Chapter 404: Picking Up a Divine Domain

Treating others as fools makes one a fool oneself—how could a lich who has lived for several hundred years possibly be a stupid naive little thing?

When both sides' intellects are evenly matched, victory or defeat often comes down to the information each holds. If Seeing Ange had seen a Divine Domain opened before, Lord Nai Ge Li Si's little scheme of thinking he'd gotten the better of them would have been seen through easily.

The tricked Nai Ge Li Si couldn't quite keep face, and said irritably to threaten: "Aren't you afraid we'll kill you?"

Seeing Ange made a gesture of cupping something in her hands, then said: "Not afraid. Look at my Guardian Bulwark—if I block the doorway, none of you can get out."

As her words fell, a translucent shield sprang up around her, wrapping her tightly within it.

Jian Gu Luo Ke couldn't help but say: "Oh? The Guardian Divine Seal is with you?"

"You recognize the Guardian Bulwark?" Seeing Ange asked in surprise.

The God of War and Peace has been gone for over a thousand years; those who recognize it are few. How could any two undead from a desert town recognize it at a glance?

Seeing Ange suddenly reached out, grabbed her translucent shield, and ripped it off in one motion. Then, with palm upturned, a divine seal of two hands guarding appeared in the center of his palm.

Nai Ge Li Si and Jian Gu Luo Ke were dumbfounded, and so was Seeing Ange. She instinctively crossed her arms over her chest, as if in an instant she'd been stripped bare—Seeing Ange had actually snatched her Guardian Bulwark away?

Staring blankly at Seeing Ange, then at Nai Ge Li Si, Seeing Ange crouched down with her hands over her head and shouted: "Don't kill me! We made a pact—you can't kill me. At worst I'll let you beat me up."

The Guardian Bulwark had always been her trump card. Since it's called a bulwark, its defensive power is plane-level; she'd never heard of anyone being able to break through it.

Of course, mainly because she'd seen too little—after Seeing Ange transformed, he could shatter the bulwark of a heavenly kingdom with his bare hands.

Seeing Ange had once stood still and let several Sword Saints hack at her together, and none could break her bulwark. When she'd blathered earlier about the Council of the Dead sending people, it was basically nonsense—she didn't even know which way the Council of the Dead's door opened.

It was precisely because she carried a tortoise shell on her back that others didn't dare provoke her, and no one had recognized this as the seal of the God of Peace.

But these two undead with a book not only recognized the Guardian Bulwark at a glance, they snatched it away in one move—what kind of situation was this?

Although she didn't understand, she knew her trump card was gone—better quickly soften up and surrender.

Seeing her so crisp about it, Nai Ge Li Si laughed in spite of his annoyance—were they playing house?

With things like this, it would be hard-pressed to make things difficult for a little thing crouching and begging for mercy. So how was it supposed to swallow the frustration of being schemed against… of scheming against others and failing?

Seeing Ange slapped the Guardian Divine Seal against his chest; the seal sank into his body and imprinted itself onto his divine spark. The God of War and Peace's seal instantly rose on Seeing Ange's body, identical to the relief on the great door.

This—this was the complete God of War and Peace Divine Seal.

However, Seeing Ange, who was crouching and begging for mercy, didn't see this scene. By the time she looked up again, the seal had already faded.

Seeing Ange walked toward a corner. As he approached, faint ripples emanated from the divine spark. These ripples were extremely weak; if not within a few meters, one might not be able to sense them at all.

But the Divine Domain sensed it. When he got within five or six meters, an unremarkable corner revealed an opening, which grew larger as he drew closer.

By the time he stepped into the area the opening revealed, it had expanded to cover an entire rock wall, fully exposing what lay within.

Empty—nothing at all. A flat white floor stretching to an unseen end, but nothing inside.

Seeing Ange swept a glance across it; not even a speck of dust could be seen. The small amount of dust at the opening had drifted in only when the gap had just opened.

