Chapter 622: The Young Man’s Advancement

White Hair Trench.

Before the gold altar.

The Charming Blue Archbishop, octopus-man Zhou Zhang was leading numerous believers in a new round of teleportation blood sacrifice.

She prayed loudly:

“Grand Charming Blue Goddess, our God, our mother.”

“In this deep sea valley’s sacred ceremony, we have gathered before Your altar and offer You blood and souls in praise.”

“Charming Blue Goddess, You are the God of a Thousand Faces, the Monarch of Deception.”

“Your power rushes forth like the torrential ocean, Your wisdom cares for disturbed hearts.”

“Please accept our blood and awaken the sacred instincts fast asleep in our hearts. Let our eyes be filled with blurred radiance and win the blessing of destiny with deceit and intelligence.”

“We bend our knees in propriety, forever venerating and praising You, forever serving Your will.”

…

Zhou Zhang’s prayer finished, and the teleportation blood sacrifice officially began.

The believers were fanatical and hopeful.

There were a large number of observers nearby, Jian Gui was among them.

He had a grave expression, and his attention was focused on Qi Ling, and sometimes would deviate to Cang Xu.

This time, the teleportation blood sacrifice had an obvious difference.

It was the offering, apart from the large quantity of ocean beasts, there was also many undead lifeforms mixed into it.

These undead lifeforms had been tested by Cang Xu’s undead bloodline detection magic and selected very carefully; they all had his Hanging Corpse Tree bloodline.

The great formation activated, and the light of divine script and magic runes interweaved together.

Space fluctuated, and the believers and offerings were teleported away.

“Coming in!” Cang Xu was fully focused and was the first to react after teleportation.

The fishman youngster, who had been waiting for a long time, had already begun to move.

Under the effect of Deceptive Disguise and other divine spells, they were more efficient and stable than last time.

The saint beast Snow Pear Octopus was once again duped by them.

The undead lifeforms were offerings and were unable to move, so naturally, the fishman youngster effortlessly absorbed them with the Bloodcore.

Qi Ling was taken captive and imprisoned in the long-horn cage.

Apart from that, there was also the silver level pirate called Ruan Tang Ren.

“I found Lan Zao. You won’t guess where he is now!” The fishman youngster informed Cang Xu of how he helped Lan Zao not so long ago.

Several days ago, Cang Xu knew that the fishman youngster had been promoted to be a divine emissary and came to the big guy’s aid.

Hearing about Lan Zao now, he was still amazed.

“Dueling God?”

“The Ice Sculpture Kingdom doesn’t have that kind of god.”

“That indicates that the Dueling God is not an Ice Sculpture Kingdom god, and their church is not allowed to preach yet.”

“However, according to the gods and church development rules, they are certain to move from behind the scenes to center stage. But currently, they are comparatively puny and are in the clandestine development stage.”

The fishman youngster replied, “They are not puny, Tranquil Hill’s gravestones had many names I have seen in information reports.”

“They were all gold level.”

“Thus, I surmised that the other names I didn’t recognize were also gold level too.”

“Those that had their names on Tranquil Hill’s tombstones were probably the Dueling God’s holy warriors. As of now, I can confirm Teng Dong Lang, Gu Dong, and Mei Lin. There are all gold level, with no exceptions.”

Cang Xu nodded, and his brows slightly creased, “This really isn’t in accordance with common sense.”

“Normal church development goes from small to large, from weak to strong.”

“But the Dueling Church doesn’t have basic personnel, it just gold levels, and a lot of them.”

“However, this should lead to a special environment being created.”

“Ice Sculpture Kingdom’s general mood is something you should have the deepest perception of Lord Commander. Duels are prevalent there, and the entire nation participates in duels, watches duels with great enthusiasm, many people want to comply with dueling rules, rely on duels to solve daily issues, important conflicts and other contradictions.”

From this, one can see there is a robust foundation for Dueling believers among them.”

“The Dueling Church just hasn’t moved into the open yet and obtained permission to preach. When they get and begin to evangelize, I believe they will swell massively within a short time period at all levels of society. It is completely possible they will grow instantly into a large church.”

The fishman youngster approved of Cang Xu’ analysis.

He continued, “I thought about it later.”

“The reason why the Dueling God has been secretly developed is because the Ice Sculpture Kingdom does not have a war god.”

“If a war god existed, they would have gained dueling clergy already, instead of using dueling belief to create a new god.”

The fishman youngster had a better understanding of churches than Cang Xu did.

He knew how many gods were born from abundant and substantial foundations of faith.

Cang Xu replied, “Lan Zao got your help, and can now gain a foothold among the Bayonet Gang remnants, along with their trust.”

“I didn’t expect his circumstances to end up like this.”

“Lord Commander, your promotion to divine emissary was really wonderful. Your decisions and actions were very rational.”

The fishman Dao Hen was still on Tan Mo’s Treasure Chest, giving the survivors first hand intelligence on the enemy.

Lan Zao found a place on Tranquil Hill and would continue to spy on the divine domain, along with Mei Lin and the other holy warriors.

Finally, there was the big guy.

Because the Snow Bird Harbor branch was attacked, it wasn’t suitable for him to return to the Ice Sculpture Kingdom, so he might as well stay on Magnet Archipelago and cultivate.

