The Ultimate Divine Class-Chapter 431 - 352: Meteor, Goodbye, I Seem to Have Hit You_2
It bore no malice, nor was it friendly.
It merely watched him quietly.
"I didn’t expect to see you here. We are truly fated to meet," a deep voice rang out again.
The sound of the descending "Meteor" grew louder.
It was about to arrive.
"There is..."
Xilin’s thoughts were somewhat muddled. He raised his arm again, his gaze shifting back and forth between the plummeting "Meteor" and the three-headed, six-armed being.
He was trying to get the being’s attention, to make it see the ambushing "Meteor."
"Someone wants..."
Xilin labored to squeeze out a few words. He wanted to speak, but uttering each word felt incredibly difficult.
"RUMBLE—"
Accompanied by a tremendous sound of rending air, the oppressive force of the descent stirred up a fierce gale on the ground. The plummeting "Meteor" was now perilously close.
Xilin could clearly see the figure in Sky-level Armaments within the meteor. Their entire body seemed to shimmer with countless dazzling, moving points of light. They held their battle knife high, an invisible force flowing around it. Their murderous and arrogant expression hit a peak, and they exuded an unmatched, ferocious aura.
Under this tense and bizarre pressure, the breath Xilin had been holding finally burst out uncontrollably.
"Someone wants to steal..."
But before he could finish his urgent warning, he saw the three-headed, six-armed figure before him suddenly turn, raise an arm, and punch upwards.
"BOOM!"
A blood-red sun abruptly rose before Xilin’s eyes, just barely intercepting the blazing "Meteor" falling from the sky.
Then, without so much as a whimper, the "Meteor" exploded.
The piercing light was silently devoured by the blood-red sun...
"BOOM!"
Something shattered, exploding in all directions. A massive shockwave spread through the air, accompanied by a series of sounds like tearing silk.
"CLATTER!"
A battle knife of twisted alloy, mangled beyond recognition, fell to the ground, landing right at Xilin’s feet.
"Ugh..."
Xilin stared blankly at the battle knife, his mouth agape, ears ringing, his mind a chaotic mess...
"Goodbye."
The three-headed, six-armed being, who had effortlessly obliterated the ambushing "Meteor" with a punch that conjured a blood-red sun, turned back. He gently patted Xilin’s shoulder, said "Goodbye" with a rather friendly attitude, and then turned away.
Like a towering Demon Mountain, like a dense black cloud, he slowly departed.
"GULP..."
Xilin’s Adam’s apple bobbed as he swallowed.
Then, he blankly watched the other’s retreating figure and murmured two words.
"Good... goodbye."
「 」
Quiet.
Deathly quiet.
After the footage of the imposing three-headed, six-armed figure turning and obliterating the "Meteor" with a single punch played on the light screen...
The entire conference room collectively fell into an eerie silence.
Everyone was silent. Their bodies and minds were enveloped by an inexplicable trepidation; they temporarily lost the desire to speak, choosing to contemplate silently.
After an unknown amount of time, a slightly strained voice broke the silence in the meeting room.
"Du Duo’s strength... seems even greater than Caledor’s, doesn’t it?"
The respondent’s voice also sounded somewhat halting.
"Yes... Du Duo is ranked higher than Caledor, and his Sky-level Armaments... perform better than Caledor’s."
Silence.
Continued silence.
A moment later, the calm voice of the Distant Star Federation’s director resonated again.
"Inform Orelsha to be careful of this person.
And...
Have all remaining Sky-level mechas... stand by, ready for an encirclement operation at any time."
"Yes."
「 」
The [Martial Arts Master (Supernatural)] profession leveled up again, now at Lv. 10...
In the dense primeval forest, Lu Yuan, now back to his normal state, stood under an enormous ancient tree, checking the information on his profession panel.
The results were quite satisfying to him.
Although the mysterious beast bone was taken by the Gugu Bird during this incident, he hadn’t come away empty-handed.
The two battles he fought were against very powerful opponents, granting him a lot of Experience Points and directly leveling up his [Martial Arts Master (Supernatural)] profession.
