Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Even though Zhang Lisheng knew nothing about the Armored Dragon, it was very clear to him just how strong a team of ten Wizard Li’s warriors with partners was. His face turned serious as he looked thoughtfully at the warrior, who was crouching by his feet. “Has the chief warrior of that hunting team received my blessing ritual before?”
“No, Great Conqueror!” the dispatch warrior replied respectfully.
Since there were no Super Hellfiremen among the warriors, this meant that it was not entirely impossible for him to estimate the strength of the Armored Dragon. Even so, the young man hesitated a bit and felt that it was still worthy of a try after careful ponderation. In the end, he dispersed the clouds at his feet.
The flesh on the tip of his finger began to slide open as a golden beetle with six long legs crept out of it. When it fell onto the ground, it increased in size along the wind and turned into a beetle that was even larger than the treehouse where the ordinary Hellfire tribesmen lived before carrying Zhang Lisheng on its back.
“Where’s the Armored Dragon?” Standing on the broad back of the wizard gu, the young man asked.
“West of the tribe, Great Conqueror! Right now, there are already 1000 tribal warriors who have rushed there to look for the wild beast for you…” While the dispatch warrior was speaking, a clarion call and a monster’s howl suddenly echoed from the distant jungle.
“Looks like it’s not only us who are looking for the beast. The Armored Dragon itself is also looking for its dinner who has escaped last night…” Zhang Lisheng stared at the distant jungle and mumbled gravely. He commanded the wizard gu to leap into the air, spread out, and flap its four thin wings towards the direction of the beast’s howl.
In the dark sky, the young man flew against the strong wind for a while and finally felt big raindrops falling from above.
Amidst wind and rain, he looked down at the jungle and suddenly saw a ferocious beast with a thick neck covered entirely in fine brown scaled armor with a poisonous snake-like triangular head attached to it. The beast had a long, lion-like mane on its body. It was over ten meters long and had a height of over three meters. With its four, strong, elephant-like legs, it suddenly burst out of the jungle.
In the torrential rain, the long hair on the beast’s taut body was erected one by one, revealing its ferocious vascular muscles and veins that densely covered its body. However, a hint of joy appeared on Zhang Lisheng’s face as he muttered, “This Armored Dragon does not look bad at all! I hope that it won’t let me down.”
Without warning, he retracted the wizard gu that he was sitting on back to his body and let himself fall straight from the sky.
Bathed in violent rain, the Armored Dragon crouched on the thick branch of a giant tree while baring its teeth and intimidatingly howled towards the hundreds of native warriors who were blowing clarions while riding on the giant spiders that slowly appeared on the surrounding canopy. Relying on its natural instinct of being a carnivorous beast, it raised its head and saw the figure of the young man descending.
After that, through its bloody red pupils, that small figure descending from the sky in the rain that was getting more swift in its descent suddenly swelled up like a balloon. Golden hair appeared on his entire body and fangs filled his mouth, as he transformed into a giant ape. Opening its mouth, it roared and raised a hand to slam down.
Any incredible omniscient power or witchcraft method did not accompany this palm hit but the billowing sound that overwhelmed the island’s storm was enough to scare the soul out of a person.
Under the imposing pressure from the giant ape, the Armored Dragon, that was seemingly savage and brutal, became as weak as a baby right away. As though it could not even run away, it narrowed and curled its body up, but the slam still hit it on the head.
Under the impact of the giant force, the body of the monster immediately turned into a puddle of meat that was sent flying, before transforming into a puddle of bloody rain that landed on the ground.
After killing the Armored Dragon, the falling force of the giant ape did not reduce. It actually crushed the entire tree that the ferocious beast was crouching on and smashed a deep mud pit on the ground, just like a meteorite. Trees within a 400-meter radius were so badly shaken that even their roots came flying away.
Such a mighty force made the Wizard Li’s warrior team, who were searching for the Armored Dragon, become dumbstruck right away. Unable to control their mounts, they could only let the giant millispiders below them flee in fear.
At this moment, Zhang Lisheng, who had transformed into the giant ape, in the deep mud pit, did not feel any beast’s soul after killing the beast. Unable to suppress the tyrannical rage after transforming into the beast, he beat his chest and howled towards the sky.
That earth-shattering howl spread out in a rush in the jungle that stretched out as far as the eyes could see while shattering the rain curtain till it crumbled. After venting out his anger, the young man’s rage gradually died off and a strange expression appeared on his face as he glanced at the surrounding destruction that he caused.
The Gate of Sacrifice’s witchcraft method was profoundly amazing. It was only a mere beast soul’s absorption, but when Zhang Lisheng transformed into the giant ape, it made his entire body, both outside and inside, from his flesh till his temperament to resemble the ape exactly, causing two kinds of effects on him. One, becoming violent and striving to outdo others unwittingly like how he was now; two, unable to use the Gate of Death’s witchcraft method and commanding the wizard gu.
However, everything had its own advantages and disadvantages. Other than the disadvantages, there were great benefits that came along with it. It surprised the young man to discover that his unintentional action yielded great results. His ability to transform into the giant ape was actually the most powerful moment of his combat effectiveness.
