently updated Lin Yuan about the situation in the marsh world, and he told her about the happenings in the Divine Wood Federation.

Wen Yu knew that Lin Yuan was about to be done with his business in Sacred Forest City and was going to move on to his plan for the Iron Hammer Federation.

At first, Lin Yuan wanted Ta Lei to reveal the news that there was a pinnacle Class 4 Creation Master in his territory so the people from the Iron Hammer Federation's imperial court would make contact with him.

But now, there was no need for Lin Yuan to do so.

At the same time, he now also knew why the Iron Wood Federation's imperial court had recalled their soldiers.

It turned out that the Iron Hammer Federation's previous king had died, and the new king had usurped his throne.

The Iron Hammer Federation's first princess and the first in line to the throne had been defeated. She was currently floating quickly down the Ice Wave River.

Lin Yuan knew so much because the person that Wen Yu had just guided into the Astronomical Parliament was the first princess of the Iron Wood Federation, Luo Lan.

At the instant that Luo Lan was called into the Astronomical Parliament, Wen Yu and Lin Yuan had access to her life experiences.

Luo Lan's life experience and knowledge allowed Lin Yuan to fully understand the internal situation in the Iron Hammer Federation and numerous secrets in the Startling Lines Continent.

Luo Lan was first in line to succeed to the throne of the Iron Wood Federation, yet she had succumbed without fighting back. This was likely because she was too naive and an idealist.

But if she could truly enter the imperial court, the entire Iron Hammer Federation would benefit.

While Lin Yuan was looking through the information collected by Su Yiren, he knew that the food supply in the Iron Wood Federation was extremely tight, especially during winter. Still, he had not anticipated the scarcity to be so severe.

Many people were going hungry in the Freezing Hammer Tribe, where the imperial court was situated.

If things continued as they were, war would break out between the Iron Hammer Federation and Divine Wood Federation over food security.

No one with a conscience would be able to watch as the Iron Hammer Federation devolved into starvation.

The Iron Hammer Federation's new king, Luo Cai, did not have addressing starvation at the top of his agenda.

Instead, he decided to put all the lives of low-class Creation Masters of tribes in danger by recalling soldiers so he could send them out to hunt down Luo Lan.

Solely from the fact that Luo Lan wanted to try and solve the hunger issue in the Iron Hammer Federation made her a better choice to be the ruler of the Iron Hammer Federation than Luo Cai.

Lin Yuan supported the Yi family of the Divine Wood Federation.

If he could save Luo Lan and help her regain control of the Iron Hammer Federation's imperial court, he could use her to take over the Iron Hammer Federation.

In other words, 2/3 of the Startling Lines Continent would be under his control.

At first, Luo Lan was certain that she was dead.

Yet, right before she lost consciousness, she found herself in a meeting surrounded by constellations.

There were 12 golden thrones at the anterior of the space, ten of which were empty, while two were occupied.

On top of the two people sitting on the thrones were beautiful stars shrouded by clouds. It was a magnificent sight!

There were six figures next to her who were seated spaced out amongst 76 seats.

Luo Lan looked at her position. It seemed as though she was one of them.

At that moment, Luo Lan heard a pleasant voice say, "You are the first princess of the Iron Hammer Federation, and your father was murdered. I'm sure you badly want to return to the imperial court to kill your enemy and take back your rightful position!"

No matter how calm Luo Lan was, she could not figure out what she was looking at.

The fey she had contracted was skilled at creating illusions, and she knew full well what an illusion was.

The sight in front of her was vast and was impossible to be the result of an illusion.

Thus, when she heard the voice, her entire body rattled as though she had just been struck by lightning.

The words were like a sword piercing Luo Lan and tearing open the wound that had not yet fully healed, painfully gouging out her flesh.

Her biggest dream was to return to the imperial court to kill Luo Cai with her own hands as revenge for her father. She also yearned to return to the imperial court to address the burden she had been carrying with her for the past 27 years.

Alas, thinking alone was useless.

The imperial court was now fully under Luo Cai's control, and those who had protected her were all dead. Even if she did manage to return to the imperial court, she would not be able to stand up against Luo Cai.

After the voice reignited Luo Lan's deepest hopes, rationality closed the jaws of disappointment down on her.

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Luo Lan looked in the direction of the voice and saw a figure wrapped in thousands of willpowers and laws. He seemed to be invincible.

This caused a thin rope of hope to dangle down to Luo Lan in her pits of despair.

1962 Double Win Luck

The ever-calm Luo Lan could not help but scream like a deer seconds away from being hunted, "I want to! I even dream of it!"

After letting out her true thoughts, Luo Lan immediately realized she had lost control of herself.

At that moment, the calm voice said again, "Of course you want to. Before you came here, you had already decided to give up everything in order to fulfill this wish! Now, you can make the choice. Are you going to continue floating down the Ice Wave River until you eventually become the next meal of some aquatic beast and allow it to be fed, unlike your subjects who are starving, or are you going to form a contract with the seat behind you to become a member of the Astronomical Parliament so I can help you return to the imperial court?"

Luo Lan had calmed down, and Lin Yuan's words put her in a contemplative state.

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A wish made in the midst of despair and another made in a calm state were completely different.

As the first princess of the Iron Hammer Federation, Luo Lan was well aware that once she gave up everything and accepted the deliverance of the figure before her, she would no longer be herself but a chess piece belonging to this figure. By extension, the Iron Hammer Federation would also become just another piece on the figure's chessboard that he would be able to control as he wished. Even if she did become queen of the Iron Hammer Federation, she would be helpless to defy him.

Her sense of responsibility overwhelmed her hatred and desire to survive.

She narrowed her eyes at Lin Yuan and said with a dry yet resolute voice, "I can become one of your chess pieces, free for you to place as you please, but I want you to promise me something. Once I return to the imperial court, you cannot interfere with my allocation of food and rations." Vissit novelbin.c.𝒐m for updates

Previously, Lin Yuan only saw as an idealistic princess on the lam.

What Luo Lan said caused Lin Yuan to look at her in a different light.

When she did not receive a response after a pregnant silence, Luo Lan sunk deeper into depression.

Just as she was about to hit rock bottom, the figure seated on the Leo throne finally said, "First, I want to remind you that you won't become one of my chess pieces by joining the Astronomical Parliament. Instead, you'll be my companion. Additionally, I will not only leave your allocation of food and rations alone, but I can also help you to eliminate the issue of hunger in the Iron Hammer Federation. Everyone's bellies will be full, even during winter."

In an instant, excitement and elation filled Luo Lan's eyes.

She seemed to fear that Lin Yuan would go back on his words and immediately used her soul to form a contract with the north-south constellation seat behind her.

Lin Yuan's promise to Luo Lan was not an empty one.

When he decided to take control of the Startling Lines Continent and turn it into the back garden of Sky City, he also made the decision to solve the Iron Hammer Federation's hunger issue.

It was easy to solve this issue, and there were many ways to go about it.

The first way, and the most convenient way given the circumstances, was to deepen his relationship with the middleman that was the Great Lush Federation and carry out more trades to speed up the circulation of resources.

However, the Truth Association that supported the Great Lush Federation wanted to stir up trouble for the Iron Hammer Federation. Thus, this first way was not feasible.

The second option was to get rid of the Great Lush Federation that was causing trouble in the middle stage and try to change the relationship between the Divine Wood Federation from one of enmity to an alliance.

There was always an oversupply of fruits in the Divine Wood Federation, resulting in some fruits rotting in the corner. There were also piles of rations that often had to be burned to clear them away. These could be used to fill the bellies of the people from the Divine Wood Federation.

Before the Divine Wood Federation and Iron Hammer Federation became allies, Lin Yuan could give some of Sky Creation's store of resources to the Iron Hammer Federation.

The marsh world had already become an incubator for Lin Yuan's combat resources.

With Sentient Being Protective Dragon and Place in the World, various edible harvests could be collected every month.

This, something that stumped the entire Iron Hammer Federation, would be easy for Lin Yuan.

Although the Iron Hammer Federation was in a desolate environment, it had a substantial store of resources.

There was likely a mineral mine every few kilometers in the Iron Hammer Federation.

Alas, it was difficult for the tribal residents of the Iron Hammer Federation to develop the mineral mines.

However, Lin Yuan had the Land Imps. The mineral mines that were difficult for regular people to develop would be extremely easy for Heavy Mountain. It was also very competent at harvesting.

Heavy Mountain's power would increase quickly as it developed mineral mines.

A large number of precious fire-type spiritual ingredients were always produced in areas of high temperature. The same went for places of low temperature, except ice-type spiritual ingredients were produced instead.

Ice-type spiritual ingredients were useless in the Iron Hammer Federation during winter. The Divine Wood Federation also did not have a great need for ice-type spiritual ingredients.

But the opposite went for the Radiance Federation.

The 36 major cities were currently building mirror cities in the Class 6 abyss dimensional rift. All of the spirit qi professionals and city guards had to endure unbearable temperatures of above 50 degrees.

The temperature in the abyssal world was much higher than that of the abyss dimensional rift.

In such an environment, low-rank spirit qi professionals needed the help of ice-type feys to lower the temperature even if they continuously replenished their fluids.

Transferring the unused water- and ice-type feys from the Iron Hammer Federation to the Radiance Federation's efforts in the abyssal world would be able to immediately solve the Radiance Federation's issue.

Both Luo Lan and the Iron Hammer Federation were lucky that she had been called into the Astronomical Parliament.

Lin Yuan and the Radiance Federation were also lucky.

When Luo Lan heard what Lin Yuan said, her soul started to quiver with excitement. She was so overwhelmed that she even temporarily lost the ability to speak.

Lin Yuan calling her a companion instead of a chess piece utterly warmed her heart.

When a person was in a state of utter despondency, it was almost impossible to be seen as a companion.

Luo Lan did not have to worry about being deceived by the figure in front of her because she had nothing to lose.

At that moment, Luo Lan stepped out from the mire of despair and found hope in this gathering of stars.

Regardless of what the ending turned out to be, the people in the Iron Hammer Federation would be saved from starvation during winter.

Once Luo Lan settled her buzzing soul, she fixed her eyes seriously in Lin Yuan and Wen Yu's direction as she bowed to them.

All the gratitude she felt was conveyed in the gaze of her silent bow.

After Wen Yu told Luo Lan to take her seat, she went on with selecting the 10th member of the Astronomical Parliament.

1963 Tide Rain Mantis

Luo Lan sat down on the Corona Borealis seat.

Su Yiren stood up and walked over to Luo Lan as she said, "I can understand how you're feeling. However, you must get your head straight and not let revenge cloud your mind. The Astronomical Parliament will be your home from now on. You can trust Leo with anything."

During Lin Yuan's conversation with Luo Lan, Su Yiren had guessed Luo Lan's identity.

After all, Su Yiren had been keeping tabs on the Iron Hammer Federation. Thus, it was not difficult to guess Luo Lan's identity.

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Su Yiren had said what she said to Luo Lan because she could understand how she felt.

When Seventh Page War conquered the Seven States of Darkness, she experienced the same feelings that Luo Lan was currently going through.

However, Luo Lan was much luckier compared to Su Yiren, who truly could not have been in a worse state before she entered the Astronomical Parliament and met Lin Yuan.

Su Yiren also comforted Luo Lan because she knew that Lin Yuan hoped that the members of the Astronomical Parliament could get along.

Luo Lan was currently in her weakest state, and Su Yiren's attitude gave Luo Lan a sense of intimacy.

Yin Lin looked at Luo Lan with surprise. Fôllôw 𝒏ew stories at n𝒐/v(e)

She had not expected the person with two Willpower Runes wrapped around her, who Lin Yuan had pulled into the Astronomical Parliament, to turn out to be the first princess of the Iron Hammer Federation. She was the rightful successor to the throne.

Overall, there was no denying that the nine members of the Astronomical Parliament were shining almost too blindingly.

As the Moon Empress' disciple, Lin Yuan was almost assured a spot as a Radiance Envoy.

Yin Lin came from the Azure Cloud Leopard aristocratic family and was one of the Azure Federation's Azure Envoys.

Bu Po was one of the Spirit Mother's reserve disciples and had a high chance of becoming the next Spirit Mother.

The Seven States of Darkness had already been destroyed, but Su Yiren was still a Dark Envoy, and no one besides her would be able to revive the Dark Continent.

Now, the first princess of the Iron Hammer Federation was joining the fray.

Amongst the nine of them, five of them held high positions in their respective federations.

Yin Lin could not imagine what kind of faction the Astronomical Parliament would become once all the north-south constellation seats were filled up.

Meanwhile, Wen Yu had already selected around seven candidates.

While they were sorting through the candidates, Lin Yuan and Wen Yu both had the same thought that it seemed as though only bad people made wishes. It seemed difficult to even find a regular person.

As they filtered the candidates, they experienced one after another reel of life experiences.

The instant that a figure wrapped in one Willpower Rune appeared in the constellations, sympathy immediately bubbled up within both Lin Yuan and Wen Yu.

This girl's life was much too hard! Yet, she was still adhering to the basic law of living, which was to survive! She saw surviving as her sole wish and motivation.

Before this figure could get a good look at the constellation-blanketed sky around her, she felt herself crumple.

Lin Yuan knew that this girl was about to die due to fever, dehydration, and over-exhaustion.

When they came across this girl, Wen Yu could not bear to kick her out of the Astronomical Parliament.

She turned to Lin Yuan, clearly to ask him if he wanted to save the girl.

Without any contemplation, Lin Yuan instructed Wen Yu to use the Astronomical Parliament's ability Star Spirit Seat and spent willpowers to send vitality from the Jasmine Lily into the young girl's body.

The instant the vitality was transferred, the young girl's body consisted of willpower and her soul solidified.

Frankly, from the moment that Lin Yuan saw the young girl's life experience, he decided that she would be the 10th member of the Astronomical Parliament.

The fundamental reason for the Astronomical Parliament's existence was not to search for people with high-ranking positions and impressive backgrounds. If that were the case, Bei Xu, Ta Lei, Wo Lun, and Bu Po would not be members.

When Yin Lin was rescued, her mind had been blank, and she knew very little about the real world.

Lin Yuan did not even know that Yin Lin came from the Azure Cloud Leopard aristocratic family.

Although by coincidence, all of the members of the Astronomical Parliament were people of means, Lin Yuan had not lost sight of the fundamental reason.

As he looked at the young girl with eyes full of wariness and amazement, Lin Yuan said, "I can turn you into a Rain Master so that you'll have an endless supply of water to drink. Are you willing to join the Astronomical Parliament?"

To people living in the Broiling Rock Continent, becoming a Rain Master and having an endless water supply were both lifelong dreams.

The young girl was about to agree when he hesitated, just as the words were at the tip of her tongue.

This was not because she wanted to request more but because she did not think she had it in her to become a Rain Master and gain an endless supply of water to drink.

Thus, the girl was in a dilemma. She could not decide if she should agree.

But eventually, her fundamental desire to survive overwhelmed her inferiority complex, and she raised her head to say to Lin Yuan, "I'm willing! Even if I don't get water to drink or become a Rain Master, I'm willing as long as I can continue surviving!"

A simple and cautious smile appeared on the young girl's face.

This smile caused Lin Yuan and Wen Yu's hearts to ache.

This girl's background was even more pathetic than Bei Xu's when he first joined the Astronomical Parliament. After all, Bei Xu used to have to spend his days digging in the mines, but he still had food to eat and water to drink. He did not have to put his life at risk for the sake of having a mouthful of water to drink.

When Lin Yuan used the Jasmine Lily to inject vitality into the young girl, he noticed that she was affiliated with insect-species combat-type feys. This was why she had been able to form a contract with the Finger Blade Insect.

If this young girl had managed to dig another few feet deeper to uncover the Duck-Mouthed Lungfish and found water to drink to survive, she would have realized that she could not form a contract with the Duck-Mouthed Lungfish.

That girl would have been in even greater despair because she would have drunk water and not made the wish to continue surviving that brought her into the Astronomical Parliament.

The young girl's dream was to become a Rain Master. In order to do so, the most basic requirement was for her to form a contract with a fey that could use a water source to create more water.

Very few insect-species combat-type feys could produce water, but such lifeforms did exist.

The Tide Rain Mantis was the best of such lifeforms.

When the Tide Rain Mantis' forelegs moved, they could produce water blades.

When spiritual power was used up, its body would be the center of a rain shower that would turn into a moving tide.

Besides Long Tao and Fang Duoduo, all the members of the Dragon Gate Guild Club's main team, including Zhao Xiaochun, had contracted the Tide Rain Mantises.

1964 So Your Name is Peace!

As long as the young girl could form a contract with the Tide Rain Mantis, she would immediately be able to become a real Rain Master.

With the Tide Rain Mantis, the young girl was sure to become indispensable when she entered the large cities,

Lin Yuan happened to have the Bronze/Legend Tide Rain Mantis.

Ever since Lin Yuan became a B-rank spirit qi professional and the Spirit Lock spatial zone evolved, it was even easier for Lin Yuan to evolve feys to Bronze/Legend.

Lin Yuan had stored the feys of better quality to Bronze/Legend and stored them until the right time for them to be used.

The young girl was a C-rank spirit qi professional.

Hence, Lin Yuan could not use spirit fluids to overly strengthen the Tide Rain Mantis after the young girl formed a contract with it.

After rolling grades, the young girl's Tide Rain Mantis could be Platinum/Fantasy.

Lin Yuan had not heard of the Broiling Rock Continent where the young girl lived. It was likely that it was an undeveloped region, just like the Grotto Continent was.

In the place where the young girl lived, the Duck-Mouthed Lungfish was a lethal monster. With the Platinum/Fantasy Tide Rain Mantis, there should be no risks to the young girl's life.

At the same time, Lin Yuan could evolve the young girl's two Finger Blade Insects to Platinum X/Legend.

Lin Yuan said to the young girl, "Form a contract with the Delphinus seat behind you. Then you'll be a member of the Astronomical Parliament. When you return to reality, I'll send you a few small gifts. If there's anything you don't know about, you can use your mind to communicate through this piece of golden paper, and I'll reply to you through the paper."

When Lin Yuan sent resources to Bei Xu, he had to use a large amount of law power to send several books to Bei Xu to teach him how to use the resources. FiNd 𝒖pd𝒂tes on n(𝒐)/v𝒆l𝒃𝒊n.c𝒐m

But now that they had the Thoughts Letter Paper, Lin Yuan no longer had to do something like that. All questions could be conveyed through the Thoughts Letter Paper.

With Wen Yu's guidance, the young girl managed to form a contract with the Delphinus seat and became a member of the Astronomical Parliament.

Small beads of sweat had broken out across Wen Yu's brow.

It was a strain on Wen Yu's spiritual energy to sort through around 30 potential members for the Astronomical Parliament.

When Lin Yuan realized that Wen Yu was almost out of spiritual energy, he, who was just done with using Star Spirit Seat to transfer resources and used the Jasmine Lily's Mountain Jade Imprint on Luo Lan and the young girl, asked her to end the Astronomical Parliament parliamentary meeting.

Wen Yu had many things she needed to do in the marsh world.

Hence, after the Astronomical Parliament parliamentary meeting ended, Wen Yu returned to the marsh world once she took a nap in the tree castle and replenished her spiritual energy.

Lin Yuan did not have many tasks on hand and used Thoughts Letter Paper to communicate with Luo Lan and the young girl.

He asked Luo Lan to head toward the border between the Spirit Mother Federation and Iron Hammer Federation. He also sent Han Tianhe, who was stationed in the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce in Oak City to greet her.

With Shadow guarding the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce, Lin Yuan did not have to worry about sending Han Tianhe away.

Since he had used the Jasmine Lily's Mountain Jade Imprint on two of them, the Jasmine Lily would use its own vitality to heal them when they were injured.

Thus, Luo Lan and the young girl would be able to recover quickly from any injury that was not life-threatening.

After communicating with Luo Lan, Lin Yuan moved on to talk to the young girl.

Lin Yuan realized that communicating with the young girl was as tough as teaching a small child. There were many things that were common knowledge that she was unaware of.

Luckily, Lin Yuan had sufficient patience, and the young girl was very intelligent.

With Lin Yuan's guidance, the young girl finally formed a contract with the Tide Rain Mantis and became a true Rain Master. She also used the spirit fluids Lin Yuan sent her to evolve the Tide Rain Mantis to Platinum X/Fantasy V. Additionally, the two Finger Blade Insects were also evolved using the spirit fluids.

When the Platinum X/Legend Finger Blade Insects were combined with the young girl, she would grow light green fingernails that were almost 30 centimeters long and could easily cut through Platinum metal spiritual ingredients.

The Finger Blade Insect was a special fey as all of its abilities and exclusive skills were geared toward making its contractor's fingernails sharper and stronger.

If not for the fact that Lin Yuan did not know where the Broiling Rock Continent was, he would want to obtain some of the Finger Blade Insects for Spirit Craftsmen who could contract insect-species feys so they could increase the speed of their work.

As she sensed her power transforming while bathing in the tide that the Tide Rain Mantis had created, the young girl now saw Lin Yuan as a god.

The young girl was silent for a moment before she asked Lin Yuan the most pressing question she had that she was also the most curious about, "Mr. Leo, do you think my parents abandoned me?"

Ever since the girl was born, she only had her parents by her side. It could be said that they were her everything.

So far, Lin Yuan had the answers to all the questions the young girl had asked.

But now, Lin Yuan was silent because he was unsure about how he should answer her question.

No matter what answer he gave, the young girl would be devastated.

Moreover, Lin Yuan did not know if the young girl's parents had not returned because they had abandoned the young girl or if they had lost their lives.

In order to leave the warmest impression on the young girl, Lin Yuan replied through the Thoughts Letter Paper, "Don't forget that your name is Peace. This name is proof of how much your parents love you."

When she saw Lin Yuan's response, the young girl smiled as large beads of tears rolled down her face. The tears became lost in the tide surrounding her and added a salty tang.

After crying for a short while, the young girl replied through the Thoughts Letter Paper, "Thank you, Mr. Leo!"

With Lin Yuan's reply, Peace laid this burden down.

Peace did not continue searching for shelter rocks and headed for the larger cities.

Now, a new chapter of her life was beginning to unfold.

Yesterday, the residents of Sacred Forest City were complaining about the heat. But by this afternoon, the temperature had dropped in Sacred Forest City.

Inside the Su family's secret room, Su Han hid his worries away as he was faced with his two stern-faced older brothers and their great-grandparents.

Ever since Sky Creation's Class 5 Creation Master arrived at the Su family, Sky Creation had not finished their orders from yesterday. In fact, the doors had not even reopened yet.

All they did was station the helpers the Su family had sent them at the entrance to explain the situation.

But did this really mean that their family had what it took to lay hands on a Class 5 Creation Master?

1965 The Su Family Prepares to Make a Move

At that moment, Su Han's great-grandfather said, "Little Han, lead the way. Sky Creation's Class 5 Creation Master has been in the Su family for so long. It's time for me to take a look at her!"

When Su Han heard that his great-grandfather wanted to meet with Sky Creation's Class 5 Creation Master, the image of Lin Yuan's face appeared in his mind.

This Class 5 Creation Master had nurtured a young man until he was that impressive. The Class 5 Creation Master had to be exceptional.

A Class 5 Creation Master had to be protective over their own power.

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This Class 5 Creation Master had been ostentatious from the moment she arrived at Sacred Forest City.

By being willing to come to the Su family, it meant that she was not afraid of the Su family.

Su Han was becoming increasingly perturbed as he looked at his two older brothers.

What he saw planted the seed of despair in his heart.

Both his older brothers had hope and longing written on their faces. It seemed that they assumed that once they took control of Sky Creation's Class 5 Creation Master, she would help them break through past pinnacle Class 4 Creation Master.

Su Han felt that his older brothers should understand better than their great-grandparents about the might of Class 5 Creation Masters.

Their great-grandparents were the stabilizers of the Su family. They had already become top experts in the Divine Wood Federation a century ago. It was normal that they had lost a sense of fear.

But Su Han's older brothers should still have a reasonable amount of fear toward Class 5 Creation Masters.

If anything went wrong, regardless of whether they could mend their relationship with Sky Creation, there was a chance that the Su family would not survive.

His older brothers had nurtured the Peaceful Calm Air Moss for a year but had still failed to produce three colors, yet the Class 5 Creation Master had achieved it as a demonstrative act. That was enough proof of her power.

If she could accept the Su family's order and arm the Su family's experts, why could she not arm herself as well?

Su Han was not a Creation Master and was far from being as useful to his family as his two older brothers were.

However, he knew that their great-grandparents preferred him.

While he was leading the way, Su Han gnashed his teeth and halted his steps. He turned around to face the two liver-spot-covered great-grandparents, knelt on the ground, and said sincerely, "Great-Grandfather, Great-Grandmother, many of the helpers I sent to Sky Creation are spies. It's not too late to wait to hear back from them before we act!"

Su Zhenmu looked at Su Han's sincere expression before he walked up to him and pulled him up to his feet. After a moment of silence, he said, "Little Han, regardless of how many spies you've sent to Sky Creation, you'll only be able to recall two of them at most. Otherwise, you might set off alarm bells. Sky Creation's Class 5 Creation Master might catch wind of what you've done and make advance preparations."

Su Zhenmu wanted to verify Sky Creation's Class 5 Creation Master after meeting her. Then, he would use force to take control of her.

They were in the Su family's residence. If they truly started crossing swords, not only would the residence be unable to take the impact, but even the entire Sacred Wood City would be destroyed.

Su Zhenmu had not decided to attack Sky Creation's Class 5 Creation Master because he lacked fear like what Su Han thought. In fact, he was also nervous as he pondered the consequences of his decision.

But after they obtained so much of the Peaceful Calm Air Moss, the Su family had to make their move.

Su Zhenmu was not fully confident in this operation.

Although the Yang family was already showing cracks, there was no question that those two from the Yang family were still alive.

The Su family needed a powerful helping hand. Sky Creation's Class 5 Creation Master was exactly what they needed.

After receiving the news from Su Han, Su Zhenmu personally observed Sky Creation's tree bracelet. He realized that Sky Creation also did not turn down offers from other families besides the Su family. They were like a philander who did not turn away any and all beautiful women.

The Su family had no choice but to choose Sky Creation, but this was not the case for Sky Creation. They had many options aside from the Su family.

Su Zhenmu only decided to take control of Sky Creation's Class 5 Creation Master because of this circumstance.

When he made contact with the Immortal aura from the breeding room, Su Zhenmu became even more certain of his decision. Fôllôw 𝒏ew stories at n𝒐/v(e)

Experts whose feys had gained Immortal power possessed abilities that thearch-class experts did not have. They could sense a fey's aura to discern if the fey's willpowers, laws, world, and even Immortal body had come from nature or were provided by a spirit qi professional.

It was clear that Sky Creation's Class 5 Creation Master had released her fey's aura intentionally.

Su Zhenhan did not turn down Su Han's idea of reconfirming the situation in Sky Creation's tree castle because he also wanted to bolster his confidence before they moved forward with the operation.

But even if Su Zhenmu was willing to wait, Su Jian was not willing to do so.

Su Jian had always been impulsive.

Two days ago, from the moment that their great-grandparents decided to attack Sky Creation, he had been looking forward to this day.

For the past two days, there were many times that Su Jian wanted to visit Sky Creation's Class 5 Creation Master, but he only had the chance to enter once.

After entering, Su Jian prepared a generous gift in the hopes of becoming closer to her.

However, she completely ignored him and even chased him out.

In the Radiance Federation, pinnacle Class 4 Creation Masters were always honored when they had the opportunity to meet Class 5 Creation Masters.

But in the Divine Wood Federation, pinnacle Class 4 Creation Masters were already the peak of power.

Su Jian came from the Su family and had never been slighted before.

Hence, Su Jian not only desired the Class 5 Creation Master but was also jealous and resentful toward her.

Sky Creation's Class 5 Creation Master had not uttered a single word, but given her figure, it was likely that she was female.

If their great-grandparents could truly take control of the Class 5 Creation Master, he might have the chance to…

After all, his older brother was already married and was terrified of his wife.

Thus, Su Jian said, "Little Han, you're being overly careful. The Su family will gain three more positions in the council. Two more people can enter the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm. We have always had the majority in the council and have even more feys with the Sacred Wood bloodline than the Yang family. We now have enough of the Peaceful Calm Air Moss and have decided to commence our plan after the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm closes. It will be very helpful to our plan if we manage to take control of Sky Creation's Class 5 Creation Master before that."

1966 Dream a Little Longer!

Su Han knew what kind of character Su Jian had and thus did not say much.

After all, their great-grandfather had already agreed.

But Su Han felt that given the demeanors of his two older brothers and their great-grandparents, the plan was not going to change regardless of what the spies he sent to Sky Creation said.

Compared to bringing the plan that the Su family had been preparing for a long time to fruition, it was much riskier to try to take control of Sky Creation's Class 5 Creation Master.

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Soon, two of the spies that Su Han had placed in Sky Creation returned.

Su Han had never communicated with his spies before. Just as he was about to ask a question, Su Zhenmu beat him to the punch and said, "You've spent some time in Sky Creation's tree castle. Have you noticed anything?"

The two spies shared a look before they answered honestly.

"There aren't many people in Sky Creation's tree castle. The first day, I climbed up to the 19th floor, and it was empty. But on the second day, a young man wearing silver armor told us to only work on the first floor. He sent out two strange-looking insects that have been guarding the entrance to the second floor since then. These two insects have to be Diamond, at least. We can't go up even if we want to."

Su Zhenmu relaxed when he heard this. He pondered for a moment before he asked, "This morning, Sky Creation's tree castle did not open its doors. One of you was stationed by the door to greet guests. What did the people in the tree castle tell you to say?"

