138: Chapter 137 Sun Po's Plans!! (4k)

Explaining everything clearly right in front of Sun Po and making everything as transparent as possible—this was Li Tiance's truest thought.

Li Tiance knew all too well that people at every level of a massive family needed to eat, and each layer had its own way of scraping together profits. Precisely because he did not want these messy family affairs to affect his cooperation with Sun Po, he personally took charge and attached extraordinary importance to it.

Of course, there was also an element of performing in front of Sun Po. It both reflected Li Tiance's regard for Sun Po and aimed to give Sun Po greater peace of mind through clear figures and planning. This was also the gap between descendants of prominent clans and commoners; truly outstanding elite families put a lot of effort into cultivating their heirs.

From a young age, they would broaden their juniors' horizons, sending them to various links within the family to experience, familiarize themselves with, and lead, before comprehensively considering their overall performance to facilitate their future rule over the massive family.

Naturally, card making occupied an absolute proportion among these, but all other aspects were also unmissable studies.

Meanwhile, a commoner Card Maker's talent for card making might be congenitally superb, but such worldly-wisdom in handling affairs could not be learned in a day or two.

However, Sun Po did not plan to rely entirely on Li Tiance; he was just testing the waters.

[shadow beef slices] was merely the most inconspicuous of the current three [spirit meal]s. Although its functions were numerous, its quality was clearly inferior to the Soul-Mending Pill and the Hundred-Herb Spirit Soup. Once he became familiar with the entire [spirit meal] market and could reach more channels and buyers, it wouldn't be too late to make further plans. Connecting with Li Tiance to sell these [shadow beef slices] was originally just thought to slightly increase some income, yet he hadn't expected them to be in such high demand. How immense must the value contained in the remaining two [spirit meal]s be? Sun Po couldn't help feeling a bit expectant in his heart.

In the end, Sun Po and Wangfeng Tower finalized a seventy-thirty profit-sharing method.

Although a buyout on the spot was also possible, the value of a buyout was clearly far lower than a profit share. At this time, Sun Po could still go to the [Jinshan] Secret Realm with Liu Jianren to earn gains and wasn't that urgently in need of money, so he chose the profit share.

On the second day, Liu Jianren and Sun Po took a car early in the morning to a suburb outside Jinyang City.

Broken bricks and scattered tiles were everywhere here, among which stood collapsed carved beams and painted pillars, faintly revealing arhats and bodhisattvas painted upon them, resembling the ruins of a collapsed ancient temple.

Amidst the ruins, a fissure about seven to eight meters in diameter flashed with multicolored light.

This fissure was far larger than the fissure of the [Wujiang Secret Realm] back then, and also surpassed the scale of the Lu Family ancestral home's [Shanjun Temple].

In the many years since secret realms first appeared, people had also learned to initially judge the danger level of a secret realm based on the size of the fissure at its entrance.

Generally speaking, the larger the entrance fissure of a secret realm, the higher the danger level, and vice versa.

Of course, nothing was absolute; this was merely a general rule. Secret realms were exceptionally mysterious, and humanity had yet to figure out their origins to this day, let alone fully grasp their danger-level characteristics.

But even so, it allowed people to make a reasonable judgment on the danger grades of secret realms in most situations.

Among the officially demarcated secret realm grades, F-grade secret realms had the lowest danger level, and their fissure entrances generally did not exceed ten meters in diameter. From F-grade upwards, the diameters of secret realm entrances increased sequentially. At this moment, the diameter of this fissure was visibly already over 60 meters, making it undeniably an A-grade secret realm.

"Brother Po, logically speaking, there must be extraordinary monsters in this A-grade secret realm, but I haven't found anything at all. I suspect it's hiding in the dark, so we still need to be extra careful."

However, Sun Po's plan was completely different. He only said, "Let's go, let's go in and take a look."

With that, the two stepped into the fissure.

Coming into view was a great river. Across the riverbank was a majestic peak, upon which a magnificent, rather sizable temple could be faintly seen. Smoke from cooking fires rose from it, clearly indicating human presence.

