Fey Evolution Merchant

by welldarn

Posting this for my own convenience.

25. Chapter 25

Chapter 1201: Medusa Snake Demon's Provision

When Lin Yuan used True Data, he saw that Wendy had already reached Class 4, and its originally bald head now had many snakes growing out of it.

Now, it looked scarily beautiful.

However, Wendy was still its same old adorable self.

When Rising Lizard arrived next to Lin Yuan, Wendy changed into a small snake and leaped into Lin Yuan's arms before changing back into human form and hugging Lin Yuan affectionately.

Rising Lizard also wanted to nudge Lin Yuan lovingly with its head. However, it was still much bigger than him, and even a gentle nudge would cause Lin Yuan to fall over.

As such, Rising Lizard stopped itself.

Lin Yuan could not help marvel at Rising Lizard. Although the strength of its faith power had not increased by much as it was not easy for Apostles to gain faith power, Rising Lizard had evolved from Class 6 to Class 7 in such a short amount of time.

This rate of power growth was terrifying! How did Rising Lizard manage it? What had happened in the marsh world during his absence?

While Lin Yuan was thinking, Wendy said, "Dad, I've already absorbed half of the Drugged Snake Eagle's venom. Once I'm done, I should be able to evolve to Class 5. When you left the dimensional world, the Marsh Ground Sphagna took me to the Drugged Snake Eagle nest, and I rescued 29 Medusa Snake Demon aunties. They're now attracting the Marsh Crocodiles with Mom. I don't plan on accepting these Medusa Snake Demons as my believers, as I think predator plants are the best choices to become my believers. Rising Lizard can have these Medusa Snake Demons. In just a few days, the Medusa Snake Demons managed to attract many Medusa Giant Lizards that were all eaten by Rising Lizard."

Wendy blinked its large eyes and thoroughly reported on all that had taken place in the marsh world in Lin Yuan's absence.

Lin Yuan was momentarily stunned. This had to be the reason for Rising Lizard's rapid increase in power! The Medusa Giant Lizards that had come running toward the Medusa Snake Demon's aura were so tragic! The Medusa Snake Demons had essentially seduced them with the sole purpose of slaughtering them.

Nonetheless, this was fine as Lin Yuan never expected to find so many Medusa Snake Demons gathered together in his territory.

It seemed that he need not worry about Rising Lizard's power at all as it could quickly increase its power.

Moreover, there was already a deepset genetic link between Medusa Snake Demons and Medusa Giant Lizards.

Since Rising Lizard was an Apostle, it was not a bad circumstance if all of its believers were Medusa Snake Demons.

The Medusa Snake Demon had extremely high intelligence and could contribute significantly to this almost barren land.

It would be beneficial to the base if Rising Lizard could accept the Medusa Snake Demons as its believers. Hence, Lin Yuan greatly supported this idea.

At that moment, Wendy said softly, "Dad, I might not have as many believers as Rising Lizard, but I'm still ahead of it. Rising Lizard only has one Favored Believer and four believers while I already have two Favored Believers!"

Suddenly, Lin Yuan sensed that something was wrong. Fôllôw 𝒏ew stories at n𝒐/v(e)

How could Wendy address him as Dad? He had not thought anything odd of it, but it had also addressed Scale Concubine as Mom. This implied that he and Scale Concubine were a couple. Scale Concubine might not be agreeable to it. But even if it was fine with it, he was not agreeable to it.

In spite of this, he did not say anything to Wendy as those were just the words of an innocent child, and Wendy had only addressed him in such a way because he had formed a contract with it.

Wendy felt safe and affectionate toward him. In a child's world, the people they felt most at ease and loving toward were their parents.

Lin Yuan caressed Wendy's head and said, "Later, let's go and see your new Favored Avenger together."

Liu Tong had gathered all the Spirit Craftsmen, and they were standing before Lin Yuan.

All of the Spirit Craftsmen had worn faces, and it looked as though they had not rested properly in a long time. Their faces were also covered in dust and looked to be in a sorry state.

Constructing a building involved digging and moving dirt around. It was a job where one could not evade becoming dirty.

Lin Yuan looked at the 34 Spirit Craftsmen behind Liu Tong and said loudly, "All of you have been working hard! The construction in the marsh world won't be completed within a short period. You have to rest when it's necessary!"

One of the Spirit Craftsmen replied, "Young Master, is it convenient for you to bring feys to this place? I would like to form a contract with the Vitality Sloth, so I won't have to waste my time resting and can dedicate more of my time to work!"

Many other Spirit Craftsmen soon echoed this Spirit Craftsman's words.

Warmth flooded Lin Yuan's heart.

All of these Spirit Craftsmen had agreed to come to this place without asking any questions, and they were all working themselves to the bone now.

All of them were part of Hu Quan's Heavenly Craft Pavilion, and Hu Quan was a member of Sky City. Hence, they were all distantly related to Sky City.

There was no reason for him to be stingy toward these hard workers who were technically part of Sky City.

Lin Yuan cleared his throat and said seriously, "Let Liu Tong if you want a Vitality Sloth, and I'll bring them over soon. Moreover, I heard from Hu Quan that all of you can contract new feys. A few of you have even comprehended Willpower Runes but haven't found the right fey. So, when you inform Liu Tong of your desire to have a Vitality Sloth, you can also request another fey of any type. I'll also bring a Bronze/Epic fey for each of you according to the type you specified."

Lin Yuan's voice carried hefty weight, and it rang in the ears of the Spirit Craftsmen.

Chapter 1202: A Haven

These Class 2 and 3 Spirit Craftsman had always longed for Bronze/Epic feys, but they never imagined that they would ever be able to obtain them.

It had even been difficult for Hu Quan to obtain a Bronze/Epic Wood Weaving House Centipede when he was a Class 4 Spirit Craftsman as he needed luck on top of skill.

As such, it was no wonder that Bronze/Epic feys were so precious to the Class 2 and 3 Spirit Craftsmen.

It was no lie that these Spirit Craftsmen had worked tirelessly for Lin Yuan's sake. They did it with Lin Yuan's promise to them in mind, but that was not the sole reason.

If they had only prioritized their profits, they would not have agreed without question to a job where they would be separated from the rest of the world.

When Lin Yuan last mentioned the Bronze/Epic feys, the Spirit Craftsmen had all been hopeful. However, none of them imagined that their hopes would be realized in a matter of days.

Moreover, Lin Yuan was not just giving them any Bronze/Epic feys, but ones that they had specified themselves.

From the way Lin Yuan spoke, it seemed that they would be able to obtain the Bronze/Epic feys after just one or two days.

Ever since these Spirit Craftsmen entered Heavenly Craft Pavilion, they had been hard at work learning from Hu Quan and had not had the time to understand the culture in Sky City.

But now that they were offered such a reward, the Spirit Craftsmen realized that Sky City was on such an unbelievable scale that Bronze Epic feys could even be nurtured in a matter of days there.

A true gentleman would die for his closest friend, but there were very few people who would give without asking anything in return. Every gift had to be repaid.

Yet, these Spirit Craftsmen were being repaid so soon after they started working. They were all touched and motivated by Lin Yuan's actions and were ready to work harder than ever to repay him.

Liu Tong was smart.

When Lin Yuan failed to mention him in the announcement about Bronze/Epic feys, Liu Tong knew that there was a larger reward in store for him.

Just as Liu Tong had predicted, Lin Yuan turned to him and said, "Liu Tong, even with a Vitality Sloth, it must have been hard for you to tirelessly manage the work here."

Liu Tong had gone without sleep for so long that tears started to well up in his dry eyes.

He knew that he was a nobody. Ever since he was accepted under Hu Quan's tutelage, all he did was doggedly work to pick up the skills and do his best to leave an impression on Hu Quan.

The first time that Liu Tong had spoken to Lin Yuan was at the back of the mountain.

He would never have believed that an aristocrat like Lin Yuan would remember his name after the very first introduction. This gesture made Liu Tong feel respected as it meant that Lin Yuan regarded him as an equal.

Because of Lin Yuan, Liu Tong knew what it felt like to be willing to die for someone.

Just as Liu Tong was about to speak, Lin Yuan said, "I remember when we last spoke, you said that you've comprehended a Willpower Rune but haven't found a suitable fey for it. Why don't you request a fey for yourself too? I'll nurture a Bronze/Legend fey according to your specifications. Work hard. I have faith in you!"

Lin Yuan's words were a hard blow to Liu Tong, who immediately felt his legs go weak.

He was still exhausted despite having contracted a Vitality Sloth, and he suddenly wondered if he was dreaming.

Lin Yuan did not hide this conversation from the other Spirit Craftsmen. This not only made Lin Yuan appear even more outstanding but also let the other Spirit Craftsmen know that hard work would be rewarded.

After surveying the construction around the area, Lin Yuan said to the Spirit Craftsmen, "Once you've contracted a Vitality Sloth, you'll only have to sleep two to three hours each night. However, you can't spend all the remaining time working. You can mark off an area within the territory and plant some of your favorite fruits or pretty plants there. You can even dig a pond and rear fish-species feys.

"The territory is huge and more than big enough for each of you to build a house of your own. I will arrange for the breeding rooms you rushed to build to be assigned to Creation Masters as well as place a guard by the entrance. If you need anything in the future, you can let the guard know. The Creation Masters in the breeding room will be able to provide some of your needs.

"As such, you can let the guard know about any plants, tasty fruits, decorative feys, or anything else that you need. You will be here for a long time. It'll be best if you can treat this place as your home or develop a sense of familiarity with it."

Lin Yuan's rewards had motivated the Spirit Craftsmen, but his words now brought light into their lives.

Spirit Craftsmen were a creative bunch, and they already had ideas for what they were going to do with their own area. After all, every person would be agreeable to living in a beautifully flourished area.

The things that Lin Yuan said were his exact plans for the marsh world that he had in mind from the beginning.

As he continued to expand into the marsh world, the base would only grow larger, and he would eventually come into contact with native factions as well as people from various federations that came through Class 6 marsh dimensional rifts to enter the marsh world.

In such an environment, only the strong would gain respect. Gêtt the latest ch𝒂pters on n𝒐

Thus, his territory in the marsh world would regard outsiders with increasing hostility.

However, he hoped that those who lived within the territory would be able to live harmoniously in a haven.

After exchanging a few more words with Liu Tong, Lin Yuan climbed aboard Rising Lizard with Wendy.

Rising Lizard took them to the edge of the marsh.

At the thought that the Medusa Snake Demons would likely have attracted another group of Medusa Giant Lizards, Rising Lizard excitedly raced ahead.

Previously, Lin Yuan could see the black dirt on the ground when he rode Rising Lizard.

But now that Rising Lizard was Class 7, Lin Yuan's vision was completely blocked by Rising Lizard's expansive back.

He estimated that Rising Lizard was around 45 meters long now.

Chapter 1203: Come Out, You Big Lug!

Rising Lizard's bones were naturally long and strong, allowing it to carry a lot more bodyweight. As such, its flesh was also much tougher than other dimensional lifeforms of the same size.

In fact, Rising Lizard was even stronger than many abyss demons.

The horn on Rising Lizard's head was at least three meters long, and spikes were now jutting out of each horn as well.

These spikes greatly raised Rising Lizard's deadliness. By turning each horn into a thorn, it would rip apart its target on top of puncturing it.

Normally, large feys were all stupid lumberers. However, Rising Lizard's sturdy bones allowed its dorsal bone to be even stronger and more agile.

Its head and long tail could each catch a flying mosquito in mid-air.

This agility, coupled with Rising Lizard's large size, raised its battle abilities.

Soon, Rising Lizard arrived at the edge of the marsh with Lin Yuan on its back.

As Lin Yuan looked at the graceful figures with their snake tails swishing below the water, he felt as though he was looking at a gathering of promiscuous women.

The Medusa Snake Demons were crowding around Scale Concubine and singing happily together.

As the Medusa Snake Demons sang, many of the Marsh Crocodiles that were riled up by bloodlust slowly started to calm down.

Lin Yuan found it strange that the Medusa Snake Demons were currently sneering at a white figure in the middle of the marsh.

There were also three dead Medusa Giant Lizards next to the Medusa Snake Demons.

Many green beams were jutting out from the Medusa Giant Lizards' corpses, and it was clear that they had died after a joint attack by the Medusa Snake Demons.

It was likely that the Medusa Giant Lizards had died while in a confused state. They had traveled all this way to seek someone that they could bootlick and form a contract with. They would never have expected that they were prey that had delivered themselves to the predator.

Fresh blood was still oozing from the wounds where the beams were still lodged. It was clear that they had died only recently.

As large as Rising Lizard was, it was a predatory creature that did not make much noise when it ran.

When Rising Lizard saw the three dead Medusa Giant Lizards, its seven mouths started drooling.

The saliva spurted out like seven fountains.

Given that it was a Medusa Giant Lizard, its saliva contained bacteria that could decompose its prey. Thus, its saliva had a bad stench.

Wendy could not help but pinch its nose.

When Wendy saw how Lin Yuan was carrying it with both his arms, it frowned and placed its other hand on Lin Yuan's nose as it squeaked, "Dad, it won't smell as bad if you breathe through your mouth like me!"

Lin Yuan felt that Wendy was a smart little child. Unfortunately, it did not use its intelligence in the right areas.

He jumped down from Rising Lizard's back.

He realized that his feet did not sink too deep into the ground when he landed.

When he saw the large amount of Gold Drought Ground Sweet Flags, he immediately knew why his feet were not sinking.

It seemed that the Spirit Craftsmen had been busy with other tasks besides building the base.

They had improved the entire humid environment at the edge of the marsh.

The noise that came from Lin Yuan jumping off Rising Lizard's back startled the Medusa Snake Demons.

When Scale Concubine saw Lin Yuan, it immediately looked respectful and bowed to him.

The Medusa Snake Demons had spent their lives dodging danger at every turn and were extremely wary of everything.

Hence, they instinctively maneuvered into defensive stances and started hissing at Lin Yuan.

When Rising Lizard heard the hissing, it set aside its desire to consume the Medusa Giant Lizards. It roared at the 27 Medusa Snake Demons with all seven of its heads and went into attack mode.

The four strongest Medusa Snake Demons immediately collapsed and held their heads as they howled in agony.

The four Medusa Snake Demons that were in anguish were probably the ones that had become Rising Lizard's believers.

Lin Yuan did not mind the way that the Medusa Snake Demons had reacted. Rather, he found it normal.

He did not know what the Medusa Snake Demons had experienced under the Drugged Snake Eagle's tyranny.

They were sure to be on guard in this unfamiliar environment after a lifetime of hardship. This was the nature of every lifeform.

Lin Yuan waved his hand and said, "This is the first time we're all meeting. It's unavoidable that we're uncomfortable with each other. They won't be so aggressive toward me the next time we meet."

He turned and asked Wendy, "Wendy, you said you wanted to show me your second Favored Believer. Call it here so I can take a look at it."

Rising Lizard was still glaring at the 27 Medusa Snake Demons.

It was full of gratitude toward Lin Yuan, who had transformed it into an Apostle, and it respected him from the depths of its soul.

Wendy had told Lin Yuan that Rising Lizard was going to accept all 27 Medusa Snake Demons as its believers. It had also already accepted four of them as its believers.

In the dimensional worlds, a believer's actions reflected their Apostle's will.

Thus, there was no way that Rising Lizard would allow his believers to be disrespectful toward Lin Yuan.

Rising Lizard had been ready to kill these four believers. If Lin Yuan had not halted it, the four Medusa Snake Demons would already be skewered on Rising Lizard's horns.

Wendy's snake hair also started to move when it saw the Medusa Snake Demons' aggression toward Lin Yuan. T/his chapter is updat𝓮d by n𝒐v(ê(l) /m

Every snake was poised to attack for the sake of protecting Lin Yuan.

When Wendy heard what Lin Yuan said, it softened its antagonistic gaze.

It waved its hand toward the marsh and declared, "You big lug, come out and greet Dad. Remember to be gentle! Don't splash any of the marsh water onto Dad!"

As the last word left Wendy's lips, the marsh near Lin Yuan started to move violently as though Wendy's call had awakened a gargantuan creature.

Chapter 1204: Water Demon Support Willow and Water Demon Support Willow

The violently churning marsh was a sign that the creature underwater was at least as large as the Island Whale.

A newly hatched Island Whale was about 500 meters long and could grow up to 3,000 meters as its power increased.

Leaf-covered branches slowly emerged from the marsh, sending the Marsh Crocodiles into a panicked frenzy.

Scale Concubine hurriedly started to sing the Marsh Crocodile Song at an increased speed to calm down the Marsh Crocodiles.

Lin Yuan used True Data as he watched the sturdy grayish-green branches that were covered with twisted leaves.

[Alien Beast Name: Water Demon Support Willow

[Lifeform State: Dimensional lifeform (Favored Believer)

[Alien Beast Class: Class 4

[Totem Faith: Three Flower Snake-Eyes Totem

Natural Skill:

[Excessive Splitting: If there is sufficient energy, the Water Demon Support Willow can grow branches endlessly and remove branches. The energy from the branches that grew from it splitting its body will solidify and become even harder than its original body.

Lin Yuan's eyebrow twitched when he saw the Water Demon Support Willow's True Data.

Although he could tell that the Water Demon Support Willow's body was giant, he could not see most of its body which was still underwater.

Excessive Splitting's strength depended on the Water Demon Support Willow's size. The larger it was, the more impactful Excessive Splitting would be.

Once the Water Demon Support Willow reached a certain size, it would be able to use its branches to create a large base underwater.

This would open up new possibilities in the marsh.

But if it were small, its main branches underwater would not be strong enough, and the structure created through Excessive Splitting would not be impressive. Not only would it be worthless, but it would even become trash that took up space in the territory.

Just as Lin Yuan was about to jump into the dirty marsh to see the Water Demon Support Willow's entire body, Scale Concubine said, "Lord, there is a special white Marsh Crocodile there that I can't control. At first, it was attracted by all the blood we poured into the marsh. But it saw that there's nothing to eat here and is about to leave."

Lin Yuan looked in the direction that Scale Concubine was pointing and saw the seven-meter-long ivory Marsh Crocodile.

The Marsh Crocodile was not creamy white but a pure and sacred type of white that shone faintly. This made the white Marsh Crocodile appear much more imposing.

Lin Yuan used True Data to check on the white Marsh Crocodile. Ch𝒆êck out l𝒂t𝒆st 𝒏𝒐v𝒆l𝒔 on nov𝒆l/bin.c𝒐m

[Alien Beast: White Evil Marsh Crocodile

[Lifeform State: Dimensional lifeform

[Alien Beast Class: Class 2

Natural Skill:

[Crocodile Group Worship: It will not meet with any opposition even if it publicly robbed the other Marsh Crocodiles' food. Its aura will set other Marsh Crocodiles at ease. The more the other Marsh Crocodiles experience its aura, the better they will feel, and their positive feelings will eventually turn into worship. It can attract Marsh Crocodiles within a large radius.

Lin Yuan was astonished.

This Marsh Crocodile was called the White Evil Marsh Crocodile. Its name was evidence that it belonged to the Marsh Crocodile family.

However, there was no mention of the White Evil Marsh Crocodile in any of the information regarding the marsh world in the main world.

Lin Yuan had guessed that the White Evil Marsh Crocodile had reached Class 6.

After all, Marsh Crocodiles' Class was directly related to their size.

However, this White Evil Marsh Crocodile was only Class 2. Yet, it was already 7 meters long.

As such, he could only imagine how large the White Evil Marsh Crocodile would grow to become.

Rising Lizard's 14-meter-long tail was already like a moving pillar of flesh.

Once the White Evil Marsh Crocodile reached Class 7, Lin Yuan estimated that it would grow to at least 100-meters-long.

Lin Yuan also learned from True Data why the other Marsh Crocodiles were not attacking the White Evil Marsh Crocodile.

Marsh Crocodiles in their gestating phase were naturally hostile toward young Marsh Crocodiles that they were not blood-related. They would even kill the young Marsh Crocodiles so they would have more space to give birth.

Marsh Crocodiles also reproduced quickly. In a group of so many Marsh Crocodiles, it was unlikely that there was not a single gestating Marsh Crocodile.

The other Marsh Crocodiles were not attacking the White Evil Marsh Crocodile because of Crocodile Group Worship.

From the moment Lin Yuan saw Crocodile Group Worship, he became certain that the White Evil Marsh Crocodile was extraordinary.

The marsh world was full of peril, and dimensional lifeforms were all possessive over their food.

Crocodile Group Worship not only allowed the White Evil Marsh Crocodile to steal other Marsh Crocodiles' food without facing opposition, but it also allowed the White Evil Marsh Crocodile to be worshiped by other Marsh Crocodiles.

The White Evil Marsh Crocodile could use this natural skill to gather a group of Marsh Crocodile guards.

With so many of its worshippers offering it their faith, it would naturally transform into an Apostle.

Heavenly Family Feys were heavenly lifeforms from the main world. But this White Evil Marsh Crocodile was the heavenly lifeform from the marsh world.

There was no way Lin Yuan would allow this dimensional lifeform to slip away.

He said to the waiting Scale Concubine, "Scale Concubine, continue singing the Marsh Crocodile Song."

Lin Yuan said to the Invisible Demon in his shadow, "Shadow, after you capture the White Evil Marsh Crocodile, kill any other Marsh Crocodile that makes a wrong move."

A shadow emerged from Lin Yuan's shadow and kicked the White Evil Marsh Crocodile to the ground.

The White Evil Marsh Crocodile was about to start struggling, but it was quickly enveloped by the Marsh Ground Sphagna and left incapacitated.

At that moment, all of the Marsh Crocodiles in the marsh went hysterical.

Scale Concubine's Marsh Crocodile Song no longer worked.

Chapter 1205: Strange White Evil Marsh Crocodile

The Marsh Crocodiles ignored Scale Concubine and charged forward to save the White Evil Marsh Crocodile.

The Invisible Demon's shadow flashed across the marsh as per Lin Yuan's instruction.

The air above the marsh turned dark, and the waters of the marsh turned red as the frenzied Marsh Crocodiles were decimated.

This sudden event astonished all the Medusa Snake Demons.

Wendy's eyes lit up, and it waved at the marsh as it shouted, "You big thing, time to eat! Don't waste any bit of crocodile flesh! You better eat all of it within an hour! Otherwise, they'll decompose and be eaten by the mushrooms!"

More branches emerged from the water.

Now that there was food present, the Water Demon Support Willow stretched out more than twice the number of branches than Marsh Crocodiles.

The branches wrapped around the Marsh Crocodiles and dragged them beneath the surface, leaving behind the red-stained water.

The Marsh Crocodiles' blood flowed in all directions and would quickly attract many more Marsh Crocodiles.

It was impossible to wipe out all the Marsh Crocodiles in the marsh world.

There were already Marsh Crocodiles swimming toward the scent of blood.

Scale Concubine led the Medusa Snake Demons in singing the Marsh Crocodile Song to control these new Marsh Crocodiles.

Although Lin Yuan wanted to dive underwater to see just how big the Water Demon Support Willow was, he could not stand the water that was contaminated with the Marsh Crocodiles' blood and mud.

He could only wait until the decomposing bacteria digested the blood before he could head underwater.

As such, Lin Yuan focused his attention on the White Evil Marsh Crocodile.

It was completely helpless against the Class 10 Marsh Ground Sphagna.

Marsh Crocodiles were not intelligent, and this White Evil Marsh Crocodile was still a child. Hence, there was no way it was smart in any way.

Lin Yuan walked over to place his hand on the White Evil Marsh Crocodile's scales.

He discovered that its scales were springy if touched lightly but felt as hard as porcelain when a heavier touch was applied.

Lin Yuan turned to ask Wen Yu and Rising Lizard, "Do either of you want to accept the White Evil Marsh Crocodile as your Favored Believer?"

Wendy hurriedly shook its head and replied, "Dad, I'm more suited to accepting predatory plants as my believers because of my natural skill."

Although Wendy did not state it explicitly, it was clear from its expression that it despised the Marsh Crocodile.

Rising Lizard's seven heads stared at the White Evil Marsh Crocodile for some time before they started to shake, and it said, "Master, you should accept it as your believer. It'll take too much faith power for me to accept it as my Favored Believer."

It did not want to waste its faith power on a Marsh Crocodile.

Lin Yuan lowered his head and looked deep in thought as he gazed at the thrashing White Evil Marsh Crocodile.

Not even Rising Lizard and Scale Concubine, who had lived in the marsh world for so long, had realized what the White Evil Marsh Crocodile's natural skill was.

This was not a normal situation.

After touching the White Evil Marsh Crocodile's skin, Lin Yuan could tell that it was not ordinary.

The White Evil Marsh Crocodile's natural skill Crocodile Group Worship made it a king as it enabled it to order around the Marsh Crocodiles in the marsh.

Given the Marsh Crocodiles' reactions, Lin Yuan could tell that Crocodile Group Worship was more powerful than Marsh Crocodile Song.

He had wanted Wendy or Rising Lizard to accept the White Evil Marsh Crocodile as their Favored Believer so as to strengthen Crocodile Group Worship.

But now, neither of them wanted the White Evil Marsh Crocodile.

They deeply despised Marsh Crocodiles, regardless of how unique the Marsh Crocodile was.

Lin Yuan would never have to worry about using up all the Law Source Crystalls he obtained from trading with Cage of Brahma Insects, Coiling Dragon's Valley, and Dark Clouds Bird Shrine.

He could produce 200 units of source-type power without issue.

As such, he instructed the Sacred Source Wielding Queen to funnel source-type power into his hands.

He touched the White Evil Marsh Crocodile with his hands full of source-type power. Th.ê most uptodat𝓮 n𝒐vels are published on n(0)velbj) /m

Soon, the dim White Evil Marsh Crocodile became more affectionate toward Lin Yuan.

Now that he had used source-type power to soothe the White Evil Marsh Crocodile, he instructed the Marsh Ground Sphagna to release the White Evil Marsh Crocodile.

Lin Yuan pointed at the marsh to tell the White Evil Marsh Crocodile that it could leave.

However, it swished its tail like a large cat and produced a gurgling noise in its throat.

This scene reminded Lin Yuan of Genius.

Nonetheless, Genius was much cuter than the razor-toothed White Evil Marsh Crocodile.

Both crocodile-species feys and dimensional lifeforms like the Marsh Crocodile gurgled and swished their tails as a sign of their affection.

Lin Yuan did not need to be as wary with the dense White Evil Marsh Crocodile as he was with the Class 4 Land Imp.

The Source-Type Cleansing was enough to incite unintelligent dimensional lifeforms to offer up their loyalty.

The accumulated 200 units of source-type power flowed out of Lin Yuan's hands and into the White Evil Marsh Crocodile.

Not long after, the White Evil Marsh Crocodile roared fiercely.

While it was undergoing the Source-Type Cleansing, its white scales lost all signs of grayed aging.

The scales cracked, revealing an even whiter set of scales underneath.

Although the White Evil Marsh Crocodile's class did not increase after the Source-Type Cleansing, its body size had changed significantly.

As the White Evil Marsh Crocodile's body expanded, it now reached a length of 16 meters.

Its grade was low, and it was not strong. However, it could now use its body to kill many Class 4 dimensional lifeforms through brute force.

Suddenly, an astonishing pressure emanated from the White Evil Marsh Crocodile.

An amber-colored tooth-shaped totem appeared in the middle of its snout.

The appearance of the totem meant that the White Evil Marsh Crocodile had successfully transformed into an Apostle.

Lin Yuan used True Data to check on the White Evil Marsh Crocodile again.

Chapter 1206: Lin Yuan's Miniature Kingdom in the Marsh World

[Alien Beast: White Evil Marsh Crocodile

[Lifeform State: Apostle

[Alien Beast Class: Class 2

[Power of Faith: Extremely weak

[Faith Totem: Crocodile Pattern White-Toothed Totem

Natural Skill:

[Crocodile Group Worship: Even if it publicly robs food from the other Marsh Crocodiles, its aura will incite positive feelings in the other Marsh Crocodiles. The more of its aura the other Marsh Crocodiles are exposed to, the more positive feelings will arise. The positive feelings will eventually turn into worship which will allow the White Evil Marsh Crocodile to attract the other Marsh Crocodiles within a large radius. The feelings of worship will coalesce into faith that the White Evil Marsh Crocodile will be able to absorb.

[Crocodile Turned Guards: When the White Evil Marsh Crocodile injects its blood into other Marsh Crocodiles that had become its believers, the Marsh Crocodiles will change from crawlers to human-like lifeforms that can walk on two feet. Their learning ability will also be raised.

Faith Ability:

[Change the Chosen: Inject a portion of energy from the totem into a lifeform to change it into a different form. The lifeform will change from a normal believer to a Favored Believer.

Now, Lin Yuan knew that White Evil Marsh Crocodile's totem was the Crocodile Pattern White-Toothed totem.

Now, Crocodile Group Worship would allow the White Evil Marsh Crocodile to absorb faith from its Marsh Crocodile believers.

This increased the White Evil Marsh Crocodile's store of faith power.

When Lin Yuan discussed faith power with the Invisible Demon, he found out that faith power was ranked into different levels, namely extremely weak, weak, higher weak, below average, average, higher average, below strong, strong, and extremely strong.

Every time an Apostle's faith power increased by three classes, their lifeform level would transform, allowing them to gain a new faith ability.

The type of faith power received would be fixed.

When the faith power was extremely weak, weak, and higher weak, the only faith ability the Apostle had was Change the Chosen.

Once an Apostle's faith power reached below average, it would be able to unlock its source sacred body and gain a new ability that would raise its combat power by leaps and bounds.

At first, this all seemed too foreign to Lin Yuan.

However, the White Evil Marsh Crocodile's Crocodile Group Worship could bridge the gap and allow it to become Lin Yuan's first Apostle to unlock its sacred source body.

Lin Yuan turned his attention to Crocodile Turned Guards.

Crocodile Changed Guards would allow the White Evil Marsh Crocodile to turn its believers into Favored Believers and give the dim Marsh Crocodiles a cloak of human skin that enabled them to walk like humans.

Moreover, it also enabled the Marsh Crocodiles to increase their learning ability.

The strength of this ability aside, Lin Yuan saw the human-form Marsh Crocodiles as laborers.

The Medusa Snake Demons needed to attract the Marsh Crocodiles while looking after the Drought Ground Sweet Flags and Barren River Orchid Bud that grew at the edge of the marsh.

These jobs were far more useful than manual labor.

Lin Yuan felt that it was too much of a waste of manpower to use lifeforms as intelligent as the Medusa Snake Demon as laborers.

Hence, he had been trying to come up with a way to solve this issue of finding laborers.

It would be too much of a hassle to bring in external manpower from the main world.

But now, the White Evil Marsh Crocodile's natural skill provided a perfect solution.

Now that the White Evil Marsh Crocodile was an Apostle, it could use marsh language for simple communication.

Although it was not eloquent, it was understandable.

Lin Yuan asked the White Evil Marsh Crocodile, "Can the Marsh Crocodile believers that you change into a human form still fight underwater?"

The White Evil Marsh Crocodile gurgled in its throat and said, "They can. They might be in human form, but they're still amphibious. Marsh Crocodiles are more agile underwater than they are on land."

Lin Yuan's eyes lit up.

This meant that he gained laborers and underwater troops that could be used in the marsh.

Wendy was taking various predator plants as its believers.

Lin Yuan saw these predator plants as defense infrastructures. Their various abilities added many different facilities to his territory.

Rising Lizard decided that it was only going to accept the Medusa Snake Demons as its believers.

The Medusa Snake Demons were very smart and could manage the day-to-day activities within the territory.

Due to Crocodile Group Worship, the most suitable believers for the White Evil Marsh Crocodile were the Marsh Crocodiles.

The Marsh Crocodiles would not only strengthen the defenses at the edge of the marsh but also become a significant source of power.

Wendy, Rising Lizard, and the White Evil Marsh Crocodile's believers would form a flawless system that continually advanced the territory's progress. Ch𝒆êck out l𝒂t𝒆st 𝒏𝒐v𝒆l𝒔 on nov𝒆l/bin.c𝒐m

The three groups of believers all had their own rules.

With this perfect system, it would even be possible for Lin Yuan to create his own kingdom in the marsh world.

The foundation was already laid.

Currently, all the blood in the marsh had been consumed by the decomposing bacteria, and the marsh had returned to its original state.

Many Marsh Crocodiles had swum over and fallen under the control of Scale Concubines Marsh Crocodile Song.

These Marsh Crocodiles would only serve as guards and a source of food but also catalyze the White Evil Marsh Crocodile's growth.

Lin Yuan removed his jacket and dove into the marsh.

It was as though he had entered a whole different world.

Most of the marshes in the marsh world were extremely deep.

The marsh at the edge of the territory stretched at least 500 meters.

The wooden plants and rotten substances floated on the surface of the marsh, giving it a dirty appearance. However, only the surface was dirty.

Once he dove underwater, the turquoise water revealed a world that was abuzz with activity.

All Lin Yuan could see were thick clusters of twisted branches.

The branches tangled together and were brimming with life.

The branches were also wrapped around many bones.

According to the shape of the bones, Lin Yuan could tell that they were from the Marsh Crocodiles that the Invisible Demon had killed.

True Data revealed that the Water Demon Support Willow was only Class 4.

The Water Demon Support Willow's body covered more than 2,000 square meters underwater.

Since the Water Demon Support Willow was an aquatic predator plant, it did not grow upward but outward.

Chapter 1207: Sudden Appearance of Strong Apostles

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Wendy's Favored Believer had opened the path to the rest of Lin Yuan's journey in the marsh world.

Two mighty waves of energy fluctuations hit him before Lin Yuan could swim back to the surface.

The unprepared Lin Yuan choked and swallowed two mouthfuls of water.

The water did not taste strange but had the faint taste of mud and flesh-eating bacteria. It was not detrimental to humans.

Instead, it was actually rather nutritious. It was healthier to drink the marsh water than mountain spring water.

However, when Lin Yuan remembered the blood that had contaminated the water not long ago, he could not help but feel bile rise up his throat.

But before he could think any further, he sensed two waves of concentrated faith aura.

Lin Yuan inhaled sharply.

Just as Lin Yuan was climbing out of the water, another intense wave of faith power hit him. This wave was much stronger than the previous ones, and it was as though the source of the wave flower fluctuations was coming closer.

It was almost as though two Apostles were swimming toward him while fighting.

A thunderous bellow also accompanied the third wave of faith power. "White Speak! You're the one who brought your son to my territory. Why would I lay a hand on him?"

The woman's voice was sharp and shrill, but Lin Yuan could discern a tinge of anxiousness and fear. Clearly, the woman was no match for White Speak.

An arrogant male voice soon followed. "Scorpion Red, my son was right there. But I can't see him anymore. Even if you didn't send anyone to touch my son, it should be you who takes responsibility when the son of one of the lifeforms that live in your territory goes missing!"

Another powerful wave of energy crashed through the marsh.

By this time, Lin Yuan was already back on land.

The Kill Food Sky Butterfly had arrived at the edge of the marsh when it sensed the first wave of energy.

It said anxiously, "Lin Yuan, this energy fluctuation is clearly beyond Creation Breed. We can't stay in this territory!"

The Kill Food Sky Butterfly's expression was solemn, and it completely disregarded the fact that they were not alone.

Lin Yuan was Purple Afterglow's contractor. If Lin Yuan died, Purple Afterglow would soon follow. Even if it cost the Kill Food Sky Butterfly its life, it would protect Lin Yuan's life.