The taller attendant hurriedly said, "The young man in silver armor told me to tell the other factions that they aren't done with nurturing the feys from the orders they have on hand. The members of factions should go tomorrow to collect their orders and to bring payment with them."

After hearing what the two spies said, Su Han knew that his great-grandparents and two older brothers would take action today, no matter what.

This matter concerned the life and death of the Su family.

Even if Su Han did not want to participate, he could not exclude himself and had to follow his two older brothers.

They walked to the breeding room that the Su family had intentionally cleaned up to welcome Sky Creation's Class 5 Creation Master.

Usually, when someone from the Su family wanted to enter, they would have knocked and waited for the person inside to tell them to enter.

But this time, the Su family directly pushed open the door of the breeding room.

At first, the Su family assumed that Sky Creation's Class 5 Creation Master would be concocting spirit fluids or nurturing feys during her stay with the Su family.

But, it turned out that the black-robed figure in the breeding room was sitting on the sofa in the breeding room.

Her black robe covered her entire body, and the sight could only be described as creepy. When Su Han saw this, all the hair on his body stood on end.

At that moment, Su Han got the feeling that Sky Creation's Class 5 Creation Master had no life in her.

Now, Sky Creation's Class 5 Creation Master stood up, and a hoarse and malevolent voice said from within the black robe, "What? Does the Su family lack the most basic courtesy of knocking?"

Su Han, Su Jun, and Su Jian had visited the breeding room numerous times, but this was the first time they were hearing the Class 5 Creation Master's voice.

It was hard to imagine such a voice coming from a human's voice.

At first, Su Jian had inappropriate thoughts toward Di Wanmi.

But now, all of those thoughts were destroyed when he heard this voice.

Su Zhenmu walked over to Di Wanmi and released his aura, using it to cage Di Wanmi in.

Meanwhile, Lin Yuan and Red Thorn were in the Spirit Lock spatial zone and were watching the situation in the breeding room through Red Thorn.

Lin Yuan had not expected his guess to be right.

The Su family had indeed been lured in by the aura that Di Wanmi had released and decided to attack her.

At that moment, Di Wanmi and the Mother of Bloodbath that was hiding in her hair could have easily broken the cage.

Since the Su family wanted to live in a dream, Lin Yuan did not mind letting them dream for a little longer.

Lin Yuan said, "Red Thorn, let the Su family take control of Di Wanmi and see what their aim is."

Although Red Thorn felt that it would be more fun to order Di Wanmi to begin slaughtering, it would not go against Lin Yuan's order.

Alas, Red Thorn was not skilled at acting.

Red Thorn's world solely consisted of Lin Yuan. All of its feelings toward Lin Yuan leaked out without its control.

As a fairy source-type lifeform that had transformed from a plant, Red Thorn had no idea what it should order Di Wanmi to do.

As such, it instructed Di Wanmi to remain rooted to the ground so the Su family could do whatever they wanted.

Su Jun took a step forward and said, "I'm sure you went through hell to become a Class 5 Creation Master. Join the Su family and work for us. Once we reign over the Divine Wood Federation's imperial court, you can be the National Master of the Divine Wood Federation. At that time, you will live a life wanting nothing. Your only choice is to join the Su family. Given your experience, there are many things you can tell without me bringing them up."

When Su Zhenmu sensed that the Class 5 Creation Master had not resisted at all after being trapped by his aura, he instinctively assumed that her fey had only just reached Immortal.

Su Zhenmu took a step forward and said in a less than respectful tone, "If you swear your loyalty to me now and provide the Su family with Class 5 Creation Master resources, I can provide you with all the resources in the world. Otherwise, I will imprison you until you consent!" 𝒩eew updates 𝒂t n𝒐vel/bi𝒏.com

Red Thorn's expression had been one of thoughtfulness as it wondered when the right time would be for it to order Di Wanmi to react.

Lin Yuan had already told Red Thorn what Di Wanmi was going to do.

"There's no way I will become loyal to you. You are stronger than me, and I can't run now that I've fallen into your hands. I can work for you and provide you with Class 5 Creation Master resources. But you have to open the Su family's treasure vault to me to allow me to use whatever resources I want. In return, I can help you to raise your power to pinnacle Immortal or even Eternal."

Su Zhenmu's face lit up, but the elderly woman next to him seemed to think of something and frowned.

1967 Adjudication Dung Beetle

"What!? A Class 5 Creation Master can help an Immortal expert reach Eternal? Then why is your power barely at Immortal? If we open the Su family's treasure vault to you, you could use the resources to increase your own power."

Lin Yuan had expected there to be a clear-minded person in the Su family. Not all of them would allow their minds to cloud over at the thought of having control over a Class 5 Creation Master.

Lin Yuan had sent Di Wanmi to the Su family to trade for the resources in the Su family's treasure vault.

But since the Su family was baring its teeth, he was not going to hold back either.

Once Di Wanmi entered the Su family's treasure vault, all of the resources inside would belong to Lin Yuan.

It was likely that the resources in the Su family's treasure vault were comparable to or even better than those found in the Yi family's treasure vault. After all, the Su family had Immortal experts, but the Yi family did not.

Just as the old woman spoke, the breeding room's air thickened.

All the joy was wiped off of Su Zhenmu, Su Jian, and Su Jun's faces. They started looking at Di Wanmi doubtfully.

At that moment, they watched as Di Wanmi's hand pulled at the black robe.

She was clearly dressed elaborately under the black robe, but the girl's scar-covered body was a bizarre sight to the Su family.

The scars seemed to be alive as they moved continuously.

Normally, something moving in a person's body would cause them agonizing pain. Even their souls would feel as though they were being torn apart.

But this girl's face was expressionless. It was as though the scars were not moving in her body.

When one looked past the scars, one could tell that the girl was beautiful. She had almond-shaped eyes that emanated a sense of authority.

However, even the best of features were overshadowed by the scars.

Su Jian was so terrified by the sight under Di Wanmi's robe that he almost lost interest in all women.

While the Su family was confused about why Di Wanmi had removed her black robe, Di Wanmi said, "I am heavily injured, and my spiritual power is in a murky state. I only have Class 5 Creation Master abilities but not the power. What if you let me live here, and I'll provide you with Class 5 Creation Master resources? But first, you have to make me comfortable. Otherwise, you'll receive nothing from me."

Red Thorn instructed Di Wanmi to sit down on the sofa in the breeding room and put on an air of nonchalance.

Di Wanmi was a corpse to begin with and had been revived by being turned into a puppet by the Tongue of Relinquish.

The scars on her body were caused by the Tongue of Relinquish breaking up into pieces and dispersing.

Her spiritual power and movements were fully under the Tongue of Relinquish's control.

When the Tongue of Relinquish stopped supplying spiritual power to Di Wanmi's body, she would not have any spiritual power to use.

Lin Yuan instructed Di Wanmi to act weak in front of the Su family to lull the Su family into a false sense of security.

She was nothing more than a puppet controlled by the Tongue of Relinquish and was unable to swear on a Law Rune.

But even if she could, there was no reason for her to do so because there was no way the Su family would be able to kill her. The most they would do was keep her imprisoned.

This was because the Su family could not withstand the temptation of having control over a Class 5 Creation Master.

But if they kept her prisoner, the Su family would only let her live under them without receiving any benefits.

Thus, Lin Yuan guessed that after the Su family investigated Di Wanmi and confirmed that she indeed lacked spiritual power, they would agree to her request. They would allow her access to their treasure vault so she could provide them with Class 5 Creation Master resources.

Just as Lin Yuan anticipated, Su Zhenmu strode quickly to Di Wanmi and picked up her scar-covered wrist as he injected spiritual power into her body. Fôllôw 𝒏ew stories at n𝒐/v(e)

Su Zhenmu immediately noticed that Di Wanmi's body was greatly lacking in spiritual power.

Given her situation, even if she did summon her feys, she would not be able to use them to her advantage. In her state, she was of no threat to the Su family.

After confirming the situation, Su Zhenmu relaxed, and an uncontrollable smile spread across his face.

With a wave of his hand, a short and strange man with six strands of hair growing on his face appeared in front of him. The man's hair stuck upward and was as straight as a needle.

The breeding room was instantly filled with a muddy odor.

Su Zhenmu ordered, "Adjudication Dung Beetle, keep this Class 5 Creation Master company in my stead. From now on, she is our valued guest!"

Although Su Zhenmu called Di Wanmi a valued guest, it was clear that he intended for the Adjudication Dung Beetle to keep a close watch on her.

With the Adjudication Dung Beetle watching Di Wanmi, Su Zhenmu did not have to worry about Di Wanmi having free access to the Su family's treasure vault.

Di Wanmi's life was in the Adjudication Dung Beetle's hands, and she would not dare to do anything to hurt the Su family.

Accompanying Su Zhenmu's happiness were the smiles that bloomed across the faces of the elderly woman, Su Jian, and Su Jun.

The Su family sure was lucky! They had managed to gain control over a Class 5 Creation Master! From today onward, they would be a family that possessed a Class 5 Creation Master!

There were no families with Class 5 Creation Masters in the Divine Wood Federation or even the entire Startling Lines Continent.

More importantly, Di Wanmi's words had informed Su Zhenmu and the rest of the extent of a Class 5 Creation Master's power. It turned out that a Class 5 Creation Master could evolve a fey to Eternal Breed.

If Su Zhenmu forced out profits from this Class 5 Creation Master by promising her more benefits, the Su family could have an Eternal expert in the future.

Moreover, with the Class 5 Creation Master around, there was also a chance that Su Jun and Su Jian could become Class 5 Creation Masters after interacting with her.

At that time, the Su family would have their own Class 5 Creation Masters.

With such a rate of development, the Su family would be able to take over the Startling Lines Continent once they gained control of the Divine Wood Federation's imperial court.

At that time, the Divine Wood Federation would be equal to the three major federations, and anyone who mentioned the Divine Wood Federation would address them as part of the four major federations!

As long as Di Wanmi provided the Su family with Class 5 Creation Master resources, the Su family could provide her with anything and everything she needed.

However, the precondition was that Di Wanmi's injuries could not be allowed to heal because this would keep her reliant on the Su family.

Everyone in the Su family was dreaming, but Su Han still felt unsettled.

1968 Paint a Rosy Picture for You!

On the one hand, Di Wanmi was too calm. She did not appear like a prisoner at all.

On the other hand, Su Han recalled the way Lin Yuan treated Di Wanmi.

When Lin Yuan told Di Wanmi to go to the Su family, it had been an order. It was as though he had the authority to make decisions for her.

If a Class 5 Creation Master was in charge of the faction, she should be on top of the pyramid, and Lin Yuan would not have taken such an attitude with her.

But if he said something like that now, his great-grandparents and older brothers would not believe him and be disappointed in him.

Hence, Su Han did not say anything.

His older brothers and great-grandparents were no longer lying below the radar.

The yoke of authority had shifted out of Su Han's hands. From now on, he could no longer make decisions pertaining to the Su family.

Presently, Su Han badly wanted to take a walk in Sky Creation's tree castle to see what Lin Yuan's reaction was. This was the only way he would be able to lay his worries to rest.

Just as Su Han was about to speak, a strangely dry and hoarse voice said, "Take me to the Su family's treasure vault now. I don't want to see you. From now on, only one person from the Su family is allowed to interact with me. Additionally, you cannot cause trouble for anyone else in Sky Creation's tree castle. Otherwise, I won't provide the Su family with any Class 5 Creation Master resources." 𝒩eew updates 𝒂t n𝒐vel/bi𝒏.com

Di Wanmi stood up and ignored the rest of the Su family as she said to the Adjudication Dung Beetle, "Lead the way. If you can keep me in a good mood, I can raise you to Immortal within two months."

Lin Yuan did not want to cause trouble before the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm opened. This was why he asked Red Thorn to use Di Wanmi to paint a rosy picture for the Su family.

It was likely that the Su family would be making their move within a week. Once they did, they would cause a storm to break out in Sacred Forest City.

This would be about the same time that Lin Yuan exited the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm. At that time, there would be no need for the Su family to exist.

Even if Lin Yuan used all the power in his body, he would not be able to evolve from an Immortal expert to an Eternal one. It would even be difficult for him to raise an Immortal expert's quality.

This was because once the Sacred Sword Wielding Queen evolved to 4 Stars, it gained the ability to temper Immortal bodies, but each one took two months.

It was not even done tempering Shark Awn's Immortal body.

The Sacred Sword Wielding Queen could temper Immortal bodies because of its new ability, Queen's Cupboard.

Lin Yuan had a feeling that once the Sacred Sword Wielding Queen was done tempering the first Immortal body, the Sword of Punishment's second abilities would bring him a surprise.

Di Wanmi's words not only filled Su Zhenmu with visible excitement, but the Adjudication Dung Beetle also felt the same.

The stronger a fey was, the more difficult it was for it to suppress its desire to transform.

The Adjudication Dung Beetle never thought that it would ever have the chance to evolve to Eternal.

But now that it had encountered a Class 5 Creation Master who was making such a promise, the Adjudication Dung Beetle was going to do its best to serve Di Wanmi.

The Adjudication Dung Beetle was well aware of the resources in the Su family's treasure vault because Su Zhenmu had been personally overseeing it.

The Adjudication Dung Beetle had decided that it was going to do all it could to fulfill Di Wanmi's requests.

Di Wanmi's words prevented Su Han from visiting Sky Creation's tree castle.

However, he had an appointment with Lin Yuan to attend the Crown Wood Banquet. They had already agreed to attend together.

This would not be counted as causing trouble for the people in Sky Creation's tree castle.

Thus, the best plan would be to try to get Lin Yuan to talk during the Crown Wood Banquet so he could find out if anything special had happened to Lin Yuan after Sky Creation's Class 5 Creation Master went missing.

However, he still needed to run this by his great-grandparents and two older brothers.

"I've already invited Sky Creation's Young Master Chu to attend the Crown Wood Banquet, and he accepted my invitation. We agreed to meet tomorrow. Great-Grandfather, does this coincide with our original plan?"

Su Zhenmu was silent for a moment before he replied, "Since both of you have agreed on it in advance, everything will carry on as planned! Don't leak the news that Su Jun, Su Jian, and the two of us are active again. If the Yang family finds out, it might affect the plan. The two helpers are still waiting outside. Han, go and deal with them! More people just means more flapping lips. We need to keep things clean and neat."

Su Zhenmu and the elderly woman left the breeding room.

In order to maintain the facade that they were still in seclusion, Su Jian and Su Jun returned to the Su family's mountain villa.

Currently, only Su Han was in the Su family's residence.

But two days ago, Su Han's attitude had completely changed.

He was not even in the mood to drink the tea brewed from the Purple Vessel Mountain's roots that the female attendant had served up.

Ever since Su Wenliang helped to make contact with Sky Creation, Su Han started to rely heavily on Su Wenliang.

Su Wenliang was unaware that the Su family's elders and first two masters had returned.

But when he saw Su Han the next day, Su Wenliang sensed something was different.

Previously, Su Han had been cavalier and nonchalant about everything. But now, he appeared to be heavily weighed down by something.

Su Wenliang dared not try to guess what Su Han was thinking in case he guessed wrong.

Thus, Su Wenliang could just stand next to Su Han, too afraid to say anything.

But now, Su Han asked Su Wenliang, "Wenliang, what do you think of Sky Creation's Young Master Chu?"

Su Wenliang did not understand why Su Han was asking him such a question. Could Su Han being troubled have something to do with Young Master Chu?

Su Wenliang had interacted more times with Young Master Chu than Su Han had.

Since he could not guess what Su Han was thinking, he said with brave honesty, "Young Master Chu is extremely impressive. He is far from average. Even the Yang family will struggle to match up to him in terms of dignity."

Su Han was silent for a long while before he went on to ask, "Wenliang, do you think someone who managed to nurture such a young talent will allow themselves to be trapped and willingly become a tool?"

Su Han's words stunned Su Wenliang, and he replied instinctively, "Of course not! Someone who can nurture such a young talent has to be proud. If they are taken prisoner and used as a tool, they will fight to the death to resist, even if they know they won't be able to win! There's no way they would easily give in and become a chess piece!"

1969 The Price Will be Paid Later!

Su Han shot to his feet and said, "Wenliang, take a trip to Sky Creation's tree castle and tell Young Master Chu that I will personally fetch him from his tree castle to take him to the Crown Wood Banquet at 4 o'clock. Tell him that he has to come with me!"

Su Wenliang replied to the order, "Third Master, I will go to Sky Creation's tree castle now. However, inviting Young Master Chu to attend the Crown Wood Banquet will definitely attract attention from all other factions in Sacred Wood City. If you personally ride in a fey carriage to fetch Young Master Chu and his retainer, it is very likely that it will catch the notice of the Yang, Bai, and Yi families."

Su Han shook his head.

The Yang and Bai families had already noticed the Su family.

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The Su family could make preparations, and so could the Yang family.

As for the Yi family, Yi Huailong as a man of means. In spite of Yi Huailu's disability, he managed to hold down the Yi family's fort.

As long as Yi Huailong did not reach Immortal, he could not straighten his back to stand in front of the Su family.

"We don't have to care about the Yang and Bai families' reactions. Just pass the message. Remember, when you go over, check and see if Sky Creation's tree castle is operating as normal and how the others in the tree castle are reacting."

Su Wenliang was going to treat a task from Su Han with utmost seriousness.

However, Su Wenliang was confused about what Su Han's goal was. According to the plan, the Su family should be clinging tightly to Sky Creation.

So why did it seem like Su Han's order was meant to put up walls against Young Master Chu and to test him?

Su Wenliang did not dare to probe and immediately left to carry out Su Han's order.

At first, Lin Yuan intended to open doors for business this morning.

But the Su family had made their move.

Di Wanmi was currently in the Su family's treasure vault and was being led around by the Adjudication Dung Beetle as she admired the contents.

Thus, to accommodate the Su family, Lin Yuan would keep the tree castle doors closed until the Su family made their move.

From the Su family's breeding room and everything that the Su family did to Di Wanmi, Lin Yuan deeply understood the importance of having experience.

If the Su family truly understood Class 5 Creation Masters and placed them on an absolute pedestal, they would not dare to hold Di Wanmi hostage.

One had to pay the price for one's greed. The Su family would pay the price later!

When Su Wenliang came to visit, Lin Yuan immediately instructed two helpers to stop him at the entrance and tell him that no visitors were allowed.

His attitude would definitely cause a scheming person like Su Han to have even more doubts.

The less confident Su Han was, the more he would rush the Su family's plan. 𝒩eew updates 𝒂t n𝒐vel/bi𝒏.com

Meanwhile, Lin Yuan would continue with his original plan of attending the Crown Wood Banquet and using the mountain of Great Lush dollars he traded to buy up precious resources.

The Sacred Wood Mystic Realm would be opening tomorrow.

The more brilliantly Lin Yuan shone tonight, the more attention from other factions he would attract in Sacred Forest City and the safer he would be when he walked alongside Ding Chengshuo tomorrow with the Faceless Paper on his face.

Because of this, no one would link Young Master Chu to him when he was wearing the Faceless Paper.

Ding Chengshuo had used his own power to evolve the Dragon Horns Mysterious Turtle to pinnacle Myth III and became president of Sacred Wood City's council.

Frankly, Lin Yuan could evolve the Dragon Horns Mysterious Turtle to Creation Breed and Ding Chengshuo to a thearch-class expert. But he did not do so because he was afraid that it would attract too much attention if Ding Chengshuo's power increased too quickly.

A storm was brewing in Sacred Forest City.

Ding Chengshuo used to be the City Lord of a remote city.

Once he entered Sacred Forest City, many veteran elite families did not think it was worth it to connect with him.

They knew that he was a Class 4 Creation Master, but most City Lords of large cities had the support of a powerful family. If their family was in trouble, they would not have sufficient Creation Master resources to trade.

Hence, only Ding Chengshuo's old friends in Sacred Forest City were willing to interact with him.

But ever since Ding Chengshuo gained a seat on Sacred Wood City's council, the Yang, Bai, and Yi families all took the initiative of making friendly contact with him. All of them wanted Ding Chengshuo to become their ally.

This greatly boosted Ding Chengshuo's ego.

Alas, he did not agree to the Bai, Yang, Su, or Yi families' invites.

Ding Chengshuo knew who was responsible for giving him the power and status he was currently enjoying.

Previously, the Su, Yang, Bai, and Yi families were all entities that Ding Chengshuo could only look up to.

But now, they could not even catch his fancy.

Without a Class 5 Creation Master, what grounds do you have to talk with me? The right choice would be to cling tightly to Lin Yuan!

In the past four days, Ding Chengshuo had not met up with Lin Yuan to avoid arousing suspicion.

But Ding Chengshuo had provided Lin Yuan with a substantial amount of secrets about Sacred Forest City's internal affairs and the dynamic between the veteran elite families through the Thoughts Letter Paper.

Previously, Lin Yuan would have been very interested in these secrets.

But now, Yi Huailong and Yi Huailu had become members of Sky City, and the Yi family was a subsidiary of Sky City.

Lin Yuan had already found out all the secrets he needed to know from Yi Huailong.

Once the Su family made their move and the structure of the Divine Wood Federation changed, the previous secrets would become useless.

Nonetheless, Lin Yuan still gave Ding Chengshuo the prize of three earth-type heavenly-maiden-grade elemental pearls with outer layers for working so earnestly.

Ding Chengshuo wanted to become a butler and infiltrate the major families to find out all about the skeletons in their closets.

Since Lin Yuan had not agreed to see Su Wenliang, he did not wait for Su Han to fetch him at the tree castle.

By the time Su Han rode in his fey carriage and arrived at Sky Creation's tree castle, he found out from the two helpers at the door that Lin Yuan had already set off an hour ago with his retainer by his side.

This caused Su Han's face to fall.

The thoughts that filled Su Han's mind were not that Lin Yuan had insulted him but curiosity over why Sky Creation still went to attend the Crown Wood Banquet despite having lost contact with their Class 5 Creation Master.

Su Han had already been less than confident. But now, he was even more panicked.

When he returned, he felt that he needed to have a good talk with his great-grandparents to convince them to start the plan immediately after he and his two older brothers entered the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm tomorrow.

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Most of the buildings in the Divine Wood Federation were tree castles. Only the residents of large families and important organizations, such as the Divine Wood Federation's imperial court, constructed buildings.

The Crown Wood Banquet was being held in a garden outside of the Divine Wood Federation's imperial court. It had been built by many Class 5 Spirit Craftsmen and was extremely extravagant.

1970 Su Han! What Do You Mean?

Many precious plant-type feys were growing in the garden that Lin Yuan longed to own.

By the time Su Han arrived, he noticed that there was a group of people crowding around Lin Yuan.

The young man dressed in silver armor was keeping the crowd a meter away from Lin Yuan.

Besides the young man in silver armor, Yi Huailong was standing the closest to Lin Yuan. It was as though they were protecting Lin Yuan together.

Su Han thought, No wonder Young Master Chu managed to get into the Crown Wood Banquet without me with him. He came with the Yi family!

Su Han had always looked down on the Yi family, but he knew that Yi Huailong was intelligent. Fôllôw 𝒏ew stories at n𝒐/v(e)

From the way he was trying to recruit Lin Yuan, it seemed that he had not given up on his dream of enabling the Yi family to prosper.

A cold smile spread across Su Han's face.

After their plan to get rid of the Yang family, the Su family was going to move on to eliminate the Bai and Yi families after a short period of rest.

Although Yi Huailong was not impressively powerful, he was smarter than the head of the Bai family and was much harder to deal with.

Su Han took a deep breath and walked over to where Lin Yuan was.

Presently, Lin Yuan was much too radiant.

The white spirit qi clothes he was wearing looked simple, but anyone with a discerning eye could tell that they were made from the fur of the Myth White Plum Flood Deer.

The White Plum Flood Deer was around the height of an adult man, at around two meters tall. It had enough fur on its body to create exactly one set of spirit qi clothes.

It was a luxury to be able to use the fur of a Myth Breed fey to create spirit qi clothes. Not even Su Han could bear to part with so much money for the clothes he wore.

There were dark silver patterns branded on the white deer skin.

When Su Han drew close, he noticed that there were many pearl chains with a diameter of two millimeters around the dark silver patterns. All of the pearls were made of jade-textured silver sandalwood.

Su Han had heard that Lin Yuan once wore a set of spirit qi clothes made from the fur of the Crimson Back Leaping Antelope.

When he thought about how Lin Yuan was dressed and how Di Wanmi had not resisted last night and allowed herself to be taken prisoner, Su Han could not shake the feeling that something was wrong.

He realized that every time Lin Yuan wore different spirit qi clothes, he would still have the blue and gold tablet hanging on his waist.

After thinking for a while, Su Han broke through the crowd and said, "Young Master Chu! We agreed to come to the Crown Wood Banquet together! Why did you arrive before me? I see that you must have used the Bronze/Epic Item-Storing Walnuts to trade with other families. The Su family also wishes to discuss a trade with you. However, what we want is not the Item-Storing Walnuts but the tablet hanging on your waist—"

Su Han did this because he wanted to test Lin Yuan's attitude toward him to get a better sense of Lin Yuan's capabilities.

But before he finished speaking, the young man wearing silver armor standing next to Lin Yuan scoffed coldly. He raised his finger and pointed in the air.

The strange bracelet around the silver armor-wearing young man's face suddenly transformed into an enormous hive-like nest.

The enormous hive-like nest released numerous types of insect-species feys. All of them had reached Diamond X/Fantasy V, and the aura they released could threaten even Myth Breed feys. It was possible that a Myth I fey would lose to the insect-species feys in one-on-one fights.

This sudden change caused numerous people to let out gasps of shock.

Su Han had not expected something he said to test Lin Yuan would result in such a violent reaction.

When he sensed the murderous aura from the young man wearing silver armor, Su Han had no doubt if he uttered another word, the insects would instantly swarm and drown him.

Given Su Han's power, he had no reason to fear the insects.

Liu Jie's power floored Su Han.

Liu Jie looked to only be around 20 years old. Yet, he could produce combat power that surpassed that of emperor-class experts in an instant.

There were no such young elites in the Divine Wood Federation, yet such a person was Lin Yuan's retainer.

Moreover, Su Han could sense an aura akin to that of Lin Yuan's blue and gold tablet from the suspended nest.

This aura had a hint of the aura of sacred source lifeforms but lacked the usual fury.

Although there were no Class 5 Creation Masters in the Divine Wood Federation, there were Immortal experts. Experts with such power were capable of entering Class 5 dimensional rifts to obtain sacred source lifeforms.

Su Han's soul was still not strong enough for him to contract a sacred source lifeform.

However, his two older brothers and great-grandparents had contracted sacred source lifeforms, and there was no way Su Han would mistake the aura of sacred source lifeforms.

This made Su Han recall the legend that Class 5 Creation Masters could turn the bodies of sacred source lifeforms into precious instruments.

Clearly, the nest in the air and Lin Yuan's blue and gold tablets were both precious instruments.

It was normal for Sky Creation to have precious instruments since they had a Class 5 Creation Master.

However, when his great-grandfather checked on Di Wanmi's condition yesterday night, he found that she was lacking in spiritual power, and it would be extremely different for her to even concoct spirit fluids.

Her condition was very similar to that of Yi Huailu, the Yi family's pinnacle Class 4 Creation Master, but she was in a much worse state than he was.

Could such a Class 5 Creation Master truly have the ability to create precious instruments?

It would have been acceptable if only Lin Yuan had a precious instrument. But even the retainer who accompanied him had one.

Were precious instruments really so cheap?

One should always have basic knowledge.

The Divine Wood Federation had three of the Island Whales and had traded with the neighboring Clean Burning Federation, Abyss Sea Federation, and slightly further Sand Island Continent.

The Sand Island Continent had Class 5 Creation Masters and had even initiated trades with the Divine Wood Federation using the Island Whales a few times.

During one of these trades, the Yang family had used numerous resources to trade for two precious instruments with the Sand Island Continent. Now, these two precious instruments were the Yang family's treasures.

The most valuable resources traded between federations with Class 5 Creation Masters were precious instruments. This was because it was challenging for even Class 5 Creation Masters to create one precious instrument.

Both Liu Jie and Lin Yuan's precious weapons caused chills to run up Su Han's back.

There was no way that Di Wanmi had created them in her injured state.

Su Han felt that he needed to do further testing!

The Su family would be doomed if Sky Creation turned out to have secret weapons that they had not revealed yet.

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If that were the case, it would be better for them to apologize to Sky Creation.

But before Su Han could ask anything else, Yi Huailong snarled, "Su Han! What do you mean? Young Master Chu is an honored guest of the Yi family and the rest of the families present. What if Young Master Chu is angered by your request for something on his body and rejects our trades of high-quality Bronze Item-Storing Walnuts?"

1971 The Su Family Can't Afford the Trade!

Su Han did not have the chance to respond to Yi Huailong before several members of veteran elite families echoed what Yi Huailong said. 𝒩eew updates 𝒂t n𝒐vel/bi𝒏.com

"Third Master Su, Young Master Chu is a man of means. Otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to produce the high-quality Bronze Item-Storing Walnuts."

"I remember that the Second Master Su was the one who recorded the highest bid for the Bronze/Epic Item-Storing Walnuts. Now that you have the opportunity, it would also be helpful to you to trade more with him. You might not have the same chance again in the future."

These members of veteran elite families would never dare to speak to Su Han in such a way usually. They had the courage now because they were motivated by their potential profits.

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All of the members of veteran elite families who had spoken were the ones who had placed orders with Sky Creation and silently accepted Sky Creation as a foreign faction.

