126: Debate, Rocky's fear!

The trio, having already decided to go sightseeing in Sakura, received an invitation from another companion in their squad.

At Yang Jian's home.

The familiar trio sat side by side, chatting while eating.

Opposite them were the familiar Yang Jian and his sister, along with a... black dog!

However, except for Shen Pan, who had a strange expression at first, Ruan Qingshu and Jiang Ruolai didn't think there was anything wrong with the big black dog.

"Sigh! Can any of you help me persuade Yuchan? She's only 16!"

"She Awakened secretly without telling me. Don't you think that's going too far?"

Because during the opening ceremony this morning, Yang Yuchan had sat in the freshman area just like everyone else.

After Yang Jian learned that his sister was also an Awakened of the deification system.

He felt as if the sky had collapsed!

The status of an Awakened is not as simple as ordinary people think.

To get anything, one must rely on their fists to fight and snatch!

Especially since his sister is only at the Peak of the Third Rank now; what if she gets bullied after school starts!

"...Isn't this quite good? You two siblings can farm role-playing progress from each other, stepping on your own feet to climb higher."

"Don't you think so, Ruolai?"

Looking at the dumpling handed over by the shy and evasive Ruolai, Shen Pan calmly opened his mouth and ate it.

He is someone who doesn't know how to refuse.

If meat is delivered to his mouth, of course, he will eat it!

"Mm... Classmate Shen Pan, everything you say is right!"

After learning from Qingshu to feed Shen Pan, Jiang Ruolai, whose heart rate suddenly accelerated, whispered in agreement, her voice as thin as a thread.

If it weren't for the fact that everyone present was at least at the Third Rank, they might not have been able to hear it!

Yang Jian, who held a different opinion, frowned and retorted:

"But, Yuchan has never trained, nor does she know how to fight. Anyway, the deification system doesn't need resources right now, so she can completely stay at home!"

If a situation arose where his sister had to go to the battlefield to fight, he, as an older brother, would be incompetent! He would have failed the hopes of their parents!

Yang Jian believed he should shoulder all the difficulties and didn't need his sister to walk this path of no return!

Ruan Qingshu silently looked up at Yang Yuchan, who looked helpless and embarrassed, and could only frantically rub the dog's head.

She casually remarked:

"In this era, only power is the most valuable asset. And with the increase in the Rank limit of the world, more invaders from the Otherworld might appear in the future."

"Only by Awakening extraordinary power can one survive the coming great changes."

These words made Yang Yuchan's eyes light up, and she nodded repeatedly: "Sister Ruan is right! Brother, you just look down on me!"

"I can actually Rank in the top ten among this year's freshmen, close to the top five!"

"And, and..."

She looked around hesitatingly, lingering for a moment on the three of them—Shen Pan, Ruan Qingshu, and Jiang Ruolai. Finally, Yang Yuchan summoned her courage and shouted: "I also want to fight side by side with you, Brother!"

Good determination. Shen Pan thought for a moment and added: "Well said, I vote for her."

"Me too!" Jiang Ruolai raised her left hand.

Ruan Qingshu didn't speak, but her gaze towards Shen Pan had already provided the answer.

"..." Yang Jian looked speechlessly at the three teammates he had invited to help him persuade Yuchan.

Whose side are you on? And this vote is not fair at all! Who doesn't know that you three are like conjoined twins!

"Woof woof!" Xiao Tian suddenly raised a paw towards Yang Yuchan, who was smiling beautifully.

"Xiao Tian???" Yang Jian looked in disbelief at his beloved dog, who was lowering its head with a human-like guilty expression.

The result was clear. Today, it was Yang Jian's defeat.

... Sakura. After browsing the news that Sakura was about to hold the God Conferment Battle, and that the Kujo Family was inviting Prodigies of the deification system from all over the world, even the God of Thunder was coming.

Loki, with an extremely gloomy face, punched through his computer screen.

"Wasn't it said that it was just a separate invitation for Shen Pan? To try and find out the reason why he Cultivates so fast?"

"Why make such a big commotion all of a sudden!"

Loki paced back and forth in the laboratory, his expression becoming increasingly irritable.

They clearly said they would support his experiments and actions to the greatest extent. Yet these Sakura people, born of pigs, didn't even tell him about such an important matter!

He only learned today about news that happened yesterday!

"Something is wrong; the words and actions of that Princess Kujo are inconsistent!"

"Could this be the drawback of ascending by devouring similar authorities?" It's just like schizophrenia!

With such a landmine that could explode at any time supporting him, could his plan still succeed? For the first time, Loki felt how important a stable, normal teammate was!

After watching Shen Pan's live stream yesterday, that 【Sun Goddess】 Kujo Senko had said to his face that she was very curious about Shen Pan's true combat power, and which was stronger, the space authority or the sun authority.

She prepared to find an excuse to invite him to Sakura to observe the ceremony, and incidentally, to ask out that Moon God who had always been opposing her.

As a result, not long after he left, the news released by the other party had completely changed!

Therefore, Loki had a bold guess: "After devouring the power within a same-source being, the devoured one does not completely disappear..."

"Instead, it exists in the form of mental residue pollution!"

If one keeps getting stronger by eating people, they will eventually become a mental patchwork monster! Thinking of this outcome, Loki felt a chill. His heart was covered by a thick shadow.

He had originally discovered first that the method of absorbing Power Of Faith was a dead end. That was why he came to Sakura to seek allies, longing to uncover the secrets of the deification system.

But now, the two known methods both had obvious flaws! And the method of role-playing and digesting power that he had summarized actually had some problems too.

It just wasn't as bad as the first two, where one would lose their self. However, long-term role-playing, imitating the source of the power within oneself, was equivalent to a form of disguised sacrifice.

Every time he role-played, it was equivalent to constantly copying the other's existence. Even if Loki didn't believe the sources, who had been dead for who knows how long, could return through this, the longer one role-played, the more the role-player's habits would be gradually affected. Mentally, they would be contaminated by some of the pollution from the source masters!

"No matter which form of getting stronger it is, we are all drawing closer to the origin of our power." Somehow, Loki suddenly thought of this inexplicable sentence. "Swish!" His expression froze, and a drop of cold sweat slid down his temple.

"Damn it! I can't continue to probe any further." Loki looked at the global deification system character cards he had spent days finalizing, as well as the analysis, annotations, and guesses regarding the divine powers of the deification systems in various countries. A trace of helplessness and regret flashed in his eyes, but it instantly turned into determination!

He directly summoned a ball of flowing fire to burn them all. He prepared to loaf around for a while to pad his time and apply for more funding. Once the Ninth Rank powerhouse secretly monitoring him in Sakura relaxed their vigilance, he would find an opportunity to run!

As for those contracts signed with Sakura? His innate authority of trickery happened to be specifically designed for these!!!

"If only I could get in touch with Great Xia..." Or... find people from the Otherworld? Loki suddenly felt that he had opened up a new world.