Chapter 619 - Confetti for Clearing the Game! (Finale) (Part 1)

“You really were a good comrade of the Divine Tree.”

Six-Path Flower’s suggestion sounded reasonable. As it said, the Divine Tree had nothing better to do.

Lu Ran smiled. Now that the whole team had reached Primary-Divine level, it was time to ask whether the Divine Tree was willing to join the campaign for the final secret realm. Although he was not close with the Divine Tree, clearing out the black mist mattered to every lifeform in this star domain. If they failed to resolve it, the Divine Tree could not stay untouched either.

He currently commanded seven Primary-Divine familiars and held enough standing to speak as an equal with the Divine Tree that had started the Plant Era.

“Then let’s head back to Stellar Moon once more.” Lu Ran looked at each of his familiars in turn.

***

Secret Realm of the World’s Root, Stellar Moon.

Lu Ran arrived hand-in-hand with Six-Path Flower shortly afterward. The Divine Tree seemed to have already known he would come, having prepared flower tea and spirit fruit.

Lu Ran sat on a slab of stone and smiled at the towering Divine Tree whose swaying branches filled the view ahead.

“Big Tree, have you thought about what we discussed last time?”

During this period, Lu Ran had actually asked the Divine Deer to help persuade the Divine Tree. Judging from the Divine Tree’s silence, the effort seemed to have had some effect.

“What do you think?” The Divine Tree asked Six-Path Flower, the only familiar currently at Lu Ran’s side.

Six-Path Flower said impatiently, “

Ugh,

so fussy. It isn’t even a big deal. Once the fighting ends, just have him dissolve the contract with you.”

The Divine Tree looked at Six-Path Flower, who had completely switched to Lu Ran's side, and felt slightly sour. To be honest, it had never thought that one day it would sign a contract with a human and become a human’s plant familiar.

However, given Lu Ran’s final battle concerned the fate of all Stellar Moon and Six-Path Flower’s survival, the Divine Tree could only say helplessly, “Since that’s the case, then this time, let us be comrades once again.”

The Divine Tree gazed at Lu Ran. For Six-Path Flower’s sake, what harm was there in taking the field one more time, even if their opponent was the projections of the Four Supreme Divine Dragons?

“As long as you’ve decided.” Lu Ran laughed heartily and took out the contract card he had long prepared.

“This is the pass to Limitless City?”

Lu Ran tossed out the contract card. “More or less. Don’t resist.”

The instant it touched the Divine Tree, the secret realm trembled, and star-like radiance flooded out to wrap the world. Very quickly, the Divine Tree’s true body, which was connected to the entire Stellar Moon World, rumbled as it was drawn into the card.

In truth, familiars controlled by a Mythical beastmaster tended to be Low through Superior Legendary species. For Lu Ran to sign one Primary-Divine familiar after another had already surpassed the pinnacle of Mythical beastmasters.

Unfortunately, because of the Four Supreme Divine Dragons and Limitless City’s restrictions, he could only suppress his level to Mythical for now. From this alone, one could tell that Limitless City was intentionally controlling the growth ceiling of all species in these two worlds to prevent the black mist from accelerating.

“What can I do?”

A moment later, Lu Ran released the Primary-Divine Divine Tree again, and Six-Path Flower’s face spread with a smile.

“There’s still some time before the final battle. Help us grow stronger first. I’ve been using reincarnation to help Lu Ran and the others raise their skill proficiencies, but that consumes Blue Planet’s power. With Blue Planet’s foundation, I fear it won’t hold for long. I need you to go to Blue Planet and plant trees with the world’s power!”

The Divine Tree went quiet.

“You want one tree to cover the training consumption of several Primary-Divine beings?”

It regretted the decision. Even the Divine Tree worried that before it could take part in the final battle, Lu Ran’s group would drain it dry.

Lu Ran smiled. “Don’t worry, don’t worry. You won’t be the only one. How about I find you another Primary-Divine teammate?”