With every day that Sky Creation remained in Sacred Forest City, they would be able to gain even more high-class Creation Master resources.

After all, high-class Creation Master resources were valuable to even the Sacred Forest City's veteran elite families. The more they had, the more they would be able to strengthen themselves.

Moreover, Yi Huailong was the one who had started the confrontation with Su Han. The rest of them were just adding fuel to the fire.

Thus, Su Han would not place the blame on them.

Additionally, Su Han was not the head of the Su family, but Yi Huailong was the head of the Yi family. In terms of status, Su Han was below Yi Huailong.

Su Han could not make the final decision on every one of the Su family's matters.

When so many members of the factions sided with Lin Yuan, Su Han knew that he would be putting himself in the line of fire of all these factions if he insisted on putting Lin Yuan on the spot.

The Su family could not allow themselves to become unpopular for the sake of their long-prepared plan. Otherwise, not only could the plan meet with a bump in the road, but there could also be issues when they were trying to reap the rewards.

Hence, Su Han knew that he could not continue testing Lin Yuan.

At that moment, Su Han watched as Lin Yuan reached out and touched the blue and gold tablet hanging on his waist as he looked at Su Han with amusement.

"Not everything is like the Peaceful Calm Air Moss. There are some things that the Su family can't afford to trade."

Lin Yuan's words caused Su Han to inhale sharply.

Although the Peaceful Calm Air Moss was not a secret to the Su family, it was a secret that the Su family had asked Sky Creation to nurture the Peaceful Calm Air Moss.

The Peaceful Calm Air Moss was a strategic resource and needed a high concentration of spirit qi in order to grow.

If not in preparation for war, there would be no need for the Su family to nurture the Peaceful Calm Air Moss. Everyone present knew of this.

Lin Yuan had said what he said as a clear warning to Su Han not to cause trouble. Otherwise, Lin Yuan would reveal the amount of the Peaceful Calm Air Moss that he had nurtured for the Su family.

This would immediately put the Yang and Bai families on high alert.

The thing that troubled Su Han the most now was not Lin Yuan threatening him in front of the entire court but Lin Yuan's confident expression.

A person in trouble would never be able to produce such an expression.

Su Han smiled wryly and silently left the area where Lin Yuan was.

Su Wenliang followed Su Han with confusion all over his face.

Two days ago, Su Han and Young Master had been chatting happily. So why were they speaking so scathingly to each other now? Su Han had even said that he wanted to work with Sky Creation and cling tightly to Sky Creation. Could it be that Su Han and Young Master Chu fell out over the last two days?

Su Wenliang knew that Sky Creation's Class 5 Creation Master was now a guest in the Su family. This was all thanks to Su Wenliang, and he had received significant rewards as a result of it. He had been promoted from an attendant in the Su family to the steward of the Su family.

If the Class 5 Creation Master wanted to leave the Su family, the Su family would still grandly send off her even if they did not want the outside world to find out that she was staying with them.

Yet, nothing like this had happened. This meant that Sky Creation's Class 5 Creation Master was still living with the Su family.

Given that Sky Creation's Class 5 Creation Master was still living with the Su family, Su Han and Young Master Chu should be on even closer terms.

The gears turned in Su Wenliang's head, and he immediately thought of one possibility.

Something could have happened to Sky Creation's Class 5 Creation Master that he was unaware of.

When this possibility appeared in his mind, Su Wenliang immediately thought back to how Su Han had sent him to Sky Creation's tree castle this morning to invite Young Master Chu to travel together and to take note of Young Master Chu's reaction only for him to be forbidden from entering the tree castle.

This added more stock to Su Wenliang's guess.

When he saw the worried look on Su Han's face, Su Wenliang thought, Foolish!

In the entire Sacred Forest City, factions of all sizes, including the Yang family, knew that Sky Creation was not a native faction of the Divine Wood Federation.

The Yang family did not interact with Sky Creation because they were afraid that Sky Creation would interfere with their governance. As the family that presided over the Divine Wood Federation's imperial court, the Yang family had to prioritize their reputation.

Meanwhile, the other veteran elite families from Sky Creation were doing all they could to trade with Sky Creation because they wanted to trade as much of their unused resources for high-class Creation Master resources or resources that would be more useful to them as possible.

These veteran elite families knew that Sky Creation would eventually leave Sacred Forest City. As such, the more they traded, the more they would earn.

Given the situation, it would not be smart for the Su family to make an enemy of Sky Creation.

Su Wenliang was naturally respectful of Class 5 Creation Masters.

The three major federations were able to rise above the rest because of their Class 5 Creation Master resources.

The power of Class 5 Creation Masters had to be terrifying. No number of Class 4 Creation Masters would be able to compare to one Class 5 Creation Master.

Thus, a faction that only had Class 4 Creation Masters did not deserve to even shake hands with a faction that had a Class 5 Creation Master.

However, all of the authority he enjoyed in the Su family was thanks to him being looked after by Su Han. He was actually soft-spoken by nature and could not say anything to Su Han now while he was in such a mood.

All he could do was hope that Su Han was not foolish!

Su Wenliang could come up with the crux of the matter, but it did not occur to him that Su Han was no longer the decision-maker of the Su family.

Su Han was holding a wine glass as he idly chatted with Ding Chengshuo. He was full of anxiety and worry, and his expression sent the message of unapproachability so those who were trying to get in the Su family's good books would know to stay away.

However, Ding Chengshuo had still started a conversation with him.

Because of Ding Chengshuo's position in Sacred Wood City's council, he was no longer just the City Lord of the remote Oak City and could be useful to the Su family. As such, Su Han did not turn him away.

Ding Chengshuo could see Su Han's gaze being pulled away.

Since the Su family wanted to die, Ding Chengshuo was going to give them a push.

1972 Some Things Shouldn't be Said

Ding Chengshuo was the first person in the Divine Wood Federation who had sworn on his Willpower Rune to become Lin Yuan's servant. A few months had already passed since then, and he was extremely loyal to Lin Yuan. Moreover, he was very meticulous and did not have a loose mouth.

Hence, Lin Yuan had told Ding Chengshuo about the Su family's plan and the fact that he had taken in the Yi family.

Ding Chengshuo never expected Lin Yuan to expand his reach within Sacred Forest City in just a few short days and take full control of the Yi family.

When he first found out about the Su family's plan, Ding Chengshuo had been astonished because the Divine Wood Federation's structure had been stable for more than a century.

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Now that the Su family and Yang family were about to start crossing swords, the structure of the Divine Wood Federation was going to change.

Despite being the City Lord of a remote city, Ding Chengshuo would inevitably be heavily impacted by the conflict.

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This feeling intensified when he discovered that the Su family had the audacity to target Lin Yuan's Class 5 Creation Master. As a result, Ding Chengshuo wondered if the head of the Su family had lost his mind.

If this was in the past, before Ding Chengshuo came to know Lin Yuan, he would have been extremely nervous after finding out that a Class 5 Creation Master was stationed in the Su family.

But now, as he got to know Lin Yuan better, Ding Chengshuo found it increasingly difficult to understand the full scope of Lin Yuan's power.

Why would a young man who has a Class 5 Creation Master for a servant lack the ability to end the Su family?

Since Lin Yuan had taken in the Yi family, it meant that he was going to bolster them.

Thus, the way for him to help Lin Yuan would be to incite the Su family to attack the Yang family.

Ding Chengshuo turned his gaze to Su Han and said, "Lord Su Han, I heard that Lord Yang Sijie is also trying to get in touch with Sky Creation. I wonder what kind of faction Sky Creation has to be in such high demand in Sacred Wood City. I wanted to greet Lord Long Huailong, but he is fully focused on Young Master Chu and doesn't have time for me at all."

Ding Chengshuo's words caused Su Han to furrow his brow.

The Yang family presided over the imperial court, and Yang Sijie was a direct descendant of the Yang family. As such, it was only natural for him to want to connect with Sky Creation.

Even Ding Chengshuo had heard the news.

It was likely that Yang Sijie had been secretly interacting with Sky Creation for some time.

Yet, the Su family had not heard about this at all.

This should not be surprising! The Su family could not infiltrate the imperial court when the Yang family was present, even if they wanted to.

Even in the past, before they attacked Di Wanmi, Su Han would be terrified when he learned that Yang Sijie had initiated contact with Sky Creation.

This was because once Sky Creation worked with the Yang family and provided them with a mountain of Creation Master resources, the Su family would meet with a great amount of obstruction and even possible failure when they attacked the Yang family.

But now that the Su family had already made their move on Di Wanmi, there was no looking back.

The Adjudication Dung Beetle was already holding Di Wanmi hostage, and she could no longer get in contact with Sky Creation.

Yet, Lin Yuan was still treating him in such a way. Could it be because he had formed a partnership with the Yang family?

If the Yang family worked with Sky Creation to scheme against the Su family, the Su family would be in deep trouble.

Su Han's head snapped up, and he glared at Ding Chengshuo.

Ding Chengshuo shivered instinctively as Su Han said, "Chengshuo, some things shouldn't be said! Has Yang Sijie truly connected with Young Master Chu?"

Ding Chengshuo nodded seriously and said affirmatively, "There's no way this could be fake! No matter how daring I am, I would never dare to tell you about it before it's verified! Lord Yang Sijie is representing the Yang family at the Crown Wood Banquet tonight. You'll believe me once you see how Lord Yang acts toward Young Master Chu!"

Ding Chengshuo was not spouting nonsense.

The Yang family had approached him before the Su family did, and the person from the Yang family who had interacted with him was Yang Sijie.

When Sky Creation first opened, Ding Chengshuo had been in the tree castle.

When Yang Sijie was networking with Ding Chengshuo, he had specifically brought up Sky Creation and made it clear that he wanted to get closer to Sky Creation to eventually use Sky Creation to carry out the imperial court's tasks.

At that time, Ding Chengshuo had felt that Yang Sijie was very shameless.

But since Yang Sijie had such intentions, he would definitely try to get closer to Lin Yuan during the Crown Wood Banquet. This would create the illusion that the Yang family was on close terms with Sky Creation.

This would confuse the other factions trying to connect with Sky Creation and make them wary of having unsavory thoughts about it.

Additionally, Yang Sijie wanted to declare his ownership of Sky Creation to scare the other factions.

Regardless, once Yang Sijie arrived, his reaction would confirm everything that Ding Chengshuo had just declared.

It was likely that Su Han would be like a cat on hot bricks at that time.

Suddenly, a lively yet stately tune started to play. This told everyone present at the Crown Wood Banquet that the Yang family had arrived.

The Divine Wood Federation placed a heavy emphasis on the performing arts.

When Lin Yuan first arrived at the Divine Wood Federation and arrived at Phoebe Zhennan City, he realized that even a Class 1 Creation Master family had their own song that they played when they hosted banquets.

The Crown Wood Banquet was held in the garden of the Divine Wood Federation's garden.

Although it was said to be a banquet where all the major factions gathered, the Yang family's song was still played when they arrived in order to provide them with the necessary respect as the family that presided over the imperial court.

When Su Han heard what Ding Chengshuo said, he was immediately gripped by trepidation.

He now fixed his eyes on the middle-aged man with short red hair who had just entered the banquet fall.

The members of other factions who were crowding around Lin Yuan also turned their gazes toward the red-haired middle-aged man. However, they were not feeling the same worries for their families that Su Han was experiencing.

All of these members of factions were worried about the young man with silver armor who had publicly summoned feys in the middle of the Crown Wood Banquet. Although no altercation had broken out, it had still broken the rules of the Crown Wood Banquet that the Yang family had set.

When the red-haired middle-aged man strode toward Lin Yuan, sweat broke out all over Yi Huailong's palms.

Yang Sijie was the fifth most important person in the Yang family and had reached pinnacle thearch-class long ago. It was unknown if he had reached Immortal.

Yang Sijie had a bad temper, and he hated nothing more than those who broke the Yang family's rules.

1973 The Feminine Bai Qinghuan!

During the last Crown Wood Banquet, one of the Bai family's collateral descendants had caused a scene after having too much to drink. As a result, Yang Sijie had sent someone to break his limbs and toss him into the pool outside the banquet hall. By the time he was pulled out, half of his body had already been eaten by the wrasses in the pool.

Yi Huailong was terrified that Yang Sijie would attack Liu Jie without warning.

If that happened, Yi Huailong would have to step in to defend Liu Jie. But once he did, he would turn the Yi family into the Yang family's target.

Yi Huailong was well aware that the Yang, Su, and Bai families had all been looking for a justifiable reason to eliminate the Yi family and take over their resources.

The Yi family had survived for so long because the Su, Bai, and Yang families had managed to get a leg above the other.

Just as Yi Huailong was about to step in, he watched as Yang Sijie ignored Liu Jie's floating precious instrument and said to Lin Yuan in a friendly tone, "Young Master Chu, you have already been in the Sacred Forest City for some time but as the leader of the Divine Wood Federation, we the Yang family have yet to properly host you!

"Why don't you stay the night in the Divine Wood Federation's imperial court? After the Crown Wood Banquet ends, I will prepare another feast in your honor!"

Yang Sijie's words almost caused the jaws of the members of the veteran factions who knew him to fall to the ground.

When he saw this, the blood vessels in Su Han's eyes popped.

The Su family and Sky Creation would never be able to mend their relationship. Su Han needed to think of a way to prevent the Yang family from becoming closer to Sky Creation. Alll 𝒍𝒂test nov𝒆l𝒔 on novelb𝒊n/.c𝒐m

Su Han quickly walked over and began his suicide mission. "Brother Yang, I don't think Young Master Chu will have time tonight. After all, Sky Creation's Class 5 Creation Master is a guest in the Su family. If he's going to be hosted by anyone, it should be with the Su family! You're welcome to join in the fun too!"

Previously, Su Han wanted nothing more than to prevent outsiders from finding out that Sky Creation's Class 5 Creation Master was staying with the Su family. But now, he had no other choice because only by making the Yang family believe that the Su family were already allies with Sky Creation would convince the Yang family to give up on connecting with Sky Creation.

Even if this would cause the Yang family to put up their guard, Su Han did not care.

Su Han's words caused those present to let out gasps one after another.

Although all of them had guessed that Sky Creation had a Class 5 Creation Master, none of them had been fully certain.

But now, Su Han's words had verified all of their guesses.

Sky Creation indeed had a Class 5 Creation Master, and they were currently staying with the Su family.

What kind of relationship did Sky Creation and the Su family have?

Yang Sijie's expression changed abruptly when he heard what Su Han said. The way he looked at Lin Yuan was no longer as friendly as it had been moments ago.

Yi Huailong's lips curled almost imperceptibly. He felt that he had never seen such a shameless person in his life.

However, Su Han's words were utter nonsense.

If Yi Huailong was not aware of how Lin Yuan felt about the Su family, he would have been anxious despite knowing that he had already sworn his loyalty to Lin Yuan. He would have been afraid that Lin Yuan saw the Yi family as a dispensable stepping stone for him to get to the Su family.

Yi Huailong rejoiced internally when he saw Yang Sijie's expression change.

Although what Su Han had said was shameless, it was significantly beneficial for the Yi family.

If Yang Sijie managed to connect with Lin Yuan, the Yi family would have to compete for Lin Yuan's attention with them.

But now, Su Han's statement caused the Yang family to pull themselves out of the running.

The Yi family would only have a better chance at development if they were the only family in Sacred Forest City that Lin Yuan was favoring.

Even if the Yi family presently did not have the power to stand up to the Yang, Bai, and Su families, they had potential that the three families lacked.

This was because there was a high possibility that Yi Huailu would be able to become a true Class 5 Creation Master shortly.

By now, numerous members of factions were recovering from their shock.

Didn't Su Han just try to needle Young Master Chu? Yi Huailu and the rest of them had been the ones who helped Young Master Chu. So why was Su Han suddenly setting himself as a close ally of Young Master Chu?

At that moment, a weak female voice said from within the crowd, "Uncle Han, you just asked for the jade on Young Master Chu's waist and were stopped by his retainer. Otherwise, all these terrifying insects would not have been summoned. So, why are you so quickly reconciling your relationship with Young Master Chu? If others acted the way you treat Young Master Chu, I wouldn't be friendless."

The weak voice ripped a gaping hole in Su Han's heart, and Yang Sijie let down his high guard of intense animosity against Lin Yuan.

Instead, he started to examine the relationship between Lin Yuan and Su Han, or rather the one between Sky Creation and the Su family.

From Su Han's expression, it was likely that Bai Qinghuan had hit a bullseye.

If Bai Qinghuan had watched such an event, those who arrived in advance would also have seen it.

Yang Sijie intended on asking a few people after the Crown Wood Banquet ended to clarify what had happened.

If Sky Creation's Class 5 Creation Master was truly a guest of the Su family, Su Han would not have acted that way toward Lin Yuan.

Everyone present, including Liu Jie, sensed a thick feminine air from the weak female voice.

Su Han glared daggers at the charming maiden who had just spoken.

The girl was wearing light yellow long robes that had white silk flowers embroidered on them. There was also a tuft of white fur at the corner of the robe.

Furthermore, the young girl was slender and petite. She seemed like the daughter of a wealthy family, raised in such a spoiled environment that any trouble would cause her to keel over.

She seemed to lack all malice.

However, the name Bai Qinghuan had already rung through Sacred Forest City four years ago.

She was the only female descendant who was personally nurtured by the head of the Bai family.

After the Yang family entered the imperial court, they placed great emphasis on their bloodline. Their direct disciples enjoyed much higher statuses than collateral disciples. No matter what the collateral disciples were doing at the moment, they would have to drop it to greet any direct descendant who entered their eyelines.

Yet, the Bai family somehow placed greater emphasis on bloodline than the Yang family.

In the Bai family, direct descendants could even kill collateral descendants as long as they had an acceptably convincing reason.

Bai Qinghuan was personally nurtured by the head of the Bai family but came from a collateral branch of the family. This was enough to prove how extraordinary she was.

Su Han gnashed his teeth and said, "Niece Qinghuan! I didn't know that you had already arrived! You are still the same, preferring to watch the fire from the sidelines. But if the flame gets too large, you'll end up burned too!"

Bai Qinghuan chuckled when she heard what Su Han said.

1974 We Can Watch the Stars Together

"Uncle Han, you're the best! If I'm burned while watching the spectacle, I'm sure you'll save me! Right?"

Su Han's chest tightened.

He was the one who had taken the first stab at trying to ruin the relationship between the Yang family and Sky Creation so that the Yang family would put their guard up against Sky Creation.

The plan had already been partly successful when Bai Qinghuan spoke up and ruined Su Han's effort. As a result, he had blown up his relationship with Sky Creation for nothing.

Lin Yuan had not spoken a single word.

He did not need to try to explain anything to Yang Sijie. All he had to do was mention the Peaceful Calm Air Moss and reveal how much of it Sky Creation had nurtured for the Su family. The Yang family would immediately take action against the Su family.

She had put him in such a predicament, yet she had the cheek to say that he was the best? She even shamelessly declared that he would save her if she was burned!

When he saw the pretentious look of innocence on Bai Qinghuan's face, Su Han wanted to toss the wolf in sheep's clothing that was Bai Qinghuan into a fire pit. She was revolting!

At that moment, Lin Yuan turned his gaze to Bai Qinghuan.

Presently, all three major families of Sacred Forest City had already made contact with him. This was Lin Yuan's main reason for wanting to attend the Crown Wood Banquet.

Lin Yuan saw Bai Qinghuan wink at him. From her eyes, he could see indescribable ambition.

The ambition in Bai Qinghuan's eyes was very familiar to Lin Yuan. He had also seen it in Di Wanmi.

The difference was that the power of the entire Whale Ocean Commerce had backed Di Wanmi's ambition. She had the complete support of two Immortal experts who even had no qualms about destroying the Radiance Federation's roots.

Meanwhile, Bai Qinghuan was a singular blade of grass.

According to the secrets supplied by Yi Huailong, Bai Qinghuan was personally brought up by the head of the Bai family and could live the same lifestyle as direct disciples despite being a collateral disciple because of her feminine wiles and because the head of the Bai family was grooming her to eventually be the wife of his oldest grandson who was next in line to take over the Bai family.

Bai Qinghuan was part of a collateral branch that was more than three times removed. Thus, she only had a slight proportion of the Bai family's bloodline.

In order to prevent her from being too attached to her parents, the head of the Bai family had orchestrated an accident that left Bai Qinghuan as the only surviving member of her branch of the family.

The head of the Bai family did not want Bai Qinghuan to learn the truth and had made sure to keep her in the dark. But she was very intelligent and definitely had her suspicions.

As her position in the Bai family climbed, it went without saying that she would investigate the matter on her own.

Moreover, even if she did not do her own sleuthing, the members of the Yang family, Su family, and other factions would definitely try to come up with ways to enlighten her about the truth.

How could a person with ambition almost visibly leaking out of her be content with living the life of a trophy wife?

After learning of Bai Qinghuan's situation, Lin Yuan felt that she resembled a venomous snake that was being tamed while the entire Bai family was her cage.

Lin Yuan had thought about trying to get close to Bai Qinghuan, but the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm was about to open, and Lin Yuan did not have the time to get acquainted with her.

But now, Bai Qinghuan had taken the initiative to approach him.

It seemed that the ambitious snake was having thoughts of breaking out of its cage.

At that moment, the tender voice said again, "Young Master Chu, your reputation precedes you! But I've been stuck at home and haven't been able to go out much. I would like to have a private gathering with you after the Crown Wood Banquet. Would you be willing to give me the opportunity? I will definitely prepare a large gift that'll be to your satisfaction!"

Although the voice was gentle, Lin Yuan could tell that this voice had lost all of its femininity. Instead, it was serious and even had a hint of yearning.

Lin Yuan thought, It looks like this little snake wants more than just to break out of its cage. It seems I've underestimated Bai Qinghuan's ambition.

Bai Qinghuan's invitation left him with no choice.

Anyone from the Bai family could interact with him besides the lady who had been primed since she was young to be the wife of the next head of the Bai family.

Moreover, she had requested to meet him in private. What she did was no different from publicly cuckolding the eldest grandson of the Bai family.

Despite having made such a radical decision, Bai Qinghuan's gaze was level. Clearly, she had mental fortitude that surpassed that of ordinary people.

"Okay! Stay by my side before the banquet ends. Tonight's stars are really pretty. We can go and admire them after the banquet ends."

Lin Yuan's words stunned Bai Qinghuan, and she started to look at Lin Yuan differently. Now, there was both excitement and worry in her eyes.

She was not excited about going to see the stars with Lin Yuan but that his response indicated he had managed to read between the lines of what she said.

He told her to stay by his side for her own safety. Su Han would be deterred from laying a hand on her after she had put him in such a predicament.

As for saying that he wanted to admire the stars together, he was leaving her with no way out.

If she had only invited Lin Yuan to meet privately, there would still be a chance for her to survive when she returned to the Bai family.

But if she went with Lin Yuan to see the stars, her life would come to an end that very same night when she returned to the Bai family.

Since she no longer had any way out, Bai Qinghuan decided to fan the flames of her ambition as hard as she could tonight and fully bare herself to this young man she was meeting for the first time.

By accepting Bai Qinghuan's invitation to meet in private and then inviting her to see the stars together, Lin Yuan could not have more clearly slighted the Bai family.

Lin Yuan's attitude toward Bai Qinghuan piqued the interest of numerous members of the factions.

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All three of them were exhibiting completely different reactions.

When Su Han spoke with Lin Yuan in Sky Creation's tree castle, he had mentioned the conflict between the Bai family and Yi family purposely in order to leave a good impression on Lin Yuan.

Hence, Lin Yuan was undoubtedly aware of the Bai family's power.

Why would Lin Yuan bother with the Su family if he paid so little attention to the Bai family, which possessed comparable power to the Su family?

Su Han found it difficult to remain calm when he realized this.

At that moment, Su Han decided to give up on attending the Crown Wood Banquet and immediately return home to tell his great-grandparents about this matter.

1975 Perfect Touch Wisteria

Yi Huailong's shock went beyond his expression.

There was a sea of bad blood between the Yi family and the Bai family. Two decades ago, the Yi family had almost been ended by the Bai family.

But Yi Huailong knew that ever since he and his brother joined Lin Yuan and became one of his subsidiary factions, they no longer had the authority to seek revenge.

But now, the way Lin Yuan acted toward Bai Qinghuan automatically made him the enemy of the Bai family.

In such a situation, the Yi family once again had the opportunity for revenge.

Yang Sijie started to examine Lin Yuan and Sky Creation again. Based on his observations, he would decide if he would renew his efforts to become acquainted with Sky Creation.

Since the Bai family's oldest grandson had been cuckolded during the Crown Wood Banquet, the Bai family's pride had been completely trampled. It was likely that the Bai family would go after Sky Creation after the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm closed in order to protect their pride.

At that time, he would watch and see how the Su family reacted to the fight between Sky Creation and the Bai family in order to gauge the true relationship between the Su family and Sky Creation.

Yang Sijie pulled himself out and left the battleground to the Su family, Bai family, and Sky Creation.

Since he no longer had a need to get on Lin Yuan's good side, Yang Sijie did not mind stoking the flames.

"Today is the birthday of the head of our family. All of the direct descendants are celebrating the event in the main residence. Qinghuan is the only one who showed up. It's unlikely that any other member of the Bai family will turn up. I wonder if the other members of the Bai family would be comfortable with Qinghuan watching the stars in private with Young Master Chu if they were here."

Bai Qinghuan's eyes flashed when she heard what Yang Sijie said.

When Lin Yuan mentioned watching the stars, all roads of retreat had closed to her. Thus, all she could do now was put on a good show of loyalty.

A small smile played on Bai Qinghuan's lips as she said, "Uncle Yang, I wouldn't be able to spend time with Young Master Chu privately if other members of the Yang family were present. Fruit wine personally brewed by the imperial court's winemakers and refreshments made by the chefs are served at the Sacred Wood Banquet. Uncle Yang, I would like to have some for when I'm stargazing with Young Master Chu. I'm sure you won't put me at a spot over some fruit wine and refreshments, right?"

Yang Sijie could not be more disgusted by Bai Qinghuan.

As someone who was being groomed to be a wife, she should have turned down the stargazing invite. Yet, she even went on to ask for fruit wine and pastries.

Fine, if she wanted them, she could have them.

More food was thrown away than consumed every time the Crown Wood Banquet was held.

Are you asking me such a trivial question because you think I'm one of the chefs for the Crown Wood Banquet, or are you trying to publicly make a snide remark about me being petty?

Since Yang Sijie had already given up on getting to know Lin Yuan and linking up with Sky Creation, Yang Sijie immediately turned away, the force leaving his clothes billowing in the gust.

After Yang Sijie left, Su Han also immediately left to return home.

As such, there was now less competition for the auction of rare spiritual ingredients.

During every Crown Wood Banquet, Yi Huailong spent large amounts of money to collect precious resources. This was the reason for the Yi family's nickname as the Hundred Treasures Family.

Lin Yuan had fully subsumed the Yi family.

Hence, Lin Yuan did not have to purchase precious resources personally and could leave the task to Yi Huailong.

Although Lin Yuan did not encounter more feys that could be used as pure elemental feys that would increase the Flower Calamity Beautiful Devil's bloodline at the Crown Wood Banquet, his harvest was still substantial.

Now, there was a wisteria on the stand, and the members of the Divine Wood Federation's factions were placing bids for it.

Lin Yuan knew that he had finally found the fifth fey that was suitable to be spirit locked by Morbius.

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[Fey Name: Perfect Touch Wisteria

[Fey Species: Strong armor wisteria species/long wisteria species

[Fey Grade: Elite (7/10)

[Fey Type: Wood

[Fey Quality: Epic

Abilities:

[Forbidden Growth: After contracting any lifeform, it can break the limit that comes with the contract. As long as it has sufficient energy, it would be able to continuously increase its power. When it has absorbed the maximum amount of energy, it will be able to comprehend a required Willpower Rune.

[Peak Sturdiness: A large amount of the absorbed energy can be used up to increase the durability of the vines. When injured, the energy can also be used to repair the vines.

After checking on the Perfect Touch Wisteria, Lin Yuan was confused about why a faction had been willing to put up a fey with such outstanding abilities for auction.

As the Perfect Touch Wisteria was a plant-type fey, it needed three types of energy. The first was pure spirit qi, the second was vitality, and the last was wood-elemental energy.

The pure spirit qi could be used to increase the quality and transform the bloodline of the Perfect Touch Wisteria.

The vitality would speed up the Perfect Touch Wisteria's splitting rate.

The wood-elemental energy would increase the Perfect Touch Wisteria's character as a plant.

Besides pure spirit qi, obtaining the other two types of energy in the Divine Wood Federation was not difficult.

The Perfect Touch Wisteria's ability Forbidden Growth could not only allow it to automatically comprehend a Willpower Rune from the natural world once it reached a certain level of power, making it unnecessary for spirit qi professionals to provide it with a Willpower Rune, but it could also break the contract's limit.

Through communicating with Morbius, Lin Yuan knew that the Perfect Touch Wisteria would still be able to endlessly increase its power after it was spirit locked.

However, the endless increase of the Perfect Touch Wisteria's power would not enable Morbius' grade and quality to rise.

Morbius' grade and quality would still be the equivalent of the weakest fey it had spirit locked.

It was the dream of any spirit qi professional to have their fey's power be able to break through the limit of their rank.

This would allow a young person to be able to take on a veteran expert as long as they had sufficient resources.

There were no feys like the Perfect Touch Wisteria in the Radiance Federation. If there were, the large veteran factions and top factions would fight over it viciously.

It was possible that it would cause a new rule banning feys like it that could break through its limit and be strengthened endlessly to be put in place for the Radiance Hundred Sequence selection.

