Fey Evolution Merchant

by welldarn

Posting this for my own convenience.

29. Chapter 29

Chapter 1401: Wrong Gift

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

Zhang Tong and Zhang Zhen had already noticed the fur cloak that Luo Ya was wearing.

At that moment, Zhang Zhen knew how he needed to treat the Luo family from now on. They had to be placed on a pedestal!

But before Zhang Tong and Zhang Zhen's envy of the Luo family could sink in, they were immediately ticked off by what Jian Li said.

This banquet was held to welcome and apologize to this young man.

Jian Li had not only stopped Zhang Tong from going up to Lin Yuan to apologize to him but had even made it seem as though he was the host of the banquet instead.

You asked us to add extra dishes? You didn't even show up the entire afternoon!

Zhang Tong and Zhang Zhen were furious that Jian Li was trying to use the banquet for his own benefit. However, neither of them dared to show their anger outwardly.

But this was another sign that the Jian family was unreliable, and Jian Li was not a person they could trust wholeheartedly.

When they entered the banquet hall, Lin Yuan noticed that the table was filled with various fruits and roasted meats slathered in red and yellow sauces. This was not appetizing to Lin Yuan.

After training in the Divine Wood Federation for some time, Lin Yuan had eaten his fair share of roasted meats. He much preferred the dishes made by Liu Jie and Zong Ze.

Jian Li stood next to Lin Yuan the entire night, trying to come up with a way to get Lin Yuan to reveal his identity and confirm which secret elite family he came from.

But try as he might, Jian Li only became more confused. He only gave up and walked over to Zhang Zhen to discuss their collaboration when Liu Jie started to show signs of annoyance.

When Jian Li left Lin Yuan's side, Zhang Tong hurriedly walked over. He bowed to Lin Yuan and said, "Young Master Lin, thank you for showing mercy to the Rotting Poison Snake Wyrm. This is an apology gift prepared by my father."

Zhang Tong took out a wooden box and solemnly handed it to Lin Yuan.

Lin Yuan looked amused when he saw the box.

He had figured out what was going on from the events at Phoebe Zhennan Courtyard.

If he was weak, he would have become the Rotting Poison Snake Wyrm's next meal after Luo Ya and Luo De. If that had happened, he would already have passed through the Rotting Poison Snake Wyrm's digestive system by now instead of standing here attending an apology banquet in his honor.

Ji Feng took a step forward and opened the wooden box.

Lin Yuan saw a pair of Bronze/Flawless Item-Storing Walnuts inside the box and knew they had to have been personally nurtured by Zhang Zhen.

A gift worth 3,000,000 Great Lush dollars was more than sufficient to show the Zhang family's sincerity. Alas, this gift did not interest Lin Yuan in the slightest.

Lin Yuan picked up the Item-Storing Walnuts and started to play with them in his hand. They made a clear thud when they knocked together.

Zhang Tong looked ecstatic when he saw Lin Yuan receiving the Item-Storing Walnuts.

However, this was when Lin Yuan tossed the Bronze/Flawless Item-Storing Walnuts back to him and said, "You can just be straight with me. I'm not interested in the Zhang family's apology. This banquet is getting boring. If there's nothing else, we shall take our leave now."

While it was true that this banquet was boring, Lin Yuan also said this because he wanted Zhang Tong to make known the Zhang family's true motives.

If the Zhang family did not have an ulterior motive, they would not see the need to gift Lin Yuan something. They had to have a motive that encouraged them to use the gift to form a bridge between them and Lin Yuan.

During the journey from the underground palace to Phoebe Zhennan City, Lin Yuan noticed that Phoebe Zhennan City's geographical position was very special.

There was a seemingly endless forest of ironwood trees right outside of Phoebe Zhennan City. Ironwood was considered a profitable resource. However, their roots extended more than 100 meters below the surface, and it was very difficult for feys below Silver grade to remove a branch from the ironwood trees.

These made it difficult for Phoebe Zhennan City to market on the ironwood trees.

As a result, Phoebe Zhennan City became the south-most city in the Divine Wood Federation.

Phoebe Zhennan City had towering mountains on one side and raging rivers on the other. This gave them a two-sided natural barrier that also isolated them.

Once the restricted area created by Silver Corona was discovered, experts from the Divine Wood Federation would go there to look into it. The only place they would have to rest at would be Phoebe Zhennan City.

On the Iron Hammer Federation's side, Lin Yuan had asked Ta Lei to apply for the territory at the border of the Horseshoe Tribe.

If the people from the Iron Hammer Federation tried to investigate the restricted area, they would be stopped by the Horseshoe Tribe.

If Lin Yuan could gain control of Phoebe Zhennan City, he would be able to immediately find out and react to any attempt by people from the Iron Hammer Federation and Divine Wood Federation to investigate the restricted area.

Thus, Lin Yuan had been eyeing Phoebe Zhennan City from the moment he arrived here.

If whatever the Zhang family wanted to ask him could benefit him in the future, he did not mind helping out.

But if the Zhang family's goal went against his own, he would knock the Zhang family off their throne and place the Luo family there instead.

Zhang Tong anxiously reached out to catch the Item-Storing Walnuts that Lin Yuan had tossed back to him as he was afraid that the sound of them landing on the ground would attract Jian Li's attention. RêAd lat𝙚St chapters at nô(v)e(l)bin/.c/o/m Only

Zhang Tong and his father still had no plans to pull away from the Jian family and reject the collaboration.

If Jian Li found out that Zhang Tong was trying to jump ship to Lin Yuan, the Jian family would definitely unleash their wrath on the Zhang family.

Zhang Tong became extremely anxious when he heard Lin Yuan say that the banquet was boring.

He had been confident that no one would reject this 3,000,000 Great Lush dollars gift. Lin Yuan's instant rejection left Zhang Tong at a loss.

He had come to ask Lin Yuan for help with a matter that affected the Zhang family's future. Once the chance was gone, it would never return.

Zhang Tong said honestly, "Young Master Lin, my family would like to work with you. If you provide us with resources, you can use our Creation Master resources for your own benefit."

Lin Yuan took out a pair of Bronze/Epic Item-Storing Walnuts.

The scarlet Item-Storing Walnuts spun in Lin Yuan's hand, knocking together and producing clear cracking sounds,

Zhang Tong was floored when he saw the Item-Storing Walnuts.

Are my eyes deceiving me? That's a pair of Bronze/Epic Item-Storing Walnuts!

He had assumed that Lin Yuan was uninterested in the Item-Storing Walnuts he had been gifted because people from the Great Lush Federation did not have the habit of using the Item-Storing Walnuts as toys. He thought that he had chosen the wrong thing to gift.

But now, he knew it was because his gift did not live up to its intended recipient.

Chapter 1402: Submission After Consideration

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However, he did not know if Lin Yuan's Bronze/Epic Item-Storing Walnuts came from an auction or a Class 4 Creation Master.

Judging from Lin Yuan's extravagant attire, Zhang Tong felt that the latter possibility was also likely.

The Great Lush Federation's secret elite families all invested a bomb into their Creation Masters.

Currently, Zhang Tong was scared yet excited.

The Zhang family and Jian family's collaboration was mutually beneficial, while working with Lin Yuan would be like living under the thumb of an enormous dragon.

With the Jian family, it was possible for them to escape unscathed. But with Lin Yuan, they ran the risk of being crushed to pieces.

But only a dragon like Lin Yuan could lead the Zhang family toward a bright future.

While Zhang Tong's mind was swirling with thoughts, Lin Yuan said, "I don't have much use for Class 3 Creation Masters. Compared to the Zhang family's individual strength, I'm more interested in the power you hold over Phoebe Zhennan City."

Zhang Tong froze. He knew that Lin Yuan was being serious.

He clearly expressed his lack of interest in the Zhang family's Creation Master resources and declared what he was truly interested in.

Zhang Tong resolutely said, "In Phoebe Zhennan City, our family is the strongest. The other four Class 2 Creation Master families have no choice but to admire us from a distance. To tell you the truth, my family is planning on using Phoebe Zhennan City's resources next month to devour the other four Class 2 Creation Master resources.

"The Huang family is connected to us by marriage and has been siding with us for a long time. We have been intending to take out the Meng family, Li family, and Luo family since a long time ago. But since Luo Ya is your acquaintance, we have decided to spare them—"

Zhang Tong was about to continue speaking, but he was interrupted by Ji Feng. "Our Young Master isn't interested in this trivial benefit. Since you're aware that our Young Master is on good terms with the Luo family, what makes you think that he will work with you instead of helping the Luo family? If our Young Master wanted, he could give Luo De a pinnacle Diamond fey that will be able to give your Rotting Poison Snake Wyrm a run for its money. It would even be child's play for him to give the Luo family a Class 4 Creation Master.

"In order to capture loyalty, the Zhang family is choosing to swallow the other Class 2 Creation Master families instead of working with them. I'm sure that as the Young Leader of the Zhang family, you are aware of what our Young Master is after."

Zhang Tong was stunned into silence by what Ji Feng said.

He believed Lin Yuan could give Luo De a pinnacle Diamond fey tonight if he wanted to.

However, it was too shocking for him to be able to give the Luo family a Class 4 Creation Master.

Class 4 Creation Masters were almost like gods. Why did he make them seem like such a lowly commodity?

Zhang Tong glanced at Jian Li, who was deep in discussion with Zhang Zhen, before steeling his heart and saying to Lin Yuan in a sincere tone, "Young Master Lin, my father told me before the banquet that I have the authority to make decisions for the Zhang family. We will submit to you."

Luo Ya, who had been keeping a close watch on Lin Yuan, walked over with a glass of wine in her hand and whispered to him, "Lin Yuan, if you trust me, I can help you keep watch over the Zhang family."

Luo Ya had described the distribution of power to Lin Yuan.

However, only the Zhang, Huang, and Luo families were in attendance at tonight's banquet.

It turned out that it was because the Zhang family was planning on targeting the other two families and had already excluded them.

Lin Yuan did trust Luo Ya to a certain extent. If she represented the Luo family in watching over the Zhang family, the two families would be able to keep watch and control each other. This would enable Lin Yuan to easily keep Phoebe Zhennan City in the palm of his hand.

Lin Yuan tossed Luo Ya and Zhang Tong one of the Bronze/Epic Item-Storing Walnuts each.

The two of them were overjoyed when they caught the Item-Storing Walnuts. However, their joy stemmed from different reasons.

Neither of them was happy over the Bronze/Epic Item-Storing Walnut's value. Zhang Tong was happy because Lin Yuan would be able to carry the Zhang family to new heights, while Luo Ya was happy that she was touching something that had been in Lin Yuan's hand. She was going to treasure the Item-Storing Walnut for the rest of her life.

Lin Yuan said to Zhang Tong and Luo Ya, "Once you're done organizing Phoebe Zhennan City, I will complete your pair of Item-Storing Walnuts. I will try my best to get a chamber of commerce to set up a branch in Phoebe Zhennan City. For now, the two of you can continue to do what you've been doing."

Lin Yuan turned and left the banquet with Liu Jie and Ji Feng.

A smile spread across his face as he looked into the night sky.

From now on, he would essentially own the entire Phoebe Zhennan City.

On their way back to the treehouse, Ji Feng's eyes flashed, and he said to Lin Yuan, "Young Master, the Prior Decree Sleeping Lotus has found the person you asked for. According to your instruction, the Prior Decree Sleeping Lotus has been secretly watching her and has not made contact. She is currently eating rotting fruits she fished out from a trash bin. She is covered in scratches, and it looks like one of her legs is broken. Her soul injury has been triggered twice in the past hour."

This reminded Ji Feng of how he used to be. This person was in the exact situation he had been in. However, he had a much better time in the Radiance Federation than she was having in the Divine Wood Federation.

Lin Yuan had expected Su Yiren to be in such a pathetic state.

The ordinary citizens of the Divine Wood Federation already led tough lives, much less Su Yiren, who was essentially a refugee.

After tonight, Lin Yuan would be heading to Oak City tomorrow morning.

Since the Prior Decree Sleeping Lotus had already found Su Yiren, he did not need to call her.

Tomorrow, he would be meeting with a Dark Envoy in all her supposed glory.

In the treehouse, Lin Yuan felt extremely content at first. But as the night progressed, the water vapor produced by the plants created a very humid environment inside the treehouse.

Lin Yuan had no choice but to release Dark Blue and use it to control the humidity so the environment would become dry again.

After this first night in a treehouse, Lin Yuan swore that there would not be a second.

The next day, after eating a breakfast prepared by Liu Jie, Lin Yuan, Liu Jie, and Ji Feng prepared to head to Oak City.

This time, Lin Yuan did not summon Blackie. Instead, Liu Jie and Ji Feng entered the Jeweled Cave Golden Toad.

The Hurricane Owlet Moths had already set up the Ethereal Jellyfish's tentacles along the road to Oak City.

These tentacles would become Tentacle Nodes that Lin Yuan could use to transport himself to and from Oak City in a short span of time.

Chapter 1403: Prosperous Chamber of Commerce

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

In less than five minutes, Lin Yuan silently appeared in Oak City.

Oak City lived up to being one of the major cities in the Divine Wood Federation. Its roads were three times wider than those in Phoebe Zhennan City.

The treehouses in Phoebe Zhennan City were only around 12 meters tall, while the treehouses in Oak City were more like tree castles around 20 meters tall.

Currently, there was a giant tree castle almost 100 meters tall near Lin Yuan. There was a sign hanging at the front of it that read, 'Prosperous Chamber of Commerce'.

Many people were entering and exiting the tree castle.

There were basically two types of people who visited the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce.

One of them was ordinary merchants of the Great Lush Federation, while the other type was the elite of Oak City, who were dressed in expensive attire from head to toe.

Lin Yuan was very interested in a chamber of commerce controlled by one of the Great Lush Federation's secret elite families.

He planned on trying to find a way to buy plant-type feys that could produce weather from this chamber of commerce.

Lin Yuan released Liu Jie and Ji Feng from the Jeweled Cave Golden Toad and led them to the entrance of the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce.

There were two attendants dressed in blue standing at the entrance of the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce. They carefully eyed every person who walked in and out of the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce. They stopped numerous people who tried to enter the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce.

Lin Yuan immediately knew that those men were guarding the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce's entrance.

Besides the members of merchant groups from the Great Lush Federation, ordinary people had to wear clothes or accessories of a certain quality to enter the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce.

Lin Yuan found it strange to have guards assessing possible entrants based on their dressing. However, it could not be denied that this behavior fit right into the Divine Wood Federation's style.

Before Lin Yuan could even arrive at the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce entrance, a commotion broke out there.

The two guards blocked a short person wearing accessories made of leaves.

Accessories made of leaves were a common sight in the Divine Wood Federation. However, they were never worn by the elite. Usually, only the common folk wore them.

Clearly, people wearing them did not meet the cut to be allowed into the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce.

When Lin Yuan walked nearer, he heard one of the guards say gruffly, "You don't meet the requirement to enter the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce. Please leave now. Don't prevent us from accepting guests."

Just as Lin Yuan was about to pass by the short person, a childish yet stubborn voice said, "I'm begging you, please let me go in! I brought money so I can trade for five days' worth of Reducing Heat Grass."

The small person seemed to be trying to prove something.

She carefully pulled out a pouch that jangled when she shook it. She opened it and showed it to the guard with a hopeful expression. The bag was full of dirty metal coins.

Great Lush dollars were used during trading in the Great Lush Federation, Divine Wood Federation, and Iron Hammer Federation.

Great Lush dollars were made from crystal. However, the metal coins in the bag were native coins made in the Divine Wood Federation that were not recognized by the Great Lush Federation.

This was similar to Radiance and Federation dollars.

The metal currency could be exchanged for Great Lush dollars, but they could not be used to pay chambers of commerce.

Lin Yuan turned and saw that the short person wearing accessories made of leaves was a young girl around 13 years old.

The young girl's stubborn gaze reminded Lin Yuan of Chu Ci back when she was trying to buy medicine for him.

Lin Yuan unconsciously slowed down his pace.

The guard looked conflicted when he saw the bag the young girl was holding out. He seemed to be hesitating over whether he should allow the young girl to enter.

At that moment, the other older guard said, "If something goes wrong because you let her in, I will tell the Vice President that you're the one who decided to let her in. The Young Lady is coming here today to check the accounts. Will you be able to take responsibility if this kid bumps into the Young Lady?"

The younger guard's conflicted expression turned cold. He stretched out his arm and pushed the young girl backward.

The young girl clutched her bag with a desperate look in her eyes. She pursed her lips and looked around furtively. Once she confirmed that no one was paying attention to her, she closed the bag and tucked it away.

Just as she was preparing to leave, she felt a warm pair of hands rest on top of her head.

Before she could raise her head, a voice above her said, "If there's something you want to buy, come with me."

From the moment the young girl took out the bag, Lin Yuan noticed that there were thick calluses all over her hand. Despite her young age, her hands were rough and lacked any beauty to speak of.

There was also dirt caked under her fingernails. Such dirt resulted from dirt staining the fingernails after the hand had spent a lot of time in the dirt.

This meant that she did a lot of laborious and dirty work.

The young girl's fingers were also covered with injuries, and two of her fingers were swollen.

The accessories she wore were made of hemp leaves. The exterior of the hemp leaves appeared dark green and thick. However, they were also covered with small and sharp thorns.

It would be impossible to create accessories made of hemp leaves without leaving injuries all over one's hand.

The Reducing Heat Grass was a Bronze spiritual ingredient that could reduce inflammation and remove rotting flesh. It was also very effective against parasitic insect-species feys.

A young girl had to have a reason to spend her days doing hard labor and her nights creating accessories made of hemp leaves.

It was apparent that she was trying to save someone!

The Reducing Heat Grass was a very common spiritual ingredient. But the young girl's lack of courage to trade for it from merchant groups meant that she was on her own.

Malicious people could target a girl of her age if she went to a merchant group to trade for the Reducing Heat Grass.

Lin Yuan's heart ached when he saw how the girl carefully checked her surroundings before tucking away her bag of metal coins.

He decided to help her out.

When the young girl raised her head to look at Lin Yuan, she froze.

At that moment, she felt as though she was looking at a celestial being.

However, wariness soon appeared in her eyes. She resembled an injured deer licking its wounds in the forest.

A thought seemed to strike her. Instead of running, she mustered some bravery.

Chapter 1404: Finish a Good Deed With Another Good Deed

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

The young girl fearfully retracted her neck and said to Lin Yuan, "Thank you, Lord. Thank you for bringing me in with you."

The two guards looked at Lin Yuan in disbelief when he stuck up for the young girl. They did not understand why an elite dressed so lavishly would personally interfere in such a trivial matter.

Their eyes were trained to the point that they immediately recognized that Lin Yuan came from an impressive background. But instead of showing the usual joy at being able to welcome a VIP, they looked austere.

People from the Great Lush Federation turned up at Oak City often, and many chambers of commerce had set up branches in Oak City.

However, the people from the Great Lush Federation who came to Oak City wearing such luxurious garments were usually either the heads of the chambers of commerce or the subordinates sent by the disciples of secret elite families to conduct a check.

Hence, the Great Lush Federation elites rarely went to a competitor's chamber of commerce.

The two guards shared a look before one of them led Lin Yuan into the chamber of commerce while the other man ran upstairs to report this matter to the higher-ups.

Once Lin Yuan entered the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce, he noticed that the interior resembled the interior of the Radiance Federation's Rare Lifeform Pavilion.

But compared to the Rare Lifeform Pavilion, the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce laid out goods that were on the heavier side.

When they walked through the entrance, the young girl nervously said to Lin Yuan, "Lord, thank you for taking me in. I have to go and trade for the Reducing Heat Grass now."

Lin Yuan was slightly frustrated by what the young girl said.

Just as she was about to walk away, he said, "It's fine if you're trying to save a C-rank spirit qi professional. But if you're trying to save a D-rank spirit qi professional or a regular person, the Reducing Heat Grass will severely affect their organs negatively and cause them to start filling up with blood. If there's a parasitic insect-species fey inside this person that has punctured this person's organs, only a skilled healing-type spirit qi professional will be able to save them."

Lin Yuan's words caused the girl to freeze. Helplessness and sorrow bubbled up to the surface, and large beads of tears trickled down her face, leaving obvious streaks in their wake.

Lin Yuan gently wiped away her tears. As a result, some of the dirt on her face was transferred to his hand. She resembled a messy child that had been playing in the dirt.

He could understand how she was feeling. She did not have anyone to rely on and had to have undergone terrible hardships and mustered up unimaginable courage in order to earn that bag of coins.

But now, all that hope of being able to save that person that had been carrying her through all her struggles was dashed. She now saw how naive she had been. This desolation and despair could even cause an adult to crumble, much less a young girl.

Since he had encountered her and brought her into the chamber of commerce, Lin Yuan would finish off his good deed with another good deed.

Lin Yuan's fingertips lit up with a green glow, and all the scars peppering the young girl's hands disappeared. Even the thorns stuck in her fingernails vanished.

"It just so happens that I'm a healer. Stay with me for now. Once I'm done buying what I need to buy, I'll help you save that person."

The young girl looked delighted, and her tears turned into those of joy. All her wariness disappeared at the same moment that her hands were healed.

She did not know what about her was worth being given such treatment by this healer.

To ordinary people in the Divine Wood Federation, healers were just as venerable as Creation Masters because they were the ones who could save lives.

The young girl silently followed Lin Yuan, fearing that she would disturb him while he was observing the goods in the chamber of commerce.

When Lin Yuan got to the fifth shelf, an elderly man dressed in blue walked up to him and said, "Young Master, I am the Vice President of the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce's Oak City branch. If there's anything you have in mind, you can let me know. Or if you wish to discuss business, you can do so with me."

Lin Yuan noticed that the elderly man was not speaking to him like how he would speak to a regular customer. Otherwise, he would have mentioned discussing business. Upstodatee from n(0)/v𝒆/lbIn/.(co/m

Lin Yuan's expression did not change in the slightest as he said, "Does the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce have plant-type feys that can produce weather?"

The elderly man looked Lin Yuan, Liu Jie, and Ji Feng up and down again before he said, "There are many types of plant-type feys that can produce weather. We have stocks for the Clear Sunshine Flower, Hazy Wind Grass, Snow Crystal Orchid, Cloudy Fog Sunflower, and Thunder Clap Chrysanthemum. However, we will be auctioning them off.

"If you're interested in them, you can join the auction next Thursday. All these five kinds of plant-type feys will be up for auction then. If you want to build a new castle and are looking to decorate your garden, we have other surprises waiting for you besides these plant-type feys."

Lin Yuan frowned at the elderly man's advertisement for the auction.

If the auction was taking place in the next few days, he would be able to wait till then. However, there were still nine days until next Thursday, and Lin Yuan could not afford to wait.

"Is it possible for the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce to make an exception? I will buy those plant-type feys at their expected auction prices."

The old man thought,?Is this young man really here as a buyer?

Now, the elderly man started treating Lin Yuan as a potential customer.

"As long as you can afford it, you should be able to buy them before the auction. The invites for the auction haven't been sent out yet, and the item list can be altered at any time."

The elderly man sighed before continuing. "To be frank, the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce has run into a spot of trouble. The Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce and Profit Source Chamber of Commerce have joined forces to take control of all the resources open to the chambers of commerce in Oak City. We need to attract enough people for this auction in order to stand a chance against the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce and Profit Source Chamber of Commerce's combined attack. Hence, we will be auctioning off any decent resource available to us."

The old man's intention could not be clearer. Using the difficulty that the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce was experiencing as a reason to turn down his offer was the most polite option.

Just as Lin Yuan was about to try and make his case again, a gentle voice sounded out from behind him.

Chapter 1405: Rainbow Jade Hibiscus

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

"Young Master, one Rainbow Jade Hibiscus will be up for auction. If you're interested in plant-type feys that can change the weather, the Rainbow Jade Hibiscus should motivate you to join the auction."

Lin Yuan turned, and the elderly man walked past him to say, "Young Lady, why are you out here instead of resting?"

The girl did not reply immediately. Instead, she held her hand up to her mouth and coughed into it. She only stopped coughing when her face flushed slightly.

"Elder Duan, the account book is very clear. You've carefully done all the sums, so there's no need at all for me to worry. I heard that there was a VIP from my hometown here, so it's only right that I come out to take a look."

The girl was dressed in a long red dress that was adorned with many bright red feathers. These bright red feathers came from a Diamond phoenix-species fey.

She had a composed expression and the aura of someone who had a century's worth of wisdom. This was similar to the aura that Sun Ningxiang had.

It was likely that she came from one of the Great Lush Federation's secret elite families.

The girl was also silently observing Lin Yuan at the same time that he was studying her.

Lin Yuan had put on a set of plainer spirit qi clothes.

The only accessory he had on was a bronze pendant of a furnace. Its design was simple and had 99 diamond-shaped larimars embedded in it. Nonetheless, it was worth 6,000,000 Great Lush dollars.

The spirit qi clothes he was wearing were black and made of black silk. The hundreds of fortuitous patterns were embroidered with spider silk from a Diamond dark-type spider-species fey.

Lin Yuan's attire was enough for the girl to make a mental note of him.

The average disciples of secret families liked spending money on their clothes to show off their status. Only the truly powerful direct descendants paid attention to their accessories and would always add one or two to their outfits.

It was clear that this young man was the latter.

Besides his accessories, the girl marveled at Lin Yuan's aura and appearance.

She took two steps forward and reached out to Lin Yuan as she said, "Hello, my name is Li Wan. I'm the President of the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce."

Lin Yuan gently shook the girl's hand and said, "My last name is Lin."

Lin Yuan's mind was fully focused on the Rainbow Jade Hibiscus that Li Wan had mentioned.

Gray's Cloud Morph had gained the following abilities: Radiance of a Clear Day, Darkness of a Cloudy Day, Frozen Snowy Day, and Roar of a Windy Day. These abilities came from the Clear Sunshine Flower, Cloudy Fog Sunflower, Snow Crystal Orchid, and Hazy Wind Grass.

The Thunder Clap Chrysanthemum should be responsible for the thunderstorm weather.

Thunderstorms were the most violent weather phenomena in nature, and they were extremely deadly.

Lin Yuan dared not allow Gray to try absorbing thunderstorm weather before it reached Gold grade. But with the Thunder Clap Chrysanthemum, Gray would be able to absorb thunderstorm weather.

The Thunder Clap Chrysanthemum was a plant-type fey, and the strength of the weather it produced was linked to its grade and quality. As long as he could control the Thunder Clap Chrysanthemum's grade, he would be able to ensure that the thunderstorm weather it produced would not hurt Gray.

Sunny, cloudy, snowy, windy, and thunderstorm weather were very common in nature.

The rainbows produced by the Rainbow Jade Hibiscus were considered rare weather.

Gray had not yet encountered a rainbow from which it could absorb rainbow weather.

With the Rainbow Jade Hibiscus, Gray would be able to absorb rainbows and gain a new ability.

If Lin Yuan had known about the Rainbow Jade Hibiscus' existence, he might not have been set on trading for plant-type feys that could produce weather with the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce.

There were many chambers of commerce in Oak City. If the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce was unwilling to sell them for the sake of the auction, there were sure to be other chambers of commerce that would be willing.

Moreover, Lin Yuan could use his link to the Sincere Merchant Group to trade with the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce.

However, the other chambers of commerce might not have the Rainbow Jade Hibiscus.

Li Wan had mentioned the Rainbow Jade Hibiscus when she heard that Lin Yuan needed plant-type feys that could produce weather because she wanted to convince him to participate in the auction.

Li Wan said in her charming voice, "Young Master Lin, if you're coming to the auction, I can set a room aside for you so you won't be disturbed during the auction."

This was the first time that Li Wan was meeting Lin Yuan. He could tell from the way she was trying so hard to promote the auction that it was very important to her.

Apparently, the combined attack from the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce and Profit Source Chamber of Commerce was scaring the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce. Finndd the new𝒆st 𝒏ovels on n/𝒐

The Prosperous Chamber of Commerce was unwilling to sell the plant-type feys that could produce weather to him because they wanted to ensure they had enough items to auction off.

Lin Yuan met Li Wan's gaze and said softly, "The success of the auction will not depend on the weather-producing plant-type feys. As long as you have other attractive items at the auction, the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce would be able to pull in a crowd."

A pair of Bronze/Epic Item-Storing Walnuts appeared in Lin Yuan's hand, and he started to play with them.

At first, Li Wan assumed that Lin Yuan was still set on buying the weather-producing plant-type feys in advance. If so, she was disappointed at his lack of courtesy.

Elder Duan had already explained the difficulty that the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce was in, and she had shown him enough respect by inviting him three times.

There would be no point in treating Lin Yuan in a friendly manner if he was going to be overbearing.

But when she saw the Bronze/Epic Item-Storing Walnuts that appeared in his hand, she inhaled sharply and realized what he was getting at.

He was right! If the Bronze/Epic Item-Storing Walnuts appeared at the auction, there would be no need for the weather-producing plant-type feys. It would even be fine to sell the Rainbow Jade Hibiscus in advance.

Feys like the Rainbow Jade Hibiscus that could produce special weather were expensive in the Divine Wood Federation, but they were not in demand.

However, the Bronze/Epic Item-Storing Walnuts were completely different. Once the news was released that the Bronze/Epic Item-Storing Walnuts were going to appear at the auction, the elite of Oak City would arrive in throngs.

Chapter 1406: A Winemaker

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It was even possible that the elites from the other major cities in the Divine Wood Federation would come to attend the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce's auction because of the Bronze/Epic Item-Storing Walnuts.

With this pair of Item-Storing Walnuts, the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce would not have to be afraid of succumbing to the collusion between the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce and Profit Source Chamber of Commerce.

Most importantly, Li Wan noticed that the pair of Item-Storing Walnuts in Lin Yuan's hand had clearly not been played with before. This pushed their price up even higher.

Some of the obscenely wealthy elites could not endure owning Item-Storing Walnuts that had already been played with.

Li Wan glanced around and saw a few customers eyeing their group. She hurriedly gestured to Lin Yuan and said, "Young Master Lin, why don't you come and have a drink in our guest lounge? We have not afforded you the treatment you deserve."

Lin Yuan knew that Li Wan understood what he was getting at. He tossed the Item-Storing Walnuts around as he said, "Since you think of me as a valued guest, I would like to send my best wishes that the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce's auction will be a big success."

Li Wan was now sure that Lin Yuan intended on trading the Bronze/Epic Item-Storing Walnuts with the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce.

However, the weather-changing plant-type feys' value was far from that of the Bronze/Epic Item-Storing Walnuts.

Li Wan shot a look at Elder Duan as she said, "Go and fetch the list of items for the auction so Young Master Lin can see if anything catches his fancy."

The elderly man beamed and replied, "Rest assured, Young Lady. I will fetch the list of items now and place them in the guest lounge."

The elderly man had seen how Li Wan had tired herself out over trying to ensure that the auction would be a success. Yet, he was unable to help in any way.

The Li family was one of the Great Lush Federation's secret elite families, but they were no longer as powerful as they used to be because of that incident. They could no longer stand up to the secret elite families that were behind the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce and the Profit Source Chamber of Commerce.

The Prosperous Chamber of Commerce had 47 branches in total in the Great Lush Federation and Divine Wood Federation. However, the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce and Profit Source Chamber of Commerce had over 100 branches each.

As such, the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce's cut of the profits was eaten into by the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce and Profit Source Chamber of Commerce.

The Prosperous Chamber of Commerce's branch in Oak City was amongst the top five chambers of commerce in Oak City. Hence, this branch had to be kept afloat no matter what.

Otherwise, the merchant groups under the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce that operated out of Divine Wood Federation and Iron Wood Federation would lose their only stopover.

Now, hope had appeared.

Li Wan had decided to open the guest lounge to Lin Yuan because he was indeed an important guest, and her sincerity would be more apparent if their discussion was conducted there. But another reason was that the various chambers of commerce often dispatched spies, and Li Wan could not say for sure that none of them were currently in the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce.

If the conversation between her and Lin Yuan was leaked, the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce and Profit Source Chamber of Commerce would definitely jump into action.

The Prosperous Chamber of Commerce was in a shaky situation and solely depended on Li Wan. She could not allow anything to affect the auction that would decide the fate of the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce.

On the way to the guest lounge, Lin Yuan could clearly feel the young girl's anxiousness rising.

He reached out and patted her head as he said, "I have the Reducing Heat Grass. You don't have to go out to buy it. Once I'm done trading for what I need, I'll help you save that person."

Lin Yuan handed the Reducing Heat Grass to the young girl.

The young girl hurriedly clutched the Reducing Heat Grass close to her body as she looked at Lin Yuan with gratitude brimming in her eyes and said, "Thank you, Big Brother."

Li Wan's eyes flashed when she noticed this.

She had come out to personally meet Lin Yuan because she had received a report from one of the blue guards.

Hence, she knew that Lin Yuan and the young girl had bumped into each other at the entrance of the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce.

Li Wan could tell from their interaction that Lin Yuan was extremely kind. There was no other reason he would help this clearly impoverished young girl. Diiscover new 𝒔tories at n𝒐ve/lbin.c/o𝒎

Thus, she started looking at him in a different light.

She felt that his behavior did not match that of a disciple of a secret elite family.

However, it could not be denied that Lin Yuan was shining brightly.

Once they arrived at the guest room, Li Wan picked up a pot from a shelf and a glass cup as she said, "This is Elephant Bone Wine made from the bones of giant elephants that have been fermenting for decades. It is one of my family's secrets. Please have a taste."

She poured the wine into a cup. Just as she was about to pour a second cup, Lin Yuan stopped her and said, "Only one of us drinks alcohol. You have a coughing problem, so you shouldn't drink."

Lin Yuan handed the cup of wine to Ji Feng.

Ji Feng had the habit of sipping wine during meals. Now that he was faced with wine made by one of the Great Lush Federation's secret elite families, the alcoholic in him reared its head.

He took the cup from Lin Yuan and took a sip before he said, "The Elephant Bone Wine is made from Diamond elephant bones, elephant blood, and the Elephant Grave Vine. The metallic taste of the elephant blood has been overpowered by the taste of the alcohol to produce a strong fragrance. It's interesting."

When Lin Yuan said that he did not drink alcohol, she felt that he was like a winemaker.

Winemakers were always clear-headed and looked out for themselves.

But Lin Yuan's second line had come from a place of concern, and Li Wan knew that Lin Yuan was a thoughtful person.

This made Li Wan curious about which secret elite family Lin Yuan was from. Could he be the only direct descendant of his family and did not have to compete with anyone?

People who were used to competition would not be able to have such kind and thoughtful personalities.

Before Li Wan's train of thought could go any further, she was stunned by what Ji Feng said.

Although Ji Feng had not stated the Elephant Bone Wine's entire recipe, what he said had been exactly on the nail. It was as though he had personally participated in the brewing process.

This meant that this man drank good-quality alcohol often. Otherwise, he would have developed such an elevated palate.

Chapter 1407: The Fifth Disaster

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Since Ji Feng had addressed Lin Yuan as 'Young Master', it meant that he was one of Lin Yuan's servants. When were servants able to drink high-quality wine?

Li Wan took a deep breath and picked up a pitcher of freshly squeezed juice. She poured out a glass each for Lin Yuan, Liu Jie, and the young girl.

At first, the girl was slightly afraid.

