“This… this, what should I do?”

Amos seemed to have been hit by a paralysis spell. He stood frozen in place, at a loss, so anxious that cold sweat kept pouring out.

After panicking for a while, he took a deep breath and told himself to calm down.

Asking himself honestly, Lord Cain had indeed treated him well.

Lord Cain killed all Disciple competitors in the Disciple war, leaving corpses everywhere and blood flowing like rivers. Never had there been such a brutal battle situation in a Disciple war before.

However, Lord Cain killed all competitors, yet only spared his life.

Not only had the lord spared his life, he had also preserved his title as Second Disciple. He had even shown mercy outside the rules and preserved his pasture district, and had let him follow the lord, giving him the capital to make a comeback.

Most importantly, judging from the equipment Lord Cain was forging at such an expensive price, Lord Cain’s strength had probably already grown to a level he could only look up to and never catch up with.

The lord had used both kindness and authority, and had long since displayed sincerity toward him as a subordinate. If he did not know what was good for him and did not think of repaying the lord, did he still want to follow the lord in the future?

“Lord doesn’t care about these tens of millions of Spirit Essence. He wants me to express my stance and loyalty!”

As Amos thought, the hesitation in his eyes gradually became firm. He gritted his teeth and secretly said, “Isn’t it just over fifty million Spirit Essence? If I grit my teeth, empty my small treasury, and borrow a little more, I can gather it!”

He said to the lord on the other end of the phone, “Lord Cain, I’ll send those materials to you shortly!”

“Please wait a moment, Lord!”

“Beep… beep… beep…”

Lin Xun listened to the busy tone coming from the phone with a confused expression. What was Amos doing?

He had not even asked the price of the three materials, yet Amos had hurriedly hung up.

Lin Xun did not know that Amos on the other end of the phone had already started contacting people everywhere, borrowing money from acquaintances in the organization.

The three materials not only emptied Amos’s small treasury, they also saddled Amos with a considerable external debt…

Not long after, the hellish game prompted Lin Xun that his Book of Letters had received a new message.

He brought senior brother White Elephant and used Starrealm Leap to return to the Kunlun teleportation point, then clicked the letter option on Resting Page.

[Amos: Lord Cain, this is your subordinate’s small token of sincerity. Please do not refuse it, and be sure to accept it!]

Behind the letter were attachments. The three freshly generated materials, Black Sea Ice Soul Essence Crystal, Radiant Glazed Gold, and Vajra Void Sandstone, lay there perfectly.

Seeing this, Lin Xun tasted the meaning within and could not help smiling. He sent a reply.

[Cain: Well done. I have felt your devotion.]

Amos held his phone and waited for a long time before finally receiving Lord Cain’s reply.

Seeing the content of the response, he let out a long breath.

Amos knew that as long as he did not make any principled mistakes in the future, he could keep holding onto this thick thigh.

“The equipment Lord Cain is forging is so expensive, so the equipment grade must be very high.”

“And a Shell can only wear equipment that is at most half a grade higher than its own grade. From this, Lord Cain may have already broken through the boundary between human and god and forged immortality.”

“Holy shit, this is really fast. Comparing people really can make one die of anger…”

“In that case, Lord will soon be able to advance to Saint, and after Lord advances, won’t I be able to become the First Disciple?”

After pondering for a while, an enormous sense of surprise filled Amos’s entire body.

After a Disciple advanced to Saint, they could no longer control a pasture district. He had heard that to immortal grade Apostles, Spirit Essence was already unimportant and could only be counted as a long string of numbers.

For Saints, there were things more important than Spirit Essence. Only after advancing to Saint would the Master bestow more important things to the Saint.

If Lord Cain advanced to Saint, he would not only be backed by an immortal grade Saint big shot, but could also inherit a portion of Lord Cain’s pasture district and obtain inexhaustible, endless Spirit Essence.

“This fifty plus million Spirit Essence spent was far too worth it!”

—

Lin Xun got three materials for free and instantly completed more than half of the collection task.

Of the remaining two materials, Stone Treasure Molybdenum Gold already had a vague location. After reaching Luoyi, he should be able to find it with some effort. Only Heavenly Dragon Grottoes, which produced Blue Dawn Corundum, had no real clues.

After Lu Wu heard that he had obtained the secret method for building the Dragon-Gazing Altar, He could not help feeling pleasantly surprised.

[Lu Wu says to you that building the Dragon-Gazing Altar is the responsibility of the Mirage Dragon clan. He does not know how to drive the secret method, but now that you have already learned the secret method, everything is much easier.]

[Originally, He was still hoping that you could rely on luck to encounter a Dragon-Gazing Altar that had not yet been destroyed by the gods and Buddhas. Now you can already build one yourself.]

[As for where the several materials are specifically located, mortal mineral deposits are as numerous as ox hairs, and the divine war took place far too long ago. He still has to consult ancient texts and scriptures to confirm.]

[You wait here for a while first. After He finds the clues, He will come tell you…]

Before long, Lu Wu returned with one piece of good news and one piece of bad news.

The good news was that the ancient texts clearly recorded three material locations, and the records were extremely clear and accurate.

Among them was the exact location of Xibo Stone Treasure Valley, rather than the vague record in Vermilion Geographical Records.

The bad news was that Heavenly Dragon Grottoes, which produced Blue Dawn Corundum, only had a rough location. It was located within Yongning Province.

And Yongning Province encompassed more than ten major cities including Bingzhou City, as well as dozens of small towns and counties. The range was truly far too large.

Lin Xun’s prediction was correct. The materials were all distributed in the surrounding areas along the road heading east. Bingzhou City was the final major city on the route from Luoyi to the capital city.

However, finding Blue Dawn Corundum with only this bit of information was rather difficult. The specifics would have to wait until he reached Bingzhou City, where he could ask around.

Lin Xun bid farewell to Lu Wu and left Kunlun. He and the White Elephant Demon spent most of the day flying high through the sky, and finally reached Luoyi.

However, the scene they saw was shocking.

[…]

[The once prosperous prefecture city beneath your feet has now turned into ruins covering the ground. Only a few buildings still stand within the city.]

[Looking out, countless people wander aimlessly over the ruins like walking corpses.]

[As they wander, their gazes are filled with endless malice, yet their mouths are split open, laughing silently.]

[The corners of those laughing mouths are almost split to the roots of their ears. The strange smiles make chills run down one’s spine.]

[Seeing this, the White Elephant Demon cannot help shuddering. It says to you, Junior brother, what exactly has happened to this mortal world?]

[We senior brothers have traveled east all the way. Why is it that the closer we get to the destination, the more this mortal world resembles hell?]

[You look at those monsters below that have completely fallen into Extreme Evil and sigh, Senior brother, it is not that it resembles hell. It is that what we senior brothers are in is hell…]