Chapter 618 - Reincarnation

Through the temporary Primary-Divine power gained from the Limitless Sword Domain, it was not far from the Primary-Divine rank.

Captain Doofus’ true breakthrough opportunity still lay in the Sword God talent. It needed to possess more high-quality swords. Yet just having high-quality swords was not enough; it also needed a deep bond with them, worthy of being called lifebound swords. The only ones qualified to be Captain Doofus’ lifebound swords were the four kin bound by contract.

Not long after, its first kin, the Longleaf Swordgrass, returned from Stellar Moon. Because Six-Path Flower was far too busy, it had thrown the swordgrass to the Divine Tree for cultivation.

The Divine Tree poured its heart into nurturing this swordgrass that had inherited the Void Grass legacy, investing vast resources until it finally grew into a Superior Legendary, carrying several shades of Void Grass’ former grace.

The second to reach Superior Legendary was the sword spirit. With so many divine beast bones and lingering souls hunted by Lu Ran to sharpen it, it had an easier path to Superior Legendary than the swordgrass.

The third to ascend was the mechanical lightsaber. In the Mechanical Era, #18 had absorbed the crystallized wisdom of the age. Due to the Mechanical God’s efforts in the Mechanical Era, creating Superior Legendary mechanical weapons was no longer difficult. After gathering enough replicated materials under #18’s labor, the mechanical lightsaber had been refined to its peak.

The last to reach Superior Legendary was the elemental stone sword. Baby Cloud regretted not saving any elemental cores for it, having eaten them all itself. To help Captain Doofus cultivate its kin, it had to deplete its own power to feed it, becoming a nanny shortly after its own birth.

After all four kin successively reached Superior Legendary, Captain Doofus finally ascended in its normal form into a Primary-Divine species. It became the Sword God who reigned unmatched in aggression and dominance. And its species talent was truly unique.

[Species Talent: Sword God (Can transform any lifeform possessing sword-type skills into a Sword-attribute species.)]

Although it didn’t look like a combat ability at first glance, it allowed it, like an Evil God overlord, to wield a certain degree of authority over attributes.

Moreover, it only appeared non-combat at first glance. If all four sword kin were converted into Sword-attribute species, they would harmonize even more perfectly with Captain Doofus. It would effectively increase overall combat power.

Captain Doofus had grown stronger again. Yet because of that, the speed of the black mist accelerated further. Lu Ran, who was calm and unhurried, still had two special training sessions left before the final secret realm challenge.

One was a rules battle through Mystic Turtle, and the other was the infinite reincarnation training through Six-Path Flower. The former aimed to simulate combat with the Four Supreme Divine Dragons. The latter aimed to raise the proficiency of his familiars’ skills.

***

Imperial Palace.

In front of Lu Ran, there was a row of Primary-Divine familiars. It was an awe-inspiring lineup.

“Six-Path Flower,” Lu Ran called, looking at the flower that sighed.

After thinking it over, Lu Ran decided first to let Six-Path Flower borrow Blue Planet’s power to activate Infinite Reincarnation, so the whole team could raise their skill proficiencies. Not only would the familiars enter this reincarnation training, but Lu Ran, as their beastmaster, also needed to. His beastmaster skills also needed to reach peak proficiency.

Six-Path Flower looked at the eager bunch of blockheads and said, “This move consumes an enormous amount of energy. This is my first time activating it, so I can’t guarantee the outcome. Just don’t resist.”

Infinite Reincarnation generated a virtual world of reincarnation, allowing oneself or chosen lifeforms to relive their life trajectory. The only difference was that each life would major in different abilities. After countless reincarnations, all abilities within oneself would be refined to their highest limits.

Since Lu Ran and each familiar’s life trajectories overlapped heavily, Six-Path Flower chose to let everyone enter the same reincarnation world after they had all reached the Primary-Divine rank. This way, it was like putting the entire team into one server.

It was the same logic as Limitless City’s ascension realms. Opening a separate ascension realm for each user would cost far more than mass-matching multiple people into one.

“

Awoo~!

” Captain Doofus urged Six-Path Flower not to stall.

Hurry, hurry...

The next moment, Six-Path Flower’s vines wrapped it up, hanging it on the tree inside a bud.

Soon after, Sudden Death King and Dark Crow were also caught without exception, hung upon the Reincarnation Divine Tree that appeared as an illusory vision around Six-Path Flower.