Liu Jianren pointed at the temple and said, "Last time we explored right into that ancient temple. In that temple, there was a rather upright old monk, seemingly some kind of ancient heroic spirit... He told us there were snake demons under this mountain, but no matter what, we couldn't find where the snake demons were, only managing to find some minor demons."

Sun Po, however, smiled and said, "Sometimes, exploring secret realms doesn't have to be so cumbersome."

Liu Jianren wore a bewildered expression and asked, "What do you mean?"

Sun Po did not answer him, instead directly summoning [Wuzhiqi] and [Overlord - Xiang Yu].

This was the first time [Wuzhiqi] and [Overlord - Xiang Yu] fought side by side. Back when [Overlord - Xiang Yu]'s true name awakened, he even wanted to fight [Wuzhiqi] again. Sun Po originally thought [Overlord - Xiang Yu] had just awakened and didn't know [Wuzhiqi]'s prowess, but when he looked at [Overlord - Xiang Yu]'s panel, he suddenly felt that [Overlord - Xiang Yu] might really be able to match wits and strength with [Wuzhiqi].

Indeed, merely of Orange quality, he already possessed the strength for a battle against Golden-quality [Ancient Deities]. There was no other reason; one could only say the gold content of a complete [Overlord - Xiang Yu] was simply too high.

Name: [Warrior]

MOD:

[Overlord - Xiang Yu] [bawang pidi sword]

Type: [Human / Heteromorphic Species]

Quality: [Orange 9-Star]

Description: [The strongest human of the Recent Antiquity era, possessing two portions of Demon God's legacy from the Chaos Era. Since the severance of heaven and earth from the Remote Antiquity era, Xiang Yu is the only one in the world whose natural endowment is this tyrannical.]

Characteristics:

[Charge]

For every additional enemy around Xiang Yu, Xiang Yu's attributes gain a weak boost, with a cap of 10,000 layers. [Overlord's Body]

Xiang Yu's body is permanently in a state of Overlord Body, and his resistance to all negative effects is tremendously enhanced.

[Overlord's Death]

Xiang Yu fell beneath the bawang pidi sword in the hands of the Double-Pupil Warrior. Its blade is tainted with the Overlord's intent of death. The damage dealt by the bawang pidi sword inflicts the [Overlord's Death] effect, and its wounds cannot be recovered.

[Hating Earth Without Rings]

The Double-Pupil Warrior's blood vitality can continuously grow. For every target killed or participated in killing, the double pupils can permanently plunder one-tenth of the target's blood vitality. [Hating Heaven Without Handles]

The Double-Pupil Warrior's physical strength can continuously grow. For every target killed or participated in killing, the double pupils can permanently plunder one-tenth of the target's physical strength. [Demon Gods Mighty Power]

Xiang Yu is endowed with [Double Pupils] and [Overlord], which are the legacies of two of the three thousand Demon Gods of the Chaos Era. They enable Xiang Yu to master ancient Demon Gods Mighty Power. [Overlord] is inherited from [Ba], one of the three thousand Demon Gods, which is the power to step on the earth and hold up the heavens.

[Double Pupils] is inherited from [Jie], one of the three thousand Demon Gods, which is the power to split realms and break through the void.

The stronger Xiang Yu's physical strength is, the more powerful the Demon Gods Mighty Power becomes.

Skills:

[Overlords Earth-Splitting Slash]

Xiang Yu infuses the power of the Demon God [Ba] into the longsword in his hand, slashing out an Overlord sword qi that inflicts massive damage to the target.

[Overlord's Realm-Breaking Slash]

Xiang Yu infuses the power of the Demon God [Jie] into the longsword in his hand, slashing out a realm-breaking sword qi that tears apart the space and seals ahead.

[Arrival of the Tyrant Realm]

Xiang Yu expends a vast amount of Demon Gods Mighty Power to summon the phantom projections of the Demon Gods [Ba] and [Jie] to descend, gaining a huge boost to all attributes, with massive enhancements to his size and attack range, lasting for 30s.