Lin Yuan could tell how much she wanted to drink the juice but was too afraid to do so. He pushed the cup of juice over to her and said, "Drink it. If you want more, I'm sure President Li Wan will be happy to give you a refill."

He gave the pair of Bronze/Epic Item-Storing Walnuts to Li Wan and said, "This pair of Bronze/Epic Item-Storing Walnuts should be enough to trade for all the weather-producing feys in the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce, right?"

Li Wan received the Item-Storing Walnuts and looked them over carefully. Her expression changed abruptly.

When she held them close, she could detect the faint fragrance of nature.

This meant that they had just been plucked from the Item-Storing Walnut Trees and had their skin removed. It could not have been ten days since they were plucked.

This meant that it was likely that he had a Bronze/Epic Item-Storing Walnut Tree.

Now, Li Wan no longer thought about how she could trade for the Bronze/Epic Item-Storing Walnuts but how she could establish a long-term working relationship with Lin Yuan.

With the Bronze/Epic Item-Storing Walnuts, the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce's auction was sure to be a success. However, they would inevitably be bought by someone.

Once the pair of Item-Storing Walnut Trees was gone, the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce would still be unable to compete with the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce and Profit Source Chamber of Commerce despite becoming more reputable.

If they were able to ensure a constant stream of Bronze/Epic Item-Storing Walnuts at future Prosperous Chamber of Commerce auctions, they would be able to stand their ground against the other two chambers of commerce.

Li Wan organized her thoughts and said, "Young Master Lin, we have seven Clear Sunshine Flowers, Nine Cloudy Fog Sunflowers, six Snow Crystal Orchids, seven Hazy Wind Grass, and only about four Thunder Clap Chrysanthemums. However, we only have one Rainbow Jade Hibiscus at our Great Lush Federation branch. I can give you a 10% discount which means their total value is 5.76 million.

"However, this pair of freshly plucked Bronze/Epic Item-Storing Walnuts will go for at least 25 million at the auction. The highest price that Bronze/Epic Item-Storing Walnuts have been auctioned off for is 35 million. It happened at an auction in Sacred Forest City. Still, we are unable to offer such a high price. How about I price them at 31 million? Would that be okay with you?"

Lin Yuan had heard from Zhang Tong and Luo Ya about the value of the Bronze/Epic Item-Storing Walnuts. Both of them had said that they were worth at least 28 million. The price that Li Wan stated fell within this range.

It was unlikely that the Item-Storing Walnuts would fetch a price of 31 million Great Lush dollars.

An auction placed a maximum price on every item to prevent an outbreak of aggression.

It seemed that Li Wan was not trying to make money off of this deal with Lin Yuan. Rather, she would be spending money to pay for an improvement in their reputation.

Moreover, Li Wan had given him a discount on the weather-producing feys. This meant that she had saved him several hundred thousand Great Lush dollars.

Lin Yuan was extremely pleased by the trade that Li Wan was proposing.

"Let's do it as you said. As for the remaining 20 million Great Lush dollars, I will account for it using the items on the list you gave me. Don't worry. I will still leave some items. I won't buy the items that I don't need. If I'm interested in any of the items, I don't mind providing your auction with even more items."

Another pair of Item-Storing Walnuts appeared in Lin Yuan's hand.

Li Wan's heart almost erupted with delight.

She had been afraid that Lin Yuan would buy up all the items available for auction.

But with this pair of Bronze/Epic Item-Storing Walnuts, the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce's auction was sure to be packed.

But if Lin Yuan bought up all the items, the auction would still be a failure, and people might discover the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce's situation.

When Lin Yuan took out another pair of the Item-Storing Walnuts, Li Wan could confirm that he did have the Bronze/Epic Item-Storing Walnut Tree. There was no other reason to explain why he had so many freshly plucked Bronze/Epic Item-Storing Walnuts.

This discovery made Li Wan certain that the family Lin Yuan came from had a Creation Master that was at least Class 4.

Her family, which was in decline, would not be able to compare to such a family.

At that moment, Elder Duan walked in with the list of items to be auctioned off. He was also carrying a tray with 34 plants on it.

There was a small scene above the tray. It depicted a sunny sky with a tornado brewing on one side and a snowstorm with flashing lightning and thunder on the other side. There was a rainbow between the two sides that seemed to connect them.

Lin Yuan noticed that all the weather-producing plant-type feys were Normal quality.

All of them were about the same size as the Flower Brocade Pearls. This meant that they would not take up much space in the Spirit Lock spatial zone while still enabling Gray to absorb various types of weather.

Since they were all Normal quality, it meant that the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce had nurtured them. Another possibility was that they had a source to buy these feys.

Lin Yuan received the list from Elder Duan but did not immediately read through it.

Instead, he looked up at Li Wan and said, "Is it possible for me to order weather-producing feys from the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce in the future?"

Li Wan had been struggling to come up with a way to establish a lasting connection with Lin Yuan. But now, he had solved the problem for her.

She said with a smile, "Of course you can. Besides the Clear Sunshine Flower, Cloudy Fog Sunflower, Snow Crystal Orchid, Hazy Wind Grass, and Thunder Clap Chrysanthemum, I can also obtain others like the Soft Rain Lotus."

Chapter 1408: Dark Sun Send Mess Butterflies

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Li Wan paused before continuing. "However, whether I will be able to obtain feys that can produce special weather like the Rainbow Jade Hibiscus depends on luck."

Upon hearing that, Lin Yuan said, "Of course! I will set aside 10 million Great Lush dollars as the down payment for the weather-producing plant-type feys. From now on, I will buy up all the weather-producing plant-type feys you can get your hands on."

Lin Yuan looked down and started to read through the list.

There was another reason besides Gray why Lin Yuan wanted to collect as many weather-producing plant-type feys as possible.

He had discovered that there seemed to be a lack of weather in the marsh world. It was always hot and humid there, and they did not have seasons.

This environment was suitable to nurture most types of plant-type feys. However, some plant-type feys needed different seasons in order to be properly nurtured. Hence, weather-producing plant-type feys were required in order to nurture such feys in the marsh world.

Li Wan's heart skipped a beat.

Lin Yuan's nonchalant attitude with regard to 10 million Great Lush dollars made Li Wan break out in a sweat.

Although Li Wan was the head of the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce and controlled the combined profits of all 47 branches, she could not produce 10 million Great Lush dollars even if she tried.

The chambers of commerce needed many funds to maintain their operations. Li Wan had been troubled by finances in recent years.

After all, the money that they earned through the sale of feys would be spent quickly. Once their stream of funds was cut off, the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce would immediately have to halt its operations.

Li Wan had invested a lot of money into advertising the auction.

The 10 million Great Lush dollars from Lin Yuan would help cover some advertising costs.

As Lin Yuan started looking through the list, he did not spot anything that he was interested in.

Most of the items on the list were fur cloaks and items made of metal. Lin Yuan had no lack of such items, so he did not need to trade for them from the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce.

Lin Yuan continued looking through the list of items. The most eye-catching things were the Diamond X/Epic Burning Wood Wasp Bird and the Bronze/Flawless Sweet Raining Rabbit.

The Burning Wood Wasp Bird was both wood and avian-type, but it was too small to carry people. Yet, it possessed powerful fire- and wood-elemental energy. It could also be kept as a pet. Moreover, it had a pleasing appearance and was beloved by many spirit qi professionals.

The Sweet Raining Rabbit was a healing-type fey, but its abilities and exclusive skill were not impressive. However, it had a better appearance.

It would be a good choice for daughters of elite families who were affiliated with healing-type feys.

However, Lin Yuan could nurture Bronze/Epic feys. Both of these feys did not meet his standards.

But when Lin Yuan got to the last item on the list, he was immediately stunned.

The Prosperous Chamber of Commerce was selling a carcinoma fey! Moreover, this insect-species carcinoma fey was so vile!

The list did not state the black and gold butterfly's name. It only listed the butterfly as a newly discovered insect-species carcinoma fey.

However, Lin Yuan immediately knew what the insect-species carcinoma fey was. It was the Dark Sun Send Mess Butterflies!

The Dark Sun Send Mess Butterflies were listed as number 13 on the Spirit Guards' list of carcinoma feys to be contained.

The first 20 carcinoma feys were all titled the 'Fifth Day Disaster'. This referred to how any of these feys could cause a disaster that resulted in the death of thousands if they were released.

The Dark Sun Send Mess Butterflies referred to two feys, not one. There was a male and a female one, the Sun Send Mess Butterfly and Dark Send Mess Butterfly.

The Dark Sun Send Mess Butterflies could choose to live off a lifeform of the same gender and turn that lifeform into their nest.

When this lifeform interacted with others of the same species, the Dark Sun Send Mess Butterflies would contaminate the entire species.

The Dark Sun Send Mess Butterflies could gain access to the minds of the lifeforms it had inserted itself into.

This meant that the insect-species carcinoma fey could steal intelligence for itself.

Instead of having the Dark Sun Send Mess Butterflies set, the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce only had the Dark Send Mess Butterfly.

The Dark Sun Send Mess Butterflies were usually inseparable. It was impossible to only catch one of them.

Lin Yuan asked Li Wan solemnly, "Shouldn't there have been another white and gold version of this carcinoma fey? Where is it?"

Li Wan was surprised to hear what Lin Yuan said.

Could he have recognized the insect-species carcinoma fey? It must be! There was no other reason why he knew that there was another white and gold one. VIssịT n0(v)eL/b(i)(n).𝘤𝑜𝓂 for the best novel reading experience

Li Wan said regretfully, "One of our merchant groups happened to catch this pair of feys. But the merchant group ran into a band of robbers on their way to Oak City. Although the merchant group's experts managed to kill the band of robbers, the gold and white butterfly was accidentally released."

Lin Yuan clenched his fist. He had to find the Sun Send Mess Butterfly. If it was left out on its own, Oak City, the Divine Wood Federation, and the entire Startling Lines Continent would be plunged into disaster.

Luckily, the Dark Send Mess Butterfly had been captured. Otherwise, the 'Fifth Day Disaster' would be unleashed on Oak City.

The Dark Send Mess Butterfly could live off all male lifeforms. Currently, it had not started to do so. But once it started, its influence would start spreading rapidly.

The host lifeforms would all be in the same state while under the control of the Dark Sun Send Mess Butterflies.

The Dark Sun Send Mess Butterflies would sap nutrients from their hosts and birth a mutt worm.

The only thing the worm would do was consume. It would consume anything that was alive.

Eventually, the entire Startling Lines Continent would be covered with the worms and turn into a desolate land.

If not for the sea that separated the Startling Lines Continent from the other federations, the effects of the Fifth Day Disaster would spread to the entire world.

Lin Yuan already regarded the Startling Lines Continent as the back garden of Sky City, and he could not allow the Dark Sun Send Mess Butterfly to wreak havoc there.

According to the list of items to be auctioned off, the Dark Send Mess Butterfly was priced at 12 million Great Lush dollars.

Lin Yuan said, "I want this insect-species carcinoma fey. The remaining money can be used as the down payment for the weather-producing plant-type feys. Please give me this insect-species carcinoma fey as soon as possible."

Chapter 1409: How Dare You Attack Me?

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Li Wan did not understand what had happened.

However, Lin Yuan's tone and demeanor changed when he saw the insect-species carcinoma fey.

It was not strange for a chamber of commerce to auction off an insect-species carcinoma fey. There was one at almost every large-scale auction.

Li Wan had wanted to continue establishing a connection with Lin Yuan. But it was clear that now was not a good time.

In order to show her sincerity, she personally fetched the Dark Send Mess Butterfly.

Once Lin Yuan collected the 34 weather-producing plant-type feys and the Dark Mess Send Butterfly, he immediately left the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce.

Ji Feng had never heard of the Dark Sun Send Mess Butterflies. But as the disciple of Night Leaning Moon and given that he used insect-species carcinoma feys in combat, Liu Jie knew more about the Dark Sun Send Mess Butterflies than Lin Yuan.

Liu Jie knew that the situation was extremely serious. But luckily, Lin Yuan now possessed the Dark Send Mess Butterfly.

The Dark Sun Send Mess Butterflies attracted each other. If the Dark Send Mess Butterfly was released, it would instantly try to seek out the Sun Send Mess Butterfly.

If the Sun Send Mess Butterfly had already attached itself to a lifeform, the host would be the Dark Send Mess Butterfly's goal.

This was a secret that the Spirit Guards had discovered after conducting research.

Liu Jie hurriedly told Lin Yuan this secret.

When Lin Yuan heard what Liu Jie said, he said sternly to the young girl, "I have something very important that I need to do now. If you're in a rush to return home, give me your address. You can go back first, and I'll head over to see you once I'm done. You can stay with me if you're not in a rush."

Conflict bloomed in the girl's round eyes.

She thought about her younger brother back home, who she badly needed to take care of. However, she was also afraid that Lin Yuan would disappear.

The young girl had felt a surge of warmth from Lin Yuan that she had never experienced before. This kind of warmth was called 'care'.

She remembered that there was still a fair amount of food at home, so she said softly to Lin Yuan, "Big Brother, go ahead and do what you need to do. I will stay by your side. Once you're done, you can return home with me to save my younger brother."

Lin Yuan patted the young girl's shoulder before he opened the cage holding the Dark Mess Send Butterfly and released half of the Fifth Day Disaster.

The Dark Send Mess Butterfly was only Elite IV/Elite and could not fly quickly. Lin Yuan could catch up to it if he sprinted.

It was not suitable for Lin Yuan to summon Blackie in such a situation. Even if it held back its dragon aura, it would still startle the Dark Send Mess Butterfly.

The situation would be bad if the Dark Send Mess Butterfly disappeared while it was trying to escape from Blackie. Điscover n𝒆w chapt𝒆rs 𝒐n n0𝒗e(l)bi𝒏.com

Thus, when Lin Yuan opened the cage, Liu Jie ordered the Insect Queen to produce 20 Bronze Hurricane Owlet Months. Five of the Hurricane Owlet Moths formed a group and used wind elements to carry the four people into the air.

Lin Yuan and the rest kept a 30 to 50-meter distance between them and the Dark Send Mess Butterfly to avoid disturbing it.

However, even if Lin Yuan's group did not bother the Dark Send Mess Butterfly, that did not mean that other people would do the same.

There were many people whose gazes followed Lin Yuan's group as they flew past. However, given the way Lin Yuan, Liu Jie, and Ji Feng were dressed, none of them dared to say anything.

Some kind of people tried to catch the Dark Send Mess Butterfly because they thought Lin Yuan's group was trying but failing to catch it.

However, a few Gold Hurricane Owlet Moths stopped these people.

If the Dark Send Mess Butterfly was startled, Lin Yuan would be unable to find the Sun Send Mess Butterfly.

Oak City was one of the Divine Wood Federation's major cities, and many of the people watching had high statuses.

Some of the people watching were Creation Masters, and they immediately recognized the black and gold butterfly as an insect-species carcinoma fey.

Any insect-species carcinoma fey represented a mountain of wealth that no one would be willing to let go of.

This matter was too important for Lin Yuan to take the time to attend to these people.

He summoned Genius from the Spirit Lock spatial zone. Genius appeared in Lin Yuan's arms and started to meow.

Genius had been busy teaching the Hundred Questions Beasts, setting up the marsh world, and nurturing some special feys. Thus, it had not cuddled up to Lin Yuan in a long while.

Lin Yuan looked at the people in front of them who were trying to catch the Dark Send Mess Butterfly and said to Genius, "Genius, use your tails to slap the people and feys who are trying to lay a hand on the Dark Send Mess Butterfly."

Genius meowed and said with determination, "Don't worry, Yuan!"

Genius' body lit up with a white glow and its eight tails extended until they were almost ten meters long. Now, each of its tails could wrap around three adults.

Genius swung its tails and hit a person who was about to summon his fey. It did not care about this person's status at all.

Although Genius was not skilled at combat, it was still a Diamond/Fantasy fey. Hence, it still had more physical power than other Diamond combat-type feys.

With Genius' movements, the area around the Dark Send Mess Butterfly was cleared, and the ground was littered with people who had tried to capture the Dark Send Mess Butterfly.

One of them was a young man who was so chubby that he resembled a balloon. He held his back as he bellowed, "What the hell? How dare you attack me? Are you craving death?"

The man stood up, and two young girls behind him stood up as well. The two girls fought their pain and supported the rotund young man's arms as they said, "Young Master Lu, are you okay? We'll massage your back!"

The two girls started to massage the young man's back. When they touched his wound, he berated them in pain and slapped their faces.

Chapter 1410: Just Needs to Be Handled

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The slap sent the two girls crashing to the ground, and fear spread across their faces. They dared not pick themselves up for some time.

The other people in the area hurriedly left in case they also incurred Young Master Lu's wrath.

Young Master Lu had black hair and eyes and was not native to the Divine Wood Federation. However, no one dared to cross him in Oak City because the Lu family was behind the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce.

Although this young man was not a direct descendant of the Lu family, he was an important companion of the Lu family's First Young Master.

Even the Vice President of the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce's branch in Oak City had to be polite to him. Thus, there was no way that ordinary people could even attempt to do so.

The fat young man with the murderous gaze looked in Lin Yuan's direction and snarled, "The two of you better go back and fetch more people. I want to see the face of the person who has the audacity to hit me because of an insect-species carcinoma fey!" Finndd the new𝒆st 𝒏ovels on n/𝒐

The two girls scrambled to their feet and did as the fat young man said. In order to ensure that the fat young man would be satisfied, the two girls called the President of the Oak City branch of the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce, Song Dingzhen, and asked her to send out experts from the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce to help Lu Kun save his pride.

The two girls' request caused Song Dingzhen to furrow her brow. However, given Lu Kun's status, she still sent out a small team of guards from the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce.

Song Dingzhen could not help but sigh when she put down the phone. She then pulled out numerous Bronze/Normal and Silver/Normal Item-Storing Walnuts.

The only function they had was to carry goods for merchant groups.

A man in a standard black uniform next to Song Dingzhen said, "Vice President, has Young Master Lu Kun gotten himself into trouble again?"

Song Dingzhen said with a tone of resentment, "We have already sealed the collaboration with the Profit Source Chamber of Commerce. Lu Kun is here to sign the contract, and he will leave Oak City once he's done. I shall have to fulfill all of his needs for now. My position in Oak City will be more stable if I can satisfy him."

The man dressed in a black uniform could not help but purse his lips.

Lu Kun had been in Oak City for less than a week, but more than 100 people had already died because of him. Many of these people had been guests at the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce, and this incident would not reflect well on the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce.

The Profit Source Chamber of Commerce had already raised the issue many times to the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce.

But when he thought about all that Song Dingzhen had done over the past few years, the man felt that she was no saint compared to Lu Kun. In fact, it could be said that she was worse than him.

While Song Dingzhen was looking through the Item-Storing Walnuts, the man asked, "Vice President, should we keep these Item-Storing Walnuts and get the merchant groups to handle them as usual?"

He drew a line across his neck.

Song Dingzhen asked with interest, "What's the name of that low-ranking merchant group? Is it Sincere Merchant Group?"

The man hurriedly replied, "The Sincere Merchant Group is the lowest-ranked merchant group under the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce. There are almost 100 members in the merchant group, but their captain is the only one with a Gold fey. They usually take the route at the border between Oak City and the Iron Hammer Federation.

"For some reason, they recently ran into a spot of luck and managed to trade for many good items at the border of the Iron Hammer Federation. Although the beast skins in the Item-Storing Walnuts are Silver at best, they are in perfect shape. Many of the minerals can be sold for high prices in the Iron Hammer Federation.

"I did a calculation, and their entire haul is worth a million Great Lush dollars. The captain of the Sincere Merchant Group came to me with these items with the intention of trading them for some wine and plants. They probably want to use them to make a windfall in the Iron Hammer Federation.

"The Sincere Merchant probably obtained some miracle as the entire merchant group seems to be in a happy state. As per the rules, I brought all the items to you so you could have a look at them."

Song Dingzhen looked amused as she said, "Hehe, they're happy? Doesn't the Sincere Merchant Group know that miracles can change hands? Since they're just a small merchant group, you can just come up with some reason to send them away, and I'll split the benefits with you. Go and get to work."

The man bowed and said, "Thank you, Vice President. There have been more and more merchant groups who want to be part of the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce. We can't handle the quantity. Now that we are working with the Profit Source Chamber of Commerce, why don't we shift some of the merchant groups over to them?"

Song Dingzhen scoffed and said, "How can we be saturated with merchant groups? We can just pick the better ones. Go and continue promoting the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce. The merchant groups who decide to join us will gain funds that they can use to trade for items. They will gain 2,000 metal coins after each return trip."

Song Dingzhen waved her hand before picking up the wine bottle from the table and taking a sip.

Lin Yuan had been following the Dark Send Mess Butterfly for about 15 minutes. He noticed that it had flown to the border of Oak City.

The only people who lived at the border of Oak City were those at the bottom of the food chain and the homeless. The place was very chaotic, and it was not uncommon for wicked incidents to happen.

The young girl looked shocked and asked, "Big Brother, why did you fly to the place I live? We're going to arrive at my house soon! Look at that store selling fruits that are about to rot. My younger brother and I buy fruits from them using metal coins when we're hungry. We buy five kilograms of fruits and cut away the rotted portions. The remaining portion is so sweet."

Little Flower's eyes shone when she talked about food. Her smile was pure, and she looked hopeful for the future. There was not a shred of bitterness on her face.

Lin Yuan sighed at her innocent smile.

He and Chu Ci had had to fend for themselves back in the Xia Region, but they still led better lives than Little Flower was leading.

Chapter 1411: The Sun Send Mess Butterfly's Host

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After leaving the Radiance Federation, Lin Yuan saw how dark and tragic the world truly was.

The Warm Sun Fund should be ready to begin operations once he returned to the Radiance Federation.

Lin Yuan could help Little Flower because he met her by chance. However, he could not help every destitute person in every town.

He hoped that after the Warm Sun Fund started, the Radiance Federation would be free from such situations at least. He wanted a ray of sunshine to bring light to all the people cowering in darkness and give them the courage to live.

When he heard what Little Flower said, Lin Yuan decided to give two fruits to Little Flower. But before he could do so, Liu Jie handed her a chain of gold.

Little Flower was slightly afraid when she saw the chain of gold. However, she was touched by Liu Jie's kind smile and thanked him before receiving the chain of gold.

Lin Yuan thought about how he had encountered Liu Jie at the lowest point of Liu Jie's life. During that time, his eyes had been completely devoid of light.

Yet, he had still helped many orphans and set up funds for their education.

It seemed that Liu Jie really liked children!

Suddenly, Lin Yuan saw the Dark Send Mess Butterfly slowing down. It folded its wings and floated toward a dilapidated thatched house.

Little Flower gasped and exclaimed, "Big Brother, that's my house!"

Lin Yuan inhaled sharply. Could the Sun Send Mess Butterfly's host be Little Flower's younger brother?

This would explain why Little Flower needed to buy the Reducing Heat Grass. The Sun Send Mess Butterfly's host would start to burn up, and these symptoms fit the illnesses that the Reducing Heat Grass could cure.

However, the Reducing Heat Grass could not heal a host with the Sun Send Mess Butterfly living in them. Rather, the Reducing Heat Grass could cause the Sun Send Mess Butterfly to go insane and speed up the body's burning rate.

Little Flower was completely unaware of the situation. Lin Yuan turned and said to her in a grim voice, "Little Flower, when did your brother start having fever symptoms?"

She paused to look through her memories before saying, "Four days ago, a bump appeared on Little Grass' arm. I took him to ask Uncle Cow, who said that it was just a boil. I believed him and took Little Grass home. But the next day, Little Grass' arm swelled up, and thick blood started flowing out of his arm. By nighttime, he had fainted. So, I took out all the money I had to buy the Reducing Heat Grass. He woke up the next day but wasn't as chatty as he used to be."

Little Flower recounted the events to Lin Yuan in detail.

Lin Yuan and Liu Jie's expressions changed when they heard what Little Flower said. They were almost certain that Little Grass was the Sun Send Mess Butterfly's host.

He had probably passed out the second night because the Sun Send Mess Butterfly was taking control of his thoughts. By the time he woke up the next morning, he was no longer the younger brother that Little Flower knew. He was now the 'Fifth Day Disaster', Sun Send Mess Butterfly.

Luckily, Little Flower was not male. Otherwise, the Sun Send Mess Butterfly would also have taken control of her by the morning of the third day.

The Dark Send Mess Butterfly entered the house. Before Lin Yuan and the rest landed on the ground, the door to the thatched house opened.

A small boy about six years old ran out of the house.

There was a black and gold butterfly perched on his shoulder that was flapping its wings. This was the Dark Send Mess Butterfly that had just entered the house.

Little Flower anxiously shouted, "Little Grass, didn't I tell you not to leave the house? Why did you run out here? Go back in. This big brother is a healer who can heal you!"

She ran over and wrapped the little boy in her arms.

At that moment, the Dark Send Mess Butterfly shot towards Little Flower. But before it could get near to her, the 20 Hurricane Owlet Moths kicked up violent winds that formed a cage to keep the Dark Send Mess Butterfly away.

The little boy's face turned menacing when he saw this and strode toward Lin Yuan, Liu Jie, and Ji Feng.

Naturally, Lin Yuan and the rest could not allow the boy to get near them as they would fall under the Sun Send Mess Butterfly's control.

Lin Yuan did not move from where he was standing, and a swirling pool of quicksand appeared under the little boy's legs. He immediately sunk in.

A pair of hands made of yellow sand appeared out of the quicksand and trapped the young boy in their grip.

The Close Guard Sand started to move more violently and formed a smog of sand that prevented the young boy from using any special methods to touch Lin Yuan and the rest.

The Dark Sun Send Mess Butterflies needed to use hosts and absorb spirit qi from nature in order to evolve. The more hosts they had under their control, the higher their grade and quality would be.

The Sun Send Mess Butterfly had only taken control of the little boy. It was Elite quality, just like the Dark Send Mess Butterfly, and could not break free of the cage that Source Sand had created. nÊw st𝒐ries at n𝒐 𝒎

Little Flower was astonished by what was happening. She looked between her trapped brother and the big brother who had given her fruits to eat and offered to heal her brother.

She instinctively ran away from Lin Yuan and Liu Jie to go and protect her younger brother.

Lin Yuan immediately held her back and told her about the current situation.

After understanding the situation, Little Flower pursed her lips and stared at the little boy.

Lin Yuan was feeling exceedingly conflicted.

The best way to get the Sun Send Mess Butterfly to show itself would be to damage its nest. However, he was unwilling to do so because he saw too much of himself and Chu Ci in this pair of siblings.

The thought crossed his mind many times about what he would have done if Chu Ci had become the Dark Send Mess Butterfly's host a few years ago.

It was likely he would not allow anyone to hurt Chu Ci even if he had to make an enemy of the entire world, and she had become the eye of an earth-topping disaster.

At that moment, the same thoughts were running through Little Flower's head.

Chapter 1412: Lin Yuan's Plan

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Lin Yuan looked down into Little Flower's eyes and saw obstinance. He thought about the way that the Dark Sun Send Mess Butterflies attached themselves to their hosts and turned to ask Liu Jie, "Big Brother Liu, the Insect Queen can control insect-species carcinoma feys. Is there a way for it to suppress the Dark Sun Send Mess Butterflies? Half an hour will do!"

Liu Jie communicated with the Insect Queen before replying, "The Insect Queen can only suppress insect-species carcinoma feys if they have less spiritual energy than it. Once the Dark Sun Send Mess Butterflies attach themselves to hosts, they will take over their thoughts and memories and absorb their hosts' spiritual energy. If they attach themselves to children, I can use the Angelfish of Bliss' fish coats to replenish the spiritual energy so that it'll be able to last half an hour."

Liu Jie could guess what Lin Yuan's intention was. However, this plan was too risky. Nonetheless, this was the best option for the little girl and boy.

Lin Yuan turned to Ji Feng and asked, "Ji Feng, can the Prior Decree Sleeping Lotus plant a soul seed in a soul to heal cracks that might happen to the soul? It only needs to last for half an hour!"

Ji Feng said with confidence, "I don't need to call the Prior Decree Sleeping Lotus back for this. I can plant the soul seed myself. One soul seed will be able to hold onto the two children's souls for up to a day, much less half an hour."

Lin Yuan nodded.

If the Insect Queen could suppress the Dark Sun Send Mess Butterflies while Ji Feng could guarantee that their souls would remain intact, Lin Yuan was confident that he would be able to use the Jasmine Lily's Severed Limbs Growth to heal them while their flesh was being damaged.

With these three conditions, Lin Yuan could proceed with what he was about to do.

He tightly pursed his lips and said to the silent Little Flower, "I know your brother is the only person who matters to you. However, he is under the control of an insect-species carcinoma fey. Even if I have a way to remove it from him, your brother will die the moment it leaves his body."

Little Flower's gaze darkened with every word that came out of Lin Yuan's mouth.

Suddenly, Lin Yuan's tone changed, and he said, "But this doesn't mean that all hope is lost. It's just that the plan I have in mind is risky. If it succeeds, both you and your brother will live. But if it fails, both of you will die."

Little Flower clutched Lin Yuan's sleeve and said pleadingly, "Big Brother, I'm willing to do it. I'm begging you. Please save Little Grass!"

The Hurricane Owlet Moths moved away, and the Dark Send Mess Butterfly immediately flew to the back of Little Flower's neck and tunneled into her body.

At first, Little Flower was still conscious.

At that moment, a pool of quicksand appeared below her feet, and she was soon trapped by a pair of hands made of sand as well.

Lin Yuan said to Little Flower, "Your younger brother will wake up from this soon. If you can handle the pain from your soul, you can try to encourage your younger brother." Finndd the new𝒆st 𝒏ovels on n/𝒐

Lin Yuan nodded at Liu Jie and Ji Feng.

Liu Jie gave Lin Yuan a thumbs up, and a fairy with long purple hair and wearing dark green armor made of insect shell with four wings sprouting from its back flew out of the Dimensional Light Moth. This was the Insect Queen.

The Insect Queen had fused with the Blade Queen Bee's psychotoxin, and its looks had changed drastically.

Although it was wearing armor made of insect shells, it still looked delicate and fearful of strangers.

The Insect Queen's personality did not give a clue to the fact that it was a weapon that could produce armies of insects.

Liu Jie said sternly, "Insect Queen, do your best to suppress the Dark Sun Send Mess Butterflies inside these two children. Try your best to lower their energy levels using psychotoxin."

The Insect Queen flew over to Little Flower and Little Grass and reached out its left hand toward them.

Its index finger lit up with a dark purple light, and the Insect Queen inserted the finger into Little Flower's neck, followed by Little Grass' right arm.

Soon, the Insect Queen's eyes turned silvery blue, and a stream of spiritual energy flowed into the two children.

The spiritual energy did not target Little Flower and Little Grass. Their bodies were like mesh that the spiritual energy flowed through to reach the Dark Sun Send Mess Butterflies that were hiding within the children.

However, the Insect Queen's attempt to suppress the Dark Sun Send Mess Butterflies was met with intense resistance.

The Insect Queen's spiritual energy reached the Dark Send Mess Butterfly inside Little Flower first, and she started to tremble.

The bump in her neck expanded, and many bloody lesions soon appeared all over Little Flower's body.

The Dark Send Mess Butterfly was trying to change Little Flower's body into its nest as soon as possible in order to fight back against the Insect Queen. But the longer the Insect Queen injected spiritual energy into Little Flower, the more sluggish the Dark Send Mess Butterfly became.

Ji Feng saw his opportunity and planted a soul seed inside Little Flower's soul to protect it.

There was still nothing happening on Little Grass' side. This meant that the Insect Queen had yet to find the Sun Send Mess Butterfly.

Little Grass' body had already been fully turned into the Sun Send Mess Butterfly's nest. Finding the Sun Send Mess Butterfly inside its nest would take time and patience.

The Dark Send Mess Butterfly had only just entered Little Flower's body, so her situation would be easy to address.

However, it would be a much more difficult task when it came to Little Grass.

Inside the nest, the Sun Send Mess Butterfly was sapping Little Grass' spiritual energy and could fight back against the Insect Queen's spiritual energy. Even with the help of the psychotoxins, they would have to grapple for some time.

Lin Yuan summoned the Jasmine Lily and instructed it to use the Bud of Mountain Jade on its head to use Heal on Little Grass.

When Lin Yuan ordered the Bud of Mountain Jade to bloom, a beam of green light shot out and landed on Little Grass to form a belt of vitality.

Chapter 1413: Accidental Soul Fusions

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The Jasmine Lily quickly healed the lesions and pustules on Little Grass.

At that moment, the Insect Queen's spiritual energy caught hold of the Sun Send Mess Butterfly. The Sun Send Mess Butterfly thrashed about within Little Grass' body.

The eggs it released hatched and produced a large number of Sun Send Mess Worms. These worms were the beacon that the Dark Send Mess Butterfly had followed.

The Sun Send Mess Worms burst out from Little Grass' skin, causing new wounds that were open to infection by the bacteria in his surroundings. But the moment the wounds appeared, the Bud of Mountain Jade healed them.

Even if the Sun Send Mess Worms continuously destroyed his organs, the Bud of Mountain Jade would be able to use Severed Limbs Growth to change his genetic model and enable his organs to regrow rapidly.

During this cycle, the Sun Send Mess Butterfly would be affected by the Insect Queen's psychotoxins and slowly become suppressed by its spiritual energy. Eventually, Little Grass lost consciousness.

When Little Grass regained his consciousness, Ji Feng implanted a soul seed in him. Otherwise, the soul seed would have been planted in the Sun Send Mess Butterfly's soul.

Once the soul seed was utilized, the energy could not be recalled. Hence, Ji Feng could not allow a mistake on his part to jeopardize the entire operation.

Little Grass started to cry once he regained consciousness, and his soul started to feel the pain of being mutilated and healed over and over. Without the help of the soul seed, Little Grass would have fallen into a coma.

Little Grass spotted Little Flower and reached out a trembling hand toward her as though he was drowning, and she was a piece of plywood he could cling to for survival, albeit Little Flower was only a young girl of only 13 years of age.

Little Flower fought against the pain and started to explain the situation to the newly conscious Little Grass.

The two of them were about to enter the most dangerous point, which was the last-ditch retaliation from the Dark Sun Send Mess Butterflies.

Little Flower did not have time to fully explain the situation to Little Grass, but Lin Yuan had already prepared for this.

Lin Yuan said to Genius, "Genius, use Connected Tails."

Genius swung its tails, and one of them turned into a white and shimmery belt. The belt fell from Genius' body and formed a link between Little Grass and Little Flower.

At that moment, Little Flower and Little Grass' memories were connected. When the siblings let out a pained cry, Lin Yuan hurriedly told Genius to stop using Connected Tails.

Although using Connected Tails on the siblings would allow them to encourage each other, it would also cause them to feel each other's pain.

One person's pain was difficult enough to handle. But the agony of two people's pain would be too much for the souls of two children.

Once their souls sustained injuries that were overly serious, even a soul seed planted by a pinnacle emperor-class expert like Ji Feng would be useless.

The Dark Sun Send Mess Butterflies started to attempt their final assault against the Insect Queen.

The psychotoxins caused the Dark Sun Send Mess Butterflies to feel as though death was creeping up on them. They decimated Little Grass and Little Flower's bodies with their last vestiges of strength.

The impact was so strong that it put pressure on the Jasmine Lily's healing. This was because tens of thousands of Dark Sun Send Mess Worms hatched at the same time.

