The Purgatory Pillar and the Eternal Night Pillar

"No one has ever killed my people in front of me, Yana" the Lord of Blood replied.

"You're only willing to pay to kill people, not to save them, and you're blaming me for that?" Yana chuckled.

The Lord of Blood glanced at the two of them: "Very well, you might not know, but everything in Purgatory has changed. I swear, you'll know what I'm capable of sooner or later"

"Come to Eternal Night if you dare, I'll be waiting for you" Yana didn't back down.

"Just you wait!"

The Blood Lord uttered these harsh words, and his blurry figure instantly dissipated into a bloody mist.

He had left.

Yana stood still, calmed herself down, then turned to the Clown.

"Quite a lively chat" the Clown giggled.

"That idiot dared to try and take advantage of me, I don't know if it's because he's stupid, or because I'm so easy to bully" Yana spoke in a low voice.

"Wait until I become a bit stronger" the Clown replied.

Yana waved her hand at him: "Speaking of becoming stronger, give me all the Cards you have first"

"Ah"

The Clown handed over all the Cards he found on the hyena boss' body.

Yana put away the stack of dead, organs, and soul-type cards and said: "Some people think that the more cards they have, the better, but that's not the case. For example, these cards, they don't match your 'Joy' deck at all"

"So?" the Clown asked.

Yana chanted an incantation, causing the black whip in her hand to turn into a snake that bit down on the Card depicting the three hyenas.

Bam!

The Card turned into white mist.

The three hyenas came out from the mist, carefully crouching in front of the two of them.

One of the hyenas said: "We"

The second hyena said: "Wrong choice"

The third hyena said: "Master"

They lowered their heads.

"Don't try that, those guys are all dead, but I didn't see any Profession Cards, so they must be on you. Give me the full Hyena Profession Cards first" Yana coldly told them.

The three hyenas dejectedly put a stack of Cards in front of the Clown.

There were a total of 9 Cards in this stack, each of which depicted a hyena with a different expression.

The clown glanced at the cards and spread them open, revealing a complete pack of hyenas in front of him.

Some hyenas were in charge of probing, some were in charge of guarding, some were in charge of attacking, some were in charge of defending, and some were in charge of harassing …

"How interesting." The clown laughed.

"This set of cards is quite special. You can devour them and use them to improve your Profession" Yana said.

Clown nodded.

In fact, he could tell that Hyena's most valuable cards were this set of class cards and the Servant Divinity card.

As an existence that ate human flesh, Boss Hyena's other cards really didn't match him.

"Then … devour."

The clown said softly.

Lines of burning text quickly appeared in the void of space:

[As per your wish, Hyena (Profession Card) is being consumed by Clown (Profession Card, rare)]

Whoosh

The nine cards instantly turned into blazing flames and were quickly burned to ashes.

Liu Ping took out his clown card and looked at it.

The color of blood on the clown card was becoming brighter and brighter, as if it had been soaked in an endless pool of blood, making it exceptionally heavy.

The back of the card now had a few extravagant patterns and lines, while the clown on the front also seemed to have undergone some sort of indescribable change.

"Do I really have to wait until a Title appears for the card to be considered to have successfully evolved?" the clown asked.

Yana replied: "Your card's Title right now is Clown. After it evolves, it might become a Clown with a unique Title, or it might become a completely different Title"

"Remember, a Title is the name of your Profession, it contains boundless power of Laws, capable of transforming other cards into its own Profession"

The clown put his Profession card away and turned his gaze back to the three hyenas.

"Greetings, our new master" the first hyena bowed and greeted him.

The clown crouched down and looked at the three hyenas: "Don't be in such a hurry to greet me. You reek of human flesh, did you just eat it today?" the clown asked.

"You can smell it?" the hyena was surprised.

"I'm a bit sensitive to this sort of thing, since I've already eaten it before, just answer my question" the clown said.

"That's right, we eat it every day" the first hyena replied.

"If you don't like it, we won't eat it from now on" the second hyena said.

"But we need the power of the soul, please feed us with your soul" the third hyena said.

The clown clapped his hands: "Whoa, how cute, please return to the card for now, thank you"

Bam!

The three hyenas turned back into a card.

"What are they?" the clown asked.

Yana explained: "They are an extremely rare race from Purgatory, they naturally know how to enslave souls and enjoy eating living beings"

"Are they useful to us?" the Clown asked.

"They are Servant Divinity, as well as your slaves, you can easily order them to become your three guard dogs" Yana replied.

The Clown scowled.

"Alright, if you don't want such guards, you can also use them to increase your strength. When a Card User becomes stronger, as a Servant Divinity, I will also become stronger" Yana told him.

"Got it"

The Clown stared closely at the Card and thought of something.

Devour!

