Chapter 548 - Big Sister

"Why is it one problem after another?" Lu Ran couldn’t help but complain.

First, it was the Demonic Space God escaping from the Squirrel God, and now the Evil God was about to break free from the God of the Abyss. He wasn’t the Divine Deer, but he was getting work from all around.

"As long as we find the Divine Dragons, then all of these problems will be resolved, but if we can’t, then it will be quite a headache." Ghost Mother sighed.

"Luckily, the Evil God’s skill set makes it less destructive than the Divine Tree and Chaos Dragon God. Worst case scenario, it would just turn half the Stellar Moon population into its clan members."

The corner of Lu Ran’s mouth twitched.

You call that less destructive?

"The Evil God is really hard to deal with. Without the power of the Divine Dragons, even I could be deceived into betrayal," the Void God admitted.

"We, the Divine Dragon kins, were created with too many flaws. Right now, the most capable ones amongst us are only at the Intermediate Legendary rank. Even if we joined forces, we could only injure the Evil God at best. We don’t have any confidence in sealing it away again.

"After Ghost Mother told us the news, we discussed it amongst ourselves, and we will most likely need the Six-Path God’s help again."

"I see. In that case, I will accept this mission on Six-Path Flower’s behalf. I thought I would be able to mooch off of the Stellar Moon Federation’s protection fees for a while, but it looks like I’ll actually have to do some work. I’ll do my best to figure out what to do about the Evil God. I just have one condition."

"What’s the condition?"

The Underworld God was stunned. This kid was a messenger, but he dared to have conditions? By comparison, Death Gun was much more obedient.

"Ghost Mother, when you sealed away the Evil God, you must have acquired quite a few items related to it, right? Such as idols or other objects of faith."

"What are you planning?" Ghost Mother asked warily.

"Those items could help me study the Evil God’s power."

Ghost Mother thought it over for a moment before finally replying, "It’s not that I don’t want to give them to you, but the Evil God isn’t just a master of the Curse attribute. It’s also an expert in using faith.

“If it could gather enough faith energy, even if the Evil God’s true form is sealed, it could use the energy to condense a faith avatar to walk the earth once more. It could even coordinate a strategy to break the seal faster! That’s why I sealed most of the items related to it away as well.”

"That’s actually perfect," Lu Ran answered. "I wanted the Evil God’s idols so that I could use them to revive the Evil God’s spirit. If it can revive itself, then it saves me the trouble."

Ghost Mother: ?

The Divine Deer looked up at the sky. It knew that Lu Ran would say something crazy.

"Ghost Mother, due to your innate limitations, you can’t increase your species rank. My familiars are in the same situation, but thanks to the evolution system provided by Limitless City, ranking up has become much easier.

"My plan for the crow is to let it seize the Evil God’s powers to help it reach Intermediate and Superior Legendary. It definitely can’t devour the real Evil God right now, but an Evil God faith avatar should be a piece of cake,” Lu Ran explained.

"Are you kidding me?" Ghost Mother yelled. "Do you know the consequences if you fail? The Evil God is—"

Before Ghost Mother could finish, Lu Ran interrupted, "Worst case scenario, we all die, but I never said that we’d try it here. We can attempt it in an ascension realm set in a time period when the Evil God hadn’t been sealed.

“Dying in an ascension realm isn’t permanent, and pissing off the Evil God won’t have an impact on the outside world either. If we fail, then we can just chalk it up to a waste of time. We also have infinite retries, so no matter how bizarre the Evil God’s power is, Dark Crow will have to succeed eventually!"

"This..." Ghost Mother froze. "Damn, Limitless City is too absurd!"

The other kins were also momentarily stunned before shaking their heads.

The absurd one wasn’t Limitless City; rather, it was Lu Ran’s authority. He could choose the time period of the ascension realm and can’t die inside of one. This allowed him to challenge perfectly tailored ascension realms and try again, however many times he needed to. Such conditions really gave Dark Crow a solid chance of obtaining the Evil God’s power.

