Chapter 293: Joseph's Invitation

"If Wanfu City is a cesspit, the Spirit Realm is an even bigger one; it seems I never really had a choice."

After Li Yu understood everything, his heart and soul were suddenly filled with gloom.

At the same time, he began to gradually accept a cruel fact.

The "carefree longevity" he had always wanted would likely be very difficult to achieve in this world.

When all races and deities pursue extremes—that is, when everyone is competing fiercely—if you don't compete along with them, you will only be screwed to death.

Sighing in his heart, Li Yu turned his thoughts to another consideration:

"Compared to the Spirit Realm and the world beyond the heavens, the present world is extremely fragile."

"The strength of the two sides is simply not on the same level... Evil gods like the Blood God, the Loving Father, the Wicked God, and the Myriad-Changing are suppressed and beaten by the six great righteous gods in the present world."

"But according to the information within the body of this Spirit race prophet, Xing Lei, it should be the six great righteous gods who are being suppressed and even destroyed."

"The only explanation!"

"Is that the present world has special protection, or some means, that can bridge this gap."

"Furthermore, there must be a great secret hidden within the present world that all the gods covet, which is why these evil gods, who possess entire galaxies in the Spirit Realm, are all thinking of getting in."

"At this juncture, what exactly does the City Lord's Mansion intend to do by acting as a guide?"

Li Yu wished he had a few more brains at this moment.

The conspiracy and grand plan of the Ancient Sages were not yet clear.

And now, the City Lord's Mansion had come to join the fray.

"In the end, my level is still too low to come into contact with more mysteries."

"Fortunately, it won't be long; tonight, the Pioneer will become the Star Dome Train and set sail, and I will also advance to the Spirit Venerable path, Sequence 4, True Lord of Food."

"If I succeed, I can begin my life as a fisherman."

Just as Li Yu was multitasking—playing with the prophetess while simultaneously increasing his truth progress—his good time came to an end.

The void portal suddenly began to close.

This meant that all the guests had already arrived.

The Pioneer!

Stop checking tickets!

In his mind, the voice of the Zuo Ci puppet sounded:

"The time is almost up; the roster of all guests is complete. If we keep fighting, it will delay the departure."

"Brother Li Yu, come back!"

Along with the voice came the rapid fading of the power of the Ancient and Modern Puppeteer sequence within his body; clearly, the Zuo Ci puppet was reeling in the line.

Li Yu silently muttered "so stingy," then reluctantly prepared to let go of Xing Lei and shift back to the train.

This living book!

He hadn't finished reading it at all.

It was still far from over.

After all, it was the entire epic of a race from prosperity to extinction, and they were a long-lived species.

Li Yu estimated that if he could read it all.

There was a high probability he could complete the charging of the subsequent two truth bubbles at once.

If he could, Li Yu would have loved to stuff the Spirit race prophetess—who was still filled with pleasure and looked as if she had been fished out of water—into his treasure pouch.

Of course, that was not possible.

"Fortunately, we will still be on the same train for the next few days."

"If I leave a 'bookmark,' there will still be a chance to keep reading."

After muttering these two sentences in his heart, Li Yu prepared to let go.

Before that, to rationalize his shameless act of desecrating her upon their first meeting.

Li Yu activated a psychic whisper:

"The path of self-rescue your Spirit race is currently taking is likely entirely wrong."

"The strategy pursued by the Ark Spirit race you belong to will only cause the race to wither further."

"The so-called Death God Army is very likely to trigger an even greater extinction."

"That group of Dark Spirit race members will only cultivate more delicious food for the Wicked God."

"Additionally, your soul has already been reserved by the Wicked God."

"If you do not take preventive measures before you die, you will be one hundred percent taken away, enslaved, and toyed with."

"I might have some ways to help you..."

After dropping this shocking statement and leaving a hook, Li Yu teleported back to the Ancient God train while his ability was still active.

At the same moment, it was unclear what the Zuo Ci puppet and that Joseph had discussed, but the latter also decisively stopped.

As the kaleidoscopic, twisted iridescence faded!

The frenzied melee stopped immediately.

Within the battlefield, sighs of regret and dissatisfaction rose one after another.

"It's over already? I didn't get enough at all."

"Come again, hack me to death, dismember me, ravage me."

"A mere eight roots..."

Clearly, the guests invited by the Pioneer were all perverts; not a single one was an exception.

Li Yu was already used to this.

He now even felt that Wanfu City could no longer be considered a place of demons.

Looking back, the cannibals like his original body's parents, or the Tofu Beauty, or the water monkey who sold fish—those seemingly demonic bottom-feeders.

Were merely tainted with some evil, but in reality, could still be categorized as normal.

But these guests could not.

Fortunately, the "face" of the City Lord's Mansion seemed to be very large.

Upon realizing that the stage of madness was ending, God-chosen ones like the Child of Taboo and the Troll King all stopped quickly.