If the Jasmine Lily stopped healing for even a moment, Little Flower and Little Grass would burst like balloons. nÊw st𝒐ries at n𝒐 𝒎

In order to stabilize the situation, Ji Feng planted another soul seed in Little Flower and Little Grass' souls.

As time ticked by, Liu Jie's expression became more strained, and beads of cold sweat dripped down his face.

The Insect Queen was usually more than capable of suppressing one insect-species carcinoma fey. However, Liu Jie had never tried suppressing two at once.

Although both of these insect-species carcinoma feys came from the same source, they had two sets of spirits and souls. Moreover, one of them had already stolen the spiritual energy of a six-year-old child.

Liu Jie took out numerous sets of fish coats and gave most of them to the Insect Queen. He left two or three for himself and quickly munched down on them. When his body digested the fish coats, his spiritual energy was replenished.

Just as Lin Yuan sensed that the Dark Sun Send Mess Butterflies were about to breathe their last breaths, they gathered their soul power and crashed into Little Flower and Little Grass' souls.

Lin Yuan thought that the soul power would be an attack on the siblings' souls, and the soul seeds would heal the damage.

However, Lin Yuan was surprised to see that a portion of the soul power slowly started to fuse with Little Flower and Little Grass' souls.

While the souls were fusing, the Dark Sun Send Mess Butterflies immediately felt the healing effects of the soul seeds. They stopped damaging Little Flower and Little Grass' bodies.

The Dark Sun Send Mess Butterflies destroyed the Dark Sun Send Mess Worms before flying out of Little Flower and Little Grass' bodies.

Due to the Insect Queen's presence, the Elite quality Dark Sun Send Mess Butterflies dared not take flight. They remained perched on the siblings and flapped their wings in apprehension.

This change caused Lin Yuan, Liu Jie, and Ji Feng to be stunned. The three of them formed the same guess.

Could the Dark Sun Send Mess Butterflies have somehow fused with Little Flower and Little Grass' souls and become their feys?

It did not take long for their guess to be confirmed.

When Little Flower and Little Grass opened their eyes, the Dark Sun Send Mess Butterflies started to fly around them with an air of affection.

Due to the soul fusions, Little Flower and Little Grass now felt affection toward the Dark Sun Send Mess Butterflies, which had just been hurting them.

Lin Yuan dispersed the quicksand that trapped Little Flower and Little Grass, and the siblings fell to the ground.

The moment Little Flower landed on the ground, she lunged at Little Grass and wrapped him in a tight embrace.

Little Grass reached his arms out to her as well.

But the moment her arms enveloped him, he let out a cry of pain. Little Flower immediately removed her accessories made of hemp leaves before giving him another hug.

Little Flower and Little Grass had just overcome a major trial.

After hugging Little Grass for three minutes, a thought suddenly struck her. She pulled Little Grass up with her and said with immense gratitude to Lin Yuan, Liu Jie, and Ji Feng, "Big Brothers, thank you for saving us. Thank you."

Chapter 1414: Accidental Miracle

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

Little Grass tentatively emulated Little Flower and said thankfully, "Thank you, Big Brothers!"

While she was thanking them, Little Flower suddenly thought about how much better life would be if she could continue staying by Lin Yuan's side instead of continuing the life she was used to.

But when she thought about her circumstance and status, she was at a loss about how she should voice this wish. She was terrified of being rejected.

At that moment, Lin Yuan placed his hand on Little Flower and Little Grass' heads and gently stroked them. He looked at their tattered clothes and was about to give them two new sets of spirit qi clothes when he realized that he did not have any children's clothes.

Thus, he took out the fur of a Gold Blue Brocade Fox and two bunches of silk and started to sew them together.

He had learned how to do simple sewing work when he and Chu Ci had been fending for themselves. They did not have many clothes between them or money to buy more. Hence, Lin Yuan had no choice but to sew the clothes himself.

It did not take him long to produce two sets of white outfits.

Lin Yuan split the Blue Brocade Fox's fur into two and turned them into two simple fur cloaks.

As the sole Young Master of Sea Sky Nurture, Ji Feng had no idea how to sew. However, Liu Jie squatted down and joined Lin Yuan. He picked up the two sets of spirit qi clothes and fixed the rough seams. Soon, the spirit qi clothes looked exquisite.

As Lin Yuan watched Liu Jie work, he was surprised that Liu Jie had talents besides cooking.

If Wen Yu had not been around, Liu Jie would probably have become the Return from Faraway Mansion's housekeeper.

Neither Little Flower nor Little Grass was stupid, and they could tell from the size of the clothes Lin Yuan and Liu Jie were making that the clothes were for them.

Little Grass had always been under the care of Little Flower, and he could always rely on her.

But for as long as Little Flower could remember, she had been beaten by their alcoholic father and had to keep their household afloat. She always had to come up with ways to find alcohol for her father.

But when their father left and never returned, Little Flower was free. With one less mouth to feed, the two siblings had more to eat than before.

Thus, Little Flower had never experienced care from another person or received custom-made clothes.

In fact, the materials used by Lin Yuan and Liu Jie were better than those used by the children of elite families.

Fear gripped Little Flower's heart. She would rather not wear the clothes and stay with her brother by Lin Yuan's side instead.

Little Flower was afraid that she and her brother would be abandoned once they accepted the spirit qi clothes.

Lin Yuan observed the two Dark Sun Send Mess Butterflies while he was making the spirit qi clothes.

Little Flower and Little Grass ignored the two Dark Sun Send Mess Butterflies, and the feys quietly rested on the siblings.

Lin Yuan handed a set of spirit qi clothes to each of the siblings and asked, "Can the two of you control the butterflies?"

Little Flower looked at the black and gold Dark Send Mess Butterfly before she replied, "Big Brother, I can control the black and gold butterfly and make him do anything I want."

Little Grass also nodded and looked at the white and gold Sun Send Mess Butterfly on the tip of his finger and said, "This white and gold butterfly listens to me well too!"

Lin Yuan looked at Little Flower and Little Grass with a troubled expression.

Liu Jie's Insect Queen could control insect-species carcinoma feys due to an accidental mutation, and this ability could not be cloned.

The Prior Decree Sleeping Lotus' Parasitic Soul Dead Seed and the Jasmine Lily's Severed Limbs Growth were not completely unique exclusive skills. But it had to be said that Lin Yuan had never encountered others with such abilities.

It could be said that the combination of the three abilities created a miracle and a living and breathing 'Fifth Day Disaster' that could be turned on and off. As long as Little Flower and Little Grass willed it, they could launch a disaster.

Additionally, they could blend in with people and form perfect shelters for the Dark Sun Send Mess Butterflies. nÊw st𝒐ries at n𝒐 𝒎

The carcinoma feys deemed as 'Fifth Day Disasters' by the Spirit Guards could affect more than just the main world.

The dimensional world also had male and female genders. If Little Flower and Little Grass went to the dimensional world, they would also be able to bring the same disaster there.

It would not be an overstatement at all to say that Little Flower and Little Grass were a pair of strategic weapons with the power to wreak havoc.

Given the circumstances, Lin Yuan needed to ensure that Little Flower and Little Grass stayed on the course of righteousness.

Lin Yuan looked at the siblings who were staring at the spirit qi clothes with conflicted gazes and said, "These clothes made by this other Big Brother and me aren't the best. If you stay with me, a Big Sister will make clothes for you in the future. She makes all of our clothes."

Little Flower looked up into Lin Yuan's eyes. She looked like a flower bud that had spontaneously bloomed. At that moment, her happiness was unparalleled.

She held Little Grass' hand and said, "We're willing to go with you. However, we are dirty and will dirty your clothes if we put them on."

Lin Yuan could use Dark Blue to clean up Little Flower and Little Grass. However, it would not be appropriate to do so.

He gently patted Little Flower's hair and said, "Don't worry, and just put them on. It doesn't matter if the clothes become dirty. You'll get clean ones to change into when we get back."

Little Flower gratefully led Little Grass into the thatched house and put on the clothes.

When they walked out, the dirt on their faces still covered most of their features, but they still looked much more presentable.

Lin Yuan took out two towels and did a cursory clean-up for them.

Once he was done wiping their faces, he realized that they had pleasing features. Their large eyes were full of life.

However, they were still covered with scars that represented the hardship they had gone through.

Chapter 1415: What's Wrong? Are You Scared?

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

However, the scars and calluses on Little Flower's hands could be removed with just half a bowl of the Silver Stamen Gold Luster Cassia nectar.

Little Flower and Little Grass were normal people without spirit qi professional talent. They were only able to form contracts with the Dark Sun Send Mess Butterflies due to an accidental miracle. As such, neither of them had spiritual spatial zones.

Hence, Lin Yuan hung Diamond fey storage boxes in the shape of hanging pendants around Little Flower and Little Grass' necks.

Suddenly, a team of spirit qi professionals dressed in black uniforms ran over. They summoned their feys when they spotted Lin Yuan and the rest.

Little Flower's thatched house was at the border of the city's slums. Hence, this group of people could only be here for Lin Yuan and the rest.

At first, Lin Yuan thought that they were members of a robber group. But when he saw their feys, he knew that he was wrong.

Their feys consisted of Gold VII/Flawless Sword-Toothed Brilliant Cat, Platinum I/Flawless Poison Powder Calamus, and the Platinum II/Flawless Dark Corrode Ghost-Faced Fly.

Robbers could never possess such feys.

This group of people and feys had the ability to wipe out the entire Oak City. These people were considered the best of Oak City.

Lin Yuan was curious about who they were. Were they here because of the Dark Sun Send Mess Butterflies?

Carcinoma feys were not banned in the Divine Wood Federation, and an Elite quality insect-species carcinoma fey would not draw the attention of many experts.

Or could it be that someone had recognized the Dark Send Mess Butterfly? Lin Yuan did not think that this was likely.

The Divine Wood Federation did not have Star Web, and they lacked access to knowledge.

The Class 2 and 3 Creation Masters in the Radiance Federation could concoct Grade 2 and 3 spirit fluids. However, Class 2 and 3 Creation Masters in the Divine Wood Federation had limited knowledge, and they only knew how to concoct a few types of spirit fluids.

Although Creation Masters from the Divine Wood Federation and Radiance Federation had similar abilities, they were on completely different levels.

Even the president of the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce had not recognized the Dark Send Mess Butterfly, much less the passersby on the street.

If they had truly recognized the Dark Send Mess Butterfly, which could bring forth disaster, they would have reported the sighting to the main Class 4 Creation Master family in Oak City, who would send out their best experts.

Little Flower and Little Grass retreated when they saw these people. Lin Yuan and Liu Jie noticed this and pulled the siblings behind them.

Liu Jie asked, "Lin Yuan, what are we going to do with these people?"

Lin Yuan shook his head at Liu Jie.

Lin Yuan planned on waiting for these people to reveal their aim before making plans for his next step.

When Lin Yuan shook his head, Liu Jie decided against instructing the Insect Queen to produce the Flesh-Mincing Blade Insects.

Ji Feng took a step forward until he was in front of Liu Jie and Lin Yuan. He maneuvered himself into a guard pose.

At that moment, the 40 spirit qi professionals dressed in black suddenly moved apart, leaving a gaping hole in the middle.

An open-air carriage pulled by four Platinum Patrol Wind Horned Horses with a fat man sitting in it rolled into Lin Yuan's line of sight.

The fat man was glowering at Lin Yuan.

There were young and beautiful girls seated on each side of the fat man.

Each of them was holding a tray. One of the trays had bottles of alcohol and cups, while the other had roasted meats and fruits. The trays were held aloft for the fat man's convenience in case he wanted to consume anything.

Lin Yuan looked suspicious. He had no memory of this fat man.

While Lin Yuan was thinking, an arrogant and ear-piercing fat man bellowed, "You are the peasants that hit me! You, yes you. Bring your eight-tailed cat over here. If I'm in a good mood, I might be willing to spare your lives."

When Lin Yuan heard what the fat man said, he immediately realized that this fat man was the person who had tried to catch the Dark Send Mess Butterfly from off the street and ended up being hit by Genius.

Clearly, this man had come all this way to save his pride.

Moreover, he wanted to take Genius away and kill the rest of them.

When Lin Yuan did not reply, the fat man assumed that Lin Yuan was stricken with terror.

Hence, he said in an even haughtier voice, "What's wrong? Are you afraid? Even if you are, it's no use. You must die for having the audacity to hit me!"

While Lu Kun was speaking, the elderly man next to him had a look of disbelief that came from the discovery that the white eight-tailed cat was a Diamond/Fantasy fey.

Who was this person? He was able to carry about a Diamond/Fantasy pet around with him.

It looks like Lu Kun is about to trip himself up! Luckily, as a pinnacle king-class expert, my Ancient Tree Dragon Python can easily kill this Diamond/Fantasy eight-tailed cat. However, is this eight-tailed cat truly the extent of this young man's power?

Lin Yuan looked at Lu Kun and said calmly, "Murderers always end up being killed themselves. I'm sure you're aware of this."

Lu Kun looked even more enraged when he heard what Lin Yuan said.

But at the same time, the elderly man's heart skipped a beat. FOlloow 𝒏ewest stories at n𝒐(v)

This young man was way too calm. Even the two other men looked completely nonchalant.

Just as the elderly man was about to give Lu Kun a suggestion, Lu Kun berated Lin Yuan.

Chapter 1416: Lin Yuan is Livid

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

"I'm from the Lu family. The entire Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce belongs to the Lu family. In Oak City, I am all-powerful."

Lin Yuan was irritated by Lu Kun. It was clear that Lu Kun had already branded them for death.

Lin Yuan turned and said, "Ji Feng, I'll leave this to you. Little Flower and Little Grass are here, so keep it clean."

Ji Feng nodded and summoned the Karma Sword Lily with a wave of his hand.

A white-haired man with gray eyes appeared in the air above Lu Kun's group. It was clear that he was not human.

The elderly man next to Lu Kun ventured a guess and could not help but shout, "Young Master Lu Kun, that is a Myth II fey! They have an emperor-class expert amongst them!"

A cold voice sneered, "You're wrong. You can't even tell I'm a plant-type fey. How stupid."

The Karma Sword Lily swung its sword, and sparks imbued with karma power swallowed the sky and earth. A moment later, the sparks dissipated.

At that moment, it was as though the group of people and feys had never appeared before Lin Yuan.

The sparks from the Karma Sword Lily's sword cut up everything into dust, including the ground below them.

Once the Karma Sword Lily was done, it walked over to Lin Yuan and bowed as it said, "Lord, I did it cleanly like you asked."

Lin Yuan had helped the Karma Sword Lily breakthrough Myth III. Hence, it had a deep respect for Lin Yuan.

The Karma Sword Lily was a support-type fey and did not usually engage in combat.

Now that it was facing an enemy more than one grade below it, it finally experienced the adrenaline rush of battle.

The Karma Sword Lily thought,?If the Prior Decree Sleeping Lotus was here, she would be so impressed by me!

Lu Kun had said that he was from the Lu family who controlled the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce.

This meant that the Lu family was a secret elite family from the Great Lush Federation.

However, Lin Yuan could not see the glamor of an elite family from Lu Kun's demeanor and dressing. This meant that he was probably not a direct descendant of the Lu family.

By killing Lu Kun, Lin Yuan had made an enemy of the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce.

The people Lu Kun had brought with him had not been with him on the street. Otherwise, the pinnacle king-class elderly man would have stepped in when Genius hit Lu Kun.

This meant that the elderly man and the spirit qi professionals dressed in black uniforms were from the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce's Oak City branch.

The Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce would eventually sense that something was wrong when these people did not return.

Lin Yuan had planned on using his connection with the Sincere Merchant Group and helping them raise their rank within the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce so that he would be able to use them to exchange for resources with the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce.

As long as Lin Yuan did not personally expose his connection with the Sincere Merchant Group, he would not affect them in any way.

However, from what Lu Kun did and the way that the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce sent out its members to support him, Lin Yuan saw the ugly underbelly of the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce. He felt that they were not a good collaborative partner.

Lin Yuan planned on calling Mr. Zhao from the Sincere Merchant Group to see if he and the rest of the Sincere Merchant Group were currently in Oak City.

Meanwhile, at one of the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce's treehouse hotels…

Mr. Zhao was holding a baby and allowing him to play with his beard. He was not reading a story to the baby like he usually did.

The middle-aged man next to him frowned and asked, "Dad, our Item-Storing Walnuts full of resources have been taken by the manager. However, more than a day and a half has passed, and there hasn't been a response. Do you think there's a problem?"

Merchant groups lived a dangerous life of buying and selling. They ran into many robber groups during their trips.

Mr. Zhao immediately sensed that something was wrong. He took a deep breath and said to the middle-aged man, "Jiazhi, hold Bean for a while. Let's go downstairs and call for a gathering of the members. We'll go and ask the manager if we manage to trade for the alcohol and plants."

Although the elderly man said this, he had a growing bad feeling.

The manager should have handled their resources within an hour or two and offered them an appropriate trade. It should not take more than a day.

There were many merchant groups under the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce that were more powerful than the Sincere Merchant Group. However, they could most settle their resources' processing in four hours.

Mr. Zhao thought about the person in the tent who never said a word, and he felt more at ease.

He remembered Lin Yuan saying that this person could protect the Sincere Merchant Group.

When all the Sincere Merchant Group members gathered, Mr. Zhao walked over to the man and told him about the situation in detail. However, he did not receive any response. If he had not seen this person walking, Mr. Zhao would have mistaken him for a mannequin.

A few months ago, there was a rumor in Oak City that many merchant groups under the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce had disappeared without a trace.

But rumors were just rumors, and Mr. Zhao did not put much stock into them.

But now that he thought more about it, he realized that all the merchant groups that had disappeared had hit the jackpot.

A chilling feeling gripped Mr. Zhao and sent a shiver up his spine.

However, he could not tell the rest of the Sincere Merchant Group about his thoughts because it would only lead to panic, and nothing would be solved.

If his guess was right, they could flee, but that would mean that all the resources that Lin Yuan had given them would go to waste.nÊw st𝒐ries at n𝒐 𝒎

Lin Yuan was the Sincere Merchant Group's savior. He had brought them hope and the resources to climb the ranks. Mr. Zhao could not fail Lin Yuan no matter what.

Mr. Zhao forced himself to calm down as he led the members of the Sincere Merchant Group to the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce's entrance.

This was when he realized that the guards did not stop them like they usually did.

Chapter 1417: Furiously Burning the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

They were not told that only two of their members were allowed to enter to handle administrative matters. Instead, all of them were allowed in.

Mr. Zhao suddenly had a bad feeling and became more certain that his guess would turn out to be confirmed.

He led the Sincere Merchant Group members to the manager's office with a nervous heart. But when they arrived, they were told that the manager was not present.

The employee in the manager's office led the Sincere Merchant Group members to the eighth floor of the tree castle and walked down the single corridor there.

No goods were displayed on the eighth floor, and Mr. Zhao had never been here before.

As they were walking, Mr. Zhao noted the complete lack of people.

The walls around them had iron boards nailed to them, and there was soundproofing Vibrating Gold embedded into the iron boards.

This did not look like a place where the manager handled administrative matters at all.

Just as Mr. Zhao was about to call the Sincere Merchant Group members to stop walking and ask the employee what was going on, the attendant who was leading them suddenly released a dark green and wart-covered toad.

When the toad appeared, the Sincere Merchant Group members sucked in cold breaths.

The pressure from a Diamond/Fantasy fey pressed down on all of them.

The attendant looked amused. It was like a stray cat that had just spotted a trembling mouse.

Mr. Zhao fixed his eyes on the attendant and forced himself to say with feigned calmness, "What are you doing? Take me to see the manager now. We need to set off soon!"

The attendant instructed the toad to move in front of Mr. Zhao and said, "The manager noticed that your Sincere Merchant Group has struck gold and wants me to send you into the Spiked Skin Tongue Toad's belly for a good rest as a reward for all the hard work you've put in."

Suddenly, the attendant's tone changed, and he said sternly to the Spiked Skin Tongue Toad, "Spiked Skin Tongue Toad, swallow all of them."

Just as Mr. Zhao and the Sincere Merchant Group members were about to enter the final moment of their lives, the unassuming man raised his hand abruptly, and a howl of pain from a toad soon followed.

This was when Mr. Zhao saw the dark green toad's body being engulfed by a brilliant red flame. There seemed to be flowing dark red lava at the base of the flame.

It did not take long for the dark red lava to burn the Spiked Skin Tongue Toad into ashes. Then, the lava swiftly moved on to the attendant and stole his life as well.

The fire did not disappear after devouring the Spiked Skin Tongue Toad and the attendant. Instead, it started to spread in all directions.

All of a sudden, the 400-meter-tall tree castle that housed the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce's Oak City branch was transformed into a furiously burning tree.

Mr. Zhao had assumed that his life was about to end in the pits of the dark green toad's stomach and that the rest of the Sincere Merchant Group would be killed in this narrow corridor.

He had been enraged, sorrowful, and self-reproachful. If only he had considered this possibility at the beginning, come to the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce on his own, and told Zhao Jiazhi to take the Sincere Merchant Group away from Oak City once he could not reach his father, the other Sincere Merchant Group members would not have died here.

On the way to the Iron Hammer Federation, Mr. Zhao was excited about the future. He thought that he would be capable of bringing a bright future to the Sincere Merchant Group and living up to Lin Yuan's hopes for them. He even had hopes of Bean's first fey being Bronze/Flawless instead of Bronze/Normal or Elite quality.

Alas, the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce turned out to be a demon hiding in the shadows that wiped out merchant groups in order to take over their resources. Fôll0w current novÊls on n/o/(v)/3l/b((in).(co/m)

Unfortunately, the Sincere Merchant Group did not have the power to fight back against the behemoth that was the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce.

Mr. Zhao had never encountered a Platinum/Fantasy fey.

He also never expected the person Lin Yuan had placed by their side to be useful against such a strong enemy. After all, Lin Yuan's attendant, who wore silver armor, had only possessed the same power as this attendant.

When Han Tianhe attacked, Lin Yuan found out about the situation through Red Thorn. Lin Yuan had fueled Han Tianhe's attack.

The Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce's tree castle was one of the tallest buildings in Oak City. It was only 15 meters shorter than the residence of the Class 4 Creation Master family.

By now, everyone in Oak City had spotted the blazing Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce. It came as a shock to all of them that the wealthy and almighty Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce would end up being set on fire.

Besides the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce members, there were also customers and members of merchant groups who had come to trade within the building.

Lin Yuan had no grudge against these people. Hence, the fire only set the building itself alight.

If Han Tianhe had summoned the Earth Core Dragon Snail and used its Creation Breed world power, the entire Oak City would have been reduced to ashes.

Mr. Zhao, Zhao Jiazhi, and the rest of the Sincere Merchant Group looked with silent astonishment at the man who had killed a king-class expert with a raise of his hand and without uttering a single word.

At this moment, a furious voice bellowed from within the tree castle, "Who is the one that had the audacity to set fire to the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce? Hurry up and put out the fire. Don't forget to save the precious furs from the flames. Even if you need to sacrifice your bodies, make sure you protect them."

Almost immediately after, a gust of coldness burst out from within the tree castle that slowly started to extinguish the flames.

The heat and cold produced a carbonizing effect. The giant tree castle that had turned to carbon started to disintegrate.

All the customers and members of merchant groups within the tree castle fled toward the exit in a frenzy.

The man who had caused the fire was completely unperturbed as he trailed behind the Sincere Merchant Group as they ran out.

This was because Lin Yuan had ordered Red Thorn not to use the Tongue of Relinquish to control Han Tianhe to continue his attack.

At that moment, Lin Yuan, Liu Jie, Little Flower, and Little Grass were rushing toward the tree castle.

Chapter 1418: Four-Sided Gathering, Eight-Sided Actions

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

The people that Lu Kun had brought with him had tried to kill Lin Yuan, but he only assigned blame to Lu Kun instead of letting his grudge spread to the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce.

Yet, the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce had tried to kill the entire Sincere Merchant Group over resources. This made it personal for Lin Yuan.

He used to run a small spirit lifeform store. Although the merchant groups were doing a different form of business, they were fundamentally the same.

In fact, the merchant groups had to put their lives on the line more often in their day-to-day lives in order to make their living.

Moreover, these merchant groups were very reliant on the chambers of commerce. If the chambers of commerce were unscrupulous, the small merchant groups could do nothing about it.

When he ran the spirit lifeform store, Lin Yuan had also been bullied by suppliers. He knew what it was like to be too helpless to even try to resist.

It was clear from the way that the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce was willing to kill for a few million Great Lush dollars worth of resources that they were despicable and evil.

When he sensed from Red Thorn's sensing of Han Tianhe that the attendant had led the Sincere Merchant Group members to the eighth floor to massacre them, it was clear that the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce had already done away with many merchant groups before.

Lin Yuan felt that there was no need for the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce to continue existing.

…

When Lin Yuan was about to leave the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce, Li Wan had a thoughtful expression on her face.

She picked up the pair of Bronze/Epic Item-Storing Walnuts and started to play with them.

This set of Item-Storing Walnuts should have ensured that the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce's auction would be a success. They were so impressive that they would enable the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce's reputation to rise to a whole new level.

Yet, she was not happy at all. Instead, her mind was filled with thoughts about Lin Yuan.

She wondered why Lin Yuan left the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce immediately after seeing the black and gold butterfly insect-species carcinoma fey.

He had not even left his number before he left.

The only thing that was setting Li Wan's mind at ease was that he had left ten million Great Lush dollars as a down payment with her. With this down payment here, he was sure to return to the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce.

Suddenly, Li Wan felt a sting in her throat and started to cough violently. During her fit of violent coughing, she spat a mouthful of blood out that splattered all over the table in front of her.

The elderly man standing next to Li Wan immediately handed her a handkerchief.

Her coughing fit lasted almost two minutes before she stopped while gently patting her chest.

She took the handkerchief from the elderly man and gently wiped away the blood near her mouth.

The elderly man cleaned the table while saying to Li Wan with a worried tone, "Young Lady, your body isn't fit enough for all the hard work you've been doing. If you need anything done, tell me to do it. If you continue coughing in such a way, even the medicine left behind by the previous head of the family won't be enough to quell your worsening condition!"

Li Wan did not look troubled by what he said.

"I'm aware of my condition. I'm close to becoming a B-rank spirit qi professional. Once I'm a B-rank spirit qi professional, my body's overall condition will improve, and this coughing problem should be alleviated. At that time, I'll be able to consume less medicine while still being able to live for more than ten years. I have to save and secure the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce during that time by cultivating an outstanding successor. This is the only way I'll be able to keep from disappointing Dad."

Li Wan's gaze softened, and she said, "Let's not talk about this. Elder Duan, go and contact the Class 2 and 3 Creation Master families we're working with and send out the order for the items that Young Master Lin needs. Make sure to get them even if it means we have to spend a little more. Try to prepare all 120 weather-producing plants within the next month."

The elderly man hurriedly replied, "Young Lady, I will be sure to perform this task to perfection!"

After witnessing Li Wan and Lin Yuan's interaction, the elderly man could tell that she wanted to establish a long-term working relationship with him.

It was possible that she had another motive in mind as well.

From the way that Lin Yuan could casually produce the Item-Storing Walnuts, the elderly man knew that Lin Yuan was powerful and wealthy.

Thus, he already regarded Lin Yuan's order as extremely important even before Li Wan's reminder.

The elderly man thought about how Li Wan struggled to hold up the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce on her own and said softly, "Young Lady, do you think it's possible that Young Master Lin will be willing to become our partner?"

Li Wan looked up, and she seemed to have a response in mind. But instead of voicing it, she asked, "The Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce and Profit Source Chamber of Commerce—"

Before Li Wan could finish speaking, the enormous burning tree in the distance caught her attention.

This sight left both Li Wan and the elderly man stunned. But soon, delight spread across their faces.

Li Wan recognized the burning tree castle as the building that housed the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce's Oak City branch.

The Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce was the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce's competitor.

The Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce and Profit Source Chamber of Commerce had joined forces to conquer the rest of the chambers of commerce in Oak City.

As such, there was also deep resentment between the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce and the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce besides the usual tension of competition.

No matter what the reason was, Li Wan was elated.

She stood up and said to the elderly man, "Let's go and see what's happening from up close. We should take a look at who the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce has offended."

There were experts in the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce. Hence, it should have been impossible for the entire tree castle to be set alight no matter what could have happened.

As such, the person who set the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce's tree castle ablaze could only be one of their enemies.

As the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce's partner, the Profit Source Chamber of Commerce would definitely have sent a representative to the site of the fire.

Li Wan also wanted to see how the Profit Source Chamber of Commerce would react toward the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce.

At that moment, four groups of people were moving to Oak City.

Two experts flew out of the Class 4 Creation Master family who lorded over Oak City and headed toward the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce's tree castle.

A large group of people and horses charged out of the Profit Source Chamber of Commerce's tree castle.

The person leading them was a young man with average features and dressed in green clothes. FOlloow 𝒏ewest stories at n𝒐(v)

This young man looked at the burning tree castle with a grim expression as he wondered what had happened at the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce.

They were in Oak City. Who was the person capable of setting fire to the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce's tree castle?

Chapter 1419: Everyone Takes Responsibility

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

A middle-aged woman walked over to the young man and said respectfully, "Young Master Zhuang Bei, it's likely that the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce has run into a big problem. How many people do you think we should take with us?"

The young man looked at the middle-aged woman and said, "You're the Vice President of the Profit Source Chamber of Commerce, so you can decide the organization of manpower. No matter what reason the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce gives, our experts don't have to interfere in this matter. If something has truly happened at the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce, I can ask the elders in my family to take the contract to the Lu family for a negotiation."

The middle-aged thought,?Young Master Zhuang Bei had argued with Young Master Lu Kun when they were signing the contract. It seems like Young Master Zhuang Bei isn't over it. If something has really happened to the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce and they give some reason for not being able to go through with the collaboration, Young Master Zhuang Bei is going to ask his family to go to the Lu family and demand compensation.

Song Dingzhen loved wealth, but she was not the type to go searching for trouble.

Who knew what trouble Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce could have run into to lead their tree castle to be set on fire. FOlloow 𝒏ewest stories at n𝒐(v)

Besides the Class 4 Creation Master family, the Profit Source Chamber of Commerce, and the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce, many members of the three Class 3 Creation Master families, 17 Class 2 Creation Master families, and almost 300 Class 1 Creation Master families headed toward the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce's tree castle.

The Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce's tree castle had essentially turned into the eye of a storm.

When everyone inside the tree castle fled, Song Dingzhen wanted to tell the guards to use iron vines to secure the tree castle. However, the fire was too serious and the carbonized tree castle soon crumbled into a pile of ash.

The plume of dust and ashes obscured the sight of the people around.

Faced with the wreck, Song Dingzhen shrieked with rage, "Who set fire to the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce's tree castle? Show yourself!"

A murderous aura shot out from Song Dingzhen's eyes.

The Lu family had placed Song Dingzhen as the Vice President of the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce's Oak City branch. She was going to be berated now that the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce had been burnt to the ground.

If Lu Kun had been in the tree castle, he could have shared the responsibility with her.

But since he was not, she could not push the blame onto him and would have to shoulder it all on her own.

However, she could not bring herself to accept all the blame.

The three elderly men next to her released their feys. One of them was a large red-haired wolf that let out an ear-piercing howl. The second was a banana-shaped plant that pierced the street. Its leaves started flapping until numerous vortexes were formed. The third was a ladybug with seven stars imprinted on its body. Its flapping wings let out a roaring buzz. The yellow substance flowing out from its posterior left several people coughing.

All three feys were Diamond/Fantasy.

The pressure of the Diamond/Fantasy feys pressed down on every person in the area, and many of the onlookers felt as though they were being suffocated by a large rock weighing down on their chest.

A few of the timid regular people fainted out of fright.

But no matter how much Song Dingzhen shouted, she received no reply.

Suddenly, Bean started to wail in Zhao Jiazhi's arms, and the sound attracted Song Dingzhen's attention.

At that moment, the expression of a middle-aged man dressed in a black uniform changed, and he ran over to Song Dingzhen. He pointed at the Sincere Merchant Group members and mumbled something into Song Dingzhen's ear.

Soon, Song Dingzhen's expression changed as well.

She looked at the manager and wondered why he had not sent anyone to attack the Sincere Merchant Group members.

At that moment, the manager was searching for the king-class expert he had dispatched in the crowd. However, he realized that the king-class expert was nowhere to be found. The Sincere Merchant Group members had all run out of the tree castle, but the king-class expert he had sent after them was gone.

This caused all the hair on the manager's hair to stand on end. He was about to tell Song Dingzhen about this situation when a gruff voice said, "What's going on with the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce? Why did the building suddenly burn up?"

Song Dingzhen turned her head. When she saw the source of the voice, she immediately rushed up to greet him and said, "Lords Ding, I offer you my greetings. I am investigating the reason behind the fire but have not found anything yet."

Song Dingzhen was utterly repulsed. If she knew the reason behind the fire, she would have stopped it before it took place. Why would she have allowed the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce to burn to the ground?

However, Oak City was in the palm of the Ding family's hand as they were the only Class 4 Creation Master family in Oak City.

Not even Lu Kun dared to act up in front of the Ding family.

If the Ding family was angered, they would block the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce from opening a branch in Oak City. It would do no good even if the Lu family begged them.

At first, Song Dingzhen wanted to sniff out the arsonists and punish them severely. However, no one stepped up to admit to the act.

By this time, the team from the Profit Source Chamber of Commerce had arrived.

The young man dressed in green did not speak, but the middle-aged woman knew what his thoughts were and asked Song Dingzhen, "Vice President, the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce has just signed a contract with us. Yet, you've already tried a trick like this."

Song Dingzhen hurriedly replied, "We will find the reason behind the fire and rebuild the tree castle immediately. The collaboration with the Profit Source Chamber of Commerce won't be affected."

The young man dressed in green snarled, "You make it sound so simple, but the entire building has been burnt to the ground. How can the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce continue to maintain its hold on Oak City? I want to request for the Profit Source Chamber of Commerce to take the lead in our collaboration while the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce cooperates with us."

Song Dingzhen's frown deepened, and she thought,?If only Lu Kun was here. He's the only one who can stand toe to toe with Zhuang Bei.

Zhuang Bei was from a secret elite family, and Song Dingzhen lacked the authority to speak up against him because she was not a member of the Lu family.

Song Dingzhen looked at the customers and members of merchant groups that had just fled out of the tree castle and yelled, "Since no one will admit to it, all of you shall bear the responsibility of burning the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce's tree castle."

Chapter 1420: Insect Army's Feast

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

After Mr. Zhao escaped out of the tree castle, he fixed his eyes on the silent man.

Mr. Zhao had never attended a gathering of so many Oak City elites and felt his legs go slightly soft.

However, there was no way he was going to expose the silent man either.

The man that Lin Yuan had sent to protect the Sincere Merchant Group was able to kill Platinum/Fantasy feys. However, there was no guarantee that he would be able to defeat Diamond/Fantasy feys as well.

However, the Ding family also had emperor-class experts. Emperor-class experts were the stuff of legends!

When no one responded even after some time had passed, Song Dingzhen shrieked, "You three, go and kill every person who just ran out of the tree castle."