Even a rising faction from the Radiance Federation could use resources to evolve the Perfect Touch Wisteria to Myth Breed.

Suppose a 10-year-old child formed a contract with the Perfect Touch Wisteria. In that case, it could use resources to eventually possess the Myth Perfect Touch Wisteria and take up a spot in the Radiance Hundred Sequence.

Forbidden Growth turned the Perfect Touch Wisteria into a plant-type fey that defied one of the basic concepts of feys.

1976 Morbius' New Spirit Lock!

Besides Forbidden Growth, Lin Yuan was more interested in Peak Sturdiness.

Although it required an increasing amount of spirit qi, vitality, and wood-elemental energy to nurture the Perfect Touch Wisteria, using an increasing number of resources could be used to make the vines sturdier and stronger.

This was a low-cost method for people who did not lack resources.

A spirit qi professional had a limit to the number of feys he could contract. Hence, only by focusing on unlocking the potential of every fey could they increase their power to the greatest extent.

This was the path that Lin Yuan was going down.

Liu Jie was confused when he saw the way Lin Yuan's eyes were shining as he stared at the Perfect Touch Wisteria, but Yi Huailong managed to guess what was going through Lin Yuan's head.

He explained to Lin Yuan, "Young Master Chu, the Perfect Touch Wisteria is a very rare fey here, but this one has mutated. The regular Perfect Touch Wisteria's Normal ability is called Wild Growth, which would only allow it to automatically comprehend a Willpower Rune but not break through the limit of its contractor. If my memory serves, the mutated Perfect Touch Wisteria should have been captured in the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm by the Bai family."

Lin Yuan could sense that the Perfect Touch Wisteria did not have the Sacred Wood bloodline. Thus, he could not help but ask a follow-up question, "Are there regular plant-type feys like this in the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm?"

Yi Huailong lowered his voice and replied, "You aren't aware of this, but there are many plant-type feys in the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm. Every time someone who enters the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm fails to obtain a plant-type fey with the Sacred Wood bloodline, they will be able to choose three regular plant-type feys. The Bai family intentionally gave up on obtaining a plant-type fey with the Sacred Wood bloodline because of this Perfect Touch Wisteria's Forbidden Growth ability. Miss Bai should know more about the matter than me!"

When Bai Qinghuan heard herself being mentioned by Yi Huailong, she hurriedly spilled everything she knew about the Perfect Touch Wisteria. "The Bai family is indeed the one who put the Perfect Touch Wisteria up for auction. It was initially meant to be the fey of the Bai family's oldest grandson, but its Elite ability mutated when it evolved. It changed from the original Vine Lock to Peak Sturdiness.

"Peak Sturdiness will magnify the depletion of energy. Moreover, the Perfect Touch Wisteria normally gains Tool Transformation as its Bronze ability. It will be able to transform into a fitting soft armor. The Bai family does not think that using a large number of resources to produce soft armor is worth it. They would rather have a less-costly soft armor made from the skin of a Myth Breed fey and metal-type spiritual ingredients."

Right after Bai Qinghuan was done speaking, Yi Huailong said in a gloating manner, "The Bai family used to have three pinnacle Class 4 Creation Masters, but my father eliminated two of them during a fight between our two families. As such, the Bai family has always lacked Creation Master resources, and it's understandable for them to be unwilling to spend too much on the Perfect Touch Wisteria.

"Furthermore, even if the Perfect Touch Wisteria can break through its spirit qi professional's limit, a Class 4 Creation Master will only be able to promote a spirit qi professional to pinnacle emperor-class at best. Whether they'll be able to evolve into thearch-class will depend on their fate and luck. The resources needed to nurture the Perfect Touch Wisteria to pinnacle Myth Breed will be enough to evolve two other plant-type feys to pinnacle Myth Breed. So, the Perfect Touch Wisteria is a bona fide black hole!"

Despite knowing that Lin Yuan possessed Class 5 Creation Master resources, Yi Huailong did not think that the Perfect Touch Wisteria was cost-effective.

To S-rank spirit qi professionals, Forbidden Growth would have negligible advantages. Moreover, it would require twice the amount of resources just to increase the vines' sturdiness and healing ability. Just the thought of it brought tears to one's eyes. 𝒩eew updates 𝒂t n𝒐vel/bi𝒏.com

However, Yi Huailong had no idea that what he and Bai Qinghuan said only made Lin Yuan want the Perfect Touch Wisteria even more.

At the same time, Lin Yuan could not help but be amazed.

Any fey's function and value were determined by its environment.

If the Divine Wood Federation's Hundred Sequence was now just for show and Divine Wood Envoys were chosen from amongst them to participate in the Major Federation Meeting, the Perfect Touch Wisteria would pose unlimited strategic significance. It represented so much strategic significance that it was worthy of being a representative fey of the Divine Wood Federation that safeguarded its honor. It had even greater strategic significance than that of Island Whales, which required more resources to be nurtured.

Lin Yuan had no lack of resources, and he could produce the best quality of spirit qi, vitality, and wood-elemental energy that the Perfect Touch Wisteria needed.

Lin Yuan's secret weapon was his two precious instruments.

However, precious instruments were not like feys and could be restricted.

During the fight against the Freedom Federation envoy group, as per the rules of the Major Federation Meeting, Lin Yuan victor's right allowed him to set the rule banning the use of precious instruments by his opponents.

It was possible for the Perfect Touch Wisteria to reach Immortal or even Eternal.

At that time, the combat power that Lin Yuan had traded for using resources would be comparable to that of the Radiance Federation, Azure Federation, and Freedom Federation.

More importantly, the Perfect Touch Wisteria's Bronze ability was most likely to be Tool Transformation.

Although Bai Qinghuan and Yi Huailong had mentioned numerous times that the Perfect Touch Wisteria had mutated, mutations were anchored in the original abilities.

Thus, even if the Perfect Touch Wisteria's exclusive skill mutated, it was likely that it would be linked to Tool Transformation.

Lin Yuan had encountered many feys similar to the Perfect Touch Wisteria such as the Vitality Sloth that was most likely to develop the exclusive skill Quickened Rest.

Once Lin Yuan formed a contract with the Perfect Touch Wisteria and evolved it to Bronze, so it gained the exclusive skill Tool Transformation, Lin Yuan's physical defense would be raised significantly.

Currently, Lin Yuan's physical defense depended on the Source Sand, and it found itself stretched thin more and more often.

After all, it was only to be expected that as Lin Yuan became more powerful, the enemies he faced would also increase in strength.

It was on Lin Yuan's to-do list to strengthen his physical defense.

Now, the appearance of the Perfect Touch Wisteria made it likely for him to be able to tick off this task.

Even if the Perfect Touch Wisteria did not gain Tool Transformation as its exclusive skill, he would still have more chances to encounter a surprise with the three options presented.

1977 The Insect Queen's Third Fairy!

Although the feys that Morbius contracted could only use Normal abilities and exclusive skills, a triggered ability like Peak Sturdiness could still unleash its intended effect. As such, it would allow Lin Yuan to still obtain what he wanted without paying the costs of contracting a fey through the traditional method.

As Lin Yuan continued to explore the marsh world, he would gather more and more of the Endless Gems.

However, compared to the Perfect Touch Wisteria, Blackie, Purple Afterglow, and Rememberling all posed much higher strategic significance.

He did not even know when he would be able to obtain the next Endless Gem.

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All in all, Lin Yuan needed to obtain the Perfect Touch Wisteria by hook or by crook.

He felt that it was unlikely that the other families would be fighting over a resource that the Bai family had abandoned. After all, how could they hope to have more Creation Master resources than the Bai family, which had pinnacle Class 4 Creation Masters?

Lin Yuan did not ask Yi Huailong to step in for him this time. Instead, when the price of the Perfect Touch Wisteria had been bid to 6,000,000 Great Lush dollars, Lin Yuan immediately put in his bid for 10,000,000 Great Lush dollars.

Because the price that Lin Yuan offered was astronomical, as well as the fact that most of the factions present wanted to stay on good terms with Sky Creation, even the factions who wanted to study the Perfect Touch Wisteria did not offer any following bids.

Eventually, Lin Yuan was successful in his bid for the Perfect Touch Wisteria.

Bai Qinghuan's eyes shone as she gazed at Lin Yuan.

She had heard of Sky Creation's strength and had been attracted to them by their reputation of being backed by a Class 5 Creation Master.

She wanted to go for a final gamble before her slated marriage to the oldest grandson of the Bai family next month.

Now that she just saw Lin Yuan throw 10,000,000 Great Lush dollars to buy a fey that was useless in her eyes, Bai Qinghuan felt assured of his wealth.

She had purposely mentioned the Perfect Touch Wisteria's flaw. It would only be helpful when it was used by a low-rank spirit qi professional.

Hence, she felt it was likely that Lin Yuan wanted the Perfect Touch Wisteria so she could form a contract with it.

By buying the Perfect Touch Wisteria, Lin Yuan sent Bai Qinghuan the clear message that high-class Creation Master resources did not encumber him. This made her even more confident about her choice to follow him.

Bai Qinghuan was already coming up with a way to break the ice with this young man after the Crown Wood Banquet ended.

She was an attractive woman and had many ways of pulling in men. However, she did not intend to use any of the usual methods of seduction.

Regardless of whether she could use her body to trade for long-term protection, her short interaction with Lin Yuan told her that pulling the wool over this young man's eyes would not be easy. She would have to use all the weapons in her arsenal to prove her worth.

While Bai Qinghuan was thinking, Lin Yuan stored the Perfect Touch Wisteria in the spatial ring. He intended to evolve it after he left the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm.

By that time, he might have found the lifeform within the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm that created feys with the Sacred Wood bloodline. He would then be able to use its bloodline to turn the Perfect Touch Wisteria into a fey with the Sacred Wood bloodline.

At that time, he would use all the resources he had to increase the Perfect Touch Wisteria's power.

Lin Yuan looked forward to seeing how far the Perfect Touch Wisteria could go with the help of the endless resources from the Spirit Lock spatial zone. Would it stop at Immortal? Could it go further to reach Eternal? Or could it even go past Eternal to start walking down heaven's path and take control of its birth horoscope?

Now that Lin Yuan had the Perfect Touch Wisteria, he was satisfied and was not looking forward to any other of the items being auctioned off.

However, there were many good items at the auction. Moreover, there were no clear laws or institutions like the Spirit Guards in the Divine Wood Federation. As such, even individuals could put carcinoma feys up for auction, much less large factions.

The appearance of one insect-species carcinoma fey caused Liu Jie to freeze, and he did not hesitate to yell out his bid.

Lin Yuan knew what kind of person Liu Jie was.

In the few years that the Insect Queen had been in a near-dead state, Liu Jie experienced the abyss of despair and had tuned himself to remain emotionless regardless of how he was feeling.

The insect-species carcinoma fey that could make Liu Jie this excited had to be of great help to his current combat system.

Just as Lin Yuan was about to use True Data to check on the insect-species carcinoma fey, he heard Liu Jie say, "Young Master, Elegance is finally going to have a third fairy!"

Although the Firefly Demon Fetus was a secret from the Freedom Federation that outsiders would not know about—so, Liu Jie did not need to talk in riddles—it still came from the dimensional rifts. No one could ensure that the Firefly Demon Fetus would not be produced in other dimensional rifts besides those in the Freedom Federation.

Thus, Liu Jie still needed to be careful.

Lin Yuan became intensely interested in the insect-species carcinoma fey.

After Liu Jie obtained the Firefly Demon Fetuses, he used them judiciously despite having several of them. Presently, he had only combined them with the Blade Queen Bee and Dimensional Light Moth.

Liu Jie decided to change the Blade Queen Bee into a fairy so it could break through the limit of its power and produce even stronger psychotoxin.

Besides having powerful control over other insect-species carcinoma feys due to its spiritual energy, the Blade Queen Bee's psychotoxin also played a large reason. 𝒩eew updates 𝒂t n𝒐vel/bi𝒏.com

After the Blade Queen Bee's power increased, and the Insect Queen absorbed its venom, the strength of its psychotoxin would be boosted again.

In short, he transformed the Blade Queen Bee into a fairy to strengthen the Insect Queen's control over insect-species carcinoma feys. It would also allow the Insect Queen to take control of more insect-species carcinoma feys.

As for the Dimensional Light Moth, Liu Jie transformed it into a fairy because of its strategic value.

As the Dimensional Light Moth continued to grow, it would be able to produce Class 4 and 5 dimensional rifts, or perhaps even Class 6 dimensional rifts.

Furthermore, Liu Jie saw the Dimensional Light Moth as his personal arsenal. The more powerful it was, the more insects it would be able to store in its body.

Liu Jie's specialty was terrestrial formation battles. Experts of the same level of power as Liu Jie would find it difficult to break out of the army of insects to reach Liu Jie and the Insect Queen to attack them during battle.

However, Liu Jie's shortcoming was also due to terrestrial combat.

The most basic part of terrestrial battles was fortification.

Without the Dimensional Light Moth and its army of insects, the Insect Queen would have to summon the horde of insects from the beginning after being summoned by Liu Jie.

1978 Halberd Corner Sky-Defying Rhinoceros Beetle!

This was the reason Liu Jie had only been Sequence #30 of the Radiance Hundred Sequence despite having the ability to hold off the insect tide outside of Cold Frost City for half an hour.

Since he picked his insect-species carcinoma feys so carefully, yet he had decided to combine this one with the Firefly Demon Fetus to transform it into a fairy after only one look, it was evident that this insect-species carcinoma fey was important to Liu Jie.

It was likely that Liu Jie's combat system was going to be centered around this insect-species carcinoma fey from now on.

When Lin Yuan used True Data to check on the insect-species carcinoma fey, he realized why Liu Jie was so overwhelmed.

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[Fey Name: Halberd Corner Sky-Defying Rhinoceros Beetle

[Fey Species: Scarab species/large rhinoceros beetle species

[Fey Grade: Bronze (4/10)

[Fey Type: Insect/Metal

[Fey Quality: Flawless

Abilities:

[Metal Forge Angle: It can absorb every type of metal and apply it to its horns to increase its damage power.

[Spread Wings Insect Cry: When it flaps its wings, it can attract other insect-species feys and apply its metal characteristics to them to provide them with protection.

Exclusive Skill:

[Insect Death: Whenever an insect dies around it, its metal characteristics will change from its original defense mode to offense mode.

As a carcinoma fey, the Halberd Corner Sky-Defying Rhinoceros Beetle was a failure because it did not have outstanding damage power. It was more skilled at consuming metal and spitting out its stomach to corrode mines to damage the metal stored within.

Normally, an insect-species carcinoma fey with weak damage power would receive D-grade as its danger grade.

But in the Radiance Federation, the Halberd Corner Sky-Defying Rhinoceros Beetle had a danger grade of S-grade.

The reason for this was its Spread Wings Insect Cry ability.

Spread Wings Insect Cry could attract other insect-species carcinoma feys as well as alien insects.

16 years ago, there had been 37 major cities in the Radiance Federation. But today, Fertile Soil City had long vanished from the Radiance Federation's map.

This was all because of the Halberd Corner Sky-Defying Rhinoceros Beetle.

Although the Halberd Corner Sky-Defying Rhinoceros Beetle could not take control of the insect-species feys it attracted using Spread Wings Insect Cry, the insect-species feys would not leave the Halberd Corner Sky-Defying Rhinoceros Beetle's side even to the point of starvation.

A starving insect army would go on a rampage to eat everything in their way, even sand and dust.

Fertile Soil City had been famed for its soil and in the top ten major cities in the Radiance Federation.

However, the fertilized soil resulted in many insect-species feys in Fertile Soil City.

It would be easy for a spirit qi professional to kill just one locust. Still, the locusts attracted by the Halberd Corner Sky-Defying Rhinoceros Beetle usually came in swarms to turn into a disaster.

The swarm of locusts was just one of the many types of insect-species feys that the Halberd Corner Sky-Defying Rhinoceros Beetle attracted.

It had not taken long for a massive insect disaster to form outside of Fertile Soil City.

Although Fertile City's City Lord had not found out the reason behind the insect disaster, he still regarded it with utmost seriousness. He had even enlisted the help of the Spirit Guards.

Since it had been during the dimensional rift's active period, the Spirit Guards had sent two Guard Envoys.

But also because it had been the dimensional rift's active period, the alien insect dimensional rifts opened continuously.

A horrible tragedy unfolded before anyone had time to prepare.

The Halberd Corner Sky-Defying Rhinoceros Beetle's wings could soothe insect-species feys. As such, the insect-species feys would not attack their comrades of the same species under the influence of the flapping wings. 𝒩eew updates 𝒂t n𝒐vel/bi𝒏.com

That had been the first time in history that insect-species feys and alien insects cooperated.

During combat, insect-species feys relied on their strong bodies, elemental energy, or venom.

The Halberd Corner Sky-Defying Rhinoceros Beetle could pass on its metal characteristics to the insect-species feys and alien insects. As a result, the physical-type alien insects and insect-species feys that already had strong defenses became even tougher. It also allowed the physically weak but powerful elemental- and poison-type insect-species alien insects to become more resistant to physical damage. This made it more difficult for them to be killed by spirit qi professionals.

In order to take on the insect disaster, Fertile Soil City had spent a large portion of its finances on training its City Guards.

The four Guard Envoys had an average power of thearch-class. This was the strongest support the Spirit Guards could provide cities during the dimensional rift's active period.

Alas, there had been no survivors of the insect disaster. This was because the Halberd Corner Sky-Defying Rhinoceros Beetle had attracted not only regular insect-species feys and alien insects but insect-species carcinoma feys as well.

Four types of insect-species carcinoma feys had joined the throng of alien insects and insect-species feys, creating the largest disaster in the Radiance Federation's history that turned into a wound that never healed.

In the end, three members of royalty had hurried to the scene and spent months settling the aftermath.

It was rumored that the nurturing from the insect army had allowed the Halberd Corner Sky-Defying Rhinoceros Beetle to evolve from Silver to Diamond by the time the disaster came to an end.

The same insect-species carcinoma feys generally had the same abilities and exclusive skills. There was not as much variation as in the abilities of feys.

Since many insect-species feys had died by the Diamond Halberd Corner Sky-Defying Rhinoceros Beetle's side, it gained many types of combat metal characteristics. It had even managed to seriously injure the members of royalty.

Cicada Song's body had even been corroded by the numerous types of metal, resulting in him being in recovery for nearly two decades.

This was why Cicada Song's sacred source lifeform, the Alleviating Wind, still had not managed to evolve to 10 Stars despite his close relationship with the Moon Empress, Chef Supreme, and Bamboo Monarch.

The Spirit Guards had always collected carcinoma feys from around the world. However, Night Leaning Moon had killed the Halberd Corner Sky-Defying Rhinoceros Beetle that created such a catastrophe without hesitation.

It was clear that no such disaster had taken place in the Halberd Corner Sky-Defying Rhinoceros Beetle, nor was there a danger rating for insect-species carcinoma feys.

Otherwise, they would not be auctioning it off so casually at the Crown Wood Banquet.

It was no wonder that Liu Jie had been so excited when he spotted the Halberd Corner Sky-Defying Rhinoceros Beetle.

The Halberd Corner Sky-Defying Rhinoceros Beetle could apply metal characteristics to both the insect army and insect-species carcinoma feys created by the Insect Queen to amplify their defenses.

Furthermore, as the Halberd Corner Sky-Defying Rhinoceros Beetle continued to consume different types of metals, its own power would increase.

As a result of the Fey Observers and Scholars' studies, they found that large rhinoceros beetle-type feys were the kings of the insect-species fey world. All of them possessed immense power.

When Liu Jie used the Insect Queen in battle, he lacked individual combat power the most.

1979 Gray's Gains!

Liu Jie's sacred source lifeform, the Emperor Core of All Insects, could fuse with the Insect Queen to explosively increase its individual combat power, but the price of using the ability was much too heavy.

However, the Halberd Corner Sky-Defying Rhinoceros Beetle was different. As Liu Jie set up his formation, the insect-species carcinoma feys' reproduced lifeforms and insects produced by the Insect Queen would die continuously.

The Halberd Corner Sky-Defying Rhinoceros Beetle's defense mode of metal characteristics could change into offense mode and stack up, allowing it to fight far beyond its grade.

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No one had fought with Lin Yuan over the Perfect Touch Wisteria.

But when Liu Jie placed a bid for the Halberd Corner Sky-Defying Rhinoceros Beetle, he was met with competition from several factions.

Yi Huailong was afraid that Lin Yuan's mood would be spoiled. Moreover, Lin Yuan was extremely fond of his retainer.

Yi Huailong explained, "Young Master Chu, most of these competing factions need a large number of insects as nourishment for their feys. For example, the head of the Yu family has the Insect-Consuming Bone Ficus, which needs to eat at least 500 tonnes of insects daily. The Yu family's bid for the Halberd Corner Sky-Defying Rhinoceros Beetle is so large because he wants to provide the Insect-Consuming Bone Ficus with a long-term meal ticket."

Without even a shift in his expression, Lin Yuan placed a bid of 50,000,000 Great Lush dollars after the Yu family announced their bid of 40,000,000 Great Lush dollars.

The Halberd Corner Sky-Defying Rhinoceros Beetle had inelastic demand to the Yu family.

The rainy season was almost upon the Divine Wood Federation. At that time, it would be extremely easy to catch insect-species feys.

As such, the middle-aged man who was representing the Yu family at the Crown Wood Banquet had no choice but to ball his fist in front of Lin Yuan and say, "I didn't expect Young Master Chu to be interested in the Halberd Corner Sky-Defying Rhinoceros Beetle. However, it is much too important to the Yu family. I hope that you can let us have it. The Yu family will be sure to show our deep gratitude! If you also have a need for the Halberd Corner Sky-Defying Rhinoceros Beetle to attract insects, we promise to send it to Sky Creation's tree castle every afternoon for as long as you're in Sacred Wood City so you can use it as you please!"

While the Yu family was determined to buy the Halberd Corner Sky-Defying Rhinoceros Beetle, they also did not want to insult Lin Yuan. As such, the middle-aged man had said something so placating.

Nonetheless, Lin Yuan did not intend to give way to the Yu family.

The Halberd Corner Sky-Defying Rhinoceros Beetle was far too important for Liu Jie. If they missed this opportunity, he might never be able to obtain one for the rest of his life.

Since the matter concerned Liu Jie's future, Lin Yuan was not above using martial power against those who interfered, no matter how much he wanted to keep his nose clean before he entered the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm.

Lin Yuan said to the middle-aged man from the Yu family, "I am very interested in the Halberd Corner Sky-Defying Rhinoceros Beetle. If the Yu family wants it, you can continue raising the price. I don't have any obligation to the Yu family."

When he was done speaking, Lin Yuan made his bid of 70,000,000 right on the tails of the Yu family's bid of 60,000,000.

The Yu family was not as illustrious as the Yang, Bai, Yi, or Su families in Sacred Forest City. However, their intermediate Class 4 Creation Master had reached advanced Class 4 in recent years. Two of their juniors had also reached Class 4 from pinnacle Class 3.

As a result, the Yu family was about to grab the tails of the Yi family.

Although the middle-aged man knew that this lavishly-dressed young man was extremely powerful, he, who was used to being a bully, could not swallow being treated in such a way.

"Since Young Master Chu has made his stance clear, I will have no choice but to affront you and continue raising the price! I bid 90,000,000 Great Lush dollars!"

Since Lin Yuan knew that Great Lush dollars was the only accepted currency in the Crown Wood Banquet, he had come prepared. This was why he had allowed such a large quantity of Bronze/Epic Item-Storing Walnuts to leave his hand.

It only took a few minutes for Lin Yuan to nurture one of the Item-Storing Walnut Trees, and one tree produced over 100 Item-Storing Walnuts.

Thus, the Great Lush dollars were completely worthless to Lin Yuan.

The middle-aged man needed to consider carefully each time he increased the bid by 10,000,000 Great Lush dollars, but Lin Yuan did not need to do so.

Lin Yuan was too lazy to go on slowly adding 10,000,000 to each subsequent bid.

"150,000,000."

He had upped the price by 60,000,000 at once, as though it was worth as much as garbage.

Of all the people from the Divine Wood Federation who were present, only Yi Huailong, who understood Lin Yuan's background, could remain calm.

Bai Qinghuan's ambition shone as brightly as it always did in her eyes. However, she now also looked at Lin Yuan with fear and respect.

She knew that just like how the young man had cut off all her paths of retreat by inviting her to stargaze with him, she would never be able to leave once she joined him.

Yet, this young man was willing to cough up 150,000,000 Great Lush dollars for his retainer. This meant that he was very kind to his subordinates.

As long as she provided value, it was likely that she would lead a comfortable life under him.

Lin Yuan could earn around 30,000,000 Great Lush dollars by selling a pair of the Bronze/Epic Item-Storing Walnuts.

On the other hand, the Yu family needed money to manage all of its operations. They could not afford to part with 150,000,000 Great Lush dollars.

Eventually, the middle-aged man decided not to raise the bid.

He could tell that Lin Yuan was set on winning. If he continued raising the price, he would only incite Lin Yuan to continue to do so as well. This would only further blacken their name in the books of Sky Creation.

It seemed that the Yu family was still going to have to use a large amount of manpower to seek out 500 tonnes of insects daily.

As Liu Jie looked at the Halberd Corner Sky-Defying Rhinoceros Beetle that Lin Yuan had just bought for him, Liu Jie felt as though he had just traveled through time.

Liu Jie could still remember how Lin Yuan had done all he could to buy the Hurricane Owlet Moth for him at a king-class expert's auction eight or nine months ago.

The Lin Yuan of then was completely different from the Lin Yuan of today.

He was going to be Lin Yuan's retainer knight forever, protecting him as his sword and shield.

Liu Jie intended to make the Halberd Corner Sky-Defying Rhinoceros Beetle the center of his combat system of insect-species carcinoma feys.

After the fight against the Freedom Federation envoy group, Liu Jie understood the enemy's might.

It was very likely that there would be more dangers at the Major Federation Meeting.

Liu Jie wanted to improve himself as much as possible during the next two years so that he would not have to hide behind Lin Yuan in the face of danger. Instead, he would be able to fulfill his duty of being Lin Yuan's retainer knight.

Both Lin Yuan and Liu Jie had great gains from the Crown Wood Banquet.

Besides the two of them, Gray's gains were also significant.

The Sand Storm Acacia, Frozen Rain Bellflower, and Hazy Weeping Willow that could produce weather phenomena were also auctioned off during the Crown Wood Banquet.

1980 Black Flood Dragon Rising Above the Imperial Court!

The Sand Storm Acacia could create sand storms, the Frozen Rain Bellflower could freeze rainy weather, and the Hazy Weeping Willow could create hazy weather. These three types of weather rarely arose in the natural world and were all considered extreme.

Gray likely would attain powerful combat abilities after absorbing the three types of weather, like how it had attained abilities related to rain and snow after it absorbed those types of weather.

The frozen rain weather might appear to be a combination of rainy and snowy weather, but that was not actually the case. Frozen rain weather was actually a rarely seen type of extreme weather.

Every time it appeared, it resulted in a steep drop in the number of plant-type feys.

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It was likely that after Gray absorbed the frozen rain weather from the Frozen Rain Bellflower, it would form a special link to the snowy weather.

When Lin Yuan first found out that Gray was a Heavenly Family Fey, he had not been overly amazed because, at that point, Heavenly Family Feys were nothing more to him than a concept he understood.

But now, after the Mother of Bloodbath had awakened its Sky Sundial Jade Spider bloodline and evolved into a Heavenly Family Fey, as well as Lin Yuan's deepened interactions with the Heavenly Family Cottage, he found out that there was a huge difference between Gray and regular Heavenly Family Feys.

Firstly, Heavenly Family Feys yearned for pure spirit qi just as much as feys did, yet Gray no longer had as large of a reaction to spirit qi as it used to, perhaps because it grew up on pure spirit qi.

Now, the only thing that could enable Gray to increase its power was such types of weather.

Moreover, Heavenly Family Feys were usually only affiliated with one type of natural phenomenon.

Lin Yuan had asked Blue Lotus about this in the past, and she told him that there was a member of Heavenly Family Cottage who was affiliated with lightning.

Although lightning was not technically a type of weather, it also seemed like a weather event in its own right.

While other Heavenly Family Feys could only take control of one, Gray had managed to take control of several.

This made Lin Yuan curious about Gray's limit.

The auction was not the key part of the Crown Wood Banquet but just a tool. Its main purpose was to deepen the relationship between the veteran elite families in the Divine Wood Federation and the City Lords. It was also a fair platform for the various factions to negotiate.

All in all, the Crown Wood Banquet was a convention where the Divine Wood Federation's upper echelon gathered.

The high-ranking members of elite families enjoyed such situations, but Lin Yuan found them to be unbelievably dull.

Lin Yuan represented Sky Creation, which was also a foreign faction that had a Class 5 Creation Master while the Divine Wood Federation had none of its own.

Previously, the various families could only speculate whether there was indeed a Class 5 Creation Master in Sky Creation. But after what Su Han had said, their collective guess had been confirmed.

Thus, immediately after the auction ended, many members of the factions made their way over to Lin Yuan. Among them was also the Yu family, which had just fought over the Halberd Corner Sky-Defying Rhinoceros Beetle with him.

Before Lin Yuan had chosen the Yi family to be his puppets, he would not have minded interacting with these factions. However, there was no need to do so now.

What Lin Yuan was after were the Divine Wood Federation's resources.

Once he gave the Yi family a leg up and helped them to enter the imperial court, all of the Divine Wood Federation's resources would eventually become his.

Hence, he ignored the other members of the factions and said to Bai Qinghuan, "Let's go. Now is the best time to admire the moon."

