Chapter 601 - Sanctions Might Be Late But They’re Never Absent (Part 2)

The matter of the necromancer master’s resurrection was soon concluded. Within the Beastmaster Empire, a new sect appeared: the Cult of Death.

And within the Undead department of Xia’s Beastmaster University, a new Undead professor appeared. Although Lu Ran pioneered the Undead attribute on Blue Planet, he himself had always been a hands-off leader, not fully devoting himself to the education industry of the Undead attribute.

Now, with the addition of the necromancer master, the founder of the Undead attribute, the Undead attribute might shed new light.

While Lu Ran was doing all this, Six-Path Flower had already begun closed-door training to reach the Primary-Divine level. However, Lu Ran couldn’t stay idle at all and planned to go to the next ascension realm himself first to look around to increase #18’s species rank.

#18’s current species was indeed too low; it was still only quasi-Legendary. Although it could use the blood of various divine beasts to speed up research efficiency, it would obviously be better if its species could be increased.

Lu Ran fantasized that if #18 could become a Mechanical Primary Divine, the replication efficiency of these top-tier resources would be greatly increased. This would be very beneficial for nurturing the entire team’s familiars next.

Additionally, the Mechanical Era was also crucial for Lu Ran to locate stellar resources that would aid Sudden Death King in his third-stage evolution. It could be said that the resources inside the ascension realm of this era concerned the future of the two currently lowest-performing familiars on the team.

The other main familiars on the team—Captain Doofus, who could undergo soul evolution; Dark Crow, who devoured an evil god; Baby Cloud, who devoured an elemental god; and Six-Path Flower, reaching Primary Divine, all already possessed Superior-Legendary combat power.

Before departing, Lu Ran found Manager Ying and informed it. “Let’s go take a look.”

After all, besides Manager Ying, Lu Ran’s other acquaintances were busy. Only Manager Ying had clones everywhere and was lazing around. It was suitable to act as a message relay station.

As for people like Fang Lan and Shi Xia, they were in secret realms every day to strengthen themselves. However, unlike Lu Ran, who was pursuing the Primary-Divine level, they were all pursuing Legendary familiars.

The old president still chose to retire. He completely lacked the drive of the young and passed the presidency to Gu Qingyi. Thus, President Gu also became busy, coordinating relations between the Beastmaster Empire, the international community, and Xia.

Everyone was busy with their own things. Now, because of the difference in strength, they rarely teamed up to tackle secret realms anymore. This made Lu Ran nostalgic for the time when he was a newcomer, leading a group with Fang Lan and a few others from Lu Village to conquer beginner secret realms.

“The path of the strong is destined to be lonely! But fortunately, I practice the beastmaster system. I still have my familiars!”

When Manager Ying learned that Lu Ran was entering another ascension realm, it asked, “Is it really okay for you to exploit Limitless City like this? You already got the Curse Core and the elemental gods’ Heart, as well as the Blue Planet stellar core. And you even plan to resurrect a Primary Divine...

“This time, you’re preparing to go plunder the Mechanical Primary Divine. While killing the Evil God, it was fine; you were just cursed, which was equivalent to being sanctioned. You and Limitless City are even. But while in the ancient Blue Planet, you didn’t seem to encounter any danger, right?

“This time, you need to be careful. Don’t forget, the first time you went to the Mechanical Era, you suffered a backlash from a mysterious force, causing you to become a vegetable.”

Lu Ran was stunned for a moment and said, “It should be fine. That was because I was too weak back then. Now, as long as I’m careful, nothing should happen. Even if something happens, it’s fine. At worst, I’ll just kill myself and waste a month.”

Manager Ying had a bad feeling, especially since the seemingly reliable Six-Path Flower wasn’t accompanying Lu Ran this time.

Manager Ying said, “Just be careful anyway.”

Lu Ran chose to take the advice, planning to be steadier this time.

***

Not long after, he entered Limitless City and activated the third level 8 ascension realm.

[Detected that you possess super admin privilege. Customize ascension realm worldview and timeline?]

In the room, Lu Ran pressed the system and said, “

Mm.

Go to the timeline just before the Mechanical Primary-Divine’s birth, the final stage of the republic’s creation of it. I want to dismantle the not-yet-born Mechanical Primary Divine and install its parts in #18. If I can’t beat the Primary Divine, I’ll beat the semi-finished Primary Divine.”

[Confirmation complete.]

[Generating corresponding ascension realm...]

[Please wait...]

[Generation successful.]

[Secret Realm type: Single player.]

[Target location: Stellar Moon Republic, capital outskirts!]

[Teleportation countdown 10...9...8...]

[Era introduction: Year 1229 AD. Over more than a thousand years, with the development of the Mechanical attribute, humanity’s war capabilities advanced. Many beast factions were eliminated. Even humanity had made huge progress in the field of artificial mechanical gods, fully capable of creating things comparable to Superior Legendaries.

