Chapter 232 : Chapter 232
Chapter 232. Hold On, Man—Can You Cheat a Resurrection Mission Like This?
“Brother Yichen, why did that immortal call you Fellow Daoist?” Tang Long asked in surprise.
The others also looked curious.
Jiang Yichen thought for a moment. Ever since he had taken out the Heavenly Treasures Treasure Chest, Perfected Yuding’s form of address for him had changed.
He rubbed his chin and pondered for a while. “Maybe he saw that I was handsome and rich.”
Everyone: “...”
Fine. Asking had been pointless.
Mei Xue’er was speechless. Too lazy to deal with Jiang Yichen, she walked up to Chu Xingchen.
“Congratulations on becoming the divine contract holder of the Illustrious Sage Lord. Are you interested in joining the Divine Battle Division?” she asked, her eyes full of anticipation.
Before Chu Xingchen could speak, Jiang Yichen cut in first. “Hey, poaching my people right in front of me? That is a little unethical, isn’t it?”
Mei Xue’er clicked her tongue. Her full beard shifted as she smiled smugly. “Even if I do not poach him, after your New Recruit Assessment, your assignment will still be the Divine Battle Division.”
The corner of Jiang Yichen’s mouth twitched. So they were pulling strings behind the scenes, were they?
“All right. The divine contract has been completed, and your New Recruit Assessment mission has ended perfectly. Let us leave.”
Seeing Jiang Yichen suffer a setback, Mei Xue’er felt delighted and was just about to walk out of the ruins.
“Halt! You foreign gods, I, Old Sun, have arrived! Surrender at once!”
Hm?
When everyone heard this, they all turned to look. They saw a high school student in a school uniform stepping on a Somersault Cloud, spinning a dark-golden staff in his hand.
“Uh...”
Jiang Yichen’s face twitched. This was probably the Great Sage’s divine contract holder.
The contrast in his appearance was rather striking.
After Sun Potian appeared, Master Xuanyi, who was draped in a kasaya, and Gu Yuan’s group also entered the cave abode.
Their gazes instantly gathered on the Sleep God. There was no mistaking Hypnos’s law aura.
What puzzled them, however, was this: if Hypnos was here, why were Jiang Yichen and the others still alive?
Master Xuanyi stared at the Sleep God. “You are Hypnos?!”
“Hm?”
The Sleep God froze, then quickly waved his hands. “No, no. Old Gu, I am the Sleep God.”
“Huh?”
Gu Yuan also froze. He looked at the exceptionally handsome man before him, whose body radiated a divine glow. He was completely different from the slovenly Sleep God of the past.
Mo Yan, Liang Shan, and Lingling could not help widening their eyes.
“Sleep God!” Lingling blinked her lively eyes and said in surprise, “How did you become so handsome?”
The Sleep God smiled helplessly. “I do not know either. After the Boss helped me reconstruct my divine body, I became like this.”
Boss?
Gu Yuan and the others looked at Jiang Yichen.
Xuanyi’s gaze also landed on Jiang Yichen, and shock flashed through his eyes.
How was it possible to help someone create a divine body?
The Huaxia Cultivation System Research Institute had produced documents on shaping a body capable of bearing complete laws, and it required many heavenly treasures that most people had never even seen.
Some of them had even vanished from Earth long ago and could not be found at all.
Then how had Jiang Yichen done it?
Could he actually possess these heavenly treasures?
Xuanyi’s expression changed slightly. He slowly reached toward his alms bowl. To be honest, if there had not been so many people present, he really would have wanted to ask Jiang Yichen for alms.
This was practically a fat sheep! It would be too much of a pity not to solicit alms from him.
“Then where is Hypnos? Why is His law aura on you?” Gu Yuan asked solemnly.
The Sleep God glanced at the Boss. “The Boss killed Hypnos. His laws flowed into me. Now, I am the new God of Sleep.”
!!!
In just one sentence, the amount of information exploded outright, leaving several people’s minds blank.
“Who did you say killed Hypnos?” Gu Yuan confirmed again.
“Old Gu, we had all fallen into deep sleep at the time, so we are not very clear on the exact situation,” Mei Xue’er said at this moment. “However, Perfected Yuding, one of the Twelve Golden Immortals of Huaxia mythology, appeared just now. He said that Hypnos was killed by Jiang Yichen.”
As soon as she said this, Gu Yuan froze. He muttered “Perfected Yuding” to himself.
Gradually, he nodded in understanding.
He had almost truly believed that Jiang Yichen, a mortal, had slain a god. That had never happened before, and it was impossible for a mortal to slay a god!
God and man seemed to be only two simple words, but between them lay an unimaginable chasm that could not be crossed.
As the Chief Commander of the Divine Battle Division, he understood this better than anyone.
If Perfected Yuding had appeared, then Hypnos’s death was not difficult to understand.
But why had he attributed Hypnos’s death to Jiang Yichen? What was the reason behind that?
Gu Yuan thought for a moment, then shook his head slightly and sighed in relief.
“So that is how it is. The Battle Division must have asked the Heavenly Court for help. Thank goodness.”
Without Perfected Yuding’s assistance, they likely would have died in their sleep.
When Xuanyi heard that Jiang Yichen had killed Hypnos, his expression changed, and he slowly put away his alms bowl.
He did not seem like someone Xuanyi could defeat.
Xuanyi’s eyes shifted, and he exchanged glances with his two disciples.
But Sun Potian ignored all of that. Carrying his dark-golden staff, he walked straight up to Jiang Yichen.
“Slaying a god! Sounds like you are quite strong. Do you have time to spar with me, Old Sun?”
“...”
The corner of Jiang Yichen’s mouth twitched. With a sweep of his perception, he discovered that the high school student in front of him was actually at the peak of the Eighth Realm.
Combined with his identity as a divine contract holder and his control over divine laws, his strength was even slightly above that of a Martial God.
However, Jiang Yichen could even kill a true god. Sun Potian was indeed a little too weak.
Jiang Yichen shook his head and pulled the Sleep God over. “This is my employee. Defeat him first, then come challenge me.”
Sun Potian froze. He stared at the Sleep God, who was radiating the aura of complete laws, and scratched his face with one finger.
For a moment, he felt a little awkward.
“Disciple, do not be rude!”
At this moment, Master Xuanyi grabbed Sun Potian back, drew a circle under his feet, and said irritably, “Without your master’s command, you are not allowed to step out of this circle.”
After that, Xuanyi placed his palms together with a pleasant expression and nodded slightly to Jiang Yichen. “Benefactor, the Divine Battle Division’s Westward-Journey F4 greets you.”
F4? Meteor Garden?
Jiang Yichen remembered having seen some magazines from before the Great Cataclysm and could not help feeling that this was somewhat absurd.
He politely imitated Xuanyi’s gesture and nodded. “Greetings, eminent monk.”
“Benefactor, this humble monk has a request.” Xuanyi smiled faintly. “If you do not agree, this humble monk also knows a little martial arts.”
?
Jiang Yichen wore an expression of utter confusion. What sort of freaks were these people in the Divine Battle Division?
“You... you may speak,” he said with a frown.
Xuanyi took a hemp rope from inside his kasaya and placed it in Jiang Yichen’s hand. “We, the Westward-Journey F4, need to undergo nine nines, eighty-one trials. This humble monk is currently worrying about the final ten trials.”
“So, Benefactor, please kidnap this humble monk and help me count it as one task.”
Jiang Yichen: “...”
Hold on, buddy. Was this even allowed?