Chapter 144

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Chapter 144: Merit of the Human Race

Wang Yulun suddenly recalled the terrifying times when Xu Fan had given him instructions before his journeys.

Every time before leaving, he would go to Xu Fan to say goodbye, and Xu Fan would always hand him some mysterious exotic treasures or magical artifacts.

At first, he didn’t understand their purpose. But as time went on, whenever he faced danger during his travels, the items Xu Fan had given him always came in handy. That’s when Wang Yulun realized his dear Big Brother had mastered divination techniques.

“Big Brother Xu, will everything be alright on our way back?” Wang Yulun suddenly felt uneasy.

“It’s nothing serious, just a disaster of bloodlight and evil energy. As long as you stay within the fairy city, you’ll be safe,” Xu Fan said casually. He had been startled earlier when he saw Wang Yulun’s face.

It was a terrible omen, a disaster of bloodlight—the kind that could lead to sudden death.

At that moment, even Murong Qianer, who was standing beside Wang Yulun, began to feel nervous.

“Big Brother Xu, as long as we don’t leave the fairy city, will we be okay?”

Wang Xiangchi was also watching Xu Fan’s stand-in puppet, his face filled with concern.

“It’s not certain, but if you can make it back alive, you’ll be fine.”

“Have you been having a lot of accidents or injuries lately, or maybe being haunted by something evil?” Xu Fan asked.

“Yes, yes, yes!” Wang Yulun replied eagerly.

“Then hurry back. Don’t stop along the way, and try not to sleep or rest,” Xu Fan said, his expression turning slightly serious.

Wang Yulun seemed to be under a curse, and not a simple one—it seemed to have brushed against the edges of fate itself.

“Alright, I’ll take Qianer and Xingci back right now.”

At that moment, Xu Yuexian handed Wang Yulun a bag of spirit stones to cover the teleportation costs for the journey.

After the call ended, Wang Yulun composed himself.

“Your Uncle Wang has been dealing with something unclean lately, probably a curse. When you return, I’ll look into it. The flavor of fate is quite intriguing,” Xu Fan said with a smile.

“Oh,” Li Xingci replied lightly, as if it had nothing to do with him.

………….

In Lin Sen Fairy City, Shi Zhan arrived at a merchant association, looking exhausted.

“Manager, here are the Earth Steel Beast scales you requested—20 sets in total,” Shi Zhan said, holding back the urge to cough up blood.

“Senior, you’ve worked hard. Here’s 500,000 spirit stones; please take this,” the manager said respectfully, handing over a storage bag filled with spirit stones.

These days, it was rare to find Golden Core Stage cultivators willing to take on such thankless tasks.

Shi Zhan glanced at the storage bag, nodded, and confirmed everything was in order.

In a small courtyard in Lin Sen Fairy City, Shi Zhan had just finished healing his injuries and was staring at the spirit stones in his hand, deep in thought.

“At this rate, even if I worked non-stop for 100 years, I’d never gather the 800 million spirit stones needed to buy a home.”

As he spoke, he pulled out a magical artifact and activated it with his spiritual energy.

A light curtain appeared in the air, displaying the locations and descriptions of various fairy cities across the central continent.

His eyes locked onto a fairy city in the Central Region, and his gaze grew determined, like a young man ready to head south in search of opportunity.

“Wanbao Fairy City, a paradise for treasure hunters, where danger and opportunity go hand in hand.”

Shi Zhan was reading about Wanbao Fairy City and thinking about the spirit stones he had.

“After teleporting, I’ll only have half my spirit stones left. I’ve got to take a chance,” Shi Zhan said, clenching his teeth. For the safety of his home, he had no other choice.

“Chang Ning, you take care of things at home. I’ll handle everything outside.”

If Xu Fan knew Shi Zhan’s story, he might even give him a discount—after all, it was all for love.

……………………..

Xu Gang and Xu Yuexian escorted Wang Yulun’s family to the nearest fairy city teleportation formation before heading back.

“I didn’t expect to get a signal here. Now we can chat with Master whenever we have time,” Xu Yuexian said cheerfully.

“I think the signal might be coming from the celestial tool in that Dragon Immortal Palace,” Xu Gang said, glancing up at the sky above the distant defense camp. He could feel the massive Dragon Immortal Palace hovering there, ready to crush any beast that dared to attack.

Just then, the siblings’ communication device buzzed again.

“The beast race is attacking the formation! Return to the defense line immediately!”

The siblings exchanged a look and shot into the sky in beams of light.

Meanwhile, at Defense Line 673, a sword formation covered two-thirds of the area, holding back the beasts from above and below. Ye Xiaoyao was thrilled.

If the beasts kept attacking like this for a whole day, he’d earn enough points to trade for a fifth-grade precious artifact spiritual sword.

As Ye Xiaoyao used the sword formation to cut down the incoming beasts, he thought to himself, “If I stay here for ten years, could I collect enough for 1,000 fifth-grade precious artifact spiritual swords?”

“Keep dreaming. The beast race is attacking so hard—there’s definitely a trick here.”

“Just look at the Dragon Immortal Palace in the sky. It’s enough to hold the entire defense camp. Even a Great Ascension stage beast king wouldn’t stand a chance,” Old Sword muttered to himself, sensing the familiar stench of a scheme.

“What trick?” Ye Xiaoyao asked, confused.

“You’re all just playing around. Haven’t you noticed there’s not a single Overcoming Tribulations stage cultivator in the entire defense line?”

