When he returned to reality from Kelly's mini world, it was already five o'clock in the morning in Martel City.
The people who came at dawn had probably left after searching for a while but to no avail. Even the residents nearby had been evacuated, leaving behind ruins and empty buildings. Some of the houses had even forgotten to turn off the lights.
Looking at the rising sun, Lin Huang felt like he had been through a lifetime. The battle was the most difficult one that he had ever experienced.
The first thing he did after returning to the hotel was to sleep.
The battle that had lasted the entire night had exhausted him. Although the upgrade in his combat strength had given him a lot of energy, the mental exhaustion soon made him fall asleep.
Bloody stayed by his bed, looking for all sorts of information using its Emperor's Heart Ring.
It was past six o'clock in the evening when Lin Huang woke up. He was full of energy after a good night's sleep.
"The person called Xia Hou came at eight o'clock in the morning. He knocked on the door for a while, but I ignored him and he left on his own. I didn't want to disturb your sleep, so I muted the sound, "Bloody said as it saw Lin Huang get up.
"Xia Hou?" As Bloody reminded him, Lin Huang recalled that it was the investigator who was his partner in the serial murder case. "He must have heard the commotion last night and wanted to look for me today …"
However, since he had killed the evil spirit, there was no conclusion to the case.
"Did anyone else come?" Lin Huang asked.
"Nope." Bloody shook its head and continued, "I've gathered all the information that you asked me to look for this morning."
"The mark on your body is called the True God's mark. The ancient era was used by some True Gods to mark their slaves. The main function of the mark is to announce the ownership of the slave. It can locate the slave but it doesn't control the slave. It can only be used as a mark. Such a mark can't be erased. Unless the creator of the mark is as strong or stronger, it can only be erased. "
"It's just a mark?" Lin Huang was relieved to hear that. However, he immediately contacted Xiao Hei and asked, "Can I erase it with a Healing Card?"
"No physical abnormalities detected, the Healing Card cannot take effect."
"Forget it. Since it can't be erased, I'll just ignore it for now." Since there was no way to get rid of this mark, Lin Huang simply chose to throw it aside for now. "What about the immortal-level?"
"The way humans train on immortal-level is to kill immortal-level monsters and extract their monster souls. He used the Beast Soul as a container to store his Vital Fire. Its essence was to use the beast soul as a furnace to nurture the Life Fire and forge the Life Furnace. However, because the shape of the Life Furnace looked like a translucent cover covering the vital fire, it looked like a lamp, so many people jokingly called it the Life Lamp. Later on, we got used to calling it that, so we forgot what it was originally called. The Life Furnace was gradually replaced by the Life Lantern, "Bloody continued.
"I've seen this before. A Life Lamp is, in essence, an energy reactor, and the beast soul is the vessel that holds the Life Fire. However, with the strength of my Life Fire now, no Beast Soul can contain it. Let alone an immortal-level, even an imperial-level Beast Soul will be burned into ashes by my Life Fire within minutes. " The Divine Pod served as the tinder perfectly, but the aftereffects that came with it had become Lin Huang's biggest headache at the moment.
Without a Beast Soul to hold the Life Fire, it meant that the Life Furnace (Life Lamp) could not be formed. Lin Huang could not elevate to immortal-level at all.
"The Life Fire in your body is a true god-level item. Not only imperial-level Beast Souls are useless, but in reality, other than true god-level Beast Souls, the vessels of other levels will be damaged. Even if it's a virtual god-level Beast Soul, it's just a matter of time before it collapses. " Bloody then changed its tone, "Therefore, I think the normal way to elevate to immortal-level won't work for you."
"I have two suggestions. Firstly, you can change to another cultivation system, but you must find a system that's compatible with your current cultivation method. Secondly, you can use other cultivation systems as a reference and create a cultivation system that suits you. "
"The feasibility of both of your suggestions is too low." Lin Huang shook his head helplessly.
