Chapter 550 — A Demigod Battles a True God

Hearing that, Fanba of the Star Refining Race froze again. After a moment's careful thought, his chest tightened sharply and his mind rang like a struck bell.

"Yii yii yii!!!" Meanwhile, listening to Director Sen's pitch, Eleven was already raring to go. A cross-tier battle!!

A higher ranking!!

Eyes shining, it looked at Buggy, asking what it thought.

"Jii!!" Buggy thought they could give it a try too. With the leader's current strength, taking down an entry-level deity should be no problem at all.

The divine beast the first-place finisher of the Deification Battle had to challenge was a mid-tier deity—and no weak one.

If it couldn't even beat a weaker entry-level deity, what hope was there of fighting that?

"Let's go home and prepare. Once we're ready, we'll come back and challenge~" Eleven said.

Mainly, they had to talk to its guardian, Shi Jin, and get Shi Ying's permission first.

And besides, Eleven felt it still had room to improve. These few pinnacle divine skills were still only at the proficient level; if it could raise them to mastery, fighting an entry-level deity would be all the more certain.

"Good, good, no problem at all." Seeing Eleven agree, Director Sen was overjoyed.

Just then, however, Fanba of the Star Refining Race cut in with a jarring voice. Its expression crumbling, it pointed at Eleven and said, "It just... just now, it still had a top-tier divine skill it didn't use?"

"And... four... four years old??"

It seemed the blow was even heavier than losing the fight just now.

Sen Nian, the Green Dragon, Director Sen, and the Green Cotton Bug all looked at him, wanting to speak and then thinking better of it, thinking better of it and then wanting to speak again...

Yes. Indeed.

...

Not long after, Eleven and Buggy happily set off for home.

With a cross-tier battle to look forward to, same-tier battles suddenly seemed flavorless to Eleven.

Though to be fair, finding a demigod in the Canglan Realm stronger than the purple-skinned hole-person really was too much to ask.

After Eleven and Buggy returned, Red Eye, who had finished watching the movie, also came back with the little ones of Squad Two, one after another.

Right after that, Eleven began to consider whether to wake Shi Jin first and discuss the two big matters—copying skills and the cross-tier battle!

"Jii!! (Let the beast tamer sleep a little longer.)"

"Awo!!" Eleven nodded. All right, then.

But while Eleven and Buggy wanted to let the beast tamer sleep longer, Shi Ying, the merciless little secretary, could not care less.

The moment anything came up, she would reach across several major districts through their mental link and shake Shi Jin awake.

"Mmmwaaah, what is it?" Shi Jin said, a little cranky at being woken.

Hadn't he said not to wake him unless it was important? And he felt like he hadn't slept long at all this time.

The Disaster Research Institute.

Rubik's Edge flew out of the institute. "Master, there's a message—from Senior Lin Feng."

"Hm??" Shi Jin snapped wide awake. "Has the Qilin race confirmed the Wind Blessing? Have they got the thank-you gift ready??"

Lin said, "Unfortunately, no. Master, you'd best stop dreaming."

"Still, it's rather good news."

"The Four Saints Assembly of the first-tier realm, the Heaven Spirit Realm, is about to begin—it's held once every ten years. Senior Lin Feng has received an invitation as well, and he's asking whether you'd like to go along. There will be participants from the Blue Star Dragon Clan and the Blue Star Phoenix Clan."

"The Four Saints Assembly... what is that?" Shi Jin asked groggily.

Lin said, "It's a grand gathering where all those individuals evolving toward the Four Sacred Beasts, along with the great star clans, come together. At the assembly, countless Four Sacred Beast devotional objects will be up for sale, and by custom there may even be an epoch devotional object appearing as the finale treasure. Of course, all of that is secondary."

"In the Heaven Spirit Realm there is a half-decoded epoch ruin, filled with vast quantities of Four Sacred Beast faith power—a fine opportunity to grab faith power for free. During the assembly, this epoch ruin opens temporarily, and all those Four Saints evolution individuals will compete and slaughter one another inside, all for the sake of seizing faith power."

"I'm thinking that if we want to learn that skill, this assembly might just have the materials we need." Lin analyzed, "We can skip the dangerous ruin, but going to take a look at the assembly can't do any harm."

Shi Jin finally came fully awake. The Four Saints Assembly... faith overdraft... a half-decoded epoch ruin... dangerous it truly was—after all, every Azure Dragon, every Vermilion Bird, every Black Tortoise, every White Tiger was a deadly rival in the contest for faith. But... with Brother Lin Feng around, it probably wouldn't be much of a problem.

"What about Shi Yun?"

"In a little over two months. But you have to register in advance—Senior Lin Feng is waiting for your answer."

"Good. We're going."

"Mm... we can use this stretch of time to raise Little Bing, Turtle, and Kitty's levels, then go look for their evolution materials and skill components over there... Oh right, Lin, once we're there, remember to keep an eye on me—don't let me go anywhere near the ruin. Before I reach god-tier, I don't plan on touching any ruin in the cosmos..."

Thanks to the sect masters Jian Suyan, Scallion Spare Ribs, the Penniless Little Feng, Gandamu, Wuxin Youyou, Liangyue Sanshi, the Farming King, the Ice-Fire Alliance, Yemie, and the rest!