Beating Instances through Words Left by the Dead

Chapter 270: Chapter 177: Picking Fruit (Part 2)

The boss behind the scenes of the New Cosmos Sect invited him over. Would there be no reaction from the Revelation side?

He didn’t think those guys would always remain hidden, waiting to appear only after he and the New Cosmos Sect determined a winner.

After all, Li Zaisi’s apparent identity was still as the biggest supporter of the New Cosmos Sect. If their two forces cooperated, Revelation would be left out completely.

It shouldn’t be long before they come knocking.

Late at night, the call from the deep sea resounded once again. The call seemed to grow stronger the longer the Star Jump stayed in the Shipwreck Belt.

In the beginning, the call merely caused students and women, and some passengers in the arts domain, to sleepwalk.

By tonight, even mentally strong, physically robust adult men began to be affected.

Not to mention ordinary people; even Wu Chang’s secretary and the Four Great Vajra reported hearing a faint rustling sound in their ears.

For this reason, Wu Chang called back Cui Chengze, who planned to stay up all night to arrange a mystical ceremony, to ask whether he had encountered a similar call during his time trapped in the Shipwreck Belt.

It’s only been a few days since entering the Shipwreck Belt, yet the call is already affecting Cyan Dragon and others. If it’s really as Cui Chengze said, according to normal procedures, the Star Jump needs to stay in the Shipwreck Belt for thirty days. He very much doubts whether, by the time the Star Jump leaves the Shipwreck Belt, there will be any survivors besides players.

Cui Chengze frowned in thought for a while, then said, ”I can confirm that when the Louis was trapped in the Shipwreck Belt, there were no passengers sleepwalking, let alone jumping into the sea while sleepwalking.”

”After the sacrifice was over, during the period when I was trapped alone in the Shipwreck Belt, I vaguely heard some call, but it wasn’t strong; I couldn’t hear it clearly no matter how hard I tried.”

Wu Chang’s expression turned a bit serious upon hearing this, although he wasn’t sure what was hidden in the deep sea, his inspiration told him that thing was very dangerous.

”What do you think it could be?”

Cui Chengze shook his head and said, ”I don’t know. Before this voyage, I always thought it was the Dragon King calling to me.”

Wu Chang wanted to say, if that thing were the Dragon King, you wouldn’t be making it back to shore.

Maybe he could ask Zheng Ruiyuan when he met her, whether the Peaceful Sect’s choice to establish an Earthly Divine Kingdom on this plane was related to whatever is in the deep sea.

He set aside the deep sea call for the moment and asked Cui Chengze:

”How is the ceremony progressing, do you need any help?”

Cui Chengze opened his laptop, and on the overhead view of the Star Jump that he had previously shown Wu Chang, nearly a third of the area was marked green.

”The progress is even smoother than I imagined. The framework of the ceremony has been completed, and if the New Cosmos Sect guys keep staying on the fourth floor and don’t interfere with me, perhaps I can complete the ceremony’s arrangement before tomorrow’s sundown.”

Wu Chang looked at Cui Chengze with slight surprise and praised him, ”Such fast progress.”

Cui Chengze proudly puffed out his chest, ”Who do you think I am? I am the top mystical practitioner of Gao Mu Country. That day, some punk tried to bully this old man using his youth, but when it comes to arranging mystical ceremonies, he may not be able to beat me.”

At that moment, a knock was heard at the door, and the secretary outside said:

”Boss, someone wants to see you.”

The shadow beneath the desk squirmed, a head protruded from it, and a low voice said, ”The other party is an unfamiliar faction with considerable strength. The werewolf you asked me to investigate is among them.”

Wu Chang raised an eyebrow and said, ”Let them in.”

The secretary opened the door, and four men and a woman walked in from outside. Wu Chang glanced at them and could sense three were players.

The first to enter was a man in his forties; upon entering, he didn’t look at Wu Chang but was surprised to see Cui Chengze.

”Chairman Cui, why are you here?”

Cui Chengze said, ”Here for a vacation. Vice-chairman Yin, why are you here?”

The middle-aged man said, ”We aren’t here for a vacation; we specifically came for the New Cosmos Sect.”