The energy fluctuations were much stronger than the Kill Food Sky Butterfly.

Although the Kill Food Sky Butterfly had one of the three most elite bloodlines of butterfly-species feys, it had only recently evolved to Creation Breed.

Due to its unhealed injury, it could not even reach Sovereign grade.

It knew that it was powerless against this threat.

Lin Yuan gnashed his teeth as the gears in his head started to turn.

While Lin Yuan was thinking, all the Medusa Snake Demons' faces fell. Amongst all the Medusa Snake Demons, Scale Concubine had been with Lin Yuan for the longest.

The other Medusa Snake Demons had only been at the territory for a few days, and this was the first time they were meeting.

Their time at the territory was the happiest they had ever been while living in the dangerous marsh world. They did not have to worry about lacking food, and they could even build a beautiful structure if they wanted,

Moreover, there were two adolescent Apostles in the territory. One of the Apostles had even accepted some of them as believers and Favored Believers.

But so soon after, they felt a sense of belonging to this place. It was going to be destroyed.

The Medusa Snake Demons looked at Lin Yuan with hope and silently pleaded for him to take them with him when he escaped.

After thinking for a moment, a determined look came over Lin Yuan's face.

He raised his hand and summoned Liu Yanshan.

The Invisible Demon also solidified its body and stood resolutely next to Lin Yuan as it looked toward the direction where the waves of faith power were coming from.

The waves of faith power shocked the Invisible Demon.

The Invisible Demon did not encourage Lin Yuan to flee. Instead, it said frankly, "Lord Dictator, the source is too far away for me to sense how strong the entity is. However, one of the Apostle's faith power is at least below-average level."

The Invisible Demon's words made Lin Yuan aware that one of the approaching Apostles had unlocked its source sacred body.

Another wave of energy fluctuation more powerful than that of a Creation Breed fey was released. This indicated that the Apostle was at least Class 12.

Morbius' grade was not high enough for Lin Yuan to use True Data to check on lifeforms above Creation Breed.

As such, Lin Yuan did not use True Data to check on the approaching Apostles.

After he tried to check on the feys that pulled the Moon Empress' fey carriage, Lin Yuan discovered that targets beyond the grade that Morbius could check on would sense that they were being checked on if Lin Yuan persisted with using True Data.

Nonetheless, Lin Yuan had no intention of running.

He had laid the foundation for his plans in the marsh world.

The collaboration of the three Apostles would be able to form a perfect system.

If he ran now, all his efforts would have been for naught, and Endless Summer's Barren River Orchid Bud would be damaged.

Endless Summer was not in the marsh world. But even if it were, it would not be able to retract the Barren River Orchid Bud fast enough to save it.

Even if Lin Yuan wanted to flee with all the lifeforms, the Jeweled Cave Golden Toad did not have enough space to take all of them, and he would have no choice but to reveal the existence of the Spirit Lock spatial zone.

He might be able to do it if he abandoned the 35 Spirit Craftsmen.

Lin Yuan touched the Extreme Token on his chest and calmed himself.

He said to the Kill Food Sky Butterfly, "Kill Food Sky Butterfly, lead the Medusa Snake Demons, Rising Lizard, Wendy, and the White Evil Marsh Crocodile toward the inner area of the territory. I'll stay here with the Invisible Demon."

At that moment, he realized the White Evil Marsh Crocodile had disappeared.

Chapter 1208: Unpanicked Marsh Ground Sphagna

Lin Yuan was confused by the White Evil Marsh Crocodile's disappearance.

However, they were in the middle of a crisis, and Lin Yuan could not afford to attend to the disappearance now.

The Kill Food Sky Butterfly was about to speak when it saw Lin Yuan's resolute gaze. It flipped its waist-length hair and did as Lin Yuan had instructed.

Only Lin Yuan, the Invisible Demon, and Liu Yanshan were left to greet the incoming threats.

As the sounds of fighting went on, a shrill female voice shrieked. "White Speak, are you sure you want to fight to the death? We're the only two lifeforms in East Vast Large Lake that stand a chance of beating Ghost Firefly but only by working together! The Apostle that Ghost Firefly relies on is protected by Lord Dictator—"

Before she could finish speaking, she cried out in agony again.

"White Speak, how dare you injure my tail?"

At this moment, Lin Yuan saw a giant dark purple scorpion barreling in his direction.

The giant scorpion's body was covered in armor that resembled dark purple crystals.

However, one of its three tails had been snapped off.

Soon after, Lin Yuan was shocked by the creature that was chasing the giant purple scorpion.

A 3,000-meter-long white crocodile disturbed the fog in the distance, and a sacred yet cold aura emanated from its mouth.

Lin Yuan could not help but gulp as he noticed the resemblance between this white crocodile and the Class 2 White Evil Marsh Crocodile.

The white crocodile had said that his son was lost. Could his son be the Class 2 White Evil Marsh Crocodile?

If that was the case, Lin yuan would be delighted.

Lin Yuan could not imagine how the white crocodile would feel when it found out that its son was in Lin Yuan's clutches and had been transformed into an Apostle.

Would it attack Lin Yuan in a fury and blame him for kidnapping its son or thank him for transforming his son into an Apostle?

Regardless, the fact that the White Evil Marsh Crocodile had been transformed into an Apostle would inevitably come into the light.

Lin Yuan did not know what the White Evil Marsh Crocodile had gone, but it would eventually turn up.

When the white crocodile saw the White Evil Marsh Crocodile, its transformation into an Apostle would be revealed.

Lin Yuan had no clue how such a powerful Apostle would react to this news. It was even possible that the white crocodile would accept him as a Dictator.

It would be great if that happened.

Lin Yuan had asked the Invisible Demon about Dictators. However, most of what the Invisible Demon knew came from rumors. As such, the information was not reliable.

But according to the Invisible Demon's description, Lin Yuan could discern the role that Dictators played in the dimensional world.

Dimensional worlds prided in becoming the believers of Apostles, while Apostles prided in receiving the favor of their Dictators.

It was clear that Dictators were on a higher level than Apostles.

Knowing more about Dictators would enable Lin Yuan to sell his act of being one.

At that moment, the Marsh Ground Sphagna said from below his feet, "Lord, the Drugged Snake Eagle that attacked your territory was this stupid scorpion's Favored Believer. The scorpion takes up a large portion of the north-west region of the East Vast Large Lake."

Lin Yuan's eyes lit up. The best thing to do at such a moment was to learn more about one's enemies.

He asked the Marsh Ground Sphagna, "Do you know what level of faith power the scorpion Apostle has?" Fôllôw 𝒏ew stories at n𝒐/v(e)

"Two years ago, its faith power was below average. The strength of an Apostle's faith power enables it to rule over a territory. In order to gain the trust of the lifeforms in its territory, Apostles will often go around declaring the strength of their faith power," replied the Marsh Ground Sphagna.

Previously, the Marsh Ground Sphagna badly wanted to become the Dark Scorpion's believer. However, the Dark Scorpion had turned its nose up at such a common fey.

Now that the Marsh Ground Sphagna had become Wendy's Favored Believer and had Wendy's Three-Flower Snake Eyes Totem, it on longer desired to become the Dark Scorpion's believer.

As such, it was no longer as intimidated by the Dark Scorpion. Rather, it felt resentment toward the Dark Scorpion.

The Marsh Ground Sphagna had covered the entire territory with its body, and it could sense everything that took place on the territory.

It had witnessed Lin Yuan turning the White Evil Marsh Crocodile into an Apostle.

The dimensional lifeform next to Lin Yuan that did not have the aura of the marsh world had also addressed him Lord Dictator.

These two instances made a deep impression on the Marsh Ground Sphagna.

The Marsh Ground Sphagna had been wondering why Wendy and Rising Lizard were so loyal to Lin Yuan, who did not even display his aura.

But now, it finally knew why. It turned out that Lin Yuan was a Dictator.

The Marsh Ground Sphagna could not help but tremble with self-pity, admiration, happiness, and adoration.

The Marsh Ground Sphagna did not dare to imagine the glory of being by the side of a Dictator. This glory was not even bestowed on most Apostles.

Any Apostle that could experience such glory was regarded as the cream of the crop amongst Apostle communities.

Ghost Firefly was not the strongest Apostle in East Vast Large Lake. However, it held significant authority because it had formed a connection with an Apostle that was favored by a Dictator.

This connection was enough for the Ghost Firefly to wield the sword of authority and do as it pleased in East Vast Large Lake.

Although a crisis was upon them, the Marsh Ground Sphagna was not panicked at all.

Dictators could use faith power to change into their dictator bodies. Dictator bodies were the best proof of one's Dictator status.

As long as Lin Yuan used his dictator body, he would not have to do anything else, and every Apostle that did not have the favor of a Dictator would fall at his feet in the hopes that he would bestow the dictator's prize on them.

Chapter 1209: Totem Come to Life on the Source Sacred Body

The Marsh Ground Sphagna excitedly waited for Lin Yuan to unleash his dictator body.

It had no idea that Lin Yuan was going to use the secret weapon that the Moon Empress had given him in a last-ditch attempt.

"Marsh Ground Sphagna, since you know the giant purple scorpion, do you know the giant white crocodile as well?"

Lin Yuan felt that if the Marsh Ground Sphagna knew the giant white crocodile, it would have let him know when he first caught the White Evil Marsh Crocodile.

Thus, it was very likely that the Marsh Ground Sphagna was not acquainted with the giant white crocodile.

Nonetheless, he still had to ask as any information regarding the giant white crocodile would help Lin Yuan make a more accurate decision.

The Marsh Ground Sphagna replied respectfully, "Lord, the East Vast Large Lake is gigantic, and I'm just a predator plant with limited ability to move. When I was by the Drugged Snake Eagle's side, I occasionally had the opportunity to see other places. If I hadn't become Lordess Wendy's Favored Believer, I wouldn't have been able to escape that stupid scorpion's territory to come to your territory. As such, I'm more familiar with the scorpion's territory.

"However, from the way the stupid scorpion seems so fearful of the giant white crocodile, it must mean that the giant white crocodile's faith power is on a higher level than the stupid scorpion's. I can say with enough certainty that the giant white crocodile's faith power is around average or higher average."

Lin Yuan's eyes started to sparkle.

He considered the relationship between him and the giant white crocodile while wondering if releasing the moonlight domain in the Extreme Token would be enough to defeat the giant white crocodile if they ended up being unable to see eye to eye.

Even if the moonlight domain could seriously injure the giant white crocodile, it would still be stronger than the Invisible Demon and Liu Yanshan.

At that moment, the sacred aura in the giant white crocodile's mouth shot toward the giant purple scorpion. The giant white crocodile snarled, "Don't look at me with your native eyes. The Ghost Dragonfly isn't fit to be mentioned in the same sentence as me. Which part of East Vast Large Lake is closed off to me? As a Marsh Crocodile Apostle, there's no way any Dictator will spare me a second glance.

"But despite that, my faith power has reached a higher average. The East Vast Large Lake is nothing more than a small portion of the Marsh East Region. All you know is the East Vast Large Lake, and you'll never be capable of leaving the East Vast large Lake. Why don't you give your faith power to me instead so that I may stabilize my faith power."

The giant white crocodile's words exposed information about itself to Lin Yuan.

Just as the Marsh Ground Sphagna said, the giant white crocodile's faith power had reached higher average. Fôllôw 𝒏ew stories at n𝒐/v(e)

While he was conversing with the Marsh Ground Sphagna, Lin Yuan found out that this place was called the East Vast Large Lake.

This was the first time that Lin Yuan was hearing of the East Vast Large Lake. He did not have time to understand this place, but he knew that it was a part of the Marsh East Region.

Lin Yuan now knew that the marsh world was separated into regions, and his territory was situated at the most remote corner of the marsh world.

He should be happy that he had gained information about the marsh world, yet his brows were currently tightly furrowed.

The giant white crocodile's words indicated that it had garnered impressive experience.

This made Lin Yuan feel more pressured to pretend to be a Dictator. There was a chance that the giant white crocodile would see through his farce.

He thought,?Oh God! Who can tell me what I should be doing in order to seem more like a Dictator?

Due to the giant white crocodile's sacred aura attack, the giant purple scorpion lost another one of its tails after using it as a shield.

One of its tails had already exploded apart while the other now exploded to pieces. Evidently, the giant white crocodile's second attack had been much stronger than the first.

The giant purple scorpion's shell had dimmed.

It had considered fleeing until it heard what the giant white crocodile said. The air around it changed, and it turned its head in mid-air and maneuvered into a fighting stance.

It said with a heavy tone, "You're just using the disappearance of your son in my territory as an excuse to hide your true intentions of killing me! If so, you'll continue hunting me even if I flee. If we fight head-on, you might have stronger faith power than me and a stronger source sacred body, but you're an outsider who hasn't seen my source sacred body. You have no clue what I can do with my source sacred body. Aren't you afraid of the tables being turned, and we both end up seriously injured?"

The giant purple scorpion's faith power exploded, and the amber source power gave it an ethereal sheen.

As the purple light fell away, a tall mature-looking woman dressed in armor of purple crystals appeared in the sky.

The woman had thin eyes, which made her appear exceptionally beautiful and menacing.

Her long purple hair was braided into three scorpion braids that were held aloft just like real scorpion tails. However, two of her braids were messy. The messier of the two braids looked as though it was going to come undone at any moment.

The totem that had been on the giant purple scorpion's head was now on the back of the woman's neck. The totem had been bright but now had turned into a black hole that continuously leaked faith power.

The woman's aura intensified, and the aura that leaked out of the hole turned into three amethyst scorpions that stood by the woman's side.

Before it had changed into its source sacred body, the totem on the giant scorpion's head was the image of three scorpions with their tail raised. It was as though the totem had come to life.

As the giant white crocodile looked at Dark Scorpion's strongest battle form, its look of derision sharpened.

Chapter 1210: Sacred Source Lifeform's Secret

The giant white crocodile did not seem to be in a rush to display its source sacred body.

It said haughtily to the Dark Scorpion, "Woman, you sure are dumb. Since I have the courage to try and kill you, it must mean I'm confident of my success. There's no way this will end with both of us seriously injured. Don't think too much. Death will surely accompany your defeat. I might not know what abilities your source sacred body has, but it doesn't mean it'll be strong enough to wound me."

The giant white crocodile's arrogant tone agitated the woman's aura even further.

Faith power spilled fervently from the hole in her neck and flowed into the three amethyst scorpions next to her.

Her three braids also lit up with a crystal-tinted purple glow.

The woman started to inject all her energy into her three braids.

The three braids and three amethyst scorpions' aura became more concentrated.

But at the same time, the woman started to look frailer with each passing minute. She looked as though she had not slept for three nights.

The moment the woman's body ran out of energy, she shook her three scorpion braids at the giant white crocodile.

The three scorpion braids grabbed the three amethyst scorpions next to her.

At the same moment, the three scorpion braids turned ashy white, and the three amethyst scorpions turned black.

The three scorpions fused together and formed a shadowy black scorpion that was more than three times the size that the giant purple scorpion had been.

The shadowy black scorpion seemed to be imbued with a strange power as it ferociously charged toward the giant white crocodile.

The moment that the Dark Scorpion unleashed its source sacred body, the Invisible Demon released its aura.

The Invisible Demon's aura enveloped the surrounding marsh and Lin Yuan's territory.

In order for the lifeforms in the territory to remain unaffected by the Dark Scorpion's source sacred body aura, the Invisible Demon could not keep its power under wraps.

The Invisible Demon's aura attracted the Dark Scorpion and giant white crocodile's attention but not their focus.

Although the Invisible Demon's aura was not that of the marsh world, and it had a strange scent of sulfur clinging to it, it was only Class 12 and undeserving of the Dark Scorpion and giant white scorpion's attention.

Moreover, the Invisible Demon was not an Apostle or even a believer. As such, it was deemed a pathetic failure in the dimensional world.

In spite of the fact that it was facing an attack that contained all of the Dark Scorpion's faith power, the giant white scorpion remained just as full of itself. It also seemed to have no intention of dodging the large black shadowy scorpion that was hurtling towards it.

Just as the large black shadowy scorpion was about to make contact with the giant white crocodile, the Dark Scorpion smiled sinisterly.

But before its smile could stretch to its full extent, it froze.

The 3,000-meter-long giant white crocodile lit up with sacred light, and amber faith power made it appear just as ethereal as the giant purple scorpion when it was transforming.

A white-haired and white-eyed man dressed in a long white robe appeared when the light dispersed. There were crocodile scales patterned all over his long robe.

The giant white crocodile's totem was now above the man's left eye.

There was also a black hole above his left eyebrow. Faith power did not spill out of this hole like it did out of the hole on the Dark Scorpion's neck.

The man, who had a soldierly appearance, swung his hands forward, and the totem came to life behind him.

The enormous crocodile that was formed had an extremely formidable air about it. It was as though it had the power to swallow every creature on earth.

The Dark Scorpion expected its large black scorpion to reduce the white-haired man to a mangled mess quickly. VịSit no(v)3lb/!n.c𝒐m for new 𝒏ov𝒆l𝒔

Yet, the moment the crocodile behind the man opened its mouth, the large black scorpion turned into a million strings of energy that soared into the white-haired man's open mouth.

When the Dark Scorpion saw the attack that it had invested all of its power into becoming nothing more than the man's meal, it exclaimed in shock, "Impossible! My source sacred body's ability is all-powerful! There's no way you could have dealt with it as though it was nothing!"

The white-haired man smirked arrogantly and said, "The sacred ability full of disruption energy was rather good. But are you so stupid that you didn't even stop to consider that my sacred power might have unfathomable abilities too?"

He opened his mouth, and a ball of white energy that encapsulated the large black scorpion shot out toward the astonished Dark Scorpion.

The white sacred power blew the Dark Scorpion away and blasted the Dark Scorpion's source sacred body's armor.

A portion of the sacred power entered the black hole on the Dark Scorpion's neck.

The Dark Scorpion's means of linking itself to the world was the hole.

Now that the sacred energy had detonated within the Dark Scorpion's body, purple blood burst out of its pores.

Almost the entire Dark Scorpion's source sacred body had been destroyed.

Soon, a giant purple scorpion shadow wrapped around the broken Dark Scorpion.

The spent Dark Scorpion's source sacred body started to melt like snow in the noon sun.

A moment later, all that was left was an amber Three Scorpion totem.

White Speak waved its hand at Dark Scorpion's totem, and all of its faith power was pulled into the mouth of the giant crocodile behind White Speak.

Despite consuming the faith power of a below-average totem, White Speak's faith power did not increase by much.

The faith power of an Apostle that another Apostle absorbed should equal to the World Grace of a Myth Breed fey being absorbed by another Myth Breed fey.

Although their power had increased, it would not be by much.

Soon, something happened that made Lin Yuan's eyes bulge out of their sockets.

Rainbow light enveloped the drained totem.

Lin Yuan slapped his leg.

This was how an uncontracted sacred source lifeform looked.

Chapter 1211: Lin Yuan Changed Into a Mermaid!

Lin Yuan had pondered the link between source-type items and the dimensional world ever since he first found out that source-type items came from the dimensional hub.

The main world had never been able to come up with an accurate answer to this question.

Lin Yuan had even intentionally asked the Moon Empress about this when he first became her disciple. But all she did was smile and go on to explain the relationship between the dimensional hub and the dimensional world.

He did not know if the Moon Empress was unsure of the answer or if she felt that he had been so weak that there was no need for him to learn such knowledge.

This question had always troubled Lin Yuan.

At first, he had only been curious about the relationship between the dimensional world and source-type items.

But after he found out that sacred source lifeforms came from Class 5 dimensional rifts and that every sacred source lifeform possessed astonishing powers, he developed a burning desire to know everything about sacred source lifeforms and the dimensional world.

He had just witnessed White Speak kill the Dark Scorpion. The dead Dark Scorpion's totem had lit up with rainbow light and transformed into a sacred source lifeform.

Now, Lin Yuan finally knew how sacred source lifeforms came about, as well as the relationship between sacred source lifeforms and the dimensional world.

Apparently, sacred source lifeforms came from the totems of dead Apostles.

However, Lin Yuan did not know if the strength of the Apostle's faith power when it was still alive had anything to do with the formation of the sacred source lifeform. He would have to look into this matter more.

Another question had arisen in Lin Yuan's mind as he watched the fight between the Dark Scorpion and White Speak.

The hole in Dark Scorpion's neck had not released a significant amount of faith power. In fact, it had been less than 1% of the amount of faith power stored in the shrine in the depths of Lin Yuan's soul.

Lin Yuan started to ponder this point of confusion, and he quickly came up with an extremely likely answer.

He currently had three Apostles, Rising Lizard, Wendy, and the White Evil Marsh Crocodile.

Lin Yuan knew that Apostles needed to use some of their faith power in order to use their totems to accept believers. It was only after the Apostle accepted the believer that they would be able to draw faith power from the believer.

They also needed to use the faith power in the totems to change select believers into Favored Believers.

As such, Apostles needed to carefully plan before they decided to accept any believers or change believers into Favored Believers.

Hence, although the Dark Scorpion's faith power had reached below average and had unlocked its source sacred body, it did not have many believers and Favored Believers.

On the other hand, due to Lin Yuan's presence on Star Web when he was in the Radiance Federation, he could easily gain the admiration and adoration of others which would all turn into faith that would be stored in the shrine in the depths of his soul.

Moreover, he had many identities. Firstly, the combat-class spirit qi professional Black. Secondly, the Moon Empress' disciple Lin Yuan. Next, the owner of Purchase With No Loss store Deep Mountain Elder Lin. Finally, the City Lord of Sky City.

All four identities had their own fan club.

Although most of the fans in Black's fan club were male fans who imitated female fans' speaking style, the faith power they contributed was very pure.

All four of his identities drew a staggering amount of faith power in the extremely populated Radiance Federation.

This meant that not even 100 Dark Scorpions could match up to the power of the faith power he possessed.

Only two types of power mattered in the dimensional world, source-type power and faith power.

Lin Yuan was able to wield both of these powers.

Thus, there was no way he could not pass off as a Master.

The Dark Scorpion's totem shot toward the sky but was caught by White Speak in midair.

White Speak flapped its sleeve and stored the sacred source lifeform inside its sleeve before turning its gaze onto the Invisible Demon.

White Speak wanted to see what ignorant creature dared to release its aura during its fight.

However, White Speak spotted the broken white scales by Lin Yuan's feet.

White Speak's face fell, and its fury boiled over. Self-reproach and sadness were all also present on its frowning face.

The cloud that swirled around White Speak also started to cry as rain poured down.

White Speak had not used much faith power from the hole above its left eye during its fight with the Dark Scorpion.

But now, faith power was pouring forth from the hole above its left eye.

The pressure from the faith power shattered the shield that the Invisible Demon had formed with its aura.

In order to protect the lives of the lifeforms in the territory, Lin Yuan had to hold his ground against the might of White Speak's faith power.

Suddenly, he remembered Dark Blue, which had been in the Spirit Lock spatial zone all this time absorbing heavenly-maiden-grade elemental pearls.

By now, Dark Blue should have reached pinnacle Gold grade.

Dark Blue's Faith Application would allow him to fuse with Dark Blue and make use of all of Dark Blue's strength.

He would also be able to inject the faith power within the shrine into the Moving Source Water to strengthen its abilities.

Essentially, once he fused with Dark Blue, he would turn into water. He would not have to be worried about physical attacks in the liquid form. VịSit no(v)3lb/!n.c𝒐m for new 𝒏ov𝒆l𝒔

Lin Yuan did not care that he would also change into a female mermaid once he used Faith Application.

In order to prevent White Speak from becoming aware of the truth, he did not summon Dark Blue out.

Instead, he entered the Spirit Lock spatial zone himself and used Faith Application with Dark Blue while in the Spirit Lock spatial zone.

Lin Yuan appeared next to the Invisible Demon again with Faith Application activated in less than a second.

However, no one recognized this being as Lin Yuan.

A body wrapped in tens of thousands of faith stood in Lin Yuan's place.

This being seemed to encompass every type of faith of every creature in the world.

A slender blue fishtail gently swished the amber waters of faith power.

The flowing faith power moved upward from the fishtail and weaved itself into a faith sacred garment.

Chapter 1212: Greetings, Lord Dictator!

The mermaid draped in faith sacred garment had an exquisite countenance.

This face still belonged to Lin Yuan, but all the lines on his face had softened significantly.

Previously, Lin Yuan's looks had been about an eight out of ten. It was his charisma that boosted him to a nine.

But now, his features were a ten out of ten, both as a male or a female.

Beauty or handsomeness were both inaccurate to describe his current countenance.

It was a description that could only be understood in terms of deep adoration and admiration.

Lin Yuan stared at White Speak, who had a look of incredulity on his face.

His long hair, which was composed of faith power, floated up, and thick faith power once again blanketed the entire territory and marsh.

The might from White Speak's faith power was like a weak baby banging against the shield formed from the faith power in the shrine in Lin Yuan's soul.

As White Speak took in Lin Yuan's appearance and sensed the faith power that covered his body, White Speak murmured, "F-Faith body? Lord Dictator!"

White Speak's aura immediately weakened.

However, its eyes still betrayed sorrow as it gazed at the scattered white scales by Lin Yuan's feet.

But no matter how sad it felt, it dared not make any move against Lin Yuan.

Dictators were like gods to Apostles, and it was an innate absolute authority.

Although White Speak assumed that Lin Yuan had killed its son, it could not help but keep its head low.

However, this was because White Speak had never been in the presence of another Dictator.

In the dimensional world, the rulers always kept themselves hidden and rarely even crossed paths with each other.

If any Apostle that had the favor of a Dictator spotted Lin Yuan and realized that he was not actually strong, it would definitely attack him.

At that time, it would be exposed that he was just a phony Dictator.

Lin Yuan's eyes shone as he looked at White Speak.

When he sensed the admiration coming from White Speak, he moved his hand away from the Extreme Token.

It seemed that White Speak was dumbfounded by him.

White Speak had ample experience in the dimensional world and was like an encyclopedia of marsh world knowledge.

After Lin Yuan and Dark Blue used Faith Application to fuse together, he gained superhuman sensitivity to water.

As such, he almost immediately sensed the White Evil Marsh Crocodile that was hiding amongst the branches of the Water Demon Support Willow.

The White Evil Marsh Crocodile's head was buried underneath the mud, and it was clear that it was terrified.

Lin Yuan looked at White Speak in confusion.

The sorrow in White Speak's eyes when he looked at the shattered white scales was not fake.

So was the White Evil Marsh Crocodile so fearful because White Speak was a strict parent?

Lin Yuan could not allow the White Evil Marsh Crocodile to keep hiding in such a situation.

Even if White Speak regarded him as a Dictator, it would be difficult to communicate with it if the White Evil Marsh Crocodile continued hiding.

Lin Yuan immediately yelled, "White Evil Marsh Crocodile, come out! I just transformed you into an Apostle! Why are you hiding?"

The Class 2 White Evil Marsh Crocodile heard Lin Yuan's call and felt the tug of Lin Yuan's faith power.

It set aside its fear of White Speak and poked its head out of the water next to Lin Yuan's tail. It wagged its tail as it produced a gurgling noise in its throat as though it was waiting for Lin Yuan to pet it. Diiscover new 𝒔tories at n𝒐ve/lbin.c/o𝒎

When White Speak saw its enlarged son, all sadness disappeared from its eyes and was replaced with surprise and anger.

But soon, the anger overtook the surprise.

If Lin Yuan were not present, White Speak would have started to beat the White Evil Marsh Crocodile.

White Speak had always been dissatisfied with this talented son. White Speak was hedonistic and considered handsome amongst all the Marsh Crocodiles. None of them were able to escape White Speak's charm.

However, White Speak was only able to gain one offspring that had inherited its mutated bloodline. In fact, its son's bloodline was even better than its own.

White Speak had initially doted on its son. But soon, it realized that something was wrong.

Its son was always restless and took every opportunity to slip out of its line of sight. There were even times when its son would use its natural skill to camouflage itself amongst a group of Marsh Crocodiles.

This was fine as it could be understood as the playfulness of a child. However, White Speak was most outraged by the fact that its son had no interest in increasing its power at all.

White Speak had put its son through strict training in the hopes that its son would have a bright future.

Yet, its problematic son had been transformed into an Apostle by a Dictator.

This was such a miraculous opportunity.

With the favor of a Dictator, its son was now in a better position than it was. White Speak's anger turned into pride.

White Speak looked at Lin Yuan with admiration and gratitude.

When it realized that it was still in the air while the Dictator was on the ground, White Speak hurriedly flew down to kneel before Lin Yuan.

It lowered its arrogant head and said, "Greetings, Lord Dictator!"

White Speak's current attitude made Lin Yuan marvel at the reverence that Dictators received.

White Speak was truly and completely defenseless in front of Lin Yuan.

But given that Lin Yuan was a fake Dictator, he did not know how a genuine Dictator would react in such a situation.

After Lin Yuan did not respond, White Speak broke out into a cold sweat and wondered if the Dictator was looking down on it.

White Speak was a Marsh Crocodile that had become the White Evil Marsh Crocodile after its bloodline mutated.

It acted so arrogantly that it seemed that it did not care about its background. But actually, its background had always been a sore spot for it.

White Speak had encountered some Apostles in East Vast Large Lake that had the favor of Dictators. Those Apostles all had weaker faith power than it did. Yet, all of them acted high and mighty and looked at White Speak with scorn.

Chapter 1213: Soul-Stealing Lin Yuan

A lifeform's bloodline was decided by its parents, and it had no choice in the matter.

But if the lifeform received the favor of a Dictator, it did not matter, even if it was the Marsh Crocodile. No one would look down on a lifeform that had the favor of a Dictator.

White Speak badly hoped that this Dictator would grant it the dictator's prize, which represented the Dictator's favor.

However, White Speak knew that it came from a lowly background and dared not explicitly make the request for fear of offending Lin Yuan.

One of them didn't dare to speak while the other was at a loss. As such, they were both stuck.

Although the White Evil Marsh Crocodile was afraid of White Speak, it was still White Speak's child. The White Evil Marsh Crocodile had started asking for mercy on White Speak's behalf.

Lin Yuan looked vexed by the White Evil Marsh Crocodile's pleas for mercy.

At that moment, the Marsh Ground Sphagna said in its raspy voice full of respect, "Lord, this crocodile sure is greedy. How dare it kneel and ask for your dictator's prize!"

The Marsh Ground Sphagna sneered arrogantly at White Speak, "How dare you ask for our Lord Dictator's dictator's prize before even dedicating your loyalty to him?"

Previously, the Marsh Ground Sphagna never even dared to breathe before White Speak. But now that it had Lin Yuan by its side, it could be as pompous as it pleased.

Predator plants were at the bottom of the food chain. Although the Marsh Ground Sphagna had mocked White Speak, its words also served as a reminder.

White Speak immediately took out two balls of rainbow light and lifted them up toward Lin Yuan as it said, "Lord, the one in my right hand is the Dark Scorpion's source totem while the one in my left hand is a source totem I stole from another Apostle. I'm not sure exactly what totem this source totem came from. These two are my most precious possessions. Please accept them!"

Lin Yuan realized that sacred source lifeforms were known as source totems in the marsh world.

He badly wanted the two sacred source lifeforms that White Speak was offering. However, he did not immediately receive them from White Speak.

Instead, he nonchalantly said to the Marsh Ground Sphagna, "Marsh Ground Sphagna, you know quite a lot. What is a dictator's prize?"

It seemed like Lin Yuan was praising the Marsh Ground Sphagna, and it smugly said, "When I was following that stupid scorpion, it once used me as a carpet for its cave. It was then that I happened to hear some secrets regarding the dictator's prize. Apparently, the dictator's prize is a prize that comes from a Dictator's body. Every dictator's prize has its own abilities, and it can grant Apostles great benefits, and it's the thing that every Apostle dreams of obtaining one day.

"However, these are all just things I heard. I have no idea if what that stupid scorpion said was true. It's not like that stupid scorpion had the right to come into contact with a dictator's prize. Lord, exactly what is a dictator's prize? What can it do? I'm sure you know best!"

Lin Yuan's eyes lit up. nÊw st𝒐ries at n𝒐 𝒎

Suppose the dictator's prize was just something that could greatly benefit an Apostle and was completely separate from the Dictator itself. In that case, it could be said that Faith Water had very similar abilities to a dictator's prize.

Faith Water was a warm stream of water formed from faith power and could nourish a lifeform that relied on faith power. It could also enable the lifeform to rapidly recover its faith power and slowly increase the faith power in its body.

When Faith Water was distributed out then recollected, one would also obtain the faith power that the target which had been granted the Faith Water had gained.

Lin Yuan looked up at White Speak and saw that its gaze was brimming with admiration and pure longing. It looked like an ignorant fey that was yearning for spirit qi.

The moment that White Speak and Lin Yuan's eyes met, White Speak was lost in Lin Yuan's azure eyes. White Speak's face flushed, and it dipped its head.

White Speak's faith power was higher average, and its source sacred body was flawlessly beautiful.

The source sacred body was an ability that Apostles gained when their life rank was promoted, and it refined their life as a whole.

Hence, there was no ugly source sacred bodies.

White Speak had come across many Apostles' source sacred bodies during its travels in the East Vast Large Lake. It had even seen Brilliant Star's source sacred body once. Brilliant Star's source sacred body was considered the most beautiful source sacred body in the Marsh East Region.

Ever since then, White Speak had never forgotten that image of Brilliant Star that it had glimpsed from afar.

But now, Brilliant Star paled in comparison next to Lin Yuan. Its gorgeous smile and beauty that could rival the constellations in the sky was a far cry from Lin Yuan's soul-stealing emotionless expression.

Many powerful Apostles in the Marsh East Region had given up everything they had in order to gain favor with the breathtaking Brilliant Star.

If any of those Apostles saw Lin Yuan's faith body, they would not be as impressed by Brilliant Star's source sacred body.

Suddenly, White Speak had the urge to ask Lin Yuan to participate in the Marsh East Region's beauty contest.

The Marsh East Region's beauty contest winner won the right to live in Marsh East Palace.

But given that Lin Yuan was a Dictator, White Speak pushed this notion away.

Suddenly, White Speak sensed Lin Yuan's mysterious faith power surging. The faith power seeped out of the water and draped over Lin Yuan's body like a gossamer vest of faith power.

The vest extended ten miles behind Lin Yuan, and the train was almost as large as Lin Yuan's territory.

Lin Yuan was also astonished by the might of his faith power.

He had never activated his faith power in the main world. Yet, he felt that he would be able to produce an equally large impact if he activated his faith power in the main world.

The might of the faith power should be enhanced by the faith power's close tie to the dimensional world.

Lin Yuan activated all his faith power now in order to use Dark Blue's Faith Water.

He had been rather unsure when he used Faith Water as he did not know if White Speak would truly accept it as a dictator's prize.

All of a sudden, Lin Yuan felt heat bloom in his chest, and a curved amber stream burst forth from his chest

Chapter 1214: Marsh East Circle, Palace of Everything

The stream of twisting Faith Water flowed endlessly out of Lin Yuan.

Lin Yuan silently tossed the Faith Water to the kneeling White Speak.

In spite of his cold expression, he was panicking internally.

White Speak received the Faith Water with delighted shock. It was as though it was gazing upon something incredible.

Lin Yuan's panic spiked, and he thought,?Did White Speak notice something about the Faith Water? If it's suspicious in any way, I'll have to use the Extreme Token.