The tree pinnacle king-class experts were about to instruct their feys to attack when a clear voice rang out from the crowd. "I was the one who set fire to the tree castle. But I'm sure you know why the tree castle started burning."

The people present all widened their eyes as they were taken aback by what they had just heard.

Even the two experts from the Ding family assumed that Song Dingzhen was about to end the lives of the people who had just escaped from the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce to conclude the matter.

After all, someone would have to shoulder the responsibility of destroying the tree castle, and the people who had just escaped from the tree castle were the best scapegoats.

The two experts from the Ding family had silently permitted this conclusion.

A few of the customers who had just escaped were members of the elite. However, they did not wield much power, and their deaths would not be a great loss.

Yet, someone had just volunteered to shoulder the responsibility for this incident.

Was this person a moron? Did he not know that admitting to being the perpetrator in front of so many people would bring the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce's wrath crashing down on him? Was he not afraid of the three terrifying Diamond/Fantasy feys?

From what he said, it also seemed as though there was a secret behind the burning of the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce.

Besides Song Dingzhen, Li Wan was the person with the biggest reaction. Li Wan could not be more familiar with this voice.

It was the voice of Young Master Lin, who had left the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce not long ago.

As worried as Li Wan was for Lin Yuan, she was also secretly glad.

The enmity between the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce and the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce could not be resolved.

If Lin Yuan and the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce became enemies, he would be on the same side as the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce whether he formed an alliance with them or not.

Song Dingzhen was boiling with rage. When she heard Lin Yuan's voice, she bellowed, "The person who just spoke, show your face this instant! Let me see what's so great about you that you have the audacity to burn the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce to the ground!"

From the moment Lin Yuan spoke, the people around him immediately backed away, fearing that they would be seen as his companions and dragged into the matter.

As a result, a path opened among the crowd of people.

Lin Yuan carried Genius in his left hand and held Little Flower's hand in his right hand.

Liu Jie had the Dimensional Light Moth flying on his right while he held Little Grass' hand in his left hand. Fôll0w current novÊls on n/o/(v)/3l/b((in).(co/m)

Ji Feng walked in front of Liu Jie and Lin Yuan to clear a path for them.

Lin Yuan's group had everyone's eyes on them. The crowd was silently shocked by Lin Yuan's group's charisma and good looks. But at the same time, they saw this group as walking toward their deaths.

From their features, they all seemed to be from the Great Lush Federation besides the two children.

It would be fine if they were native elites from the Divine Wood Federation. But why would a group of people from the Great Lush Federation have a bone to pick with the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce? Could they be unaware of the power that the Lu family held in the Great Lush Federation?

The three king-class experts directed their Diamond/Fantasy feys to charge at Lin Yuan's group. They intended to kill these five people to save the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce from further humiliation.

At that moment, the Dimensional Light Moth above Liu Jie's head flapped its wings and formed ripples in the space that spread out rhythmically.

Suddenly, numerous groups of ten Diamond V/Fantasy I Flesh-Mincing Blade Insects appeared and surrounded the three Diamond/Fantasy feys.

A feast for the insect armies soon appeared.

When the groups of Flesh-Mincing Blade Insects appeared, they immediately swarmed the three Diamond/Fantasy feys.

It did not take long for the small Flesh-Mincing Blade Insects to climb all over the red-haired wolf. The Flesh-Mincing Blade Insects rapidly moved their feet, causing the wolf to let out a startled cry of pain.

The Flesh-Mincing Blade Insects quickly broke through the wolf's skin and entered its body.

This sight left chills running up and down the backs of the people around.

As more and more Flesh-Mincing Blade Insects crawled into the wolf's body, it started to thrash about even more violently. Alas, this did not help in the slightest.

The Diamond/Fantasy wolf was a blood-type fey that used its body during combat. Now that the throngs of Flesh-Mincing Blade Insects suddenly overran it, it was completely helpless and unable to remove them from its body.

However, the plant-type fey with waving leaves that could produce tornadoes could use the strong winds to keep the Flesh-Mincing Blade Insects at bay.

The flying ladybug was completely unaffected by the Flesh-Mincing Blade Insects as they were terrestrial insect-species feys that could not attack the air. Rather, there were seven Flesh-Mincing Blade Insects that were burnt by the yellow substance spraying from the ladybug's posterior.

The Dimensional Light Moth continued to flap its wings and viciously disturbed the space around it.

At that moment, five Diamond X/Fantasy III Hurricane Owlet Moths appeared from a rift in space. The Hurricane Owlet Moths' grades and qualities were all higher than that of the plant-type fey that could control wild winds.

The five Hurricane Owlet Moths took control of the wind and sent gusts slashing at the Diamond/Fantasy plant.

The gusts of wind formed a chain that immediately restrained the ladybug fey.

Without the strong wind's protection, the Flesh-Mincing Blade Insects could crawl all over the plant-type fey.

Chapter 1421: The Truth Revealed

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

The Flesh-Mincing Blade Insects cleaved wood from the plant-type fey's body until it was reduced to a tree core.

Before the ladybug was struck to the ground by the Hurricane Owlet Moths, a Diamond X/Fantasy V Lightning Gathering Moths and a Diamond X/Fantasy V Plasma Caterpillars emerged from the spatial rift.

The Plasma Caterpillar spat out a blinding purple spurt of plasma. The purple plasma gathered together to shoot out a bright beam of plasma.

The plasma shot through the ladybug and was reduced to ashes just like the tree castle had been.

The people from the Profit Source Chamber of Commerce and two experts from the Ding family only watched silently while Liu Jie attacked the three Diamond/Fantasy feys from the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce. None of them made any move to help.

This battle that involved hundreds of Diamond/Fantasy feys made everyone present look at Lin Yuan's group with fear.

Lin Yuan made a beeline for the Sincere Merchant Group.

Lin Yuan said to the astonished Song Dingzhen, "I think the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce will probably be willing to talk to me calmly now. I wonder how much money you've made by killing merchant groups over the years?"

Song Dingzhen's expression changed abruptly when she heard what Lin Yuan said. The people watching also changed the way they looked at the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce.

The Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce had the best welfare for merchant groups among all the chambers of commerce in Oak City. DiisCoover 𝒖pdated novels on n(o)v. 𝒎

They provided free food and lodging as well as a stipend of 2,000 metal coins. This earned them the gratitude of many chambers of commerce.

But recently, there had been continuous news of merchant groups disappearing in Oak City, and all the evidence suggested that the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce was involved.

But due to the might of the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce, no one dared to voice their suspicions for fear of making an enemy of the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce.

However, Lin Yuan's words caused all their suspicions to bubble to the surface as he clearly pointed out all of the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce's wicked deeds. Could this be the truth behind why the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce had been set on fire?

Zhuang Bei and the middle-aged woman frowned.

The Profit Source Chamber of Commerce's main location of business was Sacred Forest City.

They had only opened the branch in Oak City a little over a year ago. They had no idea what Song Dingzhen had been up to in the shadows.

However, news of the Profit Source Chamber of Commerce and Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce's collaboration had already been made known to the public.

If the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce had really killed merchant groups and stolen their money, the Profit Source Chamber of Commerce would be seen as complicit even if they had not participated.

Chambers of commerce relied on merchant groups just as much as merchant groups relied on them.

If it was proven that the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce had indeed killed merchant groups in cold blood, the Profit Source Chamber of Commerce would also be feared and hated by the other merchant groups. This would lead to their reputation taking a hit and affect their development.

It went without saying that Song Dingzhen could not admit to Lin Yuan's accusation.

Everything became clear to Song Dingzhen when she saw Lin Yuan walk over to the Sincere Merchant Group. He had to be the person who instigated the Sincere Merchant Group to retaliate and gave them experts. These experts were the ones who killed the person the manager sent out and set fire to the tree castle.

Song Dingzhen immediately shouted, "Tell me! Which chamber of commerce are you from? You have no evidence. How dare you besmirch the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce's name? Do you think people will believe you? Everyone knows that merchant groups receive the best treatment from us!"

Lin Yuan ignored Song Dingzhen. Instead, he said to Mr. Zhao, "Why don't you tell us how the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce stole resources from merchant groups and killed them to prevent the truth from getting out?"

Mr. Zhao had been holding himself back. He had not dared to speak his mind, nor was he given the opportunity to.

But now that he had Lin Yuan's support and had seen the power of Lin Yuan's retainer, all the terror that Mr. Zhao felt toward the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce vanished and was replaced by endless fury.

Mr. Zhao took a step forward and looked at the manager behind Song Dingzhen as he said, "Manager Diao, I'm sure you remember me. The Sincere Merchant Group came to Oak City to trade the 10 Silver Item-Storing Walnuts and 15 Bronze Item-Storing Walnuts. It should only take half a day for a chamber of commerce to process these resources. Yet, Diao Yun did not respond to us even after a full day passed.

"So, I led the members of the Sincere Merchant Group to the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce to see Manager Diao. According to the regulations, the maximum number of members from a merchant group allowed to enter is two.

"However, this time, the attendants not only did not stop us but even sent a king-class expert to take us to the eighth floor to massacre us. It won't be difficult to prove my side of the story. I am fully aware of everything that was inside the 10 Silver Item-Storing Walnuts and 15 Bronze Item-Storing Walnuts. These Item-Storing Walnuts should be with Vice President Song instead of Manager Diao. One look and the truth will be unveiled."

Song Dingzhen and Manager Diao's expressions fell. Song Dingzhen was rendered speechless because it was true that she had the Item-Storing Walnuts.

At that moment, the tension of the scene had reached a peak, and the sounds of discussion from the crowd climbed to a fervor.

The two experts from the Ding family shared a look before one of them stepped up and said to Song Dingzhen, "The Ding family will look into this matter and provide a report. For now, leave so you won't affect the city's daily life,"

Song Dingzhen let out a breath of relief.

The Ding family could be regarded as the leader of Oak City, and both entities' development was interlinked.

The Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce was one of the most important chambers of commerce in Oak City. It would be a significant blow to Oak City's finances if they fell. Hence, Oak City needed the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce to continue existing.

As long as she could provide the Ding family with enough benefits, they should be willing to cover up this incident for her. After all, the evidence was still lacking to pin her as the culprit who murdered the merchant groups.

Chapter 1422: You Have No Right to Demand an Explanation From My Young Master

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

The moment the expert from the Ding family finished speaking, the clear voice spoke again. "If the Ding family wants to investigate, you can do so right now. You don't have to wait until later to produce a report."

The Ding family's expert glared at Lin Yuan and sneered. "You set the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce's tree castle on fire for no good reason. Your feys also killed three of the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce's Diamond/Fantasy feys and injured the three king-class experts. You need to provide the Ding family with an explanation."

Liu Jie snapped, "Provide the Ding family with an explanation? What gives you the right to demand an explanation from my Young Master? Do you think you can go around lording over everyone just because you're from a Class 4 Creation Master family?"

The Ding family's expert's words had been a warning to Lin Yuan not to dwell on the matter any further.

However, Liu Jie's words had completely smashed any hope of taking the soft approach. His words did not carry a shred of respect for the Ding family and had essentially been a slap across their faces.

The two experts from the Ding family were enraged by what Liu Jie said and readied themselves to summon their feys.

At that moment, two balls of fire materialized in front of the two emperor-class experts from the Ding family.

The two emperor-class experts felt their limbs turn as cold as ice and cold sweat soaked through their clothes almost immediately.

The two balls of fire could burn all of them to ashes, and it would be of no help even if they summoned their feys.

This meant an unbelievably strong expert was next to the young man dressed in black. Moreover, the retainer had essentially snubbed a Class 4 Creation Master family.

This expert's strength and the attitude that Liu Jie had toward Class 4 Creation Master families made the two experts from the Ding family aware that this young man could not be crossed.

The Lu family was considered in the upper echelon of the Great Lush Federation's secret elite families.

From the way that the young man dressed in black did not hold back against the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce, it meant that he couldn't care less about the Lu family or their power. This indicated that he was from one of the true top elite families in the Great Lush Federation.

The two emperor-class experts immediately realized that they could only try to stay on the young man's good side and make sure they did not offend him.

Even if the retainer had already shown that he did not care about leaving any of the Ding family's pride for them, the two emperor-class experts were also unwilling to let the Ding family show their weak side during such a situation. Once the Ding family allowed themselves to act submissively, they would lose the iron grip they were holding over Oak City.

When the two emperor-class experts did not respond, Song Dingzhen became anxious and said, "Lord Ding Jian, Lu Kun came to Oak City on behalf of the Lu family. However, he went somewhere and has not returned. Once he's back, we will definitely offer you a satisfactory response. As for these people that dared to say such contemptuous words about the Ding family, you should teach them a lesson!"

After what Song Dingzhen said, Ding Jian could no longer back down.

At that moment, the young man's voice rang out again. "Is the Lu Kun you're referring to a fat man? He tried to kill me, so I killed him. Then, the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce tried to kill one of the merchant groups under me and is now refusing to admit to the crime. If that's the case, let's lay everything out now."

When Song Dingzhen heard what Lin Yuan said, her face changed. She would never have expected Lu Kun to be dead.

Song Dingzhen screeched, "You killed Lu Kun! The Lu family will never forgive you for this!"

Song Dingzhen's response was hysteric, but she did not refute what Lin Yuan said. In a way, she admitted to what Lin Yuan had said.

Every person present turned to look at Song Dingzhen with disdain.

At that moment, the two balls of fire turned into two flaming snails. The two snails stood on both sides of the people from the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce. They spewed out a river of lava that burnt the members of the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce to nothing.

With this river of lava, the matter was settled.

Lin Yuan preferred to be discreet, but this did not mean that he was averse to grand displays.

Currently, the crowd was looking at Lin Yuan as though he was a god. However, he ignored their gazes and said to the Sincere Merchant Group members, "Go and find a place to rest. We can talk later."

Lin Yuan led Little Flower into the crowd.

Now, the only thing he had left to do on this trip was to go and see Su Yiren. Then, he intended to return to the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce to find another source of support for the Sincere Merchant Group.

The Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce's Oak City branch had been destroyed, and Lin Yuan needed another reliable source of resources.

The best option would be the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce.

Li Wan was both marveled and shocked by the sight of Lin Yuan's back.

Previously, she had assumed that he was just a direct descendant from one of the wealthier secret elite families. But now, it seemed that there was more to him than met the eye.

The direct descendant of a secret elite family couldn't have such powerful guards.

Li Wan had seen Little Flower before. Although Li Wan did not know who the boy that Liu Jie was holding hands with was, Lin Yuan's grandiosity could be seen from the fox fur cloaks that the children were wearing.

Before this, Li Wan had been hesitating. But now, she was certain that she wanted to establish a long-term working relationship with Lin Yuan.

However, she had no clue if he would be willing to work with her. Fôll0w current novÊls on n/o/(v)/3l/b((in).(co/m)

She decided that she would first make preparations to welcome Lin Yuan when he returned to the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce.

Zhuang Bei had already internally insulted the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce six ways to Sunday.

He could no longer remain in Oak City.

Zhuang Bei prepared to leave Oak City at once to report the situation to his family.

The two emperor-class experts from the Ding family drove the crowd away before returning to report to the Ding family with troubled expressions. They told the head of the Ding family in detail about what had happened.

None of the emperor-class experts could decide on their own how to proceed or address Lin Yuan.

In the Divine Wood Federation, Class 4 Creation Master families had been offending the wrong people and getting themselves killed.

The Ding family could not allow themselves to become the next one.

After Ji Feng sent the Prior Decree Sleeping Lotus to Oak City, it had been protecting Su Yiren from the shadows.

Su Yiren was in an abandoned area that was in the opposite direction from where Little Flower and Little Grass lived.

Lin Yuan did not use the Ethereal Jellyfish's Node Transportation this time. Instead, he summoned Blackie and rode off with Liu Jie, Ji Feng, Little Flower, and Little Grass on Blackie's back.

To the shock of the people on the street, Blackie took to the air and flew off in the direction of where Su Yiren was.

Chapter 1423: The Hopeless Su Yiren

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

At the center of Oak City…

All the chambers of commerce and the native elites, including the Ding family, were startled by the way Lin Yuan had slaughtered the members of the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce.

The heads of the major factions immediately started discussing a plan of action. They were torn between investigating Lin Yuan's background to get acquainted with him and leaving him alone to save themselves from potential trouble.

However, anything that happened in the center of Oak City did not affect its slums.

When Su Yiren first came to the Divine Wood Federation, she had moved around the center of Oak City. However, she had been humiliated daily for being a homeless person. She had been attacked by the elites daily because they had been annoyed by the sight of her. The injuries she had sustained were so serious that she had almost lost her life.

At that moment, she had entered the Astronomical Parliament and gained Lin Yuan's help. When she woke up, all her injuries had healed. This was what gave her the will to carry on living.

The cruel treatment she received at the center of Oak City was what made her realize that she was unsuited to life there. Hence, she moved herself to the slums.

The elites of Oak City cared too much about their status to step foot in the slums.

The only people Su Yiren encountered in the slums were homeless people like her.

Technically, in a lawless place like the slums, where it was the survival of the fittest, life was much more dangerous than in the center of the city. But it was here that Su Yiren found a way to continue surviving.

The first thing that Su Yiren did when she arrived in the slums was to cover herself with dirt to the point that she was completely unrecognizable.

Su Yiren was not a short person. She was about 1.67 meters tall.

She also stuffed any fallen leaves she could find into her clothes to make her seem stockier.

This made her unappealing to any scavengers.

However, the quiet days did not last for long.

In order to survive while she waited for Lin Yuan to come and save her, she did everything she could to scavenge.

Many of the people in the slums were scavengers.

Su Yiren had managed to find many edible things over the last few days and had even found a usable phone.

However, no matter how discreet she was trying to be, she still ended up being targeted by the other scavengers.

She had not dared to sleep recently. Even if she was on the brink of exhaustion, she only dared to close her eyes to slits. This was because she had been attacked by a male scavenger with a long dagger when she was resting a few days ago.

Luckily, she had scattered many leaves around her that would cause a din when they were met with the slightest contact. The noise had awoken Su Yiren.

Nonetheless, she was still a step too late.

Luckily, she had undergone special training and managed to use her hand to block the dagger.

During the tussle, Su Yiren's training had been a key factor. After exerting a large amount of effort, she killed the man and looted his long dagger.

After gaining the long and rusty dagger, she sharpened it on several sharp stones she had found and turned the non-lethal dagger into a weapon for killing.

At first, Su Yiren had been full of hope.

But when the Astronomical Parliament's parliamentary meeting did not occur as per schedule, Su Yiren's eyes were blurred by a layer of gray mist. Regardless of whether the sun was shining, the despairing Su Yiren could only see in gray.

After fighting for survival in the Divine Wood Federation for such a long time, Su Yiren was able to guess when she would fall unconscious from the agonizing pain in her soul.

She timed herself and attacked those who had targeted her with the long dagger. This was because she knew she would be immobilized and that even a child would be able to take her life when she was in the middle of one of her painful fits.

For the sake of self-preservation, even a high and mighty Dark Envoy like Su Yiren would have to obey the law of the jungle that presided over the slums.

She had used the last breath she had in her as she waited for the next parliamentary meeting and the long dagger to solve many of her immediate dangers.

However, there was a scuffle where she used her left shoulder to block the attack from a scavenger's hammer.

Since her soul was injured, she could not store items and could only physically carry around the items she had scavenged.

Su Yiren placed the phone that was the manifestation of all of her hopes over her heart.

However, that scavenger turned out to have decent combat skills.

When Su Yiren used her left shoulder as a shield, he changed the direction of his hammer swing and brought it down on her chest. The hammer directly hit where the phone was.

Besides feeling as though the blood in her chest was going to burst out, she had no other injuries.

The scavenger that had attacked her allowed Su Yiren to find the opportunity to plunge the dagger into him, thereby ending his life.

However, the hammer had smashed all of Su Yiren's remaining hope.

Su Yiren felt that even if the next parliamentary meeting took place as per schedule, the shining person would not be able to find her even if he had come to Oak City because he had no means of contacting her.

Ever since her phone was smashed, Su Yiren had been living a life no different from that of a walking corpse.

She spent each day using the dagger and her skills to protect herself. DiisCoover 𝒖pdated novels on n(o)v. 𝒎

During the battles, she was lucky if she could come out of them with light injuries. But if she was unlucky, it was also common for her to end up with bleeding wounds and fractures.

The new wounds overlapped with the old ones, and she felt as though the pain in her body was practically no different from the pain in her soul.

Her hand had suffered the most. The long dagger had punctured it, and she often used it for both offense and defense during battle. Hence, it had not had the chance to heal at all.

Su Yiren's left hand soon swelled to three times its original size in such a dirty environment full of flesh-biting insects.

The most arduous time in the slum was nightfall.

At that moment, Su Yiren had just overcome another fit from her soul injury, and her mind was exceptionally clear.

She saw her younger self back when the Seven States of Darkness was flourishing. She could even remember the celebration when she became a Dark Envoy.

Su Yiren felt unbelievably tired. This exhaustion was too much for her body.

She sensed her injuries and smiled bitterly as she said, "I don't think I'll be able to hold on until the next gathering of the constellations."

Chapter 1424: Su Yiren's Rescue

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

At this moment, Su Yiren heard the rumble of footsteps coming from afar. The sound was stable and not rushed. It resembled the sound of a prince leisurely strolling in his garden.

Su Yiren immediately became nervous.

From the footsteps, Su Yiren knew that more than one person was approaching.

It was already a struggle for her to fend off one person, much less multiple people.

She sighed to herself and stood up without picking up the dagger.

Su Yiren lowered her head. Instead of looking ahead, she quietly stared at her feet.

Perhaps after my death, I'll turn into a pile of dirt like the ground like the Dark Federation.

When Su Yiren reached a breaking point and decided to free herself in death, a pair of shoes with clouds embroidered on them entered her vision.

This pair of white shoes stunned Su Yiren because such shoes should never appear in the slums.

At that moment, she heard a clear voice say from above her, "If you can still pick up the long dagger, don't leave it lying on the ground."

Su Yiren's eyes widened when she heard the voice. Her eyes shone with unspeakable delight, and the gray mist was replaced with a kaleidoscope of color.

Her head snapped up, and her gaze met with a pair of kind black eyes.

She had heard Lin Yuan's voice during the Astronomical Parliament's parliamentary meeting, and the voice had occupied many of her dreams in the following days.

Now that she was hearing it again, she felt as though both her soul and body had been saved.

She once had hope, but it had been slowly chipped away until all she was left with was desperation. But now that she could see the light at the end of the tunnel again, she felt as though she had just been reborn.

Su Yiren struggled to get to her feet before Lin Yuan landed. However, every part of her body was in bad shape, and she was unable to stand.

After struggling for some time, she ascertained that she would not be able to climb to her feet. Despite her pain, Su Yiren gripped the long dagger with her right hand. It seemed she had something to say to Lin Yuan but could not muster her strength.

Little Flower and Little Grass had also lived in a slum and had encountered their fair share of injured scavengers.

After Little Flower saw Su Yiren, she instinctively wanted to tug at the leaves on her body. However, when her hand touched her clothes, she realized that she was no longer wearing clothes woven from leaves but from brocade. Moreover, her clothes had been woven by Lin Yuan.

Little Grass held Liu Jie's hand tightly as he looked between Lin Yuan and Liu Jie. It seemed that he wanted to speak but was struggling to do so.

Little Grass looked at Little Flower with pleading eyes.

Liu Jie noticed Little Flower and Little Grass' reactions.

Lin Yuan and Liu Jie were happy but shocked at the same time.

Little Flower and Little Grass had been living in a harsh environment. They were family, and it was to be expected that they cared about each other. However, they were even compassionate and empathetic toward scavengers.

This was a rare virtue of existing in such a cruel environment.

They must have received help from kind people during their time in the slum.

However, the kindness and empathy they received had already been scrubbed away by the wickedness of life.

Lin Yuan calmly gazed at Su Yiren's face. Her face was swollen and covered with dirt to the point that he could no longer make out her true features. To put it in a cruel yet truthful way, she looked pathetic.

He looked at the Prior Decree Sleeping Lotus. The Prior Decree Sleeping Lotus noticed Lin Yuan's gaze and said, "Lord, I don't have the ability to heal injuries of the flesh. When I found this place yesterday night, her injuries were already this serious. In order to make sure she made it until you arrived, I even got rid of some of the scavengers that were targeting her. Otherwise, she would have died last night."

Lin Yuan nodded and shook his hand. A green beam landed on Su Yiren's body.

With Lin Yuan's treatment, Su Yiren's injuries quickly healed. Now that she was fully healed, she literally became smaller. This proved how serious her swelling had been.

She was about to stand up when her soul injury sent her into another fit. She let out a grunt of pain, curled up, and started trembling.

Lin Yuan said to Ji Feng, "Ji Feng, tell the Prior Decree Sleeping Lotus to try and heal her soul injury. Her soul injury is linked to her almost-dead sacred source lifeform, so it might be difficult to heal her."

When Ji Feng heard what Lin Yuan said, he immediately ordered the Prior Decree Sleeping Lotus to plant a soul seed in Su Yiren's soul.

Once the soul seed entered Su Yiren's soul, Ji Feng and the Prior Decree Sleeping Lotus' expressions turned into ones of shock.

They realized that Su Yiren's soul was cracked all over. An unknown and slightly withered plant was at the center of her soul.

The soul power from the soul seed activated the plant and caused its roots to move away gently.

The Prior Decree Sleeping Lotus immediately exploded the soul seed and used the energy from the soul seed to nourish Su Yiren's soul. It completely ignored how much soul energy was being used up.

This nourishment caused Su Yiren to slowly stop trembling. However, the pain was still causing her to sweat profusely. Nonetheless, she could endure this level of pain.

It was not difficult for the Myth III Prior Decree Sleeping Lotus to use one soul seed.

The Prior Decree Sleeping Lotus planted and exploded six consecutive soul seeds in Su Yiren.

Soon, Su Yiren's injury became mostly healed. Alas, the plant did not show any signs of recovery.

The Prior Decree Sleeping Lotus used energy from its soul, not true soul power. The plant needed a large amount of vitality and soul power to heal. The Prior Decree Sleeping Lotus did not have these.

Hence, it said to Lin Yuan, "Lord, her soul is 80% healed. But in order to fully heal it, we need to heal her sacred source lifeform. This will require a large amount of vitality and soul power. What do you think we should do?"

Chapter 1425: Revived Absolute Love Poppy

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

By now, Su Yiren had managed to stand up.

She looked at Lin Yuan silently for a moment before bowing to him with determination and said, "Lord, from now on, I'm one of your subordinates. Feel free to let me know if you need me to do anything. My name is Su Yiren." Diiscover new 𝒔tories at n𝒐ve/lbin.c/o𝒎

Su Yiren's words took Lin Yuan by surprise. He had assumed that it would be difficult for her to change her attitude immediately and would need to be straightened out after joining the Astronomical Parliament, given her status as a Dark Envoy.

Yet, she surprised him and even addressed him as 'Lord'.

But since she had prostrated herself, Lin Yuan did not hold back.

Since Lin Yuan had obtained the Island Whales' brain oil, he had no lack of items that contained soul energy.

When it came to items that contained vitality, Lin Yuan had the Lifeform Sacrificial Fire and the Jasmine Lily that could produce vitality.

The Lifeform Sacrificial Fire was a fire-type precious good and could be used as a plant-type fey's tree core. It could be used to revive plant-type feys.

Using the Lifeform Sacrificial Fire to heal Su Yiren's plant-type sacred source lifeform was possible. However, he was unwilling to use his only Lifeform Sacrificial Fire.

The Jasmine Lily was only Platinum/Fantasy. The vitality it produced would not be sufficient to heal Su Yiren's sacred source lifeform.

However, Lin Yuan preferred to use the vitality inside the Vitality Imprint than use the Lifeform Sacrificial Fire.

The last time Lin Yuan used the Jasmine Lily's Vitality Imprint was when he saved the Mother of Bloodbath.

A week had passed since the Mother of Bloodbath had become a Heavenly Family Fey.

During the past week, a significant amount of vitality had been stored up in the Vitality Imprint.

Lin Yuan opened the Vitality Imprint, and a large green lotus appeared on his forehead. A wave of vitality flowed over his entire body and turned his skin light green.

He took out the smallest piece of Island Whale's brain oil and tossed it to the Prior Decree Sleeping Lotus.

Next, he placed his palm on Su Yiren's head and injected warm vitality into her.

The Prior Decree Sleeping Lotus hurriedly directed the Island Whale's brain oil into Su Yiren. Then, it continued to explode soul seeds and used the power of its soul to increase the plant-type sacred source lifeform's rate of absorbing the soul power.

Su Yiren's sacred source lifeform absorbed the soul power from the Island Whale's brain oil while absorbing the vitality that Lin Yuan was injecting into Su Yiren.

After exploding more than ten soul seeds, a red and green leaf grew out of the roots of the plant in Su Yiren's soul.

More leaves started growing, and they extended until the color changed from green to bright purple.

There was also a small green bud nestled amongst the leaves. The bulb grew until it was about the size of a palm and turned pretty pink.

The large pink bud slowly bloomed into a beautiful flower.

The Prior Decree Sleeping Lotus and Ji Feng had been closely watching Su Yiren's soul, and both looked mesmerized. It was as though both the male Prior Decree Sleeping Lotus and Ji Feng, who was a spirit qi professional had suddenly fallen head over heels for Su Yiren.

When Su Yiren realized this, she hurriedly took control of the beautiful blooming flower. Ji Feng and the Prior Decree Sleeping Lotus snapped out of their trance.

Since Lin Yuan had only injected vitality into Su Yiren and had not checked on her soul, he was unaffected by the Absolute Love Poppy.

This was the reason he could not help but be shocked by the strength of Su Yiren's sacred source lifeform when he saw the expressions on Ji Feng and the Prior Decree Sleeping Lotus' faces.

When the Jasmine Lily was healing Su Yiren, the vitality had entered her bone marrow. As such, Lin Yuan knew that Su Yiren was around 26 years old. She was only around 2 years older than Zong Ze, Gu Lang, and An He.

Given her age, Su Yiren's sacred source lifeform could only be 4 to 6 Stars.

Su Yiren's sacred source lifeform was able to affect the pinnacle emperor-class expert Ji Feng and the pinnacle Myth Breed Prior Decree Sleeping Lotus unknowingly. This showed how strong the sacred source lifeform was.

This was the first time that Lin Yuan had encountered an ability that could produce love. It could be considered a powerful controlling ability that was similar to Fei Qianqiong's Mind-Controlling Silkworm Gu.

However, this controlling method that utilized love was much stronger than that of the Mind-Controlling Silkworm Gu.

Lin Yuan felt that the Absolute Love Poppy's ability was very suitable for the job he was going to assign to Su Yiren.

Ji Feng instructed the Prior Decree Sleeping Lotus to heal Su Yiren while he stared at Su Yiren warily. He was afraid that she would use the plant-type sacred source lifeform to control or endanger Lin Yuan.

However, there was no need for him to be worried.

After Su Yiren was healed, she immediately swore on a Willpower Rune to become loyal to Lin Yuan.

Su Yiren's thought process was clear. Lin Yuan had saved her, and she had already promised to become loyal to him during the last Astronomical Parliament's parliamentary meeting.

As a Dark Envoy, Su Yiren was very discerning. She knew that Lin Yuan had used the Island Whale's brain oil to heal her.

From this, she could tell that Lin Yuan was not a stingy person. Hence, she felt that the best way she would become useful in Lin Yuan's eyes would be to use her attitude.

Now, all of her wounds were gone.

Previously, she had been unable to summon her feys because all her four feys were linked to the Absolute Love Poppy. When the Absolute Love Poppy was in a near-dead state, she could not summon her other feys either.

But now, she was finally able to summon her own feys to protect herself. She could now regain all the confidence she had lost.

Lin Yuan expected but also did not expect Lin Yuan to swear her loyalty immediately to him after she recovered.

Nonetheless, he could tell that Su Yiren was a smart person, and it did not require much effort to communicate with a smart person.

Chapter 1426: The Ubiquitous Flower Branch Mouse

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

Although Su Yiren's flesh and soul, as well as the Absolute Love Poppy, had been completely healed, she was still covered with dirt and dried blood.

When the vitality healed all her injuries, the infected cells quickly died and were discharged as pus. Thus, she was sticky all over, and her clothes seemed to be stuck to her body.

Moreover, the sticky substances had a foul smell that even caused Su Yiren to wrinkle her nose in disgust.

She instinctively took a few steps back to put space between her and Lin Yuan as she was afraid that Lin Yuan would get a whiff of her odor.

Lin Yuan raised an eyebrow and said, "You probably want a shower badly now. Coincidentally, we're going to the capital to find a tree castle. You can help to bathe these two children as well. Once you're all clean, we can have a chat."

Su Yiren hurriedly nodded.

She did not swear her loyalty to Lin Yuan because she had lost all her pride after struggling to survive in the Divine Wood Federation but because she was resigned to her circumstance and decided to make the best choice for her future.

It would be too unreasonable to expect her to talk to Lin Yuan while she was still covered with dirt.

Su Yiren was touched that Lin Yuan was able to interpret her body language to learn how she was thinking and offer gestures that were for her benefit.

She would not find it torturous to work under such a person.

Just as Su Yiren was about to thank him, she heard a chittering noise.

A small mouse popped out of the pile of leaves near Su Yiren. It looked around furtively.

Once it was certain that it was far enough from Lin Yuan and the rest, it raised the broken twig it had just picked up.

Lin Yuan's eyes lit up when he saw the mouse. It looked exactly like the one he had seen when he first arrived at the Divine Wood Federation.

The amber-button-shaped Source Sand fell from Lin Yuan's sleeve and dove into the ground. Soon, threads of gravel wrapped around and trapped the Flower Branch Mouse.

Lin Yuan brought the Flower Branch Mouse over to him, and it immediately went into hysterics.

He circulated his spiritual power and used an almost undetectable thread of spirit qi to calm the panicking Flower Branch Mouse. It did not take long for the Flower Branch Mouse to calm down.

Even when Lin Yuan instructed the Source Sand to release the Flower Branch Mouse, it obediently rested in his hand.

Lin Yuan was in no rush to evolve the Flower Branch Mouse.

Although Su Yiren had already sworn her loyalty to Lin Yuan and became someone that Lin Yuan could trust, there were still some things that she did not need to know.

When Su Yiren saw Lin Yuan's interest in the Flower Branch Mouse, she said, "Lord, there are many types of mice that appear in the slums. This type of mouse with brown fur prefers independence. It often picks leaves and fruits by itself. In the slums, it also doesn't transmit diseases. During the time that I've been here, I've seen this type of mouse at least 20 times."

Su Yiren found it slightly strange as she did not understand why this mouse that was not even a fey would interest Lin Yuan.

In Su Yiren's eyes, this type of mouse was worthless.

If it were valuable, the native elites of the Divine Wood Federation would not allow it to roam around the slums.

Lin Yuan's eyes lit up when he heard what Su Yiren said.

He had guessed from the robbers' reactions that the Flower Branch Mouse was very common. However, he did not expect to find it roaming in a slum.

Now he knew why the scout had looked at the Flower Branch Mouse on his shoulder with disdain.

However, the Flower Branch Mouse was a blessing to Lin Yuan.

Lin Yuan summoned Blackie and rode off to the capital with Liu Jie, Ji Feng, Little Flower, Little Grass, and Su Yiren.

Ji Feng booked an entire tree castle.

