Lin Xun furrowed his brows, this ’lord’ was as mysterious as the rumors indicated, even the meeting location wasn’t disclosed openly, he had to use such a technique to meet him.

"However, since he is using a teleportation tool, why did Amos ask where I am?"

After bidding farewell to Amos, Lin Xun didn’t stay in Wencheng.

Instead, he notified his female superior and then set off for Hang City.

He guessed that the teleportation tool might have a distance limit, so to be cautious, he chose not to stay in Wencheng but use the tool in Hang City.

Wencheng and Hang City aren’t far apart, it’s only a two-and-a-half-hour ride by high-speed rail. 𝑓𝘳𝑒𝑒𝓌𝘦𝘣𝘯ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝑚

No one was informed about this secret meeting with the ’lord’, including the Heavenly Punishment squad in Hang City who were kept in the dark.

The greening work in Hang City was excellent, the green belt along the suburban road was as dense as a primitive forest.

Lin Xun found an isolated corner of this ’primitive forest’ to enter, and as the appointed late-night hour approached, he switched bodies.

[You are attached to the ’shell of the Fallen Earth Giant’!]

He carefully thought and finally decided to meet using the hardiest Earth Giant’s shell.

If a conflict were to erupt during the meeting, undoubtedly the Earth Giant was the shell that could last the longest.

The shell of Star Lord Canis was good, but it couldn’t withstand much, however, this wasn’t the main reason. The most fatal flaw was that this shell looked exactly like Lin Xun himself.

After attaching to the shell, he manifested the cloak, mask, and other items that could camouflage his figure.

After triple-checking that his external appearance wouldn’t reveal any clues about him, he used the teleportation tool.

In the center of the palm-sized stone, there was a spiral-shaped blue rune.

After using the tool, the Hearthstone radiated a magnificent blue light, forming a complicated magic array under his feet...

Everything went dark before his eyes, and a vertigo sensation of rapidly descending in an elevator came over him.

When the dizziness disappeared, his surroundings had undergone a dramatic transformation.

He was in a spacious banquet hall, standing on a dark red handmade wool carpet, with a long banquet table covered in various silver utensils and lit candlesticks, there was no food.

About the wall at the end of the banquet table, there hung a cross sword and a harp-shaped shield; below was a fireplace with a metal railing.

The walls were all adorned with magnificent silk tapestries, making Lin Xun feel as if he was inside a medieval western lord’s mansion.

Suddenly a faded painting on the wall caught his attention.

Thirteen ancient Western men were having a meal at a long stone table. The remaining twelve were either anxious, surprised, angry, excited or tense. Only the one in the center looked desolate and sad.

Lin Xun recognized this world-famous painting depicting Jesus having The Last Supper with his twelve disciples.

"Do you have any understanding of the New Testament?"

Just as Lin Xun was carefully observing the painting, a voice from the end of the banquet table echoed, its tone androgynous.

He swiftly turned around and saw a vague grey-cloaked figure sitting at the end of the table. It was unclear when they had appeared.

Lin Xun squinted his eyes, carefully observing the figure, but it was as if there was a haze separating them, everything remained vague, no matter how hard he looked.

A chill went down his spine, as he realized that this was the ’Lord’, the leader of the New World!

With a respectful look, Lin Xun cautiously answered, "Lord, I have a bit of knowledge about it."

’The Last Supper’ is a scene where Jesus came to Jerusalem for the last time to celebrate the Passover and had dinner with his twelve disciples.

It turns out that Judas had betrayed Jesus. The scene captures the moment when Jesus announces to his twelve disciples that he knew one of them had betrayed him.

The reactions of the disciples varied; Judas, in particular, was flustered.....

The lord said, "Judas, Judas..... do you know which disciple Judas was?"

Lin Xun’s pupils contracted sharply, the betraying Judas was the twelfth disciple.....

Did the lord know that he was a mole sent by the officials?

No! If the lord knew he was a mole, there was absolutley no need for him to see him alone.

Could this be a trick?

Still maintaining an earnest demeanor, Lin Xun continued to respond, "To answer the lord’s question, I do know. He was the twelfth disciple."

He had already prepared to manifest his unique equipment at any moment, start the teleportation gate and make a run for it.