“

Roar!

”

“

Caw?

”

Lu Ran’s idea was sound. Six-Path Flower matched the entire team into the same reincarnation world and began building its worldview. Suddenly, its expression changed.

“Blue Planet, Stellar Moon, the Divine Tree, and the Chaos Dragon God... I can construct those, but... I cannot reproduce Limitless City.”

Six-Path Flower’s reincarnation world could not manifest Limitless City at all. Without its link, the whole world began to distort.

It fell silent for a moment, then said, “Seems I can correct this. Forget it; no Limitless City then.”

With that, it also entered the reincarnation world. Due to world corrections, Lu Ran and his team’s story seemed to become a bit more difficult.

***

Snowfield Land.

A pure-blooded husky was born in the wild. Not long after its birth, it was caught in a cage, transported to Xia, and sent into a biological laboratory, where it suffered all sorts of extraordinary experiments. In its young heart, those left a deep trauma.

When an accident occurred in the lab, it dragged its broken body out and narrowly escaped. It eventually collapsed unconscious on a snowy roadside.

Its turning point of fate came when, in the snow, a hand reached out to it, lifted it into an embrace, and carried it home. The owner of that hand was none other than Lu Ran. Because of its past experiences and mental turmoil, Captain Doofus held strong hostility toward humans. It bit, growled, and even starved itself. Yet this human did not despise it for that.

Upon facing Doofus’ attack, the human youth smiled.

He easily pinned it to the ground and gave it a firm lesson. “This is the first time I’ve met such a difficult animal to communicate with. I’ll use you to practice my superpowers then.”

Gradually, the two became familiar. Captain Doofus began to sense that this human bore him no malice. Under his teaching, Captain Doofus even learned how to hold a sword in his mouth to perform tricks.

***

Not long after, at a reptile pet shop in Xia.

Sudden Death King began its lizard life there. First, it was purchased by the Five Poisons Saintess’ best friend and nearly raised to death. Then it was transferred to Fang Lan, under whose care it was also half-dead. Eventually, after many hands, it ended up with Lu Ran.

“Tell me, what environment do you need? Hot or cold? Dry or wet? Stop always shouting about sudden death. With me, you’ll find it hard to die.”

Because Lu Ran customized a large ecological simulation chamber for it according to its needs, Sudden Death King was able to live in comfort. From then on, “sudden death” became only a catchphrase. The red-eyed crocodile skink no longer faced the true danger of death.

***

Dark Crow was also born in Xia. After learning to fly, it lost its parents, wandering all around and surviving only on carrion. Because its species was seen as an ominous sign, it faced only rejection wherever it went. It was forced to drift, and it was a lone crow.

“Want to be my subordinate?”

That was, until it met Lu Ran and agreed to become his subordinate. At last, it found the first glimmer of light in its heart.

Lu Ran’s encounters with these animals of Blue Planet, Xia, and Green Sea were not much different from reality. The only difference was that this time, there was no Limitless City.

Even without Limitless City, spiritual energy revival still arrived. The nine-colored meteorite fell, Blue Planet mutated, all things evolved, and humans of Blue Planet awakened the unique ability of a beastmaster space.

The profession of beastmaster stepped onto the world stage. Lu Ran still followed the history of contracting Captain Doofus, Sudden Death King, and Dark Crow, walking onto the path of beastmastery.

However, without Limitless City as a training ground and without Limitless City providing skills and resources, his path was full of hardships. Not only for him, but for every beastmaster on Blue Planet. They could only start from scratch, creating their own beastmaster skills and exploring their growth.

Fortunately, Lu Ran had the Broken Horn of the Divine Deer, which supported them step by step, allowing them to press on steadily.

In the end, without the first, second, and third generations, everyone started on equal footing. With his special talents and Epic artifact, Lu Ran soon became the strongest beastmaster of Blue Planet and even discovered the teleportation ruin leading to Stellar Moon.

In this reincarnation, Captain Doofus specialized solely in cultivating Blizzard Sword Intent. Sudden Death King specialized only in cultivating the power of lightning. Dark Crow majored in that eerie Crow’s Curse ability.

Without Limitless City’s help, they could only cultivate their most basic strengths, with no place to learn dazzling other talents.