Just as Lin Yuan was about to use his spiritual power to trigger the Extreme Token, White Speak cried out, "Thank you for your dictator's prize, Lord Dictator! I didn't expect your dictator's prize to have such powerful effects. I'm slightly overwhelmed. Please excuse my behavior! You must be in a cycle. Please allow me to stay by your side!"

Lin Yuan's expression did not change, but he made a mental note of what White Speak said.

He did not understand what being in a cycle meant but could not ask White Speak about it at such a time. Ch𝒆êck out l𝒂t𝒆st 𝒏𝒐v𝒆l𝒔 on nov𝒆l/bin.c𝒐m

Lin Yuan made a mental calculation of whether it would be worth it to keep White Speak by his side.

His conclusion was that it would not be best to keep White Speak by his side.

Although it would greatly increase Lin Yuan's combat power to have White Speak by his side, he would not be able to take White Speak to the main world, and there was no contract between him and White Speak.

Their current relationship was based on White Speak's assumption that he was a Dictator. If he allowed White Speak to stick close to him, it was likely that White Speak's suspicions would eventually be raised.

Lies were best left untouched. As such, it would be best if he kept White Speak at arm's length.

"White Speak, if you want to follow me, why don't you take over the Dark Scorpion's territory? Now that the Dark Scorpion is dead, its territory is left without a ruler."

White Speak looked disappointed by Lin Yuan's words as it meant that it would not be able to stay by Lin Yuan's side.

White Speak carefully took stock of the situation in the Dark Scorpion's territory and said, "Lord Dictator, the Dark Scorpion's territory happens to be right outside your territory. Anyone who wants to enter your territory has to first pass through the Dark Scorpion's territory. I will stay in the Dark Scorpion's territory to act as your first line of defense."

White Speak glanced at its son, who had been rolling affectionately around Lin Yuan to plead for mercy on its behalf.

He's truly my son. He knows that he has to stay on my side!

As White Speak thought about its young and blessed son, it said to Lin Yuan tentatively, "Lord, I plan on expanding once I settle the Dark Scorpion's territory. It'll be best if I manage to take control of the entire East Vast Large Lake. While I'm expanding the territory, it won't be convenient to keep White Pavilion with me. Why don't…"

Lin Yuan immediately knew what White Speak was getting at.

He never had the intention of allowing White Speak to take the White Evil Marsh Crocodile away as he needed a lot of help from the White Evil Marsh Crocodile in order to expand his territory. If White Speak took the White Evil Marsh Crocodile away, where would he find the labor to replace the work he had intended for the White Evil Marsh Crocodile? How would he be able to develop his underwater combat power?

Although he had already come to a decision, he did not immediately agree to White Speak's request.

Instead, he asked, "Do you have the means to obtain source totems?"

White Speak hurriedly handed the two sacred source lifeforms to Lin Yuan again.

This time, Lin Yuan accepted them and stored the unknown sacred source lifeform in the amber-button-shaped Diamond fey storage box, while the Dark Scorpion's source totem was placed in the Spirit Lock spatial zone.

Although the Dark Scorpion's source totem was wrapped in rainbow light now that it was a sacred source lifeform, Lin Yuan could still use the totem's appearance and the Apostle's sacred abilities to come up with hypotheses regarding what the sacred source lifeform would look like once it was contracted.

White Speak immediately spilled the beans on the situation, "There are two ways to obtain source totems. First, kill an Apostle that can unleash its source sacred body. Once it's dead, it will leave behind a source totem that corresponds to its totem. The other method is to the Marsh East Circle, where only Apostles are allowed to enter and trade with the Palace of Everything. You can take anything to be appraised at the Palace of Everything, and a suitable price will be set. The Palace of Everything will then offer resources in exchange for the appraised item."

White Speak paused. But when it saw Lin Yuan gesturing at it to continue speaking, it gingerly went on. "The Palace of Everything is not a faction that is native to the Marsh East Circle. However, the Palace of Everything is ranked even higher than the Marsh East Palace where the 10 great Apostles live. Dictator Everything built the Palace of Everything, and it can be found in every region of the marsh world. Any item in the Palace of Everything that catches Dictator Everything's eye can be traded for a dictator's treasure."

From what White Speak just said, Lin Yuan learned how he could obtain sacred source lifeforms in the marsh world.

It would be much more convenient to obtain sacred source lifeforms in the marsh world than waiting for a Class 5 dimensional rift to open in the main world.

Additionally, White Speak also confirmed Lin Yuan's hypothesis that Apostles that had below average and above faith power would be able to unlock their sacred source body and gain a sacred ability. Once they died, their totem would become a sacred source lifeform.

Lin Yuan noted down the information about Marsh East Circle, Marsh East Palace, Palace of Everything, and Dictator Everything.

He knew that he still did not have enough power to enter the Marsh East Circle.

To be on the safe side, he could not enter the Marsh East Circle as a Dictator. Otherwise, it could result in a mess that he had no means of cleaning up.

Even the branches of a Dictator's faction could enter the Marsh East Palace in the Marsh East Circle.

As such, it was likely that there were no Dictators in the Marsh East Region.

Chapter 1215: The Hope of Exploration and Charging Forward

Lin Yuan's experiences today made him aware that the marsh world was not a mess dominated by warring Apostles.

There was a bigger and more perfect world waiting for him. It made him want to explore and charge forward.

He also found out where source-type items came from.

There were two ways to create a sacred source lifeform. First, Apostles that had yet to unlock their sacred source bodies would turn into source-type items. Secondly, when the believers and Favored Believers of Apostles whose faith power had reached below strong and above died, they could also turn into a source-type item.

It was more likely for Favored Believers to turn into source-type items than it was for Apostles.

This type of source-type item was known as a believer byproduct and was sold in the Palace of Everything.

However, it was not difficult for Lin Yuan to obtain source-type items in the main world. Thus, he was no need to trade for source-type items in the Palace of Everything.

Unless Lin Yuan encountered something like the Fairy's Heart, which had substantial strategic significance, it would be better for him to save those resources to go toward trading for sacred source lifeforms.

Sacred source lifeforms could not be bought with money in the main world.

Lin Yuan sent White Speak away to the Dark Scorpion's territory and also told White Speak to return to his territory once a month.

He would use the opportunity to learn about the situation in Dark Scorpion's territory during White Speak's visits and give more Faith Water to White Speak that it could use to increase its power.

The sudden crisis had ended, and Lin Yuan had come away with enormous benefits. He not only obtained two uncontracted sacred source lifeforms but also information about the marsh world.

He had been in the marsh world for a few hours, at least. Fôllôw 𝒏ew stories at n𝒐/v(e)

It was not difficult for him to use Faith Water, and he prepared some for Wendy, Rising Lizard, and White Pavilion.

With all the Marsh Crocodiles worshiping the talented White Pavilion, Lin Yuan had a huge incoming supply of faith power.

This incident made him aware of how important the faith power that he never took seriously was in the marsh world.

Dark Blue's power had been continuously increasing.

Given the current strength of his faith power, Dark Blue was already able to use Power Water Steal to consume strange water and change the elemental properties of the strange water into Willpower Runes.

However, it would be a long and tedious process for Dark Blue to use this method to gain Willpower Runes and evolve to Fantasy Breed.

Dark Blue was formed from the mutation of 12 balls of water.

As such, it needed to gain 12 willpowers from the 12 types of strange water to evolve into Fantasy Breed.

Lin Yuan also required an enormous amount of faith power to enable Dark Blue to comprehend willpowers from strange water.

Given the current level of Lin Yuan's faith power, Dark Blue would be able to comprehend two willpowers at the most.

What Lin Yuan needed to do next was to try to come up with a way to increase his faith power in the main world. From now on, obtaining faith power from the main world would become a long-term goal for Lin Yuan.

After he sent the 50 Hundred Questions Beasts to a breeding room and stationed Liu Yanshan outside, he gave each of the Hundred Questions Beasts a Diamond fey storage box.

He also assigned the fat ginger to lead the Hundred Questions Beasts in Genius' absence.

The 50 Hundred Questions Beasts would remain here to concoct various spirit fluids for Lin Yuan.

Once the Floating Island Whale took flight, he would be able to build a large resource storage on the Floating Island Whale's back.

Lin Yuan let out Feng Shuang and Elder He from the Jeweled Cave Golden Toad.

All the other breeding rooms were incomplete except for the one that the Hundred Questions Beasts were using.

It was impossible for Feng Shuang and Elder He to use that breeding room alongside the Hundred Questions Beasts.

Lin Yuan decided to leave Elder He and Feng Shuang outside to help with the territory's expansion and work alongside the 35 Spirit Craftsmen.

He also wanted them to assess the territory and make suggestions based on the perspectives of Creation Masters.

Given Feng Shuang and Elder He's experiences, they instinctively guessed that this place was a marsh dimensional rift.

But after careful observation, they noticed that this place lacked the characteristic spatial fluctuations that were present in dimensional rifts.

It did not take long for them to guess that this place was the marsh world.

They were curious about how Lin Yuan had managed to enter the marsh world. Could a Class 6 marsh dimensional rift have opened in his underground palace?

Lin Yuan did not have the time to explain to Feng Shuang and Elder He how they ended up in the marsh world. After all, all they needed to do was focus on working.

If they dared to slack off, Liu Yanshan and the Kill Food Sky Butterfly would teach them a lesson they would never forget.

With Feng Shuang and Elder He walking free outside, they would be able to help the Medusa Snake Demons look after Endless Summer's Barren River Orchid Bud by concocting spirit fluids to fertilize the soil and slowly improve the Barren River Orchid Bud's growth. This would increase Endless Summer's power.

When Lin Yuan did not assign Feng Shuang and Elder He any jobs, Feng Shuang flipped her hair and asked, "Lord, what should the two of us do now? Please instruct us! Elder He and I will definitely do our best to complete the jobs you give us!"

While Feng Shuang was speaking, her actions indicated her passion and determination.

She had been indignant that Lin Yuan had assigned Hu Tian as their manager.

Now that Hu Tian was back at the underground palace in the Divine Wood Federation, Feng Shuang felt that this was her chance to prove herself.

She felt that she was a more likely candidate to earn Lin Yuan's favor than the quiet Elder He.

Lin Yuan did not tell her what she would be doing in the marsh world.

Instead, he waved over the Kill Food Sky Butterfly.

The Kill Food Sky Butterfly instantly appeared by Lin Yuan's side.

Lin Yuan introduced the Kill Food Sky Butterfly to Feng Shuang and Elder He and said, "You just have to do whatever the Kill Food Sky Butterfly tells you to do."

Chapter 1216: Connected Beast Park Issues Another Blood Pact Ultimate Fight

Lin Yuan said to the Kill Food Sky Butterfly, "I assigned a thearch-class expert outside the breeding room. You can send him out to do any tasks that involve danger. I have amassed many earth-type heavenly-maiden-grade elemental pearls. They should be enough to heal you."

He placed a wooden chest at the Kill Food Sky Butterfly's feet.

With a wave of his hand, earth-type heavenly-maiden-grade elemental pearls filled the wooden chest almost to the brim.

Lin Yuan bent down and looked through the wooden chest. He eventually picked out the Over the Rail Coral elemental pearls.

He did not find any Heavenly Maiden Sleet elemental pearls.

Feng Shuang and Elder He were stunned when they saw the chest full of earth-type heavenly-maiden-grade elemental pearls.

Three questions popped into their heads.

Since when did heavenly-maiden-grade elemental pearls become available by the chestful? How much is that chest of earth-type heavenly-maiden-grade elemental pearls worth? How many elemental pearls does the City Lord have in his possession!?

The Kill Food Sky Butterfly was only slightly shocked when Lin Yuan produced even more heavenly-maiden-grade elemental pearls.

It looked at Liu Yanshan before saying gently, "With these elemental pearls, I'll be able to reach Sovereign grade in less than a week. Leave everything in the marsh world to me. I'll send Purple Afterglow to fetch you if anything crops up."

The Kill Food Sky Butterfly was elated after Lin Yuan told it to send the thearch-class expert to do any tasks that involved danger. This meant that Lin Yuan cared about it.

Purple Afterglow regarded Lin Yuan as its father. This meant that he was the Kill Food Sky Butterfly's father-in-law.

It felt good to be cared for by one's father-in-law.

Lin Yuan always maintained a low profile. He only flashed his wealth for Feng Shuang and Elder He's sake. He wanted to squash all hints of inappropriate thoughts that they could have and understand that their future would only be bright if they followed Lin Yuan.

He had slapped them but now was flexing his wealth in front of them as he needed to bait them at the right times to ensure they did honest work.

Lin Yuan gave Feng Shuang and Elder He two pots of Golden Lotus Brocade Pearls.

Feng Shuang and Elder He could not help but gasp. "Golden Lotus Brocade Pearls! These are Golden Lotus Brocade Pearls!"

Every top faction in the Radiance Federation was racking their brains to come up with a way to obtain Golden Lotus Brocade Pearls from the Moon Empress.

Feng Shuang and Elder He had been members of the Zheng family and had no authority to even go near something like the Golden Lotus Brocade Pearl.

However, Zheng Kaiyuan had made bold remarks which included the Golden Lotus Brocade Pearls when he had been convincing his grandfather to agree to the blood pact ultimate fight with Sky City.

From then, Feng Shuang and Elder He had yearned for this incredible item that was a treasure to all Creation Masters.

In spite of their shock, they were still confused.

Don't the Golden Lotus Brocade Pearls come from the Moon Empress? Is it possible that Sky City is connected to the Moon Empress? How else are they able to get their hands on the Golden Lotus Brocade Pearls?

Given that Lin Yuan had additional Golden Lotus Brocade Pearls to give to them, it indicated that he had many Golden Lotus Brocade Pearls on hand.

Lin Yuan ignored Feng Shuang and Elder He's shocked and suspicious expressions.

There was almost no chance that they would be leaving the marsh world in the future.

Even if they did stumble onto any secret, Lin Yuan would not have to worry because there was no one in the marsh world they could tell their discovery to.

Lin Yuan had a deeper intention behind giving the Golden Lotus Brocade Pearls to Feng Shuang and Elder He.

The Golden Lotus Brocade Pearls could increase the success rate and speed of concoction of their spirit fluids. This would increase Lin Yuan's Creation Master resources as well.

Now that he was done with everything he had to do in the marsh world, Lin Yuan left the Spirit Lock spatial zone through Klein Hub.

There was a time difference between the Startling Lines Continent and Radiance Federation. The Astronomical Parliament parliamentary meeting was about to start soon.

After he left the tent, he asked Hu Quan if he was ready to return to the Radiance Federation.

Hu Quan said no and asked Lin Yuan to bring more Spirit Craftsmen with him on his next trip as it would take forever for only five Spirit Craftsmen to construct the underground palace.

Lin Yuan stored Liu Jie back into the Jeweled Cave Golden Toad and walked deep into the underground palace.

He used a large number of spatial crystals and returned to the Return from Faraway Mansion through the Space Tunnel.

After another long-distance trip, Lin Yuan collapsed to the ground in a dizzy state that lasted for five minutes.

Once the dizziness faded, Lin Yuan smiled wryly and climbed to his feet. He shook his head and thought,?I'll have to endure this pain of long-distance travel very often from now on.

He let Liu Jie out of the Jeweled Cave Golden Toad, and they left the basement together.

There was a Sunlight King Lotus planted every 100 meters along the basement. As such, the basement was as bright as the daytime. Fôllôw 𝒏ew stories at n𝒐/v(e)

Once they left the basement, Lin Yuan realized that the sun had just started rising and darkness still dominated the sky.

Liu Jie breathed in deeply and stretched as he said, "Wen Yu, the Mother of Bloodbath, and the rest haven't eaten my cooking in two days. I wonder if they miss it. It's still early, so I won't return to the mansion just yet. I'll head to the spiritual ingredient market to buy three Gold Shallow Stream Carp so I can cook fishball noodles seasoned with white pepper. The Mother of Bloodbath likes to eat chicken wings, so I'll buy some back and grill them. The chicken wings will be done by the time we're done eating the fishball noodles!"

Lin Yuan felt his saliva pool in his mouth.

He gulped and replied, "Big Brother Liu, forget about the rest of them in the mansion. I've been with you all this time, but I haven't been able to eat your cooking either. I miss your cooking badly!"

While Liu Jie headed to the spiritual ingredient market, Lin Yuan returned to the mansion.

When he walked in, he saw Wen Yu was sitting on the water rhinoceros leather sofa organizing a stack of documents.

Her bloodshot eyes were a clear sign that she had not slept a wink.

She lifted her head when she heard sounds coming from the entrance.

When she spotted Lin Yuan, she looked surprised yet burdened.

She hurriedly handed a pile of papers to him and said, "During your absence these two days, many things happened in the Royal Capital! Connected Beast Park has issued a blood pact ultimate fight challenge to the Sea Bliss Clan!"

Chapter 1217: Time to Reap the Harvest!

Wen Yu yawned and rubbed her eyes. Clearly, she was exhausted after a sleepless night.

After Lin Yuan received the documents from Wen Yu, she could not help but murmur, "Since Connected Beast Park lost two veteran thearch-class experts to Sky City, the smart thing to do now is lay low and not cause any trouble. After all that has happened, all eyes are on Connected Beast Park now. They're all waiting for Connected Beast Park to provide an explanation. Yet, they're doing the exact opposite by being antagonizers. Are they really unaffected by the loss of two veteran thearch-class experts?"

A look of realization came over Lin Yuan.

He was definitely part of the reason the Sea Bliss Clan was in such a predicament.

He wondered if the Sea Bliss Clan was stupid. When they realized that there was a lack of Aurora pollen, they could have properly investigated the situation and found out about Sky City and Condense Fairy Orchard's collaboration.

Yet, they immediately assumed that Connected Beast Park was to blame.

The Sea Bliss Clan had given Connected Beast Park significant grief recently.

The Sea Bliss Clan made use of Connected Beast Park's loss of two thearch-class experts to target them.

It was humiliating for a top faction to be targeted by a veteran faction.

The last time Lin Yuan had visited Connected Beast Park, he had given them Law Crystals that would enable them to create seven new thearch-class experts.

The new thearch-class experts would definitely be able to fill the gap in power that they needed badly as well as squash negative rumors.

Thus, despite laying low being the smart thing to do, Connected Beast Park chose to attack the Sea Bliss Clan.

They aimed to use the Sea Bliss Clan to build up their might again.

Miao Zhenshan was the head of the Miao family and could not participate himself as it would cause the Miao family to appear weak.

It was the same for the female thearch-class expert that looked after the Miao family's treasure vault.

Hence, it was likely that the Miao family would dispatch the new thearch-class experts to participate in the blood pact ultimate fight against the Sea Bliss Clan.

Lin Yuan had not informed Wen Yu about his visit to the Miao family. Thus, no matter how strategic-minded Wen Yu was, she would not be able to figure out the plan that Connected Beast Park had.

"Connected Beast Park has a reason for acting so boldly. Not long ago, they traded with me and obtained a few Law Crystals, which they used to gain seven new thearch-class experts. If they produce seven new thearch-class during a time of crisis, not only will their reputation be unaffected by the Zheng family's blood pact ultimate fight loss, but the other top factions will also be clamoring to work with them after witnessing their power. It might seem like they're targeting the Sea Bliss Clan, but this is actually all part of their plan."

Wen Yu's eyes widened.

She had been astonished when she heard that Connected Beast Park had challenged the Sea Bliss Clan to a blood pact ultimate fight.

It turned out that the mastermind was Lin Yuan.

He might not have been in the Radiance Federation, but he had still been the cause of the biggest piece of news in the Radiance Federation.

Connected Beast Park and Sky City were bitter enemies.

Wen Yu did not believe that Lin Yuan would stop at just helping the Miao family to gain seven new thearch-class experts as that would be against Lin Yuan's personality.

Wen Yu pondered for a moment before her eyes lit up, and she asked, "Young Master, Connected Beast Park helped the Zheng family in the blood pact ultimate fight against us. Although they lost thearch-class experts, they still haven't compensated us. Are you going to help the Sea Bliss Clan in the blood pact ultimate fight against the Miao family?"

Lin Yuan smiled.

Wen Yu and I are on the same frequency!

That exact idea popped into Lin Yuan's head when he heard that Connected Beast Park had issued a blood pact ultimate fight challenge to the Sea Bliss Clan.

He had helped Connected Beast Park increase their number of thearch-class experts so that he would be able to obtain the World Crystals in the bodies of the thearch-class experts' feys.

The blood pact ultimate fight the Miao family was initiating would be a good opportunity for Lin Yuan to collect those World Crystals.

Since the Miao family had helped the Zheng family, it would not cause a stir if Sky City helped the Sea Bliss Clan this time. Rather, it would allow other factions to see that Sky City was a vengeful faction.

This would also allow him to obtain more faith power for his identity as the City Lord of Sky City.

Naturally, Sky City would not ask for nothing in return.

The Sea Bliss Clan had the courage to clash with Connected Beast Park because of the lack of Aurora pollen. The deaths of many Angelfish of Bliss had aggravated the Sea Bliss Clan's emotions.

It was clear from this how easy loss could trigger hysteria. VịSit no(v)3lb/!n.c𝒐m for new 𝒏ov𝒆l𝒔

But now that their lives were in the hands of another, the Sea Bliss Clan was afraid of Connected Beast Park, who was much more powerful.

Currently, the Sea Bliss Clan was desperate to find a way out of this peril.

"Wen Yu, we don't need to reach out to the Sea Bliss Clan. Connected Beast Park might have lost two veteran thearch-class experts, but they still have Miao Zhenshan. As such, they still have the highest level of combat power.

"Other factions might be able to overwhelm them in terms of money and resources, but they won't dare to take them on in a physical confrontation. When the Sea Bliss Clan runs out of avenues to seek help, they'll definitely come to Sky City, which is Connected Beast Park's enemy. All we have to do is silently wait for the Sea Bliss Clan to approach us."

"Young Master, once the Astronomical Parliament parliamentary meeting is over, I'll go to Sky City's private territory to wait for the Sea Bliss Clan," replied Wen Yu.

Lin Yuan shook his head and said, "Big Brother Liu has gone to buy fresh ingredients for fishball noodles. You didn't sleep at all last night, so you should hit the sack once you're done eating. We'll begin the parliamentary meeting after you're done resting. The Astronomical Parliamentary meeting will sap your spiritual energy and take too much toll on your body to conduct it in an exhausted state."

Wen Yu smiled sweetly and said, "Young Master, please wake me if I'm not awake by 1:00 p.m. No one can sleep comfortably with issues weighing on their mind. We will suffer a great loss if my rest causes Su Yiren to miss the parliamentary meeting."

Chapter 1218: Sun Ningxiang Asks for Help

As the owner of the Astronomical Parliament, Wen Yu had also looked through Su Yiren's memories as Lin Yuan had done.

As such, Wen Yu was very keen on Su Yiren. After all, she was a Dark Envoy that was available to be controlled amidst the Dark Federation's crisis. This made her even more important than the Azure Envoy Yin Lin.

Yin Lin might be an Azure Envoy, but she was the fourth Azure Envoy and did not have the authority to dictate the events in the Azure Federation.

Su Yiren was one of the seven Dark Federation Dark Envoys that were chosen simultaneously in the Dark Continent.

If Su Yiren made her identity known during this crisis in the Dark Continent, she would have the right to take control of the Dark Continent.

In Wen Yu's eyes, Su Yiren was the equivalent of the entire Dark Continent.

Wen Yu understood that this long-term strategic resource was of the utmost importance.

She was so afraid of being late that she skipped eating Liu Jie's fishball noodles and headed straight to her room to sleep.

Once Liu Jie was done cooking, Lin Yuan, the Mother of Bloodbath, and Liu Jie were the only people at the table.

Listen and Zhou Luo were busy liaising with Zheng Kaiyan and taking over all of the Zheng family's luxury resources. As such, they were currently on their way to Indigo Azure City.

Endless Summer had gone with them to protect them.

Duan He was training with the white-clothed followers while Hu Quan was building the underground palace in the Divine Wood Federation.

Chu Ci had gone with Cold Moon to increase her power.

Hence, it was not possible for there to be full attendance at the mansion.

After breakfast, Lin Yuan gave the Mother of Bloodbath a fey storage box that contained the ripened Blood Brew Grapes and fallen old Blood Brew Grapevine leaves.

The Mother of Bloodbath received the fey storage box.

When it saw that there were several times the number of Blood Brew Grapes in the box than usual, the Mother of Bloodbath asked, "Lin Yuan, just how many Blood Brew Grapes do you have? Your Blood Brew Grapevine is growing way too quickly!"

Lin Yuan smiled.

This was thanks to the Fantasy V Red Thorn. Now that Red Thorn's quality had evolved, the blood energy in the Eyes of Relinquish had also been increased.

Red Thorn now had three Mouths of Relinquish, and the number of Eyes of Relinquish had also increased by three times.

Red Thorn's consumption and digestion abilities had also been improved. This meant that it could produce Eyes of Relinquish much faster than before.

Thus, the Blood Brew Grapevine, which was receiving many more Eyes of Relinquish now, could also produce a much higher number of Blood Brew Grapes.

"Mother of Bloodbath, I will be providing you Blood Brew Grapes at an even higher rate from now on. You should be able to reach Myth III soon."

Lin Yuan thought about the 500 Spirit-Mouthed Peonies that were growing in the Pure Land of Bliss.

He was nurturing so many Spirit-Mouthed Peonies for the Moon Empress and the Mother of Bloodbath.

Gray's need for pure spirit qi allowed Lin Yuan to learn the lesson of being prepared in advance.

The flowers of the Spirit-Mouthed Peony that were filled with spirit qi could be stored after they were plucked.

Stocking up on such pure spirit qi that could be used at any time would ensure that he would not have to panic if he ever needed a large amount of spirit qi.

The Mother of Bloodbath stood up and said, "Lin Yuan, I know I'm too weak to perform my duty as your Path Protector properly. However, I've still decided to go to the Divine Wood Federation with you."

In the Mother of Bloodbath's life up till now, the most exciting part was the time it spent in the Return from Faraway Mansion.

Lin Yuan was the one who made the Mother of Bloodbath aware that life was not all about increasing one's power. Emotions could play a part too.

It thought back to the young man back at Millstone Town that needed its protection. Now, he had grown so much that he no longer needed its protection.

However, it still wanted to experience the life of adventuring by Lin Yuan's side like it did back when it was still a small spider perched on Lin Yuan's shoulder.

Naturally, Lin Yuan would not reject the Mother of Bloodbath's request.

Besides, he planned on taking it to the Divine Wood Federation for its World Cleansing once it reached Myth III.

He hoped that it would be able to awaken its Sky Sundial Jade Spider bloodline and transform into a Heavenly Family Fey.

Lin Yuan returned to the basement after the Mother of Bloodbath left with the Blood Brew Grapes.

The walls of the basement were covered with Floating Silver Strands, and he cut a small piece of it.

Before he left the Divine Wood Federation, he had asked Hu Quan if he still had any Floating Silver Strands.

Hu Quan had responded that all the Floating Silver Strands were buried in the basement walls, excluding those that were set aside for the fey carriage.

Lin Yuan immediately set his sights on the fey carriage.

Hu Quan had invested a lot of effort into the fey carriage. As such, Hu Quan did not want Lin Yuan to wreck the half-done fey carriage by removing some of its Floating Silver Strands.

As such, Hu Quan told Lin Yuan that he had added additional Floating Silver Strands to the basement walls to prevent the walls from collapsing when under attack.

This tiny piece of Floating Silver Strand was enough. All Lin Yuan needed was a small piece that the Vein Land Imp could use to form a contract with it.

Once he cut the Floating Silver Strands, his phone started to ring. Lin Yuan looked and saw that the call was coming from Sun Ningxiang. VịSit no(v)3lb/!n.c𝒐m for new 𝒏ov𝒆l𝒔

He assumed that Sun Ningxiang wanted to talk about the Aurora pollen when he picked up.

Yet, Sun Ningxiang was sniffling on the other end of the call. She started to sob when he picked up.

Lin Yuan might have faced many obstacles in his life but had no clue how he should respond when a girl was crying on the other end of a call.

He suddenly remembered that she had asked for Legend Muscle Growth Camellia when they first started working together. She had said that she needed it to heal her grandmother.

Only three direct descendants of Condense Fairy Orchard were left.

Sun Ningxiang could only be crying so woefully because something had happened to one of her two remaining family members.

Lin Yuan felt that it was more likely that something had happened to Sun Ningxiang's grandmother.

Her brother was too young to even form contracts with feys. As long as he was properly looked after, there was no way for him to encounter any danger.

As he expected, Sun Ningxiang said in an anxious and helpless wail, "Lin Yuan, can you help me contact the Moon Empress? My grandmother isn't going to make it!"

Sun Ningxiang's desperate voice and choked sobs made Lin Yuan's chest tighten, so he hastily replied, "Don't rush. Speak slowly. I need to know what exactly has happened to your grandmother."

Chapter 1219: Item that Even Members of Royalty were Not Fit to Use

Sun Ningxiang was momentarily at a loss for words. She was not even certain how many hidden injuries her grandmother had sustained from that incident.

When she had asked her grandmother, her grandmother declined to tell her for fear of making her worry.

Sun Ningxiang had been having a meal with her grandmother when her grandmother's eyes suddenly clouded over, and blood spurted from her mouth before she fainted.

Sun Ningxiang flew into a panic.

She was neither a Creation Master nor a healing-type spirit qi professional. As such, she was not capable of finding out what had happened to her grandmother.

She dared not approach any of the Sun family's Creation Masters and healing-type spirit qi professionals.

After that incident, the strongest Creation Master in the Sun family was only pinnacle Class 3. Moreover, she could not let anyone from Condesne Fairy Orchard know that her grandmother had fainted.

Although she had assumed leadership of Condense Fairy Orchard, her grandmother was the true anchor of Condense Fairy Orchard.

Connected Beast Park would have attacked the Sun family without her grandmother's thearch-class power deferring the Miao family.

It was also possible that some unscrupulous people within Condense Fairy Orchard could start scheming.

Sun Ningxiang had once invested many resources in seeking out a Class 4 Creation Master and emperor-class healing-class spirit qi professional to check on her grandmother's situation.

In the end, both of them had said that her grandmother's situation had reached a point that was beyond help.

In her panicked state, Sun Ningxiang immediately thought of Lin Yuan.

Only the Moon Empress would be able to save her grandmother.

Sun Ningxiang and Lin Yuan had a personal relationship, but the way she was speaking to him was over the line and could even be considered offensive.

However, she did not have any other choice. For the sake of her grandmother and the future of Condense Fairy Orchard, she could only and had to plead for Lin Yuan's help.

Lin Yuan's answer would dictate the future of Condense Fairy Orchard and her grandmother.

When Lin Yuan heard Sun Ningxiang's muddled reply, he asked, "Your grandmother must have contracted feys. Were any of her contracted feys outside when she fainted? If so, ask them. They'll definitely know what has happened to your grandmother."

Sun Ningxiang sobbed even louder and replied, "Grandma's feys had all been summoned out. But when she fainted and vomited black blood, they all automatically returned to the spiritual spatial zone. Lin Yuan, what's going on?"

Lin Yuan's brow furrowed even deeper.

Feys did not usually automatically return to the spiritual spatial zone when their contractor fainted.

There could only be two reasons for such an occurrence.

Firstly, their contractor had recalled them to the spiritual spatial zone before they fainted.

Secondly, their contractor was on the brink of death, and the feys were forced to return to the spiritual spatial zone. This state was known as the 'trapped state' by Creation Masters.

If Sun Ningxiang's grandmother were truly in a trapped state, the situation would be dire.

Spirit qi professionals could only live for six hours at the most in a trapped state.

This meant that if Lin Yuan could not fix the situation when Sun Ningxiang brought her grandmother to the Royal Capital to see him, they would not have time to take her grandmother to Leaning Moon Mountain afterward.

However, it was also not feasible for the Moon Empress to make the trip herself.

He had just called the Moon Empress, but Mystic Moon had picked up the call. He had told Lin Yuan that the Moon Empress had locked herself away to train.

Lin Yuan had originally planned to visit the Moon Empress at Radiant Moon Palace this afternoon. But now, he had no choice but to wait till she was done training and contacted him herself.

In such a crisis, he had to tell Sun Ninxiang his thoughts, no matter how difficult to swallow they were.

"Have you heard of the trapped state?"

Sun Ningxiang immediately collapsed onto the wool carpet.

Although she was not a Creation Master, she had heard of the trapped state.

She had called Lin Yuan as he was her last hope. But now, her last strand of hope shattered.

She forgot that she was still on the phone with Lin Yuan in her despair.

"Thankfully, you called me right after your grandmother fainted. My Master has locked herself away to train, but I have one Moon Dew Revival Pill. Even if your grandmother's situation is too serious for the Moon Dew Revival Pill to cure her completely, it should be able to help her regain consciousness and give you time to bring her to the Royal Capital for treatment."

Sun Ningxiang was immediately stunned.

The Moon Dew Revival Pill was the Moon Empress' specialty sacred item, and Sun Ningxiang had definitely heard of it.

It was said that the Moon Dew Revival Pill could bring a person back to life so long as they had one last breath within them.

A decade ago, the Spacetime Elder had entered a near-death state after a fight with experts from the Freedom Federation.

The thearch-class healers from Ostrich Logistics had all been helpless to heal him.

Eventually, the Moon Empress gifted him a Moon Dew Revival Pill.

It was said that the Moon Dew Revival Pill was formed from the tears of the Moon Crying Sacred Beast and almost 1,000 precious spiritual ingredients. The Moon Dew Revival Pill was activated by the tree sap of the Silver Stamen Gold Luster Cassias.

The Moon Dew Revival Pill had saved the Spacetime Elder and prevented the Radiance Federation from losing a member of royalty.

This Moon Dew Revival Pill was the reason for Radiant Moon Palace and Ostrich Logistics' close relationship over the last decade.

Ever since then, many top factions had been racking their brains trying to obtain a Moon Dew Revival Pill from the Moon Empress.

There were very few factions that had managed to receive a Moon Dew Revival Pill from the Moon Empress.

Even Iron Prison had been rejected and chased out of the Radiant Moon Palace when he asked for a Moon Dew Revival Pill.

Hence, the Moon Dew Revival Pill was termed as the 'item that not even members of royalty were fit to use'.

Sun Ningxiang felt utterly empty when she heard that her grandmother was in a trapped state.

Flower City neighbored Redbud City and was very far from the Royal Capital.

Even if Lin Yuan contacted the Moon Empress on her behalf, she would not have time to take her grandmother to the Royal Capital.

However, she did not expect Lin Yuan to have a Moon Dew Revival Pill, much less he would be willing to give it up to save her grandmother

Chapter 1220: Lovely Young Man Lin Yuan

Lin Yuan did not say anything else when he promised to give Sun Ningxiang the Moon Dew Revival Pill. This meant that Lin Yuan did not expect anything in return from Sun Ningxiang.

Given that Lin Yuan was the Moon Empress' disciple, there was nothing Sun Ningxiang had that Lin Yuan would want.

Sun Ningxiang choked up, and her eyes blurred over with tears.

As tears cascaded down her cheeks, gratitude, preciousness, delight, and vestiges of fear gripped her and prevented her from being able to utter the thanks she badly wanted to convey.

At this moment, Lin Yuan said, "I'm going to hang up now. I'll call you again later. Although spirit qi professionals in a trapped state can last for about five to six hours, your grandmother has other hidden injuries. It's highly unlikely that she'll be able to last for as long as five to six hours. I will contact Ostrich Logistics now and ask to express-deliver the Moon Dew Revival Pill to you within two hours."