Lin Yuan had chosen a luxurious and family-style tree castle. There was only one level in the entire tree castle. There were numerous bedrooms around the large living room. This tree castle was mostly rented out to native elites who wanted to host banquets.

Su Yiren entered the tree castle. Before she even took a sip of water, she led Little Flower and Little Grass into the bathroom to shower.

At this moment, Lin Yuan called out to Su Yiren, "Su Yiren, do you have clothes to change into? If not, I have some fabric that you can sew into simple garments."

Su Yiren raised her wrist, and Lin Yuan saw that there was a round orange-golden disk.

Lin Yuan was very familiar with this round orange-golden disk. It was exactly the same as the one he had obtained inside the Class 3 abyss dimensional rift that had appeared in the Royal Capital.

However, the one hanging off Su Yiren's wrist was much smaller and more intricate than the one that Lin Yuan had obtained.

At first, Lin Yuan thought that people from the Dark Continent had targeted the Radiance Federation.

But later, he discovered from the evolving water world dimensional rift at the shores of Indigo Azure City that everything had been caused by Seventh Page War's scheme.

From her life experience that he had seen during the Astronomical Parliament's parliamentary meeting, Lin Yuan knew that the Seven States of Darkness had been destroyed, and the Dark Continent was under Seventh Page War's control.

This was why so many people from the Dark Continent had appeared at the evolving water world dimensional rift.

Seventh Page War's subordinates could order the spirit qi professionals from the Dark Continent around. Fôll0w current novÊls on n/o/(v)/3l/b((in).(co/m)

It was likely that the fall of the Seven States of Darkness and the Dark Continent was not solely due to Seventh Page War's actions.

Lin Yuan still did not have any plans to enter the Dark Continent. Hence, there was no need to tell Su Yiren about the news he had regarding Tower Canon and the Dark Continent.

Su Yiren noticed Lin Yuan had been looking at the round orange-gold disk on her wrist and said, "This is spatial equipment from where I'm from. It can store both living and nonliving things. It's about the size of four training fields. Since my spirit and soul had been injured, I couldn't make use of it. But now I can. I have many of my daily clothes stored in the spatial disk."

Lin Yuan did not say anything after he heard what Su Yiren said.

Chapter 1427: Stunning Appearance

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Lin Yuan picked up a red fruit with soft skin from the platter of fruit and bit into it before he started to explain who Su Yiren was to the confused Liu Jie.

Liu Jie had not joined the Astronomical Parliament, so he was unaware of Su Yiren's situation. Moreover, he spent most of his time in the Radiance Federation at the Spirit Guards' land so that the Insect Queen could control carcinoma feys.

He only spent a small amount of his time at the Return from Faraway Mansion. As such, neither Wen Yu nor Lin Yuan had the opportunity to tell him about Su Yiren.

Liu Jie felt that someone with a sacred source lifeform should not be struggling to survive in Oak City's slums.

There were no Class 5 Creation Masters in the Divine Wood Federation, and their best experts were thearch-class.

Sacred source lifeforms came from Class 5 dimensional rifts. It would not be easy for the Divine Wood Federation to clear out the dimensional lifeforms from Class 5 dimensional rifts to obtain the sacred source lifeforms. Thus, there should be very few sacred source lifeforms in the Divine Wood Federation.

Su Yiren's presence in the slums just did not make sense.

Additionally, Lin Yuan seemed already aware that Su Yiren would be here and had gone to the slums specifically for her. Alll 𝒍𝒂test nov𝒆l𝒔 on novelb𝒊n/.c𝒐m

Liu Jie recognized the spatial equipment hanging off her wrist as the spatial disk used by the elites of the Dark Federation.

It was not like the fey storage box, as others could use the fey storage box once the spirit imprint on it was removed. Once its contractor died, the spatial disk would become useless, and it would be almost impossible to retrieve the items within.

This instrument of secrecy was only owned by the elites of the Dark Federation. With this, Liu Jie could guess that Su Yiren came from the Dark Federation and was of considerable status.

"Big Brother Liu, Su Yiren was one of the Dark Envoys chosen by the Seven States of Darkness. I'm sure you're aware of the Dark Continent's situation. She fled from the Dark Continent to the Divine Wood Federation," said Lin Yuan.

Although Liu Jie had guessed that Su Yiren had to be of considerable status, he did not expect her to be a Dark Envoy chosen by the Seven States of Darkness. Her title allowed her to represent the entire Seven States of Darkness to engage the Radiance Federation. The individual Seven States of Darkness was not strong. They could not even defeat the Divine Wood Federation on their own. But when they joined forces, they could stand toe to toe with the Great Lush Federation, Divine Wood Federation, or the Iron Hammer Federation.

More importantly, there was a Class 5 Creation Master in the Seven States of Darkness. This Class 5 Creation Master was what linked the Seven States of Darkness. The Class 5 Creation Master's presence meant that the Seven States of Darkness were capable of producing top experts.

Su Yiren could be considered the cream of the crop in the Dark Federation. But now, she had become one of Lin Yuan's subordinates.

Liu Jie was a member of the Radiance Hundred Sequence and Night Leaning Moon's disciple. However, he knew that Lin Yuan was no ordinary young man. Hence, he understood the benefits that Su Yiren would enjoy by becoming Lin Yuan's subordinate.

If Lin Yuan wanted to enter the Dark Continent in the future, he would be able to do so with his head held high as long as Su Yiren was by his side.

Liu Jie's shock soon faded away, but Ji Feng could not overcome his astonishment.

Although Ji Feng was aware that Lin Yuan was the City Lord of Sky City and the Moon Empress' disciple, he still found it hard to believe that he had a Dark Envoy as one of his subordinates.

While Lin Yuan, Liu Jie, and Ji Feng were talking, Su Yiren had finished bathing herself and the two children.

After Little Flower and Little Grass were done showering, Little Flower picked up the white clothes Lin Yuan had made and started to wash them with care.

Su Yiren tried to help, but Little Flower thanked her before shaking her head. Instead, Little Flower picked up Su Yiren's torn clothes and prepared to wash them as well.

Su Yiren pinched Little Flower's cheek and said, "I won't be wearing these anymore."

In the bathroom, Su Yiren looked at her reflection in the mirror. She felt almost strangely sentimental.

A moment later, she took out a dark purple set of spirit qi clothes from the spatial disk. Purple Chestnut Crystals were embedded all over the spirit qi clothes, and it looked as though there was armor covering them. However, the spirit qi clothes were not heavy or bulky at all.

When Su Yiren put on the purple spirit qi clothes, she exuded a strange beauty.

She was already famous in the Seven States of Darkness before becoming a Dark Envoy. No man nor woman dared to say that they had fairer looks than her.

The men also admitted their loss in appearance because Su Yiren had an overwhelming spirit of valiance. She also had short hair, giving her a hero's aura.

Su Yiren's aura was largely related to the Absolute Love Poppy. She had a beauty that could immediately capture the gaze of living creatures and cause them to fall in love with her.

After she was dressed, Su Yiren pondered for a moment before she took a black fruit out of the spatial disk. She squeezed out the black fruit's juices and coated her hair with the juice. Once she was done, her purple hair was dyed black.

She was now one of Lin Yuan's subordinates and had observed that both Liu Jie and Ji Feng had black hair and eyes. Hence, it would be best for her to change her eyes and black as well in order to look like she was part of the group.

Next, she took out a pair of earrings and wore them. The dangling earrings would draw eyes to them as they gently swayed.

Su Yiren took a deep breath and pushed the bathroom door open. She walked out and made a beeline for Lin Yuan.

Lin Yuan, Liu Jie, and Ji Feng looked over when they heard her footsteps. All of them were stupefied when their eyes landed on the clean Su Yiren.

At that moment, Morbius used Calm Mind on Lin Yuan.

Chapter 1428: Test and Guess

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Calm Mind was a triggered ability. Whenever Lin Yuan experienced any negative spiritual or soul effects, or any external influences on his spirit and soul, Calm Mind would be triggered. Fiind upd𝒂ted 𝒏ovels on n𝒐 /m

Su Yiren had already sworn her loyalty to Lin Yuan on a Willpower Rune. Thus, she would not dare to use the Absolute Love Poppy to seduce Lin Yuan.

Calm Mind had been triggered because of Su Yiren's natural, exceptional features, and the Absolute Love Poppy's abilities had combined with Su Yiren's aura.

Lin Yuan recovered from his stupor after an instant. It could be said that she had the most outstanding features of any woman he had ever seen.

However, a woman's appeal did not only come from one's countenance.

The Moon Empress, Night Leaning Moon, and Wang Fuxiang had stunning features, formidable personalities, and auras that had taken shape after their years of experience. Su Yiren could not replicate these.

Moreover, Su Yiren's short hair gave her an overly masculine aura which greatly reduced her appeal to the opposite sex.

Liu Jie soon regained his senses after Lin Yuan. He continued to be shocked by Su Yiren's looks, but he felt that it would be difficult to say whether she or Lin Yuan was better looking.

Ever since Lin Yuan had gone to the Radiant Moon Palace after returning from the Divine Wood Federation, Liu Jie had noticed that Lin Yuan's features had become more pleasing, and his bone structure had become straighter. His changed bone structure made every single bone in his body exude a natural and exquisite beauty.

Lin Yuan's aura had also become purer. The eliteness that radiated from him was even more mesmerizing than that of those who had been born with a silver spoon in their mouths.

As gorgeous as Su Yiren was, her features were not as remarkable as Lin Yuan's after the Earth Center Fine Milk had transformed him.

Throughout a person's life, any bad posture or bad habit would affect one's bone structure.

No matter how much Su Yiren tried to pay attention to her actions, her bone structure could not compare with Lin Yuan's.

After becoming used to looking at Lin Yuan, Liu Jie became immune to Su Yiren once he was over the initial shock.

Meanwhile, Ji Feng's gaze remained locked on Su Yiren, and he only managed to tear his eyes away after a full minute.

However, this was not because he lacked self-discipline. As an emperor-class expert, he had much more self-discipline than Liu Jie and Lin Yuan.

Lin Yuan and Liu Jie were able to recover quicker than Ji Feng because of their trained perspectives and because they had contracted sacred source lifeforms.

The sacred source lifeforms in Lin Yuan and Liu Jie's souls could resist the Absolute Love Poppy's abilities.

Although Su Yiren was not releasing the seductive aura on purpose, she could tell from the three men's reactions that Lin Yuan and Liu Jie had contracted sacred source lifeforms.

This only made her even more curious about Lin Yuan's identity.

Both Lin Yuan and Liu Jie were younger than her.

Liu Jie addressed Lin Yuan as his better and acted like a retainer.

If even Lin Yuan's retainer had a sacred source lifeform, Su Yiren could not imagine what kind of status Lin Yuan had.

Su Yiren was silent for a moment before she asked Lin Yuan, "Lord, I am now your subordinate. You already know my status, and I would like to know yours. Knowing your status will also make it easier for me to decide on the best methods when carrying out my assigned tasks."

Lin Yuan had wanted to chat with Su Yiren about the job he would give her and his goal of being in the Startling Lines Continent.

Since Su Yiren had spoken before he could broach the topic, it would save him the effort. However, he was not going to tell her about his identity.

Instead, he wanted to see if she would be able to guess his identity through his demeanor and other clues. This was so Lin Yuan could test her analytical skills.

"You might not be certain about our identities, but I'm sure you already have your guesses," said Lin Yuan.

Su Yiren immediately understood that Lin Yuan was testing her. She was more than happy to accept the challenge. The more Lin Yuan challenged her, the more she would be able to show off her abilities and become useful in his eyes.

Since she had sworn her loyalty to him on a Willpower Rune and had formed a contract with a north-south constellation seat, her life now lay in Lin Yuan's hands.

"Lord, both your eyes and hair are black, and you are here in the Startling Lines Continent. This should indicate that you're a member of one of the secret elite families in the Great Lush Federation. However, the secret elite families in the Great Lush Federation have the tradition of nurturing their young direct descendants to a certain age before sending them out to train. It is impossible for any disciple of a secret elite family to gain three sacred source lifeforms using such a method of nurturing. Moreover, you and your two companions are much more charismatic than the members of the secret elite families from the Great Lush Federations.

"Although I'm unable to pick up anything from your gaze, your companion, who's around the same age as you, looked calm while your companion, who's older than you, looked scornful when they were discussing the Divine Wood Federation. This means that your older companion doesn't think much of the Divine Wood Federation and even looks down on it.

"Following this logic and given your hair and eye color, only the Radiance Federation, Sand Island Federation, and Spirit Mother Federation fit the bill because they're the only places with Class 5 Creation Masters.

"However, the Sand Island Federation is a desert. The people who live there are exposed to the desert winds, and this environment will definitely be evidenced by their skin regardless of how often they shower.

"From the moment that the people from the Spirit Mother Federation are born, they use fey blood to paint their bodies with patterns that depict their growth and life experiences. None of you have these markings. Thus, only the Radiance Federation, which has three Class 5 Creation Masters, can produce someone like you."

Chapter 1429: Trapped Love Poppy and Odd Method of Fey Contraction

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Su Yiren paused before adding, "I also guessed that you could be a member of a powerful group like Tower Canon. However, you wouldn't ask me to guess your background if you're truly from a secret group. Suppose you're from Tower Canon, that would mean you aren't here to save me but to kill me so as to tie up loose ends."

Lin Yuan nodded in satisfaction and asked the second question, "How do you think I should go about gaining control of all the resources in the Divine Wood Federation and Iron Hammer Federation?"

Su Yiren inhaled sharply. She did not expect Lin Yuan's plan to be on such a large scale.

After talking to Little Flower and Little Grass, she found out that Lin Yuan was not evil. Thus, she purposely pondered for some time before she gave her suggestion.

"I think that you can use the Divine Wood Federation's old method by making use of the chambers of commerce to absorb the Divine Wood Federation and Iron Hammer Federation's resources. Moreover, this method will be more acceptable to the people from the Divine Wood Federation and Iron Hammer Federation. There might even be some who come to thank you.

"However, it will take a large amount of effort to start a chamber of commerce, recruit merchant groups, and open branches in the various cities. If you don't have the time for all this work, you can start by supporting a small chamber of commerce from the Great Lush Federation. Alternatively, you can leave the matter to me. I will definitely be able to perform with flying colors."

Su Yiren's idea coincided with Lin Yuan's own plan. However, Lin Yuan had not planned as far as she had.

Nonetheless, her idea of supporting a small chamber of commerce was feasible.

The Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce's attitude made Lin Yuan aware that relying on and drawing limitless resources from merchant groups would be impossible.

He had happened across the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce's devouring of merchant groups, but this did not mean that there were no other chambers of commerce who were doing the same thing.

Thus, it was a good idea to support a chamber of commerce.

The Prosperous Chamber of Commerce immediately came to Lin Yuan's mind. They were not small and did not need to be built up from the ground. Moreover, they already had problems, so it would not be impossible to start supporting them.

Lin Yuan had never thought about allowing Su Yiren to set up a chamber of commerce. He felt that he would be underusing her talents by letting a Dark Envoy open a chamber of commerce.

He was going to start developing the marsh world.

Lin Yuan could not stay at the underground palace in the Divine Wood Federation and handle everything personally. He needed someone who could carry out tasks on his behalf.

Su Yiren was just the right person for this job. With her capabilities, she could also help Ta Lei set up a new city in the Horseshoe Tribe's territory.

So far, Lin Yuan had only instructed Genius to transfer Class 1 Creation Master knowledge into Ta Lei's mind. He had not thoroughly investigated Ta Lei's innate talent.

If Ta Lei was talented enough, Lin Yuan would be able to nurture Ta Lei into a member of the Iron Hammer Hundred Sequence. He might even be able to push Ta Lei into becoming an Iron Hammer Envoy.

However, whether this future was possible depended on Ta Lei's talent and power.

There were only four people in the Astronomical Parliament besides Lin Yuan and Wen Yu.

Lin Yuan had already met up with Su Yiren and Ta Lei in real life.

Yin Lin was an Azure Envoy and was headed to the Radiance Federation as a representative of the Azure Federation. Hence, Lin Yuan would eventually be able to meet up with her if he wanted to.

As for Bei Xu, Lin Yuan was still unsure where the Grotto Continent was. This place was not recorded in any of the books in the Radiance Federation, which meant that it either did not exist in a federation or the federation it belonged to had never participated in the Major Federation Meeting.

Thus, Bei Xu would need to leave the Grotto Continent in order for Lin Yuan to meet with him. Alternatively, Lin Yuan could use the Ethereal Jellyfish's center tentacle to open a Space Tunnel from the Divine Wood Federation to the Grotto Continent once he stocked up on enough Item-Storing walnuts.

Lin Yuan was still unsure about which choice he would make.

Su Yiren had been waiting for Lin Yuan's response.

She had just become Lin Yuan's subordinate and badly wanted to prove herself. However, she expected him to be in a hurry to assign tasks to her.

Instead, he said with amusement, "I'm interested in your sacred source lifeform. If you're willing, I would like you to summon your sacred source lifeform and main feys."

Su Yiren waved her hand without hesitation and summoned her four main feys.

When he saw the four main feys that Su Yiren summoned, Lin Yuan was taken aback. He did not expect them to be the exact same red flower plant-type feys.

Judging from their appearance, they were probably from the poppy genus.

When Su Yiren saw Lin Yuan looking at her feys curiously, she said, "All four of my main feys are the Trapped Love Poppy."

At that moment, a thought seemed to strike Su Yiren, and a wounded expression spread across her face before she went on to say candidly, "My situation is special. People usually contract feys before they contract their sacred source lifeform. However, it was the other way around for me. I contracted the four Trapped Love Poppies to improve the Absolute Love Poppy's power.

"My grandmother is the only Class 5 Creation Master in the Seven States of Darkness. She has been feeding me Ice River Essence ever since I was young to boost the strength of my soul. When I was five, I consumed three units of the Ice River Essence. Three years later, Grandma told me to try and form a marrow contract with a sacred source lifeform, and I succeeded by accident. From then on, I centered my combat style around my sacred source lifeform. The feys I contracted are also meant to support my sacred source lifeform." ALL new 𝒄hapters 𝒐n n𝒐v(𝒆)

Lin Yuan, Liu Jie, and Ji Feng were all silently shocked by what they had just heard.

Su Yiren truly lived up to her status as being the top Dark Envoy from the Seven States of Darkness. However, her method of contracting feys was too odd.

But this did not mean that her method was weak. Rather, it allowed someone as young as her to have influence over a pinnacle emperor-class expert like Ji Feng without purposely triggering her sacred source lifeform's ability. This was proof that her method of contracting feys was successful.

Lin Yuan thought about what he had seen in Su Yiren's memories.

It was no wonder that she had the courage to take on Seventh Page War.

Chapter 1430: Thoughts of Love

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This was not the first time Lin Yuan encountered someone who had contracted only the same type of feys.

Before Lin Yuan had established a link with the Cage of Brahma Insects, Lu Pinru had already used her spiritual energy to contract almost 20 Glowing Silkworm Weavers.

Now, she could produce one set of clothes inside the closet she carried on her back almost every second during battle. The more Glowing Silkworm Weavers she contracted, the larger the closet would become.

Now, besides continuing to contract more of the Glowing Silkworm Weaver and designing spirit qi clothes with Wen Yu, Lu Pinru also had a plan to become fitter. Otherwise, she might not be able to carry the enormous closet.

Moreover, if Lin Yuan had not accidentally mutated the Spirit Spring Lily into the Yellow Spring Lily, Gao Feng would have contracted three of the Spirit Spring Lilies. If this had happened, Gao Feng might not have been able to become a disciple of a member of royalty.

Lin Yuan used True Data to check on the four Trapped Love Poppies that Su Yiren had summoned. He noticed that they had the same Bronze exclusive skill, Thoughts of Love.

[Thoughts of Love: Allow other targets to unknowingly feel love. Once the love reaches a certain level, a love imprint will be left on their mind, spirit, and soul. The love imprint can be used to control the target.

It was evident that the four Trapped Love Poppies had been carefully chosen before they were contracted.

Since the four Trapped Love Poppies were contracted to aid the Absolute Love Poppy, they did not have impressive abilities.

Su Yiren's true power could only be gauged from the Absolute Love Poppy's abilities.

After summoning the Trapped Love Poppies, Su Yiren raised her hand, and the pink Absolute Love Poppy appeared in her palm.

At that moment, Su Yiren's eyes turned pink, and they shot out dense streamers that turned the area around her pink. The feeling of love in his area started to rise rapidly.

The Sacred Sword Wielding Queen in Lin Yuan's soul and the sacred source lifeform in Liu Jie's soul released their sacred source lifeform aura to block out the intensifying feelings of love in the area.

But Ji Feng's mind had been completely lost to the Absolute Love Poppy.

Su Yiren hurriedly hit Ji Feng's head forcefully and snapped him out of his stupor.

Ji Feng immediately felt fearful and awkward when he came to his senses. He knew that if he continued to be affected by the Absolute Love Poppy, he would be unable to hold back and become a puppet that was fully at Su Yiren's mercy.

After Su Yiren hit Ji Feng, she did her best to control the Absolute Love Poppy's power to prevent it from affecting Ji Feng.

Lin Yuan and Liu Jie shared a look of incredulity because the sacred source lifeforms in their souls could feel the pressure from the Absolute Love Poppy.

This meant that the Absolute Love Poppy's Stars had to be high.

Lin Yuan used True Data to check on the Absolute Love Poppy, and his eyes widened.

[Sacred Source Name: Absolute Love Poppy

[Sacred Source Species: Source genus/Sacred Source species

[Sacred Source Star Grade: 6 Stars

[Sacred Source Type: Spiritual-type/soul-type/mind-type

Abilities:

[Love Desire Glass: By using the mind, spirit, and soul, the target will feel enormous love that will strike the target's most important parts. A piece of glass that contains love will be formed. When the glass is broken, the target will give up its energy core, and its combat power will be triggered. Once the energy core is used up, the target will die.

[14 Poppy Fruits: Contract 14 lifeforms of the same gender as the contractor, and the Absolute Love Poppy will plant a small poppy fruit inside the 14 lifeforms. The targets will gain a small amount of the Absolute Love Poppy's power, and their appearances will change as well. The poppy fruits inside the targets will absorb the love from the target and transfer it into the Absolute Love Poppy to increase its Stars.

Lin Yuan did not expect the Absolute Love Poppy to be 6 Stars. This meant that it was in its adolescent stage and only needed one more Star to reach 7 Stars and its adult stage. It would also gain its third ability.

Besides the number of Stars, Lin Yuan also saw that the Absolute Love Poppy was a spiritual, soul, and mind type.

The spirit governed thoughts, the soul governed consciousness, and the mind commanded the body. Controlling any of them will be a powerful influence over the target.

Since the Absolute Love Poppy could control all three, it meant that it was the strongest sacred source lifeform Lin Yuan had ever encountered.

The Absolute Love Poppy's two abilities were both centered on control.

Love Desire Glass could use love to control a target and even set the target on fire by smashing the glass. This would enable the target to use combat power beyond their usual capabilities.

If Su Yiren was powerful enough, she would be able to control every spirit qi professional on earth and turn them into her personal shield or weapons.

If the situation called for it, she could even destroy her weapons to make her attack or defense stronger.

Love Desire Glass was enough for Su Yiren to live up to her status as a Dark Envoy.

As for 14 Poppy Fruits, it seemed like an ability that would help the Absolute Love Poppy to increase its Stars quickly. It explained why the Absolute Love Poppy was able to increase its Stars so quickly.

However, Lin Yuan felt that there was more to 14 Poppy Fruits than met the eye. In fact, it was even more terrifying than Love Desire Glass.

Su Yiren could choose 14 spirit qi professionals and plant poppy fruits into them. This would essentially give her 14 clones that she could spread around to collect love on her behalf.

Using love to control targets was similar to dimensional lifeforms using faith to control their targets.

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Su Yiren could use the Absolute Love Poppy to produce a mock dimensional world where she would be the Dictator while the 14 spirit qi professionals would be her Apostles.

As long as Su Yiren had sufficient time and lifeforms to attract and serve up love to her, the Absolute Love Poppy's power would skyrocket. ALL new 𝒄hapters 𝒐n n𝒐v(𝒆)

Now that Lin Yuan had seen the Absolute Love Poppy's true colors, he felt that Su Yirenw was a dangerous treasure. If not for her sworn loyalty, Lin Yuan would see her as an extremely dangerous person to be feared.

If her soul had not been injured and the Absolute Love Poppy on the brink of death, Su Yiren would even be able to use the Absolute Love Poppy's abilities to conquer the Divine Wood Federation and the entire Startling Lines Continent.

If she had not snapped Ji Feng to his senses, the Love Desire Glass would have been formed in his body, and he would have become one of Su Yiren's weapons.

Ji Feng's behavior allowed Lin Yuan to understand Su Yiren's power and the importance of one's sacred source lifeform.

Ji Feng was practically a member of Lin Yuan's family. Although Ji Feng had not been Lin Yuan's subordinate for long, he had already contributed significantly to the Return from Faraway Mansion.

Ji Feng's prediction had allowed Lin Yuan to make advance preparations. Otherwise, he would have missed out on the Fortuitous Blessing-Carrying Swallow. The prediction allowed the people from the Return from Faraway Mansion to have an everlasting boost of luck.

Lin Yuan took out the sacred source lifeform he had won from An He and gave it to Ji Feng as he said, "Ji Feng, form a contract with this sacred source lifeform. Regardless of what the sacred source lifeform turns out to be, it will still be able to provide you with resistance against other experts' sacred source lifeforms in the future."

Ji Feng and Su Yiren were stunned.

Ji Feng felt a wave of warmth wash over him, and tears welled up in his eyes.

A decade ago, an uncontracted sacred source lifeform had also landed in his hands. But before he could form a contract with it, Sea Sky Nurture had fallen prey to Ten Thousand Flags Trading, and they stole the sacred source lifeform that he had stored in a Diamond fey storage box.

After ten years of being on the run, he had become a spiritless middle-aged man. During that time, he had never dreamed that he would one day be able to contract a sacred source lifeform.

Yet now, without doing anything and just because Lin Yuan had noticed that he had been affected by Su Yiren's sacred source lifeform, Lin Yuan had gifted him a sacred source lifeform.

Ji Feng felt that he would never be able to repay this favor.

Saying that he was willing to die for Lin Yuan felt like an empty gesture. He already owed Lin Yuan his life and had not repaid that debt.

But now, he wanted to extend the three years to forever. He decided that as long as he lived, he 11:17

would remain by Lin Yuan's side to predict his fortunes and bad luck and do a good job of being Lin Ji Feng lowered his head and stretched his hand out to receive the sacred source lifeform.

At that moment, his mindset changed.

At first, the deal between him and Lin Yuan was that he would only follow Lin Yuan for three years. But once the three years were up, he would be free to leave Lin Yuan to seek revenge on Whale Ocean Commerce.

But now, he wanted to extend the three years to forever. He decided that as long as he lived, he would remain by Lin Yuan's side to predict his fortunes and bad luck and do a good job of being Lin Yuan's subordinate.

He would only go and seek revenge on Ten Thousand Flags Trading when his life was at its end.

Su Yiren's eyes were fixed on Lin Yuan. A moment later, she still had a look of disbelief plastered on her face.

She wanted to ask Lin Yuan, "What do you take sacred source lifeforms for!?"

How can you give it to your subordinate so casually like it's no different from a source-type item?

Su Yiren was completely floored by Lin Yuan's gift to Ji Feng. He was so generous with his subordinates that if she performed well, it was possible that she would also be able to receive gifts to increase her power.

She was only a Class 3 Creation Master. Although her grandmother was a Class 5 Creation Master who had been doing her best to teach her, it did not change the fact that she lacked talent in this area.

Moreover, the Trapped Love Poppies had reached Suzerain/Myth I. They would need Law Crystals to quickly increase their power once they reached Myth II.

Su Yiren would not have to worry about obtaining Law Crystals if her grandmother was still around. However, her grandmother had been killed by Seventh Page War, so Lin Yuan was the only one Su Yiren could depend on.

If Lin Yuan did not plan on making good use of her and providing her with resources, her talent would be wasted, and she would become no different from an ordinary person.

She was already full of hatred for Tower Canon and wanted to restore the Seven States of Darkness. However, asking someone who had become accustomed to being a princess to let her talents waste away and resign herself to being an ordinary spirit qi professional would be even more painful for her than death.

Just as she was about to try to come up with a way to convince Lin Yuan, the latter said, "Your Absolute Love Poppy is very strong, and 14 Poppy Fruits has great potential. What do you think about developing the ability?"

Su Yiren looked at Lin Yuan in shock.

She was not shocked that Lin Yuan had Creation Master skills. However, a normal Creation Master would not be able to look into a 6 Stars sacred source lifeform.

How old was Lin Yuan?

One would need to be a Class 4 Creation Master in order to look into a 6 Stars sacred source lifeform's abilities. Additionally, even Class 4 Creation Master would need to observe for some time. It would be impossible for them to tell so clearly with one look like Lin Yuan had done.

Normally, Su Yiren would never have taken Lin Yuan for a Class 4 or 5 Creation Master. There had never been a Class 4 Creation Master in the Seven States of Darkness who was only around 18 years old.

Even Su Yiren's grandmother, the only Class 5 Creation Master in the Seven States of Darkness, only became a Class 4 Creation Master when she was over 20 years old.

Hence, Su Yiren instinctively assumed that the sacred source lifeform Lin Yuan contracted had investigative abilities.

Su Yiren could not help but pity Lin Yuan.

A sacred source lifeform with investigative abilities was much weaker than combat-type sacred source lifeforms or sacred source lifeforms with special abilities.

Su Yiren knew that Lin Yuan had asked her such a question because he wanted her to develop 14 Poppy Fruits.

Chapter 1432: Su Yiren's 'Love Music Center' Plan

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

Su Yiren had already thought about this and said, "Before Seventh Page War attacked the Seven States of Darkness, I had already chosen 14 spirit qi professionals to plant the poppy fruits into them. However, the Ashes Team killed all of them even before they got a chance to grow. Otherwise, the Absolute Love Poppy would be at least pinnacle 6 Stars by now or even 7 Stars.

"The forms of entertainment in the Divine Wood Federation generally consist of song and dance. The people from the Iron Hammer Federation also really like the dancers from the Iron Hammer Federation. Every dancer from the Divine Wood Federation will become a huge celebrity in the Iron Hammer Federation.

"I would like to turn the people with 14 Poppy Fruits in them into dancers and build a Love Dance Center in every major city in the Divine Wood Federation and the Iron Hammer Federation. There will be 14 Love Poppy Fruits in every Love Dance Center. The Absolute Love Poppy will shape the 14 Poppy Fruits into beautiful and enchanting creatures. Their song and dance will allow me to gather a large amount of love that will enable the Absolute Love Poppy to increase its Stars quickly."

Su Yiren paused for a moment and looked at Lin Yuan with shining eyes as she said, "Every creature from the main world witnessed the earth-shattering bet between the Radiance Federation and Freedom Federation. According to what I just said, I'm confident that the Absolute Love Poppy will be able to reach 7 Stars in two years' time.

"At that point, it will be able to activate a celestial phenomenon. In two years, I will be able to stay in the shadows and act as your weapon while the bet is unfolding. The 14 Poppy Fruits will not cause glass to be formed in the targets that provide them with love. Don't worry. I won't lay a hand on these people who offer up their love."

From what Su Yiren said, Lin Yuan knew that she thought that he was a Radiance Envoy. He was not one yet, but he would fight for the chance to be one a year later.

Lin Yuan did not affirm or deny what she said.

If she used this method to enable the 14 Poppy Fruits to collect love, she would not affect the people who were offering the love. Hence, this method was doable.

Lin Yuan's strongest combatant was White Speak, who had reached pinnacle Immortal. However, it was unable to activate celestial phenomena.

It was true that Sky City needed an expert that could activate celestial phenomena. For now, Su Yiren was the most suitable person for the position.

Lin Yuan nodded at Su Yiren and said, "I will nurture you over the next two years. This includes the four Myth I Trapped Love Poppies."

Once Lin Yuan was done speaking, he tossed a heavy brocade pouch to Su Yiren, stood up, and said, "All the native factions in Oak City are probably discussing us now. Let's go to the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce and wait for the Class 4 Creation Master family to contact us. Then, we can return to the underground palace."

Lin Yuan looked at Su Yiren and said, "From now on, our development in the Startling Lines Continent will depend on you. If you can allow me to gain control over all the resources in the Startling Lines Continent, I don't mind giving you a helping hand. I'm sure you understand what I'm getting at."

Su Yiren's eyes widened, and she clenched her fists.

After she got over her shock, her eyes shone with wild delight and hope. It seemed that it was not a pipe dream to hope that she would be able to exact revenge one day.

Lin Yuan's words were like a promise. But it was up to Su Yiren to grab hold of the opportunity.

At that moment, Su Yiren was full of motivation.

Su Yiren gently opened the brocade pouch as she led Little Flower and Grass out of the tree castle. After she saw its contents, she gently closed the pouch.

Her lips curled with restrained joy, and she knew that her desperate bet had been the right one.

From now on, she would remain with the young man and conquer the three federations in the Startling Lines Continent alongside him.

While Lin Yuan's group was making their way to the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce, big things were happening within the Ding family.

Ever since the Ding family became a Class 4 Creation Master family and started lording over Oak City, the head of the Ding family had never been bothered and called out to listen to a report while he was nurturing feys in the breeding rooms.

The head of the Ding family forced down his displeasure but could not help but feel solemn.

Families that had the Creation Master role usually placed the Creation Masters in their family on a pedestal.

The head of the Ding family knew that no one would dare to bother them unless the matter was of utmost importance. The elders in the family would handle anything less than the most serious matters.

After leaving the breeding room, Ding Chengshuo was faced with the entire Ding family, who had gathered together. He frowned and took his seat at the head of the table before taking a sip of the wine in front of him.

Ding Chengshuo asked the woman seated to his right, "Mei E, why did you ask Little Chao to fetch me from the breeding room in such a hurry? I was trying to use spiritual ingredients to concoct a spirit fluid that will enable the Dragon Horns Mysterious Turtle's bloodline to evolve.

"Luckily, Little Chao came to see me before I started the concoction process. Otherwise, these ingredients that cost over 10,000,000 Great Lush dollars would have gone to waste. I'm sure you know better than others how rare some of these spiritual ingredients are. So, why did you still act so rashly?"

While Ding Chengshuo was speaking, the young man who had entered the meeting room behind Ding Chengshuo retreated as far as he could. He looked as though he had been maligned.

I was just doing what Auntie told me to do! It's not my fault at all!

Mei E smiled wryly before she said, "Husband, I wouldn't have bothered you if I could manage this matter on my own. Ding Jian reported the matter, so he should be the one to tell you about it."

Ding Chengshuo looked at Ding Jian, who had a grim expression on his face. He waved Ding Jian over and asked, "Ding Jian, what exactly happened? Is there actually someone who's brave enough to cause trouble in Oak City?"

Awkwardness spread across Ding Jian's face. He thought about the young man dressed in black who had killed the Deep Freeze members without hesitation. Fiind upd𝒂ted 𝒏ovels on n𝒐 /m

A chill ran up his spine.

He felt that Lin Yuan's actions went beyond just causing trouble.

He had destroyed the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce and killed Lu Kun. This meant that he would bring the Lu family's wrath down on Oak City.

