His excited words made Meng Chao’s eyes tear up a little while under the cliff.

  “I knew it,” he mouthed to Qin Hu. “Big Brother Hu’s motives are definitely not vulgar.”


  “Yes, yes, he’s noble, and I’m vulgar.” Qin Hu responded by mouthing his answer as well. His moustache moved as he did so. “So, who are you siding with?”


  Meng Chao was conflicted for a long time before he answered with a scrunched up face. He looked like he was suffering from constipation. “I’ll side with you, Mr. Hu.”


  Qin Hu huffed and rolled his eyes.

  “Dragon City is sick, and if it continues developing like this, the strong will get stronger, and the weak will get weaker. Even if we really do win the Monster War, our goal of having our ‘steel army sweep through the Other World’ will not end well. One of these days, Dragon City will definitely be destroyed!”


  Lin Chuan was completely convinced by his logic. He even growled at Lu Siya. “I want to change the order and save Dragon City so that our civilization will renew itself! And if I want to realize my dreams, I need incomparable power! The Red Radiance Jade mine will help me. As long as I find the main mine and cultivate there for a few years, I will definitely reach Deity Realm and become invincible!”


  “You’re just daydreaming,” Lu Siya criticized coldly. “Forget about how strong the radiation from the Red Radiance Jade mine is, it’s also very unstable. It’s very difficult to use it to cultivate. And do you actually think that I will help you find the Red Radiance Jade mine now?”


  Lin Chuan smiled. “Why not?”


  Lu Siya smiled bitterly and said, “Once I find the Red Radiance Jade mine for you, you’ll silence me, right? I’m not that much of an idiot. If you want to kill me, do it now!”


  Lin Chuan gave her a strange smile. “I won’t kill you. Once we find the Red Radiance Jade mine, you can leave whenever you want. If there are extra Red Radiance Jades besides those that Whitey and I need to cultivate, you can mine them with Sky Pillar Corporation. I won’t mind.”


  “You……” This time, Lu Siya was really stunned. “You’ll let me go? Aren’t you afraid that I will tell the Supernatural Tower that you’re working together with a monster to kill humans?”


  “Will you, Siya? I know you too well. You’re the same as your father. You’re both ambitious and hunger for power. To obtain the authority over Sky Pillar Corporation, you will trample on all laws and risk everything. You will even go over your boundaries.”


  Lin Chuan smiled coldly and said, “Don’t forget that to the world, I share an ambiguous relationship with you. I even stayed a few years in your house and have long since been treated as part of the Lu family. We’re seen as comrades by others.

  “Just now, you mentioned that I belong to your side. If you go to the Supernatural Tower to accuse me of working together with a monster, won’t you be accusing yourself?

  “Also, I killed Lu Silian and a lot of rich people, including Shen Yulong. The wrath of their families will not subside even after they cut me to pieces. Who else will they blame then? Naturally, it’s you and your father.

  “Even if you can clear yourselves of blame with the law, you will definitely no longer be in favor in the Lu family, and you can forget about making a comeback for the rest of your lives!”


  Lu Siya trembled violently and flew into a rage. “Lin Chuan, my father and I treated you so well, and yet you set us up? You’re an ungrateful piece of crap!”


  “Heh, if my dad hadn’t saved your father’s life during the collapse of the mine and used the last of his life to push him out of the cave, if your father hadn’t wanted to use me to make it look like he valued his relationships, and if he hadn’t discovered my talent, would the both of you have been so nice to me?” Lin Chuan asked faintly.

  “But even if your father had ulterior motives, I don’t intend to bite the hand that fed me. On the contrary, I came to repay the favor in this mission.

  “Siya, I know that you’re ambitious and smart. You want to reach the top of Sky Pillar Corporation, but you won’t be able to if you just rely on your ambition, intellect, and connections. You need the protection of a peerless elite.

  “Haven’t you realized that even now, I’m leaving you an option? You, me, and Whitey can work together.