***

Reaching Stellar Moon, Lu Ran and his companions adventured, trained, and explored ruins. From one ruin’s amber, they discovered a weather sprite sealed since the Elemental Era until modern times. They awakened it, contracted it, and gained another familiar, freeing that adorable elemental creature from endless sleep.

***

Six-Path Flower was the most special. Its reincarnation training began from the Beastmaster Empire era. Once again, it lived as the Guardian Flower of the Nation, fighting alongside the Divine Tree and Void Grass against the Beast God’s lineage until its countless deaths.

Under the world’s correction, it was not entirely gone. It was luckily reincarnated. Even though it lost all of its memories, it was reborn as the Three-Life Flower and discovered and contracted by Lu Ran. Together, they climbed again toward the peak.

***

As for #18, Lu Ran urgently needed a mechanical assistant to share the burden, so he saved money to buy one. As his position in Stellar Moon World rose, he finally had the chance to purchase #18, rather than receiving it through Death Gun.

Although the process differed, without Limitless City, every familiar was still fortunate enough to meet Lu Ran. The most outrageous was Mystic Turtle. At first, Lu Ran had not contracted it, but it accidentally picked up a fragment of cosmic law in Green Sea and self-evolved into a law-bound lifeform that fit its personality.

Would Lu Ran let it go? Of course not.

The difficulty was that, without Limitless City’s help in growing stronger, this time, when faced with the revival of the Evil God, the awakening of the Chaos Dragon God, and other calamities, Lu Ran’s group at first had no power to resist.

And the disasters did not stop there. For unknown reasons, Blue Planet’s coordinates were exposed to the Stellar Moon World. Countless beasts and even Legendary divine beasts of Stellar Moon sought to conquer Blue Planet, revived in spiritual energy, as a new territory.

Compared to the Limitless City Era, this reincarnation world was far more chaotic. Only after Lu Ran spent decades within it, reaching the age of a hundred, did he, together with the ascended Six-Path Flower and the long-battling Divine Tree, resolve the calamities. At last, they gained the strength to shelter Blue Planet.

By then, less than one-tenth of humanity remained on the Stellar Moon Continent after persecution by Evil Gods and dragons. Blue Planet had also regressed into a barbaric age where its civilization needed to be rebuilt.

Through this century of experience, without infinite resources or spare time, each of Lu Ran’s familiars could only focus on a single attribute skill. They could only develop it to the most extreme by refining one move through a hundred trials to fight and to kill.

When this reincarnation ended, nearly a century of growth returned to each of them, giving them profound insight. However, in the outside world, only a little over half a month had passed.

In the palace, Lu Ran fell out of the bud hanging from the tree, landing headfirst, dazed. “That was so mysterious.”

If Limitless City didn’t exist, would I really have met my familiars in such ways? Hmm... Probably not. After all, Six-Path Flower did die. Without Limitless City, even the Divine Tree could hardly have revived it.

Lu Ran stretched out his hand and got up. In that reincarnation, he had majored in Super Beast Mimicry. What was once a Limitless City reward had become something he himself created with Captain Doofus by training in swordsmanship. It was truly incredible. In that reincarnation, the creator of Super Beast Mimicry was him.

Developed to the utmost, Super Beast Mimicry allowed him even to suppress Superior Legendaries alone, without depending on his familiars. He had pushed himself to the peak, all of his abilities stolen from each of his familiar.

Moments later, Captain Doofus, Sudden Death King, Dark Crow, Baby Cloud, #18, and Mystic Turtle all fell out of their buds, looking dazed. Each of them seemed to have mastered a perfected skill.

“Six-Path Flower is crazy strong. Skill points!”

Looking at them, Lu Ran confirmed that with Infinite Reincarnation, what normally took tens of thousands of years of cultivation, they could achieve in only a few years.

Six-Path Flower was the last to step out, landing gracefully, but feeling displeased. “It is strong, but think about my energy consumption, alright? This time, I relied on Blue Planet’s power to open Infinite Reincarnation. A few times is fine, but if used too many times, Blue Planet may wither of spiritual energy just like in the ancient era.

“I suggest, before starting the second reincarnation, we drag the Divine Tree here to reforest Blue Planet, cultivate more Spiritual Energy Mother Trees, and increase its spiritual energy coverage. It’s not like it has anything else to do.”