Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
That figure emerging in the air that looked like a demon god was none other than Zhang Lisheng.
After realizing that they had exposed his track, between escaping and launching immediate and preemptive strikes, the young man chose the second option. He took the initiative to attack King Rat who first showed maliciousness to himself, baffling all the Darkwalkers in the underground palace with his powerful strength.
Of course, to these evil people walking in the darkness, who mastered superhuman strength, their bafflement would not last long if the strength they witnessed was not an absolute repressive power.
Knowing this, when Zhang Lisheng had shown himself, he immediately said with a smile, “Your Lordship, I’m also a guest whom you invited, but I’ve accidentally lost the invitation. Am I not considered as an invited guest anymore?”
“You’re my invited guest?” The Lord was taken by surprise and confusion. Then, he suddenly narrowed his eyes, “So you must be the Legender who punished Hawk then! I thought he was merely making something up because he couldn’t endure the pain of his soul being burned. I can’t believe that he actually came across a Legender…”
“Not only that, to satisfy his companion’s quirk collection and to have a convenient meal, he actually took the initiative to attack me and my three companions!” Zhang Lisheng interrupted the Lord’s words and said with a smile.
Even though this sentence sounded like a joke, its original intention was misleading. It was impossible for an eagle to make friends with a sparrow. How would it be possible for the companions of a Legender, who traveled in the horrifying jungle in the foreign world, to be weak people?
Sure enough, the moment Zhang Lisheng’s words left his mouth, the air in the palace-like basement immediately froze. All the guests subconsciously became nervous.
The Lord fell into silence for a moment, before finally replying in a low voice, “For the rude offense of my retinue, I’d like to…”
“No, no, no! Your Lordship, you’ve misunderstood my meaning. The reason I came to join your party is not to… Hmmm, how should I put this in words? Well, in short, I’m here with a goodwill and a gift.” Zhang Lisheng said while humming and hawing. Gradually opening his sharp claws, he revealed the diamond-shaped round stone in his palm.
It was a gem condensed from the Hellfire tribesmen’s beliefs. It was also the second amazing item that the young man realized he could bring along with him after transforming other than the jelly gem. The reason he purposely brought one with him to the party was to make a small sacrifice at the necessary moments to ‘throw the stone to ask for directions’.
“A strange little stone; this is the gift you will give to the Lord?” Upon seeing the faith stone Zhang Lisheng showed, Miss Spider’s fair small hand that was gripping her slender cigarette tightened slightly, bending the cigarette slightly. Walking seductively, she walked towards the young man with a nonchalant facade but the tall figure of the Lord immediately blocked her footsteps.
“A strange little stone?” This powerful party’s host smirked, “Miss, as a dark believer standing on the legendary level, do you really think I can’t tell if this is a precious round stone formed by devout faith…”
“Well, stop your nonsense if you’ve already recognized it!” Miss Spider’s red lips fell apart as she was about to cast a powerful spell, but she suddenly saw the Lord raising both of his hands high.
Full of manner, he said, “However, no matter how precious the faith stone is, it’s still not as amazing and intoxicating as your bright smile… If you want to take that round stone as your own, I won’t have any objections.”
Then, he stepped away to make way for her.
When Zhang Lisheng saw the unexpected performance of the Lord from the distance, he hesitated for a moment. Without warning, he smiled and threw the faith round stone in his hands to Miss Spider, “Since the receiver is already so generous, there should be no reason for me, the gift giver, to be stingy.”
The diamond-shaped round stone tumbled and shone its brilliance in the mid-air. Its originally dim surface gradually produced dazzling brilliance caused by the friction with the air, drawing a rainbow-like and long-lasting luster in the air. A song of chant ambiguously resonated from the shining brilliance and naturally gave off a sacred implication.
The phenomenon displayed by the stone faith after leaving his hand elicited a delighted yet covert expression from the Lord who appeared to be aloof just now. However, soon, he suppressed his surging emotions and used his gaze to stop King Rat who was eager to make his move, allowing the round stone to fall into the hands of Miss Spider.
After the faith stone fell into her hands, the brilliance of the stone and the soothing chant immediately disappeared in an instant.
Looking at the small stone of undistinguished appearance in her hand, an ecstatic expression appeared on Miss Spider’s face, “It really is the purest, top-grade faith stone! Just this harvest alone is enough to make my trip to New York worthwhile! Your Lordship, oh powerful and mysterious Legender, thank you very much for your generous gift!”
After finished saying so, she suddenly spat out a bunch of colorless spider silk from her mouth, wrapping the round stone in between her fingers and swallowed it.
In her opinion, because of the sacred nature of this stone faith, it was impossible for such a pure stone faith to be a trap, so of course, it would be better for her to ‘digest’ it as early as possible. However, the instant the stone entered her stomach, she felt a burning sharp pain piercing from her stomach.