"Most of the cultivation systems are independent. Very few of them are compatible with other cultivation systems. Even if they are compatible, most of them are at a low level. Very few of them have a compatibility of more than 30%. I'd rather spend some time to cultivate again than to change to such a low-compatibility cultivation system. The second one is to create a new cultivation system. It's something that many tribes can only achieve after spending decades or even hundreds of years. I don't have enough knowledge, and I don't have the time. "
"There's another way …" Bloody spoke again after a moment of silence.
"Tell me about it." Lin Huang nodded.
"Find a substitute for the Beast Soul to be the Life Fire's vessel," Bloody said. "I've thought about the substitute for the True God-level Beast Soul. It's mainly a god's item or a god's relic. It'd be best if it's a true god-level god's item or a god's relic."
"There's a certain possibility of that." Lin Huang had a strange expression on his face.
In this gravel world, god's items and god's relic were extremely rare. Countless people would go crazy if such an item appeared in an auction. Even when Lin Huang was at his peak, it was difficult for him to buy a virtual god-level item, let alone a true god-level item.
"Also, don't forget that there are nine Life Lamps," Bloody reminded him.
"…"
Lin Huang felt like Bloody had poured a basin of ice water on him. His expression froze.
Although he had found a direction after talking to Bloody, Lin Huang knew that he still had a long way to go.
"Nine true god-level items … It's still a question if there are so many of them in this world. Even if there are, I'm afraid I'll have to go bankrupt a hundred times if I buy them all with my wealth. " Lin Huang felt pressured. "It seems like I'll have to join more ruins and ancient civilization ruins exploration in the future."
After getting rid of the distracting thoughts, Lin Huang began to look at the rewards that he had obtained from killing the evil spirit.
During the Life Fire hunt, he did not manage to obtain the Supreme Intelligence that he wanted. Before the Divine Pod was turned into a card, its consciousness had collapsed. Almost none of its inheritance and memories were left behind. When Xiao Hei was turning it into a card, it sorted out and extracted the remaining consciousness fragments that were not completely destroyed. However, it only managed to obtain a secret skill – the Golden Cicada.
This secret skill was the one that the evil spirit had been using to resurrect itself. However, the effect of the secret skill was obviously much weaker than the evil spirit's.
The Golden Cicada secret skill allowed Lin Huang to perfectly disguise himself as a human that he had killed before (he could not disguise himself as a monster). During the disguise process, he could completely imitate the person's inheritance, memory, and ability.
Within a day, he had three chances to shed his shell. He could abandon his shell and let it die as a scapegoat. However, as soon as the shell was abandoned, he would not be able to disguise himself as the shell anymore.
The secret skill contained both disguise and scapegoat abilities. Although it was much weaker than the evil spirit's, Lin Huang was satisfied with it.
After reading the detailed introduction of the secret skill, he took out another card.
"Monster Card
"Rarity: Mythical (Pseudo)
"Name of Monster: (Unnamed)
"Type of Monster: God's Blood (Original type is an evil spirit) (Pseudo Pure Blood)
"Combat Level: Immortal-level rank-2 (Beginner)
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"Summon Authority: Immortal-level, Activated
"Card Remarks: Recommended to train with all you have!"
"God's Blood?" Lin Huang was surprised to see the evil spirit's card. He had always thought that it was an evil spirit, but it turned out to be a God's Blood instead.
After reading the card's details, Lin Huang roughly knew what was going on with the monster. The monster was indeed an evil spirit. However, it was transformed by the God's Blood Pods and became a pure-blood God's Blood. As it was created by humans, Xiao Hei determined that it was a Pseudo Pure Blood.
Even Bai was just a high-level God's Blood. He was still a step away from being a pure-blood. The evil spirit's rank was higher than Bai and Charcoal's.
"Unfortunately, I can only summon it when I'm on immortal-level." Looking at the chain seal on the front of the card, Lin Huang knew that he did not have the authority to summon it. He played with the card in his hand for a while before putting it away.
Looking at the sky that was getting dark, Lin Huang took a step forward and arrived at the balcony.
The sun that was setting dyed the clouds a golden red. Lin Huang looked at the setting sun and mumbled to himself, "I'll depart tomorrow morning and get the cross-ranking reward for being on gold flame-level!"
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