Chapter 605: The Organization Decided, You'll Be the BOSS

The scale of the cost for a summoning might be related to the "distance," or it might be related to the one being summoned.

Although Tang Luo appeared to have been summoned by the Heart of Summoning that time, it was actually the doing of the God-Demon Game; his initial appearance was merely going through the motions.

"Comfortable!"

Nezha stretched his body, and a gale howled around him — that was the trembling Heaven and Earth Qi.

Soon, at the "severed end" where he only had half a body, a translucent body began to extend, forming a complete figure.

It was just extremely unstable; a gust of wind could disperse it.

The Heaven-Shaking Silk wound around and turned into a pair of red trousers, preserving the integrity of Nezha's lotus body.

Moving slightly to confirm daily movement posed no problem, Nezha stood with hands on hips, a face full of smug satisfaction.

Who knows what he was so smug about.

Probably smug about his own move of using the Heaven-Shaking Silk to stabilize his newborn yet fragile original body?

"This place isn't bad."

Nezha sensed the abundant Heaven and Earth Qi and said to Tang Luo.

"Mm." Tang Luo responded and briefly recounted what had happened in this world.

After listening, Nezha raised his brows in slight anger: "These good-for-nothings, they really degenerate more the longer they live."

"How is that little monkey doing now?"

"Still over at 'Ling Mountain'; his Flower-Fruit Mountain has been completely destroyed, so he simply occupied the mountain as king." Pigsy answered Nezha's question, revealing a hint of a malicious grin. "I suggested he repair those temples and halls that weren't completely destroyed and use them as dwellings."

"Wutian occupies 'Ling Mountain,' hehehe."

Nezha wore a strange expression, not knowing what Pigsy was laughing about.

"This is for you." Tang Luo took out a small booklet and tossed it to Nezha.

Nezha took it strangely and looked: "A supplementary volume of the Book of Life and Death — why give me this?"

"The remnant souls of Black and White Impermanence are mixed together and dwell within it." Tang Luo said, "I don't know when they might wake up; in this world it might be faster, and those demons and monsters are causing quite a ruckus. This world has no shortage of wronged souls; if this continues, a calamity might form. You hold the supplementary volume and help resolve it."

"So I'm here doing coolie work again?" Nezha held the supplementary volume of the Book of Life and Death.

"Why use 'again'?"

"Forget it, where's my Unit 2? Didn't a piece of it get transferred over?" Nezha asked.

"What's Unit 2?"

"The one I used last time was called Unit 1." Nezha said, "Later I manufactured a Unit 2."

"No. You think this kind of transfer summoning is free? Go make another one yourself." Tang Luo waved his hand irritably. Summoning you alone already consumed a massive amount.

Still summon that broken toy of yours?

You're not a seven-or-eight-year-old kid anymore; mature a little.

The two chatted a bit more about the situation in Nezha's world.

Since Tang Luo left, several decades had passed in that world; human society had gotten on the track of a hundred wastes awaiting revival.

After the so-called "Twilight of the Gods," the gods and buddhas passed down the Great Dao of Revival and then never appeared again.

Legend says they left this scarred world; legend also says the gods and buddhas exhausted all their strength paving the way forward for humanity and then died.

Actually, it's just that those guys, like Nezha, started a life of seclusion.

Just two different ways of seclusion — Ananda and Kasyapa and the rest are secluded in the "deep mountains," and their condition isn't suitable for going out.

Princess Iron Fan and Red Boy, this mother-and-son pair, are the great recluses hidden in the world, walking among the crowds.

Tang Luo had no intention of summoning them over.

Given Ananda and Kasyapa's state, dragging them out would produce a powerful Two-Faced Buddha, which would be more trouble instead.

After chatting, Nezha ran off to watch Ao Yu Lie laboriously climb a hundred floors to kill some time.

Tang Luo, meanwhile, entered the extracted Cursed House and began meditating to heal his injuries.

One month later...

A faint breeze brushed across the entire Pingding Mountain Range; clearly a gentle breeze like a Buddha's face, yet it made every leaf in the Pingding Mountains sway, emitting a "rustling" sound that in an instant converged into a torrent of sound.

The light wind brushed over the Pingding Mountain Range and continued spreading outward, until the ends of the horizon.

Gentle, vast, grand.

The clear breeze was like an incomparably giant giant, its palm brushing over all things, causing them no harm, merely brushing lightly over them.

"He's... this strong now?" Within the Pingding Mountain Range, in a clear spring, a lotus bud waiting to bloom — Nezha sat coiled within it.

Along with this wind, Nezha opened his eyes, and that unblossomed lotus slowly vanished.

He stood up and flew toward the source of that grand wind.

But Nezha had only flown halfway when he stopped; he saw a majestic yet ferocious white dragon streak across the sky.

Atop the dragon's head, Tang Luo turned his head and glanced at Nezha, saying: "We're leaving first; see you next time."

As the words fell, Ao Yu Lie had already carried Tang Luo and the others out of the Pingding Mountain Range's bounds.

Vanished without a trace.

The auras of the several people completely disappeared from Nezha's divine sense perception; they had already left this world.

"Truly busy." Nezha shook his head, took out the supplementary volume of the Book of Life and Death, "Forget it, I'll do some work too."

It sounds helpless, but his face is written all over with joy.

