Chapter 147: The Uninvited Guest

The black tiger monster had no choice but to attack Su Nan since he was being cornered by Eagle Gao and Old Yang. However, as he approached the wolf monster in front of him, he suddenly noticed something strange.

The wolf monster in front of him was too calm!

There was no sign of panic in the face of his attack.

Something was amiss!

Combined with the actions of Eagle Gao and Old Yang, a thought suddenly flashed through the black tiger's mind.

Could this kid in front of him really be the master of Eagle Gao and Old Yang?

As this thought crossed his mind, before he could think further, he saw the calm-faced wolf monster in front of him raising his palm towards him.

In an instant, the black tiger felt a creeping sensation on his skin.

Even though he hadn't yet clashed with Su Nan, he already felt an oppressive force that made him breathless!

This kid was not at the early Spirit rank!

He was definitely not an early Spirit rank.

The black tiger's heart screamed, and without hesitation, he tried to retreat.

But it was already too late.

Bang!

As soon as the palm landed on his chest, the black tiger felt like his internal organs were about to explode, and he was sent flying.

"Hahaha, Black Tiger, how dare you underestimate our master. You really don't know your place."

Seeing Black Tiger being taught a lesson, Eagle Gao and Old Yang both laughed, looking like they were reveling in their newfound success.

"Who... who are you?" Black Tiger stammered.

Su Nan didn't pay any attention to Black Tiger but instead flipped his hand and condensed a bloodline servitude mark.

Seeing the mark in Su Nan's hand, Black Tiger's face turned pale. "A bloodline servitude mark? How dare you!"

"Using a bloodline servitude mark is a forbidden technique. If the two great monster lords find out, you will undoubtedly die!"

At this moment, Black Tiger finally understood why Eagle Gao and Old Yang called Su Nan their master.

Being controlled by a servitude mark meant being enslaved, didn't it?

Eagle Gao walked up to Black Tiger and sneered, "Black Tiger, if you want to stay alive, you'd better cooperate with our master and accept the servitude mark into your body. Otherwise, if you anger our master, hehe..."

Black Tiger replied without hesitation, "It's impossible! Even if I die, I won't let someone control me!"

Old Yang advised, "Don't be stubborn. It's better to live than to die. As long as you cooperate with our master, he won't harm you."

Eagle Gao and Old Yang took turns trying to persuade him.

In the end, under the threat of Su Nan's death, Black Tiger reluctantly gave in, though he was unwilling to accept the bloodline servitude mark into his body.

Next, Su Nan followed the same procedure.

In just over ten minutes, he had subjugated all five monsters under Xiong Yan's command.

Four of the monsters were at the Spirit rank Peak, and one was at the Spirit rank Late stage.

However, Su Nan noticed a problem as he continued to imprint the servitude marks.

He had a vague feeling that he was approaching the limit in the number of bloodline servitude marks he could create!

"Master, you can only create a maximum of nine bloodline servitude marks, and after that, you won't be able to create any more," Eagle Gao explained.

"Nine marks?" Su Nan frowned, as this limit was not part of his bloodline servitude mark creation method.

With the five monsters now, he had already created seven servitude marks.

This meant he could control at most two more monsters.

"It seems I'll have to find another way to control monsters," Su Nan muttered to himself.

He looked at the remaining monsters.

The three monsters he had just subjugated were now looking at Eagle Gao and Old Yang with murderous intent, their anger plain in their eyes.

Eagle Gao and Old Yang, on the other hand, were completely unconcerned and wore smug smiles on their faces.

Previously, when only the two of them were under Su Nan's control, they had been somewhat reluctant.

Now, with three more unfortunate creatures joining them, they felt much better.

"Continue to act normally and don't reveal any abnormalities, especially my presence," Su Nan instructed them.

"Yes, Master!"

Regarding the upcoming plan, Su Nan had no intention of involving the several monsters. He intended to handle it himself.

Drunk Wind Tower.

This was a famous tavern in Tianyun City known for its wine called "Drunk Wind."

Few martial artists knew that the wine cellar of this tavern was actually the lair of a mid-Xuan-ranked monster.

In the real world, it was already 6 PM, and night was approaching.

In the game world, the eastern horizon began to turn red, heralding the beginning of a new day.

Drunk Wind Tower still had its doors tightly closed, and there was no light inside.

Su Nan went straight to the backyard of Drunk Wind Tower to use his precognition.

[Climbing over the wall, you enter the backyard, which is empty with no one and no monsters. To the left and right are two rows of buildings, indistinguishable from an ordinary small courtyard.]

[You know that hidden in this unremarkable courtyard is a mid-Xuan-ranked monster.]

[You head to the room on the left side of the small courtyard for a search. After a minute, you find nothing and move to the room on the right side.]

[Two minutes later, in the last room on the right side of the small courtyard, you find the entrance to the underground wine cellar.]