They really did line up and began to register to board the train.

Li Yu served as the clerk, recording the strange names they reported, as well as their race, the divine entities they worshipped, and other such information into the register.

Expecting them to be honest was, of course, impossible.

What Li Yu was truly observing at this moment was the "True Name Register" passed over by the Zuo Ci puppet.

A melee where everyone had to use their own means to truly survive!

It was enough for the City Lord's Mansion to collect their information completely.

The more Li Yu looked, the more alarmed he became.

He also understood why they didn't let these passengers check their tickets and board in Wanfu City.

For no other reason!

They were afraid of trouble.

Any passenger here was a lawless existence; seeing the citizens of Wanfu City who couldn't resist temptation at all, how could they not take action?

For example, that "Plague Lord"—if he were in Wanfu City, he would surely release a plague immediately, and afterwards, he would say: I heard your inner voices wanting immortality, so I chose to spread the gospel of the great Loving Father to let you get your wish.

The City Lord's Mansion's thinking was likely: rather than wreaking havoc in Wanfu City, it's better to take them out and wreak havoc on the Three Kingdoms and Six Sects.

In any case, the moment all passengers bought their tickets, it meant they had signed a life-and-death contract.

According to the Zuo Ci puppet!

If these "God-chosen seeds" died in the present world.

The evil gods behind them would not be particularly sad or angry.

The reason?

Every God-chosen one is actually a medium, a pile of pollution, a mark of the evil gods.

As long as they enter reality, whether they die or not is a gain.

While Li Yu was reading the register, the Zuo Ci puppet shamelessly didn't leave, and even thoughtfully began to explain:

"Although Brother Li Yu is a Myriad-Changing God-chosen one, you haven't truly traveled through the Spirit Realm or the world beyond the heavens."

"I suppose you don't know that although there are many representatives of these races and God-chosen ones."

"The races or divine entities they represent are far less than one or two tenths of those in the Spirit Realm and the world beyond the heavens."

"The Spirit Realm is simply too vast."

"By the way, because of these God-favored passengers, this maiden voyage of the Pioneer will likely have trouble."

"This is actually a grand scheme of my Wanfu City; the Three Kingdoms and Six Sects will not be able to resist attacking the Pioneer, but they also cannot anticipate that there are more than just people from our City Lord's Mansion on the train."

"Accidents and wars will both happen."

"Brother Li Yu, you are currently still at Sequence 5; participating in this carries the risk of death."

"Why not stay in the camp? I will just change you into a new persona."

When the Zuo Ci puppet was halfway through his sentence, Li Yu secretly thought it was a bad sign.

It had come, as expected!

This fellow was getting impatient.

Perhaps the progress had been too smooth, making him eager to completely refine and subdue Li Yu, this puppet pawn with terrifying potential, and he was unwilling to lose contact for three days.

Perhaps he was also worried that a long delay would lead to more trouble.

After all, although Li Yu's sequence realm was inferior to his, the Master of the Play Star Order, the gold content of the four words "Chosen of the Myriad Changes" was terrifyingly high.

However, Li Yu had long been prepared and immediately interjected:

"Brother Zuo, you don't understand!"

"Even without the 【Pioneer】, I would still have to find a way to make a trip to the Three Kingdoms and Six Sects."

"Oh?"

"I am actually still carrying out a mission for my Great Lord. During the various conquests of the Weird Domains in the past, I planted hidden hooks within the bodies of many practitioners of the Orthodox God Sects."

"Now, it is time to reap the results."

"If my Lord were to know that you, Brother Zuo, were trying to stop me, I fear you would be targeted by Him."

As these words left Li Yu's mouth, Zuo Zuo Cikui immediately fell into silence.

His wariness toward the Lord of Myriad Changes was already very apparent.

Li Yu's reason was perfect, without a single flaw.

In Zuo Zuo Cikui's perception, everything Li Yu said was true.

The City Lord's Mansion's intelligence on Li Yu recorded a large number of such signs.

As an evil cultivator, his intersections with Orthodox God practitioners were far too numerous, starting from the very first Weird Domain.

For example, that Imperial Prince of the Gan Kingdom, who was also a Daoist of the Vast Heaven Sect.

Later, there were also nuns, goddesses, and so on.

The evidence was as solid as a mountain!

When the true is taken for the false, the false becomes true; how could Zuo Zuo Cikui know that Li Yu was not a Chosen of the Myriad Changes at all?

From the beginning, he was just a double agent who was physically in the Cao camp but whose heart was with the Han, someone who desperately wanted to escape Wanfu City to live in the Three Kingdoms and Six Sects, and thus had made contact with orthodox practitioners in advance.

With a little bit of imagination, he filled in the logic for Li Yu.

He also did not know that this silence of his had allowed Li Yu to spot another opportunity to fleece him.

"Is this guy afraid that I, this big fish, will unhook early?"

