The air was near solidification.
The mbers of the Ten Thousand Spirit Silence Association were almost in despair because their chairman had beco a prisoner under a monster.
But when this scene happened, they couldn’t help but look over.
——What is this situation?
The Speaker of the Destruction Council had an uncertain look on his face and respectfully said:
"Your Excellency, I wonder if this proof I have can be used?"
The monster was silent for a mont.
A deadly silence covered the plain swathed with long hair.
Transford into the Death Spirit Crow, Wu Xiaode glided gently in the sky, his eyes firmly fixed on the Speaker on the ground.
Ti passed slowly.
At last, the monster opened its mouth and said:
"I have not received your token, but the bearer of this token is indeed one of your people, and he may be spared from death."
The Speaker was stunned.
One of our people?
Who?
Who would dare?
He couldn’t help but look around.
Apart from the dead elder, the other elders all stood immobilized around him.
But the monster had said——
"The bearer of this token is indeed one of your people, and he may be spared from death."
One of our people...
It could only be Arian.
The Speaker closed his eyes and carefully recalled what had happened in that instant.
A bronze hand had taken away the token.
Arian...
This damned boy!
The Speaker burst out with a heavy and terrible murderous intent; his gaze beca calm again as he said:
"I am the Speaker of the Destruction Council, and with my power, I can end the covenant with you."
"Indeed you can," admitted the monster.
"If I terminate the covenant with Your Excellency, then that token of just now naturally counts for nothing," said the Speaker.
"Without the covenant, I would certainly no longer protect you," the monster acknowledged once again.
"Then I announce that from this mont onward, our Destruction Council will no longer serve Your Excellency or the powerful force behind you," said the Speaker.
"You are seeking death; it’s strange, why should such a life as yours exist? Do you humans wish to self-destruct?" the monster asked.
The Speaker bowed respectfully and said:
"As for the boy who took my token, I hope Your Lordship will kill him; as for us—"
"After that boy dies, I will sign a new contract with You and serve Your and Your faction’s purposes."
No sooner had he spoken than countless strands of long hair shot up from the ground, forming sharp drills that pierced through the Speaker’s body.
He spat out blood; his body completely out of control, was pulled by the countless hairs—
It was torn asunder, turning into smithereens that scattered all over the place.
The monster caught the Speaker’s head.
"Did you think you could compel to kill for you?" it asked nacingly.
The Speaker’s head could still move; stuttering, he managed to say after a long mont, "Your Excellency, I ant no such thing!"
The monster snarled viciously:
"Silence! You ignorant servant."
"Years ago, your Destruction Council destroyed three hundred worlds, earning the privilege to serve us, and now you dare attempt to compel ? Despicable creature."
With a squeeze—
The Speaker’s head was instantly crushed into a lump of bloody mush.
He was dead!
He had finally died!
In the sky, the Death Spirit Crow turned its gaze towards the remaining elders.
If—
All these elders died—
Wouldn’t he, as the last surviving elder of the whole Destruction Council, be able to take the Council for himself?
On the ground.
The monster slowly lifted its head.
"Hidden treasure chest..."
It murmured and in a flash, disappeared from the surface.
Wu Xiaode suddenly found he could not move!
Two lines of ice crystal small print bubbled up from the Book of the Dead:
"All beings noticed by this monster will fall into a ’unable to move’ state."
"All beings noticed by this monster will fall into a ’unable to use Soul Power’ state."
This is bad!
I’ve been discovered!
He reacted extrely quickly, almost at the instant his body lost the ability to move, his mind responded.
A bronze hand erged from the Void, grabbed him, now in human form, and hurled him forcefully into the distant sky—
In a flash of lightning, Wu Xiaode wrapped in the silence Demon Mist, flew straight into the depths of the sky.
In his place appeared an elegant man assembled completely out of bronze arms—
Ulysses!
He had just appeared when he imdiately began to applaud the ascending monster, saying:
"Ah ha! You really are formidable, even I was discovered by you hiding in the sky."
The monster paused, looking at him.
Ulysses nodded and smiled, "I know what you’re looking for."
He directly fetched the token from the Void.
"LOOK, I have a token of immunity, you cannot kill ," said Ulysses.
"With the termination of the alliance, the token has already been nullified," said the monster in a grave tone.
Ulysses was at a loss for words for a mont.
Fortunately, Wu Xiaode’s telepathic ssage rang out in his mind.
He imdiately began to repeat Wu Xiaode’s words:
"Respectable and magnificent Excellency, we of the Destruction Council are but Your servants, how are we qualified to tear up the agreent?"
The monster looked at him coldly.
Ulysses declared loudly: "No! We serve eternally for You and Your goals; it is our glory, we are not entitled to refuse, nor will we ever abandon such a status!"
"So the covenant is still in effect!"
The monster slowly raised a hand, pointing at Ulysses:
"You are indeed one of the Destruction Council’s people, and more clever than that one just now, but sadly—"
"I only want to kill you now."
"As a servant, being killed by is just the natural order of things."
The hundreds of bronze hands that made up Ulysses’s body, as if struck by sothing, disintegrated into a flurry of golden debris.
The monster waited for a breath.
——No treasure chest appeared!
This ti, even the monster fell silent.
After a long while, it murmured:
"Ah... to use an ancient idiom, this is called ’the cicada sheds its skin.’"
"It seems the Destruction Council has produced a fine servant indeed."
"Interesting."
With one snatch in midair, the monster imdiately caught a clutch of the bronze debris not yet dissipated.
It seized the fragnts with one hand and with the other, it tore through the Void forcefully, exclaiming:
"Magic retrace, seek master!"
In an instant.
Wu Xiaode directly vanished from the distant sky and then appeared before the creature.