Lin Yuan started to make his way out of the Crown Wood Banquet.

Once he stepped out of the venue, he summoned Blackie into the garden.

A black flood dragon twirled toward the sky. Its body, which was hundreds of meters long, filled the air with suffocating pressure.

Bai Qinghuan looked at Lin Yuan with astonishment.

Besides having outstanding looks and shouldering the responsibility of representing Sky Creation, this young man she had just met today was also an expert.

Bai Qinghuan was chosen by the head of the Bai family out of all the collateral descendants to marry his oldest grandson because she possessed Creation Master talent.

However, her talent was limited, and she was still only a beginner Class 2 Creation Master despite having been nurtured by the head of the Bai family for so many years.

Nonetheless, this did not prevent her from being able to tell how strong Blackie was.

Although Lin Yuan appeared to be younger than his actual age, he could not be more than 20 years old. Yet, he already had a Diamond X/Fantasy V fey with a pinnacle flood-dragon-species bloodline that was about to reach main-dragon-species.

There were main-dragon-species feys in the Divine Wood Federation, and many of the Bai family's experts had contracted them.

However, even with focused nurturing using all of the Bai family's resources, the head of the Bai family's Purple Flames Mountain Leaping Dragon's bloodline had only managed to evolve from pinnacle terrifying-dragon-species to main-dragon-species when it reached Creation Breed.

Regardless, the head of the Bai family had been overjoyed.

The bloodline of flood-dragon-species feys was even more difficult to purify than terrifying-dragon-species feys.

Under normal circumstances, about eight or nine out of every ten flood-dragon-species feys evolved to main-dragon-species slower than terrifying-dragon-species feys.

However, this black flood dragon's bloodline had refreshed Bai Qinghuan's horizons.

One look at the Diamond X/Fantasy V pure-blooded flood dragon was enough to tell the gap between her and Lin Yuan's Creation Master resources.

At that moment, he looked down at her from his seat on the dragon's back and said, "Let's go. If we're going to see the stars, it only makes sense for us to go closer to them for a better look!"

Bai Qinghuan was not considered weak, but she was a healing-type spirit qi professional and could not fly before she reached king-class.

This left her confused about how she was going to climb aboard the black flood dragon's back.

It was now that the young man in silver armor sitting behind Lin Yuan snapped his fingers, and a moth that seemed to be made of night itself landed beside her.

The moth wrapped her with wind-elemental energy and carried her to the back of the giant black flood dragon.

Soon, the black flood dragon reared and took to the air.

After Lin Yuan left, the many members of the factions left behind at the Crown Wood Banquet had disappointment clearly written on their faces.

Previously, many of them had not had the opportunity to interact with him. Now that the opportunity had opened itself, he ended up being unwilling to mix.

Yi Huailong did not appear disappointed in the slightest. In fact, it was the opposite in that he looked beside himself with excitement.

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1981 The Yang Family and Truth Association!

Given that Yi Huailong had managed to pull the Yi family out of the gutter and put them in a prime position to be taking their first steps down the road of prosperity at any time, he was extremely smart.

He had already guessed that Sky Creation had appeared so abruptly in Sacred Wood City because of the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm.

It was likely that the only thing in Sacred Forest City that a Class 5 Creation Master could not obtain was a fey with the Sacred Wood bloodline.

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If he just wanted a plant-type fey with the Sacred Wood bloodline, Lin Yuan could have just established a partnership with a few families who had the chance to enter the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm and use Class 5 Creation Master resources to trade for the fey with the Sacred Wood bloodline.

Take the Yi family, for example. Yi Huailong would have been more than willing to use a fey with the Sacred Wood bloodline to trade for Class 5 Creation Master resources that would be able to increase his power.

Yi Huailong would never have been able to guess that Lin Yuan was after the being in the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm that created feys with the Sacred Wood bloodline.

But even if Yi Huailong did know what Lin Yuan was thinking, all he would do was stand loyally by Lin Yuan's side to help him.

This was because he had become Lin Yuan's servant and because Lin Yuan could lead Yi Huailong and the Yi family to a bright future.

After the Yi family entered the imperial court, Yi Huailong would lead the Divine Wood Federation toward glory.

Yi Huailong felt that Lin Yuan had to have a plan in mind since he asked to meet.

Su Han and Yang Sijie had left the Crown Wood Banquet long ago.

This had never happened before.

Yi Huailong could already distinctly pick up the scent of rain.

When Yang Sijie returned to the imperial court, while he was standing in a long corridor talking with an elderly man, he spotted a black flood dragon taking to the sky in the distance.

A tall and skinny young man was standing behind Yang Sijie, and his features were rather feminine.

His brow was currently furrowed, adding a tinge of malice to his expression.

"Fifth Uncle and Grandfather, no matter who they are, it is an insult to our imperial court to be riding on an avian-type fey within the imperial court's premises! We should immediately send out nearby guards to arrest and punish the perpetrator! Why are the two of you letting him do as he pleases?"

Yang Sijie took a deep breath and glared at this young man silently.

The elderly man next to Yang Sijie said, "Ji, you have been by my side for so long. Yet, you haven't grown at all! You should really learn from your sister and think more! Then, you'll know why I'm letting him do as he pleases and ride an avian-type fey in the imperial court!"

Yang Ji's face immediately fell.

Whenever he misspoke, his grandfather would compare him to his older sister and tell him to think more. Why would he have to ask if he could understand it for himself?

Yang Ji lowered his head and said, "Yes, Grandfather! Tonight, I will go and ponder over it carefully!"

Yang Hanxian felt his chest tighten when he heard what Yang Ji said. Although he had become an Immortal expert, this grandson of his would shorten his lifespan by at least 50 years.

"You don't have to wait until you return. Go into the hall and reflect now!"

Yang Ji's temper flared when he heard that his grandfather was going to lock him up again. He did not even bother to bid goodbye to Yang Sijie and Yang Hanxian as he turned on his heel and stomped away into the hall.

Yang Hanxian was so ticked off that he tossed the chain of Item-Storing Walnuts in his hand to the ground, causing them to clatter against the stone.

Yang Sijie hurriedly picked up the chain of pearls and said, "Father, Ji is still young! Why bother being angry with him?"

Yang Hanxian replied angrily, "Ji is like this because all of his uncles, you included, have spoiled him rotten! Your daughter is still the best! She has always been obedient!"

Yang Sijie smiled as his eyes flashed. If he had not spoiled his nephew, how could his daughter have climbed onto the pedestal that she currently sat on?

At that moment, Yang Hanxian asked, "Are the people from the Truth Association done arranging the secret room inside the main hall?"

Yang Sijie's expression turned stern as he replied, "Father, everything has been prepared to perfection!"

Yang Hanxian smiled coldly and raised his gaze to look out in the direction of the Su family's residence.

"The Su family had indeed been hiding a secret all these years. Does Su Zhenmu really think that every one of the Su family's inner circle is uncrackable? The Su family wants to attack us to take over the imperial court, but they have no clue that we've been waiting for them to make their move for months!"

Worry crossed Yang Sijie's face as he said, "Father, we don't have to worry about the Su family! However, if we agree to the Truth Association's condition, our family will become a subsidiary of the Truth Association once you become a member. At that point, the Divine Wood Federation would essentially be subservient to the Great Lush Federation!"

Yang Hanxian did not respond immediately. But, an uncontrollable tinge of fear appeared deep in his gaze.

He seemed to remember the boy who had walked out of the gruesome ball of flesh three months ago.

In a few months, the boy had become Yang Hanxian's nightmare.

"Jie, when one is lacking, one has no choice but to ally with stronger powers. You will understand this in the future!"

Yang Sijie did not mention the Truth Association again. Even if the entire Yang family opposed the idea, his father was adamant about seeing it through.

For this reason, his father had even sacrificed Yang Sijie's older brother, who had long been favored by him.

This made Yang Sijie aware that if he voiced his opposition, there was no question that he would end up just like his older brother.

Yang Sijie's tone turned sharp as he said, "Father, the rumor of Sky Creation having a Class 5 Creation Master should be true. Should we become acquainted with Sky Creation? The Su family is unusually close with Sky Creation. I'm afraid that even with the support of the Truth Association, we might not be able to fend off the Su family when they have Sky Creation backing them."

Yang Sijie had always been the type to play things safe. Otherwise, he would not have given up on connecting with Sky Creation and chosen to stay on the fence the moment Su Han released an unverified claim.

The Truth Association's hold over the Divine Wood Federation's imperial court made Yang Sijie think of the concept of many weaklings overpowering the strong.

However, his father's attitude toward the Truth Association made Yang Sijie too afraid to mention this concept. This was because it could be said that Yang Hanxian no longer placed the Yang family's benefits first.

He had assumed that his words would incite contemplation from his father. Alas, his father turned down his suggestion without hesitation.

1982 Operation About to Begin!

"Jie, even if Sky Creation has a Class 5 Creation Master, they won't be able to compete with Truth Association. Later, go and properly host the experts from the Truth Association. If Sky Creation doesn't help the Su family to attack us, we can still get to know them after the storm blows over."

Once Yang Sijie was done speaking, Yang Hanxian turned and walked into the hall.

Yang Sijie looked up at the moon. Wispy clouds slowly floated across the inky sky, making the full moon appear like a crescent.

Yang Sijie could be certain that his father did not use to be like this.

When the Truth Association first came to the Divine Wood Federation and connected with the imperial court, his father had been extremely standoffish.

But ever since that night when his father had fallen seriously ill, his attitude toward the Truth Association changed completely!

Yang Sijie sighed, and he suddenly saw no point in trying to argue. Eventually, he would still end up as a puppet.

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Inside the Su family's meeting room, two elders with liver spot-covered skin sat side by side at the head of the table while Su Jian, Su Jun, and Su Han took the seats beside them.

Su Jun and Su Jian sat on their left while Su Han sat on their right.

The rest of the over 60 of the Su family's experts and main members, such as Su Wenliang, did not have the authority to attend this meeting, even though he had been promoted to steward.

Right after Su Han took his seat, he felt the pressure akin to the weight of thousands of mountains pressing down on him.

He did not expect his great-grandfather to begin a secret meeting while he was representing the Su family at the Crown Wood Banquet.

His great-grandfather had even issued the order that they would make their move once the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm opened.Gét latest 𝒏ovel ch𝒂pters on n𝒐v(e)lbj/n.c/𝒐m

At that time, he would not be able to bring up any new discoveries or guesses he had for fear of confusing the troops.

When he saw the hopeful expressions of his great-grandparents and his two older brothers, Su Han let out a long sigh. He had no choice but to bury his worries and pray that they dissolved.

When Su Han thought back to how Lin Yuan treated him at the Crown Wood Banquet and the precious instrument his retainer used, he seemed to see a vision of the Su family's future.

After the secret meeting ended, Su Han asked Su Zhenmu in a low voice, "Great-Grandfather, has Sky Creation's Class 5 Creation Master remained in the treasure vault all this time? If our family makes a move, your main fey will have to stay by your side. What will happen to the Sky Creation's Class 5 Creation Master then?"

Ever since Su Han entered, Su Zhenmu could tell from his countenance that something was wrong. Su Zhenmu could guess that this was likely related to Sky Creation.

At the beginning of the operation, Su Zhenmu had his own share of worries and calculations.

However, wealth was only found in the mire of danger.

If Sky Creation's Class 5 Creation Master truly had the ability to resist, there was no reason for her to endure the treatment of the Su family.

Hence, Su Zhenmu did not think there was anything to worry about.

Su Zhenmu felt that if he busied himself with worrying instead of acting, he would just be dragging the Su family down.

Thus, no matter how much Su Zhenmu usually spoiled Su Han, his tone turned cold. "Han, you have no flaws besides being overly cautious and worrying too much. If that's the case, you can take yourself out of this operation! You can stay in the residence to watch over Sky Creation's Class 5 Creation Master!

"My Adjudication Dung Beetle is stronger than Sky Creation's Class 5 Creation Master's main fey. It can use its ability to lock Di Wanmi's spiritual power and movement. It will remove the lock when it returns. So, there's nothing for you to be worried about!"

Su Zhenmu led Su Jun and Su Jian out of the meeting room.

Su Han was about to chase after Su Zhenmu to add something, but he stopped himself when he remembered the mood that Su Zhenmu was in.

It would also be good for him to guard Di Wanmi.

The Adjudication Dung Beetle's ability could lock everything within a set area.

There could only be two possibilities for the lock to fail. The first reason was that his great-grandfather's Adjudication Dung Beetle had died during the battle against the Yang family. The other possibility was that Di Wanmi was originally stronger than the Adjudication Dung Beetle and that she had been trying to set the Su family up from the beginning.

If the Su family had really been set up by the Class 5 Creation Master, they would be doomed, regardless of whether their operation against the Yang family turned out to be a success.

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The long black flood dragon twisted around a nearby rooftop, the clouds rolling beneath it.

When one looked down from its back, all one could see were dark clouds. As the clouds gradually thickened, they could not see the gunfire taking place within the Divine Wood Federation's imperial court.

Ever since Bai Qinghuan climbed aboard Blackie's back, she had been waiting for Lin Yuan to say something to her.

Yet, not only did Lin Yuan remain silent, he was silently looking up at the stars.

It was as though the constellations were communicating with him. The starlight cascaded down his body, weaving a gossamer garment.

At that moment, Lin Yuan did not seem like a rich young master but like a god who had been relegated to the mortal realm.

Since Lin Yuan had contracted the Merciful Star Peony, he used Casted Item Starlight almost daily.

He discovered that it rained far too much in the Divine Wood Federation, and the clouds prevented him from using Casted Item Starlight every night.

When it rained, Lin Yuan rode Blackie above the clouds to absorb starlight. He realized the effects of absorbing starlight above the clouds were much better than on the ground.

Purple Love's blessing allowed Lin Yuan to absorb starlight much easier.

It did not take long before Lin Yuan felt the force in one of his arms to be equivalent to 75 kilograms. This would allow Lin Yuan to be much stronger when he used the combat skills and fighting strategies he had picked up.

After all, when a person was moving, they depended on their strength on top of agility.

Lin Yuan had invited Bai Qinghuan to stargaze because he wanted to cut off her means to retreat and also because he did not want to waste time that he could have been using Casted Item Starlight.

Since Bai Qinghuan had all but delivered herself, Lin Yuan knew that she would seek him out even if he remained silent.

He wanted to see what she, someone whose body could not contain her brimming ambition, was truly made of.

1983 Oh? Intelligence and Capability?

If Bai Qinghuan was completely incompetent and only wanted Lin Yuan's protection, he would not waste time on her.

But if Bai Qinghuan had her own capabilities, Lin Yuan did not mind helping to change her fate and open a new path for her.

When Bai Qinghuan saw the starlight around Lin Yuan darkening, she knew that she could not wait any longer.

She had been trying to find a way to gain the upper hand when she eventually spoke to Lin Yuan. Even if she could not gain the upper hand, she had to at least secure equal footing.

Since she was going to become subservient to him, she was well aware that she had to consider her future identity and status.

Their short interaction had already been enough for Bai Qinghuan to know that this young man liked to be the one in the lead.

Lin Yuan was her only path to salvation, but she was nothing more than another chess piece on his board. She was non-essential.

Bai Qinghuan was extremely confident in her abilities. Otherwise, she would not have left herself with no way out in a circumstance like the Crown Wood Banquet.

But before she demonstrated what she could do, she knew that she had no leverage.

Thus, she bit her lip and said, "Young Master Chu, I am 19 years old this year and am a beginner Class 2 Creation Master. My main fey is Gold/Fantasy."

Liu Jie had been curious about Bai Qinghuan. He wanted to know why she was speaking in such a way that left no way out for herself.

There was no way that Bai Qinghuan would naively believe that a faction would be willing to offend the Bai family and try to take control of them just because she was a beautiful woman.

She was 19 years old, a Class 2 Creation Master, and had a Gold/Fantasy fey. Given her age and power, she was definitely considered a genius. She had what it took to fight for a spot in the Radiance Hundred Sequence, even in the Radiance Federation.

However, she could not prove anything by attaining such power with the Bai family's resources.

In fact, by abandoning the Bai family to seek protection elsewhere, she seemed rather despicable.

However, her vapid demeanor with Yang Sijie and Su Han and her ridiculous responses made Liu Jie aware that Bai Qinghuan was not simple.

She would never rely on something like her feminine wiles.

Just as Liu Jie thought, once Bai Qinghuan was done introducing her power level, her tone took a turn. "Young Master Chu, Sky Creation has a Class 5 Creation Master. My power is insignificant. I came to see you because I want to take a gamble. Will my intelligence and capability be enough to trade for your willingness to make an enemy out of the Bai family and protect me?"

Lin Yuan finally looked interested.

"Oh? Intelligence and capability? Since you're from the Divine Wood Federation, you should know that power is everything. Intelligence and capability are worthless when one is imprisoned. It will only be able to take effect when one is in a high position. So, by approaching me, you're not only trying to rid yourself of the Bai family but also looking for a chance to develop your ambition from a high position. Other factions won't be able to handle your ambition, and I'm the same!"

Bai Qinghuan inhaled sharply, and she felt as though she had been frozen.

This young man completely saw through her heart.

By saying that he could not handle her ambition, he was rejecting her. This meant that she would not even have the opportunity to demonstrate her intelligence and capability.

As Bai Qinghuan felt her body become increasingly cold as she teetered off the precipice overlooking the pit of despair, the young man said softly, "If your ability and intelligence can make up for the flaws left by your intelligence, I can give you a chance to reach that high position."

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However, that young man had just given her hope before swapping it with despair and then handing her renewed hope.

After the back and forth, she could not help but be terrified of this young man, to the point that she dared not bare her ambition in front of him.

Bai Qinghuan took a deep breath and knew that this was her last chance.

She took out the Item-Storing Walnut and activated it using spiritual energy.

Four piles of documents, each almost four meters tall, appeared on Blackie's back.

The wind at such a high altitude was extremely strong, and some of the documents were immediately blown away when they appeared.

Liu Jie waved his finger, and two of the Lonely Night Hurricane Moths that had been scouting the surroundings flashed and retrieved every single one of the documents that had been blown away by the wind.

Bai Qinghuan stared at Lin Yuan with utmost seriousness and said, "Young Master Chu, everything I want to say is here. You will automatically come to a decision once you're done reading them. If you really don't think I'm worth it, please drop me off outside of Sacred Forest City to give me a chance to flee for my life."

Lin Yuan looked at Bai Qinghuan and noticed that there was still calmness amid her panic.

Bai Qinghuan saw Lin Yuan looking at her and thought he did not have the patience to look through the documents she had just produced.

She immediately lost her cool.

She knew that she had taken out far too much information. It would take a regular person a few days to read through all of them.

But if Lin Yuan was unwilling to read through the documents, Bai Qinghuan had no idea how she could prove her worth.

At that moment, she suddenly saw a white cat appear in Lin Yuan's arms.

The cat had eight long billowing tails, and it was covered in bright ivory fur.

The eight-tailed cat with a strange gaze was currently affectionately clinging to Lin Yuan's shoulders as it nuzzled its neck.

As a Class 2 Creation Master, Bai Qinghuan could not tell what the cat's ability was. However, she could tell that it had reached Diamond X/Fantasy.

Another Diamond X/Fantasy V fey! It had a similar level of power to the black flood dragon.

The two Diamond X/Fantasy V feys gave Bai Qinghuan a boost of confidence.

For the first time, she felt insignificant and mediocre.

At that moment, Bai Qinghuan heard the young man say, "Don't you want me to look through the four piles of documents? I shall do as you ask."

Bai Qinghuan was delighted when she heard this.

This was when she heard the cat in Lin Yuan's arms let out a long meow.

1984 Why Did You Bring Her Back?

Soon, the eight illusionary tails rapidly elongated and solidified.

The cat tails formed a windstorm atop the black flood dragon's back that picked up the piles of paper.

The long tails touched each piece of paper as though it was playing.

Bai Qinghuan was currently nervously waiting for her ending and did not notice Lin Yuan's gaze changing.

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Frankly, Lin Yuan had not thought much about Bai Qinghuan.

But now, it seemed that she was not simple.

Genius was already done looking through two of the piles and found that they described the inferred relations between the major factions in the Divine Wood Federation.

Given the Bai family's status, Bai Qinghuan had access to information that others would struggle to obtain. Hence, it was not surprising for the inferences to be more detailed.

However, the inference that the Su family was going to attack the Yang family and win was not expected.

It had to be a secret that the Su family intended to attack the Yang family.

There was no way that Bai Qinghuan would have the opportunity to learn about it. Even the head of the Bai family should not be aware of this.

Even if the head of the Bai family had secured such information, he would not tell Bai Qinghuan about it.

Thus, the only explanation was that Bai Qinghuan had inferred this information on her own.

If that were the case, it meant she was extremely skilled at inference and deduction.

However, Lin Yuan was curious about why she predicted that the Su family would lose to the Yang family.

While Lin Yuan was thinking, Genius finished looking through all four piles of documents.

After Genius' examination, the way Lin Yuan looked at Bai Qinghuan changed.

He would not have a need to keep her if all she was good for was her deduction skill.

But now, he felt that he absolutely needed to keep her.

He had not expected her to have such powerful military affairs skills.

In this world where wielding beasts was at the root of everything, a person's power was key and martial force was above all.

Thus, military affairs skills were increasingly ignored.

But since Lin Yuan had come from another world, he knew the importance of military affairs skills.

Bai Qinghuan had indeed proven her worth to Lin Yuan.

In special situations, Bai Qinghuan's strategic significance would exceed that of an Eternal expert.

And they happened to be exactly in the middle of a special situation. A storm was about to be unleashed.

Although Lin Yuan did not absolutely have to keep Bai Qinghuan, there would be no disadvantages to doing so.

Lin Yuan did not want to waste too much time here.

It was likely that Yi Huailong was already on his way to Sky Creation's tree castle to see Lin Yuan.

Lin Yuan said to Bai Qinghuan, "Frankly, I don't have much use for your deductions because I can get access to some information even without deductions. But I am interested in your military affairs skills. Swear to me on your Willpower Rune! There might be a chance in the future to push you to a high position and helm strategy planning."

While Lin Yuan was speaking, he sent Blackie toward Sky Creation's tree castle.

When Lin Yuan instructed his cat to use its tail to flip through the information, Bai Qinghuan saw every movement as a round of judgment.

Fear could be stacked endlessly, especially when one's life hung in the balance.

As Bai Qinghuan's fear accumulated, she dared not negotiate with Lin Yuan when the opportunity was finally presented to her.

She immediately knelt to the ground and swore to become Lin Yuan's servant on her Willpower Rune.

In the Divine Wood Federation, the only type of swearing was to become a servant.

Now, Bai Qinghuan was Lin Yuan's servant, and he could use the contract to decide her life or death.

A faint dot of light appeared in the shrine in his soul. This represented Bai Qinghuan's faith in him.

Although this dot of light was still extremely small, it proved that Bai Qinghuan had become loyal to him.

By the time they arrived at Sky Creation's tree castle, Yi Huailong was waiting for Lin Yuan as per their agreement.

Both Yi Huailong and Bai Qinghuan's faces were filled with shock.

Yi Huailong had not expected Lin Yuan to have Bai Qinghuan by his side, and Bai Qinghuan had not expected Yi Huailong to act in such a subservient manner in front of Lin Yuan. It was as though, just like her, he was Lin Yuan's servant.

Yi Huailong had many things to tell Lin Yuan, but he did not know how to begin with Bai Qinghuan here.

At that moment, Lin Yuan said, "You can speak candidly. Bai Qinghuan is also one of us."

Yi Huailong looked at Bai Qinghuan curiously. He did not understand what it was about Bai Qinghuan that made her willing to be taken in by Lin Yuan while risking affronting the Bai family.

But since Lin Yuan had said that Bai Qinghuan was one of them, Yi Huailong did not put up a guard against her and said, "Young Master, if the Su family truly makes a move, Sacred Forest City will be thrown into chaos. I'm afraid that I won't be able to protect the tree castle without you here."

Lin Yuan replied, "Once the Su family makes their move, it is likely that the Bai family will take advantage of the opportunity to attack the Yi family. At that time, you will immediately bring the people from the Yi family to Sky Creation's tree castle. Your safety is assured once you're inside the tree castle."

Bai Qinghuan was floored when she heard the exchange between Lin Yuan and Yi Huailong.

Yi Huailong had addressed Lin Yuan as 'Young Master'. This meant that he saw Lin Yuan as his master and that the Yi family had become a subsidiary of Sky Creation.

Bai Qinghuan had come up with her deductions based on information she had gathered but also on her understanding of the current circumstances.

Previously, she had thought about going to the head of the Bai family with her deductions to see if she could leverage her ability to escape her marriage to the Bai family's oldest grandson.

But after some things happened, Bai Qinghuan realized she was too naive.

Once she refused to marry the Bai family's oldest grandson, she would lose all value to the Bai family. There was no way that they would fancy her military affairs skill.

Once he fully absorbed her deductions, the head of the Bai family would eliminate her to preserve his grandson's pride.

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But now, Lin Yuan verified Bai Qinghuan's deductions.

Yet, she did not feel happy in the slightest. Vissit n𝒐velbin.c𝒐m for 𝒏ew 𝒏ovels

Since she came from one of the Bai family's collateral branches, she knew that anything that happened in Sacred Wood City would put countless regular people in turmoil.

1985 Pierce My Artery!

At that moment, Lin Yuan asked, "Qinghuan, according to your prediction, the Su family will lose to the Yang family. Are you basing it on some information you heard or any other kind of basis?"

Bai Qinghuan was silent for a moment before she said calmly, "I don't have any basis, but I can assure you that the Su family will not be able to defeat the Yang family."

Lin Yuan frowned.

Without any basis, the prediction was unreliable.

Frankly, Lin Yuan did not care if the Su family or the Yang family won. It made no difference to him.

Regardless, Lin Yuan was going to promote the Yi family after the fight between the Su and Yang families.

However, as the instigator, it was unlikely that the Su family would dare to attack the Yang family without absolute confidence.

When Lin Yuan helped the Su family nurture over 100 square meters of the Peaceful Calm Air Moss, he sensed that the Su family had been suppressing their plan.

It was now that Bai Qinghuan went on to say, "Ever since the Yang family took over the imperial court, they have possessed much more resources than the other families. Every year, 3% of the revenue from the items auctioned off by the Yang family at the Crown Wood Banquet would support them for the entire year. They took in 200,000,000 Great Lush dollars from the Crown Wood Banquet.

"After the past century, their earnings from just the Crown Wood Banquet have allowed the Yang family to possess much more resources than other families. I'm sure you can calculate the distance of the gap without me telling you.

"As the head of the imperial court, the Yang family had five permanent seats on the council. This allows them to send out at least five people into the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm each time.

"Even though the Su family has been working hard for the past two decades and has earned more seats on the council, so they now have even more seats than the Yang family, their recent win is insufficient for them to accumulate important resources. Hence, the Yang family is still the family with the most plant-type feys with the Sacred Wood bloodline in Sacred Forest City."

At that point, Bai Qinghuan cast her gaze at Yi Huailong, and her tone became girlish as she said, "Uncle Yi, your family might not have what it takes to take on the Yang family by force but try to imagine yourself as one of the main members of the Yang family. After all that has happened over the years, even I am able to sense that the Su family has become too strong. They have spent almost all of their resources on increasing their overall power.

"Don't you think the Yang family knows too? Don't you think they'll put up their guard against the Su family? Unless the Yang family is playing a bigger game, they would have already exposed the Su family! There's no way they would still be as calm as they are now."

Yi Huailong had not expected Bai Qinghuan to involve him in her answer to Lin Yuan's question.

What did she mean by the Yi family did not have what it took to take on the Yang family?

If the Yi family hadn't been targeted by the Bai family two decades ago and was almost destroyed, my brother would have become a Class 5 Creation Master long ago. Then, not just the Yang family but even the Su and Bai families would be no match for us!

Although Bai Qinghuan's tone was unbearable, Yi Huailong felt that what she said made complete sense. A king would never allow others to steal his profits without putting up resistance!

Yi Huailong understood the head of the Yang family, Yang Hanxian.

He was overly suspicious and placed his ego above everything else.

An extremely cautious person like this had to already be suspecting the Su family.

However, Yang Hanxian appeared calm and carefree. He did seem to be waiting for the Su family to lunge with their knife poised so he could take them down in one fell swoop.

This thought caused Yi Huailong's heart to fall.

He had been under the assumption that he understood the Yang and Su families' power. He did not think that the Yang family had the capacity to be acting as calmly as they were.

At that moment, Lin Yuan said softly, "If that's the case, it's likely that the Su and Yang families will reveal all their secret weapons during this bout of conflict. Yi Huailong, you and the Yi family should take the next few days to make the proper preparations. At the end of it all, the Yi family will be the one to fulfill the Su family's dream."

Now that Lin Yuan was done giving his instructions, he left Sky Creation's tree castle.

As they watched the image of Lin Yuan's departing figure, Bai Qinghuan and Yi Huailong sensed from his attitude that he could not be less bothered by the Su and Yang families.

Yi Huailong was about to leave when he saw Bai Qinghuan taking a seat on one of the chairs inside the tree castle.

Since he had been so disgusted by her, he decided to return the favor.

"Niece Qinghuan, leave with me! The Bai family isn't far from the Yi family, and we can accompany each other!"

Just as Yi Huailong was done speaking, he saw Bai Qinghuan cross her legs and say with a smile, "I don't have the courage to return to the Bai family. I wanted to survive by remaining in the tree castle, but since you've extended my invitation, I don't mind staying with the Yi family.