Of course, such fierceness was not as mysteriously unpredictable and easily controlled as using his combination of Gu Sea Method and transformation power. Not only that, his animalization supported by his Gate of Sacrifice’s wizard power could only last for about three to five minutes.
Besides, the reason the young man could transform into the monkey king completely was that his body had transformed four ancient strange insects that had already broken through the limits of a human being. Even though he could not use the Gate of Death’s witchcraft method during his animalization, the change in his physical constitution still remained. If it was an ordinary Witchcraft’s Gate of Sacrifice’s Rank-3 Wizard, even if he really absorbed the monkey king’s soul by luck, his body would not be able to support the burden of a complete animalization.
Even so, when Zhang Lisheng remembered that his Gate of Death’s power he had gone through all hardships to obtain was actually, in some respects, inferior to a Gate of Sacrifice’s beast soul incarnation that he obtained out of the blue, he really did not know whether to cry or laugh.
“Even though the Gate of Sacrifice’s monkey animalization is very powerful, the fact that I only got lucky for finding it is unbelievable. Even though the growth of my Gate of Death’s power has its wangle, the reason I could reach where I am right now has always come from one step at a time. Also, the potential of the Gu Sea Method is infinite and the mighty power that I’ll obtain when I make a breakthrough to Rank-12 Wizard would be over 10 times greater. Adding on to the living corpse refining method, it was not something I could compare to a monkey incarnation. The Gate of Death is still my foundation no matter what…” Zhang Lisheng smiled wryly under the pouring rain. Muttering, he returned to his normal state.
After that, standing in a deep pit where the water had collected to be higher than his knee, he raised his head to look at the clouds in the sky and slowly grew his green scales again. Transforming the collected water into clouds, he rose into the air and began to fly towards New York after entering the cloud layers.
When he passed through the invisible barrier of the two worlds, the weather in the sky quietly changed to become clearer.
He flew to the outskirts of New York and returned to his office building in LS factory first.
The first thing he did was take a hot bath as usual and then put on a set of dry clothes. After that, treading on his leather shoes, he took out a piece of fresh steak from the refrigerator and began to heat a pan in the small open kitchen.
Right at this time, his door was gently pushed open, and without warning, a tall, sexy, young, and beautiful girl who was wearing a light green, half-formal, half-casual blouse and knee-length skirt walked in. “There’s suddenly great fog in this good weather, so I immediately knew that something was not right. As I’ve expected, you’re back, Lisheng!”
“Hey, Maddie! Now that you’ve mentioned it, I feel like I’m a character in American Horror Story.” Turning his head to look at the girl walking up to him, Zhang Lisheng said after a moment of silence.
“How could that be? Oh, my dear, Lisheng, you’re much more strange than those people in American Horror Story.” Maddie walked up to the young man with a smile. “Long time no see! Even if there’s no kiss, there should at least be a hug, right?”
“O-Oh, of course…” Upon seeing the girl’s magnanimous-like attitude, Zhang Lisheng hesitated a while and spread his arms as he replied. Before he could finish his sentence, Maddie’s kiss already covered his mouth.
“It’s because I’m worried that you’d do it anyway, so I didn’t…” A sudden sweetness rushed into the young man’s mouth and caused him to be stunned for a while. He pushed Maddie away with his might and took a few deep breaths. “Fine! there’ll no longer be any hugs between us anymore…”
Upon hearing his words, Maddie interrupted him and shook her head enchantingly. “You’re holding back your own emotions again! Just now when we were kissing, I could still clearly sense a sweetness between you and me. Oh, baby, the Earth has already reached such a horrible state and nobody can predict what will happen in the future! Why do you need to reject an existing love for the sake of another love desperately?”
“This is so f*cked up, Maddie! There’s nothing between us, perhaps there’s friendship but there are no romantic feelings between us at all!” Zhang Lisheng opened his mouth to refute loudly. Then, suddenly, he frowned and asked, “Wait a minute, you said ‘the Earth has already reached such a horrible state’ just now? What do you mean by that?”
“What do I mean? Oh, Lisheng, don’t tell me you’ve flown to Mars to live a secluded life after leaving New York!?” Maddie picked up the preheated pan and placed the steak directly onto it. After a sizzling sound resounded, she placed the pan back onto the stove. “Do you know about the sky gutter?”
“Of course I do. What’s wrong with it?” At this time, Zhang Lisheng already had a hunch about the answer he would receive, but he still proceeded to ask to verify the conjecture in his heart.
“After the sky gutter appeared, 372 world gates were discovered worldwide. Adding on to the previously discovered foreign world’s channels, there are now over 400 foreign worlds on Earth.
In short, our planet seems to have become a busy transportation hub. No one knows how many more ‘worlds’ will have a direct passage to Earth and nobody knows what our future looks like.”
“Hey, don’t be so pessimistic, Maddie! It’s not a bad thing to find more foreign worlds!” After having the conjecture in his heart verified, Zhang Lisheng shrugged and said insincerely, “The US, China, and the European countries have already gained a firm foothold in the foreign worlds. Even though there are some loses, we have gained a lot of benefits…”
“One pound of gold is a precious gift, but ten pounds of gold is a heavy burden. 100 pounds of gold can completely change a person’s life, but 1000 pounds of gold will kill people, won’t it?”
