Chapter 165.165
The Archbishop’s True Purpose
Chapter 165.165
The Archbishop’s True Purpose
With Mu Qingtong’s low shout, Xia Feng’s eyes became clear, and he suddenly woke up!
“Hmm?” The woman in his mind’s ethereal voice was surprised, “A woman’s voice? Little Feng, who is she?”
Xia Feng’s eyelids twitched. He was ultimately careless. He didn’t expect Sister Yi to be able to mentally control him directly through her voice, ignoring the distance.
If it weren’t for Mu Qingtong, he might have lost the battle.
“Gong Changyi, what do you mean?” Xia Feng’s tone was unfriendly.
“Oh, don’t be angry, Little Feng. Sister was just joking with you~”
“Heh~” Xia Feng couldn’t be bothered to deal with this guy anymore, he casually threw down the Blood-Eye Mask and disconnected.
“Little Feng~ Little Feng?”
“Hmm? Are you still there?”
“Hey— where did they go!”
“Ran off again…”
“Tsk~”
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“Thanks just now.” Xia Feng looked up at the black-dressed woman, his tone serious.
Mu Qingtong slowly lowered her hand, frowned, and said softly, “Be careful in the future. Your mental power is so low, don’t touch random things.”
“I know, I know.” Xia Feng replied helplessly, “This was purely an accident. I didn’t expect sound could directly affect the mind…”
“Hey! Can you two stop chatting? Do you still want the White Jade Glazed Vase?” The snow-skirt woman, with some mud on her little face, stood under the tree, pursing her lips unhappily.
“Coming, coming.”
Xia Feng and the other walked to the tree. Cha Nai Xue held a palm-sized flower resembling a white lotus in her palm. The stamen emitted a milky white halo, and the petals were as crystal clear as glazed glass.
“It indeed is the White Jade Glazed Vase.” Xia Feng nodded in satisfaction and looked back at the black-dressed woman, “Let’s go, Miss Mu, let’s find a place to advance to the Third-stage!”
Mu Qingtong was startled and asked, “Now?”
“Of course, time waits for no one.”
Along with the White Jade Glazed Vase, two grams of Icy Glazed Soil were also unearthed. This is a Fourth-stage Spiritual Material with a water-based spirituality.
Although Xia Feng’s affinity was water, he naturally didn’t need this thing.
“Cha Nai Xue, you only need the Icy Glazed Soil, right? Here you go.”
Seeing Xia Feng hand over the Icy Glazed Soil, Cha Nai Xue was stunned: “You, didn’t you say you wouldn’t give it to me…”
“What, you don’t want it? Fine—”
“I do, I do…” Cha Nai Xue quickly pressed Xia Feng’s large hand, pursed her lips, her face slightly red, and after a moment of hesitation, said softly, “Thank you.”
“No need to thank me,” Xia Feng smiled and patted her somewhat messy, stunned hair strands, “As long as you remember your identity as a female slave.”
“…” The joy that had just risen in Cha Nai Xue’s heart immediately vanished. She looked up with a blank expression, her purple pupils glaring at Xia Feng.
Xia Feng was unconcerned, gently patted her delicate face, and turned away, “Let’s go, we’re returning to the Underground Laboratory.”
Cha Nai Xue glanced at the Icy Glazed Soil in her hand, pursed her lips, and carefully put it away.
The Black Moon Holy See had 90% of Spiritual Materials at the Third-stage and below, but Fourth-stage Spiritual Materials were very rare, especially this Icy Glazed Soil. Even the Holy See’s main branch might not have it.
She had already gathered the other materials, and with the Icy Glazed Soil, the materials for advancing to the Fourth-stage were sufficient.
Now, all that was needed was to increase her Spirit Pressure to the peak of the Third-stage, which would take some time.
Once she advanced to the Fourth-stage, and then to the Fifth-stage, she would have the Holy See’s support… After the Fifth-stage, facing a mere Xia Feng? Heh heh~
At that time, Xia Feng would probably regret giving her this Icy Glazed Soil today.
Cha Nai Xue stared at the backs of her Childhood sweethearts in the distance, her beautiful eyes flashing with a cold light. Her current strategy was to rapidly increase her strength and then reverse the Slave Contract!
To make this Childhood sweetheart her male slave! At that time, even if Xia Feng was unwilling to Dual Cultivate ‘Dual Moon’ with her, he wouldn’t be able to refuse.
