Chapter 566 — Lu Heng's Counterattack

That very day, many people exited the Ruins of the Four Holy Beasts, for apart from the Four Holy Ranking, they had found nothing else changed within the ruins.

Deities who stayed inside could do nothing at all; even among demigods, many had withdrawn, because this Four Holy Ranking challenge was far too unintelligent—only one person could challenge it at a time, and each challenge required a waiting interval.

With so many Four Holy evolvers, for each to fight once, one would have to wait until the year of the monkey and the month of the horse.

Inside the ruins, some had even come to blows over priority to enter and challenge the ranking, breeding conflict.

"Let's go, I'm not staying."

A day later, bored out of his mind, Lin Feng helplessly called out to the White Tiger Lady; he no longer intended to remain in the ruins and prepared to leave.

Before leaving, he found Shi Jin patting one of the pillars like he was picking a watermelon, and with a face full of black lines, said:

"Shi Jin, you didn't go queue up?"

"Didn't go. Too many people." Shi Jin said, "Senior Lin Feng, are you... leaving?"

"Yeah, leaving. Why don't you come along? I don't see anything fun left here, and didn't you say you had no interest in the Ruins of the Four Holy Beasts?" Lin Feng said.

"Mm, so boring." The White Tiger Lady was utterly listless.

"I... probably can't leave yet." Shi Jin said with an apologetic smile.

"What do you mean?" Lin Feng was taken aback. Seeing that Lin Feng already meant to go, Shi Jin could not help saying, "Let's talk outside."

Seeing how strange Shi Jin was acting, Lin Feng shook his head, and the three of them left the ruins together.

Yet contrary to Lin Feng's expectations, after they stepped into the ruins passage for leaving, they did not emerge in the outside world, but instead appeared in an extremely peculiar independent space.

The moment he sensed something off about his surroundings, Lin Feng's expression turned grave. "This is...?"

The White Tiger Lady likewise immediately looked all around.

"This is the deep space of the Ruins of the Four Holy Beasts." Shi Jin said, looking at Lin Feng and the White Tiger before him.

Lin Feng and the White Tiger: ??

Both sides sank into thought, somewhat unable to understand.

"Originally I planned to wait a while longer before saying anything, but the speed at which I've been acquiring the ruins' authority is faster than I imagined. It may take less than a month before I obtain complete authority over the Ruins of the Four Holy Beasts."

"Senior Lin Feng, Senior White, how about you wait until I've completely become the master of the ruins before coming back? By then, I can share some of the finest faith power sealed within the ruins with you." Shi Jin said.

The ordinary faith power currently drifting about was of hardly any use to a deity-level White Tiger, so Shi Jin would not let Senior Lin Feng compete with him for it.

When the time came, he would simply give them the finest grade directly, to repay the favor of the tickets.

Lin Feng and the White Tiger: ??

Both sides stared at Shi Jin in blank bewilderment. What... was Shi Jin saying?

"You..." Lin Feng was dumbstruck.

"Mm... the ruins' initial changes were caused by me. I accidentally cracked the Ruins of the Four Holy Beasts and obtained partial authority over them. At present, I'm working hard to obtain the remaining portion."

"What!!!!" Lin Feng was shocked. What kind of joke was this?

The White Tiger Lady's mouth also hung slightly open, her face full of disbelief.

"Then what about the Four Holy Ranking?" she asked.

"I made that too. The Four Holy Beasts guarding the stages inside are a few pets I contracted and raised. Using the ruins' authority, I gave them the highest right to mobilize faith power... They're still no problem against ordinary demigods... To obtain complete authority over the ruins, one has to keep fighting like this..." Shi Jin said helplessly.

Lin Feng and the White Tiger Lady were stunned silly, standing rooted to the spot.

Lin Feng was instantly dumbfounded, utterly stupefied. Holy shit—an epoch ruins that the Four Holy Families' joint archaeological association, including the archaeologists of the Cosmos Overlord Legion, had failed to crack, and he had merely casually gotten Shi Jin a ticket, and Shi Jin had cracked it??

This, this, this...

"Just good luck, that's all... Didn't I crack an epoch ruin back on Blue Star? It just so happens the two have a chain reaction." Shi Jin said with a bitter smile. "Senior Lin Feng, say something."

"What the hell!!!" Lin Feng said loudly. "Is this even reasonable? The Ruins of the Four Holy Beasts! In here... how much epoch faith power is in here..."

"Anyway, it's roughly enough to last until the super-deity level." Shi Jin muttered. As for faith overdraft, he'd save that for after reaching super-deity level.

Beside Lin Feng, the White Tiger Lady bit a handkerchief between her tiger fangs, eyes glimmering, watching Shi Jin with a face full of envy and jealousy, then looking at her own beast tamer. Why couldn't her beast tamer crack ruins?

He had evolved her into a Four Holy Beast, yet had no money to buy epoch faith objects. How lame.

Lin Feng: ???

"So, in a month, the Ruins of the Four Holy Beasts... will be yours??" Lin Feng asked.

"You could put it that way. I recall that the Realm King Star Archaeological Association's regulations on unearthed ruins go something like this."

"Regardless of the ruins' condition, for ordinary unearthed ruins, if ownership is clearly established, they belong to the descendants of the ruins' master; if ownership is not clearly established, they belong to the realm master of the realm where they were unearthed."

"As for epoch ruins from the previous cosmic epoch, they belong to the one who cracked them, with no clear territorial restriction."

"That's exactly right. But whoever cracks it must hold the official post of Realm Lord on Planet Realm King. Only a Realm Lord may take charge of an Era Relic," Lin Feng said.

This was Planet Realm King's means of controlling the Era Relics that had been unearthed. An Era Relic contained the special power of the previous era; if it must have an owner, naturally that owner had to be one of their own, and to Planet Realm King, "their own" meant its official Realm Lords, one and all.

Of course, at the very end of that law there was a special annotation... the Cosmic Overlord Legion excepted.

Under the treaty between the Realm King and the Cosmic Overlords, if an archaeologist of the Cosmic Overlord Legion cracked an uncracked Era Relic on Planet Realm King, he could carry it off directly, without being bound by the requirement of Realm Lord status.

"So even if you crack the Four Sages Relic completely, it still won't be truly yours. Only by becoming a Realm Lord, or joining the Cosmic Overlord Legion, can you genuinely own an Era Relic," Lin Feng said.

Shi Heng nodded. "I know. Becoming a Realm Lord isn't hard. The Star Child the Void Emperor left on Blue Star, I have already nurtured to demigod level; he has become a low-grade star and can take the Realm Lord examination at any time, to become a master of a third-tier realm domain."

"Or, after taking first place in the Investiture War, you can likewise become a third-tier realm domain master directly."

Lin Feng shook his head. "Even if you become a Realm Lord, and even if I, the Void Emperor, and the five super-divine powerhouses of Blue Star's five great god clans all back you together, the interests bound up with the Four Sages Relic are still too great."

"The Four Sages clans have had their eyes on that relic for a long time. Once you obtain it, they certainly won't let the matter rest."

"And not only the Four Sages clans... they may hold back for fear of Planet Realm King's rules and not act too openly, but in the cosmic starry sky, Four Sages evolutionaries exist in more than one lineage on Planet Realm King."