Chapter 245: The Final Mission

Up to now, eight counties and sixteen divine weapons have all been delivered and placed at specific nodes.

The biggest credit for this naturally goes to the players.

Without players, it would have been nearly impossible for the human race to safely deliver the divine weapons to Zhongtian County.

The power of the Heavenly Seal has reached an unprecedented level.

If one approaches a node within a radius of three li, Su Nan's power would be suppressed to the level of an ordinary mortal.

And it's not over yet; the power of the Heavenly Seal is still rapidly increasing.

Everyone is waiting.

Waiting for that moment when a gap appears in the power of the Heavenly Seal.

"The top three in this mission are without a doubt Wang Nan, Zhang Yang, and Lang Thirteen."

"I wonder who the fourth and fifth will be?"

Many players are looking at the rankings, speculating one after another.

At this point, among the top three on the leaderboard, Lang Thirteen has the lowest contribution, with just over 10,000 points.

From fourth to tenth place, contributions are all around 5,000 points, and this is because they completed the task of escorting the divine weapons, earning 3,000 points of contribution.

Back then, Zhou Cheng and Qian Yu, who couldn't obtain divine weapons, also managed to exchange for divine weapons from other players and ranked in the top twenty by completing the task of escorting divine weapons.

"Zhang Yang needs a little over 11,000 points to reach 40,000 points of contribution, enough to exchange for an ancient scripture."

"Wang Nan is only a few dozen points away from 20,000 points, enough to exchange for a divine skill."

"Lang Thirteen exchanged for a drop of spirit-level ancient demon blood and a divine skill fragment, and now he only has a little over 9,000 points of available contribution. There's no time to hunt players this time, so his contribution points won't increase anymore."

"In that case, let's go ahead and exchange all of Lang Thirteen's contribution."

The Contribution Shop appeared before Su Nan, and his gaze fell on a certain item.

Divine Skill Fragment!

That's right, he planned to exchange all of Lang Thirteen's contribution for Divine Skill Fragments.

In the Contribution Shop, the only items that caught his eye were Divine Skill Fragments, Divine Skill Seeds, and three ancient scriptures.

As for the Taiyi Exorcism Sword, worth 100,000 contribution points, it was completely out of his consideration.

Zhang Yang exchanges for ancient scriptures, Wang Nan exchanges for divine skills, so Lang Thirteen's contribution can only be exchanged for Divine Skill Fragments.

"In the shop, the maximum number of Divine Skill Fragments that can be exchanged is ten, and I exchanged one last time, so there are nine left."

"Now, the top twenty players have more than 3,000 points of contribution, and they can all exchange for two Divine Skill Fragments. If they wait until the end of the mission, someone might exchange for fragments, and by then, it'll be too late for me."

Su Nan didn't want to watch something within his grasp fall into someone else's pocket. He decisively spent all of Lang Thirteen's 9,000 points of contribution to exchange for six fragments.

"There are still three fragments left, might as well exchange them."

Su Nan didn't want to leave anything for others. He switched to Wang Nan's character and spent over 4,000 contribution points to exchange for the remaining three fragments.

"With nine fragments, it's enough for another upgrade of Celestial Shifting."

Looking at the nine fragments in his personal space, Su Nan smiled.

But he didn't choose to upgrade now.

Currently, Celestial Shifting was already sufficient, and further upgrading it wouldn't provide much benefit. It would be more cost-effective to save them for upgrading new divine skills.

After exchanging for the Divine Skill Fragments, players who had opened the fourth-tier shop on the leaderboard quickly noticed the change in items and began to speculate one by one:

"Who could it be? Wang Nan or Zhang Yang?"

"Nine fragments, nearly 13,000 contribution points, that's quite a hefty sum!"

"Whoever exchanged them, it shows that these Divine Skill Fragments are important. Unfortunately, someone beat us to it and exchanged them all."

"Well, my goal is the spirit-level ancient demon blood. As long as I can exchange for that, it's enough!"

Everyone was amazed by Su Nan's bold move, but when they saw the ancient demon blood in the shop, they all had serious expressions.

There are only ten portions of ancient demon blood that can be exchanged, and Su Nan had already exchanged one, which means only eight more people can exchange for ancient demon blood.

But now, there's hope for more than eight people to exchange for it.

