Chapter 309

"Is this... the map of the City of Flowers?"

Su Hao looked at the map in his hand and couldn't help but be stunned for a moment.

He had heard of the City of Flowers before; it wasn't the first time he'd heard of it.

When he was giving Huayao and them the potion earlier, they had already mentioned the name City of Flowers.

According to them, the City of Flowers is the capital of the Flower Spirit Elf Clan, a place only the royal family of the Flower Spirit Elves can reside in, and the Flower Spirit Elf Queen also lives there.

It is said that within the City of Flowers there is also an entrance to the divine realm of the Flower Spirit Elf Goddess.

Unfortunately, due to unknown reasons, the Flower Spirit Elf Goddess encountered a problem, and strange divine power flowed from the divine realm entrance into the City of Flowers.

Ultimately, the once-prosperous City of Flowers became a thing of the past; all the Flower Spirit Elf royalty living there met unknown fates.

The means to enter the City of Flowers and its location were thus completely lost; the Flower Spirit Elves scattered across the world thereafter never heard from the City of Flowers again, nor could they enter it.

As Su Hao came into contact with more and more things, he was no longer as unfamiliar with spirits as he once was.

However, the Flower Spirit Elf Goddess is the only case of such an accident among spirits; he had sensed early on that there was some secret hidden here, and perhaps today he could find the answer he sought in this treasury,

Su Hao stopped thinking further and unfolded that map.

The content depicted on the map is not complicated; it is a not-so-large city, and the drawing style is predominantly green.

The buildings on the map look like trees one after another; it can be affirmed that this is the city of the Flower Spirit Elf Clan.

Unfortunately, the text marked on it is in Elvish script; Su Hao lacks a translation module and does not know what it says, so he can only set it aside for now, planning to have Huayao and the others translate it when he returns to his territory.

Su Hao put the map away and opened the letter attached to its edge.

Originally he held no hope either, after all this is a letter left by the Flower Spirit Elves, and the text on it is likely also Elvish script, which Su Hao cannot read.

However, when his gaze fell upon the letter's content, he discovered that the characters suddenly leapt up and began to twist and deform.

After everything settled down again, all the text on the letter turned into the Chinese that Su Hao knew best.

"So that's how it is..."

After reading the letter, Su Hao suddenly showed an expression of sudden realization, while his heart was also filled with shock.

If anyone else saw this letter, they would be utterly unable to comprehend its true meaning.

But Su Hao is different; or rather, this letter was written for him, and whoever wrote it did so countless years ago.

Or perhaps this letter, like Su Hao himself, is a rebirth from a previous life.

The letter's content is very simple, consisting of just one sentence.

【Want to know the secret of rebirth? Want to know the truth of the world? Want to know the secrets of the gods? Then go seek the City of Flowers!】

Setting aside other content, just the two words "rebirth" alone aroused Su Hao's great interest.

He had always been curious about what exactly caused his resurrection and rebirth, when the Strange descended just recently, granting him a powerful talent, the Fusion Star, thereby giving him his current formidable strength.

At the same time, he was also curious about the true cause behind the formation of this new world.

According to the god Xia from his previous life, it was because Earth's will sensed the impending arrival of the Strange, so it joined other worlds similarly afflicted by the Strange to form this entirely new world, jointly resisting the Strange's erosion.

But after seeing the message left by the Iron Mountain Goat, Su Hao learned of another explanation.

According to the Iron Mountain Goat's message, it was the Dwarven God who sensed the impending arrival of the Strange.

To preserve their bloodline, they summoned all Dwarven divine artisans, jointly crafting an instrument capable of communicating with the myriad heavens and worlds, thereby contacting the gods of those worlds and together creating this new world.

These two explanations share a common point: both involve the Strange.

So what exactly is the Strange, and why does it invade the world on such a massive scale? Couldn't peaceful means be used? Perhaps the answers to all of this lie within the City of Flowers.

Su Hao nodded inwardly, suppressing his curiosity; the City of Flowers is a place he must go.

But he first needs to return to his domain, have Huayao and the others translate it, and determine the location and means of entry to the City of Flowers before proceeding.

