Chapter 355: The Calm Before the Storm

At the scene, the Lunhuizhe pulled out desktop computers and played at 100x speed:

“Ultraman: The Galactic Odyssey,” “One Punch Man,” “JoJo,” “One Hundred Thousand Jokes”!

“winwinwin~”

“To defeat me? Not in twenty thousand years!”

“Why is everyone in the universe speaking Chinese!”

…

Since tomorrow’s battle hinged on this, all the Fourth Transcenders stared intently at the screens, analyzing with academic rigor.

“This Boros is incredibly strong—if he hadn’t met Goku, he might have destroyed Earth.”

“Dio’s ability is time stop? That’s troublesome.”

“So the King of No Birds’ power is just dumb energy—that’s why he’s always acting foolish.”

…

Nearby, the Lunhuizhe gathered, watching a group of Fourth Transcenders squatting before computers catching up on anime, their expressions peculiar.

“Boss, is this some kind of Lu’s movie-watching strategy?” a female Lunhuizhe couldn’t help asking.

“All I want to know is why these Fourth Transcenders act just like the villains in these films,” Chuantian Xiaohé said, baffled: “Where’s the copyright awareness?”

After all, the world they crossed into was an unreleased spin-off of the Carnival Day movie—how could so many characters from different copyrighted anime appear here?

“I did hear a rumor,” said a female Lunhuizhe :

“I heard Carnival Day’s Star River Company is buying up character rights en masse—they want to make an interactive movie like Player One.”

“But that still doesn’t explain where these anime characters came from, or why these Fourth Transcenders are impersonating them,” Chuantian Xiaohé scratched his head, utterly speechless from this pre-battle mobilization.

As they debated, Chu Huang hesitated, then stepped forward: “A few days ago, we discovered Fang Can had a Third Transcender under him named Fourth Hokage Minato Namikaze—do you know him?”

The Lunhuizhe exchanged glances, utterly drained of retorts: “Of course we know—Naruto. I’ll send you the original manga later.”

Hearing their words, Chu Huang felt a flicker of relief.

Good thing the Lunhuizhe joined early—now with these biographies, they could launch targeted decapitation strikes against the enemies.

Half an hour later, after finishing the films, the Fourth Transcenders fully grasped the mechanics.

“Rest easy,” Yang Xuzi raised his hand: “We’re not facing the original characters. We’re facing Fourth Transcenders who possess only their memories and some traits.”

“So things like the Planet Burst Cannon or Dio’s time stop? They’re merely manifestations of the Fourth Transcenders’ legacies—nothing as exaggerated as in the originals.”

“Now we can discuss how to counter these Fourth Transcenders.”

At Yang Xuzi’s words, the Fourth Transcenders nodded in agreement.

Ye Hao lightly tightened his collar: “Dio and I share the same legacy—I can hold him off.”

“Then I’ll take Boros, the cosmic overlord,” rumbled the burly man with earth power, grinning: “Let me face him.”

“We have numerical superiority—no need for one-on-one,” Chuantian Xiaohé couldn’t help saying: “We must uphold the righteous spirit of mobbing—three against one is safest.”

Chu Huang nodded: “New intel shows more characters beyond these—minimum one from Naruto. Everyone, pass these around.”

“Not just us—First through Third Transcenders must study these works carefully.”

“Tomorrow, the main forces clash, kings against kings—we Fourth Transcenders must all go out to fight Fang Can and his four. The rest will counterattack his troops.”

At this, Ye Hao looked intently at Chuantian Xiaohé: “Can your computers be made public tomorrow? If new characters appear, we can share info directly through our minds.”

“Naturally, but I advise restraint,” Chuantian Xiaohé said seriously: “Let lower-tier Transcenders absorb intel and delay first.”

“This is a war of attrition. In ten days, I can summon more reinforcements from the Master Space—then Fang Can falls with a wave of the hand,” Chuantian Xiaohé suggested.

Clearly, the Master Space’s evaluation deemed Fang Can far from easy to defeat.

After hesitation, the Fourth Transcenders all refused:

“Unnecessary—we already know Fang Can’s Fourth Transcenders. Crush him outright. The lower-tier ones just need to hold back his army.”

Seeing the Fourth Transcenders refuse, the Lunhuizhe cursed inwardly but acquiesced.

Elsewhere, as the Fourth Transcenders debated, Fang Can propped his cheek in his hand, gazing at the moon in the deep night.

Before him, Jiang Qilan’s luminous white arms, glowing even in darkness, gently embraced him; she looked up at his profile, like a moonlit Guanyin emerging from her shell.

“Fang… Fang brother, if we do this, won’t Ning’an get jealous?” The girl’s cheeks flushed faintly, pouting.

She recalled days ago, when Fang Can stormed into her chamber, furious, ignoring all protocol, and carried her straight to the bed.

What? The Empress? Isn’t that more thrilling?

Then came the nights on the dragon bed, committing the capital crime of touching the Empress.

Facing Ning’an’s words, Fang Can, whose fury had just surged and subsided, replied calmly:

“One or ten thousand—it makes no difference to me. All are the same battle.”

As he spoke, he lightly patted Jiang Qilan’s back: “Keep riding. Tonight, think of no one else—it belongs only to you.”

Watching Jiang Qilan softly sigh, Fang Can’s expression remained blank.

In his rage state, Fang Can felt only two emotions: lust, and the urge to destroy.

Tonight, he would fully satisfy the first—tomorrow, only pure destructive desire would remain.

Thinking this, he curled his finger slightly, signaling the two maids beside him to approach.

Outside the palace, within the encircling territories of Dayan:

The four villains transformed by Fang Can each took one cardinal direction to guard.

Like Fang Can, they felt no worry about tomorrow’s battle.

Before them lay over a thousand coffins, each holding a warrior transformed in recent days.

Additionally, 500,000 bodies of First Transcender players, utterly remade by the Master of Decay into uniform forms.

Amid the intense preparations of both sides, the short night passed swiftly.

(End of Chapter)