Volume 1, Chapter 435 – Mission

Eighty million reputation points were undoubtedly an immeasurable fortune, yet at this moment Shi Lan did not even blink before spending all of it.

Good steel was meant to be used on the blade’s edge; otherwise, it was nothing but scrap iron.

Magic treasures, pills, divine weapons, and the like could not instantly raise her combat strength. Consumable items were undoubtedly the most suitable choice.

Within the advanced lottery section, a mass of seven-colored radiance was shining. A moment later, the familiar system prompt sounded in her mind.

[Congratulations, Host. You have obtained:

Six-Star Item: Soul-Splitting Nail x10

Seven-Star Item: Scarlet Emperor Spirit Talisman x1

Seven-Star Item: Saber-Toothed Tiger Type-7 Star-Shattering Bomb x1

Eight-Star Item: World-Ending Divine Thunder x1

Six-Star Item: Lingxiao Sword Qi x10

Eight-Star Item: Solar Flare x1

Seven-Star Item: Substitute Death Puppet Talisman x1

Seven-Star Item: Spirit-Devouring Pearl x1]

Eight items in total: two eight-star, four seven-star, and two six-star. For Shi Lan, it was fairly average luck—not too bad.

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Six-star items were basically useless, not even as strong as her own attacks. They were tasteless to keep, yet a pity to discard.

What Shi Lan cared about most were still the two eight-star items. The items drawn by the system were graded only from one to ten stars. There was no detailed subdivision of strength within each star rank; it was all left to luck.

The World-Ending Divine Thunder and the Solar Flare were both single-use burst items of tremendous power, but an eighth-tier expert was equivalent to a Human Emperor-level supreme powerhouse in the Lingyang Realm, with strength unfathomable in depth.

For Shi Lan, whether those two items could be used to kill an eighth-tier expert still remained a very open question.

In the brief moment Shi Lan spent drawing the lottery, the second wave of reincarnators had already arrived before her.

There were roughly more than two hundred of them, but their overall strength was somewhat weaker than that earlier group of nearly a hundred. They were only around the lower to middle levels of the seventh tier, so they were more than a step slower in speed.

The moment they drew near, the reincarnators spread out in all directions, using various methods to completely seal off heaven and earth, turning the entire void into an iron barrel with no way up to heaven or down into the earth.

Once the host died, the system would inevitably flee through the void. Clearly, this was not the first time these people had fought a system holder; they were highly experienced.

There was not a word of wasted speech. The instant the void was sealed, someone struck boldly.

The first to charge at Shi Lan was a young woman around twenty, with elegant features but eyes filled with killing intent.

From her waist she drew a red silk sash wrapped in mysterious patterns. With a light flick, she lashed the entire void into collapse.

Facing the killing intent rushing straight at her, Shi Lan’s expression remained indifferent. Her right leg slid one step back, and she raised the war halberd in her hand as the tendons in her seemingly slender arm abruptly drew taut.

Boom!

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Power burst forth. Layers of ice beneath Shi Lan’s feet exploded apart, and the Scarlet Crow War Halberd turned into a streak of light that shot forward as a piercing sonic boom suddenly exploded into the air.

In an instant, the Scarlet Crow War Halberd tore through the void. The terrifying force wrapped around its blade shredded the red sash the woman had lashed out with, then continued on without losing momentum and pierced straight through her body.

Bang!

A cloud of blood exploded in the void, making the many reincarnators rushing in from all around falter in their steps as they unconsciously drew in a sharp breath.

The woman who had moved first was already infinitely close to the late seventh tier, yet she had now been killed with casual ease in a single blow. Strength like that clearly did not match the information given in the mission at all.

“Retreat first!”

Some quicker-witted people had already sensed that something was wrong. Without another word, they turned and fled.

Several dozen others still refused to give up and joined forces to kill Shi Lan.