"Now, Zhang Yang is the only one with some pressure on his target. With six or seven minutes left, it shouldn't be too difficult to earn 12,000 contribution points. I'm just afraid that something unexpected will happen."

Thinking about the time left for this mission, Su Nan's expression slightly tensed.

Six or seven minutes may seem short or long, depending on how you look at it.

If nothing unexpected happens, with his current strength, killing a few more top-level mystical beasts should be enough.

However, things will definitely not go smoothly, as there are quite a few King-level monsters this time.

Checking the time, there's only half an hour left until the mission starts.

"Let's use Death Foreseeing to predict once."

With a thought, he looked at the prediction.

[You know that soon the demon race will launch their final attack on the human race's Heavenly Seal. During this process, you may encounter unknown dangers. Would you like to consume a certain number of prediction opportunities to foresee your situation three minutes before your death in the future?]

"Yes."

On the panel, one prediction opportunity was consumed.

"Only one? As expected, something unexpected happened."

[During the interval when the human race's Heavenly Seal power disappears and the demon race attacks, the attack is unprecedentedly fierce. The town where your avatar is located, Jinsu Town, as well as the town where your main body is located, Qianshou Town, are both under heavy attack by a large number of monsters.]

[Your divine soul descends onto your avatar, and your main body and avatar both join the battle, attempting to kill those top-level mystical beasts.]

[With your great strength and the replenishment of abundant vitality, in just three minutes, you and your avatar have killed more than forty top-level mystical beasts.]

[However, your reckless slaughter of the monsters also attracts the attention of a King-level early-stage monster that comes to attack your main body, and your avatar is also targeted by a King-level mid-stage monster.]

[A minute later, you go all out to fight the King-level monster. Although the King-level monster is powerful, it is unable to kill you due to the combination of your divine soul's power and your mastery of martial techniques.]

[On the other hand, your avatar is not faring well against the King-level mid-stage monster.]

[Two minutes later, your avatar is unable to withstand the King-level mid-stage monster's attack and is crushed, returning to you as the power of your Origin Art. At the same time, another King-level monster targets you.]

[Two King-level monsters jointly attack you, and you are not their match.]

[Three minutes later, you die.]

"Both characters only killed more than forty top-level mystical beasts before being targeted by King-level monsters?"

Three minutes is actually not bad for killing more than forty top-level mystical beasts.

But Su Nan felt a bit unsatisfied and wanted to kill even more monsters.

Chapter 245: The Final Mission

In this premonition, I went straight for the Profound-level demonic beasts. I wonder if I were to kill some Spirit-level demonic beasts first and then some Profound-level ones, would I be targeted less quickly?

Su Nan continued to foresee.

The results disappointed him. Despite his best efforts to hide, he was still targeted, but he managed to kill a few more than the first time.

Afterward, he tried several different methods but couldn't kill more than a few extra. Every time, as long as he displayed power far exceeding his peers and the ability to easily kill Profound-level demonic beasts, he would quickly be targeted by a Demon King.

However, if he didn't go all out and tried to gain a lot of contribution in a short time, it became more difficult.

"Well, killing more than forty demonic beasts should be enough," Su Nan gave up. As long as he could exchange for the Divine Skill and the ancient scripture, he would be content. Even if he had a few thousand more contribution points, there was nothing in the Contribution Shop that he was interested in, and it wasn't worth the risk.

"There's another problem. Every time I foresee, I get targeted by Demon Kings. I must find a way to deal with the Demon Kings that target me."

His main character could temporarily log out of the game and log back in once the mission ended when the demons retreated. However, his avatar couldn't do the same. He needed to find a way to deal with the pursuing demons.

Su Nan's eyes lit up as he looked at the gourd in his hand, and an idea formed.

A King-level mid-stage demon was something he couldn't handle on his own, but he had the Demon Princess.

[You kill demons aggressively, and a King-level early-stage demon targets your main body, while your avatar is targeted by a King-level mid-stage demon.]

[A minute later, you go all out to fight the King-level demon. Although the King-level demon is powerful, it is unable to kill you due to the combination of your divine soul's power and your mastery of martial techniques.]

[Meanwhile, your avatar leaves the battlefield and quickly arrives at an uninhabited place.]

[The King-level mid-stage demon pursues your avatar closely. When the time is right, you decisively release the Demon Princess of the Heavenly Seal Gourd, letting her assist you in killing the demon.]