Summoning the Demon God phantom projections will place a huge burden on Xiang Yu's body. After each summoning of the Demon God phantom projections, Xiang Yu needs to automatically return to the spiritual space to recover for 7 natural days. When Sun Po first looked at this panel, he felt something was amiss. The MOD of [Overlord - Xiang Yu] actually had a prefix too! Previously, Sun Po had seen [Butcher Bai Qi] and [Enlightened Monk Yang Wulang], all of which were existences whose true names had undergone a second awakening. Doesn't this mean that [Overlord - Xiang Yu] skipped a first awakening and directly underwent a second awakening of its true name?

Later, [Overlord - Xiang Yu]'s brief strike in the [Shanjun Temple] made Sun Po feel even more that something was wrong.

At that time, the [Shanjun Temple] secret realm collapsed, and Sun Po might have been swept up by spatial turbulence and drifted to foreign realms. [Wuzhiqi]'s reaction was to use [Ren Water Divine Power] to protect Sun Po thoroughly, while [Huang Chao]'s reaction was to simply go to the foreign realms to execute [Dark Tiger].

Only [Overlord - Xiang Yu] was ruthless and spoke little, pulling out the [bawang pidi sword] and directly slashing open a spatial fissure with a single sword stroke. It was through this fissure that Sun Po successfully escaped with his life.

Casually tearing apart space at the Orange grade made Sun Po feel at the time that [Overlord - Xiang Yu]'s strength was somewhat exaggerated.

He hadn't never seen Orange cards; including Orange [true name card]s, Sun Po had seen them before.

Like Yang Xinyue's [Enlightened Monk Yang Wulang], and Yuan Tiangang's [Zhang Daoling], if you said they could deal with the [Huchang] monster horde, that was correct; if you said they could deal with the gigantic fierce tiger in the [Shanjun Temple] secret realm, Sun Po felt there was no problem either.

But if you said he could easily tear apart the space within a secret realm, Sun Po absolutely would not believe it.

Such strength Sun Po had only seen on Nezha and Ranger Xuanyuan, and those two were clearly figures who could reach the heavens.

[Overlord - Xiang Yu]'s Orange quality was clearly not enough to look at, so it was purely because [Overlord - Xiang Yu]'s characteristics were far too heaven-defying.

Looking at [Overlord - Xiang Yu]'s description column, the evaluation "Xiang Yu's divine bravery is unparalleled through the ages" was probably still too conservative. The severance of heaven and earth was something Xiang Yu accomplished in the Remote Antiquity era; with this time span, saying he is unparalleled for eternity wouldn't be an exaggeration at all.

The recorded historical sequence of the Yanhuang Ancient Country consisted of three major eras: Remote Antiquity, Middle Antiquity, and Recent Antiquity.

Among them, the Remote Antiquity era was too distant in months and years to be verified. From fragmented records, humans seemed to be very powerful, even capable of hard-resisting deities.

Among them, several major families such as the Xuan Family, the Jiang Family, and the Dan Family supposedly had histories tracing back to that period.

Xiang cutting down the Jianmu tree to sever heaven and earth was the dividing point between Remote Antiquity and Middle Antiquity.

Compared to the Remote Antiquity era, there were somewhat more records of the Middle Antiquity era. Figures like Yin Tianzheng's [Wen Zhong] belonged to this period.

Humans in the Middle Antiquity era were far from as powerful as those in the Remote Antiquity era, but it was an era when deities truly rose. In the heaven and earth of that time, ascending to divinity as a human was not an idle dream.

Finally was the Recent Antiquity era. Humans in this era were even weaker, but it was a period of a massive explosion of various secret arts, and most elite families also rose during this period. With the outbreak of the secret realm crisis at the end of the Recent Antiquity era, human history experienced a fault for who knows how long; this period was rarely mentioned and often overlooked. Yet Sun Po still found some residual traces through certain history books.

Then came the sudden emergence of cards, and humanity stepped into the current Card Era.

Regarding the Chaos Era and the three thousand Demon Gods, Sun Po had not seen any records of them in this world.