"Since you have gained Young Master Chu's protection, I'm sure that you're no longer afraid of the Bai family. It just so happens that the Bai family almost took out the Yi family last time.

"This time, the Yi family should eliminate the Bai family before the Su family makes a move on the Yang family to show off the Yi family's might! It will remove all the humiliation of past years from how even families like the Yu family have plotted to take a dump on the Yi family."

Bai Qinghuan's words sounded like they had been for Yi Huailong's sake and that she hoped the Yi family would shine.

But when Yi Huailong heard it, he was so enraged that steam almost started coming out from his ears. His liver almost exploded!

Listen to her! What is she saying!? You disgusted me once, and I just wanted to do the same to you. Why is it that only you are allowed to disgust me but not vice versa? Your words directly pierced my artery!

Regardless of whether the Yi family was currently capable of taking on the Bai family, acting now could ruin the plan that Lin Yuan had already set up. At that time, they would have put themselves against Sky Creation.

If Bai Qinghuan had not already joined Sky Creation and was not one of Lin Yuan's servants now, her words would have been reason enough for Yi Huailong to kill her without hesitation.

Bai Qinghuan also stabbed at Yi Huailong's artery mercilessly because she knew he did not dare touch her.

Liu Jie looked vexed when he saw Yi Huailong and Bai Qinghuan squabbling, but he did not stop them.

This was because he was still unsure of why Lin Yuan had taken in Yi Huailong and Bai Qinghuan.

But regardless of what the reason was, all he needed to do was stay by Lin Yuan's side to complete the plan.

1986 Two Lin Yuans!

From the moment he left the tree castle, Lin Yuan sensed that he was being watched. Moreover, more than one person was watching him.

Previously, what Lin Yuan lacked the most was a sensing ability. But ever since he formed a contract with the Flower Calamity Beautiful Devil and it attained the satanic ability Misfortune for All, Lin Yuan could sense the calamity of the surroundings.

This would allow him to sense if there were any lifeforms around him.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6… 18, 19, 20, 21.

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There were a total of 21 people watching him.

Hehe! There sure are numerous factions from Sacred Forest City who are targeting Sky Creation!

Lin Yuan had arranged to meet Ding Chengshuo at the Thriving Summer Hotel, the largest hotel in Sacred Forest City.

He had given the Ethereal Jellyfish's tentacles to Ding Chengshuo. Điscover n𝒆w chapt𝒆rs 𝒐n n0𝒗e(l)bi𝒏.com

Ding Chengshuo had placed a tentacle node in his room.

Lin Yuan found a nearby hotel.

Once Lin Yuan entered the hotel, he was immediately warmly received.

The later in the day it became, the more crowded it became in the Divine Wood Federation. The nightlife was much livelier than in the Radiance Federation.

Even in Sacred Forest City, which was the capital of the Divine Wood Federation, the nightlife was filled with debauchery and wickedness.

There were numerous dancer services offered at every hotel.

Lin Yuan's attire made him a magnet for the hotel staff. The hotel staff all had keen eyes and addressed every person who was dressed lavishly as 'Lord'.

"Lord, welcome to our humble establishment! We offer many special services! Would you like to order food first or some of these services?"

This attendant shot Lin Yuan a promiscuous gaze as she wondered to herself.

If Lord Chu chooses a special service, I wonder which little thing will get lucky.

Although Lin Yuan was a young man in this world, he was aware of the realities of the world.

"I will be ordering food. I want to book a suite."

Lin Yuan handed money to the attendant.

Normally, when business was booming, people who only came to dine were not allowed to book private rooms.

But when she saw the 5 Great Lush dollars that Lin Yuan was holding out, the attendant's eyes immediately lit up.

5 Great Lush dollars was enough for him to book over 20 rounds of fun.

"Lord, I will arrange the best room for you this instant. We will give you five types of specialty dishes for free if it's just you! I hope they will be to your liking!"

Lin Yuan had not come to dine but to put up a facade.

It did not matter what dishes were served as he was not going to be the one eating them.

Lin Yuan looked at the attendant, who was almost vibrating with excitement over the tip he had given, and said, "Lead the way!"

The attendant excitedly led Lin Yuan into a large suite and personally ordered dishes for him.

Once Lin Yuan entered the suite, he summoned the Death Demon Concubine Beast.

Merciful Soul immediately leaped into Lin Yuan's arms and started cuddling up to him.

Merciful Soul had used Demon Concubine's Promise to form a contract with the Lifespan Mouse. Now, their lives were linked.

Lin Yuan was keeping the Lifespan Mouse inside the Spirit Lock spatial zone so it could continuously consume spiritual ingredients that contained vitality to increase its store of lifespan.

Normally, the Suzerain X/Myth I Merciful Soul had a lifespan of around 1,100 years. But thanks to the Lifespan Mouse, its lifespan had broken through this limit to reach 1,400 years.

Merciful Soul's lifespan had increased so much in just a few days. After a few more days of lifespan accumulation, Merciful Soul would be able to use Steal the Fate of a Nation, Demon Concubine's Chaos, and Payment in Life freely.

Lin Yuan twirled his finger, and a feather made of Day and Night Spirit Silver appeared in his hand.

He swiped the tip of his finger over the feather, and a drop of blood immediately oozed out.

Lin Yuan held out his finger to Merciful Soul, and it licked the pearl of blood.

Under Lin Yuan's instruction, it used Faceless Appearance.

Faceless Appearance's effect was specifying a target and absorbing the target's blood in order to take on the target's appearance as well as partially obtain the target's abilities.

The furry Merciful Soul turned and changed into a copy of Lin Yuan. It was even wearing the same clothes as him.

No one would be able to tell the difference between the transformed Merciful Soul and Lin Yuan based on their exteriors because Faceless Appearance also blocked Merciful Soul's original aura.

Only Class 5 Creation Masters could tell that there was a discrepancy.

After Merciful Soul used Faceless Appearance to turn into an imitation of Lin Yuan, the latter attached the Faceless Paper to his face. His features were immediately turned down until they became ordinary.

Lin Yuan had used Faceless Paper when he journeyed to Whale Ocean Commerce and had not felt that anything was wrong.

It was only later that Night Leaning Moon told him that he also needed to alter his aura. Otherwise, the mismatching appearance and aura would still catch the attention of others.

The Di family had not caught on at the time because they had already decided to stake their all on one final gamble. Hence, they had not been overly observant of anything else.

After Night Leaning Moon's reminder, Lin Yuan learned how to retract his aura when he put on Faceless Paper.

After everything ended, Lin Yuan used Node Transportation to send himself into Ding Chengshuo's room at Thriving Summer Hotel.

When the five dishes ordered by the attendant arrived, Merciful Soul cleaned the plates and left the suite to return to the tree castle to act as his replacement.

When the attendant saw that Lin Yuan was leaving, she immediately walked over to him and said, "Lord, was the food to your liking? I will reserve this suite for you the next time you're here!"

Merciful Soul's lip curled when it looked at the attendant as it said, "It wasn't bad, but the quantity was much too little."

Merciful Soul followed Lin Yuan's instruction and returned to the tree castle, leaving the attendant staring dazedly after it.

Before Merciful Soul spoke, the attendant had not felt that anything was wrong. But once it did, the attendant felt as though it had been enveloped in beguilement to the point that her soul had almost been stolen.

1987 The Unageing Holy Lady!

The attendant shook her head and returned to her senses.

The five dishes had large portions, but the gentle and elegant young man had managed to finish all of them and still complained that the quantity had been too little.

At that moment, the attendant heard the other customers calling her, and she hurriedly scampered off to work.

The next time she had time and thought back to the young man's existing gaze, all the hair stood up on her body.

Suddenly, she realized what the gaze meant. That young man had been looking at her as though she was a plate of food.

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After the Crown Wood Banquet ended, Ding Chengshuo was invited by a few old friends to have a small gathering.

He returned to his room after the gathering was over and was about to contact Lin Yuan using the Thoughts Letter Paper when he felt the space in the room fluctuating slightly.

The figure of an unfamiliar young man appeared in the spot where Lin Yuan told him to mark out using the tentacle.

However, Ding Chengshuo had no intention of attacking the young man because he had traveled through the spatial tagging. It had to either be Lin Yuan or one of Lin Yuan's people.

Ding Chengshuo hurriedly took on a respectful demeanor.

He was the only person from Sacred Forest City who knew that Sky Creation, the faction that had shaken up the entire Sacred Forest City, was nothing more than a result of Lin Yuan's casual fabrication. Even the tree castle that Sky Creation resided in used to be that of the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce.

Ding Chengshuo knew what his position was in Lin Yuan's faction. He knew that he was nothing more than a peripheral member and that he could not afford to offend anyone from the faction.

At that moment, Ding Chengshuo heard a familiar voice say, "City Lord Ding, I thank you for your hospitality tonight. Has anything unusual happened in the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm?"

Faceless Paper could change one's appearance but could not alter one's voice. As such, Ding Chengshuo instantly recognized the voice as belonging to Lin Yuan.

Ding Chengshuo hurriedly replied, "Lord, everything is as per usual in the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm. Nothing special has taken place. However, there will be a questioning tomorrow before we enter the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm, which will likely require you to speak.

"The Holy Lady has never met you and won't recognize your voice, but many families from Sacred Forest City will be sending members to the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm. Many of them will be able to place your voice."

Lin Yuan replied, "You don't have to worry about my voice. I have my own way of settling it. You have mentioned the Holy Lady many times. I want to know what's so special about her. Is she from a major family?

Ding Chengshuo was silent for a moment before he told Lin Yuan about everything he knew.

"When I was young, I spent some time as a pupil in the Yu family in Sacred Forest City. One of their Class 1 Creation Masters had become pinnacle Class 2 Creation Master. I was 29 years old and was rewarded by the Yu family and given the chance to join because I developed a spirit fluid recipe. Since I had a decent amount of power and Creation Master ability is greatly highlighted in Sacred Forest City, I was given a small position in the Yu family despite not being a disciple.

"At that time, I had the chance to see the Holy Lady once. More than 70 years have passed since then, and I'm old now, but the Holy Lady's features have not changed in the slightest. At the time, I managed to find a plant-type fey with the Sacred Wood bloodline with decent abilities for the Yu family.

"After working for the Yu family for ten years and becoming a Class 4 Creation Master, I gained my freedom. I traveled to the border of the Divine Wood Federation and built a city. The Divine Wood Federation's factions are used to having the Holy Lady around. But the year that I entered the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm, I heard one of the Yang family's direct descendants say that the Holy Lady had appeared out of the blue years ago. She used her own capabilities to gain jurisdiction over the opening and closing of the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm and started acting as its owner. Thus, the Yang family left her alone. It's likely that there is a secret deal between the Holy Lady and the Yang family."

Lin Yuan's synapses immediately lit up with activity when he heard what Ding Chengshuo said.

It seemed likely that the Holy Lady was not human. Otherwise, she would not be exempted from aging.

The whirlpool of spirit qi in a spirit qi professional's body could only be used to slow down the process of aging once they reached king-class. Only at emperor-class would they be able to freeze their features. This was why there were powerhouses in top factions who looked elderly, middle-aged, as well as young.

The Moon Empress had been called an unparalleled genius of her generation but only reached emperor-class when she was 27 years old. Thus, her features were frozen at that age.

Becoming an emperor-class expert was not as simple as having a Myth Breed fey. The spirit qi professional's rank had to reach S-rank.

It was challenging for a spirit qi professional to reach S-rank at 27 years old.

Currently, the disciples of royalty were all still stuck at pinnacle B-rank.

Many of the current Radiance Envoys had reached 27 or 28 years old but were only at A-rank. They still had a long way to go before they reached S-rank.

Lin Yuan heard from Yi Huailong that the Holy Lady looked to be around 15 years old. There was no way that a spirit qi professional could have reached emperor-class by that age to freeze their looks.

There had to be something up with the Holy Lady!

The Sacred Wood Mystic Realm was a small independent dimensional space. It could only be controlled from the inside.

For example, when Lin Yuan took control of the Class 3 water world dimensional rift, he also had to do so from the inside in order to seal it off.

Even an Eternal expert could not cause a dimensional rift to disappear before they retrieved the source-type item within.

This thought made Lin Yuan smile.

Chances were high that the Holy Lady was linked to the lifeform inside the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm.

Normally, one did not need Creation Master abilities to enter the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm to search for resources because it would not be useful in retrieving treasures.

Power was what mattered.

However, there was an unspoken rule in the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm, which was that the elder members of families with seats on the council had to send in Creation Masters, and the younger generation had to possess Creation Master abilities.

Curiosity bloomed within Lin Yuan.

1988 Larger Storm!

"City Lord Ding, since you have entered the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm before, I would really like to know why Creation Masters are the ones entering it to search for resources. Can it be that Creation Master resources are needed in order to obtain plant-type feys with the Sacred Wood bloodline?"

Ding Chengshuo nodded and replied, "It is indeed so! According to the rules laid out by the Holy Lady, one needs to dig a hole in the ground in front of the fey with the Sacred Wood bloodline that they would like to obtain and bury Creation Master resources inside the hole. Then, they can try to dig out the plant-type fey with the Sacred Wood bloodline.

"They have to provide Creation Master resources of a certain level in order to be able to dig out the roots of the plant-type fey with the Sacred Wood bloodline. Trying to dig out the plant-type fey by force will only result in it withering rapidly.

"Moreover, no matter how discreet one tries to be, everything is known to the Holy Lady. Any faction that breaks the rules will be denied the next two future chances to enter the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm."

Lin Yuan was slightly stunned, but a smile soon broke out on his face.

The Sacred Wood Mystic Realm sure was interesting!

Every time the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm lost a fey plant-type feys with the Sacred Wood bloodline, it received significantly impressive Creation Master resources in exchange. It was likely that the hidden lifeform absorbed the resources in the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm.

The Holy Lady had to either be that lifeform in disguise or a companion of that lifeform. Regardless, she was an external medium for it.

The more information he found out about the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm, the more accurate his previous deductions became.

He heard from Yi Huailong that the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm was vast and that someone had tried to walk into its deepest area only to find that they had not reached its end after walking for 28 hours.

48 hours later, no matter where one was, one would be booted out of the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm as long as they were still alive.

Hence, Lin Yuan did not know how he would seek out the mysterious fey that had created the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm.

All he could do was use Morbius to sense and gauge a direction from the concentration of the Sacred Wood bloodline.

This way of searching might not guarantee that Lin Yuan would be able to find what he was searching for in the enormous space, as his deductions had led him to the assumption that the lifeform was extremely intelligent and could very likely put up barriers to hide.

Thus, Lin Yuan intended to use himself as bait to lure out the Holy Lady and force the lifeform in the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm to meet with him.

Since the lifeform craved Creation Master resources, Lin Yuan could create a temptation for it that would be almost impossible to avoid.

Once Ding Chengshuo was done telling Lin Yuan about the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm and saw that Lin Yuan had not responded, he immediately became anxious and thought, Can it be that Lin Yuan is blaming me for not telling him about the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm's circumstances in advance?

This thought instantly filled Ding Chengshuo with panic.

"Lord, according to the regulations of the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm, each person who enters is only allowed to take out one plant-type fey with the Sacred Wood bloodline. If you don't have enough Creation Master resources, I do! With my Creation Master resources, you will definitely obtain a plant-type fey with the Sacred Wood bloodline that you find acceptable!"

Lin Yuan replied with a smile, "I have prepared enough Creation Master resources. I don't need your help. We will split up and work once we enter the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm. City Lord Ding, you can rest easy and go ahead to pick out a plant-type fey of your liking."

Lin Yuan was entering the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm with the goal of reaching its deepest depths to find that lifeform. As such, he never had any intention of following the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm's regulations.

Furthermore, there was a good chance that that lifeform had laid out the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm's regulations.

Once he captured the lifeform, there would be no point in reopening the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm in the future, as capturing that lifeform was the equivalent of taking over the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm itself.

At that time, Lin Yuan could try to use the lifeform's bloodline to stain the plant-type feys of his choosing to awaken the Sacred Wood bloodline in them.

The wind that night was increasingly wild, and the branches of many tree castles which had the factions' flags hanging off them had snapped off.

As a result, Sacred Forest City's nightlife, which usually only ended at dawn, finished up while the sky was still pitch black.

The gusty night suited some factions' ploys well.

The next morning, not only did the wind not subside, but it even intensified. The gales were so strong that ordinary people could not even push open their doors. As a result, many residents chose not to leave their houses that day. Điscover n𝒆w chapt𝒆rs 𝒐n n0𝒗e(l)bi𝒏.com

At that moment, Lin Yuan appeared no different from any other young man in Oak City as he followed behind Ding Chengshuo toward the Sacred Wood Sacrificial Altar that was to the north of the imperial court.

The entrance to the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm was at the top of the Sacred Wood Sacrificial Altar.

Along the way, Ding Chengshuo continuously made small talk with other members of factions who were entering the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm.

At that moment, the conservation sounds above the Sacred Wood Sacrificial Altar suddenly quietened.

A tall and skinny middle-aged man dressed in purple and holding a pair of crimson Item-Storing Walnuts appeared.

In order for the Bronze Item-Storing Walnut to turn crimson and take on crystalline transparency, it had to be Legend quality.

Numerous people present turned their attention to the Bronze/Legend Item-Storing Walnuts in the middle-aged man's hand, their eyes filled with envy.

Ding Chengshuo said to Lin Yuan softly, "This is the Second Master of the Su family, Su Jian. The three people behind him are main disciples of the Su family, and they are in the upper ranks of the Divine Wood Hundred Sequence."

Lin Yuan raised an eyebrow.

For the Su family to send out a pinnacle Class 4 Creation Master at this juncture, it meant that they did not want to act rashly and alarm their enemy and that they were confident in the operation they were going to carry out today.

However, Lin Yuan was curious about where the Su family's confidence was coming from.

Could it be the Peaceful Calm Air Moss?

Lin Yuan felt that it was not enough.

At that moment, Ding Chengshuo made a noise of confusion and said, "The Su and Bai families have always been on bad terms. Why are they here together this time? Su Jian has a terrible temper. There was an incident where someone was too rowdy, and Su Jian immediately killed him. He should not be chatting so swimmingly with Bai Dong."

A look of understanding spread across Lin Yuan's face.

The Bai family had Immortal power, just like the Su family, and there was no way they would miss out on such a large event.

It was likely that the two families were colluding.

He could only wonder what the Su family had promised the Bai family.

It seemed that the storm in Sacred Forest City was going to be bigger.

1989 Official Opening of the Mystic Realm!

It seemed that the moment the storm truly broke out, all the factions in Sacred Forest City would be forced to make a choice. None would be excluded.

After Su Jian appeared, the lively conversation stopped and had not started up again.

It seemed that Su Jian's reputation had long preceded him.

At that moment, the middle-aged woman who had been chatting with Ding Chengshuo said with a slightly worried tone, "Hopefully, the things we choose in the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm won't coincide with those that Su Jian wants. Otherwise, he'll force us to give them up when we come out."

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Ding Chengshuo did not reply. Instead, he instinctively looked at Lin Yuan.

Normally, he would be sharing the middle-aged woman's concerns.

But now, he had become one of Lin Yuan's subordinates.

If Su Jian tried to force Ding Chengshuo to give up his plant-type fey with the Sacred Wood bloodline in front of Lin Yuan, he would be openly insulting Lin Yuan.

It was unlikely that Lin Yuan would allow him to do so.

Thus, there was nothing for Ding Chengshuo to worry about. All he needed to focus on was finding a plant-type fey with the Sacred Wood bloodline that would be useful to him.

The time reached 8:30 a.m., and everyone realized to their shock that no one from the Yang family had shown up despite that family having the most representatives.

The Yang family was usually the most enthusiastic about entering the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm.

This year, the Yang family had not shown any mercy when they were fighting with the Su, Bai, and Yi families for seats on the council.

If the Bai family had truly decided not to enter the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm this time, there would have been no point in them fighting for so many seats on the council.

It was not only the Yang family that did not show up. The Yi family was also nowhere to be seen.

This was truly unusual.

Su Jian and Bai Dong's expressions changed simultaneously, and both of them exchanged a look.

Lin Yuan had been keeping close watch over them and noticed this look.

The Bai family had indeed struck a deal with the Su family.

Lin Yuan was curious about how they had agreed to divide the benefits.

There could only be one family who eventually presided over the imperial court.

Lin Yuan already understood the Su family.

After Di Wanmi arrived at the Su family, they were willing to take on great risks just to keep her there. This was enough to show that the Su family was not going to treat their allies sincerely.

He had not been in Sacred Forest City for long but had already discovered the Su family's true colors.

The Bai and Su families had been living in Sacred Forest City for decades and had been stopped by the Yang and Su families when they previously tried to attack the Yi family. It resulted in the Bai family losing a substantial amount of combat power to gain none of the Yi family's resources.

Thus, it went without saying that they understood the Su family's character better than him.

If the two families' collaboration truly managed to take down the Yang family, it was certain there would be a huge dispute when it came to the division of profits.

Soon, Su Jian's gaze calmed down.

Su Jian looked around at the members of the factions who were present before he circulated the spiritual power in his body and created a vortex of spiritual power that enveloped both himself and Bai Dong.

The vortex of spiritual power created by a thearch-class expert could perfectly block all exterior spying.

"Bai Dong, why are you so worked up just because the Yi family didn't turn up? Ever since the Bai family attacked the Yi family and the Yi family's elder died, they were left without any Immortal combat power.

"Even if they really run to help the Yang family, Yi Huailong and Yi Huailu are only thearch-class experts and won't be able to make any significant waves. Moreover, the Yi family isn't here. It's likely after the Bai family killed the young experts sent by the Yi family during the last opening of the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm, they don't want to suffer any more losses, and that's why they didn't show up to this opening of the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm.

"To be honest, you were too heavy-handed last year. Why wouldn't they come this year if you hadn't killed the Yi family's juniors and taken all of the spoils last year?" Reêad latest 𝒏ov𝒆ls at n𝒐𝒐v/e/l/bi𝒏.com

Bai Dong shot Su Jian a venomous look but forced his fury down.

The Yi family had indeed caused the Bai family's power to drop precipitously.

There was no way that the Yi family would ever make it to the top of the hierarchy in Sacred Forest City.

But the Yi family had also caused the Bai family to suffer serious losses.

The Bai family used to have three Immortal experts. But the Yi family's elder had sacrificed himself to take down two of the Bai family's Immortal experts.

Because of this, the Bai family now paled in comparison to the Su family.

Otherwise, the Bai family would have one more Immortal expert than the Su family.

Although Bai Dong knew that Su Jian was a direct person and never ran his words through a filter before he spoke them, the Su family was now working with the Bai family. They would either bask in glory together or plunge into doom together.

Su Jian was not about to shoot himself in the foot.

However, Bai Dong did not agree with what Su Jian said.

Not long ago, there were rumors that Yi Huailong was going to personally lead a team into the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm.

This was why, during the Bai family's operation, they sent him, the pinnacle thearch-class expert who had an edge over Yi Huailong.

The Yi family had been horribly bullied by the Bai family in recent years but had never lost their backbone.

The Yi family's absence at the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm meant that they were giving up their pride in front of all the factions of the Divine Wood Federation.

There was no way that Yi Huailong was going to do such a thing.

Although he did not know why the Yi family was not in attendance, Bai Dong still agreed that the Yi family could not cause too much trouble for them.

There only seemed to be a small gap between Immortal experts and pinnacle thearch-class experts, but it was actually a world of a difference.

Nonetheless, Bai Dong still felt a tinge of perturbation.

He said to Su Jian in a low voice, "Su Jian, I think that we should report the Yang and Yi families' absence at the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm to our families. Why don't we—"

Before Bai Dong could finish speaking, he heard an exceptionally cold but also displeased female voice say, "The Sacred Wood Mystic Realm is officially opened! Everyone will remain standing where they are. You can enter the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm after I have checked you. Why are there fewer people here at the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm? Who will come and tell me the reason?"

When the woman's voice rang out, Lin Yuan shifted his gaze from Su Jian and Bai Dong to the woman.

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Visibly, the girl looked around 16 or 17 years old, slightly older than Chu Ci but not yet of age.

But according to the information Lin Yuan gathered, the Holy Lady had looked this way ever since she had appeared.

Decades had already passed since the Holy Lady first appeared.

In order to protect their position in the imperial court, the Yang family fought tooth and nail with the Su family for spots on the council.

Although they had lost to the Su family this year, they still had nine spots.

Only 100 people were given the right to enter the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm.

The Yang and Yi families made up 14 spots in total.

With 14 fewer people, this meant that the crowd had thinned by almost 1/6.

It was no wonder that the Holy Lady could immediately tell that the crowd was smaller.

1990 The Holy Lady's Shell!

The Holy Lady's response confirmed Lin Yuan's guess.

The Sacred Wood Mystic Realm did require Creation Master resources to exist. Otherwise, the Holy Lady who represented the lifeform would not be displeased by the less-than-ideal number of Creation Masters present.

When no one responded, Su Jian took a step forward and said, "Lordess Holy Lady, the Yang and Yi families might have business to attend to. It is plain disrespectful to fight for spots despite having no intention to appear at the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm! If the Yang and Yi families had not fought for so many spots, you wouldn't feel such a large gap in attendance compared to previous years."

Su Jian knew that once the Su family took over the Divine Wood Federation's imperial court, they would have to maintain a good relationship with the Holy Lady.

While he was thinking about how he needed to maintain a good relationship with the Holy Lady, Su Jian did not forget to stain the relationship between the Yang and Yi families.

Her expression promptly fell when the Holy Lady heard what Su Jian said.

"Since there are fewer people this round, any faction that discovers and wants to obtain a plant-type fey with the Sacred Wood bloodline will have to put in more Creation Master resources to make up for the loss of attendees."

The Holy Lady's words caused every member of the factions present to frown.

This was the first time that this happened in the history of the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm.

In the past, even when there was no lack of attendees at the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm, the price of obtaining one plant-type fey with the Sacred Wood bloodline was already heavy.

But now, the high price was going to increase by 14%.

Most factions could not afford this price.

High-class Creation Master resources were too precious to factions with only Class 4 Creation Masters.

In recent years, as the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm opened frequently, the Creation Master resources needed to obtain a plant-type fey with the Sacred Wood bloodline increased.

Thus, a plant-type fey with a weak Sacred Wood bloodline might not be equal to the Creation Master resources invested into obtaining it.

Bai Dong sighed.

After the Holy Lady appeared, he could not leave the sacrificial altar.

The last time the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm opened, a junior from the Yu family had tried to leave the sacrificial altar after the Holy Lady appeared and ended up killed by the Holy Lady.

Thus, Bai Dong had no choice but to give up on going home to report the news.

When Lin Yuan saw the frowning and sour-faced Holy Lady, a look of amusement came over him.

The Holy Lady was truly treating the Sacred Forest City factions as a farm from which she could harvest.

She was throwing a temper because the harvest was thin this time! She even raised the price of the plant-type feys with the Sacred Wood bloodline. She sure was not shy about being greedy!

This allowed Lin Yuan to know that every time the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm opened, the lifeform would set a requirement of Creation Master resources.

Lin Yuan had asked Ding Chengshuo and found out that most of the resources paid to the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm had to be Class 4 Creation Master resources. In order to trade for one plant-type fey with the Sacred Wood bloodline, a Class 4 Creation Master needed to work endlessly for two months.

A Class 4 Creation Master could supply a significant number of Creation Master resources with two months of non-stop work. The product of 100 Class 4 Creation Masters' non-stop work for two months was unimaginable.

Take Lin Yuan's army of Hundred Questions Beasts.

Since Genius was the only one that could stand toe-to-toe against pinnacle Class 4 Creation Masters and the other Hundred Questions Beasts were only at the level of pinnacle Class 3 Creation Masters, the total output of the army of Hundred Questions Beasts still could not compare to the amount that the lifeform in the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm collected from one round of the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm's opening.

After collecting such a mountain of Creation Master resources over the years, there was no way that the lifeform in the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm could be weak even if the resources were not Class 5 Creation Master resources.

With this thought, Lin Yuan used his spiritual energy to contact Genius to tell it to send the Kill Food Sky Butterfly to fetch White Speak.

White Speak's power was currently at pinnacle Immortal.

When it faced off against the pinnacle Immortal Shark Awn, its power had slightly surpassed pinnacle Immortal without reaching Eternal after Lin Yuan's faith power boosted it.

Previously, Lin Yuan's faith power had not been overly powerful.

But after the past few months and the various events that led to explosion after explosion on Star Web, as well as the live-stream Radiance Hundred Sequence selection and battle with the Freedom Federation envoy group, the amount of faith power in the shrine in Lin Yuan's soul had multiplied.

If Lin Yuan used his faith power to boost White Speak now, White Speak's power would definitely be able to break through past Eternal.

No matter how strong the lifeform in the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm was, there was no way it could have reached Eternal! If it did, Lin Yuan also had the Extreme Token given to him by the Moon Empress, the Fish World Sea Trump Card that he could activate using the mermaid bloodline, as well as the blessing of the sea demon with the Purple Frigid Heavy Water.

As such, he still had a fighting chance against an Eternal expert.

Lin Yuan had already used True Data to check on the Holy Lady and found that he could not see data like he normally could for feys.

At that moment, Lin Yuan heard Morbius' voice in his ear, "Partner, this figure known as the Holy Lady is merely a shell. There is a creature that she is hosting. Otherwise, True Data wouldn't come up blank!"

Morbius' words made Lin Yuan think back to the fight against Han Qi and the rest when they had fused with their devils.

Since the devils were hiding in people's bodies, Morbius had been unable to use True Data on them.

Lin Yuan knew from how the Holy Lady was nothing more than a host that was in the service of the lifeform in the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm that the Holy Lady would be the key to finding that lifeform.

