Chapter 352: Dragon Slayer Warrior Zha Gen Di Si

"What is this?" Mu Yi took the item from the Nine-tailed Fox Owner's hand.

To him, the Nine-tailed Fox Owner was a respected elder who had given him considerable help during his upbringing.

Tu Shan Stone

Type: Curious Item

Effect: Carrying it can increase luck and make opportunities arise more easily.

Mu Yi looked at the Owner with some suspicion; wasn't this thing just something from her own hometown, why was it taken from someone else's hands?

"It's from my hometown, but I snatched it from a group of self‑righteous Guardians of the Dao; take it and use it!" the Nine-tailed Fox Owner said casually.

"It's no longer useful to me now, so I give it to you; I hope it brings you some good luck!"

"Thank you, Owner!" Mu Yi bowed and accepted the gift.

"Go then!" the Owner waved a hand and said nothing more.

When Mu Yi left, the Nine-tailed Fox Owner watched his back with a hazy gaze, sinking into deep recollection.

"When did the things I once sought but couldn't obtain become so readily given away?"

"Yi kid, perhaps you could help me punish those detestable Guardians of the Dao?"

"You've already been able to undertake Legend missions; before long you might truly enter the Heavenly Court. If there's a chance next time, entrust the mission to him; after all these years, I still can't forget this matter!"

The Nine-tailed Fox Owner touched her chest, revealing a fierce scar.

Even though much time has passed, for a long‑lived being like a Nine-tailed Fox, it's still just the blink of an eye.

The Nine-tailed Fox Owner thought she had forgotten, but the moment she saw Mu Yi today, she recalled the matter; perhaps she opened a tavern in the Zongwang network back then just for this day?

Find a Zongwang Player from Jiuzhou, wait for him to join the Heavenly Court, and then avenge herself.

As everyone knows, in Jiuzhou, being able to fight is useless unless you're exceptionally skilled.

Even a named disciple like Ying Bairui has a chance to draw Mu Yi, and thereby draw Shen Tu Yu Lei.

No matter which direct disciple of Yuxu Palace you are, after beating third‑generation disciples, then second‑generation Golden Immortals, and then the Primordial Lord intervenes directly, can you endure that?

To survive out there, you have to talk about fists and background.

The Owner can achieve more for the Nine-tailed Fox only by relying on Zongwang; she herself is just an ordinary fox spirit.

She has a tenuous link with the Tu Shan Clan tribe, but hoping that connection will have the Tu Shan Clan avenge her is pure fantasy.

Moreover… without considering Da Yu, the Human Emperor, the Tu Shan Clan is already inferior to the Four Seas Dragon Clan within Jiuzhou, let alone matching the tangled Daoist sects.

She herself can't beat the Guardians of the Dao who can draw big shots, so she had to leave her hometown, depart Jiuzhou, and live within Zongwang.

"Shu Shan… you won't stay smug forever…" a fierce glint flashed in the Nine-tailed Fox Owner's eyes.

Foxes have always been creatures that repay kindness.

Moreover, the Nine-tailed Fox Owner is a woman.

As everyone knows, women are a particularly grudging kind.

Far away in the lower world of Jiuzhou, the head of Shu Shan, for reasons unknown, suddenly felt a chill behind him, his expression startled, and he hurriedly tried to divine the heavens.

Yet no matter how he divined, he couldn't discern the specifics, only sensing that some calamity was about to befall him.

……

After Mu Yi and his group took their positions, La Ge Na arrived at the tavern and found them.

"La Ge Na!"

Mu Yi raised his hand in greeting.

La Ge Na responded to Mu Yi with a somewhat complex look and gave a slight bow to Lily and Aili.

"Last time, I had a premonition, but I never expected it to be this fast!" La Ge Na said, looking at Mu Yi with a hint of melancholy after sitting down.

Mu Yi's progress was astonishingly rapid; when they first met, he was just a young Karami, even needing him to carry him.

But this time, all La Ge Na could see was Mu Yi's distant silhouette.

"If you choose to walk the Transcendent path, your speed of ascending to Legend won't be slower than mine!" Mu Yi shook his head.

