Chapter 315

Finally got sweet-talked away...

Striving to maintain the persona of a scheming family member, Li Ang stood with his hands clasped behind his back, his gaze indifferent, waiting for the Dream Realm to close. Only after more than twenty thousand Goddesses of Wealth had completely vanished did Li Ang finally exhale a deep breath from the bottom of his heart.

The work at the Cleanup Bureau is truly inhumane. Even Auntie Auntie Ai Ma, a senior with such high skill, crashed and burned; even dragging along Tang Mu, a fellow Level 1 senior, to help, they almost got wiped out by the descending Goddesses of Wealth.

Hmm...

Or perhaps it wasn't originally this dangerous, but the fact that he and Senior Tang Mu, two misfits hated by the Will of the World, were together caused their bad luck to super-double, summoning Goddesses of Wealth that shouldn't have come.

After silently warning himself to avoid grouping up with Senior Tang Mu in the future, Li Ang quickly walked over to the unconscious Senior Auntie Auntie Ai Ma, unbuttoned the topmost button of her collar to help her breathe as smoothly as possible, then carried her on his back and struggled to climb toward the valley's summit.

"Wake up!"

"Slap! Slap!"

"Senior Tang Mu! Wake up!"

"Slap! Slap! Slap!"

"Mmm..."

Woken by the sharp pain on his cheeks, the pale-faced, lazy youth blinked his eyes and, looking utterly confused, said:

"I..."

"You fainted."

After stating the obvious, Li Ang, who had forcefully slapped Tang Mu awake, pointed at the half-trident with a snake tail stuck in the valley and replied somewhat vaguely:

"The Goddess of Wealth seems to have had an incident; she suddenly rushed into the Dream Realm... Never mind her for now, let's run quickly. Have your bones grown back? Can you move?"

To avoid the unlucky scenario where the Goddess of Wealth hadn't fully left and, upon hearing his explanation and confession, suddenly returned for a surprise attack, Li Ang did not recount what had just happened.

The lazy youth, having regained consciousness, tried to stiffen his neck and lift his head, but quickly fell back, shaking his head in some dejection and saying:

"Not yet... Your bandages are still too slow; my leg bones haven't shown any movement, only a bit of tailbone has grown."

"..."

"Mmm... By the way, why does my face hurt so much? And the area above my lips..."

"Well... I called out to you for a long time with no response, so I had to use my hands. Sorry..."

Looking at the lazy youth whose cheeks were swollen high on both sides and whose philtrum bore three or four nail marks, Li Ang said apologetically:

"Senior Auntie Auntie Ai Ma was injured too severely this time; she probably won't wake up for a short while. The cursed silver and pendants in my possession that have killing power were all confiscated by the Goddess of Wealth, so my current means of self-protection are insufficient.

Outside, besides the believers of the Chengjin Sect, there are likely another eighty or ninety clergy members, and at least two Mingsi Sect leaders. If I directly take you out, I feel it's not very safe, so I was thinking of waking you up first to ask if you have any ideas."

Do I have any ideas?

Looking at himself, whose bones had been completely extracted, the lazy youth said with some headache:

"All the bones and joints in my body are gone; only my mouth and neck can move. Oh right, now I also have a butt... Anyway, with my current appearance, what ideas could I possibly have?

By the way, didn't you pick up all those shell coins? Why don't you try to wake Auntie Auntie Ai Ma up again, just like you saved me before?"

"I already tried, it didn't work."

Hearing this, Li Ang shook his head and said somewhat helplessly:

"Senior Auntie Auntie Ai Ma's situation is quite complex; the sword wound in her heart is a soul injury, both her arms have been jade-fied by the 【Dream of Deep Green】, and she had over three hundred lives bought away by the Snake Spirit. These three injuries are mixed together; you can't buy just one of them, and the number of shell coins isn't enough.