Su Hao stopped pondering this matter and had his subordinates, the pallid skeleton warriors, pack everything inside the nine rooms into storage bags.

He then conducted a detailed search of the church, ensuring nothing was missed, before leaving the church.

However, Su Hao did not intend to just let the church go; he ordered people to dig up the soil around the church, severing its connection to the ground.

Then he produced a storage bag with a three-hundred-meter by three-hundred-meter by three-hundred-meter storage space, since the entire church was to be packed up and taken away.

"That way it's secure."

Su Hao nodded in satisfaction.

"No omissions? Impossible! I'm taking the whole building with me—what could possibly be missed?" Thinking this, Su Hao suddenly had a flash of inspiration.

"Exactly, if I just pack up the house and take it away, why bother with such careful, meticulous exploration now?"

Having realized this, he immediately issued a new command to all his pallid undead creatures.

Namely, to end the exploration of this city and instead dig out the foundations of the buildings, disconnecting all the city's structures from the ground.

In the third treasury, Su Hao obtained an entire set of storage bags.

Among them, the lowest-quality ones are also fifty meters by fifty meters by fifty meters; this type of storage bag is the most numerous, making up roughly two-thirds of the total.

Although storage bags of this size cannot accommodate an entire building of the city, they still offer considerable space, allowing some less important structures to be cut into chunks and stored, which is no problem.

As for those that appear more important and are protected by formations, Su Hao had people use large storage bags to pack them up whole.

The pallid undead creatures all reached Supernatural Grade Third Tier, and they had sufficient storage bags, but after all this is a city built by giants, each building's volume is enormously huge.

Not to mention cutting the buildings into chunks; even merely separating the buildings from their foundations is a massive undertaking.

To speed things up, Su Hao summoned over twenty thousand more pallid skeleton warriors, adding them to the demolition crew; the progress of dismantling the buildings noticeably improved.

And during this process, the mass of numerous fourth-tier hellspawn that formed a meatball once again hatched a fifth-tier armored strong-armed giant, becoming another avatar of Su Hao. After another twenty hours passed, nearly half of the city's buildings had vanished, leaving only pits on the ground as traces of their former existence.

At that moment, the meatball formed from three fifth-tier hell giants began to stir.

On this meatball, a lump of flesh was bulging outward, as if something were drilling out from within.

After a brief moment, a bang sounded, and an arm covered in red armor extended from the meat lump; a second arm followed closely, also extending from within.

Immediately thereafter, the two arms rotated their wrists, their ten fingers gripping the meat lump's surface, and with a mighty pull to either side they tore the huge meat lump in two, from which a formidable figure emerged.

Terrifying pressure radiated from that figure, causing the solid ground to instantly crack inch by inch, spreading like a spiderweb outward, kicking up vast amounts of dust that obscured his silhouette.

After the dust settled, Su Hao finally got a clear look at that figure's appearance.

Compared to the armored strong-arm giant, his build wasn't too large; he stood only over three hundred meters tall, his whole body covered in blood-red armor.

However, this armor is neither equipment nor a lifeless object, but rather formed from their skin and flesh, and is part of their body.

It not only possesses extremely strong defensive power, but also need not worry about damage; even if injured, it can heal like human skin.

Especially after becoming Su Hao's clone and gaining the traits of the aberrant blood demon, there is even less need to worry about this armor being damaged.

Even if in the future he were blown to fragments, leaving not even a scrap, as long as Su Hao or any of his clones remained alive, with sufficient blood, it wouldn't take long to fully recover.

After Su Hao examined this new clone, he took out the Omniscient Magic Book and recorded its species.

【Blood Flesh Armor Giant】

Supernatural Grade: Fifth Tier

Skills: Armor Berserk, Heavy Strike……Dark Dragon Avatar

Description: After aberrant fusion, a brand-new species was born, possessing extremely strong defensive power and regenerative ability, a mighty giant that even Supernatural Fifth Rank beings find troublesome.

……

Although the Blood Flesh Armor Giant's Supernatural Grade is also Fifth Tier, his Fifth Tier is not the same as that of the Armored Strong-Arm Giant.

