Sacred Souls: Genesis

Chapter 277: Chapter 275: New Clue to the Divine Fragment (Third Release) Chapter 277: Chapter 275: New Clue to the Divine Fragment (Third Release) In the end, Juan Canyun still couldn’t defeat the one and only… female player from “Overlord’s World.”

Actually, this was within Jiang Qiao’s expectations. Although this girl, named “Bully the Gentleman,” wasn’t considered a leading player in “Overlord’s World,” Juan Canyun had so little health left that a single hit could prove fatal.

In the end, he fell short of Thorne’s level by just a bit–even if he had reached Thorne’s level, he would have been injured in the battle.

After Juan Canyun was carried off, this girl was left to face the four fully-healed gods from “Vibrant Nucleus.”

“Sorry! The one you just killed was just the weakest among us,” sprang unbidden to Jiang Qiao’s mind as he watched the live broadcast. He didn’t watch the subsequent fights… Jiang Qiao closed the live streaming interface and turned his gaze to the scenery before him.

Jiang Qiao was currently sitting on the very edge of the top floor of Blossom Square. If he looked down, he could see the ground, a hundred meters below the top of Blossom Square.

In the real world, Jiang Qiao would never dare do this, but this was the Inner World… Jiang Qiao even dared to jump straight down from Blossom Square.

The rooftop of Blossom Square was temporarily inaccessible to players although many wall-climbing assassins and rogue players were constantly parkouring in the Inner World. Some players did nothing but summon a flying mount in the Inner World, reveling in the thrill of soaring through the Upper City and River City on their own mounts.

This turned the Inner World into a… tourism game.

This blend of fantasy and reality as a form of tourism had only a slight restriction: when players wished to jump off high buildings, a crimson warning would pop up on screen, cautioning them not to try such things in the real world.

Jiang Qiao was really afraid that after the Inner World was launched, some players would not be able to differentiate between the game and reality.

This warning was merely a precaution.

Jiang Qiao also wanted to add some new content to the Inner World, but the Inner World’s version DLC was originally designed for players to create on their own.

Creation aside, Jiang Qiao still had to continue writing the main quest storyline, and Fureya was fundamental to the main story… and it still had to be merged with Hai Lan’s needs.

Jiang Qiao didn’t just create the Holy Spirit to protect the real world, but also to plunder Divine Fragments of Hai Lan from other realms.

Not long ago, the Star Map provided Jiang Qiao with an answer–it had located a new… realm containing Hai Lan’s Divine Fragment!

But the problem was… this Divine Fragment of Hai Lan had already been consumed by someone.

Jiang Qiao turned on the Star Map and amid its multitude of realms, a pitch-black realm was slowly drifting towards Biland Island.

This was also a fragment realm, or one might say a creature.

This pitch-black realm and Biland Island belonged to the same species… Chaos.

It’s just that Biland Island was still in its juvenile stage, while this one seemed to be fully matured Chaos; it was so large it could form its own realm and wander the Star Map.

Jiang Qiao nicknamed it with a more fluent moniker, calling it “Black Tide.”

Jiang Qiao clicked on this pitch-black realm and began checking its properties, realizing after a loop around that this realm seemed to be a… patchwork monstrosity?

‘Chaos Plane*Black Tide Island’
Realm Category: Magic*Supernatural*Technology…

Civilization Level: None.

Plane size: 120 kilometers
Creature levels: 1~65.

World rules: Time cycle complete, life cycle complete, physical laws intact, magic laws extremely high…
Description: This is the mature version of Biland Island. This plane is a mix of many forces, the Annihilation Legion, native Magic Thieves, Abyss followers, Plane pirates… They seem to be competing for the Divine Fragments swallowed by this plane, and the plane has sensed the existence of Biland Island and is trying to approach it. The Annihilation Legion might invade the inner world again, handle with care.”

“Does this count as us bullying her son, and then mommy dearest showing up at our door?”

Hai Lan sat down next to Jiang Qiao with two pieces of watermelon and unbelievably handed one piece to him while talking!

Jiang Qiao looked at Hai Lan with a surprised and questioning gaze…
“I gave you some because I saw you’ve been working so hard lately, you should thank me,” Hai Lan said with a bite of her watermelon.

Wasn’t this watermelon bought with my money?

Jiang Qiao didn’t voice this thought, otherwise Hai Lan would have spit watermelon seeds at him.

Lately, Jiang Qiao had really been especially tired. The reason for the fatigue was, on the one hand, he needed to perfect the inner world and the Spirit Fund, and on the other hand, of course, was that Jiang Qiao still had to multitask by typing updates.

Hmm… Jiang Qiao still remembered that his original job was as an online novelist.

Now Jiang Qiao had to deal with this… Black Tide Island that was heading towards Biland Island.

“It doesn’t necessarily have a mother-child relationship with Biland Island,” Jiang Qiao didn’t eat the watermelon offered by Hai Lan because she had already finished the one in her hand. So, he broke a piece from the watermelon in his hand and stuffed it into Hai Lan’s mouth.

“Father-daughter?” Hai Lan’s cheeks were always puffed up.

“It doesn’t have to be relatives. The way chaos breeds in your memories is still unknown, but they are a kind of… desireless race, regardless of whether they are adults or juveniles. So, the tricky part isn’t Black Tide Island, but the bunch on the island that looks like a gang of villains no matter how you slice it.”

Jiang Qiao was also unclear how the Annihilation Legion, the Magic Thieves, Abyss followers, and whatever pirates got mixed up together, but it would be really troublesome if this bunch set foot on Biland Island.

“Moreover, we didn’t bully Biland Island. Now, with the players’ efforts at ‘cultivating,’ Biland Island is growing healthily.”

This was the truth coming from Jiang Qiao, as he already held the absolute initiative on Biland Island. The resonance value had reached around ninety, while the Magic Thieves had completely fallen from grace, their resonance value dropping to below twenty, and Divine Grace Town on the side of Divine Chosen One was slightly higher, around eighty.

“So, what should we do next?” Hai Lan once again unleashed her ultimate move, called the ‘Jiang Qiao A Dream, help me’ technique.

“Wait.”

Jiang Qiao estimated the distance between Black Tide Island and Biland Island, as well as the real world. If he wanted to establish a connection with this plane and invade it proactively, it would take at least seven to eight days at the earliest and perhaps one to two years at the latest.

Because Black Tide Island was in a start-stop state, it had no intention of aggression at all. It was rather like the followers in the plane nudging it towards the location of Biland Island.

“Are we really not going to take this time to explore the central region of Biland Island?” Hai Lan still remembered the Crystal Land, and a wall there she couldn’t destroy.

“Let’s wait until the Divine Chosen One in the inner world takes down fifty spirits in a row,” said Jiang Qiao.

Jiang Qiao kept an eye on the progress of strategy in various areas. Thorne and another Divine Chosen One facing an extreme difficulty level were most likely to complete the tasks set by their deities.

As for the Island Master of the Crystal Land, Jiang Qiao always hesitated about whether to clear it out or not because that might be… the only way to enter the center of Biland Island.