How would the Evil God feel when it broke out of its seal only to find another Evil God had appeared? It could be its brother from another mother.

“Alright,” Ghost Mother acquiesced. “Give me a few days, and I will gather what I can find for you. If you’re going to conduct research, then you should do it in the Elemental Era, which is before the Evil God was born.”

“I understand!” Lu Ran nodded with a wide grin.

Don’t say that I don’t take care of you, Dark Crow. I got you the Evil God idols you wanted. You’ll feast like a king once we exploit some labor out of #18 and summon the Evil God’s spirit.

“Let’s table the Evil God issue for now,” the Divine Deer said. “The most important thing is still to find the four Divine Dragons. Ghost Mother, give him the item.”

“Alright.” The Ghost Mother nodded. Space rippled, and a stone appeared.

[Name: Stone of the Other Shore]

[Grade: Legendary]

𝐟𝗿𝐞𝚎𝚠𝐞𝚋𝕟𝐨𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝕔𝕠𝚖

[Description: Boosts the user’s soul power to the Superior-Legendary rank. Once the user dies then their soul will be sent to the other shore. Activating this item requires powerful Death energy and special authority.]

The effects of the stone were shocking to say the least. Even though he had seen a good number of Legendary resources, this was the first time Lu Ran had come across something so overpowered. When he finally snapped out of it, Lu Ran looked back up at Ghost Mother.

“With this, I don’t even have to personally deal with the Evil God. I can just summon a horde of spirits to crush the Evil God with sheer numbers!”

“You think I didn’t think of that? The Stone of the Other Shore is indeed that powerful, but it’s a special gift from the Death Dragon to the God of the Other Shore. Neither the Underworld God nor I seems to have permission to use it.

“We’re giving it to you because it’s useless to us. From what we can tell, only the God of the Other Shore has the right permissions to use it.”

Lu Ran fell silent at that.

What a piece of crap! The Other Shore organization from Blue Planet has been searching for the stone for all this time. If they actually found it, then they might’ve just killed themselves on the spot. The Death Dragon made it so that only one person could use this thing...

“Are you telling me...” Lu Ran suddenly thought of something.

“That’s right. If possible, try to do what you did with Tree Monarch. Go to an era before the God of the Other Shore died and use your administrative authority to revive it. This way, it could activate the stone to fight against the Evil God.”

Lu Ran rubbed his chin and replied, “That’s a good idea. Looks like I’ll have to strategically fail a few ascension realms so that I can challenge more of them set in different time periods to revive as many major figures as I can.”

“Before you do that, take the stone as a token of your identity to meet the Death Dragon in the Elemental Era. The stone was originally part of its body, so if the Death Dragon exists in the ascension realm, it shouldn’t dismiss you immediately.”

Lu Ran nodded and put away the Stone of the Other Shore. The Elemental Era predated the Divine Dragon kins themselves, so his status as a messenger should be useless. In front of the Divine Dragons, even the Elemental Gods were puny shrimps.

If Lu Ran didn’t have some sort of token, then he would never have the qualifications to have an audience with the Divine Dragons.

With that, the meeting of the Divine Dragon kin came to an end. Before heading to the Elemental Era, Lu Ran still needed to wait for the Federation to deliver the protection fee. Once he had everything ready, he would use the Beast God corpses to further develop his familiars so that he would be fully prepared for the ascension realm.

Just as Lu Ran was about to pick a scenic spot for his final preparations, he got a call from an unknown number.

“Pedestrian A? This is Ice Emperor.” The caller quickly introduced himself.

“Ice Emperor? Did you need something?” Lu Ran asked. “Wait, how did you get my number?”

“Death Gun gave it to me. I have something I want to discuss with you.”

“Do you want me to revive your sister?”

“I watched you revive Peanut on the broadcast. If you can revive her, then you should be able to do the same for my sister.”

“Maybe I can, but why should I?” Lu Ran said. “I received guidance from Peanut in my early days. On top of that, she’s from the same faction as Six-Path Flower, while her support abilities are a great fit for me. She’s a perfect teammate. What can your sister offer me?”