After a brief greeting between the two, the middle-aged man nodded to Wu Chang and said:

”President Li, I’m Yin Junhao, vice-chairman of the mystical research association of Gao Mu Country. I’m curious how much Chairman Cui has told you about our association.”

The mystical research association of Gao Mu Country was what Cui Chengze once mentioned, the underground mystical circle of Gao Mu Country.

After someone overturned the underground mystical circle, Cui Chengze became the chairman of the mystical research association, and the person in front of him, Yin Junhao, was the previous chairman.

Wu Chang said expressionlessly, ”What can be said has been said.”

Yin Junhao smiled and said, ”In that case, it saves me the effort of explaining. Since President Li is already familiar with our association, Chairman Cui must have demonstrated mysticism to you, right?”

Wu Chang nodded.

Yin Junhao continued, ”Our association was ostensibly established fifty years ago, but in reality, it has been secretly protecting Gao Mu Country for hundreds of years. Every member of the association is from a historically renowned mystical family.”

Saying this, Yin Junhao glanced at Cui Chengze with slight provocation, ”Even Chairman Cui’s family once was part of this domain.”

”The long heritage has allowed us to grasp many unknown secrets, secrets that even the former royal family and the current dominant families controlling national power may not know.”

”Like what is happening on the Star Jump now.”

Wu Chang slightly turned his gaze to look at Cui Chengze.

Cui Chengze’s expression turned slightly awkward; it was clear that although he relied on having strong fighting prowess to become chairman, his family’s decline over the years meant he was unaware of the secrets Yin Junhao mentioned.

If he knew, he wouldn’t have investigated alone after leaving the Shipwreck Belt all these years.

Yin Junhao also glanced at Cui Chengze, showing a victorious expression on his face.

”President Li, your family has always treated the New Cosmos Sect as a political tool, sponsoring them just to gain social influence. But you didn’t know, although the New Cosmos Sect is a new sect, the god they worship is an ancient Evil God.”

”Ever since the New Cosmos Sect grew, they’ve been secretly conducting sacrifices, exchanging the flesh and soul of living individuals for ominous energy from that Evil God. The Sea Song and Wave Breaker we’ve encountered were crimes they’ve committed.”

Wu Chang feigned as a local of the plane, asking, ”Since Vice-chairman Yin, you always knew about the New Cosmos Sect’s conspiracy, why don’t you come out to stop or accuse them of their crimes?”

Yin Junhao’s face changed, adopting a solemn, devout expression.

”Because the Lord tells us it’s not time yet.”

Wu Chang: ”Hmm?”

Yin Junhao explained, ”Although our mystical research association also has a belief, we worship the world’s will, the source of mysticism, the supreme True God, unlike the Evil God worshipped by the New Cosmos Sect.”

Wu Chang: ...

Neither of your groups are good things, how are you still trying to one-up each other?

Yin Junhao: ”Disrupting the New Cosmos Sect’s actions can only temporarily halt their conspiracy. The Evil God they have always worshipped still exists, allowing possible emergence of the Old Cosmos, New Century, or New New Cosmos Sect.”

”Only by delivering a decisive blow at a critical junction can we truly injure them, shattering their conspiracies spanning hundreds of thousands of years.”

Wu Chang nodded, translating Yin Junhao’s words into plain language meant they came to reap the rewards.

Wu Chang’s gaze swept over Yin Junhao and the people behind him. The first person he saw was a tall, robust Mid Country man with a straight back that marked him as military.

According to the intelligence gathered by the shadows, this officer named Evans was the werewolf competing for Cui Chengze, with the alias Blood Wolf as a player.

Next to Blood Wolf was a woman from Gao Mu Country, barely over one and a half meters tall, appearing twenty-three or twenty-four years old.

Her face was pale, with faint dark circles, she looked both frail and haggard, but Wu Chang could sense through his inspiration that the woman’s power was not much less than Evans’.

Beside the woman, positioned at the furthest edge, was a young man with ordinary looks.

If fishermen have the typical fisherman’s face, this man has the typical passerby face, the kind that would get lost in a crowd in a blink.

The young man’s aura was quite weak, even weaker than the woman’s, but having witnessed the fisherman’s resentment, Wu Chang could recognize him as the mysterious individual who destroyed the fisherman, taking over his flesh.

Wu Chang turned his gaze back to Yin Junhao and asked, ”What do you plan to do?”