[Entering the cellar, you hear the sound of snoring coming from deep inside. Following the sound, you eventually arrive at a stone room at the end of the wine cellar.]

[In the stone room, you see a giant brown-furred bear sleeping soundly on a stone bed, and nearby, there's a barrel of unfinished wine.]

[Seeing this situation, you quickly abandon your original plan and attempt to directly attack the monster.]

[Unfortunately, the mid-Xuan-ranked monster's senses are sharp. Just as you approach it, ready to strike, the monster instantly awakens and delivers a palm strike towards you.]

[Not only does this monster have a powerful physique and incredible strength, but its speed is also impressive. You give it your all to defend, but you can only barely hold your ground, unable to retaliate.]

[Three minutes later, you are no match for the monster.]

[You have died.]

[Before dying, you realize that with your current strength, you are far from being able to kill the monster head-on.]

"It's indeed a mid-Xuan rank," Su Nan said with a serious expression.

The mid-Xuan-ranked monster in the prison earlier had only awakened when Su Nan had already taken action.

However, this monster had detected Su Nan's presence the moment he was about to strike, demonstrating significantly sharper senses than the mid-Xuan-ranked monster from before.

"I can't defeat it head-on. I'll stick to the plan."

[Climbing over the wall, you enter the backyard, heading directly to the last room on the right, which leads to the underground wine cellar.]

[After a minute, you reach the stone room at the end of

 the wine cellar. Inside, the monster is still sound asleep, and the barrel of wine remains untouched.]

[You don't dare to be careless. Holding your breath, you approach the stone bed carefully. Instead of attempting to kill the monster, you quietly pour two drops of Dream-breaking Water into the unfinished wine barrel.]

[Your actions are cautious, and they don't wake the monster. After finishing, you exit the stone room and silently wait.]

[Two minutes later, the monster is still asleep.]

[Three minutes later, the monster remains in a deep slumber.]

[The first precognition is complete. Do you wish to continue?]

"The monster won't wake up anytime soon; continuing to predict would be a waste of attempts."

"As long as that monster drinks the drugged wine, it won't wake up for a while. I can wait until the game refreshes."

Su Nan wasn't in a hurry.

If the monster woke up and drank the drugged wine, it wouldn't be too late for him to come back tomorrow.

If the monster didn't drink it, waiting wouldn't make a difference.

With his decision made, Su Nan acted quickly.

A few minutes later, he left Drunk Wind Tower.

In the monster's wine barrel, he had added three drops of Dream-breaking Water.

This amount was enough to keep the monster asleep for three days.

He decided to save the remaining two drops of Dream-breaking Water for the monsters in the abandoned prison in North City.

However, unlike Xiong Yan's monsters, he couldn't rely on them to take the drug voluntarily.

"In the prison, there are monster guards. If I want to get in, I'll have to deal with those guards."

"In that case, when the monsters wake up, they might notice something is wrong."

"So, I'll try to see if I can feed the wine to the monsters proactively!"

As Su Nan contemplated, he walked toward the abandoned prison.

Ten minutes later, he arrived at the abandoned prison.

[You once again approach the abandoned prison, ready to hunt down the monsters inside.]

[Upon entering the prison, two ordinary-ranked monsters immediately spot you. You react quickly and use your mental power to kill them before they can react.]

[You take on the appearance of one of the monsters and continue deeper into the prison. After a minute, you reach the entrance to the second floor of the prison.]

[After silently killing the guard at the entrance in the same manner, you enter the second floor.]

[You see a monster with yellow fur on its face soundly asleep. On either side of it lie two female monsters.]

[You carefully approach the monster with yellow fur and, using your mental power, kill one of the female monsters. Then, you take on her appearance, replacing her.]

[Your actions don't awaken the monster with yellow fur. You find the wine barrel that the monster had been drinking from, and you add the last two drops of Dream-breaking Water to it.]

[After doing all of this, you try to wake up the monster with yellow fur and offer it the wine.]

[The monster with yellow fur wakes up groggily, clearly unhappy that you woke it up.]

[However, after you hand it the wine, it takes it out of habit, drinks the remaining wine with big gulps, and then falls back asleep, snoring loudly.]

[You don't rush to take action but silently wait for the Dream-breaking Water to take effect.]

[Three minutes later, the monster snores like thunder, and nothing unexpected happens.]

[The first precognition is over. Do you wish to continue?]

"It was this easy to succeed?"

Su Nan was surprised.

He had been prepared for failure because this plan was incredibly risky.

Whether it was killing the female monster or getting the monster to drink the wine voluntarily, either action could easily arouse suspicion.

But the plan had gone surprisingly smoothly.

"Well then, don't blame me!"

He decided not to continue with the precognition.

Since he had successfully made the monster drink the wine, the rest didn't matter.

Two minutes later.

Following the precognition's instructions, he successfully made the monster drink the wine.