Chapter 1433: The Ding family's Shock

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

There were a few Class 4 Creation Masters in the Lu family, and the Ding family could not afford to offend them.

However, when Ding Jian thought about how Song Dingzhen and the rest were burnt to ashes and how even an emperor-class expert like him was unable to determine the source of the fire, this meant that the Ding family also could not afford to cross the people from the young man's side.

Ding Jian stood up and did his best to explain the situation to Ding Chengshuo. "Today, Ding Kai and I did our rounds to investigate the fire at the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce's tree castle. We found out that someone had started the fire."

Ding Chengshuo's frown furrowed even deeper, and he became even more annoyed.

I was disturbed because of a trivial matter like the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce's tree castle being set on fire?

Just as Ding Chengshuo was about to explode with rage, Ding Cheng continued. "The Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce was set on fire by a young man wearing black. His servant wields power that even Ding Kai and I couldn't detect. My guess is that the servant is at least pinnacle emperor-class. They may have reached thearch-class."

Ding Chengshuo's breath was caught in his throat. He knew full well what such a powerful expert indicated.

Even if it was just a pinnacle emperor-class expert, it meant that the young man who set fire to the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce's tree castle would have a Class 4 or Class 5 Creation Master supporting him.

If the young man's servant was truly an emperor-class expert, it meant that he definitely had a pinnacle Class 4 Creation Master supporting him.

According to what Ding Chao had told him on the way here, the young man in black had black hair and eyes. This meant that he was from the Great Lush Federation.

As such, he had to be a direct descendant of one of the top elite families from the Great Lush Federation. Did he attack the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce because he had a bone to pick with the Lu family?

Ding Chengshuo decided to ask Song Dingzhen about the details of the situation. He was also going to ask her if she knew who the young man dressed in black was.

Ding Chengshuo's skill as a Class 4 Creation Master was not high. Although he could enjoy being treated as a Class 4 Creation Master and lorded over a city, he could barely master most of a Class 4 Creation Master's skills.

Hence, the Ding family badly wanted to find a more skilled Creation Master family to support them.

This would allow Ding Chengshuo to learn from them but also enable the Ding family's power to climb.

Such events were very common in Sacred Forest City. A pinnacle Class 4 Creation Master family often supported numerous less skilled Class 4 Creation Master families. This was the reason why the aristocrats in Sacred Forest City were all closely linked. Anything that happened to one of them would affect the rest as well.

Even if the Ding family obtained the support of pinnacle Class 4 Creation Master families in Sacred Forest City, they were situated too far away to obtain any practical benefits. It would not be feasible to ask the elderly pinnacle Class 4 Creation Masters to travel from Sacred Forest City all the way to Oak City. But at the same time, Ding Chengshuo could not abandon the Oak City side of things to head to Sacred Forest City as it would be difficult for the Ding family to function normally without their key figure.

Moreover, the Ding family would not need to swear their loyalty if they gained the support from a secret family from the Great Lush Federation like they would have to do with a pinnacle Class 4 Creation Master family from Sacred Forest City. Alll 𝒍𝒂test nov𝒆l𝒔 on novelb𝒊n/.c𝒐m

Before Ding Chengshuo gave the order to fetch Song Dingzhen, Ding Jian said, "The young man dressed in black killed every person from the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce, including Song Dingzhen. His retainer even summoned more than 100 Diamond/Fantasy insect-type feys."

Ding Jian gulped, and Ding Chengshuo's chest contracted.

More than 100 Diamond/Fantasy insect-species feys!? That is insane!

Besides the question of whether a person could comprehend more than 100 Willpower Runes, any Creation Master below Class 4 would die of exhaustion trying to nurture so many Diamond/Fantasy insect-species feys.

Like the Lu family, the young man was also from the Great Lush Federation. Yet, he had done such a thing without hesitation. Evidently, he could not care less about the Lu family.

Ding Chengshuo's heart started to beat quicker. But before he decided to form a link with the young man, there were still some questions that he needed to ask. For example, he wanted to know why the young man and the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce clashed.

"Ding Jian, after saying all that, do you know the reason behind the incident? We control Oak City and need to act properly in order to satisfy all the factions in Oak City."

Ding Chengshuo hoped that the young man dressed in black was not completely at fault because this would mean that Ding Chengshuo would have to scramble to come up with a reason to make the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce into a scapegoat before he could rope in the young man.

Ding Jian said angrily, "The Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce has been attracting merchant groups with over-the-top benefits. But the true story is that they've been secretly killing off merchant groups. We have also discussed how the number of merchant groups in Oak City has decreased by 1/3. The Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce probably killed all of these merchant groups."

Ding Chengshuo was livid and slammed his hand down on the table.

At that moment, he not only wanted to push the blame onto the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce, but he utterly loathed them as well.

A city's development and prosperity depended on not only the number and skill of Creation Masters but also the number of merchant groups in the city.

If the number of merchant groups in the city decreased by 1/3, it meant that the opportunities for Oak City to prosper fell by 1/3 as well.

Ding Chengshuo could not permit such actions that negatively influenced Oak City in such a serious manner.

At first, Ding Chengshuo had struggled to come up with a reason to get the young man dressed in black on his good side. But now, an idea popped into his head.

He stood up and said, "This matter is wicked in nature. I will personally report the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce's actions in Oak City to the Divine Wood Federation's imperial court so they can conduct an investigation. They will find out if similar incidents occurred at the other branches of the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce.

"If no other such incidents took place, the Lu family will have to compensate Oak City for what Song Dingzhen did. If there have been other instances, the imperial court will decide if they should continue to allow the Lu family to open another chamber of commerce in the Divine Wood Federation."

At the same moment that Ding Chengshuo made the decision to look into Lin Yuan's whereabouts so he could go and meet with Lin Yuan personally, Lin Yuan had already arrived at the entrance of the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce's tree castle.

Li Wan had only just returned to the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce. Her mind was still filled with images of the way that Lin Yuan had ordered for the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce to be destroyed.

No one benefited more from the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce's destruction than Li Wan.

Chapter 1434: Our Young Master Isn't Here to Chat!

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

Li Wan looked at the elderly man next to her and said, "Elder Duan, your suggestion was pretty good. I have already decided to find a source of support for the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce."

Before the elderly man could speak, a middle-aged man walked in and greeted Li Wan and Elder Duan.

"President, Vice President, the young man with black hair and eyes that you told me to look out for is here again. However, another adult and child are here with him."

Li Wan was about to stand up when another coughing fit overcame her.

Elder Duan hurriedly patted Li Wan's back. A moment later, Li Wan swallowed the bile that had risen in her throat and anxiously went downstairs to greet Lin Yuan.

Right after Li Wan walked out of the President's office, she ran right into a figure outside the door.

At that moment, a refreshing scent entered Li Wan's nose, and she heard her heart thumping loudly.

Li Wan instinctively took a step back. But in her panic, she lost her footing. Just as she thought she was going to take a humiliating topple to the ground, someone grabbed her falling body.

Throughout, the figure she had bumped into stood relaxedly. When she steadied herself, a clear voice rang out in her ear. "President Li Wan, are you going out? The attendant downstairs told us to come up to your office on the seventh floor to see you."

Li Wan thought about the refreshing scent that had wafted into her nose and her racing heartbeat. For some reason, her face flushed.

She forcefully composed herself and said, "Please come in. I was on my way out to greet you downstairs."

Li Wan turned to the middle-aged man and said, "Go and fetch some high-quality fruits. Also, go to the basement of the tree castle to retrieve the top-quality wine there for our guests."

She knew that Lin Yuan did not drink alcohol and that the only person in Lin Yuan's group who drank alcohol was the middle-aged man. In spite of this, she was still willing to retrieve the top-quality wine so she could show Lin Yuan how important he was in her eyes.

The middle-aged man said, "President, I will go and prepare now."

While they were talking, the middle-aged man observed Su Yiren. He was floored by what he saw, and his eyes immediately widened while a blush spread across his cheeks.

The middle-aged man found it hard to imagine that such a beautiful person existed.

Li Wan noticed the middle-aged man's behavior and coughed in annoyance before she pushed him. This snapped him out of his trance.

The middle-aged man looked embarrassed and rushed out of the door to fetch the fruits and wine. But no matter how awkward he felt, he still could not tear his eyes away from her while he was walking out the door.

At first, Li Wan had been focused on Lin Yuan.

But after seeing the middle-aged man's behavior, she also looked at Su Yiren curiously.

The middle-aged man had worked under Li Wan for a long time and was a stoic person. Li Wan could not figure out what could have caused him to act in such a manner.

But when Li Wan's gaze fell on Su Yiren, she suddenly felt herself blushing. This feeling somehow caused hope to bubble from deep within her, and she was lost in this joyous feeling.

This feeling reminded Li Wan of the refreshing scent that had come from Lin Yuan and her racing heartbeat.

Soon, an obvious blush spread across Li Wan's face again. This blush stained her face for some time.

Su Yiren noticed this and looked at Li Wan with amusement.

When Li Wan met Su Yiren's gaze, she felt as though Su Yiren could see right through her and anxiously took a step back.

The Absolute Love Poppy had a weakness when it came to the same gender. When the Absolute Love Poppy was amplifying feelings of love, it could sometimes cause a situation to change.

Li Wan clearly had some feelings for Lin Yuan. When the Absolute Love Poppy amplified these feelings, they accidentally turned into intense love.

However, such a situation could only happen when Su Yiren was not consciously using the Absolute Love Poppy. If she had been consciously using the Absolute Love Poppy, a Love Desire Glass would have appeared within Li Wan's body, and the feelings would not have changed.

Su Yiren let out a soft scoff.

With the Absolute Love Poppy's abilities, it would be easy to produce love. However, the love that this woman from the Great Lush Federation felt for Lin Yuan was destined to fall flat.

It was not because Su Yiren did not think that this woman was good-looking but because her status and Lin Yuan's status differed too greatly.

If Lin Yuan was truly just a direct descendant from one of the Great Lush Federation's secret families, Li Wan might stand a chance.

However, he was actually a Young Master from the Radiance Federation who could gift sacred source lifeforms without much consideration.

Even Su Yiren felt that there was a great canyon between her and someone of Lin Yuan's status.

Liu Jie noticed that Li Wan had been staring at Lin Yuan, and he took a step forward so that he could block Li Wan's gaze.

Liu Jie said, "President Li, our Young Master isn't here to chat.

Li Wan immediately came to her senses. She forced herself to calm down and said, "I also have something to discuss with Young Master Lin. Let's go in and talk."

Su Yiren said confidently, "You can discuss it with me. I also need to talk to you about something on Young Master's behalf."

Su Yiren had already asked Lin Yuan to allow her to oversee the matters in the Divine Wood Federation and Iron Hammer Federation on the way to the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce.

Thus, she would be interacting with Li Wan in the future much more than Lin Yuan was going to. As such, she was the right person to have the discussion with Li Wan.

Lin Yuan was also happy that he would be free and just needed to listen off to the side. Alll 𝒍𝒂test nov𝒆l𝒔 on novelb𝒊n/.c𝒐m

Li Wan looked Su Yiren up and down and assumed she was also from a secret elite family. After all, she did not resemble a servant in any way.

Li Wan recognized the Purple Chestnut Crystals embedded all over her spirit qi clothes.

Purple Chestnut Crystals were only found in Class 3 and above subterranean dimensional rifts. There were Class 5 dimensional lifeforms in Class 3 and above subterranean dimensional rifts. Purple Chestnut Crystals were also extremely rare in Class 3 subterranean dimensional rifts. They were only commonly found in Class 4 subterranean dimensional rifts.

Chapter 1435: Mysterious Identity

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

There were at least 2,000 Purple Chestnut Crystals on Su Yiren's spirit qi clothes. As such, there was no way that she obtained all of them from a Class 3 subterranean dimensional rift.

Although she could not place the watch-shaped earring hanging off Su Yiren's ear, her spirit qi clothes alone were already worth more than 12,000,000 Great Lush dollars. It was even more expensive than the spirit qi clothes and accessories that Lin Yuan was wearing.

Yet, this woman addressed herself as Lin Yuan's attendant.

Due to this, Li Wan had to reassess who she thought Lin Yuan was.

Previously, Li Wan thought that people had been hypocritical when they said that they wore clothes that suited their fancy and did not pay attention to the value of the clothes. Even pinnacle Class 4 Creation Masters could not achieve such humility.

But now, Li Wan believed that such a person existed because he was standing right in front of her.

If even his subordinates wore spirit qi clothes worth tens of millions of Great Lush dollars, were there any spirit qi clothes that Lin Yuan could not afford to put on?

When the middle-aged man brought the wine and fruits, Elder Duan took over the tray for fear that the middle-aged man would lose his composure again once he stepped into the room and laid eyes on Su Yiren.

Li Wan picked up one of the fruits and personally juiced it to serve Lin Yuan's group while Elder Duan opened the wine for Ji Feng.

Once the seal on the wine was removed, a stinging spicy smell filled the air, and Ji Feng said, "This wine must have been fermenting for at least 80 years. Platinum citrus fruits were added to aid the fermentation. Tiger-species feys' bones were soaked in the blood and bone marrow of Fantasy Breed dragon-species feys so as to remove the gamey flavor. When the tiger bones' gaminess and the dragon bones' flavor clashed, all the sourness and bitterness inside the fruits disappeared. Whoever made this wine was very detailed, and their thoughtfulness is enough for me to know that this is a good bottle of wine."

Li Wan and Elder Duan froze in shock when they heard what Ji Feng said.

They were already very surprised when he managed to discern the ingredients of the Elephant Bone Wine after just one sip.

But now, he figured out how this alcohol had been made just from its scent. This meant that he was no ordinary wine connoisseur. He must have tested a lot of top-quality wine and many spiritual ingredients that went into making wine in order to train his senses to such a degree.

These details allowed Li Wan to realize how mysterious Lin Yuan's background was.

Li Wan decided to be open about her intentions. She looked at Su Yiren and said seriously, "I would like to represent the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce to request a working relationship with you. Young Master Lin mentioned he would like to work closely with us, but he left in a hurry before we could settle the deal."

Su Yiren could not help but think to herself how blessed Li Wan was.

If Lin Yuan wanted to work with her, it would be a huge blessing for the entire Prosperous Chamber of Commerce. Yet, even after missing the first opportunity, it did not disappear and fell in her lap again.

However, Su Yiren did not agree with what Li Wan said about working closely with the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce. Alll 𝒍𝒂test nov𝒆l𝒔 on novelb𝒊n/.c𝒐m

Su Yiren said calmly, "President Li, I'm sure you're aware that the term 'working closely' isn't apropos when it comes to our Young Master. A collaboration suggests that both parties are of equal standing and benefit each other to the same extent.

"It goes without saying how our Young Master will be able to help the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce. However, I fail to see how the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce will be able to benefit our Young Master.

"If you only want to work with us, there's no point in us wasting our breath any longer. There are hundreds of both strong and weak chambers of commerce in the Divine Wood Federation. As long as our Young Master reaches out a hand, he will be able to raise the weak ones to the heavens while crushing the strong ones. The pair of Bronze/Epic Item-Storing Walnuts is proof of my claims. So, we can only proceed if you dig deep and show your sincerity."

Although Su Yiren's tone was calm, the meaning behind her words hit strongly. Everything she said hit a key point, and Li Wan had no choice but to face the matter head-on.

Before they arrived, Su Yiren had asked Lin Yuan about the details of his trade with the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce. However, she did not know that Lin Yuan had wiped out the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce.

Su Yiren was able to push Li Wan into a corner during their discussion using only the scarce information she had. This showed Lin Yuan how impressive Su Yiren was.

Lin Yuan had come to discuss a collaboration.

After Li Wan expressed her wish to collaborate with him, Su Yiren immediately altered the plan to ensure that Lin Yuan's group could maximize their benefits.

From this, it was clear to see how talented Su Yiren was at strategy.

However, Lin Yuan was unsure if she or Wen Yu was better as they excelled in different areas. Wen Yu was skilled at gathering and organizing information, while Su Yiren was adept at socializing.

It was clear that Su Yiren's words had hurt Li Wan's pride.

Li Wan had just felt intense love toward Lin Yuan. But Su Yiren's words had pointed out the distance between Li Wan and Lin Yuan.

The urge to leave the meeting room rose within Li Wan. But when she thought about the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce's situation and her father's last wishes, she forced herself to calm down.

After another coughing fit, Li Wan said, "Our Prosperous Chamber of Commerce isn't a top chamber of commerce. We can only offer you our resources as a chamber of commerce or our shares if you want to invest in us. Regardless of which of these you are interested in, I can only trade our shares."

A conflicted look came over Li Wan.

Su Yiren did not speak so that Li Wan would be able to think the matter through carefully.

Eventually, Li Wan took a long look at Lin Yuan before saying to Su Yiren, "Most of the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce's shares lie in the hands of the elders of the Li family. I might be the president of the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce, but I only own 40% of the shares. I am willing to give all 40% of the shares to you. However, I have two conditions."

Chapter 1436: Li Wan's Worries and Determination

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

Li Wan's tone became resolute as she said, "Firstly, I have to remain as the head of the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce. Secondly, I would like to ask for your help in retrieving the rest of the shares. Once all the shares are retrieved. I will give you another 9% of the shares."

Su Yiren did not agree immediately. Instead, she looked at Lin Yuan.

It was not that Su Yiren was unable to come to a decision but because this matter involved the Li family's internal conflict. Su Yiren needed to seek Lin Yuan's opinion before they got themselves tangled in this mess.

Lin Yuan gave Su Yiren a smile of assurance, and Su Yiren knew that he wanted her to decide for herself.

When she saw Lin Yuan's smile, she felt something akin to love grab hold of her, and she suddenly felt slightly dizzy.

She had not carefully observed Lin Yuan yet. But when she looked at him now, she realized Lin Yuan was just as attractive as her. In fact, he even had better bone structure than her.

What the hell? I even contracted the Absolute Love Poppy! How can he look better than me? Is he some demon from the abyssal world?

"I agree to your terms. Before the matter is done, our Young Master will own 40% of Prosperous Chamber of Commerce's shares while you will keep control of Prosperous Chamber of Commerce. After the matter is done, he will possess 49% of the shares. The three federations in the Startling Lines Continent are always fighting amongst themselves, and robber groups are rampant. Many unorthodox paths arise in a chaotic world. You have chosen the right path. Frankly, I'm jealous of your luck," said Su Yiren.

Su Yiren's last line had come from the heart. If she had hesitated and missed the opportunity to join the Astronomical Parliament, she might not have been given a second chance to do so.

Li Wan did not know why Su Yiren had said she was lucky, but she could tell that Su Yiren did not think of the Divine Wood Federation, Great Lush Federation, and Iron Hammer Federation as strong.

Su Yiren sounded so confident that Li Wan felt she was looking at a giant beast that could easily crush the Divine Wood Federation, Great Lush Federation, and Iron Hammer Federation with its feet.

Suddenly, the fight between Lin Yuan and the Lu family came to Li Wan's mind, and she said with a worried tone, "The Lu family, who supports the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce, is much stronger than my family. If the Lu family discovers that we are working with you, they will definitely attack us out of revenge. Our experts won't be able to hold them off. What do you think we should do?"

Li Wan knew that Lin Yuan had experts.

If this fight was centralized at one location, Li Wan would not be afraid of the Lu family coming to seek revenge.

However, there were 47 branches scattered in the Divine Wood Federation and Iron Hammer Federation. The fight would be too spread out. The Prosperous Chamber of Commerce would not be able to handle the loss if the Lu family went after any of the branches.

Since she had chosen to work with Lin Yuan, she would be honest with Lin Yuan and seek his help in matters that she could not fix on her own.

Su Yiren did not speak when she heard Li Wan's concerns because she was unaware of what had happened between Lin Yuan and the Lu family.

As a strategist, she would never make a decision impulsively without having all the information, even if she was certain that there was no faction from the Startling Lines Continent that would be able to defeat Lin Yuan.

Lin Yuan said to the visibly worried Li Wan, "Only you and Elder Duan know that the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce is working with me. How will anyone else find out?"

Li Wan's eyes lit up.

Li Wan assumed that Lin Yuan would definitely mark the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce with his own brand when he decided to support the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce.

However, he did not do so. Instead, he chose to support the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce silently from the shadows while she led the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce in front of the public eye.

This way, the Li family would seemingly be able to gain all the glory. This was something that the lower-ranked aristocratic Li family would dream of.

Lin Yuan's words laid all of Li Wan's concerns to rest.

As long as the Li family was able to attain all the glory and climb the ranks in the Great Lush Federation, Li Wan did not care about material things.

After making her requests, Li Wan wanted to chat with Lin Yuan about how the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce should go about using and trading the resources he was going to give them.

Since their deal involved such a large exchange of resources, they had to discuss how the benefits were going to be split.

Lin Yuan currently possessed 40% of the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce's shares and was going to possess 49% in the future. This meant that he should receive almost half of the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce's profits.

If Lin Yuan was only going to invest a small number of resources into the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce, the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce would be at a disadvantage. But if he invested too many resources into the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce, they would be taking advantage of him. No matter which of these two situations ended up taking place, it would affect the stability of their collaboration.

Thus, the best thing to do was to buy the resources he invested in them at a set price. This would be the equivalent of the partial owner of Prosperous Chamber of Commerce, who owned 40% or 49% of the shares, buying resources from Lin Yuan, the investor. Diiscover new 𝒔tories at n𝒐ve/lbin.c/o𝒎

If the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce wanted to benefit from such a situation, they needed to ensure that Lin Yuan invested many resources.

Li Wan chose such a method of trading so that she would be able to gauge how much Lin Yuan was willing to invest in the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce in the future.

Lin Yuan looked at Li Wan with satisfaction. Since she was so detailed, he was not going to be miserly.

Su Yiren listened to Li Wan while keeping her eyes fixed on Lin Yuan's expression.

She knew that Li Wan had followed up her right decision with another outstanding decision. The Prosperous Chamber of Commerce was fated to transform from a lowly ant into a majestic dragon in the future.

"As of now, I'm still unsure of what type of resource the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce should focus on. President Li, why don't you suggest some to me?" said Lin Yuan.

Li Wan looked delighted as this meant that Lin Yuan was ready to invest resources into the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce.

Currently, the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce mainly traded in animal skins, rare plants, fruits, alcohol, metal ores, and some good-quality feys. They had always stayed on the safe path.

Due to the Li family's lack of Creation Master resources, they had very few good-quality feys, and the few that they had were used to retain old customers.

Chapter 1437: Lin Yuan's Arrangement

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Nonetheless, many old customers still felt that the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce's goods lacked variety and quality. Li Wan badly wanted to amend this circumstance. Fiind upd𝒂ted 𝒏ovels on n𝒐 /m

As such, Li Wan was very happy to respond to Lin Yuan's question.

"Young Master Lin, we can sell any type of goods. If this auction turns out to be a success, I plan on holding auctions in our other branches as well. Thus, we are willing to sell any type of goods, no matter how strange they are."

Li Wan intentionally mentioned the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce's auction to hint at Lin yuan to provide the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce with better resources.

Lin Yuan nodded.

He was not afraid of Li Wan being ambitious. In fact, the more ambitious she was, the more Lin Yuan admired her. Lin Yuan would reconsider working with the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce if she was insipid.

"I won't be providing the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce with too many resources."

Li Wan and Elder Duan's gazes immediately darkened when they heard what he said. But before the bitter smiles of disappointment spread across their faces, Lin Yuan went on to say, "I can station a low-class Class 4 Creation Master in Prosperous Chamber of Commerce's Oak City branch. I will also provide you with ten pinnacle Class 3 Creation Masters who will concoct spirit fluids according to the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce's needs. Every month, I will provide you with ten pairs of Bronze/Epic Item-Storing Walnuts, 200 Bronze/Flawless feys, and five Bronze/Epic feys. I won't be providing you with any miscellaneous items. You can settle those yourself."

Li Wan and Elder Duan's eyes widened. They were immediately stunned when Lin Yuan said that he was going to station a low-class Class 4 Creation Master in Prosperous Chamber of Commerce's Oak City branch.

The leader of Oak City was the head of the Ding family, and he himself was a low-class Class 4 Creation Master.

As long as the low-class Class 4 Creation Master assigned by Lin Yuan was verified by the Divine Wood Federation's imperial court, he would be able to build a city that was as booming as Oak City in a decade or two.

Moreover, Lin Yuan was also going to assign ten pinnacle Class 3 Creation Masters to work for the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce.

There were less than 12 Class 3 Creation Masters in the Ding family, and only one of them was pinnacle Class 3.

The ten pinnacle Class 3 Creation Masters alone that Lin Yuan was going to provide would be more valuable than the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce would be able to afford.

A low-class Class 4 Creation Master and ten pinnacle Class 3 Creation Masters might not be more powerful than the Li family, who had two mid-class Class 4 Creation Masters and one low-class Class 4 Creation Master. But, the Li family only had five Class 3 Creation Masters.

Overall, Lin Yuan was providing the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce with the same amount of Creation Master power that the Li family currently possessed.

As for the 20 Bronze/Flawless feys, all of them were qualified to be auctioned off.

Only Class 4 and above Creation Masters could nurture things like the ten Bronze/Epic Item-Storing Walnuts and five Bronze/Epic feys.

Lin Yuan was not going to provide these resources just once but once every month. This meant that he possessed Class 4 and above Creation Master resources.

Additionally, Lin Yuan was able to order around Class 4 and above Creation Masters casually. The Li family was not capable of doing so.

These resources that could only be produced by a Class 4 and above Creation Master were sufficient to take Prosperous Chamber of Commerce up to another level.

Li Wan was not bothered by the miscellaneous resources that Lin Yuan said he would not be providing. With everything else that he was offering, Li Wan would reject those miscellaneous resources even if he offered.

After careful consideration, Lin Yuan chose to invest resources into the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce monthly. He could even provide them with 100 Bronze/Epic feys daily if he wanted to.

However, doing this would not only astonish Li Wan but also make the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce public enemy number one in all three federations in the Startling Lines continent if news of what he was doing was leaked.

This amount of investment resources would ensure that the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce did not attract too much-unwanted attention.

This would aid the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce's development and help set up Su Yiren's Love Music Center.

After Master Hong Shen helped Zhang Xiaobai, Xin Ying, Tan Ran, and Lu Pinru strengthen their feys, he went on to strengthen the plant-type feys in the basement.

But plant-type feys always took a long time to grow. Master Hong Shen was stuck in the Return from Faraway Mansion for almost a month.

When Master Hong Shen's soul had been injured, he had not been able to do anything. Thus, he came to hate any extended period of time where he was doing nothing.

When Lin Yuan last returned to the Return from Faraway Mansion, Master Hong Shen trailed behind him so that Lin Yuan would assign tasks to him.

Master Hong Shen had sworn his loyalty to Lin Yuan on a Willpower Rune. Hence, he was someone that Lin Yuan could fully trust.

Additionally, this would enable Lin Yuan to place someone he trusted by Li Wan's side. This would allow Lin Yuan to grasp the exact situation in the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce.

As for the ten pinnacle Class 3 Creation Masters, they would be fully comprised of the Hundred Questions Beasts.

Genius was done training the 100 Hundred Questions Beasts, and all of them had pinnacle Class 3 Creation Master skills.

Moreover, Genius had reached Diamond grade and had the spiritual energy to teach new Hundred Questions Beasts. Thus, the army of Hundred Questions Beasts would only grow.

By sending the ten Hundred Questions Beasts to the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce, Lin Yuan's resources would not be depleted at all.

He was not intending to accept his share of the profits from the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce in the form of Great Lush dollars.

Instead, he wanted a large number of the specialty plant-type feys from the Divine Wood Federation as well as mineral ores that were rare in the Radiance Federation as these were true strategic resources.

A thought suddenly struck Lin Yuan.

If he wanted to obtain a large number of Item-Storing Walnuts to enable him to use the Space Tunnel to travel to and from the Divine Wood Federation, he would need more mature Item-Storing Walnut Trees.

Hence, Lin Yuan said to Li Wan, "President Li Wan, I'm sure the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce has many common plant-type feys like the Item-Storing Walnut Trees. I would like 500 Item-Storing Walnut Trees that are at least 300 years old."

Li Wan immediately replied, "Young Master Lin, I will immediately instruct Elder Duan to fetch all the Item-Storing Walnut Trees we have that are over 300 years old."

Chapter 1438: Impending Clash

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"We currently have over 600 Item-Storing Walnut Trees in our Oak City branch that are over 300 years old, and more than 20 of them are over 500 years old. If these Item-Storing Walnut Trees are evolved to Bronze/Epic, the Item-Storing Walnuts they produce will be 2/5 larger than the Item-Storing Walnuts from trees that are 300 years old.

"Between the Bronze/Epic Item-Storing Walnut from a 300-year-old and 500-year-old Item-Storing Walnut Tree, the one from a 500-year-old Item-Storing Walnut Tree will be able to sell for an additional 5,000,000 Great Lush dollars."

Lin Yuan's eyes lit up.

If he could evolve all the 500-year-old Item-Storing Walnut Trees to Bronze/Epic, he would be able to gain more than 1,200 Bronze/Epic Item-Storing Walnuts. With these 1,200 Bronze/Epic Item-Storing Walnuts, Lin Yuan would not have to nurture the Bronze/Epic Item-Storing Walnut Trees again.

These Item-Storing Walnut Trees would increase Lin Yuan's store of spatial-type spiritual ingredients.

Just as Elder Duan was about to go and fetch the Item-Storing Walnut Trees for Lin Yuan, someone knocked on the door of the guest room, and the middle-aged man walked in again.

The middle-aged man bowed to Lin Yuan before saying to Li Wan, "President, Ding Chengshuo is here, and he would like to meet with Young Master Lin."

The middle-aged man's tone was full of shock.

To his memory, Ding Chengshuo did not even attend the opening of the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce's Oak City branch. Yet now, he was here to see a young man.

Moreover, Ding Chengshuo had not barged in. Instead, he had told the middle-aged man to go and send word of his arrival. Clearly, Ding Chengshuo was humbling himself.

Li Wan could not decide such a thing herself, so she looked at Lin Yuan for a decision.

Frankly, she did not want Lin Yuan to meet with Ding Chengshuo. If Lin Yuan decided to work with Ding Chengshuo, it would cause him to place less importance on the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce.

No faction could stand up to the Ding family's power in Oak City. They could do a lot more for Lin Yuan than the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce could.

Although Lin Yuan knew that Ding Chengshuo would come to see him, he was uninterested in Ding Chengshuo's visit.

Nonetheless, he had only just arrived in the Divine Wood Federation and started to enact his plans. It would only benefit him in the future if he established a good relationship with Ding Chengshuo, the head of Oak City.

Ding Chengshuo was a Class 4 Creation Master recognized by the Divine Wood Federation's imperial court. He was able to participate in imperial court meetings and was thus considered a government official.

If there was anything in the future that would require Lin Yuan to liaise with the officials in the Divine Wood Federation, it would be much more reliable to go through Ding Chengshuo than Jian Li.

Lin Yuan stood up and said to Li Wan, "President Li Wan, we are done with our discussion. You can just give me the Item-Storing Walnut Trees before I leave. Su Yiren will send you the resources. Since our relationship isn't to be exposed, why don't you arrange for a guest room where I can meet with Ding Chengshuo?"

When Lin Yuan stood up, Liu Jie and Ji Feng also rose to their feet.

"Big Brother Liu and Ji Feng, both of you stay here with the children to have more juice. Then, call Mr. Zhao over. Our conflict with the Lu family started with the Sincere Merchant Group, so the Lu family will definitely seek revenge on the Sincere Merchant Group. The person I placed in the Sincere Merchant Group will handle the issue."

Liu Jie nodded and said, "Young Master, let me handle the Sincere Merchant Group's matters. You don't have to worry about it. I think President Li Wan will be more willing to keep the Sincere Merchant Group here to help out with the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce rather than have them run about transporting goods."

Liu Jie found Li Wan to be untrustworthy. Even if Su Yiren was here to keep watch over Li Wan, it would not prevent Li Wan from having unsavory thoughts.

There were over 100 people in the Sincere Merchant Group, and it was impossible to tell what all of them were thinking. Just because Mr. Zhao felt grateful toward Lin Yuan did not mean that every person in the Sincere Merchant Group felt the same way.

It would be better to position everyone from the Sincere Merchant Group in the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce so both untrustworthy sides could keep each other in check. This was the best way to ensure that no one acted up.

Although Li Wan was conflicted and did not want to take in the people from the Sincere Merchant Group, she had no grounds to say no. 𝑅êạd new chapt𝒆rs on no/v/e/l𝒃

Lin Yuan said to Liu Jie with a smile, "Big Brother Liu, I shall leave the Sincere Merchant Group to you. We will be returning tonight once I'm done with business. For the next month, it's time for me to lock myself away to train."

Liu Jie immediately thought about the Radiance Hundred Sequence selection that was going to take place in a month's time, and his expression turned solemn as he said, "Young Master, there will be many factions gathered at the selection. In such a situation, there will definitely be people trying to pull tricks and schemes. You and Gao Feng will have to handle everything at that time."

Su Yiren, Li Wan, and Elder Duan did not know what Lin Yuan and Liu Jie were referring to. However, they knew Lin Yuan would leave Oak City tonight.

Li Wan was extremely reluctant to see him leave.

On the other hand, Su Yiren looked forward to it greatly. She had found her hope and was ready to perform with flying colors. Thus, she was very curious to see where Lin Yuan's base in the Divine Wood Federation was.

Lin Yuan's expression turned austere when he heard what Liu Jie said. He was fully aware of what Liu Jie was trying to get at.

The Radiance Federation's royalty had just had a battle of celestial phenomena with the Freedom Federation's royalty, and they were going to carry out their earth-shattering bet two years later.

Additionally, envoys from the Freedom Federation were going to come and spectate the Radiance Hundred Sequence selection.

It was possible that the people from the Freedom Federation would not have caused trouble if the clash had not taken place. But since the clash did happen and all bridges between the Radiance Federation and Freedom Federation had been burned, the envoys from the Freedom Federation were sure to cause trouble during the Radiance Hundred Sequence Selection.

At that point, the slightest friction would impact both federations' pride.

Chapter 1439: Ding Chengshuo's Friendliness

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According to past customs, any team of envoys that visited the Radiance Federation could send out members of their own Hundred Sequence to have a friendly match with ten of the Radiance Hundred Sequence members.

Lin Yuan and Liu Jie had done their own analysis and deemed that the best chance for the Freedom Federation to cause trouble would be during the friendly match.

As such, it was necessary for Lin Yuan to be well prepared.

Frankly, Lin Yuan was not afraid of the friendly match between members of the Freedom Hundred Sequence and the Radiance Hundred Sequence.

It was not realistic for Lin Yuan to be able to become an A-rank spirit qi professional in the month before the Radiance Hundred Sequence selection. However, it was possible for him to evolve his feys to Diamond X during that time.

The trade message that Lin Yuan had posted through the Purchase With No Loss store had exploded with popularity, and many experts had voiced their agreement to his terms in exchange for him helping their feys to overcome their World Cleansings successfully.

Besides increasing the power of his feys, the Sacred Sword Wielding Queen's Night Crow Wither Attack and Attack of the Sea Leaping Whale would also recover to their full strength before the Radiance Hundred Sequence selection.

