Chapter 82: Arranging a Marriage Just Like That?! The Spider God Island High Priestess!

Xuanyuan Wuji's voice was not quiet, and with no barrier in place, many people heard it.

Helian Dongfang stared blankly at Lu Zheng and pressed:

"The quest is complete? You killed the Evil God?! That fast, just killed it?"

Lu Zheng nodded. He suddenly felt he had been a bit hasty—should he have stayed inside the Demon Lair a while longer?

Coming out this fast seemed a bit too high-profile! But on second thought, shouldn't he be high-profile? In this Daxia Alliance, was there anyone who would allow him to keep a low profile!?

"Right, Jacob is dead. The alert can be lifted."

"Haha! Wonderful! I'll spread this good news to every citizen in the city right now!"

City Lord Yuan Tong was the first to react, happy as a child.

Helian Dongfang, having come back to her senses, looked at Lu Zheng with an ardently burning gaze. She stepped forward and gripped his arm, smiling. "Old Fu praised you to the heavens, and my granddaughter also says you're the most impressive young man! It seems they didn't misjudge you. Child, as for you and our Rourou—Grandma approves, and I'll handle her parents' side!"

Huh?! No! What do you mean, me and your Rourou? I just finished my Job Change Quest, how are you already turning up the heat on me—arranging a marriage just like that?! "Grandma, my classmate Ji Zirou and I are just friends. You've misunderstood!"

It wasn't that Lu Zheng didn't like girls. On one hand, he was now wholly focused on leveling up; on the other, he needed to keep his official status single so he could keep attracting other girls, right?

Nothing else to it.

He also wanted to wait until his strength had gone up before finding a young, pretty one!

Helian Dongfang was not angered by Lu Zheng's rebuttal. Instead, she continued smiling cheerfully. "Good, good, just ordinary friends. But if you two develop things further, Grandma supports you!"

Speechless, Lu Zheng hurriedly found an excuse to leave.

"Grandma, I still need to talk to Divine Hand Ju about some things. I'll be going now!"

With that, not waiting for her reply and caring nothing for politeness, he teleported away on the spot.

Looking at the spot where Lu Zheng had vanished, Helian Dongfang muttered:

"This child's future is limitless. Rourou has great taste. I'll have to make sure she holds on to him. With her competitive and strong-willed personality, once she meets a peer like this, I'm afraid other young men will have a hard time catching her eye.

If she can't get Lu Zheng, the girl will end up alone for the rest of her life! No good—I need to go talk to her right away."

The alert was lifted, and the whole city cheered.

Though they didn't know the truth—that a demigod would lead a hundred thousand demons to descend—they did know that some enormous danger must have appeared.

And now, the danger had passed! Surviving a catastrophe was always something worth celebrating.

While the whole city celebrated, Lu Zheng went to an empty place and first took out Jacob's weapon to examine.

【Equipment: Abyss Demon Fork】

【Quality: Divine · Purple Star Five-Star】

【Equipment Requirement: Strength stat greater than 100,000 and Constitution stat greater than 100,000】

【Skill: Wrath of the Demon Abyss】

【Durability: Permanent】

【Skill: Wrath of the Demon Abyss】

【Effect: Applies abyssal magic power to the weapon and the wielder, causing the equipment's attacks to carry magic damage. The wielder gains magic amplification, and defense and other aspects are enhanced.】

This too was a divine-tier equipment, but something so large was unusable for Lu Zheng. However, it could be given to Qiongqi or Taotie to use.

Adding one more weapon would at least bring a small boost to combat power.

At the very least, using a weapon to block attacks was safer than tanking them with his body. He put it away, then Lu Zheng returned to school.

He had just contacted Ju Chengfang to tell her that he had obtained another divine shard, and wanted her to craft more divine equipment for him.

After learning that Lu Zheng had slain a demigod, Ju Chengfang immediately promised to craft equipment for him again right away.

Lu Zheng's status, already unshakable with two divine pets openly in his possession, had now gained the power to slay a demigod—naturally, he could not be neglected even more!

A moment later, the two met in a private room at a teahouse.

This time, Lu Zheng didn't tell Ju Chengfang to craft equipment freely. Instead, he took out an item.

"This is the 'Ancient Summoning Lucky Bracelet,' an item specifically for increasing the probability of obtaining high-quality spirit pets. It's not a piece of equipment. I have five divine shards here, and I hope to use them to enhance this item, turning it into a piece of equipment to support my Summoner class."

For Lu Zheng, the most crucial issue was still the quality of his summoned beasts.

Though he now possessed six divine pets and ten immortal pets, this still didn't satisfy him very much.

The third Job Change Quest already required killing a demigod—who knew how difficult the fourth Job Change Quest would be? He had to make more preparations.

Leveling up his divine pets was one thing, but leveling up inevitably took time. The most direct way to increase combat power was to produce a few more divine pets!

Failing that, producing a few dozen immortal pets would work too.

Ju Chengfang glanced at the bracelet, then at the five divine shards, and murmured thoughtfully. "A request like this, I can't do alone. But I can gather a few more people. You're not in a hurry right now, are you? Once we have an approach, I'll let you know."

Lu Zheng nodded.

"Then I'll leave it to you, Senior!"

"Haha! No problem. You slew the Evil God this time and saved many people. A small favor like this—we can certainly help with."

Ju Chengfang and Lu Zheng settled on a rough timeline for communication, then she left in a flurry to find helpers.

They had certainly seen and handled things like divine shards before.

The number of demigod monsters Xuanyuan Wuji had killed was probably not small, but it wouldn't be that many either—after all, those were demigods, beings that had already surpassed mortal creatures and existed on an entirely different level.

So, these master forgers had experience crafting divine equipment, but not much.

Multiple people working together would increase the chances of completing Lu Zheng's equipment upgrade.

Having arranged this matter, Lu Zheng first returned to the Abyss Demon Lair. After a look around, he found that just as he had guessed, the dungeon had developed a problem.

Due to his large-scale slaughter during this period and his thorough cleansing of the ninth floor of the Abyss Demon Lair just now, the dungeon's monsters would have difficulty respawning to a sufficient scale in the short term. Continuing to level up quickly here was no longer feasible.

He needed to find a new Saint-tier dungeon, preferably one where all the monsters were above level 250.

After leaving the Abyss Demon Lair, Lu Zheng took out his tablet to check.

His permissions were now at the highest level, and he could view all dungeon information. Near Zhennan University, or rather in all of Tiannan Commandery, there were only two Saint-tier dungeons.

The first was the Abyss Demon Lair, and the other was the Spider God Island dungeon.

Spider God Island, just hearing that name you know it's a deity‑related instance; the core of Spider God Island is the Demon Spider Temple, which is a planar instance just like the ninth layer of Abyss Demon Lair.

People have entered the ninth layer of Abyss Demon Lair, but the Demon Spider Temple has never been breached.

Because entering the temple requires first killing a BOSS, the Spider God High Priest, a level‑450 demigod‑tier monster!

Fortunately, this High Priest remains within Spider God Island and cannot leave the instance.

Spider God Island is teeming with monsters, and undeniably, for Lu Zheng it would be an excellent level‑up spot, but he does not intend to go there; instead he plans to set out on a long journey.

(End of Chapter)