Having just recruited the Divine Tree as a temporary utility hand, Lu Ran still wasn’t satisfied. He had one more utility hand left unrevived. It was the Torch Dragon.

With his current strength, he was likely able to negotiate with the Torch Dragon. Would the Torch Dragon still dare to say his strength was lacking? If the Torch Dragon was willing to be contracted for a period, they would fight together. If not, Manager Ying would be very happy.

Next, Lu Ran began summoning Captain Doofus, Sudden Death King, and Dark Crow one after another, assembling all of his Primary-Divine familiars. Immediately after, he had #18 summon the heroic spirit of Torch Dragon that possessed self-awareness.

The gigantic Torch Dragon appeared. “You lot!”

The Torch Dragon’s heroic spirit regained awareness in a daze. It was about to rage and accuse #18 of toying with its faith-spirit, but when it realized there were eight Primary-Divine beings around it, it instantly fell silent.

Lu Ran folded his arms and asked, “Torch Dragon, can you listen to reason now? All dragons must die, light as a feather or weighty as Mount Tai. You get that, right?

“I know you don’t fear death, but rather than dying without waves like in your original timeline, don’t you want to try challenging a stronger, cosmic level? Don’t you want to try saving this world? Even if you fall in the process, you would at least die with greater worth.”

The Divine Tree glanced at the big guy and felt that, at full power, this fellow might be stronger than itself. Heck, it was likely stronger than any of Lu Ran’s familiars at present, too. Unfortunately, two fists could not beat four hands.

The Torch Dragon stayed silent for a long time. “

Hehe.

As expected of the human beastmaster who passed my trial.”

***

With the Divine Tree and Torch Dragon in the lineup, their reincarnation training became far more convenient, and Lu Ran promised them he would dissolve the contracts and free them once the final battle ended.

Conveniently, Six-Path Flower didn’t need to help the Divine Tree and Torch Dragon raise skill proficiencies. They would purely serve as utility hands to provide energy. Whether the Divine Tree or Torch Dragon, they were ancient monsters that had lived for a very long time. Their skill levels had already been honed to the peak through endless years and battles, unlike Captain Doofus, Sudden Death King, and Dark Crow, who had only been alive for a few years before becoming Primary Divine. They barely had any battles at all and little time to train skill proficiencies.

Even Six-Path Flower, a bigshot who had reincarnated, only possessed sub-Legendary skill proficiencies, and many of its newly learned talent abilities still needed refinement.

Back then, the reason they could suppress the Chaos Dragon God so easily was mainly because the Chaos Dragon God had slumbered for ages and had just recovered, and then got suppressed by the Divine Tree for months. To break free, it had burned much of its power.

Plus, it was a group beatdown. A perfect Chaos Dragon God could have defeated Baby Cloud, Six-Path Flower, and #18 in one-on-one fights. This had nothing to do with growth potential. The Chaos Dragon God had simply accumulated more time at Primary Divine.

But now, after countless reincarnations, Captain Doofus, Sudden Death King, and Dark Crow, who had only recently stepped into Primary Divine, were no longer those three-to-five-year-old cubs. Although their actual ages in reality might still be small, they had endured the grind of hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of years across many reincarnations.

Any single one of them possessed skill experience equal to or exceeding that of the Divine Tree and Torch Dragon. Although Six-Path Flower was not a combat familiar, it reached the pinnacle in support. From the moment it met Lu Ran, it had helped him raise familiars, and even now at Primary Divine, it remained the team’s indispensable core.

***

In a flash, three years passed, bringing many changes. Although Lu Ran’s team focused on reincarnation training and paid little attention to the outside world, they still knew many new powerhouses had emerged.

Gu Qingyi, Fang Lan, and Shi Zhen had all stepped into Epic-Legendary with the help of Limitless City. Of course, that level was easy to reach in comparison to Mythical.

The Ice Emperor, Divine Throne, Sprite Queen, Mechanical Leader, and other Stellar Moon Epic-Legendaries kept challenging ascension realms, but breaking through to Mythical was hellish for most, though for Lu Ran it was as easy as clocking in.