The Sacred Sword Wielding Queen was currently absorbing the Prism Snapping Turtle's World Crystal. Once it was done, Lin Yuan would have three World Crystals in his possession.

One month was sufficient for the Sacred Sword Wielding Queen to absorb the remaining three World Crystals. After which Lin Yuan would have six different Sword Skills.

Additionally, it was likely that the Sacred Sword Wielding Queen would be able to evolve from 3 Stars to 4 Stars and gain its second ability.

It was likely that the Sacred Sword Wielding Queen would be done absorbing the Prism Snapping Turtle's World Crystal tonight.

It did not take long for Li Wan to arrange a guest room for Lin Yuan, and she told the attendant to invite Ding Chengshuo into the guest room.

Su Yiren took a seat next to Lin Yuan. After she was told about what had transpired between Lin Yuan and the Lu family, she said, "Young Master, I think we should form close ties with Ding Chengshuo. The Divine Wood Federation's imperial court does not have much authority over Class 4 Creation Masters with a territory of their own like Ding Chengshuo. As long as we can provide Ding Chengshuo with benefits, he won't mind that we're not natives.

"As of now, none of the Ding family's direct descendants has managed to join the Divine Wood Hundred Sequence, and the Ding family hasn't found a stronger Class 4 Creation Master family to whom they can pander. Thus, if you can open up their future for them and bring them glory, Ding Chengshuo will feel indebted to you.

"I'm planning on setting up the first Love Music Center in Oak City, and the Ding family's support will be instrumental in ensuring that the Love Music Center becomes successful quickly. I will only be able to evolve the Absolute Love Poppy to 10 Stars within two years if the Love Music Center is quickly established and becomes popular."

Lin Yuan flipped over his hand and took out a pair of Bronze/Epic Item-Storing Walnuts. After rolling them around in his hands a few times, he tossed them to Su Yiren and said, "I already said that I'm leaving the Divine Wood Federation's side of the business to you. You will be the one to talk to Ding Chengshuo later. If you want to link up with him, you can use the pinnacle Class 4 Creation Master resource as you see fit."

Su Yiren could not help but think about the brocade pouch Lin Yuan had tossed to her and the items inside. She thought,?If Lin Yuan can casually toss me a bagful of Law Crystals with pure law power, he might even be able to produce Class 5 Creation Master resources. However, there is no need to produce Class 5 Creation Masters in the Divine Wood Federation. This must be the reason Lin Yuan only promised them a pinnacle Class 4 Creation Master!

Su Yiren was delighted and thankful that Lin Yuan trusted her to such an extent.

For someone as talented as Su Yiren, she was never afraid of a task being difficult but that she would be held back when trying to perform the task.

Su Yiren did not want to disappoint Lin Yuan's trust in her. Naturally, this would also help her.

She was aware that she would only be able to rescue the Dark Continent and the Seven States of Darkness if she did a good job under Lin Yuan.

Soon, Ding Chengshuo arrived at the entrance of the guest room.

Ding Chengshuo remembered Ding Jian mentioning that the young man dressed in black had a servant that was at least pinnacle emperor-class or even thearch-class. A wave of anxiousness hit him.

As the lord of Oak City, Ding Chengshuo knew better than Ding Jian what a pinnacle emperor-class or thearch-class expert indicated. It meant a Class 4 or above Creation Master supported the young man dressed in black.

Ding Chengshuo felt that there was almost no difference between a Class 4 and a pinnacle Class 4 Creation Master. Both would be able to help the Ding family level up.

He took a deep breath and gently knocked on the door of the guest room. A dignified female voice said from inside the guest room, "Come in."

Ding Chengshuo pushed open the door of the guest room. After one glance, he was immediately drawn to the man and woman seated on the sofa.

He could not help but gasp at the features and auras of the man and woman. They could even give the Holy Lady from the Divine Wood Federation's imperial court a run for her money.

Ding Chengshuo was utterly incredulous.

The Holy Lady in the Divine Wood Federation guarded the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm, and their auras and features were all enhanced by that magnificent person.

Besides their appearances and auras, Ding Chengshuo noticed that the woman dressed in purple also had an irresistible and alluring scent.

Ding Chengshuo was about to greet Su Yiren and Lin Yuan when Su Yiren beat him to the punch and said, "City Lord Ding, please have a seat. Our Young Master doesn't like to talk to strangers. You can talk to me."

Since Ding Chengshuo could become a Class 4 Creation Master, it meant that he was a smart person.

From how Su Yiren addressed him, he knew that they were more interested in his title as the City Lord of Oak City than in his identity as a Class 4 Creation Master.

However, Ding Chengshuo never expected the woman with the dignified voice who had spoken from inside the room to be the female attendant.

But as shocked as Ding Chengshuo was, he did not reveal his emotions on his face.

Ding Chengshuo sat down tentatively and said, "The elders in my family told me about the situation at the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce. I have already reported the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce's actions to the Divine Wood Federation's imperial court."

Chapter 1440: Sacred Wood Mystic Realm

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Ding Chengshuo carefully observed Lin Yuan and Su Yiren's expressions when he said that he had reported the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce to the Divine Wood Federation's imperial court.

He assumed that they would look elated when they heard the news. But, he turned out to be wrong.

Neither of the two's expressions changed in the slightest.

This meant that the young man and woman couldn't care less about the Lu family.

Apparently, Ding Chengshuo's plan to be friendly with the young man by throwing the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce under the bus had failed.

However, he went on to say, "Once the imperial court conducts a thorough investigation, the Lu family will offer you an appropriate compensation."

Although his attempt at being friendly had failed, he still needed to put on the proper attitude.

Su Yiren had asked Lin Yuan about the Lu family, and she knew that Ding Chengshuo was trying to be friendly with Lin Yuan and wanted to test how they felt about the Lu family as this would indicate how powerful they were.

"Everyone from the Deep Freeze Chamber of Commerce's Oak City is dead, and our grudge with them is settled. If the Lu family comes after us, they will have to be prepared to be wiped off the face of the earth. City Lord Ding, you don't have to be worried about our grudge with the Lu family," said Su Yiren.

Su Yiren's tone sounded lazy when she mentioned the Lu family, and Ding Chengshuo's eyes lit up.

Just as Ding Chengshuo was about to try another approach to get close to them, Su Yiren said, "City Lord Ding, our Young Master doesn't like people who beat around the bush. You can just speak your mind."

Ding Chengshuo's expression was slightly awkward. He did not expect his attempts at being friendly would be seen as a waste of time.

He had come to see Lin Yuan because he had a goal in mind.

Currently, Ding Chengshuo's most pressing matter was the evolution of the Dragon Horns Mysterious Turtle's bloodline.

Although the Dragon Horns Mysterious Turtle did not have dragon horns, it had partial dragon-species fey bloodline. Nonetheless, it was still turtle-species.

The turtle-species bloodline was also considered an elite bloodline.

Ding Chengshuo was a defense-type spirit qi professional. In terms of defensive abilities, the turtle-species bloodline was stronger than the dragon-species bloodline.

Thus, Ding Chengshuo wanted to suppress the turtle-species fey bloodline and unleash the dragon-species fey bloodline while still evolving the turtle-species fey bloodline.

This hurdle was too high for a low-class Class 4 Creation Master like Ding Chengshuo to cross.

This was not the first time that Ding Chengshuo tried to evolve the turtle-species fey bloodline. But no matter how carefully he studied, he still failed every attempt.

This result was a serious burden to the Ding family, and it also allowed Ding Chengshuo to see where his limits were.

The easiest way to increase his power would be to depend on a stronger Creation Master.

The Sacred Wood Mystic Realm of the Divine Wood Federation would open every 10 years, and it was time to open again in four months.

As long as Ding Chengshuo was capable of reaching the top 20 amongst the Divine Wood Federation's members of parliament, he would be able to enter the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm.

No matter what happened, Ding Chengshuo would fight for that opportunity.

If he had not coincidentally heard about Lin Yuan from Ding Jian and confirmed that Lin Yuan had a Class 4 and above Creation Master supporting him, he would have gone to Sacred Forest City next month to see if he could offer his loyalty and the Ding family's resources to convince one of the elite families from Sacred Forest City to evolve the Dragon Horns Mysterious Turtle.

He could only obtain a plant-type fey with Sacred Wood bloodline if he became one of the top 20 members of parliament and entered the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm. This was the only way that the Ding family would be able to carve their eternal legacy into the Divine Wood Federation.

Ding Chengshuo said tentatively, "Our family has a turtle-species fey whose bloodline's evolution has reached a key point. I would like to request a trade. If you help me to evolve the turtle-species fey's bloodline, you can have your pick of whatever the Ding family possesses."

Su Yiren's expression changed slightly. She grabbed a fruit off the table and took a bite out of it before shaking her sleeve and revealing the pair of Bronze/Epic Item-Storing Walnuts that Lin Yuan had given her.

She started to play with the pair of Item-Storing Walnut Trees.

Ding Chengshuo's eyes lit up when he saw Su Yiren playing with the crimson Item-Storing Walnuts.

Now, he was sure that he had found the right person.

However, he was unsure if the young man wearing black would be interested in anything that the Ding family possessed.

When Su Yiren did not reply even after some time, Ding Chengshuo said, "If you're willing to help me and provide me with a chance to enter the Sacred Forest Mystic Realm, I can lend you the plant-type fey with Sacred Wood bloodline that I will obtain from the mystic realm thrice."

Su Yiren still did not have a big reaction to what Ding Chengshuo said. Rather, Lin Yuan straightened his posture and said, "A plant-type fey with Sacred Wood bloodline?"

Lin Yuan's sudden outburst made it clear that he was interested in the plant-type fey with the Sacred Wood bloodline.

Ding Chengshuo said joyously, "The Sacred Wood Mystic Realm will be open in another four months. Frankly, the turtle-species fey I was referring to is my main fey, the Dragon Horns Mysterious Turtle.

"The Dragon Horns Mysterious Turtle is currently pinnacle Myth II. It is only one step away from breaking into Myth III. I am only confident of being able to enter the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm if the Dragon Horns Mysterious Turtle reaches Myth III and gains the ability to use Body Weaponization."

The Dark Continent and Startling Lines Continent were very far from each other. As such, it was no surprise that Su Yiren had no clue what a plant-type fey with the Sacred Wood bloodline was.

However, Lin Yuan was from the Radiance Federation, which was very close to the Startling Lines Continent. Additionally, Lin Yuan was the disciple of one of the three Class 5 Creation Masters in the Radiance Federation.

When Lin Yuan formed a contract with the fey with the Barren bloodline, the Moon Empress had told Lin Yuan about the Barren Beast Mystic Realm in the Radiance Federation as well as the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm in the Divine Wood Federation.

The Sacred Wood Mystic Realm produced plant-type feys with the Sacred Wood bloodline. Although such feys were plants and not as strong as feys with the Barren bloodline, they had equally impressive abilities.

Only the Divine Wood Federation had a mystic realm among the three federations in the Startling Lines Continent.

This was why the Divine Wood Federation's imperial court had such a loose hold over its experts but could still stand toe to toe against the Iron Hammer Federation.

The plant-type feys with the Sacred Wood bloodline played a key role in this.

Chapter 1441: Lin Yuan's Opportunity

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It could be said that Lin Yuan badly wanted the plant-type fey with the Sacred Wood bloodline.

Lin Yuan had always assumed that the Divine Wood Federation strictly controlled their plant-type feys with the Sacred Wood bloodline. Thus, he never aimed to obtain one.

But from what Ding Chengshuo said, Lin Yuan realized that he could obtain a plant-type fey with the Sacred Wood bloodline.

With this information, Lin Yuan took over the discussion from Su Yiren and said, "It's not difficult to evolve the bloodline of your turtle-species fey. Since the fey is called the Dragon Horns Mysterious Turtle, it means that it has a dragon-species fey bloodline. The dragon-species fey bloodline is an important opportunity for some fish-, insect-, and snake-species feys, but it's a burden to turtle-, tiger-species, and other feys with elite bloodlines.

"The best way to evolve the Dragon Horns Mysterious Turtle's turtle-species fey bloodline is to use pure spirit qi to trigger its bloodline. Its bloodline will be purified naturally while devouring its dragon-species fey bloodline. This is the best way to evolve the Dragon Horns Mysterious Turtle's bloodline. Only a pinnacle Class 4 Creation Master will be able to provide the spirit qi of sufficient purity."

Lin Yuan's words caused Ding Chengshuo's chest to contract.

As a low-class Class 4 Creation Master, he did not expect the young man dressed in black to figure out the key point just from the name of his fey.

But when Lin Yuan mentioned the pure spirit qi that only a pinnacle Class 4 Creation Master could provide, Ding Chengshuo immediately became crestfallen. But at the same time, he looked at Lin Yuan with despair as though he was hoping for something.

Ding Chengshuo knew that the young man dressed in black would not have rambled on for so long for nothing.

"I can give you with the spirit qi that only a pinnacle Class 4 Creation Master can provide. Later, summon the Dragon Horns Mysterious Turtle so I can check the attributes and laws it has comprehended. After its bloodline has evolved, I can even help it overcome the Myth III World Cleansing. Additionally, I can even provide you with Law Crystals that the Dragon Horns Mysterious Turtle can absorb to rapidly increase its power," said Lin Yuan.

Lin Yuan's words caused Ding Chengshuo's breath to become hitched in his throat.

As tears started welling up in Ding Chengshuo's eyes, Lin Yuan went on to say, "However, I have a condition for increasing the power of your main fey and enabling your position as a member of parliament to skyrocket."

At this moment, Ding Chengshuo's rising excitement was promptly quenched.

It turned out that the young man wearing black was still gunning for the plant-type fey with the Sacred Wood bloodline.

Ding Chengshuo was willing to trade with Lin Yuan.

Without Lin Yuan's help, there was only a minuscule possibility of Ding Chengshuo being able to enter the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm.

Even if Ding Chengshuo was able to enter the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm and gain a plant-type fey with the Sacred Wood bloodline, the Holy Lady who guarded the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm would check if the plant-type fey with the Sacred Wood bloodline had been contracted before Ding Chengshuo could leave the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm with it. He would not be permitted to take it out of the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm if it had not been contracted.

Even if the Dragon Horns Mysterious Turtle reached Myth III and Ding Chengshuo became a thearch-class expert, he still would not dare to challenge the Holy Lady's power.

When Lin Yuan saw Ding Chengshuo's expression, he knew that the matter was not as simple as he thought.

At that moment, a possibility came to Ding Chengshuo's mind. He clenched his fists, gnashed his teeth, and hesitated for a moment before he said, "I have a way for you to have the chance to gain a plant-type fey with the Sacred Wood bloodline.

"The top ten members of parliament in the Divine Wood Federation's imperial court have the right to bring one of their descendants into the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm. However, each of the top ten members can still only take one plant-type fey with the Sacred Wood bloodline. But, they can choose to give up their benefits to their descendants, thereby allowing their descendants to contract the plant-type fey with the Sacred Wood bloodline.

"This law was put in place 20 years ago when the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm was first opened. The reason was that the top ten members already had plant-type feys with the Sacred Wood bloodline. These ten members of parliament were able to convince the Holy Lady.

"I can take you to the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm with me to take advantage of this loophole. Unfortunately, it's already hard enough to become one of the top 20 members of parliament. If I want to have any shred of hope of becoming one of the top ten members, the Dragon Horns Mysterious Turtle has to be Suzerain X/pinnacle Myth III at the very least.

"The top eight members of parliament are all thearch-class, so I'm only left with the ninth and tenth position to fight for."

Ding Chengshuo stared at Lin Yuan for a while to observe his reaction before he added, "The Divine Wood Federation's members of parliament cannot get a proxy to fight on their behalf. Thus, you will have to nurture me if you want to get the plant-type fey with the Sacred Wood bloodline." FOlloow 𝒏ewest stories at n𝒐(v)

Lin Yuan furrowed his brow.

It was possible for him to evolve the Dragon Horns Mysterious Turtle to thearch-class as all he needed to do was provide it with Law Crystals.

However, this was too large of an investment. Using these resources to nurture Ji Feng's main fey would be more worthwhile.

Alas, Lin Yuan was seriously interested in the plant-type fey with the Sacred Wood bloodline.

Plant-type feys with the Sacred Wood bloodline had to have incomparable advantages if they deserved to be the Divine Wood Federation's specialty feys.

Su Yiren looked at Lin Yuan and said softly, "Young Master, why don't I—"

Before Su Yiren could finish speaking, Lin Yuan cut her off without hesitation.

Lin Yuan knew that Su Yiren wanted to use the Absolute Love Poppy to control Ding Chengshuo and form a Love Desire Glass within him. This would make him a loyal puppy that was completely malleable to Su Yiren's control.

However, how could Ding Chengshuo enter the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm if he was under Su Yiren's control?

It was likely that the other experts with sacred source lifeforms would discover that something was off when he was fighting for a chance to enter the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm.

If that happened, it would be a small loss to lose Ding Chengshuo but a huge loss to also lose the plant-type fey with the Sacred Wood bloodline.

Chapter 1442: Riches That None Will Turn Away

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

Although the Divine Wood Federation's imperial court had a loose hold over the lords, very few of them felt zero sense of belonging to the Divine Wood Federation like Ding Chengshuo.

He was even willing to use the treasure that was plant-type feys with the Sacred Wood bloodline as a bargaining chip.

Nonetheless, Lin Yuan could not let the resources that he was going to invest in Ding Chengshuo go to waste. The best way to keep his resources from going to waste was to gain Ding Chengshuo's loyalty and turn him into his servant.

Lin Yuan fixed his eyes on Ding Chengshuo and said solemnly, "Use the Willpower Rune that you used to contract the Dragon Horns Mysterious Turtle to swear your loyalty to me, and I'll come up with a way to evolve the Dragon Horns Mysterious Turtle to Creation Breed within four months."

Ding Chengshuo's eyes abruptly widened. However, he did not immediately agree to this amazing opportunity because Lin Yuan was asking for his beloved freedom.

Ding Chengshuo never dared to dream he would become a thearch-class expert one day.

But this method of becoming a thearch-class expert would mean that he would not be able to stand at the top of the world but would have to be ordered around like a slave.

Ding Chengshuo felt that it might be better for him to contentedly remain and continue to lord over Oak City.

However, he dared not to reject Lin Yuan.

The young man dressed in black would be able to evolve the pinnacle Myth II Dragon Horns Mysterious Turtle to Creation Breed in four months. Ding Chengshuo believed but, at the same time, dared not believe that such a promise could come true.

But was a pinnacle Class 4 Creation Master truly capable of evolving a pinnacle Myth II fey to Creation Breed within four months?

Ding Chengshuo was terrified that he would be killed the moment he turned Lin Yuan down.

He felt a wave of charisma hit him when Lin Yuan mowed down the woman in purple. If he was the direct target of such charisma, he would lose consciousness in three seconds.

While Ding Chengshuo was stuck between a rock and a hard place, Lin Yuan said, "The Divine Wood Federation is in such a mess. If the Ding family sets off in the right direction, you'll be able to stand above the rest and hold unquestionable power that will open any door you want.

"I heard that none of your young family members have made it into the Divine Wood Hundred Sequence. I can give every direct descendant in your family who is of suitable age two Bronze/Epic feys. I will also provide resources for five of your top younger members to evolve their feys from Normal quality to Myth Breed.

"This way, these five members will definitely be able to join the Divine Wood Hundred Sequence. The rest of the disciples who were also given Bronze/Epic feys will have to depend on you if they want to enter the Divine Wood Hundred Sequence. Once you become my subordinate, the Ding family will have no lack of Creation Master resources. I advise you to think carefully."

Lin Yuan leaned back on the sofa and fell silent.

Su Yiren swept her silky hair behind her shoulders as she stared at Ding Chengshuo with her purple eyes.

Ding Chengshuo was stupefied by what Lin Yuan had just told him. There was no longer any conflict in him, just disbelief.

This young man in black just promised me a mountain of riches! No one in the world could say no to such riches.

Ding Chengshuo was the pillar of the Ding family and was willing to sacrifice his freedom if it meant that the Ding family would be able to thrive.

Moreover, Lin Yuan did not sound as though he wanted to lash Ding Chengshuo to his side and use him like a slave. Rather, he sounded like he wanted to help Ding Chengshuo become the center of the Divine Wood Federation.

After careful consideration, Ding Chengshuo stood up.

Ding Chengshuo, the most elite person in Oak City, knelt respectfully in front of Lin Yuan and swore on the Dragon Horns Mysterious Turtle's Willpower Rune to become Lin Yuan's servant.

Once Ding Chengshuo was done, Lin Yuan stood up and said, "Summon the Dragon Horns Mysterious Turtle. It will stay with me for the next four months. After four months, it will appear before you again. As for the other benefits, I promise that you'll receive them in a month's time. Her name is Su Yiren, and you can contact her for anything."

Ding Chengshuo did not rise to his feet but summoned the Dragon Horns Mysterious Turtle instead.

Immediately after, a black turtle with a pair of dragon horns appeared by Ding Chengshuo's side. It was clear that it had decided against appearing in its human form to show respect for its first meeting with Lin Yuan.

In Ding Chengshuo's spiritual spatial zone, the Dragon Horns Mysterious Turtle had found out through its connection with Ding Chengshuo that it was being given a huge opportunity and that its contractor had become Lin Yuan's servant. Hence, the Dragon Horns Mysterious Turtle needed to show the appropriate attitude toward Lin Yuan.

Lin Yuan used True Data to check on the Dragon Horns Mysterious Turtle and found out that the law it had comprehended was the Heavy Water Law.

The Heavy Water Law was considered a good water-type law.

Although the Dragon Horns Mysterious Turtle's abilities were ordinary, its three exclusive skills were balanced. Clearly, Ding Chengshuo had invested a lot of effort into nurturing it.

Horns were growing all along the length of the Dragon Horns Mysterious Turtle's body, and a layer of dragon scales also covered the horns. This meant that the dragon-species fey bloodline in its body was not much weaker than the turtle-species fey bloodline.

Lin Yuan said to Ding Chengshuo, "If you're lucky, the dragon-species bloodline might mutate and enable the Dragon Horns Mysterious Turtle to transform into a Dragon Turtle after the turtle-species bloodline devours the dragon-species bloodline."

Ding Chengshuo was delighted when he heard what Lin Yuan said and hastily expressed his gratitude to Lin Yuan alongside the Dragon Horns Mysterious Turtle.

Before Lin Yuan had the idea to accept Ding Chengshuo as his servant, he decided to find out the Dragon Horns Mysterious Turtle's type so he could find suitable Law Crystals to increase the Dragon Horns Mysterious Turtle's power.

But now that Ding Chengshuo was Lin Yuan's servant and Ding Chengshuo was bound to him by a law, he could not betray Lin Yuan.

Thus, there was no need for Lin Yuan to skimp on Law Crystals when it came to the Dragon Horns Mysterious Turtle.

However, Lin Yuan could not stay in the Divine Wood Federation for long. If he wanted to evolve the Dragon Horns Mysterious Turtle to Creation Breed within four months, he needed to keep the Dragon Horns Mysterious Turtle by his side to nurture it.

Chapter 1443: Lin Yuan's New Sword Skill

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

Lin Yuan took out the Jeweled Cave Golden Toad and said to the Dragon Horns Mysterious Turtle, "Go in."

After the Dragon Horns Mysterious Turtle entered the Jeweled Cave Golden Toad, Lin Yuan turned and walked out of the guest room with Su Yiren trailing behind him.

Ding Chengshuo was left kneeling on the floor with his fists tightly quenched. He felt as though he had been dreaming.

After Lin Yuan and Ding Chengshuo were done talking, Liu Jie arranged for the Sincere Merchant Group's next step in less than half an hour.

From today onward, the Sincere Merchant Group members would join the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce.

Mr. Zhao would co-manage the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce with Li Wan, but she would have the final say. He was more there to keep watch over Li Wan.

Lin Yuan's expression changed when he looked at Li Wan, and he said, "Phoebe Zhennan City isn't far from Oak City. Phoebe Zhennan City is nearer to the Iron Hammer Federation than Oak City is. Currently, there isn't a chamber of commerce in Phoebe Zhennan City. The Prosperous Chamber of Commerce can open a branch there."

Li Wan did not think that there was any profit to be made from opening a branch in a small city like Phoebe Zhennan City. If there was, the other chambers of commerce would have already opened branches there.

But since the request had come from Lin Yuan, Li Wan would immediately carry it out.

"I will see to this immediately and open a Prosperous Chamber of Commerce branch in Phoebe Zhennan City within two weeks."

Lin Yuan nodded at Li Wan.

He led Liu Jie, Ji Feng, Little Flower, Little Grass, and Su Yiren out of the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce's tree castle and rode off toward the underground palace on Blackie.

While they were flying, Su Yiren felt that the further the black giant flood dragon flew, the more remote the surroundings became.

This made Su Yiren curious about why Lin Yuan had set up his base in such a desolate area.

However, it became clear to her once they entered the Bone Lotus Flowers' area.

She realized that Lin Yuan wanted to set up a restricted area at the border of the Divine Wood Federation and Iron Hammer Federation. But she had no clue what the next stage of his plan was.

However, once the restricted area was built up, it would immediately attract the attention of the Divine Wood Federation and Iron Hammer Federation. This would immediately trigger the Great Lush Federation into action, and their secret elite families would definitely interfere.

At that time, the restricted area would turn into the eye of the storm of the entire Startling Lines Continent. Vissit novelbin.c.𝒐m for updates

Su Yiren was not at all shocked by the four low-class dimensional rifts amongst the Bone Lotus Flowers.

But Lin Yuan had to have come prepared when he set up this restricted area.

The Bone Lotus Flowers were carnivorous, and all the alien beasts that spilled out of the dimensional rift fell prey to the Bone Lotus Flowers.

Since she was going to represent Lin Yuan in handling all his affairs in the Divine Wood Federation, this place was going to become her stronghold.

Everything in the underground palace had been progressing like clockwork.

Hu Tian instructed the Scary Claw Rock Bear to break apart the ironwood into planks.

Hu Quan supervised the Spirit Craftsmen while he excitedly drew up his designs.

The Vein Land Imp lazily dozed under the sun while it used its natural skill to produce the Floating Silver.

In about a week, the Vein Land Imp had almost completely dug out all the Spirit Settling Silver Ores.

Lin Yuan told Ji Feng to store away the Spirit Settling Silver Ore dug out by the Vein Land Imp so that Lin Yuan could transfer them to Zong Ze when he returned to the Radiance Federation.

Tonight, Lin Yuan needed to give Su Yiren some instructions.

Moreover, Hu Quan had not had a proper meal ever since he arrived at the Divine Wood Federation. Hence, Lin Yuan and Liu Jie planned on having a good meal with Hu Quan tonight before they returned to the Radiance Federation tomorrow morning.

The last time that Lin Yuan spent the night at the underground palace, he had to sleep in a tent. But now, he could sleep inside the underground palace.

Hu Quan had specially set aside several rooms for Lin Yuan and Liu Jie so that it would be convenient for them whenever they came to the Divine Wood Federation.

Although Hu Quan had not paid as much attention to the decoration in these rooms, he had laid a simple layer of Star Rocks and added another layer of wool carpet over the Star Rocks. There were also a few pieces of furniture made out of jade-textured wood and several plants.

Its interior could match up to the residences of veteran factions in the Radiance Federation.

But in order to match up to the residences of the top factions, Hu Quan would have to add carvings.

For Su Yiren, living in such a room was like a paradise. She felt as though all the troubles and hardships she had experienced were nothing.

She felt no different from when she was in her bedroom back in the Dark Continent. There was also a large bed made of jade-textured red sandalwood in her bedroom back home.

However, Su Yiren did not want to lie to herself. She was still a stray dog that had fled from the Dark Continent.

She owed everything that she had to Lin Yuan's kindness.

Otherwise, she would have died in that trash dump with the rusted long dagger in her hands until she eventually became a feat for insects and rats.

Su Yiren looked sad while removing her clothes and changing into a long purple dress with albizia flower patterns embroidered. This dress gave her an air of soft elegance.

She realized that her hair descended past her forehead and covered her eyes. Su Yiren took out a hair clip made from the Myth Sunset Color Flower's flower bud and clipped up her black hair.

The weight of the hair caused the Sunset Color Flower's flower bud to bloom into a small dark purple trumpet-shaped flower. The Sunset Color Flower bloomed during sunset. When it did not receive natural light, it wilted.

This added an air of sorrow to Su Yiren, who had been wandering around for some time and did not have many accessories with her. But this air of sorrow made her as alluring as honey was to bees.

While Liu Jie was cooking outside the underground palace, Lin Yuan anxiously returned to the Spirit Lock spatial zone because he had just heard the Sacred Sword Wielding Queen say from the depths of his soul, "Master, I am done absorbing that large turtle's World Crystal."

Lin Yuan was very curious to see what Sword Skill the Sacred Sword Wielding Queen gained after absorbing the Prism Snapping Turtle's World Crystal.

Up to now, Lin Yuan had gained a total of six World Crystals.

The Prism Snapping Turtle's World Crystal was the most special one of them all.

Once he entered the Spirit Lock spatial zone, Lin Yuan summoned the Sacred Sword Wielding Queen.

Lin Yuan noticed that there were not many changes to the Sacred Sword Wielding Queen's skirt. However, the hem along her chest had a new silver turtle crest alongside the dark crow crest and giant whale crest.

Chapter 1444: Silver Turtle's Reflection Attack

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

After Lin Yuan noticed the change in the Sacred Sword Wielding Queen's appearance, he used True Data to check on it.

[Sacred Source Name: Sacred Sword Wielding Queen

[Sacred Source Species: Source genus/Sacred Source species

[Sacred Source Star Grade: 3 Stars

[Sacred Source Type: Main Water/Mixed

Abilities:

[Queen Form:

1. Queen's Skirt Hem: Able to absorb the Willpower Runes from the bodies of dead feys or source-type items. The Willpower Runes or Law Runes from Myth Breed feys' Law Crystals will be carved on the queen's skirt. The Law Crystals which have their laws absorbed will become Law Crystals that possess pure law power.

[Sacred Sword Form:

1. Blade of Sacred Sword: When the spirit qi in the body is depleted, the blade will pierce the skirt hem to unleash all the laws and willpower stored within.

Sword Form (Dark Death World): Night Crow Wither Attack: Inject all the power from the Dark Death World into the sacred sword. The sacred sword's blade will change into 28 Night Crows with dark death power. The contractor can attack with the sacred sword 28 times. If the attacks are launched consecutively, every attack will have an additional withering effect. Every 14 layers of withering effects will be released towards the target, and the 56 withering effects from the 28 consecutive attacks will cause the target to truly start withering.

Sword Form (Vast Water World): Attack of the Sea Leaping Whale: Inject all the power of the Vast Water World into the Sacred Sword so that it will be configured with the power of water. According to the water surrounding the Sacred Sword Wielding Queen, the Sword Form can either be diminished or amplified. When the contractor wields the Sacred Sword, it can summon an enormous whale out of the water as an attack. During the attack, the wielder of the Sacred Sword can decide the state of the enormous whale. It can rile up giant waves that switch between water and ice.

Sword Form (Simulation World): Silver Turtle's Reflection Attack: Transfer all the power from the Simulation World into the Sacred Sword, and the Sacred Sword will gain the ability to engrave attacks into itself. When used against its friendly side, it can engrave one of the already existent Sword Forms. When used against its enemy, it can absorb attacks that are not stronger than the Silver Turtle's Reflection Attack and release the attack any time while the Sword Form is being used.

Lin Yuan noticed that the Sacred Sword Wielding Queen's type was still Main Water/Mixed despite having absorbed the Prism Snapping Turtle's Law Crystal.

This was unsurprising as the Submerged Sea Blue Whale's World Crystal had two Creation World Ley Lines while the Prism Snapping Turtle's World Crystal only had one.

The Prism Snapping Turtle was an earth-type fey. If its World Crystal had more Creation World Ley Lines than the Submerged Sea Blue Whale, the Sacred Sword Wielding Queen's type would have changed to Main Earth/Mixed.

Next, Lin Yuan went to check on the new Sword Skill. When he saw Silver Turtle's Reflection Attack and its description, he decided that he would use all the World Creation golden pearls he had on hand to evolve the Simulation World and increase Silver Turtle's Reflection Attack's strength.

Lin Yuan felt that Silver Turtle's Reflection Attack was a very strong and flexible Sword Skill. It used the Sword Forms already embedded in it to decide its ability.

During the last battle at sea, the environment had amplified Attack of the Sea Leaping Whale's power.

Previously, Lin Yuan would only be able to use Attack of the Sea Leaping Whale once. But now, he could use Silver Turtle's Reflection Attack to copy Attack of the Sea Leaping Whale and use it another time.

If he chose to make an imprint of Night Crow Wither Attack, he would be able to use Night Crow Wither Attack twice and release 56 crows imbued with dark death power.

Every time the crows attacked, they would produce a withering effect. The first 15 layers would trigger a once-off withering attack. After the 28 withering effects were produced, the target would enter a true withering state.

If an enemy was too strong, Lin Yuan could not guarantee that every one of his attacks would be successful even with his strong martial skills.

But if he used Night Crow Wither attack twice, he could easily send the target into a true withering state no matter how much effort the enemy put into dodging.

This true withering state was the bane of plant-type feys.

It could be said that Silver Turtle's Reflection Attack added to the power of the original attack.

If Lin Yuan did not engrave already existent Sword Forms using Silver Turtle's Reflection Attack but absorbed the damage from an enemy, it would turn into a perfect defense.

Regardless of how Silver Turtle's Reflection Attack was used, Lin Yuan's combat methods would be diversified. Thus, Lin Yuan's power would still be raised greatly.

The Sacred Sword Wielding Queen tossed a World Crystal that had been absorbed to Lin Yuan. 𝑅êạd new chapt𝒆rs on no/v/e/l𝒃

It pouted and gave Lin Yuan puppy eyes as it nudged Lin Yuan's sleeve with its head and looked expectantly at the amber-button-shaped Diamond fey storage box.

Lin Yuan immediately knew that the Sacred Sword Wielding Queen was waiting for Lin Yuan to allow it to eat the other three World Crystals.

Lin Yuan thought,?The Sacred Sword Wielding Queen sure is greedy. It's never full.

Lin Yuan took out the other three World Crystals from the Diamond fey storage box. The three World Crystals consisted of the Sacred Cure White Deer's wood-type Sacred Healing World Crystal, the Blazing Sun Dragon Cricket's fire- and light-type Scorching Sun World Crystal, and the Shadow Tied Mesmerizing Snake's dark-type Shadow Tied World Crystal.

If the Sacred Sword Wielding Queen absorbed the Sacred Healing World Crystal, Lin Yuan would gain a healing-type Sword Skill.

The Scorching Sun World Crystal was an elemental offense-type Sword Skill.

The Shadow Tied World Crystal was a control-type Sword Skill.

Although Lin Yuan would not need to use Sword Skills anytime soon, he still chose to allow the Sacred Sword Wielding Queen to absorb the Sacred Healing World Crystal.

The Sacred Sword Wielding Queen might only need a week to absorb a World Crystal, but it could also absorb Law Source Crystals simultaneously. Thus, its Stars would be raised at an increased rate if it was absorbing a World Crystal as well.

After checking the Sacred Sword Wielding Queen's new Sword Skill and giving it a new World Crystal to absorb, Lin Yuan moved on to a more important matter.

He was going to give the Sacred Sword Wielding Queen the golden pearls he had not had the chance to utilize so that it would be able to evolve the quality of its law worlds.