Lin Yuan had a clear goal for entering the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm. Geett the l𝒂test 𝒏𝒐vels on no/v/elbin.c/om

It would be great if he could fulfill his objective quickly!

Since the lifeform in the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm was after Creation Master resources, it was likely that the lifeform would use the Holy Lady to stop him if he allowed the factions who could not pay up Creation Master resources to try to trade for plant-type feys with the Sacred Wood bloodline.

At that time, it would be much easier to handle many matters if he faced the Holy Lady in the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm.

At that moment, Lin Yuan could see the clear worry on the Holy Lady's face.

Evidently, he was bothered by something. However, Lin Yuan did not have a possible reason at the moment to explain the Holy Lady's expression.

1991 Bloodline-Cutting Black Carp

The Holy Lady's expression of worry made the factions' members aware that this year's examination was not going to be as strict as previous years.

At that moment, Lin Yuan crossed through the dimensional rift with Ding Chengshuo and entered the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm.

The instant that they entered, Lin Yuan heard Morbius' excited voice, Partner, you've been striving to find the Ley Line Spirit Spring mouth to increase the production volume of the Element Well. There have to be at least five Ley Line Spirit Springs here.

"Currently, the area range I can sense is limited. If you move around, I'll be able to sense a wider area. There's a high chance that you'll be able to gain more benefits!

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"Any type of spirit spring will be extremely nourishing to plants. That lifeform can use its bloodline power to mutate plant-type feys, so it must be a plant itself. There's a high chance we can use the spirit springs to triangulate the lifeform's general location."

Delight spread across Lin Yuan's face.

When he went to the Yi family's treasure vault, Lin Yuan had asked Yi Huailong if the Yi family had any spirit springs, and Yi Huailong had told him with certainty that almost all of the spirit springs that had been uncovered in the Divine Wood Federation had been claimed by the Yang family. They were then transferred into the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm.

Although Yi Huailong could not be certain of how many mouths of spirit springs there were and thus had not given an exact number, Morbius had sensed five spirit springs the moment Lin Yuan entered the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm.

There had to be a decently high number of mouths of spirit springs inside the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm.

It was likely that the Yang family had put so much effort into searching for spirit springs because they had made a deal with the Holy Lady.

It was likely that the Yang family was trying to gather spirit springs even outside of the Divine Wood Federation.

When Luo Lan entered the Astronomical Parliament, Lin Yuan and Wen Yu had looked through her memories and experiences.

Luo Lan clearly remembered the Divine Wood Federation proposing a collaboration with the Iron Hammer Federation more than ten years ago. They wanted to trade for the mouths of spirit springs in the Iron Hammer Federation.

At that time, the Iron Hammer Federation had been in the middle of winter and in greatest need of food.

At that time, the bandit groups from the Divine Wood Federation had been slaughtering the merchant groups from the Iron Hammer Federation. Thus, the number of merchant groups in the Iron Hammer Federation had fallen greatly.

Moreover, that year had been exceptionally cold, and they needed more food than ever.

Hence, Luo Lan's father, the then-king of the Iron Hammer Federation, had agreed to the trade in exchange for rations and wool to tide them over winter.

Spirit springs were the veins of the earth.

There was always lush flora and fauna around the spirit springs.

Normally, the Divine Wood Federation's trade would have cut off all of the Iron Hammer Federation's veins.

But the Iron Hammer Federation had still agreed because the Divine Wood Federation had agreed to provide a year's worth of resources and because the spirit springs were not of great use to the Iron Hammer Federation.

It was much too cold in the Iron Hammer Federation, and it was covered in ice at the end of the year.

Although the spirit springs would not freeze, no resources that the Iron Hammer Federation needed could be grown around the spirit springs in below-zero temperatures.

The Iron Hammer Federation had tried to address the issue by sending five Class 4 Creation Masters to an area with four spirit springs where they used fire-type feys to increase the area's temperature. As a result, the plant-type feys had indeed grown successfully.

However, the price was much too high.

Rather than spending so much manpower and Creation Master resources, it would be better to mine for more metals and hunt for more beasts with beautiful fur before the winter season arrived.

Then, the merchant groups could use these resources to trade for more resources from the Divine Wood Federation.

There were a total of 11 mouths of spirit springs in the Iron Hammer Federation. If the Divine Wood Federation had traded with the Iron Hammer Federation to obtain the mouths of spirit springs, there was no question they had made the same request to the Great Lush Federation and that the Great Lush Federation had agreed.

Otherwise, there was no way that the Divine Wood Federation would have left the Great Lush Federation alone.

This meant that it was likely that all of the spirit spring mouths in the Startling Lines Continent had gathered in the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm.

Hence, Lin Yuan was destined to sweep up a large harvest from the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm.

Currently, Lin Yuan had to be extremely prudent when using the Element Well water and tried to use as small drops as possible.

The purer the elemental energy, the more beneficial it would be to a fey.

The Flower Calamity Beautiful Devil, Universe, Dark Blue, and even the Source Sand needed large amounts of the Element Well's water.

This time, after harvesting from the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm, Lin Yuan was not after free usage of the Element Well's water—its volume should increase sufficiently to meet his needs.

Lin Yuan suddenly thought of something and asked Ding Chengshuo, "City Lord Ding, are the plant-type feys with the Sacred Wood bloodline are usually found near the spirit springs?"

Ding Chengshuo recalled the few times that he had been in the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm, and shock spread across his face.

He realized that the times that he found the plant-type feys with the Sacred Wood bloodline were all near the spirit springs.

If Lin Yuan had not mentioned this, Ding Chengshuo would not have realized it on his own.

"You're right! The plant-type feys with the Sacred Wood bloodline were all either growing around the spirit springs. Of course, it's also possible for the plant-type feys with the Sacred Wood bloodline to be found around the spirit springs. But any further, and there will be none."

Ding Chengshuo's reply told Lin Yuan how the lifeform was using its own bloodline to nourish the plant-type feys

The spirit springs spewing from the mouths were the mediums that the lifeforms used to nourish other plants with its bloodline.

To do this, the lifeform had to be connected to all of the spirit springs.

The locations of the plant-type feys with the Sacred Wood bloodline were the best proof of this deduction.

The plant-type feys around the spirit springs would have the chance to obtain the Sacred Wood bloodline because the water from the spirit springs had seeped into the ground they were planted in.

The plant-type feys that were further could not access the spring water and thus did not gain the Sacred Wood bloodline.

Lin Yuan now had three ways to find the lifeform that had created the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm.

Firstly, he could use the positions of the plant-type feys with the Sacred Wood bloodline to trace back to where the spirit springs were. Once he was there, he would use Morbius to sense the lifeform.

Secondly, Lin Yuan could mess up the Holy Lady's setup of the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm.

1992 What a Venomous Tongue!

This was so the Holy Lady could not help the lifeform to trade plant-type feys with the Sacred Wood bloodline for Creation Master resources from the factions.

Thirdly, Lin Yuan could stir trouble using the spirit springs.

Lin Yuan just happened to have the fish-species carcinoma fey he got from the Yi family's treasure vault that was called the Bloodline-Cutting Black Carp.

The Bloodline-Cutting Black Carp's entire body was black, and it looked no different from a regular river fish. Even an experienced fisherman might not be able to tell the difference between the two.

The Bloodline-Cutting Black Carp was an enormous disaster to feys with bloodline power in their bodies because it was attracted to bloodline power and would absorb it from the bodies of other feys to evolve and mutate itself.

The Bloodline-Cutting Black Carp was actually not like insect-species carcinoma feys that were a threat to the safety of humans.

But whenever the Bloodline-Cutting Black Carp appeared in a large lake or river, it would become difficult for Creation Master to find rare feys with bloodline power there again.

Human spirit qi professionals needed to contract feys to become stronger, but the Bloodline-Cutting Black Carp cut into the benefits of spirit qi professionals who were affiliated with water-type fish-species feys.

This was why the Spirit Guards had no choice but to assign the lowest grade of carcinoma feys to the Bloodline-Cutting Black Carp, F-grade.

Once the Bloodline-Cutting Black Carp absorbed enough bloodline power, it would be able to rely on itself to reach Fantasy Breed and eventually Myth Breed.

Lin Yuan felt that he just needed to toss the Bloodline-Cutting Black Carp into any spirit spring so it could start to absorb bloodline power freely. The lifeform in the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm could not hide even if it wanted to!

Just as Lin Yuan was about to split up from Ding Chengshuo so they could search for spirit springs individually, he heard a mocking voice say, "Hey! Ding Chengshuo! I didn't expect you to still have a seat on the council this year! You managed to grow even though you've only been developing amongst tumbleweeds for so many years!

"But this time, no matter what interesting thing you find, you have to let Second Master Su take a look first! The Yu family is not around to protect you this time! Even if the Yu family is here, they won't be able to protect you while Second Master is here!"

Ding Chengshuo immediately frowned and looked in the direction of the voice.

This was when he saw a short middle-aged man with extremely nefarious features looking at him with derision and resentment.

This man happened to be part of the Su family's group.

The Su family had nine seats on the council and a total of 18 people on their team.

Since the Yang family had not arrived, they had the largest group out of the factions that had entered the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm.

Ding Chengshuo was well-acquainted with the short man with nefarious features.

He had his share of suffering at the hands of Meng Xiu over the years. Vissit n𝒐velbin.c𝒐m for 𝒏ew 𝒏ovels

Once Ding Chengshuo detached himself from the Yu family, he wanted to build his own Creation Master family in the central region. However, he was eventually forced out to the remote region because of Meng Xiu.

The root of the matter was that when Ding Chengshuo entered the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm for the first time, he had fought over a plant-type fey with the Sacred Wood bloodline with Meng Xiu and won.

Meng Xiu had hated Ding Chengshuo ever since. Whenever he had the opportunity, he would make life difficult for Ding Chengshuo.

It was difficult for Ding Chengshuo to understand how someone could be so petty.

Previously, the Yu family had helped to defend him because he had been a part of them. Thus, Ding Chengshuo did not have to fear Meng Xiu.

Now, he was traveling with Lin Yuan, who was many times more powerful than the Yu family. As such, there was even less reason for Ding Chengshuo to fear Meng Xiu!

Not only did he not have to fear Meng Xiu, but he did not have to fear the Su family either.

However, Lin Yuan clearly had a goal to achieve in the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm, so Ding Chengshuo did not want to bother Lin Yuan over his trivial personal issue.

Hence, he swallowed Meng Xiu's jibe.

When Ding Chengshuo did not reply, Meng Xiu continued. "Ding Chengshuo, doesn't the Ding family have two direct descendants who are worth something? Why didn't you bring any of them but such a young disciple instead?

"No matter how I look, this person doesn't resemble the Ding family very much. I thought everyone from the Ding family had single-eyelids like fishes. Why doesn't this disciple have it? Did the Ding family adopt him from another family?"

Meng Xiu's words were extremely venomous. It would be difficult for anyone with dignity and a backbone to swallow them without protest.

Ding Chengshuo was no exception.

He immediately saw red when he heard what Meng Xiu said. He itched to summon his feys and duke it out with Meng Xiu.

Not only had Meng Xiu insulted his family's appearance, but he had even poked fun at his procreative ability.

When the Su family's juniors heard what Meng Xiu said, they could not help but snigger and look at Ding Chengshuo with derision.

The Su family was one of the three largest families in the Divine Wood Federation.

The family's older generation had experienced their share of conflicts and no longer bared their fangs so easily.

However, the Su family's juniors were at their most prideful and looked down on someone like Ding Chengshuo, who was the City Lord of a remote city.

Although Ding Chengshuo was a Class 4 Creation Master, he was still undeserving of respect in the eyes of the Su family's juniors.

At that moment, a pleasant voice said, "Does everyone from the Meng family have such a venomous tongue? Are you all actually born from snakes? I wonder if the Meng family has awakened their beast pattern?"

This seemed like a regular counter to Meng Xiu's hateful words, but it was a knife driven straight through Meng Xiu's heart.

The most shameful part of the Meng family's history was that one of their daughters had run off from her engagement with a snake-species fey in human form.

When the head of the Meng family caught them and killed the snake-species fey, he discovered that not only had she given birth to a child, but that the child had also awakened his beast pattern.

The beast pattern was not the specialty of the Azure Federation, but it was the reason that boosted the Azure Federation to become one of the three major federations.

Not every child of a fey and human could awaken their beast pattern.

But once the child of a fey and human who had awakened their beast pattern contracted the fey that corresponded to their beast pattern, they were guaranteed to be able to reach thearch-class.

This was the only thought that existed in the head of every Meng member's mind besides hatred.

The Meng family previously did not have any thearch-class experts, so gaining one was of utmost importance to them.

With a thearch-class expert, they would be able to move up from their position as one of the Divine Wood Federation's mid-ranked factions to one of the upper ranks.

Chapter 1993

1993 A Junior With Such a Sharp Tongue!

But he did not expect his daughter to kill herself and their child after her husband was killed. She had no intention of handing over the child who had awakened their beast pattern to the Meng family at all.

Thus, the Meng family also did not have the opportunity to lie and brainwash the child.

The matter had blown up, and even the Wu family, who had been on good terms with the Meng family, had severed ties with them.

The Meng family wanted to tell the truth to the Wu family so they could rekindle their relationship.

However, the Wu family had not reciprocated and leaked the matter instead.

As a result, the Meng family was still the laughingstock of the factions of the Divine Wood Federation even now.

It was not a coincidence for Lin Yuan to have said what he said. He had learned of the matter when he was gathering information about the various factions in the Divine Wood Federation.

Although Lin Yuan had important business to attend to in the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm, Ding Chengshuo was still his subordinate who had sworn his loyalty to him.

Lin Yuan could not allow any Tom, Dick, or Harry to humiliate Ding Chengshuo.

The Su family's juniors only sniggered when they heard what Meng Xiu said about Ding Chengshuo.

But after hearing what Lin Yuan said, all of them burst out in peals of laughter.

The Su family's younger generation looked down on Ding Chengshuo, but they also turned their noses up at Meng Xiu, who had been clinging to the Su family.

After all, Ding Chengshuo was a Class 4 Creation Master, but Meng Xiu was only a pinnacle Class 3 Creation Master.

The sound of the Su family's younger generation's laughter caused Meng Xiu's initial expression of rage and smugness to crack.

He let out a sharp cry and was about to bite back when he heard the middle-aged man next to Su Jian say coldly, "Meng Xiu, I didn't allow you to follow the Su family for you to cause trouble. If this happens again, you will slap your own mouth 80 times."

Once the middle-aged man was done speaking, he ignored Meng Xiu, whose expression had changed completely and was currently letting out a string of apologies.

The middle-aged man turned his eyes to Lin Yuan and said, "Hehe, I didn't expect the Ding family to have such a sharp-tongued junior. Didn't Ding Chengshuo teach you that no one should rile up even one of the Su family's dogs?"

The middle-aged man had called Meng Xiu one of the Su family's dogs, but Meng Xiu dared not reveal even the slightest of displeasure.

Luckily, Meng Xiu did not have a tail. If he did, he would be wagging it to show his loyalty and curry favor with his owner.

The reason Ding Chengshuo had not said anything when Meng Xiu insulted his family was not that he was afraid of Meng Xiu.

Ding Chengshuo's power had always been similar to that of Meng Xiu, and his main fey was Myth II.

Ding Chengshuo could edge out Meng Xiu because the Dragon Horns Mysterious Turtle countered Meng Xiu's main fey.

Otherwise, Ding Chengshuo would not have been able to come up victorious in his clashes against Meng Xiu.

The Dragon Horns Mysterious Turtle had reached pinnacle Myth III.

Lin Yuan could already have boosted him to thearch-class if he was not afraid of attracting too much attention when he used his power.

Previously, Meng Xiu had been nothing more than a nuisance in Ding Chengshuo's eyes. But now, he was even less of an issue than a mosquito.

Ding Chengshuo had only not retaliated against Meng Xiu because he had not wanted to bother Lin Yuan.

But when one of the Su family's main members took a swing at Lin Yuan, Ding Chengshuo knew that he had to do something. There was no way he could stand by and watch as his master was affronted.

Ding Chengshuo immediately summoned the pinnacle Myth III Dragon Horns Mysterious Turtle and sneered at the middle-aged man from the Su family. "Please watch your words. You don't have the right to judge everybody and anybody!"

Ding Chengshuo's words not only shocked Meng Xiu, but even many members of the Su family also looked at Ding Chengshuo stupefied.

Did Ding Chengshuo lose his head after he became the City Lord of a remote city? Was he still trying to act like a big dog in Sacred Forest City? This was not right!

Ding Chengshuo was usually the most level-headed. This was why he had been able to create a network in Sacred Forest City.

Could he have said something so ridiculous because he had been pushed too far by Meng Xiu?

It seemed that the person who should be hopping mad was Meng Xiu!

By summoning the Dragon Horns Mysterious Turtle, Ding Chengshuo was declaring war.

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The Su family's juniors' shock turned to fury.

Ding Chengshuo's action put a dent in the Su family's might.

Su Jian was already bad-tempered by nature and had the least patience for others.

There was even a chance of him killing people who spoke slightly too loudly around him, much less Ding Chengshuo, who was so openly provoking the Su family.

Su Jian scoffed before black wind flowed out of his body and picked up all the rocks around him.

The small stones were immediately ground into powder by the gale force.

Su Jian did not summon his main fey because he saw Ding Chengshuo as a small nuisance. If he summoned his main fey, it would be an insult to himself.

Su Jian summoned the Creation Source Wind (Chop Dark).

The instant that the black gusts appeared, Lin Yuan used True Data to check on Chop Dark.

What he saw caused his lips to turn down with disappointment.

The wind-type source-type lifeform was the most outstanding of the source-type lifeforms. It could control, attack, as well as defend, meaning it could be nurtured in any direction.

Water, fire, earth, and wind were the most readily-available types of pure types of elemental energy.

The Sovereign II/Creation I Chop Dark had decent abilities and exclusive skills, but it lacked pure wind-elemental energy from a Class 5 Creation Master.

Thus, it had not been able to unleash its innate potential.

Lin Yuan's Source Sand and Zong Ze's Source Fire had been nurtured with resources from Class 5 Creation Masters. Once they reached Creation Breed, they would be unimaginably stronger than Su Jian's Chop Dark.

Once an elemental source-type item crossed Myth Breed, it would be able to solidify the Elemental Soul. When it reached Creation Breed, it would turn into the Elemental Heart.

The elemental source-type lifeform was just an accumulation of elements.

After elemental lifeforms that were below Myth Breed died, they would automatically dissipate into the air.

Chapter 1994 - 1994 I'm One of Lin Yuan's Subordinates!

1994 I'm One of Lin Yuan's Subordinates!

But once Creation Breed elemental source-type lifeforms died, all the elemental energy in their bodies would be stored in the Elemental Heart.

The Elemental Heart contained the specialties of the elemental source-type lifeform.

The Elemental Hearts seemed to have similar abilities to top-grade strange water and strange flames, but they had different usages.

Besides special entities such as Dark Blue, most lifeforms only absorbed the elemental energy from precious natural resources, such as strange flames and strange water. They could not absorb the specialties.

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However, when feys of the same type absorbed the Elemental Hearts, they could take on the specialties stored within the Elemental Hearts.

Although Chop Dark had not received sufficient Creation Master resources, which resulted in its potential being wasted, Lin Yuan was interested in its special attribute.

Its special attribute was that it could grind to a powder. Once it made contact with items, it would destroy the structure of the items.

The attribute suited the Golden Wings that Lin Yuan had not nurtured much yet.

When Shiny's Snapped Neck Falling Death ability was paired with Chop Dark's grinding attribute, it could greatly increase the damage it dealt.

After all, there was no rule that one fey could only absorb one Elemental Heart. As long as one could get their hand on enough Elemental Hearts, the fey could absorb as many as possible.

It could be said that Chop Dark had caught Lin Yuan's eye.

However, Chop Dark did not meet Lin Yuan's expectations in one another way.

The purity of the elemental energy within it was much too low.

If it could absorb pure wind-elemental energy, it could not only increase the purity of its own element but might also gain the opportunity to transform.

Lin Yuan thought, It looks like I still need to use my own resources to nurture my prey, Su Jian.

Lin Yuan still needed to rush to collect the mouths of spirit springs and search for the lifeform within the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm. He did not have the time to entertain Su Jian.

Hence, Lin Yuan used his contract to send an order to Ding Chengshuo.

In the time they had been together, Ding Chengshuo had performed well, and Lin Yuan had rewarded him accordingly. Amongst the rewards were five wind-type elemental pearls that had outer layers.

After he received Lin Yuan's order, confusion crossed Ding Chengshuo's face. He did not understand why Lin Yuan wanted to do such a thing.

However, Ding Chengshuo dared not question Lin Yuan's order.

Just as Ding Chengshuo took out the brocade pouch containing the five wind-type elemental pearls with outer layers, he heard a voice behind him, "Su Jian, what has gotten you so worked up? You summoned your fey right after entering the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm. City Lord Ding and the Bai family have some history. Why don't I act as the mediator, and we all bury the hatchet?"

Bai Dong's tone did not seem to be mediating. Rather, he seemed to be trying to protect Ding Chengshuo while exerting pressure on Su Jian.

However, the Su and the Bai families happened to be in cahoots at the moment, and Su Jian could not cross Bai Dong.

Su Jian was well aware of what Bai Dong's intentions were.

Ding Chengshuo had a spot on the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm's council, but he had not allied with any large families from Sacred Forest City. He had even turned down the olive branch extended by the Yu family.

Bai Dong's intention was to make Ding Chengshuo owe him a large favor. This way, Ding Chengshuo could not turn him down in the future when he approached him for recruitment.

Through this, the Bai family would gain another seat on the council and have more authority.

Su Jian was never the kind to play the long game.

Even if he knew that he could not oppose Bai Dong now, Su Jian could not swallow his rage. The bubbling fury almost exploded out of his body.

When Bai Dong walked past Ding Chengshuo, he even patted his shoulder in a friendly manner.

He might as well have said, "Look how nice I am to you. Hurry up and join the Bai family!"

But after Bai Dong and Su Jian regrouped with the rest of the people from the Su family, what Ding Chengshuo did almost caused Bai Dong's eyes to fall out of their sockets.

Ding Chengshuo walked up to them, beaming, and said to Su Jian, "Second Master Su! I spoke too quickly and forgot my manners. This is a treasure I used all of my family's fortunes to trade for from Sky Creation! I shall give it to you now. Hopefully, you won't take my inappropriateness to heart!"

At that moment, what Su Jian needed the most was a segue.

After all, he had already summoned his fey.

If he just listened to Bai Dong and let off Ding Chengshuo, it would seem as though he was afraid of Bai Dong.

Ding Chengshuo's action not only provided him with the segue he was looking for but had even turned around and essentially slapped Bai Dong in return for his attempt at being friendly.

Frankly, Su Jian did not care if there was anything good in the brocade pouch that Ding Chengshuo had just handed him. Even if it was empty, there was no way that Su Jian was going to lay a hand on Ding Chengshuo.

Compared to Meng Xiu, who was a pointless bootlicker, there was much more value in recruiting Ding Chengshuo.

Once the Su family entered the imperial court, what they would need most was support from the major factions.

If Ding Chengshuo could continue to be as cooperative as he was now, Su Jian did not mind letting Ding Chengshuo take charge of the entire north region.

However, when Su Jian opened the brocade pouch, his eyes nearly fell out and landed inside the brocade pouch.

Su Jian poured out the five pearls that radiated the light of dreamy clouds onto his hand.

From the pearls, he could sense elemental energy with a purity that he had never experienced before.

He immediately fed the five wind-type elemental pearls with outer layers to Chop Dark as he swung his arm down to kill Meng Xiu as well as the young man behind Meng Xiu.

Su Jian said to Ding Chengshuo while laughing uproariously, "From today onward, you are one of my subordinates!" Visitt nov𝒆lbin.c𝒐/m for the l𝒂test updates

Ding Chengshuo smiled when he heard what Su Jian said, but he was choking on his disgust internally.

Who the hell is your subordinate? I am Lin Yuan's subordinate!

While he felt disgusted, Ding Chengshuo did not feel relieved or vindicated in the slightest by Meng Xiu's death. Rather, he felt a twinge of injustice for Meng Xiu's sake.

Although Meng Xiu was petty to a fault and annoying to boot, he had contributed his fair share to the Su family.

Yet, Su Jian had not hesitated to kill this person who had worked so hard for the Su family.

This allowed Ding Chengshuo to understand just how merciless Su Jian and the Su family were.

Chapter 1995 - 1995 Harvest Isn't Ripe Yet!

1995 Harvest Isn't Ripe Yet!

Ding Chengshuo could clearly sense that Bai Dong's gaze on him had turned guarded, and worry had surfaced on his face.

Objectively, the most disgusting person present was undoubtedly Bai Dong.

He had taken the risk of affronting Su Jian and extended an olive branch to Ding Chengshuo.

But when Ding Chengshuo rejected his seemingly friendly gesture of recruitment, he appeared to turn around and try to bootlick Su Jian, who had just tried to kill him.

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At that moment, Bai Dong was wondering if there was something wrong with Ding Chengshuo's head.

Given Ding Chengshuo's power, he should be in the prime of his lifespan despite the advanced number.

There was no way that he was already turning senile!

Bai Dong was stunned when he saw the heavenly-maiden-grade elemental pearls with outer layers that Su Jian had poured out of the brocade pouch.

At that moment, all Bai Dong wanted was to shout at Ding Chengshuo, "Are you crazy!? Even if you really are trying to get into Su Jian's good books, one elemental pearl with outer layers will be enough. Why did you have to give him five!?"

At first, Bai Dong was seething, and he wanted nothing more than to give Ding Chengshuo a beating he would never forget.

But after Su Jian killed Meng Xiu, Bai Dong suddenly remembered that the precedent of a win-win situation meant that it could be lose-lose as well.

The Su family had been the ones who asked to work with the Bai family on this operation. In order to convince them to stand on the same side, the Su family had promised a mountain of benefits to the Bai family.

The previous fight between the Bai family and the Yi family had left the Bai family severely injured.

The Bai family had to make a right decision in order to make up for the losses suffered from that previous wrong decision.

Meng Xiu was from the Meng family. Although the Meng family did not have thearch-class experts, they were still a mid-ranked faction from Sacred Forest City.

While the Meng family relied on the Su family, they could also be counted as the Su family's allies.

The Meng family had a seat on the council, and the Su family had to have given the Meng family promises when they made their deal.

It was unknown if the promises had been met yet.

But what was known was that Su Jian had never been concerned for the Meng family.

Su Jian was one of the main decision-makers in the Su family, and his attitude represented the attitude of the entire Su family.

Normally, if Su Jian noticed that Bai Dong was looking at him strangely, he would definitely try to adjust Bai Dong's thinking.

After all, once the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm closed, it was unknown if the external matters would be settled as well.

If the Yang family was insistent on holing up in the imperial court, it would take at least two weeks for the dust to settle, given the structural challenges of sieging the imperial court and the defenses that the Yang family had to have put up on their own.

Hence, the Su family still needed the Bai family's strength.

But at that moment, all Su Jian could think of was Chop Dark.

Up till then, Chop Dark had never had access to such pure wind-elemental energy.

Now that it had the chance to be nourished by such pure wind-elemental energy, Chop Dark started by increasing the purity of the wind-elemental energy within itself.

At the same time, the color of its wind started to darken from its original faint and transparent darkness to pure obsidian. It looked like ink that was swirling in the sky.

Moreover, as Chop Dark continued to purify the wind-elemental energy within itself and the color of its wind continued to change, it eventually resembled a spinning black hole in the sky.

Any entity that was sucked into Chop Dark would become one with the darkness.

It would take another three hours for Chop Dark to absorb the five wind-type elemental pearls and finish its transformation.

Every minute spent in the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm was extremely precious to Lin Yuan.

He decided for Ding Chengshuo to find a reason to pull away from the Su family's group. After all, they would eventually have to meet up again.

After Ding Chengshuo had betrayed the Bai family, it was possible that the Bai family would try to exact their revenge on him.

Thus, Lin Yuan stored Ding Chengshuo in the Jewelled Cave Golden Toad just like he had done to the Dragon Horns Mysterious Turtle.

Soon, a large number of black feathers shot out from the ground by his feet and turned into four pairs of black wings.

As the four pairs of black wings flapped, Lin Yuan started sensing through Morbius and flew off in the direction of the spirit springs.

Along the way, Lin Yuan noticed numerous precious plant-type feys.

It could be said that even without the plant-type feys with the Sacred Wood bloodline, the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm was a treasure trove of plant-type feys.

Lin Yuan did not stop to dig out these plant-type feys.

He intended to use the simplest and most forceful method to lure the Holy Lady or lifeform in the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm out so he could achieve his goal.

As long as he took control of that lifeform, everything in the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm would belong to him.

While he was flying, he heard Morbius' voice in his spirit again, "Partner, I only sensed five mouths of spirit springs at first. But as you get nearer to those five mouths of spirit springs, I started to slowly pick up even more."

A smile spread across Lin Yuan's face.

He had already been flying at full speed for almost 17 hours. While he was flying, he adjusted his direction every once in a while.

There were a few places where large patches of plant-type feys could create illusions were planted.

They were planted neatly as though they were blocking the spirit qi professionals' path.

If Lin Yuan had not contracted the Sacred Sword Wielding Queen and had a strong resistance to poison, he would not have been able to ignore the vapors that the plant-type feys were shooting into the sky.

It seemed that he would be even closer to the lifeform in the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm once he crossed the few natural moats. DiiScôver 𝒏𝒆w stori𝒆s on no/𝒗/e()

As Lin Yuan cast his gaze around, he saw that numerous flowing streams covered the ground below the mountain.

