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Chapter 1031: Killing and Fighting Doesn't Suit My Elegance

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

"Mother…" The bruised corpse stopped moving and hitting the transparent glass.

At the moment, the door opened slowly while a lady in lilac walked in.

The lady looked like she was in her early 30's and she carried the immature vibe of a young girl. The door closed automatically as soon as she stepped in.

The bruised corpse seemed fearful when he looked at the lady. He hesitated for a moment and mustered his courage to speak, "Mother, you promised that you'll release me to take revenge on Lin Huang when I've integrated with this spirit's body. Now that I've perfectly integrated this body and found where Lin Huang is, I must go to Division 1 to take my revenge!"

"Shan Er, I did promise you that." The lady in lilac sat down at the couch and patted the seat next to her, gesturing to her son to sit.

The bruised corpse took a step out and soon reached the couch. He sat on the couch and turned his head to look at the lady in lilac, waiting for her response.

"But the situation is different now compared to the past," the lady continued to speak, "Lin Huang was nobody back then. Even if he was talented and gifted, he couldn't do anything significant alone.

"But now he's the Emperor of Dynasty. He's an underground boss that many respect. He has two god items which are the Emperor's Palace and the Star Titan as well as two Virtual Gods who are secretly protecting him. Killing him is as difficult as reaching for the stars.

"Moreover, the mission in Division 3 earlier failed. Now, the Purple Crow is looking for me because of God Bless. It's not the time to be stirring things up and gain another powerful enemy."

"God Bless isn't afraid of Dynasty and the Purple Crow anyway. What can they do even if the two organizations are to team up?!" The bruised corpse was still reluctant to give in.

"The Purple Crow and Dynasty aren't as simple as they look. The Purple Crow has its Crow God. Although the Crow God is just a True God, he has the Hundred-eyed Dark Crow tribe supporting him. The organization behind Dynasty is even more complicated. They have Royal, the top organization in the great world, supporting them. Even Master God is afraid of them."

"So, Mother, are you saying I can't take revenge on Lin Huang who killed me and my daughter, Lily?" The bruised corpse balled his fists.

"I'm just asking you to be patient for now. When Master God returns later, that will be the time God Bless rules the world! By then, no matter whether it's the Purple Crow, Dynasty or even the Hunter Association and the Union Government, they will just be meat on our chopping board!"

"Mother, I was being reckless." The corpse calmed down after listening.

After they chatted for a while, the lady in lilac set up the restrictions in the room again before leaving.

She closed the door and walked to the window. She looked at her son through the glass with a cold expression. "Monitor him. Let me know immediately as soon as he loses control."

"Yes." The housekeeper nodded with a calm face on.

The bruised corpse sat on the couch while looking at the floor with his head down in silence. After the lady in lilac left a long time later, a ferocious gleam flashed through his eyes.

…

"Looking at the personal information details, there are a total of 11 people who are spies from other organizations. Two of them came from God Bless.

"A total of 23 of them lost their humanity. They killed and carried out massacres for fun. These 23 people are extremely sick with severe tendencies against humanity. Even their mindset has derailed from an ordinary human's mindset. Rules and punishments alone can't fix them.

"Following the Union Government's criminal standards, there are 12,583 people who have committed two or more felonies. Although they're more or less sick, they're still treatable. I personally suggest rehabilitating them with rules, punishment, and rewards.

"There are 21,418 people who have committed a felony once. Most of them are fine while a majority of them regretted what they did.

"The rest are just people with tiny issues, including some mutants who are pretty much alright. We can train these bunch of people right away."

"Categorize the list for me. You might be working a lot in the next few days to come up with rules and regulations as well as a reward and punishment system for Dynasty." Lin Huang delegated the responsibility directly. "Tell me what you need and I'll get it for you!"

"The list will be completed immediately. I need the Union Government, the Hunter Association, Adventurer Paradise, the Heretics and Dynasty's full rules and regulations as well as their rewards and punishments systems. Also, I need Grimace's help." Bloody dragged Grimace into it gleefully. "Oh yeah, I need mint candy and chocolates too."

"Sure." Lin Huang snapped his finger and summoned Grimace.

Upon hearing that Lin Huang wanted him to help Bloody with Dynasty's new conditions, Grimace scowled. "Why do I have to do clerical work? Isn't Bloody enough for the job?"

"I'll elevate you right away when you're done helping Bloody with this."

"Deal!" Grimace agreed almost without hesitation. "To be honest, clerical work is my favorite. Killing and fighting don't suit my elegance at all."

Lin Huang called the guards at the entrance of the Emperor's Palace after arranging work for Bloody and Grimace.

"Master Emperor, are there any orders for us?"

"I need the Union Government, the Hunter Association, Adventurer Paradise, the Heretics and Dynasty's full rules and regulations systems. Also, a tonne of chocolate and a tonne of mint candy. It's best if you can gather all that today." Lin Huang distributed the list of materials that he needed to elevate his imperial monsters as he was done speaking. "This list of materials too. Gather as many of them as you can for me. You don't necessarily have to get this by today, but the sooner, the better."

The guards were stunned for a moment as they skimmed through the copy of the list. They nodded immediately. "We'll get it done for you right away."

Within less than half an hour after the guards left, the chocolates and mint candy that Bloody had asked for were served.

Huang Tianpu sent the rules and regulations as well as the reward and punishment system from the selected organizations over. In the meantime, Bloody and Grimace began working.

Meanwhile, Lin Huang summoned four imperial monsters including Bloody Robe, the Eclipse Boa, the Death Knight, and the Fallen Knight. He found a place in the Emperor's Palace and began the elevation of his four imperial monsters with Advance Cards and the materials he had gathered.

Soon, the four imperial monsters turned into four golden eggs.

Although it was the Emperor's Palace where nobody could come in theoretically, Lin Huang summoned his God Figurine's Combat Soul, the Divine Sun Tree, to guard them anyway after he left.

In the middle of the night at Division 2, a bruised corpse sat on the couch in a dark room. He grinned abruptly. "That damn housekeeper has finally left!"

He stood up slowly and looked at the middle-aged man sitting in the observatory through the glass. Although he could not see anything on the other side of the glass while the room had restrictions on his Territory skill, nobody knew he had comprehended Divine Telekinesis which allowed him to detect everything out there.

The middle-aged man experienced goosebumps when he saw the bruised corpse stand up and stare at him. When he took a step to his left, the corpse's eyes moved to the left too. He took two steps to the right and the corpse's eyes followed.

"Didn't the housekeeper say this transparent glass is one-way? Why does it feel like he can see me?" The middle-aged man frowned slightly. A voice came to his ears when he was going to report the odd event to the housekeeper.

"Look into my eyes…" As if he was hypnotized, the middle-aged demigod lifted his head and locked eyes with the bruised corpse.

Circles of waves seemed to be activated in the bruised corpse's eyes as the man seemed lost as he froze.

"Open the door for me," the bruised corpse ordered.

The middle-aged demigod walked to the door like a zombie and opened the door with a key.

The corpse opened the door and revealed a ferocious grin. He pressed his hand against the middle-aged demigod's head. With a tight squeeze, the middle-aged demigod's head exploded like a watermelon tossed from the sky.

White and bloody mush splattered all over the wall. The bruised corpse withdrew his hand and licked his palm that was filled with blood and brain juice. "Delicious!"

After licking his palm clean, he charged ahead and crushed layers of ceiling plaster before vanishing into the sky.

The housekeeper appeared silently next to the headless body whose head had exploded. He revealed a smirk with a calm face as he looked at the broken ceiling.

He fell into silence for a moment while squinting. He turned his communication page on and dialed a number. His expression and tone turned frantic as he panted, "Oh no, Grandmistress, Young Master has escaped!"

Chapter 1032: Implementing New Rules

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Lin Huang's identity was exposed on the second day of the coronation.

He came from Division 7 and was 19 years of age (not calculated according to his actual date of birth).

He was the direct disciple of a virtual god-level powerhouse, Mr. Fu. Apart from that, he was both a sword cultivator and an Imperial Censor.

He joined the Purple Crow training camp for a short time and escaped by faking his death.

He was not educated, but he was once a teacher at Martial Hunter College's Sword Dao in the White Capital City of Division 7.

He had a sister whose name was Lin Xin. Ever since she dropped out of a foundation institute, she had been missing for close to three years.