The moment Lin Yuan finished speaking, he heard more noise coming from Sun Ningxiang's end.

Lin Yuan's anxious tone had touched Sun Ningxiang again. She was so overwhelmed with emotion that she could not help but curl her lips slightly.

After Lin Yuan hung up, he immediately contacted his dedicated courier, Ah Neng.

Once he explained the situation to her, Ah Neng guaranteed that she would reach the entrance of Lin Yuan's mansion in less than ten minutes and deliver the package to Sun Ningxiang in Flower City within half an hour.

After he put down the phone, he hurriedly headed over to the mansion entrance.

In less than three minutes, Ah Neng rushed over.

She was wearing Ostrich Logistics' standard uniform, and she removed her hat with a smile when she saw Lin Yuan. With her hat in her hands, she waved at him.

Her short red and purple hair shone with liveliness under the afternoon sunlight.

Although she still looked like a rookie, she never made a mistake with Lin Yuan's deliveries other than the occasional incident of leaving the order forms with him.

Lin Yuan solemnly told her again about how urgent this package was.

Ah Neng received the package and gave him a thumbs up after glancing at the order number.

A glowing silver shell appeared in her hand.

She recited the information on the order form toward the shell, and the shell ripped a rift in the space in front of Ah Neng.

Ah Neng waved at Lin Yuan for a final time before disappearing into the rift.

Previously, she would always leave Lin Yuan's sight before proceeding with her delivery as it was one of Ostrich Logistics' regulations.

However, she had heard how urgent Lin Yuan made this package out to be and decided to do away with the regulations.

This was the first time that Lin Yuan witnessed Ostrich Logistics' method of traveling between Radiance Federation within three hours.

According to the information he had received from the Moon Empress, he knew that other factions could not replicate this power of Ostrich Logistics because the Hollow Crystal Shellfishes used by the couriers came from the Spacetime Elder's Spatial Mother Shellfish's ability.

After he sent off the Moon Dew Revival Pill, Lin Yuan called Sun Ningxiang again and said softly, "I've sent out the Moon Dew Revival Pill. It should reach you in half an hour. Don't worry."

As Sun Ningxiang continued to choke back sobs, Lin Yuan said comfortingly, "Don't cry. Your grandmother will be worried if she regains consciousness and sees you crying."

Surprisingly, Sun Ningxiang started to sob even harder.

Lin Yuan was left at a loss. He scratched the back of his head and tried to come up with a way to comfort her.

Unfortunately, the only thing he could come up with was to urge her not to worry.

As the direct descendant of Condense Fairy Orchard, who had assumed leadership of the faction long ago, she knew that she could not wear her true emotions on her sleeve.

As she had been holding up Condense Fairy Orchard on her own all these years, she was stressed with even occurrences that were related to Condense Fairy Orchard.

Things had only taken a turn for the better when she met Lin Yuan on Star Web. It was also Lin Yuan who had given her the Muscle Growth Camellia that gave her hope that her grandmother could be healed.

When Sun Ningxiang had been targeted at the Guard Ye Banquet, those from the other factions all mocked her. With her jaw clenched and at a momentary loss, Lin Yuan had supported her.

Now, Lin Yuan was selflessly giving her a Moon Dew Revival Pill to save not only her grandmother's life but also the entire Condense Fairy Orchard.

Lin Yuan allowed Sun Ningxiang to know what it felt like to have someone to rely on.

As such, it was only with Lin Yuan that she could cry and vent without restraint. At that moment, she was completely vulnerable.

She felt that saying thanks was not enough to express her gratitude for the immense help that Lin Yuan had given her.

Without Lin Yuan's Moon Dew Revival Pill, they would be nothing but a shell of a top faction that did not have any thearch-class experts guarding them. Regardless of her relationship with Lin Yuan, the other top factions would definitely come after them.

Sun Ningxiang glanced at her unconscious grandmother and silently decided that once her grandmother awoke, she would suggest to her grandmother that they place Condense Fairy Orchard under Sky City's wing and become a branch of Sky City.

She felt that this was the only way to repay all that Lin Yuan had done for Condense Fairy Orchard. Fôll0w current novÊls on n/o/(v)/3l/b((in).(co/m)

As she listened to Lin Yuan struggle to comfort her, a foreign familiar rose within her. It was like the romantic and dizzying blending of midsummer with the sky. It was like fireflies dancing across a crystal clear lake.

Sun Ningxiang was like a fanatic that swung a fan amidst the fireflies. The more she swung the fan, the deeper into her obsession she fell.

While Sun Ningxiang was deep in thought, Lin Yuan did not sense that anything was odd.

He regarded her as his friend, and it was only natural that he helped out his friend in her time of need.

It did not just apply to Sun Ningxiang. He would do the same for Long Tao, Li Xuan, Zong Ze, Gu Lang, and Gao Feng as well

Chapter 1221: Completely Different

Lin Yuan could only hope that no accident took place and that Sun Ningxiang's grandmother could immediately recover after eating the Moon Dew Revival Pill.

Sun Ningxiang's emotions were out of control, and Lin Yuan could not just hang up on her.

As such, he decided to wait for Ah Neng to deliver the Moon Dew Revival Pill and see what happened to Sun Ningxiang's grandmother after consuming it.

The next half an hour flew by with Lin Yuan struggling to comfort the sobbing Sun Ningxiang.

At that moment, Sun Ningxiang received Ah Neng's delivery.

Lin Yuan said to her seriously, "When I received this Moon Dew Revival Pill, Uncle Mystic told me that it contains the tears of the Moon Crying Sacred Beast. Hence, it can't be taken with water. Moreover, once it comes into contact with a human's aura, the tears of the Moon Crying Sacred Beast will rapidly dissolve. You have to be careful not to touch it with your hands when you're retrieving it from the jade bottle."

Although Sun Ningxiang had decided to thank Lin Yuan with her actions and not speech, she still could not help but utter her thanks.

Her voice was grim and brimming with emotions.

Lin Yuan hurriedly replied, "You're welcome. Feed the Moon Dew Revival Pill to your grandmother, and let's see what happens."

Sun Ningxiang did as Lin Yuan said.

While she was feeding it to her grandmother, she noticed that her grandmother's body had gone slightly stiff, and dark red pus was oozing out of her rapidly decaying wounds.

If not for her grandmother's weak but still existent pulse, Sun Ningxiang would have assumed that her grandmother was already dead. Her grandmother was truly on her deathbed.

If Lin Yuan had not rushed the delivery or offered to send the Moon Dew Revival Pill without hesitation, her grandmother would have been gone by the time the Moon Dew Revival Pill arrived.

Sun Ningxiang's heart pounded anxiously as she fed her grandmother the Moon Dew Revival Pill.

Although the Moon Dew Revival Pill was a sacred medicine that came from the Moon Empress and had revival abilities, she could not be at ease when her family member's life was at stake.

She held her breath when the Moon Dew Revival Pill dissolved and entered her grandmother's body.

Sun Ningxiang carefully observed her grandmother.

At that moment, a warm moonbeam shone from within her grandmother's body. The moonbeams were also laced with 1,000 faint and poignant fragrances.

Slowly, color returned to her grandmother's pale face, and a healthy flush bloomed.

Sun Ningxiang carefully unwrapped the bandages that covered her grandmother's wounds.

The wounds that had been decaying moments ago were already starting to improve. The decayed portions were dissolving, and new flesh had started to grow.

In less than a minute, all the wounds that she had struggled to treat for so many years were healed.

Sun Ningxiang was over the moon.

But when the moonbeams and fragrances dissipated, Sun Ningxiang tensed up again as she realized that her grandmother had yet to awake.

Lin Yuan caught her confusion and said with a smile, "Has your grandmother's soul ever been heavily injured? From your description, it sounds like your grandmother's wounds have all healed. The Moon Dew Revival Pill has the ability to wake the spirit. Your grandmother should be waking up soon."

The moment the last word left Lin Yuan's lips, Sun Ningxiang's grandmother opened her eyes.

Sun Ningxiang had stopped crying. But when she saw that her grandmother had regained consciousness, tears started spilling from her eyes again.

This time, it was tears of joy and not sadness.

The moment Sun Ningxiang's grandmother awoke, Lin Yuan hung up the phone and let out a small breath of relief.

Her grandmother had been pulled out of Death's arms.

In Condense Fairy Orchard's residence in Flower City…

Sun Ningxiang's grandmother had awoken with a look of disbelief on her face.

As a thearch-class expert that had been living every day expecting it to be her last, Liu Yuan was well aware of her body's condition.

From the moment she spat out the first mouthful of blood, she knew that the moment she had been dreading was finally here.

Just as she had been about to explain the situation to Sun Ningxiang, her wounded soul exploded, and she fainted before she could get a single word out.

Liu Yuan's heart was full of worry and self-reproach right before fainting. She was afraid that Condense Fairy Orchard would fall into ruin without her, and the other top factions would bully Sun Ningxiang. VịSit no(v)3lb/!n.c𝒐m for new 𝒏ov𝒆l𝒔

Liu Yuan regretted insisting on using the Legend Muscle Growth Camellia's roots to attempt to clear all the poison from her body. If she had been successful, she would be able to live for much longer than a measly three to five years.

But before she could do so, the poison had reached her brain and triggered her wounded soul that she had spent a great deal of effort subduing.

If she had still attempted to clear the poison using the roots of the Muscle Growth Camellia, the poison would have caused her soul to blow apart.

As such, she had no choice but to abandon the idea and use the Muscle Growth Camellia to treat her external wounds.

The Legend Muscle Growth Camellia's leaves were the best medicine for removing poison. However, Liu Yuan had taken a gamble by using its roots, which were several times more powerful.

Once the roots were gone, the Muscle Growth Camellia couldn't continue living.

Liu Yuan had relied on the Muscle Growth Camellia's leaves to suppress the poison.

But after losing the Muscle Growth Camellia, the poison returned even more fiercely than before.

It resulted in Liu Yuan vomiting blood and fainting every two days. The poison had also affected her heart and caused it to shrink.

When her heart pumped large amounts of poison into her brain, it aggravated her wounded soul.

The recently-conscious Liu Yuan touched Sun Ningxiang's head while wiping the tears from her face.

She sensed her body's changes in a dumbfounded state. Her body was completely different now.

1222 If You Like It, Work Hard!

Liu Yuan noticed that not only had her wounds been healed and poison removed, but her weak roots had also been strengthened.

For an unknown reason, the remnants of impurities in her body had all been cleansed. This reminded her of the Radiant Moon Palace's Silver Stamen Gold Luster Cassia nectar.

In its prime, Condense Fairy Orchard had once been able to obtain a few drops of Silver Stamen Gold Luster Cassia nectar from the Moon Empress.

The Silver Stamen Gold Luster Cassia nectar had cleansed her body of all impurities but had been unable to heal her wounds.

Liu Yuan looked down to look at her granddaughter, who was wailing like a child.

Her eyes were full of love and pity. She knew full well how difficult the past few years had been for Sun Ningxiang.

Liu Yuan sighed to herself and lamented the hardship that her granddaughter had experienced.

Sun Ningxiang was carrying the heavy burden of Condense Fairy Orchard all on her own.

Now that Liu Yuan was not only healed, but her body was even stronger than before, her granddaughter finally did not have to bear that yoke on her own.

Finally, her granddaughter could live the kind of life she wanted.

Liu Yuan wanted to know how she had recovered.

When she fainted, only Sun Ningxiang had been by her side. Her recovery had to be linked to her granddaughter in some way.

"Xiangxiang, what happened after I fainted?"

Sun Ningxiang suddenly remembered that she had been on the phone with Lin Yuan. She hastily looked at her phone, only to see that he had already hung up.

She thought, Thank God he hung up! I wouldn't want him to hear my wailing!

She had completely forgotten that Lin Yuan had heard her cry for close to half an hour. During that time, he had tried his best to come up with a way to comfort her.

As she looked at Liu Yuan's questioning expression, Sun Ningxiang said, "Grandma, Lin Yuan was the one who saved you. After he found out what happened, he sent a Moon Dew Revival Pill to us through Ostrich Logistics."

Liu Yuan froze, and one thought filled her mind.

I can't believe I consumed the Moon Dew Revival Pill! No wonder I was able to recover and feel like a completely different person.

Liu Yuan knew much more about the Moon Dew Revival Pill than Sun Ningxiang.

During Condense Fairy Orchard's prime, Liu Yuan's husband had offered half of all of Condense Fairy Orchard's resources but had still been unable to obtain a single Moon Dew Revival Pill.

One Moon Dew Revival Pill was more valuable than the life of a thearch-class expert because it had similar effects as offering immortality.

Recently, Lin Yuan had lost count of the number of times she heard Sun Ningxiang mention Lin Yuan's name.

Although her body had been so weak that she had been unable to go outside much, she still kept up with the news in the Radiance Federation and knew that Lin Yuan was the Moon Empress' disciple.

Sun Ningxiang had not revealed that Lin Yuan and the City Lord of Sky City were the same person.

Liu Yuan was filled with intense gratitude toward the City Lord of Sky City and Lin Yuan.

Sky City's collaboration with Condense Fairy Orchard had solved Condense Fairy Orchard's lack of Creation Masters and strengthened their plant-type fey resources. This ensured that Condense Fairy Orchard could continue their domination of the plant-type fey market.

Lin Yuan had stood behind Sun Ningxiang at the Guard Ye Banquet and told the other factions about his relationship with her. This deterred other factions from targeting Condense Fairy Orchard after the Guard Ye Banquet.

Before the Guard Ye Banquet, Sun Ningxiang mostly talked about the City Lord of Sky City.

But after the Guard Ye Banquet, Sun Ningxiang mostly talked about Lin Yuan instead.

Although Condense Fairy Orchard and Sky City had deepened their collaboration, Sun Ningxiang still did not mention the City Lord of Sky City again.

It seemed as though all the topics that used to include the City Lord of Sky City now featured Lin Yuan instead.

Lin Yuan was also being brought up more and more.

With all her experience, Liu Yuan noticed that something was off.

Liu Yuan's expression changed when she saw Sun Ningxiang's gaze as she talked about Lin Yuan.

Her granddaughter was extremely impressive at expanding the faction. Otherwise, she would not have been able to sustain Condense Fairy Orchard for so long in spite of Condense Fairy Orchard's lack of resources.

However, her granddaughter's affinity as a combat-class spirit qi professional was rather weak.

Even when Condense Fairy Orchard had no shortage of resources, she could only reach #40 of the Radiance Hundred Sequence at best.

Meanwhile, Lin Yuan was the champion of the Martial Arts Stage.

The Arts Stage, Martial Stage, and Martial Arts Stage had taken place separately during the Guard Ye Banquet.

Although the Martial Arts Stage champion could not be crowned as the member of the younger generation with the strongest Creation Master abilities or combat power, he was still considered an outstanding Creation Master and combat-class spirit qi professional.

During the fight with Zong Ze, Lin Yuan's combat style had been extremely special, and he had not summoned a single fey. Instead, he had revealed an exceptionally strong sacred source lifeform that could shapeshift.

Now that an Order of Radiant Light had fallen into the hands of such an outstanding individual, he would definitely become a Radiance Envoy, notwithstanding an unexpected accident.

Moreover, Lin Yuan had the support of the Radiant Moon Palace. Sun Ningxiang was a far cry by comparison.

This distance would only increase as Lin Yuan continued to grow. Alll 𝒍𝒂test nov𝒆l𝒔 on novelb𝒊n/.c𝒐m

"My body is fine now. I can handle Condense Fairy Orchard now. Xiangxiang, you should take part in the Radiance Hundred Sequence selection this year. All of Condense Fairy Orchard's resources will go to you now. You should take that antique jade piece that can increase the comprehension of willpowers that your grandfather left for your brother. Do your best to comprehend a second Willpower Rune as soon as possible," said Liu Yuan.

Sun Ningxiang's eyes widened.

Although she never mentioned it, she knew that her grandmother doted on her brother more.

The piece of antique jade her grandmother mentioned was an heirloom of Condense Fairy Orchard.

She could not believe that her grandmother would allow her to carry it around with her.

"Grandpa left that antique jade for my brother. I—"

Before Sun Ningxiang could finish speaking, Liu Yuan said gently, "If you hadn't kept Condense Fairy Orchard afloat, your brother wouldn't even have the chance to use this antique jade."

Chapter 1223: The Greatly Limited Moon Empress

"There are still two years till the next Radiance Envoy and Radiance Knight selection. Xiangxiang, if you have any hopes, you should do your best to charge toward becoming a Radiance Knight. Otherwise, the gap between you and Lin Yuan will only grow larger until finally, even looking up to him will only be nothing more than a pipe dream."

Liu Yuan did not speak to the point for fear of discouraging her granddaughter.

As such, Sun Ningxiang did not realize the meaning behind her grandmother's words.

She did have one dream that she hoped would come true.

However, she had a more important matter to discuss with Liu Yuan.

She looked at Sun Ningxiang seriously and said, "Grandma, I want Condense Fairy Orchard to become part of Sky City. We should become one of Sky City's branch factions."

Liu Yuan was momentarily stunned before she started contemplating deeply.

Suddenly, she remembered that Lin Yuan had saved her with the Moon Dew Revival Pill.

Yet, Sun Ningxiang did not propose for Condense Fairy Orchard to join Lin Yuan but to become part of Condense Fairy Orchard instead.

Previously, all the gratitude that Sun Ningxiang should be showing the City Lord of Sky City had been transferred onto Lin Yuan.

When she put two and two together, Liu Yuan's heart skipped a beat.

Even during Condense Fairy Orchard's most difficult times, Liu Yuan would rather go down with the sinking ship than allow Condense Fairy Orchard to become a branch or another faction.

This was why Liu Yuan had been against working with Connected Beast Park.

However, if Lin Yuan were the City Lord of Sky City, the circumstances would be different.

It was not just that Condense Fairy Orchard owed debts of gratitude to both Lin Yuan and the City Lord of Sky City. Solely based on Lin Yuan's status and future, as well as Sky City's Creation Master resources, Condense Fairy Orchard's future would be secured.

Moreover, Condense Fairy Orchard would have a real chance of surpassing other top factions. Fôll0w current novÊls on n/o/(v)/3l/b((in).(co/m)

Moreover, the resolution in Sun Ningxiang's eyes and her feelings for Lin Yuan were important factors that persuaded Liu Yuan.

Just as Liu Yuan was about to give in, she asked Sun Ningxiang, "Xiangxiang, be honest with me. Are Liu Yuan and the City Lord of Sky City the same person?"

Due to Liu Yuan's tone of certainty, Sun Ningxiang hesitated for a moment before nodding.

Liu Yuan affectionately touched Sun Ningxiang's hair and said, "I'm old now. All of Condense Fairy Orchard's decisions lie in your hands. If I'm able to support you for a few more years, I'll consider that I've made good use of something as precious as the Moon Dew Revival Pill."

Liu Yuan smiled warmly at Sun Ningxiang's surprised expression.

This smile represented a new chapter.

…

Unknowingly, spring had arrived. The spring sun was warm and blinding.

The sun was currently slowly climbing towards its apex.

Within the imperial court, an elderly man was currently seated on a seemingly normal recliner that was brimming with life force.

He stared at the sun as he was lost in his thoughts.

The blinding sunlight not only did not force the elderly man to avert his eyes, but it even highlighted the gold in his mostly-black eyes.

A smiling man walked in and said hurriedly to the elderly man, "Did you call me over in such a hurry because your old problem has relapsed?"

The elderly man turned his eyes away from the sun and said to the grinning man, "My body is still very sturdy. That problem hasn't affected me in over five years. Cicada Song, I notice that you've been staying at the imperial court with your disciple of late. How does it feel to have a disciple?"

Cicada Song rubbed his temples in frustration and replied, "Gao Feng is great in every way. The only issue is that he's set on competing in next year's S Tournament. He can't stop the moment he gets excited. I would rather adjust his mental state before we start increasing his power."

The elderly man was surprised to hear what Cicada Song said.

Cicada Song was always smiling and appeared to be extremely gentle. However, he was actually exceedingly rational and composed.

The elderly man could not believe how much Cicada Song cared about his disciple.

Initially, he had been concerned that Cicada Song would not be able to take up the mantle of being a Master.

But now, it seemed that he had been worried for nothing.

Rather than Cicada Song training Gao Feng's character, it seemed that Gao Feng was the one training Cicada Song's character now.

The elderly man flipped his hand over and a blaze-yellow wooden box appeared in his hand.

Cicada Song hurriedly reached out his hand to receive the blaze yellow wooden box.

"There is a drop of Earth Center Fine Milk inside the box. Deliver it to the Moon Empress. It should extend her life for a year."

A look of obvious repressed pain appeared on the elderly man's face.

The fight from a decade ago had caused the three federations around the Radiance Federation to sink to the bottom of the sea.

During that fight, the four immortal experts from the Freedom Federation had been killed. However, the Moon Empress' attack had resulted in her losing a large portion of her lifespan.

Given her personality, she would not lock herself away to train for more than a decade after that incident.

Ever since she accepted a disciple, she had been paving the way for him.

This indicated that her lifespan was coming to an end soon. Otherwise, the old her would never have chosen to pave the way for her disciple.

She would only be fulfilled when she saw her disciple make a name for himself.

At the Moon Empress' level, any further breakthrough would be accompanied by huge risk and the danger of losing her life.

An expert's lifespan was the most precious thing in the world to them. Constant training could prolong their lifespan but not extend it endlessly.

Hence, any expert of the Moon Empress' level would first have to weigh the cost of their possible failure.

Yet, the Moon Empress had charged forward without any qualms in recent years. This was her way of putting up a last-ditch effort against her lifespan.

When the look of intense pain appeared on the elderly man's face, Cicada Song left the imperial court with the box.

Cicada Song had also experienced the incident himself.

If two people who had experienced the incident together reflected on it at the same time, they would only increase each other's sorrow.

As Cicada Song headed to the Radiant Moon Palace, he muttered, "My old friend put down his sword. I did everything, but he still couldn't return. Yet, you who are as arrogant and cold as the moon still have 15 years of brilliance left to do whatever your heart desires."

Lin Yuan, who was currently playing with the tangerine and red Lifespan Mouse, was completely oblivious to all of this.

Chapter 1224: Su Yiren's Gains

Lin Yuan did not have any important business to attend to in the Divine Wood Federation, and the Moon Empress was still in the midst of her training.

Lin Yuan also needed to handle the blood pact ultimate fight between the Sea Bliss Clan and the Miao family.

As such, he intended to finish everything he had on hand in the Radiance Federation before returning to the Divine Wood Federation to focus on training.

As he looked at the Lifespan Mouse scamper energetically, he felt that it would definitely become fat and good friends with the Moon Empress' white rabbit.

Naturally, this would only happen if the Lifespan Mouse knew to stay away from the rabbit's carrots. Otherwise, the rabbit would start hiding its carrots behind its tail again.

Lin Yuan had been so busy with setting up his establishment in the Divine Wood Federation that he had not rested properly.

As the agarwood wafted into his nose, Lin Yuan felt sleep creeping up on him.

He summoned Genius out and instructed it to wake him up at 1:00 p.m. before he snuggled up on the water rhinoceros leather sofa and started napping.

While Lin Yuan was napping, four other figures from different parts of the main world with different states of mind entered dreamland together.

Bei Xu had spent a fruitful last few days and was elated.

After sweeping through the working area of a rock insect, he finally managed to obtain subordinates. With these subordinates, Bei Xu could officially start building his own faction.

It was tough for normal people to survive in the subterranean world.

Hence, Bei Xu was extremely picky with his subordinates.

There happened to be some people who had awakened a Willpower Rune, but they had no use for it in their manual labor work.

These people who had the curse of the rock insect on them dared not reveal anything special about themselves for fear that they would be treated as pariahs or threats that needed to be killed.

After Bei Xu obtained their consent, he used the Sharp Shadow Bat's Bat's Fangs Blood Seed to change his two subordinates into blood zombies.

Next, Bei Xu just needed to sweep through more subterranean dimensional rifts to search for suitable source-type items for his two subordinates.

This would greatly increase the overall power of Bei Xu's faction, and he would not need to attend to every matter anymore personally.

This was a huge step up for Bei Xu's development.

Yin Lin was currently seated on the Island Whale along with the rest of the convoy from the Azure Federation and was headed toward the Radiance Federation.

She spent her days lazily atop the Island Whale. All she did was increase her power while looking forward to the next Astronomical Parliament.

Compared to the carefree Yin Lin, Ta Lei was in the middle of the biggest change of his life.

Due to Lin Yuan, Ta Lei was no longer a young man from a small tribe but a Class 1 Creation Master recognized by the Iron Hammer imperial court.

As such, the Horseshoe Tribe had also become a Class 1 tribe.

Ta Lei had caused a significant stir in the Iron Hammer imperial court by becoming a Class 1 Creation Master at a young age.

In order to show how much they valued Ta Lei, the imperial court dispatched a powerful soldier to protect Ta Lei.

When the Cuprite Tribe found out that Ta Lei had become a Class 1 Creation Master and was being favored by the imperial court, they decided to reach out a friendly hand to them instead.

They promised the Horseshoe Tribe that they would share ownership of the high-grade energy ore and Gold Frost Silver mines in order to form an alliance with them.

These events had deeply stunned Ta Lei, and he could not help but reflect on all the benefits he had gained after the Astronomical Parliament's parliamentary meeting.

It was because of this that Ta Lei did not lose sight of what he needed to do.

He resolutely convinced his grandparents, parents, and brother to do as Lin Yuan asked and take the Horseshoe Tribe to the boundary toward where the Divine Wood Federation was.

Ta Lei's decision would result in the loss of the high-grade energy ore and Gold Frost Silver mines.

The Horseshoe Tribe had never known what it was like to be wealthy and refused to give up on this chance.

Eventually, Ta Lei told them about the Master that he could see once every week, which had turned him into a Class 1 Creation Master.

Hence, the Horseshoe Tribe began their day-long journey to the boundary that separated the Iron Hammer Federation from the Divine Wood Federation.

Su Yiren was currently stooped in an alley in the Divine Wood Federation. She was a drifter and considered worthless in the Divine Wood Federation. Thus, she even had to be careful with every breath she drew.

During the last Astronomical Parliament parliamentary meeting, Lin Yuan had healed Su Yiren's injuries.

But now, she was covered in fresh wounds.

In order to survive, she had no choice but to set aside her pride as a Dark Envoy and rummage through trash cans for food scraps.

The struggles of her current reality made Su Yiren all the more determined to survive.

The man's voice amongst the constellations reverberated within Su Yiren's mind.

"As long as you're alive, there's always hope."

Albeit, this hope came with the cost of losing her freedom.

However, Su Yiren did not come away with nothing after spending the last few days foraging through the trash.

She found a usable phone with a broken screen.

During the last Astronomical Parliament parliamentary meeting, Su Yiren remembered that the figure wrapped in countless willpowers had instructed the person next to her who only had one willpower to travel from the Iron Hammer Federation toward the Divine Wood Federation. VịSit no(v)3lb/!n.c𝒐m for new 𝒏ov𝒆l𝒔

This meant that there was a high chance that that figure wrapped in countless willpowers was currently at the Divine Wood Federation's boundary.

After a full month of surveillance, Su Yiren knew that Oak City, where she was in, was the city that was the closest to the Divine Wood Federation.

As such, the phone she found was vital to her.

She wanted to try to ask the figure for his number at the next Astronomical Parliament parliamentary meeting and contact him through this damaged phone.

She would not always be so lucky to continue living as strongly as she was doing after every beating she received. After all, her soul was injured, and her sacred source lifeform was in a near-death state.

While crouching in the alley, Su Yiren's skinny body curled up like a feeble kitten. In such a circumstance, she could not sleep soundly.

In order to provide herself with the deepest sleep possible, she had gone hungry for two days and traded for a cup of inferior quality alcohol from a homeless man.

She never drank alcohol, so this one cup was enough to induce sleep. She even started snoring, and it was likely that she would sleep for at least half a day.

Genius used to be a housekeeping beast and was used to performing wake-up calls.

Once the clock struck 1:00 p.m., Genius used its eight long tails to tickle Lin Yuan's neck.

Lin Yuan was very susceptible to being tickled. When Genius' tail brushed across his neck, he immediately woke up while chortling with laughter.

Chapter 1225: The Entire Mansion's Good Omen

After Lin Yuan woke up, he cradled Genius in his arms and stroked it until Genius melted into content purring.

Lin Yuan carried Genius over to the water rhinoceros leather sofa and asked, "Genius, are you planning or staying in the mansion, or would you rather return to the Spirit Lock spatial zone?"

Genius hurriedly replied, "Lin Yuan, before I return to the Spirit Lock spatial zone, I want to concoct a spirit fluid that will divide the Soldier Ration Radish. I'll take the divided Soldier Ration Radishes to the marsh world and plant them there."

Genius swayed its tails, and its eyes sparkled.

Lin Yuan was curious about Genius' happy behavior. He touched Genius' small head and asked, "Genius, why are you so happy?"

Genius meowed and replied, "Genius, once I divide the Soldier Ration Radishes, there will be 15 of them. The marsh world has the ideal environment for the Soldier Ration Radishes. The Wind Speed Rapid Antelope hasn't been able to rest because of the Soldier Ration Radishes.

"Moreover, I don't think there's much use for the Soldier Ration Radishes' branches. These branches can be buried in the ground of the territory in the marsh world, and all the branches will decompose into nutritious humic acid quickly by the bacteria in the ground.

"There's a scholarly article on Star Web which describes an experiment conducted by a Class 4 Creation Master and three pinnacle Class 3 Creation Masters. They discovered that when marsh soil is present in an environment full of humic acid, there's a high chance that the marsh soil will fuse together to form new marsh soil that contains all the benefits of its component marsh soil.

"Given the rate that the 15 Soldier Ration Radishes grow branches, I want to try and change all the marsh soil in the territory to the fused form of marsh soil."

Lin Yuan's eyebrow twitched.

Genius was just like a mini scientist, and its brain was full of ideas to help his territory.

Lin Yuan did not have much use for the high amount of Soldier Ration Radish branches that he kept stored away.

Although the Soldier Ration Radish's branches were full of nutrients and a person only needed to consume one of its leaves to be full, its impressive feature was its rapid rate of growth.

When it came to nutrition, many other production-type feys produced fruits or leaves that were more nutritious than the Soldier Ration Radish. However, none of them could match the Soldier Ration Radish's speed of growth.

Once the Soldier Ration Radish increased its grade, it would be a powerful source of food.

If this source of food was planted at the base, Lin Yuan would not have to worry about food stock at all.

If the Soldier Ration Radish's leaves were planted in the territory in the marsh world and turned all the marsh soil into fused marsh soil, the fused marsh soil's strength would be multiplied as time went on.

At that point, not only would Endless Summer's Barren River Orchid Bud be able to grow quickly, but the territory would also become a paradise for plant-type feys.

At this time, someone walked into the mansion with a grin spread across his face.

This person was Ji Feng.

Before Lin Yuan could speak, Ji Feng said, "Young Master, my Prior Decree Sleeping Lotus' exclusive skill Heaven's Secret Promise has given me a sign."

Lin Yuan's interest was immediately piqued.

Lin Yuan had seen Ji Feng's Karma Sword Lily and Prior Decree Sleeping Lotus' wondrous abilities.

Lin Yuan was most amazed that the Prior Decree Sleeping Lotus had the ability to read the fortunes and misfortunes of the people around Ji Feng after every set interval.

Given that Ji Feng was beaming brightly, the Prior Decree Sleeping Lotus' prediction had to be positive.

"Ji Feng, what's the good news?"

"Young Master, this piece of good news is special because it doesn't just affect one person. When I first arrived at the mansion, the Prior Decree Sleeping Lotus made frequent predictions. At first, it predicted fortunes for Wen Yu, then Liu Jie, followed by Listen, the Mother of Bloodbath, Endless Summer, Zhou Luo, Hu Quan, and today it was for you!

"By using Own Truth, I can be certain that all your fortunes are linked. As such, I think that these fortunes affect the entire mansion. All of us will return to the mansion to stay. It is here that we will be affected by the fortune. I used Own Truth to test this idea and did not experience fate's recoil. This means that my idea is right! Then, I used Own Truth to test the time frame and discovered that all our fortunes will be arriving in two days' time."

Although Ji Feng was bringing good news, Lin Yuan's eyebrow twitched wildly. He remembered that when he used True Data to check on the Prior Decree Sleeping Lotus, Own Self would result in the user experiencing recoil that would grievously harm their soul if their prediction failed.

Ji Feng continuously used Own Truth despite being aware of the risks.

It was said that curiosity killed the cat. Did Ji Feng identify as a cat? Ji Feng's actions were the equivalent of grabbing a power line with his bare hands at the risk of being electrocuted.

Lin Yuan felt that he needed to advise Ji Feng for his safety's sake.

"Ji Feng, you should use Own Truth as infrequently as possible. A soul injury is truly unbearable."

Ji Feng beamed and replied, "Even if my prediction fails and I experience fate's recoil, my soul won't be seriously injured. Young Master, have you forgotten that my Prior Decree Sleeping Lotus can heal soul injuries? All I have to do is use it to heal my soul when needed."

Ji Feng had been traumatized by his past decade of being tortured by pain in his soul and would never casually put himself in danger to confirm a pointless fortune.

Currently, Endless Summer, Listen, and Zhou Luo were traveling to Indigo Azure City to collect the Zheng family's resources.

Ji Feng had over Endless Summer and was guarding the Listening Heron Chamber of Commerce. Yôur f𝒂vorite stories on 𝒏/o/(v)𝒆/lb𝒊n.c𝒐m

After Sky City revealed its strength, the Listening Heron Chamber of Commerce had not been in any more trouble.

As such, Ji Feng was very bored at the Listening Heron Chamber of Commerce of late.

But since he had chosen to be with Lin Yuan by receiving Lin Yuan's help, he could not allow himself to do nothing.

Thus, he tried his best to find things to do, even if it meant that he ran the risk of injuring his soul.

Chapter 1226: Lay Down the Terms

This fortune had descended on Lin Yuan and the rest of the people who were part of the Return from Faraway Mansion's family.

Ji Feng had watched his family die a decade ago and had been alone when he met Lin Yuan.

After interacting with the rest of the people from the Return from Faraway Mansion, Ji Feng naturally came to see the Return from Faraway Mansion as his home.

Lin Yuan gazed at Ji Feng silently as Ji Feng had just given him too much information at once.

Since Ji Feng was willing to ignore the risks of injuring his soul in order to express his kinship, Lin Yuan would not treat his intentions lightly.

Moreover, Ji Feng used to be the Young Leader of Whale Ocean Commerce and knew where to draw the line when he conducted himself.

Lin Yuan intended to be on full alert from now on in preparation to receive the fortune and ensure that the fortune did not slip away.

Ji Feng immediately returned to the Listening Heron Chamber of Commerce after he reported his news to Lin Yuan.

As the expert that was assigned to the Listening Heron Chamber of Commerce, Ji Feng could not leave it unguarded for too long.

Lin Yuan returned Genius to the Spirit Lock spatial zone so it could divide the Soldier Ration Radishes. Next, he walked to the third floor and knocked on Wen Yu's door.

Wen Yu was a light sleeper, so her eyes snapped open when Lin Yuan knocked on her door twice.

After she opened the door, Lin Yuan noticed that she was sporting an intense bedhead. However, her eyes were clear and energetic.

Wen Yu opened the door wider and said, "Young Master, come in and wait. I will start the parliamentary meeting once I wash up."

Lin Yuan strode into Wen Yu's room.