But judging by the high degree of similarity between this world and Earth, this Chaos Era was not completely untraceable.

In the Chinese mythology of his past life, Sun Po had heard of a saying.

When heaven and earth were not yet separated, between heaven and earth was a gray, misty chaos—this was the Chaos Era.

In the Chaos Era, there were no humans, no deities, and no Daoist gods; there were only the three thousand Demon Gods nurtured within it, locked in endless strife.

These three thousand Demon Gods were strong and weak, ignorant yet powerful. It was said that [Pangu] and [Nuwa] were both among the three thousand Demon Gods of that Chaos Era.

Later, [Pangu], the most powerful among the three thousand Demon Gods, forged an axe with the skeletal remains of a Demon God named [Leize], and cleaved open heaven and earth, bringing the Chaos Era to an end. Afterwards, these three thousand Demon Gods consumed most of their power to reincarnate into the numerous races and deities of the Remote Antiquity era, which was also the beginning of the Remote Antiquity era.

This was just an anecdote Sun Po had heard while on Earth, and he didn't know whether it was true or false. But when [Wuzhiqi] felt [Overlord - Xiang Yu] using the Demon Gods Mighty Power of [Jie] in the [Shanjun Temple] secret realm back then, it told Sun Po that the [Demon Gods Mighty Power] within [Overlord - Xiang Yu] was an even more ancient and powerful force than [Divine Power].

This also made Sun Po feel that the Demon Gods Mighty Power on [Overlord - Xiang Yu] was probably truly extraordinary.

Afterwards, although [Overlord - Xiang Yu] did not enter battle, Sun Po had fully understood [Overlord - Xiang Yu]'s Demon Gods Mighty Power in private. Sun Po discovered that the Demon Gods Mighty Power named [Jie] had an extremely lethal destructive force against the spatial stability of secret realms, and once the secret realm's stability was damaged, the secret realm would be extremely prone to destruction.

Over the past few days, Sun Po had been thinking: could this be considered mastering a secret weapon to destroy secret realms?

Would he be able to enter a secret realm in the future and directly destroy it?

No matter what kind of monsters and tricks you pull out, I will directly destroy the secret realm upon touching it—how should you respond to that?

But [Overlord - Xiang Yu] said that while casually slicing open fragmented spaces like [Shanjun Temple] was fine, for a normally stable secret realm space, with his current strength, it probably wouldn't be so easy to break through. Unless this secret realm suffered an attack of massive energy, causing the secret realm itself to become unstable, then he might have a chance.

As it happened, an attack of massive energy was something Sun Po could also accomplish.

[Wuzhiqi] already had the ability to control disaster Qi to trigger floods during the [Changyou] period, and this ability became even more masterful after ascending to divinity.

Presently, Sun Po's [Tianhe Budu] contained a Calamity Heavenly River whose disaster Qi was completely liquefied. If [Wuzhiqi] were allowed to enter the center of the Tianhe Water Mansion, take control of the Water Mansion, transform into the [Water Lord of the Heavenly River], unleash heavenly floods, and directly wash away the entire secret realm to stage a world-destroying deluge...

Then surely [Overlord - Xiang Yu] would have the opportunity to destroy the secret realm space, thereby possibly causing the secret realm core to be exposed.

Furthermore, Sun Po himself could be called a secret realm killer. Counting the duel space secret realm of the Li Tang Myriad Nations, Sun Po had only entered four secret realms in total, of which two were destroyed. This also allowed Sun Po to harvest two complete secret realm cores.

Therefore, Sun Po had tasted the sweetness to some extent. Since his stats were so prominent, and now he had such a terrifying existence combining stats and mechanisms like [Overlord - Xiang Yu], he naturally wanted to pursue high-value items like secret realm cores.

From the moment Sun Po agreed to enter this secret realm with Liu Jianren, he had never planned to look for any snake demons. He didn't even plan to enter that temple, nor did he plan to see Fahai.

From the very beginning, he was aiming at destroying the secret realm. Since your secret realm was called [Jinshan Temple], how could he not treat you to a flooding of Jinshan?