"Found you."
The creature growled.
Wu Xiaode had been flying high and enjoying himself when he was suddenly teleported back, and for a mont, he didn’t know what to do.
He had clearly run away.
——To be caught and brought back like this?
There was no other way, he could only face this situation.
"Hey, were you looking for ?"
He smiled and greeted the creature.
"Are you from the Destruction Council?" the creature asked with interest.
"Indeed, my na is Arian, I’m one hundred and eighty-five centiters tall, have a decent appearance, my hobbies include listening to music and playing basketball, and I can’t say who my favorite actress is just yet," Wu Xiaode introduced himself.
The creature peered through the Silent Demon Mist, taking another look at him.
——Wu Xiaode swore he would definitely enhance the Silent Demon Mist a few more levels next ti.
"You... have quite a bit of rit, you are a ’human’."
The creature said.
"I am human." Wu Xiaode nodded.
It was always better to be treated as a human rather than being killed as a monster and having one’s treasure taken.
The creature spoke in a programd tone:
"Please issue a quest. Only when I have completed your quest, will I take your treasure chest."
"You have three minutes to issue a quest, or I will erase you."
——This was exactly the sa situation Dolores had faced!
Could it be that he too would be enslaved by this creature?
No.
He absolutely refused!
As thoughts flickered rapidly through Wu Xiaode’s mind, he couldn’t help but ask:
"Can it be any kind of quest?"
The creature explained, "It must be sothing that has appeared in your human history; you can’t just think up so impossible task that could never be accomplished. If you do, I will erase you."
Sothing from human history?
Wu Xiaode thought back and forth, and an idea erged in his mind.
He couldn’t help but glance at the Book of the Dead.
Only to see a line of ti displayed on it:
"17 minutes and 29 seconds left until the 30 minutes are over."
minutes and 29 seconds.
In other words, as long as he could hold out for this period, he would pass the test of the Heroic Spirit and be able to return.
But how could one task endure such a lengthy ti?
Wu Xiaode’s gaze fell upon the creature.
——This was the creature summoned by the one holding the flag, its power was unfathomably dreadful.
What task in human history would require it to spend a lot of ti to accomplish?
...Probably none in actual history.
However, there might be a glimr of hope in so things created by humans.
At this mont, the creature spoke again:
"You have 59 seconds left. If you don’t state your quest in ti, I will erase you."
"I’ve got it, I’ve got it!" Wu Xiaode said.
The creature quietly looked at him.
"Right now, our status is ’Hatred’——do you understand this? Because we are in a life-and-death struggle with each other," Wu Xiaode said.
"Understood." the creature responded.
"My quest is——"
Wu Xiaode loudly declared, "You must achieve faction reputation with , changing my perception of you to ’Adoration’."
"’Hatred’ to ’Adoration’?" the creature asked.
"Yes, our relationship starts with ’Hatred’, going through ’Indifference’, ’Neutral’, ’Friendly’, ’Respect’, ’Fondness’, ’Reverence’, and finally ’Adoration’," Wu Xiaode explained.
"So, how should I complete this quest?" the creature inquired.
"How should I know? The quest is sothing that has appeared in human history, it’s for you to figure out," Wu Xiaode replied.
Suddenly, the creature began to laugh.
It issued a "heh heh heh" chuckle and said lightly:
"Do you really think by using this thod, you can prevent from obtaining your treasure chest?"
"Try it," Wu Xiaode said.
The creature slowly raised its hand——
Boom!
Countless grains of golden sand fell from the sky, amidst them lay a dense array of rare and exotic treasures, all landing on the plains not far away, forming a mountain.
Pointing at that mountain of treasures, the creature said:
"Look, those are the treasures I’ve collected from the ruins of countless worlds destroyed in ancient Epochs. They an nothing to us, but you beings treasure them greatly."
Wu Xiaode looked at the mountain of treasures, noticing that countless marvels had already begun to appear on it.
Indeed, they were magnificent treasures!
He couldn’t help thinking.
The creature then said, "Now, all these treasures are yours."
Wu Xiaode was stunned.
"You an to give them all to ?" he asked.
"Yes, wealth is the best tool for garnering reputation among beings," the creature stated.
"What if I don’t want it?" Wu Xiaode inquired.
"In the quest, you must accept; you cannot refuse," the creature replied.
"Okay then," Wu Xiaode sighed.
In a flash, the mountain transford into a briefcase, which landed in front of Wu Xiaode.
Wu Xiaode caught the briefcase.
Clang!
A line of text suddenly appeared above his head:
"The creature has brushed up your reputation."
"It seems you’re no longer so full of hatred towards it."
"Your relationship has entered the ’Indifference’ phase."
Wu Xiaode couldn’t help scratching his head.
Alas.
Being forced to accept so many fine things, he truly couldn’t bring himself to hate it.
Besides, the Council Leader was also killed by it.
——If only he could stall for more ti, he had to hold out until half an hour had passed!
He made up his mind and addressed the creature, "That—do you intend to continue bolstering my reputation?"
The creature paused briefly, filled with puzzlent as it said:
"With so many unparalleled treasures at hand, I thought it would boost your reputation straight to ’Adoration’. Why has it only reached ’Indifference’?"
"Because I’ve seen many treasures and I’m not so naive little girl who can be bought with a bit of money—please keep trying hard," Wu Xiaode encouraged.
The creature thought for a mont, mulling over and over, and finally couldn’t help saying:
"You humans really know how to tornt yourselves, why force oneself through such tedious and torturous tasks?"
"Co on, aren’t you going to boost my reputation? Play your ga," Wu Xiaode said earnestly.
——He was genuinely curious.
What else could this creature produce to buy him off?
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