The Return from Faraway's construction had been completed some time ago, and Wen Yu often sent clothes to Lin Yuan's room as well as discussed the events of the Astronomical Parliament parliamentary meeting there together.

However, this was the first time that Lin Yuan entered Wen Yu's room. In fact, this was the first time he was entering the room of a girl that was not Chu Ci's room.

He sat down on a chair, and Wen Yu entered the washroom to clean herself up.

As Lin Yuan listened to the sounds of water, he took in the interior design of Wen Yu's room.

He noticed that her room was decorated in a style that vastly differed from her fashion designs.

The spirit qi clothes she designed were elegant, and she used the elaborate palace-style cut on all her pieces.

As such, the spirit qi clothes that Lin Yuan wore on a day-to-day basis appeared simple, but the embroidery on them carried an opulent air.

In contrast, Wen Yu's room was minimalistic as there were no other decorations in it besides a bed, two chairs, and a large table.

Even Lin Yuan had placed some jade-textured wooden carvings that Hu Quan made in his room.

From the moment he entered the room, Lin Yuan could smell a faint sweetness. This sweetness was of different flora and fauna and had a soft freshness about it.

If Lin Yuan had not gained peak smelling abilities after all the impurities in his body were cleansed, he might have missed this almost non-existent fragrance.

Wen Yu had walked out of the washroom with her eyebrows tightly furrowed. It was clear that she had a question she was struggling with.

She took two steps forward and asked Lin Yuan seriously, "Young Master, what are your plans for recruiting Su Yiren during this parliamentary meeting?"

Lin Yuan did not find this question strange.

After the last Astronomical Parliament parliamentary meeting, Wen Yu had done a thorough investigation on Su Yiren and was well aware of Su Yiren's value.

However, Lin Yuan felt that Wen Yu was being overly worried and that she was thinking about Su Yiren's recruitment more than Lin Yuan was.

After seven days of grappling with her excruciating reality, Su Yiren should have been racking her brains to come up with a way to join the Astronomical Parliament.

A moment of silence later, Lin Yuan told Wen Yu about his plans for recruiting Su Yiren.

"We don't need to make any preparations for Su Yiren. If she joins this Astronomical Parliament parliamentary meeting, we'll need to lay down the terms with her. She's currently in the Divine Wood Federation, and I'm bound to meet her when I'm training in the Divine Wood Federation. Once I meet with her, I'll have to heal her soul injury and her near-dead sacred source lifeform. She'll be of no use to us if she can't even summon feys.

"But now, her head is filled with thoughts of revenge. We'll need to change her mindset during this Astronomical Parliament's parliamentary meeting. The parliamentary meeting requires both parties to be agreeable to collaborate. One side can't be bent on revenge."

Wen Yu immediately understood what Lin Yuan meant and what his plans were for Su Yiren.

It seemed that Lin Yuan was going to devour Su Yiren.

After listening to what Lin Yuan said, Wen Yu's misunderstanding had been cleared.

Upon finding out that Su Yiren was a Dark Envoy, she had placed a high value on Su Yiren. But what she valued was Su Yiren's identity and not her abilities.

Now, Wen Yu realized that Su Yiren's abilities were far more important than her identity as a Dark Envoy.

Lin Yuan also valued Su Yiren's abilities, which was why he wanted to lay down the terms with her. VịSit no(v)3lb/!n.c𝒐m for new 𝒏ov𝒆l𝒔

From this, Wen Yu could tell that Lin Yuan had far more foresight than her.

Wen Yu truly enjoyed this feeling of constantly progressing that she experienced at Lin Yuan's side.

Lin Yuan and Wen Yu entered the training room and used the ritual to activate the Astronomical Parliament.

A banquet of stars erupted once again.

When Lin Yuan and Wen Yu sat down on the Leo throne and Libra throne, he realized that four figures were already neatly seated on the north-south constellation seats.

Yin Lin was seated on the Andromeda seat, Bei Xu on the Perseus seat, Ta Lei on the Leo Minor seat, and Su Yiren on the Corona Australis seat.

Ta Lei had formed a contract with the Leo Minor seat without hesitation during the last Astronomical Parliament parliamentary meeting and was now an official member.

However, Su Yiren had hesitated and had doubts about the Astronomical Parliament. As such, she had not formed a contract with the Corona Australis seat.

When Su Yiren saw Lin Yuan and Wen Yu, she immediately readied herself to form a contract with the Corona Australis seat.

Chapter 1227: Want to Join the Astronomical Parliament? Prove Your Worth First!

However, the moment she reached out her hand to touch the Corona Australis seat, the woman on the Libra throne said calmly, "Wait. If you want to join the Astronomical Parliament, you have to prove your worth first." ALL new 𝒄hapters 𝒐n n𝒐v(𝒆)

Wen Yu's words stunned Su Yiren.

She did not remember Ta Lei being asked to prove his worth before he formed a contract with the Leo Minor seat.

This made Su Yiren feel as though she was receiving special treatment.

Although she was living a life worse than death in the Divine Wood Federation, she was in a dream-like meeting where her figure was formed from willpowers.

She could puff up with the pride of being a Dark Envoy here.

She would have backed out of the Astronomical Parliament without hesitation if she had received such special treatment the last time.

Ever since the last Astronomical Parliament parliamentary meeting ended, Lin Yuan had used Star Spirit Seat to transfer the Jasmine Lily's vitality to Su Yiren to heal her injuries.

This had allowed Su Yiren to see how powerful the Astronomical Parliament was. She also knew that being in the Divine Wood Federation did not affect how much help she could receive from the Astronomical Parliament.

Moreover, Lin Yuan had mentioned hope that enabled Su Yiren to plan out her future path over the last week.

This was why Su Yiren could not wait to form a contract with the Corona Australis seat the moment she entered the Astronomical Parliament.

She had decided to join the Astronomical Parliament and was determined to survive—she would not abandon this chance just because she was receiving unfair treatment.

Su Yiren looked at Wen Yu and asked, "How do you want me to prove my worth?"

While Su Yiren was speaking with Wen Yu, Lin Yuan looked through Su Yiren's memories again to see how she had spent the last seven days.

When he saw that Su Yiren wanted to form a contract with the Corona Australis seat, he was about to stop her, but Wen Yu beat him to it.

Since Wen Yu had spoken first, Lin Yuan left the rest of the interaction to her. He wanted to see how Wen Yu would act and what she said.

Wen Yu said, "Proving one's worth does not depend on what the person has but what they can do. Can you work with the Astronomical Parliament wholeheartedly without a single thought of scheming?"

Su Yiren fell silent.

Instead of replying to Wen Yu, Su Yiren pointed at Ta Lei, Yin Lin, and Bei Xu and said, "Can they wholeheartedly work with the Astronomical Parliament without a single thought of scheming? How are others supposed to know what a person is thinking? This promise seems childish to me. If I say I'll do it, will you believe me?"

Yin Lin cut her off and snapped, "Don't forget how you entered the Astronomical Parliament in the first place! What did you swear before entering the Astronomical Parliament? Libra is already being kind by using the term 'working together'. After the Astronomical Parliament fulfills your wish, you should do whatever you can to repay them."

Bei Xu and Ta Lei frowned as well.

Su Yiren could clearly sense the other three's distaste for her.

Yin Lin's words were a reminder to Su Yiren. She had been so set on entering the Astronomical Parliament again because she wanted to lead a better life and fulfill her goal. It was true that she had completely forgotten how she entered the Astronomical Parliament in the first place.

At that moment, the woman on the Libra throne said calmly, "You're currently thinking of ways to receive more benefits from the Astronomical Parliament. Once you're able, you'll return to the Dark Continent and use your identity as one of the seven Dark Envoys to enjoy the benefits of your status. Am I right?"

Su Yiren's eyes widened as Wen Yu had hit the nail right on its head.

It was like Su Yiren was an open book to Wen Yu.

Last time, Su Yiren had wondered how the two people seated on the throne knew so much about her.

Something was off about this meeting. Could the woman seated on the Libra throne have the ability to read everything in another person's mind?

While Su Yiren was thinking, Wen Yu went on to say, "I always assumed that people who have the capabilities to become a Dark Envoy are able to judge matters clearly. If you want revenge, you have to be more powerful than Seventh Page War at the very least. If you charge ahead without this power, it will only result in the deaths of those closest to you. You should know this well.

"I'm giving you a final chance. Tell me what you can do for the Astronomical Parliament. Otherwise, you can continue to live a life of struggle by drifting around the Divine Wood Federation and scrounging for food in trash cans.

"There is a Class 4 family in Oak City, some Class 3 families, and many Class 2 families. In such a huge city full of wealthy families, the death of a drifter will be less than insignificant. No one will know that the once-great Dark Envoy has died in a dirty corner of one of Oak City's alleys.

"You know I'm not saying this to scare you, and you shouldn't think of forming a contract with the Astronomical Parliament as a simple matter. Once you form a contract with the Astronomical Parliament, you'll have to make good on your promises to the Astronomical Parliament. Otherwise, you'll have a much higher price to pay."

Everything Wen Yu said was like arrows shot directly through Su Yiren's heart as they were all the struggles that Su Yiren was being tortured by.

Su Yiren was terrified by Wen Yu's ability to read a person's mind.

She gnashed her teeth and replied, "There are many things I can do. If you hand me a federation, I can guarantee that it'll be organized and prosperous. If you want me to do anything else, you'll have to heal my wounds first. Moreover, my sacred source lifeform is special. Its abilities are tied together with the rest of my feys. If my sacred source lifeforms doesn't recover from its near-death state, I won't be able to summon my feys even if my soul injury is healed."

Although Su Yiren spoke pompously, Wen Yu knew that she was telling the truth.

There were seven federations in the Dark Continent, and one of the tests to become a Dark Envoy was to manage a federation for a year to prove that they had the ability to plan with the big picture in mind.

Chapter 1228: All-Knowing All-Powerful and Su Yiren's Fear

Lin Yuan took over the conversation from Wen Yu. "If you choose to become a member of the Astronomical Parliament, the Astronomical Parliament will make sure your needs are met. Your soul injury can be healed very easily, so you don't have to worry about that. Now, we should discuss ways to treat your sacred source lifeform."

Su Yiren's eyes lit up.

She now knew that the Astronomical Parliament had the ability to heal her soul injury and was willing to attempt to heal her near-dead sacred source lifeform.

Frankly, Su Yiren was not certain about the exact circumstance of the Absolute Love Poppy's injury as its flowers and leaves had all been crushed by Seventh Page War.

Immediately after, the Absolute Love Poppy had fallen unconscious in the depths of Su Yiren's soul.

If she wanted to communicate with the sacred source lifeform and check on it, she would have to use her soul power.

However, she could not do so due to her injured soul.

Nonetheless, she was certain that it was still alive.

Under normal circumstances, plants would continue to absorb nutrients to heal themselves as long as they still had their roots.

The Absolute Love Poppy was just too weak now. It dared not absorb nutrients in its near-dead state as it would start to awake from its dormant state.

Once it woke up from its dormant state, the Absolute Love Poppy's vitality would rapidly deplete.

If it could not absorb nutrients to replenish its vitality at the same rate that its vitality depleted, the Absolute Love Poppy would truly die.

The last thing that Su Yiren wanted was for its near-dead Absolute Love Poppy to take on any risk.

As such, Su Yiren said boldly, "It'll be very difficult to treat my Absolute Love Poppy. I have only managed to come up with two ways. Either plant my Absolute Love Poppy in the top-grade marsh soil Eternal Life Soil or use the Lifeform Sacrificial Fire to burn it. There might be other methods to heal my Absolute Love Poppy, but these two are the safest ways. If we try anything else and it fails, my Absolute Love Poppy might die. I don't want to put it at any risk."

Lin Yuan frowned when he heard Su Yiren mention the top-grade Eternal Life Soil.

Not many Class 5 marsh dimensional rifts had opened in the Radiance Federation, and the amount of top-grade marsh soil produced was even more limited.

The Moon Empress had told him about top-grade marsh soil before, but there was no mention of Eternal Life Soil. This meant that he would not be able to obtain Eternal Life Soil in the Radiance Federation.

Although Lin Yuan had a territory in the marsh world, and it would be easy for him to search for marsh soil, it would be like looking for a needle in a haystack to search for a specific type of marsh soil.

Moreover, there were always powerful dimensional lifeforms in the vicinity of top-grade marsh soil.

Given Lin Yuan's current strength, he could not afford to take on those powerful dimensional lifeforms.

But, Lin Yuan's brow relaxed when he heard Su Yiren mention the Lifeform Sacrificial Fire because he already had that within the Spirit Lock spatial zone.

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The Lifeform Sacrificial Fire had reached half maturity.

Although Endless Summer could not eat it yet, it was more than able to burn and trigger plant-type sacred source lifeforms.

Since Su Yiren only needed the Lifeform Sacrificial Fire to burn the Absolute Love Poppy and not consume any of it, Lin Yuan did not need to hold back.

After Su Yiren spoke, she immediately felt that she had misspoken.

The Seven States of Darkness had once obtained one piece of Eternal Life Soil, and it had been treated as an extremely precious treasure by the entire Seven States of Darkness.

Meanwhile, the Lifeform Sacrificial Fire was something Su Yiren had only heard of but never seen.

She felt that her requests were rather outrageous.

She was no longer in the Seven States of Darkness, and the Dark Continent had been conquered.

She could not use her experience as a Dark Envoy to communicate with others.

Yet, she did not expect the man seated on the Leo throne to reply casually, "If so, you can go ahead and form a contract with the Corona Australis seat, and I'll heal the Absolute Love Poppy."

Su Yiren was taken aback by this unexpected piece of good news and amazed by Lin Yuan's resources.

She enthusiastically formed a contract with the Corona Australis seat.

She felt that the more resources Lin Yuan possessed, the more benefits she would receive in the future.

When she formed a contract with the Corona Australis seat, the Corona Australis constellation above her lit up, and she remembered the phone she had found amongst the trash.

She was about to ask Lin Yuan for his number when he announced a string of numbers.

"Call this number five days later, and it'll tell you what to do next."

Lin Yuan had given Su Yiren the number of one of the two phones he had taken from the five adventurers from the Withered Cliff Thief Death Corps.

The members of Withered Cliff Thief Death Corps were all small fry in the Divine Wood Federation and did not have many ties to others.

Now that the Withered Cliff Thief Death Corps had been ruined, there would be no one left to call these two phones.

Su Yiren's question had been right on the top of her tongue when Lin Yuan made his announcement.

Her eyes widened to the size of saucers at his prophetic abilities.

As a person of considerable status, Su Yiren was well aware of how terrifying the ability to read another person was.

Lin Yuan and Wen Yu's all-knowing and all-powerful abilities cast a deep impression on Su Yiren.

She now knew that she could never lie to Lin Yuan because it would be futile.

If Lin Yuan knew what Su Yiren was thinking, he would be patting himself on the back for giving out his phone number.

In actuality, when Su Yiren formed a contract with the Corona Australis seat, Lin Yuan and Wen Yu had lost their access to Su Yiren's memories.

Chapter 1229: Four Units of Top-Grade Strange Water

Lin Yuan had announced his phone number because he had seen from Su Yiren's memories that she found a phone and wanted to ask for his number.

Additionally, he had already wasted too much time on Su Yiren.

The Astronomical Parliament could only be held for a limited time, and he could not dedicate it all to Su Yiren. He had to tend to Yin Lin, Ta Lei, and Bei Xu as well.

Lin Yuan turned back to Wen Yu.

Wen Yu's lips moved slightly when she saw Lin Yuan looking at her.

From the shape of Wen Yu's lips, Lin Yuan knew that there were only ten minutes left to the Astronomical Parliament.

Hence, he asked Yin Lin, "Yin Lin, let me know in advance about all the types of heavenly-maiden-grade elemental pearls you need so that I can prepare them."

Yin Lin was in the Azure Federation and was going to enter the business of rare coral resources. She would need a mammoth number of heavenly-maiden-grade elemental pearls for this endeavor.

Dark Blue and the Island Whale were still growing in the Spirit Lock spatial zone and needed to continuously consume water-type heavenly-maiden-grade elemental pearls.

Thus, Lin Yuan needed to properly plan for Yin Lin's needs.

It would not do for Dark Blue's consumption of water-type heavenly-maiden-grade elemental pearls to affect Lin Yuan's trading.

When the last Astronomical Parliament parliamentary meeting ended, Yin Lin had calculated how many heavenly-maiden-grade elemental pearls she would need, and she planned on discussing it with Lin Yuan during this parliamentary meeting.

"Leo, the more water-type heavenly-maiden-grade elemental pearls I have, the better. I would like to stock up on 300 elemental pearls of each of the other types."

Lin Yuan was astonished by how many resources Yin Lin possessed.

There were four types of Elemental Shellfish. Yin Lin did not even know how much one water-type elemental pearl was worth, yet she was ready to trade for 900 elemental pearls with Lin Yuan.

In order to comprehend Willpower Runes, Dark Blue needed strange water the most.

Once Lin Yuan completed the trade with Yin Lin, he would be able to obtain a large amount of strange water that would enable Dark Blue's power to skyrocket.

However, Lin Yuan was not satisfied with the number 'as many as possible'.

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If Lin Yuan stopped Dark Blue from consuming any more water-type elemental pearls, he would have more than enough time to collect 5,000 water-type heavenly-maiden-grade elemental pearls, given the Aquamarine Elemental Shellfish's current rate of production.

Would Yin Lin be able to transport all 5,000 water-type heavenly-maiden-grade elemental pearls?

"I have a considerable number of water-type heavenly-maiden-grade elemental pearls. State a number, and I'll set it aside for you. This way, I'll be able to use the rest of the water-type heavenly-maiden-grade elemental pearls as I need instead of leaving them all aside while waiting to trade with you."

Yin Lin immediately understood what Lin Yuan meant.

She carefully estimated the number of resources she had brought to the Radiance Federation and replied, "Leo, I would like to trade for 2,000 water-type heavenly-maiden-grade elemental pearls. I only brought four types of top-grade strange water with me on this trip, but I have a lot of high-grade and mid-grade strange water. According to my calculations and given the price at the Radiance Federation, I should be able to trade for a premium rate of an additional 12%, bringing the number to 2,900 heavenly-maiden-grade elemental pearls."

Lin Yuan's eyebrow twitched wildly.

The Azure Federation truly lived up to its position as one of the three great federations, and Yin Lin was truly an Azure Envoy!

The Yin family also lived up to their title as one of the 12 great Azure families. They had so many resources that they could even offer four types of top-grade strange water at once!

Even if Lin Yuan used all his means, it would be difficult for him to obtain resources such as top-grade strange water and strange flames without asking the Moon Empress for help.

Once a faction obtained resources such as strange flames, strange water, and marsh soil, they would never let it out of their hands unless it was absolutely necessary.

If Yin Lin could offer four types of top-grade strange water at once, it also proved her rank within the family.

It could also be said that this trade with Lin Yuan was exceedingly important to Yin Lin.

Although Lin Yuan was uncomfortable with trading at a premium like Yin Lin said, he was not obligated to provide the additional 12% of heavenly-maiden-grade elemental pearls either.

If he did so, Yin Lin would feel awkward as well.

However, Yin Lin assumed that she would be trading for regular heavenly-maiden-grade elemental pearls when actually, all the elemental pearls that Lin Yuan was going to give her would either be Cloud Dream Lake or Defined Life elemental pearls.

As such, their price would be far beyond the market premium rate.

The thought that in a few days, the Spirit Lock spatial zone would be filled with piles of elemental pearls made Lin Yuan feel extremely satisfied. He reveled in this feeling of owning a stock of resources.

Ta Lei and Bei Xu had no idea what the top-grade strange water and heavenly-maiden-grade elemental pearls were.

They were in no position, nor did they have the ability to come in contact with such resources.

However, Su Yiren was different. She was utterly dumbfounded by this trade of four sets of top-grade strange water and 2,900 heavenly-maiden-grade elemental pearls.

There were very few trades of such magnitudes even amongst the seven federations of the Dark Continent.

One thought filled Su Yiren's mind.

Where did the people in the Astronomical Parliament come from?

During her last visit, she had realized that this meeting was an effect of a sacred source lifeform's ability.

The person who conducted the meeting had to be outstanding to own a sacred source lifeform in the first place. However, everyone who entered the Astronomical Parliament should be pathetic creatures who needed to sell themselves to the Astronomical Parliament in order to save themselves.

So how could one of these people be able to offer four sets of top-grade strange water?

Su Yiren's heart pounded wildly.

The trade between Lin Yuan and Yin Lin allowed her to see hope for the Seven States of Darkness' futures.

Lin Yuan turned to Ta Lei and asked, "Ta Lei, how is the situation in your tribe?"

Ta Lei hurriedly knelt and raised both hands up toward Lin Yuan and said, "Teacher, thank you for teaching me and enabling me to become a Class 1 Creation Master. Everything is fine with the Horseshoe Tribe. As per your suggestion, we've started traveling toward the boundary between the Iron Hammer Federation and Divine Wood Federation."

A strange look came over Lin Yuan when he heard Ta Lei address him as 'Teacher'.

It was not he who had taught Ta Lei but Genius. Thus, Genius should be the one Ta Lei should be calling Teacher

Chapter 1230: Plan to Request for Territory

Now that they were on a clock, Lin Yuan did not correct Ta Lei. He was very happy that the Horseshoe Tribe had listened to his suggestion.

Once they arrived at the boundary between the Iron Hammer Federation and Divine Wood Federation, it would be much easier for him to communicate with them. After all, he had hopes of establishing himself in the Iron Hammer Federation through the Horseshoe Tribe.

Just as he was about to ask Bei Xu about how he had been of late, Ta Lei suddenly said, "Master, now that I'm a Class 1 Creation Master, I can request territory for my tribe from the imperial court. If you have any piece of land to your liking, let me know, and I will request it. The area at the boundary is considered unimportant by the royal capital. I'll be able to request for a larger piece of land there."

Lin Yuan immediately became excited.

He was building the underground base at the boundary between the Divine Wood Federation and Iron Hammer Federation. The area was remote, but it still experienced footfall.

If Ta Lei could truly obtain a territory at the boundary between the Iron Hammer Federation and Divine Wood Federation, the Horseshoe Tribe would become the first line of defense for his underground palace.

Lin Yuan wanted the sea of bone lotus flowers to form a restricted area that would attract adventurers from all over the Startling Lines Continent.

Once he put his plan into action, it would progress quickly due to the gathering of many adventurers.

As he continued thinking, Lin Yuan asked Ta Lei, "How likely do you think that the Horseshoe Tribe will be allowed to take over all the land at the border of the Iron Hammer Federation and Divine Wood Federation?"

Ta Lei's jaw dropped in shock. Such a scenario had never crossed his mind.

The border between the Iron Hammer Federation and Divine Wood Federation was a huge area where there was even more than enough space to build a city.

However, this area was also extremely dangerous.

The Divine Wood Federation and Iron Hammer Federation were always at odds. There were also many occurrences of deadly fights between warring merchant groups from the Great Lush Federation.

This was why no tribe from the Iron Hammer Federation had settled in that area.

Ta Lei had dauntlessly led the entire Horseshoe Tribe to the border because Lin Yuan had suggested he do so but also because he considered Lin Yuan as his teacher and trusted Lin Yuan explicitly. As long as Lin Yuan ordered him to move, Ta Lei would advance fearlessly.

As a Class 1 Creation Master, it might be possible for him to obtain a territory with a radius of 10 kilometers. But in order to request for the entire border, he would have to be a Class 4 Creation Master at the very least because every major city in the Iron Hammer Federation was built around Class 4 tribes.

In the major cities of the Iron Hammer Federation, Class 4 tribes held absolute power.

Ta Lei could not fulfill Lin Yuan's interest. He pouted in self-disappointment.

"Teacher, if you want the entire border between the Iron Hammer Federation and Divine Wood Federation, you might have to wait a long time. My grandfather says that Class 4 Creation Masters are all a bunch of old men."

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When Liu Jie had used the Hurricane Owlet Moths to survey the area, they flew up into the sky to get a bird's eye view of the area. They had discovered that the Iron Hammer Federation's area cut into the Divine Wood Federation's area like a needle.

Lin Yuan's underground palace was situated within the needle. Essentially, his territory was at the crux of the link between the Divine Wood Federation and Iron Wood Federation.

If this crux could be recognized by an official that it belonged to Ta Lei, Lin Yuan would definitely seize the opportunity. This would save a significant amount of trouble for Lin Yuan.

Naturally, Lin Yuan could not place his hopes on Ta Lei to become a Class 4 Creation Master.

It was not that Lin Yuan did not have the ability to turn Ta Lei into a Class 4 Creation Master but that he would not do so.

If a 9-year-old Class 4 Creation Master appeared, it would shock the entire Startling Lines Continent. It was likely that the Divine Wood Federation would send many experts to kill Ta Lei.

This would put Ta Lei in danger.

Lin Yuan's Class 4 Creation Masters consisted of Master Hong Shen, Hu Tian, Elder He, and Feng Shuang.

Any of these Class 4 Creation Masters could contract a fey that would take on a human form and announce itself as Ta Lei's teacher. This would be enough for the imperial court to grant the territory.

Creation Masters' skills lay in their abilities to nurture feys, evolve fey qualities, and heal feys and wounded roots. As such, it was difficult to identify a Creation Master based on appearances.

Frankly, if Lin Yuan stepped in personally and brought Genius along with him, the imperial could would likely also believe that he was a Class 4 Creation Master.

There were many Scholars in the Great Lush Federation. Hence, there were many more Creation Masters in the Great Lush Federation than there were in the Iron Hammer Federation.

There were many high-class Creation Masters from the Great Lush Federation who traveled to the Iron Hammer Federation and Divine Wood Federation to expand their influence.

Although the Divine Wood Federation and Great Lush Federation often attacked and stole from the merchants from the Great Lush Federation, they always welcomed the Creation Masters with open arms.

Due to the lack of Creation Masters in the Divine Wood Federation and Great Lush Federation, the value of Creation Masters was a widely-accepted fact.

A high-class Creation Master's family or tribe would be able to take on the expansion of their family and lead in increasing their powers.

A plan took shape in Lin Yuan's mind. However, he felt no need to tell Ta Lei of his plan yet.

"Ta Lei, let's discuss the territory again once you reach the boundary between the Iron Hammer Federation and Divine Wood Federation."

Wen Yu motioned to Lin Yuan that there were only two minutes left till the Astronomical Parliament parliamentary meeting ended.

Lin Yuan hurriedly turned to Bei Xu.

Bei Xu had just started putting his plan into action in the subterranean world and had many things to tell Lin Yuan.

Yet, now was the only chance he had to speak with Lin Yuan.

Unfortunately, Lin Yuan denied Bei Xu that chance and used the remaining two minutes to use Star Spirit Seat to transfer a resource that he felt Bei Xu would need in the subterranean world.

This resource was the Sunlight King Lotus.

Bei Xu's spirit qi professional rank was stuck at its current level, and Lin Yuan could not transfer any more spirit fluid to him to increase his fey's power.

Chapter 1231: Mystic Moon, Cicada Song, Moon Empress

After giving Bei Xu the Sharp Shadow Bat, Lin Yuan had also given him the Life Knot Rock Crystal.

Lin Yuan could not give Bei Xu any more feys until he comprehended more Willpower Runes.

Although sunlight did not reach the subterranean world, enough light trickled down between the rocks to sustain the Sunlight King Lotus.

It could release the light it absorbed during the day at night to light up a space.

Bei Xu would be able to construct a place to stay with the Sunlight King Lotus.

Moreover, the Sunlight King Lotus was mobile, so Bei Xu would not be restricted to one location. This gave Bei Xu much more objective mobility to decide where he wanted to construct his home.

When he saw more cold sweat breaking out on Wen Yu's forehead, Lin Yuan hastily said to Bei Xu, "You'll probably like this little gift."

Once the words left his lips, the constellations dispersed, and the dreamers awoke.

Wen Yu had not rested for long, and she had used up all her spiritual energy sustaining the Astronomical Parliament.

She teetered unsteadily before collapsing.

Lin Yuan anxiously rushed over to catch her and gave her some roasted Angelfish of Bliss fish coats.

After taking a small bite, Wen Yu's dizziness slowly disappeared.

Lin Yuan made sure she was fine before saying in one of his rarely heard stern voices, "I will go to the territory on Star Web to wait for the people from the Sea Bliss Clan while you go take a good rest. You must rest properly before the next Astronomical Parliament parliamentary meeting. Otherwise, the frequent complete drains of spiritual energy will take its toll on you and affect the rate at which your spiritual energy grows."

Wen Yu had never seen such an insistent Lin Yuan.

She stuck out her tongue slightly. Somehow, Lin Yuan's domineering manner made her heart skip a beat.

"Young Master, I will immediately head to my room to rest after eating these fish coats. I won't wake till tomorrow morning. My spiritual energy will be completely replenished by tomorrow," replied Wen Yu obediently.

Lin Yuan's tone softened as he said, "The Mother of Bloodbath specially set aside several grilled chicken wings for you. Big Brother Liu also left some fishballs. I'll go and make you a bowl of fishball noodles. You should eat before you sleep. How can you let yourself go hungry for an entire day?"

Lin Yuan rose and walked out of the training room toward the kitchen.

During New Year's, Lin Yuan had learned how to cook from Liu Jie in order to cook for the Moon Empress.

Moreover, Lin Yuan had cooked for Chu Ci and himself when it had just been the two of them.

As such, cooking noodles was like child's play to him.

He used the soup and fishballs made by Liu Jie and made a dish that could not be too far of a cry from Liu Jie's own cooking.

Additionally, Lin Yuan would eat noodles for almost every meal back in the Xia Region in order to save money. Hence, he might even be more experienced than Liu Jie when it came to cooking noodles.

When Wen Yu finished eating the fish coats and came downstairs, she saw Lin Yuan walking out of the kitchen carrying a bowl of fish coats and a plate of chicken wings.

She hurriedly walked over to take the meal over from him.

Wen Yu had chosen to remain by Lin Yuan's side to help him.

Yet, her Creation Master skills had always been insufficient to be of any help to him.

Liu Jie took care of feeding everyone in the mansion, so Wen Yu was only left with the responsibility of dressing everyone.

Now, her Young Master had personally cooked a bowl of noodles for her. Tears welled up in her eyes.

Lin Yuan was confused when he saw Wen Yu lowering her head as she ate and wondered when she started eating with her head dipped so low that she resembled an ostrich. Her face almost made contact with the bowl.

Lin Yuan sat on the water rhinoceros leather sofa and used his Star Web Card to enter Star Web.

As the City Lord of Sky City, he could not remember the last time he had entered Sky City's private territory.

He had taken his hands completely off and left everything about the territory to Wen Yu after he finished setting it up.

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Currently, the territory was still as crowded as it had been when it was first opened.

These people were not here to contend for Fate Letters as that event ended in the early afternoon.

They had all come to admire the decorations in the interior of Sky City's private faction territory.

Lin Yuan could not help but scratch his head as he thought,?Sky City's private faction territory is about to become the number one attraction on Star Web!

He opened Star Web's private territory rankings and saw that Sky City was seated at number seven on the Visitor's Ranking.

Sky City only gave out 100 Fate Letters per day, and other territories that had merchant roles saw hundreds of thousands of clients every day.

Evidently, the crowd that visited Sky City's private territory on a daily basis was massive.

When Lin Yuan arrived inside the private territory, many people recognized him from his mask.

Lin Yuan had come to the private faction territory to wait for the inevitable arrival of people from the Sea Bliss Clan.

Thus, as much as he did not want to change how popular Sky City's private territory was, he had to set up a lock.

However, he did not brutally kick out those in the territory as the Sea Bliss Clan had done. Instead, he quietly waited for all of them to leave and walked over to give reminders to those who still lingered.

Half an hour later, the interior of Sky City's private faction territory was empty.

Lin Yuan sat down on the chair and played with the Oath Lily of the Valley as he waited for Qi Wangyang and Qi Haitao to arrive.

…

A faint frigid light appeared in the afternoon sky.

A round moon slowly emerged amidst the light.

However, noon had just passed, and the sunlight was blinding. Hence, ordinary people did not notice the changes that had taken place in the sky.

The round moon's shape changed continuously as it lit up the sky.

Mystic Moon was currently in the inner palace of the Radiant Moon Palace, staring speechlessly at Cicada Song.

Apparently, Cicada Song had something so urgent to say to the Moon Empress that not even Mystic Moon was allowed to pass on the message.

Mystic Moon would have chased him out long ago if this was anyone else.

Alas, Cicada Song was a member of royalty like the Moon Empress. Mystic Moon had no right to chase Cicada Song away given their similar statuses and close relationship.

However, the Moon Empress had locked herself away to train.

Mystic Moon was uncomfortable with the fact that Cicada Song was currently in the inner palace of the Moon Empress, which was only separated from the Moon Empress' bedroom by the Moon Shadow Walkway.

Suddenly, Cicada Song's eyes sharpened, and his gaze locked in the direction of the Moon Empress' bedroom.

At the same moment, the lotus flowers in the pool closed, and their stems sagged.

Chapter 1232: The Beautiful are Sharing their Pain

It was not just the Radiant Moon Palace. All the fresh flowers on Leaning Moon Mountain that had ever been in contact with the Moon Empress' aura closed up and sagged.

It looked as though they were all crying.

Mystic Moon noticed this and immediately looked worried.

Cicada Song said grimly, "The beautiful are sharing their pain. The Moon Empress is too impatient! It's not that easy to take that last step! Your lifespan decreases by five years each time you attempt it. I might be able to try it many more times, but you can't try it a single time more."

Initially, Mystic Moon did not think much of Cicada Song's words. But when he heard the latter part of what Cicada Song said, his heart skipped a beat.

What did Cicada Song mean? What did he mean by the Moon Empress could not try it?

Just as Mystic Moon was about to disregard his station and ask Cicada Song what he meant, he suddenly remembered all the changes that had happened to the Moon Empress over the last decade.

These changes had left Mystic Moon shellshocked.

He had been with the Moon Empress for half a century. By now, he understood the Moon Empress even better than he understood himself.

Images from the past decade flashed through Mystic Moon's mind, and he realized that the Moon Empress had turned into a completely different person after that incident.

Previously, she had been so unbelievably haughty, confident, and iron-willed that it almost hurt to look at her.

If you ever saw yourself as a genius, you would quickly wither in despair once you met her.

Yet, she had not done anything of note in the past decade besides accepting a disciple. Her sole focus had been increasing her power.

Mystic Moon did not think that the Moon Empress' astounding power came from her hard work but from her incredible talent.

Her talent had enabled her to become the strongest expert in the world easily.

Additionally, she had been focused on paving the way for Lin Yuan ever since she accepted him as her disciple.

This did not fit with the person she had been ten years ago at all.

If the Moon Empress had accepted Lin Yuan as her disciple ten years ago, she would have allowed him to make his way on his own and only stepped in to clean up his messes, just like Chef Supreme did with Zong Ze.

In the past, she would only have started paving the way for him after he gained an understanding of the world.

She would never have planned out every step of the way for Lin Yuan when he was only 18 years old.

Lin Yuan had once been in danger in the water world dimensional rift outside Indigo Azure City.

Given the Moon Empress' temper, she should have definitely stepped in to take on Tower Canon even if she did not care for Lin Yuan.

Moreover, he was the apple of her eye.

Before that incident ten years ago, before Seventh Page War had even started causing trouble, it had arrived in the Radiance Federation for the first time 15 years ago and had been riding on the Radiance War Chariot when aura had stained the plants on Leaning Moon Mountain.

