2: Sacrificial System and Bronze Coffins

Their faces were very close, and only then did the young woman clearly see Song Zhong's face.

Song Zhong was smiling, and she was very familiar with that smile, as if he had seen his prey.

Before she ate people, she also liked to show this kind of smile.

The young woman's eyes once again turned into vertical pupils, and her loose hair bristled.

Danger!

Danger that was spoken!

This man wasn't here to play!

With a crack, the young woman's mouth split open to her earlobes, revealing pale, sharp fangs.

Just as the young woman was about to counterattack, Song Zhong's hands, wrapped around her waist, suddenly exerted force.

The young woman felt as if her internal organs had been hit by a dump truck, and the bones in her body creaked.

She wanted to fight back, but Song Zhong's strength was too great; he had already crushed her bones.

The young woman's pupils gradually dilated, the only constant being the terror before her death.

She was a special worker possessed by a Nanda Snake Demon.

Five days ago, Song Zhong had set his sights on her.

Song Zhong placed the female snake demon's corpse on the ground.

Then, he picked up her right hand, using his thumb and forefinger to tightly grip her incredibly sharp little fingernail.

Crack!

The female snake demon's pinky fingernail was thus forcibly pulled off by Song Zhong.

Immediately after, Song Zhong took out nine sealed bags from his cloth satchel.

Inside the sealed bags were nine fingernails of various shapes and sizes, some still stained with black blood.

Undoubtedly, these were all the offerings he had accumulated before.

Song Zhong neatly arranged the ten fingernails into a perfect circle, much like the bronze coffins arranged in the System Space.

Next, Song Zhong bit his index finger and dripped a drop of fresh blood into the center of the circle.

A bizarre scene appeared: after Song Zhong's fresh blood fell to the ground, it immediately transformed into ten bloodlines.

Those ten bloodlines, like earthworms, crawled towards the fingernails.

Hiss!

The moment the ten bloodlines touched the fingernails, a cloud of red mist suddenly emerged from the ground.

This was Song Zhong's second sacrifice, and he was already accustomed to such a scene.

As the red mist dissipated, the fingernails on the ground and his blood drop all vanished, leaving only nine sealed bags scattered casually on the ground.

【Congratulations, Host, on a successful sacrifice! Your current sacrifice value has reached 50. Do you wish to activate and proceed with ability extraction?】

Song Zhong got up and sat on the massage chair; his Mental Energy entered the System Space.

In his System Space, there were ten huge bronze coffins arranged radially.

Within the dim System Space, the ten bronze coffins encircled Song Zhong.

Two of the coffins had inscriptions on them.

The large characters represented the owner of the coffin, and the smaller characters represented the abilities Song Zhong had gained through sacrifice.

The owner of the first coffin was “Yin Lingzi, the God of Escape,” and Song Zhong had obtained his ability, “Firefly.”

“Firefly” is a 遁術 (escape technique) that allows the user to mark three locations; once danger is encountered, the user can transform into a Firefly's faint glow, vanish from the original spot, and teleport to any marked location.

This was directly given to Song Zhong by the System's novice gift package, and relying on this ability, Song Zhong had avoided several fatal attacks during his hunts of the Mysterious.

However, this ability also had limitations: the marked locations could not be more than 500 meters from the user.

As for whether the number of marked locations and the distance would increase with increased strength, Song Zhong was still unsure.

The owner of the second bronze coffin was War God Xing Tian, and the ability Song Zhong obtained from him was “Exertion.”

As the name suggests, it is extreme strength, but this strength has an upper limit, depending on the user's Realm and physical fitness.

For example, asking the current Song Zhong to compete in strength with a Mysterious of the Chuan Realm would be a bit difficult for him.

Looking at the sacrifice value on the System, Song Zhong sighed.

The System had issued many sacrifice missions, with varying difficulties and different sacrifice values obtained.

Activating a bronze coffin required 20 sacrifice points, the first extraction required 30, the second extraction required 100, and so on.

In other words, if Song Zhong wanted to continue extracting Silver Spirit's or Xing Tian's abilities, he would need 100 sacrifice points.

However, activating an unopened bronze coffin and extracting the corresponding owner's ability only required a total of 50 sacrifice points.

Song Zhong unhesitatingly went to the third bronze coffin.

“System, activate the third bronze coffin and extract the ability!”

No sound responded to Song Zhong.

But the third bronze coffin changed.

The ancient and Mysterious patterns on the bronze coffin actually lit up, and although the light was not strong, it possessed an indescribable beauty.

Soon, the light dissipated, and a name also appeared on the bronze coffin.

“Youzu Shentu!”

Song Zhong gasped, “Is this Shen Tu, one of the Twin Gods of the Netherworld?”

Before his Transmigration, he was also a fan of web novels, so he had naturally heard of the names Shen Tu and Yu Lei.

If that's the case, there should also be a bronze coffin whose owner is Yu Lei!

Xing Tian, Silver Spirit, Shen Tu—these were all divine demons from ancient Chinese legends, their history far more ancient than the Journey to the West and Investiture of the Gods Systems.

Song Zhong became excited, wondering what ability this ancient Youzu would bring him.

“System, extract it for me!”

【Ding! Congratulations, Host, on successfully extracting an ability! The ability you obtained this time is “Soul Ferry.”】

“Soul Ferry? What kind of ability is this?”

Soon, the System responded.

【Soul Ferry: The user can ferry Souls with a Realm lower than their own to the Netherworld. The user can summon them back to the present world through the Gate of the Netherworld.】

【Note: The ability of the Gate of the Netherworld needs to be extracted separately.】

“A cultivation-type skill?”

Song Zhong sighed; this ability didn't seem very useful.

However, with the activation of the third bronze coffin, Song Zhong's Mental Energy finally broke through the “Zhan Realm” and reached the Chi Realm.

With the Breakthrough in Mental Energy, Song Zhong felt his senses become sharper and his reactions more agile.

Even his physical strength had also improved incidentally.

“Is this what the Chi Realm feels like? It's not bad!”

Just as Song Zhong was experiencing the changes of his Realm's elevation, footsteps suddenly came from outside.

If it were his pre-Breakthrough self, Song Zhong definitely wouldn't have noticed this change.

Song Zhong stood up, put on his baseball cap, and was about to pick up his backpack and leave.

Bang!

He heard the sound of the glass door downstairs shattering.

Immediately after, a man in a dark red cloak ran up from the first floor.

Song Zhong turned around, meeting the eyes of the man rushing up.

Chuan Realm!

Chen Muye?

Song Zhong sensed the other party's Realm, and with that attire, it could only be the Cangnan City Night Watcher team.

If it was Chuan Realm, who else could it be but Captain Chen Muye?

Chen Muye looked at the snake demon's corpse on the ground, then at Song Zhong.

Clang!

Chen Muye drew his straight blade, “Who exactly are you?”

Song Zhong sighed; he didn't want to get involved with these people right now.

“Captain Chen!” Song Zhong said.

Chen Muye was stunned; the other party actually knew him.

The baseball-capped young man snapped his fingers, “Until we meet again!”

With a snap, the young man had vanished from the spot, leaving only specks of Firefly light, like fireflies on a summer night!

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