According to reliable sources, Lin Xin had a fake identity called Ling Xue. She used to study at Martial Hunter College in the White Capital City of Division 7. She graduated with perfect scores and became the college firearms teacher. She went missing again a few days ago.

Looking at Lin Xin's situation, Lin Huang most probably had a fake identity too.

Besides Lin Huang, Lin Xin's identity was exposed too. Even her fake identity was exposed since she did not disguise herself.

Because Lin Huang disguised as Lin Xie with another appearance, that identity of his had yet to be exposed at the moment.

People were talking about the exposed information on Lin Huang on the Heart Network.

"It seems like Lin Huang isn't that special apart from being a Virtual God's disciple. Maybe Dynasty gave the Virtual God face, so they appointed Lin Huang as the Emperor."

"Looking at the record, his sister is even better than him. At least, she's educated. She even graduated from college with perfect scores."

"I've got a better record than he does. At least, I went to college!"

"He didn't even go to college. How dare he work as a teacher at the Martial Hunter College? I bet he must've gone in through the back door!"

"This newly appointment Emperor is horrible. He even joined the Purple Crow before? And faked his death to escape? I bet he was kicked out for his incompetence!"

Lin Huang did not even look at the comments on the Heart Network as he had been busy the past few days.

Within two days, Bloody and Grimace worked together and came up with brand new rules and regulations as well as a reward and punishment system based on the systems of other organizations.

Dynasty's original system was ditched while the new one was based on the Heretics' system as the framework. Many contents and details were added in after Bloody and Grimace put almost everything into consideration. Most of the added contents were based on the Hunter Association.

Lin Huang wanted to create a neutral organization similar to the Heretics but with a better system. It resembled the Hunter Association too but with more freedom and variety.

The new rules and regulations fit Lin Huang's requirements perfectly.

Apart from the rules and regulations, there was a set of policies, especially for punishments and rewards.

The set of policies was comprehensive too. One of them was the trial zone leaderboard that happened once a month. Those who ranked on top would be given different rewards. The leaderboard was set up to encourage everyone to obtain points in trial zones as much as they could.

Also, Bloody copied the Hunter Association and set up an exclusive mission zone. There would be specialists looking after the mission zone whereby people could accept and even create missions. The more difficult and higher the level of mission, the more effort the challengers needed to put in as well as the more rewards they would obtain.

Apart from that, Bloody even set up a trading market in Dynasty. There, Dynasty members could trade the extra resources they had with Royal points. They could trade Life Crystals or other items too.

After reading everything Bloody prepared, Lin Huang provided very few suggestions for amendment before sending the brand new rules and regulations and reward and punishment system to Huang Tianpu.

Initially, Huang Tianpu thought Lin Huang's new system would be strict. However, he realized there was even more freedom compared to the old Dynasty rules. He only applied some restrictions on killing. Moreover, the details of each rule and regulation were comprehensive whereby almost every possibility was listed. No thinking was needed in applying the punishment in the system since each offense stated the handling details.

If not for the traces of the Heretics and the Hunter Association's rules in the system, Huang Tianpu might have thought that Lin Huang copied this set of policies somewhere.

Meanwhile, Huang Tianpu's eyes lit up when he saw the reward and punishment system, especially the trial zone leaderboard which rewards were handsome.

He then looked at the mission zone and trading market Bloody had suggested setting up. A shiver of delight ran up his spine to see that.

He was a little worried that Lin Huang might mess things up after he was appointed. However, he realized that Dynasty would grow even stronger with all the new setup.

He gathered Huang Wunan, Huang Tufu and the other upper echelons of Dynasty for a meeting.

They spent the afternoon reading the new system Lin Huang provided thoroughly. None of them had any objections. All of them nodded and agreed to the new system.

They could not help but exclaim, "It seems like we've really found a great Emperor!"

The new system was announced right after the approval of the upper echelons. The mission zone and the trading market were set up immediately too.

As for the points leaderboard, Lin Huang linked Dynasty's leaderboard data directly and opened another leaderboard from that. The leaderboard appeared in the Emperor's Heart Ring's projected page option of all the Dynasty members.

After he was done setting up the leaderboard, he then sent the list of 11 spies and 23 psychos Bloody had compiled for him to Huang Tianpu.

He attached a note. "The 34 names on the list are all spies. Kill all of them and send their bodies to me."

Huang Tianpu only glanced at the list and knew Lin Huang wanted to take the opportunity to get rid of the spies and those who had lost their humanity altogether. He said nothing and cascaded the order down.

Before the sky turned dark, the 34 bodies were sent to the Emperor's Palace.

Lin Huang summoned the Undead Styx and refined the 34 bodies into corpse puppets right in front of the person who sent the bodies over.

The person who sent the bodies was a demigod. He was Huang Tianpu's trusted subordinate. After watching that scene, his back was drenched in cold sweat. He told Huang Tianpu about it later on in confidence and the latter only smiled about it.

"Follow what Master Emperor said and spread the news. Tell people that Master Emperor has refined 34 spies into corpse puppets."

"Spread the news… Wouldn't Master Emperor come after me?"

"No, he did it in front of you on purpose so that you would spread it out to scare those guys who are against the new system. This is why he only gave me the name list after announcing the new system." Huang Tianpu knew how Lin Huang thought.

"Understood." The person who sent the bodies nodded and left.

In less than half a day, the news of Lin Huang refining spies into corpse puppets spread through the entire Dynasty, terrifying many.

"He killed them and even refined them into corpse puppets. This new Emperor of ours is merciless!"

"I'm afraid not all 34 of them were spies!"

"It seems like Master Emperor is determined to implement the new system!"

Lin Huang nodded in satisfaction hearing that the news spread out. "Huang Tianpu and the rest support this with full enthusiasm. With the warning, I think there won't be many obstacles in implementing the new system."

Chapter 1033: Dynasty's Treasure

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

After Grimace helped Bloody with the rules and regulations as well as the reward and punishment system for Dynasty, Lin Huang fulfilled his promise and elevated Grimace with the materials and Advance Cards that he had prepared beforehand.

Looking at the golden egg protecting Grimace, Lin Huang looked at the remaining Monster Cards he had.

"Since Grimace and the rest have elevated, including Kylie, Tyrant and the rest as well as the four Bug Tribe Queen Mothers which are on mythical-level since the beginning, I have 14 summoning beasts that I can't use at the moment. Out of the monsters I can use, I only have a total of 18 imperial monsters which are Lancelot, Killer, the Evil Dominator, Thunder, the Fiend, the Imp, Warlord, Bloody, Bing Wang, the Witch, the two Dark Crescent Snakes as well as the two Titan Boas, the two Ghastly Spider Ladies and the Ghoul Lynx (excluding the thousands of Bug Servants) that I've obtained earlier. They're enough for now."

Initially, Lin Huang thought he would elevate the Viridian Wolf and the rest to make up the quota if he had insufficient imperial monsters. It seemed like there was no need to do that for the time being.

He only had 15 summoning slots. Naturally, 18 imperial monsters were enough.

However, after he gathered the materials and elevated his next batch of imperial monsters, he would have less than 15 imperial monsters to summon. It would not be too late to consider elevating the Viridian Wolf and the rest by then.

After putting the bunch of Monster Cards in his hand away, Lin Huang looked at his 32 broken Godhead Cards. He had extracted them from the demigods he had killed in the third layer of the Abyss Brink earlier.

Initially, he thought that those broken Godheads were useless. He began collecting them since the stone tablet told him that they could be refined into Life Palaces with Divine Fire.

"Old Rocky, how many broken Godheads do you think I need to refine the Life Palaces?"

"I'm not too sure about that since nobody has ever refined broken Godheads into Life Palaces before. I can't advise you if there's no historical data that I can refer to. However, I think you'll just have to use the same amount of broken Godheads to refine the same amount of Life Palaces until your body is full," said the stone tablet after a moment of silence.

"Are you sure there won't be any issues as a result?" Lin Huang was slightly skeptical after hearing that nobody had ever done that before.

"It shouldn't be a problem theoretically," added the stone tablet after it was done speaking, "But if something really happens, I can extract those broken Godheads from your body."

"Alright then." Although it sounded unreliable, Lin Huang decided to take the risk.

"If that's the case, the more I gather, the better. Dynasty's treasure hold must have quite a number of those. I must take a look."