After waiting for a moment, he did another precognition.

However, this time, it disappointed him.

The monster had only taken the drug for a short time, and the effects were not yet apparent.

With no other option, Su Nan temporarily left the prison after dealing with the other female monster.

He planned to come back and check the results after a few hours.

Leaving the prison behind, he checked the time and roamed around the city.

"Only five hours left until the game refreshes."

"I haven't completed Lang Shisan's mission yet. It seems I need to find a few unlucky player hunters."

In this open beta with ten million players, there were over eight hundred thousand players in Dongchen Province.

Among them, there were tens of thousands of players in Tianyun City alone.

Su Nan didn't know the exact number of players in Tianyun City, but he conservatively estimated it to be in the thousands.

It didn't take him long to encounter a group of player teams looking for monsters to hunt.

This team wasn't made up entirely of new players; it had two experienced players who had merged with a third bloodline.

From their conversation, Su Nan learned that this was a player guild called the Arson Guild.

"Since you're not players from my Exorcism Division, I won't hold back."

Su Nan didn't hesitate and transformed into the appearance of a wolf monster, ready to take action.

After a moment, the mission completion notification popped up.

He didn't stop there and continued searching.

More than ten minutes later, he encountered two groups of players.

[Congratulations, you have completed the daily task "Hunt 5 Extraterrestrial Visitors," and 5 Exorcism Points have been awarded.]

[Congratulations, you have completed the daily task "Hunt 30 Extraterrestrial Visitors," and 15 Exorcism Points have been awarded.]

[Current available Exorcism Points: 25 points.]

In total, he had hunted down 37 players, completing two daily tasks and making significant progress in the main quest.

He had to hunt down 30 more players out of the initial 120.

However, to complete the main quest "Wrath of the Demon Emperor," he needed to hunt down 10 players from the top 100 in the Luck Ranking.

So far, he had only hunted two of them.

"Hunting down ten players from the top 100 in Luck Ranking is going to be challenging!"

Having completed all the available tasks, Su Nan logged out of the game.

...

Back at the inn.

After leaving the game warehouse to avoid being discovered, Su Nan put it back into his storage ring.

He had a quick meal and went for a run.

It wasn't until two hours later that he returned to the inn.

He logged back into the game.

In the game, the sun was shining brightly, and the streets were bustling with people.

Exorcism Division.

Su Nan took out the two monsters he had hunted in the Millstone Mill and Liu Quan River and had Chen Su register them.

Although he didn't know what was in the county governor's treasury, he didn't want to waste the Exorcism Points for the two monsters.

"Sir, these two monsters are both in the Late Spiritual Rank, totaling 96 Exorcism Points," Chen Su said.

Su Nan nodded, and with the addition of the monster from Lv Er, he now had 408 Exorcism Points.

"Sir, if you don't have any use for the monster corpses, you can exchange them for an equivalent amount of Exorcism Points."

"Does the Exorcism Division also accept monster corpses?" Su Nan asked in surprise.

One Late Spiritual Rank monster corpse was worth 48 Exorcism Points, which meant that 48 Exorcism Points were equivalent to 3 drops of Late Spiritual Rank monster blood.

Chen Su nodded, "Yes, our Great Yu Dynasty has several treasures for extracting monster blood, so we naturally accept monster corpses."

"In that case, can I exchange them for monster blood?" Su Nan asked.

"Naturally," Chen Su nodded.

Su Nan's eyes lit up; this would be much more convenient.

He didn't want anyone to know that he could hunt down Late Spiritual Rank monsters. If he brought Lv Er's corpse to the Heavenly Palace Pavilion, it might cause trouble.

But in the Exorcism Division, it was different.

Chen Su and the others all knew that he could hunt down Late Spiritual Rank monsters. Even if he continued to hunt down powerful monsters in the future, there wouldn't be any problems.

"In that case, please help me exchange these corpses for monster blood."

Su Nan took out all the monster corpses except for the Late King Rank one and the Black Cloud Pig monster's corpse.

After a while, he received the monster blood.

There were over ten drops of Ordinary Spiritual Rank blood, eight drops of Late Spiritual Rank blood, and one drop of King Rank blood.

This amount of monster blood was a bit less than he had hoped for.

Su Nan sighed; he had wanted to accumulate some life-restoring items before the side quest started.

Now it seemed that he would have to find a way to hunt down a few more monsters in the next two days.

He stored the monster blood away.

At that moment, a member of the Exorcism Division came in and reported, "Sir, there are three extraterrestrial visitors looking for you."

The Huang siblings?

"Let them in," Su Nan said.

Soon, three players entered the Exorcism Division.

To Su Nan's surprise, these three were not the Huang siblings.

However, he recognized two of them among the three.

One was Meng Feng, whom he had killed just yesterday, and the other was someone he was very familiar with.

Zhou Cheng!

(End of this chapter)