[You have possessed the shell of the ’Desire Canis’, the Star Lord Canis!]

[You fly across the sky on your sword, looking northeast, and you see a large town.]

[Unlike the ruins in your memory, the town is quite prosperous and its symbolic building, the ’Artemis Clock Tower’ is intact.]

[This makes you highly certain that the town is indeed ’Saint Lance,’ the Moonlight Town!]

"That’s indeed like you, Underworld Game. I kept wondering how I ended up with such a divine starting point...and turns out there’s a demigod battle waiting for me down the line!"

Lin Xun suspected that the reason ’Dan’ was not sealed elsewhere but under ’Saint Lance’ after his defeat could be because the battleground of the solar heroes was about to move to ’Saint Lance’.

This means he has to face not only the twenty-three apostle competitors hidden in the darkness, but also the final demigod war!

The remaining apostles, who haven’t been through the ’Forgotten Afterglow Abyss’ under ’Saint Lance’, could not have identified the final battleground as ’Saint Lance’, even if they did have similar memory information to the hunter’s shell.

Even if Lin Xun hadn’t triggered the hidden story of the titan ’Dan’ before, even if he had learned of the hunter’s memory, he would have simply glossed over the part about ’Dan’ as something like "the internal war amongst the Four Great Solar Heroes".

"Thankfully, compared to the other apostles, I not only have an upper hand in terms of power, but also have an information advantage."

Returning to Saint Lance gave him more than just these advantages, Lin Xun could even receive the hidden rewards from before one more time!

Such as the ’seedling of the Tree of Life’ guarded by the ancient Tree People, the ’Earth Giant’ shell and the item that enhances the quality of the Giant’s bloodline in the tomb of the Giant Beasts’ territory...

[What will be your next move?]

[1. Head to Moonlight Town ’Saint Lance’.]

[2. Head towards the territory of the Giant Beasts.]

[3. Find traces of the ancient Tree People.]

After some thought, Lin Xun concluded that the most valuable reward for him would be the ’Essence of the Giant’s Bloodline’.

In Chapter 323, the bloodline of the Earth Giant had been enhanced twice, and both bloodline items were located within the Giant Beasts tribe.

The current Easter Egg Chapter had a high difficulty level, and the Underworld Game would definitely boost the strength of the monsters...

Of course, Lin Xun’s worry wasn’t about this, but the fact that he didn’t know when the Solar Heroes would arrive at Saint Lance, or where the remaining twenty-three apostles were hiding.

To win the position of the disciple, he must defeat the other competitors, and... survive the demigod war!

Just as he was about to choose an option, he saw the ’Slaughter’ option of the Underworld Game flashing.

After checking, he found that the status of the Unknown Apostle 13 had switched from ’alive’ to ’in death penalty’!

The Underworld Game had also noted the remaining ’death penalty’ time for the 13th Apostle to be 1 hour.

This apostle had already died once in the short time from the start of the game, and now had to remain in the state of a Wandering Soul for a whole hour!

Shortly after, he saw the ’death penalty’ time for this apostle reset to one hour, meaning that he had died once more while in the state of a Wandering Soul.

Then the Underworld Game announced...

[The Unknown Apostle 13—dead!]

"He just...died like this?"

Amos had told him that when an apostle dies, they would revive at a separate hidden respawn point, and each time an apostle dies, the respawn point would be different and not exposed.

As long as they don’t get found by other apostles during the death penalty period as a Wandering Soul, even dying once would not cause a major loss.

The 13th apostle’s soul strength limit had been reduced in less than a minute from the death penalty period to its death.

"Could it be that every time the 13th apostle dies, he just happens to respawn next to another apostle and gets killed immediately upon revival?"

"If he gets killed twice in a state of a Wandering Soul, the soul strength limit will be reduced to zero, and the shell and soul of the apostle will also perish..."

[Suddenly, you sense a strange aura rapidly approaching!]

[You descend to the ground, looking into the depths of the forest...]

[You see a figure shimmering in red light emerging from the woods...]

[You have encountered the ’Unknown Apostle 17’!]

[Are you going to run immediately or kill him?]

The text in the Underworld Game is flashing blood-red, shaking repeatedly.

Without time to think, Lin Xun decisively clicked ’Yes’! 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝔀𝓮𝒃𝙣𝓸𝒗𝒆𝒍.𝙘𝒐𝒎

[A torrent of True Element swirls around your body, you form a sword with your hand, and your ’Rotating Stars Immortal Sword’ transforms into a sharp sword light...]

[The red shimmering figure seems to want to escape immediately, but before it can take a step, it is pierced through by the sharp sword light!]

[Blood spurts out like a waterfall and the figure slowly falls to the ground, its shell dispersing into specks of light and vanishing...]

[You have defeated the ’Unknown Apostle 17’!]

[As your invasion authority is high, you can plunder an item from the apostle’s body.]

[Choose the type of loot you want to plunder...]

Lin Xun quickly clicked on the equipment category, but his mind was not focused on the loot at all.

He saw the ’Slaughter’ option of the Underworld Game flashing again.

He clicked the ’Slaughter’ option to check.

[...]

[The Unknown Apostle 17—currently in death penalty, remaining punishment time 59 minutes 55 seconds!]

[...]

[The Unknown Apostle 17—currently in death penalty, remaining punishment time 59 minutes 59 seconds!]

[...]

[Unknown Apostle 17—dead!]

Just like the previous Apostle number 13, this apostle who was killed by Lin Xun also died twice in a short time after his shell was destroyed, while in a Wandering Soul state!