At that moment, a brilliant moon had swallowed up the noon sun, and waterfalls of moonbeams had crashed down on Seventh Page War.

As a result, even the Radiance War Chariot had cracked.

If Second Page Revival, who had been hiding in the shadows, had not stepped in to help Seventh Page War flee, the Moon Empress would have continued to unleash her wrath on Seventh Page War.

Yet, 15 years later, the Moon Empress had chosen to control her temper after learning of the circumstances.

All these changes poked and prodded at Mystic Moon relentlessly, and only one possibility arose in his head.

Could something have happened during the incident ten years ago that he did not know about?

Inside the Moon Empress' bedroom…

She had collapsed from her original upright seated position as moonbeams leaked from the moon imprint on the center of her forehead.

Her long hair and eyebrows had all turned as white as the moon.

In between breaths, she spat out moonlight. All in all, she did not look human at all.

At this moment, her tightly shut eyes flew open.

A look of wild indignance dominated her gaze. But slowly, her gaze shifted.

The small rabbit lying on her knee hurriedly handed its carrot over as an offering to the Moon Empress.

The Moon Empress smiled ruefully and gently pushed the carrot back as she said, "Zixi, it's no use. My soul power is completely depleted. In this state, there's no way I can continue to put my life on the line while trying to carve out a path to that heavenly road."

The moon imprint on the Moon Empress' forehead gradually darkened.

She paused for a moment before adding, "My birth horoscope is set. I am fated to draw my last breath within the next five years. Zixi, this is my destiny."

The Moon Empress stopped speaking and looked down at her slender ivory hands.

Her life thus far had been a series of breakthroughs, and she had never known the taste of failure until now.

Unfortunately, this failure would bring about the ultimate end.

At that moment, the humming of what seemed to be numerous cicadas accompanied by a gentle breeze reached the Moon Empress' bedroom.

Each cicada seemed to be using its music to weave a world that was brimming with soul power.

As the cicadas weaved their worlds and their songs amplified their efforts, thousands of rays of light appeared beside the Moon Empress.

The bodhis started from sprouts and grew into huge trees that soon produced adlays that fell onto the Moon Empress.

Every adlay replenished the Moon Empress' diminished soul power.

The breeze danced around the bodhi trees and soothed the Moon Empress' riled-up spirit.

Soon, the Moon Empress' soul power had recovered.

She closed her eyes and made a final charge toward the heavenly road in the interval before her birth horoscope was truly set in stone. 𝑅read latest ch𝒂pters at n/𝒐v(e)lbi𝒏.co/m

Cicada Song was currently suspended in the air as winds circled him.

A cicada that was fervently rubbing its wings together sat on his palm.

Dragon horns had grown from the top of Mystic Moon's head, and silver patterns covered his body.

But just as he entered his battle mode, Mystic Moon was promptly wrapped up in and trapped by a torrent of wind.

Cicada Song lowered his head and said, "32 lotus heads and 23 years of cicadas. In order to help the Moon Empress, I used the Cicada's Merciful Guidance to give 23 years of Merciful Cicada Songs to the Moon Empress. I'm sure you know of the abilities of my Cicada's Merciful Guidance."

Chapter 1233: Lifespan is Set!

"I am helping the Moon Empress, so retract your aura. If it explodes, it might distract the Moon Empress."

At first, Mystic Moon's eyes flashed, and it seemed that he was not going to back down.

But when he heard the latter part of Cicada Song's statement, he struggled for a moment before decisively restraining his aura.

Mystic Moon knew a fair amount about Cicada Song's signature fey, the Cicada's Merciful Guidance.

Amongst all the 13 members of royalty, Cicada Song was the only one that was purely a support-type spirit qi professional.

Every one year of Merciful Cicada Songs would enable the target to replenish its soul power rapidly.

If Cicada Song was willing to give 23 years of Merciful Cicada Songs to the Moon Empress, it meant that he did not have any ill will.

Moreover, Cicada Song had also used the Alleviating Wind, which would reduce its user's lifespan by a year each time it was used.

Now that Mystic Moon was calm, he could tell how much Cicada Song had sacrificed. If he was even willing to give up his own lifespan, there was no way he intended any harm to the Moon Empress.

But at the same time, he was shocked by Cicada Song's power. Finnd 𝒏ew chapters on n𝒐ve/lbi𝒏.com

In that split second, he had completely overwhelmed Mystic Moon.

This meant that Cicada Song had also taken that step and wielded power that was a cut above Mystic Moon's own power.

Judging from the strength of the aura, Mystic Moon could be certain that Cicada Song was not as powerful as the Moon Empress. However, he was not far off.

Just as Mystic Moon was about to ask Cicada Song what he meant when he said that the Moon Empress no longer had any chances, the Moon Empress had traveled through the Moon Shadow Walkway to arrive at the inner palace.

She was carrying a small white rabbit and looked exactly the same as how she did on any other day.

When she saw Cicada Song suspended in the air, she said, "The errant gust of wind alleviated me. Cicada Song, you have improved significantly in the past few years."

Cicada Song raised his hand, and a blaze-yellow wooden box appeared in his hand.

A strange look appeared in the Moon Empress' eyes.

Cicada Song handed the blaze-yellow wooden box to the Moon Empress and said, "This is Earth Center Fine Milk from that old man. Once you drink it, it'll increase your lifespan by a year. I'll take my leave now. Take care of yourself."

Since the Moon Empress left so quickly, it meant that she had failed.

Those who seemed unfeeling were often the most sensitive.

Cicada Song knew that the Moon Empress did not have much longer to live and did not want to linger in the Radiant Moon Palace where his old friend, who was about to be gone, was.

The always-calm Cicada Song felt an uncontrollable urge to rush to the Freedom Federation and unleash his murderous wrath.

The Moon Empress looked at the wooden box in her hands and said, "Thank you for this. I owe you one. I'll definitely return the favor in the future. Also, please thank that old man on my behalf."

After Cicada Song left, the anxious Mystic Moon could no longer hold himself back and burst out, "Moon Empress, your body—"

The Moon Empress gave the wooden box to Mystic Moon and said, "I failed to reach that stage this time. My birth horoscope has been limited to five years. Now that my lifespan is shortened, I only have three years left. Give this drop of Earth Center Fine Milk to Little Yuan when he returns from the Divine Wood Federation."

Mystic Moon was immediately overwhelmed.

He had never heard the Moon Empress say such things in the past.

However, this was clearly not the time to struggle over this issue.

The Moon Empress' lifespan was already short, to begin with.

If she used the drop of Earth Center Fine Milk, she would immediately gain another year. In such a circumstance, why was she not using it for herself but choosing to give it to Lin Yuan instead?

Could it be because the drop of Earth Center Fine Milk would completely transform a body that had been cleansed of all impurities?

Mystic Moon was always subservient to the Moon Empress, but he could not help but suggest, "Moon Empress, I think you should use this Earth Center Fine Milk on yourself. The Young Lord is still young. Given his talent, he'll have the opportunity to transform himself in the future even without the Earth Center Fine Milk."

The Moon Empress looked up at the sky.

Thanks to Cicada Song's Cicada's Merciful Guidance and Alleviating Wind, she was able to use her life to make another attempt to carve a way into the heavenly path.

She had managed to make headway during the final strike and felt that she would be able to break through during her next attempt.

However, she also knew that her lifespan could not handle it.

Even if she used the Earth Center Fine Milk, she would not even have five years left.

The Earth Center Fine Milk could not be consumed carelessly. After one consumed a resource that could increase one's lifespan, they would need time to digest it and allow it to take effect.

In fact, the person would need about three to four years to digest it, only to add one year to their lifespan.

Precious items like the Earth Center Fine Milk that could increase one's lifespan were rare. But even if they were common, the Moon Empress would not be able to consume anything else to increase her lifespan in the three to four years after she used the Earth Center Fine Milk.

Her lifespan was set!

No matter how proud the Moon Empress was, she had no choice but to accept her fate. Hence, she felt that it would be best to leave the Earth Center Fine Milk for Lin Yuan.

During the tail end of the Moon Empress' life, her only hope was to watch Lin Yuan grow slowly, become a Radiance Envoy, and achieve happiness.

If she could nurture Lin Yuan into a Radiance Envoy, it would be the most meaningful thing to contribute to the Radiance Federation at the end of her life as a member of royalty.

When she saw how worried Mystic Moon was, she explained softly, "Only Cicada Song and that old man know about my body's condition. I can't help that you found out from Cicada Song, but don't tell Little Yuan and Cold Moon about this. I'm sure you can imagine how serious the impact will be if this piece of news gets out."

The Moon Empress' resolute tone made Mystic Moon swallow the words that had already formed in his throat.

He looked at the wooden box in his hands and said, "Moon Empress, Young Lord called you this afternoon. He has returned from the Divine Wood Federation. Why don't I contact him now? I told him that I would inform him at once when you're available."

Mystic Moon felt that Lin Yuan was the only person on earth who would be able to talk sense into the Moon Empress.

Yet, the Moon Empress had forbidden him from telling Lin Yuan about this.

Usually, Mystic Moon would definitely have listened to the Moon Empress.

However, he would do anything if it meant that the Moon Empress would be able to live for another year.

Mystic Moon decided to tell Lin Yuan about this even if it meant that he would be reprimanded by the Moon Empress when she found out.

Chapter 1234: The Moon Empress' Plan for Lin Yuan

The Moon Empress' expression softened for a moment, and she said, "If so, you don't have to rush. There are still a few hours to go before dinnertime. I haven't had dinner in the Radiant Moon Palace with Little Yuan in some time. Ask him to come over to have dinner with me tonight."

Before her lifespan was set, she rarely asked Lin Yuan to come to the Radiant Moon Palace to have dinner.

She liked to have him by her side, but she also hoped he would be able to create a bright and far-reaching future for himself.

But now that her lifespan was set, she did not have time to wait.

As an expert that had made her name with power, she understood that one was helpless against death and that death would bring about the end of everything. There was no afterlife.

In her remaining three years, she hoped that Lin Yuan would visit the Radiant Moon Palace as much as it did not infringe on his life.

As her disciple, he was the closest person to her.

Mystic Moon felt tears welling up as he felt the Moon Empress describe herself as though she was an ailing hero that could no longer live up to her past self.

At her level, she should still be in her prime now.

Yet, she was reduced to making do with another measly three years.

Mystic Moon could not do anything about any of this. If it was possible, he was willing to exchange his lifespan with the Moon Empress and die in three years instead.

The more he looked at the Moon Empress' resigned expression, the more his heart ached. He could not bear to look at her, so he turned his head away and said softly, "Moon Empress, I'll go and ask for dinner to be prepared now that Young Lord is coming."

The Moon Empress placed the listless Zixi on the jade table and said, "I think Little Yuan should consume the Earth Center Fine Milk today. Once he does, he should be able to contract Golden Wings. In order to ensure that he's able to absorb the Earth Center Fine Milk perfectly, we need to include more soul-protecting spiritual ingredients in tonight's dinner. Since I have nothing on my plate, I will prepare the dinner myself. Mystic Moon, help me with the preparation."

Mystic Moon had no choice but to go and inform Lin Yuan now.

As the Moon Empress continued to take her usual confident and dignified strides, Mystic Moon said tensely, "Moon Empress, I'll go with you when the time comes three years later."

The Moon Empress immediately rebuked him, "Mystic Moon, what nonsense are you spouting? Even when I'm gone, you still have your own life to lead. I won't force you to do anything once I'm gone, but I hope you'll be able to keep helping Little Yuan."

She could not help but think about Lin Yuan's performance during Sky City's blood pact ultimate fight against the Zheng family.

In the short span of a few months, Lin Yuan had grown Sky City into an enormous beast. This filled the Moon Empress with happiness and pride.

Mystic Moon's handsome face scrunched up in distress as he said, "Moon Empress, you forbade me from telling Lin Yuan and Cold Moon, but you know Cold Moon's temper best. She'll definitely make the same decision as me when she finds out. On the other hand, Lin Yuan is your disciple. If he encounters some danger and his lifespan is shortened to another three years as well, but he chooses not to tell you, will you be able to accept it?"

The Moon Empress stared deeply into Mystic Moon's eyes without saying another word.

Both Mystic Moon and Cold Moon had accepted disciples as well.

Over the next three years, the Masters and disciples would only become closer. When the time came, Mystic Moon and Cold Moon were bound to make the right decision.

As for Lin Yuan, the Moon Empress had decided not to tell him after contemplating the matter thoroughly.

If she told Lin Yuan about her condition, there was no way he would accept the Earth Center Fine Milk without any reservations.

If she told him after he consumed the Earth Center Fine Milk, he would be tortured by the knowledge.

Lin Yuan had just turned 18 this year, and the next three years would be a period of exponential growth for him.

Since she was able to safeguard him for the next three years, she did not want Lin Yuan's growth to be sidelined because of her.

The Moon Empress prepared a feast for tonight's dinner.

After the Jade-Eating Blood Swallow evolved to Suzerain, its nest would also become jade. When its nest was cooked, it would be able to replenish a person's energy to the maximum extent.

Amongst the blood-energy spiritual ingredients, the Jade-Eating Blood Swallow's nest was even higher ranked than the Lifeform Sacrificial Fire was amongst fire-type spiritual ingredients. There were only about 16 comparable ingredients to the Jade-Eating Blood Swallow's nest, among which were the Island Whale's brain oil and Spirit Marrow Gold Ginseng.

Whenever one of these ingredients surfaced, they would incite a mad competition amongst the factions.

In the main world, federations that had good relationships often gifted treasures to each other.

Any of these ingredients could be given as a treasure.

From the way the Moon Empress did not hesitate to use such ingredients, Mystic Moon could tell how important Lin Yuan was to her.

On any other day, the Moon Empress would not even be able to bear using so many of these ingredients on herself.

But when it came to Lin Yuan, she did not care about how precious these ingredients were at all.

Nonetheless, these ingredients were all necessary in order for Lin Yuan to perfectly digest the Earth Center Fine Milk and use its energy to transform himself. Diiscover new 𝒔tories at n𝒐ve/lbin.c/o𝒎

Since the Moon Empress was set on Lin Yuan consuming the Earth Center Fine Milk tonight, Mystic Milk felt that he needed to visit the Return From Faraway Mansion now to tell Lin Yuan about the Moon Empress' condition.

While these thoughts were running through Mystic Moon's mind, he was completely oblivious to the fact that the Moon Empress had already completely seen through him.

Mystic Moon checked the time and said, "Moon Empress, it's getting late. I'll go and invite the Young Lord now."

The Moon Empress said knowingly, "Mystic Moon, you stay here and continue prepping the ingredients. I'll call Little Yuan myself. I've already made up my mind. Don't disappoint me tonight."

She turned and left the kitchen.

Mystic Moon watched the Moon Empress leave with great sorrow in his eyes.

Meanwhile…

Qi Wangyang and Qi Haitao had arrived at Sky City's private faction territory, where Lin Yuan was already waiting for them.

They gingerly stood before Lin Yuan with their heads lowered and sour expressions.

Small beads of sweat were rolling down Qi Wangyang's forehead.

Lin Yuan looked at them the same way he would look at morons and said, "Exciting! It's so exciting! The Sea Bliss Clan sure has planned this out so well. Do you take Sky City for a bunch of idiots!?"

Chapter 1235: What to Do Now?

Qi Wangyang and Qi Haitao jumped and jerked their heads up to explain themselves.

However, Lin Yuan beat them to the chase and said, "I don't know what's going through your minds. You're on the brink of doom, yet you're still trying to do business with Sky City. You currently have no right to talk business with Sky City.

"The Sea Bliss Clan is now on Connected Beast Park's chopping board, and they've already made a request to the Spirit Guards to issue a blood pact ultimate fight with you. As long as they are persistent, the Spirit Guards will force you to agree.

"It will be impossible for you to win over Connected Beast Park. According to the rules of the blood pact ultimate fight, Connected Beast Park will be able to decide your fate and gain control over all your businesses. Do you think they will allow the both of you to keep your lives?"

Lin Yuan's words were like knives that stabbed Qi Wangyang and Qi Haitao's hearts.

They were well aware of this, and it was the reason they felt utterly cornered and had no choice but to force themselves to seek out Sky City.

They had also come with the goal of adding fuel to the flames of Sky City's animosity with Connected Beast Park in order to gain Sky City's help in exchange for offering them benefits.

But from the way Lin Yuan reacted, Qi Wangyang and Qi Haitao knew that they had to scrap this plan.

Lin Yuan frowned as Qi Wangyang and Qi Haitao's silence dragged on.

Apparently, they still did not completely understand the situation and what they needed to do.

It had not been long since Connected Beast Park initiated the blood pact ultimate fight. As such, Qi Wangyang and Qi Haitao had not begun feeling the desperation of impending death yet.

There was no point for Lin Yuan to continue talking to these two men in such a circumstance.

Just as Lin Yuan was about to put an end to their discussion, Qi Wangyang raised his head and smiled pleasingly as he asked gingerly, "I lost my head for a moment and crossed the line. If you are able to help the Sea Bliss Clan overcome this trial, we'll give you 50% ownership of the Sea Bliss Clan. Sky City will be entitled to half of everything that the Sea Bliss Clan obtains. We will take care of managing ourselves, so you won't have to do anything at all. Sky City will also be entitled to trading for a suitable amount of top-grade Angelfish of Bliss resources."

Qi Wangyang anxiously watched Lin Yuan's gaze.

When Lin Yuan did not nod after three seconds passed, Qi Wangyang added, "According to the rules of the blood pact ultimate fights, the Sea Bliss Clan can hand over all of Connected Beast Park's resources and members' fates to Sky City after Sky City aids the Sea Bliss Clan during the blood pact ultimate fight." Finnd 𝒏ew chapters on n𝒐ve/lbi𝒏.com

Lin Yuan immediately started to guffaw.

It seemed that Qi Wangyang was already expecting to take over all of Connected Beast Park's resources even before he successfully convinced Sky City to help.

Lin Yuan felt that this was a stupidly ludicrous way of thinking.

Currently, Lin Yuan did not intend to wipe out Connected Beast Park. If he did, he would have issued a blood pact ultimate fight challenge to them on the basis that they had lent their experts to the Zheng family during Sky City's blood pact ultimate fight with the Zheng family.

Firstly, the Creation Master resources that Connected Beast Park possessed were not of much use to Lin Yuan. Secondly, Connected Beast Park was now linked to Whale Ocean Commerce.

Lin Yuan wanted to use the relationship between Connected Beast Park and Whale Ocean Commerce to obtain another strange seed that would enable Red Thorn to evolve even further.

Hence, even if he defeated Connected Beast Park in a blood pact ultimate fight, he would only take over their resources so as to maintain the fear that Whale Ocean Commerce felt toward Connected Beast Park.

If Connected Beast Park approached him after losing three thearch-class experts, he might have to produce more thearch-class experts for them.

He did not want to unleash deadly wrath on Connected Beast Park before he obtained the strange seed.

Thanks to the mask, the true meaning behind his smile could not be discerned.

When Lin Yuan smiled, Qi Wangyang instinctively assumed that his words had taken effect on Lin Yuan, so he hastily made use of the opportunity to say, "City Lord, it's clear that Connected Beast Park lent two thearch-class experts to the Zheng family with the aim of destroying Sky City. It's the right time for you to act now as well as cement the impression of Sky City's power and strike fear into the hearts of the other factions. If you defeat Connected Beast Park during the blood pact ultimate fight, your rank will definitely climb to the top 15 during next year's ranking."

Lin Yuan could not despise Qi Wangyang more at that moment.

He could handle dealing with stupid people, but he could not accept doing business with stupid and ignorant people.

The Star Web Card could be linked to the phone, and spirit qi professionals received notifications when someone called them while they were in Star Web.

When Lin Yuan saw that the call was coming from the Moon Empress, he immediately left Sky City's private territory on Star Web. Qi Wangyang and Qi Haitao were left staring at each other in an empty room.

The confident Qi Wangyang's face turned grim as large beads of sweat rolled down his head.

The Sea Bliss Clan and Sky City's previous collaboration had been rocky.

Qi Wangyang and Qi Haitao knew that they had taken advantage of Sky City by giving them Angelfish of Bliss that could not reproduce.

Thus, Qi Wangyang did not immediately think of Sky City when they were sourcing for help.

Yet, after swallowing his pride and visiting numerous top factions only to be rejected, he finally thought of Sky City.

But now, it seemed that he had angered Sky City's City Lord.

What to do now?

Lin Yuan picked up the Moon Empress' call, and she told him that she was done training and wanted him to go over for dinner that night.

He smiled and replied, "Master, I haven't even had time to take a shower since I returned from the Divine Wood Federation. I'll head to the Radiant Moon Palace right after a shower."

Lin Yuan hung up and picked up the Lifespan Mouse like a tuft of orange fur and said to it, "Little one, you're about to meet your true master soon."

Chapter 1236: You're the Carefree One!

Even before the Lifespan Mouse had been transformed into a fey by the pure spirit qi, it already possessed impressive intelligence.

Although it was not as smart as housekeeping beasts like Genius, it was as smart as Chimey before it transformed into a fey.

The Lifespan Mouse still could not speak but could easily understand Lin Yuan's intentions.

For example, when Lin Yuan fed the Soldier Ration Radish to the Lifespan Mouse, he noticed it liked to eat the stem. However, the most nutritious part of the Soldier Ration Radish was its leaves.

Hence, Lifespan Mouse instructed the Lifespan Mouse to eat the leaves instead.

As much as the Lifespan Mouse preferred to eat the stem, it started to eat the leaves as per Lin Yuan's instructions.

It only furtively nibbled the stems when it noticed Lin Yuan busily attending to other matters. It seemed scared of Lin Yuan finding out that it was secretly the stem.

This was about the intelligence level of a six-year-old child.

When the Lifespan Mouse heard Lin Yuan say that he was going to give it to someone else, the Lifespan Mouse started to scamper in circles in Lin Yuan's palm anxiously.

It looked at Lin Yuan with sad eyes, questioning how Lin Yuan could bear to give such an adorable creature like itself away.

Lin Yuan hurriedly circulated his spiritual power and released it to soothe the Lifespan Mouse through his palm.

Yet, the Lifespan Mouse looked even sadder. Tears welled up in its eyes and wet the orange fur around its eyes.

Lin Yuan realized that the Lifespan Mouse was concerned that leaving him meant that it would not be able to feel such pure spirit qi anymore. This explained why the Lifespan Mouse looked even more hurt after it felt the pure spirit qi that Lin Yuan released.

Lin Yuan caressed the Lifespan Mouse's soft yet firm fur and said, "Little one, you will still be able to receive abundant pure spirit qi when you're by your new master's side. You only have a year's worth of lifespan. If you don't quickly form a contract with a person and absorb spiritual ingredients that contain vitality, you still won't be able to receive any more spirit qi once the year is up. You'll be able to eat as many vitality-increasing spiritual ingredients as you want and continue living with your new master. You'll also be able to receive pure spirit qi whenever you want. Do you still remember the other feys chasing you in the forest? Once you form a contract with the new master, she will protect you. You will never have to spend another day running for your life."

The Lifespan Mouse slowly calmed down and gripped Lin Yuan's finger with its two small paws.

It gently tugged at his finger. It was obviously still reluctant to leave Lin Yuan.

He smiled warmly and said, "Your new master is my Master. I will be spending a lot of time with her, so we'll have plenty of opportunities to see each other. Once you're there, you'll also be able to become friends with a stingy carrot-loving rabbit. That rabbit is just as carefree as you are. The two of you should be able to get along happily." 𝑅read latest ch𝒂pters at n/𝒐v(e)lbi𝒏.co/m

While Lin Yuan was speaking, Zixi was lazily spread out on a table. It had placed its carrot in the jade basin next to it.

Zixi's eyes trembled as large tears spilled from its eyes. However, Zixi seemed to be afraid of people spotting its tears as it hastily wiped its face clean with its white paws.

The carrot in the basin no longer interested Zixi.

If Zixi knew that Lin Yuan was currently speaking to the Lifespan Mouse, it would have waved its carrot angrily at him despite his position as the Moon Empress' disciple.

You're the carefree one! I eat carrots to train myself. You still haven't witnessed how powerful I am! I'm not stingy at all. Countless experts in this world are dying to get a whiff of my carrot, but they can only dream of doing so. Yet, you not only got to taste the carrot skin but even got to eat half of the carrot. My carrot still hasn't fully recovered! Hmph! I'm angry!

After Lin Yuan comforted the Lifespan Mouse, he went back to his room to shower.

He had limited resources in the Divine Wood Federation and had not had the chance to shower at all.

Lin Yuan's genes had been refined, and his skin had gained resistance to dust.

However, he had a habit of showering daily, and missing just a day was enough to make his skin crawl.

As he listened to the sounds of rushing water in the shower, he could calmly assess his recent experiences.

During this trip to the Divine Wood Federation, he had smoothly established himself in the Startling Lines Continent.

He was now the honorary Captain of the Sincere Merchant Group and had gained a medium through which he could trade in the Startling Lines Continent. This also meant that he had his own native faction in the Great Lush Federation.

Ta Lei's Horseshoe Tribe allowed Lin Yuan to gain an official channel through which he could expand himself into the Iron Hammer Federation.

Luo Ya, who came from a Class 2 family, was considered a member of the elite in the Divine Wood Federation. This would enable Lin Yuan to develop himself rapidly in the Divine Wood Federation.

The progress in the Startling Lines Continent was going smoothly.

Once Su Yiren arrived by his side, her status as a Dark Envoy would be able to aid in Lin Yuan's development greatly.

As for the marsh world, Lin Yuan never imagined that he would be able to subjugate an expert like White Speak.

White Speak had taken over Dark Scorpion's territory, which was right in front of Lin Yuan's own territory. This essentially formed a barrier that separated Lin Yuan's territory from potential dangers.

Rising Lizard, Wendy, and White Pavilion would be able to quickly increase their power and gain faith power through the neverending stream of Marsh Crocodiles.

Everything was thriving.

This thought made Lin Yuan smile.

It seemed that he needed to start something when he returned to the Divine Wood Federation.

After showering, he put on light green and lunar yellow spirit qi clothes that Wen Yu had only designed recently.

Most of Lin Yuan's spirit qi clothes were black, white, and blue. He almost never wore light green and lunar yellow spirit qi clothes like the ones he had just put on.

The patterns on the light green and lunar yellow spirit qi clothes incorporated the dotting with kingfishers technique. Diamond Bright Light Oriole's tail feathers were stuck to the front of the spirit qi clothes that included metal as its base.

Ice Silkworm Threads wove golden embroidery patterns of a cloud-covered sunset.

The golden threads obscured the beauty of the Bright Light Oriole's tail feathers and made the entire spirit qi clothes appear exceptionally soft.

Chapter 1237: Master, Can You Contract This Fey?

The light blue sky that contrasted with the lunar yellow spirit qi clothes added a bright tinge to the spirit qi clothes. When it was paired with Lin Yuan's natural charisma, his already exceptional features were elevated even further.

Lin Yuan looked at himself in the mirror but did not see anything different about himself.

When he stepped out of his room, he ran into Liu Jie, who had just returned from the Spirit Guards' land.

Liu Jie's eyes lit up, and he could not help but gasp to himself.

There's no doubt about it. Lin Yuan is much more suited to wearing light-colored clothes like this over dark colors like black and navy.?

People who did not have good looks would only appear uglier when they wore light-colored clothes. In comparison, people who did not have the right charisma would appear bland when they wore light-colored clothes.

Only people like Lin Yuan, who had both the looks and the charisma, would be able to carry off light-colored spirit qi clothes perfectly. Besides his charisma, he also had an air of freshness about him.

Lin Yuan hurriedly said to Liu Jie, who was about to start preparing dinner, "Big Brother Liu, I was just going to call you. I'm going to have dinner with Master tonight, so you don't have to prepare my share. Wen Yu just ate some of the fishball noodles and grilled chicken wings you made this morning. She will probably sleep till tomorrow morning."

Liu Jie nodded and replied, "The Mother of Bloodbath didn't eat its fill after saving some of the chicken wings for Wen Yu. If only the Mother of Bloodbath and I will be having dinner in the mansion tonight, I'll just make more chicken wings and other bird-type feys to stuff the Mother of Bloodbath."

Lin Yuan immediately used the Ethereal Jellyfish's Node Teleportation and traveled to the entrance of the Radiant Moon Palace.

But from the moment he arrived, he sensed that something was wrong. F0lloww new 𝒄hapters at nov/(e)

Normally, the two Silver Stamen Gold Luster Cassias flourished and bloomed. In the evenings, the silver glow of the Silver Stamen Gold Luster Cassias even blanketed the afterglow of sunset.

Yet now, all the Silver Stamen Gold Luster Cassia's flowers had closed up, and their branches were sagging feebly.

From Lin Yuan's knowledge, he concluded that the plant-type feys were grieving.

But why were they so sorrowful? Could something have happened at the Radiant Moon Palace?

Lin Yuan anxiously entered the lobby of the Radiant Moon Palace and saw that the four tea attendants were standing in the lobby as usual.

It did not appear as though anything had happened.

When the four tea attendants saw Lin Yuan, they hurriedly went up to greet him. They bowed and said, "Young Lord, the Moon Empress prepared the ingredients and cooked tonight's dinner herself. Mystic Moon should be tending to the fire now. The Moon Empress should be waiting for you in the inner palace."

Lin Yuan greeted the four tea attendants before walking toward the inner palace.

Their behavior put him at ease. Apparently, he had been worried for nothing. It must be that something was wrong with the Silver Stamen Gold Luster Cassias.

Lin Yuan felt that he needed to mention the problem with the Silver Stamen Gold Luster Cassias to the Moon Empress.

Before he entered the inner palace, he saw Mystic Moon with a troubled expression.

Lin Yuan asked him curiously, "Mystic Moon, Cai Cha told me that you're in the kitchen. Are you waiting for me?"

Mystic Moon took a step forward and said, "Young Lord, that drop of Earth Center Fine Milk—"

Before Mystic Moon could finish speaking, the Moon Empress' voice traveled in from the inner palace.

"Little Yuan, come into the inner palace and see the Spirit-Siphon Goldfish I nurtured."

The Moon Empress amplified her voice using spirit qi so even people far away could hear her clearly.

Only S-rank experts and above had this exclusive ability.

Lin Yuan was only a C-rank spirit qi professional and did not have this ability. Thus, he could not reply to the Moon Empress using the same method.

The Moon Empress' voice cut Mystic Moon off mid-sentence, so all Lin Yuan heard was the part about the Earth Center Fine Milk.

Lin Yuan had heard of the Earth Center Fine Milk.

The Moon Empress had paid special attention to talking about the Earth Center Fine Milk when she explained precious spiritual ingredients to him.

The 100 most precious treasures were listed down in a record.

The Earth Center Fine Milk was number 17 on that record.

Every precious treasure that made it onto the list had special abilities that the other treasures could not replicate.

Hence, the rankings did not quantify the treasure's worth.

Lin Yuan's Lifeform Sacrificial Fire did not make it onto the list.

But what did the Earth Center Fine Milk have to do with Lin Yuan?

Lin Yuan frowned at Mystic Moon's perturbed expression and said, "Uncle Mystic, something seems to be bothering you. Do you need me to do something?"

Mystic Moon knew that the Moon Empress' interruption was a warning to him.

After all, there was nothing truly interesting about the Spirit-Siphon Goldfish.

The Butterfly Telescope had evolved to Suzerain grade and awakened their hidden bloodline, which allowed them to glide through the water as though they were fluttering butterflies. They were not important enough for the Moon Empress to call Lin Yuan over just to admire them.

Mystic Moon's brow was still deeply furrowed as he smiled ruefully and shook his head.

"Young Lord, the Moon Empress is waiting to admire the fish together with you. Don't keep her waiting."

When Lin Yuan and Mystic Moon arrived at the inner palace together, Lin Yuan saw the Moon Empress seated at a table. She smiled at him just as warmly as she usually did.

Just when Lin Yuan was about to sit down next to her, he saw the stingy carrot-loving rabbit's listless manner and immediately thought of the Lifespan Mouse.

He had planned on giving the Lifespan Mouse to the Moon Empress when he was about to leave.

But now that he noticed how lethargic the rabbit seemed, he decided to give the Lifespan Mouse to the Moon Empress now so that it could start spending time with the rabbit.

Lin Yuan took out the Bronze fey storage box that contained the Lifespan Mouse and said, "Master, can you contract this fey? I think it suits you well!"

The Moon Empress was taken aback.

She had prepared feys for Lin Yuan numerous times and even had to come up with all sorts of reasons to convince him to accept them.

Yet today, he was the one giving her a fey instead.

Chapter 1238: Align Karma

The Moon Empress was at a momentary loss as she knew how little time she had left.

As one of the strongest experts in the world, she had gathered and nurtured all her feys herself except her first fey. which that old man had given to her.

She could not remember another time when someone had given her a fey to contract.

Back then, that old man had given her a Bronze fey storage box just like Lin Yuan was doing now.

At that time, she had just become a spirit qi professional and was interested and curious in any type of fey.

But now that she only had three years left to live, it would be cruel to contract another fey knowing that it would have to end its life three years later alongside her.

As troubled as Mystic Moon was, he was still stunned by what Lin Yuan said.

Besides Lin Yuan, there was no one else on earth who dared to say such a disrespectful thing to the Moon Empress. Even the other members of royalty would be deemed as insulting her if they recommended a fey to her.

But since it came from Lin Yuan, it was an act of filial piety rather than an insult.

Mystic Moon recovered when he saw the Moon Empress smiling back at Lin Yuan.

After spending over 50 years by the Moon Empress' side as a Moon Envoy, Mystic Moon was well aware of how powerful her spiritual energy was.

Although she had already contracted many feys, she still had more than enough spiritual energy left to contract another fey.

As he thought about the Moon Empress' arsenal of feys, Mystic Moon could not think of any fey that she needed.

Lin Yuan had said that the fey in the fey storage box was suitable for the Moon Empress.

If the Moon Empress had more than three years left to live, she would have immediately contracted the fey and started nurturing it out of her love for him.

But now, she only had three years left to live and was already struggling to handle the feys she already had.

Hence, there was no way she would form a contract with this fey that Lin Yuan was giving her.

Lin Yuan still did not know that she only had three years left.

But what would happen once three years passed?

As he looked at the Moon Empress and Lin Yuan, tears welled up in his eyes for the first time in his life.

The Moon Empress was about to reject Lin Yuan. However, when she saw his hopeful expression, the words died on the tip of her tongue.

When she received the Bronze fey storage box from Lin Yuan, a surge of warmth that she only experienced after accepting Lin Yuan as her disciple washed over her.

She was about to keep the Bronze fey storage box away when Lin Yuan said, "Master, Zixi looks a little lifeless. The little creature in the Bronze fey storage box is about the same size as Zixi, and they should be able to play together."

Lin Yuan reached over to pat Zixi.

He would often pat Zixi secretly when he was at the Radiant Moon Palace.

When Zixi was in a good mood, Zixi did not show an adverse reaction to him because he was the Moon Empress' disciple. It would just close its eyes and let it pass. CH𝒆Ck for 𝒏ew st𝒐ries on no/v/el/bin.c0m

But ever since Lin Yuan ate half of Zixi's carrot, Zixi would hop far away whenever he tried to pat it. Occasionally, it would even bat away Lin Yuan's hand.

Lin Yuan could not figure out what had happened to this stingy rabbit to make it act so coldly toward him all of a sudden.