The Armored Wall Giant's mental strength and physique merely just reached the standard of initial Fifth Tier.

The Blood Flesh Armor Giant is different; the materials he used were two Hell Giants at the initial Fifth Tier standard, plus one Hell Giant at the mid-Fifth Tier standard, aberrantly fused together.

The materials used all had Fifth Tier standards; after aberrant fusion, it is naturally impossible to have just reached the initial Fifth Tier.

Actually, his Supernatural Grade is higher than Su Hao anticipated; although he hasn't yet reached the upper Fifth Tier standard, he is only a hair's breadth away.

His current strength, even without using the Dark Dragon Avatar, is enough to suppress and violently beat Hell Giant No. 1.

A Supernatural Being at mid-Fifth Tier standard would likely find it hard to find an opponent capable of matching him.

Even a Supernatural Being at upper Fifth Tier standard, after he uses the Dark Dragon Avatar, could likely be slammed into the ground and given a sound thrashing; even if it is a top-tier Fifth Tier, he has the strength to fight it.

As a Third-Tier Supernatural Being, to possess a clone with mid-Fifth Tier standards whose actual combat power approaches that of a top-tier Fifth Tier is something others would never dare dream of, yet Su Hao does not feel satisfied because of it.

Now the Blood Flesh Armor Giant is only a hair's breadth away from the upper Fifth Tier standard; if he undergoes one or two more aberrant fusions, perhaps he could achieve a breakthrough.

After Su Hao pondered for a moment, he commanded an Armored Wall Giant to approach, performing another aberrant fusion on him and the Blood Flesh Armor Giant; in a short while, a huge meatball formed.

About three hours later, the meatball exploded with a bang, and an awe-inspiring giant stepped out from within.

His appearance was no different from that of the Blood Flesh Armor Giant, but his size became even greater, his height nearing five hundred meters.

More importantly, his aura became even stronger; his Supernatural Grade has broken through the mid-Fifth Tier standard and reached the upper Fifth Tier.

Now, the Blood Flesh Armor Giant, after using the Dark Dragon Avatar, can likely trade blows with even ordinary Supernatural Sixth Rank beings.

If the opponent is merely a Fifth-Tier Supernatural Being, it's even less of a problem; he doesn't even need to use the Dark Dragon Avatar to defeat them outright.

Not to mention the contents of those nine treasuries, just these four clones—a six-armed one-eyed giant, two Armored Wall Giants, and a Blood Flesh Armor Giant—are already an unimaginably huge gain.

Compared to before he arrived at this ruin, Su Hao's overall strength has at least doubled! If he were to also make full use of the contents of those nine treasuries, his strength would increase by several more levels.

Su Hao nodded in satisfaction, then waited another two days on the spot; in the entire giant's city, not a single building remained, leaving behind pits of various sizes.

Even the floor tiles and that tall altar have vanished without a trace.

If someone were to come here now, they would surely be unable to imagine that this place had once been a city of giants.

To be safe, Su Hao randomly selected several spots and dug down over three thousand meters; after confirming no brick was left behind, he finally felt completely at ease.

I just don't believe that after all this, there could still be anything missing.

Su Hao grinned, leading his mighty army through the Hell Gate back to that underground space, along the long passage up to the surface, where he saw the long-lost sunlight.

But as soon as he emerged, he noticed something amiss.

Zhu Ge Chang Qing and the others were all gone, leaving at the junction a letter written in Now we need to output lines: English.

【If you want to keep Zhu Ge Chang Qing's life, bring what you found in the ruin and come to the valley north of the city to find me!】

……

"Interesting, is this a threat to me?"

Su Hao let out a light chuckle, his fingers gently rubbing the letter.

After his rebirth, this was the first time someone had threatened him, which made him feel somewhat intrigued; he wanted to see what kind of character would dare threaten him like that.

"I hope you can give me a surprise; otherwise, I'll just use your lives for amusement……"

Su Hao rode on the head of the Three-Tailed Ring, leading a Blood Flesh Armor Giant, a Six-Armed One-Eyed Giant, two Armored Wall Giants, and tens of thousands of pale undead creatures toward the valley mentioned in the letter.

(End of Chapter)