Lin Huang contacted Huang Tianfu immediately as he thought of this. He requested to visit the treasure hold. Huang Tianfu had no objection and agreed right away.

In less than three minutes after the call ended, Huang Tianfu arrived before the Emperor's Palace. Lin Huang waved his hand to open the door while Huang Tianfu walked in.

"Aren't we going to the treasure hold?" Lin Huang was surprised.

"Our treasure isn't in Emperor City but in an alternate dimension," Huang Tianfu smiled while explaining, "Master bought it from the Royal Market especially as a coded storage space."

Lin Huang was even more astonished to hear that. There was treasure available at the Royal Market?! And it was coded?!

"So, how do we get there?"

"The entrance is approximately 3,000 meters right beneath the throne," Huang Tianfu explained further, "Master set the entrance beneath the Emperor's Palace intentionally for safety purposes."

"I can understand that." Not only was it coded, but the entrance was also located beneath the Emperor's Palace, which provided double protection.

"So, how do we get there?" he repeated his question. He understood that but he had no idea how would they go underground.

"Just give the weapon spirit of the Emperor's Palace your order directly. Tell him that you're going to the treasure hold and he'll send us there."

"I see." Lin Huang interacted with the weapon spirit immediately. "Send us to the treasure hold."

The platform under the throne experienced a tremor. Huang Tianfu stepped out and stood on the platform too.

In the next second, the entire platform began dropping rapidly like an elevator.

After over a minute of being plunged into darkness, with a resounding thud, the platform finally landed on a flatland deep underground.

Lin Huang saw massive golden doors looming less than 100 meters from the platform.

The doors were completely a dark amber shade and were approximately 10 meters tall but they were locked with golden shackles as thick as a human thigh.

"Do you have the key?" Lin Huang turned around and looked at Huang Tianfu expectantly.

"Under normal circumstances, we'd need to apply to visit 24 hours ahead. The application has to be sent by the three Grand Dukes with less than three minutes' gap in between the visits. After the application has been sent, the three of us would receive a different code. The next day after the 24 hours have passed, the three applicants would have to arrive at the entrance of the treasure hold at the same time and key in the accurate codes. The dimensional portal would verify our identities automatically, and the dimensional portal would only open if our identities are accurate. If the number of people, the identity verification or codes are inaccurate, the doors won't open.

"However, since you're the new Emperor now, all you need to do is show your Royal Token. Your identity token has bound all the authority you have with Dynasty. The coded space is a part of Dynasty too, so you have the authority. The dimensional portal will scan your identity as soon as you show your token and your entry will be granted," Huang Tianfu explained in detail.

"That's really strict!" Lin Huang could not help but tease. He then took out his Royal Token.

As soon as the token was revealed, the thousands of sigils on the amber doors began swirling rapidly. They consolidated into an eye within the span of two to three breaths.

As the eye opened, a white glow shot out and covered the token in Lin Huang's hand. The token then hovered in the air automatically.

A moment later, a golden glow darted from the token into the eye. The eye closed slowly as if it was falling asleep.

The amber doors turned to become dazzling gold as if they were fully charged. The shackles that were tied around the doors began fading one after another.

A moment after the shackles vanished, the sigils on the doors transformed again and there were now two arms on the left and the right doors respectively.

Subsequently, the doors opened slowly. They seemed to be pushed by a pair of invisible hands slowly.

As the doors opened completely, the identity token turned into a golden stream of light and landed back into Lin Huang's hand.

"Let's go!" Lin Huang put the token away and walked in slowly. Huang Tianfu followed closely behind him.

As the duo walked in single file, the doors closed again slowly. The pair of hands solidified on the doors and turned back into the sigils like before while the shackles locked the doors again.

If this throne platform did not stay in this underground space, nobody would know someone had been there before.

Chapter 1034: An Unexpected Gain

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Lin Huang was surprised to see how the treasure hold looked like as he entered the amber doors.

The alternate dimension where the treasure hold was located was very different from what he imagined.

He thought Dynasty's treasure hold was a massive warehouse when Huang Tianfu had told him that it was in an alternate dimension. In his imagination, the alternate dimension would be a space with nothing but all sorts of treasures.

However, what he saw was completely different from his thoughts.

Shiny and sophisticated palaces hovered in the air like islands in the sky. When Lin Huang gazed farther away, he saw all palaces but no treasure. It was not hard to guess that Dynasty's treasures were stored in the palaces.

'Building palaces in an alternate dimension for storage! How free was this Huang Tianyu exactly?' Lin Huang was a little speechless about Huang Tianyu's egotistic behavior.

Naturally, he did not say that in front of Huang Tianfu. After all, Huang Tianyu was not only the first Emperor, but he was also Huang Tianfu's master.

However, Huang Tianfu seemed to read Lin Huang's mind, so he explained immediately, "These palaces weren't built. Master created them in this alternate dimension purely with his imagination. As long as the owner is willing, any storage structure can be created in this alternate dimension but the storage capacity remains the same."

Lin Huang realized that he was overthinking earlier. He then changed the subject, feeling embarrassed. "There are so many palaces! Are the contents inside all different?"

"Yes. Weapons, tools, methods, elixirs, all sorts of minerals and miscellaneous items are stored separately," Huang Tianfu responded.

"Which palace stores items such as Godheads?" Lin Huang asked.

"In the Mysterious Item Palace. Some rare god items and a minority of special items that can't be categorized are stored in the Mysterious Item Palace." Huang Tianfu pointed at a palace far away. "Do we go there now?"

"There's no rush. Let's just look around since we're here." Lin Huang looked at the palace Huang Tianfu was pointing at and shifted his focus to the few palaces nearby.

"It's your first time here. It's great for you to familiarize yourself." Huang Tianfu nodded in agreement.

The duo hovered in the air and soon arrived before the first palace. The huge characters 'God Weapon Palace' were written on the sign above the entrance of the palace.

Lin Huang knew what was stored in this palace just by looking at the name.

"This palace is called the God Weapon Palace. All the weapons Dynasty has been collecting throughout the centuries are basically stored here. Sabers, spears, swords, halberds, axes, hooks… Basically, every weapon that you can think of are available here," Huang Tianfu explained, "The lowest grade of weapon that we have in here are demigod relics. There are also six god relics. In total, there are over 500 weapons in here."

"Let's take a look." Lin Huang raised a brow when he heard about the collection. A palace alone had hundreds of demigod relics and six god relics! Dynasty's collection was abundant.

"The palace doors can only be opened with your identity token," Huang Tianfu added, "If we were to open it, all three Grand Dukes need to show our Dynasty identity token at the same time."

Lin Huang took out his token and a golden glow radiated from the token and covered the entire palace doors. A moment later, a rumble echoed while the golden doors opened slowly.

He then put his token away and walked in with Huang Tianfu.

The interior of the palace was sophisticated with detailed murals on the ceiling. Clearly, Huang Tianyu had put a lot of thought into this.

Lin Huang could not help but gush over how exquisite the design of the palace was.

However, although it was a palace, its function remained the same. There were different weapons placed in separate rooms in the palace.

Sabers and swords were placed in individual rooms. The rooms for larger collections of sabers and swords were bigger while collections with lesser items were placed in smaller rooms.

Among all the weapons, the sabers occupied the biggest space. Over 60 sabers were arranged on the weapon racks one after another. There were intersecting paths in between that took up over 300 square meters of space.

The second weapon that took up the most space was the sword room. There were over 40 demigod-level battle swords.

Lin Huang did not stop at the sword room. Just like how he skimmed over the other weapons, he only peeped at the entrance and left.

What made him stay the longest was the room with telekinetic weapons. There were only four telekinetic weapons in Dynasty's treasure hold, and only one of them was in the form of a flying dagger in which he was the most interested.

Lin Huang glanced through the God Weapon Palace like he was window shopping. Apart from stopping at the room with telekinetic weapons, Lin Huang only went into the room with the six god relics.

In that room, there were two sabers, a sword, a spear, a bow, and a giant hammer.

Lin Huang only picked the sword up and took a good look at it in silence before putting it back where it was.

Lin Huang walked out of the God Weapon Palace empty-handed. He then headed to the God Armor Palace with Huang Tianfu.