Shi Lan straightened her body and let out a slow breath of turbid air. A streak of divine light crossed her brow, and the golden body of her nascent soul, towering between heaven and earth, emerged behind her.

The golden body of her nascent soul, more than seven hundred zhang tall, was covered in a suit of black-ice battle armor, over which endless rune-light flowed.

The Scarlet Crow War Halberd returned to Shi Lan, swelled drastically in size, and landed in the hand of the golden body of her nascent soul. The rune-light seemed to be activated in an instant and poured into the golden body of her nascent soul.

The golden body of her nascent soul, already more than seven hundred zhang tall, began to expand rapidly as the rune-light poured in. In just a few instants, it swelled to more than two thousand zhang.

The layers of clouds in the sky barely rose past the lower legs of the golden body of her nascent soul.

Bathed in the golden light of the nascent soul, the many reincarnators charging forward found their thoughts momentarily freezing, and undisguised shock surged into their eyes.

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This level of power had already almost surpassed the scope of the seventh tier.

The heavens were torn open, revealing the cosmic starry sky in full. A tyrannical halberd-shadow swept across the sky, severing swaths of starlight as it howled past.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Clusters of blood blossoms burst in the air. Beneath the enormous gap in strength, every method became a joke, and the iron-barrel encirclement they had formed was smashed apart in an instant.

The halberd blade was stained with blood, and every reincarnator who had chosen to step forward was slaughtered cleanly with a single strike.

Shi Lan’s gaze swept toward the fleeing figures in the distance. She had no intention of letting them go. The golden body of her nascent soul took a single step and appeared a thousand li away.

In less than the time it took to drink a cup of tea, the Scarlet Crow War Halberd returned after drinking its fill of blood.

But a few were simply too cunning and still managed to escape.

Putting away the golden body of her nascent soul, Shi Lan sat down cross-legged and closed her eyes to regulate her breathing.

The layer of ice armor covering her nascent soul had been derived from a divine ability contained within the Extreme Dao Rune Seal. Shi Lan had casually given it a name—Cold Astral Seal.

This divine ability was not an offensive one. It was closer to an augmentation secret art. Once the rune seals on the ice armor were activated, the power of the golden body of her nascent soul would increase by roughly three times in an instant.

However, with Shi Lan’s current cultivation, she still found it difficult to maintain for long and could only sustain it for half an hour.

The power of the Extreme Dao Rune Seal had not yet been fully excavated. In the future, this divine ability still had enormous room to grow.

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After regulating her breathing for a while, Shi Lan sorted through the cards in her hand and began to consider what came next.

Since some people had escaped alive, the Reincarnation Hall would inevitably gain some understanding of her true strength.

These people from the Reincarnation Hall very clearly had no intention of letting her go. Their next step would definitely be to dispatch experts of the eighth tier or above, so she needed to be even more careful…

[Mandatory side mission triggered: As the future Empress, the repeated provocations of the Reincarnation Hall have already stirred your anger, and you have decided to strike back.]

[Mission Details: Kill one eighth-tier member of the Reincarnation Hall and one hundred seventh-tier members. (No upper limit.)]

[Mission Completion Reward: Reward determined by the number of Reincarnation Hall members killed.]

[Mission Failure Penalty: One hundred years of facing the wall within the system’s virtual space.]

Shi Lan, who had been deep in thought, instantly fell silent. Though she very much wanted to say that she did not actually feel especially angry, to the Empress System that was clearly invalid communication.

The system believed she was very angry.

Shi Lan had no desire to bear the penalty for mission failure. Facing the wall for a hundred years was surely not an experience that would feel pleasant, and it would also throw all of her later plans into disorder.

Looking toward the distant horizon, Shi Lan sensed one aura after another and began to calculate how she could kill an eighth-tier expert of the Reincarnation Hall at the smallest possible cost.

Looking at the few items in the system’s temporary storage, Shi Lan gradually formed a plan in her heart and set off toward the continent.

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