Chapter 334: The World Has Changed

Holding the Life and Death Register's duplicate volume, he obtained no information.

It should belong to the category of props; having no information, it can likewise be brought into and taken out of mission worlds.

It's just not a one-time use item.

Of course, there's also a smaller possibility that the Life and Death Register cannot be brought out, but this probability is relatively not high.

"Let's go." Arriving at the entrance/exit Ao Yulie had "created," Tang Luo jumped down, and Ao Yulie transformed into a dragon to catch Tang Luo.

"Speaking of which, skills can be used now." Tang Luo waved his hand in the air, and quickly produced a Blood Talisman.

Slapping it onto himself, Tang Luo's body tilted, and he fell from the dragon's head, suspending in mid-air.

Ao Yulie circled around Tang Luo, instantly feeling a threat to his status.

You have to understand, Tang Luo is someone who cannot fly.

At this level, with this strength, yet still unable to fly — only Tang Luo qualifies, "the first time since heaven and earth were split."

There are historical reasons for this; during Journey to the West, flying held no meaning, Tang Luo walked step by step, even deliberately taking detours from time to time, trading time for space, continuously raising his strength.

Tang Luo never had any intention of learning cloud-riding and mist-driving techniques.

Moreover, Tang Luo's standards were high; you see, his hypothetical enemy back then was the Tathagata, so if he were to learn, he would learn the best.

Ordinary cloud-riding and mist-driving flight arts — what f*cking use are they? Even if he learned Sun Wukong's Somersault Cloud, if he truly fought the Tathagata and was outmatched, he might not even escape.

Learning these cloud-riding and mist-driving magic arts isn't simple either.

With Tang Luo's talent in this area, even if he painstakingly learned, by the time he reached the Western Heaven he still wouldn't fly as fast as Ao Yulie.

Might as well go all-in and not learn — after all, he originally walked an extreme path, the kind that smashes into a south wall and doesn't turn back.

Later, conferred as the Victorious Fighting Buddha, he continued bitter cultivation; when the time truly came, he had the Merit Jade Lotus, which was far faster than most cloud-riding and mist-driving magic arts.

To put it simply: "Learn (flight arts), learn my ass!"

So, Ao Yulie's status has always been extremely stable.

But in the last mission, Tang Luo actually learned a skill; this skill can craft Flight Talismans, allowing him to fly on his own.

Because he never needed to use it in mission worlds from the start, Ao Yulie had almost forgotten about it.

Now Tang Luo used it again, and the White Dragon Horse felt he faced a huge challenge in his dragon life.

Master can fly now, might not need me anymore, what do I do? Urgent, waiting online.

Fortunately, Tang Luo was just routinely practicing the skill, and had no intention of flying himself.

Even though the Flight Talisman doesn't actually consume the user's strength to fly, "driving" is nowhere near as comfortable as "riding."

Sitting back down on the dragon's head, Tang Luo said: "I say, Little White Dragon, can you turn into a car?"

"A car?" Ao Yulie thought for a moment, "If it's just an illusion, no problem."

"Mm." Tang Luo said, "As long as an illusion can conceal it, that's fine. Turning into a horse would be too eye-catching in some mission worlds, not too suitable."

"Actually, you can turn into a dragon and fly directly." Ao Yulie said.

"That's even more eye-catching." Tang Luo said, "We need to keep a low profile."

"Low profile, huh..." Ao Yulie murmured, recalling the "low profile" scripture-fetching combination during Journey to the West — that was his lost youth.

As for even earlier, that was regarded by Ao Yulie as black history, something he wanted to delete from the archives of his dragon life.

This rather long night finally truly passed with the departure of one person and one dragon.

Early the next morning, the area around Wanlong International was packed with cars.

The matter had already spread, causing a huge uproar.

A pile of corpses, including Quan Er Gongzi among them — the Western Capital shook.

Various task forces were rapidly established and launched investigations.

But the results they found were unsatisfactory.

Tang Luo and Ao Yulie took the "descending from the sky" route; Ao Yulie didn't take the conventional path, smashing the tempered glass to "open the door."

Tang Luo even employed the Merit Jade Lotus, entering the floor in an untouchable state.

The two were standard "invisible men," leaving no clues.

The entire floor had no cameras at all, only the fire escape stairs and the elevator interior had them.

This was naturally to protect Quan Er Gongzi's privacy; if there were cameras and footage accidentally leaked, that would be hundreds of gigabytes of material.

And it involved an extremely wide scope.

The only ones who left video records were Jiali and Pi Xiong.

And these two died together too, a mess of rotten accounts, unable to clarify what exactly happened.

To quell the situation as soon as possible, the authorities gave it some thought, or rather no thought at all, and decided to let that Mr. X take the fall.

Mr. X is the one controlled by Zheng Chiyou with the Life and Death Register, the one who recorded and uploaded the audio.

After being controlled, he became a "dies-upon-seeing-light zombie," in a state completely unable to communicate or interact.

During the arrest, personnel were even scratched and bitten.

At the time, special isolation observation and examination were carried out, terrified a zombie crisis might break out.