  “I’ll use the Red Radiance Jade mine and your power to become matchless, and you can use Whitey and my strength to get rid of your competitors and clear out all your obstacles to fulfill your ambitions.

  “Whitey will also become the queen of beasts with our help. She will be rule over a batch of monsters and provide us with great help.

  “In the end, you can get Sky Pillar Corporation, and I will get the chance to change Dragon City. Whitey will also be able to rule over Monster Mountain Range. We’ll be killing three birds with one stone.

  “The Other World is large, and there are definitely even more resources hidden outside. We don’t have to fight to the death against smart monsters like Whitey in this puny Monster Mountain Range. We’ll just end up dying together. What do you think?”


  “I’m going to say this: You’re either mad, or you’re completely bewitched by this wolf! I won’t help you even if I die!” Lu Siya said coldly.

  “Don’t act that way. I can’t bear seeing you die.” Lin Chuan put up his signature, charming smile. He stepped down a blood drenched flight of stairs made of air and slowly arrived in front of Lu Siya.

  He knelt down on one knee and used two bloody fingers to lift her chin. He said softly, “Siya, I know that you have always liked me, and I do like you as well. But the timing was never ripe. That’s why I was never able to show you my true self.

  “I promise you that if you work together with me, once everything ends and I’m invincible, I’ll be together with you lawfully, and we won’t have to worry about other people talking about us behind our backs.”


  Lu Siya shuddered.

  She stared at Lin Chuan, as if she was getting to know him again. She mumbled, “I finally get it. In the past, I thought that you either had a heart made of stone or was some sort of moral prude. I even thought that you didn’t like women, which is why you would ignore my hints and rather sleep together with Meng Chao.”


  Under the cliff, Qin Hu perked up. All his fatigue was gone, and his eyes shone brightly.

  Meng Chao really wanted to cry. “We were just talking and sparring!”


  “I get it. You were just ‘sparring’. I completely get it,” Qin Hu quickly comforted him. “Don’t worry. I’m not a woman who likes to gossip. I’m famous for being able to keep secrets in the field. If we’re able to escape from this and some reporter comes up to me, I will only say that you were ‘chatting with each other and sparring’!”


  Meng Chao gritted his teeth and perked up his ears to continue listening to the conversation on the cliff in hopes that he could find an opening or a weak point and seize the chance to do something.

  “I understand now. You just have an inferiority complex,” Lu Siya said clearly. “The mighty Weeping Reaper, the super idol worshipped by countless Dragon City girls, is actually a person with an incredibly low self-esteem!”


  Lin Chuan’s smile turned stiff, and his handsome mask started cracking. His expression turned monstrous again. “All poor people have low self-esteem. You’re a lucky girl born with a silver spoon. You will never understand it.

  “Enough with the nonsense. Are you going to help me or not?”


  “Never. Lin Chuan, don’t assume that you know me well. I can give up on a lot of things for the sake of personal interests, but there are still certain things that I will not give up.” Lu Siya might have remained sitting on the ground, but her back was straight.

  “Why?!” Lin Chuan roared. “For the sake of personal interests, you even spared scum like Shen Yulong and were willing to let him live, but you refuse to help me and give me a chance!”


  “That’s right, with how things are right now, if Shen Yulong or anyone else extended their hand to me, I would agree to work with them.” Lu Siya looked pleased for finally being able to take her revenge. “But I won’t help you, Lin Chuan. I can help anyone, but not you.”


  “Why? Is it because I can’t even compare to Shen Yulong in your heart?” Lin Chuan flew into a rage.

  “Even if I say it, you won’t understand.” Lu Siya smiled coldly. “There’s something you said that is right. We’re not the same kind of people at all. You’re a man, and I’m a woman, and a conceited man who has low self-esteem like yourself will never understand a woman’s thoughts.”


  Lin Chuan seethed with rage.

  The White Spirit beside him suddenly raised its three fluffy tails.

  Lin Chuan instantly calmed down.

