Chapter 723: Seizing the Godhead for Righteousness
From the ghost girl’s blindness to the risks exposing saint level talent brought, Cang Xu completely recognized the girl’s nature – grand ambitions and initiative!
She longed for progress too much, thirsted for success too much. She was never satisfied and was incomparably greedy for success and never felt like she had enough.
As expected, his words evoked Zi Di’s innermost endorsement.
“That’s right, Lord Commander, even if you fail, and ultimately die, I am willing to follow you.” The girl looked into the young man’s eyes with fiery radiance.
She continued to declare more heartfelt words, “I am becoming more dissatisfied with the original redemption plan.”
“We painstakingly survived Mystifying Monster Island, experienced untold dangers and difficulties, and ultimately still suffered Priest Jia Sha’s plot against us, and we had to strive to survive it all.”
“We had goodwill; it was Jia Sha and the Flame Dragon King who didn’t want us alive!”
“What’s wrong with wanting to keep on living?”
“Like what the Lord Commander said during the Snake Rat Island naval battle, we are righteous, and continued survival is the greatest justice.”
“We deserve all of these gains, including the divine artifacts. Why do we have to give to others?”
“Don’t tell me you aren’t lamenting this, Commander? At the very least I utterly despise parting with them!”
“My father died, the Wisteria Merchant Alliance was annexed by the Seventh Prince’s leadership, the Sheng Ming Empire cannot avoid blame. These nobles, to some extent, are stained by my father’s blood. Us capitulating to them is only because we are weak at the moment.”
Unswerving determination spread across Zi Di’s face, “If the redemption plan is executed, we will only reach a temporary compromise and obtain time and opportunities to grow. With the Bloodcore, what are we afraid of? In this brief time, we have already built the Bloodline Purification formation, and my corporeal body has already attained a gold level bloodline. Commander, you already have a god level bloodline, and the big guy’s bloodline is at least legend level.”
“What are we afraid of?!”
“So long as we have enough time and resources to grow, we can take back much more, we should receive the profits that belong to us!”
“If we control the Dueling Godhead, your Lordship will become at minimum a demigod.”
“A demigod!”
“We will have Tranquil Hill, the Dueling Divine Domain, and with your Lordship’s divine spells, even if we die, you can resurrect us!”
“This enormous benefit is sufficient to struggle with all of our strength this time, even if we have to gamble everything!”
“All of life is a gamble, and many high level gambling tables require exceptional golden opportunities to even participate in. Before us is that kind of opportunity! If we miss it, I will regret it for my entire life!!”
At that moment, Zi Di’s gaze was luminous, exposing her aspirations to her beloved.
The dragonman youngster stared into his shining and dazzling eyes, his memory seeming to return to Mystifying Monster Island.
Yes, this was Zi Di, this was the girl he knew.
She never changed, and to create the shipwreck of the Hog’s Kiss, one needed to have courage and a gambling nature in spades. To have dealings with War Merchant, and scheme against her fiancé Zhen Jin, this girl never lacked ambition.
At this moment, the ghost girl seemed to be aflame, and her threatening gaze caused the dragonman youngster to subconsciously advert his eyes.
The young man had to concede that Zi Di’s speech reached the bottom of his heart.
Was he really willing to hand over the divine artifacts for a chance to obtain the empire’s redemption?
Before, his feelings were not clear.
But now, he controlled the [Mermaid Fairy Tale], using this divine artifact again and again with beautiful results! He even deceived both the Main Earth Elemental God and Teacher Si Ling!
The divine artifact was extremely effective.
He could infer that the divine artifact, the [Green Jade Gold Coffin] could also be of use.
To say nothing of the Bloodcore, it was the core of the core, its value far exceeding the divine artifacts!
Could they give away these useful divine artifacts?
“Perhaps the reason why I want to fight for the Dueling Godhead with all I have, the reason I have such a strong longing for it, is that I hope I can keep more of my gains?”
“However, why do I feel something is a bit off?” The dragonman youngster had a strange feeling.
The young man thought, “During the Snake Rat Island naval battle, I really did give a speech. But it seems like Zi Di misinterpreted my idea, and is excessively bold and confident that justice is on our side?”
Zi Di’s initiative spirit was too exuberant, and it caused the dragonman youngster to feel their side had become a wicked gang.
The Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps’ core consisted of three people. Zi Di was a vengeful ghost girl, Cang Xu was a necromancer proficient in head changing spells, and when the young man looked at himself again, his current dragonman form was mainly reliant on the famously vicious and irritable red dragon bloodline. His strongest form, the fishman form, was a cleric backed by the deception goddess Charming Blue.
From the Sheng Ming Empire’s point of view, Charming Blue Goddess was the god of a different race, and one the Sheng Ming Empire’s gods had ganged up on and pursued, definitely making her an evil goddess in their eyes.
What went wrong, this portrayal is a little fishy.
Cang Xu was constantly watching the dragonman youngster and taking his measure, saying timely, “Lord Commander, there is now time to hesitate.”
“Although we escaped Mystifying Monster Island, our situation has never changed.”
“We bear immense pressure to survive, and as we staggered along our journey, we were often forced into the path of despair, yet we still did everything we could to struggle onwards.”
“Many times, we are forced into tight spots and can only do so much.”
“Lord Commander, I can especially understand you. I would like to ask this, in the Ocean Mother Nest, did you really want to do blasphemous prayers?”
