From Abyssal Invasion to Bursting Stars with a Single Sword-Chapter 111 - 101: Mysterious Invitation, Past of the Future

Three days after the wreckage incident,

a special guest visited the Taoyuan District.

Li Xiuyun called Lu Heng, urging him to come home quickly before making tea for the guest.

When Lu Heng got home, he saw a young man in a suit and leather shoes sitting in the living room.

He appeared to be in his thirties, slightly above average build, wearing gold-rimmed glasses, and looked very refined.

The man stood up respectfully and reached out proactively to shake hands as soon as he saw Lu Heng return. "Hello, Mr. Lu Heng, my name is Pu Lizhi, and I am here on behalf of Chunshang Group to invite you to join us."

Upon hearing the name of Chunshang Group, Lu Heng couldn't help but frown. "What does Chunshang Group want me for?"

Pu Lizhi nodded respectfully and responded, "Chunshang Group greatly admires you and hopes to become friends. Mr. Lu need not worry, the Chunshang Group merely wishes to befriend you and will not impose any compulsory demands."

"Chunshang Group hasn't been very friendly toward me," Lu Heng said, scrutinizing him.

"Yes. Before this, there might have been some misunderstandings between Chunshang Group and Mr. Lu. Thus, to show our sincerity, please accept this."

Pu Lizhi pulled an invitation out of his inner pocket, presenting it with both hands, and said,

"This is an invitation to the ultimate Crystal Core auction. High-level Crystal Cores will be auctioned there.

On the invitation, there's information about several important auction items, Mr. Lu can have a look.

"To show our sincerity, all expenses for Mr. Lu on the night of the auction will be covered by Chunshang Group as compensation for the misunderstandings."

When Lu Heng heard about the ultimate Crystal Core auction, his eyebrows raised.

This auction was very famous in the future, where Crystal Cores often sold for astronomical prices.

In his previous life, a Crystal Core was bought for one million and then sold on the Crystal Core Dark Network for ten million.

Later, it appeared at the ultimate Crystal Core auction and was finally auctioned off for 300 million.

That Crystal Core had increased in value 300 times, from one million to 300 million.

Moreover, the ultimate Crystal Core auction wasn't a public event; only those who received an invitation could participate.

Thus, those who could enter this auction were either representatives of top-tier financial consortia or Superpower Users with Peak Combat Power.

In his previous life, many Superpower Users felt honored to receive an invitation to the ultimate Crystal Core auction, which, in a sense, was a symbol of power.

However, this invitation was an olive branch from the Chunshang Group.

The Chunshang Group didn't ask for any contracts to be signed, meaning the invitation and the promised benefits were unconditionally given.

But accepting favors often meant being indebted to others. What about next time?

Accepting too much made it awkward to refuse requests from Chunshang Group in the future.

Well, Lu Heng could refuse, but he was worried that Chunshang Group had other motives.

Moreover, Chunshang Group had directly come to his home to issue the invitation in front of his parents, implying another layer of meaning.

In a certain sense, this was a form of threat.

"Sorry, but I can't accept this," Lu Heng directly pushed the invitation back.

Pu Lizhi hurriedly presented the invitation again with respect. "Please, Mr. Lu, you must accept. It's just a small gesture with no other implications. Please don't overthink it."

"I'm not overthinking, but I can't accept. Please leave," Lu Heng said, gesturing for the guest to leave.

"Mr. Lu, please believe me, Chunshang Group is very sincere and just hopes to become friends with you," Pu Lizhi insisted as he was led to the door.

After seeing him off, Lu Heng closed the door.

Li Xiuyun asked, "Who was that?"

"An agent from a multinational financial consortium. Don't let such people in anymore," Lu Heng said, surprised that Chunshang Group had taken the initiative to come.

In the end, it all came down to power. In this era, only those with Peak Combat Power could hold the highest authority.

Big consortia didn't lack money; what they lacked were Superpower Users with top-tier Combat Power.

Li Xiuyun frowned, "He seemed polite, bowing and shaking hands when we met. It seemed rude to turn him away at the door."

She hadn't previously encountered anyone so eager to offer money and gifts.

Lu Heng spoke sternly, "Don't be deceived by his current enthusiasm. It was Chunshang Group who anonymously reported that I sank our own nation's ship previously."

Li Xiuyun became indignant upon hearing this, "How can people be so deceitful? Just after causing trouble, they turn around, bring gifts, and act shameless?"

Lu Heng thought for a moment and said, "These types of incidents might increase. Continuing to live here in Taoyuan isn't appropriate anymore. I'll find another house; let's move out."

"Moving? We've lived here for over a decade and gotten used to it," Li Xiuyun, who got along well with the neighbors, didn't want to move.