"That's perfect. If he gives me a bit more bait, I won't run away, right? That makes perfect sense."

As this thought crossed his mind, Li Yu did not hesitate to begin reverse-brainwashing Zuo Zuo Cikui again.

"What you said, Brother Zuo, is indeed very reasonable, because as I am now, I cannot expose my power, and my ability to save my own life is greatly reduced."

"But it's not impossible; as they say, see the guest out to the end."

"The divine abilities you just gifted me, Brother Zuo, are very smooth for me to use."

"Things like the Nine-Stream Idler, Ancient Tricks... and so on, are especially suitable for me to use as a skin to walk among the Three Kingdoms and Six Sects."

"If it is convenient, Brother Zuo, could you lend them to me for another three days?"

"When I return, I will certainly repay you."

After Li Yu finished saying this, he almost couldn't help but laugh himself.

Yet, in his heart, he inexplicably thought of a meme from his past life on Earth about "returning to the country next week."

Here, he, Li Yu, would also be returning "next week."

At this moment, Zuo Zuo Cikui also realized something; it was clearly he who wanted to keep Li Yu in the Ancient God camp to prevent the big fish from unhooking.

How did the conversation turn into him having to continue lending the power of the 【Ancient and Modern Puppeteer】?

But he seemed to have no other choice.

He could not refuse!

And he did not want to refuse!

Because Zuo Zuo Cikui had already preconceived and accepted with absolute certainty the premise that "Li Yu is the Chosen of the Myriad Changes."

Starting from this premise, everything was reasonable and necessary.

"Hmph!"

"As expected of a genius who cultivates the Myriad Changes path; even when going to reap results, he still manages to fleece my sequence divine abilities."

"Unfortunately, after all your scheming, you are still at a disadvantage due to the information gap."

"The more you use those divine abilities, the faster my refinement progress will be."

"Fine, it's only three days, and since you are still wearing the 【Idler's Garment】 and are on the 【Pioneer】 which is being permeated by my Lord's divinity, you can't run away anyway. What harm is there in lending them to you?"

Just like that, the two reached a new deal.

And in order to make lending his power seem more reasonable, so he wouldn't look like a sycophant.

Zuo Zuo Cikui even put on an act and proposed a few other requirements.

Such as requiring Li Yu to collect intelligence for the City Lord's Mansion, and so on.

Very quickly, the ticket checking and registration were completed.

After all the perverted guests boarded the train, accompanied by a roar like the angry howl of an evil god and the scent that polluted the void after the Chaos Egg was ignited.

The 【Pioneer】 entered a fully sealed state!

Li Li Xuanji after, a great deal of commotion resounded outside the train.

"Citizens of the Wanfu Kingdom!"

"The first Ancient God train in the world, the 【Pioneer】, is about to officially set sail."

"The first stop: Wanfu City."

"All citizens, please come out to observe the ceremony!"

"Whether you are a commoner or a practitioner, regardless of which god you worship."

"As long as you see the 【Pioneer】, you will receive a blessing."

Accompanied by these voices ringing out.

The already increasingly prosperous Wanfu City, as well as the successively built subsidiary cities, major camps, large settlements for pioneers, and so on.

All boiled over; regardless of their status, everyone came out to observe the ceremony.

And the moment they saw the towering, terrifying 【Pioneer】, they indeed felt something.

In the dark, everyone sensed that they had been blessed.

Although it wasn't the kind of blessing that would bring great gains, just something like having slightly better luck in the next few days.

But that was enough.

One must know that this place, which was currently upgrading into a "Kingdom," already had a population exceeding ten million.

To bless so many people at once!

The City Lord's Mansion was simply too generous.

Cheers erupted everywhere, resounding through the clouds.

"Wanfu! Wanfu!"

"Wanfu! Wanfu!"

"Wanfu! Wanfu!"

Li Yu, who had returned to his persona as a patrolman after finishing the registration, was currently patrolling inside the 【Pioneer】.

Through the transparent train window, Li Yu saw the grand occasion outside.

The celebration held for the maiden voyage of the 【Pioneer】 was everywhere, extremely lively.

Most of the citizens were cheering sincerely.

At the same time, he also saw the perverted guests inside the carriage, each of them revealing a salivating look, staring at the tens of millions of humans outside the window.

"Such vibrant vitality, I like it."

"They all have faces that look like they have never suffered pain or torture; they are truly beautiful."

"I heard this place has already been polluted a bit; in this world, except for here, all other places have never been tainted at all."

"I want to own a piece of territory in this world."

Just as Li Yu was listening to these words that could be called those of a pervert.

Suddenly, he seemed to sense something and looked up, and the next moment he locked eyes with the cross-dressing big shot at the other end of the carriage, who was called "Joseph."

Instantly, a voice rang out in his mind:

"Do you want to play a game together?"

(End of chapter)