A few seconds later, Miss Spider could not help but howl with pain with her face distorted, as she spewed a white flame from her mouth.
When she spat out the flame from her mouth, the woman’s pain seemed to have eased a little. She allowed the blazing fire seeping out of her pores to burn the black dress on her body and the black silk on her face, revealing a seductive, alluring body. In a bloodcurdling fashion, she glared at Zhang Lisheng and asked, as the white teeth in between her red lips turned horrifyingly sharp, “Oh Darkwalker of a foreign land, you should know that nothing is more terrible than the counterattack of a desperate Legender. Since your trap have not burned me to death, you better tell me now, what the hell is this thing you were going to give to His Lordship?”
The first sentence from the woman who snapped back to reality from her greed immediately listed herself as the Lord’s ally. However, to her surprise, the person who replied was not that intruder who appeared in the party with a demon look none other than His Lordship himself.
“Miss, I’m afraid you’ve misunderstood the kindness of this generous and powerful Darkwalker. The present he gave was indeed a real faith stone. However, one could obtain this stone faith from demolishing any long-established church or temple on the Earth but from the foreign world. For this reason, due to the ‘barrier’, using it arbitrarily is harmful without purification!”
While the Lord spoke, his eyes were locked at Zhang Lisheng entirely, as though he was afraid that the young man would disappear without a trace. After explaining to Miss Spider, he immediately returned to a solemn expression and said to Zhang Lisheng seriously and straightforwardly, “Dear Legender, it seems like great minds think alike. Of course, compared to the initial stage of my exploration, you have already made great progress, to the point where you’ve, at the very least, gained tangible results! I think, since you’re willing to come to see me with this faith stone, you must have encountered some kind of bottleneck and intend to seek cooperation, right?”
Upon hearing the Lord said that the round stone he brought was the product of the foreign world, Zhang Lisheng started to feel that the trip he made this time was not in vain. His mind whirled speedily, but he retained a calm expression; he shook his head and said, “You’re wrong, Lord. I’m here to seek opportunities to trade with you, not to cooperate. For people who walk in the ‘darkness’ like us, talking about cooperation the first time we meet would just be too extravagant.”
“Your words are sincere and direct, tell me your thoughts then, Legender. what transactions do you want to make?”
“I intend to pay 19 faith stone in exchange for only two things. One, the whole set of the secret method to become a Dark Believer. Two, I hope that you can destroy an aboriginal tribe on the Shrimp B1 Island and give me the tribal totem pole that was as tall as the fresh corpses of the guardian spiritual monster. I think you should know what I meant by the ‘guardian spiritual monster’.”
“Guardian spiritual monster? What an appropriate term!” The Lord smiled and casually said, “I can understand why you want the totem pole and I, too, can understand why you want a living monster, which was also the guardian spiritual monster you said, but why do you want their fresh corpses?”
“A guardian spiritual monster that is still alive? Haha! If you fight with those monsters with the mentality of wanting to capture them alive, well, you’d definitely have a series of surprises you have never seen in your life!” Upon hearing the Lord’s question, Zhang Lisheng shook his ferocious face and said in a blank expression, not answering his question directly.
When the Lord heard Zhang Lisheng avoiding his question, he no longer pursued this subject. Nodding, he said, “Thank you for the reminder, Legender. However, the trading conditions you proposed are too vague! The tribes of the natives on the Shrimp B1 Island are greatly disparate.”
“It would not be fair for you to attack a tribe that has over 100,000 people in exchange for only 19 faith stones. On the other hand, it would not be fair for me if I pay 19 faith stones in exchange for the totem pole of a tribe that has less than 50,000 people. For this reason, a tribe of 70,000 to 80,000 people would be the most suitable targets. I’ve already chosen two choices for you, the Kaqilu, that has 70,000 people, or the Mokacho, that has 80,000 people. ”
“That sounds reasonable enough! However, our information seems to be asymmetric, dear respected Legender…”
“For this reason, you have no choice but to believe me, Your Lordship, otherwise, I’d find someone else to trade.” Zhang Lisheng interrupted the Lord’s words and said decisively.
The instant this decisive tone left his mouth, the Lord’s cheerful face was suddenly clouded with a faint red mist. At the same time, the middle-aged man wearing a crown of thorns on the wooden cross in the middle of the huge basement abruptly made an unprecedented sonorous miserable howling. A black flame has started to ignite all over his body and turned him into ashes.
“Foreign Legender, such an intractable manner of yours is not something that a guest should have,” After a sudden change of expression, the party’s host said in a sullen voice to Zhang Lisheng. Without warning, he drew a mysterious character in the air with both of his hands and chanted loudly.
“In the name of darkness, I imprison the sinner in front of me.”
The instant his mantra left his mouth, in just a twinkling of an eye, a gush of brilliant awe-majestic power appeared out of nowhere and wrapped Zhang Lisheng tightly, to the point where his nihilated body could not escape.