The lord abruptly switched topics and continued, "The Easter egg bookmark for the disciple selection was provided by me, the Blood Sun world was also the Chapter I entered first back in the day."

"Back then, there wasn’t an ’Apostle Council,’ and ’New World’ didn’t exist."

"It’s a pity that on my first entry into the game, I only received an S-level evaluation..."

"Could you tell me how you obtained an SS-level rating in Chapter 323... or, perhaps, an SSS-level rating?"

Lin Xun had mentally prepared himself for this.

The anomalies in the disciple selection would undoubtedly attract the attention of the master.

According to the master, the provider of the Easter Egg Chapter is the S-ranked evaluator, and the progress of the levels is certainly based on the master’s experience.

If there are massive anomalies, it can only mean that the apostle who participated in the Easter Egg Chapter once achieved higher ratings in the Blood Sun world.

As the final winner of the disciple selection, he was the one most under suspicion.

The excuse Lin Xun had discussed with his female boss was not to admit it at all. The apostle who obtained the highest rating also died in the Easter Egg Chapter. He only won by getting buoyed to the end.

But... he has now changed his mind!

The master clearly suspected his identity. If he were just lucky and of no intrinsic value, he would likely face the master’s blade.

Only by demonstrating his own value could he find his footing in this New World where the strong prey on the weak.

Even if the master had seen through his identity, he could take advantage of this to make the master think twice about dealing with him, thereby buying himself wiggle room.

"Master, I did obtain an SS-level rating in Chapter 323!"

The master seemed somewhat surprised: "Oh? Tell me in detail..."

Since the master had also gone through Chapter 323, he could only tell nine-tenths of the truth, tell half a false tale, and ignore and hide the other half.

The principal thing was related to the encounter with ’Dan’. He said he had entered the hidden map underneath Saint Lance due to a life-saving artifact, ran into ’Dan’, and was forced to join the special covenant...

Using the life-saving artifact as a cover was to hide his most critical trump card ’Thousand Faces and Million Forms’.

Without the life-saving artifact, he would have succumbed and died facing ’Dan’.

The revelation of his encounter with ’Dan’ was to rationalize the anomalies that occurred in the Easter Egg Chapter.

"Very well, you didn’t hide anything..."

"If you had hidden your encounter with ’Dan’, I wouldn’t have hesitated to kill you."

Lin Xun secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

He knew that due to his ’honesty’, he had successfully alleviated most of the master’s doubts.

"Henceforth, follow Vesinu closely. I look forward to your performance in the next Disciples War..."

"Alright, withdraw!"

The hazy figure obscured by the mist waved his hand, and a familiar magic array appeared beneath his feet. His figure disappeared in the banquet hall.

After he left, the figure in the grey robe stood up.

Staring at the spot where the magic array disappeared, he muttered, "Could you be the one chosen by destiny?"

"If you can make it to the final Chapter of the game, then let’s have another honest talk..."

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The ’Coronation Ceremony’ arrived as scheduled on the second day.

The ceremony was not held in reality, but in the Disciple’s Sanctuary.

After the ceremony, the 12th Conference Hall in the Disciple’s Sanctuary would become his pasture for shepherding lambs.

As the host of the 12th Conference Hall, he would be granted authority to contact the eleven other apostles and the Council of Elders via the Disciple’s Sanctuary.

Lin Xun had no lambs of his own to shepherd, but because he killed most of the competitors in the Easter Egg Chapter, he could inherit the masterless lambs who were once under these fallen competitors.

All the resources of these lambs would be handed over to another secret organization in the New World called the ’Rectification Council’ which would distribute them to him.

The ’Rectification Council’ is a secretive organization directly accountable to the master. It usually makes no difference openly but is seen following the master’s will whenever resources transfer.

According to Amos, while most coronation ceremonies were attended by other disciples and the three elders, they were rather concise and clear.

Because the positions of disciples at the back had changed many many times...

However, this time the coronation ceremony was extremely grand because the long-absent ’master’ reappeared.

Even seeing the shell in the game rather than in person, many apostles wanted to enter the 12th Conference Hall to witness the coronation.

Also, as it was rare for the ’master’ to show up and preside over the coronation ceremony personally, many people were suspecting that Lin Xun’s background was not simple.