Given Zixi's listlessness, Lin Yuan felt that it would not be opposed to him petting it.

When he reached out his hand, however, Zixi immediately leaped over to the Moon Empress and glared at him out of the corner of its eye.

It seemed to be saying that it did not need any play buddy.

I'm having a difficult time because Xiyue only has three more years left to live. Who cares about a play buddy? Even if you spit out the carrot you ate now, I'll still be as sad as I am now!

The Moon Empress did not look inside the Bronze fey storage box. Instead, she circulated her spiritual energy and summoned the Lifespan Mouse.

The moment that she summoned it, she, Mystic Moon, and Zixi were dumbfounded.

The Lifespan Mouse had spent all of its life in the Divine Wood Federation and was afraid of new people.

Now that it was suddenly in a strange place, all its hair stood on end.

Its eyes lit up upon spotting Lin Yuan, and it ran up his body to hide in the crook of his neck.

Lin Yuan did not attend to the shivering Lifespan Mouse. He could not shake the feeling that something was off.

If the issue was only with the two Silver Stamen Gold Luster Cassias, Lin Yuan would not dwell too much on it.

However, Mystic Moon's troubled demeanor and Zixi's lifelessness were evidence of something serious.

Moreover, at the center of their strange behavior was the same person, the Moon Empress.

Could something have happened to his Master?

The Moon Empress recovered from her daze while Lin Yuan was deep in thought. She could not remember how long it had been since she was last dazed like this.

As a Class 5 Creation Master, she immediately discovered the Lifespan Mouse's Knotted Lifespan ability.

This moment automatically carved itself into the Moon Empress' mind.

The Moon Empress had been in a resigned state of mind. But now, a spark erupted into a raging flame within her.

She finally did not have to live like a person about to expire.

At that moment, she seemed to return to the person she was ten years ago.

Excitement, joy, and marvel bubbled up within her. They took control of her and caused her to start trembling slightly.

Her feelings swirled within her in a tangled mess.

Eventually, she pushed all of them down and smiled a small yet warm smile at him.

She was just as quiet as when she had first found out that her life was coming to an end.

Ever since the Moon Empress accepted Lin Yuan as her disciple, she regarded him as her crowning glory. There was nothing more important to her.

Although she did not talk about her limited lifespan, she was extremely indignant about it.

She was most upset that she would not be able to see the bright future that Lin Yuan would make for himself.

But today, her indignance morphed into hope.

Thanks to Lin Yuan, her lifespan was going to change.

Somehow, in this strange reality, fate would align everything on its own.

Chapter 1239: Mystic Moon's Tears and Essence Blood

If someone had told the Moon Empress ten years ago that her disciple would change her lifespan, she would teach them a lesson they would never forget for bringing up something so ludicrous.

The Moon Empress of a decade ago could never imagine that she would accept a disciple one day. She had only decided to do so last year.

But the moment she came up with the necessary criteria, Ling Xiao immediately found the right candidate.

Up to the moment Lin Yuan appeared, the Moon Empress would never have believed that her disciple would one day change her lifespan.

Lin Yuan constantly shocked her with things like the Golden Lotus Brocade Pearls and pure spirit qi, which were difficult for even a Class 5 Creation Master to produce.

When she had first obtained the Golden Lotus Brocade Pearls, she determined that they were the same species as the Flower Brocade Pearls.

After gaining the pure spirit qi from Lin Yuan, she tried using it to activate the Flower Brocade Pearls. Alas, the reaction was lackluster, and they did not evolve into the Golden Lotus Brocade Pearls.

It was then she realized that the Golden Lotus Brocade Pearls were not related to the pure spirit qi. It was more likely that they had been mutated through a special process.

The pure spirit qi and Golden Lotus Brocade Pearls were evidence that Lin Yuan had silently surpassed her in the field of Creation Master skills.

The Moon Empress did not probe Lin Yuan about how he did it. She was just filled with pride and joy for him.

But regardless of the fact that Lin Yuan had surpassed her in terms of Creation Master skills, the Moon Empress never expected him to be able to alter her lifespan.

Yet, he was now presenting her with the Lifespan Mouse.

The level of astonishment that the Moon Empress was feeling was different from when she received the Golden Lotus Brocade Pearls and pure spirit qi.

There were many ways to evolve and mutate lifeforms. There were even several Class 4 Creation Masters who had mutated extremely valuable feys.

If the Moon Empress' Creation Master level were raised, the spirit qi she produced would also become purer.

The Golden Lotus Brocade Pearls and pure spirit qi could produce feasible effects. However, the Lifespan Mouse could alter life itself.

As far as the Moon Empress' knowledge went, such feys that could increase a person's lifespan should not exist in this world.

Once she formed a contract with the Lifespan Mouse, she would have fulfilled the dream of countless experts.

Extended life!

With Cicada Song's help, the Moon Empress had unlocked many secrets to unlock the heavenly road.

Once her birth horoscope awakened five years later, she would have another chance to charge toward the heavenly path.

After contracting the Lifespan Mouse, her lifespan would not be restricted to another three years.

As the Lifespan Mouse continued to consume spiritual ingredients that contained vitality, the Moon Empress' life would be further extended. As such, she would no longer have to be terrified about putting her lifespan at risk when she tried to break through again in the future.

The Moon Empress glanced at the Lifespan Mouse before turning her gaze onto Lin Yuan. All her messy emotions dissipated when she saw his smile.

At that moment, all she felt was happiness.

The Lifespan Mouse would allow her to protect Lin Yuan forever and continue to ensure that his path was smooth.

The second person to recover from their dazed state was Mystic Moon. The corners of his lips twitched, and he babbled to the Moon Empress and Lin Yuan, "Moon Empress, Young Lord, I better go and check on the situation in the kitchen."

Before the Moon Empress nodded, he turned and rushed off to the kitchen.

Lin Yuan had been deep in thought but was interrupted by Mystic Moon's voice.

Lin Yuan managed to catch the tremor in Mystic Moon's voice. A few of the words even sounded choked.

Was Mystic Moon crying?

Lin Yuan immediately shook his head. He had no clue that the moment Mystic Moon stepped out of the inner palace tears started to well up in his eyes.

Mystic Moon did not blink, and the tears did not spill out from his eyes as he instantly evaporated them using his spiritual power.

When he had heard about the Moon Empress' condition from Cicada Song, he felt his world come crashing down.

In the past 50 years that they had spent together, Mystic Moon never imagined the day would come that death would separate them.

His eyes had welled up slightly when he had been in the kitchen.

When he saw the way the Moon Empress looked at Lin Yuan in the inner palace, his eyes immediately welled up again.

However, he had held them back.

But when he saw the Lifespan Mouse and realized that the Moon Empress' tragic fate of only having three years left was resolved, the overwhelming excitement broke the dam and allowed his elation to burst through.

As his tears evaporated, Mystic Moon tried to collect himself multiple times.

The feelings of excitement made the handsome Mystic Moon's face seem rather distended.

His mouth had split so far that the corners were almost touching his ears, revealing a mouthful of pearly teeth.

Silver patterns appeared on his teeth and seemed to be on the cusp of turning into dragon fangs.

At that moment, Mystic Moon found it difficult to control his emotions.

This expression of tears of joy made the exceptionally attractive Mystic Moon appear slightly ugly.

Yet, the sorrow of knowing that the Moon Empress' lifespan had been reduced to another three years could not vanish in an instant.

Hence, Mystic Moon's uncharacteristic expression lasted till he arrived in the kitchen.

Now that he had fully recovered, he could properly control his delight.

He went back to carefully cooking the Jade-Eating Blood Swallow's bird nest and Island Whale's brain oil.

Previously, he had cooked with a heavy heart and did it extremely unhappily as he knew that they were meant to aid in Lin Yuan's absorption of the Earth Center Fine Milk.

But now, he was cooking with a complete change of heart that was filled with gratitude.

His body started to glow with silver light, and a blood pearl with silver and gold hues appeared in front of his chest.

Mystic Moon placed the blood pearl into the cooking Island Whale's brain oil.

The Island Whale's brain oil was very effective in nourishing and protecting the soul. Lin Yuan needed to consume it in order to absorb the Earth Center Fine Milk.

The Moon Empress did not like to eat fish, and there was a fishy taste to the Island Whale's brain oil which was present in all aquatic lifeforms.

Hence, the Moon Empress did not touch the Island Whale's brain oil when she dined.

If the Moon Empress found out that he had added essence blood from his heart into the dish, she would definitely reprimand him.

The more elite the dragon species fey's bloodline, the more difficult it would be to extract their essence blood.

A Gold dragon-species fey could easily produce 200 to 300 drops of essence blood. However, it was difficult for a Myth Breed fey to produce more than 10 drops of essence blood.

At Mystic Moon's level, he would only be able to produce three drops of essence blood at most.

Chapter 1240: Most Well-Loved Fey!

The loss of essence blood was extremely damaging to a dragon-species fey.

However, main dragon-species feys' essence blood could improve the effects of spiritual ingredients to the greatest extent. As such, the Island Whale's brain oil would be able to protect a soul much better now that a main dragon-species fey's essence blood had been added to it.

Moreover, Mystic Moon was a double-type spiritual- and soul-type dragon-species fey, so his essence blood already had spiritual and soul protection properties.

Dragon-species feys loved their essence blood like how a mother would love her child.

This was Mystic Moon's way of thanking Lin Yuan.

Previously, he always felt that the Radiant Moon Palace was sheltering Lin Yuan.

But now, Lin Yuan had essentially reshaped the Radiant Moon Palace.

Lin Yuan was staring dumbfoundedly at Zixi, who had just been giving him the cold shoulder. He could not figure out what was going through the stingy rabbit's mind.

It had been so against Lin Yuan touching it, but now, it held his hand using both its ears and placed his hand on its body.

What was it trying to do? Was it inviting him to pet it?

Lin Yuan experimentally gently patted Zixi. He was afraid that Zixi had been trying to bait him and slap his hand the moment he tried to pet it.

But after he touched it, Zixi lay flat on the table and exposed its soft abdomen fur.

The Moon Empress immediately picked up Zixi. Finndd the new𝒆st 𝒏ovels on n/𝒐

Zixi could change into human form, but it felt more comfortable eating carrots in its animal form.

Hence, Zixi never changed into its human form outside of battle.

Nonetheless, Zixi was a female rabbit, and the Moon Empress could not stand to see it lay flat and expose itself in such a manner.

Lin Yuan had questions for the Moon Empress. But just as he was about to ask them, he noticed that the Moon Empress' aura had changed.

Now, there was a slight wildness and a significant amount of hope in her eyes.

Lin Yuan felt that there was no longer any need for him to ask.

He picked up the Lifespan Mouse from his neck and said, "Master, this Lifespan Mouse has a small disadvantage. If you contract it, you can't show it to anyone you don't trust."

The Moon Empress flipped over her hand, and a fruit that contained an overwhelming amount of vitality appeared in her palm.

Lin Yuan had only been feeding the Lifespan Mouse with the Soldier Ration Radish, which contained a significant amount of energy but a pitiful amount of vitality.

Hence, the Lifespan Mouse had not been able to gain more lifespan.

The Lifespan Mouse's original lifespan was only a year.

In order to survive, the Lifespan Mouse madly sought out vitality-containing spiritual ingredients.

The fruit that the Moon Empress had just taken out was the largest treasure that the Lifespan Mouse had ever seen in its life.

However, it had a careful nature and did not immediately charge toward it.

It chittered on Lin Yuan's hand and scampered about as though it was saying, "I want to eat that fruit so badly! Please take it for me!"

Lin Yuan said to the Lifespan Mouse with a smile, "Once you become Master's fey, you'll be able to eat such vitality-containing spiritual ingredients as often as you want."

He patted its orange fur and encouraged it, "Go over, little one!"

The Lifespan Mouse looked deeply into this young man's eyes who had saved it in the forest and transformed its life.

It gently raised its small paws and shook them before chittering at him.

It scampered over to the Moon Empress' palm.

The Moon Empress circulated her spiritual energy and formed a contract with the Lifespan Mouse before giving it the fruit of the Blue Life Jade Pear that only bore fruits every three years.

The Lifespan Mouse immediately started gobbling down the Blue Life Jade Pear's fruit.

Once it was done eating, its vitality rose, and its lifespan increased from a year to two and a half years.

This meant that the Blue Life Jade Pear's fruit allowed it to live another 500 or more so days.

Normal factions and experts would find it a huge burden to use such resources. There were even some factions that would not be able to earn one of the Blue Life Jade Pear's fruit after working for a year.

However, this was nothing to the Moon Empress.

The Lifespan Mouse's increase in vitality made the Moon Empress smile even wider.

She flipped over her hand again, and a basket of Blue Life Jade Pear fruits appeared on the floor.

The Lifespan Mouse immediately wanted to dive into the basket, but the Moon Empress grabbed it and said, "Little one, you can only eat more once you've digested the one you've already eaten. Eating more will make you uncomfortably bloated."

The Lifespan Mouse shyly nudged the Moon Empress' palm.

After the Moon Empress formed a contract with it, it felt automatically affectionate toward her.

Lin Yuan started to chuckle when he saw the Lifespan Mouse's bloated stomach.

The Lifespan Mouse had been extremely greedy when it ate the Soldier Ration Radish's leaves and stem, and Lin Yuan had wondered when it would fix this bad habit.

Luckily, mouse-species feys digested quickly and could eat three to four Blue Life Jade Pear fruits without any problems.

Now that the Lifespan Mouse had eaten its fill, it looked at Zixi and leaped onto it.

Zixi would have immediately slapped it away with its ear if any other fey tried to touch it.

However, Zixi did not do so to the Lifespan Mouse. It was afraid that it would accidentally kill the Lifespan Mouse, which could only remain at Normal I/Normal forev er. It was the Moon Empress' source of lifespan, after all.

All the worry that Zixi felt over the Moon Empress' reduced lifespan turned into valuing the Lifespan Mouse.

Zixi allowed the Lifespan Mouse to jump around on its back and even used its ears to make sure it did not fall off.

When the Moon Empress' other feys, such as the Calamity Sun-Swallowing Fox, were around Zixi, they dared not even make a sound.

Now, Zixi was protecting the Lifespan Mouse as though it was a baby.

Zixi was not alone. All of the Moon Empress' other feys that had not been summoned all felt affection toward the Lifespan Mouse.

The Lifespan Mouse did not know that it was already the most well-loved fey amongst all of the Moon Empress' feys.

It was as popular amongst the feys as Lin Yuan was in the Radiance Federation.

Chapter 1241: Barren Bloodline

The Moon Empress watched Zixi playing with the Lifespan Mouse for a second before asking Lin Yuan seriously, "Little Yuan, have you heard of the Barren bloodline which only exists in feys in the Radiance Federation?"

Lin Yuan suddenly thought about the meal he had together with Zong Ze and the rest in Zong Ze's residence.

Zong Ze and Gu Lang had mentioned the Barren bloodline. Long Tao, Zong Ze, and Sun Ningxiang looked at Gao Feng, Liu Jie, and Lin Yuan enviously when they did so.

That was the first time that Lin Yuan had heard of the Barren bloodline.

He had learned from Zong Ze that the Fiery Sky Hou had the Barren bloodline and that it was not fully mature yet.

Lin Yuan remembered that Zong Ze had wanted to talk more about the Fiery Sky Hou. But Zong Ze had stopped after glancing at Gao Feng, Long Tao, and Sun Ningxiang.

This had made Lin Yuan realize that Zong Ze did not want to share more about the Fiery Sky Hou and the Barren bloodline with Long Tao, Gao Feng, and Sun Ningxiang.

However, he clearly saw no need to be careful with Liu Jie, Lin Yuan, and Gao Feng.

Eventually, Zong Ze did not mention the Barren bloodline again until the group dispersed.

When Zong Ze had brought up the Barren bloodline, Gu Lang said to Long Tao, "If you work hard, you'll have the chance to gain the Barren bloodline too."

Lin Yuan only managed to gain a partial understanding of the Barren bloodline from the information provided by Zong Ze and Gu Lang.

As such, Lin Yuan shook his head and said, "Master, I don't know much about the Barren bloodline. All I know is that Zong Ze's Fiery Sky Hou has it."

"I had planned on telling you about it when you're 20 years old and participating in the selection to become a Radiance Envoy. Today, I prepared a drop of the Earth Center Fine Milk for you. Once you consume it, you'll be able to contract feys with the Barren bloodline," replied the Moon Empress.

Now, Lin Yuan knew that feys with the Barren bloodline required its contractor to be of a certain age.

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This meant that spirit qi professionals needed to be outstanding bodies, spirits, and souls to contract feys with the Barren bloodline.

It was just like how people below 18 years old could not use their souls to form marrow contracts with sacred source lifeforms.

However, Lin Yuan had not managed to learn what feys with the Barren bloodlines were based on what the Moon Empress said.

Nonetheless, Lin Yuan had gained a deep impression of the Fiery Sky Hou's might during their fight.

The Life-Changing Fire Beast and Heaven Crimson Fire could produce such power because of the Fiery Sky Hou.

Without the Fiery Sky Hou's fire-elemental energy-increasing abilities and the Dreamland of Fire, Zong Ze's overall power would be 20% weaker than what it currently was.

Lin Yuan was also shocked that the Diamond X/Fantasy V Fiery Sky Hou had eight high-grade strange flames within it.

When combined, the eight high-grade strange flames would be as powerful as a top-grade strange flame. The top-grade strange flame was far more powerful than regular Fantasy Breed feys.

Lin Yuan had been silently stunned by the Fiery Sky Hou's talent and bloodline.

The Fiery Sky Hou's power and abilities definitely exceeded all of Lin Yuan's feys.

Lin Yuan's feys were evolved through the best methods.

Now, Lin Yuan finally understood that the root of Zong Ze's Fiery Sky Hou's power came from the Barren bloodline.

Just as Lin Yuan was about to ask the Moon Empress how one would go about obtaining a fey with the Barren bloodline, she said, "Little Yuan, in another month, the group from the Azure Federation will arrive at the Radiance Federation to watch the Radiance Hundred Sequence selection. There are four Azure Envoys amongst them. The fourth Azure Envoy is from the Azure Cloud Leopard family, which is one of the 12 Azure families. The Azure Cloud Leopard bloodline only exists in the Azure Federation. The equivalent to that in the Radiant Federation is the Barren bloodline.

"Zong Ze's Fiery Sky Hou and Zixi both have the Barren bloodline. In the Radiance Federation, the older generation can only gain a fey with the Barren bloodline by becoming one of the members of royalty. It is slightly easier for the younger generation, who have three methods of doing so. Firstly, they can become a disciple of a member of royalty before they turn 30 years old. Secondly, they can become a Radiance Envoy. Lastly, they can become a Radiance Knight."

The Moon Empress' words rendered Lin Yuan speechless.

Previously, Lin Yuan only had a general idea of feys with the Barren bloodline. But now, he truly understood their worth.

Lin Yuan knew what the 12 Azure families signified in the Azure Federation from Yin Lin's memories. They were completely different from the roles that top factions played in the Radiance Federation.

Not even the top three top factions, Rhine Lifeform, Whale Ocean Commerce, and Cage of Brahma Insects combined, could combine to one of the Azure families' positions in the Azure Federation.

There were no members of royalty in the Azure Federation. The leader of each of the Azure families was equivalent to one of the members of royalty in the Radiance Federation. All of them had the authority to speak in the meetings held in the Azure Federation's imperial court.

This was because every member of the Azure families had their Azure beast patterns and could contract feys that had the Azure bloodline.

Clearly, the feys with the Azure bloodline were extremely strong.

By the same logic, given that feys that had the Barren bloodline and Azure bloodline could be compared, feys with the Barren bloodline were just as strong when it came to combat power.

According to the conditions that the Moon Empress had said were necessary to contract a fey with the Barren bloodline, there were many more types of feys that could gain the Barren bloodline than there were feys with the Azure bloodline.

But in terms of quantity, fewer feys could gain the Barren bloodline because every spirit qi professional that was part of an Azure family and had awakened their Azure beast pattern could immediately contract a respective fey that had the Azure bloodline.

The Moon Empress seemed to insinuate that he would be able to gain a fey that had the Barren bloodline once he consumed Earth Center Fine Milk.

Lin Yuan was immediately looking forward to this. But at the same time, he worried about his spiritual energy.

Feys with the Barren bloodline were so powerful that they could not be spirit-locked by Morbius.

It would be blasphemous for him to spirit lock a fey with the Barren bloodline.

Chapter 1242: I Did it for Young Lord's Sake

If he required a mammoth amount of spiritual energy to contract a fey with the Barren bloodline, most of his spiritual energy was being used on Morbius. He only had enough to contract one normal fey.

If the fey with the Barren bloodline needed more spiritual energy than a normal fey, he would not be able to contract it.

Hence, he asked the Moon Empress, "Master, what are the conditions to contract a fey with the Barren bloodline? I don't have a lot of usable spiritual energy left."

The Moon Empress knew about his alternate identity as Black, so she knew he had contracted many feys.

She was not shocked that he did not have much spiritual energy left.

Despite his young age, Lin Yuan had already contracted many feys. The Moon Empress felt that he was already far ahead of all his peers.

As she looked at his worried expression, she explained to him seriously, "One person can only contract one fey with a Barren bloodline, unlike sacred source lifeforms where a person can contract more than one as long as their soul is strong enough.

"Once you form a contract with a fey with a Barren bloodline, it will bind together with all of you. While the Barren bloodline is maturing, its contractor will be able to receive some of the bloodline power. The bloodline power will greatly strengthen the contractor's body.

"Little Yuan, don't worry. The fey with the Barren bloodline will only use up a small amount of your spiritual energy. The most important factors are your physique and the strength of your soul. You might be in a lot of pain during tonight's dinner, but you have to do your best to eat as much as possible. It will help you absorb the Earth Center Fine Milk's energy better as well as give you an easier time later."

While the Moon Empress was talking to Lin Yuan, Mystic Moon led the spirit attendants and served the dinner dishes.

Jin Qi was holding the Jade-Eating Blood Swallow's nest. Its fragrance wafted into Jin Qi's nose and triggered the blood flowing within her.

If its scent was enough to have such effects, Jin Qi could not imagine what the effects would be once it was eaten.

In the past, Jin Qi had wanted to seduce Lin Yuan to raise her position in the Radiant Moon Palace. But as she gazed at the Lin Yuan standing next to the Moon Empress, she understood that her idea would only ever be realistic as a pipe dream.

Jin Qi could not help but be envious of Wen Yu. But at the same time, she felt that Wen Yu was extremely stupid! Visjt n𝒐velbin.c𝒐m for new updates

Wen Yu spent every day by Lin Yuan's side and had ample opportunity to reap the benefits of her position. Yet, she never grabbed her chance and made Lin Yuan hers.

If Lin Yuan had chosen Jin Qi, she might already be carrying his child and enjoying the life of being waited on hand and foot by the other spirit attendants. Naturally, this was only a fantasy she kept to herself.

If she made this fantasy of hers known, she would probably be dumped into the Sin Cleansing Pool by Mystic Moon and be forced to reflect on herself.

Lin Yuan noticed the spirit attendants serving the dishes and instinctively used True Data.

His jaw dropped. This was too ridiculous!

He had thought of himself as extremely wealthy, given that heavenly-maiden-grade elemental pearls were produced every minute in the Spirit Lock spatial zone.

But all of his riches were only barely enough to buy one portion of Island Whale brain oil.

Suddenly, Lin Yuan felt that something was wrong. The Island Whale's brain oil was dark gold which was not its normal color.

The Island Whale had to be at least 600 years old to be able to produce brain oil of this color.

Lin Yuan gulped.

As he looked at this obscenely expensive brain oil, he saw himself as a pauper.

Frankly, he could not use True Data to check on many of the spiritual ingredients. This meant that they all came from Immortal Breed feys.

Although he never scrimped and saved when it came to food, he could not help but continuously marvel at how opulent this meal was.

But it was only when he started eating that he realized that opulence did not equate to taste.

He had an agonizing time eating the food.

The Moon Empress spooned a bowl of Jade-Eating Blood Swallow's nest for him. When it first touched his tongue, it was sweet and pleasant. It was as though he was kissing a pair of the softest lips.

This was the first time that Lin Yuan was experiencing such a feeling.

But once he swallowed it, the taste and texture disappeared. All Lin Yuan could feel was a raging heat that was enveloping him.

His blood surged and thrashed. Lin Yuan felt as though his blood was flowing at three times its normal speed.

At the same time, his heart started pounding like a drum, and large beads of sweat rose on his forehead.

The Moon Empress said with a pained expression, "Little Yuan, once you're done drinking this bowl of bird's nest, down the Island Whale's brain oil immediately. Finally, eat as much of the rest of the other dishes as you can. The more you eat, the stronger you'll become. You have to use up all your determination now!"

Lin Yuan took a deep breath and gulped down the Jade-Eating Blood Swallow's nest as quickly as he could before holding up the jade bowl of Island Whale's brain oil and pouring it down his throat.

He ate so quickly that the food could not settle in his body quickly enough to match the rate he was putting more food in.

The Jade-Eating Blood Swallow's bird nest only started to take effect when Lin Yuan was done drinking the Island Whale's brain oil.

His rushing blood made his blood vessels bulge out of his skin and made Lin Yuan feel a strange euphoria.

This also increased Lin Yuan's eating speed.

When he moved on to the other dishes, he felt as though an ocean had been stuffed into his soul. He felt so bloated that all the hairs on his body stood on end.

At that moment, Lin Yuan felt that he had reached his limit.

Suddenly, he thought of Morbius' Calm Mind.

Calm Mind's effects were meant to be activated, but it could also be initiated.

He used Calm Mind continuously and fought against his discomfort to continue gobbling down the food.

As the Moon Empress watched Lin Yuan frantically stuff food into his body, she turned her gaze onto Mystic Moon.

Mystic Moon retracted his neck and said softly, "Moon Empress, I did it for Young Lord's sake!"

Chapter 1243: Lin Yuan's Transformation

The Moon Empress sighed and said, "Once Little Yuan is done eating the Earth Center Fine Milk, I'll ask him if he has more pure spirit qi. It must have been very uncomfortable to be bound by Cicada Song. With the pure spirit qi, your bloodline will probably improve. Once your bloodline is improved, you'll be able to get over that rut."

The Moon Empress noticed that Lin Yuan was only left with the last dish, and she was silently shocked by Lin Yuan's resolve.

Once Lin Yuan cleared the last dish, she said, "Mystic Moon, now is the time. Give the Earth Center Fine Milk to Little Yuan now!"

If the Lifespan Mouse were not present, Mystic Moon would have hesitated to carry out this order.

But now, he was more than willing to allow Lin Yuan to consume the Earth Center Fine Milk.

After Lin Yuan swallowed the last mouthful, Mystic Moon's hand shook, and a drop of white liquid flew into Lin Yuan's mouth.

When the drop of white liquid entered his mouth, he felt all his bodily functions being suppressed.

If not for the white liquid's stickiness preventing him from swallowing it instantly, he might have started to exclaim, "Damn! This Earth Center Fine Milk is so disgusting?"

It had a stench and was salty and bitter at the same time.

When he finally managed to swallow it and felt relief that his surging blood and bloated soul would be alleviated, he was plunged into what he could only describe as true pain.

When he had first consumed the Diamond Silver Stamen Gold Luster Cassia nectar and cleansed his body of all impurities, he felt as though he was going through a slow death.

When he had consumed the Suzerain Silver Stamen Gold Luster Cassia nectar, he felt as though his soul was being excruciatingly shattered.

He had thought that such physical and soul pain was the greatest extent of pain that existed.

But compared to the pain he was experiencing now, the physical and soul pain had been nothing.

He was sure that if his body were sliced open now, it would immediately explode like a balloon, and blood would spurt out like a fountain.

All of the medicinal effects of the food he had eaten rose from his surging blood and were injected into his flesh. It was so painful that Lin Yuan felt like he was becoming a large mulberry with a hatching parasite within it. Visjt n𝒐velbin.c𝒐m for new updates

As the parasite clawed its way outward, it started to drain the mulberry.

When Lin Yuan ate the Suzerain Silver Stamen Gold Luster Cassia nectar, the physical pain slowed down his soul and dulled his sense of pain.

But because of the Island Whale's brain oil and other spiritual ingredients, his soul was being overactivated. This greatly raised Lin Yuan's sense of pain.

The Earth Center Fine Milk did not only affect his body but also his soul.

Its medicinal effects significantly strengthened Lin Yuan's soul.

However, the medicinal effects were too strong, and Lin Yuan's soul almost shattered in the process of absorbing the Earth Center Fine Milk.

Moreover, both of Lin Yuan's souls were being affected simultaneously. This resulted in him experiencing twice the amount of soul pain.

If he were only experiencing either one of the pains, it would have been too much for him. But now that both pains were mixed, they struck a strange balance between Lin Yuan's physical and soul pain.

Lin Yuan could not faint as a form of relief even if he wanted to.

At that moment, every passing second felt a hundred times longer to Lin Yuan.

Lin Yuan's activated soul enabled him to feel every single change in his body.

He tried using Calm Mind again, but the two types of pain made him unable to control his body.

Lin Yuan could only check on the condition within his body while the Moon Empress and Mystic Moon witnessed the changes to his exterior.

At that moment, Lin Yuan looked as though he was completely covered in blood.

Due to the Jade-Eating Blood Swallow's nest, he produced an endless stream of blood that formed a thick crust that sealed Lin Yuan within.

Now, Lin Yuan looked like a cocoon.

The Moon Empress clenched her fist, and a pained expression came over her.

Mystic Moon was the same. But when he saw the Moon Empress' expression, he hurriedly tried to comfort her and said, "Moon Empress, Young Lord will be able to ride out the effects of the Earth Center Fine Milk even if he didn't eat all those beneficial spiritual ingredients. Now that he ate them, you don't have to worry at all. He will be completely fine."

The Moon Empress furrowed her brow even deeper.

She knew that the Earth Center Fine Milk would only be beneficial to Lin Yuan, but she could not help but be in pain as she watched him suffer in anguish.

Lin Yuan was currently undergoing a refinement of his genes and transforming himself.

The Moon Empress could not help him out even if she wanted to.

If she tried to alleviate his pain, it might halt his transformation. This would cause Lin Yuan to lose his opportunity.

But she thought of all the dishes that Lin Yuan had eaten, and her brow relaxed.

Given the time, the dishes should have been digested when the Earth Center Fine Milk took effect.

The double pain from his soul and body had left Lin Yuan numb.

He suddenly felt energy being released from within his stomach. Although the energy deepened Lin Yuan's pain, every atom of energy acted like a soldier that protected his body and soul from being destroyed by the Earth Center Fine Milk. The energy also increased the rate of Lin Yuan's absorption of the Earth Center Fine Milk.

Lin Yuan also absorbed all of this energy.

All he could do was helplessly hold on.

A few short minutes in the outside world felt like several centuries in Lin Yuan's soul world.

During this time, Lin Yuan collapsed, was plunged into despair, and picked himself up over a thousand times.

Finally, Lin Yuan slowly acclimated himself to the soul and physical pain.

Chapter 1244: Features, Charisma, and Nobility

Lin Yuan no longer felt any despair. All he felt was happiness over his body's transformation and hope for a better future.

As he fought against the pain, his mood lifted.

It was said that the younger generation needed to have soaring ambitions but could not help but be pulled down by loneliness.

Yet, Lin Yuan's ambitions had reached a level so high that they could not be deterred by anything unless it was worse than the pain he was currently experiencing.

Suddenly, a burst of spirit took shape within Lin Yuan's heart.

When he used spirit qi to strengthen Genius and the Lifespan Mouse, they continuously lost and grew new fur.

However, Lin Yuan did not lose his hair but his body's cells. His cells died and were created in an endless loop within Lin Yuan's body.

Lin Yuan had lost count of the number of times his body died and revived. His marrow, skeleton, blood, tendons, nerves, nails, and hair were in a constant cycle of death and regrowth.

After Lin Yuan's body went through the final cycle, a clean air that only belonged to lifeforms burst forth from the cocoon and filled the air in the Radiant Moon Palace.

The lotus-species feys in the lotus pool swayed their petals and produced fog.

The Butterfly Telescopes spread out their wing-like fins and tail and leaped out of the water as though there was something outside of the lotus pool that was calling to them.

Inside the crust, Lin Yuan had finished his transformation.

Just as Lin Yuan was about to use his hand to break out of the crust, he noticed that his clothes had been wrecked during the transformation.

As such, he hurriedly took out a set of black spirit qi clothes and changed into them.

He checked himself again and broke out of the crust once he was sure nothing was wrong.

Mystic Moon and the Moon Empress had seen many members of nobility before.

But when they saw Lin Yuan, they could not control the astonishment that surfaced.

Lin Yuan's appearance did not seem very different from before, but his features had become fundamentally more striking.

Previously, his features had been about 80 marks. But now, it was above 90 marks.

Once a person's looks reached above 90 marks, he would be considered to have reached the peak of attractiveness.

If every person at the peak of attractiveness were judged against one another, the result of the judging would produce very different results. After all, beauty was in the eye of its beholder.

However, Lin Yuan's point of appeal had always been his charisma and not his looks.

Previously, his aura had already boosted his looks from 80 marks to more than 90 marks.

But now that charisma was above 90 marks, he had an air of unexplainable nobility.

He had continuously grown and increased his power in the past eight months. His resources had also continually increased, and he even established his faction.

The culmination of these experiences, luxurious clothes, and change in status in society already gave him an aura of eliteness.

However, the air of nobility that rose from Lin Yuan now was different from his previous air of eliteness.

This charisma of nobility was not obvious, yet it could not be overlooked.

It was the same as how Apostles were on a higher lifeform level than other dimensional lifeforms.

Moreover, Lin Yuan's figure and skeletal structure had also changed. Visjt n𝒐velbin.c𝒐m for new updates

When Lin Yuan grew from 1.78 meters to 1.79 meters, he had hoped that he would be able to grow past 1.8 meters.

Now, his dream had finally become a reality as he stood at 1.82 meters.

He knew that he had grown taller.

The clothes that Wen Yu had designed for him perfectly matched his previous figure and measurements.

Although he had only grown by a few centimeters, the black spirit qi clothes he was wearing had obviously too tight and ill-fitting.

Moreover, a person's bones and features changed over time due to their lifestyle and nutrition intake.

For example, if a person often sat for long periods, their spine would naturally curve. But if they often lay flat, the back of their heads would flatten. If they always chewed on hard things, their jaws would become stronger.

These changes were not obvious but could tangibly affect a person's looks and aura.

Now that Lin Yuan's bone structure had transformed and his genetic model was at its peak, any changes to his body due to bad habits would be automatically recovered.

Lin Yuan was about to greet the Moon Empress and Mystic Moon when his stomach started to rumble.

He instinctively held his stomach. However, his stomach stopped after making the noise once.

With his body's innate ability, Lin Yuan sensed an intense hunger. It was as though all the cells in his body were begging him to eat something.

He hurriedly took out a Soldier Ration Radish vine and was about to eat its leaves when the Moon Empress said, "Little Yuan, don't eat the Soldier Ration Radish now. All your cells are encouraging you to take in nutrients. This means that you didn't consume enough nutrients from the dishes just now. You should eat some high-quality ingredients and make use of the after-effects of the Earth Center Fine Milk so that your muscles will absorb another portion of nutritious energy."

Mystic Moon suppressed his shock and said, "I'll go and make the preparations in the kitchen now and serve food to Young Lord within half an hour."