  “It’s fine. I don’t need to understand it.” A strange smile appeared on his lips. “You’ll work together with me willingly.”


  He took a step back, and the White Spirit moved forward.

  Its crystalline fur on its tails stood up, and like a peacock spreading its tail, it blocked Lu Siya’s vision.

  “W-What are you—?”


  Before Lu Siya could finish her question, she suddenly looked dazed, and the image of the three white tails swaying about were reflected in her pupils.

  “This is bad. The White Spirit is brainwashing Lu Siya,” Meng Chao said anxiously. “We need to hit it.”


  “What?” Qin Hu was shocked. “I thought the talent of the three-tailed Illusion Wolf was to create illusions. It can even control human minds?”


  “Middle grade and high grade superbeasts don’t just have one skill. Creating illusions and mind control is just one step apart. They’re both skills that involve the release and interference of brain waves.”


  Meng Chao’s mind raced as he analyzed the situation, “But I think that the current White Spirit isn’t too good when it comes to its mind control. Lu Siya also seems to be determined. If it wants to brainwash this ruthless woman, it will need to use up a lot of energy.

  “Look, its tails are all straight. A lot of spirit energy ripples are spreading out. So, its tails aren’t actually cooling systems, but antennas.

  “Since it’s using so many antennas, the brain waves it releases must be very shocking. Its vitality magnetic field should also be very chaotic. Its body is even swaying. That means my guess is right.

  “It’s currently paying the price for brainwashing, and the success rate is probably not high. Otherwise, Lin Chuan wouldn’t have needed to talk for so long just now. It could have just gone straight to brainwash Lu Siya.

  “There’s no time for further explanations. Mr. Hu, this is the time when the White Spirit is at its weakest. We only have one chance to get rid of the White Spirit. Then, Lin Chuan will be alone, and if we work together with Lu Siya, our chances of winning will be very high!”


  Qin Hu was still hesitating. “How high is your high?”


  “From eight to nine percent, and if you multiply eight with nine, you’ll get 72. If you round up that number, our chances of winning are 100%. We’re going to win!” Meng Chao tried to boost his morale.

  Qin Hu spat. “Brat, did your PE teacher teach you math at elementary school?”


  Meng Chao was stunned. “How did you know?”


  Qin Hu ignored him. “I don’t think there’s a reason for us to fight so hard. Once they find the Red Radiance Jade mine, we’ll seize the chance to escape from the underground and report their crimes to the Supernatural Tower. Then, the adjudicators from the Supernatural Tower will arrive, and they will have no choice but to surrender.”


  Meng Chao smiled wanly.

  That was what Qin Hu did in his previous life.

  He was able to hide himself until Lin Chuan left with the White Spirit and escaped.

  Unfortunately, once the northern offense failed and Dragon City ran out of money to support the fight to build their first branch base, their fate in the apocalypse was set. Even if they destroyed Lin Chuan and the White Spirit, they could not change anything.

  Meng Chao widened his eyes to show his earnestness and said this through gritted teeth, “We don’t have time to get reinforcements. Mr. Hu, we’re the only ones who can change everything and save Dragon City!”


  “Shut it,” Qin Hu said instinctively. “Do you think I’m sick in the head? Why do I have to work together with a brat like you who doesn’t know anything to be a hero and save friggin’ Dragon City?”


  “Because your wife, children, your children’s children, and your children’s children’s children are all in Dragon City,” Meng Chao said seriously. “Trust me. Right now, you’re the only one who can save them.”


  Qin Hu was stunned by Meng Chao’s gaze. It was as if he was staring straight into his soul. He could not help but loosen his grip over the youth’s wrist.

  Meng Chao used the chance to break free of his hold and climb half a meter up. He grabbed the grenade launcher and sucked in a deep breath. He peeked out from under the cliff and used the stones as well as mangled corpses as cover. Then, he narrowed his eyes, took aim, and locked onto his target.

  The White Spirit’s fluffy tails appeared in his scope.

