Chapter 582 - The Enemy is the Divine Dragons’ Kin (Part 1)

On the scene, Mythical Beastmaster Ji Yuan, after discovering the changes to his body, let out a voice of furious rage.

“What have you done?”

However, because his voice had changed, this furious sound seemed particularly lacking in deterrence, becoming extremely gentle.

Ji Yuan trembled. If he wasn’t mistaken, he had become... a woman. Just like during the mid-empire period, when the Lust Evil God turned a group of men into women to form the Witch Council. Ji Yuan never expected that such a curse could one day befall him.

Before Ji Yuan could think too much, a fireball sent him flying.

“No manners. If I hadn’t resurrected you, you’d be dead already.”

Lu Ran appeared before Ji Yuan, whose vision was blurring, causing him to spit blood while his eyes shook with shock. He remembered now, he had just been cursed to death by the Evil God’s clone.

“Being able to resurrect is already pretty good. You're repaying hostility with kindness, so can you surrender now?”

“I surr—”

Ji Yuan wanted to say “surrender my ass”, but before the words could leave his mouth, his expression changed again.

He had just tried to reverse the gender-change curse using his own Mythical means. Generally speaking, although curses were strange, if one found the right method, they could be dispelled.

Besides, at the Mythical level, control over one’s body had reached a divine level, so forcibly altering its structure wasn’t impossible.

However, after trying, Ji Yuan found this curse was extraordinary because he couldn’t break it. Its power level was extremely high.

Ji Yuan’s heart sank straight to the bottom. Even when being brutally beaten by Lu Ran, he hadn’t been afraid, because he had experienced life and death too many times. But now, he began to panic, not knowing how to face his female confidantes.

Lu Ran laughed. “What’s that expression? Don’t panic. The resurrection failure was due to our immature technology. I’ll see this good deed through to the end. Later, I’ll have my familiars turn all your female confidantes into men. It won’t affect carrying on your family line.”

Finally, after Lu Ran’s last words, Ji Yuan broke down completely. “NO! I SURRENDER!”

He no longer thought about destroying the Undead Cult, no longer thought about defeating Lu Ran. Now, he only wanted to recover as soon as possible. After all, the future Lu Ran described was too evil, far too advanced for an ancient person like him.

[Congratulations on completing the Legendary mission.]

The sound of the Legendary mission completion finally reached Lu Ran’s ears. Defeating Ji Yuan head-on and making him surrender willingly was a bit tricky, but it was finally completed.

Indeed, to defeat this kind of person, one had to attack the heart. Dark Crow had unintentionally done a good deed.

“It would have been better if you had done this earlier.”

Lu Ran walked up to Ji Yuan, bent his leg slightly, and kicked his back towards the allied forces.

He looked at the already terrified allies and said, “The Evil God will definitely not let this rest. Asking you to join me in counter-attacking the Evil God isn’t realistic; you’d most likely just become dead weight. Since that’s the case, you can contribute some strategic resources. Consider doing a bit for humanity.

“Epic-Legendary beastmasters, at least one Legendary resource. Legendary beastmasters, at least resources worth 10 Treasure-grade items. Those below Legendary, one Treasure grade will do.

“As for that Mythical, I also want to change you back. After you go back, drain all the blood from your body and bring it to me. I’ll research it to see if there’s a way to reverse the side effects of the resurrection spell.

“Deliver it here within half a month. I’ve memorized all your faces. If the resources aren’t here by the deadline, I’ll have my familiars curse you directly. Even across tens of thousands of miles, you won’t escape.”

Lu Ran picked his ear, then swaggered back, recalling Captain Doofus and stepping into the Undead Secret Realm. This scene left the Undead Cult leader stunned.

How... How did he enter the cult’s headquarters without any hindrance? This isn’t a place one could force their way into with brute strength; not even Mythicals could do it.

The Undead Cult leader took a deep breath and also entered the cult headquarters, knowing that this storm had temporarily passed. The six major sects absolutely wouldn’t dare attack the Undead Cult again. However, conversely, both the Undead Cult and humanity would probably have to wait to face the wrath of the Evil God faction.

***

Inside the Undead Secret Realm, after Lu Ran entered, the people inside the cult who had been watching the battle all seemed to have weak legs. They backed away repeatedly from Lu Ran, no different from the allied forces outside.

After scanning these people, Lu Ran did see many familiar faces. However, the current situation was that most of these people had already been bewitched by the Evil God faction. They couldn’t even be called villains anymore because they had lost their humanity and no longer considered themselves human.

“Sir, who exactly are you?” The black-robed Undead Cult leader also entered, looking at Lu Ran with extreme seriousness.

Regarding this, Lu Ran didn’t want to explain too much inside the secret realm. Later, before resurrecting his necromancy master, he could have #18, using the heroic spirit of his necromancy master, which carried the memory of the level 1 ascension realm, revive first.

Then, using Hel and Peanut’s resurrection methods, the resurrected person could fuse with the heroic spirit’s memories.

Lu Ran had inherited many equipment items from his necromancy master. As a leader of the Undead lineage, his necromancy master was naturally highly regarded and had received faith, leaving more or less traces of belief on those items.

Lu Ran spoke, “This isn’t important. Next, I’ll help the cult leader clean this mess first.”

As he spoke, the earth cracked open. Thick branches unexpectedly dragged one necromancer after another, whose evil energy exceeded standards, into the Hell Domain space.

Amidst screams, they fell into another dimension. Judging those who committed evil deeds was a great way to enhance virtuous energy. Coupled with just robbing the righteous beastmasters, Lu Ren not only gained a considerable amount of virtuous energy but also a lot of evil energy in one go. It was considered a great harvest.