“As for the trick, it’s probably happening outside this realm. The beast race is plotting something, and the human race is too.”

“This place is just a training ground for you humans,” Old Sword said.

Meanwhile, in the Extreme Void Domain, ten massive Star Ships of the human race were locked in battle with five giant beast warships. Countless secret techniques and world-suppressing artifacts clashed in the chaos.

“Respected Elder Lingyue, you’re not doing so well. You’ve wasted several doomsday thunderfire cannons. If I didn’t know you since we were kids, I’d think you were a spy for the beast race,” one Great Ascension stage Sovereign said to another, looking annoyed.

Respected Elder Lingyue sat in the pilot’s seat, surrounded by control panels filled with runes that looked like the five elements and eight trigrams, giving off a high-tech immortal vibe.

“Stop with the sarcasm, will you? The pilots of those beast warships are top-tier. I fired those shots to make them dodge and give our fellow Daoists a chance,” Lingyue said, maneuvering the Star Ship to corner the enemy beast warships.

“Forget it. We can’t destroy them now, but we’ve already done what we came to do.”

“They want to go to the central continent and unseal the ancient beast forbidden area, throwing the central continent into chaos.”

“Do they really think we humans are that stupid?” the Great Ascension stage Sovereign sneered.

Among the ten celestial tools of the Elder Council, at least half were designed to observe heavenly causality. Any plot against the human race would be spotted.

The five warships of the beast race, realizing their actions had been detected, engaged in a brief skirmish before heading towards the region of Xiangzhou.

“They’re retreating on this side, but I wonder how the boss is doing outside the realm.”

“If we succeed, won’t we start pushing for the fusion of the two realms?” Respected Elder Lingyue said.

“Let’s wait for news. The boss has been planning this for nearly three thousand years, and he personally trained four respected elders in the Demon Spirit Realm.”

“This time, we’ll still come out on top.”

Meanwhile, beyond the Feiyu Realm, the shimmering lights traveling between the two realms had thinned out, and the Ten Thousand Star Ship, hidden outside the realm, kept a close watch on the serpent-shaped warship deep in the void.

“The beast race has noticed us. Five Star Ships should be enough,” the Starry-Eyed Boy said, gazing at the miniature universe centered on the Feiyu Realm in his hand.

“Activate the Thunder Punishing Demon Cannonball. I spent everything I had to make just two of them.”

“Now you’ll get to see what they can do.”

“Fire both at once and take out one of the beast race’s celestial tool warships first,” the Starry-Eyed Boy said with a smirk. “Did you really think I wouldn’t notice another universe-class warship lying in wait?”

On the sides of the Ten Thousand Star Ship, two massive openings, each a thousand meters wide, appeared.

‘Boom~~’

The entire ship shuddered as two streaks of light, moving at blinding speed, shot toward the serpent-shaped warship hidden deep in the void.

In the Starry-Eyed Boy’s miniature universe, the tiny speck representing the serpent-shaped warship was now desperately fleeing deeper into the void.

“Did it work?”

As soon as he spoke, a small firework burst in the miniature universe he held.

“Keep up! Once we’ve gathered the spoils, I’ll activate the grand formation for the fusion of the two realms.”

“Understood!”

Excitement spread through everyone on the Ten Thousand Star Ship.

…………………

“Ha ha, the boss just sent word that the plan succeeded, and the grand formation for the fusion of the two realms is about to be activated,” Respected Elder Lingyue exclaimed, grinning like a child.

“The fusion of the two realms, the battle for fortune—once it happens, as long as we stick with the boss, we’re guaranteed a share of the human race merit for becoming true immortals.”

“We’ve followed the boss for thousands of years; isn’t this what we’ve been waiting for?” another respected elder said with a laugh. He had suppressed his cultivation for millennia just for this chance at the human race’s merit.

“After ascending to the Thousand Worlds, I’ll keep following the boss. Who knows? Maybe I’ll even make it to Golden Immortal.”

“Keep dreaming.”

At that moment, above the boundary defense line of Moliang State, a celestial palace stretching across the sky suddenly appeared, instantly wiping out all the beasts attacking the defenses.

Three Great Ascension stage respected elders emerged from the Dragon Immortal Palace, accompanied by thirty Overcoming Tribulations stage great beings, all heading straight for Xiangzhou.

“Follow me into Xiangzhou and wipe out the beast race.”

“Anyone who kills a beast can trade the body for Elder Council points.”

In an instant, all the cultivators were fired up and charged toward Xiangzhou, while the Great Ascension stage respected elders slaughtered any large groups of beasts in their path.

Then, three beast kings appeared, but before they could utter a word, the lead Great Ascension stage swordsman unleashed the Celestial Tool Demon Slayer Sword and cut them down.

Watching from the rear, Ye Xiaoyao couldn’t help but drool.

“The power of a celestial tool is absolutely terrifying.”

“If only I had an Immortal Sword,” Ye Xiaoyao muttered, practically salivating.

“What are you thinking? In this realm, I don’t expect you to get your hands on an Immortal Sword.”

“Even in the Thousand Worlds, a true immortal might not be lucky enough to own one,” Old Sword said.

“Didn’t you say there’s a treasury in the Thousand Worlds? You told me I’d have endless spirit treasures after ascending,” Ye Xiaoyao replied.

“That’s true, but it depends on your luck. If the realm you ascend to has the treasury of this Great Immortal Emperor, you’ll strike it rich.”

“If not, you’d better focus on earning your travel expenses first,” Old Sword advised.