[At the same time, your main body activates the racial talent "Starlight Obscure Body," channeling the power of vitality and spiritual energy into your bloodline.]

[Two minutes later, another King-level demon targets you because of your display of strength far beyond your own realm, while your avatar, with the assistance of the Demon Princess, successfully kills the King-level mid-stage demon.]

[Two King-level demons attack your main body simultaneously, and you are no match for them.]

[Three minutes later, you die.]

"Success."

A smile appeared on Su Nan's lips.

A King-level mid-stage demon was worth a hefty 8,000 contribution points.

Unfortunately, it still wasn't enough to exchange for the second part of the ancient scripture.

"Everything is ready. Now, I just need to wait for the mission to begin."

Looking at the three parts of the ancient scripture in the Contribution Shop, he began to contemplate which one to choose.

Time passed slowly, and when the power of the Heavenly Seal reached its peak, a dazzling white light shot up from the center of Qianshou Town, at the location of the Divine Beast Enforcers.

At the same time, not only in Qianshou Town but also in the other nodes in Zhongtian County, beams of white light shot into the sky.

And at that moment, the power of the Heavenly Seal suddenly disappeared!

"It's started!"

Everyone held their breath as they looked into the distance.

"Geben Shanshui, I let you escape last time. Let's see where you can run this time!"

A thunderous shout echoed, and it was the voice of Hu Xiaotian.

The next moment, everyone saw a terrifying impact erupting in the distant sky.

Without waiting for the others to react, outside Qianshou Town, the impatient demon army had already begun to move, rushing towards Qianshou Town like a torrent.

"The mission has started. Now I can verify the previous speculation."

On a small hill not far from Qianshou Town, Su Nan watched everything unfold and made up his mind to release the female demon king who had been severely injured by Zhou Lingyin three days ago.

This demon king's soul was seriously damaged and was still in a coma.

Su Nan had no expression on his face as he directly killed the demon king.

[Congratulations, you have completed the daily task "Kill a Demon King," and 45 Demon Power has been granted.]

[Current available Demon Power: 201 points.]

Demon Power could be used to enhance a bloodline to the Great Perfection.

Su Nan didn't pay much attention to Demon Power; his primary focus was on the main task.

Unfortunately, on the side task, his contribution points remained at zero, with no change.

"It seems that only killing demons attacking the Heavenly Seal will earn contribution points."

Su Nan wasn't too disappointed; he had been mentally prepared for this outcome. After all, if players could pre-injure demons and gain contributions when the mission started, the major forces would have done so already.

"With over 200 Demon Power, should I enhance my bloodline?"

He glanced at his Demon Power and hesitated.

In the past, he would have upgraded his bloodline without hesitation. However, now that he had other plans for Demon Power, he decided to save it for the time being.

He looked at the demons that had already rushed into Qianshou Town and didn't wait any longer, quickly joining the battle.

The demon army this time included over ten King-level demons, hundreds of Profound-level demons, and countless Spirit-level and Ordinary-level demons, making it the largest and most formidable force ever.

Compared to the demons, the overall strength of the human race was somewhat lacking.

Fortunately, the human race had a large number of players!

There were easily seventy to eighty thousand of them!

These players were no longer low-level players who had only fused one bloodline; most of them had fused two to three bloodlines. Plus, their sheer numbers formed a substantial force.

Under the onslaught of the player army, only the Profound-level and King-level demons were unaffected, while Spirit-level and Ordinary-level demons were instantly pinned down.

Some of them were even swiftly killed by the overwhelming player force.

Su Nan joined the battle, swiftly moving towards the Profound-level demons. Flames transformed into massive fireballs that soared into the sky, radiating a fierce aura.

In just one glance, he killed a Profound-level early-stage demon.

"Zhang Yang! That's Zhang Yang, the great god!"

"Wow! Killing a Profound-level demon in seconds, that's way too strong!"

Su Nan's actions left tens of thousands of players in awe as he made his mark on the battlefield. However, this situation didn't last long. Before Su Nan could kill a second demon, the other Profound-level demons had already surrounded him.

Su Nan knew that if he wanted to hunt more demons, he had to seize the opportunity while he hadn't been targeted by a King-level demon yet. He continued to kill demons with no reservations,

 combining the power of his divine soul with his mastery of martial techniques. The Profound-level early-stage demons were no match for him and were killed one after another.

(End of this chapter)