“Spare us, great one.”

“Spare us!”

Lu Ran’s sudden move terrified the remaining dozen or so core members of the Undead Cult. However, seeing that there wasn’t much left to gain from these remaining people, Lu Ran let them off. This was also to avoid the complete destruction of the Undead Cult, which might accidentally risk completing the ascension mission.

“These people were all bewitched by the Evil God and have committed numerous evil deeds. I’ll take their lives. The remaining matters, I’ll leave to Cult Leader Los to handle himself...”

After saying this, Lu Ran walked out of the secret realm again. No one dared to stop him, nor did they have the strength to.

It wasn’t until they were sure Lu Ran had completely left that the remaining Undead elders and Divine Emissaries close to the Cult Leader looked at Los, who had just emerged from seclusion, and stammered, “Leader... What should we do next?”

Los was stunned for a moment, then shook his head, still feeling too weak. “Next? My purpose in creating the Undead Cult was to find a path that would allow humans to fear no beast god. Now it seems that both Ji Yuan and that mysterious powerhouse who calls himself a necromancer have done better.

“The Undead Cult seems like it has no reason to exist anymore. My breakthrough failure and the current state of the cult have proven this path wrong.”

At this moment, the Undead Cult’s chief blacksmith spoke after a moment of silence, “Leader, just now, I noticed some suspicious points, but didn’t dare to say anything.”

“What?"

“The robe that the mysterious expert wore, the Soul-Restraining Bottle he used... their style is almost identical to the ones I gave you earlier on when the cult was first established. The manufacturing and crafting techniques are exactly like my style.”

***

Lu Ran exited the Undead Secret Realm and had Six-Path Flower place the Space Demon God’s puppet in a separate space to guard this place.

As for himself, he didn’t plan to waste time and was prepared to take the initiative to seek out the Evil God overlord. However, the Evil God’s movements seemed faster. Just before setting off, Lu Ran, floating in the air, suddenly felt as if he had fallen into an ice cellar, completely targeted by something terrifying.

Everything around turned dark. Lu Ran’s body grew colder and colder. It was extremely strange. Even the intangible monarchic luck coiling around Lu Ran’s body began to turn black. The imperial seal within Lu Ran’s ID card shook violently, as if impacted by some terrifying force.

From Lu Ran’s contract space, Dark Crow immediately flew out, trying to find the source of the curse with a fierce gaze. “A curse! It’s a curse, my king! That bastard is cursing you again!”

Six-Path Flower also appeared with a frown, attempting to help Lu Ran break the curse, but couldn’t find a suitable and effective method in a short time.

The shrunken, half-human-sized Sudden Death King also appeared, trying to cast its Defensive Halo on Lu Ran, but the effect was minimal.

Even Captain Doofus appeared, baring its teeth, temporarily comprehending Curse-Slashing Sword Intent, wanting to chop off the curse on Lu Ran. However, it was like hitting steel with a wooden sword. It repelled Captain Doofus back.

“It’s the Evil God itself making a move, and it might have sacrificed many lives. It’s going all out,” Six-Path Flower judged.

Under this curse, Lu Ran’s vision and hearing began to decline, his memory ability began to deteriorate, his skin became wrinkled, and his bones became brittle. Slowly, as the curse power entered his body, Lu Ran’s appearance began to age. His life force was being madly drained. Soon, Lu Ran had turned into a gray-haired old man, his teeth falling out.

“It’s a curse containing death power, similar to the previous one. But because he is too strong, the speed at which the curse devours life force is too slow, resulting only in the aging of the body. Otherwise, he would be like the previous guy, his life force instantly completely devoured, and be completely dead!”

The moment Dark Crow made this judgment and was about to open its mouth to reverse the curse, Lu Ran covered its crow mouth, afraid that the bizarre Spiritual Speech might also change him from Lu Ran to... well, the name Lu Ran itself was quite feminine.

“This Evil God indeed has some methods.”

With Six-Path Flower here, Lu Ran was still very reassured. Besides, he had already learned the Scapegoat skill and could avoid death in the ascension realm, so he wasn’t worried at all.

As Six-Path Flower shared its stronger life force with Lu Ran, life power and death curse power began to fight within Lu Ran’s body. Lu Ran’s age fluctuated, one moment from an old man to a youth, another moment from a youth to an old man.

Lu Ran breathed a sigh of relief. “Fortunately, it’s just a death curse.”

However, this kind of skill that struck without any warning was simply no less formidable than Dark Crow’s Spiritual Speech. The Evil God overlord’s development of the Curse attribute had definitely reached a terrifying level.

If Ghost Mother hadn’t used the Death Dragon’s power to seal the Evil God, it definitely could have become a Primary Divine-level existence like the Chaos Dragon God, perhaps even more terrifying.

Finally, under the stalemate between Six-Path Flower and the Evil God, the power of this curse was completely worn away, and Lu Ran returned to normal.

However, in the next instant, before Lu Ran and the others could take further action, an even more terrifying curse descended abruptly, still without any warning. Neither Dark Crow’s Foresight ability nor Six-Path Flower’s Fate’s Gaze could react in time.

“Time curse! It’s trying to use time ability to accelerate his death?” #18 worried nearby.

Death, aging, and time acceleration might make it too late to replenish Lu Ran’s life force. However, everyone’s guess was wrong. Seemingly aware that Lu Ran had strong resistance to life loss, this time, the Evil God overlord used a curse power similar to time reversal.

Lu Ran didn’t start aging because he started getting younger.

His age gradually changed from early twenties to just turned eighteen... fifteen... twelve... ten...