Nezha was never the temperament to stay in one place for long; before there was no choice, and even so, he tinkered out many toys.

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The real world.

"Close call, close call, almost failed the mission." Ao Yu Lie slammed himself into the sofa, complaining, "What's the God-Demon Game doing? So stingy! Only four months' time, the Pingding Mountain Range is so huge, even without climbing mountains and crossing ridges, just walking a straight line on flat ground would take years to finish, yet it actually gave only a four-month time limit?"

Yet, like Nezha, his face is also written all over with joy.

For this kind of "mission abandonment," the reason for failure is exceeding the time limit.

Ao Yulie, who was struggling to ascend the hundred floors, and Tang Luo and the others, who were recuperating, suddenly sensed a slight change in the fourth month after entering the mission world.

They knew the time left to them was not much.

It might still hold out for half a month, or it might be only a few days.

Tang Luo and the others did not force themselves to stay until the mission failed and they were sent back; they simply left directly.

The instant they left the Flat-Top Mountain Range area, the several of them returned to the real world.

The mission was naturally judged a success.

Up to now, Tang Luo and the others still maintain a mission record of "only one failure."

Actually, in the later stages, the number of mission failures is instead fewer than before; many times, even if not completed, it is merely "non-successful completion."

After all, mission failures number only three to five times; it was just that the previous real-world mission added one more chance for everyone.

As missions continuously advance, aside from Tang Luo who is outside the specifications, even the God-Demon Walkers, strong as Chi Jing Daoren and the others, cannot maintain a near one-hundred-percent completion rate.

This phenomenon is called the "God-Demon Mercy."

Just as mission difficulty and count do not show a perfectly positive correlation, they all belong to the God-Demon Mercy.

When it was time to leave, Ao Yulie's "if you're a man, climb a hundred floors" had already reached the 90th floor; the remaining 10 floors grew increasingly arduous.

Suffering unspeakably; fortunately, the mission time limit rescued him in time.

Now his smile simply cannot be concealed.

Tang Luo also did not have the idea of letting Ao Yulie continue bitter cultivation; in fact, Ao Yulie's progress exceeded his expectations.

He originally thought Ao Yulie reaching sixty or seventy floors would be about it.

He did not expect he actually reached ninety floors; what does this mean?

It means this vegetable dragon is usually slacking off; he needs to be given a little pressure and help at the appropriate time.

Otherwise, he estimates he could lie flat until the end of time.

Ao Yulie, who was laughing, suddenly felt a chill behind his back; meeting Tang Luo's gaze: "Master, I've been working very hard..."

"Don't be nervous, I'll transfer you a skill." Tang Luo said, "Heavenly Gang Fire or Immobilization Technique?"

This time Tang Luo's mission reward belongs to the "Blood Talisman" series: Blood Talisman · Healing.

After use, for a following period of time, a gentle power will surround and treat various injuries.

A typical support skill.

Tang Luo planned to keep this skill, but after the last mission completion, he gained six more skills.

Transferring a skill to Ao Yulie at this time would free up a slot, so he wouldn't have to forget a skill.

This is the benefit of their team contract.

Tang Luo and the others' team contract was specially selected for him by Kongming based on Tang Luo's extremely high mission success rate.

"Heavenly Gang Fire then."

Transferring the offensive skill Heavenly Gang Fire to Ao Yulie, Tang Luo obtained Blood Talisman · Healing.

Among the six skills, a full four are Blood Talismans: Flight, Invisibility, Iron Armor, and the newly acquired Healing.

Plus one Immobilization Technique, one Taunt.

Not a single one is a true offensive skill; the support path is already quite complete.

Ao Yulie, having accepted Heavenly Gang Fire, now has Shadow Bind, Ice Cone, Heavenly Gang Fire, Five Consecutive Slashes — these four skills; Dragon Claw Hand has already been integrated and mastered.

His mission reward this time was not a skill, but a special one-time item equipment.

Before, everyone had also obtained one-time items like the Heavenly Thunder Pearl, this "cultivation grenade."

The item equipment Ao Yulie obtained can fuse two similar equipment pieces together, forming another piece of equipment that is either stronger or weaker.

After thinking for a while, he fused the White Dragon Staff and the Violent Wind Fan, the two equipment pieces he got from Wen Hanfei.

Obtained a staff equipment named "Violent Wind White Dragon Staff."

Combined with his several skills, he instantly had quite the Western fantasy mage feel.

Ao Yulie set a transformation routine for himself: first is Mage Ao Yulie; defeating Mage Ao Yulie, one can see Cultivator Ao Yulie.

Beating Cultivator Ao Yulie into the ground, one can witness True Dragon · Ao Yulie, and feel fear.

Three-stage transformation, basic boss operation.

Zhu Bajie also gained the Primordial Chaos Canopy skill, upgrading this level-one skill to level two.

So, Tang Luo's team, from the God-Demon Game perspective.

Tang Luo, six support skills, role: support.

Zhu Bajie, strongest is a level-two defensive skill, role: tank.

Xiaotian Quan, tracker, acting-cute mascot.

Ao Yulie, bearing three offensive, one support (restraint) skills, and self-created three-stage transformation, invincibly strong.

Zhu Bajie patted his little junior brother's shoulder and said: "Little White Dragon, the organization has decided, you'll be the boss."