Not only that, Lu Yuan saw that the experience points for his skills—[Grandmaster Universe Qi], [Grandmaster Dharma], and [Grandmaster Domain]—had also increased rapidly; all were at Lv. 4 and nearing Lv. 5.
When he switched to the Elephant God Ming King form, he also used the skills and techniques of a Martial Arts Grandmaster. As a result, after the series of battles, the experience points for these skills had skyrocketed.
Indeed, combat remained the best nourishment for a martial artist’s growth.
Once these three skills all reach Lv. 5, the corresponding advanced skills should start to emerge. Not to mention the Core Skills of the second profession above [Three Flowers]...
Lu Yuan had high expectations for the [Martial Arts Master (Supernatural)] profession panel; it was the "soul" of his power system.
"COO COO—"
Suddenly, the cooing of a bird sounded by his ear.
Lu Yuan followed the sound and saw a familiar orange avian silhouette.
"COO COO COO."
The Gugu Bird stood on a treetop, gracefully grooming its feathers, calmly watching Lu Yuan.
It seemed to have returned to how it was when Lu Yuan first met it.
"You really seized the opportunity this time..." Lu Yuan said calmly, looking at it.
Originally, the mysterious beast bone should have been protected by an energy barrier set up by the Phoenix Bloodline natives, one the Gugu Bird couldn’t break, which is why it would seek his help. Who knew that this time the joint exploration team of the Distant Star Federation and Havel would use the mysterious beast bone to set a trap for him. To lure him in, they had left no defenses around it, which inadvertently allowed the Gugu Bird to succeed.
"I guess you came back to find me because you still need my help with something and want to continue our cooperation... not just to deliberately show off to me," Lu Yuan said calmly, watching the Gugu Bird.
"COO COO..."
The Gugu Bird flapped its wings and flew before Lu Yuan.
"I knew it."
Lu Yuan’s eyes twinkled. "If you want to continue cooperating, then first, let’s divide the spoils from last time."
"COO COO—"
Unexpectedly, the Gugu Bird shook its head. It wasn’t refusing, but rather indicating that... the mysterious beast bone was truly useful to it; it couldn’t be divided, nor could it share it.
However, it wouldn’t let Lu Yuan’s efforts go unrewarded. As for compensation, once Lu Yuan helped it with the next task... they would settle everything together.
"COO COO!"
The Gugu Bird said it would pay him a "deposit" first, then opened its mouth and spat out several fist-sized, golden, apple-like Treasures.
Lu Yuan picked up a few of the fruit-like Treasures and sensed the Evil God essence and energy concentration within, finding them rather ordinary.
"Making empty promises is fine. But..."
Lu Yuan put down the fruit-like Treasures in his hand, looked at the Gugu Bird before him, and said calmly, "You at least have to let me know what this ’pie’ roughly looks like."
The Gugu Bird tilted its head, thought for a moment, then began to scratch at the ground with its claws. While drawing, it kept cooing "COO COO COO," explaining to Lu Yuan what it was drawing.
"You want me to take you to the edge of a volcano?"
"And the edge of that volcano’s crater is overgrown with all sorts of Treasures I want, any single one of which is ten times more potent than what I have in my hand now?"
"Seriously?..."
Lu Yuan looked at the volcanic pattern the Gugu Bird had drawn on the ground, along with some abstractly sketched flowers and plants depicted on the volcano’s peak, and couldn’t help but frown slightly.
He was initially skeptical about the Gugu Bird’s words. But after staring at the volcano sketch for a long while, he suddenly remembered a video Lan Chen had once sent him. There was a volcano in that video too, and in its crater, within the lava, grew small golden grasses that seemed to be wreathed in flames...
Could it be the same place?
Lu Yuan’s eyes flickered slightly. He thought for a moment, then suddenly pointed to the center of the drawn volcano crater and asked the Gugu Bird, "What exactly do you want to do by having me take you to this place? Is there something inside this volcano crater?"
Intuition told Lu Yuan that if the area around the crater of this volcano the Gugu Bird spoke of was truly overgrown with various precious, top-tier Treasures... then at the center of these Treasures, there must be something even more valuable.
And the Gugu Bird... was, in all likelihood, after that very thing.