La Ge Na's problem was obvious: no matter how solid the foundation, without further climbing, progress naturally can't be as swift as theirs.

"You know I can't!" La Ge Na's expression turned somewhat gloomy.

"We'll always find a solution!" Mu Yi could only comfort La Ge Na upon hearing that.

Being heavily bounty‑wanted by the Dragon was indeed a trouble for La Ge Na; after all, a Dragon deity with weak divine power still has strong combat ability, making it harder to deal with at the same level.

Lily and Aili, who knew the inside story, also fell silent; after all, aren't they also targets despised and even wanted by the Silver Moon Goddess?

And Mu Yi thought of Guan Sheng Dijun.

Everyone bore burdens of varying weight, causing the atmosphere at the table to grow silent.

"Greetings, I am Dragon Slayer Warrior Zha Gen Di Si!"

Zha Gen Di Si's arrival broke the silence, and the others quickly adjusted themselves, looking toward the one who issued the mission commission.

"Jiuzhou, Military Strategist, Mu Yi!" Mu Yi introduced himself, then gestured to introduce the others to Zha Gen Di Si, who nodded.

He also performed a strange ritual toward La Ge Na.

"Brother walking the great deeds of Dragon Slaying, I salute you!"

La Ge Na was a bit speechless, then returned the salute with his own ritual toward Zha Gen Di Si.

"Likewise, I salute you, brother walking the great deeds of Dragon Slaying!"

"We can talk later; perhaps, brother, you aren't alone!" Zha Gen Di Si said solemnly to La Ge Na.

After speaking, Zha Gen Di Si turned his gaze to Mu Yi and Lily.

He directly told him that these two were the decision‑makers.

"Since you both dare to take this mission in such a manner, you must have confidence, but to let everyone grasp the task's difficulty, please duel me!"

Zha Gen Di Si was blunt, directly expressing his concerns about Mu Yi and others' strength, and issued a duel challenge.

Natural! Mu Yi directly issued a challenge invitation via Zongwang.

Several people instantly entered a pure white place; this is a combat space specially prepared by Zongwang, where neither side will die in combat and can fight freely.

However, because many Zongwang Disaster Coins must be paid, few people use it; but for the Martial Combat Faction, the significance of this duel arena is obvious.

Just as many people are enthusiastic about participating in the God of Combat's Starry Arena, it is a place where the Martial Combat Faction can quickly grow.

Mu Yi stepped on the duel arena's ground, feeling an unprecedented steadiness, as if even a full-force blow could not move it in the slightest, though it was only a feeling—the ground was merely solid, not immovable.

"This kind of ground really makes one feel steady!" Mu Yi muttered to himself.

"Do you need to get familiar with this kind of ground?" Zhagen Dis said calmly.

No need!

Mu Yi shook his head; he was merely surprised—at their level, if they still performed poorly due to environmental changes, they would truly deserve to die.

Begin!

With a proclamation, the ground beneath Zhagen Dis shattered directly, layered cracks accompanied by a mournful long gash splitting open; amidst the extreme howling, a figure charged over.

Zhagen Dis charged forward; though only one person, he forcibly exuded the momentum of ten thousand troops, as if heaven and earth were splitting apart.

Amidst this grand momentum, Mu Yi felt a strong dragon aura—the kind that comes from having slain many dragons and bathed in much dragon blood.

Equal in existence to La Ge Na as a dragon slayer, yet why hasn't Zhagen Dis been placed under a high bounty?

Mu Yi was quite certain he had never heard the name Zhagen Dis.

However, this is not the time to worry about such things, for Zhagen Dis had already rushed to his face, and the giant sword in his hand came down with a force of ten thousand jun.

Uninterrupted!

Everything in the world seemed to freeze; Mu Yi's left eye flickered with all possible future images, and then Mu Yi altered one of those causal threads, taking it as his chosen future.

Time flowed again; Mu Yi strolled past Zhagen Dis as if taking a leisurely walk, and before Zhagen Dis could react, the protective light of Zongwang blossomed beside him.

This meant the battle ended in an instant.