"You can take the telekinetic flying dagger and god battle sword relic if you like," Huang Tianfu suggested to him as they walked out of the God Weapon Palace.

"I can't use it yet with my current combat strength. Don't worry. I won't be shy when I need it and am able to use it in the future." Lin Huang did not reveal that he already had a god relic battle and a few sets of demigod-level telekinetic flying daggers.

Huang Tianfu began to rattle an introduction off again as they walked into the God Armor Palace.

"There are four rooms in the God Armor Palace. There's one room with full demigod battle armors, one with all sorts of shields and other defense tools, one with incomplete armors and another room of god relics. There are three god relic armors, two god relic shields, and over 300 demigod-level defense tools."

Lin Huang nodded and began to look through the rooms.

He was not interested in the demigod battle armors and he merely glanced through the incomplete armors as well. Instead, he stopped at the room with the shields and other defense tools.

Apart from the shields, he saw many peculiar little items in this room. There were cloaks, rings, necklaces, bracelets, and even hair pins and hair bands.

The stone tablet spoke to him all of a sudden when he felt dizzy looking around.

"There's a blue gem on your left. It's the best item that you can take with you."

Lin Huang looked down and saw a blue gem that was around the size of his little finger in the shape of a water drop. He picked it up with two fingers and asked Huang Tianfu, "What's this?"

"We're not too sure either. We hired a couple of appraisers but none of them knew what this is. We only know that this gem can block all sorts of detective techniques."

"Do you mind if I take it back to study?"

"You can take it if you want since it's just sitting here." Huang Tianfu nodded with no expression on his face. He felt that Lin Huang probably knew what it was but he did not expose him.

Lin Huang spoke to the stone tablet quietly after putting the blue gem into his storage space, "So, what exactly is this gem? Can you tell me now?"

"It's a soul jewel that was formed naturally from spiritual energy that aligned with the Spirit Rule. The spiritual energy belonged to a dead true god-level cultivator who mastered the Spirit Rule."

Chapter 1035: The Sorcerer Goddess Awakens

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

"Can you be specific? What does this thing do?" Lin Huang was still clueless even after hearing the stone tablet's explanation.

"This item is equivalent to a natural spirit-type god relic. It's even a true god-level Spirit Rule god relic," the stone tablet proceeded to explain.

"Won't there be a True God's will remnant in there? It's a True God who mastered the Spirit Rule, so it should be easy for it to do that, shouldn't it?" Lin Huang asked rather cautiously.

"No, a soul jewel is made of spiritual energy naturally with the guidance of the Spirit Rule. The item will only be created when the spirit-type True God is completely dead. In the process of creation, the soul jewel will remove all information of the dead spirit automatically because according to the Spirit Rule, that information is just impure and redundant. The existence of a soul jewel is purely a natural spirit-type Spirit Rule god relic," the stone tablet gave an even more detailed explanation.

"This is a dream for many spirit-type true god-level powerhouses because a soul jewel is a god relic which is mainly made of Spirit Rules. It's the best Spirit Rule god relic out there whereby it boosts their attack and defense techniques by heaps!"

Lin Huang stopped walking all of a sudden when the stone tablet was halfway through his explanation. He felt Wu Mo's True God's blood in his body went through a tremor.

"Master Emperor…" Huang Tianfu was a little surprised to see Lin Huang stop walking.

"Give me a minute." Lin Huang closed his eyes while standing where he was. He was checking what was happening in his body.

Sorcerer Goddess Wu Mo's body flew out of the drop of Sorcerer Goddess's blood in his body.

She said as soon as she saw Lin Huang, "I'm feeling the aura of a soul jewel around."

"Sister Mo Mo, do you need a soul jewel?" Lin Huang was taken aback.

"Although it's not something that can restore my combat strength, I can use a soul jewel to host my consciousness. If that happens, I won't stay in a deep slumber like I always have before. Apart from that, a soul jewel doesn't only make my soul grow, but I can also use its soul power to fight for a short period of time when necessary. Although there are many techniques that I can't use as my ability might only be 1% compared to my peak, it should be helpful to you," Wu Mo explained.

"I'll give you the soul jewel then." Lin Huang took the soul jewel out from his storage space.

In the next second, Wu Mo waved her white sleeve and the soul jewel appeared in her palm.

Her body turned into gushes of white mist and penetrated the soul jewel. The drop of True God's blood also infiltrated the soul jewel.

"I'll use this soul jewel of yours for the time being." Wu Mo's chuckle that sounded like a silver bell came into his ears. Clearly, she was very thrilled about not having to sleep any longer.

"Don't worry about it. Just take it." Lin Huang thought of making the best out of this natural Spirit Rule god relic by giving it to Wu Mo since he could not use it anyway. The boss inside his body was once a powerful True God during the middle era. Although her remnant ability was less than 1%, she was not to be underestimated.

As Wu Mo penetrated the soul jewel, Lin Huang snapped back to reality and opened his eyes slowly.

"Master, is everything alright?" Huang Tianfu asked immediately.

"I'm alright. Let's carry on." Lin Huang shook his head and headed to the next room.

After spending a couple of minutes looking around the God Armor Palace, Lin Huang headed to the third palace with Huang Tianfu.

"This is Dynasty's Secret Method Palace. To put it simply, it's a library. However, all the methods and secret skills in here are at least pseudo-mythical-level, so there aren't many of them. There are only a total of over 200 methods, and only five god-level methods and secret skills."

"Are there any sword skills?" That was what Lin Huang was most interested in.

"There are one god-level sword skill and 17 pseudo-mythical-level sword skills," Huang Tianfu confirmed.

Lin Huang headed to the section where the sword skills were placed as soon as he entered the Secret Method Palace. He memorized the sword skills in his head one after another.

It was almost evening when they left the Secret Method Palace.

Lin Huang got Huang Tianfu to bring him to the palaces one after another leisurely. He even found two materials that Wu Mo needed along the way. He informed Huang Tianfu and took the materials.

Huang Tianfu said nothing about that. To him, the items that Lin Huang took were nothing compared to Dynasty's massive treasure hold.

Eventually, the duo arrived at the Mysterious Item Palace where the Godheads were.

"There are some rare god items and a minority of special items that can't be categorized in the Mysterious Item Palace. At the moment, there are over 200 items with over 70 varieties."

Lin Huang visited the rooms one after another, but he merely glanced into them without stopping.

He only stopped walking when he saw the room with a few Godheads.

"Only four Godheads?" Lin Huang frowned slightly. "How about demigods' broken Godheads?"

"We didn't collect those." Huang Tianfu shook his head and looked at Lin Huang, feeling confused. However, he explained patiently anyway, "We usually pack the broken Godheads we obtained from killing demigod-level monsters to send to trading companies together with the monster carcasses. Nobody wants that. Unlike Virtual God's Godheads, all organizations would fight for it every time it appeared."

"You guys didn't collect them?" That was out of Lin Huang's expectations. Initially, he thought broken Godheads were considered demigod-level items and that Dynasty's warehouse should have at least 70 to 80 pieces, if not 100 pieces. He was astounded to find they had none.

"Forget it. Let's call it a day." Lin Huang could only forget about not getting what he most desired.

The sky had turned completely dark when the duo got out of the treasure hold and returned to the Emperor's Palace.

Lin Huang looked at the time. It was already past 10 p.m. "You must be very exhausted after walking around with me for the entire day. Go back to rest."

"It's my job," Huang Tianfu assured while smiling.

Wu Mo peeped after Huang Tianfu left and asked rather curiously, "Why do you need demigods' broken Godheads?"

Lin Huang told Wu Mo about the plan of refining the broken Godheads into Life Palaces like what he discussed with the stone tablet.

Wu Mo voiced her opinion after listening. "It seems like the cultivation system of your era is indeed problematic. You've Divine Fire in your body, so refining broken Godheads shouldn't be a problem. On a certain level, your new way of building your foundation is very attainable. Moreover, if it's successful, there'll be a dramatic transformation in your ability. You might be as powerful as a Virtual God by then."

Lin Huang was even more determined to carry out his plan of refining broken Godheads into Life Palaces after getting Wu Mo's affirmation.

He requested to purchase broken Godheads from the black market in Sweep City and the Wanbao Auction. He also got Huang Tianfu to issue an order to collect broken Godheads.

Subsequently, he began browsing all the business section in the forums to see if anyone was selling broken Godheads and other materials that he needed.