The entire card instantly shattered like glass, and one could faintly hear the cries of the three hyenas.

Their faint images appeared in the air and spoke in unison: "Clown, I curse you, you will definitely die in the next Card Master war!"

The Clown sighed: "I'm only eating, just like how you eat human flesh and souls, please stay calm"

The three faint images couldn't maintain their forms any longer and scattered, turning into faint strands of light that circled the Clown's body without dispersing.

The Clown took out his Profession Card.

The faint strands of light quickly flew towards the Profession Card and went inside.

The Profession Card slowly became blurry.

The Clown tried to see the changes on the Card, but found that his surroundings had completely disappeared.

"You want to …"

Yana's shocked voice could be heard, but also quickly disappeared from his ears, as if it had been cut off.

The Clown blankly looked around.

He realized that he was standing in an endless fog, and there was nothing around him.

Suddenly, lines of burning words appeared in his mind:

[Your Profession Card has received enough power, it has brought you to the final stage before your advancement]

[Your Servant Divinity is currently on her way here, she will explain the current situation to you in detail]

At the very next moment.

Yana silently appeared next to the Clown.

The mask on her face had already been removed, revealing a pair of beautiful golden eyes. She was currently sizing up the clown.

"What's going on?" the Clown asked.

Yana muttered: "After consuming the Blood Knight and Hyena Profession Cards, as well as a 'Three Hyena' Servant Divinity 'Card, you've left the ranks of a trainee and will soon be recognized by the infinite Laws"

"You will need to make a choice"

"Choose what?" Clown asked.

As soon as he finished speaking, the surrounding fog began to disperse rapidly.

Amidst the boundless darkness, a gigantic heaven-reaching divine pillar appeared.

The Clown and Yana floated in front of the giant pillar like duckweed floating in the vast ocean. They couldn't be compared to the pillar at all.

One end of this giant pillar was deep into the darkness below, and its end could not be seen. The other end was straight up into the sky, and its end could not be seen either.

On the pillars, there were all kinds of carvings, pictures, and words, none of which the clown could understand.

"This is the dividing line of the Divine Pillars … I haven't seen this scene in a long time." Yana sighed.

"Dividing line?" The clown observed the towering pillar in front of him.

In front of him and Yana, the Divine Pillar was split into two parts. The part facing upwards was enveloped in endless flames, with chains coiled around the Divine Pillar one after another. From time to time, screams could be heard coming from the void.

As for the divine pillar that led to the bottom, it was shrouded in endless darkness. There was no sound at all, nor were there any chains or anything like that. There were only countless statues that depicted all sorts of existences. All of these existences had their eyes closed as if they had fallen into an eternal slumber.

"Liu Ping" Yana changed the way she addressed him, her expression became serious: "Regarding your Profession and Card Deck, it's time to choose the direction of your growth"

"What do you mean?" Liu Ping asked.

"The way we Card Masters grow is different from mortals"

"The Divine Pillar that leads upwards is called the 'Purgatory Divine Pillar'. If you choose this path, your cards will be formed by the laws of Purgatory, and you will have the opportunity to go to Purgatory in the future. As long as you continue to grow stronger, you will eventually become a God who controls the laws, or a Devil King who enslaves all living things, or even go to the void or even other worlds"

Yana continued: "The Divine Pillar that leads downwards is called the 'Eternal Night Divine Pillar'. In the eternal night, there are endless existences and unknown powers. If you desire to become the Summoner of Heroic Spirits, the best friend of silence and darkness, the explorer of endless knowledge and secrets, then choose this path, they will choose and form cards for you"

Liu Ping stood in the void and thought for a moment.

"We saw that the people from Purgatory always hunted slaves from the eternal night, and the Lady Agony even enslaved a world and chose cards from it. If that's the case, the eternal night shouldn't be as strong as Purgatory, right?" He asked.

"Everyone has their own strengths, and the truth isn't what you think. Whether it's the Lord of Blood or the Lady of Agony, they aren't considered strong in Purgatory" Yana said.

"Stealing a world doesn't count as strong?" Liu Ping asked.

"Yes, they only dare to do such things secretly, but they definitely don't dare to go deep into the eternal night and face the endless Heroic Spirits and unknown existences"

After saying that, Yana retreated to the side and silently looked at him.

Liu Ping thought for a moment, then suddenly laughed: "My world has been completely destroyed, and everyone is being controlled as dead … Actually, I've long wanted to stand against those Gods"

"So you chose the Eternal Night Divine Pillar?"

"Yes"

As soon as he said that, Liu Ping lost his footing, and his entire body fell into the darkness below.

The fog around him didn't go away.

The cold wind whistled non-stop.

On the Eternal Night divine Pillar, countless sleeping statues opened their eyes at the same time, quietly looking at him.