Lin Yuan took out the 15 precious golden pearls. Most of them had been produced from the Pure Land of Bliss when Lin Yuan was helping the Miao family to nurture their experts to thearch-class.

Chapter 1445: The Lifespan Mouse and Flower Mink Mouse

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

Lin Yuan had not held back at all with the Miao family's thearch-class experts. All their feys who had evolved to Creation Breed and gained their creation World Ley Lines had their Creation World Ley Lines sucked clean by the Pure Land of Bliss.

The Sacred Sword Wielding Queen had been looking forward to eating the golden pearls. He had not given them to the Sacred Sword Wielding Queen because he had not decided which law world he wanted to strengthen.

The Sacred Sword Wielding Queen reached out its fingers to the golden pearls in Lin Yuan's hand. It looked like a little girl who was begging her father to allow her to eat the sweets.

Lin Yuan could feel how badly the Sacred Sword Wielding Queen wanted the golden pearls and said, "Sacred Sword Wielding Queen, absorb these golden pearls and evolve the Simulation World as much as possible."

The Sacred Sword Wielding Queen's eyes sparkled as it said, "Master, when I was absorbing the Law Crystals, you didn't instruct me to strengthen any laws, so I stored up all the source-type energy. If the golden pearls are combined with the law worlds, they will form miniature Creation World Ley Lines within the law worlds.

"You just need to use source-type power to temper these miniature Creation World Ley Lines, and they will eventually become complete Creation World Ley Lines. You can also choose to save the source-type power by absorbing more golden pearls. This will also result in complete Creation World Ley Lines."

Lin Yuan chose the former option without hesitation. It was much easier for him to obtain Law Source Crystals than it was for him to obtain golden pearls.

It would not be extremely difficult for Lin Yuan to obtain the golden pearls as he could just give a Law Crystal to experts who had feys that had been stuck at Suzerain X/pinnacle Myth III, and the feys would very likely have a breakthrough that led to their Trial of World Creation.

There were many pinnacle emperor-class experts in the Radiance Federation's factions who had pinnacle Myth III feys.

Hence, Lin Yuan could harvest all of them to gain the golden pearls.

This method of obtaining the golden pearls would not attract the wrath of the feys whose Creation World Ley Lines he had absorbed but would gain their gratitude instead. In Lin Yuan's eyes, this was a win-win choice.

The Sacred Sword Wielding Queen had already chosen seven of the golden pearls to combine with the Simulation World.

When the Sacred Sword Wielding Queen absorbed these seven golden pearls, Lin Yuan suddenly realized that seven more golden threads had appeared beside the original single golden thread on the silver turtle crest.

This meant that the Simulation World now had a complete Creation World Ley Line and seven miniature Creation World Ley Lines.

The Sacred Sword Wielding Queen opened its eyes and said, "Master, if you want to use source-type power to temper the miniature Creation World Ley Lines, it will take much longer to evolve the laws. Since this is my first time going through this as well, I'm also unsure how much source-type power is needed to form one Creation World Ley Line."

Lin Yuan shook his head at the Sacred Sword Wielding Queen to say that he was in no rush.

Such things could not be rushed!

Since the Sacred Sword Wielding Queen had absorbed the seven golden pearls and was strengthening the Simulation World, Lin Yuan did not instruct it to evolve the other law worlds.

Although the Sword Skills related to the other law worlds would not be strengthened if their law worlds were not evolved, a large amount of source-type resources was needed to form a complete Creation World Ley Line.

There was a limit to source-type power. If two law worlds were being evolved at the same time, the effectiveness would be cut down by half.

This would prevent the Sword Forms copied by the Silver Turtle's Reflection Attack from being evolved, but it would allow Lin Yuan to absorb and release damage from his enemies.

Now that Lin Yuan had settled the Sacred Sword Wielding Queen, he was in no rush to evolve his newly gained Item-Storing Walnut Trees.

He had obtained more than 600 Item-Storing Walnut Trees from Li Wan, and they could not be evolved in a short span of time.

Thus, Lin Yuan pondered for a while before summoning the Flower Branch Mouse he caught before meeting up with Su Yiren.

Lin Yuan was going to evolve the Flower Branch Mouse into the Lifespan Mouse.

But as he injected spirit qi into the Flower Branch Mouse, he noticed that something was wrong. It did not shed its fur like the other Flower Branch Mouse had when he evolved it into the Lifespan Moise.

The previous Flower Branch Mouse's brown and gray fur had turned orange and red, while this Flower Branch Mouse's fur turned to brown and black..

Lin Yuan suppressed his suspicions and continued to evolve it for another half a minute.

The Flower Branch Mouse started out the same size as Lin Yuan's palm but transformed into a purple and black mouse that was almost 40 centimeters.

Two sharp canines peeked out from its lips, and its originally hairless tail became hairy and flat.

It now resembled a mink-species fey.

The purple and black mouse in Lin Yuan's hand was almost as rotund as the ginger-colored Hundred Questions Beast.

Lin Yuan used True Data to check on the purple and black mouse. He saw that its name was the Flower Mink Mouse, not Lifespan Mouse.

Lin Yuan immediately realized that a mutation had taken place during one of the two times that he was evolving the Flower Branch Mouse.

But he did not even need to hesitate before he became certain that the Flower Branch Mouse's regular evolution was the Flower Mink Mouse.

He had only managed to evolve it into the Lifespan Mouse due to a miracle.

However, as much as mutation was a result of miracles, they did not appear out of nowhere.

In order for the Flower Branch Mouse to mutate into the Lifespan Mouse, the Flower Branch Mouse had to already have the genes for it. However, the proportion of such genes was very small and almost undetectable, which made it very difficult to activate.

Thus, if Lin Yuan kept evolving the Flower Branch Mice, it was possible that he would eventually be able to evolve another Lifespan Mouse.

Lin Yuan decided to give Su Yiren another instruction before he returned to the Radiance Federation.

He was going to tell her to order the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce to capture as many Flower Branch Mice as they could.

The Lifespan Mouse did not have any combat ability, but the Flower Mink Mouse was a fierce combat-type fey.

For the experts in the Divine Wood Federation, the Flower Mink Mouse's glistening black fur and substantial size made it a good option to be turned into clothes or to contract.

Chapter 1446: Seventh Page War's Power

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

The Flower Mink Mice that Lin Yuan did not have much use for could be given to the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce to be sold off. It was likely that the Divine Wood Federation's spirit qi professionals would be very happy to receive them.

After storing the Flower Mink Mouse in the Diamond fey storage box, Lin Yuan went to the Pure Land of Bliss to check on the Spirit-Mouthed Peonies.

Lin Yuan had used most of the Spirit-Mouthed Peony flower buds when he was helping the Mother of Bloodbath awaken its Sky Sundial Jade Spider bloodline.

Now, all the flower buds had grown out again.

After absorbing a week's worth of spirit qi, the newly grown flower buds were in the process of blooming. They would be fully bloomed after another five or six days.

At that time, Lin Yuan would be able to pluck the flowers and give them to the Moon Empress.

The Spirit-Mouthed Peonies that Lin Yuan had not used to awaken the Mother of Bloodbath's Sky Sundial Jade Spider bloodline had turned into flower buds that were about the size of a fist.

If a Spirit-Mouthed Peony's flowers were plucked after they were full of spirit qi, it would not be able to produce new flowers.

This would be wasting the Spirit Lock spatial zone's resources.

It took Lin Yuan almost an hour to pluck all the Spirit-Mouthed Peony's flower buds. By this time, Liu Jie would be done making dinner.

Lin Yuan left the Spirit Lock spatial zone and returned to his room to change into clean clothes before he walked out of the room.

He happened to bump into Su Yiren, who had also just walked out of her room. Alll 𝒍𝒂test nov𝒆l𝒔 on novelb𝒊n/.c𝒐m

As he looked at Su Yiren dressed in light purple clothes, he felt that she was more charming than when she was all dolled up.

Her features had a masculine touch, and she had the aura of an enchanting poppy. If she was dressed lavishly, her accessories would depress her aura.

When Su Yiren saw Lin Yuan, she hurriedly walked up to him and said, "Thank you, Lin Yuan."

Lin Yuan raised an eyebrow in surprise and asked, "What are you thanking me for?"

Su Yiren's jaw fell open, and she looked at Lin Yuan in shock as she wondered if he was kidding.

What am I thanking you for? I'm thanking you for saving me from danger, giving me the hope to carry on, allowing me to have new goals and motivation which make me want to continue living, and giving me that bag of Law Crystals that make it possible for me to get my revenge one day.

Su Yiren was too embarrassed to tell Lin Yuan these reasons.

She was still a girl, after all. It would be too much to ask her to lay out her reasons for being grateful.

Faced with Lin Yuan's questioning look, Su Yiren immediately knew that the mighty Lin Yuan was still a clueless man.

She hurriedly avoided his gaze and was silent for a moment before she said, "Thank you for giving me that bag of Law Crystals."

A look of understanding came over Lin Yuan.

With regards to the bag of Law Crystals, Lin Yuan needed to tell Su Yiren something.

"You're an A-rank spirit qi professional who hasn't reached S-rank. Given that your feys have reached Suzerain/Myth I, it means that you rolled grades. You don't have to hold back when using the Law Crystals.

"Spirit-, soul-, and mind-type Law Crystals, and these types of spiritual ingredients are too rare. You don't have to wait for the Trapped Love Poppies to reach Myth II before you allow them to absorb the Law Crystals.

"I have many Law Crystals, and you can come to me for more if you've used up your current stock. Power is the root of everything. If the day ever comes that you become stronger than Seventh Page War, you will be able to take back the Dark Continent on your own."

Su Yiren looked both shocked and touched. She was shocked by what Lin Yuan said about him having many Law Crystals.

She was shocked by what Lin Yuan said about him having many Law Crystals.

Is he even human? Could the three Class 5 Creation Masters in the Radiance Federation be working for Lin Yuan? His well of Law Crystals can't run so deep from just having one Class 5 Creation Master working for him.

She was grateful when he said that he permitted her to use Law Crystals as she pleased.

Although it would be a waste to use Law Crystals on the Trapped Love Poppies when they were only Myth I, her grandmother would probably do the same for her if she was still alive.

Su Yiren had sworn her loyalty to Lin Yuan and formed a contract with one of the Astronomical Parliament's north-south constellation seats.

Lin Yuan had every right to treat her like a tool and milk her dry of all her use.

Yet, he did not do so.

This caused the tieless and lonely Su Yiren to feel a sense of belonging to this underground palace.

She also greatly agreed with what he said about how everything led back to gaining more power for herself.

However, Seventh Page War was not human but a plant-type fey. The Absolute Love Poppy's charm was not as effective on plant-type feys as on humans.

Moreover, Seventh Page War had two sacred source lifeforms, and one of them had reached 10 Stars and gained the ability to activate celestial phenomena.

Seventh Page War had almost managed to kill all of Su Yiren's grandmother's feys within 100 moves. This meant that Seventh Page War had to have already reached that level.

All of a sudden, Su Yiren was gripped by helplessness.

This was when she heard Lin Yuan say, "If you comprehend new Willpower Runes while increasing your sacred source lifeform's Stars, I will provide you with the Bronze/Epic Trapped Love Poppy. You can close any gap with enough effort. As a Dark Envoy, I'm sure you're aware that you can never stop running."

The disheartened Su Yiren clenched her fists tightly.

No matter how slim the chances are, I still have to give it a shot. Otherwise, I won't be able to face Grandma or Elder He, who died protecting me.

Su Yiren was silent for a moment before she said, "Lin Yuan, I would like to go to Oak City tomorrow. I don't have much to do in the underground palace. After all, the restricted area isn't fully formed yet. Also, I would like to pick 14 homeless people from Oak City's slums to turn them into the 14 Poppy Fruits."

Frankly, it would be easy for Su Yiren to nurture the 14 Poppy Fruits, and she could pick anyone. She could even use the relationship between the Prosperous Chamber of Commerce and the Ding family to pick 14 outstanding young girls.

However, she did not do so.

Chapter 1447: The Secret Deep Within the Great Lush Federation

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

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Su Yiren had been saved from the slums of Oak City, and light broke into her pitch-dark world. Hence, she also wanted to do the same for others.

Additionally, women from the slums were exceptionally resilient. They had a strength and persistence that regular women did not possess.

If such women were turned into the 14 Poppy Fruits and started the Love Music Centers, they would be able to withstand temptation as well as be more motivated to dance and sing to the best of their abilities.

Su Yiren did not care about the 14 women's features. When the Absolute Love Poppy used 14 Poppy Fruits to form contracts with the women, their features and auras would also be transformed to the point that they would be able to enchant any living creature.

Naturally, Lin Yuan had no objections when Su Yiren mentioned that she was going to seek out her 14 Poppy Fruits tomorrow.

"A return trip between the underground palace and Oak City is about 1,000 kilometers. You haven't contracted an avian-type fey, so the journey isn't convenient for you. Tomorrow morning, I will give you the pinnacle Diamond Snow-Necked Swan. It might not fly as swiftly as Blackie, but it's sufficient to make the trip to and from Oak City and the underground palace."

It would take Lin Yuan at least two weeks to use his spirit qi to evolve the pinnacle Diamond Snow-Necked Swan on his own.

Thus, he could nurture it for Su Yiren on his own. Instead, he would leave the job to Genius and the Hundred Questions Beasts.

There were numerous high-quality Bronze feys in Lin Yuan's Diamond fey storage box. He had caught them a few months ago when he went to pick wild ingredients from the Endless Forest.

Lin Yuan had evolved them long ago but had not found the right people to give them to.

The most suitable avian-type fey amongst these feys was the Snow-Necked Swan. However, it was only Bronze/Epic.

Once the Snow-Necked Swan was handed to Genius, it would be Diamond X/Legend by tomorrow morning.

Su Yiren was about to thank Lin Yuan again when she remembered how Lin Yuan had asked for her reason for thanking him.

She was afraid Lin Yuan would ask the same question, so she did not thank him this time.

She was already Lin Yuan's subordinate, and it would be better for her to perform well than to thank Lin Yuan.

…

Once Lin Yuan walked to the entrance of the underground palace, the scent of roasted meat wafted into Lin Yuan's nose. His stomach immediately reacted by letting out a rumbling noise.

Liu Jie had roasted an entire Platinum Black Back Mountain Boar.

It was not easy to nurture the Black Back Mountain Boar to Platinum grade. However, the Platinum Black Back Mountain Boar was far tastier than the Silver or Gold Black Back Mountain Boar.

The Black Back Mountain Boar that Liu Jie was roasting had at least 100 kilograms of meat on it. There was no way that Lin Yuan and the rest would be able to finish eating all of it.

Liu Jie was currently shaking salt and pepper onto the Black Back Mountain Boar.

Little Flower and Little Grass stood next to Liu Jie as they were utterly entranced as they watched the roasting Black Back Mountain Boar.

Little Flower gulped continuously while Little Grass' saliva dripped out of his mouth and onto his white clothes. There was a sizable damp patch on his white clothes.

Hu Quan was holding a brush and brushing honey on the Black Back Mountain Boar's posterior. He preferred the taste of honey to pepper and liked its posterior's firm taste.

Lin Yuan said to Hu Quan, "Uncle Hu, call over Hu Tian and the other Spirit Craftsmen. We can give them half of the meat. They have worked hard for so long and deserve to have a good meal."

Hu Quan stood up and said with a smile, "Okay! I will go and call those brats and the sly Hu Tian over to eat with us."

Hu Quan was a boor and never cared for unnecessary courtesies. He only cared about a person's true self and never did anything behind anyone's back either.

Nonetheless, Hu Quan was still aware of the gap between Lin Yuan and the Spirit Craftsmen.

Given that Lin Yuan bothered to think of these ordinary Spirit Craftsmen and was willing to eat with them showed that Lin Yuan was a person who was considerate of those who did hard labor.

At that moment, Lin Yuan was shining brightly, and Hu Quan could not tear his eyes away from him.

The Black Back Mountain Boar was eaten down to its bones in less than half an hour.

Hu Tian was holding up a leg bone and slurping on its marrow.

Hu Quan shot Hu Tian a menacing glare.

Because of the fact that he was an emperor-class expert and could circulate his spirit qi to speed up his digestion, Hu Tian had eaten almost 40kg of meat and visited the bathroom thrice.

This person completely abandoned his pride just so he could stuff more food into his stomach!

Little Flower and Little Grass had never eaten such delicious food.

Lin Yuan was afraid that Little Flower and Little Grass would eat more to fill their stomachs to the greatest extent. Thus, he took out some sour plums to give the children while eating.

Lin Yuan and everyone from the underground palace were happily feasting on the Black Back Mountain Boar.

Meanwhile, it was frigid and austere over in the Great Lush Federation.

In the Divine Wood Federation, it was summer all year round, while it was colder in the Iron Hammer Federation. It had even started snowing in the center region of the Iron Hammer Federation.

But to the north of the Iron Hammer Federation, where the Great Lush Federation was, ice and snow covered the ground year-round.

The weather was the reason the ground in the Great Lush Federation was unsuitable for agriculture.

This was why the people from the Great Lush Federation chose to form merchant groups and chambers of commerce. This business decision was the reason behind the Great Lush Federation becoming the richest federation out of the Startling Lines Continent's three federations.

The secret elite families who controlled chambers of commerce were rolling in riches.

The strongest four secret elite families in the Great Lush Federation were shrouded in mystery. Most of the secret elite families sought help from these four families.

It went without saying that the help did not come for free. Most of the secret elite families in the Great Lush Federation had lost a portion of their shares of ownership to these four families.

These four families held absolute power in the Great Lush Federation.

But at that moment, the heads of these four families were currently kneeling in front of a gruesome mishmash of flesh.

The mass of flesh was placed on a jeweled throne and was throbbing faintly.

The four families' leaders were sweating buckets as their faces were stretched into terrified expressions.

Chapter 1448: A Smoking Gun Appears

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The four families' leaders dared not even glance at each other for fear of raising the ire of the gruesome mass of flesh.

At that moment, a clear and childish voice said from within the bloody ball of flesh. When one heard the voice, it would be as though they were hearing the truth.

"The four of you have been developing in the Great Lush Federation for so many years, yet you've only managed to obtain this pathetic pile of Law Crystals. Most of these Law Crystals are in fragments. How do you think you should be punished?"

The four families' leaders anxiously started to kowtow as they pleaded for mercy.

"Lord Truth, we did try our best. Unfortunately, there aren't many Myth Breed and Creation Breed feys in the Startling Lines Continent. Moreover, the experts from the Divine Wood Federation and Iron Hammer Federation don't like to appear in their imperial courts.

"We can't target the experts from external cities. If many of the experts from these cities die, the Divine Wood Federation and Iron Hammer Federation's imperial courts will definitely launch an investigation. If they discover that something is wrong, they will ban the chambers of commerce of the Great Lush Federation. If that happens, we won't be able to earn any more money for you."

While the four families' leaders were talking, the mass of flesh on the throne suddenly cracked, and a silver-haired young boy with chiseled features appeared. His eyes were innocent as he looked at the four families' leaders up and down.

But when the four families' leaders felt this gaze on them, goosebumps rose all over their bodies.

All four of them were certain that they were about to be punished when the persuasive voice said, "Hahaha, my sacred source lifeform is the hardest to evolve amongst all the Eight Pages of Tower Canon. Nonetheless, my sacred source lifeform is finally about to break through to 10 Stars."

The silver-haired boy touched the scar at the back of his neck, and a manic look appeared in his eyes.

"Once my sacred source lifeform reaches 10 Stars, I will be able to properly give the Moon Empress and the Night Empress a run for their money. A few days ago, there was weird activity surrounding the sun, and the Heavenly Family Fey affiliated with the sun has resurfaced. After my sacred source lifeform evolves to 10 Stars, it will be time to collect the Heavenly Family Crystal that I failed to obtain last time."

This was not the first time the four families' leaders heard the silver-haired boy mumbling to himself almost deranged way.

But the more they heard it, the more afraid they became.

Suddenly, the silver-haired boy's tone turned cold as he said, "All of you are collecting Law and World Crystals too slowly. Since the experts from the Divine Wood Federation and Iron Hammer Federation don't like appearing in the imperial courts, a war that no expert can tear themselves away from needs to take place in the Divine Wood Federation and Iron Hammer Federation.

"I will give you four months. I will awake again in four months, and I better detect the flames of war all the way over here in the Great Lush Federation. Otherwise, you useless people will turn into my jacket."

The silver-haired boy patted the ball of flesh behind him, and the four families' leaders said with trembling voices, "Lord Truth, we will definitely do well!"

The four families' leaders were only able to let out breaths of relief when they walked out of that strange tower.

They looked at each other, and all of them knew that Lord Truth was about to start harvesting the crops he had planted long ago.

In his eyes, all the experts in the Startling Lines Continent were parasites whose only function was to raise his sacred source lifeform to 10 Stars.

The Startling Lines Continent was about to descend into chaos!

…

After eating the roasted meat, Su Yiren went to Lin Yuan's room, and they talked for a long time.

Since Su Yiren was going to help Lin Yuan manage the Divine Wood Federation side of business, she needed to have a good understanding of his goals and plans in order to do her job well.

After their conversation, Su Yiren's perspective of Lin Yuan changed.

As she listened to Lin Yuan talk about his opinions and goals, she felt as though he was as lofty as the clouds.

Su Yiren found out that he had founded a group called Sky City, and they were using the sacred source lifeform Astronomical Parliament to set up the entire main world.

A question appeared in Su Yiren's mind.

Could this be how an elite from one of the three major federations acted?

Su Yiren had not been to the Radiance Federation, but the previous Dark Envoy had visited the Radiance Federation before. When the previous Dark Envoy returned to the Dark Federation, he told Su Yiren all about the Radiance Federation.

From just the three Class 5 Creation Masters in the Radiance Federation, Su Yiren knew that calling the Radiance Federation prosperous was an understatement.

But it would be impossible for every person in the thriving Radiance Federation to aim to conquer the entire main world.

It would be almost impossible for the elites from smaller federations to even step out of their own land.

While talking to Lin Yuan, Su Yiren mentioned the Radiance Envoys and Major Federation Meeting twice.

Although Lin Yuan had not given her affirmative answers, he had not denied it either.

Su Yiren was certain that Lin Yuan was either one of the current Radiance Envoys or wanted to become one. Alll 𝒍𝒂test nov𝒆l𝒔 on novelb𝒊n/.c𝒐m

From Lin Yuan's analysis of the situation, Su Yiren felt that the latter was more likely.

Additionally, Lin Yuan was only around 18 years old.

On their way back, all of them had ridden on Lin Yuan's fey.

Su Yiren was a Class 3 Creation Master and could easily sense that the black flood dragon was a Diamond/Fantasy fey.

Given that he already possessed such power at his young age, it should pose no problem for him to become a Radiance Envoy two years later.

When Su Yiren gained the amount of power that Lin Yuan currently had, she was 23 years old.

Now that Su Yiren had all the information she needed, she walked out of Lin Yuan's room.

Since Lin Yuan had used the Earth Center Fine Milk to refine his body, he longer needed seven or eight hours of sleep a day. He was able to reach peak condition with just two or three hours of sleep.

Lin Yuan returned to the Spirit Lock spatial zone and evolved the Item-Storing Walnut Trees. That night, he managed to evolve the 50 500-year-old Item-Storing Walnut Trees to Bronze/Legend and gained 1,280 pairs of Bronze/Legend Item-Storing Walnuts.

Chapter 1449: Slowly Strengthening Apostles

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

After storing away the Item-Storing Walnuts, Lin Yuan went into the marsh world through Klein Hub.

When he arrived at the marsh world, he saw Genius ordering five Spirit Craftsmen to plant the Item-Storing Walnut Trees.

A three-meter-tall humanoid crocodile with crocodile armor on its body was rapidly digging holes using its hands.

After the Spirit Craftsmen planted the Item-Storing Walnut Trees and filled up the hole with soil, two Medusa Snake Demons wrapped their arms around the Item-Storing Walnut Trees' trunks and squeezed forcefully.

Soon, the crooked Item-Storing Walnut Trees were all straightened.

Genius sensed that Lin Yuan had arrived and headed toward him. It leaped deftly and landed on Lin Yuan's shoulder.

It affectionately nudged Lin Yuan's face and said in a childish voice, "Yuan, ever since you decided to nurture the Item-Storing Walnut Trees, I told the other Hundred Questions Beasts to concoct spirit fluids that can increase the grade and quality of the Item-Storing Walnuts as well as quicken their ripening. Currently, we have enough for more than 200 Item-Storing Walnut Trees."

Lin Yuan gently patted Genius' head and said, "Genius, I have 50 Item-Storing Walnut Trees that are more than 500 years old. Nurture these Item-Storing Walnut Trees first until they reach Diamond and produce Item-Storing Walnuts. I'll give you the other 600 Item-Storing Walnut Trees that are more than 300 years old after I've evolved them to Bronze/Epic. This will ensure that they produce the best quality Item-Storing Walnuts."

Genius nodded and said, "Yuan, I think that we have too little manpower to properly develop the marsh world. We need some people here who can do hard labor."

Lin Yuan flicked Genius' nose and replied, "Genius, I will be able to solve the problem quickly once I'm back in the Radiance Federation. There will be many more people in the marsh world soon."

He had discussed with Sun Ningxiang how he wanted to set aside a large area in the marsh world to be used to cultivate plants.

Recently, Sun Ningxiang had been recruiting employees who were willing to become recluses, so Lin Yuan could pick some of them to help Genius.

Additionally, the Class 3 Spirit Craftsmen were also building houses even though this task was beneath them. If someone could take over the task, it would free them up to become more efficient in tasks where they were actually needed.

Otherwise, it would be too much of a waste for Genius to ask the Medusa Snake Demons and Class 3 Spirit Craftsmen to plant the Item-Storing Walnut Trees.

The half-man half-crocodile was one of White Pavilion's Apostles that it had used its natural skill to transform.

The half-man half-crocodile had a sturdy physique and was very strong. It was very suitable for them to do hard labor in the territory.

Genius received the Diamond fey storage box with the Item-Storing Walnut Trees and was about to jump off Lin Yuan's shoulder to make preparations to plant them when Lin Yuan embraced it and summoned the Snow-Necked Swan from the Diamond fey storage box before saying, "Genius, evolve the Snow-Necked Swan to Diamond by tonight. Su Yiren needs an avian-type fey, and the Snow-Necked Swan is the most suitable."

Genius immediately agreed and said, "Yuan, don't worry. I have already stocked up on many spirit fluids. I will have the Snow-Necked Swan to Diamond evolved before dawn tomorrow."

After Genius headed to the breeding room to work, Lin Yuan walked a lap but still could not find the Kill Food Sky Butterfly.

Lin Yuan contacted Purple Afterglow using his spiritual energy and found out that the Kill Food Sky Butterfly and Purple Afterglow had been searching for marsh soil around the territory.

When Purple Afterglow found out that Lin Yuan was looking for the Kill Food Sky Butterfly, the Kill Food Sky Butterfly rapidly led Purple Afterglow back to the territory.

In less than 40 minutes, the Kill Food Sky Butterfly appeared in front of Lin Yuan.

Lin Yuan asked, "Kill Food Sky Butterfly, have you formed a contract with your sacred source lifeform?"

"Lin Yuan, I want to wait a while before I contract the sacred source lifeform. The territory is currently lacking in marsh soil. A few days ago, the Medusa Snake Demons went to search for marsh soil and were met with danger. A Class 7 Medusa Snake Demon encountered a Class 7 Marsh Pattern Water Boa. After the Marsh Pattern Snake Boa ambushed the Medusa Snake Demon, both of them eventually ended up killing each other. Hence, I told the Medusa Snake Demons to stop searching for marsh soil.

"I informed White Speak to set up a line of defense on the outskirts of the territory. Only the Marsh Crocodiles, Medusa Snake Demons, and Medusa Giant Lizards are allowed to pass through the line of defense.

"I also told White Speak to send out its subordinates to kill all dimensional lifeforms around the territory that are Class 7 and above. Purple Afterglow and I used the distribution of the Marsh Crocodiles to collect marsh soil while helping to clear the Class 7 and above dimensional lifeforms.

"I would like to settle these tasks before I contract the sacred source lifeform. If I contract the sacred source lifeform now, it will definitely affect the rate of the development in the marsh world," said the Kill Food Sky Butterfly.

From what the Kill Food Sky Butterfly said, Lin Yuan knew that the Kill Food Sky Butterfly was putting off absorbing the sacred source lifeform for the sake of the marsh world's development.

Since the Kill Food Sky Butterfly was being so considerate, Lin Yuan did not insist on the Kill Food Sky Butterfly forming a contract with the sacred source lifeform.

Lin Yuan would return to the Radiance Federation tomorrow morning.

Lin Yuan was extremely curious about the Mother of Bloodbath's sacred source lifeform. He also needed to help Ji Feng contract his sacred source lifeform.

After speaking with the Kill Food Sky Butterfly for a while more, Lin Yuan called Rising Lizard, Wendy, and White Pavilion over. 𝑅read latest ch𝒂pters at n/𝒐v(e)lbi𝒏.co/m

Lin Yuan noticed that Rising Lizard was growing at the quickest rate. It already had four believers, three Favored Believers, and reached Class 8. It would reach Class 9 very soon.

Rising Lizard increased its power so quickly because all of the Medusa Snake Demons were doing their best to attract the Medusa Giant Lizards that Rising Lizard would use to increase its power.

Wendy had snake-species feys and used their venom to evolve its power to Class 4. It had one Favored Believer and two believers.

Chapter 1450: Wen Yu's Astonishing Transformation

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White Pavilion had not been an Apostle for long. Hence, it had only evolved by one class. Currently, it had one Favored Believer and one believer.

Lin Yuan knew that these three had not stopped working hard at all.

After bonding with Rising Lizard, Wendy, and Rising Lizard for a while, Lin Yuan left the marsh world.

Lin Yuan did not plan on investing any more energy into the marsh world until the Radiance Hundred Sequence selection was over.

Once the Radiance Hundred Sequence selection was over, Lin Yuan planned on taking White Speak to the Palace of Everything in the Marsh East Circle to see if he could trade for some better quality source-type items and sacred source lifeforms.

After leaving the marsh world, Lin Yuan collapsed on the bed and fell asleep.

The next morning, Lin Yuan gave the Snow-Necked Swan that Genius evolved to Diamond X/Legend to Su Yiren before instructing Ji Feng, Little Flower, Little Grass, and Liu Jie to enter the Jeweled Cave Golden Toad.

Lin Yuan entered the Space Tunnel and appeared on the other side at the Return from Faraway Mansion's basement.

He tumbled out of the Space Tunnel and massaged the back of his head in pain. The discomfort of such long-distance travel was even more painful than when he drank the Silver Stamen Gold Luster Cassia nectar to cleanse his body of impurities.

After recovering from his discomfort, Lin Yuan let Liu Jie, Ji Feng, Little Flower, and Little Grass out of the Jeweled Cave Golden Toad.

As for the Dragon Horns Mysterious Turtle, Lin Yuan kept it in the Jeweled Cave Golden Toad.

Although Lin Yuan did not mind showing the Law Crystals with pure law power to the Dragon Horns Mysterious Turtle, he did not want it to find out that he was from the Radiance Federation and not the Great Lush Federation.

When Lin Yuan saw how Little Flower and Little Grass looked around curiously, he said, "Little Flower and Little Grass, this is your new home. Big Brother Liu will cook good food for you from now on. Big Sister Wen Yu will make new clothes for you. She will arrange rooms for you, and you can tell her how you want your room to be decorated."

Gratitude and admiration appeared in Little Flower and Little Grass' eyes.

The two of them had been born into hardship and had led one of the saddest lives in the Divine Wood Federation. They had no choice but to rely on themselves, and they were the most important person in each other's lives.

The Dark Sun Send Mess Butterflies allowed the two children to understand the fear of being separated by death.

In that situation, Lin Yuan had not just saved Little Flower and Little Grass' lives but their souls and emotions as well.

The two children experienced warmth and care from Lin Yuan and Liu Jie. The 'home' that Lin Yuan spoke of allowed them to realize that their savior thought of them as family.

Little Flower held Little Grass' hand tightly, and Little Grass gripped her hand just as hard. These two children knew that they finally had a home. Visjt n𝒐velbin.c𝒐m for new updates

After leaving the basement and returning to the mansion, Lin Yuan saw an enormous book with its pages rapidly flipping. Light golden paper flew all around the room. These pieces of golden paper were empty when they were flying around but were full of neat words when they landed on the ground.

Lin Yuan knew that Wen Yu was using the Elemental Paper's exclusive skill, Hear Heaven's Secrets.

However, the image of Wen Yu using Hear Heaven's Secrets was very different from what Lin Yuan had imagined.

It seemed that the help of Mystic Moon during her recent trip to the Radiant Moon Palace had enabled the Elemental Paper to transform.

Lin Yuan used True Data to check on the Elemental Paper.

[Fey Name: Elemental Paper (Blossoming Paper Flower)

[Fey Species: Elemental/Paper

[Fey Grade: Diamond X

[Fey Type: Wood

[Fey Quality: Fantasy V

Abilities:

[Dance of Paper: Transform the body into a piece of paper that is immune to physical attacks. However, it is especially vulnerable to elemental attacks. The paper has a teleporting power. The teleportation can be used every three seconds and has a radius of 20 kilometers.

[Paper Crane's Promise: The paper will be stacked to form a paper crane that can send messages. The paper crane will be engraved with the aura of the person receiving the message. If a person other than the receiver touches the paper crane, it will burst into flames. The paper crane has a teleporting power that is 30 times more powerful than that of Dance of Paper.

[Thoughts Letter Paper: The paper will absorb the target's blood and form a temporary contract with the target. The people holding the Thoughts Letter Paper will be able to communicate with each other using their thoughts as their thoughts will automatically appear as words on the paper. The people holding the Thoughts Letter Paper will be able to read the words together.

[Faceless Paper: An imaginary paper will appear in front of the target, and it can take the shape of the target[s appearance. As long as the Elemental Paper is not destroyed, the imaginary paper will be undamaged even if the target is killed.

[Paper Flower Funeral: The paper will be folded into a flower that will form an imprint when it lands on a target. Even if the target is hidden, cloned, or affected by elements, the paper flower imprint can be used to sense the target's location.

[Paper of Ten Thousand Forms: The paper can pretend to be a person, fey, mountain, city, sea, or even sky. While in the imitation state, the entities hidden behind the paper can enjoy absolute defense.

Exclusive Skill:

[Hear Heaven's Secrets: The contractor will become a book of secrets that is linked to the flying piece of paper. When the book's pages are turned, it can transfer any knowledge within to the flying piece of paper.

[Truth Form Paper: While the paper is flying around, soul power can be used to form a piece of paper that can investigate the truth. When questioning a target, the paper will be folded into a flower if the target is telling the truth, and it will break apart if the target is lying.

Although Wen Yu was not a spirit qi professional who was skilled at combat, her comprehension had reached the peak of the younger generation.

Compared to the Elemental Paper's grade change, Lin Yuan was more shocked by its change in abilities.

He felt that its abilities were even stronger than many sacred source lifeforms.

Lin Yuan could not help but marvel at how powerful the Elemental Paper was.

Previously, the Elemental Paper excelled at gathering information and keeping secrets.

But now, the Diamond X/Fantasy V Elemental Paper's abilities were fundamentally strengthened, and its new abilities gave it a wider variety of skills.