Also, unlike buying Senior Tang Mu's bones, 'injuries' cannot exist separately from the body. So to buy the injuries on Senior Auntie Auntie Ai Ma's body, someone must bear those injuries."

Raising his right hand to let Senior Tang Mu see the jade-fied fingernails, Li Ang added with lingering fear:

"The contamination value between Senior Auntie Auntie Ai Ma and me... um... the Li Ang value is too far apart; whether in physical constitution, soul strength, or resistance to anomalies, we are completely on different levels.

For her, it's just a relatively serious injury; for me, they are all life-threatening critical wounds. I estimate that if I bought less than one-tenth of the injuries, the sword wound in Senior Auntie Auntie Ai Ma's heart would shatter my soul, turning me completely into an immobile jade statue."

"Then let's not buy it..."

Looking at Li Ang's emerald-green fingernails, the lazy youth pondered for a moment and realized the current situation was indeed a bit troublesome.

Although the most critical Goddess of Wealth, for some unknown reason, suddenly ran off, allowing the three of them to unexpectedly keep their lives, the Chengjin Sect believers outside the 【Dream of Deep Green】 are still there.

And according to the Chengjin Sect's assembly process, generally one Mingsi Sect leader from each of the three lineages would attend. After one was dealt with by him, there should be two Mingsi Sect leaders remaining outside, along with dozens of core believers who have been baptized and possess certain special abilities.

Although as an underground sect not known for combat capabilities, the Chengjin Sect's Mingsi Sect leaders are terrible at fighting, merely at the level of ordinary Level 2 Cleanup personnel, even worse than Jerry, a reconnaissance-type Cleanup personnel, so they aren't hard to deal with.

If either he or Auntie Auntie Ai Ma were normal, taking down those two Mingsi Sect leaders would be ridiculously easy, probably not even taking thirty seconds, but now Auntie Auntie Ai Ma is unconscious, he is immobile, and the only intact Li Ang has lost his main combat anomaly, so it's really uncertain whether he can overcome these Chengjin Sect members.

If he survived the hands of a True God only to fall into the hands of a few trash Mingsi Sect leaders, he would truly die with his eyes unable to close...

"How about... you just stab me to death."

"Huh?"

"Don't worry, this is my trump card."

Amidst Li Ang's somewhat confused expression, the lazy youth began to explain:

"When we first entered, didn't I set up three rituals in advance?

The first two sets of rituals have already been triggered; the first set, arranged with five types of metal, was used to steal the money of the Chengjin Sect's Cat Spirit; the other set, arranged with mercury, sulfur, and salt, was used to counteract the influence of the Snake Spirit's Secret Shrine; the final ritual was just used for resurrection."

"Resurrection?!"

"Yes, the effect of that ritual is resurrection... or rather, it automatically activates after I am killed, restoring the dead me to the exact moment the ritual was set up."

Looking at Li Ang's face full of shock, the lazy youth explained with some pride:

"The six materials of the Return Ritual are paired opposites: matches and amber represent solidified eternity and brief extinction; a child's fingernails and an old person's last will represent bodily growth and termination respectively; horns and tails signify beginning and end, achieving three perfect balances with each other.

And if I am killed, it is equivalent to the match of the body extinguishing, the old person of the soul departing, and life reaching its end; the one-sided balance is completely broken. At this moment, the remaining half of the imagery will be activated, beginning to reshape everything of mine.

After that, my body will be eternal like amber, my soul will sprout vigorously like a child's, and the life that reached its end will start anew; I, this person, will be resurrected."

"Let me tell you, this is my most proud ritual; it was relying on it that I kept my life when subduing the True God, so you can rest assured and stab me. As soon as one sword strike lands, I will be lively and... uh... wait a second!"

Seeing the blood-red wolf-tooth club in Li Ang's hand covered in barbs, the lazy youth couldn't help but shudder with fear in his eyes, then instinctively retracted the tailbone he had just grown.

"No... I did mean for you to stab me, but are you going to use this to stab?"