The fishman youngster manipulated the gold level giant magic chef into becoming the big guy’s slave. He believed the former was capable of helping the big guy grow.

The two walked into the hold while talking.

Under the fishman youngster’s gaze, Cang Xu entered the Bloodline Purification Formation again.

The fishman youngster urged the Bloodcore’s magical energy and activated the formation.

A short time later, an emotional Cang Xu left the formation, “My Hanged Corpse Tree bloodline concentration has reached 7%!”

The fishman youngster with a 90% Surging Wave fishman bloodline concentration slightly frowned.

From Cang Xu’s body, he could see how hard it was to purify his bloodline.

Cang Xu worked himself half to death and used the Undead Bloodline Detection spell countless times to pick out these undead lifeforms.

With the help of Zhou Zhang’s platform, he had sought out personal gain.

After all this trouble, his saint level bloodline concentration only reached 7%.

The fishman youngster looked at Cang Xu and contemplated, “Purifying the Hanged Corpse Tree bloodline is far harder than normal bloodlines.”

“This time, you leveraged Zhou Zhang’s power, along with consuming Jian Gui’s, Qi Ling’s, and Xiao Wang Zi’s accumulations.”

“In the Main Plane, it is very difficult for us to find a lot of undead lifeforms.”

Cang Xu sighed, “I have considered this already.”

“The place with the most undead lifeforms is naturally the Ghost World. But we aren’t strong enough to explore it yet.”

Cang Xu had gone to the Ghost World before, and there were precarious gold levels everywhere, with each step dangerous. Only a saint level had the qualifications to explore it.

“So, saving and contacting the orthodox undead is an important trading channel.”

As the head of the undead orthodoxy, You Shen had the most necromancy resources on the Main Plane. The twelve saints were almost all saint level, who were exploring the Ghost World all year round and raking in resources from it.

“If we can trade, we can pick more suitable undead lifeforms. The closer they are to the Hanging Corpse Tree on the bloodline archive, the better.”

“From this point of consideration, I believe it is still better to let Jian Gui go free.”

Magician Qi Ling was already their prisoner.

Jian Gui spent energy maintaining their small group, and now he was alone, a leader without a team.

Based on the fishman youngster’s and Cang Xu’s current power and arrangements, they had a large chance of taking Jian Gui captive!

Capturing a gold level magician alive, a necromancer at that, was very difficult. But currently, the fishman youngster had become a gold level cleric and was a divine emissary who knew several hundred divine spells, with only a small portion of high end divine spells he was inexperienced in and hadn’t mastered yet.

They could take him captive, but Cang Xu suggested that they didn’t.

Instead of taking Jian Gui captive, they were better off letting him go. If that happened, Cang Xu could continue to draw support from Jian Gui and contact other undead orthodoxy. In accordance with his current identity as a Wisteria Merchant Alliance elder, it was entirely possible for him to reestablish this trading channel.

Of course, the two also thought about taking Jian Gui captive first, tampering with him, then letting him go.

But after careful consideration, it was more reliable for them to just let him free.

Although the two had confidence in Deceptive Disguise, they had to consider You Shen, the legendary magician whose name shook the entire world and the primogenitor of the undead faction. So, it was still better and more reliable to let him go with no funny business involved.

Deceptive Disguise had been developed by War Merchant, it was an improved version of Charming Blue’ divine spell and drew from Charming Blue’s divine artifact, the Mermaid Fairy Tale.

War Merchant was a legend level magician, but his influence and accomplishments, among other aspects, could not compare to You Shen’s.

The fishman youngster replied that if nothing unexpected happened, they would go with Cang Xu’s suggestion. When the time came, if Jian Gui couldn’t do it alone, then the fishman youngster would surreptitiously help him without the former finding out.

Taking Jian Gui captive meant that at most, the survivors had another captive. It would also deeply offend the undead orthodoxy.

But letting him go would on the contrary borrow his authority to communicate with the undead orthodoxy and the benefits that followed were obviously greater.

“Next, we have a new round of blasphemous prayer testing.”

The fishman youngster entered a specialized prayer cabin.

He loudly prayed, speaking forthright about his request this time. He asked for usage experience on high-end divine spells, especially Divine Domain Descent.

The fishman youngster wanted to quietly escape Ocean Mother Nest and perhaps he could rely on this.

Boom!

Like last time, before the fishman youngster finished his meticulously prepared prayer, a beam of divine prayer fell onto him.

After the beam of light dissipated, the fishman youngster slowly got up from his kneeling position.

“Gold level fighter…”

“Furthermore, my Surging Wave fishman bloodline concentration has reached the standard of the god level.”

“Divine favor is once again abundant and has returned to 20,000.”

But the fishman youngster didn’t stand up happily.

Because what he wanted most was not what he got.

Upon leaving the ship hold and going through the identification procedures with Cang Xu, the fishman youngster told Cang Xu about what just happened, and when the latter learned of it, he too became somewhat gloomy.

“That was the exact situation during your last prayer, Lord Commander.”

“Although your prayer had explicit requests and also used divine favor to direct it, the divine blessing given was not what we wanted.”

“Why is it like this? The situation is different from before!”

“Lord Commander, can you say whether Charming Blue Goddess has woken up already?”