It was almost one in the middle of the night. He only went to bed feeling helpless after his effort of browsing through all the forums was to no avail.

Chapter 1036: The Dynasty Court

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

The next morning, Lin Huang left the Emperor's Palace after washing up. He got the Divine Sun Tree to stay in the palace to guard the elevation of Grimace and the rest.

He had been busy for two days consecutively since the coronation. He finally had time to get some fresh air out there, so he asked Lin Xin and Xiao Mo to go along too.

Lin Xin had roved everywhere in the headquarters of Dynasty for the past few days while Xiao Mo stayed by her side as her bodyguard. If not for Lin Xin, Xiao Mo would have rather stayed in his room to cultivate.

The duo was more than happy to join upon hearing that Lin Huang was going to visit Emperor City.

Lin Xin was happy to head out because she had explored every cranny of Dynasty's headquarters. She would have headed out on her own within these two days if Lin Huang had not asked her along.

Meanwhile, Xiao Mo was elated because although he had agreed to be Lin Huang's bodyguard earlier, Lin Huang had been spending most of his time in the Emperor's Palace for the past few days. Even if he was not in the Emperor's Palace, Huang Tianfu and the rest would be around him. Therefore, being Lin Xin's bodyguard became his main responsibility. Now that Lin Huang was heading out, he would naturally take up the responsibility of being his bodyguard.

Apart from Lin Xin and Xiao Mo, Huang Tufu of the three Grand Dukes went along too.

As a perfect-stage demigod-level powerhouse, he had abilities that were close to a virtual god-level's. He was also the person in charge of Dynasty's guard. Now that the Emperor was crowned, he naturally became his main bodyguard.

Lin Huang had no objection about Huang Tufu coming along. Since he was familiar with Emperor City, he could use him as a tour guide.

"Which are the biggest trading companies in Emperor City at the moment?"

"The biggest one would be our own Dynasty Court at the moment. We have anything and everything. The second biggest would be the Union Government's Union Trading Company. Just like us, they sell everything. Next would be the Ouyang Clan's Divine Armor Pavilion which sells mainly weapons and defense equipment. The Li Clan's Elixir Pavilion has all sorts of elixirs while the Lu Clan's Precious Treasure Den has all sorts of peculiar miscellaneous and luxury items," Huang Tufu introduced the major trading houses in the foothold one after another.

"Let's take a look at the Dynasty Court first then. It's our own place after all." Lin Huang thought about it and decided to visit the Dynasty Court first.

"Actually, all the stores are located in the same business district, so it doesn't really matter which we go first," Huang Tufu said and took out a black dimensional portal. He opened the door after setting the coordinates.

Lin Huang and the other two walked into the door one after another. Huang Tufu only walked in after letting the three in first.

The dimensional portal closed slowly after the quad entered.

A moment later, Lin Huang and the rest of them arrived in a crowded business district as soon as they stepped out of the dimensional portal.

The crowd did not stop moving. There were people walking, flying, or riding on pets and all sorts of strange equipment.

"It's so crowded here!" Lin Huang exclaimed while smiling.

"This is the Dynasty Court's headquarters." Huang Tufu stretched his arm out and pointed at a sophisticated building that looked like a palace next to them.

Lin Huang turned his head to see a building that looked similar to the Emperor's Palace. It looked completely like a palace where a king lived.

There were four massive buildings at the crossroads. Although the three other buildings were taller, they were nothing compared to this one.

No matter who was standing at the crossroads, they would definitely lock their attention on the Dynasty Court's headquarters as soon as they gazed up.

"It's… sophisticated as usual…" Lin Huang had no idea what else to comment.

"Master Tianyu built the Dynasty Court himself. He was the one who designed this headquarters too," Huang Tufu explained.

"Let's take a look."

The two security guards at the entrance recognized Lin Huang and Huang Tufu when they arrived at the entrance.

"Master Tufu, Master Emperor."

Huang Tufu was one of the three Grand Dukes, so almost every Dynasty member had seen him before. Besides the fact that this was the Emperor City, he had also been to the Dynasty Court's headquarters more than once.

Meanwhile, Lin Huang had been appearing in all the news and media for the past few days as Emperor, hence almost all the cultivators knew how he looked like. Him being crowned as the Emperor of Dynasty had been the hot topic in all the forums on the Heart Network for the past few days.

"I'm just looking around. Don't alert anyone," Lin Huang told the two security guards.

The four of them soon blended in with the crowd as they entered the Dynasty Court.

Lin Huang was not in a rush as he browsed through the counters one after another with the three of them.

The products that took up the most space and counters were relics including weapons, defense tools, and assisting equipment. There was an impressive variety. Not only did they have everything mainstream on the market, but they even had some rare and modified models.

However, the most crowded counters were on the other side selling elixirs. Such consumables had high demand whereby people would purchase them every day. Powerhouses could use one specific relic that they had bought for decades as long as their combat strength stayed on the same level. Meanwhile, elixirs were consumed and needed to be purchased again.

Lin Huang could not help but ask Huang Tufu after seeing the large crowd at the two counters, "Why don't these customers go to the Divine Armor Pavilion and the Elixir Pavilion for relics and elixirs? Aren't they more professional when it comes to that?"

"It would be the same where you buy the default relics and usual elixirs. To prevent vicious competition, we made it compulsory for all default relics and usual elixirs to be priced the same as the market price. We sell the same thing at the same price, thus naturally, there's no need for the consumers to go to the specific stores," Huang Tufu explained.

"If that's the case, doesn't that mean the Divine Armor Pavilion and the Elixir Pavilion have no upper hand?"

"The Divine Armor Pavilion has customized relics while the Elixir Pavilion has elixirs with special functions that other stores don't. The other organizations have no way of fighting them when it comes to that, so there's no need to waste their efforts."

"I see." Lin Huang could not help but nod when he heard that. The differentiation business gave everyone the opportunity to make a living. Everyone would lose money if they viciously competed to sell the same thing at a different price. "So, what's the Dynasty Court's upper hand?"

"Firstly, the Dynasty Court is duty-free in Emperor City. It's the benefit that other organizations don't get. Secondly, we're the first trading company that has a membership system. Although we have the same price with other organizations, members can enjoy promotions which were the unique selling point in the beginning. Thirdly, we've got a comprehensive selection. Apart from some special modification requirements, we basically have everything the customers need," Huang Tufu explained in detail.

Lin Huang nodded after hearing about the Dynasty Court's modus operandi. He proceeded to visit the remaining counters.

However, he had no idea that he was being targeted by a pair of bloody eyes as soon as he stepped out of Dynasty's headquarters.

Chapter 1037: Why Don't You Get Out First

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Wei Shan wore a pair of sunglasses and walked casually around the store across the Dynasty Court.

He looked many times smaller than his initial body after the disguise. He was only 1.8 meters tall with a skinny frame. He was disguised as someone inconspicuous to avoid people noticing him because he must stay low-key before completing something.

Since Lin Huang killed him three years ago for kidnapping Lin Xin, he had been thinking of taking revenge every second for the past three years. The hatred he bore for Lin Huang grew by the day.

For three full years, his soul had been stuck in a skull. Apart from being able to speak, he almost could do nothing else. He could not drink or eat, move, let alone flirt with women.

His soul finally shifted to this spirit's body after it was restored a few months ago.

This body was much more powerful than what Wei Shan expected.

He knew that this virtual god-level body was one of the most precious collections his mother had. He heard it had been excavated from a grade-6 war site.

The God's corpse had signs of preliminary decomposition when it was found and was turning into a spirit. Fortunately, his mother disconnected the consciousness by force before it could form entirely. She then made it into a puppet and put it into her collection.

Wei Shan had to beg her many times to use this most powerful item to become his body.

Since obtaining this body, apart from familiarizing with his body every day and doing some check-ups with his mother for the past few months, he had been collecting information about Lin Huang. However, Lin Huang seemed to have vanished over a year ago, so he could not find any information about him. His sister Lin Xin also went missing even earlier than Lin Huang did.

Three days ago, Wei Shan finally saw the face that he had never forgotten for the past three years in the headlines on the Heart Network.

The hatred that had been expanding every second for the past three years finally exploded completely.

Although Lin Huang had become the high and mighty Emperor of Dynasty while his mother advised him to be patient again and again, his hatred and rage crested when he saw Lin Huang's face. There was nothing else in his head apart from revenge.