𝗳𝗿𝐞𝕖𝘄𝗲𝕓𝗻𝚘𝚟𝕖𝐥.𝚌𝕠𝕞

[Thus, humanity had undoubtedly become the strongest species in the Stellar Moon World. However, although humanity’s military strength was invincible in the world during the Republic era when the Primary Divines were idle, no one expected the Republic to suddenly face enemies from the sky.

[An extraterrestrial civilization was about to invade Stellar Moon. The enemy’s strength was terrifying. These alien lifeforms were intercepted outside Stellar Moon, temporarily restricted from entering, but Stellar Moon’s energy couldn’t hold out for long.

[To counter the alien invasion, the republic had to accelerate the manufacture of the Mechanical Primary Divine.........]

After Lu Ran confirmed the time and location, the realm began to teleport him. However, just when Lu Ran thought there were no problems, problems ultimately arose.

First, the world introduction. This was the first time Lu Ran had heard that before the Mechanical Primary Divine was created, there was an alien invasion of Stellar Moon. It was also the first time he learned that the Mechanical Primary Divine creation was accelerated under such circumstances.

“The Divine Deer and the others didn’t tell me about this period of history. Right, the activities of the kin aren’t in outer space. If the enemy came from outside the stars and was intercepted, it’s normal that they didn’t know. It’s just, weren’t most civilizations already devoured by the black mist? Where did these aliens come from? Could they be from Blue Planet?

“But the large-scale migration of Blue Planet life happened long after the Mechanical Era ended. Actually, never mind. It doesn't really matter. The Genesis Dragon appeared after running away from the black mist, right? I guess life from other civilizations can also escape to this last piece of pure land.”

Although the information revealed by the era introduction was unexpected, Lu Ran could still accept it. But the ascension mission was something Lu Ran could not accept.

[Ascension mission: As someone about to break through to Mythical beastmaster, you must cultivate a Legendary familiar to be worthy of this title. Please cultivate a Legendary familiar!]

[Tip 1: Cultivation time limit is 30 days.]

[Tip 2: Ascension mission rating is positively correlated with familiar species rank. Cultivating a Low Legendary yields a rating of F~S. Cultivating an Intermediate Legendary yields a rating of SS~SSS.]

[Tip 3: ...]

It was a series of messy mission prompts. Lu Ran was dumbfounded halfway through listening. By the end, he was screaming.

"

AHHHHH!

Fuck! No. Limitless City, I’ll leave, okay? I’m not going to the Mechanical Era anymore. Exit, exit, exit! Force shutdown. Stop! Don’t mess with me.”

[Detected that you have already completed the ascension mission.]

[Score: SSS]

[You have received 320 million crystal coins.]

[You have received a contract card (bound).]

[You have received a Legendary amplification card (Can 100% amplify any resource or item below Legendary quality to Legendary quality).]

[You have received Perfect Eye of Detection (Can view the specific attribute information of even cosmic-level lifeforms).]

[You have received Legendary-level technology (Spaceship): The top-tier spaceship manufactured by the Stellar Moon Republic. Its space jump speed is comparable to an Intermediate-Legendary spatial divine beast.]

[You have received a trait crystal: Skill Explosion (A research-type mechanical life that fuses with this trait has a very small chance of having a flash of inspiration, creating a technological product far beyond its normal capabilities).]

[You have received a beastmaster skill: Super Contract (A unique beastmaster skill. After learning, the beastmaster can contract creatures beyond their own level without any load).]

[You have met the promotion criteria for level 9 beastmaster. Promote now?]

“Go screw your mother’s cunt!” Lu Ran cursed angrily.

He wasn’t happy at all about immediately completing the ascension mission. Even though the Legendary amplification card was a resource he dreamed of, and even though the Skill Explosion trait seemed incredibly good, being extremely suitable for #18, he didn’t want to break through to the Mythical level this early.

He hadn’t exploited enough wool from the infinite sheep yet. Lu Ran still had many things he wanted to do, like going to the Elemental Era 10 more times, like practicing against the Chaos Dragon God in a secret realm first, like resurrecting the Void Leaf, and like wanting another 10 Blue Planet stellar cores...

Lu Ran strongly suspected it was because he had farmed too many resources, causing Limitless City to be unwilling to let him do this anymore. Manager Ying’s judgment had come true. This sanction was even more painful for Lu Ran than if his entire team had been slaughtered in the secret realm. It was heart-wrenching and headache-inducing.

Lu Ran landed on the outskirts of the Stellar Moon Republic’s capital, on a wild mountain blowing with cold wind. As if sensing Lu Ran’s demise, his familiars comforted him one after another in the contract space.

“I should’ve come here with Six-Path Flower after its breakthrough. With its Lucky Flower trait, maybe this wouldn’t have happened. How the fuck could such a simple ascension task of cultivating a Legendary familiar appear?” Lu Ran continued to curse.

Simultaneously, the Legendary mission also began to generate.

[Detected that you possess super admin privilege.]

[Triggered hidden Legendary mission: Invincible on Earth, Enemies from the Sky. (Your strength in the beastmaster field is nearly invincible. Please go beyond Stellar Moon and defeat at least one top-tier being from an extraterrestrial civilization that masters another cultivation system.)]