"Ended?" Aili and La Ge Na widened their eyes, having seen nothing of what happened before it was already over.

"……" Zhagen Dis touched his neck in some shock.

He could feel that, without Zongwang's protection, he would already be dead.

He was beheaded, and his neck could feel that sharpness.

Even if he had many backup plans and trump cards, being dead renders them meaningless.

Zongwang's judgment is quite fair; having deemed him dead, his so-called backup plans are thus meaningless.

"You are indeed a strong fighter; being able to fight alongside you is my honor!" Zhagen Dis bowed to Mu Yi to express respect.

Everyone returned to the tavern, including Lily, and all fell into contemplation, constantly recalling that scene in their minds.

"What is the effect of the fate-system ability?" Lily frowned, pondering what had just happened, and asked Mu Yi somewhat uncertainly.

Mu Yi nodded, then shook his head.

Causality can be seen as a manifestation of fate, but it is not exactly fate; the two are more similar than anything else.

Lily also did not continue questioning, after all personal ability is a kind of hidden card, and probing its roots is not a friendly move.

"Tell me the specifics of the mission!" Mu Yi asked casually.

Zhagen Dis is not a weakling, which is worth affirming; being able to instantly kill him is indeed thanks to the special effect of Uninterrupted.

By selecting a readable future that his ability can support, Mu Yi can directly skip the process and lock in the victory outcome.

However, this only works for Mu Yi in one-on-one duels; if transferred to a battlefield, the variability of this ability would be too great, and he cannot yet lock victory when commanding large armies.

Once causality is locked, the process obviously becomes irrelevant.

This is also why Mu Yi can instantly kill Zhagen Dis in an instant: Zhagen Dis cannot break through Mu Yi's locked causality, and thus naturally proceeds toward the fate of death.

This ability is actually rather cheap; in a sense it counts as a strong-person appraisal ability—those who cannot pass this lock will be instantly slain by Mu Yi.

"My arena record has reached sixty-nine straight wins; upon reaching seventy I can exchange for something I need, so I chose to overcome this threshold by fighting in small teams."

"Normally, my opponents become somewhat stronger than before; basically they are all capable of winning streaks, basically there are no weaklings, and the opposing team should all be Legend or above."

Saying this, Zhagen Dis paused; initially he wanted to recruit some teammates to lower the opposing side's average level.

Then he single-handedly held off three people, let his recruited teammates beat two of the opponents, and then divide and conquer.

This is based on his extreme confidence in his own skills; if the opposing side also had one or two members below Legend, perhaps they could easily win.

But after being instantly killed by Mu Yi in one strike, he began to doubt his own strength, for being instant-killed is truly bizarre.

Although he knows there are always stronger people and higher heavens, as a dragon slayer warrior over level 25, he still had considerable confidence in himself.

But with Mu Yi present, he suspects the combat difficulty might be directly raised to a troublesome level.

However, even if the five opponents were all as strong as him, it would seem meaningless, as they could only be cut down one by one by Mu Yi.

"Understood!" Mu Yi roughly understood; the opposing side's task this time had no hidden agenda—just pure combat enjoyment would suffice.

"When to start?"

Mu Yi likes this kind of mission—simple, brute, just act straight away and it's finished.

"Now we can start!" Zha Gen Di Si replied immediately.

"You have accepted Zha Gen Di Si's arena team invitation."

"You used the Battle God's Starry Arena pass."

"Based on your level, your current grouping is: Legend Group."

"Because your level changed too much, your past points are retained, but your win streak is cleared. May your martial luck prosper!"

"Matching in progress!"

"A worthy opponent has been matched for you!"

"Transferring characters into the battlefield…"

After a rapid environmental shift, Mu Yi and his party appeared inside the arena.

Current arena: the much‑watched arena

Five minutes until the battle begins!

Mu Yi surveyed the surrounding environment, and, just as he had seen before, it was a Roman coliseum, with the stands filled with spectators.

Opposite them stood a fairly standard adventuring party: Knight, Warrior, Priest, Mage, Ranger.

Mu Yi's side, by contrast, looked like a ragtag crowd.