As soon as he escaped from his mother's institution, he contacted Old Huang that his mother had hired to be his bodyguard earlier. He had no idea who else he could trust.

Fortunately, Old Huang did not betray him. Instead, he arranged a disguise demigod relic for him and got someone to put him in a pet enclosure, sneaking him into the Emperor City in Division 1.

However, Wei Shan had no idea that it was not Old Huang who had arranged all that for him. It was someone else.

Wei Shan had been lurking around Dynasty's headquarters for the past two days since he got into Emperor City.

No one in Dynasty was alerted to his existence since the Emperor had just been crowned and many organizations had assigned many spies around Dynasty's headquarters. The number of tourists was also a few folds compared to before.

Wei Shan had been squatting at the entrance of Dynasty's headquarters for two days when he finally saw Lin Huang coming out early in the morning.

As Lin Huang and the rest stepped into the dimensional portal, he used his Divine Telekinesis and soon found out their destination coordinates. Then, he followed them secretly.

'Two bodyguards, one perfect-stage demigod-level and one imperial-level purple gold-level. That perfect-stage demigod-level one guy is tough, but I don't have to fight him. I'll just make him stay back. Then, I can kill Lin Huang and his sister as long as I've bought myself a moment.' Wei Shan began visualizing the fight in his head and planned it out quietly. He would attack as soon as Lin Huang and the rest came out of the Dynasty Court.

Lin Huang had no idea that he had been targeted.

After walking around the Dynasty Court, Lin Huang bought nothing else apart from a modified DevilEagle17 for Lin Xin.

He bought a demigod relic for Xiao Mo earlier, so there was no need to purchase any other equipment.

Lin Huang asked the staff when he arrived at the miscellaneous items counter, "Do you have any demigods' broken Godheads?"

The staff was stunned for a moment and subsequently shook his head. "No. Broken Godheads have very low profit. Our Dynasty Court usually doesn't take in such a product. Even if our staff has it, we'd sell it to the Lu Clan's Precious Treasure Pavilion directly. It'll be sold at a much more expensive price after the Lu Clan has made it into decor while we take a commission from their sales."

The staff noticed that Lin Huang looked rather familiar after answering him. Subsequently, he saw Huang Tufu standing behind Lin Huang and recognized the duo right away. He almost shouted out loudly while widening his eyes.

"Don't you dare yell. Don't alert anyone," Lin Huang said to him through voice transmission.

"Master Emperor, Master Tufu…"

"We're just looking around. Go on now." Lin Huang nodded and turned around with Lin Xin and the rest in an attempt to leave.

"Master Emperor, you can tell me directly if you need broken Godheads. I can get someone to purchase them from other trading companies."

"I know. I've already told Tianfu that. I'm just out walking around and see if there's any," Lin Huang nodded. "We're almost done with the Dynasty Court now. Let's go to the next one. Which trading company is the closest to the Dynasty Court?"

"That would be the Union Trading Company," Huang Tufu said immediately, "The Union Trading Company is just close to the Dynasty Court. Their main branch in the Emperor City is just on the right."

"Let's go to the Union Trading Company then!" Lin Huang walked to the entrance with them.

Before he arrived at the entrance, the Nightmare Tapir in his body spoke to him through voice transmission, "There's someone with intense hostility against you outside. You might be attacked as soon as you step out."

Lin Huang raised a brow. He could not believe that someone would dare to attack him in the Emperor City, even more so when Huang Tufu was just next to him.

He stood where he was and turned his head to say to Lin Xin, "Xin Er, go get me a drink. Get me the one that you told me about that's tasty. We'll wait for you at the entrance."

"Oh…" Although Lin Xin was surprised, she agreed to it right away.

As soon as Lin Xin left, Lin Huang signaled Xiao Mo, commanding him to follow her.

"Let's go. We'll wait at the entrance." Lin Huang and Huang Tufu then walked out of the Dynasty Court.

Lin Huang sensed a killing intent materialize, charging at him as soon as he stepped out of the door.

Huang Tufu sensed something off almost at the same time. He stepped out and blocked the front of Lin Huang.

A black silhouette appeared in a flash in the next second and collided with Huang Tufu.

An explosion blasted out at the same time as if tens of thousands of thunders struck while ripples of energy waves followed. They spread toward all directions like ripples on the surface of the water.

The marketplace had barriers set up, so the people in the marketplace were not affected at all, but it was a different story for the people on the streets.

Almost everyone was killed when their organs exploded as the ripples of energy waves spread out.

Naturally, the Ninetails Lynx pulled Lin Huang into its alternate dimension as soon as that happened.

Huang Tufu looked extremely terrible. The person had attacked so swiftly that he did not have enough time to charge the Divine Power in his body. He absorbed the attack filled with the Divine Power the person had been charging by force.

He only braced the attack for a moment, then his body completely drowned in the person's bloody Divine Power. He then plummeted underground like a cannon.

"This guy is pretty powerful!" It was not difficult for Lin Huang to guess that the person should be a virtual god-level powerhouse. Although his combat strength was not on virtual god-level, his ability should be on par with virtual god-level.

"Get the hell out, Lin Huang!" Wei Shan looked around and realized that Lin Huang was already gone. Naturally, he was not naive enough to think that Lin Huang had been killed by the impact earlier.

A silhouette appeared slowly at the entrance of the Dynasty Court.

The young man had a little white cat sitting on the right of his shoulder and a tiger with a long trunk on his left. There was a little elephant whose body was less than two meters long blocking his front.

"Why don't you get out first?" Lin Huang grinned.

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Chapter 1038: Did You Mistake Me for Someone Else?

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

"Lin Huang, do you remember me?" Wei Shan removed his sunglasses and transformed into how he looked like three years ago using the demigod relic. He wanted to see Lin Huang's reaction upon realizing he had come back alive.

"I'm sorry. I really don't remember who you are." Lin Huang shook his head right away without hesitation. He faintly thought that he had seen that face before, but he did not bother to try to recall who that person was.

He was the Emperor now, so every cultivator in the world had seen his face. It was normal if rivals from some organization came for him since he had offended quite a number of them before.

"You bastard!" Wei Shan was so mad at how Lin Huang responded.

He had been missing Lin Huang all day and all night for the past three years. He thought Lin Huang would recognize him as soon as he showed up today. Never had he thought that he would not remember who he was at all!

He felt like he had swung his fist with all of his might but all he punched was nothing but thin air.

"You're lying. You'd definitely remember me! My name is Wei Shan!" Wei Shan shouted his name to Lin Huang unwillingly.

"That name…" Lin Huang frowned a little and thought about it. Subsequently, he lifted his head and looked at the person. "I'm sure your name doesn't ring a bell. Did you mistake me for someone else?"

"You…" Wei Shan was so irate he almost puked blood.

'Mistake you for someone else?! Your name has been on my mind every second for the past three years, how could I possibly mistake you for someone else?!' he thought to himself.

"If you have mistaken me, I suggest you figure it out properly before you go looking for the right person," Lin Huang added.

"Again, how could I possibly mistake you for someone else?! Three years ago, I kidnapped your sister on the Demonic Crystal Spaceship in Division 7. Then, you summoned your imperial monster to kill me. My soul has been trapped in a soul-fostering device for the past three years. I spent every day and every night thinking about how to take revenge on you. Your face would appear in my head whenever I closed my eyes every day. I'd recognize you even if you turned into ashes. How is it possible that I mistook you for someone else?!"

"I remember it now that you said that." Lin Huang finally recalled who the person was after his detailed reminder. "You're the pedophile that I killed three years ago!"

Wei Shan looked extremely terrible. Although his target recalled who he was, he was no different from a pedestrian to Lin Huang apart from being a pedophile.

The intention to kill was rising in Lin Huang's body after verifying the person's identity. "I killed you three years ago and I can kill you today too! I won't hold back since you sent yourself all the way here."

The Destructive Divine Mammoth swung its trunk as soon as Lin Huang was done speaking, initiating the fight.

"Aren't you embarrassed to show an imperial-level summoning beast off before me?!" Disdain filled Wei Shan's face upon seeing the Destructive Divine Mammoth attack.

Its trunk swept like a giant pillar in the air. Even the air where the giant lead-colored pillar solidified from Life Power became a vacuum when it passed by.