“As long as you successfully revive my sister, I am willing to serve you. I can’t guarantee that I will become a Mythical beastmaster one day, but I will definitely become an Epic-Legendary,” Ice Emperor answered.

Lu Ran: ?

Lu Ran might have agreed in the past, but a Legendary beastmaster with Low-Legendary familiars no longer had any appeal to him.

“I’m hanging up.”

“Wait!” Ice Emperor hurriedly interjected. “Do you want your Elemental Sprite to become a Superior-Legendary Elemental God?”

Lu Ran paused for a moment.

“Go on.”

“In the Elemental Era, my sister’s physique was known as the ‘Sacred Elemental Physique.’ It’s an extremely rare constitution that’s perfect for nurturing elemental lifeforms. The lifeforms she contracts with evolve at extraordinary speeds.

“Furthermore, after becoming a Mythical Elementalist, her evolution triggered a second transformation in her physique. The advancement made it so that even an ordinary drop of her blood could transform a bowl of water into an Epic-grade Water resource. An elemental Primary Divine once said that her blood was capable of creating a Superior Legendary Elemental God.”

Lu Ran chuckled.

“So you’re saying, if I revive your sister, you’ll convince her to donate blood every day to help me train my familiars?”

Will she be Manager Ying 2.0?

Ice Emperor grit his teeth. He felt bad about pimping out his sister, but coming back to life was the most important thing.

“Yes. I will even form a contract with you. If I betray you, then my life is forfeit. My sister would never just stand by and do nothing while watching me die. She will uphold her part of the deal.”

Lu Ran finally realized just how special Hel’s physique was. She was on par with the Tree Monarch. Both were born with powerful innate constitutions. Hel had an elemental physique, while Tree Monarch was blessed with a Time physique. It made him wonder if there were other Mythical beastmasters and mechanics with special constitutions.

True talent really did reign supreme. No amount of hard work could catch up. Only something like Limitless City could even the odds.

Coincidentally, I’m already headed for the Elemental Era. Tree Monarch also said that I should try reviving other Mythical figures from history to see if any of them have challenged the final secret realm.

Since I don’t have any other candidates in mind, I might as well choose Hel. Ice Emperor is worth winning over since he already told me such a big secret about his sister. He basically just sold her out to be a blood bag. I can bleed her once in the ascension realm and again after I revive her.

Baby Cloud really lucked out this time. It might beat everyone except Six-Path Flower in reaching Superior Legendary. It’s not even a Low Legendary right now.

Lu Ran was fairly satisfied with this new intel.

“I’ll need a token of good faith. Only then can we cooperate, as I will need to pay a huge price to revive your sister. Right now, you’re promising a lot of things that you can’t actually fulfill yourself. I’m not going to risk my life for an IOU.”

Ice Emperor remained calm. “I understand. I happen to have a portion of my sister’s blood with me right now. I can give it to you so you can see its effects for yourself. I will also do my best to fulfill any other requests you might have.”

Lu Ran thought about it for a moment.

“Let me think. You’re a Legendary Elementalist with a Legendary familiar. You should be able to earn crystal coins faster than other beastmasters of the same level. I have a simple job for you. I need you to grind secret realms like crazy to farm crystal coins. Why don’t you start by signing this IOU for 25 billion crystal coins?”

Ice Emperor: “...”

Ice Emperor suspected that Lu Ran was screwing with him.

“Fine,” he finally said, knowing that he didn’t have any other choice.

Together, they agreed on a place to meet.

After hanging up, Lu Ran felt refreshed while Manager Ying, who had been eavesdropping behind a nearby tree, pouted. This spirit-summoning business was getting out of hand.

“Hey, Lu Ran, let’s get this straight. You can use my blood to summon the Evil God and Hel, and even use it as a catalyst for Replication. The only thing is that you'd better cut me in on those Epic amplification cards you’re gathering. I haven’t made any progress in ages!”