  He placed his finger on the trigger.

  Chapter 237: Complete the Quest, Reward for Completing the Quest Above the Quota!

  Meng Chao’s palms were covered in cold sweat.

  Even though he had activated Walking Corpse and lowered his breathing and heartbeat to the lowest to perfectly hide himself so that he would not be discovered by Lin Chuan and the White Spirit, he did not dare to use the Ultimate Basic Gun Technique and use his mind to lock on the White Spirit.

  Otherwise, this cunning creature would definitely be able to detect his presence.

  But if he did not use the Ultimate Basic Gun Technique, he was too far away, and the angle was not good. The grenade launcher was not a sniper rifle that paid great attention to accuracy. He did not have the confidence to blow the White Spirit’s brains out.

  “Seriously, I can’t believe I just decided to go along with your crazy ways. You must have brainwashed me, brat. Why else would I act as crazily as you are right now?” Qin Hu drew his saber and crawled over. “So, how are we fighting?”


  Meng Chao narrowed his eyes.

  He was at the point of no return. Even if his chances of winning were low, he could only……

  At that moment, Lu Siya suddenly cast a glance in his direction.

  Meng Chao’s heart froze.

  Perhaps it was because Lu Siya was brainwashed by the White Spirit, she did not shout. Instead, she quickly blinked and shook her head, as if she was spasming.

  Lin Chuan and the White Spirit thought that it was the normal reaction due to the mind control, and they did not pay attention to it.

  Meng Chao bit his lip and removed his finger from the trigger. Then, he slunk back to the wall.

  “What’s going on?” Qin Hu glared at him. “I finally got myself into the mood, and you decided to be a coward?”


  “No, I……” Meng Chao shut his eyes. The scene he saw just now quickly appeared in his head, and he was certain that his eyes were not playing tricks on him.

  Lu Siya knew about his existence, and she shook her head to signal to him not to attack.

  How? And why?

  Meng Chao licked his torn lip and used the pain to clear his head. He took out the periscope to observe the situation above.

  The White Spirit had already completed the mind control, and its tails fell back.

  Lu Siya’s eyes were still clear, and she did not show the numb look of a person who was hypnotized. But she seemed a little excited, just like…… how Lin Chuan was after he entered the underground.

  “That’s right. The amount of Red Radiance Jades in the mine is definitely very high. It’ll be enough for the three of us to share it. With your help, I will be able to climb up to the highest seat of power in Sky Pillar Corporation.

  “I should work together with you. It’s better than dying here and turning into a pile of ugly bones,” she mumbled to herself as if a certain emotion in her heart had been amplified. She hypnotized herself with it.

  “Siya, you finally understood.” Lin Chuan placed his hand on her shoulder and said gently, “Once we’re done with this, we can become kindred and be together forever.”


  “That’s right. Lin Chuan…… we’ll become the same type of people. We’ll be together, forever.” Lu Siya smiled. The aversion and anger from a moment ago were completely gone.

  She cast a deep glance at the White Spirit before standing up with the help of Lin Chuan’s hand and fell into his embrace.

  The White Spirit watched it quietly.

  It was as if it was just a creature with no emotion.

  “I can sense the Red Radiance Jade mine below us. We have to hurry, though, or other mine exploration teams might find it.”


  Lu Siya nuzzled in Lin Chuan’s arms and pointed at the darkness below the cliff.

  Whether it was intentional or not, the direction she pointed was incredibly far away from where Meng Chao and Qin Hu were.

  Lin Chuan nodded in satisfaction. He packed up everything with the White Spirit and organized a few sets of the equipment mine explorers used to drop down from high areas. With Lu Siya’s guidance, they went to the spot that was incredibly far away from Meng Chao and Qin Hu and fixed the equipment against the wall. Then, one after another, they slid down.

  Meng Chao and Qin Hu stayed stuck to the wall like two dried up geckos. They did not even dare breathe loudly.