Even the Ice Emperor, who had a Legendary familiar, failed his first Mythical ascension instance and had to lie low for half a year to recover. The Divine Throne, Sprite Queen, and Mechanical Leader also failed multiple times.

This was related to permissions. Lu Ran had a death-immunity mechanic. No matter the ascension mission, he dared to gamble for a high score without fearing death.

However, ordinary beastmasters with no such immunity had to be cautious. They would rather give up the mission than risk it. After all, you only had one life. From this, one could see how powerful Limitless City’s super admin privilege was.

And now, Lu Ran, who was the holder of Limitless City's super admin privilege, had vanished for a long while. He no longer showed himself. Many people suspected he had retired, gotten married, and started raising kids.

Even though Lu Ran kept a low profile, tales of him filled both worlds. After all, when he had forcefully taken Stellar Moon and become the King of Stellar Moon, news returned to Blue Planet and set its beastmasters into a frenzy for quite a while.

Soon after, the cross-world channel between Stellar Moon and Blue Planet fully opened, and Lu Ran’s name became even louder.

“The super admin privilege alone already lets me sail so smoothly. What if it were the ultimate privilege?”

Unlike three years ago, Lu Ran now stood on the palace’s loft, his expression weathered. After countless reincarnations, although he had erased many unnecessary daily memories, even just the important ones nearly filled his brain. He almost could not tell reincarnation from reality.

When he truly could not distinguish them, he had to bring Captain Doofus and the others out for long stretches of special training to ease the blur.

As he stood on the loft in the wind, a light-screen appeared beside him. “Lu Ran, Lu Ran.”

On it, a purple-haired girl’s face popped up.

“What is it?” Lu Ran looked at Fang Lan on the screen.

𝚏𝐫𝚎𝗲𝕨𝐞𝐛𝕟𝚘𝐯𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝗺

Fang Lan huffed. “Tomorrow is my mom’s birthday! She’s asking if you’re coming. Quit training already. Look at you! You're only twenty-something, yet you carry yourself like an old man.”

Lu Ran curled his lip. “I'm not going. If I go, she will nag me to find a girlfriend again.”

As he spoke, Lu Ran gave Fang Lan a strange look. Speaking of which... even though he was still a virgin in reality, in reincarnation, he seemed to have started families multiple times.

In several of them, Fang Lan was even the bride. Lu Ran refused to imagine it. There was even a time when the Divine Deer arranged a marriage, pairing him with the other Divine Deer messenger, Bai Lu. It was ridiculous. Luckily, it had all been illusions.

Fang Lan said, “Fine, don’t come then. But Uncle Lu and Auntie Lu... is there still no news?”

Lu Ran shook his head. In the three years, many dead Limitless City beastmasters had revived, but his parents alone remained missing. He subconsciously judged that they had died during the final resurrection trial and failed to pass by luck.

However, it didn’t matter. As long as he cleared the final secret realm and obtained the ultimate privilege, he could still revive everyone who had died because of Limitless City.

“I can barely improve any further. It’s time to challenge the final secret realm.”

Lu Ran hadn’t expected that after just three years, he would hit the ceiling. First, repeated reincarnations made them prone to addiction, blurring reincarnation and reality.

Second, so many reincarnations had already honed every familiar’s craft to the peak. There was little left to raise. During that time, Lu Ran had also filled all of the trait gaps among his familiars. Now he faced a choice.

Although the black mist still expanded, it was still far from Blue Planet. He could choose to wait a long time or take the peak they held now and challenge the final secret realm.

Lu Ran shook his head. “Let’s go challenge it soon, before the Four Supreme Divine Dragons fail to hold on and die to the black mist. I promised their kin I would save them. They have helped us a lot all these years, so I won’t break my promise.”

With that, Lu Ran began calling his familiars one by one, plus two temporary outside helpers. With a super lineup of nine Primary Divines and Lu Ran himself, who, with Super Beast Mimicry perfected, could rival a Primary Divine... the Four Supreme Divine Dragons were nothing but nails to be hammered.