Chapter 566 — Lu Heng's Counterattack

"On the other hand, if you join the Cosmic Overlord Legion, you can make them shrink back at the sight of difficulty..." The combined fame of Blue Star's five super-divines was not as resounding as the name of the Cosmic Overlord Legion.

After all, the Cosmic Overlords were the strongest beings in the cosmos, and over two hundred super-divine life-forms served in the Legion. However strong the Four Sages clans might be, set against the Cosmic Overlord Legion they were mere weaklings.

Even if the Four Sages Beasts of the previous era were reborn, whether they could defeat the Cosmic Overlord Legion was still an open question, let alone their inheritors one era removed.

"Of course, the Cosmic Overlord Legion is itself riven with factions. Go in without some strength and backing, and your Four Sages Relic stands an even greater chance of being carved up by the Four Sages evolutionaries inside than of being carved up on Planet Realm King... Captain Zijian is only an archaeologist. His status is high, but his strength has not reached super-divine level, and he may not be able to protect you."

"Say what you like, an Era Relic is not something I can just abandon. I even plan to send the four little ones inside the relic to fight in the Investiture War—they'll probably be exposed then." Shi Yan said, "We'll cross each bridge as we come to it. And really, the problem shouldn't be all that big."

"Right now I'm a branch vice-chairman of the Cosmic Sea Environmental Protection Association, a branch vice-chairman of the Planet Realm King Botanical Association, and a branch deputy director of the Cosmic Disaster Research Institute. If I can add a Realm Lord identity on top of that, and then break through to divine level, backed by the faith power of the Era Relic, I won't necessarily be weaker than you, Senior Lin Feng, or the Void Emperor. One Era Relic, I can certainly hold on to."

"The Four Sages clans' super-divine life-forms can't very well come picking a fight with me... that would be too much of the big bullying the small. If they did, the lot of us could just counter-hunt them into Sources of Transcendence—wouldn't that be sweet? And we'd have righteous cause on our side."

Entrapment policing—he loved it.

One Four Sages Relic, if it could fish up a super-divine enemy, that would be pretty good too.

Era Relic plus divine-level Four Sages Beasts—absolutely invincible below super-divine. Together with the divine-level Eleven, Ginseng Baby, and the rest, Shi Jin believed that once he reached divine level, he should have the strength to contend with super-divines.

And even if he couldn't win, with Qi around, a hundred-percent chance of escape. What was there to fear?

Lin Feng and the White Tiger Matriarch: ???

You're not even divine level yet, and you're already scheming how to butcher super-divines and farm Sources of Transcendence?

"I just don't know whether I can hold an official post on Planet Realm King and a position in the Cosmic Overlord Legion at the same time..." Shi Zhao said.

"Wait..." Lin Feng suddenly spotted the blind spot. "The Environmental Protection Association I know—I heard from Senior Void Emperor that the Environmental Protection Association's Great Deity Bingling specifically asked for you and Susu. But what the hell are the Botanical Association and the Cosmic Disaster Research Institute?"

"When did this happen?"

He suspected his hearing had gone wrong.

"Ah, just now. The Botanical Association headquarters wanted to appoint my Ginseng Baby as vice-chairman of the Canglan Botanical Association. I agreed."

"It's probably because my Ginseng Baby developed some rather effective fruits," Shi Li said.

In order to find and recruit the Ginseng Heaven Emperor who had developed the cultivation fruit and the reincarnation fruit, Zijian had gone straight to the Botanical Association headquarters for information on the Ginseng Heaven Emperor. After reviewing the Ginseng Heaven Emperor's records, the Botanical Association headquarters had no intention of letting the Cosmic Overlord Legion succeed; they decided to strike first, giving Ginseng Baby an extremely high position as vice-chairman of the Canglan Botanical Association—though judging by the pay and benefits, it was no worse than the chairman's.

Lin Feng fell silent.

"And what's this about the Cosmic Disaster Research Institute?"

Shi Li: "Lin learned 'Disaster Art: Starry Sky Storm' through disaster simulation at the Canglan Institute, then wrote a paper on warship modification based on the learning experience and uploaded it to the Disaster Research Institute headquarters."

"Word came recently from inside the Institute that Lin's paper is highly regarded. Several big names in disaster studies want to hold academic exchanges with us. Of course, there's no time for that at the moment. We've hung up our names at the Canglan Institute for now; the higher titles, since they're issued on a unified date over there, may have to wait a while."

At this point, Lin Feng was utterly lost.

"Let me take this in..." Lin Feng said.

Lin Feng left—left very peacefully. This matter he would have to discuss with the Void Emperor. Last time the Void Emperor had needled him with the Environmental Protection Association business; this time, he would needle the Void Emperor with the Botanical Association, the Disaster Research Institute, and the Era Relic!

If Shi Jin was about to become the master of the Four Sages Relic, then on the Blue Star lineage's side, some preparations indeed had to be made in advance.

Lin Feng left; Shi Jin remained on the Four Sages Relic's side, also very peacefully. He was not afraid of running into any danger—so long as he did not leave the Four Sages Relic, even a super-divine could do nothing to him, the relic's master.

For now, Shi Jin simply kept raising his authority over the relic, then adding points for his pets, waiting for the Four Sages clans to summon the geniuses of each clan who grasped the rudiments of top-tier faith divine skills.

About two days later, Shi Jin had brought all his pets' transcend-tier racial skills to the point of Technique Approaching the Dao, and the pets upgraded their transcend-tier racial skills to the quasi-divine skill stage.

By this point: Eleven, seven quasi-divine skills; Bugbug, seven; Ginseng Baby, nine; Crimson Eye, seven; Susu, six; Lin, eight; Little Machine, seven; Duckduck, seven; Little Purple, three; Qi, still just the one, Space-Time Shuttle—Refining Stars had not yet had time to teach them.

The fused Xuanwu had eight in total; the Munchkin Cat gained five new ones. Beyond that, though the four most gifted quasi-divine evolutionaries of the Four Sages clans, the ones who had entered the top fifty of the Investiture War, had not yet arrived, Shi Cen had copied two rather good faith divine skills, intending them for Xuanwu and the White Tiger.

With the fusions that needed doing done, from here on Shi Jin could simply devote himself wholly to adding points for quasi-divine skills.

Nearly a hundred quasi-divine skills—even with money to burn, that was no small undertaking. Fortunately, Shi Jue was a normal person, and he was confident he could max everyone out before the Investiture War.

…………

While Shi Jin was working overtime on Planet King, over on Blue Star.

Under normal circumstances, after the previous World Tournament ended, Blue Star would have needed at least seven years for a full mythological revival, allowing demigods to ascend to godhood.

This time window had been slightly delayed because Blue Star had been producing cosmic crystals, but as large quantities of resources came flooding back through the cosmic crystals connecting to Planet King—from the Void Emperor, Lin Feng, and even the entire Blue Star lineage—that window began shrinking at a breakneck pace once more!