  Fortunately, as the force of the explosion gradually subsided, the subsurface plasma also became thicker.

  Besides, the depths of the underground were dark. The only source of light was the faint glow from the crystals in the mine, so visibility was incredibly low.

  There was more than one hundred meters between them, and the wall was slightly curved. Lu Siya also continued speaking, introducing the characteristics of the Red Radiance Jade mine and how they should explore it to attract Lin Chuan and the White Spirit’s attention, so they did not notice Meng Chao and Qin Hu’s existence.

  They held their breaths for a total of five minutes before they jumped onto the cliff. Then, they ley sprawled on the ground with cold sweat on their skins as they gasped for breath.

  Qin Hu nudged Meng Chao. “Why didn’t you shoot just now?”


  Meng Chao hesitated for a moment before he mentioned what happened.

  “Lu Siya knows that we’re hiding here? Impossible!” Qin Hu was stunned for a long time before he frowned and said, “But when I think about it, she seems to have been intentionally luring Lin Chuan to talk a lot and expose an opening.

  “I don’t really know that mind control mumbo jumbo, but I do know that a dam bursts when there is a crack in the wall, and if you want to cure a sickness of the mind, you need to know what caused it. If you want to break mind control, you need to know where the crack is. Now, we know what exactly is the sickness in Lin Chuan’s mind.”


  Meng Chao nodded and analyzed the situation. “Lu Siya is not a simple woman. She won’t be controlled by the White Spirit.

  “There are a lot of Slit-mouthed Anacondas down there, and they have never tasted human flesh over the years. That’s why they’re not very aggressive. After we made them retreat, they did not surround us again.

  “But now, they have eaten a lot of human corpses, and they know our taste. They will be much more aggressive. It won’t be easy for Lin Chuan and the White Spirit to move through the hunting area of the Slit-mouthed Anacondas.

  “If they really find the Red Radiance Jade mine, under the powerful interference from the spirit energy radiation, their brainwaves will turn into mush. The White Spirit’s mind control will be incredibly weakened, and the distance between someone at the peak of Earth Realm and Heaven Realm will shrink to only one step.

  “I think that Lu Siya was hinting to us that there would be a better chance to attack.”


  “Do you believe in Lu Siya that much?” Qin Hu asked.

  Meng Chao nodded. Regardless of whether Lu Siya was a ruthless woman with a heart as diabolical as a snake’s, there was one thing he was certain about.

  In his previous life, she did not choose to work together with Lin Chuan and the White Spirit.

  Otherwise, she would not have remained a nobody, and Lin Chuan would not have died.

  There had to be some other variable in the Red Radiance Jade mine.

  “To stop all this, I can work together with you, Mr. Hu, and that Lu Siya too. I don’t care anymore!” Meng Chao gritted his teeth.

  Qin Hu scratched his chin for three seconds before he registered Meng Chao’s words. “Brat, what did you say?”


  “It’s nothing. We have to hurry and see how many useful items we can find here. Weapons, medicine, explosives, mine exploration tools, anything works!

  Both of them quickly packed up.

  Meng Chao found a lot of high-calorie food.

  Qin Hu brought back dozens of weapons that looked alive. They were shaped like throwing knives and had numerous runic symbols carved on them.

  “I think that when the White Spirit took control of Lin Chuan, something went wrong with his brain. All he can see now is the Red Radiance Jade mine. Otherwise, there’s no reason why he wouldn’t pick up Shen Yulong’s Shooting Star Blades. They’re really powerful.” Qin Hu whistled.

  “But I earned from this. I’ve never used a treasure like this before. Brat, give me half an hour. I need to activate my vitality magnetic field and resonate with the runic symbols on these Shooting Star Blades. Then, I can claim them as my own.”


  The weapons of Heaven Realm elites were things that those at the peak of Earth Realm could only somewhat control. Meng Chao was not strong enough, so even if he had them, they would be useless to him.

  When he looked at Shooting Star Blades, a thought rose in his mind, and it was a scary one.