There were traces of plant-type feys with the Sacred Wood bloodline along the banks of the streams.

It was likely that those who ventured into the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm found the plant-type feys with the Sacred Wood bloodline along these streams.

What Lin Yuan wanted to find was not the streams but the main river.

It was rare for the streams to move in a circle unless they happened to be connected to other streams.

Even if the streams were connected, the water would move slowly.

If Lin Yuan wanted to use the Bloodline-Cutting Black Carp to absorb all of the Sacred Wood bloodline from the spirit springs, he needed to find the main source.

The spirit springs were linked, and the fastest way to absorb the Sacred Wood bloodline would be to go to the source.

There had to be a price to pump so much bloodline power into the spirit springs.

It was likely that the lifeform would not be able to handle such a huge loss.

With this thought, Lin Yuan sped up the circulation of spiritual power in his body and shot off in the direction that Morbius was pointing out.

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As Lin Yuan continued to fly, he could clearly sense the moisture in the air rising. It had the clean scent of nature.

From his eagle eye view in the sky, he saw many raging rivers skin to snakes and dragons.

A spirit spring spewed out Grasswood Fountain Water on Leaning Moon Mountain, nourishing all of the lifeforms living on the mountain.

The flora and fauna on Leaning Moon Mountain had not been transplanted but grew there naturally.

The Moon Empress did not interfere much with the growth of the plants.

However, it was clear that the main spirit spring below had been manually widened. Otherwise, it was impossible for there to be such wide rivers of spirit springs.

It was no small feat to expand rivers of spirit springs.

Apparently, the lifeform had not been idle in the time that the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm was closed!

Lin Yuan landed beside one of the rivers of spirit springs.

As he watched the raging waters, he took out the Bloodline-Cutting Black Carp and communicated to Morbius through his spirit, "Morbius, I will be throwing the Bloodline-Cutting Black Carp into this spirit spring soon. Once it has sucked up all bloodline power in this spirit spring, help me to sense the angle from which the bloodline power is flowing. Then, we'll be able to ascertain the location of the lifeform."

After all, the lifeform had been hidden for at least 100 years before the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm was first opened.

Lin Yuan could not be sure if his consumption of the bloodline power would cause the lifeform to choose to come out from hiding after almost 100 years of holing itself up.

After Morbius heard what Lin Yuan said, it said, "Partner, from my investigation, I can confirm that the lifeform is not a plant. There indeed is bloodline power flowing through the spirit springs, but it is not just effective on plants.

"Did you notice that the plants and moats we saw on the way here are covered with traces of being man-made? There were no signs of animals at all. My guess is that all of the animals in the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm have already been cleared out. Compared to plants, animals have much greater movement. The lifeform won't be able to fully control the animals it affects with its bloodline. I'm also curious now to know what this lifeform is!"

Lin Yuan narrowed his eyes when he heard what Morbius said.

He had been guessing that the lifeform in the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm was a plant that had been using its bloodline to contaminate other plant-type feys to pass on its bloodline to them. Then, it traded the plants it had contaminated with its bloodline to the factions in the Divine Wood Federation in exchange for Creation Master resources to boost itself.

But now, it seemed that this was not the case.

There was no way that Morbius' sensing could be wrong.

But if this lifeform was not a plant, what could it be?

Lin Yuan did not make any more guesses before he tossed the Bloodline-Cutting Black Carp into the spirit spring so it would bring the answer to him.

After the Bloodline-Cutting Black Carp absorbed the bloodline of one type of fey, its body would change according to the type of bloodline power it had just absorbed.

As a result of this, the Bloodline-Cutting Black Carps that were seen in the wild were of all strange shapes and sizes.

After all, there was no way that the body that was the amalgamation of many feys would look good. Geett the l𝒂test 𝒏𝒐vels on no/v/elbin.c/om

The thought of a fish with crab legs and part of the body of a shrimp was disturbing.

The more types of bloodline power it absorbed, the more warped its body would become.

With so much bloodline power in the spirit springs for the Bloodline-Cutting Black Carp to absorb, it should look like the lifeform once it was done absorbing all of the bloodline power.

When the Bloodline-Cutting Black Carp entered the spirit spring, Lin Yuan fixed his eye on it.

The Bloodline-Cutting Black Carp was only Normal I/Normal, but it was not slow at absorbing bloodline power at all. Otherwise, it would not be deemed a carcinoma fey despite not technically being one.

Morbius had shared the ability to sense bloodline power with Lin Yuan.

Lin Yuan suddenly realized that as the Bloodline-Cutting Black Carp opened its mouth and flapped its fins, the bloodline power started flowing into its body at a breakneck pace.

He sighed to himself.

The Bloodline-Cutting Black Carp is way too strong!

The Bloodline-Cutting Black Carp did not just affect one of the spirit springs, but the bloodline power from the other spirit springs also started to gather toward the Bloodline-Cutting Black Carp.

It could affect an area of more than four square kilometers.

The Bloodline-Cutting Black Carp was only Normal I/Normal.

Spirit springs were still springs and could not be overly expanded. Each was only around 15 meters wide.

The area of four square kilometers covered seven of the rivers.

The bloodline power from seven spirit springs gathered at the spirit spring in front of Lin Yuan.

Lin Yuan noticed that the clear water now looked rather crystalline.

The crystalline glow was dappled with pink and gold, painting a beautiful sight.

Since the bloodline power in the spirit spring had become more concentrated, the bloodline power started to permeate the air around the spirit spring.

The bloodline power was deep and complex, filled with gentle generosity.

A fey's personality could be altered by different bloodline power.

The specialty of bloodline power was that it was related to the aura of the fey.

By sensing the bloodline power, Lin Yuan could be certain that this lifeform was not hostile.

As the Bloodline-Cutting Black Carp continuously absorbed the bloodline power, its body started to change.

The first change was to the color of its body. It started off as black, but now, it had slowly taken on a golden sheen. Soon, the golden sheen changed the Bloodline-Cutting Black carp's scales to crystalline.

The Bloodline-Cutting Black Carp's body started to take on the appearance of a jewel.

Eventually, all of the black retreated, leaving the fish's body pink.

Every crystalline fish scale had pink patterns on it.

But this was just the beginning.

Once the color of the scales and fins changed, the next to change was the shape of the Bloodline-Cutting Black Carp's body.

The Bloodline-Cutting Black Carp started off as rotund. It looked similar to the fish kept as pets instead of being eaten.

But now, the Bloodline-Cutting Black Carp's body slowly elongated and resembled more and more like a jewel.

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The short and hard fins and tail grew longer.

When Lin Yuan first nurtured the Myriad Form Carp into the Dragon-Phoenix Landscape Carp, the Dragon-Phoenix Landscape Carp's tail had grown to half the length of its body, and its fins reached 1/3 of the length of its body.

These were considered to be on the larger side.

But in just the blink of an eye, the Dragon-Phoenix Landscape Carp's proportions had surpassed that of the Dragon-Phoenix Landscape Carp. Its fish tail grew to twice the length of its body while its fins almost grew to the same length as its body.

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The shape of the Bloodline-Cutting Black Carp's fins and tail were also interesting. They looked like waves that were flowing out of the Bloodline-Cutting Black Carp's body.

Its fins and tail were faint pink and had golden patterns that resembled gentle waves that shifted the sands on a coast.

Technically, such large fins and tail were no longer advantageous to fish-species feys.

After all, there was still the matter of its body and size.

It would have to constantly move its body in order to gesticulate its fins and tail.

However, the Bloodline-Cutting Black Carp appeared to be unaffected.

Once it was done absorbing the high concentration of bloodline power, it had evolved to Bronze II/Flawless.

Its new exclusive skill caused Lin Yuan's eyes to light up.

[Feedback Application: By attaching itself to a lifeform, it can feed back its bloodline to the lifeform to strengthen the lifeform's bloodline. Once it detaches itself, the boosted bloodline will return to the Bloodline-Cutting Black Carp's body.

This exclusive skill immediately raised the Bloodline-Cutting Black Carp's value.

However, Lin Yuan still had no intention of forming a contract with the Bloodline-Cutting Black Carp but only to continue nurturing it.

Lin Yuan needed to use the mermaid bloodline in his body when he wielded the Fish World Sea Trump Card. The more powerful his mermaid bloodline was, the stronger the Fish World Sea Trump Card would be as well.

In previous experiments, Lin Yuan found out that when he used up the mermaid emperor bloodline, it could be recovered after recuperation.

Lin Yuan could feed a small amount of his mermaid emperor bloodline to the Bloodline-Cutting Black Carp every day to store it in its body so it could act as Lin Yuan's battery.

The Bloodline-Cutting Black Carp could choose which target to boost with its bloodline power.

At that time, when the Bloodline-Cutting Black Carp boosted him with the mermaid emperor bloodline, he would not be affected by the intermixing of other bloodlines.

Now that the Bloodline-Cutting Black Carp looked the way it did, it would start to evolve into a mermaid once it was fed the mermaid emperor bloodline. It was unlikely that it would take on an ugly appearance then.

In less than three minutes, the Bloodline-Cutting Black Carp had absorbed all of the bloodline power from the seven spirit springs.

As the other spirit springs were connected to the seven spirit springs, they would continue to channel bloodline power there, which would then be absorbed by the Bloodline-Cutting Black Carp.

However, after having such a big meal, the Bloodline-Cutting Black Carp could not handle the rate of food intake.

It flapped its tail and moved its fins as though it was becoming one with the current.

It had only moved its fins slightly and managed to propel itself at least 300 meters.

This was much faster than other fish-species feys of the same grade.

Lin Yuan flapped his four pairs of wings and matched the Bloodline-Cutting Black Carp's speed.

At this point, there was no point in Lin Yuan using Morbius to sense the environment for the location of the spirit springs because the Bloodline-Cutting Black Carp was the best radar for seeking the purest bloodline.

It was easy for the Bloodline-Cutting Black Carp to sense where the bloodline was purest and swim in that direction.

After all, the bloodline power was a feast to the Bloodline-Cutting Black Carp.

Animals were much more capable of hunting for food than humans were, as the minds of humans were filled with messy thoughts.

Animals that had not awakened their intelligence were only motivated by their instinct to find food.

While he was following the Bloodline-Cutting Black Carp, the Bloodline-Cutting Black Carp continued to gobble and enjoy the bloodline power that crossed its path.

However, the lifeform was still nowhere to be seen.

Not only was the lifeform absent, but even the Holy Lady had not shown up to stop the Bloodline-Cutting Black Carp and allowed it to continue consuming as much bloodline power as it wanted.

This clashed with Lin Yuan's guess and made him furrow his brow.

He thought to himself, If that lifeform doesn't turn up, I might as well allow the Bloodline-Cutting Black Carp to consume all of the bloodline power in the spirit springs and continue to search for the source using the Bloodline-Cutting Black Carp. If you don't come to see me, I'll go to you.

The Bloodline-Cutting Black Carp's body did not return to its original form. Instead, its body continued to become even more transparent.

Eventually, it absorbed the bloodline power from 37 spirit springs.

The Bloodline-Cutting Black Carp could now control the gold and pink currents around it and fuse with the spirit springs.

If Lin Yuan had not been constantly using True Data to check on the Bloodline-Cutting Black Carp, he might have lost it.

Presently, the Bloodline-Cutting Black Carp had reached Diamond X/Legend.

Lin Yuan could sense the flavor of being connected to nature from it and knew that it was about to comprehend a Willpower Rune. CH𝒆Ck for 𝒏ew st𝒐ries on no/v/el/bin.c0m

Lin Yuan had not rested at all.

Every time the Bloodline-Cutting Black Carp was done absorbing a spirit spring, Lin Yuan used the Guard Sea Silver that he had prepared in advance to collect the mouths of the spirit springs.

The Guard Sea Silver was a type of substance similar to mercury that could suspend water-elemental energy.

When the mouths of spirit springs entered the Guard Sea Silver, they would become dormant and stop spewing out spring water.

Lin Yuan intended to use the Guard Sea Silver to collect the mouths of spirit springs.

Once the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm closed, he would move the mouths of spirit springs into the Element Well.

After Lin Yuan collected a total of 37 mouths of spirit springs, he still saw no sign of the lifeform or the Holy Lady.

Since the mouths of the spirit springs had been taken and no water was being poured in, the members of the Divine Wood Federation's factions would not notice that anything was wrong at first, but the spring water left in the streams would eventually evaporate and dry up.

While the Bloodline-Cutting Black Carp was absorbing the bloodline power, Lin Yuan had injected spirit qi into it numerous times.

Although the Bloodline-Cutting Black Carp increased its power by absorbing the bloodline power, it still needed spirit qi.

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The pure spirit qi would allow the Bloodline-Cutting Black Carp to absorb bloodline power even quicker.

Otherwise, no matter how capable the Bloodline-Cutting Black Carp was at absorbing bloodline power, it would not be able to completely absorb all the bloodline power from 37 spirit springs within two hours.

Because of Lin Yuan's help, the Bloodline-Cutting Black Carp that had just gained intelligence felt very affectionate toward him.

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As its intelligence rose, its affection toward Lin Yuan also increased.

Now, there was no need for Lin Yuan to use True Data to pinpoint the Bloodline-Cutting Black Carp because it often poked out of the water beneath him and leaped into his arms when he flew lower.

It could be said that the Bloodline-Cutting Black Carp did not feel even an ounce of wariness against Lin Yuan.

Although the Diamond X/Legend Bloodline-Cutting Black Carp was a fish, it had the intelligence comparable to that of a seven or eight-year-old child.

Moreover, Lin Yuan had Genius.

He could smoothly communicate with the Bloodline-Cutting Black Carp using Connected Tails.

Lin Yuan used Connected Tails to ask the Bloodline-Cutting Black Carp, "You've just consumed so much bloodline power and must be extremely familiar with its taste. I would like you to help me find the source of the bloodline power. This way, you'll be able to continue feasting from now on."

When it heard that it could continue feasting, the Bloodline-Cutting Black Carp excitedly swished its tail, creating fractals of light in the water.

Through Connected Tails, Lin Yuan heard the Bloodline-Cutting Black Carp's gentle voice in his head, "Okay! I just had a huge meal, but the water still has the same scent. It's coming from ahead."

While it was communicating with Lin Yuan, the Bloodline-Cutting Black Carp continued to move forward.

As Lin Yuan flew, he sensed through Morbius that the aura of bloodline energy in the water was so faint that it had become extremely difficult to pick up.

The bloodline power was so faint that it would take tens of thousands of years to collect it at the same previous rate.

Thus, Lin Yuan could tell that the bloodline power was being retracted.

As it continued flying ahead for another three hours, it suddenly saw that there was a faint spatial fluctuation in the previously pristine environment.

Lin Yuan was able to sense the spatial fluctuation because his ability to sense spatial fluctuations had improved after the Sacred Sword Wielding Queen had swallowed a spatial-type world crystal.

At that moment, the Bloodline-Cutting Black Carp swam into the fenced-off space and fell out of Lin Yuan's range of sensing.

Lin Yuan immediately knew that the spatial fluctuation was meant to hide something from view.

Many spatial-type feys could achieve this.

Lin Yuan summoned White Speak and did not give White Speak time to exchange pleasantries before bringing them through the spatial fence.

Lin Yuan did this because he was worried for the Bloodline-Cutting Black Carp's safety.

After the Bloodline-Cutting Black Carp entered, it started to gulp down bloodline power.

It was possible that it could be killed at any time.

Furthermore, it was likely that behind the fence made of spatial power was where the lifeform was hiding.

There were no Bloodline-Cutting Black Carps inside the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm.

When it forced itself past the fence, the Bloodline-Cutting Black Carp would immediately catch the attention of the lifeform.

Lin Yuan did not want to give the lifeform another chance to hide or flee.

When he passed through the spatial fence, Lin Yuan was immediately stunned by the sight he saw on the other side.

Lin Yuan could be certain that he had never ever been so struck dumb ever since he became a spirit qi professional.

The waters surged and flowed toward the sky.

The pink and gold water contained an aura of vastness and an enormous amount of energy.

A pink-haired and golden-eyed special lifeform made of mystical water was at the top of the stream of water.

It was as though the water that connected the earth and the sky was the lifeform's garment.

The lifeform's appearance was clearly not that of a fey that had transformed into a human. It also did not have the petite figure of a fairy. Its size was between a human and a fairy. It also did not have wings, which were what set fairies apart from the rest.

The lifeform currently had its eyes closed and was in an otherworldly state.

Once the Bloodline-Cutting Black Carp entered the area past the spatial fence, the bloodline power that hit it was so concentrated that it almost choked.

The Bloodline-Cutting Black Carp excitedly started to absorb the bloodline power.

Although the Bloodline-Cutting Black Carp had reached Diamond X/Legend and was trying to absorb the bloodline power at full force, the amount of bloodline power did not seem to decrease in the slightest.

The fluctuations of wills in its body became stronger, and it officially started to comprehend the Willpower Rune to evolve into a Fantasy Breed fey.

In front of him was a breathtakingly beautiful world. It was formed completely by a long river of pink and gold.

The girl, with her eyes closed, gave the vast world the aura of serenity.

Lin Yuan was about to use True Data to check on the girl in the sky when he heard Morbius' astonished voice, "It's a river that, by some miracle, transformed into a faerie!"

When Morbius said the word 'faerie', Lin Yuan immediately recalled a page in the Annal of Monster Information that only had the words 'Everything has spirit. The mountains, rivers, and nature are all made of spirit. With a miracle from nature, they will be tempered. If they fail, they will return to the ground. If they are successful, they will gain access to the heavens.' CH𝒆Ck for 𝒏ew st𝒐ries on no/v/el/bin.c0m

Lin Yuan felt that reading the Annal of Monster Information took a toll on his brain. It was not because he did not want to read it but because there was no difference between him reading it or not.

It was likely that the words on that page of the Annal of Monster Information were referring to faeries.

The pink and blue river that turned into a faerie had an aura solidifying around it. The torrents of water it was swept up in stored energy for it.

It seemed that the faerie was being tested by nature. If it failed the test, the faerie would be obliterated. But if it passed, it would gain access to the heavens.

Could access to the heavens refer to awakening its birth horoscope and walking down heaven's path? Or did it refer to setting the spirit fire alight?

When Lin Yuan used True Data to check on the girl in the sky, he found that he could clearly see its information.

The river's original name was called the Gaea Begin River. It was currently at Sovereign X/Creation VIII.

With such power, it was not considered powerful in the Divine Wood Federation. The Yang, Su, and Bai families all had the power to tackle the Gaea Begin River.

It was no wonder that the Gaea Begin River wanted to hide.

While Lin Yuan was thinking, Morbius said in an equally excited and stern voice, "Partner, you've encountered the largest opportunity of your career as a spirit qi professional thus far."

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Lin Yuan was stunned when he heard what Morbius said. He acknowledged that he had encountered an opportunity at almost set periods of time.

For example, becoming the Moon Empress' disciple, obtaining the Fish World Sea Trump Card, contracting the Remembrance Soul Whale, and consuming the Earth Center Fine Milk. All of them were enormous opportunities for him.

But to Morbius, all of these opportunities could not compare to the Gaea Begin River.

"Partner, I haven't made myself clear. What I should have said was that all of the opportunities you've encountered thus far in your career as a spirit qi professional cannot be equated to this opportunity." DiiScôver 𝒏𝒆w stori𝒆s on no/𝒗/e()

Lin Yuan became increasingly curious after Morbius said this.

Morbius did not bear around the bush and went on to say, "Partner, didn't you say that you haven't met another mystery-type fey besides me? If the Gaea Begin River can pass the Heaven's Trial, it will transform from water-type to mystery-type.

"I'm surprised that spirit qi of this purity managed to produce a faerie. However, this faerie doesn't have enough resources to pass the test. Hence, today is not just an opportunity for you but for it as well.

"If it's possible, you should get it to accept you as its master. Even if you have to use all of your resources, you must try to help it pass the test. Once it passes the test, it will enter the transformation stage. When it awakes from the transformation stage, its spirit fire will immediately be ignited and come what spirit qi professionals call a divine faerie."

Lin Yuan knew that he was about to lose control over his expression.

Each thing that Morbius said was more astonishing than the previous statement.

When the faerie passed the Heaven's Trial, it would change to mystery-type.

Could it be that Morbius' foundation was also a faerie? This was not right either!

After it passed the test, the faerie would be able to set its spirit fire alight. However, Morbius was only Normal I/Normal I when he formed a contract with it.

Moreover, was it so easy to get a faerie to accept one as its master?

Lin Yuan heard Morbius' voice in his ear again, "Partner, although my memory hasn't recovered yet, I can be certain that I'm not linked to this faerie in any way. I should be able to regain more of my memory once I gain more of the Endless Gems.

"It's easy to get the faerie to accept you as its master. It is actually a natural formation. Before it undergoes Heaven's Trial, it will accumulate energy and not have a single other thought. Hence, its mindset is rather simple. As long as you promise that you'll help it to pass the Heaven's Trial, it will definitely choose passing over death."

Lin Yuan nodded.

It seemed that he would have to try to obtain more of the Endless Gems if he wanted to get to the bottom of Morbius.

But Lin Yuan did not agree with Morbius that it would be easy to convince the faerie to accept him as its master.

Firstly, the stronger the lifeform, the more prideful it would be and the less willing it would be to submit to another.

Moreover, even if the Gaea Begin River had been focused on storing energy, it controlled the Holy Lady. It was evident that the Holy Lady was not simple-minded.

If the Holy Lady was slow, she would not have been able to deal with the Yang family and the entire Divine Wood Federation for all these years, or make use of the plant-type feys with the Sacred Wood bloodline to make the Yang family do its bidding, or gather all of the mouths of spirit springs into the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm.

This thought filled Lin Yuan with doubt.

At that moment, he was curious to know why the Holy Lady had not appeared yet.

White Speak was stunned by the sight before it.

It was a powerful Apostle from the marsh world and thought that it had seen it all.

But ever since it started following Lin Yuan, almost everything that happened surpassed White Speak's understanding.

White Speak could sense that the lifeform suspended in the sky had been born from the entire river.

White Speak had never heard that part of nature could produce life.

It had long become obedient to Lin Yuan and did not suspect anything he said.

White Speak was one of the ten strongest sources of faith power in the shrine in Lin Yuan's soul.

As White Speak looked at Lin Yuan through a rose-colored lens, it thought, Is this the level that Lord Dictator has reached? I've grown again!

Just as White Speak was about to ask Lin Yuan to give it an instruction, a piercing cry cracked the air from a short distance away.

When Lin Yuan heard this voice, he immediately knew that the Holy Lady had rushed over.

As long as the Holy Lady was under the Gaea Begin River's control, there was no way she would not rush back now that such a serious matter had taken place.

At that moment, the Holy Lady was feral, but she could not hide her worry.

"How did you get in here!?"

While she spoke, pink and white peach blossoms bloomed on the Holy Lady's body. There were light gold flower cores at the centers of the peach blossoms.

Lin Yuan could sense an aura similar to that of the Gaea Begin River from the Holy Lady. However, the concentration of the bloodline was much stronger in the Holy Lady than it was in other feys with the Sacred Wood bloodline.

The Holy Lady had already revealed her aura. Her power had reached Immortal, and she was only a hair's breadth away from reaching pinnacle Immortal.

Given the Holy Lady's power, it was no wonder that she managed to seal a deal with the entire Divine Wood Federation.

However, the Holy Lady's power paled in comparison to White Speak because the latter was already at pinnacle Immortal and showing signs of breaking through to Eternal, essentially becoming a Class 14 dimensional lifeform.

When the Holy Lady revealed her aura, White Speak's aura also exploded from its body.

Her domineering aura caused explosions to rip through the pink and gold river water, creating waves that were almost ten meters tall.

The Holy Lady was about to end Lin Yuan, White Speak, and the greedy Bloodline-Cutting Black Carp's lives immediately. She did not even consider the possibility that the uninvited guest that had charged in would be stronger than it.

This was a situation that the Holy Lady had not encountered in the past decades.

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This caused anxiousness to grip the Holy Lady.

Nonetheless, she still immediately lunged at White Speak and created a beautiful rain of peach blossoms that radiated unending malice.

During this time, the Holy Lady lifted her head to look with rapt admiration at the pink-haired and golden-eyed girl with closed eyes.

The Holy Lady was much more concerned over the Gaea Begin River's safety than he was over her own.

Lin Yuan could easily control the situation through White Speak.

However, Lin Yuan's goal was for the Gaea Begin River to willingly accept him as its master.

This was why Lin Yuan did not instruct White Speak to kill the Holy Lady.

From the concentration of bloodline in the Holy Lady's body, he could clearly sense how much effort the Gaea Begin River had put into nurturing the Holy Lady.

When feys used their own bloodline to bring up another lifeform, both of them would share the same bloodline despite not going through the process of reproduction. It could be said that the Holy Lady was the Gaea Begin River's descendant.

But since the Holy Lady had made her move, Lin Yuan could not stay idle.

Just as Lin Yuan took out the Vast Sea Wave-Raising Flute and was about to instruct White Speak to overpower the Holy Lady, a gentle sigh wafted down from the sky.

"Little Peach, stay your hand! I shall resign myself. Before the Heaven's Trial is fully upon me, being able to see other lifeforms has made my trip on this earth worth it."

When the gentle voice spoke, the water beneath the Gaea Begin River did not even so much as form a ripple.

When Lin Yuan lifted his head, he saw that the girl with pink hair had opened her eyes and was staring straight at him with her golden ones.

Her expression was the picture of serenity, but there was unmasked sorrow underneath.

Lin Yuan could guarantee that this was the purest pair of eyes he had ever looked into.

Just like Morbius had said, without external help, the Gaea Begin River would not be able to pass the Heaven's Trial with just the resources in the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm.

When the Holy Lady heard the gentle voice, her body halted in midair, and she immediately started pleading with the Gaea Begin River, "Mother, I opened the space to allow the humans in again. This time, they will be able to provide you with a mountain of resources very soon. You—"

Before the Holy Lady could finish speaking, the Gaea Begin River landed gently on the surface of the water and said, "Little Peach, I've been too stubborn. I should have resigned myself long ago. Every time you've opened the space and collected resources have been of help to me, but the effects have been negligible. They won't help me stand a fighting chance in passing the Heaven's Trial.

"My bloodline also runs through your body, and you'll also be affected by the test. If I can just gain a little more energy, I should be able to protect you even if I eventually succumb."

Tears immediately started flowing down the Gaea Begin River's cheeks. She bit his lip as her tears fell and broke the surface of the pink and gold river.

However, the small sprays of water did not affect the Bloodline-Cutting Black Carp that was still feasting.

"Mother, how much time do we have until the Heaven's Trial?"

The Gaea Begin River used elements to embrace the Holy Lady as it replied, "There's still a day left. Otherwise, I wouldn't have resigned myself."

After hugging the Holy Lady, the Gaea Begin River looked down at the Bloodline-Cutting Black Carp and said softly, "Little fellow, you will be dragged in because of me too,"

The Gaea Begin River looked up at Lin Yuan and White Speak. A few seconds later, it focused its gaze on Lin Yuan before it took a few steps forward and raised its hand.

At that moment, the outline of a beautiful chair took shape in the pink and blue river. The patterns on the chair seemed to document the passing of time on the river.

"Since you're here, you must be fated with me. Why don't you take a seat and tell me about the outside world? I heard from Little Peach that the lifeforms in the outside world really like the plants that have been nourished by my water.

"If you're willing to tell me about the world out there, I can give you all of the feys that my bloodline power has greatly stained before the Heaven's Trial descends on me. These feys won't be affected by the test from the heavens. You can take it as repayment for wasting your day."

When Lin Yuan heard what the Gaea Begin River said, he could sense its yearning to live and how it was frustrated and indignant about its life coming to an end.

Lin Yuan looked into the Gaea Begin River's eyes and said, "I won't be taking a seat."

When the Gaea Begin River heard what Lin Yuan said, it immediately looked regretful.

Lin Yuan's soft and gentle words sounded like a thunderclap to the Gaea Begin River. DiiScôver 𝒏𝒆w stori𝒆s on no/𝒗/e()

"You don't have to resign yourself. Even if there's only a day left, you might still have the chance to pass the Heaven's Trial. I can help you!"

In spite of the shock on the Gaea Begin River's face, Lin Yuan did not offer any explanation, nor did he immediately start negotiating with the Gaea Begin River.

Lin Yuan immediately took out a Diamond fey storage box and took out all of the Spirit-Mouthed Peonies that were inside.

The small Spirit-Mouthed Peonies formed a rain of flowers.

The Spirit-Mouthed Peonies were full of pure spirit qi from the Spirit Lock spatial zone.

As time passed, there were now over 3,000 flowers filled with spirit qi.

When Lin Yuan lifted his hand, a light blue pillar of water immediately appeared in the sky.

Lin Yuan used his hand to slice through the light blue pillar of water.

When the pillar of water slammed down on the surface of the river, the Spirit-Mouthed Peonies were crushed.

A large amount of pure spirit qi immediately filled the area that was hidden by a spatial fence.

At the instant that the pure spirit qi appeared, the

Gaea Begin River's expression changed from regret to shock, wild delight, and finally gratitude.

At that moment, Lin Yuan said, "Your time is precious. From this instant, I will not stop providing you with resources. All you need to do is do your best to absorb all of the resources and turn them into aids to help you pass the Heaven's Trial."

While speaking, Lin Yuan took out the over 30 mouths of spirit springs he had gathered and placed them in the river water by his feet.

The mouths of spirit springs would be very helpful to the Gaea Begin River in absorbing the various types of resources.