Fortunately, the "undead" created by the Life and Death Register are not infectious.

X has basically nearly been reduced to a lab rat; regarding himself taking the fall for this, he certainly won't raise any objections.

However, that night, X was in a state of being arrested and secretly detained, impossible for him to come out and commit crimes.

So there must be accomplices; Tang Luo, Ao Yulie, Pi Xiong, and Dou Yiqing — four people — were unquestionably "framed" as X's accomplices.

Passively declared responsible for this matter, and a wanted notice was issued.

A certain degree of coincidence, also counts as the follow-up impact of Jiali framing Tang Luo and the others that night.

No matter how you put it, Tang Luo and Dou Yiqing did indeed appear in X's home.

As for why Yu Yanbin and Xiao Han weren't included, it's because these two fell into Jiali and the others' hands.

No need to rely on the native forces of the mission world to deal with it.

And an abandoned steel plant vanished overnight, leaving no trace, not even ruins—this was deliberately suppressed.

No one wanted to cause further trouble under such circumstances.

Despite being pursued by the native forces of the world, it obviously had no effect on Tang Luo.

For the remaining three days, he didn't hide somewhere; instead, he searched everywhere for wicked souls to redeem, earning some merit power.

Tang Luo's actions of causing trouble everywhere inadvertently reduced the pressure on Dou Yiqing's side.

Barely, he managed to hold on until the return time.

At home.

Tang Luo put down the duplicate life-and-death register in his hand—this life-and-death register truly allowed "free entry and exit" to the mission world.

No low-probability situation occurred.

This time's faction mission had no special or diverse rewards.

He was given a Wind Blade skill, but since all six skills were already maxed out, after consideration, Tang Luo did not let the new Wind Blade skill replace any existing one.

Tang Luo's six skills are: Dragon Roar, Spartan War Cry, Parry, Ghost Step, Immobilizing Talisman, and Blood Talisman.

Among them, Spartan War Cry is at level two, and Parry has also been honed to level two by Tang Luo.

The rest are at level one, but their effects are quite good.

Tang Luo fundamentally lacks no attack skills; after he "cultivated" the Nirvana Glazed Great Hand Seal, there is no shortcoming in his long-range output, and he does not need Wind Blade to fill the gap.

These six skills can be said to be quite a good setup—there is control, displacement, defense, and status enhancement.

Only output is slightly lacking, still Dragon Roar being this inconspicuous group attack.

However, Tang Luo lacks nothing in "output."

Thus, Wind Blade was "discarded" by him, feeling like the "forget" or "not learn" in Pokémon.

There's also no loss—this is the inevitable path after many cycles of the Gods and Demons' Journey mission.

In fact, it helps the Gods and Demons' Journey to combine into a truly personal, practical set of skills.

Like Nai Taisheng (sixth mission) Tang Luo encountered, and later Tang Yuhan he met, they are among the outstanding ones.

Relying on complementary skills, their strength is in no way inferior to that of Fate Bearers.

For this mission, Tang Luo's greatest gain is certainly not the discarded skill reward, but the life-and-death register in his hand.

With the passage of time, possibly due to the remnant souls of Black and White Impermanence within it, the deathly aura often emanating from the life-and-death register is also decreasing.

When it completely disappears, it is estimated that the life-and-death register can then be used.

Moreover, there are four fate fragments in total; two of them are insignificant—Tang Luo consumed them, but his injury recovery showed no noticeable improvement, not even raising the unharmed upper limit by 0.1%.

Later, adding the power stored in the Black and White Impermanence and Cupid fate fragments, Tang Luo's unharmed upper limit successfully increased to 3.4%.

Slowly accumulating, as long as Tang Luo's injury recovers to half, then even without medicine or merit power's help, by his ability, he can also self-heal.

At that time, the speed of injury recovery will increase again.

But before that, he must first cross the high mountain.

As for Ao Yulie, he has some minor complaints about the Gods and Demons' Game—clearly he also receives missions, so why no rewards at all?

Isn't this putting him and that stupid dog, the Heavenly Howling Hound, in the same position?

He is clearly a mount—being a mount, shouldn't he be ranked higher than a pet? I, the Third Prince of the Jade Dragon, declare my dissatisfaction!

However, Tang Luo pointed out a key issue: in the previous mission, the one who truly played a key role was actually the Heavenly Howling Hound.

It was she who found Zheng Chiyou's "corpse" that he had created.

This triggered a series of events, completing the mission overnight.

Otherwise, it would likely have been delayed for a period of time.

Regarding Tang Luo's pointed-out key issue, Ao Yulie thought long and hard, and reached a conclusion: "Master, the times have changed."

Before, those simple and unadorned ones, upon hearing the pilgrims, would become very excited, very pure and unpretentious—those monsters Tang Luo and company fished with various baits are already gone!

What remains are a bunch of hiding old yinbi, who don't even know how to write the four characters "upright and proper."

Truly, morals are declining day by day, "demon hearts are not ancient."

"Cultivate properly, you're so weak you can't even take the life-and-death register—what kind of state are you in?" Finally, Tang Luo displayed his master's authority, ending the post-mission summary with one sentence.