Chapter 617

Chapter 617: The Success of An Li

“As you all know, I need the treasures of the Four Spirits for my cultivation. Now that the barriers between the Nine Heavens are gone, there’s no distinction between the Nine Heavens and the Outer Domain. So I’ve found many locations of the Four Spirit treasures, and I hope you fellow Daoists can help me retrieve them.”

“In this matter, I owe you all a favor.”

“Ah, Fellow Daoist Lu is being too polite. We’ve all made great progress thanks to your teachings. It’s just a matter of fetching something; there’s no need to mention owing favors.”

“If we’re talking about debts, then we all owe Fellow Daoist Lu a colossal one. Don’t you think so?”

“Absolutely! Just fetching an item! Fellow Daoist Lu, you needn’t be so gracious with us.”

“Indeed, indeed!”

Lu Ye wore a smile on his face.

“Well then, thank you all! Now let me tell you where the locations are.”

With a bunch of Quasi-Emperors assisting him in searching for the Four Spirit treasures, Lu Ye definitely got a huge weight off his shoulders.

Once the Quasi-Emperors got the locations, they left in a hurry.

Lu Ye pondered for a moment and decided to send cultivators from the Ruler Realm to hunt down the Four Spirit treasures he needed.

Lu Ye followed through a series of tasks before starting to condense his eighth life.

The resources he lacked were already collected, not by Lu Ye himself, but voluntarily sent by his enemies.

Lu Ye couldn’t refuse; it felt too awkward to do so.

Time slowly passed.

On another side.

Inside the dimensional space.

A plump, cute, white, squishy bug was currently snoozing.

This was the Dimensional Celestial Bug. An Li was quite the awesome character; she could find anything.

Inside this Dimensional Celestial Bug, one could also see a cluster of black insect seals emanating a terrifying aura.

While the aura was terrifying, it was also weak; it felt as if a powerful being had brought themselves to the brink of exhaustion.

Along with this insect seal, countless black spiders were currently gnawing on the Dark Beginning Insect Seal bit by bit, but because the insect seal was spider-like in shape, it was hard to see clearly.

The black spiders continued to split, each division multiplying exponentially.

Of course, many spider corpses were constantly falling, like fine sand.

“Are you from the Dark Clan?”

A vague but enraged voice echoed, belonging to the Dark Origin God.

Among the black spiders came the voice of An Li.

“Hehehe, yes, esteemed deity.”

“Since you’re from the Dark Clan and recognize me as a deity, what you’re doing now is betrayal!” The Dark Origin God’s voice was chilling.

“Betrayal?”

When An Li said those two words, her tone was particularly peculiar.

Since her reincarnation, it seemed the most common word she had heard was “betrayal.”

“I only belong to myself, not anyone else. Everything I do now is to become stronger for myself. Why call it betrayal?” An Li asked, perplexed.

“I am the god of your Dark Clan. When you were desperate, I saved you and left you a place to survive!”

“Sure, thank you, deity. And then what?”

The Dark Origin God nearly spat blood.

“Is this how you repay your god, your savior?”

“Well, what else should I do?”

An Li replied as if it were obvious.

“You saved our ancestors, which makes you our god, but you’ve never given me a single benefit. You probably don’t know, but I am the new generation Saintess of the Dark Clan. To stand here and communicate with you, I’ve paid an unimaginably painful price.”

“Shouldn’t it be your time to compensate me now?”

The Dark Origin God realized that speaking to a woman like this was utterly pointless.

But he was furious!

Originally, while self-detonating, he sensed the movement of another Dark Beginning Insect Seal and was overjoyed, thinking it was a new opportunity.

So he preserved his Dao, retaining the last remnants of his essence, merely destroying his physical body.

He successfully merged part of himself into the Dark Beginning Insect Seal. As long as he entered it and got enough energy, he’d quickly return to the status of a Saint.

Yet, upon merging into the Dark Beginning Insect Seal, he discovered it was a complete trap.

This insect seal had long been soaked in a special energy; once he entered, everything stuck to it as if trapped in a massive, dense web, completely encasing him.

The web had probably been woven for ages.

He had no way to struggle.

Now he could only watch helplessly as the black spiders gnawed away at everything he had.

The Dark Origin God realized he was completely done for.

Had he known it would come to this, he would have preferred to self-detonate and end it all.

“Forget it. Forget it.”

The Dark Origin God felt disheartened.

The people of this world were simply…

Damn, as expected of the Ancestral Land of the Nine Heavens; it made his scalp tingle.

All he wanted now was to become a wise ghost.

“Was my arrival all part of your plot?” the Dark Origin God asked.

“Not exactly. Originally, I was plotting against you, but things went awry midway. I thought you wouldn’t get a chance to arrive, or that you’d be directly killed by my husband upon arrival. I never expected it would turn out like this.”

An Li was defeated, and she had almost resigned herself.

But she didn’t expect that in the end, the situation would take a turn for the better.

“Can you let me be a wise ghost?” the Dark Origin God asked.

He was truly bewildered.

Damn, you’re all trying to cultivate, but instead of competing for strength, you’re up to all sorts of bizarre things. Shouldn’t being strong be what matters in the cultivation world?

How did it end up like this?

An Li was currently reveling in her joy of victory.

“Sorry, after you die, you won’t become a ghost!”

The Dark Origin God…

“I damn well know that! No need for you to remind me!”

An Li was not angry at all.

She was genuinely happy. If it weren’t for her happiness, if the Dark Origin God dared to speak to her like that, she’d definitely make him apologize!

But since she was in a good mood now, she wouldn’t make him apologize.

“Well then, I’ll let you be a wise ghost!”

Although An Li said that, there was no room for delay in devouring the entire Dark Origin God.

She deeply understood the saying that villains die from talking too much, but she just couldn’t help herself!

“This story actually has to start from the last life…”