  “I think that the White Spirit’s plan doesn’t involve items like the Shooting Star Blades. It only needs a lot of explosives.” Meng Chao’s voice was cold.

  “What did you say?”


  “Didn’t you notice, Mr. Hu? They packed a lot of bags full of crystal bombs just now,” Meng Chao said. “At first, I thought that the White Spirit was checking the corpses and searching for weapons like the Shooting Star Blades or giving the last strike to those who were severely injured.

  “But now, when I was looking around, I noticed that it wasn’t interested in weapons and gene medicine. Instead, it took all the crystal bombs.”


  Even though mine explorers could change the structure of stones to create tunnels or escape routes, the effectiveness was low when exploring the underground. They also had to face the problem of their spirit energy running out.

  Crystal bombs could blow up places and create tunnels or crush fierce underground monsters to death, so they were very useful. That’s why both mine exploration teams had brought a lot of them.

  Miners could also open up holes in rock strata and stuff crystal bombs inside. Then, they would seal off the holes to maximize the explosive power.

  In the fight, someone had even gone mad enough to throw crystal bombs at their enemies.

  But since they were not war-issued hand grenades, there were a lot of procedures to activate them and not everyone was mad enough to use them.

  There had to be a lot of crystal bombs left used, and they were all taken away by Lin Chuan and the White Spirit.

  They even took the tools to open up holes in walls to stuff bombs inside so that they could increase the explosive power.

  “Why?” Qin Hu could not understand it. “The Red Radiance Jades have lots of spirit energy, so they’re one of the most unstable super crystals. You don’t need to use explosives to mine them. Why would they need numerous crystal bombs down there……”


  Qin Hu’s voice suddenly died down.

  He exchanged a glance with Meng Chao, and both of them shuddered at the same time.

  “Ten minutes! I just need ten minutes!”


  Qin Hu sat down cross-legged and spilled his blood on the Shooting Star Blades. He then activated his vitality magnetic field and resonated with the weapon.

  Meng Chao found a corner and used his fastest speed to wolf down a large amount of high-calorie food until his stomach became as round as that of a pregnant woman.

  Then, he used his mind to activate Kindling.

  ‘I’ve completed the second and third segments for the Fight for the Ultimate Style quest. Settle my results now!’


  [Your goal for the second segment of the Fight for the Ultimate Style quest was to win against 300 fighting-class superhumans who are at the same level as you, but from different styles. Your quest progress is at 399/300. You have completed the quest above the quota.

  [Due to your unwavering diligence, countless new one-star superhumans have understood the value of the Ultimate Style. The Ultimate Style is currently being spread rapidly among the alliance of the five universities and the grassroot unit of the Red Dragon Army. You gained a five-star appraisal for the quest. Obtained 18,000 contribution points, and repaired 10 main meridians. Awakened special skill: Mind Lightning.

  [Mind Lightning: Your spirit energy will pulsate at a certain frequency that will impact your brain cells, and you will release brainwaves as powerful as lightning, which will allow you to disturb the minds of intelligent creatures around you. The time that intelligent creatures accumulate power, stiffen up, and cool down will increase by at least 10%, and they will reveal more openings that are a danger to their lives.

  [Your goal for the third segment of the Fight for the Ultimate Style quest was to hunt at least 1,000 normal monsters and 100 Grade One superbeasts. Your quest progress is at 4,712/1,000 and 315/100. You have completed the quest above the quota.

  [Your performance in Shattered Starlake has struck fear in the monsters. Your heroic gait when hunting has spread through the internet in Dragon City. More people have acknowledged the value of the Ultimate Style in real battle, and you have gained a five-star rating for this segment. Obtained 21,000 contribution points and repaired 10 main meridians. Awakened special skill: Monster Blood Combustion.

  [Monster Blood Combustion: Stimulate the dormant parts residing in the depths of your genes with spirit energy and release an ancient power. Your maximum output will increase above 10%.]