Upon returning to the Underground Laboratory, over three hundred people were sitting on the ground in a daze, their eyes vacant. Jiang Zhizi was still holding her gardenia, gazing at it obsessively, muttering something that no one knew.
Looking at these people, Xia Feng shook his head helplessly, wondering how they would live their lives when they returned to normal society.
“Alright, Cha Nai Xue, Miss Mu and I are going to advance to the Third-stage. You’ll guard us and don’t let anyone get close.”
Cha Nai Xue was somewhat surprised. She didn’t expect Xia Feng to trust her so much. After all, if she suddenly attacked Xia Feng at the critical moment of his advancement to the Third-stage, she could definitely heavily injure this devil.
“Sister Nai Xue, I believe you have the self-awareness of a female slave and won’t mess around,” Xia Feng patted the snow-skirt woman’s shoulder, smiled kindly, and then turned to walk into the room.
Cha Nai Xue: “…”
Mu Qingtong looked back at Cha Nai Xue and said softly, “Mr. Xia, are you sure she won’t attack you?”
“Don’t worry, it’s fine,” Xia Feng smiled confidently. Of course, it was fine because I don’t need to advance at all~ So there’s no such thing as a critical moment of advancement.
“Miss Mu, hurry up. You’d better be quick. My advancement speed is very fast,” Xia Feng’s lips curled into a proud smile, “I guarantee I’ll succeed before you.”
“?” Mu Qingtong glanced at Xia Feng with a faint smile, “Not bad, quite confident.”
The two stood opposite each other. As Xia Feng’s flamboyant arrogance and Mu Qingtong’s reserved pride met, the room door slowly closed with a click—locking.
Xia Feng stood in front of the door, blinking for a moment, humming happily, and casually sat down on a cold experimental table.
Now, all he needed to do was wait for Mu Shen to complete her advancement.
!
However, before that, he had one very important thing to do.
That was the Life Roulette.
The Life Roulette had a fifteen-day cycle, and today was the day to enter. This was also one of the reasons why he had rushed back to the Underground Laboratory earlier.
[Teleport Countdown: 9 minutes]
Time slowly passed, and soon, the vision changed.
This time, he entered as Player 17. It was his fourth time in this damn place, and he almost felt a sense of returning home.
He walked to the operating console.
[Current Life Points: (21+24) 45]
After spending 44 Life Points on the Exoneration Mandate, his account had shrunk to only 21 points. However, he didn’t expect Player 16—the old woman from the Yuanhe Orphanage who played the young woman—to directly transfer 25 points to him, making his account wealthy again.
He could buy more things now~
“Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen—”
In the dark, abyss-like world, in the center of thirty-seven tall pillars, a spotlight shone down.
“The fourth predation stage has ended, and we are now proceeding to—”
The referee, wearing a pure black mask, spread his arms wide and said with a teasing tone, “The preliminary sacrifice stage!”
Xia Feng, who was listlessly propping his chin, waiting for the evolution stage to begin, was startled. He looked up and asked, “Preliminary sacrifice stage? What kind of thing is this? Are there rules I don’t know about?”
“That’s right, everyone. To reward you for persisting until this moment, we have specifically set up a preliminary sacrifice stage before the fourth evolution stage—”
“The rules for this stage are very simple. Please look at your panels.”
Xia Feng looked down.
[Preliminary Sacrifice Stage: Sacrifice 9900 Lost People to obtain 100 Life Points reward!]
[Lost People: People who have lost hope for life, lost basic emotional reactions, no longer hate or love, and are manipulated like machines.]
[Method of Sacrifice: Touch the souls of ‘Lost People’ with Spirit Artifacts. The Life Roulette will automatically count.]
Upon seeing these rules, Xia Feng’s pupils contracted abnormally, “Lost… Lost People? Damn it, so that’s how it is!”
He finally understood why Garden insisted on tormenting those people.
They could have provided better services to those nobles, but they chose to invest more financially and expend more energy to repair those broken ordinary people or noble women before putting them back into use.
From this perspective, the purpose of the Garden owner, or the Archbishop, made perfect sense – it was Life Points?
Thinking of this, Xia Feng was terrified. The orphanage had sent at least two thousand people to the Garden over the years, but the Garden now only had three hundred people left.
Therefore, the disappeared people were likely in the Archbishop’s hands. After leaving the Life Roulette, the Archbishop would absorb and sacrifice those Lost People.
Of course, two thousand people was a conservative estimate. Who knows how many Lost People the Archbishop had collected over the years.