The disdain on Wei Shan's face soon turned into fear after sensing the impact from the attack. He attempted to run but it was too late, so he could only stand in a defensive position and bore the attack forcefully.

Bang!

The trunk slammed into Wei Shan, creating an intense explosion.

The impact of the attack was even more powerful than the attack Wei Shan had sneakily launched on Huang Tufu earlier.

At the moment of collision, a circle of lead-colored energy wave spread like a ripple. The entire business district shook under the attack.

Half of Emperor City could feel a clear tremor as strong winds blew in Emperor City's streets and alleys, forcing countless of people to take cover in buildings.

Wei Shan only felt an invincible, massive power overwhelming him the moment he was hit.

His body that was comparable with a Virtual God's never experienced any damages throughout the hundreds of tests for the past few months.

However, his left arm that he used to defend the attack with was completely crushed. The bones in his forearm were smashed into at least ten pieces while his upper arm was fractured too.

Not only was his entire arm was broken now, but even his left chest had taken a certain level of impact.

He fractured a couple of ribs on the left, and his organs were jarred as well.

If his body had only been on demigod-level, the blow might have taken his life.

Wei Shan staggered hundreds of meters back as he gaped at the Destructive Divine Mammoth with fear on his face.

"What exactly is this thing? Its combat strength is only on imperial-level purple gold-rank, but how is it so powerful?!"

As the Destructive Divine Mammoth's attack shot Wei Shan away, Huang Tufu, who was sent into the ground, clambered out of the rubble.

Although he stumbled clumsily, he did not seem hurt.

"Damn you, sneaky assaulter!" Huang Tufu looked ferociously at Wei Shan with a battle sword in his hand. This person had embarrassed him before the newly appointed Emperor!

Lin Huang called out to him when he was going to fight Wei Shan, "Maybe you should just watch."

Huang Tufu noticed that Wei Shan's left arm was distorted in an abnormal way. However, soon he was not looking at them at all. Instead, he was staring at the little elephant not far away from him.

'Wait, what's that?'

Huang Tufu was stunned when he saw the little elephant. Subsequently, he noticed another two animals around Lin Huang. There were a white cat and a normal-sized tiger with sharp teeth and a trunk.

'Are those Master Emperor's imperial monsters?' He recalled that Lin Huang's profile stated that he was an Imperial Censor.

Huang Tufu also did not recognize that those were merely Combat Souls because Lin Huang's Combat Souls had the body of God Figurines whereby they looked just like ordinary living things. They were completely different from the ordinary Combat Souls.

The Destructive Divine Mammoth did not plan to let him go just yet after the successful blow. It chose to launch its winning strike again.

This time, Wei Shan was fully aware. His left arm was healed in the blink of an eye, but that did not mean he could hurt himself again carelessly since recovering would drain his Divine Power.

The Destructive Divine Mammoth swung its trunk again. This time, Wei Shan's hands turned into bloody sharp claws that mauled at the elephant trunk.

All of a sudden, the trunk turned into a divine whip. Its offense became more flexible and agile.

Wei Shan's sharp claws tore black lines in the air and collided with the trunk again and again.

The duo collided up to a thousand times within the span of a couple of breaths.

The entire Emperor City could hear deafening bangs that were thousands of times louder than thunder. Almost all the buildings in the city felt the tremors that seemed like an earthquake rumbling.

Lin Huang was enjoying the duo's battle in the beginning. However, he soon noticed that buildings were collapsing far away. He realized that letting the two powerhouses that were comparable with Virtual Gods fight inside Emperor City was not a wise move. Not all the buildings were protected with a barrier like those in the business district.

"You're up. Don't waste any time," Lin Huang ordered the Nightmare Tapir.

Chapter 1039: Travel A Thousand Miles to Bestow A Head, A Small Gift May Be A Token of Profound Friendship

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

If they were not in the city, Lin Huang was more than happy to watch the Destructive Divine Mammoth's brutal fight with Wei Shan. After all, a battle between powerhouses that were comparable with Virtual Gods was rare.

However, many buildings collapsed and civilians were killed just as they were at the beginning of the battle. If they went on, nobody knew how many more people in Emperor City would die.

Therefore, Lin Huang got the Nightmare Tapir to join the battle to get it over with as soon as possible.

Under normal circumstances, people who were experts at close combat would be weak when it came to soul battle. Since the Destructive Divine Mammoth managed to strike him within a short period of time, it meant there was a high possibility that he would be controlled by the Nightmare Tapir.

Naturally, the Nightmare Tapir knew that too. It nodded after hearing Lin Huang's order. It took a step out and swung its trunk while releasing a deafening shriek.

An invisible sound wave spread out up to a hundred times faster than the speed of sound. It reached Wei Shan in the blink of an eye.

Wei Shan had his guard up when he saw the Nightmare Tapir moving all of a sudden. However, the sound wave swept him up in the next second. Halting abruptly, he was unable to move.

"What's happening? He's hit just like that?" Lin Huang was stunned to see that. "Isn't this guy a Virtual God?"

Initially, Lin Huang thought of getting the Nightmare Tapir to join the battle merely to interfere with Wei Shan's battling rhythm.

However, Wei Shan was pulled into dreamland as soon as the Nightmare Tapir charged at him. He completely lost his battle strength.

"His soul is weak. It just reached imperial-level purple gold-rank," the Nightmare Tapir explained, "I suspect he took over this consciousness-less body with his soul by force.

"Why is he not moving?" Huang Tufu had confusion written all over his face.

"Maybe something went wrong with his body." Lin Huang gave a feeble excuse.

At that moment, Wei Shan's disguise was removed since he fell into the dreamland. He regained his bruised corpse look again.

Huang Tufu was completely shocked when he saw him turning into a monster. "I don't think it's as simple as something having gone wrong with his body!"

Even Lin Huang looked lost. "Wait, what?"

He even suspected it might be an unknown side effect of being dragged into the Nightmare Tapir's dreamland at first.

"This should be how he really looks like. Since I pulled his consciousness into my dreamland, it caused the demigod relic that he was using to lose its function and it retreated back into his body," the Nightmare Tapir explained.

"I can't believe he turned into a monster!" Lin Huang thought it was unbelievable. It was hard for him to imagine what exactly this guy had gone through for the past three years.

As Lin Huang was watching Wei Shan with Huang Tufu, Wu Mo, who was in Lin Huang's body, peeped her head out of the soul jewel. "Can you give me this monster's body?"

"Sure, I can't do anything else to it apart from selling it anyway."

This bruised corpse was obviously on virtual god-level. Since the Undead Styx could not resurrect it, there was no reason for keeping it.

"Although this body is much weaker compared to a true god-level body, it shouldn't be a problem to use it as a host for a short period of time," Wu Mo explained the purpose of her wanting the bruised corpse, "I can use it for the time being so that I won't have to stay in your body."

"When I've gathered all the materials for my own body, I'll make this corpse into a puppet for you. That will be my rental dues," Wu Mo declared while smiling. She was a Sorcerer Dao True God, so making puppets was a piece of cake to her.

"Sure." Lin Huang accepted that suggestion right away.

Meanwhile, Wei Shan was in a tough fight in the dreamland.

The little elephant could almost suppress him, and now there was another tiger with sharp teeth and a trunk.

Every time the tiger mauled with its sharp claws, it was powerful enough to tear through anything. Although Wei Shan had a terrifying defensive ability, the Nightmare Tapir managed to lacerate deep wounds on his body, exposing his bones whenever he mauled.

There were more and more wounds on Wei Shan's body as the two God Figurine's Combat Souls worked together. The Divine Power in his body was draining rapidly and even the speed of his body recovery had dropped significantly.

Wei Shan managed to hold on for a whole day and night. Eventually, he was out of Divine Power.

"Why is God doing this to me?! I came back alive after three torturous years just to take revenge on him. Why is God treating him so well, giving him such powerful imperial monsters?!" He knelt on the ground while complaining about his horrible destiny.

"There's no other reason than that you deserve to die!" Nobody knew when Lin Huang appeared less than ten meters before Wei Shan. "Also, allow me to correct you. They're not 'some' imperial monsters. They're my combat souls."

The Destructive Divine Mammoth stomped its feet as soon as Lin Huang was done speaking.