Lu Mingli understood why and interjected, "Just listen to your son. I think Chunshang Group knows our son's identity now, and that's why they're trying to allure him.

"This district is indeed nice, but it's a bit old, and the management is lax, allowing anyone to come in. Incidents like this might happen more frequently."

After discussing it, the parents finally agreed to move.

However, finding a house proved to be a hassle.

Lu Heng wanted to find a place with stringent security to prevent unrelated people from disturbing his parents.

Such houses were usually exorbitantly priced.

After settling matters with his parents, Lu Heng visited Jinxiu Imperial View.

Lu Heng had barely stepped inside and hadn't even changed his shoes when someone suddenly knocked on the door.

Lu Heng walked back to the door and peered through the peephole, yet he saw no one, only an envelope floating in mid-air.

Yes, an envelope floating in mid-air.

Late at night, someone knocking, but no one outside the door, just an envelope floating in the air.

If it were a regular person, they would likely be scared half to death.

Lu Heng, however, wasn't frightened and opened the door, walking out to stand in the elevator hallway, looking around, still seeing no one.

The envelope just floated in front of him.

Lu Heng extended his hand, placed it under the envelope, and the envelope landed on his palm.

He opened the envelope to find a black invitation inside.

On it was just one English word: "creator."

Others might not know what this single-word invitation meant, but Lu Heng did.

Seeing that word on the invitation, a spark flickered in Lu Heng's eyes, and he whispered to himself, "It's finally come."

This was the invitation from the Creator Club.

The Creator Club was extremely famous in the future, with many of the top superpower users being members of this organization.

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The word "creator" translated to "Creator" or could also mean creator, or God.

From the name alone, one could tell how grand the club's scope was.

In the superpower user circles, there was even a belief that receiving an invitation from the Creator Club symbolized the world's acknowledgment of a top superpower user.

There were many rumors about the Creator Club, both positive and negative.

Rumors said that a much larger organization backed the Creator Club.

Such top-tier superpower organizations often had transnational natures, supported by global financial conglomerates.

In his previous life, countless superpower users dreamed of receiving an invitation from the Creator Club.

However, this invitation, with no contact information or method of joining, bore only the single word: creator.

This meant that the Creator Club extended an invitation but offered no choice for the invitee to accept or decline.

The Creator never asked for an invitee's opinion, as they always presented irresistible conditions; there were no exceptions.

In reality,

Lu Heng had been a member of this organization in his previous life, and so had Su Muyu.

However, he had joined the Creator Club later in his previous life; it was after the second year of the Abyss Descent.

Now the invitation from the Creator Club had appeared a year early.

Lu Heng took the invitation back inside the house, closed the door, lifted it towards the ceiling light, and under the light's casting, he saw the faint appearance of a number, 028.

This was a membership number for the Creator Club.

The number was different from his last life.

The reason was clear: receiving the Creator's invitation a year early would naturally change the membership number.

The number 028 indicated that before Lu Heng, the club had already had 27 members.

Typically, the earlier the membership number, the stronger the superpower user's strength.

After all, the earlier the number, the earlier they had received the Creator's invitation. In a sense, this represented their strength.

Of course, occasionally, members with a later number could be stronger than those with an earlier number, but overall, member strength tended to decrease in sequence by membership number.

In his previous life, Lu Heng's number was 328, while Su Muyu's was 327.

His number had advanced from 328 to 028, moving up by 300 places.

Now, in the fourth month after the Abyss Descent, the Creator already had 27 members.

And these 27 individuals were certainly not weak.

Although Lu Heng had rebirth memories, he had no impression of these 27 people.

Because, in his previous life, he had never met these individuals, and he did not even know their identities.

After receiving the Creator's invitation again, many future memories emerged in his mind.

Initially, Lu Heng did not wish to join such a mysterious organization, but once he was summoned to what was called the Death Forbidden Land in the Abyss Battlefield.

No one had ever returned from this Abyss Battlefield.

Su Muyu tried everything, but she couldn't obtain the chance to be summoned alongside him.

Eventually, after Lu Heng was transported into the Death Forbidden Land, she agreed to the Creator's invitation to gain access to the Death Forbidden Land and obtained the artifact that influenced the summoning.

That was how Su Muyu joined the Creator, and later Lu Heng joined as well.

The entire process of joining the Creator lacked any compulsion. The Creator always proposed irresistible conditions.

After seeing the number, Lu Heng did not continue examining the invitation, but tucked it back into the envelope and carelessly placed it on the key cabinet in the entryway.

This Creator invitation didn't necessitate further scrutiny, as it was just an ordinary paper card.