He quickly marched off to the kitchen and instructed the spirit attendants to clear the empty dishes from the table.

Mystic Moon could not understand how Lin Yuan's body managed to absorb so many nutrients and energy.

The Moon Empress had already prepared a significant amount of spiritual ingredients for the previous meal, and he had even added a drop of his own essence blood.

No matter how hard he thought about it, Mystic Moon could not come up with an answer to his conclusion.

From the changes that had just happened to Lin Yuan's body, Mystic Moon felt that there was no more space for Lin Yuan to improve his physical self further.

It was more likely that his state of hunger came from his soul's need for nutrients.

Hence, Mystic Moon took out another portion of the Island Whale's brain oil and some other spiritual ingredients of the same quality as the Island Whale's brain oil that could also nourish souls and started cooking.

Chapter 1245: Only Consume Dragon Lungs and Drink Phoenix Blood

Lin Yuan's stomach started to grumble, and he soon became embarrassed by the constant noise.

The Moon Empress tried to find something to distract him as she knew that being in an extended state of hunger was a form of torture. It was ten times more difficult to bear than normal hunger.

She flipped her hand, and a golden egg appeared in her palm.

She asked Lin Yuan solemnly, "Little Yuan, have you finished reading the Catalog of Mountains and Seas that I gave you?"

Lin Yuan hurriedly nodded and replied, "I finished it long ago!"

He always had the habit of reading. As such, he had thoroughly read the entire book within three days.

However, he had found it rather confusing.

He did not know why the Moon Empress wanted him to read a book that was published before the Spirit Qi Awakening. Gêtt the latest ch𝒂pters on n𝒐

The Catalog of Mountains and Seas was similar to the Classic of Mountains and Seas that Lin Yuan had read in his previous life. However, the Catalog of Mountains and Seas was much more believable.

Nonetheless, such books of lore were still regarded as unrealistic no matter in what a believable way they were written.

Lin Yuan responded to the Moon Empress while staring at the gold egg in her hand.

There were swirling storm patterns engraved on the shell of the egg. It was as though the egg was the eye of a storm, and it looked like a concurrent mix of darkness and light.

Somehow, it was as though a ferocious beast was looking out from within the storm.

Additionally, the egg had a similar aura to Zong Ze's Fiery Sky Hou. This meant that there had to be a fey with the Barren bloodline within the golden egg.

This was very likely the fey with a Barren bloodline that the Moon Empress had prepared for him.

The Moon Empress smiled and replied honestly, "There is a legend in the Catalog of Mountains and Seas which mentions a bird with golden wings that only eats dragon lungs and drinks phoenix blood. Do you remember this legend?"

Lin Yuan gulped and nodded before saying, "Of course, I remember it. Master, is the fey with the Barren bloodline in this egg the Golden Wings?"

When Lin Yuan had been reading the Catalog of Mountains and Seas, he soon reached the part about the Golden Wings, and it had left a deep impression on him.

He had not taken the Catalog of Mountains and Seas seriously and brushed it off as mere legends. Hence, he had not thought too seriously about its contents.

The first thought that came to Lin Yuan's mind about the Golden Wings was that it was picky. It only ate dragon lungs and drank phoenix blood!

As long as a fey had a drop of dragon-species or phoenix-species bloodline in them, it would become much more expensive than other feys.

The feys that had awakened their dragon-species and phoenix-species bloodlines were sometimes worth more than money could buy despite not being true dragons or phoenixes.

Lin Yuan wondered if the Golden Wings' pickiness had caused it to die of starvation.

However, the existence of the golden egg was proof that the Golden Wings was real.

It was likely that all the feys recorded in the Catalog of Mountains and Seas were feys in the Radiance Federation that had the Barren bloodline.

As such, Lin Yuan's impression of the Golden Wings changed from picky to wonder as he imagined the power it would gain from such a diet.

The Moon Empress nodded and replied, "You're right. The Golden Wings is in this egg. There is basic information about feys with the Barren bloodline written in Catalog of Mountains and Seas. Although you've consumed the Earth Center Fine Milk and both your body and soul have transformed, it will still be difficult for you to form a contract with the Golden Wings.

"I had a hard time when I contracted Zixi as well. Feys with the Barren bloodline are wild. It's much harder to form a contract with feys with the Barren bloodline than it is to form a marrow contract with sacred source lifeforms.

"Your sacred source lifeform will be able to aid you when you're contracting the Golden Wings. You must remember to obstinately suppress the Golden Wings' willpower during the contraction process. Otherwise, the balance of power could be overturned.

"Once you form a contract with the fey with the Barren bloodline, it will accompany you for the rest of your life just like all your other feys."

The Moon Empress handed the Golden Wings' egg to Lin Yuan.

Soon, Mystic Moon led the spirit attendants and served another tableful of dishes.

After Lin Yuan started eating, he no longer felt as uncomfortable.

Soon, he realized that he no longer felt hungry once the uncontracted fey in his soul absorbed its fill of nutrients and energy.

Finally, his transformation was complete.

Given that he would need to put his willpower against the fey with the Barren bloodline during the contraction process, he could not be disturbed.

Thus, Lin Yuan went into his breeding room after the meal and shut the door.

He followed the Moon Empress's directions and started to move his palms.

His blood and soul energy simultaneously enveloped the Golden Wings' shell.

At the same moment that the Golden Wings' egg absorbed Lin Yuan's blood and soul energy, he felt himself being transported into the eye of a storm.

He could feel the fierce air currents around him and readied himself to unleash his willpower.

Suddenly, he sensed an enormous beast awakening in the wind. The beast was staring at him through the howling winds.

Lin Yuan's expression remained steady.

He had just been in the breeding room in the Radiant Moon Palace. But he had appeared here after he used his blood and soul to engulf the egg.

It seemed that his soul had entered the golden egg, and he was currently witnessing the scene within the golden egg.

Lin Yuan remembered that the Moon Empress had said he would have to clash against the Golden Wings in a battle of willpower in order to contract it.

Since it was a battle of willpower, it did not matter who made the first move. They were bound to duke it out.

Hence, Lin Yuan just needed to steel himself.

However, his chest tightened when he remembered what the Moon Empress said about him, still having a hard time despite having consumed the Earth Center Fine Milk.

She had not given him any such warning in the past when he consumed the Silver Stamen Gold Luster Cassia nectar to cleanse the impurities in his body or the Earth Center Fine Milk to transform himself.

Chapter 1246: Fundamentally Training its Wings, Body Swathed in Light and Darkness

Since the Moon Empress had given him a warning, it was likely that he would be in more pain than when he consumed the Earth Center Fine Milk.

By the time the Golden Wings' willpower arrived, Lin Yuan had already released his willpower and filled the surroundings with it.

Since Lin Yuan was within the golden egg, his body was a rendition of his soul.

As he continued to release his willpower, a silhouette appeared behind him.

This silhouette was in the image of Lin Yuan; only it was over a thousand times larger than his normal body.

Lin Yuan's willpower was powerful to start with. But after consuming the Earth Center Fine Milk, his willpower was strengthened to its peak.

The enormous silhouette of Lin Yuan looked as though it was going to destroy the storm.

He sensed the willpower silhouette behind him. However, he did not notice that a crimson bronze bangle had appeared on the wrist of the silhouette.

A cry piercing enough to cut through metal broke through the storm at that moment.

Clouds arose within the eye of the storm.

Lin Yuan looked up and saw that an enormous bird that seemed to cover the sky was currently glaring down at him with its piercing eyes.

Its body was sturdy and elegant, and its gold feathers were covered with wild patterns. Every movement of its feathers could form a raging tornado.

The thousands of tornados weaved around the enormous bird and seemed determined to crash into everything.

The enormous bird's dark gold eyes were piercing as it sneered contemptuously at everything.

Its long and razor-sharp claws could easily slash out a dragon's heart.

Its sharp beak could also rip a phoenix's neck to drink its blood.

It was such an intimidatingly handsome bird!

Lin Yuan felt that this description was not apt.

Lin Yuan's silhouette was giant. But in the face of the enormous golden-winged bird, he was like a child standing before an adult.

This difference made Lin Yuan aware of how powerful the Golden Wings' willpower was.

He remembered the Moon Empress saying that his sacred source lifeform could help him during the battle of wills. Hence, he called out to the Sacred Sword Wielding Queen.

Soon after, an even larger shadow appeared behind his silhouette.

The shadow's skirt billowed, its eyes were shut, and its arms were crossed over its chest in a defensive pose.

The Golden Wings' willpower was provoked when it saw the Sacred Sword Wielding Queen's shadow that was almost half its size.

It unleashed an even fiercer cry.

Lin Yuan could clearly sense the Golden Wings trying to use its willpower to crush him.

He had assumed that he would need to fight tooth and nail. Finndd the new𝒆st 𝒏ovels on n/𝒐

But at this moment, the crimson bronze bangle on the wrist of his silhouette lit up and flew off its wrist. It shot toward the Golden Wings' prodigious figure.

It looked like a piece of dust landing on a majestic eagle.

When the unassuming crimson bronze bangle landed on Golden Wings, it started to grow larger until it fitted itself tightly around the Golden Wings' neck.

The Golden Wings' willpower seemed to have been trapped by the crimson bronze bangle and prevented the Golden Wings from releasing any more of its willpower.

Lin Yuan could clearly sense the Golden Wings' fear of the crimson bronze bangle. It was as though the crimson bronze bangle was on a completely different level from the Golden Wings.

Lin Yuan had sensed this from the Sacred Sword Wielding Queen before.

As for the crimson bronze bangle around the Golden Wings' neck, Lin Yuan could not be more familiar with it.

The crimson bronze bangle was none other than Morbius.

Lin Yuan was astonished.

As its contractor, Lin Yuan was well aware of Morbius' condition.

Morbius was currently sleeping. Could this event be a natural reaction of Morbius' sleeping state?

Moreover, Lin Yuan had made numerous guesses about what level of lifeform Morbius was.

Morbius had reached Silver X/Fantasy I. At its current level, it still could not see its own genus. Moreover, Morbius' type was mystery-type.

Besides Morbius, Lin Yuan had never encountered any other mystery-type fey or source-type lifeform.

At first, he assumed that he would have to engage in an intense battle of willpower with the Golden Wings.

Yet, it seemed that the Golden Wings was completely under Morbius' control, and any struggle on its part would be futile.

During the battle, Lin Yuan would use the opportunity to inject his willpower into the Golden Wings to suppress its willpower.

Yet, he managed to easily suppress the Golden Wings' willpower with Morbius' help.

After Lin Yuan suppressed the Golden Wings' willpower, all the rampaging winds around him turned into a warm breeze.

The eye of the storm dispersed, and the time warp formed by the winds shattered.

Lin Yuan also felt a sense of weightlessness.

By the time he recovered, he found himself in the breeding room again, and the golden egg in his hand had cracked.

As he listened to the pecking noises coming from within the egg, a small beak soon popped out.

Eventually, a small golden-winged bird about the same size as Chimey pushed itself out of the egg.

Lin Yuan hurriedly took out a handkerchief and placed it over the damp bird.

The little bird could not even stand steadily, yet it had the same aura of the Barren bloodline that the Fiery Sky Hou had.

The Catalog of Mountains and Seas had other information about the Golden Wings besides its diet.

'When the Golden Wings spreads its wings, it will cover the skies. Its claws will slice through majestic alters and cleave mountains.'

Evidently, the Golden Wings was a gargantuan fey with the Barren bloodline and mainly depended on its body to attack.

However, there was a line in the description that said, 'Fundamentally training its wings, its body will be swathed in light and darkness'.

Lin Yuan was utterly clueless.

He understood it as the Golden Wings would be able to gain the ability to control light and darkness through various evolutions.

But what did the light and darkness abilities mean specifically? No matter how hard he thought about it, Lin Yuan still came up blank.

Chapter 1247: What Kind of Life is This?

Lin Yuan was not the type to fixate. When he could not come up with an accurate answer with the information he currently possessed, he instinctively pushed the thought out of his mind. After all, the Golden Wings would eventually provide him with an answer as he continued to nurture it.

He guessed that this small creature would soon grow exponentially on its dragon lungs and phoenix blood diet. It was likely that it would grow to the size Lin Yuan witnessed within the golden egg.

However, his head ached when he realized the number of dragon lungs and phoenix blood that he would have to procure. Where would he go to secure the large stock that he needed?

It would not be a one-time procurement as the Golden Wings would only need more as it continued to grow.

Lin Yuan had no choice but to continue to mull over this problem as he needed it in order to enable the Golden Wings to grow.

The Catalog of Mountains and Seas had also mentioned that the Golden Wings was a stickler for high-quality food.

'The creature that consumes dragon lungs and drinks phoenix blood cannot accept any careless form of sustenance lest its feathers degrade and it loses its wind.'

This line meant that the dragon lungs and phoenix blood all had to be fresh and of a certain quality. Otherwise, its feathers would lose their luster while the storm patterns on its feathers would disappear.

It was evident that the Golden Wings was persnickety and difficult to maintain.

Since the freshness and quality of the dragon lungs and phoenix blood would have an effect on the Golden Wings' health, Lin Yuan could only assume that the higher quality of food the Golden Wings consumed, the stronger it would grow to become.

However, Lin Yuan did not have a good hold on differentiating the quality of dragon lungs and phoenix blood.

Nonetheless, he was certain that Chimey did not meet the cut.

Firstly, the luan-species was only a subcategory of the main phoenix-species, and there was no guarantee that the Golden Wings would be able to maintain its health using impure phoenix blood.

Moreover, Chimey's Sound Bird bloodline had devoured its Luan bloodline.

As such, the proportion of Luan bloodline in its body was pitifully little.

Although Chimey was not suitable, Blackie was a pure flood-dragon-species fey, and it would definitely be able to evolve into the main dragon-species fey.

It was likely that Blackie's lungs were large enough to meet the Golden Wings' needs, but Lin Yuan would not allow either Blackie or Chimey to sacrifice themselves.

After mulling over the issue for some time, Lin Yuan's eyes lit up abruptly.

Killing phoenix-species feys was not the only way to obtain phoenix blood.

Dark Clouds Bird Shrine had many main phoenix feys.

A top faction had limited resources, and they would have to hold back in some areas in order to branch into other markets.

As elite as the main phoenix-species fey's bloodline was, their resource needs would increase at a much steeper rate as compared to other feys.

Given that the Dark Clouds Bird Shrine was trying to branch into another market rapidly, they did not have enough resources for their faction's main phoenix-species feys.

Lin Yuan felt that he would be able to trade with Dark Clouds Bird Shrine for main phoenix-species fey blood in exchange for resources.

Under normal circumstances, no main phoenix fey would be willing to give up its blood. But if it were offered sufficiently attractive benefits, it would be able to give up its blood as a trade.

Lin Yuan felt that it was unlikely that any problems would arise given his relationship with Li Xuan.

This method would allow Lin Yuan to affirm from the source that the phoenix blood drunk by the Golden Wings was fresh.

Alas, Lin Yuan could not find it in himself to ask Long Tao directly for the dragon lungs.

Coiling Dragon's Valley had many dragon-species feys, and it would be easy for him to obtain dragon blood or even essence blood from Long Tao as they were reproducible.

However, the lungs were an important organ that dragon-species feys could not regrow.

Once the lungs were removed, the dragon-species fey would certainly die.

Hence, it would be much more difficult to obtain the dragon lungs than it was the phoenix blood.

Nonetheless, the most convenient method of obtaining the dragon lungs would be through Long Tao and ask if he had any ideas.

Even if Long Tao did not have any ideas, Lin Yuan could still trade for some dragon-species feys whose bloodlines could be easily evolved.

Lin Yuan's army of Hundred Questions Beasts would only grow stronger, and he would be overflowing with Creation Master resources.

He could use his Creation Master resources to nurture high-quality dragon-species feys and extract their lungs for the Golden Wings.

As for the wind-elemental energy and spirit qi that the Golden Wings would require during its growth, Lin Yuan did not need to worry.

There was more than enough spirit qi in the Spirit Lock spatial zone.

Although there was no such thing as strange wind in the Spirit Lock spatial zone, he had enough wind-elemental pearls for the Golden Wings.

As he looked at the Golden Wings in his hand that would eventually deplete a mountain of resources, Lin Yuan could not help but sigh to himself.

What kind of life is this? I contracted the source-type lifeform Red Thorn, which is difficult to maintain, and the Sacred Source Wielding Queen, which is challenging to upkeep. Now, the Golden Wings will be even harder to nurture. If I didn't have the Spirit Lock spatial zone, all my feys, source-type lifeforms, and sacred source lifeforms would drain me dry.

The Golden Wings in his hand was now dry. Gêtt the latest ch𝒂pters on n𝒐

It pushed itself out of the handkerchief and looked at Lin Yuan warily.

Since Lin Yuan had used his soul, blood, and spiritual energy to form a contract with the Golden Wings, it could grow by learning from the information in his soul.

Just as he was about to greet the Golden Wings, it said, "Lin Yuan, give me a name! From now on, I will do my best to protect you!"

The Golden Wings flapped its wings as though it was showing off its strength.

But before it lifted itself into the air, it noticed Morbius on Lin Yuan's wrist and immediately used its wings to cover its eyes in terror.

Lin Yuan almost burst into laughter.

The Golden Wings looked just like a small newly-hatched chick.

When it flapped its wings, it looked clumsy and unstable.

Lin Yuan forced himself to hold his laughter back for fear of hurting the Golden Wings' pride.

He could sense the Golden Wings' fear through his spiritual energy and hurriedly patted its soft feathers with his finger.

"Don't be afraid. Morbius will be your friend now too," said Lin Yuan soothingly.

As for choosing a name for it, Lin Yuan felt that this was his niche skill.

Chapter 1248: Snapped Neck Falling Death

He thought about the majestic Golden Wings that seemed to cover the sky that he had seen inside the egg and said, "From now on, your name shall be Shiny!"

He had wanted to call the Golden Wings Gold Shine, but it seemed inconvenient to say. Shiny was much easier.

The Sacred Sword Wielding Queen that had been scarfing World Crystals down inside Lin Yuan's soul looked satisfied when it heard the name that Lin Yuan gave the Golden Wings.

It felt that its name Pill was better-sounding than Shiny.

Lin Yuan had named the Sea Burial Lotus Flower Silver Corona and the Golden Lotus Brocade Pearls as Brocade Zither, and Sacred Sword Wielding Queen had been feeling that it was extremely unfair.

But now, everything was back to normal.

With Lin Yuan's affectionate actions, the trembling Shiny slowly revealed its eyes.

He used True Data as he was curious to see what abilities a fey with the Barren bloodline had.

Lin Yuan wondered if this small creature that was eventually going to gobble up an enormous amount of resources would be able to make the expense worth it.

[Fey Name: Golden Wings

[Fey Species: Barren/Feather-Winged

[Fey Grade: Normal (1/10)

[Fey Type: Wind

[Fey Quality: Normal

Abilities:

[Snapped Neck Falling Death: When its sharp claws make contact with a target, the target's neck will be snapped. At the same time, the Golden Wings will extract the target's soul and absorb the soul into its feathers. The soul will imbue the storm patterns on the feathers with intelligence.

Lin Yuan immediately thought of Zong Ze's Fiery Sky Hou.

The Fiery Sky Hou was Barren-species and Toothed-Beast species.

That was the first time that Lin Yuan had seen a Barren-species fey.

Now, he was seeing another fey with the Barren bloodline with the Barren-species.

From now on, he could use a fey's type to determine if they had the Barren bloodline on top of identifying their aura.

Given the description of the Golden Wings in the Catalog of Mountains and Seas, Lin Yuan knew that the Golden Wings used its body as its main weapon.

Its Normal ability, Snapped Neck Falling Death, suited it very well.

Snapped Neck Falling Death could significantly increase Shiny's damage power and give the Shiny the ability to kill its target with a single attack.

The ability absorbed the target's soul into Shiny's feathers and imbued the storm patterns on its feathers with intelligence. This made Lin Yuan think of the thousands of twisting tornadoes on the shell of the golden egg.

If all of the storm patterns gained intelligence, the tornados they produced would become extensions of Shiny's body.

Snapped Neck Falling Death enabled Shiny to strengthen its elemental damage ability, which would go hand in hand with its physical damage ability.

Lin Yuan brought Shiny into the Spirit Lock spatial zone.

He realized that Genius was not in the Spirit Lock spatial zone, and he assumed that it had gone into the marsh world to plant the Soldier Ration Radishes.

Chimey was not live streaming. Instead, it was in its nest on the Phoenix Perching Chinese Parasol Tree and hard at work absorbing the energy from strange flames.

When it spotted Lin Yuan, Chimey cheeped and flew over to him.

At that moment, Shiny was stunned and stared unblinkingly at Chimey like a foolish young man who had just laid his eyes on a beautiful girl.

Chimey landed on Lin Yuan's ear and happily snuggled against him.

While Lin Yuan was talking to Chimey, he sensed Shiny's feelings. Nêww 𝒄hapters will be fully updated at (n)ov(𝒆)

He did not know what he should say about Shiny's feelings.

When Shiny first hatched, Lin Yuan noticed that it was male.

Shiny truly was special. It fell in love right after stepping into the world.

Unfortunately, falling in love early did not end well.

Lin Yuan had come into the Spirit-Mouthed Peony to grow and harvest some of the Spirit-Mouthed Peonies for the Moon Empress.

As such, he did not bother with the possibility that Shiny falling in love at first sight could end badly.

He instructed Chimey to take care of Shiny before he crushed three spirit qi crystals and fed them to the Spirit-Mouthed Peonies.

Previously, one spirit qi crystal had filled 10 Spirit-Mouthed Peonies with spirit qi.

But now, three spirit qi crystals filled 40 Spirit-Mouthed Peonies with spirit qi. However, this also had to do with the fact that they had been absorbing the pure spirit qi in the Spirit Lock spatial zone.

Lin Yuan plucked the 40 Spirit-Mouthed Peonies out and placed them into a Platinum fey storage box before he left the Spirit Lock spatial zone.

Once he exited his breeding room, he saw the Moon Empress and Mystic Moon waiting for him at the door.

When he saw the Moon Empress' concerned gaze, he said with a smile, "Master, the Golden Wings is now my fey."

The Moon Empress grinned and replied, "Little Yuan, do you know what you're going to do about the dragon lungs and phoenix bleed that you'll need to nurture the Golden Wings?"

Lin Yuan honestly told the Moon Empress about all his plans.

The more she listened to him, the more shocked she looked.

After he was done speaking, there was a moment of silence before pride came over her expression.

When Lin Yuan started talking about his plans to obtain the dragon lungs and phoenix blood, Mystic Moon knew that he would have no need for the dragon lungs and phoenix blood that the Moon Empress had prepared for him.

Moreover, Lin Yuan's ability to use social connections for his own purposes allowed Mystic Moon to realize how Lin Yuan had been able to develop Sky City so rapidly without the Moon Empress' help.

After the Moon Empress contemplated for a moment, she kept away the Diamond fey storage box she was holding.

Instead, she tossed a Gold fey storage box to Lin Yuan and said, "Little Yuan, it's getting late. Why don't you stay the night in the Radiant Moon Palace and return tomorrow? There are a few bottles of main phoenix-species feys' blood inside the Gold fey storage box and the organs of one dragon-species fey that is one step away from evolving into the main dragon-species.

"These should be enough to enable the Golden Wings to evolve to Bronze grade. The Golden Wings should consume pure spirit qi and wind-elemental energy alongside the phoenix blood and dragon lungs.

"Little Yuan, I didn't expect you to set such a high standard for the Golden Wing's nurturing. I'm looking forward to seeing how strong the Golden Wings will grow to become."

As Lin Yuan looked at the Gold fey storage box that the Moon Empress had given him, he decided that he would immediately return to the breeding room to evolve Shiny.

On the day that he had met Qin Lun and Qin Yu, he had comprehended a Willpower Rune formed from air currents.

This Willpower Rune was like restless winds, and it suited Shiny exceedingly well.

Chapter 1249: Mystic Moon's Opportunity

If Lin Yuan could evolve Shiny to Legend, he would be able to evolve it to Fantasy Breed immediately.

There was no spirit qi professional in this world that did not look forward to the evolution of his feys, and Lin Yuan was no exception.

Moreover, Shiny was not an ordinary fey but a fey with the Barren bloodline.

Lin Yuan was in a rush to head to the breeding room to nurture Shiny and thrust the Platinum fey storage box that contained the 40 Spirit-Mouthed Peonies to the Moon Empress. "Master, besides the Lifespan Mouse, the feys in this fey storage box are also for you!"

The Moon Empress received the fey storage box. She had been planning on asking him if he had any more pure spirit qi.

Although she was willing to use all her precious spiritual ingredients on Lin Yuan and give him the Earth Center Fine Milk in spite of her limited lifespan, she still found it difficult to ask her disciple for things.

She wanted to ask Lin Yuan if he still had any pure spirit qi because Mystic Moon had given a drop of his essence blood to Lin Yuan.

Essence blood was the essence of a dragon-species fey's life, and the loss of even one drop could be extremely detrimental to Mystic Moon. Nêww 𝒄hapters will be fully updated at (n)ov(𝒆)

The Moon Empress did not want the loss of this one drop of essence blood to affect Mystic Moon's potential.

Moreover, by giving Lin Yuan a drop of essence blood, Mystic Moon did Lin Yuan a huge favor.

Mystic Moon was the Moon Empress' Moon Envoy, but the Moon Empress did not see him as her servant. Rather, she respected him greatly.

The Moon Empress had to return this favor to Mystic Moon.

It was natural for her to provide for Lin Yuan because she was his Master.

However, Mystic Moon was not Lin Yuan's Master, nor did Lin Yuan know that Mystic Moon had given him his essence blood.

As such, the Moon Empress wanted to use the pure spirit qi, which even she did not have to return the favor to Mystic Moon on Lin Yuan's behalf.

When the Moon Empress looked through the Platinum fey storage box that Lin Yuan had given her, she realized that she did not have to ask him for Lin Yuan as he had already prepared so much for her.

At that moment, the Moon Empress felt a feeling that she had not felt in the last decade.

Ever since she became a Class 4 Creation Master, her life had been consumed by her overwhelming lead over everyone else.

Once she became a Class 5 Creation Master, countless people begged her to evolve their feys and heal their fey's roots.

This kind of life made her accustomed to wielding all the power and using her Creation Master skill to provide for others.

When she laid her eyes on the Lifespan Mouse, she not only realized that the Lifespan Mouse would be able to change her limited lifespan but also that she was the first person on Lin Yuan's mind as he journeyed through life despite not knowing that she only had three years left to live.

The Moon Empress felt that no smart person would give away the secret to longevity.

However, Lin Yuan gave the chance away to her.

As a Creation Master, Lin Yuan must have witnessed countless miraculous transformations of fey translations.

Hence, he knew how precious his life was.

Was Lin Yuan stupid?

The answer was definitely no. In order to attain the power he possessed at such a young age, he had to be much smarter than others.

Yet, he was willing to give away the chance at longevity to the Moon Empress.

It went without saying how much Lin Yuan cared about the Moon Empress.

The Moon Empress never needed Lin Yuan to prove anything, but the Lifespan Mouse was the best proof.

She did not know how much pure spirit qi Lin Yuan possessed, but he managed to provide her with 40 Spirit-Mouthed Peonies in the short span of a few days.

This was proof that Lin Yuan had constantly been making preparations for the Moon Empress.

The Moon Empress could not obtain the Lifespan Mouse and pure spirit qi in the Spirit-Mouthed Peonies through her own means. Thus, they were both considered gifts.

After receiving so many gifts, the Moon Empress was experiencing what it was like to depend on someone for the first time.

Nonetheless, Lin Yuan's Creation Master abilities had exceeded the Moon Empress'.

However, she knew that he was not a Class 5 Creation Master as he did not have the specialties that Class 5 Creation Masters had.

This meant that Lin Yuan was using a special method to produce the pure spirit qi.

The Moon Empress was extremely curious, but she was not going to probe.

Ever since she accepted Lin Yuan as her disciple, she instructed him to keep his secret weapons a secret.

The last time that the Moon Empress received pure spirit qi from Lin Yuan, she had wondered what would happen if someone found out about how special Lin Yuan was one day.

At that time, she had only had three years left to live and could not come up with an answer.

But now, she could.

With the Lifespan Mouse, she would not have to worry about death as a result of her lifespan coming to its end.

She could protect Lin Yuan forever.

This thought made the Moon Empress even more resolute.

She organized her thoughts and said, "Little Yuan, I'm planning on locking myself away to train until right before the selection for the Radiance Hundred Sequence begins. I will keep my phone with me. You can call me if any urgent matter crops up."

Lin Yuan smiled and replied, "I don't think I'll have any urgent matters that I'll need to bother you with. I'll come and see you once you're out."

Lin Yuan sat and drank tea with the Moon Empress for half an hour before returning to the breeding room.

Mystic Moon, who was standing behind the Moon Empress, said softly, "Moon Empress, thank God for the Young Lord."

The Moon Empress' cold eyes turned happy once Lin Yuan returned to the breeding room. She then glared at Mystic Moon and said, "Mystic Moon, how dare you use your essence blood so flippantly?"

Mystic Moon's jaw dropped. He did not expect the Moon Empress to chew him out after Lin Yuan left.

He racked his brain to try and come up with an answer as the Moon Empress went on to say, "Regardless, I have to thank you on Little Yuan's behalf."

She handed the Platinum fey storage box to Mystic Moon. "Little Yuan gave this to me, and I'll use the pure spirit qi inside to increase the purity of your bloodline."

Although Mystic Moon was a fey, he was also a genuine pinnacle Class 4 Creation Master who could tell how pure the spirit qi within the Spirit-Mouthed Peonies was.

Mystic Moon immediately knew that his opportunity had come with the pure spirit qi.

Chapter 1250: Exclusive Skill that Gives the Golden Wings Boundless Possibilities!

The Moon Empress stood up and said nonchalantly, "According to the Totem Moon's investigation, the wind sands from all eight directions are congregating in the Radiance Federation.

"Mystic Moon, once news that the group from the Azure Federation is coming to the Radiance Federation to watch the Radiance Hundred Sequence selection got out, the Freedom Federation also had the idea of sending out a convoy to the Radiance Federation. They have sent a request to the Radiance imperial court."

Mystic Moon's expression hardened, and he asked after a moment of silence, "Moon Empress, do you need to tell the imperial court that your lifespan is no longer restricted to three years?"

The Moon Empress looked at her hands for a second before saying, "There's no need to let the imperial court know for now. Since the sand winds from eight directions are congregating at the Radiance Federation, I shall use them to polish my crown. It's fine if they're coming with good intentions. But if they have a shred of ill-intent, I'll make sure they won't be able to leave even if they try."

Back in the breeding room…

Lin Yuan hurriedly summoned Chimey and Shiny.

While he was drinking tea with the Moon Empress, he had received multiple complaints from Chimey.

After Lin Yuan left, Chimey returned to its nest in the Phoenix Perching Chinese Parasol Tree to absorb its energy. It was working hard to change into human form so as to hold fan meetings.

Shiny was like a child that clung to Chimey and pestered Chimey to play together. When Chimey turned it down, Shiny would continue to bother Chimey.

Shiny had just hatched. Although it was learning from Lin Yuan's soul, it had not picked up social skills.

As Shiny's contractor, Lin Yuan pulled it aside to teach it a stern lesson about how boys should behave.

After Lin Yuan taught Shiny, it immediately rushed over to Chimey and bashfully apologized to it.

Lin Yuan had never taught Chimey such a stern lesson before. In fact, Lin Yuan rarely spoke to it in a stern tone.

Hence, Chimey assumed that its complaints led Lin Yuan to become angry at Shiny.

Chimey apologized to Shiny as well and became more friendly toward it.

This was also due to Shiny's change, as it was difficult for rowdy children to leave a good impression on others.

Lin Yuan nodded in satisfaction when he saw the way Shiny and Chimey interacted.

After Lin Yuan sent Chimey back to the Spirit Lock spatial zone to continue increasing its power, he took out the dragon lungs and phoenix blood and placed it in front of Shiny.

Shiny's eyes lit up, and it turned to ask, "Yuan, can I eat these? I really like them!"

Lin Yuan placed his hand on Shiny's back and said, "Go ahead. These are all for you. Once you've eaten them, your power will increase!"

He tried injecting pure spirit qi into Shiny's body and realized that it quickly dissipated.

This meant that Shiny's body currently did not need to absorb pure spirit qi.

Meanwhile, Shiny had started feasting.

Lin Yuan realized that Shiny's body slowly absorbed the pure spirit qi as it ate the dragon lungs and phoenix blood.

While Shiny was eating, Lin Yuan did not forget about the wind-elemental pearls.

He crushed the wind-elemental pearls and placed the powder beside the dragon lungs and phoenix blood so that Shiny could decide for itself if it wanted to eat the powder.

As Shiny continued to eat, Lin Yuan could see its feathers slowly hardening until they became sharp golden shards.

Shiny's young eyes slowly sharpened as it gained more power.

Its body also expanded with every passing second.

Lin Yuan intentionally suppressed its grade when its grade started to rise. He only allowed it to break through to Bronze grade when it evolved to Elite/Epic.

Once Shiny reached Bronze grade, three exclusive skills appeared from which Lin Yuan could choose.

[Dragon-Phoenix Shocking Food: While eating the dragon lungs and phoenix blood, it can swallow a large amount at once and increase its rate of digestion. It can also produce a mighty aura that is effective against dragons and phoenixes, which will increase its damage power against dragon- and phoenix-species feys.

Lin Yuan frowned slightly when he saw the first exclusive skill.

It was not that this first exclusive skill was bad as it increased Shiny's rate of evolution and damage power when it had eaten its fill of dragon lungs and phoenix blood.

If he chose this exclusive skill, he would be able to nurture Shiny quickly.

Although phoenix-species feys were the most prevalent species of feys amongst experts, they still faced restrictions.

Lin Yuan had always been firm that he would only evolve his feys with the best methods rather than trying to nurture them in the shortest time possible. Gêtt the latest ch𝒂pters on n𝒐

As such, this exclusive skill did not suit Lin Yuan's style.

Lin Yuan looked at the second exclusive skill.

[Mountain and Sea in Abdomen: A small world will be opened in the Golden Wings' abdomen. The small world will be able to store dead creatures and living dragon- and phoenix-species feys. As the Golden Wings' grade increases, the size of the world will increase, and the creatures stored inside can be turned into energy that the Golden Wings will be able to utilize.

Lin Yuan did not know where to start criticizing the second exclusive skill.

Mountain and Sea in Abdomen resembled the Spirit Lock spatial zone, but it could not be compared to the Spirit Lock spatial zone in the slightest.

Lin Yuan felt that this exclusive skill was like a fey storage box combined with a dragon and phoenix fey storage area and an energy tank.

Lin Yuan had more than enough Diamond fey storage boxes and could find any breeding base to nurture dragon- and phoenix-species feys.

The only appealing part of Mountain and Seas in Abdomen was that it could serve as an energy tank.

However, there were many external ways to recover energy, and an exclusive skill was unnecessary.

Since both of the exclusive skills did not meet Lin Yuan's fancy, he looked at the third exclusive skill.

When he saw the third exclusive skill, Lin Yuan immediately broke out into a smile.

[Unset State: When interacting with another fey, the Golden Wings can copy the fey's exclusive skill and triggered abilities. Unset State will then turn into the copied exclusive skill and triggered ability. The abilities can only be switched out once every lunar cycle.

Essentially, Unset State allowed Lin Yuan to envision boundless possibilities for Shiny.