Wei Shan's body turned into dust right away and was blown away with the wind.

While the tough battle in dreamland went on for a whole day, only less than a minute had passed in reality.

Lin Huang even took the time to enter dreamland to witness Wei Shan's final death.

The bruised corpse who was standing there was losing his vital signs quickly. Before Lin Huang managed to put him away, a blue glow shot out between his brows. In the next second, Wu Mo dragged the bruised corpse into Lin Huang's body.

Lin Huang shook his head while smirking. "She's so impatient."

"So, that guy died just like that?!" In shock, Huang Tufu sensed Wei Shan's vital signs fading all of a sudden too.

He peeped at the Nightmare Tapir and the Ninetails Lynx, faintly sensing that this should have something to do with the two monsters.

He shivered fearfully at Lin Huang. He knew very well how powerful that monster Wei Shan was, but Lin Huang had destroyed him like a piece of cake.

"Do a calculation on how many houses were damaged and how many people died." Lin Huang had no idea what Huang Tufu was thinking as he turned his head to speak to him, "Compensate those who have families. As for those who have none, arrange their burials."

"Sure, I'll get it done." Huang Tufu obeyed immediately.

If he had merely been fearful of Lin Huang's identity earlier, he was beginning to fear Lin Huang as a person.

He only had a combat strength of immortal-level, but he had techniques to kill a Virtual God. It was a little hard for him to imagine how terrifying he would be in the future.

"Also, whatever you saw today, just let it be. I don't want the media to spread the word out," Lin Huang ordered him, "Exposing my ability is a small matter but Dynasty will become a public target. It's bad for Dynasty's development in the long run."

Huang Tufu figured that he had to think of a way to muffle this incident too. If Lin Huang's true ability was really exposed, everyone would know that Dynasty had an Emperor who had ridiculous abilities. By then, many organizations might collaborate to fight Dynasty because no organization would hope to have a second Union Government in this continent to suppress them.

Chapter 1040: The Grandmistress' Identity

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Lin Huang was in too glum a mood to even look at the destroyed buildings and houses not far away from the business district. There were even devastating cries echoing faintly. Needless to say, Lin Xin and Xiao Mo lost their moods as well.

After ordering Huang Tufu to take care of the damages, Lin Huang got Xiao Mo to bring Lin Xin back to Dynasty's headquarters ahead of time.

Meanwhile, he summoned the Warlord and got him to engineer thousands of robots with no combat ability to be involved in the rescue work.

Not long later, many Dynasty members from the headquarters came to the rescue.

Apart from Dynasty, the Union Government armies who were guarding Emperor City, the Hunter Association and the Adventurer Paradise's branches, as well as two local families, came to help with some other Royalties.

Emperor City was Dynasty's territory, so it would be understandable even if these organizations did not help when something happened to the city. However, they decided to help and got involved in the rescue without hesitation.

The rescue went on for a whole day. Basically, everyone who was still alive was rescued the very next morning.

Above all, the Warlord's robots played a big part in the rescue operation.

Some underground areas that human could not access were examined by the robot dogs the Warlord had made. They dug holes to lead the people out after they were rescued. The robots he made came with civil structure knowledge so they could analyze possible collapse sites and safe zones, and subsequently find the suitable route for excavation.

"Master, the rescue work is almost done now. You should head back to rest." Huang Tianfu came as soon as he was done with his errands yesterday. He stayed with Lin Huang for the entire night.

"That's right. Go back to rest. We will monitor the follow-up work," Huang Tufu assured in agreement.

"Sure, thanks for helping with the rest," Lin Huang expressed.

The rescue work was basically done, so what remained would be the rebuilding. However, that would take time to complete.

"Tufu, follow Master Emperor back," Huang Tianfu turned and ordered Huang Tufu who recalled that he possessed the identity of a bodyguard.

After recalling the Warlord into card form, Lin Huang followed Huang Tufu back to Dynasty's headquarters.

Lin Xin came to him as soon as he returned. "Brother, how's the rescue work?"

"It's pretty smooth. We've basically rescued all the survivors. There are no other incidents such as further collapsing."

"I'd like to help," Lin Xin suggested. She wanted to stay to help yesterday, but she did not interrupt upon seeing that everyone was busy, including her brother.

Lin Huang fell into silence for a moment. "You can go but don't give anyone any trouble. You must know that this isn't a game. Also, ask those who know when you aren't sure about something. Don't be reckless."

Lin Huang agreed to let her help because the rescue work was basically done. Even if she were to make a mistake, there were no major consequences. Moreover, it was a great opportunity to train Xiao Mo who had grown up in the Purple Crow.

"Understood!" Lin Xin left joyfully after getting Lin Huang's explicit permission.

Xiao Mo followed her immediately.

The first thing Lin Huang did when he returned to the Emperor Palace was to summon the Nightmare Tapir again. He got the Nightmare Tapir to share Wei Shan's memory with Bloody.

Apart from a disguise demigod relic, Wei Shan had nothing valuable on him, not even an Emperor's Heart Ring. In reality, he could not even activate an Emperor's Heart Ring in his monster form.

However, what Lin Huang wanted the most were not the treasures on him, but the memories in his head.

He clearly remembered that fatty Yin Hangyi's death two years ago was related to the Grandmistress behind Wei Shan.

The so-called Grandmistress sent Lily to kill him. In the end, fatty suffered the undeserved tragic consequences and was killed by her.

Lin Huang always remembered that. He thought it would be difficult to find out who the mastermind behind it was since Lily died. Never had he expected Wei Shan to send himself here this time.

It only took a moment for the Nightmare Tapir to complete the sharing of Wei Shan's memories.

"How is it? Is there anything about the Grandmistress in his memory?" Lin Huang asked immediately after seeing Bloody open its eyes.

"Yes, the Grandmistress you're talking about is Wei Shan's birth mother," Bloody clarified while smiling, "Also, I found a lot of unexpected information in his memory."

"Unexpected information?" Lin Huang could not help but raise his brow. Now, he was even more eager to know Wei Shan's background.

"Apart from being the head of the Wei Clan in Division 2, Wei Shan's mother, who is the Grandmistress, has another identity…" Bloody paused to pique Lin Huang's interest before proceeding to speak, "She is God Bless's God's Messenger!"

"She's one of the four God's Messengers?!" Lin Huang's eyes flew wide open.

God's Messenger was the position after the Master God in God Bless. Also, there were only four God's Messengers in the entire God Bless.

According to the discussion Lin Huang had with Bloody earlier, they were almost sure that God Bless's four God's Messengers were possibly virtual god-level powerhouses.

After verifying Wei Shan's mother's identity, Lin Huang considered that Wei Shan's enhanced combat strength that came out of nowhere and his turning into a monster was not odd.

After all, God Bless's Master God most probably came from the great world. Perhaps Wei Shan's mother acquired the technique of fusing his soul into the monster's body from the Master God.

"Looking at Wei Shan's memories, his mother mainly manages the entire God Bless's finance," Bloody continued, "The Wei Clan, the biggest merchant in Division 2, became God Bless's money laundering tool since centuries ago. Furthermore, under the leadership of Wei Shan's mother, almost all of the outstanding Wei Clan descendants joined God Bless. The rest pretty much became God Bless's outer members even if they didn't join the organization officially."

"So, you're saying we'll be getting handsome loots soon?" Lin Huang could not help but smirk after hearing that.

"It might be a little difficult for you to fight the Wei Clan directly. The Wei Clan only has two demigods on the surface, but in reality, they already have five and all of them are on perfect-stage demigod-level. Apart from that, Wei Shan's mother has an unfathomable housekeeper who is at least on perfect-stage demigod-level.

"Meanwhile, Wei Shan's mother's ability is even more powerful than his. We're almost sure that she's on at least Virtual God rank-2 or even Virtual God rank-3."

"So, that's three Virtual Gods and six perfect-stage demigod-level. This bunch is rather powerful indeed, but I should be able to handle them." Lin Huang made some simple calculations and thought it should not be a problem for him to handle them.

"The Wei Clan's ability isn't the biggest obstacle. Instead, it's the Union Government," Bloody voiced its concern. "The Wei Clan is located in No. 2A1 foothold of Fengtian City in Division 2. It's also where the Union Government's headquarters in Division 2 is located. The Union Government office building is just less than 30 kilometers away from the Wei Clan."