Outer God’s Favored

You activated Special Creation: Ancient God Ritual

EX051, please note: you have drawn the attention of Outer God: ?

Mental increased by 1 point. Current: 34

Bai Cangshu watched as the blood on the ground, containing the power of a demigod-level Mythical Creature, began to emit white light and was gradually absorbed by the altar.

He knew his idea had been correct.

After using Dragon Transformation, Sage fully met the requirements for activating this altar’s sacrifice.

This special altar was engraved with strange symbols. Their rough interpretation was: We gods shall inevitably cross the long river of time and be resurrected upon the earth.

And the method of resurrection was through living sacrifices.

"Hey, Mercenary Tao, you bastard…"

The dying Sage felt his mysterious qualities weakening. Great panic rose in his heart, but with his heart gouged out and so much blood lost, his consciousness had already begun sinking into darkness.

The next moment, the bluish-gray dragon crashed to the ground, its corpse swallowed by white light.

Every time Sage died, the instant of his death, the very notion that Sage had died would be distorted, allowing him to revive successfully while the corpse of some unlucky person who had formed a contract with him appeared where he had died.

But this time, that "cycle" was broken.

Bai Cangshu watched as the corpse of the Sequence 4 demigod-level Mythical Creature, possessing high-level mysterious qualities within the power system of that bizarre world, failed to disappear.

Yet at the same time, a new corpse did indeed appear out of thin air and fall onto the altar.

It was a woman. Her chest had been cut open, her heart lying beside her. Through distorted cognition, she had inherited Sage’s cause of death.

Bai Cangshu turned his head. In the void, Sage appeared unsteadily, his face paler than ever.

Bai Cangshu raised a hand and pointed. A golden Dodon Ray instantly pierced through Sage’s shoulder.

Sage cried out in pain and fell. He showed no inclination to dive into the Sea of Subconscious, merely staring at his hands in disbelief.

"My mysterious qualities… have been taken away…"

Bai Cangshu’s eyes widened. His half-black, half-white hair continued to dance in the air without wind.

Indeed, the mysterious information around Sage had vanished completely. All that remained was that intense, twisted demonic power.

Bai Cangshu lowered his head and saw that the Cursed Seal in his palm was gradually fading as well.

You lost Cursed Seal: Inari Ōkami's Strike

Following Black King Luffy, this was the second time Bai Cangshu had encountered an existence capable of directly stripping Reincarnators of their abilities or traits.

That existence suspected to be Inari Ōkami—or rather, this Ancient God Ritual—had stripped Sage of the mysterious qualities and power he had gained through potions. At the same time, Bai Cangshu’s Cursed Seal had been peeled away.

EX051, you completed a living sacrifice and triggered Special Milestone: Ritualist (Rare)

Ritualist (Rare): Initiate more than 3 living sacrifices in any world and have them accepted (1/3)

EX051, you survived the direct gaze of an Outer God and triggered Special Milestone: Outer God's Favored (Extremely Rare)

Outer God's Favored (Extremely Rare): Unlock more than three Outer God Factions (1/3)

Side Mission: Divine Power progress updated

Divine Power: Outer God ? has successfully entered the Ancient God Ritual. Please help Them defeat the competitors and descend successfully.

Bai Cangshu saw quite a few notifications appear on his panel, but after only glancing at them twice, he turned and leaped off the altar. He grabbed Sage and swiftly headed outside.

He had no intention of continuing that Hidden Mission involving Divine Power right now. Just as that exalted one had said, once the ownership of Divine Power was decided, his days would not be so pleasant.

Outer God’s Favored sounded impressive, but he had no confidence that a god smuggled over from some small world could contend against a Supreme Expert like Eternal Destiny.

For now, he had effectively thrown a wrench into the other side’s plans. Whether the later mission could be completed would depend on how the other developments unfolded.

Without the enhancement of that dragon physique, Sage’s body had become extremely frail. Bai Cangshu merely squeezed, and the sound of bones shattering rang out.

Bang!

Bai Cangshu pushed off hard, blasting straight through the quicksand and returning to the surface.

"Hey, Mr. Sage, you seem much easier to kill now~"

Bzz!

Blazing white light suddenly flashed.

Bai Cangshu’s pupils contracted. His body instantly tipped backward as a terrifying beam of light tore past in front of him, exploding Sage’s head.

The beam struck his body as well, but with the Cocoon of Greed, which had absorbed all kinds of energy, blocking it, Bai Cangshu only felt a tremendous force slam into his body.

He instantly lost his balance and crashed from the air onto the ground.

Sage revived once more through distorted cognition. The moment he came to his senses, he immediately jumped into the quicksand.

Bai Cangshu was incredibly fast. His gaze immediately sharpened.

Gaze of Arrogance activated without pause.

Before Sage could fall into the quicksand, he suffered dozens of attacks. His chest caved in, and only the corpse of a stranger fell into the sand.

Bzz!

White light flashed again. Bai Cangshu frowned. The attack’s range was extremely long, even exceeding the coverage of his Mantra.

But since Bai Cangshu had already been prepared, the sand beneath his feet exploded. In an instant, his speed was boosted to a level the naked eye could hardly track, and his body vanished into the wind.

The next moment, he appeared in the air and seized the newly revived Sage.

He kicked repeatedly through the air with Moonwalk, rapidly moving toward the direction from which the attack had come.

He still had the leisure to check his Space Panel.

Based on your Mental attribute, you have obtained the following information:

You have suffered a powerful energy attack.

Even the attacker’s number had not appeared. Either the attacker’s Mental attribute far surpassed his own, or… the attacker was not a Reincarnator.

And in this world, a Plot Character capable of wielding such a powerful energy attack…

A guess suddenly formed in Bai Cangshu’s mind.

His act of placing the Outer God into the altar had probably indeed affected Eternal Destiny’s current plans.

Bang, bang, bang…

Bai Cangshu kept bouncing through the high air, moving at astonishing speed. Before long, he had crossed more than ten kilometers.

At the same time, the range covered by his Mantra finally detected the chaos ahead.

Several kilometers away, space had been completely twisted. A gigantic pitch-black humanoid creature that flickered in and out of view had appeared in the desert.

Before it, two powerful Martial Artists from this world were already covered in wounds.

The domineering fist techniques of the brothers Bang and Bomb seemed to vanish like stones sinking into the sea before that black monster.

Their punches, powerful enough to shatter the air itself, would disappear into other worlds along with the distorted space. Yet with a mere raised hand, the opponent could send both men flying thousands of meters away.

Bang’s expression was grim. He felt deeply unsettled, and from the corner of his eye, he kept watching his disciple, whose entire body radiated pure white light.

"Charanko…"

He did not know what Charanko had encountered, but Charanko’s current state was remarkably similar to that monster called Homeless Emperor from years ago.

Could it be… that guy had appeared again?!