Nai Ge Li Si flew over and used a page of the book to swat Seeing Ange's head: "Get up. I won't kill you. Tell us about the Divine Domain's situation. Also, your name is the same as someone we know—I'll call you Lockes from now on."

Lockes sprang up at once and shouted: "No! Jian Gu Luo Ke is the name etched into my soul—I'd rather die than change it."

"Alright, Lockes—when you saw the Divine Domain, was there still anything inside?" Nai Ge Li Si asked.

"Luo Ke Luo Ke—call me Jian Gu Luo Ke!" Lockes loudly objected.

"Alright, Lockes. The fact that you could see the Divine Domain back then means it wasn't you who opened it. In other words, when you discovered the Divine Domain, it hadn't fully closed yet, right?" Nai Ge Li Si continued asking.

"Call·me·Jian·Gu·Luo·Ke!!" Lockes shouted, syllable by syllable.

Nai Ge Li Si flapped the book pages and flew off into the distance, saying to Jian Gu Luo Ke: "Can't get anything out of her—kill her, then put up a gravestone for her: Tomb of Lockes."

"Fine, I'm called Lockes." Unclear whether it was the threat of being killed or of getting a gravestone that weighed more, Lockes gave in.

"Back when I discovered this place, the Divine Domain still had an opening this big. I went in and hauled everything out, and another sixty years passed before the opening disappeared," Lockes said.

"What did you haul out?" Nai Ge Li Si asked.

Lockes whipped out her paired sword with a sharp click: "This."

"Uh, why is only half left?" What Lockes held in her hand was a broken sword, the blade less than thirty centimeters long.

Lockes said: "I don't know—it was already broken when I picked it up." As she spoke, she raised the scabbard and tipped it outward, pouring out the other half of the blade.

The two pieces could be fitted together to form a complete sword.

"It's broken and you still use it?" Nai Ge Li Si asked, puzzled.

"Even as a broken sword, it's more powerful than any weapon I could find. An ordinary longsword snaps clean off at one slash from it," Lockes said proudly.

"Then why don't you get someone to repair it?"

"I took it to be repaired. Those craftsmen all said it would take a master-level alchemist to have any chance of fixing it. Where would I get the money to hire an alchemy master?" Lockes said miserably.

Jian Gu Luo Ke suddenly interjected: "Let me have a look."

"Just look, don't break it." She handed the broken sword to Jian Gu Luo Ke, and everyone chatted as they entered the Divine Domain.

Lockes continued: "During those sixty years, I nearly turned over every floor tile in the whole Divine Domain, but found nothing. Later the opening disappeared, and I couldn't get in at all. When you kept repeating 'everything,' I guessed you'd discovered the Divine Domain."

Nai Ge Li Si was secretly annoyed. Some things really weren't something just anyone could pull off. Anthony could swindle people as easily as drinking water—why did he himself fail at every turn?

Forget it, no point arguing with them. I'm the God of Knowledge, not the God of Fraud, Nai Ge Li Si consoled himself.

Not only did Lockes find nothing, neither did Seeing Ange. After a circuit, Seeing Ange returned empty-handed to the opening.

"Nothing at all?" Nai Ge Li Si asked, disappointed. He'd thought that discovering a Divine Domain should at least yield some good stuff. If it could be like the Goddess of Redemption's Divine Domain, they'd be rich.

Seeing Ange shook his head, then nodded—now even Nai Ge Li Si couldn't tell what that meant.

Seeing Ange shooed everyone out, stood at the opening by himself, thrust one hand into the floor, and wrenched outward with force.

The white floor of the Divine Domain rapidly shrank toward Seeing Ange's hand, finally contracting into a single mass.

Seeing Ange opened his palm, and a phantom image appeared floating above it—strikingly, it was the full panoramic image of the Divine Domain.

With another squeeze, the phantom image of the Divine Domain vanished.

"You put the Divine Domain away?" Nai Ge Li Si exclaimed in shock.