“Were we not aware of the hidden dangers in doing that? We had no other choice, so we did it.”
The dragonman youngster was immediately engrossed firmly by Cang Xu’s words.
Cang Xu was extremely right.
He felt that Cang Xu was also speaking to his heart.
Cang Xu continued to release the dragonman youngster’s psychological pressure, “Take yourself, Lord Commander, did you not purposely lie? No, to save Xiao Guai, your risked your life to deceive the Main Earth Elemental God. For the sake of us survivors, you risked offending Charming Blue Goddess, compelled to do so because there was no other alternatives.”
“What did we do wrong?”
“Nothing!”
“What is wrong in wanting to keep living?”
The dragonman youngster stared at Cang Xu, deeply exclaiming, “Cang Xu, you really understand me.”
“Hm, hm.” Zi Di nodded again and again, “Continued survival is the greatest justice.”
“We are righteous!” The girl once again stressed.
The dragonman youngster frowned.
Cang Xu promptly added, “Why are we always forced into having no choice, why do we take risks out of desperation? It is because we are too weak.”
“We want to carry out justice, and behave righteously, how can the weak do that?”
“We have to get stronger, only when we are powerful will we have the ability to calmly implement justice and fulfill our morality.”
“The Dueling Godhead this time is a unique golden opportunity to strengthen ourselves; we must firmly grab hold of it!”
The dragonman youngster heavily nodded, pushing aside his other thoughts as he looked firm and determined, “Cang Xu, you are correct.”
“Sorry.” He looked back at Zi Di, “Because of the pressure, I hesitated.”
Zi Di gazed at her sweetheart, and tenderly replied, “I understand you, Lord Commander. You are worried about taking risks that will burden the others, so you have misgivings.”
“But actually, you don’t need to bear this burden on your own, on Mystifying Monster Island, you were the reason we are still alive.”
“We are an integral whole; our benefits are unanimous. However the ramifications of this are huge, and we have to keep this secret from the others for the time being, that’s all.”
“Don’t worry, they will understand and support us!”
The dragonman youngster took a deep breath, “Currently, I have exposed my ‘saint level potential’ since in the future the Ice Sculpture Kingdom is bound to sort me out, then I might as well be decisive!
The young man clenched his dragon claw, “Once you’ve started, there is no turning back. We can’t attend to both extremes without neglecting one, so the best choice for me is to use all of my strength to seize the Dueling Godhead.”
Cang Xu smiled, “Exactly so.”
The young man looked worried, However, there really are a lot of people blocking us, and from truly formidable powers. Our hope of success this time is remote.”
Cang Xu slowly shook his head, and began to bolster the dragonman youngster’s confidence, “Based on what I saw, our chances of success might instead be great.”
“The foremost reason is that to obtain the Dueling Godhead’s favor and seize it, one has to rely on a gold level!”
“The saint level already has a foot in laws, and their strength will become a major hindrance.”
“Of the gold levels, you Lord Commander are very competitive!”
The dragonman youngster agreed with this point, “Looking at it currently, the only threat to me is Long Meng. Perhaps I can add Qi Ci Lang too?”
Cang Xu continued, “Our greatest advantage is that the enemy is in the open while we are in the dark.”
“Because due to an unexpected turn of events, we learned of many trump cards these powers have from many channels.”
From Lan Zao, the survivors learned of the Imperial Secret Spy Agency, the duelists, and Tranquil Hill.
From the dragonman youngster, they learned of Charming Blue Goddess’ arrangements and about the Charming Blue Church located there.
From Cang Xu, the survivors learned of Teacher Si Ling’s operation, learning of the Millenium Dragon Super-formation in passing.
Cang Xu determined, “The Sheng Ming Empire is not powerful enough to have a simultaneous confrontation with the Wilderness Continent, the Frost Continent, and the Life Continent.
“While the Ice Sculpture Kingdom also doesn’t want an acrimonious falling out with the Sheng Ming Empire. This can be seen from the current Ice Sculpture King’s choice, who endured silently and operated in the dark.”
“Both sides have their respective misgivings. Therefore, even if the Sheng Ming Empire dispatched a saint level, I believe such a fight would never happen publicly!”
“This signifies that the scale of this dispute will be limited, both sides will restrain themselves.”
“In those two powers’ eyes, we still represent a mysterious international arms merchant. Adding on the deep conflicts wrought by the great rebellion, both sides will be focused on the other.”
“Even if a part of them is mindful, they will be more distracted by Da Han.”
“Da Han has become a subtle third party.”
“Teacher Si Ling, and perhaps Zhou Zhang is a fourth or fifth party.”
“Due to the many sides in this situation, we can exploit the racks between these confrontations to get closer to the Dueling Godhead.”
Zi Di asked, “Then what do we do?”
After analyzing to this step, Zi Di saw and approved of Cang Xu’s observation of the big picture and his stratagem for it.
Cang Xu coughed; after talking for a while, he finally reached his goal, allowing the dragonman youngster and Zi Di to recognize the true situation while still maintaining their initiative and energetic attitude.
Cang Xu replied, “First, we need to save someone.”
“Save someone?” The dragonman youngster and Zi Di looked at each other in dismay.
Zi Di suddenly asked,” Is it Shi Liu?”
But Cang Xu shook his head.