Chapter 24

Ning Yue is currently still being pursued by the Divine Realm, so when he wants to change his identity, he must make adequate preparations. He needs an excuse to disappear, and perhaps a new identity to appear. These matters, Feili can help him arrange properly.

The cultivation of soul power, the opening of the Life Soul, and the refinement of the Life Soul diagram, the highest rank can only be tenth, and no single Life Soul diagram can break this limit. However, in the Divine Realm, there are talented individuals who have created methods to combine several Life Soul diagrams to push them to higher ranks.

The requirement for combining Life Soul diagrams is to use as few Life Soul diagrams as possible to combine into a higher-rank super virtual image. This is because the time and energy required to cultivate a single Life Soul diagram to its peak are extremely large. Too many Life Soul diagrams combined would mean that ordinary people do not have the lifespan to complete them. Even someone like Ning Yue, who is immortal, is unwilling to spend ten times the time to cultivate for just a fraction of the effect.

For Ning Yue, time is actually even more precious. The more infinite time one has, the more one realizes its value, because time can be exchanged for anything—money, power, wealth, wisdom, knowledge, strength, and even love and friendship. But there is nothing that can exchange for time, not even a microsecond, which cannot be bought back with a mountain of gold.

A few hundred years can make a complacent deity stagnate without any improvement, or it can allow a mortal to start from scratch, gain a divine position, and thus stand on equal footing with the former, or even trample them underfoot.

Unexpectedly obtaining the divine crystal from Luo Xuan gave Ning Yue a new choice, leading him to decide to abandon his current identity.

After being exhausted for a whole night, Ning Yue decided to give up this identity and did not go to school. Instead, he called his homeroom teacher, saying he was sick and needed to take a few days off.

Ning Yue, being such a good student, has many privileges. The teacher easily approved his leave and instructed him to rest well and not forget to review his lessons, among other caring and educational words.

Ning Yue put down the phone and rested for another two to three hours before leaving Feili's residence to find Luo Xuan.

He wanted to return to the Dark World and take Luo Xuan with him, thus completing this transaction. Luo Xuan staying in this city would ultimately be a danger, possibly attracting other people from the Divine Realm.

What surprised Ning Yue was that he hadn't walked far when he saw a young man with a smile as gentle as a spring breeze, a slightly childish face, and an innocent and harmless appearance.

He couldn't help but curse and called out from a distance, "Xu Xun! What do you want? I've had enough trouble recently and don't want any more."

Xu Xun pointed to the person beside him and said apologetically, "This time it's not me who wants to find you, but this lady who wants to find you. Someone asked me to be the intermediary, so I brought her here."

Only then did Ning Yue have the mood to glance at the woman beside Xu Xun. This girl was a foreigner, with an expression as cold as an iceberg, seemingly never to melt. She had exquisite features, absolutely top-tier beauty, and her blonde hair was styled in a neat, professional manner, making her look sharp and capable.

"I am the land deity of this city. I came here to investigate my sister's murder. I hope you can provide me with as much help as possible."

The tone of the woman's words was very strong. Ning Yue glanced at Xu Xun, who also had a helpless expression and indicated with his eyes that he was not familiar with this woman.

Ning Yue directly pursed his lips and said, "I am the land deity of this city, but I am not your nanny. If you want my cooperation, give me an authorization token from my superior."

The sharp and capable blonde girl immediately took out a document and handed it to Ning Yue.

Ning Yue chuckled, didn't even look at it, and threw it back, saying to Xu Xun, "How can you even deal with such a person? Does she know which department the land deity belongs to? To bring me such a thing? You brought her, you explain it to her."

Ning Yue sighed, covering his eyes in frustration. He really didn't expect this foreign girl to be so unreasonable. He could only sigh and say, "Wu Ji asked me to bring this woman here. I can't explain this to her, let someone else do it."

Ning Yue exclaimed in surprise, "Why would Wu Ji get involved in this?"

Wu Ji is a figure from the end of the Shang Dynasty and the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty, much older than Ning Yue, about a few thousand years older. Due to his lack of talent, he was never able to become a deity, and his strength had long hit a bottleneck. Therefore, he voluntarily returned to the main world and became the spokesperson for all the ancients who had gone to the Dark World and gained power, with very high prestige.

Ning Yue stayed in the main world under the identity of Fu Qingzhu, so he had some interactions with Wu Ji and knew this person.

Xu Xun shrugged and said, "I don't know."

The sharp and capable blonde girl was furious and said coldly, "My sister and three colleagues came to China on a mission and died under mysterious circumstances. I must investigate this. Since you dare to shirk responsibility, I will have the Free City send an official letter, and see how long you can shirk it."

This blonde foreign girl turned and left. Ning Yue and Xu Xun looked at each other, and finally couldn't help but burst out laughing. Ning Yue laughed a bit maliciously, while Xu Xun laughed a bit helplessly.

This blonde girl might think she can pressure them with the Free City, but she doesn't know that Xu Xun is not even Chinese; he is a deity of Penglai. As for Ning Yue, he is a servant deity appointed by another Heavenly Court of the Eastern Four Divine Realms, and does not belong to any bureaucratic system of the main world.

After the blonde girl left, Ning Yue suddenly realized and couldn't help but think, "Could she be investigating the four foreigners I killed yesterday? If so, I can't let her live. This matter, they don't want to end, and I haven't planned to end it either!"

While Ning Yue was pondering this, Xu Xun couldn't help but ask, "This foreign woman, her sister and three colleagues entered this city yesterday, but news of their deaths spread this morning. Is this related to you?"

Ning Yue said nonchalantly, "In the past few days, three groups of people have tried to kill me. I retaliated and killed two of them. One person controlled a demon and possessed an ordinary person to kill me. I haven't found this person yet, so he escaped."

Xu Xun drew a cold breath and then asked, "So, you did kill those four foreigners?"

Ning Yue said, "I did kill four foreigners, but I don't know if they are the ones she is looking for. However, recently, there might be many wrongfully dead ghosts in this city. These few people are not enough to see."

Ning Yue smiled slightly, with an indescribable chill in his smile.

---

[AD begins]

[AD ends]